Medecins Sans Frontieres: X
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Non-Violent Resistance
From Dictatorship to Democracy: X
U.S. Develops Social Media Propaganda Software
(Extracted from Democracy Now! 18-03-2011)
The Pentagon is developing software to secretly influence social media by developing fake online personas that can sway internet chatting on comment boards to reflect U.S. government propaganda. The Guardian of London reports a California-based firm has won a contract to create an "online persona management service" that would let military personnel control up to 10 separate fake identities at once. The identities would be used to respond to relevant online content with blog posts, tweets, chat comments and other forms of interaction. A military spokesperson said foreign audiences would be targeted, as it would be illegal to use the technology on U.S. citizens.
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Except by Paulo Freire
According to Freire, the system of dominant social relations creates a culture of silence that instills a negative, silenced, and suppressed self-image into the oppressed. The learner must develop a critical consciousness in order to recognize that this culture of silence is created to oppress. Also, a culture of silence can cause the "dominated individuals [to] lose the means by which to critically respond to the culture that is forced on them by a dominant culture." Social domination of race and class are interleaved into the conventional educational system, through which the “culture of silence” eliminates the "paths of thought that lead to a language of critique”.
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Corazón
The heart is a muscular pumping organ which beats nonstop to circulate blood around the body. It functions as two halves, each consisting of a holding chamber, or atrium, and a pumping center, or ventricle. After circulating around the body, blood, now deoxygenated, returns to the right atrium through large veins, the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava. When the atrium is full, blood is forced through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. It is then pumped to the lungs through the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary artery. The oxygenated blood returns via the pulmonary veins to the left atrium. After flowing through the mitral valve it is pumped out of the left ventricle into the aorta to return to the general circulation.
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Herbstlich
Who says that all must vanish?
Who knows, perhaps the flight
of the bird you wound remains,
and perhaps flowers survive
caresses in us, in their ground.
It isn't the gesture that lasts,
but it dresses you again in gold
armor--from breast to knees--
and the battle was so pure
an angel wears it after you.
― R M Rilke
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The Storm
Why should I seek?
I am the same as He.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself.
-Rumi
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Oneiroi
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, F. Goya.
There silence dwells: only the lazy stream of Lethe 'neath the rock with whisper low o'er pebbly shallows trickling lulls to sleep. Before the cavern's mouth lush poppies grow and countless herbs, from whose bland essences a drowsy infusion dewy Nox distils and sprinkles sleep across the darkening world. -Ovid.
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