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Voters Beware! ~ Naomi Wolf
“The End of America”: Feminist Social Critic Naomi Wolf Warns U.S. in Slow Descent into Fascism
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
AMY GOODMAN: "It’s interesting. During the lead up to Nazi Germany, American reporters were fired by their American editors, pulled back from Germany, because they were sounding the warning. They were saying, “We’re seeing a fascist society build.” And they were told that they were biased, they were not understanding the circumstances in which Hitler was rising up, people were concerned about their economy, they had been devastated, and that they were being alarmist. "
NAOMI WOLF: "Interesting. That’s really interesting. I mean, I’m immediately thinking, as you say that, which I actually hadn’t known, that—thinking of a lot of books I’ve been reading lately about deep US involvement. Some corporations were deeply involved in Nazi Germany, making millions, like IBM. How did they round people up so quickly, you know, in Germany when they were rounding up the Jews so fast? It’s because IBM had developed this prototype of a punch card system, and they were secretly working with the Nazis. Prescott Bush, Bush’s grandfather, was making millions in consolidation with Krupp, Thyssen, and it’s very interesting to me, because in the Nuremberg trials they went after these industrialists like Krupp, and so there was a moment at which the Nuremberg trial was about to identify supporters of these war crimes who were US collaborators."
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Naomi Wolf ~ here is a 'nuther POV on democracy... gone fascist!
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/2
“The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot”, Naomi Wolf says the United States is on the road to becoming a fascist society, right under our very noses.
Voters Beware!
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Naomi Klein: Another Naomi with her POV on Disaster Capitalism!
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Ten Steps of Fascism ~ Not a Recovery Program
As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. We were told we were now on a "war footing"; we were in a "global war" against a "global caliphate" intending to "wipe out civilisation".
2. Create a gulag
Once you have got everyone scared, the next step is to create a prison system outside the rule of law (as Bush put it, he wanted the American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to be situated in legal "outer space") - where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste
When leaders who seek what I call a "fascist shift" want to close down an open society, they send paramilitary groups of scary young men out to terrorise citizens. The Blackshirts roamed the Italian countryside beating up communists; the Brownshirts staged violent rallies throughout Germany. This paramilitary force is especially important in a democracy: you need citizens to fear thug violence and so you need thugs who are free from prosecution.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
In Mussolini's Italy, in Nazi Germany, in communist East Germany, in communist China - in every closed society - secret police spy on ordinary people and encourage neighbours to spy on neighbours. The Stasi needed to keep only a minority of East Germans under surveillance to convince a majority that they themselves were being watched.
5. Harass citizens' groups
The fifth thing you do is related to step four - you infiltrate and harass citizens' groups. It can be trivial: a church in Pasadena, whose minister preached that Jesus was in favour of peace, found itself being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, while churches that got Republicans out to vote, which is equally illegal under US tax law, have been left alone.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
This scares people. It is a kind of cat-and-mouse game. Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the investigative reporters who wrote China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, describe pro-democracy activists in China, such as Wei Jingsheng, being arrested and released many times. In a closing or closed society there is a "list" of dissidents and opposition leaders: you are targeted in this way once you are on the list, and it is hard to get off the list.
7. Target key individuals
Threaten civil servants, artists and academics with job loss if they don't toe the line. Mussolini went after the rectors of state universities who did not conform to the fascist line; so did Joseph Goebbels, who purged academics who were not pro-Nazi; so did Chile's Augusto Pinochet; so does the Chinese communist Politburo in punishing pro-democracy students and professors.
8. Control the press
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the 30s, East Germany in the 50s, Czechoslovakia in the 60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the 70s, China in the 80s and 90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. They threaten and harass them in more open societies that they are seeking to close, and they arrest them and worse in societies that have been closed already.
9. Dissent equals treason
Cast dissent as "treason" and criticism as "espionage'. Every closing society does this, just as it elaborates laws that increasingly criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand the definition of "spy" and "traitor". When Bill Keller, the publisher of the New York Times, ran the Lichtblau/Risen stories, Bush called the Times' leaking of classified information "disgraceful", while Republicans in Congress called for Keller to be charged with treason, and rightwing commentators and news outlets kept up the "treason" drumbeat. Some commentators, as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is execution.
