Holy Cow
The Fraud of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)
INFO:
http://philosophershaze.com/2011/07/03/the-fraud-of-calcutta/
Modern Art Weapon
For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War.INFO:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/cummings3.html
Free(?) Will
"Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul, the Revolution of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the guise of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and the Revolution of 1848 knew nothing better to do than to parody, now 1789, now the revolutionary tradition of 1793-95. In like manner, the beginner who has learned a new language always translates it back into his mother tongue, but he assimilates the spirit of the new language and expresses himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his native tongue."
-Karl Marx
Sam Harris
-Karl Marx
Sam Harris
The Death Penalty Costs $300 Million Per Execution*
"Capital punishment is absurd for a lot of reasons: It's racist, classist, and it doesn't even deter crime. And yet two-thirds of Americans still support the practice, which has been abandoned in every other Western democracy. In the midst of America's great recession, perhaps an appeal to citizens' pocketbooks will change their minds about the death penalty."
-Cord Jefferson
*INFO:
http://www.good.is/post/capital-stupidity-the-death-penalty-costs-california-300-million-per-execution/
http://beadle-bug.tumblr.com/post/3068995681/most-painful-execution-technique-electric-chair
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."*
*-Henry Ford
Slavoj Zizek on charity
Slavoj Zizek on charity
By Any Means Necessary
"... in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery.”-John Brown
(above) in 1846, holding the flag of Subterranean Pass Way, his militant counterpart to the Underground Railroad.
INFO:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_any_means_necessary
"Corrections" Corporation of America
A Wall Street giant, Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for “challenging corrections budgets.” In exchange, the company is asking for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance that the prison would remain at least 90 percent full.INFO:
http://www.disinfo.com/2012/02/private-prison-corporation-offers-to-buy-48-states-prisons/
Bob Mizer & the Golden Age of the American Male
Films From Bob Mizer’s Legendary Athletic Model Guild
Programed by Billy Miller,
in conjunction with the Mizer Foundation
Saturday, February 4th, 7:30pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St San Francisco
INFO:
http://www.ybca.org/bros-hos
Sight Unseen
Artists Television Access, 992 Valencia St., San Francisco, CAFriday, February 3rd, 8:00pm
Short films by/about: Brian Belott • Gregory Kaplowitz • David King • Francis Faye • Jacuzzi Gals • Gilbert & George • Darrin Martin • Peter McGough • Heri Mkocha • M.O.V. • Jessica Plumb • Peter Rose • Alayne Patur Salahuddeen • Scott Treleaven
Programed by: Billy Miller
INFO:
http://www.atasite.org/2012/02/sight-unseen/
Complimentary copies of REVEL IN NYC at door.
(Mr.) Common Sense
"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.""I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
"Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities."
"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
"That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not."
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst."
"My mind is my own church."
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
-Thomas Paine
- - - -
As I went out one morning
To breathe the air around Tom Paine's,
I spied the fairest damsel
That ever did walk in chains.
I offer'd her my hand,
She took me by the arm.
I knew that very instant,
She meant to do me harm.
"Depart from me this moment,"
I told her with my voice.
Said she, "But I don't wish to,"
Said I, "But you have no choice."
"I beg you, sir," she pleaded
From the corners of her mouth,
"I will secretly accept you
And together we'll fly south."
Just then Tom Paine, himself,
Came running from across the field,
Shouting at this lovely girl
And commanding her to yield.
And as she was letting go her grip,
Up Tom Paine did run,
"I'm sorry, sir," he said to me,
"I'm sorry for what she's done."
-Bob Dylan
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Footnote:
To counter the sanitized story of the American Revolution being promulgated by the governing elite at the "Buy-centennial" of 1976, Jeremy Rifkin and others formed the People's Bicentennial Commission. "Although modern-day Tories will attempt to present themselves and the institutions they control - the corporations, the White House - as the true heirs and defenders of the struggle waged by the first American revolutionaries," the commission declared, "we will be celebrating radical heroes like Thomas Paine."
INFO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine
Homeland "Security"
"... the standing army is used not so much against the external enemy as against the internal enemy. Everywhere the standing army has become the weapon of reaction, the servant of capital in its struggle against labour..." -V. Lenin (1905)
INFO:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/20/local-cops-ready-for-war-with-homeland-security-funded-military-weapons.html
http://www.thenation.com/article/164501/paramilitary-policing-seattle-occupy-wall-street
Heil Amerika
Pictured above are 1940s American schoolchildren saluting the flag. The resemblance to the Nazi salute is uncanny; but actually both are derived from the same ancient Roman gesture. The American version was called "the Bellamy Salute", named after Francis Bellamy, who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance as part of a Columbus Day flag-selling promotion for a magazine. Bellamy, a Baptist minister, was part of a movement to put flags in every school. The placement of flags and the pledge continue to this day, and you can draw whatever conclusions you like from the practice. But during WW2, Americans became uncomfortable with the similarity to the Nazi practice and President Franklin D. Roosevelt rewrote the code and replaced it with the hand-over-the-heart gesture that is common today. Then there's the "under God" part in the wording of the pledge, which is a whole other kettle of crosses. But even leaving "God" out of it, the basic problem with the Pledge of Allegiance and other loyalty oaths is that democracies are founded on the principle that the government owes allegiance to the people, not the other way around.
The God That Never Was
Just as a reminder... "Jesus" didn't write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no archeological evidence of his existence. There are no contemporaneous accounts of his life or death: no eyewitness accounts, or any other kind of first-hand record. All the accounts come from decades or centuries later; the gospels themselves all come from later times - and the earliest promoters of Christianity had no concept of an earthly Jesus at all. In short, there is no empirical evidence whatsoever that this mythical being ever existed... Sorry.INFO:
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/time.html
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