Wednesday, November 21, 2018

follow the money to the big o. eyes on the big o

The non-profits I have worked for are top-heavy, 
have very little money put aside or earmarked or grant-provided for the workers; 
many of the non-profits hire development associates, upper management shills, PR folk, marketing and events coordinators; 
many are in shining digs while casting shadows on the street people 
they supposedly care about.
– Paul Haeder, Dissident Voice, Jan 15th, 2018

The presidency of Obomba is revealing, both as it happened, and now as an object of near history. If you tell people Obomba was the president who signed off on (and presumably helped design) the joint US/Saudi assault on Yemen, you will get denial or blank stares. If you say, well, ICE deported people under Obama, and at a record clip. You get denial. Or that Obomba was notorious for persecuting whistle blowers and for narrowing press freedoms as much as possible. Denial. Blankness. Obomba was the fulcrum for a very late onset of amnesia. Collectively speaking. He has taken the role of mental black hole. History began and stopped with Obomba.

Capitalism is not inevitable nor is it some kind of natural law.
The authority structure, the proprietor class, they want you asleep. That’s the idea.
The American fairy tale isn’t working anymore. People may cling to its remnants but at their most lucid I suspect most people know its all bullshit.
When the ruling class own everything, people must find ways to cope. Once you have mastered lying to yourself, lying to others is easy.


liar liar
john steppling

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