October 2011
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“The State, like the Church, by its very nature is a great sacrificer of living...”
– Mikhail Bakunin
January 2011
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Truth Cafe': WikiLeaks: Julian Assange 'Faces... →
truthcafe:
Esther Addley guardian.co.uk, Tue 11 Jan 2011 14.21 GMT
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, could be at “real risk” of the death penalty or detention in Guantánamo Bay if he is extradited to Sweden on accusations of rape and sexual assault, his lawyers claim. In a skeleton summary of their…
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“The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via 18goingon80)
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“He [Marx] says, ‘Poverty produces political slavery, the State,” but...”
– Mikhail Bakunin, Marxism, Freedom, and the State, p. 16
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“My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in...”
– Barack Obama
rhetoric v. real life
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House GOP Kill Global Warming Committee
House Republicans have killed the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced at least three different bills aimed at blocking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/7/headlin
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Obama Taps JPMorgan Exec William Daley for Chief...
President Obama appointed William Daley, a top financial executive and former Clinton administration official, as his new White House chief of staff. Daley is the Midwest chair of JPMorgan Chase, a board member of Merck, and former head of SBC. Obama will also reportedly name former Goldman Sachs consultant Gene Sperling to head the National Economic Council. We speak with Ari Berman of The Nation...
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Albert Einstein
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Palestine to open embassy in Brazil
Some hopeful news to start off the year :)
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has laid the cornerstone for an embassy in Brazil - what will be the first such Palestinian delegation in the western hemisphere.
A ceremony was held on Friday to initiate the building’s construction in Brasilia, the capital, and Abbas thanked Brazil for recognising his naiton’s statehood, adding...
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Free Dr. Binayak Sen
Life imprisonment of Sen is just another travesty of the justice system in India.
He worked with the tribals in the poor Chhattisgarh area when he could’ve worked anywhere in world. He fought for justice for the poor when the international corporations, with the help of government, looted (and continue to loot) their rich lands for profits, all the while displacing them from the lands...
December 2010
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“When pre-prescribed duties are not being performed, a variety of conformist,...”
– Mental Anarchy
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“The State has always been the patrimony of some privileged class or other; a...”
– - Mikhail Bakunin, Marxism, Freedom, and the State
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crownless: Ron Paul Put In Charge Of Federal... →
Paul vowed in an interview with The Hill last month that as chairman he would shine a light on the Fed’s policies, which he called opaque and destructive. If necessary, he would be willing to subpoena Fed officials to come testify before his panel, he said.Paul has introduced legislation in…
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“First, there is the fact that the Web is privately held, despite how we may see...”
– Jillian York
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Brazil recognises Palestine
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/12/201012504256198565.html Israel has expressed disappointment at Brazil’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, saying it flew in the face of efforts to negotiate a peace deal.
In a public letter addressed to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, on Friday, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president,...
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World Bank leaders
have immunity from legal actions in all countries they deal with, which means there is no accountability or liability.
That’s cool.
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“… one of the major reasons for government secrecy is to protect the...”
– Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now interview, 2010.
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Study Shows You are More Likely to Killed By a Cop... →
The following ratios were compiled using data from 2004 National Safety Council Estimates, a report based on data from The National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 2003 mortality data from the Center for Disease Control was used.
— You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
— You are 12,571 times more likely to...
November 2010
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“Denouncing the compulsive monogamy that created so much spousal unhappiness, and...”
– Mottier, Veronique, A Very Short Introduction: Sexuality, p. 43
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“Academics make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but...”
– Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 77-78
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“The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of the runners don’t...”
– Banksy (via badparts)
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“The CIA is assigned the responsibility of committing the crimes and atrocities,...”
– Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 140
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“Empires are costly. Running Iraq is not cheap. Somebody’s paying....”
– Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 56-57
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“Only American audiences ask me, “What should I do?” I’m never asked this in...”
– Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 39-40
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Recommendation Letters Could Cost Women Jobs,...
A recommendation letter could be the chute in a woman’s career ladder, according to ongoing research at Rice University. The comprehensive study shows that qualities mentioned in recommendation letters for women differ sharply from those for men, and those differences may be costing women jobs and promotions in academia and medicine.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Rice...
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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big...
The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a “mini-Big Bang” by smashing together lead ions instead of protons.
The scientists working at the enormous machine on Franco-Swiss border achieved the unique conditions on 7 November.
The experiment created temperatures a million times hotter than the centre of the Sun.
The LHC is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel under the...
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“There are no rich, there are no middle class, there are no poor; we all are...”
– Rand Paul, Kentucky senator
I bet Marx is rolling over in his grave right now.
Not that I think people should be handing shit over to the government; in fact, I don’t even believe in a government, BUT this statement is just so wrong for reasons other than that. First, we live in a corporate...
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“The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the...”
– Eugene J. McCarthy, 1978
(Not saying I’m a huge fan of his; I just like the quote)
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October 2010
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Falling in Love Only Takes About a Fifth of a...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022184957.htm
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2010) — A new meta-analysis study conducted by Syracuse University Professor Stephanie Ortigue reveals falling in love can elicit not only the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine, but also affects intellectual areas of the brain. Researchers also found falling in love only takes about a fifth of a...
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A "cute" quote I see everywhere that grinds my...
I HATE that stupid quote “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars,” or other variations of it. It makes no sense at all, the universe is so vast, the chances are that if you miss the moon, you’ll crash into an icy-cold/rocky asteroid/comet or maybe even one of the planets, or just hurl through space for years and years before you hit something...
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“… compared to income or assets in the hands of men, income or assets in...”
– Esther Duflo, Gender Equality in Development, p. 12
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“If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
From a million miles...”
– Jonathan Coulton, “Mandlebrot Set” (via potter-y)
R.I.P Mandelbrot :’( I’m way more upset than I should be…
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U.S. Military: 77,000 Iraqis Killed Over 5 Years
BAGHDAD — A new U.S. military tally puts the death toll of Iraqi civilians and security forces in the bloodiest years of the war thousands below Iraqi government figures.
The little-noticed body count is the most extensive data on Iraqi war casualties ever released by the American military. It tallied deaths of almost 77,000 Iraqis between January 2004 and August 2008 – the darkest chapter of...