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Steve from Colorado
Jul 27, 2018, 9:58:22 PM7/27/18
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American Society Would Collapse If It Weren't For These 8 Myths
williambanzai7's blog
Authored by Lee Camp via TruthDig.com,
Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right?
No society should function with this level of inequality (with the
possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars”
movie). Sixty-three percent of Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency.
Yet Amazon head Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $141 billion. He could
literally end world hunger for multiple years and still have more money
left over than he could ever spend on himself.
Worldwide, one in 10 people only make $2 a day. Do you know how long it
would take one of those people to make the same amount as Jeff Bezos
has? 193 million years. (If they only buy single-ply toilet paper.) Put
simply, you cannot comprehend the level of inequality in our current
world or even just our nation.
So … shouldn’t there be riots in the streets every day? Shouldn’t it all
be collapsing? Look outside. The streets aren’t on fire. No one is
running naked and screaming (usually). Does it look like everyone’s
going to work at gunpoint? No. We’re all choosing to continue on like this.
Why?
Well, it comes down to the myths we’ve been sold. Myths that are
ingrained in our social programming from birth, deeply entrenched, like
an impacted wisdom tooth. These myths are accepted and basically never
questioned.
I’m going to cover eight of them. There are more than eight. There are
probably hundreds. But I’m going to cover eight because (A) no one reads
a column titled “Hundreds of Myths of American Society,” (B) these are
the most important ones and (C) we all have other shit to do.
Myth No. 8—We have a democracy.
If you think we still have a democracy or a democratic republic, ask
yourself this: When was the last time Congress did something that the
people of America supported that did not align with corporate interests?
… You probably can’t do it. It’s like trying to think of something that
rhymes with “orange.” You feel like an answer exists but then slowly
realize it doesn’t. Even the Carter Center and former President Jimmy
Carter believe that America has been transformed into an oligarchy: A
small, corrupt elite control the country with almost no input from the
people. The rulers need the myth that we’re a democracy to give us the
illusion of control.
Myth No. 7—We have an accountable and legitimate voting system.
Gerrymandering, voter purging, data mining, broken exit polling, push
polling, superdelegates, electoral votes, black-box machines, voter ID
suppression, provisional ballots, super PACs, dark money, third parties
banished from the debates and two corporate parties that stand for the
same goddamn pile of fetid crap!
What part of this sounds like a legitimate election system?
No, we have what a large Harvard study called the worst election system
in the Western world. Have you ever seen where a parent has a toddler in
a car seat, and the toddler has a tiny, brightly colored toy steering
wheel so he can feel like he’s driving the car? That’s what our election
system is—a toy steering wheel. Not connected to anything. We all sit
here like infants, excitedly shouting, “I’m steeeeering!”
And I know it’s counterintuitive, but that’s why you have to vote. We
have to vote in such numbers that we beat out what’s stolen through our
ridiculous rigged system.
Myth No. 6—We have an independent media that keeps the rulers accountable.
Our media outlets are funded by weapons contractors, big pharma, big
banks, big oil and big, fat hard-on pills. (Sorry to go hard on hard-on
pills, but we can’t get anything resembling hard news because it’s
funded by dicks.) The corporate media’s jobs are to rally for war, cheer
for Wall Street and froth at the mouth for consumerism. It’s their
mission to actually fortify belief in the myths I’m telling you about
right now. Anybody who steps outside that paradigm is treated like
they’re standing on a playground wearing nothing but a trench coat.
Myth No. 5—We have an independent judiciary.
The criminal justice system has become a weapon wielded by the corporate
state. This is how bankers can foreclose on millions of homes illegally
and see no jail time, but activists often serve jail time for nonviolent
civil disobedience. Chris Hedges recently noted, “The most basic
constitutional rights … have been erased for many. … Our judicial
system, as Ralph Nader has pointed out, has legalized secret law, secret
courts, secret evidence, secret budgets and secret prisons in the name
of national security.”
If you’re not part of the monied class, you’re pressured into releasing
what few rights you have left. According to The New York Times, “97
percent of federal cases and 94 percent of state cases end in plea
bargains, with defendants pleading guilty in exchange for a lesser
sentence.”
That’s the name of the game. Pressure people of color and poor people to
just take the plea deal because they don’t have a million dollars to
spend on a lawyer. (At least not one who doesn’t advertise on beer
coasters.)
Myth No. 4—The police are here to protect you. They’re your friends.
That’s funny. I don’t recall my friend pressuring me into sex to get out
of a speeding ticket. (Which is essentially still legal in 32 states.)
The police in our country are primarily designed to do two things:
protect the property of the rich and perpetrate the completely immoral
war on drugs—which by definition is a war on our own people.
We lock up more people than any other country on earth. Meaning the land
of the free is the largest prison state in the world. So all these
droopy-faced politicians and rabid-talking heads telling you how awful
China is on human rights or Iran or North Korea—none of them match the
numbers of people locked up right here under Lady Liberty’s skirt.
