Change?

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=879&Itemid=1

"His ( Obama's ) outwardly progressive "change" persona is perfectly calibrated to divert, capture, control, and contain coming popular rebellions. He is uniquely qualified to simultaneously surf, de-fang, and "manage" the U.S. and world citizenry's hopes for radical and democratic transformation in the wake of the Bush-Cheney nightmare."

"Emmanuel ( chosen by Obama for Chief of Staff ) is a former leading member of the corporate-neoliberal Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Formed by business-oriented elites to increase the Democratic Party's distance from labor, environmentalism, blacks, and Civil Rights, the DLC's mission was to steer the party closer to the corporate, imperial, southern, suburban, and racially accomodationist center. It's goal was to advance post-partisan convergence between Democratic and Republican agendas and to impose economically and racially regressive polices underneath the cloak of "progressive" strategy and "pragmatic" "realism."

Emmanuel was a leading Clinton administration agent of the corporate-globalizationist investors-rights bill called the "North American Free Trade Agreement." He is a leading liaison between corporate funding sources and the Democratic Party.

The son a wealthy Israeli doctor, he is a fierce defender of Israel's apartheid regime and its illegal occupation of Palestine.

He played a critical role in favoring conservative and pro-war Democrats over progressive antiwar Democrats during the 2006 congressional primaries."

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To be fair , these men have not even yet assumed their leadership positions. There is great hope for peace, economic and environmental growth and social development.

We have had too much destructive policy for far too long.

I pray that this new administration does not further any foreign or domestic wars,

ends or at least minimizes the war on drugs and expanding prison industry,

stops protecting and enhancing the pro-corporate neo-liberal exploitation of earth

and supports radical protection of natural land and environment.

Speculative non-fiction by William Gibson concerning science fiction.

"The single most useful thing I've learned from science fiction is that every present moment, always, is someone else's past and someone else's future...

If I could magically access one body of knowledge from the real future, I think I'd choose either their history of the ancient past or whatever they might have that most resembles science fiction. The products of two different speculative activities. They'll know a lot more about our past than we do, and trying to reverse-engineer history out of dreams, as I recall, was quite a uniquely exciting activity." ~William Gibson

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026821.600-scifi-special-william-gibson.html

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/index.asp

…I felt that I was trying to describe an unthinkable present and I actually feel that science fiction's best use today is the exploration of contemporary reality rather than any attempt to predict where we are going…The best thing you can do with science today is use it to explore the present. Earth is the alien planet now.

—William Gibson in an interview on CNN, August 26, 1997.

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

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This liar and war criminal has been assaulting the values and stated goals of the United States of America in the present moment and the past. ( since 1980 if you count his father as well.)

But 2009 will strip him of his powers as "the Decider"

and our future awaits...

can the people heal and return to a policy of peace,

or will we further fragment into isolated and paranoid tribes

that use patriotism as an excuse to argue

while we are getting fucked up.

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The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

—William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003^[120]

ABC glasnost forces Ayers to articulate a defense... this is media as a pro-government weapon.

The aggressive opinions of this interviewer betray him as prosecutor, not reporter.



The Weather Underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical organization The Weathermen. The group's goal was to "bring the (Vietnam) War home" through acts of terrorism.

* "We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. That's really the part that I think is the hardest for people to understand. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and allow the country that you live in to murder people and to commit genocide, and you sit there and you don't do anything about it, that's violence." -Naomi Jaffe

* "Once Richard Nixon was elected president and inaugurated in January 1969, we were targeted, bam, bam, bam, by a very sophisticated, advanced, counterintelligence program; At the same time, by very crude and violent police." -Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party

* "This pattern of harassment is going on against the Black Panther Party across the country. On Friday, the Watts office of the Black Panther Party was bombed and demolished. Last week the Des Moines office was bombed. They can't stop anything we're doing as a legitimate political organization so they come in and shoot us and shoot tear gas at us like they've lost they minds." -Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party