September 2011
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.◈❁ animus vox ❁◈.: Propaganda Techniques Used by... →
dangerouslycoldtea:
abaldwin360:
Panic Mongering
This goes one step beyond simple fear mongering. With panic mongering, there is never a break from the fear. The idea is to terrify and terrorize the audience during every waking moment. From Muslims to swine flu to recession to…
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The Hippie With A Blog: Clarification on why it's... →
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Put shortly, there is no simple explanation for why they are there, and asking for one is ludicrous. It’s a complicated issue, where everyone has their own stake and their own reason. It’s a combination of dozens of different major problems. Many of them have to do with corporations, many have to…
I’ve been wrestling with this question a lot from people who ask me...
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I've been thinking about it more and more
And the conclusion I’ve come to is that Occupy Wall Street’s views aren’t fractured, as I and a lot of people have criticized them as being. They’re multi-layered and people aren’t reading into them fully. The views are being intentionally fractured by the media and those who don’t want to commit to understanding something outside the norm.
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"The Blueprint" is all you need to point to to...
It’s the standard that rappers have been trying to reach for a decade now, and nobody has been able to touch it.
And that’s my opinion on that. Jay-Z is the shit.
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Watchnprmusic:
Beirut performs songs from its new album The Rip Tide at the NPR Music offices.
Just got home from seeing them at Terminal 5. ‘Twas awesome. Picture(s) to come soon.
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What the fuck does patriotism have to do with job...
What the fuck does patriotism have to do with anything. Really.
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"We need the rich to create jobs"
weneverjumpship:
Or in other words
“We need some people to control the means of production so the rest of us can then beg to use them.”
The rich have job-creator machines right?
In fact, I have photographic evidence of one such machine.
See, the unemployed go in to the confounding contraption (seen here with noted job-creator Richard Branson) and come out the other end with jobs. To...
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Copyright troll Righthaven goes on life support →
The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end, with no new lawsuits filed in the past two months.
Also see: This American Life’s coverage of patent wars.
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Sick of the media ignoring us? Let's flood CNN and... →
Done and done
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
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Primus (39)
Ben Folds (13)
Lightnin’ Hopkins (10)
Tom Waits (10)
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You learn something new everyday
Today: famous sociologist and political economist Max Weber’s wife, Marianne Weber, was the first woman to be elected to political office in Germany. Nifty.
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Our Sputtering Economy by the Numbers: Poverty... →
Random chosen facts from this article:
Official unemployment rate in August 2011: 9.1 percent
Total unemployed people in August: 14 million
People who were employed part-time for economic reasons in August 2011: 8.8 million
People not counted in the labor force who wanted work: 2.6 million
Net jobs created in August 2011: 0
Long-term unemployed people as of August 2011: 6 million
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RE: Fuck #OccupyWallstreet Your Day of Rage is... →
conjuringseed:
gfbe: [stuff I already have on The Pumpkin Patch]
you just used the term “american exceptionalism” in what seems to be a serious sentence, which leads me to believe; a) you’re being ~ satirical ~ again; b) you have no idea what that term implies, or; c) you’re fond of joseph stalin. in any case, i am going to proceed as if you’re being entirely serious, and really believe that...
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The Spicy Pumpkin's Fall Concert Schedule
9/22/11 - Beirut at Terminal 5 - NYC
9/27/11 - Avett Bros at Ommegang Brewery - Cooperstown
10/5/11 - Wye Oak at Valentine’s - Albany
10/7/11 - TV on the Radio at Skidmore College - Saratoga
10/11/11 - Skrillex in Syracuse (maybe)
10/15/11 - Devin Townsend at The Chance - Poughkeepsie
10/17/11 - Andrew Bird the Bardavan Opera House - Poughkeepsie
10/18-22/11 - CMJ 2011! Super concert...
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“I feel like I’m working for myself at this point. If it’s publishable, fine. If...”
– Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air. (via nprfreshair)
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Also...
Is there anything more infuriating than the “calm down guys, it’s just a joke” excuse?
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.◈❁ animus vox ❁◈.: re: Fuck #OccupyWallstreet... →
conjuringseed:
sadatang:
sat·ire
[sat-ahyuhr]
noun1.the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing,denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.2.a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which humanfolly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.3.a literary genre comprising such compositions.
yes, i’m quite clear on the definition of satire. however, that...
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Mother Jones: 6 Dumb Arguments Against Taxing the... →
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paxamericana:
It’s class warfare! Yeah right. Three decades of laissez-faire economic polices have allowed the rich to double their share of the national income while paying tax rates a fifth lower than before. The result,notes Kevin Drum, was “wage stagnation for everyone else, a massive financial collapse that ravaged the middle class, an enormous deficits that they’ll...
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Protesters Occupy Wall Street - Forbes →
I don’t have a lot to say about this latest anti-Wall Street protest movement. Certainly the anger is understandable. The financiers are making huge piles of cash while much of America remains unemployed or underemployed.
The vast wealth of the banking industry stands in stark contrast to the vanishing American middle class. After this latest recession, one really does question whether the...
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