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		<title>Comment on Google trends worldwide by Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://neocromagnon.com/2009/05/29/google-trends-worldwide/#comment-215</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[hahahahaha wtf with Pakistan!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hahahahaha wtf with Pakistan!!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Rage Against the Machine is the Christmas No 1 by eastman kodak stock ticker symbol</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eastman kodak stock ticker symbol]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tremendous article]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tremendous article</p>
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		<title>Comment on Toubabs by sunnystella@rocketmail.com</title>
		<link>http://neocromagnon.com/2011/01/29/toubabs/#comment-153</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love and light to you in 2011! Thank you for sharing your time with 
us: Here is a short introduction of Sunny Stella, Greek-Canadian 
artist. You can check the website of this multilingual 
actress/singer/host:www.sunnystella.com. She is presently located in 
Greece, Athens and ready to perform for European market or around 
the world. 

Recently, she hosted a Canadian TV live game show from Vienna, 
Austria. As well, she co-hosted radio shows on The Jewel 98.5 and on 
CHIN 97,9 and has hosted entertainment shows &amp; events such as the 
Film &amp; T.v. networking event Get Your Act Together in Ottawa or 
presently, the webvision show Soul Fusion in Athens, Greece. 
Further, she creates solo theatre and duo dance performances, short 
films and ads and has acted in commercials for Jazz’oo and Grand 
Sirenis Hotels and Resorts. Sunny Stella started performing in 2008 
in Ottawa Jazz club Jazz&#039;oo songs in 4 languages and is now 
preparing her first webalbum in Athens, Greece.

Her radio work, bio and videos can be found on www.sunnystella.com 
as well as her partial repertoire -- it belongs in 
Jazz/World/Chansons within 5 languages: French, Spanish, English, 
Italian &amp; Greek. You can hear song excerpts and full songs can be 
sent for download or you can download them directly from the website 
once you register your account and login as a friend of 
sunnystella.com.

Sunny Stella is looking forward to share with all what she carries 
in her soul: Pure Love for the World in the form of shows, films and 
songs with a new voice which comes from the heart directly.

Looking forward hearing from you and collaborating with you! Let us 
know how Sunny Stella can be of service!



With Love, 

Predrag]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love and light to you in 2011! Thank you for sharing your time with<br />
us: Here is a short introduction of Sunny Stella, Greek-Canadian<br />
artist. You can check the website of this multilingual<br />
actress/singer/host:www.sunnystella.com. She is presently located in<br />
Greece, Athens and ready to perform for European market or around<br />
the world. </p>
<p>Recently, she hosted a Canadian TV live game show from Vienna,<br />
Austria. As well, she co-hosted radio shows on The Jewel 98.5 and on<br />
CHIN 97,9 and has hosted entertainment shows &amp; events such as the<br />
Film &amp; T.v. networking event Get Your Act Together in Ottawa or<br />
presently, the webvision show Soul Fusion in Athens, Greece.<br />
Further, she creates solo theatre and duo dance performances, short<br />
films and ads and has acted in commercials for Jazz’oo and Grand<br />
Sirenis Hotels and Resorts. Sunny Stella started performing in 2008<br />
in Ottawa Jazz club Jazz&#8217;oo songs in 4 languages and is now<br />
preparing her first webalbum in Athens, Greece.</p>
<p>Her radio work, bio and videos can be found on <a href="http://www.sunnystella.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sunnystella.com</a><br />
as well as her partial repertoire &#8212; it belongs in<br />
Jazz/World/Chansons within 5 languages: French, Spanish, English,<br />
Italian &amp; Greek. You can hear song excerpts and full songs can be<br />
sent for download or you can download them directly from the website<br />
once you register your account and login as a friend of<br />
sunnystella.com.</p>
<p>Sunny Stella is looking forward to share with all what she carries<br />
in her soul: Pure Love for the World in the form of shows, films and<br />
songs with a new voice which comes from the heart directly.</p>
<p>Looking forward hearing from you and collaborating with you! Let us<br />
know how Sunny Stella can be of service!</p>
<p>With Love, </p>
<p>Predrag</p>
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		<title>Comment on Noam Chomsky on Obama by usc2011kid</title>
		<link>http://neocromagnon.com/2010/01/22/noam-chomsky-on-obama/#comment-152</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[usc2011kid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed........I love my country, I&#039;ll preface this by saying, firstly.......but I&#039;ll spare you my random and at this hour of the night riding the buzz that I&#039;m on - probably nonsensical, thoughts. .... Basically, I;ll say this: reading chomsky when I was about 21 or 22 probably had the greatest influence on my way of thinking and viewing the world, at least to the extent that I think someone who you&#039;ve never met or been involved with personally, could influence you....or me, rather......]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indeed&#8230;&#8230;..I love my country, I&#8217;ll preface this by saying, firstly&#8230;&#8230;.but I&#8217;ll spare you my random and at this hour of the night riding the buzz that I&#8217;m on &#8211; probably nonsensical, thoughts. &#8230;. Basically, I;ll say this: reading chomsky when I was about 21 or 22 probably had the greatest influence on my way of thinking and viewing the world, at least to the extent that I think someone who you&#8217;ve never met or been involved with personally, could influence you&#8230;.or me, rather&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Noam Chomsky on Obama by Harleigh Kyson Jr.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harleigh Kyson Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ten most important ways of manipulating the public, as catalogued by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky, a fearless critic of the wealthy elite that governs the United States, has compiled a list of the ten most common strategies for using the media to manipulate the people of America.

