"You
know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of
newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like
truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the
ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means
of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." -- Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.": Jefferson, Thomas 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809)
"The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.": Stanton, Frank L.
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.": Jefferson, Thomas 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809)
"The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.": Stanton, Frank L.
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TACTICAL BRIEFING #40
Six Revolutionary Scenarios for the Year Ahead
ANUSCHKA BLOMMERS AND NIELS SCHUMM
Hey all you dreamers, schemers and expectant souls out there,
In 2012,
people all over the world shook off the dust of ignorance and idleness
and began to fight for a future that computes. Freedom fights broke out
across the globe: student uprisings in Quebec, Mexico and Chile, Arab
Spring 2.0 in Egypt, austerity protests in Spain, Greece and the UK,
Pussy Riot in Russia, the tiqqunists in France, the Zapatistas in
Mexico, the indignados in Spain, resistance and protests across Japan,
China, Tibet, and most recently, #idlenomore across Canada.
The
global wake up calls of 2012 could intensify and culminate in a Global
Spring … fierce revolts, insurrections, uprisings, regime changes …
stunning mind-shifts in all areas of life!
Here are six revolutionary scenarios that could unfold this year:
- The global economy could hit the iceberg and capitalism could heave like never before.
- #GOLDMAN could go viral and unleash a tsunami of rage against Goldman Sach’s 72 offices worldwide.
- #KICKITOVER – students at Harvard, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge could lead a charge against their neoclassical professors and catalyze a shift in the theoretical foundations of economic science.
- #WORLDPIRATEPARTY – A group of charged up political rabble-rousers, flying under the Blue-Green-Black banner of the World Pirate Party could start winning local, state and national elections.
- #KILLCAP – A team of internet visionaries could marry gaming with activism and get a billion people playing a real-world game to defeat capitalism.
- #AESTHETICO – Glimmerings of a new aesthetic could appear mirage like on the horizon and start eating away at commercial helvetica corpo-cool.
This year, tune in, play jazz … & live a little more on the wild side!
cheers, from all of us here at Adbusters
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forces in Afghanistan will be accompanied by an expansion of illegal
drone operations across the Middle East.
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Pakistan military, which makes his death a contentious issue.
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go to them.
Soldier who survived IED blast in Afghanistan found hanged:
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Attacks in northeast Nigeria leave 13 dead:
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9 killed in Damascus car bomb:
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Syria blames "terrorists" for deadly petrol station blast:
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