10. Suspend the rule of law
The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 gave the president new powers over the national guard. This means that in a national emergency - which the president now has enhanced powers to declare - he can send Michigan's militia to enforce a state of emergency that he has declared in Oregon, over the objections of the state's governor and its citizens.
Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/ap
How Hitler Became a Dictator ~ Disaster Capitalism and National Home Security Legislation
From LewRockwell.com:
The day after the fire, Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to issue a decree entitled, "For the Protection of the People and the State." Justified as a "defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state," the decree suspended the constitutional guarantees pertaining to civil liberties:
Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Two weeks after the Reichstag fire, Hitler requested the Reichstag to temporarily delegate its powers to him so that he could adequately deal with the crisis. Denouncing opponents to his request, Hitler shouted, "Germany will be free, but not through you!" When the vote was taken, the result was 441 for and 84 against, giving Hitler the two-thirds majority he needed to suspend the German constitution. On March 23, 1933, what has gone down in German history as the "Enabling Act" made Hitler dictator of Germany, freed of all legislative and constitutional constraints. ~ Jacob G. Hornberger
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How Hitler Became a Dictator ~ Cynical C
http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/01337
How Hitler Became a Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/h
Hijacking Catastrophe ~ 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home. The documentary places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force. ~ Google Video
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=h
"I... enforce policies with war on my mind..." ~ George Bush Jr.
Shock and awe by Harlan K Ullman
. 
Shock and Awe Over Baghdad
Shock and awe, technically known as rapid dominance, is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze an adversary's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States in 1996. Rapid dominance is defined by its authors, Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade, as attempting "to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary to fit or respond to our strategic policy ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe." Further, rapid dominance will "impose this overwhelming level of Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on . . . [to] seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary's perceptions and understanding of events that the enemy would be incapable of resistance at the tactical and strategic levels." ~ Wikipedia
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_
"Democracy" by Leonard Cohen
It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on ...
I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. ~ lyrics by Leonard Cohen
Johnny Rotten Calls For Student Riots Against The War
"How can a fascist dictator like that (George Bush) run this country, and there seems to be nothing, no matter who you vote in, that can stop him doing what he wants? I don't see any demonstrations, any student riots. Because sending young boys over there (Iraq) to get murdered for nothing is unacceptable to me." ~ Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols of "God Save the Queen" in an interview with Spin magazine
Nevermind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
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http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.p
Agit-prop Folksinger Tracey Curtis ~ Lancaster
“I'd like to say I'm proud to be British but I'm not,
I love our rivers, love our coastline, what's left of our green,
but I won't wear the Union Jack or sing God Save The Queen.”
Tracey, who had previously played in pop-punk band Shelley’s Children began a solo career after her daughters had encouraged her to write “Nowhere Left To Play” in protest at a planned by-pass road that threatened to ruin their local riverside dens and rope swings. Within a couple of months of the resulting “By Pass Demo” CD, Tracey had recorded the acclaimed “If The Moon Could Talk” album. Following the recording Tracey has played loads of gigs at festivals, veggie cafes, folk clubs, pubs, and even a prison performance. She has also toured with Chumbawamba, Danbert Nobacon, and Atilla The Stockbroker. Last year she released “Picture Postcards”, another album that combines her fine vocals with a contemporary heartfelt message. The set at The Gregson covered a whole spectrum of political commentary on issues from desertion in the First World War to the death penalty, from George Bush and his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to a song about a postcard from John Peel. Everyone present can’t help but to have been moved by “Where Are They Now?” a beautiful, moving song that paints the true reality of life for asylum seekers rather than the lies and scaremongering of New Labour, or the out right hatred of the BNP fascists. ~
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RednBlack Collective's Anti Fascist Social
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/0
We Should All Be Able To Vote For "Democracy" ~ The Danse Macabre of US-Style Democracy
The former president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere once asked, "Why haven’t we all got a vote in the US election? Surely everyone with a TV set has earned that right just for enduring the merciless bombardment every four years." ~ John Pilger
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
No Foreigners Allowed
"So in the computer-related election story of the day, it appears that the Bush-Cheney site has cut itself off from the world outside the U.S. (via Frankenstein)." ~ Paul Frankenstein
“The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign’s Internet address for six hours last week, according to computer security experts.” ~ Washington Post
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http://paulfrankenstein.org/archives/20
Washington Post ~ Bush Web Site Bars Overseas Visitors by Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Wednesday, October 27, 2004; 4:52 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar
on the other hand. . .
