John Avalon is corporate media tame and corporate America domesticated and his ignorance and Political-Economy illiteracy was in evidence and on full display on the 5/18/12; CNN StartingPoint with Soledad O'Brien. When during an interview on Facebook's IPO and Stock valuation, John Avalon uttered the infamous and we paraphrase: Why should Facebook's stock be more valuable than McDonald's (Fast food).
John Avalon wasn't laughed at and ridiculed out of CNN studios which is also quite telling of the unfathomable depths of American Political-Economy illiteracy when a serious socio-political commentator as John Avalon can be so revealing naive and is not corrected.
By the way the answer to John Avalon's question is simple: where does America spend more time, is it under the Golden Arches of Mcdonald's or the omniscience of their Facebook pages? America and the rest of the world have spoken and continued to say that Facebook is infinitely more valuable than Mcdonald's because their time and more of it, their life is spent with it.
If John Avalon does not get this basic point about value, what then is his authority to speak matters of the Human Condition which is all about value and it's objectification?
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Socio-Political Commentary, Sports Commentators, Analyst, Writers and The Ethnic and Class Bias Prism
Okay! I'm a cynic. I don't accept the proposition that in an ideology-challenged Political-Economy as we have in the United States. There can be and exist socio-political commentary and analysis that is not a reflection of the commentators alienation and a result of their suppositionary biases.
For example if 90% of sports commentators, analyst and writers are White and 95% of their subjects and objective of their work are Black. Why should we ignore the reality that the sum of the work of those sports commentators, analyst and writers as is presented to consumers is through the ethnic and class bias prism, notwithstanding human idealism and it's undisciplined pettiness?
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For example if 90% of sports commentators, analyst and writers are White and 95% of their subjects and objective of their work are Black. Why should we ignore the reality that the sum of the work of those sports commentators, analyst and writers as is presented to consumers is through the ethnic and class bias prism, notwithstanding human idealism and it's undisciplined pettiness?
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Monday, May 21, 2012
James Earl Jones, "Driving Miss Daisy", NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford and The Insidious Naivete Of Her Bigotry
On 2/2/11; while interviewing the accomplished icon James Earl Jones about the Broadway version of "Driving Miss Daisy" and his role in it. NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford made the addled observation that the content of "Driving Miss Daisy" it's subject matter, is so "powerful" that it could be from and I paraphrase today's news headlines.
Poor James Earl Jones the totemic-surrogate of all that was pathetic and insane about "Driving Miss Daisy", when Morgan Freeman in it's Hollywood depiction reminded us of the Intellectual-Liberalism of segregation and it's Jim Crow barbaric futility is what NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford so piningly pronounced could be appreciated through news headlines of contemporary American society.
James Earl Jones had to sit there and wonder whether what he was being assaulted with was a result of Kathie Lee Gifford's delusion or the insidious naivete of her bigotry.
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Poor James Earl Jones the totemic-surrogate of all that was pathetic and insane about "Driving Miss Daisy", when Morgan Freeman in it's Hollywood depiction reminded us of the Intellectual-Liberalism of segregation and it's Jim Crow barbaric futility is what NBC's Kathie Lee Gifford so piningly pronounced could be appreciated through news headlines of contemporary American society.
James Earl Jones had to sit there and wonder whether what he was being assaulted with was a result of Kathie Lee Gifford's delusion or the insidious naivete of her bigotry.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
CNN's Piers Morgan, Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks, The 2012 Elections and Financial Redistribution
During a 3/21/12; interview on CNN's Piers Morgan Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks critiqued the 2012 elections and it's supposed $6 billion price tag as a waste. The critique was another rote refrain that money spent for political office and it's speculative power is a waste.
Coming from the CEO of a company Entrepreneur in it's April 2012 issue lauded as one of the 10 most trusted brands in the nation. Howard Schultz's critique mocks the success of Starbucks and it is alarming in it's naivete.
