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The pig who pepper sprayed the UC Davis students:
http://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/13023795840/d0x-uc-davis-pepper-spraying-officer-lt-john-pike
Lieutenant John Pike
530-752-3989
japikeiii@ucdavis.edu
Let him know your thoughts about his actions.

Occupy Wall Street Official Declaration:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/first-official-release-from-occupy-wall-street/

Fuck OBAMA, Fuck Goldman Sachs, Fuck the Koch brothers, Fuck Mitt Romney, Fuck Ron Paul, Fuck GE, Fuck Wall Street.

SUPPORT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING CORPORATE "PERSONHOOD"

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. "
- Henry Ford

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin

"This country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and monied incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling and riding over the plundered plowman and the beggar"
-Thomas Jefferson

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will."

- Frederick Douglass

On Isra-HELL & Palestine:
if i had a son named Sam who was getting beat up everyday @ school, i would change schools. if he still got beat up in the new school (assuming i ♥ Sam & want him to be : ) & peaceful) i would have to face the reality that he must be doing something anti-social. now, i could address his problem & deal with it or i could call all the other kids anti-Samites and force them to accommodate his behavior. seems to me everyone would hate him more & Sam would grow up neurotic and anti-social. logical?

"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs....But if they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs. They should seek to convert the Arab heart."
-Mahatma Gandhi

**HASBARA: refers to the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. Using contemporary euphemisms, it is Public diplomacy for Israel, or using a pejorative interpretation, then it is apologia. Israel portrays itself as fighting on two fronts: the Palestinians and world opinion. The latter is dealt with hasbara. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.

The seven propaganda techniques (according to the "Hasbara Campus Manual" http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf) :

-Name calling: through the careful use of words, then name calling technique links a person or an idea to a negative symbol.

-Glittering generality: Simply put, glittering generality is name calling in reverse. Instead of trying to attach negative meanings to ideas or people, glittering generalities use positive phrases, which the audience are attached to, in order to lend positive image to things. Words such as "freedom", "civilization",...

-Transfer: Transfer involves taking some of the prestige and authority of one concept and applying it to another. For example, a speaker might decide to speak in front of a United Nations flag, in an attempt to gain legitimacy for himself or his idea.

-Testimonial: Testimonial means enlisting the support of somebody admired or famous to endorse and ideal or campaign.

-Plain folks: The plain folks technique attempts to convince the listener that the speaker is a 'regular guy', who is trust-worthy because the are like 'you or me'.

-Fear: See fear.

-Bandwagon: See bandwagon.

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