An appalling magic "Spin" ~ The Subtle Tongued Devil Herself, "I have no recollection of it whatsoever. . ."
Godless: The Church of Liberalism ~ Anne Coulter
"The USA has a raucous chorus of broadcast shock jocks and rightwing loudmouths, but Ann Coulter is the undisputed star. Arguably more appealing, unquestionably the sharpest shooter, she is, of course, the darling of conservatives and a hate figure for the left - but there are others, among her detested liberals, who are gripped in fascinated awe by her scorching invective. Jonathan Freedland confronts her and recognises a truth about the United States today: Bush isn't an aberration and Coulter expresses what many Americans think. . . (as told by their mediums! er, media!- sic mine)" ~ Jonathan Freedland
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/ma
Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Anne Coulter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godless:_T
http://www.anncoulter.com/
Right-wing Clash-ism and the Media Wars ~ How Public Opinion is Won
"One might legitimately wonder why Hitler took a break from anti-Semitism to start griping at (presumably) the Labour Party. This makes even less sense:
As long as millions of the bourgeoisie still piously worship their liberal democratic press every morning, it very ill becomes these gentlemen to make jokes about the stupidity of the 'comrade' who, in the last analysis, only swallows down his own cum, (sic-mine), that is... the same garbage, though in a different form. In both cases the manufacturer is one and the same liberal.
"Some will probably interpret this column as a defense of Ann Coulter, so let me be clear: she's pretty far beyond the bounds of reasonable defense. My only hope is that a third party does arise in the next election. Perot's party drew Pat Buchannan away from the Republicans, and I can hope right-wing strikes twice, right?" ~ Three Years of Hell
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GODWIN 1, LEITER 0 ~ Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil
http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/arc
"They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the creator.... Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor, for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature." ~ Romans 1:25-26"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godless:_T
Anne Coulter is Dick Cheney's . . . (nevermind)
I'm through with this.
.
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
AMY GOODMAN: "It’s interesting. During the lead up to Nazi Germany, American reporters were fired by their American editors, pulled back from Germany, because they were sounding the warning. They were saying, “We’re seeing a fascist society build.” And they were told that they were biased, they were not understanding the circumstances in which Hitler was rising up, people were concerned about their economy, they had been devastated, and that they were being alarmist. "
NAOMI WOLF: "Interesting. That’s really interesting. I mean, I’m immediately thinking, as you say that, which I actually hadn’t known, that—thinking of a lot of books I’ve been reading lately about deep US involvement. Some corporations were deeply involved in Nazi Germany, making millions, like IBM. How did they round people up so quickly, you know, in Germany when they were rounding up the Jews so fast? It’s because IBM had developed this prototype of a punch card system, and they were secretly working with the Nazis. Prescott Bush, Bush’s grandfather, was making millions in consolidation with Krupp, Thyssen, and it’s very interesting to me, because in the Nuremberg trials they went after these industrialists like Krupp, and so there was a moment at which the Nuremberg trial was about to identify supporters of these war crimes who were US collaborators."
Right-click link to open page in new window:
Naomi Wolf ~ here is a 'nuther POV on democracy... gone fascist!
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/2
“The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot”, Naomi Wolf says the United States is on the road to becoming a fascist society, right under our very noses.
Voters Beware!
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Naomi Klein: Another Naomi with her POV on Disaster Capitalism!
http://putyourendtowar.livejournal.c
Ten Steps of Fascism ~ Not a Recovery Program
As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it. We were told we were now on a "war footing"; we were in a "global war" against a "global caliphate" intending to "wipe out civilisation".
2. Create a gulag
Once you have got everyone scared, the next step is to create a prison system outside the rule of law (as Bush put it, he wanted the American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay to be situated in legal "outer space") - where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste
When leaders who seek what I call a "fascist shift" want to close down an open society, they send paramilitary groups of scary young men out to terrorise citizens. The Blackshirts roamed the Italian countryside beating up communists; the Brownshirts staged violent rallies throughout Germany. This paramilitary force is especially important in a democracy: you need citizens to fear thug violence and so you need thugs who are free from prosecution.
