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Economy Lab

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:40:10 +0200

anonymissexpress: Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love (by...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:39:16 +0200

Occupy Wall St - The Revolution Is Love (by fiercelightfilms)

Consider the possibility that in the same way that the entire “legal” industry basically rests on the concept/word “law,” the entire coercive political system basically rests on the concept/word “government.”

To begin to see why this might be so, imagine a world in which there are some would-be-terrocrats and a population of enlightened individuals who either don’t understand the word “government” or they think it’s a silly joke. (For the purpose of this thought-experiment, assume that there’s no equivalent word available to would-be-terrocrats.)

So a would-be-terrocrat says, I represent “your government” and I want you to pay me “your taxes” so I can defend your property and safety. I also want you to join “our army,” so we can go and shoot “your enemies” in the “country” next door. What success would the would-be-terrocrat have?

Realize that once the basic concept/word “government” is accepted, a whole constellation of Slavespeak concepts/words soon follow in its trail. If you accept the “government” concept, you also accept that the terrocrats who call themselves “government” have the power to “make laws,” force children into “schools” for political brainwashing, force people to pay “taxes,” force people into “armies” to kill each other, etc., etc. — what Ayn Rand calls a devastating package deal.

By accepting the basic concept/word “government,” you position the terrocrats who call themselves “government” as superior (more powerful) and you position yourself as inferior (less powerful). If you operate from this perspective, the kind of thing you tend to do to promote liberty is to beg the terrocrats to “change the law” so you can enjoy a little more freedom. You position them in power and you position yourself in weakness. You also operate in a way that, in the long run, reinforces and perpetuates the master-slave relationship between terrocrats and heir victims.

(Note: As a stopgap or makeshift measure, situations do occur where it’s not only appropriate but also vital that freedom-activists stop the terrocrats from “passing a new law,” or force them via public opinion or outcry to “amend or repeal a law.” Though such tactics tend to reinforce the underlying “government makes laws” illusion, their short-term benefits may exceed their long-term liabilities.)

Now consider the possibility that George Orwell’s term “Big Brother” is a synonym for “government.” In Nineteen-Eighty-Four Orwell wrote: “What most afflicted him with a sense of nightmare was that he had never clearly understood why the huge imposture was undertaken… he… looked at the portrait of ‘Big Brother’ …the hypnotic eyes gazed into his own. It was as if some huge force were pressing down upon you — something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses… not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense… the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command… the obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended… stones are hard, water is wet…” [emphasis added]

“O’Brien left this unanswered. ‘Next question,’ he said.

‘Does Big Brother exist?’

‘Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment
of the Party.’

‘Does he exist in the same way as I exist?’

‘You do not exist,’ said O’Brien… [emphasis added]

‘Will Big Brother ever die?’

‘Of course not. How could he die? Next question.’”

[“Big Brother” is an Immortal Everything and you’re an Insignificant Nothing!]

In reality there are individual human beings, some with guns, generally considered (by both the brainwashed master-terrocrats and the brainwashed subject-victims?) to constitute “government”/”Big Brother.” In reality there are also buildings, lots of pieces of paper, computers, other equipment, vehicles, etc.

Can you make a distinction between what you can actually see, and what is assumption, addition (as described by William James), projection, or hallucination (“seeing” what isn’t really there)?

In Ayn Rand’s Introduction To Objectivist Epistemology she wrote: “Learning consists of grasping meanings, i.e., of grasping the referents of words, the kinds of existents that words denote in reality.” [emphasis added]

From: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml

Anonymiss Express: Lt. John Pike meme

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:37:48 +0200

Anonymiss Express: Lt. John Pike meme:

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thelifetimenetwork: dialecticsofnature: He screams stereotype…...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:37:05 +0200

thelifetimenetwork:

dialecticsofnature:

He screams stereotype… But I’m gonna leave it there, don’t want to talk shit about him when he just deserves a bullet between the eyebrows.

