Tuesday, March 27, 2018
With "Platform" Capitalism - Value Creation Depends on Privacy Invasion
By CNu at March 27, 2018 0 comments
Labels: facebook IS evil , governance , Livestock Management , neofeudalism , shameless , TIA , Toxic Culture? , transbiological , tricknology
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Your Elites Are Like A Parasite About To Kill Its Host
By CNu at January 17, 2018 0 comments
Labels: alkahest , azoth , banksterism , Breakaway Civilization , parasitic , shameless , tricknology
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Fifty Shades of Gov. Smackahoe Greitens...,
By CNu at January 13, 2018 0 comments
Labels: #YouToo? , Ass Clownery , Deeze Heaux... , shameless , you used to be the man
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
Pure Identity Politics (REDUX Originally Posted 8/30/08)
By CNu at January 09, 2018 0 comments
Labels: addiction , American Original , Ass Clownery , Cathedral , celebrity , corporatism , de-evolution , doesn't end well , feminization , identity politics , Peak Negro , shameless
Friday, December 15, 2017
DNC - RIP
Norman Solomon, Battle for Democratic Party: After the Unity Reform Commission
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
Czesław Miłosz
I guess this sort of nonsense is what happens when you allow a powerful private interest like Hillary, Inc. to take over your organization and shape its mission for their own purposes.
Budgetary and fiduciary oversight and transparency within your own organization is fundamental to any good governance. But not within a credentialed oligarchy, which is what the DNC had apparently become.
It seems to have started out as the ascendance of the self-proclaimed elite, the knowing, and their super-delegates. But in reality, all they had in addition to their professional pedigrees and places of power was the unique talent of betraying their duties in order to amass enormous amounts of money. They maintained and expanded their power by distributing the party's funds selectively, ruthlessly, and with a Machiavellian intent for the accumulation of personal wealth and power.
Surprising that a community organizer wouldn't understand that. Of course it seems like he understood very little about reform, financial or otherwise. Or wanted to.
Who are these five consultants and what did they do to earn their $700 million? Were these no-bid contracts? Who approved them?
Whatever it was, it could not have had much to do with effectively winning elections. But it had everything to do with the arrogance and self-delusions of a few largely isolated from those who they were sworn to serve and protect.
By CNu at December 15, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , Naked Emperor , peasants , professional and managerial frauds , shameless
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Pompous Posturing Democrats Serve No One But Themselves...,
"Another example of giving the game away in few words came two nights ago when the liberal-elitist 'Inside Elections' political analyst Stuart Rothenburg spoke on the PBS NewsHour. 'The Democrats as a party' Rothenburg told NewsHour host and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member Judy Woodruff, 'are divided between the Bernie Sanders wing and Hillary Clinton wing, the pragmatists and ideologues.'
For Rothenburg, the Clinton wing members are the 'pragmatists,' the realistic adults who want to 'get things done' (one of the great neoliberal president Obama’s favorite phrases and claims). The Sanders folks are 'ideologues,' a pejorative term meaning people who are mainly about ideology and who are carried away by their own flighty and doctrinal world view.
This was a slap (an ideological one I might add) at the more progressive and social-democratic faction of the Democratic Party – a blow masquerading as 'objective' and detached political analysis."
Paul Street, Giving the Game Away
If you watch this relatively short video much of what has been puzzling you about the failure of our political system will be made clearer.
Franklin Roosevelt could work tirelessly for the common person because he was already comfortable in his own skin with regard to his social status. And more importantly, as a result of his long term paralysis he knew how little social status really meant. As suffering sometimes does, it introduces compassion and empathy, even among the upper crust.
But the New Deal principles were shunned for the credentialed aspirations of those class-climbing, middle class kids who would be rich and acknowledged as members of an elite crowd with the right kinds of bona fides. There are probably few better recent examples than the Clintons. Their attitudes towards the average American are paternalistic at best, and highly cynical and patronizing at worst.
They attempted to disguise their credentialed, professional class preferences with 'identity politics.' But if you look at the culmination of actual policy initiatives, versus platform platitudes, the Democrats, similarly to the GOP, serve no one but themselves. Winning...
