Saturday, January 09, 2010
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"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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7 comments:
Great song!
Damn! Marvin Gaye was BEAUTIFUL. Look @ his skin glowing, straight white teeth & soft-looking hair....and all those beautiful black people in the audience. Amazing! The fork as a weapon against Black people was not quite as prominent as it is today.
The video footage of the people in the streets reminds me of happier times, growing up in the midwest. Thanx for posting, DV.
Picket lines
and picket signs
Don't punish me
with brutality
- Marvin Gaye
[President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to. – H.R. Haldeman
How bleak the world must have been for those with political and economic power during the late sixties and early seventies. Order seemed to be unraveling: massive anti-war protests on the Mall; a war effort bogged down and hemorrhaging in the mud of Southeast Asia; economic stagnation and declining profit rates; and, in the cities, skyrocketing crime coupled with some of the most violent riots since the Civil War.
The crisis had two primary fault lines: race and the war. The civil rights movement had radicalized and transmogrified into more militant, nationalist, and explicitly anti-capitalists forms. The Panthers – Black Marxists and fully armed – stormed the California state capitol. In Newark, Watts, and Chicago, Black People shot back at cops and National Guardsmen; in Detroit, African American snipers were joined by transplanted urban “hillbillies.” In New Mexico, armed Chicanos fired on a county court house, trying to kill the sheriff. Chants of “Black Power,” and “Red Power” rose from all quarters. Gay men, routinely pilloried as “sissies,” were knocking out cops during the pitched battles following a police raid on the Stonewall bar in New York City. Meanwhile, women burnt bras and, more importantly, filed suits, protested against discrimination, and won the right to reproductive choice. Not even the US army could be trusted. In January 1968 the American embassy in Saigon came under direct attack. With that the Wall Street Journal called the war doomed; gung-ho officers in the field started getting “fragged” with terrifying regularity, as drug addiction, madness, and open insubordination became the norm among Gis. (In 1970, the military, which suppress news of rebellion in the ranks, gave a official “fragging count” of 363 for that year alone.)
Back in the belly of the beast, the Weather Underground was – as Che put it, “wagging the most important struggle of all” – bombing the Pentagon, Congress, IBM, police stations, the headquarters of the New York Department of Corrections, and scores of other targets. By the early seventies a version of this same breakdown had metastasized to the shop floor. Sabotage, drug abuse, and wildcat strikes began biting into Fordist production regimes; costs began to rise as quality and profits slumped. It was not just alienated and pampered white youth who were “dropping out.” America’s whole social fabric seemed to be coming apart. Every structure of authority and obedience was breaking down. Though garnished with youthful nudity and flowers, the crisis of the late sixties and early seventies was more serious than is often acknowledged; the country was in the midst of a haphazard but deadly social revolution.
-Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
Cesar! Big Ups
Stylistic MF. That's one hell of an astute point.
Black people before the War of The Fork.
Deep.
That's good posting Gee-Chee.
Right on time. Welcome to the spot.
Just watched a biography on Marvin Gaye on the American Masters series on PBS. Dude was a troubled man, but he clearly had a gift.
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