Heeere piggy piggy

handgrenade2: socalfeminist: inothernews: Remember this...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:35:54 +0200

handgrenade2:

socalfeminist:

inothernews:

Remember this fucking pig? Heads have finally rolled, according to the New York Times:

The chancellor of the University of California, Davis, said Monday that its police chief had been placed on administrative leave, three days after two campus police officers sprayed seated protesters with pepper spray during a demonstration aligned with Occupy Wall Street.

The university’s chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, indicated that she was trying to calm the campus community amid widespread outrage at the police tactics. Referring to the temporary removal of the police chief, Annette Spicuzza, Ms. Katehi said in a statement Monday, “It has become clear to me that this is a necessary step toward restoring trust on our campus.”

She named Matt Carmichael as interim police chief. Ms. Katehi also sped up an internal probe into the incident and asked the district attorney’s office to conduct an investigation into her police department’s use of force on the protesters.

On Sunday, the university said that two police officers had been placed on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation into Friday’s incident. In videos that were widely distributed over the Internet, two police officers in riot gear were seen dousing about a dozen protesters with pepper spray as they sat on a sidewalk with their arms entwined.

The announcement about Ms. Spicuzza came hours before a planned protest by students affiliated with the Occupy U.C. Davis movement.

A Facebook page for the protests asked attendees to call for Ms. Katehi’s resignation and to “show solidarity and support to the students who were beaten and sprayed by U. C. Davis police in riot gear.”

Glad to read some good news this morning.

On another note, how awkward will prospective-student campus tours be? It’s around this time that high school seniors go out and visit universities. I wonder if the occupy movement will be a topic of conversation during those visits?

“two police officers had been placed on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation”

Fuck that! This guy should no longer have a job, that is not nearly

anonymissexpress: :D CLOWNS ARRESTED IN NEAR-SUCCESSFUL ATTACK...

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:50:41 +0200

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:D CLOWNS ARRESTED IN NEAR-SUCCESSFUL ATTACK ON WALL STREET BULL (by felizysolomon)

anonymissexpress: World War 3 Warning from Anonymous -We Are...

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:48:04 +0200

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World War 3 Warning from Anonymous -We Are Eternal.mp4 (by B1uebott1e1)

"Famous People: they are all traitors who have chosen the path of vanity over the path of the cause..."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:06:20 +0200

“Famous People: they are all traitors who have chosen the path of vanity over the path of the cause to free humanity from its shackles.”

"Published Authors: if you wrote political articles instead of a 1200 page vampire book, then you..."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:02:23 +0200

“Published Authors: if you wrote political articles instead of a 1200 page vampire book, then you would have actually accomplished something.”

"European children spend more money on candy than African children spend on food."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:01:37 +0200

“European children spend more money on candy than African children spend on food.”

"A country without its people is nothing but a landmass with men in suits playing monopoly. You DO..."

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:01:06 +0200

“A country without its people is nothing but a landmass with men in suits playing monopoly. You DO count, you CAN instigate change. Demand it”

Extreme Poverty Is Now At Record Levels – 19 Statistics About The Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:00:25 +0200

Extreme Poverty Is Now At Record Levels – 19 Statistics About The Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You:

thedailydan:

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a higher percentage of Americans is living in extreme poverty than they have ever measured before. In 2010, we were told that the economy was recovering, but the truth is that the number of the “very poor” soared to heights never seen previously. Back in 1993 and back in 2009, the rate of extreme poverty was just over 6 percent, and that represented the worst numbers on record. But in 2010, the rate of extreme poverty hit a whopping 6.7 percent. That means that one out of every 15 Americans is now considered to be “very poor”. For many people, this is all very confusing because their guts are telling them that things are getting worse and yet the mainstream media keeps telling them that everything is just fine. Hopefully this article will help people realize that the plight of the poorest of the poor continues to deteriorate all across the United States. In addition, hopefully this article will inspire many of you to lend a hand to those that are truly in need.

Tonight, there are more than 20 million Americans that are living in extreme poverty. This number increases a little bit more every single day. The following statistics that were mentioned in an article in The Daily Mail should be very sobering for all of us….

About 20.5 million Americans, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. population, make up the poorest poor, defined as those at 50 per cent or less of the official poverty level.

