A RACE TO THE BOTTOM…

In the absence of any actual policies, the GOP has chosen instead to promote every unqualified, brain-damaged wannabe fascist they can find to public office. Former NFL star, wife-beater and serial philanderer Herschel Walker is a perfect example of this strategy, but he is certainly not the only one. The Republican nominee for the US […]

I AM MASACCIO!

Who Am I? I am Tomasso Masaccio! The man who kick-started the Renaissance! People always say to me, “Hey, Masaccio – great name!” I say, “Molte grazie, I am Masaccio!” Then they ask me, “So, Masaccio…what exactly IS the ‘Renaissance?’” And I say to them, “MASACCIO IS THE RENAISSANCE!” I say this because I was […]

DUMBING US DOWN

The desire to control the minds of the masses has long been a driving force behind the American educational system. From the very outset, compulsory schooling was used as a means of social engineering. Gilded-Age Robber Barons like JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had a real need for this kind of [non-]education […]

GameStopGate

The Gamestop saga is over. The forces of evil have won again. If you’ve been anywhere near social media this week the big story has been the GameStop fiasco. The meteoric rise of GameStop stock was fueled by small investors snapping it up when it was cheap, using trading apps such as Robinhood, Trading 212, […]

RADIO GAGA

One of the things I miss about growing up in the Los Angeles area in the 70s was the quality of FM RADIO. The music played daily by legendary DJs like B.Mitchell Reed, Jim Ladd and Rodney Bingenheimer was the soundtrack of my youth. Before corporatization, Los Angeles was home to several groundbreaking radio stations […]

playing with fire

Economist Robert Reich recently articulated two types of contemporary societies: 1) Social control 2) Social investment Social control societies require heavy investment in policing, surveillance, incarceration, immigration enforcement, etc., to control society – using fear to pave to way for racism and oppression of minorities – while the latter deals with using resources for healthcare, […]

“Police reform”

The strategy is becoming clear.                              The protests are slowly diminishing and the momentum has been lost. As usual, Our Rulers now control the agenda. Thanks to the full cooperation of America’s mainstream media (MSM), the entire focus of the mass protests on behalf of George Floyd is now being narrowed to one issue: POLICE REFORM. […]