In the past our communications media have created or destroyed social movements, justified wars, tempered financial crises, and encouraged or destroyed some other ideological currents.

Chomsky has compiled a list of the ten most important tools for manipulating our media. Basically, they encourage stupidity, promote a sense of guilt, create distractions, or construct artificial problems and then magically solve them. Here are the ten most important techniques:


(1) The strategy of distraction:

The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction diverting public attention from important issues and changes controlled by our political and economic elites using the techniques of overwhelming the public with continuous distractions and insignificant information.

Distraction strategy is also essential to kill off public interest in the essential knowledge of science, economics, psychology, neurobiology, and cybernetics.

This technique also diverts public attention away from our real social problems by emphasizing matters of no real importance. The idea is to keep the public very busy, with no time to think about the most important principles and the core facts behind our social problems.


(2) The creation of problems, followed by the offer of solutions:

This method essentially emphasizes symptons while hiding underlying causes. For example, it emphasizes urban violence or the details of bloody attacks without investigating the causes of these problems. It also creates and manipulates crises that involve economics or violence to encourage the public to accept as a necessary evil the reduction of social rights or the dismantling of public services.


(3) The gradual strategy:

This basically involves gradually implementing destructive social policies which would be unacceptable if imposed suddenly on the public. That is how the the radical right’s new socioeconomic conditions were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s. They include the minimal state, privatization, precariousness, flexibility, massive unemployment, reductions in the purchasing power of wages and guarantees of a decent income. All these changes would provoke a generalized revolt if they had been applied all at once. 


(4) The strategy of deferring:

Another way gain public acceptance of unpopular decisions is to present them as “painful but necessary” to gain public acceptance for their future application. This is similar to the gradual strategy. It is easier to accept future sacrifices instead of immediate slaughter--first, because the effect is not felt right away.

Later on, the public is encouraged to believe that “everything will be better tomorrow” and that future sacrifice will be unnecessary. This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of changes to their disadvantage and and their acceptance of them with resignation when the time comes. This strategy was very popular in the Soviet Union in its five-year plans, for example.


(5) Treating the public like little children:

A lot of advertising and propaganda uses childlike speech and children’s intonation, as if the viewer or listener were a little child or mentally deficient. The principle is that if people are treated as if they are twelve years old or younger, they tend to react without a critical sense the way children do.


