The era of corporate control began in earnest in the early 1970's with the release of "The Powell Memo." Concerned about the rise of mass-movements like the ant-war movement, the environmental and women's movement, influential corporate attorney, William Powell-later appointed to the SCOTUS by Richard Nixon circulated a memo to corporate boards and CEO's urging them to put forth as much resources as possible to turn the federal judiciary into a pro-business jurisprudence to counter the rise of too much democracy. Now, fifty-years later those efforts have created a total corporate state AND culture. A correlative to this is the after-effect of 9/11 which has permitted the militarization of our culture and non-questioning of defense budgets by the population, the Smartphone which has changed people's reading habits from print-driven critical analysis to a video-driven scrolling that has created a shallow 21st Century U.S. Citizen, and the Citizens United decision which has turned elections into farcical sports-like spectacles. All the while "We The People" are mere corporate hyper-consumers devoid of original thought. Only an economic collapse can change this arrangement for the future and, more importantly, our collective souls.
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Help Commissioner Mariella Smith
Richie Floyd for St Pete City Council - Protecting Our Environment
Labels:
Pinllas DSA,
Progressive Florida,
Richie Floyd,
Tampa DSA
Chillum - Ybor City
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Local Photographers Xero Aperture
DeSantis threatens heavy fines for local governments
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is threatening to impose hefty fines on city and county governments that require their employees be vaccinated against Covid. more
Monday, September 13, 2021
Marco Rubio Countdown Clock
Labels:
Marco Rubio,
Rick Scott,
Val Demings
DeSantis milks out-of-state travel
More than 1,000 miles from Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis was selling red meat rhetoric for a red meat audience.
At the Fifth Annual Nebraska Steak Fry on Sunday, DeSantis was in his element: serving up conservative haymakers in front of a crowd of 1,200 heartland Republicans just across the Missouri River from first-in-the-nation Iowa, the traditional kickoff state for presidential elections. more
Yung Justice in Ybor City
What Stogie Had For Lunch
What do Locals do in Tampa
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Tampa Artist: Dante Hadley
Tampa Bay's Honey Couple
Help Commissioner Mariella Smith
Stogie #Tags: Linda Saul-Sena
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Send the Vaccines to Cuba
The vast majority of - COVID vaccines have gone straight from drug companies to affluent countries such as the United States. Worldwide only about 1% have made it to low-income countries.
And here's what's happening all across the United States: Millions of vaccine doses at risk of spoiling are sitting on freezer shelves, with no easy way to get them to countries desperately waiting for shots. more
Stogie #Tags: Bishop Chuck Leigh
OShaiTV in Ybor City
Friday, September 10, 2021
Chillum - Ybor City
Labels:
Chillum - Ybor City,
The Merchants Of Ybor
Stogie #Tags: Carlos Hermida
Local Artist: BenDov iDEA Artist
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