jobs are highly overrated!

Profits bring jobs, the capitalist devil whispers in our ears. Jobs! So you can overcome or avoid the misery of unemployment. Jobs! So you won’t fall behind on your mortgage, your credit card payments or your student loan. Jobs! So you will be able to buy ever more stuff that you don’t really need but somehow those great commercials convince you otherwise.
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Everything you know is wrong

a retired Army major who had grown up in rural Minnesota and worked for years in farming and construction before becoming a computer technician for the army and later a military lawyer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, ultimately serving as a defense lawyer for two Guanatanamo detainees. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/everything-worldview-retired/#sthash.nAPzFcVp.dpuf

a retired Army major who had grown up in rural Minnesota and worked for years in farming and construction before becoming a computer technician for the army and later a military lawyer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, ultimately serving as a defense lawyer for two Guanatanamo detainees. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/everything-worldview-retired/#sthash.nAPzFcVp.dpuf

a retired Army major who had grown up in rural Minnesota and worked for years in farming and construction before becoming a computer technician for the army and later a military lawyer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, ultimately serving as a defense lawyer for two Guanatanamo detainees. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/everything-worldview-retired/#sthash.nAPzFcVp.dpuf

a retired Army major who had grown up in rural Minnesota and worked for years in farming and construction before becoming a computer technician for the army and later a military lawyer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, ultimately serving as a defense lawyer for two Guanatanamo detainees. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/everything-worldview-retired/#sthash.nAPzFcVp.dpuf

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I met Guantanamo defense lawyer Todd Pierce last year in New York, and over lunch he offered a fully-formed critique of American foreign policy since 9/11:

- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/everything-worldview-retired/#sthash.nAPzFcVp.dpuf 

“Everything that we have done since 9/11 is wrong. We are embarking on a totalitarian foreign policy that is a hallmark of how Hannah Arendt defines fascism... The false claims about radical Islam show how little we understand about ourselves or the Middle East.” 

--retired Army major Todd Pierce who had grown up in rural Minnesota and worked for years in farming and construction before becoming a computer technician for the army and later a military lawyer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, ultimately serving as a defense lawyer for two Guanatanamo detainees.

everything, Part 1

everything, Part 2 

the Consolation of All Sorrows

The misreading of Russia’s geopolitical situation is especially sad because for the first time in many decades there is much to hope for in Moscow. Out of utopian misery has come the prospect of rebirth. It is as yet incipient. But I see great possibilities in it, in the many once-blighted churches now open and loved and full again, in the reappearance of symbols of pre-Bolshevik Russia, in the growth of a generation not stunted and pitted by poisoned air and food, nor twisted by Communist ethics. Many Russians will never recover from the cynicism they were taught, the mistrust, the contempt for religion and the foul cult of Comrade Pavlik. But their children can, and may. Why then, when so much of what we hoped for in the long Soviet period has come to pass, do we so actively seek their enmity? 
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global capitalist consensus reality

"In our brave new unipolar age (an age in which transnational Capitalism, and not “America,” or Russia, or China, or any other nation state, dominates the entire planet and determines what is and is not “reality”), there can be no more external enemies, because there isn’t any “outside” anymore. We’re all in here together now … in our global capitalist consensus reality, which the majority of people throughout the world are doing their best to accept and conform to."
   --C. J. Hopkins
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Batavia

"America is the sum of a thousand and one little, individuated places, each with its own history and accent and stories. A politician who understands this will act in ways that protect and preserve these real places. He will ask the question that never gets injected into national debates over the wisdom of America’s constant wars — namely, What are the domestic costs? Loving his block, he will not wish to bomb Iraq. Loyal to a neighborhood, he will not send its young men and women across the sea to kill and die for causes wholly unrelated to local life."
    --Bill Kauffman

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what the hell- built to spill

Normalized Deviance

“The gradual process through which unacceptable practice or standards become acceptable. As the deviant behavior is repeated without catastrophic results, it becomes the social norm for the organization.”

Until the American public, our political representatives and our neighbors around the world can come to grips with the normalization of deviance that is corrupting the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, the existential threats of nuclear war and escalating conventional war will persist and spread.

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the revolution will not be televised

Poets Showing Up to the Revolution 

by Paul Haeder / February 14th, 2016

 

The Gil in Scott
Heron, this bull
shit white zionist
TV, drugs on the shelves
the rulers of the universe
1.4 percent, bloody
wars, inside and out
their books are number
one Oprah will
not be televised
without the point zero
one percent’s permission
superbowl shit with billionaire
Beyonce, Malcom x my ass
torn pages from shit
storm USA, one giant
snap chat, the revolution
will not be Facebooked
the rulers of Universe
will do the formularies
find those brain-sapping
compounds, TV or generation
triple xxx Prozac
they will rule their kingdom
compliant, white boys
girls with Hillary hair
they sing to the breeder
Bernie, his war is with anything
against the Israeli line
you name it zero one
they love satellites
nanotechnology, burrowing
mental-tapping genetically-
altered Ebola, anything for
masters of universe, they
cheer black lives matter
black brains bashed
emptying revolutionary
sinks,
Gil Scott Heron
revolution will be switched
onto app, the chosen few
like leeches, eating history
culling anyone against
the shit storm of junk
they produce
each stealth bomber
like a TV commercial
superbowl shit storm
Five-Zero, they wipe asses
with the scripts of yesteryear
drum the beat of war
boys and girls from Brooklyn
to Appalachia, these hedge-funders
are the revolution, the Che’s
the rotting reliance on the insipid
strumming of mirroring songs
they flee, focusing groups
these people run the numbers
get the economic principles
send little zits to college
so another billion suck
the crack pipe of chosen
consumerism, fear and faux
the democracy of not knowing
the revolution, it’s
Gil Scott
Heron, so old school, these
hyper botoxed queens Tweeting
everything we need to know
the revolution brother Gil . . . .

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised

…. Somehow this silly new world emptiness
ice cream the flavor of the month
flaccid people, they jump Ivy
League white girls, white boys
suited up for lawyering, for the
the end game, TV, cultural
pop, whores in the game
dread-thinking peeps
the drug is the television
electronic muzac
the drones run
on EE and Georgia
Tech computer engineers
be the Bezos, the Gate, the
Rahm and Chicago
we have poor academics
saying white male superiority
is white patriarchy (WASP)
but the chosen
few, the fear, the world
is their oyster, e coli
colitis, the entire
thing is, stars and race
somehow
the race is to the bottom
80 percent captured
by one, revolutionaries
their sycophants, their
broken shits
each six pack
billionaires laughing
pie face, lives
matter, revolutionary
road, the drive is
Mercedes, each drop
of oil the zone of Gaza
anything to seek
genocide, yet, the revolutionaries
will be televised, the Gil in Scott
will be the
revolution . . . .

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.