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G: mda, suntem pe pula, am vazut o stire in care zicea ca o sa bage camere de supraveghere in clase la scoala, sa poata vedea parintii ce le fac odraslele, faza e ca o sa ii obisnuiasca pe ai mici cu prezenta camerelor de supraveghere

hpr: da, la asta nu m-am gandit

hpr: vor deveni adulti obisnuiti sa fie supravegheati

G: e mai usor sa-i obisnuiesti de mici ca asa e normal


G: si parintii o sa incurajeze asta

G: ei o sa se uite la ce fac copii lor in timp ce sefii lor se uita la ei cum fac asta

Chomsky:

"For those who stubbornly seek freedom around the world, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the propaganda system to which we are subjected and in which all too often we serve as unwilling or unwitting instruments."

Noam Chomsky,  Propaganda, American-style

Rockefeller:

“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long… We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

David Rockefeller speaking at the United Nations Ambassadors’ dinner. [Sept. 23, 1994]

"Fabricarea evenimentelor prin mass media şi manipularea conştiinţei populare au devenit componente integrante ale culturii politice americane şi se află în centrul tuturor intervenţiilor recente ale armatei SUA. Din ce în ce mai mult, implicarea mass media în minciunile, miturile şi denaturările guvernului şi-a adus contribuţia vitală la legitimarea războiului drept mijloc de promovare a intereselor globale ale SUA. Jurnaliştii TV, radio şi din presa scrisă au devenit esenţiali în acest proces, popularizând, de regulă, aceste discursuri false, susţinând cadrul ideologic dominant şi eşuând să cerceteze critic afirmaţiile şi pretenţiile oficialilor guvernului şi ai armatei. Cultura mass-media a evoluat într-un aparat de propagandă, în special în tărâmul preocupărilor internaţionale, în care interesele corporatiste şi ale Pentagonului sunt capabile să creeze propria lor versiune a 'realităţii', pentru un public american deja înclinat să urmeze discursurile triumfaliste."


"Tipul cel mai eficient de propagandă este cel care nu este recunoscut ca propagandă. De îndată ce propaganda este identificată ca propagandă, cuvintele prezidenţiale îşi pierd vraja lor magică. Uneori, preşedintele este prins în flagrant, minţind cu privire la probleme de securitate naţională, dar chiar şi în acele cazuri oamenii fac speculaţii şi apoi continuă să creadă povestea oficială."

Dreptul la libera exprimare nu valoreaza nimic atunci cand cei din jurul tau au dopuri in urechi.

Marx:

In their 1846 book The German Ideology, Marx and co-author Frederick Engels took a look at human history and made a plain but controversial observation. In any given historical period, the ideas that people generally think are the best and most important ideas are usually the ideas of the people in charge. If you have a lot of money and own a lot of property, then you have the power to propagandise your worldview and you have incentive to avoid appearing as if you're propagandising your worldview. Or, as Marx and Engels would put it: The ruling ideas of every epoch are the ideas of the ruling class.

Source: aljazeera.com

Noma Bar:

Avinoam Noma Bar (born in 1973 in Israel) is a graphic designer. His work has appeared in many media outlets including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper. Bar has illustrated over sixty magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations and released two books of his work through Mark Batty Publisher: 'Guess Who - The Many Faces of Noma Bar',  in 2008 and 'Negative Space' in early 2009.


sursa: wikipedia

Un paradox random

The US is struggling with a paradox: while its military power retains global reach, its role as world leader is gradually ending.

www.guardian.co.uk

Aristotel:

"Toleranta si apatia sunt ultimele virtuti ale unei societati muribunde."

“Questionnaire” (a poem by Wendell Berry)

1. How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

2. For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

3. What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy.

4. In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security,
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

sursa

2008 parca? *later edit: mai degraba '04-'05

Poza originala e a lu' Andi

Mussolini:

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power.” —  Benito Mussolini, 1883-1945

“If you are unable to manage your own energy and consciousness, then you will attract a force that will manage them for you.”