They rely on the 'lesser of two evils' to scrape out the occasional win, when the excesses of the other party drive people to embrace 'hope and change,' and to be largely betrayed once again.
By CNu at November 16, 2017 0 comments
Labels: Brookings , corporatism , deceiver , professional and managerial frauds , shameless , status-seeking
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Meet NBCUniversal Counsel and Former Obama Deputy Counsel Kimberly D. Harris
By CNu at October 12, 2017 0 comments
Labels: accountability , deceiver , elite , establishment , presstitution , psychopathocracy , shameless , What IT DO Shawty...
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, August 17, 2017
An Odyssey to the Edge of City Life...,
Phillip Crawford Jr: The Mafia was behind many speakeasies in the big cities, such as Chicago and New York, during Prohibition. After Prohibition was repealed, state agencies regulated bars with vague standards against disorderly premises and moral indecency, which were interpreted to prohibit serving gays. Accordingly, the Mafia took its experience with speakeasies and used it to operate gay bars, which involved paying off the police departments and liquor authorities charged with enforcing these discriminatory laws.
Well, the Mafia didn't much care about enforcing societal mores or respecting government rules. Ernest Sgroi Sr, one of the principal fronts for gay bars controlled by mob boss Vito Genovese in Greenwich Village, obtained his first liquor license right after the repeal of Prohibition. He was involved with some of the most popular gay bars during the post-war years, including the Bon Soir and the Lion, which started off as nightclubs with live entertainment attracting both straight and gay patrons but ultimately became predominantly gay bars. The Lion was where Barbra Streisand made her first public singing performance in 1960.
The Mafia controlled most gay bars due to their illegal status, and extracted a monetary premium from the gay community. This recognized both the legal risk the Mob was taking and the near-monopoly status it enjoyed. After all, where else were gay folks going to meet? There were often high cover charges and minimum drink requirements. Moreover, gay men were at risk of blackmail from their Mob overlords. The Mob's exploitation of the gay community was among the reasons for the 1969 protests outside the Stonewall Inn. Indeed, after the Stonewall protests, once of the principal goals of the activist groups such as Gay Activists Alliance and Gay Liberation Front was to get organized crime out of the gay bars.
By CNu at August 17, 2017 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Cathedral , Cosa Nostra , deceiver , doesn't end well , Gender , identity politics , Living Memory , Malnare , shameless , sum'n not right , The Hardline , Toxic Culture? , truth
A Pride Story - Aww, How Sweet, Heroic, and Romantic...,
Although it might sound surprising to hear about out lesbians working with and for the mob, there was a time in New York City when all the gay clubs were mafia-run. —Vice
Most of the bars in the Village were lesbian...The Village belonged to the gay girls, because the suffragettes had been there first, and they were all queer as pink plates. —Vice
By CNu at August 17, 2017 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Cathedral , Cosa Nostra , deceiver , doesn't end well , Gender , identity politics , Living Memory , Malnare , shameless , sum'n not right
Friday, November 18, 2016
Suppressing Dissent, Controlling Minds, Performing 180° Reversals
As Slavoj Zizek observed: 'The real catastrophe is the status quo.' When liberal journalism slams the door on reasoned arguments and authentic compassion, other doors swing wide for the likes of Trump.
The default corporate media excuse for ignoring 'our' crimes is that elected politicians have been chosen to serve by the people, and it is the task of journalism to support, not subvert, democracy. But of course democracy is profoundly subverted by a lack of honest media scrutiny. Structural media distortion is so extreme that, despite bombing seven countries, Barack Obama continues to be depicted and perceived as an almost saintly figure.
'Mainstream' media did not merely support Clinton, they declared propaganda war on Trump. As we have seen in this brief sample, even BBC journalists thought nothing of ridiculing Trump's 'narcissistic personality disorder' – unthinkable language from a BBC reporter describing an Obama, a Cameron, or indeed a Clinton.
