In a society where truth becomes treason...we are in big trouble. The truth is that our foreign spying, meddling and outright military intervention in the post-World War 2 era has made us less secure, not more, and we have lost countless lives and spent trillions of dollars for our trouble. Too often it’s the official government lies that have given us endless and illegal wars resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and casualties.
Friday, December 24, 2010
A Christian South Korean Christmas Greeting To Atheist North Korea
If war between South Korea & North Korea breaks out soon, you will seen footage from this Live War Rehearsal passed off in the mainstream media as footage from the actual conflict.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
A radical experiment in social chaos is about to be unleashed on the UK. Basically, the government has run out of money and they have try something, anything :
At the heart of this revolution is the idea that power shifts from the centre to the local level.
The chaotic world that Boles envisages is one in which different organisations set up in different areas, trying out different things; a mass experiment in which local people discover and pursue what they know works best. But critics fear that coalition "chaos" will be destructive, not creative.
Coalition ministers, en masse, have signed up to the revolution. They are acutely aware that Tony Blair feels he wasted his first term in power and are setting a scorching pace to avoid the same mistake. They want to transform profoundly the way the country is run by cascading power and responsibility down, wherever possible, from central to local level. It is the idea that they believe connects almost everything they do, and gives their administration a defining purpose. Power to the people – and away from the state.
Established bureaucracies and national structures – seen by the coalition as inefficient leftovers of Labour's "one-size-fits-all state" – are being swept away.
Sounds like the government might be looking for someone else to blame for what's to come.
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More than 1 in 5 Europeans are unemployed. That's an enormous number of bored, pissed off people who may soon be marching in the streets of all European capitals as Austerity 2011 continues to siphon money from the poorest to protecting the assets and wealth of the richest.
Protests are turning into daily events across much of England and Europe, many are peaceful, and protesters often are applauded and even joined by passers-by.
But why have Americans, outside of a few Tea Party events, been so slow to protest the relocation of their national wealth into the pockets of that nation's richest 2%?
Are they drugging the water supply?
Or Americans too hypnotised by a daily overloaded buffet of cable entertainment, sports & celebrity trivia?
What will it take before millions of Americans shut down their cities and disrupt the workings of their by now all too obviously corrupt political system?
So far, there has been little street activism in the United States. Perhaps it is because of the Christmas shopping season, the inundation of entertainment shows and sporting events or just so little oppositional leadership, especially among Democrats unwilling to challenge a Democratic President who has just negotiated a compromise deal with Republican tax cutters.
Only one Senator, Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont had the guts to take on Barack Obama in an eight hour and 37 minute near filibuster speech that drove up the ratings of CSPAN, the congressional TV channel.
David Seth Michaels, a political blogger, commented that: "it was the most important political speech - by far - of the past two years. Seldom, if ever, has anyone seized the spotlight to discuss and examine so thoroughly the plundering of the nation by its wealthiest citizens."
But his supporters did not pour into the streets, at least not yet.
When they do speak out, many prefer sending emails or organising Facebook pages. Where is the outrage and sense of solidarity or militancy? The unions are quiescent, the polls seem incapable of inspiring anyone. Has this generation been seduced by their Ipads and emails? Has everyone forgotten that call to get involved?
'(Electronic objects of leisure) like the laptop computer, are ubiquitous today, will help create a different human being.
"'The memory card (ID card) will become the principal artificial limb of a person, at once an identity card, a checkbook, a telephone, and a fax machine--in sum, nomadic man's passport. It will be a kind of artificial self.
"To use it will only require plugging it into the global electronic networks of information and commerce, the oases of the new nomads.
"Middle-level nomads will stay in places that are impersonal, like the hotels that today ring airports throughout the world. Only the most fortunate rich nomads will have the means to become property owners in the large cities, which will be the magnetic poles for their brethren from all areas and regions of the globe.
"Cities will be fortified, dangerous places, the tangled heart of electronic networks, a cabled field of dreams."
A tense, compelling video from the heart of the recent London anti-austerity protest, otherwise known as DayX3 :
Notice at about 1:50 a police paramedic, with a green cross on his should, can be seen also wielding a baton.
The UK government, and London police, are so terrified at how these protests will escalate, particularly after the storm of controversy over police beating one student until he needed brain surgery, and the police violence inflicted on a severely disabled man in a wheelchair, that the push is on to ban protests in London completely.
The incredible outbreak of urban warfare in Greece, below, is exactly what British authorities fear they will soon have to face on the streets of London :
Meanwhile in Rome....
2011 : A World Of Chaos
Axis Of The Evil Dead
How would NeoCons deal with the outbreak of a zombie uprising? Daniel W. Drezner at Foreign Policy takes a closer look :
The neoconservative policy response to an undead uprising would be simple and direct. To paraphrase Robert Kagan, humans are from Earth, and zombies are from hell. Neither accommodation nor recognition would be sustainable options in the face of the zombie threat. Instead, neocons would recommend an aggressive and militarized response to ensure human hegemony. Rather than wait for the ghouls to come to them, they would pursue offensive policy options that take the fight to the undead. A pre-emptive strike against zombies would, surely, be a war against evil itself.
It is to neoconservatism's credit that this doctrine is consistent with extant work on how best to respond to the zombie menace. Indeed, one recent simulation by researchers at Canada's Carleton University and the University of Ottawa offered just such a finding: "An outbreak of zombies infecting humans is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely aggressive tactics are employed against the undead.… [A] zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the collapse of civilization, unless it is dealt with quickly."
However, other elements of neoconservatism might undercut the long-term viability of proponents' initial policy pronouncements. For example, neoconservatives frequently assume that all adversaries are part of a single axis or alliance of evil enemies. To be sure, that assumption works when confined to zombies, but it is unlikely that neoconservatives would stop there. They would inevitably lump reanimated corpses with other human threats as part of a bigger World War III against authoritarian despots and zombies -- an "Axis of Evil Dead." This would sabotage any attempt at broad-based coalition warfare, hindering military effectiveness in a Global War on Zombies (GWOZ).
You don't need to know too much background to get the full horror of what this BBCNews host is doing to a young man with cerebral palsy, who is unable to operate his wheelchair independently, simply because he dared to turn up at a recent student protest in London :
The blood-chillingly unemphatic journalist actually asks a severely disabled man if he was hurling chunks of concrete at police, and asks him again even after Jody says he can't operate his wheelchair without the help of his brother.
Note the way interference or the host manage to cut off Jody every time he starts making valid, vital points about the police brutality inflicted on him and hundreds of other students in the streets of London, some students beaten by police, and charged with horses, were as young as 12 years old.
Note also the way the BBCNews host tries to get Jody to admit on air to things that may prejudice his official complaint later on.
Scary fucking stuff.
Jody is becoming a hero of the what's called the UKUncut student movement, who are opposing massive cuts to education and public services to protect the wealth of England's richest, and for good reason. He has a lot of powerful things to say.
But after that interview, and the powerful reaction from the thousands who found it through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and began complaining to the BBC, you probably won't be seeing Jody back on BBCNews anytime soon.
They don't like 'student leaders' or 'revolutionaries' to be quite so articulate, and in control of what they're saying.
England under austerity is a powderkeg, and when the public sees police are prepared to assault even people in wheelchairs, well, everything changes.
