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Semiotics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

• Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branches:

Semiotics for Beginners:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html

• Taking the private jet to Copenhagen
  
  Any celebrity flying the green flag needs glittering eco-credentials. But how do they justify the fleet of customised planes, the luxury homes and the posse of servants?
  
  
  
  Hypocrisy is the vice we find hardest to forgive, but it’s also the one we most enjoy discovering in others. And nothing piques our interest more than eco-hypocrisy as practised by the “green” celebrities who have been spouting green virtue but spewing out hundreds of tons of carbon from their private jets or multiple holiday homes around the globe.
  
  There was Sheryl Crow, who had called upon the public to refrain from using more than one square of toilet paper per visit (“except on those pesky occasions when two or three are required”) and who was leading a Stop Global Warming concert tour across America. It was revealed that while Crow travelled in a biodiesel tour bus, her 30-person entourage followed in a fleet of 13 gas-guzzling vehicles.
  
  John Travolta notoriously encouraged the British public to do its bit to fight global warming — after flying into London on one of his five, yes, five private jets (one of which is a Boeing 707). In 2006 his piloting hobby produced an estimated 800 tons of carbon emissions, more than a hundred times the output of the average Briton, according to the Carbon Trust.
  http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article6931572.ece
  

Wot?!

John's jets produced roughly 800 tons of carbon emissions in
2006. There's even a "carbon trust" set up? Like, what the
hell do they do all day long?

In the public's eye it might be "hypocrisy", but for me it's more
like comedy central, or better, like the expression yelled at me
in basic training, "they look like monkeys trying to fuck a
football."

Flames: The Russians don't look too happy with Obama.

In the name of free speech and stirring controversy and thinking outside the box, my guest is Rabbi Yisrel Dovid Weiss from Neturei Karta here to discuss Zionism and the end of Israel. Rabbi Weiss is the man who gave President Ahmadinejad of Iran an award for NOT being a racist and for understanding the real dangers of Zionism. This is an interview that counters everything we've been told about Israel and Zionism, and Iran in the mainstream media.

So is it our own consciousness or the EMF waves that someone is producing that we think is our mind? We need EMF blockers!

Flames and hrblsh you both mentioned the Ventura show. What if a person wakes up one day and tells themself they need to jump off a cliff!

Three hours after the "Danish text" had been leaked to the Guardian, Lumumba Di-Aping, the Sudanese chairman of the group of 132 developing countries known as G77 plus China, spelt out exactly why the poor countries he represents were so incensed. "The text robs developing countries of their just and equitable and fair share of the atmospheric space. It tries to treat rich and poor countries as equal,"

What the west had failed to grasp, he said, was the very deep hurt that had been growing steadily since the climate negotiations were effectively taken over by heads of state and were conducted outside the UN, the only forum in which poor countries feel they are equally represented.

"This text destroys both the UN convention on climate change and the Kyoto protocol. This is aimed at producing a new treaty, a new legal initiative that throws away the basis of [differing] obligations between the poorest and most wealthy nations in the world,"

"We will not walk out of the talks at this late hour, because we will not allow the failure of Copenhagen. But we will not sign an inequitable deal; we will not accept a deal that condemns 80% of the world population to further suffering and injustice."

Scarlett has many questions to answer and a lot of them are set out here. Much of it
comes down to a key issue: why did he go along with the misrepresentation of intelligence that allowed Tony Blair to make a case for war based on a false prospectus?

Two weeks ago Chilcot asked the right question of the wrong people. In doing so he implicitly conceded that the misrepresentation of intelligence went further than the mere omission of warnings about the limitations of intelligence. He quoted a key claim from Blair’s forward to the dossier: “What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons…”, commenting that: “The Butler Committee, I think, came to a view that it was not a statement it was possible to make on the basis of intelligence.”


Tim Dowse, one of two Foreign Office officials with whom Chilcot had chosen to share this insight, absolved himself of any responsibility: “I have to say I didn’t see the foreword before the document was published.”

But Scarlett did see the foreword before it was published – and had a lot to say about it. If Chilcot wants to know who is responsible for Blair’s overstatement, Scarlett is the man to ask. If he has any appetite for putting Scarlett on the spot, it should be with this question: why did you allow Tony Blair to make a claim that you knew could not legitimately made on the basis of intelligence?

