Religion: you’re doing it right.
There really is such a thing as a “Christian”. By definition, they are humble and not out to shock or piss people off - thus, we never hear about them.
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MurderHollywood
filth, feuding, and philosophy
The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and human, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.
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Always re-blog, as a reminder to myself if nothing else.
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Congressmen attempting to add propaganda provision to the NDAA
As the linked article begins:
wo congressmen are attempting to insert a provision in the National Defense Authorization act that would allow the Department of Defense to subject the US domestic public to propaganda. The bipartisan amendment was introduced by Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State.
Now, to try and be somewhat unbiased in gauging their intent, I looked up Rep. Adam Smith’s (D, WA-09) response to this criticism.
“The language of the legislation states very clearly that no funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State or the BBG shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States. Rather, this law allows for timely release of accurate and unbiased information that has been produced by the Department of State and BBG and developed for foreign audiences to be rebroadcast or republished, upon request, here in the US.” [bolded for emphasis]
Or, to put it succinctly, “This isn’t about propaganda….except that it is.” Does Rep. Smith honestly believe that “information that has been produced by the Department of State” is not propaganda? What the fuck would constitute propaganda in that case?
This is why the U.S. public distrusts and despises the rabble currently warming their asses in Congress - they tell us that up is down, down is up, and to trust them. Nope. Not going to do it.
***UPDATE***
Ok, I re-read Rep. Smith’s response, and it’s a bit more nuanced than I thought it was. He appears to basically be saying, “This provision isn’t about funding propaganda - it’s about faster delivery of propaganda to homes in the United States.”
I seriously don’t think that’s an improvement in any way. If you doubt this, just read through his press release. As long as you have a healthy grasp of the English language, the bullshit is pretty clear.
U.S. journalism website taken down by Google, Bing & GoDaddy thanks to Canadian trial without representation
This is a bit of a crazy story if you can read through all of it. The basics are this: a U.S. journalism website, DeepCapture, based in Utah and focused on financial crimes, has written about a man, Ali Nazerali, a Canadian resident. Nazerali didn’t take very kindly to what was written about him, so he and a bunch of lawyers went to court in British Columbia to have a judge issue an injunction against the website and have them shut down.
Except they never notified the website, its owners, or anyone else that this was happening. Then, once they got the judge to issue the injunction - this is without anyone testifying on behalf of the website, mind you - they then continued to not tell the site.
But they told Google, Bing, and GoDaddy, of course. And those companies were only too happen to shut down the DeepCapture website.
Ultimately, this didn’t last for long because the DeepCapture folks had all the legal grounds in the world to report what they had - it’s called journalism, which has become like a rare unicorn - and the Canadian court pulled its injunction. Turns out that Nazerali and crew had mislead the Court, surprise, surprise.
Why do I bring up this story? So you can see just how easily it is for criminals to exploit legal systems and have only-too-compliant companies erase real journalism in the United States.
(Source: anukkinearthwalker, via occupyallstreets)
Operation Infuriated Punishment: feminist demonization of submissive (ie normal) women
http://curmudgeonloner.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/suz-says-about-submissive-women/
Feminism wants us to believe that attaining and maintaining independence is the only permissible use for female strength and assertiveness. Feminism wants us to forget that human history is more than fifty years…
As usual, an anti-feminist understands completely nothing about the dynamic and myriad history of feminism. Let’s just come out and set the frame of this argument correctly from the beginning: if you believe that women are equal human beings with men and deserve the same, fundamental rights - the right to vote, the right to work (plus equal wages for equal work), the right to freedom - then you are a feminist. Anything else, including discussions of submission versus dominance or “sameness” versus “difference”, is no longer a central tenet or foundation for feminism, but rather a substantive debate with feminists on both sides with their own opinions.
That’s right, women are capable of forming their own, educated opinions on issues. Who knew?!
If this post is just troll-fodder, then so be it. Unfortunately, there’s been this shift towards “men’s rights”, but without any intellectual honesty. Ultimately, if you make an argument, you better know your fucking history or else you come off looking like just another dullard.
