The Political, Aspie Fangirl: Have we slowly slipped into an era of Newspeak? →

abaldwin360:

This morning I came across this post on reddit and had to post it here because this is actually something I have been thinking about for the last few days.

It seems any more people throw around a lot of words that they have no idea as to the actual meaning of. It seems the…

Now consider cctv, drones, constant monitoring BY our phones & devices. Update the Facebook page to reflect every personal event. Send your kids to schools that require regurgitation and testing but dissuade or punish individuality, dissent, and critical thinking. Our actual history has been made into warm fuzzy anecdotes that make no mention or gloss over a globe of slavery and slaughter. We have made heroes out of those who can exude the most destructive, bombastic, and meanest tendencies.

Now, reread 1984, ANIMAL FARM, BRAVE NEW WORLD, & A HANDMAID’S TALE.

If you ever wondered how the rise of the Nazi party happened.

Now rewatch PINK FLOYD’S THE WALL.

Did you say THAT could never, would never happen? We wouldn’t let it.

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New Clean Energy Source Found. It's Greenhouse Gases →

I shit you not. We can now do an about face on global warming. If we act on this information ASAP, we won’t end up in BarterTown, battling in the Thunderdome. Two men enter, but the planet is dead anyway. Who the fuck cares there’s a little person riding a man meat beef giant.

Instead, we must shout this from mountain tops, laptops, and during lap dances. I mean, spread the message via binary as well as analog. Because if we do not saturate the populace of planet earth with this discovery and its implication, every greedy son of a Romney that makes Money off of greenhouse gassing US to death will kill off the discovery.

They will lie. They will cover it. They will lobby. They have infinite amounts of money and power to ensure their continued control.

BTW, this discovery comes from the masses and NOT the classes. Ask yourself, what do the 1% DO for the planet or humanity?

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http://www.alternet.org/story/155432/colonized_by_corporations?page=3 →

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong,” Fanon wrote in “Black Skin, White Masks.” “When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.”

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/2012416102253184145.html →

Business as usual clearly does not work. The status quo has brought US to a point of eminent collapse. Whether it is the rich feasting on the poor and ensuring financial ruin of the majority of citizens while the wealthiest among US engage in reverse Robinhood, or the rape and murder if the environment in which all life relies on, we have come to an empass. Fear often holds US back from the necessary change that we must have in order for self preservation. However, there is hope. All we have to do is look up from our current misery and watch other places around the world who are in the process of healing themselves and learn from them. The Pirate Party in Germany is helping to lead the way. We are not doomed to the fate of a modern day burning Rome. All we have to do is have the will and vision to change what is wrong and course correct. We do that or we all perish in a hell of our own making.

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War on Women →

For those who still believe there is no war on women, here’s a rundown. The people who never knew a time before birth control, choice, and the plight of 51% of the population to have autonomy and equality may be unable to appreciate what is truly at risk. Some are under the spell of a false history. One created by the few who are served best by the myth of a simpler and benevolent past. The history without back alley abortion, and life as either as pet or servant and father knew best. This history never really existed.

So keep chanting slut and of pre born rights but understand if you do it is because you are easily manipulated. You can not see past your own ignorance of the past, inability to understand the present, and you will be a slave in the future.

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How the #US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses #ICRR →

anonymissexpress:

Naomi Wolf, 5 April 2012, via @MClarissa

Bagram airbase was used by the US to detain its ‘high-value’ targets during the ‘war on terror’ and is still Afghanistan’s main military prison. Photograph: Dar Yasin/AP

The discussion continues today at 12pm ET (5pm UK time) when Naomi Wolf takes your questions about her column. Join us for an hour long live chat about the supreme court, strip searches and sexual humiliation.

In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws: the NDAA, which lets anyone be arrested forever at any time, and HR 347, the “trespass bill”, which gives you a 10-year sentence for protesting anywhere near someone with secret service protection. These criminalizations of being human follow, of course, the mini-uprising of the Occupy movement.

Is American strip-searching benign? The man who had brought the initial suit, Albert Florence, described having been told to “turn around. Squat and cough. Spread your cheeks.” He said he felt humiliated: “It made me feel like less of a man.”

In surreal reasoning, justice Anthony Kennedy explained that this ruling is necessary because the 9/11 bomber could have been stopped for speeding. How would strip searching him have prevented the attack? Did justice Kennedy imagine that plans to blow up the twin towers had been concealed in a body cavity? In still more bizarre non-logic, his and the other justices’ decision rests on concerns about weapons and contraband in prison systems. But people under arrest – that is, who are not yet convicted – haven’t been introduced into a prison population.

Our surveillance state shown considerable determination to intrude on citizens sexually. There’s the sexual abuse of prisoners at Bagram – der Spiegel reports that “former inmates report incidents of … various forms of sexual humiliation. In some cases, an interrogator would place his penis along the face of the detainee while he was being questioned. Other inmates were raped with sticks or threatened with anal sex”. There was the stripping of Bradley Manning is solitary confinement. And there’s the policy set up after the story of the “underwear bomber” to grope US travelers genitally or else force them to go through a machine – made by a company, Rapiscan, owned by terror profiteer and former DHA czar Michael Chertoff – with images so vivid that it has been called the “pornoscanner”.

Believe me: you don’t want the state having the power to strip your clothes off. History shows that the use of forced nudity by a state that is descending into fascism is powerfully effective in controlling and subduing populations.

The political use of forced nudity by anti-democratic regimes is long established. Forcing people to undress is the first step in breaking down their sense of individuality and dignity and reinforcing their powerlessness. Enslaved women were sold naked on the blocks in the American south, and adolescent male slaves served young white ladies at table in the south, while they themselves were naked: their invisible humiliation was a trope for their emasculation. Jewish prisoners herded into concentration camps were stripped of clothing and photographed naked, as iconic images of that Holocaust reiterated.

One of the most terrifying moments for me when I visited Guantanamo prison in 2009 was seeing the way the architecture of the building positioned glass-fronted shower cubicles facing intentionally right into the central atrium – where young female guards stood watch over the forced nakedness of Muslim prisoners, who had no way to conceal themselves. Laws and rulings such as this are clearly designed to bring the conditions of Guantanamo, and abusive detention, home.

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Guardian: How the US uses sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses

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