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Existential Threat
Every economy is planned. The essential political question is who gets to do the planning. Likewise, every economy is a mix between state and private actors. After 40 plus years of neoliberal “reforms”, the dominant actors in the US are … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, corporate media, DNC, finance, neoliberalism, Wall Street
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Neat trick
The key to unlocking the narrative is projection. Narrative is the method that our feral elite use to control us, and projection plays an enormous role in constructing the ongoing narrative. Here’s how Wikipidia describes projection. “Psychological projection is … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, impeachment, projection, redistribution, Russia-gate, socialism, Ukraine-gate
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Redistribution
As Bernie Sanders continues to triumph in Democratic primaries expect to hear increased denunciations of socialism. Along the way I suspect there will be denunciations of redistribution as well. However, it’d important to understand that the crucial redistribution has already … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, corporate socialism, Donald Trump, feral elite, Kayfabe, neoliberalism, redistribution, socialism
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Wrong in the right way
Many of our political and media elite are wrong in the right way. I mean that they are wrong but in a way that serves wealth and power. This dynamic is not a bug but a feature. Their job is … Continue reading
Deplorable
Hillary Clinton was at Sundance over the weekend for the premier of a new documentary entitled Hillary. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Hillary received a standing ovation from the liberal Hollywood audience after the showing. I’m not surprised that … Continue reading
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Tagged Arkansas, Bill Clinton, deep state, Hillary Clinton, Mena, neocons, neoliberals, Sundance
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The language of control
In a recent interview Matt Stoller confirmed something that I long suspected. Stoller, the author of Goliath: The 100 Year war between Monopoly Power and Democracy, describes economics as the language of the aristocracy, or oligarchy, if you will. He … Continue reading
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Tagged Davos, Goliath, human capital, masters of the universe, Matt Stoller, neoliberalism, precarity, Wendy Brown
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Not Natural
It would be nice if our sociopathic elite would dial down the war rhetoric for the holidays, but I’m not holding my breath. While Americans have been led to believe that our president is a secret Putin-controlled double agent, … Continue reading
A Political Project
Now that that America has entered an end-of-empire death spiral our feral elite are either studiously ignoring our predicament, or blaming the victims. By death spiral I don’t mean Trump, he’s only one of the more grotesque symptoms, but our whole … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, neoliberalism, The Powell Memo
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Pattern Recognition
William Gibson writes dystopian science fiction, where he imagines the future by closely studying the present. In his post 9/11 novel Pattern Recognition, he discovers that the present is just as weird and dystopian as any future he might imagine. I’ve … Continue reading