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Funniest spoof ad since “Idiocracy”

By Erik Curren | December 13, 2011

screenshot from "Ron Bless America" spoof campaign ad

We love Ron Paul. At least the half of him that wants to get US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, repeal the USA-PATRIOT Act and cut subsidies to Wall Street and Big Oil. We even like the nutty professor who fingers the Fed and gushes about gold. But we're not so crazy about the crazy Ron Paul who wants to rev-up a Texas Chain Saw Massacre on social security, environmental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Idiocracy, Ron Paul, spoof ads

Hip hop parody pits Ron Paul against “Zeitgeist” to save the economy

By Erik Curren | October 10, 2011

Rap News Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco

As the Great Recession brings out protesters from Lower Manhattan to Greece and India, alternatives to today's greed-based economy are again in the air. Two of the most popular ideas, each with an über-popular cult following online, play at far poles of the spectrum of Plan B schemes to free the peoples of the world from the oppression of corporate control. In the first … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: gold standard, Jacque Fresco, Peter Joseph, Rap News, Ron Paul, Zeitgeist

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