tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post4720722688865026794..comments2024-03-21T14:41:14.622-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: HeadshotFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-46433120793696689372013-06-26T12:52:08.928-07:002013-06-26T12:52:08.928-07:00As long as the Rich and Powerful have the biggest ...As long as the Rich and Powerful have the biggest boom-box around, their message will predominate.<br /><br />And they have much better resources and psy-ops. Though that may be changing, as long as the internet stays free and easy.<br /><br />There were examples of police violence, mass arrests, liberal use of tear gas and pepper spray. Oakland, Chicago, New York.<br /><br />And some ( we don't know how much ) support from DHS for local police.<br /><br />It drove an Army (?) Sergeant in NYC to harangue a group of police on the street about the proper relationship between civilians and their security forces.<br /><br />The Populus Americanus is among the most highly-propangandized in the world.<br /><br />Everything, from ads to news media to our religion reinforces the concept that we're successful, capitalism serves all of us well, and that anyone or anyplace different from the USA is, well, Barbaric.<br /><br />And silly.<br /><br />http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/showthread.php/80089-Capital-One-s-quot-barbarian-quot-ad-campaign<br /><br />The way I see it, we're due for a major Struggle.<br /><br />The farming, rural community had that in the 50 years or so after the Civil War, labor during that time and up into the 20s and 30s, blacks and minorities in the 50s and 60s.<br /><br />And then came the DFHs during the Vietnam era, the anti-war, anti-establishment movements.<br /><br />We're due for another economic struggle, and OWS ( I sincerely hope ) was the opening shot. US media, corporate controlled and very compliant, immediately and generally protrayed OWS as disaffected barbaric hippies, failures and selfish socialists who, confused and directionless, demanded a "nanny" state from the civilized and moral rest of us.<br /><br />OWS did not have overwhelming public support from the people in general b/c of all that, and that the PIG ( :) ) has in general an immense capacity to adapt to get along even in very sad conditions. The "Endure for a While as Things Get Better". Hope. The one "evil" that Pandora was able to retain in her Jar, which some described as the most pernicious evil of all.<br /><br />My take on Brazil and Turkey and Syria and Egypt and Hungary and who knows where else is that there is a "breaking" point we haven't quite reached yet where we realize that Hope fails and then something spontaneous erupts on a whim or minor incident.<br /><br />We're getting there, and individuals have struck back on their own.<br /><br />On its own, the action in response to the great financial disaster in 2008 is thoroughly understandable once you know who truly runs the country.<br /><br />The rest of us simmer.<br /><br />bbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com