Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Thursday, June 04, 2020

Hilter Skilter, Béarnaise, Gwobbles and the origins of propaganda in American-style capitalism.

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Reading this thread at Joe Dunman's Twitter account led me to a feeling of déjà vu. As it turns out, almost exactly three years ...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

An amazing Albanian propaganda film, circa 1984: "Where a free and happy people are living by the sweat of their brow."

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If you've never viewed an old-school "New Communist Man and Woman" heavy-industry-porn propaganda film, then prepare ...
Friday, March 01, 2019

BREAKING: What's a mayoral personality cult without a delicious classic snack stroll?

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Following Jeff Gahan's big money is an arduous task, but the Green Mouse has been under the weather these past few days. Our examinat...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Performance review: One Southern Indiana's "Fund Us Well" tour brings the Chamber Heads to Jeffersonville along with their pot(s).

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Apparently One Southern Indiana's annual tour of legislative bodies is underway, and the Tom May Picayune sent new reporter Brooke M...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Jeff "Look at Me" Gahan's aquatic cult of personality: He brings us health, all by himself.

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Taxpayers are footing the bill for full-page magazine ads like this one, and yet since the River Run Family Water Park's inception, d...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Come to Stump City: Yet another artlessly staged photo purports to show that Deaf Gahan really cares about trees. Problem is, history suggests otherwise.

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No single administration in recent memory has felled as many trees as Team Gahan. No single governing clique in recent memory has failed ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Fetch your HAZMAT suits and listen to this propaganda podcast with Mayor Jeff Milhous Gahan -- or not.

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My friend M sent this link to me ten days ago, introducing the topic with just one word: "Gag." Gag ( verb ) choke or retch:...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

For a second consecutive day, City Hall ineffectually defends its abysmal record of tree abuse.

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It's worth remembering the project's grandiloquent official title:  Mt. Tabor Road Restoration and Pedestrian Safety Project . ...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Cringe alert: News and Tribune treats us to double the usual dose of religious advocacy. Since when has it become a Christian circular?

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"Could not agree more. If it's going to be an unreadable, poorly edited rag, at least keep it secular." -- Regular Reader ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

W. 1st crosswalk propaganda: Other cities allow artists to create art. Ours merely glorifies its own fix-is-in muddy anchor.

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The good news: The crosswalk the city denied was possible is almost completed. The bad news: Nothing prepares you for the public propag...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Fake facts and disgraceful behavior: Jeff Gahan faced opposition to his public housing putsch, so now he's seeking to discredit NAHA with propaganda.

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Breathtaking propaganda, borne of Jeff Gahan's ongoing housing authority property grab. Has he yet spoken with a single resident? ...
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Monday, June 05, 2017

That's right; I was wrong. Goebbels got his ideas for propaganda from American advertising, not the other way around.

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Recently I posted this on social media. I'm eternally amazed by chain restaurant envy, which always seemed to me an inevitable res...
Thursday, June 01, 2017

Taxpayers foot the bill as this Gahan for State Senate video features the mayor talking about his lofty Summit Springs achievements.

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Gahan's cult of personality is taking on hitherto elusive grandiosity as political decision time draws near. He's giving us a s...
Monday, October 17, 2016

Hanoi Hannah has died.

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Hanoi Hannah -- and Axis Sally, Eastern Jewel, Lord Haw-Haw, Pyongyang Sally, Tokyo Rose and Seoul City Sue. They're no longer needed. A...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

ON THE AVENUES 3-PK, PART THREE: Survey says … Irv’s street grid agitprop won’t be putting Diogenes out of work any time soon.

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ON THE AVENUES 3-PK, PART THREE: Survey says … Irv’s street grid agitprop won’t be putting Diogenes out of work any time soon. A weekly co...
Saturday, August 06, 2016

Short-term spending to buy votes? How can Steve Bonifer be AGAINST this without threatening the tranquility of the next family picnic?

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It's hard to read in this admittedly hurried photo, but here are the circled words, indicating a fact of Indiana governing life that ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The ceaselessness of miracles: Re-election secured, Jeff Gahan suddenly is made aware of public housing.

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Nothing said in this latest instance of govt by press release is mysterious, or hasn't been known before. Discussions Underway Conc...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Dear Shawnee Baptist Church: Want to do something for my neighborhood? Start by not littering it. Thank you.

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Friday, March 04, 2016

Who even knew City Hall had its own agitprop web site? Meet newalbanycityhall.com/

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Note the change in font color from red to blue . That's right: It's New Albany City Hall . Official News and Information a...
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Pass the vodka: Question-free water park as economic development.

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If New Albany's water slide is intended in the same vein as the Roman Empire's bread and circuses (it is), and if Clarksville...