The World in Pictures

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Some people think that's just the way it is, the way it's always been and the way it always will be.

No, that is not the correct answer. The world needs a global people's revolution to finally put an end to rule by the rich.

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Big Al's picture

I would imagine it would take a lot of people and a lot of money. But why can't it be done? Or can it be done? Is it possible to have that much faith in the human race? That would be the only reason to do it.

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Big Al's picture

@Big Al Maybe it's better we just stick to electing politicians and see how that works out.

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Big Al's picture

@Big Al We have to evolve.

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Pricknick's picture

@Big Al
Revolution likely.
Resolution doubtful.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

Big Al's picture

@Pricknick @Pricknick Actually, the solutions are pretty simple, but how to enact them are the seemingly impossible tasks. Especially now, the wealth inequality is so extreme without any end in sight and the accumulation of that wealth in the top 1% families is something we haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg yet. Fighting that does seem impossible within the next 20-30 years in which it will only get worse.

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riverlover's picture

@Big Al plus burned all the bridges. And made sure to follow that with laws specifically designed for their enrichment and protection. How to make their lives more uncomfortable for them?

I can't see a non-violent way out. Not enough imagination. Poison all the fish eggs they eat?

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

Daenerys's picture

@riverlover They might be doing that themselves. Have you heard about the new fad of rich yuppies buying "raw" (untreated) water and eating spoiled meat?? They must think our water in the US is special and magical. Hey, I got some pond water I can sell! Boy, rich people are stupid.

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This shit is bananas.

WaterLily's picture

@Big Al MORE and BETTER ones!

Count me in for the global people's revolution. I'm already armed ... with my giant Sharpie.

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hecate's picture

@Big Al
aren't interested. They voted for this picture. That's what they want.

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Orwell:

No change in the structure of society can by itself effect a real improvement. Socialism used to be defined as “common ownership of the means of production,” but it is now seen that if common ownership means no more than centralised control, it merely paves the way for a new form of oligarchy. Centralised control is a necessary pre-condition of Socialism, but it no more produces Socialism than my typewriter would of itself produce this article I am writing. Throughout history, one revolution after another—although usually producing a temporary relief, such as a sick man gets by turning over in bed—has simply led to a change of masters, because no serious effort has been made to eliminate the power instinct: or if such an effort has been made, it has been made only by the saint, the Yogi, the man who saves his own soul at the expense of ignoring the community. In the minds of active revolutionaries, at any rate the ones who “got there,” the longing for a just society has always been fatally mixed up with the intention to secure power for themselves.

Koestler says that we must learn once again the technique of contemplation, which “remains the only source of guidance in ethical dilemmas where the rule-of-thumb criteria of social utility fail.” By “contemplation” he means “the will not to will,” the conquest of the desire for power. The practical men have led us to the edge of the abyss, and the intellectuals in whom acceptance of power politics has killed first the moral sense, and then the sense of reality, are urging us to march rapidly forward without changing direction. Koestler maintains that history is not at all moments predetermined, but that there are turning-points at which humanity is free to choose the better or worse road. Koestler calls for “a new fraternity in a new spiritual climate, whose leaders are tied by a vow of poverty to share the life of the masses, and debarred by the laws of the fraternity from attaining unchecked power.” He adds: “if this seems Utopian, then Socialism is a Utopia.” It may not even be a Utopia—its very name may in a couple of generations have ceased to be a memory—unless we can escape from the folly of “realism.” But that will not happen without a change in the individual heart.

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Big Al's picture

@hecate Dude was something else. If we're not at that turning point, we're pretty darn close.

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@Big Al
are not predictable. "It steam engines when it comes steam engine time." So I think you should keep asking the questions, raising the Reality. Someday, it will Be. And you will have contributed to it.

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@hecate
I was astounded at the statement on p. 27 that "legions of Christian Reformists compared Hitler to Christ".

I must have skipped class the day that was covered in the history of WWII class. Damn! Same as it ever was

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Wink's picture

in the country's 200 largest cities, @Big Al , thinking it would trickle down from there. I got a few bites on FB, but since "nobody big" is proposing it...
My comeback was, "if we wait for 'somebody big' to propose such we'll all be dead." Or wish we were. I got tired of waiting for "somebody big." OWS was started by two somebodies small. They didn't wait for somebody big. I know everyone feels like Jerry Garcia, not believing it's up to us. Jerry certainly couldn't believe it either. But it is. Believe it or not, sad as it might be, we're it.

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the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.

snoopydawg's picture

as the rest of us put together have. Just Fucking insane! And they will get to keep even more because of congress. Both parties were involved in writing the bill. I wish I had an idea for how to fight back against what they are doing to us. Which president said that "when the government stops representing us is the time for us to remove them." ?

Yes we are there, BA. We have been living in Orwell's world for quite some time. Basically I think that we can admit that we're experiencing fascism according to the definition of it:

Supremacy of the military
Controlled mass media
Obsession with national security
Corporate power protected
Labor suppressed
Obsession of crime and punishment
Rampant cronyism and corruption
Fraudulent elections
Wars of aggression

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Shahryar's picture

The San Diego/Tijuana border is eye-opening. Then seeing Chihuahua and its cardboard houses and the mirror-shade sunglasses of the border guards makes you think you're in a scary movie. Juarez looks like that congested town. I wonder if that's what the photo is.

Anyway it's crazy to see the haves vs have not so graphically.

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ggersh's picture

for him and his buddies, with a wind chill of -15
he had his lynch mob remove the homeless from under
a viaduct, worse yet was the manner in which they did
it, they took everything the homeless owned and chucked
it into the garbage trucks with out any regard for them.

a 10-12 year old kid in the meantime was handing out
backpacks with stuff needed at the same time, they had
him on camera saying how the fuck(that adj is on me) do
people do this to other people?

our society has simply broken down, different rules for
the rulers, everyone else, gfy (go fuck yourself)

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

WaterLily's picture

@ggersh If I believed in capital-H Hell, I would wish for Rahm to go straight to it.

Just another sociopath.

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ggersh's picture

@WaterLily

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

Daenerys's picture

@ggersh gives me hope for the future at least.

This shit is bananas.

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This shit is bananas.

Lookout's picture

Thought I would post a detailed story on MLK weekend, but in the meantime, here is a preliminary study that is worth the read (or at least a scan)
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2017/souls-poor-folk-prelimi...
Click on the link at the bottom for the 30 page report.

Pictures tell powerful stories...
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Why don't we address the problem? Our resources go elsewhere...
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...cause it fills the pockets of the elite...
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Not a very pretty picture.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

divineorder's picture

@Lookout

.... inequality. Now what?

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Strife Delivery's picture

I've lived in trailers my whole life. Started in a single wide trailer, later my family moved.... into a double-wide trailer. There's America's social mobility.

I traveled to Nicaragua volunteering in clinics and going to the rural villages was difficult. It was a truly different world.

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GreyWolf's picture

[video:https://youtu.be/cOeKidp-iWo]

That's just the way it is
Some things'll never change
That's just the way it is
Ha, but don't you believe them

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Where are all the servants?

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Beware the bullshit factories.

Daenerys's picture

@Timmethy2.0 Like they'd want the help in the photos!

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This shit is bananas.

Podcast looking at real estate pages in America.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CitationsNeeded/comments/7bmtcd/episode_15_the_...

REAL ESTATE SECTIONS ARE MOSTLY BREEZY, FUN PROFILES OF THE SUPER RICH BUYING UP HOUSES AND REMODELING THE ONES THEY ALREADY OWN. HARMLESS ESCAPIST FUN? MAYBE. BUT HOW WE WRITE ABOUT REAL ESTATE OFTEN REVEALS CASUALLY RACIST AND COLONIAL ATTITUDES THAT ARE RARELY, IF EVER, EXAMINED.

IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT WHY THE WAY WE TALK ABOUT THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS MATTERS AND HOW THE WHITE CIVILIZING MISSION NEVER WENT AWAY. WITH GUEST AARON CANTÚ.

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divineorder's picture

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

@divineorder @divineorder I guess they mean the kind of trickle down austerity pushing, warmonger, misogynistic, sexual predator that gives people that "kooky uncle" vibe like W. Bush had? Aside from Trump giving people the willies rather than the warm fuzzies, what's the diff?

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

divineorder's picture

@Dr. John Carpenter pushback from DSA with that tweet. Joe is a war criminal. Period.

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

Wink's picture

the dock, @divineorder .

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divineorder's picture

@Dr. John Carpenter @Wink

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A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.

snoopydawg's picture

@divineorder

for posting that tweet. I looked at the thread and saw this tweet.

These are who the centrists think would be great presidents. How did their type of policies become acceptable for people who used to be much more left?

Sigh

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Bollox Ref's picture

but given the photos, the super rich lack any sense of aesthetic nous.

Chateaux of the Loire they are not.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.