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
In Mussolini's Italy, in Nazi Germany, in communist East Germany, in communist China - in every closed society - secret police spy on ordinary people and encourage neighbours to spy on neighbours. The Stasi needed to keep only a minority of East Germans under surveillance to convince a majority that they themselves were being watched.
5. Harass citizens' groups
The fifth thing you do is related to step four - you infiltrate and harass citizens' groups. It can be trivial: a church in Pasadena, whose minister preached that Jesus was in favour of peace, found itself being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, while churches that got Republicans out to vote, which is equally illegal under US tax law, have been left alone.
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
This scares people. It is a kind of cat-and-mouse game. Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the investigative reporters who wrote China Wakes: the Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power, describe pro-democracy activists in China, such as Wei Jingsheng, being arrested and released many times. In a closing or closed society there is a "list" of dissidents and opposition leaders: you are targeted in this way once you are on the list, and it is hard to get off the list.
7. Target key individuals
Threaten civil servants, artists and academics with job loss if they don't toe the line. Mussolini went after the rectors of state universities who did not conform to the fascist line; so did Joseph Goebbels, who purged academics who were not pro-Nazi; so did Chile's Augusto Pinochet; so does the Chinese communist Politburo in punishing pro-democracy students and professors.
8. Control the press
Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the 30s, East Germany in the 50s, Czechoslovakia in the 60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the 70s, China in the 80s and 90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists. They threaten and harass them in more open societies that they are seeking to close, and they arrest them and worse in societies that have been closed already.
9. Dissent equals treason
Cast dissent as "treason" and criticism as "espionage'. Every closing society does this, just as it elaborates laws that increasingly criminalise certain kinds of speech and expand the definition of "spy" and "traitor". When Bill Keller, the publisher of the New York Times, ran the Lichtblau/Risen stories, Bush called the Times' leaking of classified information "disgraceful", while Republicans in Congress called for Keller to be charged with treason, and rightwing commentators and news outlets kept up the "treason" drumbeat. Some commentators, as Conason noted, reminded readers smugly that one penalty for violating the Espionage Act is execution.
10. Suspend the rule of law
The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 gave the president new powers over the national guard. This means that in a national emergency - which the president now has enhanced powers to declare - he can send Michigan's militia to enforce a state of emergency that he has declared in Oregon, over the objections of the state's governor and its citizens.
Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/ap
How Hitler Became a Dictator ~ Disaster Capitalism and National Home Security Legislation
From LewRockwell.com:
The day after the fire, Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to issue a decree entitled, "For the Protection of the People and the State." Justified as a "defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state," the decree suspended the constitutional guarantees pertaining to civil liberties:
Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Two weeks after the Reichstag fire, Hitler requested the Reichstag to temporarily delegate its powers to him so that he could adequately deal with the crisis. Denouncing opponents to his request, Hitler shouted, "Germany will be free, but not through you!" When the vote was taken, the result was 441 for and 84 against, giving Hitler the two-thirds majority he needed to suspend the German constitution. On March 23, 1933, what has gone down in German history as the "Enabling Act" made Hitler dictator of Germany, freed of all legislative and constitutional constraints. ~ Jacob G. Hornberger
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How Hitler Became a Dictator ~ Cynical C
http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/01337
How Hitler Became a Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/h
Hijacking Catastrophe ~ 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home. The documentary places the Bush Administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the Cold War, and to expand American power globally by means of military force. ~ Google Video
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=h
"I... enforce policies with war on my mind..." ~ George Bush Jr.
Shock and awe by Harlan K Ullman
. Shock and Awe Over Baghdad
Shock and awe, technically known as rapid dominance, is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze an adversary's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States in 1996. Rapid dominance is defined by its authors, Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade, as attempting "to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary to fit or respond to our strategic policy ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe." Further, rapid dominance will "impose this overwhelming level of Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on . . . [to] seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary's perceptions and understanding of events that the enemy would be incapable of resistance at the tactical and strategic levels." ~ Wikipedia
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_
"Democracy" by Leonard Cohen
It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.
It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Sail on, sail on ...
