Category: Control
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On the Waterfront
“I could have been a contender” — Rod Steiger and Marlon Brando “We’ll work if Terry works…” — Lee J. Cobb, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and Eva Marie Saint
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Men need to do more childcare and housework” – Salon.com
For her new book, “What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?,” veteran journalist Marianne Schnall interviewed high-achieving women about why the highest glass ceiling in the land is still in place. The following is taken from her talk with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer. Marianne Schnall: Why…
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Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University
Across the globe, the forces of casino capitalism are on the march. With the return of the Gilded Age and its dream worlds of consumption, privatization and deregulation, not only are democratic values and social protections at risk, but the civic and formative cultures that make such values and protections…
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Are we all screwed if we refuse to stand up and push back?
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference had some big-name participants, from Ed Stone of Nasa’s Voyager…
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Surviving the post-employment economy – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
A lawyer. A computer scientist. A military analyst. A teacher. What do these people have in common? They are trained professionals who cannot find full-time jobs. Since 2008, they have been tenuously employed – working one-year contracts, consulting on the side, hustling to survive. They spent thousands on undergraduate and…
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America’s police are looking more and more like the military | Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers | Comment is free | theguardian.com
America\’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the…
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The Debt Ceiling Denialists « The Dish
Some of the current GOP delusions: the deficit is rising (it isn’t); the debt is currently unsustainable (it isn’t); the public wants Obamacare ended (it’s split on even delaying it); climate change has nothing to do with human-produced carbon emissions (it is, according to almost every single reputable scientist examining…
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The Tragedy Of Rush Limbaugh’s Low Information Voter Theory – Forbes
This is an extremely well thought out article on a fateful turn among conservatives in the early Reagan days, a turn away from trusting in the citizenry toward a kind of aristocratic cynicism. It actually elucidates how and when I finally gave up on Reaganism and began the turn back…
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Deconstructing the Monogenre
Props to Joseph C. and the Buddy-Friend-Guy, Chris, for pointing this very good article out. The singularity is approaching. Not just the dystopian rule of sentient robot overlords as prophesied by every sci-fi movie ever, but sure, that too. (Have you seen what Google wants us to put on our…
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Wal-Mart Returning To Full-Time Workers-Obamacare Not Such A Job Killer After All? – Forbes
Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest employer, announced Monday that 35,000 part-time employees will soon be moved to full-time status, entitling them to the full healthcare benefits that were scheduled to be denied them as a result of Wal-Mart’s efforts to avoid the requirements of Obamacare. While some analysts believe that the…
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The Self-Satisfied Strutting of the Idiocracy
…When all’s said and done, one factor in all this is is becoming more and more obvious and yet no one will say it out loud: It’s not merely a Right vs. Left political conflict in America anymore, it’s a Smart vs. Dumb thing! Idiocracy is NOW. via Dangerous Minds…
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The Reign Of Morons Is Here | Esquire
We have elected a national legislature in which Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann have more power than does the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who has been made a piteous spectacle in the eyes of the country and doesn’t seem to mind that at all. We have elected a…
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The Myth of Welfare Queens and the Reality of Racism
Fiscal conservative politicians including some Democrats like Bill Clinton have presided over a massive and systematic redistribution of wealth into the 1 percent since the 1980s. For African-Americans this means that we lost over half of our collective and meager net wealth, in just the last five years, due to…
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“Democracy”, Crisis, and Control
Ted Asregadoo speaks with U.C. Santa Barbara sociology professor, William I. Robinson, about the crisis of global capitalism and social democratic ways to address the financial, ecological, and social crises wrought by this system. Related articles Society of Control (keithwaynebrown.com) The Financial War Against the Economy at Large (keithwaynebrown.com) The End…
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Is America’s Militia Movement on the Rise? | The Nation
You may have seen it on the Colbert Report. A proposed walled city of “patriots,” known as The Citadel, received the particular dose of sarcastic humor the show reserves for militiamen and gun nuts. Colbert’s reading of the requirement that all patriot residents must own one AR-15 and a thousand…
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Money and Power: The (Secret) City
Interesting bit of knowledge about the financial world of which I was unaware. I am not putting this forward to participate in conspiracy theories. I have read enough Robert Anton Wilson to know that can never be anything more than an exercise in imagination. But it is a bit of…
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A Slow Death by the Proper Name…
Since 1954, the World Meteorological Organization has been naming extreme storms after people. But we propose a new naming system. One that names extreme storms caused by climate change, after the policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate policy. If you agree, sign the petition athttp://www.climatenamechange.org/#/pe… Related articles…
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Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything else. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and bad decisions that may be amplified by—and perpetuate—their financial woes.…
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