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The Greatest Addiction of All

The Greatest Addiction Of All Submitted by Lorraine Luntsford, published on Wed,... more

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George Soros predicts riots, police state and class war for America

Fortune-teller or engineer of the collapse?

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Billionaire investor George Soros has a new prediction for America. While it might be as dire as it gets for the financial wiz, this bet concerns more than just the value of the buck. According to Soros, there's about to be an all-out class war.

Soros, 81, previously bet against the British pound in the early 90s and made $1 billion off its collapse. In the years since, he’s remained active in investing, but also in advocacy. He’s helped keep Wikipedia afloat thanks to impressive contributions and through donations to the Tides Center, has indirectly funded Adbusters, the Canadian anti-capitalist magazine that put Occupy Wall Street on the map.

Speaking to Newsweek recently, Soros neglected to acknowledge his past successes, but instead offered a word of warning: a period of “evil” is coming to the western world.

“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros tells Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens to put us in a decade of more stagnation, or worse. The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system.”

Soros goes on to compare the current state of the western world with what the Soviet Union was facing as communism crumbled. Although he would think that history would have taught the globe a thing or two about noticing trends, Soros says that, despite past events providing a perfect example of what is to come, the end of an empire seems imminent.

“The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are currently experiencing something similar in the developed world, without fully realizing what’s happening,” adds Soros.

Soros goes on to say that as the crisis in the Eurozone only worsens, the American financial system will continue to be hit hard. On the way to a full-blown collapse, he cautions, Americans should expect society to alter accordingly. Riots will hit the streets, says Soros, and as a result, “It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”Fortune-teller or engineer of the collapse? *** Billionaire investor George... more

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CAPITALISM v.s. SOCIALISM,. . . 2 CENKs worth !

A "c u r r e n t" - see in circulation (sorry ) [ Cenk comments on... more

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The Kitchen Debate (Nixon and Khrushchev, 1959) Communism VS Capitalism- is the Debate over?

A great Debate.... Power to Freedom of Speech!!!

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Iran 1953. - U.S. Military and CIA. Intervention

The original initiative to oust Mossadegh had come from the British, for the elderly... more

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Only Communism can save liberal democracy

Slavoj Zizek .......... 1989 marked not only the defeat of the Communist... more

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George Orwell's 1984 and the World Today

A very interesting interview comparing the world George Orwell described in his book... more

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Capitalism in a Modern Communist Society: Hip Hop In Vietnam

In its brief history, it's easy to see why Hip Hop has quickly become the cultural paradigm that it is. With its visceral yet fragmented sonic aesthetics and verbally self-aggrandizing, masculinized freedom of expression, it correlated and accentuated precisely a new American perspective growing up and being groomed in a Reaganomics-MTV-Tech Age on the cusp of hitting next gear.

And we haven't looked back since. I mean, we have, but only to commodify and fetishize nostalgia. But that's for another time. Bad pun. Anyway, our way of life sped up and Hypercapitalism and Hip Hop were both the harbinger and beneficiaries of this culture shift. But times change and musical styles evolve self-reflexively.

Obviously, in America, we're relearning a little humility these days. And though the bravado is still there, because we are after all American, the best Hip Hop artist today (if you still even want to asininely categorize into genres) counter the next line with a self-effacing yearning. Kanye or Drake, for example. There's a wave of younger dudes doing it with an R&B tinge a la Frank Ocean and The Weeknd , and that softening points to a much welcome reactive tempering to the overt masculinization cultivated over the last 25 years.

But as Hip Hop has traveled the sea and trickled onto different shores, the influences have not necessarily varied. Rather, I suppose, like any other paradigm that has peaked and transcended boundaries, its reductive elements penetrate first.

Not avoiding anthropologically speculative generalization, there's distinctive qualities in which Hip Hop has reached and influenced different Asian regions. To note, it's fascinating in itself the susceptibility that Asian cultures as a whole are drawn to the Hip Hop bravado. But, perhaps, there is something enmeshed in each individual culture that draws out a different idiosyncratic manifestation. For the Japanese, is it similar to their sexuality, a means of outward expression in a traditionally repressed culture? In some way, most likely. And why is the love of basketball so closely intertwined with Hip Hop in Japan? (There is the obvious answer there. For that, simply watch ESPN's 30 for 30 on the Fab 5).

Juxtaposed with that is Vietnam. A country just unshackling some of its inhibitions. In their case, more ideological and economical. It's a little newer to the world game. The stringency of the older generations' (or at least those that subscribed the communism) are seeing their wall of economical status quo being 808'd by the sheer attractive force of Capitalism and, more importantly, its weaponization of Freedom of Expression.

So Hip Hop in an older form has taken center stage amongst Vietnamese youth today. And B-boy culture instead of Hoops is the intermediary. ... it's true, intrinsically, the Vietnamese just have more flava than most Asian cultures.

I don't have any conclusive argument here. I also apologize for how poorly written this is. A Saturday morning blurb. But, I do wonder about Freedom Of Expression moving forward. I wonder, with fingers crossed, as our society is moving away from Hypercapitalism to a yet-to-be defined sustainable model, if Freedom Of Expression in a world that has all the information at its distracted fingertips can find something sincere and extricate itself from all the saturated, unfiltered talk that hypercapitalism has allowed to infiltrate our train of thought.

I also hope that the many that are seen wearing Spike Lee a la Mars Blackmon tees go watch Spike Lee flicks. HollatchaboiiiiIn its brief history, it's easy to see why Hip Hop has quickly become the... more

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Empathy -or- Job Creators

Let's tackle the myth of the wealthy being "Job Creators"

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When Vodka Lost its Accent and Babushkas Wore Kimonos

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Dr Joseph Hittelman, Persecuted in McCarthy Era, Has Died at 100

Joseph Hittelman dies at 100; physician persecuted in McCarthy era L.A. doctor's... more

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China told to reduce food production or face "dire" water levels

China is running out of water and can no longer afford to irrigate its northern... more

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Totalitarian Transformation 2010

On the stealth agenda of the 44th Pres USA to put the "State" in control and... more

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Anti-Semiticism, Racism, Communism: Everything You Didn't Know About the Smurfs And Were Afraid to Ask (VIDEO)

A new book Le petit livre bleu (The little blue book) claims that the Smurfs, those... more

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US Targeting Cuba’s Health-Care System !

When your wrong, your just plain wrong! The U.S. government’s half-century... more

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Russian Internet Users Elect Communists

According to results of the survey held by news agency Rosbalt, Russian internet users... more

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Communists Routed in West Bengal. « Ramani's blog

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American Scholar and Blogger Ted Henken is Interrogated by Cuban State Police

The American Scholar and blogger Ted Henken, who was visiting cuba researching the... more

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Cuban Dissident Murdered by Cuban Police!

Martha Roque, a prominent member of the Cuban oppossition reports the sad news that... more

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Osama and the Ché - Anarchadia

What terrorist advances the causes of empires?… Except for cheap and... more

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