The Invention of Reality and the Second Phase (tags)
Being human thus becomes an unsolvable task in the technocratic society... An immense pressure to conform can arise in a technocratic society, since the devaluation of the subjective is accompanied by a suppression of needs, which, when an entire population is affected, leads less to rebelliousness than to social conformity.
Crimes & Cover Up By Government Officials (tags)
See this evidentiary report on the fbi's corruption of our government.
UCOLA student regrets anti-Israel words (tags)
"A University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) student whose angry outburst following the defeat of an anti-Israel vote went viral on the Internet has had a chance to educate herself better, she told The Algemeiner this week, after requesting an opportunity to express her change of heart. “I don’t believe Israel is evil,” Danielle Dimacali said. “In fact I think it’s a great progressive country that offers a lot of freedom for its citizens.” "One of the things she said she has learned about is antisemitism – “a negative perception of Jews that can be manifested physically or verbally toward Jewish individuals, property, religious facilities or their respective communities. Furthermore, I understand that antisemitism manifests itself with regard to the state of Israel. Criticism of Israel, demonizing Israel, blaming Israel for all inter-religious or political tensions, applying double standards towards Israel, or delegitimizing Israel are all forms of Jew-hatred. It is not only illegal but immoral to target a historically oppressed Jewish minority that has a collective right to self-determination and essential human rights.”
Moderate Islam’s Real Litmus Test? Israel (tags)
The San Bernardino shooter’s father teaches us a painful lesson about unchecked bigotry
Helpful Weapons to understand our neighbors south of San Diego (tags)
nacla.org can help schools, offices, people of faith and organizers understand the countries and issues south of San Diego. The acronym means North American Congress on Latin America which is a very diverse set of people and places.
Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (tags)
NATO's eastward expansion is at the heart of the Ukraine crisis. Sec of State Baker promised Gorbatchev that NATO would not expand eastward if the Berlin wall were allowed to fall. Can't the West understand Putin's security concerns if NATO extends to Russia's borders?
Ha-Joon Chang on Economics (tags)
Ha-Joon Chang is a professor of politics and economics at Cambridge University.
Al-Assad with Charlie Rose interview on PBS, just missed it (tags)
A fascinating interview was just on PBS.org and TV and it can be re-seen on internet. Sadly, all indications from the answers that were sly and slippery to Charlie's direct questions leads to another WAR COMING...made more obvious by seeing this.
Author explores controversial culture of Sur 13 gangs in new book (tags)
Urban Politics: The Political Culture of Sur 13 Gangs describes the political culture of Mexican American street gangs in the Los Angeles County. It dives into the various aspects of gang culture that are parallel to political organizations such as: the social contract, political parties, budgeting principles, and the progressive movement. The author, Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre, is of Mexican American descent, has a blog about art, politics, history, and culture and is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. His previous book focused on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), illegal immigration, and journalism.
Lets Replace Private Health Insurance With Single Payer Health Insurance (tags)
Single payer health insurance is much better than private health insurance for many good reasons.
‘Holy Jihad’ is the only way to deal with Israel (tags)
Mohammed Badie declares that Zionists ‘only understand force’
Why The GOP Can't Defeat The Vagina! (tags)
Why The GOP Can't Defeat The Vagina!
Those who criticize the Occupation Movement see it and everything else as a product but what the OM is is process.
FBI Muslims and Militancy Considerations --- Heads up By Zahir Ebrahim (tags)
The roots of this ?Militancy Considerations? graph in the FBI training presentation for its agents are very distinguished and very deep-seated in doctrinal warfare. It is not merely some ad hoc ?overreaction? to the ?war on terror? against ?militant Islam? by an overzealous state security apparatus' training program to keep the Americans safe from terrorists.
Exxon Strategy Revealed: We Don't Ever Need a Majority in the Senate (tags)
The Senate voted on the bill to eliminate Big Oil subsidies--52 in favor and 48 opposed. The bill lost. WTF you say, the bill had a majority and lost? Of course it did.
Obama Plans Gutting Regulations for Corporate Favorites (tags)
deregulation
U.S. House of Representatives: Stupid? Crooks? or Stupid Crooks? (tags)
Some of our representatives are just plain dumb as box of shale. They may even believe that American oil can be sold at Mom and Pop's Gas-It-Up.
