Al Margen

Jacque Fresco: Savior of the Human Race

Paradise or Oblivion

All our systems are in crisis

All our systems are in crisis: Competition and greed have led to ever more conflict and chaos.

The only way out is through cooperation and sharing: Justice and freedom for all.

Adamski: Knowledge is useless unless it is combined with action.

World teacher: Nothing happens by itself. Man must act and implement his will.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - revolution of the mind

where are we going ?

CENSORED 2012

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"The News That Didn’t Make the News"

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CENSORED 2012 –
In this volume, there are 500 pages of real news you can use, plus ample analysis that eradicates civil paralysis, and antidotes to our current Truth Emergency that will strengthen societal media literacy.

The mission of Project Censored is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why

Between 700 and 1000 stories are submitted to Project Censored each year from journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned citizens around the world.

With the help of more than 200 Sonoma State University faculty, students, and community members, Project Censored reviews the story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources and national significance. The university community selects 25 stories to submit to the Project Censored panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance. Current or previous national judges include: Noam Chomsky, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Sut Jhally, Frances Moore Lappe, Michael Parenti, Herbert I. Schiller, Barbara Seaman, Erna Smith, Mike Wallace and Howard Zinn. All 25 stories are featured in the yearbook, Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News.

see > Top 25 Of 2012 ("Censored 2012: Stories of 2010-2011")

and STORE: Censored 2012

The Sourcebook for the Media Revolution, The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2010-2011 by Mickey Huff and Project Censored.

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Project Censored is administered through the SSU Sociology Department with financial support from the SSU Instructionally Related Activity Fund, School of Social Science, Media Freedom Foundation Inc. and donations from thousands of supporters around the country.

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see also > Top 25 Archive
Independent News Sources
Featured Articles
Censored Notebook

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Little Boxes

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Little Boxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Little Boxes" is a song written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962, which became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963.

The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It refers to suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky", and which "all look just the same." "Ticky-tacky" is a reference to the shoddy material used in the construction of housing of that time.

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

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see also > what next: If I Had A Hammer

Terence McKenna: Culture is not your friend

North Iowa Tea Party

Some people

have no idea

what socialism is

Circus Maximus

"The Society of the Spectacle"
by Guy Debord

The Society of the Spectacle is a critique of contemporary consumer culture and commodity fetishism. Before the term "globalization" was popularized, Debord was arguing about issues such as class alienation, cultural homogenization, and the mass media.

Debord traces the development of a modern society in which authentic social life has been replaced with its representation: "All that was once directly lived has become mere representation." Debord argues that the history of social life can be understood as "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing." This condition, according to Debord, is the "historical moment at which the commodity completes its colonization of social life."

With the term spectacle, Debord defines the system that is a confluence of advanced capitalism, the mass media, and the types of governments who favor those phenomena. "... the spectacle, taken in the limited sense of "mass media" which are its most glaring superficial manifestation...". The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity. "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes. "rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

In his analysis of the spectacular society, Debord notes that quality of life is impoverished, with such lack of authenticity, human perceptions are affected, and there's also a degradation of knowledge, with the hindering of critical thought. Debord analyzes the use of knowledge to assuage reality: the spectacle obfuscates the past, imploding it with the future into an undifferentiated mass, a type of never ending present; in this way the spectacle prevents individuals from realizing that the society of spectacle is only a moment in history (time), one that can be overturned through revolution.

Debord's aim and proposal, is "to wake up the spectator who has been drugged by spectacular images, through radical action in the form of the construction of situations, situations that bring a revolutionary reordering of life, politics, and art". In the situationist view, situations are actively created moments characterized by "a sense of self-consciousness of existence within a particular environment or ambience".

Debord encouraged the use of détournement, "which involves using spectacular images and language to disrupt the flow of the spectacle."

When Debord says that, "All that was once directly lived has become mere representation," he is referring to central importance of the image in contemporary society. Images, Debord says, have supplanted genuine human interaction.

Thus, Debord’s fourth thesis is "The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

In a consumer society, social life is not about living but about having; the spectacle uses the image to convey what people need and must have. Consequently, social life moves further, leaving a state of "having" and proceeding into a state of "appearing;" namely the appearance of the image.

"In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false."

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Morihei Ueshiba

Economy is the basis of society.

When the economy is stable, society develops.

The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material,

and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

...Morihei Ueshiba...

COMETA

COMETA

COMETA REPORT

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Our Culture in the Blimp of an Eye

Feelings weep like eye lids beam in the morning sun

Beauty passes all ugly memories of the past

Truth never held from the public

Given to all to devour

Problems arise, but controlled within a touch of a magical spell

Magic happens in places never before thought of

Feelings connected through each individual living or dead

Pain is controlled through re-verse psychology

Words describe feelings, pleasure and love in ways never understood

Love encompasses all

Divine beauty stretch all of our imaginations

Politics is a game played by usually the Kings

Queens stands by the Kings

President is like a King

First Lady is like a Queen

Soul is something we are

Body is something we rent out

Mind is something we posses

Heart beats one moment then stops the next

Computers connect the knowledge of our past

Cars drive us from point A to point B

Books open up the imaginations

Lyrics flow through the stations

Poetry opens up the racist

Death is something to look forward to

Living is something of a different stroke of keys

Guitar played in the background

Movies tell a story written down in words

Music touches our souls

Communities are divided in some parts of the world

Poverty is on the rise

Rich are on top of the Pyramid

Conspiracy Theories tell a different story

Who knows who is right or wrong

Laws should be followed

If you cannot use your own common sense

Logic is important in this day and age

Young pregnant beauties ignored

So they fall

Throw away the kids

And run away

Hoping to get with their life some day

Never to forget what they have done

Cops using their power to kill the innocent ones

They never question and get any answers

Don’t they know they work for us

The people

Hidden Secrets are deep in the gutter

Search and you will find the ultimate truth to all that that is.