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It's not about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.


Check out my old  Voice of the People page.


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Loyalty without truth
is a trail to tyranny.

a middle-aged
George Washington



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Saturday, 29 April 2017 at 18h 56m 42s

Why Productivity has been stripped from wage gains to labor


Notice that the first dip of the red line (wages) happened between 1980 and 1990, the decade that was the myth of the Reagan administration. It was the decade that the mega rich corporations and wealthy took over and gutted the social order that was sustaining the wage gains from productivity.

Notice the next dip occurred after 2010. Historians are going to have a mixed view of the Obama administration I think because behind the scenes the corporations and wealthy took more wealth and privileges, completely changing the political landscape everywhere after the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 2010 United States Supreme Court decision [from wikipedia]|[from the scotusblog]. The decision cemented the legal definition of spending money as a form of free speech protected under the first amendment. Hence, the more money, the more free speech, AND the government may not keep corporations (or unions) from spending money to support or denounce individual candidates in elections. Which is why the corporate powers are going after and gutting the various unions. They don't want any competition.

Fucking wonderful. Oh joy.

Anyway Al Walker does a better job at explaining the disconnection between productivity and wages. Here is a quote from his latest blogpiece at emptywheel.


Once capital achieves a new baseline of return, it doesn’t drop back without a bitter fight, sometimes just political, but always with the threat or reality of physical violence. That’s how labor got its share in the first place, a fact no one wants to talk about. When was the last time you heard an economist discuss the violence in the coal fields, the violence that won miners safer working conditions and better wages. Once labor loses its power, workers can’t defend themselves, and can’t force the rich to share the benefits that flow from any level of productivity, whether or not that level is increasing. And indeed, the rich are now taking all the gains from productivity and more, the labor participation rate is at pre-1980 levels, and wages have been stagnant for decades. Even so, all discussion about wages is centered around increasing productivity, as if it mattered to workers when all the benefits flow to the richest among us.

One school of thought blames workers, saying they have to increase their training and preparation for the work force. A kinder version blames hysterisis effects, the idea that when workers are unemployed for extended periods, they lose their skills. The Republican answer is invest in yourself, borrow money, and get that training. Of course, you take all the risks, for example, whether you can master the schooling, or figure out what training might get you a job, or find a school that will actually train you, and by the way, if you fail, you still have to pay until you die. The Democratic version is jobs training, but that’s only sporadically available, and it’s always underfunded and rarely useful, thanks to the neoliberals in both parties. As to the older people in the workforce who can’t retrain, and can’t move to where there are jobs, both parties do nothing. We don’t just blame the victim, we ignore them, and treat them as losers who deserve nothing.

Many of the 23 economic writers cited in the Focus Economics article, and the other experts it discusses, say the problem is inadequate business investment. So the solutions offered are centered around stimulating demand and cutting taxes and regulations. No one explains how this solves the problem of the rich taking all the gains.

There are few outside the box observations. A couple of the writers think maybe the problem is that there are too many low-productivity jobs available, and too few high-productivity jobs. People see the available jobs as dead-end, and their treatment as demeaning, and they don’t do more than the absolute minimum necessary to get that miniscule paycheck. Another writer points out that the next wave of capital investment is not going to make people more productive, it’s going to replace them. I assume he means industrial robots, for the short term at least.

Another suggests that we are already very efficient at a lot of things, and in those areas, improvements in productivity won’t make much difference. In areas we aren’t very efficient at, it’s going to require something enormous to make a difference, or we would already done it. John Quiggan says that the financial sector has separated itself from the productive sector, which seems true. You can almost hear the words “Vampire Squid”. All these are intractable problems.

But I think the problem is different. The economic orthodoxy is that capital is always efficient, while labor is always bloated, lazy, indifferent, greedy, demanding, corrupt and insufferable. That was and is the rallying cry of the union-busters, and you can hear it today. That is a perfect description of the capitalists of today. they don’t want to take risks. They want protected markets, special tax treatment, immunity from criminal prosecution and civil suits, and they have the money to pay off politicians to get that and more. They want all the money. They don’t want to pay their share. They want the right to wreck the economy with impunity. They want the right to screw consumers into the ground. They want the right to destroy the environment. And they want to make all the decisions about the future.


[SOURCE: Ed Walker | emptywheel | 28 April 2017]


Saturday, 29 April 2017 at 3h 6m 43s

Nawlins Napsters Rant



Sorry about the delay y'all. My hard drive is close to being maximized, so the normal drag and drop method of videos took an excessively long time. I found a temporary work around today, but inevitably I am going to have to wipe my hard drive and re-sync the data. That usually takes at least 8 hours.