Myth No. 3—Buying will make you happy.
This myth is put forward mainly by the floods of advertising we take in
but also by our social engineering. Most of us feel a tenacious
emptiness, an alienation deep down behind our surface emotions (for a
while I thought it was gas). That uneasiness is because most of us are
flushing away our lives at jobs we hate before going home to seclusion
boxes called houses or apartments. We then flip on the TV to watch
reality shows about people who have it worse than we do (which we all
find hilarious).
If we’re lucky, we’ll make enough money during the week to afford enough
beer on the weekend to help it all make sense. (I find it takes at least
four beers for everything to add up.) But that doesn’t truly bring us
fulfillment. So what now? Well, the ads say buying will do it. Try to
smother the depression and desperation under a blanket of flat-screen
TVs, purses and Jet Skis. Nowdoes your life have meaning? No? Well,
maybe you have to drive that Jet Ski a little faster! Crank it up until
your bathing suit flies off and you’ll feel alive!
The dark truth is that we have to believe the myth that consuming is the
answer or else we won’t keep running around the wheel. And if we aren’t
running around the wheel, then we start thinking, start asking
questions. Those questions are not good for the ruling elite, who enjoy
a society based on the daily exploitation of 99 percent of us.
Myth No. 2—If you work hard, things will get better.
According to Deloitte’s Shift Index survey: “80% of people are
dissatisfied with their jobs” and “[t]he average person spends 90,000
hours at work over their lifetime.” That’s about one-seventh of your
life—and most of it is during your most productive years.
Ask yourself what we’re working for. To make money? For what? Almost
none of us are doing jobs for survival anymore. Once upon a time, jobs
boiled down to:
I plant the food—>I eat the food—>If I don’t plant food = I die.
But nowadays, if you work at a café—will someone die if they don’t get
their super-caf-mocha-frap-almond-piss-latte? I kinda doubt they’ll keel
over from a blueberry scone deficiency.
If you work at Macy’s, will customers perish if they don’t get those
boxer briefs with the sweat-absorbent-ass fabric? I doubt it. And if
they do die from that, then their problems were far greater than you
could’ve known. So that means we’re all working to make other people
rich because we have a society in which we have to work. Technological
advancements can do most everything that truly must get done.
So if we wanted to, we could get rid of most work and have tens of
thousands of more hours to enjoy our lives. But we’re not doing that at
all. And no one’s allowed to ask these questions—not on your mainstream
airwaves at least. Even a half-step like universal basic income is
barely discussed because it doesn’t compute with our cultural programming.
Scientists say it’s quite possible artificial intelligence will take
away all human jobs in 120 years. I think they know that will happen
because bots will take the jobs and then realize that 80 percent of them
don’t need to be done! The bots will take over and then say, “Stop it. …
Stop spending a seventh of your life folding shirts at Banana Republic.”
One day, we will build monuments to the bot that told us to enjoy our
lives and … leave the shirts wrinkly.
And this leads me to the largest myth of our American society.
Myth No. 1—You are free.
And I’m not talking about the millions locked up in our prisons. I’m
talking about you and me. If you think you’re free, try running around
with your nipples out, ladies. Guys, take a dump on the street and see
how free you are.
I understand there are certain restrictions on freedom we actually
desire to have in our society—maybe you’re not crazy about everyone
leaving a Stanley Steamer in the middle of your walk to work. But a lot
of our lack of freedom is not something you would vote for if given the
chance.
Try building a fire in a parking lot to keep warm in the winter.
Try sleeping in your car for more than a few hours without being
harassed by police.
Try maintaining your privacy for a week without a single email, web
search or location data set collected by the NSA and the telecoms.
Try signing up for the military because you need college money and then
one day just walking off the base, going, “Yeah, I was bored. Thought I
would just not do this anymore.”
Try explaining to Kentucky Fried Chicken that while you don’t have the
green pieces of paper they want in exchange for the mashed potatoes, you
do have some pictures you’ve drawn on a napkin to give them instead.
Try running for president as a third-party candidate. (Jill Stein was
shackled and chained to a chair by police during one of the debates.)
Try using the restroom at Starbucks without buying something … while black.
We are less free than a dog on a leash. We live in one of the
hardest-working, most unequal societies on the planet with more
billionaires than ever.
Meanwhile, Americans supply 94 percent of the paid blood used worldwide.
And it’s almost exclusively coming from very poor people. This abusive
vampire system is literally sucking the blood from the poor. Does that
sound like a free decision they made? Or does that sound like something
people do after immense economic force crushes down around them? (One
could argue that sperm donation takes a little less convincing.)
Point is, in order to enforce this illogical, immoral system, the
corrupt rulers—most of the time—don’t need guns and tear gas to keep the
exploitation mechanisms humming along. All they need are some good,
solid bullshit myths for us all to buy into, hook, line and sinker. Some
fairy tales for adults.
It’s time to wake up.
--
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy
justice, universities destroy knowledge, the press destroys information,
religion destroys morals, and banks destroy the economy.” -- Chris Hedges
http://www.globalgulag.us
zerohedge.com
American Society Would Collapse If It Weren't For These 8 Myths
williambanzai7's blog
Authored by Lee Camp via TruthDig.com,
Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right?
No society should function with this level of inequality (with the
possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars”
movie). Sixty-three percent of Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency.
Yet Amazon head Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $141 billion. He could
literally end world hunger for multiple years and still have more money
left over than he could ever spend on himself.
Worldwide, one in 10 people only make $2 a day. Do you know how long it
would take one of those people to make the same amount as Jeff Bezos
has? 193 million years. (If they only buy single-ply toilet paper.) Put
simply, you cannot comprehend the level of inequality in our current
world or even just our nation.
So … shouldn’t there be riots in the streets every day? Shouldn’t it all
be collapsing? Look outside. The streets aren’t on fire. No one is
running naked and screaming (usually). Does it look like everyone’s
going to work at gunpoint? No. We’re all choosing to continue on like this.
Why?
Well, it comes down to the myths we’ve been sold. Myths that are
ingrained in our social programming from birth, deeply entrenched, like
an impacted wisdom tooth. These myths are accepted and basically never
questioned.
I’m going to cover eight of them. There are more than eight. There are
probably hundreds. But I’m going to cover eight because (A) no one reads
a column titled “Hundreds of Myths of American Society,” (B) these are
the most important ones and (C) we all have other shit to do.
Myth No. 8—We have a democracy.
If you think we still have a democracy or a democratic republic, ask
yourself this: When was the last time Congress did something that the
people of America supported that did not align with corporate interests?
… You probably can’t do it. It’s like trying to think of something that
rhymes with “orange.” You feel like an answer exists but then slowly
realize it doesn’t. Even the Carter Center and former President Jimmy
Carter believe that America has been transformed into an oligarchy: A
small, corrupt elite control the country with almost no input from the
people. The rulers need the myth that we’re a democracy to give us the
illusion of control.
Myth No. 7—We have an accountable and legitimate voting system.
Gerrymandering, voter purging, data mining, broken exit polling, push
polling, superdelegates, electoral votes, black-box machines, voter ID
suppression, provisional ballots, super PACs, dark money, third parties
banished from the debates and two corporate parties that stand for the
same goddamn pile of fetid crap!
What part of this sounds like a legitimate election system?
No, we have what a large Harvard study called the worst election system
in the Western world. Have you ever seen where a parent has a toddler in
a car seat, and the toddler has a tiny, brightly colored toy steering
wheel so he can feel like he’s driving the car? That’s what our election
system is—a toy steering wheel. Not connected to anything. We all sit
here like infants, excitedly shouting, “I’m steeeeering!”
And I know it’s counterintuitive, but that’s why you have to vote. We
have to vote in such numbers that we beat out what’s stolen through our
ridiculous rigged system.
Myth No. 6—We have an independent media that keeps the rulers accountable.
Our media outlets are funded by weapons contractors, big pharma, big
banks, big oil and big, fat hard-on pills. (Sorry to go hard on hard-on
pills, but we can’t get anything resembling hard news because it’s
funded by dicks.) The corporate media’s jobs are to rally for war, cheer
for Wall Street and froth at the mouth for consumerism. It’s their
mission to actually fortify belief in the myths I’m telling you about
right now. Anybody who steps outside that paradigm is treated like
they’re standing on a playground wearing nothing but a trench coat.
Myth No. 5—We have an independent judiciary.
The criminal justice system has become a weapon wielded by the corporate
state. This is how bankers can foreclose on millions of homes illegally
and see no jail time, but activists often serve jail time for nonviolent
civil disobedience. Chris Hedges recently noted, “The most basic
constitutional rights … have been erased for many. … Our judicial
system, as Ralph Nader has pointed out, has legalized secret law, secret
courts, secret evidence, secret budgets and secret prisons in the name
of national security.”
If you’re not part of the monied class, you’re pressured into releasing
what few rights you have left. According to The New York Times, “97
percent of federal cases and 94 percent of state cases end in plea
bargains, with defendants pleading guilty in exchange for a lesser
sentence.”
That’s the name of the game. Pressure people of color and poor people to
just take the plea deal because they don’t have a million dollars to
spend on a lawyer. (At least not one who doesn’t advertise on beer
coasters.)
Myth No. 4—The police are here to protect you. They’re your friends.
That’s funny. I don’t recall my friend pressuring me into sex to get out
of a speeding ticket. (Which is essentially still legal in 32 states.)
The police in our country are primarily designed to do two things:
protect the property of the rich and perpetrate the completely immoral
war on drugs—which by definition is a war on our own people.
We lock up more people than any other country on earth. Meaning the land
of the free is the largest prison state in the world. So all these
droopy-faced politicians and rabid-talking heads telling you how awful
China is on human rights or Iran or North Korea—none of them match the
numbers of people locked up right here under Lady Liberty’s skirt.
Myth No. 3—Buying will make you happy.
This myth is put forward mainly by the floods of advertising we take in
but also by our social engineering. Most of us feel a tenacious
emptiness, an alienation deep down behind our surface emotions (for a
while I thought it was gas). That uneasiness is because most of us are
flushing away our lives at jobs we hate before going home to seclusion
boxes called houses or apartments. We then flip on the TV to watch
reality shows about people who have it worse than we do (which we all
find hilarious).
If we’re lucky, we’ll make enough money during the week to afford enough
beer on the weekend to help it all make sense. (I find it takes at least
four beers for everything to add up.) But that doesn’t truly bring us
fulfillment. So what now? Well, the ads say buying will do it. Try to
smother the depression and desperation under a blanket of flat-screen
TVs, purses and Jet Skis. Nowdoes your life have meaning? No? Well,
maybe you have to drive that Jet Ski a little faster! Crank it up until
your bathing suit flies off and you’ll feel alive!
The dark truth is that we have to believe the myth that consuming is the
answer or else we won’t keep running around the wheel. And if we aren’t
running around the wheel, then we start thinking, start asking
questions. Those questions are not good for the ruling elite, who enjoy
a society based on the daily exploitation of 99 percent of us.
Myth No. 2—If you work hard, things will get better.
According to Deloitte’s Shift Index survey: “80% of people are
dissatisfied with their jobs” and “[t]he average person spends 90,000
hours at work over their lifetime.” That’s about one-seventh of your
life—and most of it is during your most productive years.
Ask yourself what we’re working for. To make money? For what? Almost
none of us are doing jobs for survival anymore. Once upon a time, jobs
boiled down to:
I plant the food—>I eat the food—>If I don’t plant food = I die.
But nowadays, if you work at a café—will someone die if they don’t get
their super-caf-mocha-frap-almond-piss-latte? I kinda doubt they’ll keel
over from a blueberry scone deficiency.
If you work at Macy’s, will customers perish if they don’t get those
boxer briefs with the sweat-absorbent-ass fabric? I doubt it. And if
they do die from that, then their problems were far greater than you
could’ve known. So that means we’re all working to make other people
rich because we have a society in which we have to work. Technological
advancements can do most everything that truly must get done.
So if we wanted to, we could get rid of most work and have tens of
thousands of more hours to enjoy our lives. But we’re not doing that at
all. And no one’s allowed to ask these questions—not on your mainstream
airwaves at least. Even a half-step like universal basic income is
barely discussed because it doesn’t compute with our cultural programming.
Scientists say it’s quite possible artificial intelligence will take
away all human jobs in 120 years. I think they know that will happen
because bots will take the jobs and then realize that 80 percent of them
don’t need to be done! The bots will take over and then say, “Stop it. …
Stop spending a seventh of your life folding shirts at Banana Republic.”
One day, we will build monuments to the bot that told us to enjoy our
lives and … leave the shirts wrinkly.
And this leads me to the largest myth of our American society.
Myth No. 1—You are free.
And I’m not talking about the millions locked up in our prisons. I’m
talking about you and me. If you think you’re free, try running around
with your nipples out, ladies. Guys, take a dump on the street and see
how free you are.
I understand there are certain restrictions on freedom we actually
desire to have in our society—maybe you’re not crazy about everyone
leaving a Stanley Steamer in the middle of your walk to work. But a lot
of our lack of freedom is not something you would vote for if given the
chance.
Try building a fire in a parking lot to keep warm in the winter.
Try sleeping in your car for more than a few hours without being
harassed by police.
Try maintaining your privacy for a week without a single email, web
search or location data set collected by the NSA and the telecoms.
Try signing up for the military because you need college money and then
one day just walking off the base, going, “Yeah, I was bored. Thought I
would just not do this anymore.”
Try explaining to Kentucky Fried Chicken that while you don’t have the
green pieces of paper they want in exchange for the mashed potatoes, you
do have some pictures you’ve drawn on a napkin to give them instead.
Try running for president as a third-party candidate. (Jill Stein was
shackled and chained to a chair by police during one of the debates.)
Try using the restroom at Starbucks without buying something … while black.
We are less free than a dog on a leash. We live in one of the
hardest-working, most unequal societies on the planet with more
billionaires than ever.
Meanwhile, Americans supply 94 percent of the paid blood used worldwide.
And it’s almost exclusively coming from very poor people. This abusive
vampire system is literally sucking the blood from the poor. Does that
sound like a free decision they made? Or does that sound like something
people do after immense economic force crushes down around them? (One
could argue that sperm donation takes a little less convincing.)
Point is, in order to enforce this illogical, immoral system, the
corrupt rulers—most of the time—don’t need guns and tear gas to keep the
exploitation mechanisms humming along. All they need are some good,
solid bullshit myths for us all to buy into, hook, line and sinker. Some
fairy tales for adults.
It’s time to wake up.
--
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy
justice, universities destroy knowledge, the press destroys information,
religion destroys morals, and banks destroy the economy.” -- Chris Hedges
http://www.globalgulag.us
Mr. B1ack
Jul 27, 2018, 10:36:54 PM7/27/18
to
Steve from Colorado wrote:
> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-27/american-society-would-collapse-if-it-werent-these-8-myths
>
>
> zerohedge.com
> American Society Would Collapse If It Weren't For These 8 Myths
> williambanzai7's blog
>
> Authored by Lee Camp via TruthDig.com,
>
> Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right?
>
> No society should function with this level of inequality (with the
> possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars”
> movie). Sixty-three percent of Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency.
> Yet Amazon head Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $141 billion. He could
> literally end world hunger for multiple years and still have more money
> left over than he could ever spend on himself.
I take it "TruthDig" is a commie site.
> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-27/american-society-would-collapse-if-it-werent-these-8-myths
>
>
> zerohedge.com
> American Society Would Collapse If It Weren't For These 8 Myths
> williambanzai7's blog
>
> Authored by Lee Camp via TruthDig.com,
>
> Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right?
>
> No society should function with this level of inequality (with the
> possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars”
> movie). Sixty-three percent of Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency.
> Yet Amazon head Jeff Bezos is now worth a record $141 billion. He could
> literally end world hunger for multiple years and still have more money
> left over than he could ever spend on himself.
MOST - originally ALL - societies function just
fine with a far greater level of income disparity
than the USAs.
Oh ... and the "disparity" is largely false. While
Americans DO blow too much of their income they still
have ACCESS to a lot more money in the form of insurance,
sellable property, loans, govt handouts and even charity.
If you want "disparity", just look south of the border
to all the old Spanish patron/peon and commie countries.
The poor there are REALLY poor, no resources to draw on
at all. Yet, the countries - and systems - persist.
Time to wake up commie ... Marx never solved a damned
thing, just created whole new levels of Hell. Good old
capitalism and its big middle class has made life SO
much better for the masses. Even our "poor" get fat
sitting in front of their big-screens .......
Steve from Colorado
Jul 28, 2018, 1:04:58 AM7/28/18
to
theaters in the CCCP when it first came out of Hollywood, only to have
it pulled from theaters because the Russian proletariat was noticing
that the most dirt poor Okies were driving cars, unlike their Soviet
counterparts.
1MA1B⚛← ╬ 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒚 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆 ╬ →⚛kmCCh
Jul 28, 2018, 2:27:34 AM7/28/18
to
Of course, it was a Hollywood
propaganda project produced by your Ministry of Propaganda.
In reality, Roosevelt's socialist New Deal saved America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal>
This is what has happened after many decades of unfettered capitalism:
America's homeless now
<https://www.google.com/search?q=America's+homeless&source=lnms&tbm=isch>
In reality, Roosevelt's socialist New Deal saved America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal>
This is what has happened after many decades of unfettered capitalism:
The homeless Disney worker who died alone in her car
<https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/30/the-homeless-disney-worker-who-died-alone-in-her-car-became-the-face-of-a-public-debate-but-all-she-wanted-was-privacy/>America's homeless now
<https://www.google.com/search?q=America's+homeless&source=lnms&tbm=isch>
Steve from Colorado
Jul 28, 2018, 12:52:21 PM7/28/18
to
On 07/28/2018 12:27 AM, 1MA1B⚛← ╬ 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒚 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒆 ╬ →⚛kmCCh
Maybe you should take your concerns up with Robert "Bob" Iger, Disney
(((Chairman))) and CEO. What do you want to bet he hates Trump and is a
great "philanthropist" and sheds tears for immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Iger
Early life
Iger was born to a Jewish family in New York City.[6][19][20] Iger was
raised in the Long Island town of Oceanside, New York, where he attended
the Fulton Avenue School and graduated from Oceanside High School in
1969.[21][22] In 1973, he graduated magna cum laude from the Roy H. Park
School of Communications at Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Television and Radio.[23]
Iger is the son of Mimi (née Tunick) and Arthur L. Iger (b. 1926).