If the 2012 elections will cost $6 billion. What it means is $6 billion is being redistributed and contrary to the insidious illiteracy of financial redistribution as an un-Godly, un-American, Marxist scheme, finance (and Joe The Plumber listen up) worships at the alter of redistribution. The $6 billion in question will immediately and primarily flow into Corporate Media (for ads and the relative means of disseminating political hook, line and sinkers) and the political consultancy industry. This primary redistribution translates into. A secondary one within the society impacting it's roots germanely.
Even though viscerally the idea that $6 billion is being spent in pursuit of speculative-power and it's Intellectual-Liberalism insults common sense. It's critique lies with and is that of morality and it's relativism.
Corporate Media, it's share holders and ancillary support functionaries see a $6 billion boon. The political consultancy industry sees a wind-fall and mom and pop eateries along the less traveled roads of battle-ground states are as those Nile Crocodiles lurking in African rivers on the bi-annual animal migrations: blacking out the red of the preceeding lean 3 years with what their take out and counter tops collect.
Considering Starbucks has been a beneficiary of election financial-transmigratory, redistribution and will be during the 2012 election and it's purported $6 billion tag. It is ridiculously disingenuous for Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks to critique financial redistribution so recklessly.
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Coming from the CEO of a company Entrepreneur in it's April 2012 issue lauded as one of the 10 most trusted brands in the nation. Howard Schultz's critique mocks the success of Starbucks and it is alarming in it's naivete.
If the 2012 elections will cost $6 billion. What it means is $6 billion is being redistributed and contrary to the insidious illiteracy of financial redistribution as an un-Godly, un-American, Marxist scheme, finance (and Joe The Plumber listen up) worships at the alter of redistribution. The $6 billion in question will immediately and primarily flow into Corporate Media (for ads and the relative means of disseminating political hook, line and sinkers) and the political consultancy industry. This primary redistribution translates into. A secondary one within the society impacting it's roots germanely.
Even though viscerally the idea that $6 billion is being spent in pursuit of speculative-power and it's Intellectual-Liberalism insults common sense. It's critique lies with and is that of morality and it's relativism.
Corporate Media, it's share holders and ancillary support functionaries see a $6 billion boon. The political consultancy industry sees a wind-fall and mom and pop eateries along the less traveled roads of battle-ground states are as those Nile Crocodiles lurking in African rivers on the bi-annual animal migrations: blacking out the red of the preceeding lean 3 years with what their take out and counter tops collect.
Considering Starbucks has been a beneficiary of election financial-transmigratory, redistribution and will be during the 2012 election and it's purported $6 billion tag. It is ridiculously disingenuous for Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks to critique financial redistribution so recklessly.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Once Again, Circa Four More Years, The American Hopelessness
So Once again---it's on like days long gone but fresh to the memory raw.
America: it was land of the brave, home of the free---till creaky, rat infested ships made it's shore and lice borne, scurvy maddened, petty tyrannical minds breathed it's freshness and with sticky fingers and beady eye glee stole it clean.
So once again it's on like the song vote for me and I'll set you free. Then the vote was stolen as it once was in Florida and the song blown naked in the air resurrecting "Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit" gatherings of Tea Partiers damning Lincoln's legacy reposed in the Oval office.
And the sounds once again were made---from the braying donkey to the trumpeting elephant: it was foul, it was fair rang clear and hollow and the silence of the lands hopelessness was the loudest of them all---as eyes that hear, heard it all and insisted their ears had seen it all so what was the use.
So again, like days long gone but fresh to the memory raw instead of settling of accounts the land was abundant with it's forgiveness and understanding. A forgiveness and understanding never given it when it's sons and daughters stand in the pale of those three strikes you are out, no parole and mandatory and truth in sentencing laws.
And once again it's on---to feel the sting of the lash and guttural "get back, stay in your place" of the beady eyed smirk cunningly watching to see how well and true you understand that it's the Reagan-Democrat collaborationist, the delusional Independent, the imbecilic Tea Partiers we will have to get gone if the land is to realize---by your abilities to the limitations of your expectations.
So once again---it's on like days gone but fresh to the memory raw circa four more years the American hopelessness.
