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Power Games

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:23:43 GMT

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Burma exports rice as cyclone victims starve

Burma is still exporting rice even as it tries to curb the influx of international donations of food bound for the starving survivors of the cyclone that killed up to 116,000 people.

Sacks of rice destined for Bangladesh were being loaded on to a ship at the Thilawa container port at the mouth of the Yangon River at the end of last week, even though Burma's 'rice bowl' region was devastated by the deadly storm a week ago.

The Burmese regime, which has a monopoly on the country's rice exports, said it planned to meet all its contractual commitments.

Tags: politics, myanmar, burma, food-crises

10 Steps To Fascism - Watch It

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:18:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Globalizatiobrings fascism to all of us. It's slowly crawling into our lifes. The charade called democratie is just to make us believe we actually might have soemthing to say.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Collateral 22-10 Steps to Fascism

Tags: fascism politics america power how-power-works

Misanthrope's Alphabet

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:55:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Literature, hunger, dark and sarcastic. I found this link via Ulysses on google books.

Clip Source: home.bway.net

Seventy-one years ago, in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, Scopes defense attorney Clarence Darrow put prosecuting attorney William Jennings Bryan on the stand and proceeded to thoroughly discredit creationism as the preserve of flat-worlders, the Catholic Church, and idiots generally.

Of course, Scopes (and Darrow) lost the case, and so sanity is doomed. Recently, Creationism has risen again amongst the fundamentalist Right, demonstrating that these Bible -thumping mongoloids, the predictably degenerated grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the members of the Dayton School Board, shouldn't be allowed near science, let alone politics (or for that matter, heavy machinery and sharp objects).

Tags: , literature, writing, misanthrophy

Unpublished Video From Abu Ghraib

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:48:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's very scary how outside conditions can influence human behaviour.
We all seem to be able to turn into heartless sadists.

Clip Source: www.wired.com

TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib

As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard, Philip Zimbardo had access to many images (NSFW) of abuse taken by the guards. His TED presentation puts together a short video of some of the unpublished photos, with sound effects added by Zimbardo. Many of the images are explicit and gruesome, depicting nudity, degradation, simulated sex acts and guards posing with corpses. Viewer discretion is advised.
Courtesy Philip Zimbardo
View slideshow (NSFW)

Zimbardo conducted a now-famous experiment at Stanford University in 1971, involving students who posed as prisoners and guards. Five days into the experiment, Zimbardo halted the study when the student guards began abusing the prisoners, forcing them to strip naked and simulate sex acts.

Tags: politics, abu ghraib, abuse, torture

The Future Online

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:07:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Right now it's a great time to be creative. I couldn't imagen my lfe without a computer.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

More than ever, social networks are blurring online and offline worlds, evolving into social destinations that are driving the direction of the larger web and affecting industries like advertising, music and politics.

Instead, our interaction will be more fluid, our computers will accept our requests in many forms, and will scan our environment proactively, looking for ways to provide us with additional power. We will get back web pages, yes, along with existing books and videos, but also custom tables, charts, animations, databases, and summarisations created on-the-fly in response to our specific needs.

Tags: internet, future, online

Freedom Is An Illusion

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:49:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: George Carlin, the best comedian in the world, talks in this video about the people who are really in power. We are all owned by them. Not only Americans.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: politics, power, george carlin, humor, comedy

Amerika is a Police State

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:24:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Most people don't belive this but it might be even worse than we think. Europe is next. In my opinion the only solution is not to vote at all.Power in the hands of a few is always evil. As George Carlin says it so well: "you have to be asleep to believe the American Dream."

Clip Source: www.newstarget.com

Welcome to Police State Amerika

This is no conspiracy theory, it's present-day Amerika

Why governments are more dangerous than terrorists

Could it really be true?

If Ron Paul is not elected President in 2008, the United States of America will self destruct by 2025

Big Brother U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records of Customers

Tags: politics, political, us, big brother

Zeitgeist, the Movie

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:33:09 GMT

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Clip Source: zeitgeistmovie.com

Official Website of Zeitgeist, The Movie

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Tags: power, lies, politics