Your Maynard playlist rocks the house. I'd hump that man's leg in a hot minute.

This is really clever. I like that at least one person got it.

BTW... Why do I always say Maynard James Keenan when I mean John Maynard Keynes. Makes me look like a real prat at university.

This what I come to the Sift for, for any 1 of these on YT there're 20 insults to Maynard & Co...
Awesome interpretation of great song.

It's amazing to me how ensconsed in the bubble the right is these days.

Let's break it down:

1. Ideological subversion propagation - Radical conservatives begin pushing their ideology to all members of society through churches, schools, and supposedly independent policy research "think tanks". This begins in the early 30's, and is a systematic campaign aimed at chipping away at the credibility of embedded liberalism, America's original ideology. The "threat of communism" is conflated with traditional American values like empathy, solidarity, and equality.
   
   
2. Destabilization - The 1960's reads literally like a textbook example of a country in crisis. A presidential assassination, two proxy wars, a mexican standoff with nuclear weapons, a counterculture protest movement, race relations getting strained with protests and violence, and the then-dominant Democratic party coming apart at its seams over disagreements about the war and civil rights.
   
   
3. Crisis - This one is clear. The oil crisis of the 1970's was our key takeover crisis moment. It basically ushered in an end to embedded liberalism as the American way of life. So many aspects of our political life and the way our economy was run was radically changed in the aftermath of that crisis, even though it was a walk in the park compared to today's economic problems.
   
   
4. Normalization - Conservative Republicans won 3 terms in a row, from 1980 until 1992, followed by a conservative, Southern Democrat who won in part because a third party candidate split Republican support. Party-line economists have treated the works of John Maynard Keynes the way their forebears treated the work of Karl Heinrich Marx -- they pretended it had nothing worthwhile to say, and tried their best to erase it from academic discourse. The Democrats of today consider reforms Republicans proposed in 1992 massive ideological win for the left.
   

Take the bananas out of your ears, morons.

Anyways, this is actually a pretty astute observation about how radical political and economic change happens. It's not necessarily planned like our conservative takeover was, but the framework for all ideological revolutions start with an ideology becoming commonly known, then during a period of destabilization and crisis, people may turn to the new ideology.

This is literally what more than a few libertarian bloggers say is their raison d'etre -- to make sure the ideology is lying around for when a crisis hits.

However, anyone who thinks some Russian-led infiltration of "Marxist-Lenninist" ideology happened or is happening is fucking deluded. It would've been a real trick considering your average American doesn't have a fucking clue what Marxism is...because the right stigmatized knowledge of it!

The West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 25 workers and left another four unaccounted for in the worst mining disaster since 1984 had amassed scores of citations from mining safety officials, including 57 infractions just last month for violations that included repeatedly failing to develop and follow a ventilation plan.

The federal records catalog the problems at the Upper Big Bra More..nch mine, operated by the Performance Coal Company. They show the company was fighting many of the steepest fines, or simply refusing to pay them. Performance is a subsidiary of Massey Energy. Another Massey subsidiary agreed to pay $4.2 million in criminal and civil fines last year and admitted to willfully violating mandatory safety standards that led to the deaths of two miners. The fine was the largest penalty in the history of the coal industry.

The nation's sixth biggest mining company by production, Massey Energy took in $24 million in net income in the fourth quarter of 2009. The company paid what was then the largest financial settlement in the history of the coal industry for the 2006 fire at the Aracoma mine, also in West Virginia. The fire trapped 12 miners. Two suffocated as they looked for a way to escape. Aracoma later admitted in a plea agreement that two permanent ventilation controls had been removed in 2005 and not replaced, according to published reports.

The two widows of the miners killed in Aracoma were unsatisfied by the plea agreement, telling the judge they believed the company cared more about profits then safety. After the deal, the Massey subsidiary pledged a renewed focus on safety after the fines were levied.

But Bruce Stanley, the attorney who tried the Aracoma Mine accident case, had doubts. He told ABC News Monday there are a lot of similarities between the Aracoma mine and the one involved in this week's tragedy, and he has concerns about Massey's checkered track record on safety issues. Data kept by the Mine Safety and Health Administration show the Upper Big Branch mine has suffered three worker fatalities in last 12 years.

"One can only hope that the level of criminal neglect evident at the Aracoma accident was not repeated at the Upper Big Branch mine," Stanley said Monday night.

After the Aracoma accident, Massey Energy released a statement that said the company "is a recognized leader in safety innovation and performance and remains committed to working with federal and state agencies to fully understand the causes of the accident and to prevent a similar occurrence at Massey Energy or elsewhere in the future."

Monday night, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship released a statement saying, "Our top priority is the safety of our miners and the well-being of their families. We are working diligently on rescue efforts and continue to partner with all of the appropriate agencies."