(6) The encouragement of emotional responses over reflective ones:

This is a classical technique for short-circuiting rational analysis and encouraging critical reflection. It also opens the door to the unconscious for implanting ideas, desires, fears, anxieties , compulsions and desired irrational behavior.


(7) Bombarding the public with trivia to keep them ignorant:

It is important to make people incapable of understanding the technologies and methods used to enslave them. The quality of education given to the lower social classes is deliberately kept as poor and mediocre as possible so that they can be manipulated like sheep.


(8) Encouraging the public to be happy with mediocrity:

This involves encouraging the public to believe that it is is fashionable to be stupid, vulgar and uneducated while encouraging everyone to believe that these characteristics are the essence of the wisdom of the ages.


(9) Encouraging guilt and self blame:

This is an exceptionally perverse strategy. It involves constantly scolding people for their own misfortune because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts so that they will not examine the structural defects of a social and economic system that enslaves them.

One of the most perverse controlling myths of American society is that if you work conscientiously and long enough, then you will be successful and grow rich. This does happen occasionally to some people, and their success is widely publicized in the media. The few times that this happens, all of us are constantly reminded that if these people can do this, then we can too.

Of course, if you work hard and don&#039;t grow rich, then the problem, of course, is that you didn&#039;t work hard enough or weren&#039;t smart enough and ended up a loser. So no matter what happens to you, the myth remains intact, and America remains a land of opportunity and the greatest country in the world.


(10) Getting to know individual people better than they know themselves:

