Fanacht

2011-04-08T00:20:00.002+01:00

The rich don’t need to rely on government for parks or education or medical care or personal security—they can buy all these things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may once have had. They also worry about strong government—one that could use its powers to adjust the balance, take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good. The top 1 percent may complain about the kind of government we have in America, but in truth they like it just fine: too gridlocked to re-distribute, too divided to do anything but lower taxes.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

2010-08-04T09:42:00.033+01:00

Behavioral Economist, Dan Ariely

via TED

2010-06-20T21:58:00.009+01:00

~ Tomi Lebrero
~ La Blogotheque

2010-04-29T07:45:00.007+01:00

2010-04-19T06:42:00.004+01:00

2010-02-18T10:16:00.001Z

2010-01-12T05:37:00.002Z

2010-01-06T00:59:00.008Z

The typical Congressional subcommittee chairman or cable news anchor or syndicated columnist can’t really imagine not being able to afford to take his child to a doctor, or being wrongly convicted of a crime, but he is quite capable of imagining being on a Paris to New York flight that’s blown out of the sky. And while it’s true the risk he faces of suffering this fate are very close to zero, they are not, as they are for a poor person, literally zero.

Paul Campos at "Lawyers Guns and Money"

2009-12-24T07:16:00.003Z

And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

"A Christmas Carol" ~ Charles Dickens

2009-10-19T23:30:00.002+01:00

Fifty People, One Question

2009-09-20T16:43:00.005+01:00

While most economists spent the 1950s and 1960s toiling over mathematical models, Minsky pursued research on poverty, hardly the hottest subfield of economics.

Stephen Mihm, Boston Globe Correspondent

2009-08-29T09:02:00.002+01:00

Patrick Watson ~ Man Like Me

2009-08-17T06:35:00.002+01:00

There were once twin brothers who, as young men, received from their parents a mountain meadow on which to live. The meadow was divided evenly between them. One side was rockier than the other but had a creek running through it. This was the half that was given to the first born twin. The other side, given to the latter born twin, was more suitable for planting and rainfall sustained it. The younger man frequently enjoyed harvests more plentiful than his need and he shared his excess with his brother in return for water from the creek. Eventually, however, a drought fell upon them. While the creek slowed to a trickle, still it flowed – but the younger twin’s land dried and cracked. Soon he had nothing. He appealed to his brother for water but since he had nothing to trade, his brother refused him and he died from thirst. The older twin was able to survive the drought on his own meager harvest and inherited his brother’s half of the meadow. When the rain finally came again, he prospered.

2009-07-13T06:34:00.004+01:00

Who said it?

Buzz Aldrin

Rush Limbaugh

"You can't mandate the creation of new technologies from Washington. There's nobody there that knows how to do it. It happens in the private sector when there's a market need for it."

24/7

2009-06-30T05:39:00.003+01:00

"What is that?"

MovieTeller films

2009-06-02T06:55:00.002+01:00

Fredo Viola ~ The Turn

2009-05-10T23:06:00.004+01:00

The Cass County Boys in "Riders of the Whistling Pines", 1949

2009-05-03T08:30:00.004+01:00

"I don't apologize. Ever. Of course,
it helps that I'm never wrong."
Rush Limbaugh

"All you need in this life
is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure."
Mark Twain

2009-05-02T19:12:00.002+01:00

Broadcast 2000 ~ Get Up and Go

2009-04-24T07:18:00.007+01:00

"These accounts harrow me beyond description. These incarnate demons say in great composure, that 'humanity is a Yankee virtue, but that they are governed by policy.' Is there any policy on this side of hell that is inconsistent with humanity? I have no idea of it. I know of no policy, God is my witness, but this, piety, humanity, and honesty are the best policy. Blasphemy, cruelty and villainy have prevailed and may again. But they won't prevail against America in this contest, because I find the more of them are employed the less they succeed."

John Adams (in a letter to his wife, Abigail, during the American Revolution)

Jonathan Mann ~ #109

2009-04-11T06:56:00.002+01:00

Russell Morris ~ The Real Thing (1969)

2009-04-01T05:30:00.007+01:00

"Who I'd like to meet: everyone, so if you all could just form a line, we could get started"

Steven Kotler

(on his myspace page)

2009-03-30T07:00:00.003+01:00

Mogwai ~ Mogwai Fear Satan

video: La Blogotheque

2009-03-18T05:47:00.003Z

Tom Jones ~ We Got Love

video: La Blogotheque

2009-03-14T06:28:00.006Z

Who said it?