The company is well known in West Virginia, in part because CEO Don Blankenship grew to become a fixture in state politics, doling out thousands of dollars to candidates he favored – most of them Republicans. In 2004, he spent millions on advertising that attacked a West Virginia state Supreme Court justice, leading to the election of challenger Brent Benjamin.

Massey had a $70 million case before the state Supreme Court and, once elected, Benjamin made the controversial decision not to recuse himself because of Blankenship's support of him and to hear arguments anyway. Another member of the court hearing the case was Chief Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard. He later recused himself after photographs surfaced showing that he vacationed with Blankenship in the French Riviera.

When an ABC News reporter tried to interview Blankenship about the possible conflicts in the parking lot of a Massey Energy office in Belfry, Ky., Blankenship became agitated.

"If you're going to start taking pictures of me, you're liable to get shot," Blankenship told the reporter before grabbing his camera.


Blankenship later told the Charleston Daily Mail he couldn't recall making any threats. "Quite frankly, I don't know what I said except that I know I'm never loud, vulgar or rude to strangers," he said.

The conflicts surrounding the state Supreme Court saga triggered a cascade of changes, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that called on judges to recuse themselves when major donors come before them in court, and a vote by the West Virginia legislature to adopt public financing of judicial campaigns.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/west-va-coal-company-deadly-explosion-fined-millions/story?id=10293691&page=2

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ab4_1270570649

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No awesome harmonies?! shamelessly plugging his wine! I wish maynard would get back to what he's good at, and stop messing around with his 'life'. Dosen't he know it's my life too. *slits wrist

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
..what is exactly was the point of this? really


It is the same as getting a band name tattooed on yourself.

"'V' Is For Vagina" is an album by Puscifer(side project of Maynard James Keenan, famous from Tool and A Perfect Circle)

Not sure how well you recall the movie, but no one was stabbed in the back... The only person to meet the sharp end of the katana was Maynard, who got slashed across the chest, and then stabbed in the gut.

At any rate, the moral thing he references there was when Butch had the opportunity to get out of the store while Zed was busy with Marsellus, but he chose instead to go back and rescue a man who quite likely still wanted him dead.

At any rate, it's a great movie!

Any government that has a policy of solving social problems by using government funds or employment is operating on a Keynesian principle. Lets be fair though, John Maynard Keynes was a brilliant mathematician and economist. Notions of GDP and other such macroeconomics ideals are all his creation. However flawed and unrealistic they are, there is no doubt of its brilliants for what it was. Same could be said of Communism, however, practical realities and the evils they create to obtain those things rule them out if one wants to be free..that is for both Communism and Keynesian principles. Friedrich Engels and John Maynard Keynes were not idiots, just people trying to solve problems, however history shows they had the wrong answers.

Obama and pretty much every western government has been largely Keynesian for a good long time. Though, the term Keynesian need not be rigorously applied...this is just a forum conversation. The truth is that you can either have government making choices with yours and other peoples money making moral decisions (theocracy for all intents and purposes). Or you can have a system of liberties where we are free to make our own moral choices. The terrible things that come about because of freedoms are blatant and unhidden, in a way, that makes them better. Problems that are more insidious, like stagflation, inflation, corruption, cronyism , nepotism, the list goes on; (o hell, lets not forget high powered lobbyists) are all the results of highly powerful centrally planed governments.

i have had my lawn chair out waiting to watch it all go down the pooper.
anyone ready for another beer?...
overcast has a eugenics flair to his end solution.lets thin the herd a bit so we dont get eliminated by uber'evolved-virus.he actually has a point,it just has that "brown shirt" feel to it../shivers.
as for myself i like to think its gonna go down like the book of john states.not because i believe in a mushroom induced hallucination,but rather to watch the faces of all the bleating sheep when the "rapture" comes.dumb-founded christians roaming aimlessly in the streets mumbling " i was a good christian wasn't i? why didn't the lord take me?".
now THAT is entertainment.
meh.../shrugs.end of the world?or end of humanity?
somebody already quoted carlin but it deserves to be said again.
"the WORLD ain't going nowhere...WE ARE.pack your bags folks we are going away".
i think keenan maynard said it best:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Tool-nema

I would hope Jay Maynard carries one of these.

love this sift, enoch. you should have a maynard playlist for all the stuff you have posted.

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Its worth noting the connections to Bill Hicks. "Arizona Bay" was a theme in some his bits, and later was the name of a posthumously-released album of his stand-up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Bay

According to TDN (the very best source for all things Tool), this was from the First Union Arena in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

I was at the 11/2/01 show in Sac, when some douchebag threw a shoe at Maynard. I fucking hate seeing shows in Sac. I saw Bush play Cal Expo back when I was in High school, and some fucktard hit Gavin right in the face with a near-full water bottle. Every time, some asshole ruins it for the rest of the crowd... No wonder most musicians hate playing there...