Lana Del Rey “Born to Die”
(-Even Geordie Pleathur sometimes falls for a sleepy bombshell…)

“There are now 1,271 government agencies and 1,931 private companies that work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States, the Washington Post reported in a 2010 series by Dana Priest and William M Arken. There are 854,000 people with top-secret security clearances, the reporters wrote, and in Washington, DC, and the surrounding area 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2011.” (-Chris Hedges) 

“Among the biggest lies we are told on a regular basis are: (1) All of your fellow citizens are stupid, apathetic sheeple who do not now and never will “get it”. and (2) Resistance is futile– the powers that be are so entrenched there is no hope of reform or restoration of a government of the people. So, unplug your TVs, talk to your neighbors and get organized. Realizing those two lies are lies might be half the battle.” (-Noam Chomsky)

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?” (― Kurt Vonnegut) 

“In return for my book, a truthful account of my year in Iraq, my security clearance was taken away … and, as I write this, I am drifting through the final steps toward termination. … I find myself a member of a new club I don’t even remember applying for: The Whistleblowers. … In meeting my club-mates, I learned that whistleblowers are not born, but created by a government with much to hide and an unquenchable need to hide it.” (– Peter Van Buren)
 
“The Obama administration, which arrived in Washington promoting ‘sunshine’ in government, turned out to be committed to silence and the censoring of less- than-positive news about its workings. … it has gone after whistleblowers and leakers with ever increasing fierceness, both in court and inside the halls of various government agencies.”(– Van Buren)

“[The Obama administration] is actually prosecuting them, and doing so under the Espionage Act – one of the most serious charges that can be leveled against an American.” (– Jesselyn Raddack)

 ”I am far from a perfect individual. More prone to bad behavior and poor decision making than most at times I would figure. I still have debt, insurance payments, and a Verizon cellphone (only one that gets service where I live, kind of). None of us are perfect, me most of all. What I am saying is that we need to start working towards not being a part of the system we seek to change. We have to get away from debt, credit, corporations, and bad banking. Use cash, cash doesn’t give tiny bits of your money to companies like Visa. If you can’t afford to pay for it with the money you have, you don’t need it. Avoid giving your hard earned money to companies that lobby against human rights, education, information and health-care, such as Wal-Mart, Comcast, the Government, US Bank, And the Bank of sold out the world and now we want your home, your car, your children to worship us and your soul wile we are at it. Little decisions can have a huge impact on the world we live in. As Activists fighting these wrongs it is our responsibility to represent this in our own lives. Help me in doing this by living the messages we scream as we march down the block. Otherwise it not only falls on deaf ears, and sinister and uncaring eyes that will just continue to greedily smile from the other side of tinted windows; knowing that it all means nothing in the end. Reuse, if you can. Recycle if it makes sense. Buy used if possible, buy local, and use cash unless its not an option at the time. These are examples of small local decisions that can have massive impacts on the economy. Not everything we need to do can be done in this way, I understand this fact of modern life as well as all of you. Still, think about this. If you spend 5,000 dollars a year in cash getting dishes, blankets, books and other needed items from local junk stores and retailers instead of chains like soul sucking Greedmeyers that looks at you like a target in a safe way because they say it all has to do with good will and low prices, you not only help provide a living to local families, but you have taken money away from companies that seek to use it against you. This is a fantastic thing, as it impacts the flow of goods, money and shifts the buying and purchasing power away from Washington INC. and back to the people. Let’s stand together and make the decision to do this as a community rooted in a common goal for the betterment of all folks.

Even a few can make a big difference when they stand together and I know with time we can and will make a difference on the world. By standing together, changing ourselves, our own lives, we will build the skills and the know how to survive in this world and in turn be able to educate our children to do the same. Thank you all, it has been and will continue to be an honor to stand at your sides regardless of the occasional disagreement in understanding and perspective.” (-Joshua Mcwhorter)

“I believe Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation he was put in during the eight months he was in Quantico.” (-United Nations torture rapporteur, Juan Mendez)
 
“Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It’s just that it’s not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich.” (– Michael Moore in speech to Wisconsin occupation, March 5, 2011) 

“Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we outwrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope.” (-Dr. Cornel West)