The intensity of establishment support for Clinton meant that journalistic performance was filtered by host media and self-censorship. As the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger told us in an interview:
'[T]he whole thing works by a kind of osmosis. If you ask anybody who works in newspapers, they will quite rightly say, "Rupert Murdoch," or whoever, "never tells me what to write", which is beside the point: they don't have to be told what to write. It's understood.'
The moment the vote was cast, pressures filtering out criticisms of Clinton and less hysterical coverage of Trump were lifted. The result is a semblance of balance that allows stunningly extreme 'mainstream' media to enhance their ill-deserved reputation for 'fairness' and 'impartiality'.
By CNu at November 18, 2016 1 comments
Labels: Livestock Management , presstitution , propaganda , shameless
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
satirical sounding screed is entirely shameless, unselfconscious, and sincere....,
By CNu at November 01, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , Cathedral , Granny Goodness , shameless , status-seeking , truth
Tuesday, September 06, 2016
shaming at scale?
By CNu at September 06, 2016 0 comments
Labels: cooperation , Livestock Management , open source culture , shameless
Friday, July 01, 2016
the meaning of lil'pookie pretending to interview AG Lynch about Granny Goodness....,
TV-watchers have no doubt noted so often that they are no longer aware of how often the interchangeable TV hosts handle anyone who tries to explain why something happened. “Are you suggesting that there was a conspiracy?” A twinkle starts in a pair of bright contact lenses. No matter what the answer, there is a wriggling of the body, followed by a tiny snort and a significant glance into the camera to show that the guest has just been delivered to the studio by flying saucer. This is one way for the public never to understand what actual conspirators—whether in the F.B.I. or on the Supreme Court or toiling for Big Tobacco—are up to. It is also a sure way of keeping information from the public. The function, alas, of Corporate Media.
By CNu at July 01, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , Granny Goodness , presstitution , professional and managerial frauds , shameless
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
money is sleep, broken machinery, and the death of our civilization and species....,
00:53 So we ran a study on the U.C. Berkeley campus to look at exactly that question. We brought in more than 100 pairs of strangers into the lab, and with the flip of a coin randomly assigned one of the two to be a rich player in a rigged game. They got two times as much money. When they passed Go, they collected twice the salary, and they got to roll both dice instead of one, so they got to move around the board a lot more. (Laughter) And over the course of 15 minutes, we watched through hidden cameras what happened. And what I want to do today, for the first time, is show you a little bit of what we saw. You're going to have to pardon the sound quality, in some cases, because again, these were hidden cameras. So we've provided subtitles. Rich Player: How many 500s did you have? Poor Player: Just one.
01:41 Rich Player: Are you serious. Poor Player: Yeah.
01:42 Rich Player: I have three. (Laughs) I don't know why they gave me so much.
01:46 Paul Piff: Okay, so it was quickly apparent to players that something was up. One person clearly has a lot more money than the other person, and yet, as the game unfolded, we saw very notable differences and dramatic differences begin to emerge between the two players. The rich player started to move around the board louder, literally smacking the board with their piece as he went around. We were more likely to see signs of dominance and nonverbal signs, displays of power and celebration among the rich players.
02:22 We had a bowl of pretzels positioned off to the side. It's on the bottom right corner there. That allowed us to watch participants' consummatory behavior. So we're just tracking how many pretzels participants eat.
02:34 Rich Player: Are those pretzels a trick?
02:36 Poor Player: I don't know.
02:38 PP: Okay, so no surprises, people are onto us. They wonder what that bowl of pretzels is doing there in the first place. One even asks, like you just saw, is that bowl of pretzels there as a trick? And yet, despite that, the power of the situation seems to inevitably dominate, and those rich players start to eat more pretzels.
03:02 Rich Player: I love pretzels.
03:05 (Laughter)
03:08 PP: And as the game went on, one of the really interesting and dramatic patterns that we observed begin to emerge was that the rich players actually started to become ruder toward the other person, less and less sensitive to the plight of those poor, poor players, and more and more demonstrative of their material success, more likely to showcase how well they're doing. Rich Player: I have money for everything. Poor Player: How much is that? Rich Player: You owe me 24 dollars. You're going to lose all your money soon. I'll buy it. I have so much money. I have so much money, it takes me forever. Rich Player 2: I'm going to buy out this whole board. Rich Player 3: You're going to run out of money soon. I'm pretty much untouchable at this point.
