On Plutocracy, War, Agression, Propanganda,

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PLUTOCRACY

1. Government by the wealthy

2. A controlling class of the wealthy

Examples of PLUTOCRACY

1. If only the wealthy can afford to run for public office, are we more a plutocracy than a democracy?
2. Corporate greed and a growing (add the name a country of your choice) plutocracy

OR examples from another Dictionary:

PLUTOCRACY

1) Form of government where control of the political system and its institutions lie in the hands of a bunch of rich arrogant arseholes. Typically characterized by corruption, shallowness, trifling, squabbling, and by sell outs, they ruin everything for everyone else.

2) Any organization that is run by one or more arrogant arseholes that are either ignorant of, or don't care, that they ignore benefits for everyone else.

QUOTES WORTH THINKING ABOUT:-

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.

Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action!

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

(Albert Einstein)

To initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime, it is the supreme
international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

-Nuremberg Tribunal

"I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims, did not have weapons of mass destruction," said Galloway. "I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning. Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong, and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies."

-George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, 05/17/05
before Senate hearing.

"Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them."

-Harold Evans

"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities:

Voltaire

"Today democracy is a facade of plutocracy.
Because the peoples will not tolerate naked plutocracy, power is nominally turned over to them, while real power rests in the hands of the plutocrats. In democracies, whether republican or monarchical, the statesmen are marionettes, and the capitalists are the wire pullers: they dictate the political guidelines, they control the voters by buying public opinion, through business and social connections [they control] higher government officials ...

The plutocracy of today is more powerful than the aristocracy of the past, because nothing stands above it except the state, which is its tool and helper.":

Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi,
"Pan-european" publicist and political figure, in his book
Praktischer Idealismus ("Practical Idealism"),
Vienna, 1925.

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.'

-Daniel J Boorstin:

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

- Albert Einstein

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

- Diderot

Censorship, Gagging and the Repression of Thought

A FEW QUOTES ON CENSORSHIP, GAGGING, THOUGHT CONTROL, LIES, REPRESSION OF THOUGHT & THINKING, PROPAGANDA & OTHER EVIL POLITICAL TOOLS

LET PEOPLE POWER MAKE THE CHANGE, kick out the Evil, the Corrupt, the Immoral, the Lie speakers, the Hypocrites, the Cheats, the Crony's and the nepotists......................... you know who they are!!!

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?"

- Juvenal


" If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job."

- John Berry, Iii, Library Journal, October 1999


"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."

- Charles Bradlaugh


"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "

- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)

"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage."

- Winston Churchill

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! -of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."

- Winston Churchill

"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..."

- Henry Steel Commager

"Burning is no answer."

- Camille Desmoulins' reply to Robespierre, January 7, 1794, on burning his newspaper, Le Vieux Cordelier

"If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas and I believe that is the truestdefinition of what we do it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas."

- Graceanne A. Decandido

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953

"Every burned book enlightens the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."

- Euripides, Greek tragic poet (480 or 485 B.C. - 406 B.C)

"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me."

- Larry Flynt

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."

- Benjamin Franklin, 1730

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."

- Alfred Whitney Griswold, Essays on Education

"One man's vulgarity is another's lyric."

- John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court justice, 1971

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."

- Heinrich Heine

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

- Lillian Hellman, subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1952

"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."

- Claude Adrien Helvetius, De l'Homme, Vol. I, sec. 4


"The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself."

- Granville Hicks (1901-1982)

"Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice."

- Holbrook Jackson


"Did you ever hear anyone say 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"

- Joseph Henry Jackson

"Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so."

- Robert H. Jackson

"Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."

- Peter S. Jennison

"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance."

- Lyndon Baines Johnson, February 11, 1964

"Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."

- Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal), Satires, II. 63. Roman rhetorician and satirical poet (1st to 2nd cent. A.D.)

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?"

-Juvenal

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

- John F. Kennedy

"The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for an opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time."

- Joseph Lewis, Voltaire: The Incomparable Infidel, 1929

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."

- Clare Booth Luce

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."

- Golda Meir, Israeli political leader (1898-1978)

"And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye."

