Posted by Lionel on January 31, 2012
The will to resist is all but destroyed. Your will, the collective will. It’s not that folks are happy with what’s happening, they simply don’t care. Less they could not care. (A variation of “couldn’t care less.” Get it?) I was thinking about Phil Ochs. His legacy, his message. Mention a protest song today and [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 30, 2012
Che Guevara said that cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. Brutality is inherent in global power. And the savagery knows no limits. You can’t conquer without destroying those whose liberty interferes with rapacious consumption. These are nasty, evil people who think nothing . . . literally. They think not, feel [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 27, 2012
How can you tell that a story’s important? If our Ted Baxter MSM isn’t covering it. Think of the sockpuppet media as the inverse bloodhound. You go the opposite direction of where it indicates interest. But that’s tough because of what it ignores. ACTA is huge. Beyond huge. Europe’s agog over the notion of this [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 26, 2012
Repeating versus reporting. Big difference. The former is stenographic, an echo chamber, an apparatchik. The latter is, well, reporting. Remember when they were great? What happened to the mighty CNN? It was the source. It’s where you went to hear the adults. Before silliness contaminated the cable news world. Before Ted Baxter soured the mix. [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 25, 2012
I remember a time when I looked at the notion of the anarchist as silly. (And how much the word looks like “Antichrist.”) Moreover, those who spoke of revolution. I thought it oddly faddish and jejune tripe. Trendy blather. Faux revolution bollocks. Well, cut to today. Enter stage left. Scared, amazed and disillusioned I am. [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 24, 2012
See anything wrong with this picture? Go ahead. Take a look. As Ashleigh Brilliant said, “To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.” You’re not even aware of the issue of surveillance because you’re so used to it. But this, this picture supra speaks volumes. And what’s [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 23, 2012
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 20, 2012
Always start off with a scary quote. Charles A. Beard noted as follows: “You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.” I love this [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 19, 2012
As you read this, your country’s being cooked. And you’re the main course. You’ve been acclimated to this. You’ve been told to look the other way. Trust your government and besides, the media will be there to expose anything the government does that violates the law or Constitution. Ha! And while liberty slips from our [...]
Posted by Lionel on January 18, 2012
ATTENTION: Occupied USA, listen carefully to what I’m saying: Your current group of kidnappers — those who claim to be your “elected” government — have long tried to get the genie back into the bottle. When DARPA developed the Internet(s) in the 60′s it had no idea what would happen. How you’d dare to take [...]