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Rainbow Sparkle Ponies

"Illiteracy obscures the fact that over-the-rainbow puffery (like the exaggerations exhorted by the financial elite at COP21) is doomed to come crashing to earth–like all pyramid schemes do; immaturity allows the gullible to be hoodwinked into believing that somehow this time it will turn out differently."

Pathways to Spectacle | Consumerism as “Activism”

"The cult of consumerism, through which 350, Avaaz and Purpose adherents identify with their brand, is similar to religion, in that becoming a follower is an act of faith."

The DeKlein of Logic. The Art of Conflation

The NPIC, as the third pillar of contemporary imperialism, which Klein has submerged herself in, ensures current power structures are not only kept intact, but strengthened and insulated.

AT A GLANCE: Why the Oligarchs Have United in Pushing the Divestment Campaign

The so-called clean energy economy (recognized as the greatest “climate wealth opportunity” of our time) is in dire need of a massive cash injection. The required magnitude is colossal... today’s leading social capitalists insist the world must quadruple its investments in “renewable” energy by 2030, also means that climate change is the greatest opportunity to expand capitalism beyond its current limits.

Wall Street Taking Over Nonprofit Sector

"It is apparently lost on many donors to the nonprofit sector that if nonprofit work could have been achieved through a business approach it would already have been. For Wall Street, the problem with the nonprofit sector appears to be that it’s nonprofit."

Klein’s Decline

"As a celebrity who in a scant eight years went from a supporter of the Zapatistas to the darling of OECD and the New Economy, Klein personifies the NGO trend of selling out to the very powers that condemn the indigenous peoples of the world to violence, misery and death."

The De-Klein of a Revolutionary Writer: From Subcomandante Marcos to Angel Gurria

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Climate Evangelism

"As the loyal ‘opposition’ of the financial elite, they will stick with the Wall Street script, keeping their devotees busy whining but ineffective in confronting the power politics of their billionaire paymasters."

A Madame of Mediocrity

Another vapid luminary on the cover of Vogue.

HEART OF DARKNESS

"Unlike the spontaneous resistance by students and marginalized sectors of urban society to this total bureaucratic domination in the 1960s, consumer reaction to mass murder and dispossession in the 21st Century is itself choreographed by the ruling class."