Conspiracy theorist: the titles for those who dissent and the Patriot Act

The most extreme way to get rid of those who are fighting for freedom and justice is jail or killing those who dare to speak up. Susan Lindauer has been in prison. Patriot Act was used.



Another way is the labeling and using expressions to stop the debate:

"This is conspiracy theory. " End of discussion.



“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy enough. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Herman Goering, Nazi leader



America is always on the verge of a terrorist attack. Sounds familiar?

Bella Ciao Syria

On Thursday I went to my Labour Party ward meeting. Afterwards I was speaking to a longstanding member who I hadn't realised was originally from Syria. He spoke about his distress about the massacres and slaughter that is happening in his homeland. Every day he receives emails and graphic videos with shocking images and news. At my request he sent me information and a link to a Google News Group on Syria.

I clicked on its Youtube links and was pretty horrified at what I saw. Dozens of different amateur videos showing countless people being shot, dying and dead in large pools of blood. Crying relatives and friends risking their own lives to pick up up bodies and the wounded being shot at themselves. Shaky Pictures of unidentified gunmen with telescopic rifles on the roof tops of tower blocks. Tanks firing at crowds of fleeing and unarmed civilians. Warning: this link is very, very graphic. Mainstream media just cannot show these pictures. Simply and utterly dreadful. Words (for once) fail me.

Hat-tip for Youtube video above to TheTollundWoman (not graphic)

Slavoj Zizek at Occupy Wall Street

I'm amazed by the silence of intellectuals that are failing in doing any kind of anti-establishment activism but I just found out that the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has been at Occupy Wall Street last Sunday.

He is one of the few that are active and I want to thank him for that. What I like the most about him is exactly what some people don't like: his passion and his inquietude.

I hope that his action helps others to see the importance of guiding the new generation in having a better future. Slavoj is very charismatic and I attribute that to his life experiences. It seems he learned from all he has been through not only intellectually and I don't think he would be satisfied with an academical life.

He would not be happy claiming "I support Occupy Wall Street" in a five minutes video sat on a table with a bookshelf behind him. He went to the Liberty Plaza and spoke to the youth.

He wrote articles using a pen-name criticizing his own book and a book that didn't exist. Read here Robert Boynton's article if you want to know more about Slavoj Zizek.

The two videos and the transcription of what he said is at Occupy Wall Street. I will copy this story he told in part one:

"A guy was sent from East Germany to work in Siberia. He knew his mail would be read by censors. So he told his friends: Let’s establish a code. If the letter you get from me is written in blue ink , it is true what I said. If it is written in red ink, it is false. After a month his friends get a first letter. Everything is in blue. It says, this letter: everything is wonderful here. Stores are full of good food. Movie theaters show good films from the West. Apartments are large and luxurious. The only thing you cannot buy is red ink.

This is how we live. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink. The language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom war and terrorism and so on falsifies freedom. And this is what you are doing here: You are giving all of us red ink."

Slavoj Zizek

We need red ink!

Gigi Ibrahim in US learning how to be an Egyptian socialist revolutionary

When the revolution started she had around one thousand friends at Facebook. Now if you go to her profile, 3094 friends, take a look at her pictures and see the effects of a revolution backed by US: everything is happiness! She is smiling and her pictures are so inspiring and everything is so western that we believe that democracy and west are inseparable. This is her favorite picture you can read her caption:

Gigi Ibrahim

one of my all time favorite pictures, this was 2005 in D.C. first time in snow!! ohh the good old days, i want snow :( like now!

"The good old days." (click at the image to read)

This article "Arab Spring: Lies and Intervention", by Globalresearch.ca is a must-read for those who want to understand the Arab Spring. This is the part about Egypt:



"Due to being inspired by the success of the Tunisian protests, the Egyptian people launched their own protest movement, calling for the overthrow of US puppet Hosni Mubarak. However, the US was busy co-opting the protest movement.



The US used the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as a cover to help co-opt the protest movement. Ironically, the NED is not used for the spreading of democracy, rather it was established by the Reagan administration to aid in the overthrow of foreign governments, after the CIA’s covert operations were revealed. The NED was supported “As a bipartisan endowment, with participation from the two major parties, as well as the AFL-CIO and US Chamber of Commerce, the NED took over the financing of foreign overthrow movements, but overtly and under the rubric of ‘democracy promotion.’” [6] Thus, the US supported both Mubarak and the protesters, in a bid to make sure that no matter what occurred, America would still get its way.



