The American Crisis: 11/12/06

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Of Tiered Oligopoly and the Topic of The Electorate

I'm off topic this week, i'll admit it. My personal agenda of open-sourcing media regardless of RIAA rulings or artist desires has consumed many hours and seeded many peers, and i still have a bit of chopping to do in order to facilitate a rescreening which i feel is pertainent to our purposes. This is cutting into cartoon time, and i apologize to the Toons.

However, this leads us back to the real subject. The subject is economics, which has eyes rolling back into sockets even as i type. Basta; y'all just haven't had the fire under the kettle of ol' skuul political econ lit for ya, i know it. There's nothing to lose but your wallet chains here. Revolution is an aggragate curve whose tipping point is the nexus of production v consumption and the people's right to remain unabstracted.

So i suggest a perusal of Oligopoly Watch, a delightful and engaging look at current oligonomies and the tightening fist of centralising services. Ask yourself "why are we a Walmart Nation? have we indeed ever been anything else?"

Then perhaps gander upon The Carlyle Group's Telecom holdings, as good a place as any to start examining what They™ control.