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Another elite option for endless happiness and enjoyment of wealth

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 11/19/2017 - 9:23pm

What is it that even the richest can't afford despite their insane wealth? No, it's not more money--they already have more than they and twenty generations of offspring can spend in one life--IT IS MORE LIFETIME. An enterprising Italian physician has come up with the cure for those yearnings of immortality (I almost said "immorality", but they've already got the market cornered on that.

The 1% Solution: Fence Us Out

Submitted by IdahoDiane on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 11:57am

First, they fenced out the Mexicans and I didn’t speak up because I’m not Mexican,

Next, they fenced in and pepper-sprayed the Occupy Wall Street protesters and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t at OWS,

Then, they fenced out the Syrian Refugees and I didn’t speak up because I’m not a Refugee,

Then, they fenced in the Reporters and I didn’t speak up because I’m not a Reporter,

Slipping into Coma: Art and Cultural Heritage Held Hostage by the 1%

Submitted by Cosmic on Thu, 06/02/2016 - 8:10am

A friend sent me this article from the New York Times yesterday, One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence: The superrich have stashed millions of works in tax-free storage. So what does that mean for the art? It inspired me to come out of hiatus and write something for a blog.

A Path to a Different Sort of Victory

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 04/09/2016 - 6:08pm

The pundits are all abuzz about whether or not Bernie Sanders has a "path to victory" in the Democratic primaries. Handicapping the horse race in all its minutiae from "the true math" to speculation over superdelegates and the size of campaign war chests fills the airwaves and plugs the tubes of the internets.

They are talking, largely, about a victory within the arcane electoral rules set up by the parties, but they are generally studiously ignoring the elephant in the room - the struggle of the 99% to achieve political and economic power.

Underneath all of the bloviating and rhetoric, power is what the so-called insurgent candidacies are really about.