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124…surely you must be joking mr. feynman
One of the most divisive issues in Western society today are IQ tests. Hundreds of IQ societies exist which appear to be nothing more than serve a palliative function, enhance intellectual masturbation and serve as dating sites.Call it the IQ … Continue reading
romney care: tax evasives of the leisure clasp
One of the key themes in our ongoing public discourse is taxes. Mitt Romney’s income tax filings and the continuing collateral damage from banker bonuses and bailouts have made this an open sore with the pain shooting to the dark … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Ben Shahn, Charles White, charles white art, irving norman, jeff wall, john steuart curry, Lloyd Blankfein, Mitt Romney 2012, Paul Krugman, Ralph Ellison, Raphael Soyer, Thomas Hart Benton, Thorstein Veblen, William Wellman
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watering the weeds
The Stavisky scandal. One mans contradictory relationship with truth and death. Yes, the big crooks live on; greedy and cold they get to get swindled another day. Stavisky stood off attacks from the press with bribes, which he called “watering … Continue reading
Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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ZOMBIE BANKS, BUBBLE BATHS & EPITAPHS
Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, And the deputy grabbed his gun; In the fight that followed He laid that deputy down. Then he took to the trees and timber To live a life of shame; Every crime in Oklahoma … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Chapman, Bank for International Settlements, Billy Bragg, Bonnie and Clyde, D.H. Lawrence, David Allan Coe, Debrahlee Lorenzana, Ferdinand Pecora, Gene Hackman, Henry Paulson, Jaime Caruna, Jennifer Peltz, John Greenwood Reuters, John Paulson, Joseph Zigman, Josh Waletzky, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Nuremberg War Crimes, Pecora Commission, Robert H. Jackson, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sandra Schulberg, Senator Carl Levin, Senator Claire McCaskill, Stuart Schulberg, the byrds roger mcguinn, Victor Juhasz, Warren Beatty, Wilco, Woody Guthrie
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PINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''
At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of existing, and backlogged promises to spend, these … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Alexander Berkman, Allen Stanford, Anarchism, Anarchists, Angela Merkel, Bakunin, Ben Bernanke, Bernard Madoff, Black Bloc, Chen Wenling, David Letterman, Director James Horne, Fabians, Fabrice Tourre, Gandhi, Gandhi Groupies, Hal Roach Studios, Henry Clay, Henry Clay Economist, Henry Fonda, John Ibbitson, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Lady Gaga, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Mark Rothko, Matt Taibbi, Mikhail Bakunin, Neil Reynolds, New York magazine Steve Fishman, Oliver Hardy, Pee Wee Herman, Peter Hodson, Pinocchio, PVM Oil Futures Limited, Reginald Rose, Roberto Benigni, Rolling Stone Magazine, Scott kauffman ThinkGeek, Sidney Lumet, Sprott Asset Management, Stan Laurel, Stephen Perkins, Steve Fishman, The Daily Bail, ThinkGeek, Tom Cruise, Toronto Consensus G20, Zoe Brennan
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GOD-MAN SACHS and ALMIGHTY DEBT
Its easy to think the God’s must be crazy. The lack of inaction, and sense of paralysis.The line always seems to go dead. In all likelihood, the Gods may have gotten involved with Goldman-Sachs; they went long on faith and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Stern, Clarence Darrow, Daily Moaner, Donald McCrae, Edward Asner, Faisal Shazhad, George Carlin, Goldman Sachs, Henry Fonda, Jesse Jackson, Leopold and Loeb Trial, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Mr. Shahzad, Paul Muni, SEIU President Andy Stern, Senator Carl Levin, Spencer Tracey, tabatha Southey, Wile E Coyote
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COLLECTING ON SOME BAD DEBTS & SIDE BETS
”Last year, U.S. art historian Gary Radke proposed that two of the figures in the silver version of the sculpture — including the young male holding a tray on the far left, were created by da Vinci and called Youth … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Adrian Searle, Alexander Dibelius, Andrea del Verrocchio, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, elizabetta povoletta, Enron, evelyn Davis, Gary Radke, James Adams, John Follain, Joseph W. Alsop, Joshua Bruyn, Leonard Cohen, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Peter Silverman, Radke, Randy Boswell, Rembrandt, Rembrandt The Polish Rider, Richard Gnodde Goldman Sachs, Simon Hewitt, Tracey Emin, Willem Drost
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SKEPTICALLY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTAINTY OF DOUBT
Certain quotations from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ”On Certainty” seem to imply that we can doubt everything: each statement that might be true still has some aspects that might make it possible to doubt it. Certainly, the issue of Goldman-Sachs and our … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Schwartz Bear Stearns, Allan Greenspan, Bear Stearns, Benito Mussolini, Charlie Rose, Daniele Moyal Sharrock, evelyn Davis, George Soros, Goldman Sachs, James Cayne Bear Stearns, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Matt Taibbi, michael sherwood, Phil Angelides, Richard Menary, Rolling Stone Magazine, Ross Sorkin, Vanity Fair
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