May 2012
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“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want...”
– Tocqueville
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...”
– Noam Chomsky (via theyoungradical)
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Money and Speech
laliberty:
Murray Rothbard explained what makes money:
“[J]ust as in nature there is a great variety of skills and resources, so there is a variety in the marketability of goods. Some goods are more widely demanded than others, some are more divisible into smaller units without loss of value, some more durable over long periods of time, some more transportable over large distances. All of these...
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We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People... →
americawakiewakie:
A new a study from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found that on average, conventional systems out-yielded organic farms by 25 percent — mostly for grains, and depending on conditions.
Embracing the current conventional wisdom, the...
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“You can either believe everything you read because it sounds like a mildly...”
– “You can either be creative, or you are bound to be destructive. You cannot remain neutral; either you have to affirm life with all its joys, or you start condemning life.” - Osho (via anti-suburbia)
Assert Your Economic Power!: A declaration →
aneconomyworthoccupying:
As we organize to resist, subordinate, and displace corporate power and a self-destructive economic system, we hold in our hearts a vision for an economy based on justice, ecological sustainability, cooperation, and democracy. Our occupations are sites of creation and imagination, where we are…
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April 2012
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If literature dies, it will be murder →
Quoting Mcluhan, and this is impossible to misread:
I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost...
What corporation are you from?
March 2012
17 posts
kad budu gorjeli gradovi: Little stories from... →
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
‘Little’ stories like these below keep surfacing in the mainstream greek media, while the majority of them never even make it there.
- On Saturday, 17.03, an 81-year old woman in the island of Zakynthos sat down in the garden of her house before soaking herself with…
“Actually, the entire fraudulent tapeworm could be killed with a single page of...”
– Guest Post: “We Have No Other Choice”
(via mfriedlander)
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IMF Riots in Europe?
[The Global Sociology Blog - IMF Riots in Europe?](http://globalsociology.com/2010/05/20/imf-riots-in-europe/#)
Hey kids, remember the IMF riots that occurred in poor countries as a result of IMF-imposed neo-liberalization of their economies and the havoc it wreaked on their societies?
Otherwise known as sodomising a country’s sovereignty in 4 steps.
This is the face of war →
(Reposted from Pam in Progress) As I write this, Israel is bombing with intensity; 10 are dead already and casualties are reportedly filling the ERs. Resistance fighters are retaliating. On this, my last day in Gaza, I am confined to the home of a friend’s relatives — most likely until early in the morning…We are sitting around, chatting and listening to the news. And I am thinking…
In many ways,...
Anybody setting up a protest gear shop on ebay or silk road will do well by the end of the year I reckon.
### This hugely hopeful moment | Energy Bulletin
• http://goo.gl/IwVgn •
“Our hope is that the holes in the side of the tanker are so huge that it cannot be fixed. We don’t need a monetarist Plan A to try and fix it through intensifying exploitation, nor do we need a Keynesian Plan B to fix it through a collective effort in which society is galvanised to restore a market that is for a...
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“Inglis breaks down the purpose - the actual purpose - of modem schooling into...”
– Against School - John Taylor Gatto
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“the freedom of human agents consists in their having managed most fully to...”
– Quentin Skinner · A Third Concept of Liberty: Living in Servitude · LRB 4 April 2002
I repeat: ‘whatever is the true goal of man … must be identical with his freedom.’
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States and the freedom of citizens by Quentin... →
“Slavery is an institution of the ius gentium by which someone is, contrary to nature, subjected to the dominion of someone else.”
Who are you a slave to?
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The map of a world without violence, and the path...
Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, interviewed by James Corbett of The Corbett Report ## “The State remains in this weird anti-matter world where Virtue=Violence.”
http://www.corbettreport.com/stefan-molyneux-on-the-corbett-report-video/
- Hey Stefan, you don’t want government, so you obviously hate sick people.
- Fallacy: Because the govt provides x, if the govt...
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Watchalliancejournal:
It has been the collective and cumulative work of thinkers like Michael Taylor, Gustav Landauer, Etienne de la Boetie, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolo Michiavelli, Colin Ward, Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Alvin Gouldner, Thomas Kuhn, Clifford Geertz, Hannah Arendt, Vincent & Elinor Ostrom and, finally, the blazingly brilliant Quentin Skinner that has turned me away from a Weberian conception...
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Rhetorical Fallacies: Sliding down a Slippery...
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” George Bernard Shaw
Beware of Pigs
One tool of “pigs” in manipulative persuasion is the rhetorical fallacy. A fallacy is a deliberate mis-use of logical argument. You’ll find them regularly in political, social and family “discussions”. Don’t get...
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bigthink > The Singularity and Its Discontents
In February, 2011, a powerful IBM computer called Watson became the Jeopardy world champion.Immediately, the media went crazy with headlines about machines obliterating mankind. As a media professional, I am not at all surprised by this – the more powerful our machines become, the more our attitudes toward them become polarized between paranoia on the one hand and weak-kneed submission on the...
February 2012
43 posts
To everyone who has dealt with suicidal thoughts...
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BlackMarch
Almost there! Please accept this bunch of sites to be used in case of boring #blackmarch dead times: Indie Movies: http://www.ubu.com/film/ http://inetfilm.com/ http://www.archive.org/ http://mylifescoop.com/featured-stories/2011/01/top-9-sites-to-watch-free-independent-films.html or just give it a...
A PRETTY NAME FOR AN UGLY PRACTICE
Posted 2012 Feb 22 by Hertzi Shwartz
Following the movie I watched “what in the World Are They Spraying?” just an idea: HAARP is playing with microwave energy, trying to manipulate the weather. Just like in microwave ovens, these waves need to stop on something in order to heat the food, so, what if these chemtrails are designed to create this aluminum-foil effect in which these waves...
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kad budu gorjeli gradovi: Dr. Vandana Shiva:... →
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
The biggest corporate takeover on the planet is the hijacking of the food system, the cost of which has had huge and irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere.
From the seed to the farm to the store to your table, corporations are seeking total control over…
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Occupied Economy →
Planet Earth cannot grow. Not any faster than it accumulates stardust, anyway. If the economy “grows” while resources like water, forest, and fish are being depleted, it’s not growth: it’s just blowing more bubbles. Yet because our economic system shows unconditional love for growth, it doesn’t ring alarm bells over bubbles. But count on this: the bigger the bubble, the worse the burst.
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How to delete your Google Browsing History before... →
Tech News Daily reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that advocates for online privacy, says: “Search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more.”
EFF advises all Google users to delete their web...