"When injustice becomes law,
resistance becomes duty."
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" -- Mario Savio
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Welcome to Anything that defies my sense of reason.... Class antagonism of a New World Order.
....because words will always retain their power, offer the means to meaning and, for those who'll listen, the enunciation of truth, and because being sleepwalked into fascism is not an option.
To confront ideas that radically alter our perception of the world is one of life's most unsettling yet liberating experiences.
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"The country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police || believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised, and there is a growing sense that the current restrictions on demonstrations are too light." - The Guardian
"The bombers scattered identity and bank cards around the Tube carriages they targeted before placing their rucksacks on the floor and setting off the explosives. || Although they were damaged to some extent, they [the ID and bank cards] did not show the damage that would be expected if they were on the body of the bomber or in the rucksack, suggesting that in each case they had been deliberately separated by some distance from the actual explosion. || The bombers were not wearing the rucksacks at the time of the explosions, but had instead put them down on the floor of the bus and Tube trains." - The Telegraph
"But it [de Menezes execution MPS trial] was nearly derailed after an armed police raid on the home of a juror's ex-boyfriend in the second week of the case, in which the female juror's baby was taken away." - Daily Mail
"It is no exaggeration to say that at the time of the arrest there was not one shred of admissible evidence against Barot. The arrest was perfectly lawful - there were more than sufficient grounds, but in terms of evidence to put before a court, there was nothing. There then began the race against time to retrieve evidence from the mass of computers and other IT equipment that we seized. It was only at the very end of the permitted period of detention that sufficient evidence was found to justify charges. I know that some in the media were sharpening their pencils, and that if we had been unable to bring charges in that case, there would have been a wave of criticism about the arrests. Barot himself of course eventually pleaded guilty last year and received a 40-year sentence." – DAC Peter Clarke
The 7/7 narrative: "06.49: The 4 men .... each put on rucksacks || 07:14: .... The 4 then put on their rucksacks...." More....
"The [21/7] jury were told a further charge of conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life, faced by each man, was now being left off the indictment." – BBC
"Tony Blair and his family suffered the indignity of having to sleep on the floor and eat an Indian takeaway out of foil cartons on their last night in Downing Street, insiders have revealed." – The Times
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Just started watching it. Looks excellent.
Did you watch the whole series? Thoughts and comments?
There's yet more adventures in the land of myth and magic from Adam Curtis here.
Afraid a bit busy. Only fully watched part one last night, and a superb documentary. Essential viewing. With more time and having perused the later episodes I'll try and give a summation.
Just to add a quote from Bernays that I came across following on from viewing the documentary
Bernays wrote:
"If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it ... The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country ... In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."
Hi Andrew -- Nothing if not 'honest' about their methods and motives, these people, even if the end product is nothing more than hysterical self-serving propaganda.
Interesting also how Bernay's first major stunt -- to get women smoking "torches of freedom" -- relied on hiring actresses to light-up in public, unbeknownst to onlookers, to achieve the desired objective.
For the "invisible government" the end seems always to justify the means.
My huge admiration for Aldous Huxley just grows and grows the more I discover about all this stuff also. He seemed to have these people pinned very early on all fronts with Brave New World.
If you like Huxley and haven't heard it yet, he gave a talk at Berkley on March 20, 1962, The Ultimate Revolution, which is well worth a listen and from which the following quote is taken:
"And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods." -- Aldous Huxley
The affects of such thinking go further than most people imagine: these first forays into the psychology of groups were taught in the first American MBA classes in the social science modules and became the background for a number of management and economic gurus who, in turn and without checking their sources, went on to teach management, economics and politics on the basis of Skinner-esque response control. Their affects are still with us today.
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