"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
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Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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15 comments:
I like apple and all but not sure what sort of market Steve Jobs is trying to fill with this one. It's just a bigger screen iphone without all the functionalities. If you already own the phone and a macbook, I don't see the advantage. Unless of course you just want something new, cool & hip and you got the money to waste.
You missed the point NEA.
Here is the point:
http://lhote.blogspot.com/2010/01/apple-advantage-is-class-signalling-and.html
Nah, that dude in the link misses the point.
I've always thought of Apple products as creative and innovative rather than as markers of status and class.
The consumer masses with pockets deep enough see the Apple tablet as a work of creative genius and way ahead of the game bec Apple's succesfully designed and marketed it's product as such.
Anon, what is the point?
Brilliant brand marketing that has the masses line up to purchase every new product whether they need it or even can afford it or not. You wouldn't know there was a deep recession if just walking by an apple store. I think for a second there I forgot where I lived. I'm sure they will sell like crazy.
I'm practical with my shit and that's foolishness in my opinion. Looking past all the hype and hysteria, I can't see too many who actually need this. But like I said if you got the money and you've just got to have the next cool thing, hey why the hell not.
Actually, the dude in the link makes one hell of a point. Not sure if that's the point Vesey wanted to make.
I'll take a guess...mmm... How much thinner can computers get?
Not so far until we use the internet with our own minds.
Too sci-fi?
Close Denmark Vesey?
Big Man - was that link talking about the iPad or was it talking about our friend Denmark Vesey?
{is this post even about the iPad or is it instead about our host's essential ouevre?}
^^
Lips Poked Out
Lips Poked Out
Lookin' Like A Fool With Your Lips Poked Out!
lol,
take it easy greasy...,
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.
KonWomyn said...
"Nah, that dude in the link misses the point. I've always thought of Apple products as creative and innovative rather than as markers of status and class."
Kaaaaaay Duuuuuub ...
I'm wit ya on this one.
I thought the piece wasn't just poorly written ... it was an ol' punk ass hater, conformist, "Everybody should have the same", "2,000 Watt Per Day", Jealous, Compulsory Peasant meme.
I don't trust cats worried about what other people have.
Any notions of "class" associated with Apple are clearly projections.
Apple is money. Money is not class. Clearly.
Apple is aesthetically pleasing. Anything you are going to use and interact with for hours on end, be it a computer, a pistol or a woman ... should be aesthetically pleasing.
Apple is bone china. PC's are styrofoam cups. They both hold coffee. One costs more than the other, yet the value transcends function.
I've been on Mac since 1988.
I've actually never used a PC.
Not even sure how to turn them on. (Start / file / dos / fx / C Drive / bullshit).
I like the way Macs look. Handsome. That stainless steel case and those sharp lines feel good in my hands. Remind me of my car. My Glock. My Omega watch.
All together I must own 7 or 8 Macs, 2 or 3 iPhones and countless iPods which I never really got into except on airplanes.
As a matter of fact I'm about to order an iMac for my Pops. He's been writing lately and his old iBook has seen better days.
iPad? I don't really need it. Looks fragile. It wouldn't last long around my sons, who would find some reason to sit on it.
Between my wife and me, there are always about a dozen books strewn around the bed. Little dog eared pages and kids bookmarks sticking out of them. Couple of iPads on the night stand? Clear up some clutter.
Who knows? Maybe the book, is old technology, like 8 tracks, and electronic tablets will make 420 page paper novels impractical.
Choosing between the Kindle and the iPad wouldn't be very difficult.
rotflmbao
357 words worth of Big Man bulls-eye?
really?!?!?!
you.may.be.tryin.too.hard
Hello I'm a Mack
& I'm A Sci-Ferd Nerd
lol
Calm down CNu.
You only about 120 watts left for the day.
Apple is aesthetically pleasing. Anything you are going to use and interact with for hours on end, be it a computer, a pistol or a woman ... should be aesthetically pleasing.
dv you are a trip!
Apple strikes again!
"Choosing between the Kindle and the iPad wouldn't be very difficult."
I agree.
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