Chief Joseph

Rush Limbaugh

"Say we use 25% of the world's resources -- I don't even believe it, but let's accept it as true for the sake of it. You know why we do? 'Cause we can! And the others can't! And what we do with it is in the interests of the betterment of all mankind!"

24/7

2009-03-10T08:55:00.002Z

Tim Eriksen ~ Sandy Boys

2009-03-09T04:13:00.003Z

Who said it?

Rush Limbaugh

Leo Tolstoy

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."

attributed

2009-03-08T01:52:00.003Z

Who said it?

Rush Limbaugh

Donkey

"Peace is not the result of doctors, nurses, words, clean water, toothbrushes, or Habitat for Humanity building rickety houses that collapse in ten years. Peace is the result of victory: one side winning and one side losing."

24/7

2009-03-07T22:06:00.004Z

Who said it?

Rush Limbaugh

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."

Strength To Love

2009-03-06T15:29:00.008Z

Who said it?

Virgil

Rush Limbaugh

"I really like hearing myself because I love saying what I believe, I love being right, and I love hearing myself be right in saying what I believe."

24/7

2009-03-05T04:41:00.018Z

Who said it?

Rush Limbaugh

St. Thomas More

"He who sets his delight on the blast of another man’s mouth feeds himself but with wind, wherein, be he never so full, he has little substance therein."

Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

2009-02-25T04:47:00.006Z

Circlesquare ~ Dancers

video: Bienvenido Cruz

2009-02-21T18:56:00.005Z

Justin Townes Earle

2009-01-28T07:42:00.002Z

Whack a mole...

"Good Morning"

Wreck and Salvage

2009-01-23T06:14:00.003Z

"Machines that Almost Fall Over"

Michael Kontopoulos

2009-01-14T04:19:00.002Z

"A Walk Around Seattle in the Snow"

video: Luke Humphrey
music: Angelo Badalamenti

2009-01-06T02:09:00.009Z

"lost in a moment"

video: Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean
music: Shrift

2008-12-31T15:21:00.001Z

...and another reprise for the New Year.

Auld Lang Syne on Literary

2008-12-24T15:17:00.005Z

Jack Benny ~ Christmas Shopping

2008-12-18T07:57:00.008Z

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Into My Arms

2008-11-21T04:19:00.005Z

No need to worry / Redcave

2080

Yeasayer

La Blogotheque

2008-11-17T01:08:00.003Z

"I'm ashamed that we're even having this discussion."

Richard Armitage, former United States Deputy Secretary of State

The Working Group on interrogations ~ Torturing Democracy

2008-11-10T03:18:00.003Z

Kid Bombardos ~ I'm gonna try

2008-11-06T15:56:00.001Z

Obama supporters at 2am, Nov. 5th, at St. Marks and Avenue A in New York City.

2008-10-08T08:10:00.002+01:00

In 2008 more people live in cities than in rural areas. One third of city dwellers, more than a billion people, live in slums.

The Places We Live ~ Photographs by Jonas Bendiksen

2008-10-07T09:02:00.005+01:00

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.

Tom Waits

Tom Waits and Kronos String Quartet ~ Cold Cold Ground

2008-10-05T05:45:00.004+01:00

"Sarah Palin. Babies. Guns. Jesus. Hot damn."

Rush Limbaugh

2008-09-22T10:27:00.001+01:00

Sam Amidon ~ live in Reykjavik

2008-09-02T00:49:00.002+01:00

Lykke Li ~ I'm good, I'm gone

The Black Cab Sessions

2008-08-30T20:44:00.001+01:00

Ennio Morricone ~ On Earth As It Is In Heaven

2008-08-26T09:12:00.008+01:00

"This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here."

APPENDIX F: TEAM A REPORT: MARKING THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT FOR 10,000 YEARS

5.3 Personal thoughts (WS)

(c) The very exercise of designing, building, and viewing markers creates powerful testimony addressed to today’s society about the full environmental, social, and economic costs of using nuclear materials. We can never know if we indeed have successfully communicated with our descendants 400 generations removed, but we can, in any case, perhaps convey an important message to ourselves.

Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter
Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Prepared by Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Department of Energy, 1993

2008-08-18T07:15:00.002+01:00

There was a man who carved a totem out of cedar – he made it in the shape of a raven and when he had finished, it began to speak. It told him that whenever he wanted to know the truth about something, he had only to ask and the truth would be revealed to him. So, the man did – and over time, it became his habit to return to the totem to ask about whatever troubled him. He came to have great faith in its words.

Then one day, as he approached the totem it said, “Look at me now,” and it removed a raven mask to reveal the face of a wolf.

The man stepped back in surprise.

“There, there,” the totem said reassuringly, “watch now…” and it removed a wolf mask to reveal the face of a raven. “It’s really me after all,” it said.

The man blinked and asked, “Why did you do that?”

“So that you would know that it is really me and not a deceiver who is revealing the truth to you,” said the totem.

The man blinked again and was speechless.

2008-08-14T06:12:00.001+01:00

The Chambers Brothers ~ People Get Ready

2008-08-10T09:59:00.002+01:00

"The military said the boxes are humane... It said detainees, who stand inside the boxes, are isolated for no more than 12 hours at a time."

2008-08-02T08:39:00.001+01:00

Lonnie Donegan ~ I Shall Not Be Moved

2008-07-27T08:13:00.012+01:00

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Benjamin Zephaniah ~ Rong Radio Station

The Black Cab Sessions

2008-07-25T16:51:00.002+01:00

Usury, to be clear about it, is rich people taking advantage of poor people by lending them money on terms that are sure to make them fail. All three of the great religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, had a moral prohibition against usury because they recognized that society can't function like that. People of great wealth and their institutions like banks naturally have the power to overwhelm people of lesser means. And you can't allow that in a decent society. It won't survive.

William Greider

2008-07-19T08:28:00.001+01:00

FatBoy Slim ~ Song for Shelter

2008-07-15T18:26:00.003+01:00

When I was a kid, a friend of mine used to say that if he were ever granted the "super power" of his choice, it would be the ability to speak in any language, any dialect, and with any accent.

2008-07-15T09:13:00.002+01:00

Wax Poetic ~ Keyif-The Relaxed Minute

2008-07-14T21:05:00.002+01:00

Git 'er done.

The progression of apologists for the state is always more or less the same: to suggest that the government is doing something flatly illegal and immoral is disloyal, and then once it has been proved that the government has been doing something flatly illegal and immoral it is only soft-headed idealists who think that such things are unjustifiable. “We have to be pragmatic!” they tell us. This is where the logic of wanting to “get things done” takes you.

Daniel Larison ~ On Torture and Detainees

via Rod Dreher ~ Rule of law? Screw it, says US president

2008-07-13T18:16:00.001+01:00

Cinematic Orchestra ~ To Build A Home, feat. Patrick Watson

2008-07-12T03:52:00.003+01:00

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Aristotle

TPMTV ~ John Yoo, fmr. Deputy Asst. Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel, testifies during Hearing on Detainee Interrogation, June 26, 2008

2008-07-10T03:01:00.004+01:00

Gaspar Claus

video by Vincent Moon

2008-07-09T19:59:00.001+01:00

Lamperd Less Lethal "Keeping the Situation Under Control"

2008-07-08T21:03:00.001+01:00

Manu Chao ~ Señor Matanza

2008-07-08T20:55:00.002+01:00

Lunch and dinner for the "the most powerful bellies in the world" as they meet to discuss the global food shortage.

2008-07-07T06:17:00.001+01:00

Liam Devally ~ An poc ar Buile

2008-07-06T05:48:00.010+01:00

Frozen Smiles of Indonesia

Maddie and Anthony

Jason Webley and friends

2008-07-05T21:13:00.003+01:00

"I'm asking this literally: how did this warped and distinctly un-American mentality get implanted into our public discourse -- that the President can give 'orders' to private citizens that must be complied with?"

~Glenn Greenwald~

2008-07-04T08:00:00.001+01:00

Jake Shimabukuro ~ The Star Spangled Banner

2008-07-02T01:16:00.007+01:00

"They’d never seen the images of hijacked planes flying into the World Trade Center before, and they wanted to know what got America so angry."

2008-06-29T23:57:00.005+01:00

Flobots ~ Handlebars

2008-05-05T00:02:00.004+01:00

Why? Does it matter?

