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contrary to nature: human plunder
” … in good health as required by ordinance, not subject to any legal charge, neither a wanderer or a fugitive, free from the sacred disease ( leprosy).” The seller guaranteed all this under oath to the gods Hermes and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander the Great, Caesar conquers Alesia, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Jewish Revolt 70 A.D., Josephus the Jewish War, Julius Caesar slave trade, Justinian Roman emperor, King Philip II of Macedon, King Philip V of Macedon, Michael A. Hoffman, occupy wall street, Oscar Handlin, Polybius historian, Roman General Marius, Slavery in the Roman Emperor, Steven Friesen, Ulrich B. Phillips, Walter Schiedel
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ascending to the temple mount
Twenty-eight years in opposition. Twenty-eight years as head of the official opposition. That was Menachem Begin. No where else in the world would someone ply on, election after election destined for official opposition status. The story goes, that Begin met … Continue reading
rage against the trader
The origin may be an ancient one, that idea, peculiar to many, which asserted that making business is dirty business. Money is ugly. It appears to be a Medieval concept and a Greek and Roman notion that looked negatively upon … Continue reading
secretaries of state
The Society of the Spectacle. Pseudo events. The event becomes at best, an entertaining adjunct to the advertising and fundraising. The event is depersonalized and used to move product; stripped of its subjective meaning, the message becomes tailored to stimulate … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, buffett rule, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Miley Cyrus, Obama 2012, occupy wall street, pierre bourdieu, Sean Lennon, Vanessa Beecroft, Warren Buffett, Yves Klein
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the butler guards the gold
Are all these gains at the top of the pyramid illegal, immoral or frankly criminal riches the result of gaming the financial system, the large unearned increments as economist Frank Genovese has called them due to monopoly theories and barriers … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, andrew McAfee author, Bruce Cockburn, Frank Genovese Babson College, Henry George, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, occupy wall street, tyler cowen author, W.C. Fields
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print, borrow and occupy
He was called the scoundrel who invented credit. John Law was a Scottish libertine who rescued France from ruin, then ruined her again, by basing prosperity on credit. He gave us a glimpse of the future. It didn’t work then, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged aron kay, Aron Kay the pieman, greg smith goldman sachs, greg smith resignation, James Gillray, John Law, la Duclos actress, Lady Catherine Senor, Lord Banbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, occupy wall street, Philippe d'Orleans
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anonymous builders
There is an old story of how the Cathedral of Chartres was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Then, thousands of people cam from all parts of the land. Like a giant procession of ant, and together they … Continue reading
the thrift of paradox
Banality is typically North American. It lends itself to kitsch as kind of a general anaesthetic which tends to numb and mute over our differences, which helps us from cutting each others throats, at least in theory. Banality speaks to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged ai weiwei, Black Friday, hank paulson, Herbert Marcuse, howard davidowitz, John Maynard Keynes, occupy wall street, Ross Sorkin, The Frankfurt School, Thomas Eakins, Thorstein Veblen, Warren Buffett, Winslow Homer, zhao zhao
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wall street : hot under a blue collar
If anything, the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protestors has simply evoked the long-standing fallacy of Joseph Stiglitz’s assertion of the 1% vs. 99% thesis. The police. Those on blue know where the bread is buttered and those in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abbott and Costello, Alexander Cockburn, Blue Labour, Charlie Chaplin, david north, Esther Leslie, IWW, Joseph Stiglitz, keystone cops, lisa ansell, mark ciavarella, Maurizio Cattelan, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, michael conahan, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, occupy wall street, peter mcbrien, peter taaffe, ralph miliband, Rosa Luxemburg, sam gompers, stephen shalom, The Wobblies, zuccotti park
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