Aliens, Drugs, 911, And The Black Budget (tags)
Kathrine Austin Fitts
Link to 576-page Final Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (tags)
Happy reading! The truth will still make some of us free!
Oscar Grant’s Justice Is Our Justice (tags)
Every day we wake up, drink our coffee and send our children off to school without speaking out against or standing up for racial injustice and police brutality, we are accepting and paying for those inequalities.
Resistance in Westlake: Report From The Street (tags)
"Hey J. I just got home. I got hit with a rubber bullet. I was there until 11.00 p.m. Police went on tactical alert especially after 10.00 p.m. and were really aggressive.
Affects of Bullying at School often Overlooked (tags)
While the US National Statistics will say the violent crimes are decreasing in public school, bullying, either as an act of verbal or physical abuse, is a problem that is not decreasing.
All for the flag, you understand. (tags)
5 of Mossad hit team stranded. 1 in South Africa, 2 in the Us and 2 in Austria.
Author Darrel Ray Lectures on “God Virus” (tags)
It’s not every atheist author who begins a lecture to promote his book with a bit of a fire-breathing Fundamentalist Christian sermon on the nature and ubiquity of human sin and the need to appeal to the Holy Spirit to be cleansed of it. But that’s what Darrel W. Ray did at the San Diego Public Library September 19 in an appearance sponsored by the Humanist Association of San Diego (HASD). A former believer, Ray discussed the total lack of logic in religious appeals and the way religions mimic the behavior of germs in spreading from person to person, use classic hypnotic techniques in their services, and inculcate guilt in their believers — especially about sex. Ray also mentioned ways rationalists can talk to belivers without immediately putting them on the defensive, and offered help for those who are — in his words — “recovering from religion.”
The Political Situation and the Independent Left (tags)
Presentation by Stewart Alexander to PFP National Organizing Conference San Francisco, California August 1, 2009
Zhibin Gu: China's political reform vs corruption (tags)
is China's bureaucratic corruption going to ruin the nation and economy in light of global financial crisis? How should one understand the Chinese Communist bureaucracy and its wild corruptive practice? Get inside analysis and knowledge on Chinese economy, politics, and society from provocative Chinese thinker George Zhibin Gu of World Association of International Studies at Stanford University
Calling KPFK! Ousted WBAI ex-GM Speaks Out on the Coup by Pacifica Network. (tags)
"Let Me Set the Record Straight." Former WBAI 99.5FM General Manager Anthony Riddle speaks out on "ridiculous rumors" circulated by the coupsters. Title: Half of What You See, And None of What You Hear....
Newt Gingrich Out Twitted by EFCA Twitterer Making Him Look Like A REAL CLOWN! (tags)
Newt Gingrich's Lawyer Displays Ignorance Of Both Twitter And The Law In Sending C&D
Very important, because in each heart, this Love is powerful. But this Love is also as powerful as it is disregarded. So, we are trying to make you know it better, feel it better.
CHE 1 and 2: A Movie Review (tags)
Che movies are becoming the guide posts of my personal journeys - an assumption that I'm sure my fellow travelers will understand and if you're like me who was swept away by Guevarra's romanticism at a very young age, I bet you can book end your political life with distinct adaptations of the "guerilleros" life. At least mine has to be moved a tad to the right to squeeze in another chapter - I saw Soderbergh's Part 2 last night at Sunset Plaza in the Westside.
We Are Already In The Future! (tags)
At election’s denouement, to the Right the outraged, self loathing of the loser & the losers, including one dude standing mutely in Michigan, a Republican delegate, in a Klan suit, describing Obama as an “Islamic communist”. To the Left, the self important drears who had urged us to throw our votes away, as they objectively, in the name of their “principles”, gave votes to John McCain.
The Past exists only for a practical purpose. It is never the cause of any trouble or suffering. Success is not measured by what you have accomplished but it is ascertained with what you are able to understand
a fire
The Psychopathology of The Republican (tags)
Fear. Domination. The Reptilian Brain and the Non-Goodness of Man. The Republican party is a party of domination, not partnership. Dominate the earth-drill, excavate. Dominate Iraq, because they could someday dominate us.
Stiglitz on McCain: If He Doesn't Understand the Economy, He Doesn't Understand Security (tags)
"If we had infinite resources, we might be able to have perfect security. But America, like every other country, has resource constraints. That means you need to be smart-that is, economic-about the money we spend."