The Corporation

2008-05-01T06:23:00.000+01:00

Cloud Cult ~ Everybody Here Is a Cloud

2008-04-13T00:28:00.006+01:00

Beirut ~ St Apollonia

video by Vincent Moon

2008-04-11T04:15:00.002+01:00

Aterciopelados ~ Cancion Protesta

2008-04-05T17:57:00.009+01:00

The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell
In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.

Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:

"Yoo and torture" - 102

"Mukasey and 9/11" -- 73

"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16

"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043

"Obama and Wright" -- More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)

"Obama and patriotism" - 1,607

"Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079

...[Members of the establishment media] insist that their own chattering is proof that [these stories given the most coverage are the ones] that people care about. And because they conclude that "people" (i.e., them) are concerned with the story, they keep chirping about it, which in turn fuels their belief that the story is important. It is an endless loop of self-referential narcissism -- whatever they endlessly sputter is what "the people" care about, and therefore they must keep harping on it, because their chatter is proof of its importance...

~Glenn Greenwald~

2008-04-05T06:21:00.004+01:00

Johnny Cash ~ Further On Up The Road

video by Mike Oldman

2008-04-02T05:55:00.004+01:00

WWGD?

Excerpt from the 1936, Gene Autry film, "The Old Corral".

2008-03-30T02:43:00.009+01:00

The Bad Plus play Aphex Twin's "Film"

2008-03-23T00:42:00.003Z

Penn & Teller on "The West Wing"

2008-03-14T07:08:00.004Z

Arvo Pärt ~ Für Alina

(from Gus Van Sant's film, "Gerry")

2008-03-08T19:17:00.000Z

The Ventures ~ Wipeout ~ 1966

2008-03-05T07:16:00.008Z

Manu Chao

(and some more from an earlier post...)

2008-02-29T06:54:00.002Z

Mississippi John Hurt

2008-02-14T08:07:00.004Z

"For he makes the sun rise upon evil men as well as good, and he sends his rain upon honest and dishonest men alike" MATT.5:45

Taxi to the Dark Side

2008-02-13T06:21:00.010Z

Note: On the control bar at the bottom of the Dailymotion videos, there's an icon that looks like a rectangle with an arrow pointing out of the upper, right corner. Click on that icon for full screen video ~ highly recommended for these beautiful pieces from lablogotheque.

#41 - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible & Wake Up

2008-02-05T07:53:00.001Z

lablogotheque

#56.1 - PASCAL COMELADE - Fakir

2008-01-20T22:34:00.001Z

War on Greed

2008-01-19T20:54:00.000Z

December 30, 2007

Elliot Bay, Discovery Park, Wallingford

2007-12-31T08:27:00.000Z

Auld Lang Syne on Literary

2007-12-29T10:01:00.001Z

Harry Nilsson

2007-12-24T22:56:00.001Z

Jack Benny ~ Christmas Shopping

2007-12-24T00:38:00.000Z

Mahalia Jackson ~ "Silent Night"

2007-12-17T08:10:00.000Z

12/16/1997

I had a dream once. I was walking along a narrow, asphalt street on an exceptionally bright and clear day. It was a place that reminded me of the Oregon coast. The street was on a cliff that over-looked the ocean and there was an occasional small house along the way. The sky was so fair and filled with light and there was a breeze, the air washing over the land like a nourishing tide over a reef.

As I walked past a disheveled little house, a woman came out and said something to me. I don’t remember what it was but she seemed unhappy with me about something. Like her house, and her overgrown little yard with its deteriorating picket fence, she appeared old, rough and unkempt. For some reason, it made me very happy to be in this place, to see her, to see her house and her yard, to be bathed in this extraordinary light, and to breathe this air.

Later, while thinking about this dream, I came to believe that it was a vision of Heaven and thought how curious it was… the neglected lawn, the crumbling fence, the grouchy old woman, the wind and the light.

2007-12-17T06:08:00.000Z

Ennio Morricone "The Ecstasy of Gold"

2007-12-15T10:46:00.000Z

Sufjan Stevens "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"

2007-12-15T08:24:00.001Z

~~~

"One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little." Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Stop Big Media

~~~

2007-12-11T08:11:00.000Z

Madame Ruby: For twenty dollars I can tell you a lot of things. For thirty dollars I can tell you more. And for fifty dollars I can tell you everything.

Pee Wee: Tell me why I'm here first.

Madame Ruby: You're here because you... want something!

