February 2012
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We didn’t really know who was going to show up for the occupation. It was all a...
– David Graeber, “What We Owe to Each Other” (via bostonreview)
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Ever heard of the Espionage Act? →
[Excerpts copied from NYtimes.com. Story written by David Carr]
The Espionage Act, enacted back in 1917 to punish those who gave aid to our enemies, was used three times in all the prior administrations to bring cases against government officials accused of providing classified information to the media. It has been used six times since the current president took office.
These kinds of...
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A market-driven technocratic culture has infiltrated university life, with the...
– Cornel West (via loftkits)
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Mohandas Gandhi: ruwlove replied to your quote: In... →
mohandasgandhi:
ruwlove replied to your quote: In a statement Monday, White House spokesman Jay…
any chance you could point me to why the Keystone XL is bad?
I’ll link to what I’ve used in the past to explain why the Keystone XL pipeline is incredibly damaging to the environment. You’ll get…
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When you include these off-balance-sheet costs, the real price of gas by my...
– Dylan Ratigan Greedy Bastards (via David C. Lefevre)
Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort... →
somepolitics:
In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband.
“A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be mentally prepared to conceive, continue the same and give birth to a child. The unwanted pregnancy would naturally...
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Yes, I feel emphatic about not being static And not eating the bullshit that’s being fed to me no more cause’ now I’m full. -Incubus
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The biggest photo of the night sky ever taken. →
fyeahlilbitoeverything:
captaindove:
#i nearly threw up when i looked at this #SPACE IS SCARY
There is so much beauty in the universe.
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Ron Paul
made all the other candidates look like war-mongering hyperbolic fools on the issue of Iran. It was great. (No,I don’t like Paul, he’s mostly appalling.)
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The Dylan Ratigan show: BP fails to clean up their mess.
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There's Nothing Small About Shrimp's Carbon... →
mad-as-a-marine-biologist:
There’s perhaps no other animal on Earth so synonymous with all things diminutive as the modestly framed shrimp — but, as it turns out, not everything about those famed crustaceans is small. Biologists say that common shrimp farming methods across Asia are so devastating to fragile ecosystems as to make ordering a simple shrimp cocktail one of the worst things...
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Here is the secret of the opposition to woman’s equality in the state: men...
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton