Lee Fields - Money I$ King
Karl Marx, Capital, volume III, chapter XV.
I hope that someday all these polls asking “who is to blame for the current recession?” will offer multiple choice options that extend beyond simply “Democrats? Republicans? Or both?”.
(via langer) (via jhnbrssndn)
Agreed! but uhh… Don’t count on it.
Matt Taibbi (via retropolitics) (via jhnbrssndn)
“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest.” — Barclays CEO John Varley
What is there to even say beyond “are you. fucking. kidding me?” … It’s like debating torture, even having to have this conversation is wounding us all.Eastern Europe? by Brandon Neubauer on Vimeo.
Let me tell you a story about this lot…. Onceuponatime I lived in the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn. In order to get to the train I walked past McCarren Park and this lot right here along Bedford Ave between N. 11th and N. 12th streets. It was overgrown with weeds and it was quite beautiful. This lot was more full of life than the park was benefitting birds and wild plants. I always wondered about the lot’s potential even beyond this when I walked past. A lot of developments had gone up or were starting to go up so I wondered what could become of that space that would be of use to the people that would (supposedly) come into the neighborhood. A community garden? Maybe a social center/art-space? Maybe a wheat field? They could just tear the fence down and leave it as a wild, open space and even that would be kinda nice! I knew these were hopelessly optimistic dreams, but A) It’s better to have that hope and fail. and B) What else could they possibly do, build yet another steel and glass condo? They couldn’t even fill the ones they were building, it seemed (even then!). Apparently their imagination fell shorter than even my pessimistic side would have given the developers credit… One day I walked past and the weeds were bulldozed over and some gravel had been laid down. Soon it was filled with cars and a couple trucks. They had almost literally paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Wonderful.
Some time later they began tearing up this parking lot supposedly wanting to build a foundation for yet another condo development. That’s what the signs indicated. They didn’t get very far before shit went belly-up. Since the real estate crash there doesn’t seem to have been much work going on here. I don’t live in the neighborhood anymore, but I’m there fairly frequently and whenever I stroll by I check and Yup… Still a big muddy field with a big puddle, doing no one and no thing any good at all.
The people who own this lot should have to live on it. We can give their homes to someone more needy (and deserving).
See more economic/unruly development related art at BoomCrash. Thanks dirt-bag developers only concerned with turning profits rather than the needs of actual neighborhoods! Thanks jerk-off landlords too busy with turning over properties to notice the human beings involved with them! Thanks Mayor Bloomberg, for enabling all of this (in fact, encouraging it), you scum-fuck!
-Rush Limbaugh (but I couldn’t have said it better myself.) (via stevencloud)
Limbaugh, like Glenn Beck, cannot possibly be aware of the words that are coming out of his mouth. Though in this case Limbaugh offers accidental wisdom as opposed to Beck’s fugue state incoherence.