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America: it was land of the brave, home of the free---till creaky, rat infested ships made it's shore and lice borne, scurvy maddened, petty tyrannical minds breathed it's freshness and with sticky fingers and beady eye glee stole it clean.
So once again it's on like the song vote for me and I'll set you free. Then the vote was stolen as it once was in Florida and the song blown naked in the air resurrecting "Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit" gatherings of Tea Partiers damning Lincoln's legacy reposed in the Oval office.
And the sounds once again were made---from the braying donkey to the trumpeting elephant: it was foul, it was fair rang clear and hollow and the silence of the lands hopelessness was the loudest of them all---as eyes that hear, heard it all and insisted their ears had seen it all so what was the use.
So again, like days long gone but fresh to the memory raw instead of settling of accounts the land was abundant with it's forgiveness and understanding. A forgiveness and understanding never given it when it's sons and daughters stand in the pale of those three strikes you are out, no parole and mandatory and truth in sentencing laws.
And once again it's on---to feel the sting of the lash and guttural "get back, stay in your place" of the beady eyed smirk cunningly watching to see how well and true you understand that it's the Reagan-Democrat collaborationist, the delusional Independent, the imbecilic Tea Partiers we will have to get gone if the land is to realize---by your abilities to the limitations of your expectations.
So once again---it's on like days gone but fresh to the memory raw circa four more years the American hopelessness.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Black Men Dying, Justice, Society and The Memory of Trayvon Martin Killed By George Zimmerman
We don't have any problem with Black Men dying, whether it's young or seasoned Black Men dying and death is natural and a fact in the general equation of existence. What we do have a problem with is worthless death and senseless dying. There has to be order to dying. What we mean is the currency of life has to be spent in the most dear and exorbitant manner possible, meaning what is charged to spend life must then be the ultimate price to society.
Society demands that we pay the ultimate price which is our lives in an existence that is dictated and governed by circumstances and conditions the machinations of society brings into being---we must therefore respond with, if the proverbial deck as is won't to say is stacked against Black people particularly Black Men then society must in turn be held accountable for exacting it's ultimate charge so there will be a coming to terms with society, it's governing status quo and the farcial and hypocritical contention it utilizes in legitimizing it's terror.
Why must Black People, particularly Black Men tolerate the injustice of the American system and submit to it's abuses? If in theory the issue of justice is a noble idea, one that well fed and consent main stream America in the bask of it's well fed bodies and content souls speculates in the abstract. But in practice we the subjects experiencing it's application encounter it not as a noble enrichment but as a draconian netherworld of catch 22's. Where in that universal quest to feed our bodies and satisfy our souls we find it as draw-bridges the status quo collaborators draw up behind their retreating ample back sides as they consolidate and conserve their gains and spoils. Why must we the objects of the abstraction continue to objectify the illusion by maintaining those relationships with the citadelist and their boot-lickers which results with us spending the currency of our lives cheaply and idiotically?
Why is the administration of a law and it's justice that does not reflect by taking into account the particularities of the Black Experience and condition in America accepted? If we state that the system is in opposition to the development of Black determination in America why then is the injustice tacitly supported and legitimized by cooperating with it. There isn't any middle ground. We are either included in the American system and it's Political-Economy which is to mean we actively share in the spoils from it's exploits or we are defacto excluded from it's strategic intent which is also to mean we are the objects of it's imperative.
As men, our potential is either a stabilizer or de-stabilizer to the status of society. As Black Men the potential is always seen as threatening to the stability of American society. So why then must Black Men continue to allow and accept the influence and effects of a system that in practice prejudicially excludes Black Men from the substance of it's value?
The nature and reason for our behavior, the decisional choices determining and predicting actions in society are a result of the way we relate to the forces which are in existence due to the composition and structure of American society. If we decry governmental attitudes towards us in all forms and fashions as being perceptual biases, based on a paranoid view that hold Black Men as the antithesis to the American strategic imperative , then why as we have already demanded do we give up our lives, spend the currency of our lives in ways that in principle and in deed convey the incredulity of our inability and reluctance to confront the reason why we exhibit the behavioural chaos which in consequence has us spending our lives cheaply?
