Mmm, seven chewy categories of videos await you... the brand-new Music Videos section, DR's Report (mad ravings, confessionals), Beijing Video Diaries (yeah, as in China, the country of the future), The Truth is Out There (and by "out there" I mean, "far out, man"), I Heart the Net (stuff to massage your soft, cuddly bits) and last but not least Comedy That Kills because sometimes you really just want to DIE because its so funny.
For the last few decades a meme has been spreading that the human race is on the verge of a radical shift in consciousness. It's a curious idea, especially for the variety of sources. I've long thought it means... well, essentially what Jeremy Rifkin says in the video below. (He just says it a lot better, so without further ado...)
Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the War Is Making You Poor Act
A little background/context on this. In 1939 only 10% of all American's were paying the voluntary income tax. By the end of World War Two, that number? 100%. It was called the "Victory Tax" during the war and was meant to raise funds to stop the Fascist threat from Germany and Japan. But did the tax end with the war? Not at all. Because America never ended the war. We have been in a permanent state of war since then. Draw your own conclusions about whether we'd even have an income tax system if we weren't constantly at war in one part of the world or another.
Mother f*&%ing defense contractors. They are the source of this evil, or at least the blood that pumps through the veins of this undead zombie called "defending America."
Started working on this month's ago and got distracted by too many other things. Recently shot some missing footage in Beijing's 798 art district with my pal Ruozheng which gave me the missing bits to finish it off. Enjoy! It's a silly one!
For a few weeks now I've been working on an essay about the military industrial complex and about how it utterly transformed American society after WW2. Its a tough nut to crack, because one wants to provide comprehensive depth, which is often beyond anyone's scope, given the level of atrocity and insanity that exists in the world's largest war machine:
