Thursday, April 14, 2016
electronic waste in africa
there's no place for clean drinking water under free trade agreements
By CNu at April 14, 2016 0 comments
Labels: individual sovereignty , Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , What Now?
as goes lake karibe, so goes zambia...,
By CNu at April 14, 2016 0 comments
Labels: debt slavery , scarcity , weather report , What Now?
malawi declares state of emergency over drought
Malawi's maize production has dropped by 12 percent, leaving it short of about one million tonnes of maize needed to feed the population, President Peter Mutharika said in a statement on Tuesday.
About 2.8 million Malawians - nearly 20 per cent of the population - face food insecurity, making the country one of the worst hit in southern and eastern Africa, where the current drought affects 50 million people, according to United Nation figures.
"I declare Malawi [to be in] a state of national disaster following prolonged dry spells during the 2015/16 agriculture season," the Malawian president said.
By CNu at April 14, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , scarcity , weather report
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
the food, poverty, and power dialectic - how has the hunger to obesity transformation evolved?
By CNu at April 13, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Peak Capitalism , Pimphand Strong , tactical evolution , What Now?
middle-east water shortage the root cause of war and refugee crisis?
By CNu at April 13, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , resource war , WW-III
heatwave, mass casualties and suicides strike india amidst two year long drought and water crisis
By CNu at April 13, 2016 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources , resource war
rural water, not city smog, is china's pollution nightmare
By CNu at April 13, 2016 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , industrial ecosystems , Irreplaceable Natural Material Resources
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
"People Would Be Stunned To Know The Extent To Which The Fed Is Privately Owned"
By CNu at April 12, 2016 1 comments
Labels: banksterism , Collapse Casualties , Vampire Squid , What Now?
peasants get life for 3 petty crimes, .00001% get to hide the profit from crimes against humanity...,
By CNu at April 12, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Collapse Crime , conspicuous consumption , global system of 1% supremacy , What IT DO Shawty...
peasants allow lying, cheating, murderous oxygen-thieves to rule U.S.
By CNu at April 12, 2016 0 comments
Labels: doesn't end well , food-powered , make-work , monkey see - monkey do , status-seeking
example is threat - but - establishment media won't publish big picture of establishment corruption
Julian Assange: You know, scandals and stories you can put a face on. It can be good for marketing reasons, but what are you marketing in the end? What WikiLeaks does, and what I believe should've been done with this story, is that the scandals are there to market the archive because it's archive that has the scale that can deal with the problem.
By CNu at April 12, 2016 0 comments
Labels: establishment , hegemony , monkey see - monkey do , presstitution
Monday, April 11, 2016
how economists rode math to become this era's astrologers...,
By CNu at April 11, 2016 0 comments
Labels: as above-so below , deceiver , disinformation , egregores , What IT DO Shawty...
competing stories about inequality and why they matter
By CNu at April 11, 2016 0 comments
Labels: 2parties1ideology , Clintonian Imperative , Obamamandian Imperative , Pimphand Strong
Steve Wynn "Nobody Likes Being Around Poor People, Especially Poor People"
This company caters to the top end of the gaming world. We're sort of a Chanel, Louis Vuitton to use the comparison and metaphor of the retail business. But unlike Chanel and Louis Vuitton, we are able in our business to cater to all of the market by making our standard so high that everybody wants to be in the building. Or to put it in a more colloquial way, rich people only like being around rich people, nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.
So we try and make the place, feel upscale for everyone. That is to say, we cater to people who have discretion and judgment and we give them the choice and we are consistent in that, whether the economy is up or the economy is down. We don't do layoffs, we pay attention to our capital structure, so that we don't bounce around our employee base, and we don't bounce around our service levels.
By CNu at April 11, 2016 0 comments
Labels: conspicuous consumption , global system of 1% supremacy , The Hardline
Sunday, April 10, 2016
legal secrecy and concealment shield overseers from accountability too!!!
By CNu at April 10, 2016 0 comments
Labels: governance , not a good look , Rule of Law
the rich are just different...., right?
By CNu at April 10, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , Granny Goodness , psychopathocracy , What IT DO Shawty...
secret companies a problem made in America...,
By CNu at April 10, 2016 0 comments
Labels: American Original , corporatism , egregores , global system of 1% supremacy , psychopathocracy
Saturday, April 09, 2016
how Granny Goodness bought and paid for many of her superdelegates...,
By CNu at April 09, 2016 0 comments
Labels: Clintonian Imperative , Granny Goodness , What IT DO Shawty...
the consensus reality of plutocrats, politics, and the media didn't include the Left Behind...
Move over Rat Pack and Brat Pack Here comes the Snap Pack |
By CNu at April 09, 2016 0 comments
Labels: conspicuous consumption , global system of 1% supremacy , not-seeism , quorum sensing?
Friday, April 08, 2016
this rigged election's outcome pales by comparison to the establishment's loss of control...,
By CNu at April 08, 2016 0 comments
Labels: FAIL , governance , individual sovereignty , micro-insurgencies
another let them eat cake .000001% squeals like a fat piglet caught under a gate....,
General Electric was created in this country by American workers and American consumers. What we have seen over the many years is shutting down of many major plants in this country. Sending jobs to low-wage countries. And General Electric, doing a very good job avoiding the taxes. In fact, in a given year, they pay nothing in taxes. That’s greed. That is greed and that’s selfishness. That is lack of respect for the people of this country.