-Milton, Areopagitica, 1644

"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."

- Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1559

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

- John Morley

"Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverent occiput.
Smite. Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l--ns,
Smite h-p and th-gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and By."

- Ogden Nash, "Invocation," 1931

"Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot."

- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, American playwright (1888-1953)

"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us."

-Katherine Paterson, American author of children's books (1932-)

"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."

- Dr. Laurence Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time. New York: Morrow, 1977, p. 97

"Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."

- Salman Rushdie

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."

- Salman Rushdie

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."

-George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic (1856-1950)

"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."

-George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Mrs. Warren's Profession

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime..."

-Justice Potter Stewart, dissenting Ginzberg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463 (1966)

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

- Harry S. Truman, message to Congress, August 8, 1950

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."

- Mark Twain

"Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."

- Mark Twain

"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"

- Kurt Vonnegut, author

"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

- Walt Whitman

"There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

- Oscar Wilde

"Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."

- Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal), Satires, II. 63. Roman rhetorician and satirical poet (1st to 2nd Cent. A.D.)

Say NO to book banning

Yet another book
(politically unacceptable to UMNO?)
has been banned in Malaysia.

The latest banned book:
"The March To Putrajaya"
by Kim Quek

TO READ THE BOOK, all 375 pages, "The March To Putrajaya"
by Kim Quek ON-LINE, OR TO DOWNLOAD
the pdf version, please click
HERE

This is yet another nail in the coffin of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

Even the freedom of thought is not encouraged in Malaysia!

What type of democratic system does Malaysia have?

It seems to more like a system stinking of dictatorial edicts, nepotism, feudalism, racism, which is run by pathetic, pigheaded, pompous, pie-in-the-sky politicians, who are a plague on Malaysia.

What is needed is more power to the people and free speech, freedom of expression, a free press and a truly democratic, open, unbiased and transparent system of governance.


These simple questions, and many more, need to be properly answered:

• Why is Malaysia way far behind Singapore in every respect?
• Where has all Malaysia's wealth gone to in the past half century?
• Why is there still institutionalised racism in Malaysia?
• Why do race and religion based political parties still thrive?
• Why is religion so entwined with politics?
• Why has corruption, from top to bottom, not been eradicated?
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Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis


The times change, and we change with them. (John Owen)



Summum ius, summa iniuria


The extreme law is the greatest injustice. (Cicero)



Ubi concordia, ibi victoria


Where is the unity, there is the victory. (Publius Syrus)

IS ASTRO BEING PRESSURED TO BECOME EVEN MORE PRO UMNO / BN?

and many many more!!

Is the Malaysian Federal - UMNO controlled - BN government, pressuring Malaysia's only satellite broadcasting company ASTRO to air more pro-government propaganda and bullshit?

The answer is unclear, there are the usual denials of course, but in all likelihood it probably is doing just that.

There are already all the nauseating government (UMNO) controlled TV stations being broadcast via ASTRO, and lots of pro-government advertisements and many brainwashing fillers.

Foreign news programmes, such as BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, etc.. are broadcast only after being delayed by several minutes, this is most likely to censor them and to cut out some 'undesirable' advertisements.

If in the future, there is even more government interference, many subscribers will desert ASTRO for good.

What a truly fucked up country Malaysia is rapidly becoming!

Read to news story HERE

.......................and now this, the government has backed down, and Muslims are now permitted to attend a concert by US hip-hop band Black Eyed Peas at Sunway Lagoon!

Why was there a ban in the first place?

Malaysia is seeming being governed by dangerous bands of blundering buffoons and bloody fools!!!!

For news reports on this issue, click HERE, HERE & HERE

Cui bono? For whose benefit is it?




Consuetudinis magna vis est The force of habit is great

1Malaysia m' Arse!!

Utusan Malaysia the best selling Malay Language daily newspaper in Malaysia, which by the way is contolled by UMNO of which Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is the head, has quoted several Malay politicians and activists as saying:

'Malays should put aside their political differences so that they can jointly resist pressure from the Chinese and Indian minorities'.

