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...if all the world is a conspiracy, then your own failures are no longer all your fault. The fact that you achieved less than you hoped for, that your life is a mess – it’s all the fault of the conspiracy. More importantly, conspiracy is a way to maintain control. In a world where even the most authoritarian regimes struggle to impose censorship, one has to surround audiences with so much cynicism about anybody’s motives, persuade them that behind every seemingly benign motivation is a nefarious, if impossible-to-prove, plot, that they lose faith in the possibility of an alternative, a tactic a renowned Russian media analyst called Vasily Gatov calls ‘white jamming’.

Det var som i Partiet [AKP ml], vi stemte om igjen helt til alle var enige med sentralkomiteen. Hvis vi stemte i det hele tatt

Jeg trudde på det jeg sjøl fortalte, enda det ikke alltid stemte, for å si det mildt, men jeg jugde ikke, jeg huska det annerledes.

Korleis kan ein vera noko anna enn ei lita fillenål i universets høystakk..., korleis kan ein vera noko anna enn eit lite snøfnugg i ein evig snøstorm.

Her har eg levd i mange herrens år... og så er eg like klok. Eg veit ikkje kva som skal til, eg veit ingenting om kva slags meining eg skulle fylt livet mitt med. Alt eg gjer er berre midlertidige løysingar, for å dekka midlertidige behov.

All kjærleik er egoistisk.

-Men tenk å være knapphull da, herr Gundersen - åpen for alle!
Gundersen grynter tilbake:
-Ja, hva så!
Ludvig tar motet til seg:
-Men knappene bliver som et bilde på livet selv det, herr Gundersen!
Noen bliver for store.
Noen bliver for små.
Og noen glir lett igjennom...

Nei, Samtidsmuseet var som den menneskelige organisme som arbeider med føden.
- Noe beholder vi, men det meste går rett i dass!

Det er deilig å leve et lastefullt liv: alle taler så foraktelig om lasten, men likevel lever de alle et lastefullt liv, bare med den forskjell at de gjør det i smug, mens jeg gjør det åpenlyst.

«Du vil bli fortalt at det er umulig»

Sett deg høye mål. Du vil bli dømt nord og ned. Du vil bli kalt en håpløs drømmer. Du vil bli fortalt at det er umulig. Fordommene skal du bruke som inspirasjon på reisen. Drømmene skal du holde fast ved, som om de er dine beste venner. Og selv om ingen har klart det før deg, så vil du klare det. Alt, absolutt alt, er mulig.

Lars Monsen

Så lenge
det er håp er det
skuffelse, så lenge

det er skuffelse
er det liv, så lenge

det er liv er det
håp – rekker det?

Så griper hun hans hånd med sin høire, og sier halvkvalt og bevende:
"Jaja, i Guds navn, farvel min elskede, min eneste. Jeg vet nu bare ett, og det er, at livet er tusen ganger verre enn døden!"

"Din paraply," svarer han. "Glem dog ikke den."

—
Fra novellen Memento mori.

Ho lener seg mot veggen ute og drar røyken ned i lungene. Ho ser på kassene med urter som står der, no er dei halvt rotna. Eitt av mange mislykka prosjekt. Ho fekk det plutselig føre seg ein gong at ho skulle dyrke urter. Ho hadde kjøpt inn kassar på Plantasjen og funne diverse ting til å plante i, som ei gammal rusten tønne, som skulle gi det heile ein urban kjøkkenhage-look. Ho studerte hageblad og nettsider om korleis ein kunne dyrke sine eigne urter og grønsaker i byen. Då dei første spirene kom, la ho det straks ut på Facebook og fekk masse likes, men det gjekk ikkje lang tid før ho mista interessa. Ho orkar verken gjennomføre det ho begynner på, eller fjerne spora etter forsøket.

... only the humble can value humilty.

Jeg er overbevist om at å skrive prosa ikke burde være annerledes enn å skrive poesi; i begge tilfeller finner vi en søken etter uttrykket som er nødvendig, unikt, kompakt, nøyaktig og minneverdig.

