<h2><span><strong>William Wallace</strong>:[seeing the spirit of his wife] <em>I'm dreaming</em>. <br /><strong>Murron</strong>: <em>Yes, you are. And you must wake</em>. <br /><strong>William Wallace</strong>: [pause] <em>I don't want to wake. I want to stay here with you</em>.</span></h2>
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<div>+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />| Inside Obama's Twitter Blitz On the Payroll Tax<br />| from the this-is-politics-in-the-future-and-i-am-sad dept.<br />| posted by Soulskill on Friday December 23, @13:28 (Communications)<br />| with 257 comments<br />| <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:https:/politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email</span></span></a><br />+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Hugh Pickens writes "Brandon Rittiman reports that White House officials launched a Twitter campaign Tuesday to put pressure on Congress to reach a deal extending the payroll-tax cut. Using the Twitter hashtag #40dollars, the White House successfully got thousands of people to respond and explain what a $40 cut to each paycheck would mean to them personally. By Wednesday morning, the #40dollars hashtag started 'trending,' which is what happens when Twitter's algorithms see a topic suddenly surge. It's not easy to create that kind of surge, but the White House has 2.5 million Twitter followers to call upon. Macon Phillips, the President's Director of Digital Strategy, says his team has managed to get a few Twitter topics to rise to the level of 'trending' before” most notably when they began tweeting about the death of Osama bin Laden. 'What's very important about a social-media campaign like this is that regular people are making the point about how this would affect them. It's not us here in Washington trying to argue on their behalf.' says Phillips. 'The #40dollars campaign puts a face on that amount to demonstrate the payroll tax cut's real-world impact on middle-class families.'" <br />Discuss this story at:<br /><a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:https:/politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/12/23/1726224/inside-obamas-twitter-blitz-on-the-payroll-tax?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</span></span></a><br /><br />Links:<br />0. <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/hughpickens.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://hughpickens.com/</span></span></a><br />1. <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/www.9news.com/news/article/237275/339/Inside-the-White-Houses-Twitter-blitz-on-payroll-tax"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.9news.com/news/article/237275/339/Inside-the-White-Houses-Twitter-blitz-on-payroll-tax</span></span></a><br />2. <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/white-house-launches-40dollars-twitter-campaign-to-win-payroll-tax-debate/2011/12/21/gIQAbyL78O_blog.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/white-house-launches-40dollars-twitter-campaign-to-win-payroll-tax-debate/2011/12/21/gIQAbyL78O_blog.html</span></span></a><br />3. <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Phillips"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Phillips</span></span></a><br />4. <a href="wlmailhtml:{A3BC50DA-54F8-48CB-8154-8EF261BD04ED}mid:/00000027/!x-usc:http:/mashable.com/2011/12/21/white-house-twitter-payroll-tax/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://mashable.com/2011/12/21/white-house-twitter-payroll-tax/</span></span></a></div>
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<p><span style="color: #ff0000; font-size: medium;">More and more people in the United States today are asking themselves: Just what are the similarities, if any, between today's Democrat Socialists and, so-called, "Socialists" of the past? Looking at a few excerpts from the following articles may help you to answer this question for yourself.</span></p>
<div><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!</span>--</strong> Adolf Hitler, speech at the Reichsparteitag, 1935</div>
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<div><strong>Fascism's Appeal to Youth  </strong><br /><br />Fascism recognizes youth as a vulnerable and politically significant population. In the 1920s and 1930s, fascist parties promised young people not only jobs and educational opportunities, but also a divine mission–to be the leaders of a revolutionary movement that would purify the nation. The fascists promoted a cult of the youthful, featuring young heroes in their music, film and literature, rejecting the ruling elite as cynical and complacent, and emphasizing the relative youthfulness of their own leaders. Fascism celebrated duty, loyalty and physical vitality, and challenged the young to use their natural energy, idealism and competitiveness for the good of the national community.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Fa-Gr/Fascist-Youth.html">http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Fa-Gr/Fascist-Youth.html</a></div>
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<p><strong>New Dictionary of the History of Ideas | 2005 | Griffin, Roger | Copyright</strong></p>
<div><br /><strong>FASCISM.<br /></strong><br />For the purposes of this article, fascism will be treated as a politicized and revolutionary form of ultranationalism bent on mobilizing all remaining "healthy" social and political energies to resist the perceived onslaught of decadence so as to achieve the goal of a regenerated national community. It is a project that involves the rebirth (palingenesis) of both the political system and the social and moral culture that underpins it...</div>
