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Category Archives: Oligarchy
Russian Oligarchy: Voyage of the Damned
by IRENE FOWLER, Contributor Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) pen name of the Russian poet Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, who was born in Odessa, to a Ukrainian naval engineer and a mother descended from Russian nobility. She married poet Niklay Gumilev in 1910, … Continue reading
Posted in Oligarchy, Poetry, Russia, Ukraine
Tagged Anna Akhmatova, Irene Fowler, Russian Oligarchy: Voyage of the Damned, Totalitarian Repression
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Does everyone really know he’s an idiot
By ann summers A melange of mercenaries continue to wheel out the orange Moloch idol for the cult of personality as they now do to keep the Trumptanic afloat. This past week has featured an interesting intersection of the release … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, Corruption, FBI, Foreign Policy, Government, History, Media, Oligarchy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Society, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, Michael Wolff, Politics, trumprussia, White House
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The Trumpian Hollymoon is over … now the Russian appeasement grows.
By ann summers Much like the GOP and Trump have peddled the meme that PBO/HRC “created” ISIS, now DJT* has decided to capitulate (bend over backward, Ben Dover) to Putin, where the Syrian conflict will generate new memes for 45*, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, Conspiracy, Fascists/Corporatists, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Media, Oligarchy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Society, Syria, Terrorism, Turkey, United States, War on "Terror"
Tagged Donald Trump, Media, Politics, Russia, Syria, trumprussia
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post-Trump, how should the cinema treat #TrumpRussia
By ann summers The NSA analysis does not draw conclusions about whether the interference had any effect on the election’s outcome and concedes that much remains unknown about the extent of the hackers’ accomplishments. However, the report raises the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Celebrity, France, Germany, Government, History, Movies, Oligarchy, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Russia, Society, Television
Tagged Art, cinema, Donald Trump, film, Media, movies, Politics, television, trumprussia, Video
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Propaganda 200: In Summation, Gist The Whitewashing Power Of Editing
by GENE HOWINGTON “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Fascism, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, Hypocrisy, Imperialism, Justice, Oligarchy, Politics, Propaganda, United Kingdom, United States, War
Tagged Cover-up, Iraq Invasion, Sir John Chilicot, Whitewash
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Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient
Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony. The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading
Posted in 9-11, Big Brother, Capitalism, Celebrity, CIA, Civil Liberties, Communism, Conspiracy, Corruption, Crime, Democracy, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Genocide, Government, Government Propaganda, Heroism, Imperialism, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Media, Nanotechnology, Neoliberals, New York, NSA, Oligarchy, Police, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Propaganda, Science, Socialism, Society, Technology, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, US Military
Tagged CBS, jonathan Nolan, Media, person of interest, television, television series
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A historic moment revealing a Pyhrric defeat for Trump
By ann summers Even as Trump tried to make canceling a Sanders-Trump debate this week in Caifornia into a positive meme (“I don’t debate second-place candidates”), he lost because his ditching a debate in the Iowa GOP primary using the … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Campaign Finance, Capitalism, Celebrity, CIA, Conservatives, Corruption, Economics, England, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Financial, Foreign Policy, Fraud, Government Propaganda, History, Imperialism, Islam, Law Enforcement, Libertarians, Media, Movies, Murder, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Oligarchy, Organized Crime, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Racism, Society, Television, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, BBC, Bernie Sanders, California, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, primary election, Republicans
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The GOP has been Trumpunk’d
By ann summers This 2016 national election is a scaled -up version of the celebrity prank program Punk’d. It is a spectacle on the scale of big Dada rather than big data. We’re now stuck with a prairie fire of well-combed Astrorturftm. … Continue reading