Fanacht

Behavioral Economist, Dan Arielyvia TED

"A Christmas Carol" ~ Charles Dickens

Patrick Watson ~ Man Like Me

"What is that?"

Fredo Viola ~ The Turn

The Cass County Boys in "Riders of the Whistling Pines", 1949

Broadcast 2000 ~ Get Up and Go

John Adams (in a letter to his wife, Abigail, during the American Revolution)

Jonathan Mann ~ #109

Russell Morris ~ The Real Thing (1969)

Mogwai ~ Mogwai Fear Satan

Tom Jones ~ We Got Love

Tim Eriksen ~ Sandy Boys

Circlesquare ~ Dancers

Whack a mole...

"Good Morning"

"Machines that Almost Fall Over"

"A Walk Around Seattle in the Snow"

"lost in a moment"

...and another reprise for the New Year.

Auld Lang Syne on Literary

Jack Benny ~ Christmas Shopping

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Into My Arms

No need to worry / Redcave

2080YeasayerLa Blogotheque

Richard Armitage, former United States Deputy Secretary of State

The Working Group on interrogations ~ Torturing Democracy

Kid Bombardos ~ I'm gonna try

Obama supporters at 2am, Nov. 5th, at St. Marks and Avenue A in New York City.

The Places We Live ~ Photographs by Jonas Bendiksen

Tom Waits and Kronos String Quartet ~ Cold Cold Ground

Sam Amidon ~ live in Reykjavik

Lykke Li ~ I'm good, I'm gone

Ennio Morricone ~ On Earth As It Is In Heaven

"This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here."

Expert Judgment on Markers to DeterInadvertent Human Intrusion into theWaste Isolation Pilot PlantPrepared by Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Department of Energy, 1993

The Chambers Brothers ~ People Get Ready

Lonnie Donegan ~ I Shall Not Be Moved

Benjamin Zephaniah ~ Rong Radio Station

FatBoy Slim ~ Song for Shelter

Wax Poetic ~ Keyif-The Relaxed Minute

Daniel Larison ~ On Torture and Detaineesvia Rod Dreher ~ Rule of law? Screw it, says US president

Cinematic Orchestra ~ To Build A Home, feat. Patrick Watson

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Aristotle

TPMTV ~ John Yoo, fmr. Deputy Asst. Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel, testifies during Hearing on Detainee Interrogation, June 26, 2008

Lamperd Less Lethal "Keeping the Situation Under Control"

Manu Chao ~ Señor Matanza

Lunch and dinner for the "the most powerful bellies in the world" as they meet to discuss the global food shortage.

Liam Devally ~ An poc ar Buile

Frozen Smiles of Indonesia

Maddie and Anthony

Jason Webley and friends

Jake Shimabukuro ~ The Star Spangled Banner

Flobots ~ Handlebars

Cloud Cult ~ Everybody Here Is a Cloud

Beirut ~ St Apollonia

Aterciopelados ~ Cancion Protesta

Johnny Cash ~ Further On Up The Road

Excerpt from the 1936, Gene Autry film, "The Old Corral".

The Bad Plus play Aphex Twin's "Film"

Penn & Teller on "The West Wing"

Arvo Pärt ~ Für Alina

The Ventures ~ Wipeout ~ 1966

"For he makes the sun rise upon evil men as well as good, and he sends his rain upon honest and dishonest men alike" MATT.5:45

Auld Lang Syne on Literary

Harry Nilsson

Jack Benny ~ Christmas Shopping

Mahalia Jackson ~ "Silent Night"

Ennio Morricone "The Ecstasy of Gold"

Sufjan Stevens "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"

"One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little." Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Madame Ruby: For twenty dollars I can tell you a lot of things. For thirty dollars I can tell you more. And for fifty dollars I can tell you everything.Pee Wee: Tell me why I'm here first.Madame Ruby: You're here because you... want something!

Behavioral Economist, Dan Ariely

via TED

2080

Yeasayer

La Blogotheque

Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter
Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Prepared by Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Department of Energy, 1993

Daniel Larison ~ On Torture and Detainees

via Rod Dreher ~ Rule of law? Screw it, says US president

Madame Ruby: For twenty dollars I can tell you a lot of things. For thirty dollars I can tell you more. And for fifty dollars I can tell you everything.

Pee Wee: Tell me why I'm here first.

Madame Ruby: You're here because you... want something!