Those living in deep poverty represent nearly half of the 46.2 million people scraping by below the poverty line. In 2010, the poorest poor meant an income of $5,570 or less for an individual and $11,157 for a family of four.

That 6.7 percent share is the highest in the 35 years that the Census Bureau has maintained such records, surpassing previous highs in 2009 and 1993 of just over 6 percent.

Sadly, the wealthy and the poor are being increasingly segregated all over the nation. In some areas of the U.S. you would never even know that the economy was having trouble, and other areas resemble third world hellholes. In most U.S. cities today, there are the “good neighborhoods” and there are the “bad neighborhoods”.

According to a recent Bloomberg article, the “very poor” are increasingly being pushed into these “bad neighborhoods”….

At least 2.2 million more Americans, a 33 percent jump since 2000, live in neighborhoods where the poverty rate is 40 percent or higher, according to a study released today by the Washington-based Brookings Institution.

Of course they don’t have much of a choice. They can’t afford to live where most of the rest of us do.

Today, there are many Americans that openly look down on the poor, but that should never be the case. We should love the poor and want to see them lifted up to a better place. The truth is that with a few bad breaks any of us could end up in the ranks of the poor. Compassion is a virtue that all of us should seek to develop.

Not only that, but the less poor people and the less unemployed people we have, the better it is for our economy. When as many people as possible in a nation are working and doing something economically productive, that maximizes the level of true wealth that a nation is creating.

But today we are losing out on a massive amount of wealth. We have tens of millions of people that are sitting at home on their couches. Instead of creating something of economic value, the rest of us have to support them financially. That is not what any of us should want.

It is absolutely imperative that we get as many Americans back to work as possible. The more people that are doing something economically productive, the more wealth there will be for all of us.

That is why it is so alarming that the ranks of the “very poor” are increasing so dramatically. When the number of poor people goes up, the entire society suffers.

So just how bad are things right now?

The following are 19 statistics about the poor that will absolutely astound you….

#1 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of “very poor” rose in 300 out of the 360 largest metropolitan areas during 2010.

#2 Last year, 2.6 million more Americans descended into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.

#3 It isn’t just the ranks of the “very poor” that are rising. The number of those just considered to be “poor” is rapidly increasing as well. Back in the year 2000, 11.3% of all Americans were living in poverty. Today, 15.1% of all Americans are living in poverty.

#4 The poverty rate for children living in the United States increased to 22% in 2010.

#5 There are 314 counties in the United States where at least 30% of the children are facing food insecurity.

#6 In Washington D.C., the “child food insecurity rate” is 32.3%.

#7 More than 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.

#8 One out of every six elderly Americans now lives below the federal poverty line.

#9 Today, there are over 45 million Americans on food stamps.

#10 According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly 15 percent of all Americans are now on food stamps.

#11 In 2010, 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps.

#12 The number of Americans on food stamps has increased 74% since 2007.

#13 We are told that the economy is recovering, but the number of Americans on food stamps has grown by another 8 percent over the past year.

#14 Right now, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.

#15 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point in their lives before they reach the age of 18.

#16 More than 50 million Americans are now on Medicaid. Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, approximately one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid.

#17 One out of every six Americans is now enrolled in at least one government anti-poverty program.

#18 The number of Americans that are going to food pantries and soup kitchens has increased by 46% since 2006.

#19 It is estimated that up to half a million children may currently be homeless in the United States.

Sadly, we don’t hear much about this on the nightly news, do we?

This is because the mainstream media is very tightly controlled.

I came across a beautiful illustration of this recently. If you do not believe that the news in America is scripted, just watch this video starting at the 1:15 mark. Conan O’Brien does a beautiful job of demonstrating how news anchors all over the United States are often repeating the exact same words.

So don’t rely on the mainstream media to tell you everything.

In this day and age, it is absolutely imperative that we all think for ourselves.

It is also absolutely imperative that we have compassion on our brothers and sisters.

Winter is coming up, and if you see someone that does not have a coat, don’t be afraid to offer to give them one.

All over the United States (and all around the world), there are orphans that are desperately hurting. As you celebrate the good things that you have during this time of the year, don’t forget to remember them.

