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Posted by Joseph McPatriot
Ripple is hawallah? A black market? An underground electronic economy? A way to work off the books? Or just a way to cut out the middlemen, including the Treasury, the Banks, the IRS? Let's say you want to buy certain items from a dealer you have never met for your favorite civil society group, for example, The Christian Albino Alabama Freedom Brigade....
Posted by The Happy Tutor
Democracy will not perish under the heirs of Leo Strauss; it will simply become ceremonial like the British Crown.
Posted by Captain Blowtorch in Hot Pursuit
Bruce Dixon in The Black Commentator:
The religious right does not follow politicians. Politicians pander to it....There is only one place America’s next progressive mass movement can come from. There is only one identifiable constituency with a bedrock majority of its citizens in long term historical opposition to our nation’s imperial adventures overseas. This is America’s black one-eighth.
Civil disobedience? Not this time, Mr. Dixon. Now we have the White House, The Courts, Congresss, and every Sheriff in Alabama. You are with us or against us. Insubordinate son of a bitches! I say hanging is too good for these traitors! Any of you liberals want a piece of this?
Posted by The Happy Tutor
So now we non-conservatives are slowly realizing that our last refuge is sarcasm. Yes, I'm casting magic spells to make the Iraq War go poorly. Yes, I've devoted my entire journalistic career to aiding and abetting terrorism. Etc. I count this as a victory of the pro-satire wing of the epic battle of the Wealth Bondage Dumpster. Though perhaps not a victory of the non-conservative movement in this country -- more a strategic retreat. One hopes that sarcasm can unmask the stupidity of mainstream orthodox conservative discourse, which proudly and openly proclaims its historic inability to compete on equal footing with other ideological forms in the public discursive space of classic liberalism (the "liberal media," the universities) -- but one hopes also that people do not continue to embrace stupidity because it "at least" offers something positive, in contrast to the debunking and discrediting strategies of non-conservative commentators.
Sarcasm and irony are matters of tone, all too easily mastered by 14 year olds. What we need is more devasting, what Alexander Pope, I think it was, described as "the wondering face of praise." Don't fight conservative soundbites. They are written by knaves for fools. Instead simply pantomime the response of their "Ideal Reader," a true believer, a human being by nature, and a fool by education, training, and habituation. Sock puppets! To the barricades! We must win the War against Evil! Let your heart lift with joy for we are Good! We are washed in the Blood; once saved, always saved! The world is 1,000 years old. We are Rapture Ready! Bush bears an Annointing! Kill all who say otherwise!
Posted by The Happy Tutor
So now we non-conservatives are slowly realizing that our last refuge is sarcasm. Yes, I'm casting magic spells to make the Iraq War go poorly. Yes, I've devoted my entire journalistic career to aiding and abetting terrorism. Etc. I count this as a victory of the pro-satire wing of the epic battle of the Wealth Bondage Dumpster. Though perhaps not a victory of the non-conservative movement in this country -- more a strategic retreat. One hopes that sarcasm can unmask the stupidity of mainstream orthodox conservative discourse, which proudly and openly proclaims its historic inability to compete on equal footing with other ideological forms in the public discursive space of classic liberalism (the "liberal media," the universities) -- but one hopes also that people do not continue to embrace stupidity because it "at least" offers something positive, in contrast to the debunking and discrediting strategies of non-conservative commentators.
Sarcasm and irony are matters of tone, all to easily mastered by 14 year olds. What we need is more devasting, what Alexander Pope, I think it was, described as "the wondering face of praise." Don't fight conservative soundbites. They are written by knaves for fools. Instead simply pantomime the response of their "Ideal Reader," a true believer, a human being by nature, and a fool by education, training, and habituation. Sock puppets! To the barricades! We must win the War against Evil! Let your heart lift with joy for We are Good! We are washed in the Blood; once saved, always saved! The world is 1,000 years old. We are Rapture Ready! Bush bears an Annointing! Kill all who say otherwise!
Posted by The Happy Tutor
Her speech. The World Tribunal on Iraq. How, I wonder, did such a story make it into the Baltimore Sun? In any case, the Tribunal finds the embedded US and British media guilty of deception and of inciting violence. Says Dr. Dr. Peter Philips, director of 'Project Censored' at Sonoma State University in California where he teaches media censorship, "U.S. society has become the least informed, best entertained society in the world."
From Yes! Speakers Bureau,
Drew Dellinger, speaker, poet, teacher, and activist, has rocked mics and inspired minds at hundreds of conferences, colleges, rallies, and protests across the U.S., addressing issues of justice, ecology, democracy, and anti-racism. His poems have been published widely and in 1997 he received Common Boundary Magazine's national Green Dove Award for his work. Drew has studied cosmology with Thomas Berry since 1990 and currently teaches at Naropa University in Oakland and Prescott College in Arizona. He is founder of Poets for Global Justice, a project building movements for social and ecological change by unleashing the poetry in everyone. Drew recently released his first collection of poems, Love Letter to the Milky Way. He lives in Oakland, CA.
Here, from "Democracy @ a Crossroads," is Drew rapping for justice from the Justices in their black robes,
Democracy's at a crossroads of lost dreams and lost votes! So yes, I'm contesting the election requesting the rejection of invalid blocks at the ballot box. Weakass leaders speak as cheaters seek to eke out victory; bend the laws in their favor and reality bites like the jaws of a gator. And, the corporate, right-wing, pathetic, mainstream media tries to confound it when the issue at hand is thousands of votes that couldn't be cast or haven't been counted The combination of this and the lies meant disenfranchisement!
Are bloggers poets? Rappers? Activists? Much more interesting a set of issues than whether they are pundits, or part of the perception management industry. Maybe it is a matter of what we choose to do with words.
Posted by The Happy Tutor
We are not pundits at WB, nor Citizen Journalists. We are are artists who hold the mirror up to human nature to expose her hyena face. We are satirists, or call us, "Fetish Action Figures," whose goal is to "delight and instruct," as Horace said we must, through the pleasure and pain of a lash deftly applied. We are surgeons cutting away the ugliness, tightening the skin, and rendering the fat in large vats. We are good pharmacists wrapping the ill-tasting medicine in sweets so the childish reader will drink deeply. We are doctors whose scalpal cuts deep, but only to excise the cancerous bits before they metasatize throughout the body politic. We are teachers demonstrating the ways in which we are deceived by media and brands, and by ourselves, how our very words, as pundits, create the moral monster we have become. In other words, we are just playing around. Art for its own sake, harmless. Journalists - what is it they do again? Chastity, shake your tits for the viewers at home!
Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage
Welcome to Wealth Bondage, Dan. The Dumpster is out in back, but why don't you sit with me for awhile. Tell me all about your plans to change the world. I need a good laugh.
Posted by Joseph McPatriot
Sanjoy Mahajan's Anatomy of a Coverup provides insight into the mind of a traitor. The professionals at the New York Times do not need lessons in journalism from a communist rag like Znet. Sanjoy, your article is greeted with delight by the Insurgents in Iraq. You, Sir, should be rounded up.
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