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09/01/2011 13:07

 

Doublethink, Cognitive Dissonance and Peace Mythology
“trained, willful intellectual blindness to contradictions in a belief system. Doublethink differs from ordinary hypocrisy in that the ‘doublethinking’ person deliberately...forgets the contradiction between his two opposing beliefs—and then deliberately forgets that he has forgotten the contradiction…. Orwell describes it as ‘controlled insanity.’ 
https://coat.ncf.ca/P4C/65/53.pdf


Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs, often in distinct social contexts. It is related to, but distinct from, hypocrisy and neutrality. Its opposite is cognitive dissonance, where the two beliefs cause conflict in one's mind. Think 'magic bullet' & 9-11 ;) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

 If the spectacle of the world doesn't amuse us anymore it is because we are part of the cast...

OUR MASTER'S 2011 RESOLUTION ;)


Just as social security & pretty much everything else... 
They want it & they'll get it. Meanwhile pass over your soul mofo ! 


"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself" - Joseph Pulitzer




Executive Resume
George Carlin ~ The American Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q&feature=relat

‘THE LEFT HAS NOWHERE TO GO’


“The more outrageous the Republicans become, the weaker the left becomes.” Nader fears a repeat of the left’s cowardice in the next election, a cowardice that has further empowered the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, maintained the role of the Democratic Party as a lackey for corporations, and accelerated the reconfiguration of the country into a neo-feudalist state. https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_left_has_nowhere_to_go_20110102/

Back to where we never left !
HIGHEST BIDDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmhL8bjL9vc

 



Tweeting Away the Time by Ralph Nader
https://www.nader.org/index.php?%2Farchives%2F2237-Tweeting-Away-the-Time.html

THE PHANTOM LEFT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtG6NTroL78

"How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been 200 years at it. It's superb." - Gore Vidal

UNCLE BOM : A MORE EFFECTIVE IMPERIAL CEO 
https://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content%2Fbarack-obama-more-effective-imperi...

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind" - George Orwell

"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same." - George Orwell, 1984 

Meanwhile…
US Killed 2,043 People, Mostly Civilians, in Pakistan 
https://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-116913.html


Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,421,933" 
https://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq


Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,750


Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,130,639,659,111 ...and counting !
https://costofwar.com/en/

 

Big O's rap sheet...

- Started a military offensive in Yemen
- Escalated the war in Afghanistan
- Did a TV commercial promoting "clean coal"
- Increased drone attacks in Pakistan
- Sent ships and missiles to the waters near Iran
- Increased arms sales to Persian Gulf nations
- Continued the occupation of Iraq, in spite of saying otherwise
- Signed agreement for 7 military bases in Colombia

- Secretly deployed US special forces to 75 countries
- Promoted offshore drilling, saying it is "not risky"
- Defended body scans and pat-downs at airports
- Continued Bush's rendition program

https://stpeteforpeace.org/obama.html



“The left has nowhere to go,” Nader said. “Obama knows it. The corporate Democrats know it. There will be criticism by the left of Obama this year and then next year they will all close ranks and say ‘Do you want Mitt Romney? Do you want Sarah Palin? Do you want Newt Gingrich?’ It’s very predictable. There will be a year of criticism and then it will all be muted. They don’t understand that even if they do not have any place to go, they ought to fake it. They should fake going somewhere else or staying home to increase the receptivity to their demands. But because they do not make any demands, they are complicit with corporate power.

“Corporate power makes demands all the time,” Nader went on. “It pulls on the Democrats and the Republicans in one direction. By having this nowhere-to-go mentality and without insisting on demands as the price of your vote, or energy to get out the vote, they have reduced themselves to a cipher. They vote. The vote totals up. But it means nothing.”

The closure of the mechanisms within the power system that once made democratic reform possible means we stand together as the last thin line of defense between a civil society and its disintegration. If we do not engage in open acts of defiance, we will empower a radical right-wing opposition that will replicate the violence and paranoia of the state. To refuse to defy in every way possible the corporate state is to be complicit in our strangulation.

 

Make a New Year's resolution to challenge corporatist right-wing and one-sided media coverage.The timidity and silencing of the left fuels the steady impoverishment of a dispossessed working class and a beleaguered middle class. It solidifies a corporate oligarchy that is dismantling the anemic regulatory agencies that once protected citizens from predatory corporations.

Don't let media outlets overlook reporting on the work of progressives. Write your own letters to the editors of your local newspapers and national newspapers. Write opeds about topics you think the editorial writers are missing. Challenge one-sided news coverage.

 



"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." - Ian Williams Goddard


"At what point do imbalances in access to money, media, and society’s administrative apparatuses constitute the censorship of dissent?" - Harvard Anthropology Prof Lorand Matory

 

HAVE A GREAT 21th OR 12th CENTURY ;)
Induced obscurantism taking over from all sides...


BOYCOTT YOUR ALIENATION !
Think For Yourself Question Authority 

It is a matter of self defense & dignity !


'We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog, interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

ASK & TELL : DON'T GO, DON'T KILL !



