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		<title>What if ads from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers were honest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above: A CAPP billboard. Photo from flickr user Peterblanchard. Across Canada, ads from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers are appearing on billboards, bus shelters, television sets, cinema screens, and the pages of newspapers and magazines. These ads, to say the least, are bullshit: They characterize a massive campaign of misinformation and an attempt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the Money and Run: Rat Race (2001) as Socialist Parable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above: Rat Race&#8217;s ensemble cast. Disclaimer: This review is a case study in overanalysis. It is extremely unlikely that any of the political conclusions drawn here existed in the minds of the writers when they created the screenplay for this madcap comedy caper. But one of the virtues of the Marxist method is its ability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themassornament.com/2012/08/take-the-money-and-run-rat-race-2001-as-socialist-parable/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=take-the-money-and-run-rat-race-2001-as-socialist-parable</link>
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		<title>What happened in St. James Park? &#8220;Anatomy of an Occupation&#8221; and &#8220;Recalling the St. James Occupy at 6 Months&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above: St. James Park from overhead during the Occupy Toronto Occupation. Image from blogto.com In the most recent issue of Maisonneuve, Occupy Toronto insider Paul Gettlich offers an adept history of the temporary micro-society which famously fomented in St. James Park during OT’s month-long occupation. The feature, entitled “Anatomy of an Occupation,” recaptures the unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Cares? The 14th Annual Global Marijuana March</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A day after students from Quebec took plastic bullets to their heads and faces in their continuing struggle against a 75% tuition hike, the youth of Toronto broke free of their perennial apathy and took to the streets with dissident clamour! Actually, that isn’t quite what happened. Saturday May the 5th marked Toronto’s largest annual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themassornament.com/2012/05/global-marijuana-march/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=global-marijuana-march</link>
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		<title>Interplanetary Revolution!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This amazing piece of film was made by N. Khodataev in 1924.  It&#8217;s Soviet propaganda, but also an amazing relic of early animation.  Watch it for yourself and try to figure out what&#8217;s going on, besides exciting modernism.]]></description>
		<link>http://themassornament.com/2012/04/interplanetary-revolution/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=interplanetary-revolution</link>
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		<title>From the Golden Age of Media Criticism: &#8220;Architecture&#8221; by Georges Bataille (1929)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above: Wall Street&#8217;s bull monument. ARCHITECTURE. – Architecture is the expression of the true nature of societies, as physiognomy is the expression of the nature of individuals. However, this comparison is applicable, above all, to the physiognomy of officials (prelates, magistrates, admirals). In fact, only society’s ideal nature – that of authoritative command and prohibition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themassornament.com/2012/03/architecture-georges-bataille-1929/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=architecture-georges-bataille-1929</link>
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		<title>Emperor Haute Couture by Margaret Sutherland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above: Emperor Haute Couture by Margaret Sutherland. Oil on Canvas, 60 x 36 inches, 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://themassornament.com/2012/03/emperor-haute-couture-by-margaret-sutherland/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=emperor-haute-couture-by-margaret-sutherland</link>
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		<title>Concrete Communiqué: Toronto Robo-call Protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More photos after the break.]]></description>
		<link>http://themassornament.com/2012/03/concrete-communique-toronto-robo-call-protest/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=concrete-communique-toronto-robo-call-protest</link>
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		<title>Why You Should Not Donate To Invisible Children / Kony 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above: The controversial video from Invisible Children&#8217;s Kony2012 campaign. Like many people across the world, I am in the large minority that takes internet access for granted. On March 7th, millions of wealthy people who count themselves among that group watched a half-hour long video made by a group called Invisible Children. The video went viral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themassornament.com/2012/03/why-you-should-not-donate-to-invisible-childrenkony-2012/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-you-should-not-donate-to-invisible-childrenkony-2012</link>
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		<title>From the Golden Age of Media Criticism: David Holzman&#8217;s Diary (1967)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Above: David Holzman&#8217;s Diary demonstrates how TV works. The above clip from David Holzman&#8217;s Diary demonstrates the functioning of a television set and why it is so effective. We can consciously (or cynically) disavow what we see, float in and out of attentiveness, or change the channel &#8211; but as in the above clip, the [...]]]></description>
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