The civil society groups had a major influence on Egyptian activists as in May 2009 the activists

"spent a week in Washington receiving training in advocacy and getting an inside look at the way U.S. democracy works. After their training, the fellows were matched with civil society organizations throughout the country where they shared experiences with U.S. counterparts. The activists [wrapped] up their program this week by visiting U.S. government officials, members of Congress, media outlets and think tanks." [7] (emphasis added)

Thus, due to the US aiding the activists, the Americans ensured that the protesters owed them a debt and that US interests would be secure even if Mubarak was ousted.

The US also had deep military ties to Egypt, seeing as how they were the largest recipient of US foreign aid next to Israel. Also, the US wanted to make sure that Israel wasn't threatened, as both nations were worried that a new government in Egypt might cancel the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

While the Egyptian military is currently in control until elections, no matter what occurs, America will still have its way."

Update: September,8, 2011

I have some updates for this post cause I don't want to do another with the name of someone that I should not have even care. I don't have time now so I will just put the quotations she has at her FB profile. Why Nike's slogan is one of them I have no idea and why Marx "Every struggle is a class struggle." is another that sounds like an irony. But this middle-class girl, she is a girl, is not supposed to be taken as seriously as I thought. I'll do the rest of the update later.

These are her favorite quotes at Facebook:

Every struggle is a class struggle (Marx)

Get busy living or get busy dying (Shawshank)

I am on purpose (ME)

a man who dare to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life (Darwin)

Just Do IT (nike)

all the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on (Henry Ellis)

Believe that life is worth living & your belief will create the fact (William James)

Freedom is earned not given (NOt sure)

KNow Your Rights (NOt Sure)

Look at this video and I believe I do not need to add anything.

This is so funny! Who said "Facebook Generation"? It is so right! If I had seen it before I would not even care about publishing about a woman whose smartphone lacks an Arabic keyboard. But at the same time it is good to make people see how US co-opts people that are willing to have their 15 minutes of fame to create a reality that is not true and to distort facts.

The real activists, that were fighting years before, have nothing to do with this display of immaturity and lack of activism and politics understanding the video below shows. 

It is a mockery and when she says "I took a class." answering how she became an activist Jon Steward reaction is... you have to see it. I assure you the fun. Sad, but funny.

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JS: How did you end up in Tahir Square during the protests and how did you end up becoming known as part of this group that helped Egypt rise up against Mubarak?

Gigi: I took a class.

JS: Would you like to say that one more time for me?

Gigi: Yes. I took a class at the American University in Cairo, "The social mobilization under authoritarian regime".

(laughs)

"I was very out of touch with the opposition movement because it is not something you read on the paper or it is advertised. No you don't find that. So, you have to get in touch with the right people I guess."

The class was a great to learn what was the history of it, what was happening.

I really was unaware that there was such an opposition movement that was great and happening for decades, with ups and downs but.

We have a great speaker who actualy a great blogger, an activist himself, Hossam El-Hamalawy, and I knew him I got to meet a lot of people I went to one protest and the rest is history. I was in Tahir January, 25." (emphasis added)

A revolution is not done by phone.

Make heads of states see that people exists: the revolution won't be televised

Revolution people have in their minds whenever the word is pronounced. It was one revolution in the history of humankind. Do you remember the Copernican revolution?

Traditional revolution, where there is a party or someone to speak to the revolutionaries with the program ready and hierarchical posts with people to take them, seems to be in some people's mind as the only possible way to revolutionize.

There are many kinds of revolutions and ways of revolution and what is happening now in Europe is not being taken away from Europeans citizens by the mainstream media.

If one wants to know about what is really happening it is necessary to search at twitter, facebook and go to the streets.

Help reach the post-revolutionary period: the time to argue about agendas, how to achieve the goals, explain ideologies that now are just being understood by those who are really committed, in short, making tangible and comprehensible what in a revolution can only be abstract is the best part and most important of revolutions.

Egypt is there they are fighting the post-revolutionary era.

Just remember that in revolutions refrigerators, computers, fans, jobs, happiness, husband or wife won't be falling from the sky. At least it didn't happen till the moment

But Please! Don't give up! Liberty, freedom and respect have to be conquered. The word "change" has to be returned to the people and not be a presidential propaganda motto.

Funny, critics that people are not active, they don't think, they only trust the media, they are in total apathy, don't exercise their citizenship anymore and loads of complains... when something starts... it's  also criticized. Hard, hard to understand and to fight this way. I also have my recipe but it is not time to exchange them. Time to follow what is really happening at the streets, not at the computer.

The crowd is not applauding anymore, the crowd is part of the process. But it's not enough to some people. For a revolution far from indoctrination. We know what we don't want.

The revolution won't be televised.

Update:

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Update:

Channels for the Spanish:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/motionlook

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