Maybe I will get to that this weekend. Maybe not. Once the situation is resolved I will continue the daily rant, but until then the rant might be more sporadic.

As such this is actually a video 2 days ago (on Wednesday, and today is Friday).


Wednesday, 26 April 2017 at 3h 18m 56s

Nawlins Napsters Rant




Tuesday, 25 April 2017 at 3h 3m 19s

Wha Duh Fuh Stats

Stats that will surprise you this year in MLB

  • Brad Brach already has the same amount of Saves, with more strikeouts(13K) and a better whip (0.50) then Kenley Jansen (8K, 0.83) and Aroldis Chapman (9K, 0.79)

  • Zach Cozart, shortstop of the Cincinnati Reds, is number 5 in OPS, at 6 doubles, 4 triples, and 1 home run in 56 At Bats. He is second in the MLB -- behind Bryce Harper -- in Batting Average at .393.

  • The top 10 in ABs per Homer (from 6.7 to 10.7) : Eric Thames, Freddie Freeman, Khris Davis, Ryan Zimmerman, Bryce Harper, Yoenis Cespedes, Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, George Springer, Joey Gallo

  • The next 5 (from 11.0 to 12.0) : Mike Moustakas, Ryan Braun, Mark Reynolds, Jay Bruce, Marcell Ozuna


Tuesday, 25 April 2017 at 1h 57m 46s

Nawlins Napsters Rant




Saturday, 22 April 2017 at 17h 15m 19s

Bill Maher at his best on Earth Day 2017



The delusion of sending colonies to Mars cannot escape the reality of the necessity to stop trashing mother earth.


We hear a lot about putting America first, let's put Earth first... Ladies and gentleman Mars is a mirage not an oasis.

Makes me think of Adam and Eve being kicked out of the Garden of Eden because they ate the forbidden fruit. Humans are sucking out fossil fuels, elemental rocks and minerals, and then using chemical reactions to produce things which have side pollutants and waste. We are transforming the environment and geology and there will be consequences. The exponential increase in earthquakes in Oklahoma is not a random event; it is a canary in the coal mine. Exponential data indicates causation and cannot be eschewed as mere random events. The continents are essentially floating islands, because the oceans constitute 70% of the earths' surface and the surface above the water is only 5 miles above the crust, with the radius 3,959 miles. All the drilling and shale oil fracking is creating swiss cheese out of the continental land masses. When you have 12 times more water above the mantle than continental Earth mass, the innate geological stresses that cause Earthquakes and continental drift don't have to obey the current global configurations of land masses and ocean, especially now that glaciers and ice are melting and frozen tundra is falling apart and clogging all the northern artic rivers. We are in the midst of exponential geologic change.

So while you celebrate Earth Day today, think about how you as a mindless consumer are contributing to the aggregate. All those paper cups you throw away, instead of carrying a portable thermos. All of those plastic bags you use, instead of using your own bag or solid containers you keep in the fridge. How hard are you trying to use less and avoid plastic?

Earth Day is not a party event to feel good about your good intentions. The Earth needs actions not protestations of sentimentality.


Friday, 21 April 2017 at 2h 5m 23s

Nawlins Napsters Rant



In this episode I discuss:

  • Making trades
  • Chase Headley
  • Ranking the teams based on Runs scored, box-and-whiskers plot
  • Yankees are looking good y'all -- if the pitching holds up


Thursday, 20 April 2017 at 2h 2m 7s

Nawlins Napsters Rant



In this video I discuss the following:

  • The Cubs Pitchers
  • Kyle Hendricks
  • Pitching is wierd
  • Bottom end of roster players
  • Adding and dropping hot players
  • Deciding who sits on the bench
  • Trust the process


Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 3h 40m 13s

Nawlins Napsters Rant



In this video I discuss :

  • what to look for when you are deciding if a recent hot streak from a hitter has substance or might just be random good luck.
  • Mitch Haniger
  • Luis Severino
  • How to handle Starting Pitchers
  • Why I hate streaming pitchers
  • Both my teams are in first place
  • Hitters who will show up : Addison Russell, Kris Bryant, and Mark Trumbo

Why listen to fantasy analysts who rarely or never win their leagues? Makes no sense right?

Instead, listen to the Nawlins Napsters Rant and get good advice founded on a decade of consistent first place victories and a historical knowledge of baseball that has evolved since I was 8 years old looking at baseball stats and reading biographies about Stan Musial, Joe Dimaggio, Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, Reggie Jackson, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, and a few more I cannot recall at the moment. I used to stay up late nights looking at data from the Encyclopedia of baseball all the time.


Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 2h 15m 2s

Nawlins Napsters Rant






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