Når man er så gammel som jeg,har man rett til å gjenta seg selv. Bare ti stille og hør etter !

Jeg var framme på tre kvarter. Det var fort. Fortere ville ha vært fengsel.

Our Constitution Has Been Suspended

Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of
declared NationalEmergency.
Senate Report 93-549

This country started out as a constitutional republic,
that is, a union of sovereign nation states.
The federal government was to be an agent of the states.

Government Now rules by Decree

..As a safeguard, the constitution provides that during times
of rebellion or invasion, the president may assume all powers.

These emergency powers should end after the crisis.
President Lincoln assumed all powers during the Civil War.

Since he was dealing with a rebellion, we may say that he
established a constitutional dictatorship.

Since then, however, the definition of "emergencies" requiring
total control has been stretched to include economic problems,
social imbalances, and perceived threats to the US by a foreign
country's actions on another continent.

When authoritarian control is exerted during times other than
rebellion or enemy invasion,
it is an unconstitutional dictatorship.
The federal government has overstepped the bounds placed on it
by the constitution.

Through the insidious, yet steady encroachment of
"emergency powers," the government has now achieved the ability
to rule the people by statute or decree,
without the vote or consent of the ruled.

Through a maze of political maneuvers, the emergency powers
granted to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to deal
with an economic depression
have become part of the US Code as permanent everyday powers.

America has continued under the "unconstitutional dictatorship"
of war and emergency powers to this day, more than 60 years later.

Emergency Rule Means Government Owns All Rights

In reality, under this "unconstitutional dictatorship," the roles
have been reversed.
We have no rights except those the government grants us.

Under our constitutional government, we the people had all rights
except those specifically granted to the government.

We have lost our constitutional rights. How did it happen?
What does it mean?
What can we do about it?

Increasingly, US citizens are unwilling to be the pawns of
arbitrary and capricious decrees.
We have both the right and duty to reclaim our country.

The government today, with its inflated bureaucracy, political
posturing, and ineffectual programs, would be a laughingstock
if it weren't for the sinister side -
arbitrary seizure of property without proven cause by many
government agencies,
federally mandated but unfunded programs that choke the states'
right to rule themselves,
an unsound money system, and a de facto economic depression
for the last 10 years.

Add a growing separation between "haves" and "have nots"
and we have a powder keg on a short fuse.

Government has grown so big, so unreachable, that the ordinary
citizen feels helpless to influence it.

Government by the people?
Even those with clout and political savvy, such as state governors,
seem unable to sway D.C.

Government acts like a tyrant gone rampant, wilfully imposing its
policies on citizens, protecting its image,
and covering up its mistakes.
Fear sets in when we realize that the government can play
kickball with our lives - and there is no one to stop it.

Today, with our constitutional rights effectively suspended,
we are at the mercy of the giant.

Hitler used Germany's emergency powers clause (Article 48) to
perpetrate his atrocities.
Granted, no US president has even approached Hitler's dictatorship,
but he has the power to do so.
The difference is the degree of benevolence with which the US
government has ruled/ and with which Hitler ruled.

The US constitution provides for the president to be granted
emergency powers in times of war or enemy attack.

The fatal flaw in the constitution, however, is that once the
president has these powers, he himself must give them up.

Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have failed to
reinstate the constitution and give up these emergency powers.

Today we see the president and entrenched bureaucracy passing rules
through the executive branch's many agencies
without challenge from the other two branches of government -
the congress and the judiciary.

We Have Been Under Emergency Rule for 61 Years

Sjølv om eg alltid har likt å ha vener, har eg nok aldri vore det ein kallar ein spesielt god ven. Eg manglar evna til å stille det rette spørsmålet i mild empati, trekke ting ut av folk og trøyste dei, men eg har i alle fall eit naturleg talent for å sjå ut som ein tenksam lyttar.