Tag Archives: Mitt Romney 2012

planet of the apeing

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Dave

Interesting article on Andrew Potter, who with Joseph Heath wrote Rebel Sell. Potter’s ideas are not unique or original but they are placed within the context of contemporary pop culture in an easy to grasp everyperson’s manner that strip out … Continue reading →

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repackaging the old

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dave

This is a re-pack theme article, worthy of the Wailing Wall beseech-me and lamentation category of hand-wringing and naval gazing that is a regular feature of the Israel press. A staple of subtle invidious comparison and its presentation as a … Continue reading →

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guess who’s coming to dinner

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Dave

As Glenn Greenwald pointed out in a recent article, there is very little to differentiate the two candidates, the idea being to take minor and incidental differences that have little or no significant consequence and exaggerate them, inflate them beyond … Continue reading →

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the have-nots : not dark yet

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Dave

Not sure the validity of all the figures here; as Jack Welch pointed out in the government job figures, there is always some jigging and jiving that can be teased out of the data; manipulation of numbers is a combination … Continue reading →

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your tax dollars at work….

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Dave

Reading through the lines here. Prop up the Jordanian regime as much as possible…or preparing the terrain for the “Jordan is Palestine” lebensraum idea. Whatever it is, the alarm bells are ringing and Jordan is vulnerable. Planners and specialists sounds … Continue reading →

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ballad of barack pumpkinhead

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Dave

The lost prophet of the Frankfurt School, who was, with hitherto unrevealed redemptive and messianic qualities restore the dream of social justice and economic prosperity for an all regardless of race, creed, or taste. The man who could pull back … Continue reading →

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bummed out on bengal

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Dave

The stereotype of the Indian from India in American culture has been an enduring one, in part inherited from British colonialism and shoehorned into the mass media tropes that frame our present perceptions. If all the oppressed and colonized peoples … Continue reading →

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bouncing on the red lines

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Dave

One size fits all presidency. The Milquetoast Presidency. Yawning mediocrity, insidious mico-campaigns swing results in swing states and grab the electoral college votes. Ironic, how a minority president, with a campaign logo calling us to “go Forward” reaches back into … Continue reading →

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full court press

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dave

Heading disaster off at the pass? Short term election fix, that effectively, with regard to the structural issues of technological deflation and unemployment, “kicks the can,” or rather the electoral not a pot to piss in, “down the road,” a … Continue reading →

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outsource the election

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: (see link at end)…The Democratic party’s euphoria at the close of its party convention in Charlotte evaporated within hours when the US government published a dismal set of unemployment figures that threatened Barack Obama’s re-election chances…. Obama … Continue reading →