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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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The history of climate change denial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial
is a bit more detailed;
In Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change (2010), Clive Hamilton describes a campaign to attack the science relating to climate change, originating with the astroturfing campaigns initiated by the tobacco industry in the 1990s. He documents the establishment of the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) as a 'fake front group' set up 'to link concerns about passive smoking with a range of other popular anxieties, including global warming'. The public relations strategy was to cast doubt on the science, characterizing it as junk science, and therefore to turn public opinion against any calls for government intervention based on the science.[17]
As one tobacco company memo noted: "Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the "body of fact" that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."[30] As the 1990s progressed ... TASSC began receiving donations from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its "junk science" website began to carry material attacking climate change science.
—Clive Hamilton, Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change
Naomi Oreskes, co-author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming,[14] describes how a small group of retired cold-war nuclear physicists, who through their weapons work had become well-connected, well-known and influential people, promoted the idea of 'doubt' in several areas of US public debate. According to Oreskes, they did this, "not for money, but in defense of an ideology of laissez-faire governance and opposition to government regulation". In 1984, Robert Jastrow, Frederick Seitz and William Nierenberg were instrumental in founding the George C. Marshall Institute, initially to defend Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) against other scientists' boycott of it. Oreskes said that this first campaign of the Institute's, from 1984 to 1989, involved demanding equal air-time in the media when mainstream physicists and engineers were critical of the SDI, and producing militarily alarmist material such as the article America has five years left, published in 1987 by Jastrow in the National Review. At the same time, Seitz was employed as a consultant to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. His principal strategy on their behalf, said Oreskes, was to defend their products by doubt-mongering, by insisting that the science was unsettled and therefore that it was always premature for the US government to act to control tobacco use.
After the Cold War ended, they continued through the Marshall Institute to campaign against environmental issues from acid rain, the ozone hole, second-hand smoke and the dangers of DDT on to a campaign against global warming. In each case their argument was the same: simply that the science was too uncertain to justify any government intervention in the market place. It is only recently, Oreskes said, that historians such as her have been able to 'join the dots': Individual environmental scientists, finding opposition to their warnings about ozone layer depletion or DDT residues, were at the time unaware that the same institute was using the same arguments at the same time against other scientists who were warning about the dangers of smoking, of second-hand smoke, and about climate change itself
OK CNu ....,
and?
What does this have to do with the pseudo-science-by-consensus of Anthropogenic Global Warming?
pseudo-science-by-consensus
did you just now ask me if I beat my wife often?
There are competing models, competing economic interests - whether light water nuclear fission - or - coal and oil in the eurozone.
Bottomline brah, it's precisely the type of memetic warfare you trumpet as the Darwinian sine qua non.
If these humans were smart and objectively self-aware and conscientious, light water reactors would've been passe in 1958, shortly after the successful proof of the liquid salt thorium reactor.
If these humans were objectively smart, self-aware, and humane, then the fossil fuel companies would've been on about carbon sequestration and coal gasification generations ago.
The corporate sponsored pseudo-denial of anthropogenic global warming is no less anti-science than whatever Margaret Thatcher instigated the Royal Society to do with targetted funding during her heyday.
In fact, given that she was over and done more than a generation ago, I think the burden of proof is in your court that her influence still counts in any meaningful way in the current political and scientific climate of consciousness...,
Ahhh. CNu.
OK. I see your mistake.
You assume the "corporations" are sponsoring the so-called Climate "Change" "Deniers".
lol
But let's look at that slowly bruh.
We agree that each of these opposing memes are sponsored.
WHO the corporations sponsor is the question.
MEME A
"Man is the cause of Global Warming"
SPONSORED
MEME B
"Man is not the cause of Global Warming"
SPONSORED
The meme that says 'Man is the cause of Global Warming' is fronted by Al 'Council of Foreign Relations' Gore, and supported by The United Nations, The United States government, The European Union, Hollywood and Wall Street.
Billions of dollars in grants have been awarded specifically for research that CONFIRMS the AGW theory. Blockbuster films have been distributed burning this meme into the minds of the masses. School children are taught this particular theory as if it is the gospel. The mainstream media characterizes opposition to this theory as "Denial".
This meme has muhney.
Not money. m u h n e y.
The meme that says 'Man is not the cause of Global Warming ' ... is fronted by Christopher Monckton and covered by a few bloggers on YouTube.
Now ... CNu
It is your contention that "the corporations" are backing which horse in this race?
...
...
If the corporations are fronting Monckton ...lol ... who is footing the bill for Al Gore, The UN and Hollywood?
Come on bruh.
Follow de money.
lol, stop playing dood.
I literally know these muhphuggahs and have known them since I was 12 years old.
There IS no money larger or more serious than what these cats bring to bear pursuant to their specific political agenda - your boy Ron Paul's - bought and paid for political agenda!
I ain't mad at'em. From their perspective, this shit is strictly business, and, they're smart, not mindlessly or inhumanly evil, and they've run the numbers on how long they can go balls-out and get away with it.
I respect that.
