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Retired Philly Police Captain Ray Lewis arrested at #OWS this morning participating in civil disobedience.
Photo by Lauren Thorpe
Wow that’s an image…
wow.
Cops arresting a police officer.
The Trust said the report, titled Fear And Hope - The New Politics Of Identity, “paints a disturbing picture of our attitudes towards each another and the unknown”.
“It also graphically highlights the dangers that lie ahead if the issues highlighted in the research are not addressed.
“Fear And Hope throws down a challenge to the political parties to really understand what is happening in the body politic and then do something about it.
Skilluminati Research has nothing to do with the United States or the US military and I personally view all 195 “legitimate” nation-states on Earth as equally damaging to human progress. As Doug Stanhope puts it, nationialism is “baggage from dead people.” All governments are founded on violence and maintained by exploitation. I am very much indebted to the work of Curtis Gale Weeks, John Robb, Mark Safranski, and everyone at Dreaming 5GW and Small Wars Journal, but our language has some differences. I am unlike most 5GW bloggers in that I’m not worried about the future of the US as a global superpower. I’m writing for an audience very much like myself: post-nationalism, post-racism, post-religion human beings with no respect for authority, national borders or even the laws of physics.
Democrats help radical conservatives by accepting the deficit frame and arguing about what to cut. Even arguing against specific “cuts” is working within the conservative frame. What is the alternative? Pointing out what conservatives really want. Point out that there is plenty of money in America, and in Wisconsin. It is at the top. George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at UC, Berkeley, analyzes the metaphors conservatives use to frame issues and exposes what they really want.
Maybe if “how to write for modern audience” bloggers stopped telling us to write at a 6th grade lvl ppl would be less dumb… Sigh. Prob not