(((Chairman))) and CEO. What do you want to bet he hates Trump and is a
great "philanthropist" and sheds tears for immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Iger
Early life
Iger was born to a Jewish family in New York City.[6][19][20] Iger was
raised in the Long Island town of Oceanside, New York, where he attended
the Fulton Avenue School and graduated from Oceanside High School in
1969.[21][22] In 1973, he graduated magna cum laude from the Roy H. Park
School of Communications at Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science
degree in Television and Radio.[23]
Iger is the son of Mimi (née Tunick) and Arthur L. Iger (b. 1926).
Ace Canyon
Jul 28, 2018, 2:37:04 PM7/28/18
to
Steve from Colorado wrote
> On 07/27/2018 08:36 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:
>> Steve from Colorado wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-27/american-society-would-
collap
>>> se-if-it-werent-these-8-myths
>>>
>>>
>>> zerohedge.com
Zero Hedge is Kremlin controlled propaganda for gullible pro-Trump America
haters without a capitalist hair on their head.
Decades ago you would have been tried for treason for posting this tripe.
You're not a conservative, you're a tratior deserved of trial and
execution.
Zero Hedge is a batshit insane Austrian school finance blog run by two
pseudonymous founders who post articles under the name "Tyler Durden,"
after the character from Fight Club.Wikipedia's W.svg It's essentially
apocalypse porn. It has accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions.
[citation NOT needed]
Tyler claims to be a "believer in a sweeping conspiracy that casts the
alumni of Goldman Sachs as a powerful cabal at the helm of U.S. policy,
with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve colluding to preserve the status
quo." While this is not an entirely unreasonable statement of the problem,
[1] his solution actually mirrors the antagonist in Fight Club: Tyler
wants, per Austrian school ideas, to lead a catastrophic market crash in
order to destroy banking institutions and bring back "real" free market
capitalism.[2]
The site posts nearly indecipherable analyses of multiple seemingly
unrelated subjects to point towards a consistent theme of economic
collapse any day now. Tyler seems to repeat The Economic Collapse Blog's
idea of posting blog articles many times a day and encouraging people to
post it as far and wide as humanly possible. Tyler moves away from the
format of long lists to write insanely dense volumes[3] filled with (often
contradicting) jargon that makes one wonder if the writers even know what
the words actually mean.[4] The site first appeared in early 2009, meaning
that (given Tyler's habit of taking a shit on each and every positive data
point), anyone listening to him from the beginning missed the entire 2009-
2017 rally in the equities market.
The only writer conclusively identified is Dan Ivandjiiski, who conducts
public interviews on behalf of Zero Hedge.[5] The blog came online several
days after he lost his job at Wexford Capital, a Connecticut-based hedge
fund (run by a former Goldman trader). Later Colin Lokey joined Zero
Hedge's writing team in 2015 and left in April 2016 publishing an article
identifying the writing team as Dan Ivandjiiski, Tim Backshall, and
himself. This is quite a bit less than the 40 or so writers Ivandjiiski
claimed to be on staff in earlier years. Note that they chose the pen name
from a nihilistic psychotic delusion.
Zero Hedge is not quite the NaturalNews of economics, but not for want of
trying. The Hamilton 68 Project notes an enduring popularity of the site
among PutinBot Twitter accounts.[
Ivandjiiski's history is a little odd, since he moved to the United States
from Bulgaria to study at the University of Pennsylvania in order to
pursue molecular biology (then go on to med school). Instead, he took a
job as a junior investment banker at Jefferies & Company in Los Angeles,
and continued in finance. It is interesting to note that in 2005, while
working for Miller Buckfire, he was barred from working in the broker-
dealer business due to insider trading amounting to $780.
Dan denies that he founded the site, but he claims no other profession and
to be the primary author of a number of the articles. He claims he writes
with a staff of up to 40 other writers that work for Zero Hedge. However,
secrecy is paramount in case They find out.
"Creative" journalism is apparently not out of place in the Ivandjiiski
family either. His father Krassimir Ivandjiiski runs a cranky tabloid
called Bulgaria Confidential, which received brief notoriety in the US
after publishing a story about massive drug trafficking and corruption in
Montana, picked up by an independent US rag Free Speech Newspaper.[16]
There, Krassimir and Free Speech claimed that the governor was an
alcoholic drug abuser that helped turn his state into one of the pits of
drug trafficking in the US.[17] The governor fired off complaints about
slander, while many wondered why a state with barely a million people[18]
and only a small handful of highways, hundreds of miles from any major
population center, could have more drug runners than the West Coast.[19]
A telling article was written in 2016 about the blog's operations after a
falling out between Colin Lokey and the forty two other authors at the
blog.[20] The article included private chat logs between the authors
emphasizing punishing 24/7 deadlines and an overwhelming profit motive to
support the authors' extravagant lifestyles, which conflicted with the
image of their anti-establishment, anti-capitalist icon Tyler Durden. To
quote Lokey, "[t]wo guys who live a lifestyle you only dream of are
pretending to speak for you." Lokey's resignation was also rather telling
about the site's bias in heavily cheerleading for authoritarian,
autocratic governments with terrible civil rights and human rights records
and against freer, democratic societies:
"I can’t be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing,
and Trump anymore. It’ s wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but
it will kill your brand over the long run," Lokey texted Ivandjiiski.
