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Description Top left: "How Media Controls Your Mind (Conditioning Through Entertainment), Part I"

Alan Watt: How The Media Controls Your Mind (11 minute video): [link]

Top right: "United States of Apathy"

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing." -John Berger

Bottom left: "Profiting From Misery"

11-11-10: US prepares permanent Iraq occupation: Defense Secretary Robert Gates signaled that the US is prepared to scrap a 2011 deadline for withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq.

"This is what you're proud of when you wave your little flag: a sovereign nation brutalizing a wetted paper bag" -Scott Sturgeon

Bottom right "'We Don't Torture'"

"A prison my country underwrote in paradise" -Propagandhi

"By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalization for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, 'there's going to be a joke coming,' there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.

Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, 'he's doing a joke...' there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now, too, 'Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart.' Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! 'Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing.'

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamn dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! 'Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that.' God, I'm just caught in a fucking web. 'Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar...'

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you? 'What didya do today, honey?' 'Oh, we made ah, we made ah, arsenic ah, childhood food now, goodnight.' [snores] 'Yeah, we just said, you know, is your baby really too loud? You know?' [snores] 'Yeah, you know the mums will love it.' [snores]

Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?" -Bill Hicks on Marketing, from his 1990's standup routine, Revelations.

Coca-Cola Kills Labor Union Activists with Paramilitary Death Squads in Colombia: [link]

John Pilger, the New Rulers of the World Global Institutions (53 minute documentary): [link]

The multi-billion dollar sportswear company Nike admitted yesterday that it "blew it" by employing children in Third World countries but added that ending the practice might be difficult:" [link]

The largest Coca-Cola plant in India is being accused of putting thousands of farmers out of work by draining the water that feeds their wells, and poisoning the land with waste sludge that the company claims is fertiliser: [link]

Fuck America
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