Tony and Ashley Weeks: Transgender Couple Relate Their Experiences (tags)
Male-to-female Transgender person ASHLEY WEEKS and her female-to-male husband TONY talk about their struggles with gender identity and the love they’ve found in being themselves.
The controversy surrounding Barack Obama and his long-time minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and the speed with which New York governor Elliot Spitzer was forced out of office after he was revealed to be using prostitutes, just shows how screwed-up Americans are about race and sex. Even within the Queer community, bigotry exists, as shown when a board member of a San Diego nonprofit questioned whether her agency should accept donations from the Leather community and referred to Leatherpeople as "those people."
Yes there really is only one true democracy left...
Bill Clinton has signed his book "Give and change the world" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on October 3, 2007. The title of this book seems to refer to what world teacher Maitreya has said for so long: "Share and save the world." The original English title of the book is just "Giving". Changing the world is automatically included in the term "giving" more so in English than in Dutch, it seems, where the intention of giving is perhaps less naturally accepted without an ulterior motive or at least a clear objective in mind, and needs explanation, as does everything.
is the in thing with the priests
YouTube slaps young children (tags)
Numerous young You Tube artists and actors have been canceled by Google which purchased the popular You Tube web site.
911 Truth Movement: Only Growing Stronger (tags)
http://www.911blogger.com/node/7665 Someone please translate into Spanish.
with his new Ministry of Justice
Report on ECHELON Surveillance System (tags)
This is a 2001 document from the European Parliament, who undertook a relatively independent investigation of the ECHELON surveillance system — bizarrely, many people continue to dismiss this as a mere conspiracy theory. Then again, many people are Mormons. This report is solid gold for anyone looking to understand the precise mechanics and methodology behind global interception of electronic communication. It goes into a great amount of detail and will prove invaluable to serious researchers.
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VENEZUELA GRANDEST OF GRAND PRIZES FOR US (tags)
NEW ESTIMATES OF VENEZUELA'S OIL RESERVES MAKES IT GRANDEST OF GRAND PRIZES TO US
International Cease and Desist Order (tags)
Please be forewarned that what I reveal will upset many apple carts and shake a lot of trees, hence the true meaning of the word Apocalypse. Over the last few years I have meticulously produced stunning and comprehensive proof of my assertions because humanity has long been purposely deceived and deluded to deny and oppose the things I am now revealing.
Terrorism cannot be fought everywhere but Palestine (tags)
Tashbih Sayyed, Ph.D. is editor-in-chief of Pakistan Today and Muslim World Today, California-based weekly newspapers, president of Council for Democracy and Tolerance and adjunct fellow of Hudson Institute.
Why immigrant rights? Why now? Why all the furvor of freedom within Amerika? Do you understand the bigger picture, or are you all just a bunch of slaves?
WAR MAKING 101 - A USER'S MANUAL (tags)
HOW THE US IS MOVING FROM A REPUBLIC TO TYRANNY
Americas latest revelation (tags)
Hidden inside american english is another language also called english And although it sounds just like english it is not, it may be called broken English Or street language.Now this english cannot be seen unless you look very close and goes right over our leaders heads, they do not know it.
At Last, Mission Accomplished (tags)
WASHINGTON - In a Christmas Eve message American President Bush said the holidays are a time to mourn U.S. troops who have died in overseas missions. Here is the transcript of his speech
Australian Government request Indy Media remove "Swastika" from site (tags)
Australian Government request removal of swastika from Indy-Media post & removal of link to web-site which shows Government Department falsifying documents & withholding evidence from judical system
falling 1 tyrant shows how to fall them all
Inventing Anti-war Culture (tags)
A series of lectures, film screenings and conversations for cultural workers to discuss the possibility of inventing an effective anti-war culture throughout society that would normalize anti-war assumptions and actions.
Who did the London Bombings? (tags)
Osama Bin Laden strikes again...
The Problem With Veterans (tags)
Vets Are Expensive (And Well Trained)
Recently, America seems to have been lulled into some strange twilight zone. What could it be, this opium of the people? God only knows.