Benjamin Franklin:

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin

Hunter S. Thompson:

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson

Hypnagogia

Hypnagogia (Greek ὕπνος, húpnos "sleep" away" etc.), alternatively hypnogogia, is a term coined by Alfred Maury for the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep (i.e. the onset of sleep). The equivalent transition to wakefulness is termed the hypnopompic state. Mental phenomena that occur during this "threshold consciousness" phase include lucid dreaming, hallucinations, out of body experiences and sleep paralysis.

Threshold consciousness (commonly called "half-asleep" or "half-awake", or "Mind Awake Body Asleep") describes the same mental state of someone who is moving towards sleep or wakefulness but has not yet completed the transition. Such transitions are usually brief, but can be extended by sleep disturbance or deliberate induction, for example during meditation.

imaginea de pe coperta:grzesiek pe deviantart
Hypnagogia pe wikipedia

"Plans will change, but don’t lose the structures that enable you to change them in unison."

"Remember that the police won’t be able to make mass arrests unless they have lots of plastic handcuffs and vans or buses in the area, so these can be a good tip-off for what to expect. The same goes for chemical weapons; if they’re ready to use tear gas, they’ll all be wearing gas masks themselves."

"The police are restricted in what they can do by what public opinion will decree about it; you are limited in what you can do by a similar question, for whenever you move up to a more confrontational tactic the police will immediately upgrade their tactics to a level higher than yours.
[...] we always permit our opponents the more powerful tools, in order to keep the violence from getting too out of hand - and, of course, to show off how much more noble and courageous we are! If the papers read (as they have before) “Violence erupted when activists began throwing back tear gas canisters fired by the police,” it will be clear to everyone what’s going on."

"Whether or not an action is illegal is a poor measure of whether or not it is just [...]
To object to an action on the grounds that it is illegal is to sidestep the more important question of whether or not it is ethical. To argue that we must always obey laws, even when we consider them to be unethical or to enforce unethical conditions, is to suggest that the arbitrary pronouncements of the legal establishment possess a higher moral authority than our own consciences, and to demand complicity in the face of injustice. When laws protect injustice, illegal activity is no vice, and law-abiding docility is no virtue."

"If [surveillance] cameras are necessary on every corner, then something is fundamentally wrong in our society, and getting rid of the cameras is as good a starting place as any."

"In the collective unconscious of our society, the police are the ultimate bastion of reality, the force that ensures that things stay the way they are; to fight them and win, however temporarily, is to show that reality is negotiable."

from crimethinc.com

If you are engaging in autonomous civil disobedience...

... and you don’t plan on being arrested, you should conceal your face using a bandanna, or other cloth. When combined with a hat and some sunglasses, this getup makes you nearly impossible to identify via facial recognition.
Wearing a bandanna can make you a target for police, since they associate it with radicals, so only wear one if you are actually doing something illegal and concealing your identity makes sense.
Gas masks and ski masks certainly conceal your identity well, but they look extremely militant, and tend to both incite police violence and frighten other protesters. Unless you plan on directly and forcibly confronting the police, I would not recommend wearing a gas mask. If you think that there will be teargas, you can always have a pair of swim goggles and a bandanna soaked in apple cider vinegar in your pocket.
Also remember that the foam in ski masks and ski goggles will trap teargas and other gasses, after a while this will expose your face to more teargas than wearing nothing at all. Swimming goggles are therefore more advisable.

from stealthiswiki.org

Beardy eyed glasses

a horrible beardy man just SHOUTED at me in a meeting

he was going "do you understand what WE mean by the word creative that you've been bandying around this afternoon?". and he had dark glasses on so I couldn't see his eyes so I got all scared and couldn't think of anything to say so i said "i'm sorry, I'm finding this conversation very difficult because I can't see your eyes" because I thought he was being rude wearing his sunglasses and he said "I've got photophobia, I have to wear them" *cries*


(from bobpitch.com, n-am inteles nimic, dar m-a bagat in film)