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Politics / Propaganda Inc 

This is an Interview  with Dr Nancy Snow (taken from Guerrilla News.com) who has published a book called Propganda Inc. Good reading in our times of controled and filtered information. 

Here's an excerpt:

"When you hear terms like ‘democracy’, ‘peaceful co-existence’, and ‘diversity’ — these are coded terms for, really, promoting commercial interests and a consumer-driven culture. That should concern us a bit because the more that we are appealed to as consumers, the less we are appealed to as citizens… the less sense of knowledge and understanding we have as citizen agitators. And it’s important, really, to be agitators within a free and open society.

If that’s what we are.

But when we hear about promoting the American way of life, you need to understand that in a political-economic context. It’s really more about promoting the notion that official sources have of power… and promoting what the official sources of that economic power say. Because economic power is private power. Economic power is also the State, the government, working in concert, in a healthy marriage, with private power. So the government really acts as a shadow to private power.

Now, what is private power? Private power would be the very, very top levels of the multi-national corporations that are really promoting, now, a commercial culture of people, not working truly independently, but for conglomerates. That is, a way of life that is really getting away from ownership at the grass-roots level and giving up ownership, giving up power to incredibly concentrated avenues of power that are really more totalitarian than they are democratic."

Dr Nancy Snow interviewed by Stephen Marshall.

Read the Full Article.

 

Politics / Propaganda and Control of the  Public Mind

Noam Chomsky

About 9 / 11
MIT Conference  From ZNET


On Propaganda 
Cold War
Cuba
(real audio Files at Salon)




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12/11/01 President Bush's top political advisor met Sunday with the country's entertainment titans in Beverly Hills in an attempt to enlist Hollywood in persuading the world that Americans are the good guys in the war on terrorism.  Read article from: La Times
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. Interconnections / Declaration of Omni-Culture 
This text is a trip  for those of you, like me, who believe that we are just a small part of an indissociable entity called life.

Here's an excerpt:

"We hereby declare the age of limitation over!

 The problems of his-story were all derived from the externally impressed notion that reality is limited. This is how THEY have retained control for all these aeons. Who are THEY?

 THEY are the ones outside of yourself. THEY are the ones who pretend they are somehow “not you”. How can that be, when you are a fragment of an infinite hologram which contains all things within it, stored within the divine proportions of angles? All things, including THEM.

 And THEY cease to be, once they are YOU.  

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We have liberated the code of reality, and we transmit it freely for all who will listen!

 The codes are contained within myths which are also mathematical formula, which morph into technologies which give access to hyper-states, within which, are the stories of infinity, forever phasing and interlocking with the holographic hyper-angles of consciousness.

 Humanity has been making the mistake of simply looking at a single ONE of these angles, believing it to be the only one which exists, the empire of competition, duality, hierarchies.

 If we wish to liberate the cycle of his-story from the tyranny of endless conflict, then a new angle must be taken!

This angle points in all directions: Omni-point. Hyperaxis.

Read the rest

 
. . . Freedom / RAJNEESH or Osho, 

There is a lot of controversy and odd stories around this man. Take it or leave it, ultimately it doesn't really matter. I would not follow anyone or anything, but I do try to let anything and anyone inspire me in some way.

I know nobody that bends my mind so exquisitely has this man. He had no fear of any institutions and had great knowledge from both western and eastern world. Everything I read from him makes me smile and breathe. It is full of contradictions, like life, his message remains alive and free.

"Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual. Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou. Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand it as a cosmic joke you will never be able to understand the ultimate mystery. I am all for jokes, I am all for laughter."

Osho on  death and God simultaneously|


Creating a conscious world

 

. "That right time never comes.
It is not a story only about that poor man, it is the story of millions of people, of almost all. They are all waiting for the right moment, the right constellation of stars.... They are consulting astrology, going to the palmist... inquiring in different ways what is going to happen tomorrow.

Tomorrow does not happen ― it never has happened. It is simply a stupid strategy of postponement. What happens is always today."

"To be frank with you - which usually I am not - I don't know who I am. Knowledge is not possible here where I am. Only the knower is left, the known has disappeared; only the container is left, the content is no more."

"I am not here to fulfill anybody's prophecy. And why should I? ...I am here to be myself. I am not a prophet, and I am not here to deliver somebody from their sins. I am not here to bring an age of religion. All these things are mediocre and stupid."

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"My way has been described as that of the heart, but it is not true. The heart will give you all kinds of imaginings, hallucinations, illusions, sweet dreams -- but it cannot give you the truth. The truth is behind both: it is in your consciousness, which is neither head nor heart."

"I am not interested at all to convert anybody to my ideology - I don't have any. Secondly, I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom."

"I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads. I don't have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing - but don't ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all. I am with existence."



Photo and text captures from his "organized legacy"

. Freedom / Andrew Cohen

For those of you that can read about topics such as enlightenment and ego without getting your body hair to rise, this man has published a magazine called What is enlightenment? and has manage to interview almost all the wise people I had come to admire or being curious about through the years and they have also put a bunch of other lesser known  people from all spheres of activities, art, science, all religions. Their interviews have assembled many different views that give a very inspired vision of life from all angles. 

Himself about Enlightenment

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