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shock&awe

I am here for Networking

About Me

"People must take their lives and work into their own hands. Only through their own struggle for liberation will ordinary people come to comprehend their true nature, suppressed and distorted within institutional structures designed to assure obedience and subordination.""Learn how to love and forget how to hate"

My Interests

bicycle riding, the beach, photo taking, music, sunshine, history learning, current affairs, international politics, environmentalism, nature, propaganda, democracy, freedom, power, peace, war, ideology, socialism, fascism, anarchy, capitalism, solidarity, dissent, progressive thinking, the truth.....

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who cares about the health of the planet and it's inhabitants more than power, wealth, privilege and the accumulation of manufactured wants.

Music:

the beatles, dj shadow, sublime, kool keith, mr dibbs, stereolab, bob marley, built to spill, modest mouse, mf doom, ugly duckling, the people under the stairs, biggie, beatnuts, sonic youth, rjd2, the velvet underground, quannum, beck, zeppelin, blackalicious, del, curtis mayfield, black sabbath, pink floyd, pavement, a-track, bob dylan, death in vegas, unkle, cut chemist, massive attack, marvin gaye, wu-tang, nirvana, tom petty, elo, handsome boy modeling school, non phixion, , the doors, quasi, apathy, brother ali, sneaker pimps, portishead, squarepusher.......

Movies:

Godfather, Godfather pt.2, PulpFiction, Team America World Police, GoodFellas, Planet of the apes, Serpico, Kids, KillBill's, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Year Zero, zeitgeistmovie.com(parts I and III)

Television:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

Books:

Dellinger-From Yale to Jail. Chomsky-On Power & Ideology. Fisk-The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Banksy-Wall and Piece. Orwell-1984. Orwell-Animal Farm. Chomsky-Manufacturing Consent. Tolkien-LOTR. Leo Tolstoy-War and Peace. Hesse-Siddhartha. Kitson-Low intensity operations. Howard Zinn-The peoples history of the United States. Jensen-EndGame. Rudolf Rocker-Anarcho Syndicalism.

Heroes:

David Dellinger, Chomsky, Nader, Howard Zinn, Leo Tolstoy, Hugo Chavez, Malcolm X, Che, Robert Fisk, John Pilger to name afew.

My Blog

Make no mistake about it...

...this is fascism! "Although it is in reality a treaty between Iraq and the US, Mr Bush is describing it as an alliance so he does not have to submit it for approval to the US Senate. Iraqi critics o...
Posted by shock&awe on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:05:00 PST

War Criminals Must Fear Punishment.

"Bolton himself maintains that my attempt to bring him to justice reflects a 'move towards lawlessness and fascism'. This is an interesting commentary on an attempt to uphold a law which arose from th...
Posted by shock&awe on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:19:00 PST

More "good" news

Boeing, Dow Chemical Fined 926 Million Over Nuclear Pollution *The reason I refer to this as "good" news is because it's obscene that this would happen in the first place....
Posted by shock&awe on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:58:00 PST

About damn time

End of The Road For Hummer After Sales of 'World's Most Anti-Environmental Car' Dive...
Posted by shock&awe on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:55:00 PST

Democratic saw-off: Florida and Michigan delegates get half vote each

Democratic saw-off: Florida and Michigan delegates get half vote each The entire US election circus is a scam....it is a very old and very well known fact that the US government is one party with two...
Posted by shock&awe on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:07:00 PST

Carter: Israel Has 150 Nukes...condemns Israels illegal occupation.

"former President Jimmy Carter has revealed he believes Israel has at least 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal. The Israeli government has never acknowledged its nuclear weapons program. But its exist...
Posted by shock&awe on Wed, 28 May 2008 02:26:00 PST

Word from the wise...

"The commission called for more moderation in democracy and a return to passivity. It said the 'institutions of indoctrination' - schools, churches - were not doing their job, and these had to be hars...
Posted by shock&awe on Wed, 28 May 2008 04:18:00 PST

Navigating The Great Turning From Empire To Earth Community

"Our world is not governed by democratically elected governments. It is ruled by global financial institutions in the service of financial speculators who exchange trillions of dollars daily in search...
Posted by shock&awe on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:00:00 PST

Heres to another 60 years of apartheid.

Hitting 60th anniversary, Israel gets nostalgic for the old days First off, I would like to say that the CBC is trash. Complete self serving propaganda. A disgrace to my home country and everything it...
Posted by shock&awe on Mon, 12 May 2008 06:46:00 PST

Israeli War Crimes

New Israeli settlements will cloud peace talks: Abbas "We can't understand these settlement activities at a time we're talking about final status negotiations," Abbas said. Israel will not be stopped ...
Posted by shock&awe on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:55:00 PST