“The Malays must rise and unite in facing the demands of other races that are now seen as increasingly excessive,” said a paragraph in the article.

To link to Utusan Malaysia click HERE

To see what was reported in the Singapore Straits Times click HERE

and Taiwan News HERE

Najib has been talking about a '1Malaysia policy', that seems to be just that hypocritical talk, is it yet another case of no action, talk only?

UMNO it seems will never reform, lessons apparently still haven't been learned, and the complaisant 'head in the sand' attitude remains.

Does UMNO stand for: Unrepentant Moronic Nincompoops Over-and -over-again

So it is now quite apparent (as visible as the balls of a dog in fact) which race in Malaysia is the most self-centred and overtly racial.

Whither Malaysia?

Who knows, but the good news will hopefully be the demise of UMNO and all race based political parties.

Politics should aim to be secular and racially neutral, otherwise the future looks quite bleak.

Rais Yatim

Meanwhile the Minister of Information, Communication and Culture (also affectionalely known as 'Ministry of Propaganda Propagation'), Rais Yatim was reported thus:

Rais Yatim said the ministry played an important role in establishing only the right kind of information* reached the masses.

Click HERE for the report in the Star

“The government is not looking to find fault with bloggers and other Internet users but would like them to follow the law to ensure they did not misuse it.”

"It is not that we are looking for faults all the time. But we would like the right of the people to be guarded by the relevant authorities and the law. "Our aim is to see the 1Malaysia concept succeed. However, in order to succeed, the facts must not be twisted or misinterpreted by some until it raises racial sentiments.”

"If the right information* does not reach the people how can there be success”?

“So, I want everyone to understand and respect the law."

*(= propaganda)

This guy really talks and talks, did you see him prattle on yet again during the BBC 'HARDtalk' programme, if not the link is HERE

Intelligenti pauca

Few words suffice for he who understands

In alio pediculum, in te ricinum non vides

You see a louse on someone else, but not a tick on yourself

An unlikely tale in the NST

By Shabery & the NST

A Short Fairy Story from the NST

“Traditional media such as television and newspapers no longer have the credibility that they once commanded among readers and viewers.”

That at least is partly true, I would have phrased if:

Traditional media such as television and newspapers now have no credibility whatsoever.

The UMNO controlled New Staits Times reported today, 16^th April 2008, that the Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek said that the public no longer believed everything they read in the newspapers or heard on television, (most of which are known to be controlled or directly or indirectly owned by political parties inclined towards the government.

"Times have changed. The public does not believe everything that the newspapers write these days.

"Unlike before, when everything said in the newspapers was taken in lock, stock and barrel by readers, today, the public have become more sceptical.

"They want to know who owns the newspaper, who the editors are and so on before they decide to believe them.

"This was not the practice before,"

Shabery reportedly had said that after launching the International Development Journalism programme organised by the Malaysian Press Institute and the Media Studies Institute of University Malaya on 15^th April 2008.. He said government-controlled news organisations should instil more credibility in their newspaper articles and television reports in order to regain the public's trust that has been dwindling in recent years. Otherwise, the public would be more inclined to believe everything that the alternative media wrote, he added.

"But all said and done, I would like to say here that traditional media editors are more responsible in what they publish in their newspapers.

(BULLSHIT)

"The same is not seen in the alternative media. That is why there have been instances where the writers from the alternative medium have been hauled to court for writing things as they please without verifying the facts."

(BULLSHIT)

What is the new minister of misinformation and shameless propaganda really saying?

Sounds to me like he is telling the MSM to tell lies more credibly, distort the news in a creative and more believable way.

What tack is he on; this seems to be some form of reverse psychology, or the ‘bullshit baffles brains’ theory.

Best just to totally ignore him, and not to believe the MSM report at face value, learn to read between the lines, and try to sift out the lies to find the hidden truth, or better still turn to the alternative media!

And lastly, read this NST front-page headline story HERE this was published on 16th April 2008, what to make of this convoluted contrived concocted critique?

I'll let you make up your own minds!!!!!!!!!!!

Fallaces sunt rerum species

- The appearances of things are deceptive