Attny Gen. Spitzer Pulls the Pants Down on Mega-Corps (tags)
This speech was given by Mr. Spitzer at the National Press Club on 1/31/05
Response to Help Screaming (Twice) (tags)
They had me scared that someone was going to hurt me, or kill me. I understand the connection now to 9-11 and it is not good. So they kept me in the view of satellite until it was time to do this. In otherwords I have a right to privacy and I don't want to have satellite on my brain or do anything else. Thank You Thomas Matthew Houser Born: 08/15/78
RCP Cries "Wolf" over Fascism (tags)
A comment on RCP's current "Battle for the Future" campaign: Hysteria about "fascism" serves to hide the essential role of the Democratic Party in the political and economic system of imperialism
Dispelling myths about gay activism (tags)
Viewing Chairman Avakian's speech in the heart of the barrio (tags)
On May 1st, in a restaurant in the Pico-Union section of Los Angeles, a group of a dozen Latino proletarians and others gathered to watch the video clip of the historic speech by Chairman Avakian, "Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About."
"A senior Republican lawmaker said Tuesday that deteriorating security in Iraq may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft. "
at least 33% of Republicans are morons (tags)
Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy George Monbiot Tuesday April 20, 2004 The Guardian
OFFENSIVE POLITICAL FIRE (tags)
ALLISTOR COOKE, remote intellegence outpost in America for the BBC finally got wacked according to BBC America. You could tell by the pictures they sent he saw it coming from the WACKENHUT TRIBE. GIBSON got mad on Fox. Bill Hubbard waded in. And Bush explained that he doesn't understand the enemies MO.
Why do people who call themselves liberals get sad when a racist is killed.
congresswoman Maxine waters on the haiti coup (tags)
claims US is coup plotting yet again
A plea to the trolls for accurate criticism (tags)
It was inevitable to read the news anywhere on the net today without being bombarded by ignorent snarling coming from the "Send the Dixie Chicks to Guantanamo" crowd.
DUDE, WHERE'S MY DAUGHTER? (tags)
My half Iraqi-daughter is still missing in Iraq. Her mom was killed by the Bombs of Bush. The US Army captured and held me for 3 weeks as I looked for her. George, you still ignore me, so if it's my english you can't understand, I now plead, 'DUDE, WHERE'S MY DAUGHTER'?
Sugar-coating U.S. motives in Iraq (Toronto Star) (tags)
Invading armies are often coy when it comes to admitting their true motives. Certainly a desire to seize territory and resources are rarely among the motives modern invading armies tend to highlight. One can understand the preference for looking like a liberator rather than a pillaging bully.
Libertarians and Conservatives -- Neither Side Really Gets It (tags)
The rift between libertarian and conservative movements in America today can be repaired. Mutual success can be achieved by cooperating on more critical subjects like dismantling public education in favor of home schooling and privatization.
Ministry of Justice giving misleading false statements (tags)
Based on several academic and non academic facts, we may say "Ministry of Justice" stinks.
President Bush's new manufacturing policy is doomed (tags)
So long as manufacturing executives seek labor arbitrage opportunities, employing U.S. blue-collar workers will be expensive. (American workers, after all, expect such niceties as pensions and health care.)
What is on researcher's mind? (tags)
About manipulating with mass media; short article on mass media abuse possibilities.
The Silencing of Dissent on Graduation Day (tags)
Text of the Rockford College, Rockford Illinois graduation speech by Chris Hedges Story published May 20, 2003
Via Campesina Requests Action in Sacramento (tags)
Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. It is integrated by national and regional organizations whose autonomy is jealously respected.
Impact of Iraqi defeat on Islam (tags)
In the hundreds of interviews of Muslims throughout the Islamic world, one thing came across loud and clear. It was much more important to them that the Iraqis defeat the U.S.-UK infidel invaders than it was for a ruthless tyrant to be removed and the horribly oppressed Muslim brothers of Iraq liberated.
The Bush Nazi Psyche by B. Meade (tags)
How Nazi buffoons survive.
John Trudell and an artist discuss the perpetual war mentality (tags)
Everybody is trying to find a way out from the mess they're in and they're using dark age intellectualizations and remaining confined in these concepts that have been imposed upon us from day one. Our spirits, the part of us that gifted us excellent medicine to deal with our lives here, has been systematically mined by a severely alienated perpetual war mentality. Join Trudell and i in a kind of conversation that you are invited to participate in.
MISSILES AIMED AT THEIR MAKERS (tags)
BLIX MUST BE OBEYED...FOR EVERYONE'S SAKE...
CIA facts I
What about Afghanistan? (tags)
hmm
As War Gears Up, Newspeak Hype Increases Ten-fold As Expected (tags)
"I insist that to give such warning [ against propaganda ] is an act in the defense of man…I want to speak of it as a menace..."—Jacques Ellul in Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes*
The Bush administration (tags)
Iniquitousness!
