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DIVIDE AND CONQUER
songs starts at 2:54 on video
sorry, all I could find, sing along!
A bit of agitprop from one of the fastest bands who never lost their minds to speed (in both senses of the term). "Divide and Conquer" looks a bit like Rush's "Subdivisions," but it's hard to imagine Neal Peart coming up with the line: "and longitude, longing to find out/just what they're missing." In its politics of division, it may be firmly located in the mid-1980s anxieties over how globalization appeared to spell the death-knell of dissenting movements.
Yet it also hearkens back to the old idea of how modern societies, in their increasing stratification, cause people to lose sight of their connectedness..follow the link for more
"Divide and Conquer" by Husker Du
Well they divided up all the land
And we've got states and cities
Cities have their neighborhoods
And more subdivisions
There's countries divided by walls
Oceans and latitudes
And longitude, longing to find out
Just what they're missing
They're lots of area codes
And nine digit zip codes
Secret decoder ring codes
Arteries, shopping nodes
We'll invent some new computers
Link up the global village
And get AP, UPI, and Reuters
To tell everybody the news
We'll be one happy neighborhood
Spread out across the world
But who's going to stop that burglar
From breaking in my house
If he lives that far away
We'll be just like old friends
No means to your ends
The police state is to busy
And the neighborhood's getting out of hand
Big Brother on every wall
Muzak plays in all the halls
Embassies rise and fall
They divide, conquer
It's not about my politics
Something happened way too quick
A bunch of men who played it sick
They divide, conquer
It's all here before your eyes
Safety is a big disguise
That hides among the other lies
They divide, conquer
Well I expect I won't be heard
Because my silence is assured
Never a discouraging word
They divide and conquer
-Bob Mould circa '85 songs starts at 2:54 on video sorry, all I could find, sing along! ... more -
WAR IS PEACE !
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.” — George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
Oceania (commonly called the US and Britain) is at war with Afghanistan / Iraq. Oceania has always been at war with Afghanistan / Iraq.
Eurasia (commonly called Russia, Pakistan, etc.) is allied with Oceania in war against Afghanistan. Eurasia has always been allied with Oceania.
US Congressman Charlie Rangel has been arguing for a return of military conscription (“The Draft”) as—so he tells the public— a way of reducing war.
It's not easy to capture someone killed the year before—until you harness the power of Ingsoc. When you've got Ingsoc on your side, though, it's so easy that the US did it again.
Three cheers for Homeland Security drone patrols!
In order to fight terrorism, we must cause it, says Donald Rumsfeld.
It's okay that there were no “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq; that's not why we went to war. It's equally okay that there are so many of them in Oceania.
The Nobel prize committee has been considering nominating George Bush and Tony Blair for their prestigious Peace prize.
Just like in 1984's Room 101, the Miniluv operations in Guantánamo Bay were authorized to “exploit[] a prisoner's phobias, sometimes using muzzled dogs in interrogations.” Doubleplusgood!
According to the Bush administration, the Duelfer report which conclusively showed that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq actually justifies the war in Iraq.
“Protecting [an] Islamic cultural center” involves fighting a war inside it, as the New York Times on the Web shows.
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell
ALL ABOVE TOPICS INTERACTIVE LINKS
http://www.studentsfororwell.org/
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/war-peace-freedom-slaver...
McCAIN'S KILLING FLOOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4QKfDdJ3ns
OBAMA & HILLARY'S KILLING FLOOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLxSleuec&feature=...
HIGHEST BIDDER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmhL8bjL9vc
WAR DOCUMENTARIES
http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php?ct=21
US WAR AGENDA
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=theme&am...
EXECUTIVE RESUME
http://whitenoise.webnode.com/
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