“When pursuit of self-interest is allowed to run unchecked, it can lead to socially pernicious outcomes.” (- Paul Piff)

“As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.” (-Sitting Bull)

“The NDAA and the drone authorization are 100 times a bigger story than Watergate. The longer the establishment media ignores this, the greater the public outrage.” (- David Seaman)

“Dennis Kucinich was a voice of sanity after 9/11, cautioning against lashing out at the world. He led the effort in Congress opposing George Bush’s Iraq War. His October 2002 analysis of the call for war against Iraq stands today as a statement of clarity of vision and courage which, if heeded, would have spared the lives of US soldiers and Iraqi citizens alike. His was a relentless challenge to the rationale for the war and a call for accountability for those who lied to drag us into the war. You may remember that it was Kucinich who led the effort to try to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney for their fabrications, prevarications, and other misstatements. When others were promising ‘permanent war for permanent peace’ Kucinich was the one who pointed out the idiocy and the hypocrisy. In the past decade, Kucinich opposed not only the war in Iraq, he voted against every single funding bill for war, whether Iraq or Afghanistan. It was Kucinich who again rose up to create a rare bipartisan coalition to thwart the war against Libya for a time. As the fundamentalists now take hold there, once again the question arises, why did we go into Libya? What was that really about?
Today, the neocons again are attempting to rush America into a war against Iran. It was Kucinich who took to the floor of the House in debate to knock down again and again the false claims that were being made to try to justify sanctions which could lead to still another war.” (-Gore Vidal)

“I sometimes look at myself, I’m sitting with a biro and a cigarette packet, desperately scrawling dribble on it. And sometimes I put down my fag pack and think, what am I, a grown man, doing at this hour of the night? Then I banish that thought, pick the fag pack up again.” (-Joe Strummer)

“As young people make diverse claims on the promise of a radical democracy, articulating what a fair and just world might be, they are increasingly met with forms of physical, ideological and structural violence.” (- Henry A. Giroux)

‎”All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological person…alities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corrupt-able. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” (-Frank Herbert) 

“Everyone is so angry about paying $4.00 for a gallon of gas, but many are willing to buy water for $2.00/liter (or more!). It takes more than 3 liters to equal a gallon, making water significantly more expensive than gasoline. Why aren’t people more angry about the cost of water?

Also, most of this water – despite pretty pictures of mountains on the labels – is just city tap water run through a filter and then bottled in plastic (which is arguably as dangerous for the environment as the impact of burning fuel).

Ever notice that EVIAN spelled backwards is NAIVE?”  (Marcus Farley)

“Once we were enslaved, we thought of all the things we could have done to stop them.”  (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

 ”I have never seen a political or social movement catch fire this fast. I’ve lived hrough enough of them and knew about those that came before me. … This movement, in six weeks, had a majority of Americans with us. What we are blessed with with Occupy Wall Street is that the hardest part of the job is done.” (– Michael Moore at the Left Forum, March 17th, 2012)

“Believe me: you don’t want the state having the power to strip your clothes off. History shows that the use of forced nudity by a state that is descending into fascism is powerfully effective in controlling and subduing populations. The political use of forced nudity by anti-democratic regimes is long established. Forcing people to undress is the first step in breaking down their sense of individuality and dignity and reinforcing their powerlessness. Enslaved women were sold naked on the blocks in the American south, and adolescent male slaves served young white ladies at table in the south, while they themselves were naked: their invisible humiliation was a trope for their emasculation. Jewish prisoners herded into concentration camps were stripped of clothing and photographed naked, as iconic images of that Holocaust reiterated.
One of the most terrifying moments for me when I visited Guantanamo prison in 2009 was seeing the way the architecture of the building positioned glass-fronted shower cubicles facing intentionally right into the central atrium – where young female guards stood watch over the forced nakedness of Muslim prisoners, who had no way to conceal themselves. Laws and rulings such as this are clearly designed to bring the conditions of Guantanamo, and abusive detention, home.” (-Naomi Wolf)

“Source advised that the females of the anarchist’s movement are in leadership positions in Eugene, Oregon. These females are described as being very feminist and militant.” (- FBI documents from investigation Seizing Thunder)