I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. ~ lyrics by Leonard Cohen
Johnny Rotten Calls For Student Riots Against The War
"How can a fascist dictator like that (George Bush) run this country, and there seems to be nothing, no matter who you vote in, that can stop him doing what he wants? I don't see any demonstrations, any student riots. Because sending young boys over there (Iraq) to get murdered for nothing is unacceptable to me." ~ Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols of "God Save the Queen" in an interview with Spin magazine
Nevermind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Right-click to open video in new page;
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.p
Agit-prop Folksinger Tracey Curtis ~ Lancaster
“I'd like to say I'm proud to be British but I'm not,
I love our rivers, love our coastline, what's left of our green,
but I won't wear the Union Jack or sing God Save The Queen.”
Tracey, who had previously played in pop-punk band Shelley’s Children began a solo career after her daughters had encouraged her to write “Nowhere Left To Play” in protest at a planned by-pass road that threatened to ruin their local riverside dens and rope swings. Within a couple of months of the resulting “By Pass Demo” CD, Tracey had recorded the acclaimed “If The Moon Could Talk” album. Following the recording Tracey has played loads of gigs at festivals, veggie cafes, folk clubs, pubs, and even a prison performance. She has also toured with Chumbawamba, Danbert Nobacon, and Atilla The Stockbroker. Last year she released “Picture Postcards”, another album that combines her fine vocals with a contemporary heartfelt message. The set at The Gregson covered a whole spectrum of political commentary on issues from desertion in the First World War to the death penalty, from George Bush and his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to a song about a postcard from John Peel. Everyone present can’t help but to have been moved by “Where Are They Now?” a beautiful, moving song that paints the true reality of life for asylum seekers rather than the lies and scaremongering of New Labour, or the out right hatred of the BNP fascists. ~
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RednBlack Collective's Anti Fascist Social
http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2007/0
We Should All Be Able To Vote For "Democracy" ~ The Danse Macabre of US-Style Democracy
The former president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere once asked, "Why haven’t we all got a vote in the US election? Surely everyone with a TV set has earned that right just for enduring the merciless bombardment every four years." ~ John Pilger
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
No Foreigners Allowed
"So in the computer-related election story of the day, it appears that the Bush-Cheney site has cut itself off from the world outside the U.S. (via Frankenstein)." ~ Paul Frankenstein
“The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign’s Internet address for six hours last week, according to computer security experts.” ~ Washington Post
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http://paulfrankenstein.org/archives/20
Washington Post ~ Bush Web Site Bars Overseas Visitors by Brian Krebs
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Wednesday, October 27, 2004; 4:52 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar
on the other hand. . .
An appalling magic "Spin" ~ The Subtle Tongued Devil Herself, "I have no recollection of it whatsoever. . ."
Godless: The Church of Liberalism ~ Anne Coulter
"The USA has a raucous chorus of broadcast shock jocks and rightwing loudmouths, but Ann Coulter is the undisputed star. Arguably more appealing, unquestionably the sharpest shooter, she is, of course, the darling of conservatives and a hate figure for the left - but there are others, among her detested liberals, who are gripped in fascinated awe by her scorching invective. Jonathan Freedland confronts her and recognises a truth about the United States today: Bush isn't an aberration and Coulter expresses what many Americans think. . . (as told by their mediums! er, media!- sic mine)" ~ Jonathan Freedland
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Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Anne Coulter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godless:_T
http://www.anncoulter.com/
Right-wing Clash-ism and the Media Wars ~ How Public Opinion is Won
"One might legitimately wonder why Hitler took a break from anti-Semitism to start griping at (presumably) the Labour Party. This makes even less sense:
As long as millions of the bourgeoisie still piously worship their liberal democratic press every morning, it very ill becomes these gentlemen to make jokes about the stupidity of the 'comrade' who, in the last analysis, only swallows down his own cum, (sic-mine), that is... the same garbage, though in a different form. In both cases the manufacturer is one and the same liberal.
"Some will probably interpret this column as a defense of Ann Coulter, so let me be clear: she's pretty far beyond the bounds of reasonable defense. My only hope is that a third party does arise in the next election. Perot's party drew Pat Buchannan away from the Republicans, and I can hope right-wing strikes twice, right?" ~ Three Years of Hell
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GODWIN 1, LEITER 0 ~ Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil
http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/arc
"They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the creator.... Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor, for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature." ~ Romans 1:25-26"
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Anne Coulter is Dick Cheney's . . . (nevermind)
I'm through with this.
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i would support an honest government
amen, brother!
i would support an honest government, if there was one...
pyetw