“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” (Malcolm X)
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Heros and Vilans
Posted: 2013/04/23 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: CISPA, internet freedom, Julian Asange, Mark Zuckerberg, net neutrality, propaganda, wikileaks
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Earth day @ Punkonomics
Posted: 2013/04/22 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: climate, climate change, Deep Green Resistance, Derrick Jensen, energy, environmentalism, radical, radical environmentalism, subMedia.tv
A film by Franklin Lopez (available among other great stuff at subMedia.tv)
END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: “If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?”
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MUST READ–REALLY!
Posted: 2013/04/22 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: Boston bombing, Caucasian, Chechnya, Islam, media, Muslim, propaganda, racism, terrorism
The Wrong Kind of Caucasians: Despite the Boston bombers having little to do with Chechnya, the media were quick to demonise an entire ethnicity.
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“Power concedes…
Posted: 2013/04/22 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: Frederick Douglass, justice, power, radical
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass
This is perhaps the #1 point that every historian (economic especially) needs to convey. Education systems (broadly defined: religions, schools, media, etc) are of course concerned with teaching the opposite so that people will NOT demand and will wait meekly for their masters to through them some scraps and not beat them TOO hard.
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Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging
Posted: 2013/04/22 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: children, control, fraud, greed, happy pills, insanity, Orwellian, perscription drugs, psychiatry, psychology, psychotropic drugs, Soma
I’m a professional economist and have for many years found many parallels between psychology and economics in how unscientific we are and, much worse, what tools we are in serving the powers that be. I think this documentary neglects the role of our economic system in promoting both the unethical (in that it is predatory on others) pursuit of profit & power, as well as undermining societies so that individuals are ground down to the point of insanity.
Punkonomics (@DearBalak) 