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[Bruce Dazzling]

Arthur Silber:

I have a campaign slogan that I offer to Obama 2012 completely free of charge. Yes, I'm that generous. Here you go:

"Reelect Obama! He's more evil and shittier than Bush -- because he's not crazy!"

[jam.fuse]

Got a feeling someone's watching me
From the supermarket store playing hide and seek
Hanging on the ceiling and they never sleep
Everywhere I go I see this silver machine

1980's a brand new age
Anonymous people going nowhere
Being recorded by machines in the air

Closed circuit TV

Is the future going to be a nightmare?
Everywhere you go they're always there
Watching, listening to every word
The past was an omen now the future's a curse

1980's a brand new age
There's no such thing as a private life
They watch you in the crib
Now they're going to watch you die

Closed circuit TV

It's a brand new age


UK Subs 1980

[Laodicean]

With any legitimate trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning still being at an unspecified date in the future, it would seem that what is presently on trial here is Western culture itself. When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

There is no third option. Bradley Manning and others like him everywhere are vital to our continued moral health and well-being as a people, and unless we offer them our full support in their often dire and isolated circumstances, it is we, as a people, who will end up the losers.

- Alan Moore

[Jeff]

Thus is happens, and more frequently than people think, that true things are not accepted, or only with great difficulty, by the collective awareness. What could we have a problem believing today? Here's one: the global oligarchy wants to get rid of democracy and the civil rights and public liberties that constitute its substance.

[MacCruiskeen]

In reply to someone who was praising the Guinness family for having done so much for the poor people of Dublin:

“It’s nothing compared to what the poor people of Dublin have done for the Guinness family.”

(via Albert Meltzer)

[MacCruiskeen]

"One of the few genuinely funny bits of research in recent years was Liam Hudson’s correlation of the social origin of British doctors with the parts of the body on which they later specialised. What he discovered was a statistically valid correlation between social background and U and non-U specialisms. Those from English public schools showed a significant tendency to specialise in work on the head as opposed to the body below the waist, the surface of the body as opposed to its innards, the living body as opposed to the dead body and the male body as opposed to the female body. This fact bore little relation to professional status - it goes deeper than that; into subconscious perceptions of cleanliness and dirtiness. (Clearly, the boardroom is the head and the factory the bowels of British industry.) Of course all doctors belong on the clean side vis-a-vis industry, but some are cleaner than others; they have their own aristocracy."

- Alistair Mant: "The Rise And Fall Of The British Manager"

[Laodicean]

Planck discovered that physical action could not take on any indiscriminate value. Instead, the action must be some multiple of a very small quantity (later to be named the "quantum of action" and now called Planck's constant). This inherent granularity is counterintuitive in the everyday world, where it is possible to "make things a little bit hotter" or "move things a little bit faster". This is because the quanta of action are very, very small in comparison to everyday human experience. Thus, on the macro scale quantum mechanics and classical physics converge. Nevertheless, it is impossible, as Planck found out, to explain some phenomena without accepting that action is quantized. In many cases, such as for monochromatic light or for atoms, the quantum of action also implies that only certain energy levels are allowed, and values in between forbidden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant

[Allegro]

...Divine intervention has never yet stopped a system of unjust power across the entire [sweep] of human history. As a political strategy, it is a complete failure, and we really need to get over this one. This is not in any way to dismiss the role of spirituality in a resistance movement. Spirituality is so often the core of any culture, and it is often a kind of cradle for a resistance movement... [REFER THIRD VIDEO.]

[The Consul]

“Economists enamored of pure markets begin with the theory, and hang models on assumptions that cannot themselves be challenged. The characteristic grammatical usage is an unusual subjunctive — the verb form ‘must be.’ For example, if wages for manual workers are declining, it must be that their economic value is declining. If a corporate raider walks away from a deal with half a billion dollars, it must be that he added that much value to the economy. If Japan can produce better autos than Detroit, there must be some inherent locational logic, else the market would not dictate that result. If commercial advertising leads consumers to buy shoddy or harmful products, they must be ‘maximizing their utility’ — because we know by assumption that consumers always maximize their utility. How do we know that? Because to do anything else would be irrational. And how do we know that individuals always behave rationally? Because that is the premise from which we begin. The truly interesting institutional questions — the disjunctures between what free-market assumptions would predict and the actual outcomes — are dismissed by the tautological and deductive form of reasoning. The fact that the real world is already far from a perfect market is ignored for the sake of theoretic convenience. The dissenter cannot challenge the theory; he can only describe the real world.”

— Robert Kuttner, EVERYTHING FOR SALE

[Gouda]

"I've never seen so much real-world stuff happen during an exercise."

~ Major James Fox, leader of the Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) weapons team, on the morning of 9/11.

[Jeff]

The normal functioning of the world serves to hide our state of truly catastrophic dispossession. What is called "catastrophe" is no more than the forced suspension of this state, one of those rare moments when we regain some sort of presence in the world. Let the petroleum reserves run out earlier than expected; let the international flows that regulate the tempo of the metropolis be interrupted; let us suffer some great social disruption and some great "return to savagery of the population," a "planetary threat," the "end of civilization!" Whatever. Any loss of control would be preferable to all the crisis management scenarios they envision. When this comes, the specialists in sustainable development won't be the ones with the best advice. It's within the malfunction and short-circuits of the system that we find the elements of a response whose logic would be to abolish the problems themselves.

- The Coming Insurrection

[Jeff]

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

[jingofever]

Would Cain be a better black president than Obama?

--Laurence Vance

[Gouda]

We don’t want to kill anybody. What we want is to take away their power to kill.

We want the lords of death to cease to govern over our land. And the first step to cease their governance is to not obey them. That’s why we are in resistance and we are in agreement with the path of nonviolent civil disobedience that this caravan has made its banner.

~ Las Abejas of Acteal, Chiapas, Receive the Caravan of Peace

By Mariano Pérez Vázquez, Juan Vázquez Luna, José Ramón Vásquez Entzin, Victorio Pérez Paciencia and Mariano Pérez Sántiz
Las Abejas (a civil society organization)

September 16, 2011

[semper occultus]

"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three..."