I’ll tell you how it does. If you are a corporation and the only damn thing you are concerned about is your profits. Let’s just give an example of a corporation that’s making money in America, today, but desiring to move to China or to Mexico to make even more money. That is destroying the moral fabric of this country. That is saying that I don’t care that the workers, here have worked for decades. It doesn’t matter to me. The only thing that matters is that I can make a little bit more money. That the dollar is all that is almighty. And I think that is the moral fabric.
By CNu at April 08, 2016 0 comments
Labels: corporatism , egregores , micro-insurgencies , People Centric Leadership
100 CEO's have more saved up for retirement than 41% of U.S. families combined...,
By CNu at April 08, 2016 0 comments
Labels: corporatism , doesn't end well , Peak Capitalism , psychopathocracy , status-seeking
Thursday, April 07, 2016
the end of ordinary politics...,
That’s extremely common. Consider the recent standoff in Oregon between militia members and federal officials. While that was ongoing, wags in the blogosphere and the hip end of the media started referring to the militia members as “Y’all-Qaeda.” Attentive readers may have noted that none of the militia members came from the South—the only part of the United States where “y’all” is the usual second person plural pronoun. To the best of my knowledge, all of them came from the dryland West, where “y’all” is no more common than it is on the streets of Manhattan or Vancouver. Why, then, did the label catch on so quickly and get the predictable sneering laughter of the salary class?
It spread so quickly and got that laugh because most members of the salary class in the United States love to apply a specific stereotype to the entire American wage class. You know that stereotype as well as I do, dear reader. It’s a fat, pink-faced, gap-toothed Southern good ol’ boy in jeans and a greasy T-shirt, watching a NASCAR race on television from a broken-down sofa, with one hand stuffed elbow deep into a bag of Cheez Doodles, the other fondling a shotgun, a Confederate flag patch on his baseball cap and a Klan outfit in the bedroom closet. As a description of wage-earning Americans in general, that stereotype is as crass, as bigoted, and as politically motivated as any of the racial and sexual stereotypes that so many people these days are ready to denounce—but if you mention this, the kind of affluent white liberals who would sooner impale themselves on their own designer corkscrews than mention African-Americans and watermelons in the same paragraph will insist at the top of their lungs that it’s not a stereotype, it’s the way “those people” really are.
Those of my readers who don’t happen to know any people from the salary class, and so haven’t had the opportunity to hear the kind of hate speech they like to use for the wage class, might want to pick up the latest edition of the National Review, and read a really remarkable diatribe by Kevin Williamson—it’s behind a paywall, but here’s a sample. The motive force behind this tantrum was the fact that many people in the Republican party’s grassroots base are voting in their own best interests, and thus for Trump, rather than falling into line and doing what they’re told by their soi-disant betters. The very idea! It’s a fine display of over-the-top classist bigotry, as well as a first-rate example of the way that so many people in the salary class like to insist that poverty is always and only the fault of the poor.
May I please be frank? The reason that millions of Americans have had their standard of living hammered for forty years, while the most affluent twenty per cent have become even more affluent, is no mystery. What happened was that corporate interests in this country, aided and abetted by a bipartisan consensus in government and cheered on by the great majority of the salary class, stripped the US economy of living wage jobs by offshoring most of America’s industrial economy, on the one hand, and flooding the domestic job market with millions of legal and illegal immigrants on the other.
That’s why a family living on one average full-time wage in 1966 could afford a home, a car, three square meals a day, and the other necessities and comforts of an ordinary American lifestyle, while a family with one average full time wage in most US cities today is living on the street. None of that happened by accident; no acts of God were responsible; no inexplicable moral collapse swept over the American wage class and made them incapable of embracing all those imaginary opportunities that salary class pundits like to babble about. That change was brought about, rather, by specific, easily identifiable policies. As a result, all things considered, blaming the American poor for the poverty that has been imposed on them by policies promoted by the affluent is the precise economic equivalent of blaming rape victims for the actions of rapists.
In both cases, please note, blaming the victim makes a convenient substitute for talking about who’s actually responsible, who benefits from the current state of affairs, and what the real issues are. When that conversation is one that people who have a privileged role in shaping public discourse desperately don’t want to have, blaming the victim is an effective diversionary tactic, and accordingly it gets much use in the US media these days. There are, after all, plenty of things that the people who shape public discourse in today’s America don’t want to talk about. The fact that the policies pushed by those same shapers of opinion have driven millions of American families into poverty and misery isn’t the most unmentionable of these things, as it happens. The most unmentionable of the things that don’t get discussed is the fact that those policies have failed.
It really is as simple as that. The policies we’re talking about—lavish handouts for corporations and the rich, punitive austerity schemes for the poor, endless wars in the Middle East and elsewhere, malign neglect of domestic infrastructure, and deer-in-the-headlights blank looks or vacuous sound bites in response to climate change and the other consequences of our frankly moronic maltreatment of the biosphere that keeps us all alive—were supposed to bring prosperity to the United States and its allies and stability to the world. They haven’t done that, they won’t do that, and with whatever respect is due to the supporters of Hillary Clinton, four more years of those same policies won’t change that fact. The difficulty here is simply that no one in the political establishment, and precious few in the salary class in general, are willing to recognize that failure, much less learn its obvious lessons or notice the ghastly burdens that those policies have imposed on the majorities who have been forced to carry the costs.
By CNu at April 07, 2016 0 comments
Labels: scott free , The Hardline , truth , What Now?
warren beatty got blacklisted from hollywood for just pretending Trump...,
Billionaires bankrolling ghetto brothers to burn and riot? And NO outcry from the American media, naturally. Fist tap Don.
By CNu at April 07, 2016 0 comments
Labels: as above-so below , People Centric Leadership , politics , The Hardline , truth
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