<div>...Schools, universities, youth and leisure organizations, mass rallies, news-reels, newspapers, sporting events, national holidays, local festivals, the organization of work, business, and industry, in fact any context in which the public sphere impinged on the private became sites for the further integration of the individual into the national community. In this sense the deepest level of the fascist revolution was not political or military, but cultural.</div>
<div><a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/fascism.aspx">http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/fascism.aspx</a></div>
<h3>Encyclopedia.com</h3>
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<p>November 7, 2005<br /><strong>Communism Over; Now Fascism<br /></strong><br />Yuri Mamchur</p>
<div><br />Moscow Friday, November 4, 2005 - 5,000 people paraded through downtown, carrying icons of Jesus Christ among other symbols. There was no violence, a great attitude, and very loud shouts of "Seig Heil", "Heil Hitler", along with "Russia for Russians", "Glory to Russia, Russians rise!"," Russia is everything, everything else is nothing".</div>
<div>"God, this is just like Germany in 1933," -- said one old lady observing the march, while taking her dog for a walk in downtown park, - "didn't we fight exactly this stuff?"</div>
<h3>Source: Russia Blog</h3>
<h3><a href="http://www.russiablog.org/2005/11/communism_over_now_fascism.php"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0066cc;">http://www.russiablog.org/2005/11/communism_over_now_fascism.php</span></span></strong></a></h3>
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<h3><strong>Classical Marxism.</strong></h3>
<div>Classical Marxism may itself be viewed as a response to the dislocations and suffering of the working class in the early stages of the industrial revolution in Great Britain and western Europe. In the Marxian scheme the spread of capitalism and the intensification of working class misery were the necessary prelude to a socialist revolution;</div>
<div>Marx’s panorama of economic development clearly implied that the socialist revolution would arrive first in the most advanced industrial countries, where the proletariat or working class was expected to be most numerous, most highly organized, and ripe for the seizure of power...</div>
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<h3><strong>Russian Marxism.</strong></h3>
<div>Russian Marxism as an independent political movement originated in the split in 1879 of the Narodnik organization Zemlya i Volya (Land and Liberty). The seceders, who stood for propaganda and agitation as opposed to terrorism, established a rival organization, the Chernyi Peredel (Black Repartition), to propagate their doctrines. One of their leaders was Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov, soon to be known as the father of Russian Marxism, but then still clinging to the Narodnik belief in the peasant as the driving force of revolution. The failure of the peasantry to respond either to agitation or terror and the rapid industrial development that was beginning to take place in the last decades of the nineteenth century impelled Plekhanov to reexamine his views and to turn to the new industrial working class— the proletariat, so-called—as the revolutionary hope of the future. The search for a new faith led him to Marxism. In 1883 Plekhanov, Paul Axelrod, Leo Deutsch, and Vera Zasulich, all of whom had been members of the Chernyi Peredel, joined in establishing the first important Russian Marxist organization, known as Osvobozhdenie Truda (Emancipation of Labor). By the 1890s the works of Marx and Engels were being widely and eagerly read by the more radically inclined students and intellectuals and propagated in workingmen’s circles. One of the new converts was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), who was to change the face of world history...</div>
<div>...Consciousness triumphed over spontaneity, and the way was cleared for the organized and disciplined revolutionary elite capable of transmuting the grievances of a people into a new instrument of absolute power...</div>
<div>...Four ideas stand out in this seminal source of Communist organizational doctrine. First, there was the fear of spontaneity, the notion that the working class could not be trusted to discover its own true interests and that, if left alone, it would follow the path of trade-union bargaining rather than commit itself to a revolutionary struggle for socialism. Second, there was the unquestioned assumption that the working class had to be guided and directed by a politically conscious revolutionary vanguard possessed of a superior knowledge of the laws of history. Third, there was the idea that this vanguard should consist of a small, carefully selected party of professional revolutionaries operating under highly centralized direction and discipline. Finally, there was the concept of political monopoly, that no other organizations should be permitted to compete with the party in obtaining access to the masses and that all mass organizations, such as trade unions, must be brought under the ideological influence and, if possible, the direct control of the party...</div>
