tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post2675480073909796955..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: A Closer Look At MOMCOM's DNA - 4Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-85583151982310662722024-01-16T06:57:26.599-06:002024-01-16T06:57:26.599-06:00The Tom Delay page in the Dallas News was 'los...The Tom Delay page in the Dallas News was 'lost' so here is the Wayback Machine link to it <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110112035919/https://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/011011dntexdelay.9dcdf775.html" rel="nofollow">Tom DeLay gets three years in prison on money laundering, conspiracy charges</a>Dreddhttps://blogdredd.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-56781225898995644712011-03-10T17:52:25.040-06:002011-03-10T17:52:25.040-06:00I took this direct quote from the Wikipedia entry ...I took this direct quote from the Wikipedia entry on the Father of Spin. Although I have an extensive education in the field of social work and likely encountered his theories at some point I do not recall this person. <br />I find it so very contemptuous that in light of the day's ongoing and relentless dismantling of our minimally supportive societal safety nets and structures, that he harbored such fear of the libido while his proposed "solution" for channeling said “libidinous energy" to the corporate elite for economic benefit is so much more malignant. And we can without a doubt attest that it has not and will never lead to a utopian society.<br /><br />No wonder they have always been able to lock arms with the evangelicals!!! Thanks for the education... <br /><br />Although I had long ago come to the conclusion that something very planned was happening in an ultra-secret center of the political and economic universe, I had no idea that this went back so many years. <br /><br /><br /> <br />“Bernays' vision was of a utopian society in which individuals' dangerous libidinal energies[clarification needed What is dangerous about libido?] could be harnessed and channeled by a corporate elite for economic benefit. <br /><br />Through the use of mass production, big business could fulfill constant craving of the inherently irrational and desire driven masses,[clarification needed What mass irrationality?][citation needed] simultaneously securing the niche of a mass production economy (even in peacetime), as well as sating the dangerous animal urges[clarification needed What dangerous urges?] that threatened to tear society apart[citation needed] if left unquelled.”Marcellenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-88556436403255963232011-01-12T06:09:12.184-06:002011-01-12T06:09:12.184-06:00Did MOMCOM's dad ever work for Motorola? I alw...Did MOMCOM's dad ever work for Motorola? I always wondered where they got those "batwings" while I worked there as a contract software architect.<br /><br />His mustache is pure "bat wings" ... for lack of a worse term.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-43860416807888906272011-01-11T18:52:57.741-06:002011-01-11T18:52:57.741-06:00Let me go WAY on on a limb a predict that this wil...Let me go WAY on on a limb a predict that this will never happen: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0112-oil-spill-commission-20110112,0,1066832.story" rel="nofollow">Oil spill panel calls for sweeping changes</a> <br /><br /><i>The presidential commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico wants more funding for oversight, allocation of penalty payments to gulf restoration, and a lifting of the $75-million liability cap on oil firms. </i><br /><br />On the one hand:<br /><br /><i>The presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill called on Congress, the Obama administration and the oil and gas sector Tuesday to make sweeping changes based on practices in other industries and petroleum-producing countries to avert a repeat of the deadly Deepwater Horizon offshore disaster.<br /><br />The scope of the panel's recommendations stems in part from a conclusion it voiced earlier that "systemic failure" and a "culture of complacency" among the oil industry and government regulators contributed heavily to the April 20 blowout of the well — not just the actions of BP, Transocean and Halliburton, the three major companies working on the rig.</i><br /><br />On the other:<br /><br /><i>But the prospects for fundamental change are murky. The recommendations, several of which require congressional approval, come as anti-regulatory fervor is gripping Congress, particularly the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.<br /><br />Industry groups want lawmakers to roll back many environmental and safety regulations. Oil industry advocates and their legislative allies have focused on speeding up the permitting of new deep-water wells, a priority that could conflict with increased regulation and oversight.</i><br /><br />Given NoBama and the dems precarious re-election prospects and the fact that that drives <i>ALL</i> of their decision making, predicting that this is going nowhere is simply a no-brainer. Alas, the dems are the new Repubes, in that you can predict their every move by making very simple political calculations. Unfortunately for the dems, their calculations are almost always an order of magnitude simpler: How do we avoid <i>YET ANOTHER</i> major political defeat <i>BECAUSE WE DON'T STAND FOR ANYTHING(!)</i> and seek merely to appease the political right.NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-5892924003708006772011-01-11T10:00:31.986-06:002011-01-11T10:00:31.986-06:00Seems as though the actors in this melodrama come ...Seems as though the actors in this melodrama come in two colours. The Shadow knows.Kathyhttp://shadowrag.