A rarely seen point of view : 'Gayning' the right to openly massacre defenseless women & children the world over is nothing to brag about...
https://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2010/12/2010122314043803810.html


WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST IN LINE OF ANY WAR
https://www.questionwar.com/children.html


Most Victims are ChildrenAs wars have developed in the twentieth century, the ratio of civilian deaths to military deaths has changed radically. One hundred years ago 5% of war casualties were civilians. In World War I civilian deaths were about 10%. In World War II, 65%. Tactics of modern wars have shifted casualties to 90% civilians. More than half of these civilian casualties are children less than 14 years of age. 
https://www.nomorevictims.org/

 

THE UNITED STATES OF WAR CRIMINALS


"People from poorer places and poorer countries have to call upon their compassion not to be angry with ordinary people in America." – Arundhati Roy


Roughly one million tax dollars per minute are spent to fund the largest military machine (read: global terrorist operation) the world has ever known. What do we get for all that money? To follow, is but one tiny example that mostly slipped through the cracks earlier this year.

On July 23, 2010, Tom Eley at Global Research wrote: “According to the authors of a new study, ‘Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,’ the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual mutations than those recorded among survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the years after those Japanese cities were incinerated by US atomic bomb strikes in 1945.”

For those unfamiliar with the US attacks on Fallujah, first of all: You should be fuckin’ ashamed of yourselves. Secondly, here’s Patrick Cockburn’s basic description: US Marines first besieged and bombarded Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, in April 2004 after four employees of the American security company Blackwater were killed and their bodies burned. After an eight-month stand-off, the Marines stormed the city in November using artillery and aerial bombing against rebel positions. US forces later admitted that they had employed white phosphorus as well as other munitions. In the assault US commanders largely treated Fallujah as a free-fire zone to try to reduce casualties among their own troops. British officers were appalled by the lack of concern for civilian casualties.

Of crucial importance is this: A high proportion of the weaponry used by the US in the assault contained depleted uranium (DU).

https://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/green-glossary-depleted-uranium.html

And you and I paid for it all.

The United States of War Criminals By Mickey Z.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27084.htm

 

• Now that you know these facts (and they are just the tiniest proverbial tip of a massive proverbial iceberg), how do you feel and what are you going to do about it?
• Is it time you stop buying military video games, hanging yellow ribbons, and allowing our hard-earned money to finance mass murder?
• Can enjoy “the holidays” while women in Fallujah are petrified to have children?
• Are you still able to insulate yourself with all those cute puppy videos on YouTube?
• Are you ready to stop believing there’s a difference between the two wings of the same corporate/military party and start accepting that they’re all accessories to heinous crimes?
• Will you still “support” the volunteer mercenaries as “heroes” or will you recognize them as willing—and paid—accomplices to war crimes?
• Are you okay with 85.1% of US wealth being owned by the top 20% while 53.3% of your tax dollars subsidize atrocities, torture, oppression, occupation, and the literal destruction of the planet’s eco-system?
• What is your threshold? Which taxpayer-funded horror story is the one that will finally make you scream “enough”?
• When you’ve screamed “enough,” what can/will you do and how soon will you start doing it?
You don’t have to tell me your answers. I’m a co-conspirator just like you.

Save your answers for the children of Fallujah.

I’m sure they’re wondering why the fuck we all choose to remain silent and inactive.

 

 

Allan Nairn: As U.S. Loses Its Global Economic Edge, Its "One Clear Comparative Advantage is in Killing, and It’s Using It"
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/29/allan_nairn_as_us_loses_its

 

White House, Pentagon, State Department, FBI, CIA, etc. may have differences of style, but all of them have the same and well defined and known objective: the defense of the economic and geopolitical interests of its Global Elite. It is not a matter of a president: fat, skinny, dumb or bright, black or white. It is a matter of a system. The capitalist system in its higher level: Imperialism.


ALLAN INSPIRED THESE DUO-POLE CLASSICS IN MARCH 2008 ;)


OBAMA & HILLARY'S KILLING FLOOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLxSleuec


GOP'S KILLING FLOOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4QKfDdJ3ns&feature=related

 

 MANUFACTURING CONSENT BROUGHT TO YOU BY HOLLYWOOD
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."-Edward Bernays, Propaganda

 

 MICHAEL MOORE, OLIVER STONE & HEDGES ABOUT WAR & MOVIES !

 

INFO+
OPERATION HOLLYWOOD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QYZBMIBOck&feature=related

 

2011: A BRAVE NEW DYSTOPIA


The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. It turns out Orwell and Huxley were both right. Huxley saw the first stage of our enslavement. Orwell saw the second.
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/2011_a_brave_new_dystopia_20101227/

''Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where no one wanted to read books. Orwell warned of a state of permanent war and fear. Huxley warned of a culture diverted by mindless pleasure. Orwell warned of a state where every conversation and thought was monitored and dissent was brutally punished. Huxley warned of a state where a population, preoccupied by trivia and gossip, no longer cared about truth or information. Orwell saw us frightened into submission. Huxley saw us seduced into submission. But Huxley, we are discovering, was merely the prelude to Orwell. Huxley understood the process by which we would be complicit in our own enslavement. Orwell understood the enslavement. Now that the corporate coup is over, we stand naked and defenseless.''