Month: April 2012

From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in its lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of the methods employed to restrain freedom of thought. The two phenomena are related. Liberal democratic theorists have long observed that in a society where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must ensure that that voice says the right things. The less the state is able to employ violence in defense of the interests of elite groups that effectively dominate it, the
more it becomes necessary to devise techniques of “manufacture of consent,” in the words of Walter Lippmann over 60 years ago, or “engineering of consent,” the phrase preferred by Edward Bernays, one of the founding fathers of the American Public Relations industry.

Noam Chomsky

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runicbasso:

Hel – Der Tod und Das Madchen by ~WintersKnight

Hel or Hela is the goddess of the underworld in Norse mythology and ruler over the dead who do not go to Valhalla. This includes those who die of natural causes and old age. 

She is the daughter of Loki and Angrboda, and the sister of Fenrir the wolf and Jormungandr the Midgard Serpent.”

I know a certain someone who might greatly enjoy this. Gonna leave it here, for her to stumble upon. 

Dying from perfection. This is beautiful <3

elhieroglyph:

Ankh –This ankh-shaped, gold-sheathed mirror case was taken from the tomb of Tutankhamun in southern Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. The Ankh form, found in many ancient Egyptian tombs, is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character meaning “life.”

Obama Accused Of Lying About Medical Marijuana Laws

Obama Accused Of Lying About Medical Marijuana Laws

musicalixir:

The same person who directed the DOJ to shield torturers and illegal government eavesdroppers from criminal investigation, and who voted to retroactively immunize the nation’s largest telecom giants when they got caught enabling criminal spying on Americans, and whose DOJ has failed to indict a single Wall Street executive in connection with the 2008 financial crisis or mortgage fraud scandal, suddenly discovers the imperatives of The Rule of Law when it comes to those, in accordance with state law, providing medical marijuana to sick people with a prescription.

If mothers do work to equal that of a woman working full-time in an office, then why is it so bad if the State chooses to help single mothers out by means such as food stamps, welfare, WICK, and other programs of that type? It strikes me that there is a horrendous contradiction between the public support that insists that we must be all for stay-at-home moms and the classic anti-welfare line that typecasts every single mom who receives assistance as someone who is morally corrupt and simply attempting to rip off the moral and hard-working taxpayer.
Frankly, it is only possible to pull off the contradiction by typecasting welfare recipients as either being black, drug-using, and riding a Cadillac or white and trash. But, this mysteriously means that we laud the stay-at-home mom while at the same time trying to do away with programs that allow single women to be stay-at-home moms. In fact, in the current climate, it means that the true stay-at-home mom is either upper middle-class or rich. Or, they are in a family that has chosen voluntary poverty (or at least a very lower middle class) in order to make sure that the mom gets to stay at home.
Think about it, if being a stay-at-home mom is a full-time job, then why is it so wrong to help out such a mom financially?

OrthoCuban: So … stay at home moms work full-time? Then why is it so bad if they receive welfare? (via azspot)

and anyway i would rather stay home with my children and school them my damn self and send them out into the world as fully loved and attended to, confident, bright and intelligent beings than shove them off on someone i can’t trust to take care of them the way i do and pray they don’t get rape/ molested, beaten, stolen, killed, poisoned, neglected, or otherwise mistreated. and i know for damn sure aint nobody gonna take care of my babies the way i do, especially since they are black men in training. and if that makes me a target then hey, fuck u. the bigger influence i have on them and the better we bond the better off they will be. so ima stay home and chase them rather than chase a piece of paper.

(via lucifornication)

As Noam Chomsky always says. Women (or people) raising children are doing significant work for the society and they ought to be paid for it.