The reality is that it was not an oversight, not an unfortunate omission of caveats. Blair and Scarlett and Alastair Campbell, who actually wrote the foreword, knew exactly what was going on. Scarlett had been advised a few days earlier that the dossier would make a better case for “action” if it dropped the uncertainty that would appear in an authentic intelligence assessment from the JIC. But when Campbell sent him a draft of Blair’s foreword with an obviously false claim, he was concerned only to distance his committee from the claim, not to prevent it being made.

• The First Time I Heard of Burack:
  http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_T_Fife_031009.mp3

“Youth Corps” In Action As Explorer Scouts Seen Policing Christmas Parade
Squad stands to attention with lowly “green shirts” sent to the back of the line

Steve Watson,
Prisonplanet.com
Wednesday, Dec 8, 2009

In the wake of reports that Explorer Scouts are being “trained in post-9/11 law enforcement methods“, a group of youngsters have been captured on video working in tandem with police in St. Petersburg, Florida, at a christmas fair.

We Are Change activists spotted the group roaming the streets during the parade, clearly wearing clothing adorned with police insignia.

When the group were asked what they were doing at the parade, the lead scout became extremely secretive about their association with the local police department and attempted to hide their badges and jackets.

The group described themselves as “very similar” to academy police, and told the activists that they were “looking for lost kids”.

“We are affiliated with them but we do not have the powers of police… we are a part of the department I guess.” the leader of the group told We Are Change, adding that they routinely ride along with officers on active duty.

The young girl seemed to back track after continued questioning, later stating “it is a volunteer organisation, it has nothing to do with the police.”

However, the squad of 14-19 year olds stood to attention, military style, when a police officer arrived on the scene, with lowly “green shirts” ordered to take the back of the line.

“If we went into Martial law or a state of emergency, they’re here to protect everyone else.” one of the other members of the group said when asked why he wanted to be affiliated with the police.

When asked if they had heard of the Hitler Youth, the at-first voluntary but later mandatory youth corps brigade that succeeded the Boy Scout movement In Nazi Germany, the scouts replied that they had.

Police officers in St. Petersburg refused to answer questions regarding the squad of scouts.

Watch the video:

Nearly Done For A Year

On January 1, I will go offline for a year to protest citizen stupidity in the face of obvious fascist usurpation of power over the United States.

Anyone of objective mind and cursory knowledge of real history who bothers to look at the facts at all closely has to face the repulsive truths that I live with every day. But somehow I remain in my own niche, and 99.999 percent of the writers in this country have something better to do than live up to their civic responsibilities. I've come to realize that it isn't entirely the fault of the press, though. A willfully ignorant populace is largely responsible for the fact that we stand on the doorstep of open fascist rule. It has gone so far that I am no longer necessary - it's obvious in every day's news reports. So I will be on strike all of next year - against fluff-loving twits who can't seem to understand that American media paint a capricious mural of lies for them to live in. I fight it every day, and the battle has always been demoralizing, heart-breaking - the fascists have little opposition - and time and again the proles take the next step in fascist imposition grinning like brain-damaged Presbyterians, joyously repeating the latest programmed, self-aggrandizing lies. Reality is driven underground.



America isn't the problem - Americans are. Without popular support, the fascists lose. But are they losing? They thrive in a climate of denial and stupidity. Like scores of other anti-fascist researchers before me, I have no support of any kind. zippo. Bircher Glenn Beck has millions of supporters, and so does every other liar in the mass media. It's those who comprehend the nightmarish situation who are left in the cold. In this climate of stupidity, at least for the next year, I will tune out the sound and fury of programmed idiots and let them have their cake with artificially-sweetened blood frosting.

Power to the people who comprehend and resist authoritarianism in any guise.

Anyone who wants to research fascist conspiracies will find about 5,000 posts in my blogs. Many book loads of serious reading. The information here doesn't have the status of Sarah Palin's ridiculous lies, so no one will line up for them, but they are one fact-facing solution. American dupes are the problem.

- AC

http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2009/12/nearly-done-for-year.html