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Carl Sagan's opinion on media:
...The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance...
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism.
We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?
~ Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
It's all happened as he feared it would through the stratification of society. He also said:
This world as we know it is only just one brief moment that appears to us to be an endless horizon of time... this time grants comfort... and this comfort breeds complacency... and from complacency stems ultimate stupidity and eventual destruction.~ Carl Sagan
More discussion at this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021884292
Thanks for finding it. Here's the full documentary. It's a funny thing to watch, not like the book.
The Secret Life of Plants - Hi-res
This is a higher resolution version of the classic and rare 1979 documentary.
Even on the lower levels of life, there is a profound consciousness or awareness that bonds all things together.
A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man." Essentially, the subject of the film is the idea that plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain.
This sentience is observed primarily through changes in the plant's conductivity, as through a polygraph, as pioneered by Cleve Backster. The book also contains a summary of Goethe's theory of plant metamorphosis.
http://www.steampunknaturalist.com/blog.html
Stevie Wonder sings throughout the many scenes and recitations of words of gurus. First class woo. It was a pleasing idea, close to indigenous peoples' beliefs of the oneness of life on Earth.
'The check is in the mail' Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to hear! We appreciate it so much!
We don't want for 'the illuminati to kill you off, shapeshift your soul into a Republican Teabagging Fox News Pundit who can't spell and lies like Hell.' Pretty good there, just keep working on it.
Do you want the story of how Obama went through the Jump Room to Mars story?
Or how Obama was selected by extra-terrestrials to be the Hyper-Dimensional Candidate from...
Uh, I forgot.. somewhere... and the reincarnation or something of an ancient Egyptian king who was sent to Rule, er, Save the Earth?
It's hilarious or scary, if you want to see it that way. And it meant it was all predestined and all...
So my practice is paying off in that style! And here's the proof!
Is Alex Jones Bill Hicks? If not, where does he come from?Alex Jones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
Bill Hicks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks
Anonymous persons on the internet, where nothing is ever wrong, have claimed:
There is a similarity. Putting aside the Bill Hicks similarity, it's certainly interesting that Alex Jones doesn't seem to have a past.
Looking at the first picture, one would never think of Bill Hicks. But looking at the bottom picture, anyone without knowledge of who Bill Hicks was, would very easily assume that to be Alex Jones, al beit a very eccentric Alex Jones.
Alex Jones was part of the Branch Davidians, you know david koresh's lot or so it's said.
Also from another anonymous source with more details:
can anyone show me evidence alex jones existed before bill hicks died
hicks and jones have alot in common
alex jones
bill hicks
4 letters 5 letters
both are from austin texas a hot spot for illuminati mind control programming especially during the times of bill hicks alex jones birth
bill hicks was quite possibly the first person to show to the world the false reality we were programmed to believe in
alex jones is basically playing the same flute just using a different style and tone of song and dance
i think alex jones is bill hicks and i think they are the same person under monarch mind control, alex jones is a personality and so is hicks, in the same body, study mpd, you can have two completely different people in one body people who even look different act different
hicks and jones were both smokers
i think the illuminati one day flipped a switch turned off the hicks bot and turned on the jones bot
maybe its a good faction of the illuminati that programmed the hicks jones robot
anyone remember china beach from the springmeirer books back in the 60ès where they had all those children in cages and shit
Another reliable source says:
Jones would've been 20 at the time Hicks "died", which is about the time Jones arrived on the scene.
People are always saying Jones looks older than he claims..
Now to the ultimate proof!
alex jones is a reptilian shapeshifter this is a real pic of alex jones
why does alex jones look so old for his age
he looks about 48 the age hicks would be if he were alive, well i guess he is lol
he never died
thereès a old video of alex jones and joe rogan talking in a bar in 1997 i think the illuminati reased it from youtube i cant find it joe rogan first time meeting alex jones they were talking about aliens and pyramids and joe rogan couldnt believe alex jones was younger then him because alex jones was so much smarter then joe rogan and looked so much older joe rogan even checked and asked for alex jones id he looked at his drivers license lol
Anyway, this proves that I can copy and paste with the best ot them and spin a yarn as well as they, and you never really know, do you?
FWIW, since the sheeple must be woken up and saved from all of this, there will be no charge whatsoever!
