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The Rise And Fall Of Corporate Feudalism

by Propagandee July 2, 2009

A decade ago, I was marooned along with a couple of dozen of other international tourists on the rocky lava islet of Palea Kameni, off the legendary Greek island of Thira (Santorini). While we were soaking in its geothermally heated pool, a violent storm suddenly blew into the Aegean. We were told that there was [...]

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Judge Bybee Lays Down The Law

by Propagandee April 17, 2009

Bush judge: sharing a cell box  with an insect not torture. (Click it.)

Glenzilla on the content of the just released Torture Memos:
Just consider parts of this August 1, 2002 Memo (.pdf) by then OLC official (and now-federal judge) Jay Bybee, authorizing the following techniques for Abu Zubaydah, who was shot three times during his capture [...]

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Rethuglican Hallucinations

by Propagandee February 22, 2009

From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.
In trying to account for the experience of color, neurobiologist Humberto Maturana decided to treat the nervous system as a closed system, depriving it of external sensory inputs. Incidentally, he found that deprived of such [...]

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The Day The Earth Fought Back

by Propagandee December 15, 2008

It’s not nice to fool with mother nature, especially when she comes armed with a bad-ass 28′ high robot named GORT.
Such is the lesson of the remake of the classic 1951 sci-fi film, The Day the Earth Stood Still. The original was set in the context of the Cold War between the US and the [...]

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And The Last Shall Be First

by Propagandee December 7, 2008

A house built by slaves…
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Huffpo reports that:
Obama Plans To Invite Artists, Scientists, Poets To White House To Inspire “National Character”
It cites a Politico.com article that reads:
President-elect Obama says he and Michelle Obama plan to open the White House to local pupils as a “bully pulpit” to inspire youth to reach for [...]

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More On The Moron

by Propagandee December 3, 2008

President Bush getting in touch with his inner chimp

George W. Bush can’t quite figure out why his presidency is proving to be the greatest failure in modern history. In an an interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson the other day, he was his usual clueless and inarticulate self.
GIBSON: Do you feel in any way responsible [...]

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Born To Believe

by Propagandee November 28, 2008

Children are born believers in God, academic claims
By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent, Telegraph.co.uk
24 Nov 2008
Dr Justin Barrett, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind, claims that young people have a predisposition to believe in a supreme being because they assume that everything in the world was created [...]

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Send In The Clowns (Update 1)

by Propagandee November 15, 2008

President Chimpy cries out for help
The term “free market” seems to be code for a Darwinian, survival of the fittest FU mentality. The “greed is good” mantram of the Reagan years has, under George W. Bush, gone into overdrive, precipitating  a worldwide economic meltdown.
Here is what the most incompetent and reviled president in US history [...]

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The MOST HIGHS Rule

by Terry November 7, 2008

“We leave you now to your own devices.  Choose your leaders wisely.  For if you continue to disregard the dangers of this age by choosing base and ignorant rulers, you may soon find yourselves on the receiving end of interstellar justice, and I can assure you— I’m talkin’ total annihilation, homies.”
It was fifty-seven years ago [...]

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Sow The Wind, Reap The Economic Whirlwind

by Propagandee August 15, 2008

A number of significant economic statistics were announced yesterday: inflation hit a 71/2 year high; consumer earning power declined 3 1/2% from last year; and home foreclosures rose 55%.
Fueling these economic fires has been the soaring cost of the Iraq war and occupation.
Using credit cards, American taxpayers bought huge amounts of stock in Corporate America’s [...]

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The Animal White House of George W. Bush

by Propagandee June 18, 2008

[UPDATE to Supremes Slap Jr. Over Habeus Violations]
Now we know where our Frat Brat in Chief got the inspiration for his assertion that the US Constitution gives him unlimited power to pursue his grandiose fantasy as the uber unitary executive.
Twenty three seconds into the video clip below, we learn that the secret [...]

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The Obama Zeitgeist

by Propagandee June 7, 2008

Hillary Clinton missed the zeitgeist, while Barack Obama not only recognized and embraced it, but due in large part to his diverse cultural and racial background, actually embodies it.
Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. The latter no doubt polled well in [...]

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What Happened: The Culturing of Deception [UPDATE]

by Propagandee June 3, 2008

Today, Jay Rosen over at Huffington Post uses a slightly different analysis to come to the same conclusion as moi last Saturday re what I’ll call here The McClellan Mushroom Strategy: Keep him in the dark and feed him loads of shit:
One of Bush’s strengths is his eye for human weakness. The towel-snapping humor [...]

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What Happened: The Culturing of Deception

by Propagandee May 31, 2008

Former Bush Administration Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new tell-all book, What Happened:Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, hasn’t even officially hit the bookshelves yet and there is already a ton of reviews and political analyses, thanks to advance copies provided to the well-connected. My local Borders is not among the [...]

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