03:57 PP: Okay, and here's what I think was really, really interesting, is that at the end of the 15 minutes, we asked the players to talk about their experience during the game. And when the rich players talked about why they had inevitably won in this rigged game of Monopoly -- (Laughter) — they talked about what they'd done to buy those different properties and earn their success in the game, and they became far less attuned to all those different features of the situation, including that flip of a coin that had randomly gotten them into that privileged position in the first place. And that's a really, really incredible insight into how the mind makes sense of advantage.
04:50 Now this game of Monopoly can be used as a metaphor for understanding society and its hierarchical structure, wherein some people have a lot of wealth and a lot of status, and a lot of people don't. They have a lot less wealth and a lot less status and a lot less access to valued resources. And what my colleagues and I for the last seven years have been doing is studying the effects of these kinds of hierarchies. What we've been finding across dozens of studies and thousands of participants across this country is that as a person's levels of wealth increase, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increases. In surveys, we found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good, and that the pursuit of self-interest is favorable and moral. Now what I want to do today is talk about some of the implications of this ideology self-interest, talk about why we should care about those implications, and end with what might be done.
By CNu at February 23, 2016 0 comments
Labels: FAIL , Great Filters , shameless , status-seeking
Saturday, January 09, 2016
did slick willie's predations go beyond interns, subordinates, and arkansas trailer parks?
By CNu at January 09, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Granny Goodness , psychopathocracy , shameless
Monday, December 28, 2015
chirac to the potomac: more attentive to downtown interests than to constituents...,
“Look, it’s been a painful, difficult time for him,” Mr. Axelrod said. “No human being could be unaffected by this whole episode and by the sort of anger and rancor that it’s stirred. When you talk to him, he clearly feels that he missed it, and that this whole episode has uncovered a problem on which he, himself, would say he was insufficiently focused — that this was not handled well by him or his administration.”
Mr. Emanuel swept into the mayor’s office in 2011, helped in part by what black Chicagoans knew about him at the time: that Mr. Obama trusted him. Four years later, he faced a steeper climb in a city that had gotten to know him better. He was forced into a runoff with Jesus G. Garcia, a county commissioner who was seeking to become the city’s first Latino mayor, partly because of critics who said Mr. Emanuel was too brusque and more attentive to the wishes of downtown interests than the needs of residents from some poorer neighborhoods.
The mayor, whose clash with public schoolteachers helped set off the city’s first teachers’ strike in a quarter-century, drew special anger in 2013 for overseeing the closing of nearly 50 public schools, many of them in black and Latino neighborhoods. After winning the unexpectedly tense campaign in April, Mr. Emanuel promised that he had gotten the city’s message.
The start of Mr. Emanuel’s second term already was complicated by the city’s fiscal problems. Facing mounting pension payments and sinking credit ratings, Mr. Emanuel pushed through the largest property tax increase in the city’s modern history. Also, the possibility of another teachers’ strike looms.
By CNu at December 28, 2015 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , Cosa Nostra , predatory militarism , Rule of Law , shameless
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
there will be absolutely no consequences for the little piece of chit floating at the top of the chiraq punchbowl...,
By CNu at December 02, 2015 0 comments
Labels: psychopathocracy , shameless , status-seeking , What Now?
Monday, November 16, 2015
like her master the vampire squid itself, granny goodness is incapable of shame...,
CLINTON: Oh, wait a minute, senator. You know, not only do I have hundreds of thousands of donors -- most of them small. And I'm very proud that for the first time a majority of my donors are women, 60 percent.
(APPLAUSE)
CLINTON: So I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9/11 when we were attacked. Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York. It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.
By CNu at November 16, 2015 0 comments
Labels: banksterism , global system of 1% supremacy , Granny Goodness , shameless
david brooks $120,000 vacation...,
By CNu at November 16, 2015 0 comments
Labels: global system of 1% supremacy , hegemony , shameless
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