In memory of Trayvon Martin, the 17 year old teenager from Sanford, Florida. Killed and murdered by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012.
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Society demands that we pay the ultimate price which is our lives in an existence that is dictated and governed by circumstances and conditions the machinations of society brings into being---we must therefore respond with, if the proverbial deck as is won't to say is stacked against Black people particularly Black Men then society must in turn be held accountable for exacting it's ultimate charge so there will be a coming to terms with society, it's governing status quo and the farcial and hypocritical contention it utilizes in legitimizing it's terror.
Why must Black People, particularly Black Men tolerate the injustice of the American system and submit to it's abuses? If in theory the issue of justice is a noble idea, one that well fed and consent main stream America in the bask of it's well fed bodies and content souls speculates in the abstract. But in practice we the subjects experiencing it's application encounter it not as a noble enrichment but as a draconian netherworld of catch 22's. Where in that universal quest to feed our bodies and satisfy our souls we find it as draw-bridges the status quo collaborators draw up behind their retreating ample back sides as they consolidate and conserve their gains and spoils. Why must we the objects of the abstraction continue to objectify the illusion by maintaining those relationships with the citadelist and their boot-lickers which results with us spending the currency of our lives cheaply and idiotically?
Why is the administration of a law and it's justice that does not reflect by taking into account the particularities of the Black Experience and condition in America accepted? If we state that the system is in opposition to the development of Black determination in America why then is the injustice tacitly supported and legitimized by cooperating with it. There isn't any middle ground. We are either included in the American system and it's Political-Economy which is to mean we actively share in the spoils from it's exploits or we are defacto excluded from it's strategic intent which is also to mean we are the objects of it's imperative.
As men, our potential is either a stabilizer or de-stabilizer to the status of society. As Black Men the potential is always seen as threatening to the stability of American society. So why then must Black Men continue to allow and accept the influence and effects of a system that in practice prejudicially excludes Black Men from the substance of it's value?
The nature and reason for our behavior, the decisional choices determining and predicting actions in society are a result of the way we relate to the forces which are in existence due to the composition and structure of American society. If we decry governmental attitudes towards us in all forms and fashions as being perceptual biases, based on a paranoid view that hold Black Men as the antithesis to the American strategic imperative , then why as we have already demanded do we give up our lives, spend the currency of our lives in ways that in principle and in deed convey the incredulity of our inability and reluctance to confront the reason why we exhibit the behavioural chaos which in consequence has us spending our lives cheaply?
In memory of Trayvon Martin, the 17 year old teenager from Sanford, Florida. Killed and murdered by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
The Cuban-American Narrative of Injustice, Comparing Fidel Castro To Adolph Hitler and Settling Accounts
So what exactly is the Cuban-American narrative of injustice? Comparing Fidel Castro to Adolph Hitler as a linchpin in the narrative is an insult.
If there is a Cuban-American narrative of injustice it is a misnomer. Cuban-Americans laying claim to injustice at the hands of Fidel Castro is akin to the U.S. Army chiding the Sioux Nation for ambushing and slaughtering General Custer.
Cuba-Americans and their history is simply one of coming up short on the wrong side of a struggle which Fidel Castro won fair and square. Cuban-Americans have no more or less a claim to Cuba than the Communist Party led Socialist status quo currently having it's day in the Cuban sun.
We close with: The Cuban-American narrative of injustice is the classic seething of the vanquished after a settlement of accounts and the Human Condition is a continuum of settling accounts.
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If there is a Cuban-American narrative of injustice it is a misnomer. Cuban-Americans laying claim to injustice at the hands of Fidel Castro is akin to the U.S. Army chiding the Sioux Nation for ambushing and slaughtering General Custer.
Cuba-Americans and their history is simply one of coming up short on the wrong side of a struggle which Fidel Castro won fair and square. Cuban-Americans have no more or less a claim to Cuba than the Communist Party led Socialist status quo currently having it's day in the Cuban sun.
We close with: The Cuban-American narrative of injustice is the classic seething of the vanquished after a settlement of accounts and the Human Condition is a continuum of settling accounts.
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