February 2012
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Feb 29th
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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)
Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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Feb 28th
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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...
Feb 28th
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“A market-driven technocratic culture has infiltrated university life, with the...”
– Cornel West (via loftkits)
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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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…
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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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)
Feb 24th
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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...
Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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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
Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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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.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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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.)
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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WatchWatch
The Dylan Ratigan show: BP fails to clean up their mess.
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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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...
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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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
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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“Here is the secret of the opposition to woman’s equality in the state: men...”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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