Royal Amerika

“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”

-Franklin Roosevelt



(above: David H. Koch, Charles G. Koch)

Dial House graphics @ Boo Hooray


IN ALL OUR DECADENCE PEOPLE DIE
An exhibition of fanzines 1976 - 1984
Curated by Johan Kugelberg
Sept 30 - Oct 20
@ Boo Hooray (265 Canal St. #601 NYC)

INFO:
http://boo-hooray.com/crass-fanzines/in-all-our-decadence-people-die/

The Left-Right Paradigm is Over: Its You Vs. Corporations


INFO:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/you-vs-corporations/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

A System In Crisis


storyofstuff.org

I Shop, Therefore I Am

“Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satifaction, our ego satisfaction in consumption.”

-Victor LeBeau (a market research analyst writing circa 1946)

INFO:
http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/1305/American-Consumer-RISE-CONSUMER-CULTURE.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism

Just Do It

CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME... then die.

"Minding Everybody's Business But Your Own"


Titus Turner - Miss Rubberneck Jones

Like A Fox Watching The Henhouse

“If you believe the promise that an authoritarian state makes that if it has enough knowledge on every citizen it will keep people safe. I think that’s a false promise. It doesn’t actually happen. If that was the case then East Germany would have been a really incredible place to live while in fact it wasn’t."

-Heather Brooke


INFO:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/08/17/heather-brooke-data-deali_n_928985.html

Money Laundering


John le Carré

"Many are those who trade in tricks and simulated miracles, duping the foolish multitude"


"... and if nobody unmasked their subterfuges, they would impose them on everyone."

-Leonardo da Vinci

The Shock Doctrine


The Shock Doctrine (2009) - Naomi Klein