Posted in Eugene, Oregon, culture, life, opinion, social justice, tagged American Empire, cell phone, Empire, hierarchy, patriarchy, relationships of power, resitance, social justice, the state, uglysister, video on September 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
More fun paranoia facts:
Admit it – if a government worker approached you and gave you a listening and locating device that the police state could activate at will (and that might give you cancer) and told you to put it in your pocket and keep it close at all times – you would have resisted.
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Posted in Eugene, Oregon, crazy, culture, life, tagged American Empire, artificial intelligence, big dog, Empire, hierarchy, imperial walker, patriarchy, relationships of power, robot, the state, uglysister, video on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So never mind the global credit crisis and how it portends the decline of the American Empire. The world may be out of money thanks to crooked mortgage companies, but no worries. The US (or whatever consortium of transnational corporations) will maintain its hegemonic position thanks to this:
It would seem that people [...]
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Posted in Eugene, Oregon, Gender, life, opinion, politics, social justice, tagged abuse of power, American Empire, Eugene, gender equality, hierarchy, Oregon, Palin in Alaska, patriarchy, rape, rape kits, relationships of power, Sarah Palin, sexual violence, social justice, the state, video, worst political decision ever on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After charging rape vitims for the rape kits used to investigate their rapes as Mayor of Wasilla (and looking totally fuckable doing it!), Sarah Palin continued to damage and marginalize women in her community as she gained power. As Governor of Alsaska, crazy-eyes-McPalin’s anti-feminista agenda coincided with a personal vendetta as she further undermined the safety and security of Alaskan women:
What [...]
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Posted in Eugene, Oregon, culture, history, life, opinion, politics, social justice, tagged 1898, American Empire, Cuba Libre, debt-relief, dictatorship, Ecuador, Empire, empire for liberty, Empire's Workshop, genocide, Guatemala, hegemon, hierarchy, imperial republic, Iraq, louisiana purchase, Manifest Destiny, McCain, neo-liberalism, Palin, patriarchy, Race and Manifest Destiny, reification, relationships of power, Sarah Palin, school of the americas, social justice, The other September 11, the state, ugly sister, uglysister, water-boarding on September 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So how does it feel? I comply, daily. I reify. I reproduce the relationships of power and domination with every move I make within this state-sanctioned routine I call my life.
I consent, and furthermore, I benefit. If the global system was a huge pyramid (scheme), I would be positioned with other over-educated people who [...]
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