This is not quite as bizarrely infectious as Eduard Khil’s uber-meme “Trololo” but it has its moments.
The singer is French-born Russian superstar Edita Piekha. The video is from 1964.
Piekha is regarded as one of Russia’s first rock and rollers. She did stuff on stage that had been heretofore forbidden…like dancing the Twist. A Russian riot grrrl.
Micky as David Bowie.
Micky Dolenz of The Monkees goes glam on The Greatest Golden Hits of The Monkees TV special in 1977.
I’m guessing this was intended as a joke. On the other hand, Dolenz directed the show and maybe just maybe this was his idea of a hip career move.
Micky, Marc Bolan wants his pants back.
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll found that some news sources actually make us less likely to have a full picture of the world we live in. Did I write some? I meant Fox News. Yep, according to the poll (which was conducted entirely in New Jersey, and so to my mind could skew the IQ results a tad higher than the overall US) Fox News viewers are more ignorant of current and international events than people who pay no attention to the news!
If Fox News was an evil Russian conspiracy to consciously try to dumb down the conservative population of the US, then they’ve done a job that the fictional SMERSH would envy! Facts? Who needs facts when there are smelly Marxists who need to get a job, Ground Zero mosques that need to be protested, whatever word salad Sarah Palin feels like puking up via satellite that day and you know, shit like that?
Intelligence is so overrated! Look at Sean Hannity. Guy’s making millions and he’s only got half a brain! See what hard work aggressively inflicting ignorance on senior citizens and thick people can get you in this country, dirty hippies? Get with the Ronald Reagan free market, Occupy weirdos! And get off my lawn!
Among other topics, New Jerseyans were asked about the outcome of the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East this past year. While 53% of New Jerseyans know that Egyptians were successful in overthrowing the government of Hosni Mubarak, 21% say that the uprisings were unsuccessful, and 26% admit they don’t know. Also, 48% know that the Syrian uprising has thus far been unsuccessful, while 36% say they don’t know, and 16% say the Syrians have already toppled their government.
But the real finding is that the results depend on what media sources people turn to for their news. For example, people who watch Fox News, the most popular of the 24-hour cable news networks, are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government than those who watch no news at all (after controlling for other news sources, partisanship, education and other demographic factors). Fox News watchers are also 6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government than those who watch no news.
I’ll repeat that: People who get their news “by osmosis,” walking past a newsstand, or via “the drum” know more about what’s going on in the world around them than people who watch Fox fucking News!
“Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News,” said Dan Cassino, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson and an analyst for the PublicMind Poll. “Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at
all.”
Of course this is one study Fox New viewers will never, ever hear about…
Read more at Public Minds
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By Richard Pace, via badhaven.com. Click here to enlarge.
Previously on DM:
Frank Miller posts idiotic, reactionary rant about Occupy Wall Street
The Rap Board is the go-to place to bone up on rapper catch-phrases and hip hop blurts. Click on a rapper’s head and be prepared to hear some funny shit. Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Kanye, The Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z’s noggins are waiting to be poked.
Go ahead do it. Click here.
Hey Rap Board, how about adding some more old skool rappers?
Via Mediajorge
Graphic by Sage Serif.
A meme is born. Lieutenant John Pike is suddenly everywhere at once - waddling through time and space with his little red can of pepper-spray.
Ridicule can be an effective revolutionary tool. But the cops still have the firepower so we can’t stop taking them seriously. But for the time being, this is some hilarious shit.
More after the jump…
“Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth.
Fat slob (and orgasmically impotent?) Lieutenant John Pike strolls through realms beyond his imagination battling the human spirit with his little red can of pepper-spray and in a miracle of negative Internet transubstantiation is transformed over night from tough guy to Internet LOL meme. Karma’s a bitch.
Pike will have plenty of time to sharpen his aim and put on a few more pounds now that he’s on indefinite leave from the police force.
What makes these images so resonant is that they’re not far from the truth. On the surface they seem absurd but when compared to recent images of peaceful protesters being assaulted by psychopathic cops for absolutely no justifiable reason they take on several layers of meaning and suggest new strategies for change.
1. The violent cop is out of touch with his own humanity. His actions are random and driven by a disdain for what he finds incomprehensible or makes him uncomfortable. His uniform, helmet and mask are shields against sensuality and pleasure and symbolize dead energy.
2. Fascism strikes out at what it doesn’t understand and what it can’t control.
3. When confronted with peaceful, sensual and free human beings, the police mentality recoils, clenches and lashes out in a perverse display of fear and loathing.
4. Art, sex and beautify are the enemy of repression.
5. A freshly fucked cop brought to orgasm has the potential to become fully human and a potential revolutionary. Hiding within each cop is a terrified child that wants to emerge from their shell and break through their fear of flesh and intimacy. If you’re unwilling to fuck a cop, take him/her to a museum, a rock concert or a massage therapist. If the cop resists, show him/her your sexual organs. A blood-engorged penis, proud erect nipples and a winking blinking brownie cake have been known to throw cops off their game.
6. “Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
― Wilhelm Reich
“Picnic In The Park” by Édouard Manet
“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat.
Thanks to Mark Yarm
Obviously he’s innocent until proven guilty, but one thing seems certain enough: Herman Cain is an idiot.
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UK Uncut describe themselves as “a grassroots anti-austerity network”. In the footnotes to this video, this is how UK Uncut they describe the boss of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs:
Dave Hartnett, head of HMRC, has spent the last few years shaking hands on sweetheart deals with multinational corporations. Vodafone were let off upwards of £6bn in tax, Goldman Sachs were let off over £10m in tax. By pure chance, Dave Hartnett also happens to be Whitehall’s most wined and dined civil servant, accepting expensive dinners and drinks from companies such as KPMG, Ernst and Young, PWC and, of course, Goldman Sachs.
On 9th November Dave Hartnett was delivering the keynote speech at the Corporate Tax Conference, the biggest annual gathering of everyone who’s anyone in corporate tax. Some UK Uncut activists dressed up as Vodafone and Goldman Sachs execs and surprised Dave to say a huge thank you for his kind favours.
Here’s what happened when they met:
For more info on UK Uncut, visit their website
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Jello is accurately sculpted right down to the piercing glare, star belt buckle and Alternative Tentacles tee.
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