Over the past fifty years, scientific advances have generated a growing gap between public what the public knows and the knowledge of dominant elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the “system” has gained a sophisticated understanding the physical and psychololgical nature of people. This knowledge is cynically used to manipulate the public as if they were sheep.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ten most important ways of manipulating the public, as catalogued by Noam Chomsky</p>
<p>Noam Chomsky, a fearless critic of the wealthy elite that governs the United States, has compiled a list of the ten most common strategies for using the media to manipulate the people of America.</p>
<p>In the past our communications media have created or destroyed social movements, justified wars, tempered financial crises, and encouraged or destroyed some other ideological currents.</p>
<p>Chomsky has compiled a list of the ten most important tools for manipulating our media. Basically, they encourage stupidity, promote a sense of guilt, create distractions, or construct artificial problems and then magically solve them. Here are the ten most important techniques:</p>
<p>(1) The strategy of distraction:</p>
<p>The primary element of social control is the strategy of distraction diverting public attention from important issues and changes controlled by our political and economic elites using the techniques of overwhelming the public with continuous distractions and insignificant information.</p>
<p>Distraction strategy is also essential to kill off public interest in the essential knowledge of science, economics, psychology, neurobiology, and cybernetics.</p>
<p>This technique also diverts public attention away from our real social problems by emphasizing matters of no real importance. The idea is to keep the public very busy, with no time to think about the most important principles and the core facts behind our social problems.</p>
<p>(2) The creation of problems, followed by the offer of solutions:</p>
<p>This method essentially emphasizes symptons while hiding underlying causes. For example, it emphasizes urban violence or the details of bloody attacks without investigating the causes of these problems. It also creates and manipulates crises that involve economics or violence to encourage the public to accept as a necessary evil the reduction of social rights or the dismantling of public services.</p>
<p>(3) The gradual strategy:</p>
<p>This basically involves gradually implementing destructive social policies which would be unacceptable if imposed suddenly on the public. That is how the the radical right’s new socioeconomic conditions were imposed during the 1980s and 1990s. They include the minimal state, privatization, precariousness, flexibility, massive unemployment, reductions in the purchasing power of wages and guarantees of a decent income. All these changes would provoke a generalized revolt if they had been applied all at once. </p>
<p>(4) The strategy of deferring:</p>
<p>Another way gain public acceptance of unpopular decisions is to present them as “painful but necessary” to gain public acceptance for their future application. This is similar to the gradual strategy. It is easier to accept future sacrifices instead of immediate slaughter&#8211;first, because the effect is not felt right away.</p>
<p>Later on, the public is encouraged to believe that “everything will be better tomorrow” and that future sacrifice will be unnecessary. This gives the public more time to get used to the idea of changes to their disadvantage and and their acceptance of them with resignation when the time comes. This strategy was very popular in the Soviet Union in its five-year plans, for example.</p>
<p>(5) Treating the public like little children:</p>
<p>A lot of advertising and propaganda uses childlike speech and children’s intonation, as if the viewer or listener were a little child or mentally deficient. The principle is that if people are treated as if they are twelve years old or younger, they tend to react without a critical sense the way children do.</p>
<p>(6) The encouragement of emotional responses over reflective ones:</p>
<p>This is a classical technique for short-circuiting rational analysis and encouraging critical reflection. It also opens the door to the unconscious for implanting ideas, desires, fears, anxieties , compulsions and desired irrational behavior.</p>
<p>(7) Bombarding the public with trivia to keep them ignorant:</p>
<p>It is important to make people incapable of understanding the technologies and methods used to enslave them. The quality of education given to the lower social classes is deliberately kept as poor and mediocre as possible so that they can be manipulated like sheep.</p>
<p>(8) Encouraging the public to be happy with mediocrity:</p>
<p>This involves encouraging the public to believe that it is is fashionable to be stupid, vulgar and uneducated while encouraging everyone to believe that these characteristics are the essence of the wisdom of the ages.</p>
<p>(9) Encouraging guilt and self blame:</p>
<p>This is an exceptionally perverse strategy. It involves constantly scolding people for their own misfortune because of the failure of their intelligence, their abilities, or their efforts so that they will not examine the structural defects of a social and economic system that enslaves them.</p>
<p>One of the most perverse controlling myths of American society is that if you work conscientiously and long enough, then you will be successful and grow rich. This does happen occasionally to some people, and their success is widely publicized in the media. The few times that this happens, all of us are constantly reminded that if these people can do this, then we can too.</p>
<p>Of course, if you work hard and don&#8217;t grow rich, then the problem, of course, is that you didn&#8217;t work hard enough or weren&#8217;t smart enough and ended up a loser. So no matter what happens to you, the myth remains intact, and America remains a land of opportunity and the greatest country in the world.</p>
<p>(10) Getting to know individual people better than they know themselves:</p>
<p>Over the past fifty years, scientific advances have generated a growing gap between public what the public knows and the knowledge of dominant elites. Thanks to biology, neurobiology and applied psychology, the “system” has gained a sophisticated understanding the physical and psychololgical nature of people. This knowledge is cynically used to manipulate the public as if they were sheep.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The Winner &#8211; a short story by O-DoG</title>
		<link>http://neocromagnon.com/2009/10/02/the-winner-a-short-story/#comment-97</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I had issues man]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on Google trends worldwide by Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://neocromagnon.com/2009/05/29/google-trends-worldwide/#comment-96</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[hahah!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hahah!</p>
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		<title>Comment on South Park &amp; Bob Dylan by osef</title>
		<link>http://neocromagnon.com/2009/04/29/south-park-bob-dylan/#comment-95</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[osef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot; I hate the hippies&quot;

Poetic citation of Eric Cartman on &quot;Blowin&#039; in the wind&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8221; I hate the hippies&#8221;</p>
<p>Poetic citation of Eric Cartman on &#8220;Blowin&#8217; in the wind&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Rage Against the Machine is the Christmas No 1 by Rage Against the Machine live at Finsbury Park &#171; Neo Cro-magnon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rage Against the Machine live at Finsbury Park &#171; Neo Cro-magnon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] the notorious Christmas Campaign to get Killing in the Name of to number one in the UK, an equally mischievous and wholeheartedly driven concert was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on Hair &#8211; Charlie Kaufman by mezzanine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mezzanine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;meaningless details&quot; don&#039;t exist! great &quot;filler&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;meaningless details&#8221; don&#8217;t exist! great &#8220;filler&#8221;</p>
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