"This isn’t a revolution. It’s a joke."
> On 07/27/2018 08:36 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:
>> Steve from Colorado wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-27/american-society-would-
collap
>>> se-if-it-werent-these-8-myths
>>>
>>>
>>> zerohedge.com
haters without a capitalist hair on their head.
Decades ago you would have been tried for treason for posting this tripe.
You're not a conservative, you're a tratior deserved of trial and
execution.
Zero Hedge is a batshit insane Austrian school finance blog run by two
pseudonymous founders who post articles under the name "Tyler Durden,"
after the character from Fight Club.Wikipedia's W.svg It's essentially
apocalypse porn. It has accurately predicted 200 of the last 2 recessions.
[citation NOT needed]
Tyler claims to be a "believer in a sweeping conspiracy that casts the
alumni of Goldman Sachs as a powerful cabal at the helm of U.S. policy,
with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve colluding to preserve the status
quo." While this is not an entirely unreasonable statement of the problem,
[1] his solution actually mirrors the antagonist in Fight Club: Tyler
wants, per Austrian school ideas, to lead a catastrophic market crash in
order to destroy banking institutions and bring back "real" free market
capitalism.[2]
The site posts nearly indecipherable analyses of multiple seemingly
unrelated subjects to point towards a consistent theme of economic
collapse any day now. Tyler seems to repeat The Economic Collapse Blog's
idea of posting blog articles many times a day and encouraging people to
post it as far and wide as humanly possible. Tyler moves away from the
format of long lists to write insanely dense volumes[3] filled with (often
contradicting) jargon that makes one wonder if the writers even know what
the words actually mean.[4] The site first appeared in early 2009, meaning
that (given Tyler's habit of taking a shit on each and every positive data
point), anyone listening to him from the beginning missed the entire 2009-
2017 rally in the equities market.
The only writer conclusively identified is Dan Ivandjiiski, who conducts
public interviews on behalf of Zero Hedge.[5] The blog came online several
days after he lost his job at Wexford Capital, a Connecticut-based hedge
fund (run by a former Goldman trader). Later Colin Lokey joined Zero
Hedge's writing team in 2015 and left in April 2016 publishing an article
identifying the writing team as Dan Ivandjiiski, Tim Backshall, and
himself. This is quite a bit less than the 40 or so writers Ivandjiiski
claimed to be on staff in earlier years. Note that they chose the pen name
from a nihilistic psychotic delusion.
Zero Hedge is not quite the NaturalNews of economics, but not for want of
trying. The Hamilton 68 Project notes an enduring popularity of the site
among PutinBot Twitter accounts.[
Ivandjiiski's history is a little odd, since he moved to the United States
from Bulgaria to study at the University of Pennsylvania in order to
pursue molecular biology (then go on to med school). Instead, he took a
job as a junior investment banker at Jefferies & Company in Los Angeles,
and continued in finance. It is interesting to note that in 2005, while
working for Miller Buckfire, he was barred from working in the broker-
dealer business due to insider trading amounting to $780.
Dan denies that he founded the site, but he claims no other profession and
to be the primary author of a number of the articles. He claims he writes
with a staff of up to 40 other writers that work for Zero Hedge. However,
secrecy is paramount in case They find out.
"Creative" journalism is apparently not out of place in the Ivandjiiski
family either. His father Krassimir Ivandjiiski runs a cranky tabloid
called Bulgaria Confidential, which received brief notoriety in the US
after publishing a story about massive drug trafficking and corruption in
Montana, picked up by an independent US rag Free Speech Newspaper.[16]
There, Krassimir and Free Speech claimed that the governor was an
alcoholic drug abuser that helped turn his state into one of the pits of
drug trafficking in the US.[17] The governor fired off complaints about
slander, while many wondered why a state with barely a million people[18]
and only a small handful of highways, hundreds of miles from any major
population center, could have more drug runners than the West Coast.[19]
A telling article was written in 2016 about the blog's operations after a
falling out between Colin Lokey and the forty two other authors at the
blog.[20] The article included private chat logs between the authors
emphasizing punishing 24/7 deadlines and an overwhelming profit motive to
support the authors' extravagant lifestyles, which conflicted with the
image of their anti-establishment, anti-capitalist icon Tyler Durden. To
quote Lokey, "[t]wo guys who live a lifestyle you only dream of are
pretending to speak for you." Lokey's resignation was also rather telling
about the site's bias in heavily cheerleading for authoritarian,
autocratic governments with terrible civil rights and human rights records
and against freer, democratic societies:
"I can’t be a 24-hour cheerleader for Hezbollah, Moscow, Tehran, Beijing,
and Trump anymore. It’ s wrong. Period. I know it gets you views now, but
it will kill your brand over the long run," Lokey texted Ivandjiiski.
