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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Top 10 Signs You Live in a Fascist Country

Mr. President that's not the change you promised.


1. A hardcore, totalitarian party(s) masquerading as the people's party, but secretly working totally with the rich and powerful corporations, uniting them under the party. Fascism, unlike communism and other forms of socialism and so on, is above all a corporatist form of totalitarianism. Example: Karl Rove and Mike Rogers, two conservative Republicans coming to Democratic President Obama's defense regarding unconstitutional mass surveillance by the NSA.

2. Stroking mass vanity with big lies and mass greed and lust for power with utopian promises of free money and endless prosperity and great conquests over nature and nations. Example: "America is the greatest nation in the world at everything" or "America is the one indispensable country", clearly neither is remotely true now or ever.

3. Infiltration secretly by the party of all major institutions at the top by secret take-overs, threats, bribes,  etc. Example: ALEC and Citizens United court decision.

4. Secret media content control in many ways by the ruler[s]. Example: Mainstream media failed to come out against Bush lies about WMD's and failed to hold Obama accountable for his war on whistle blowers and the journalists they worked with.

5. Imperial powers, party powers, the ruler principle. Example: The Unitary Presidency.

6. Massive, powerful secret police under direct control of the ruler[s], spying, black ops. Example: NSA, Booze Allen and Hamilton, HBGary, etc.

7. Secretly taking over the traditional laws and institutions, hollowing them out and refilling the empty forms with fascist ideology. Example: Dodd Frank financial reform heralded as sweeping reform while secretly it is weakened by rubber stamp regulators and now rules to enforce it.

8. Filling the government secretly with party hacks and puppets from top to bottom. Example: The revolving door at virtually every government dept and the industry they work with or regulate.

9. Politically correct education and mass-mind training from early age [pre-school onward]. Example: NSA program to teach coding and hacking called CryptoKids.

10. Foreigners, racial or religious or party groups or others used as "evil and immoral" to stoke terror and blood lust for wars, used as threats and as conquests to fuel vanity and hubris. Example: President Obama telling the American public you can't be safe from terrorists unless you give up your rights or President Bush claiming Muslims hate American freedom.


Monday, June 17, 2013

Solar System Wallpapers, Enjoy!

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If the NSA Isn't Doing Anything Wrong then....

It's Dangerous to tell the Truth, when the Government is telling Lies.

It's Dangerous to tell the Truth, 

when the Government is telling Lies.

Brave New World: Divide, Distract, and Decieve

Brave New World tenets.


What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumble puppy.

As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.

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