- Thank President Obama
- Feb 23, 6:52pm
 (2 reviews) politics, freedom, obama, nwo http://www.pgpf.org/getinvolved/obamatha... - Thank you, Obama, for telling us you wanted the troops out of Iraq in six months, even though you now say 24, or 36 . . . at least it gave us HOPE!
Thank you Obama, it felt good at least until you picked your cabinet, to HOPE it wasn't going to be business-as-usual in Washington.
Thank you, Obama, for being so polite sounding and caring and good looking while you prepare us to be enslaved . . .
Thank you, Obama! although you aren't really preparing to do anything substantially differently than the last guy, you are so much nicer about lying and the way you lie to us gives us HOPE . . . and hope is what we need, because if looked hopeless, we would become desperate BEFORE we have no resources to react, and that would mean we would really have to DO something besides watch TV and praise Obama on the internets.
Thank you Obama, for the HOPE! And since hope isn't a strategy, that means as long as you leave us a sliver of HOPE we can skip that messy 3rd Party organizing and JUST "wait 'n' see . . . yup!
- Oct 9, 2008 9:19am
I thought I should communicate.
But I glanced at my list of people that care:
Maybe some other time.
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- Sep 24, 2008 9:32am
- Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army...
 Sep 24, 2008 5:50am (38 reviews) activism, nwo, economics, police-state, politics http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/ar...- U.S. Army Deployed Against The People
Sick. They call it "dwell-time, Homeland patrol" First non-emergency deployment of an active duty unit. Just in time for the riots, should enough people wake up and see the largest robbery ever, cynically called "bailout," taking place this week.
- GroundReport | New York | Barry Jennings, Key 9/11 Witness Dies
- Sep 18, 2008 11:45am (2 reviews) history, terrorism, wtc, media, 9-11 http://www.groundreport.com/US/Barry-Jen...
- Sexy Librarians: The Appeal Is Ethical, Not Aesthetic
- Sep 6, 2008 9:45am
 (1 review) liberties, patriot-act, milfs, sexy, heroes http://jezebel.com/5045469/sexy-libraria... - 2008 Sexy: Libriarians!!
Despite the slavish attempt by the Republicans
to co-opt the "look" of this movement,
with the admittedly hot MILF, Mrs. Palin;
the truth cannot be denied:
Librarians can be HOT.
Here is a story from JEZEBEL on some librarians
fighting to preserve your freedom of privacy.
You go girls ! !
- Press TV - Speculative thoughts on spectacular democracy
- Sep 5, 2008 9:13am (1 review) nwo, election, mind-control http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=683...
- Eyes Wide Θ Θ Shut — —
It would be a mistake to conclude that the entire American public genuinely believes the hype they are sold, but as Adorno observed some 60 years ago "The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them" [Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 167]. Just as people swallow up a mass culture that is manifestly contrived to fool them into consumption, they compulsively play along with the political charades as if they fell for it:
"People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them the most fleeting gratification, they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it, they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all."
--Theodor Adorno ['The Culture Industry Reconsidered' in The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, Routledge (2001), p. 103]
Whoever wins the megaspectacle of the 2008 elections, it will simply be the system submitting to a vote which it has itself commanded.
- John Taylor Gatto Biography
- Sep 2, 2008 3:17pm (1 review) evolution, schools, darwin, gatto http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/aboutus/j...
- John Taylor Gatto, January 23rd 2008 (speaking on a radio talk-show)
John Taylor Gatto believes that the downfall of our schools as an institution is not a recent phenomenon. In a book that he makes available online for free, The Underground History of American Education, Gatto outlines a well-researched worldview that frames what we see in schools today as an intended product.
 
The former schoolteacher argues convincingly that the origins of our schools derive from the influence of a small group of cultural, intellectual, and monentary elites in the late 19th century. He recounts evidence that these elites, over generations of hereditary fortunes, have hoarded wealth and influence by controlling banks, currencies, politics, and yes, public institutions, the most important of which are our schools.
Gatto presents the case, which cannot be ignored, that the organizing influence of these social engineers is loosely based upon their own moral justifications. According to New York’s much-awarded Teacher Of The Year (New York State-once / NYC-three times), these beliefs are drawn from some of the lesser publicized writings of Darwin, Galton, and other 19th century intellectuals. Specifically, Gatto says these intellectuals believed, as he summarizes:
“[. . . ]that most people are evolutionary dead-ends, that only a small elite was actually evolving, and everyone else . . . just ‘got in the way.’ So now they felt morally justified in setting up a series of institutions – with schools being the most important of these – that would teach people to . . . ‘keep themselves in their place.’
Now, I will simplify this very quickly by saying: ‘by removing their . . . capacity for intellectual development’, and truthfully, ‘by removing their capacity for moral development,’ but let’s just stick with the intellect for a moment . . .
It becomes fairly very easy to do when you can drain all the children out of the community, and you can establish the standards for what a fine mind is: the one you get an ‘A+’ for.
- Sep 2, 2008 3:04pm
- Continued- John Taylor Gatto
There is [in this respect] hardly a difference in any school in the country – the rotten ones are the same as the good ones – you get an ‘A+’ for memorizing what you are told to memorize, and repeating it on periodic tests.
And after you do that for a long enough period of time, you are so alienated from your own roots of strength, from your own family, from your own religion, from your own culture, from your own imagination . . . that you don’t recover from that, you become predictable by the tools of market research, and both the government and the corporate world use those predictions to employ capital and labor efficiently.
Winston Churchill said in 1944, publicly, that schools don’t have anything to do with education, they are – I’m reading the quote – ‘they are mainly institutions of control, where certain basic habits are inculcated in the young. Education is quite different, and has no place in schools.’
And here is Bertrand Russell, you know, one of the major mathematicians and philosophers of the 20th century, he says this in 1935: ‘we are faced with the paradoxical fact that school is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.’ So what we’re talking about [the role of school in negative social engineering] is a deliberate piece of architecture.
So, once again, I think it is important to see where these people gained their strength, their moral strength, in accepting Darwin’s hypothesis. Not about evolution, but that: ‘most people aren’t evolving, they’re deadwood; so if you allow them to mix with the good breeding stock, you’ve ruined the human race.’
Now, obviously, that’s not taught in school when they teach Darwin, yet it is very, very easy to find!
I challenge anyone simply to go to their local public library, and ask their librarian for: Darwin's Descent of Man. That’s the name of the book, not Origin of Species but a book written twelve years later, and it will be in every library in the United States, I guarantee you, and it will say, flatly, the future of the human race depends on confusing this bad breeding stock so that . . . it doesn’t reproduce itself . . .
- Frank Zappa on CNN's Crossfire (1986)
- Aug 22, 2008 1:57pm (48 reviews) rock-music, liberty, police-state http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...
- NAME THAT SUIT!!!
Who is the guy, below center-right?
it's Frank Zappa.
This is classic, worth the time> > at 3:10 into this clip,the guy asks Frank
"What're you, an anarchist?"
(Which is actually true, academically -- we should be proud
to be anarchists, a usually misunderstood label)
. . . to which Frank sagely responds,
"No, I'm a conservative, YOU'RE not going to like that, but it's true."
This clip should shatter your mass-media conceptions of what Frank Zappa is/was. He was a patriot, a conservative anarchist, and a prophet: He confidently asserts, halfway through the video, that we were moving toward a fascist theocracy . . . you should see how incredulous Novak was . . . today he is thinking to himself "that curly-haired dude was right . . .
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