Face-to-face, one-on-one - I pulled a clandestine PROC agent out of their corporate network at their request in 2001 on the strength of personal relationship.
Do you know Mockton personally?
Or are you reading waaaaay too much into something you've read and letting your political views be unduly influenced by a much less than personal relationship?
Politics are personal you know?
There's a chance my first born will matriculate at Emory or Georgia Tech - making my politics far less principled and ideological, and far more personal.
Lord Monckton?
All that money?
That's the best they can come up wit?
CNu. If you agree both sides of this argument are sponsored ... what is your point?
Not sure what you are talking about.
Are you suggesting there exists science, not simply authority and consensus, but scientific argument that supports the case for anthropgenic global warming and a GLOBAL CARBON TAX?
Personally, I think the sun has more to do with the temperature of the earth than carbon emissions.
Secondly, what we going to do with all this money we take from the peasants in the form of carbon tax ... who we gonna PAY to cool the earth?
LOL.
(That's some funny shit aint it? Crackas got Negros paying them to cool the planet. lol)
OH!
Congrats on the admission to Emory and Georgia Tech.
But, if you don't mind, may I ask ... why?
Why send a son or daughter to college these days?
Aside from dated bourgeois notions of class ascension and the symbolic value of a college degree, what is real value of attending a brick and mortar institution?
Had this discussion with my aunt recently. She mortgaged the farm to send cuz through Georgetown.
Ten years later ...
Cuz would have been better off if moms had bought her a gas station.
But, if you don't mind, may I ask ... why?
Why send a son or daughter to college these days?
to safely and securely get high and trip balls with legacies and trustees chirrens - and in the process make lifelong friends.
Aside from dated bourgeois notions of class ascension and the symbolic value of a college degree, what is real value of attending a brick and mortar institution?
Safe and supervised access and exposure to a national and/or international scale social network that she would not otherwise access at home.
sheeeeeeiiiiittttt....,
lower/middle-tier schools like Emory and Georgia Tech will give her an academic free ride, but I think she wants to continue playing volleyball and doing her award winning painting, sculptures, and drawrings, either one of which is worth a free ride at all but the most professional-tier sports schools in the country.
lol, I'm encouraging serious consideration of the ATL because I have a much beloved brother and sister-in-law down there, not to mention Mr. and Mrs. Vesey who'd take a protective interest if for no other reason than to scrutinize a young Nu up close and personal - and - see if they could ween such a one off of expertly smoked beef and pork...,
Unless she's going to be an art historian or curator she does not really need to major in art. Take on another major but not art. As an elective, yes. Even if not an elective hanging out in the art department is cool. Obviously if she works with drawing/painting/sculpture, she already explores her personal influences. I personally believe the art world is somewhat seduced or enchanted with artists that journey from other professions outside of a traditional art education. It's enough that she's already passionate about it. Then there are the Yale babbies that get recruited in college. It's a weird dichotomy.
But Mark Bradford started out a hairdresser; Kojo Griffin's (who I like: www.miandn.com/#/exhibitions/2001_9_madison_kojo_griffin/) art is informed by his studies & work in child psychology. Beautiful work. If she has an affinity for the art world a good book that gets you in the convo would be Vitamin D (www.amazon.com/Vitamin-New-Perspectives-Drawing-Themes/dp/0714845450). Then there is also Vitamin P.
These books will definitely get her familiarized with contemporary art and the language, but more importantly other philosophies and approaches. You probably already know about the whole PBS: Art21 series. You can find that on Netflix but I'm sure she would appreciate it if you get her seasons 1-4. There's a lot more I could say but really there's no way to summon up everything.
Thank you GCV!!!
I emailed your comment to my daughter cause I'll be the very first to admit not knowing and not knowing what I don't know. I don't know a dayyum thing about art or the art world, I just know that my child gets much love from the arts people hereabouts and with Hallmark in KC and the KCAI - we have a pretty deep vein of local support for the arts, not to mention the big banking families who still fully exploit the 80's era bank capitalization loophole that permits banks to count their real estate and their art collections as part of their capitalization.
She plans to go into molecular and/or systems biology (genomics), but the prospect of an arts minor has great appeal because thats the medium by which her genius has found and expressed its voice, not only, but it's also her ticket into meaningful social and cultural access and exposure wherever she decides to spend the next several years.
With more and more projects like this; http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/
and this; http://fold.it/portal/
I believe that there is a degree of direct complementarity in her enthusiasms that I would not have envisioned just a few years ago.
No prob, if she is gaining momentum at this age that's beautiful.
I think that's a plan. fulfilling her other interests and taking fine arts as a minor. The art world works on the same frequencies as the entertainment industry. So having another source that sustains your world is cool. Galleries are cut throat. And especially in the NYC a friend of mine said you walk with a business card in one hand and a shank in the other.
The direction you all are pursuing works for both parties. Especially support she's getting from home. It fulfills that passion and desire that's in her youth which is of coarse the time to parlay both worlds. And it works out for concerned parents. Everybody wins.
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