Molly Ivins, on growing up in Texas (1/6) from 1992 Mother Jones fundraiser
This is only the first of 6 parts of the interview. Click on youtube link at the lower bottom right of video to see more videos with Molly Ivins on the side bar on the right.
Molly Ivins
August 30, 1944 - January 31, 2007
Wikipedia http://bit.ly/buklA
C-SPAN: "Women on the Verge" Event Date: 05/06/1992 Program Id: 26024-1.
Uploaded Aug. 30, 2009. Uploader comments:
"I first heard Molly in this program. Thanks, Goddess, and bless her! She lives forever in our hearts!"
Summary: Susan Faludi, Pulitzer prize-winning author of a book on the backlash against feminism in the media and society in the 1990's, and Molly Ivins, political commentator and author, interviewed each other.
Also available on audio-cassette at Amazon:
Women on the Verge!: Susan Faludi and Molly Ivins in Conversation
[AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] http://bit.ly/wVunj
For some text of this interview, go to Mother Jones at this link:
Must-Reads: The Late, Great Molly Ivins on Rick Perry
By Asawin Suebsaeng Aug. 16, 2011
A collection of some of the liberal humorist's sharpest jabs at "Governor Goodhair."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rick-perry-molly-ivins
Enjoy the article, it's a good long read. I really do miss Molly.
Governor Goodhair is ready to fight the Red Menace:
...Molly Ivins makes one of her first observations of just how damn good Rick Perry's hairdo is:
Bush was replaced by his exceedingly Lite Guv Rick Perry, who has really good hair. Governor Goodhair, or the Ken Doll (see, all Texans use nicknames—it's not that odd), is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But the chair of a major House committee says, "Goodhair is much more engaged as governor than Bush was." As the refrain of the country song goes, "O Please, Dear God, Not Another One."
...When the next gubernatorial election cycle came around in Texas, Ivins had even more to say and write about Perry's inadequacies. In her crosshairs this time: the faux-swagger that characterized his debating style:
The Coiffure was in his usual form. As one opponent after another attacked his record, Gov. Rick Perry stood there proudly behind that 35 percent voter support he has so richly earned and simply disagreed. The Coiffure seemed to consider blanket denials a fully sufficient and adequate response.
A lot more on Rick from Molly:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rick-perry-molly-ivins
Thanks for adding that. I clicked to go to youtube from your OP and the game is brilliant.
Especially the part about the saboteur being assigned to nullify the work of the others through misinformation, obfuscation, etc.
This is the assigned role of the media. Their owners are playing this game with us on every issue that divides the world, with constant appeals to baser emotions They profit and control the electorate with manufactured division to stifle logic, reason and problem solving.
The introduction of the Art of War by Sun Tzu is useful to see how sabotage is carried out by those who intend to conquer. Another book I'd suggest is: The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba, described here:
The real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness, and love of nature. So taught the great Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969), founder of the Japanese martial art of Aikido. Aikido is a disciple Ueshiba called the “Art of Peace.”
It offers a nonviolent way to victory in the face of conflict, and he believed that Aikido principles could be applied to all the challenges we face in life—in personal and business relationships, as well as in our interactions with society.
These succinct and pithy teachings are drawn from his talks and writings. The collection is compiled by the renowned modern Aikidoist John Stevens, a disciple of Ueshiba.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Peace-Morihei-Ueshiba/dp/1590304489
I've found Sun Tzu's book to be useful dealing with bureaucracies who are bent on doing the wrong thing, IMO. Here is the Amazon link for Sun Tzu's classic:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/1936041758/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1365033939&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=Sun+Tzu+the+Art+of+War
Thanks for bringing this remarkable presentation to us and I feel much better knowing that there are such excellent teachers and students moving our world forward. I feel energized and refreshed by this.
P. S. I misspoke when I said they always embed, because it's the choice of the youtube channel owner. In this case, CBS wanted to be sure we saw a little bit of advertising. It was worth the wait.
And she was pregnant with his child, too. The Pro-Life right strikes again.
Leader of Army Plot to Assassinate Obama Apparently Attended the '08 Republican Convention as a Pagehttp://www.democraticunderground.com/1014209638
Read it and weep for the kind of youth that are being prepared to go out and kill others in this country. Most likely was exposed to such programming as shown in this more recent recruiting video created for his age group:
Slick, Paranoid Tea Party Video Aims for Violent Insurrection
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101659674
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