Letter by Alliance of Iranian Americans to INS (tags)
We cannot understand why the completely legal Iranian immigrants, and the 245 (i) immigrants have been arrested? We also cannot understand why the Iranian immigrants who have overstayed their visas, but who came to the INS in good faith to comply with President Bush's call have been arrested? And, worst of all, we cannot understand why the sick, the disabled, and the elderly have been arrested? http://www.payvand.com/news/02/dec/1096.html
Why?
Bush Daddy Communications (tags)
It's spin control to an extreme!
Many thousands rally in Paris to protest Bush and American Policies in Palestine (tags)
Tens of thousands rally to denounce Bush's disastrous foreing policy in Paris.
Deportations & The Drug War (tags)
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Government education turning things up-side d (tags)
How is it possible, that with a lower education you are able to judge at Finland, than it takes to graduate from university?
ITS TIME FOR JEWS TO RECOGNIZE THE 10 LOST TRIBES (tags)
To understand our future and where we may be going we need to understand where prophecy may be taking us as we try to decode the prophetic scriptures. We need to go back and review old testament scriptures and world history. So that we can look correctly into future events.
American Hardcore Sex.. (tags)
Warning I do not find images of nude adults, engaging in sexual acts, or other sexual materials to be offensive or objectionable. I am at least 18 years of age and have the legal right to process adult material in my community.
Warning I do not find images of nude adults, engaging in sexual acts, or other sexual materials to be offensive or objectionable. I am at least 18 years of age and have the legal right to process adult material in my community.
Warning I do not find images of nude adults, engaging in sexual acts, or other sexual materials to be offensive or objectionable. I am at least 18 years of age and have the legal right to process adult material in my community.
I pulled this from the NY-IMC, and though I think Zizek has issues as well, i really enjoyed reading this little critique of Chomsky. His cult of personality is a little much. I really enjoyed another theory book called- The End of Education by William Spanos. Writen by a much less known theorist (another reason to dislike zizek and Chomsky) this book goes into detail about some of what zizek says-while talking about 60s political movements and their "failure of the radical moment."
Statement from Muhammad Ali (tags)
Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, Muhammad Ali, gets in the ring with racists and haters of Islam.
On the Bombings Noam Chomsky (tags)
As to how to react, we have a choice. We can express justified horror; we can seek to understand what may have led to the crimes, which means making an effort to enter the minds of the likely perpetrators.
COMMUNIQUE TO ALL TO REVOLUTIONARIES AROUND THE WORLD (tags)
Revolutionaries around the world must unite in endorsement of this justified attack on the world's tyrant; the United States of America.
hype blocks democracy and freedom and may be worst danger today (tags)
Those seriously interested in catching onto the games of unaccountable power need to understand what propaganda is. It is not "all communications" nor "all persuasion". Once you wade past the hype that grips thought control societies, you may finally see that there is good reason to why there is a negative connotation to the word, and how policy makers need to keep you, the stupid masses, on a "proper course" of topical non-understanding. Jaques Ellul, amongst others spoken of here, are MUST READS for anyone seeking to seriously understand the games played by those they've been taught to trust.
Propaganda: a game worth understanding for serious awareness (tags)
Those seriously interested in catching onto the games of unaccountable power need to understand what propaganda is. It is not "all communications" nor "all persuasion". Once you wade past the hype that grips thought control societies, you may finally see that there is good reason to why there is a negative connotation to the word, and how policy makers need to keep you, the stupid masses, on a "proper course" of topical non-understanding. Jaques Ellul, amongst others spoken of here, are MUST READS for anyone seeking to seriously understand the games played by those they've been taught to trust.
Propaganda: a game worth understanding for serious awareness (tags)
Those seriously interested in catching onto the games of unaccountable power need to understand what propaganda is. It is not "all communications" nor "all persuasion". Once you wade past the hype that grips thought control societies, you may finally see that there is good reason to why there is a negative connotation to the word, and how policy makers need to keep you, the stupid masses, on a "proper course" of topical non-understanding. Jaques Ellul, amongst others spoken of here, are MUST READS for anyone seeking to seriously understand the games played by those they've been taught to trust.
Communicating for Peace (tags)
Demonstrators & cops show that we as humans are stronger than corporate bullies.