We should not expect that “the government” will take care of everyone that is hurting.

The reality is that millions of people fall through the “safety net”.

Being generous and being compassionate are qualities that all of us should have.

Yes, times are going to get harder and an economic collapse is coming.

That just means that we should be more generous and more compassionate than we have ever been before.

AnonOps Communications: Molly Katchpole’s Victory Over Bank of America

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:59:23 +0200

AnonOps Communications: Molly Katchpole’s Victory Over Bank of America

Police Leak Police Brutality Police Leaks: Deaths of 8 Puerto Rico Inmates Sparks Probe

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:58:28 +0200

Police Leak Police Brutality Police Leaks: Deaths of 8 Puerto Rico Inmates Sparks Probe :

policeleak:

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s justice secretary says he has opened a criminal investigation against two prison guards after eight shackled inmates drowned in a van engulfed by floodwaters.

Secretary Guillermo Somoza said Tuesday that authorities are reviewing pictures and videos that…

Anonymous: To Hackers Worldwide - THE MISSING LINK – emails between Bank of America's attorneys, e.g., Bryan Cave, and judges!

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:55:15 +0200

Anonymous: To Hackers Worldwide - THE MISSING LINK – emails between Bank of America's attorneys, e.g., Bryan Cave, and judges!:

anoncentral:

Guys, you are great… but there still is one piece missing…

The fraud in the courts across the US was and is conducted by large national law firms, such as BRYAN CAVE, LLP, acting on behalf of BofA, with full collusion by judges.

It is unlikely that it is done…

Anonymous: To Hackers Worldwide - THE MISSING LINK – emails between Bank of America's attorneys, e.g., Bryan Cave, and judges!

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:50:12 +0200

Anonymous: To Hackers Worldwide - THE MISSING LINK – emails between Bank of America's attorneys, e.g., Bryan Cave, and judges!

occupywallstreetposters: Download. Print. Post. Share. We need...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:49:27 +0200

occupywallstreetposters:

Download. Print. Post. Share.

We need to develop alternate energy now.

Italy prime minister Berlusconi confirms he will resign after new budget law is approved with amendments demanded by EU partners - Reuters

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:48:46 +0200

Anonymiss Express: November 17: The Coup at 40 in #Greece

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:44:39 +0200

Anonymiss Express: November 17: The Coup at 40 in #Greece:

anonymissexpress:

It appears we have a big day coming up in Greece, according to a message in Occupy Netherlands.

The Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1973 was a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. The uprising began on November 14, 1973, escalated to an open…

How to start a war, part 1 | You Are Being Manipulated

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:42:44 +0200

How to start a war, part 1 | You Are Being Manipulated:

anonymissexpress:

The game Civilization, by Sid Meir, is one of the most successful video games of all times. Not only does it have a cool soundtrack, but it also simulates the growth of civilization, science, politics and art on a gigantic scale. One of the choices that you have when you play Civilization is what kind of a leader you want to be – a despot that controls his people tightly, a communist head of the Party, or a democratic-elected president. Your choice has massive consequences: a tyrant, for example, can easily force his people to pay taxes or go to war, but his population is not as productive and literate as that of more democratic leaders. A democratic leader has many scientists and artists and merchants, but cannot do what he pleases – his people often frustrate his efforts to raise taxes or to build grandiose projects. Declaring war is also extraordinarily difficult when you are a democratic leader, as the population refuses to go to war unless attacked (and even then).

Of course, if you play as Gengis Khan, it might be easier….

Many politicians are familiar with that problem. Democracies find it difficult to go to war – wars are very expensive (the current cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan war is more than $1 Trillion, about 10X the cost of establishing a large permanent moon base, for example), and they tend to kill people, neither of which makes democratic people very happy.

Nevertheless, wars are important tools in any politician’s arsenal, and so the issue becomes how can you convince populations to go to war? The answer is, of course, manipulation (but you guessed that from the blog’s name, didn’t you?)

Manipulating a population so that it accepts a war is difficult. Wag the Dog was a comedy about doing just that, of course, but the real thing is often more complex and more bloody.

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