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-3783041870137712422011-01-11T08:30:38.715-06:002011-01-11T08:30:38.715-06:00I've always respected David Stockman since he ...I've always respected David Stockman since he resigned as Reagan's first budget director in protest against the obviously bankrupt economic policies he was being asked to design, support, and implement. Great to see that he's still outspoken all these years later.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/america-has-reached-the-point-of-no-return-reagan-budget-director-warns/" rel="nofollow">Exclusive: America has ‘reached the point of no return,’ Reagan budget director warns</a>NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-46659378408830508262011-01-11T08:04:39.869-06:002011-01-11T08:04:39.869-06:00You've really hit on the kernel of the whole g...You've really hit on the kernel of the whole grand scheme today Dredd, for we now know that propaganda = marketing and vice versa, and that these forces are arguably the most ever-present and dominant forces in the world today. You might touch on that fact in the future, as propaganda has effectively been "sold" to the public at large under the much more benign term "marketing," as which it is mostly accepted as a force for good, in that it greases the wheels of the almighty God, Capitalism. <br /><br />Even most who dismiss the effects of marketing, or even actively try to resist it, are influenced by its effects, consciously or not. TV, and now the internet to a lesser extent, are thus the social glues that make the whole system work by delivering marketing, aka propaganda, content to the masses 24/7. And the messages are, not surprisingly, all the same in nature: buy, buy, buy; conform, conform, conform; money, money, money; war, war, war; USA, USA, USA; etc.<br /><br />Marketing has succeeded in stupifying the masses to such an extent that if you could educate everyone immediately on its effects, we'd more than likely continue on the same course anyway, accepting the negative effects as being more than compensated for by the alleged positive ones. Fact is, without effective marketing, capitalism withers on the vine, and the engine of exponential growth stops, which blows up the world economy and 6.8B people already alive start getting restless. We've made a deal with the devil plunging into this exponential growth economy powered by cheap fossil fuels that are now starting to get shorter in supply. We're damned if we do, damned if we don't at this point, and therefore will continue to rely on the devil we know, the status quo.<br /><br />All of which will be enabled by ever higher levels of propaganda/marketing to convince us that what our 5 senses tell us isn't true. That is to say: we're collectively getting poorer, consumption of capital goods is getting less and less satisfying, the environment - both natural and political - is getting deadlier, our government(s) are blatantly corrupt and no longer represent "we the people," and a sense of impending doom from all these factors and more is beginning to become pervasive in the world.NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-23153273971743434332011-01-11T07:41:00.774-06:002011-01-11T07:41:00.774-06:00A big time MOMCOM player, Tom "The Hammer&quo...A big time MOMCOM player, Tom "The Hammer" Delay, showed no remorse at the sentencing hearing, so the state judge slammed him a bit, then gave him 3 years in the slammer for conspiracy (see there is such a thing as a valid conspiracy theory), and five years for money laundering, converted to probation.<br /><br />The bottom line is 3 years in jail, 7 years probation after he gets out.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/011011dntexdelay.9dcdf775.html" rel="nofollow">The Hammer in The Slammer</a>Randyhttp://www.peakoil.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-16329389908490611442011-01-11T06:45:37.903-06:002011-01-11T06:45:37.903-06:00There is a story concerning Alaska oil reserves wh...There is a story concerning Alaska oil reserves which illustrates the point.<br /><br />Remember how MOMCOM bloviated about "drill baby drill" in Alaska as a solution to peak oil?<br /><br />Had the nation relied again, as it has for over a hundred years, to big oil bloviation ("a great amount of oil is there"), untold billions would have been invested and wasted in Alaska because great amounts of oil are NOT there.<br /><br />New data indicates that the reserves there are 90% or so less than the big oil barons said. That is, for every 100 barrels they estimated, there are actually only 10 barrels. Big difference.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.peakoil.net/headline-news/usgs-alaskas-untapped-oil-reserves-estimate-lowered-by-about-90-percent" rel="nofollow">USGS Article</a> ...<br /><br />MOMCOM is going to become a desperado when backed into the corner of big reality.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-10702859575943847422011-01-11T06:33:40.406-06:002011-01-11T06:33:40.406-06:00It is quite reasonable to conclude that MOMCOM wou...It is quite reasonable to conclude that MOMCOM would not be composed of its current components without having the elitist, exceptionalist DNA experience passed down. <br /><br />Those massive doses of propaganda coming in and then being broadcast out to the masses 24/7 all these years has trapped us into a dubious future.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.com