"This isn’t a revolution. It’s a joke."
Byker
Jul 28, 2018, 3:33:49 PM7/28/18
to
"Steve from Colorado" wrote in message news:pjgtho$uvc$1...@dont-email.me...
era, "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), directed by Dziga Vertov, which takes
place over the span of one day and is a montage of the urban life in and
around four Russian cities (Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa). Although
this was intended to be an "art" film, when viewed today we get to see what
life was like in the Socialist Workers' Paradise under Stalin (I'm surprised
Vertov wasn't packed off to Siberia). Note the dearth of automobiles on the
Soviet streets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8
Now compare those street scenes with those of New York City at the same
time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saFIpM-y7oM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7rrYSslYc
>
> I recall that Joseph Stalin showed the movie "Grapes of Wrath" in theaters
> in the CCCP when it first came out of Hollywood, only to have it pulled
> from theaters because the Russian proletariat was noticing that the most
> dirt poor Okies were driving cars, unlike their Soviet counterparts.
A few years ago I became aware of an avant-garde silent film from the Soviet
> I recall that Joseph Stalin showed the movie "Grapes of Wrath" in theaters
> in the CCCP when it first came out of Hollywood, only to have it pulled
> from theaters because the Russian proletariat was noticing that the most
> dirt poor Okies were driving cars, unlike their Soviet counterparts.
era, "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), directed by Dziga Vertov, which takes
place over the span of one day and is a montage of the urban life in and
around four Russian cities (Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa). Although
this was intended to be an "art" film, when viewed today we get to see what
life was like in the Socialist Workers' Paradise under Stalin (I'm surprised
Vertov wasn't packed off to Siberia). Note the dearth of automobiles on the
Soviet streets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8
Now compare those street scenes with those of New York City at the same
time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saFIpM-y7oM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7rrYSslYc
Gunner Asch
Jul 29, 2018, 2:06:25 AM7/29/18
to
On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:33:44 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>"Steve from Colorado" wrote in message news:pjgtho$uvc$1...@dont-email.me...
>>
>> I recall that Joseph Stalin showed the movie "Grapes of Wrath" in theaters
>> in the CCCP when it first came out of Hollywood, only to have it pulled
>> from theaters because the Russian proletariat was noticing that the most
>> dirt poor Okies were driving cars, unlike their Soviet counterparts.
>
>A few years ago I became aware of an avant-garde silent film from the Soviet
>era, "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), directed by Dziga Vertov, which takes
>place over the span of one day and is a montage of the urban life in and
>around four Russian cities (Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa). Although
>this was intended to be an "art" film, when viewed today we get to see what
>life was like in the Socialist Workers' Paradise under Stalin (I'm surprised
>Vertov wasn't packed off to Siberia). Note the dearth of automobiles on the
>Soviet streets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8
Absolutely fascinating video!! Loved it for several reasons.... It
>"Steve from Colorado" wrote in message news:pjgtho$uvc$1...@dont-email.me...
>>
>> I recall that Joseph Stalin showed the movie "Grapes of Wrath" in theaters
>> in the CCCP when it first came out of Hollywood, only to have it pulled
>> from theaters because the Russian proletariat was noticing that the most
>> dirt poor Okies were driving cars, unlike their Soviet counterparts.
>
>A few years ago I became aware of an avant-garde silent film from the Soviet
>era, "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), directed by Dziga Vertov, which takes
>place over the span of one day and is a montage of the urban life in and
>around four Russian cities (Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa). Although
>this was intended to be an "art" film, when viewed today we get to see what
>life was like in the Socialist Workers' Paradise under Stalin (I'm surprised
>Vertov wasn't packed off to Siberia). Note the dearth of automobiles on the
>Soviet streets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97Pa0ICpn8
gave a good look at Russia just 12 yrs after the Revolution..and the
system hadnt gotten utterly fucked up yet. The photography was
fascinating..in some cases..very very advanced and the photographer
was utterly gifted. The faces of the various ethnic groups was
wonderful.
A truely delightful hour. Ive posted a link to Facebook as well.
>
>Now compare those street scenes with those of New York City at the same
>time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saFIpM-y7oM
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7rrYSslYc
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Ace Canyon
Jan 10, 2019, 4:26:10 PM1/10/19
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Steve from Colorado wrote
> On 07/27/2018 08:36 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:
>> Steve from Colorado wrote:
>>
> On 07/27/2018 08:36 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:
>> Steve from Colorado wrote:
>>
Ace Canyon
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Steve from Colorado wrote
> On 07/27/2018 08:36 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:
>> Steve from Colorado wrote:
>>
> On 07/27/2018 08:36 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:
>> Steve from Colorado wrote:
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