January 2010
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Vancouver's Olympics head for disaster →
“The Bailout Games” have already been labelled a staggering financial disaster. While the complete costs are still unknown, the Vancouver and British Columbian governments have hinted at what’s to come by cancelling 24,000 surgeries, laying off 233 government employees, 800 teachers and recommending the closure of 14 schools. It might be enough to make one cynical, but luckily...
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Child's eye: 'My brothers think about weapons, not... →
“Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.[1] At present, there is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism.[2][3]Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety...
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The Folk Implosion - Natural One
if the...
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“I’d rather push a guy out the window or chop his head off with an ax than...”
– Holden Caulfield
This helps me understand why I don’t understand being fanatic about Catcher In The Rye. I know you don’t have to “identify” with a work or character to appreciate it (and don’t get me wrong, I appreciate Salinger’s work), but especially in...
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Obama Speaks Transparency, Practices Subterfuge →
The issue at hand surrounds lobbying. “It’s time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or Congress,” the president said during his televised address.
But, before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month, the Justice Department argued that it should not have to disclose the names of telecommunication industry lobbyists. Those...
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Why Do So Many Republicans Who Profess Fealty To... →
unburyingthelead:
(via azspot)
I’m more curious about how one reconciles being pro-war while pro-Jesus, but yes, this too.
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“3 best Jews who ever lived: Magneto (even though he’s not real), Jesus...”
– “crazy screaming man on the street” as per my roommate’s reporting.
Though, Val, the only reason I can see that he’s crazy is because he thinks Bob Dylan is worth a damn.
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“I hope to hell that when I do die, somebody has the sense to just dump me in the...”
– J.D. Salinger. (via mineshaftgap)
this. Also, annoyingly rabid Salinger fans should keep in mind that he did it for himself and he didn’t like you (and that’s why I liked him).
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“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of...”
– from the State Of The Union…. In 1861.
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Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo,... →
jhnbrssndn:
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.
Without Howard Zinn, I wouldn’t have gone into History. Simple as that.
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Anyone everything →
unburyingthelead:
bobulate:
Media projects, many of them visual experiments, from the magnificent Radio Lab. Just a selection:
Moments (“How would you define a moment?”)
Parabolas (“It all started with a pendulum.”)
Stoop Sitting (“I’m not busy, I’m just relaxing.”)
Strawberries (“He who is possessed by possessions is surely possessed.”)
Collective wisdom of everyday actions in audio,...
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“After training for five months, and you are finally in the ring, facing a great...”
– Ze Mario Sperry (via fighting)
when the body speaks, the mind is quiet. that’s how i get close to it. off to train.
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“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via secrets0ciety)
See also: Munch, Horace, and The Boss.
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Who says "fuck yes!" to a complete stranger in an...
Law Student: waitwait, hold the elevator!
Me: [holds elevator] Going down?
Law Student: Yes. [entering elevator]
Me: [Presses "C"]
Law Student: To the cellar? Fuck yes!
Me and Law Student: [bury faces in whatever reading material we are holding, the rest of the elevator trip passing in "beep" punctuated silence]
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Guantanamo group of 47 'should be held... →
secrets0ciety:
A task force on the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay has advised that 47 inmates should be held indefinitely without trial, officials say.
Remember how during his campaign we learned that our President taught Constitutional Law? At what point is that part of his brain going to kick in?? Fuck, at what point is he going to prove himself to be a human fucking being?
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Little Dragon - My Step
c’mon weekend...
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“But he died alone on Aug. 28, 1959, without medals or prizes, in a hotel in New...”
– -ON MY MIND; A Man Called Lemkin (1988)
On my mind, as well since I’ve been researching him for work. I feel like I would have understood Lemkin well too, being that he was the sort of man who “carried a black briefcase stuffed with documents and his daily sandwich.”
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You know that thing you love? I hate it.
The sound of Ira Glass’s voice.
That 6-Year Old on Tumblr.
Hipster Runoff.
Tao Lin.
South Park.
I could go on….
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U.S. court rejects corporate campaign spending... →
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court struck down on Thursday long-standing limits on corporate spending in U.S. political campaigns, such as this year’s congressional races and the 2012 presidential contest.
The ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration and the campaign finance law’s supporters who said that ending the limits would unleash a flood of corporate...
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ABC journalist Leigh Sales: The United States Government ignored the Geneva Convention to establish this entire detention facility, so why would you quote the Geneva Convention now?
Military spokesman Colonel David McWilliams: The Geneva Convention has always been adhered to at Guantánamo Bay to ensure the humane treatment of people who are detained here.
Leigh Sales: But their actual status as enemy combatants was designated so that they would not be afforded prisoner of war protections under the Geneva Convention.
David McWilliams: Because they’re not prisoners of war, they’re enemy combatants.
Leigh Sales: Can you see how it may look that the US Government adopts the Geneva Convention or cites the Geneva Convention when it’s convenient, but chooses not to do so at other times?
David McWilliams: The United States Government has applied the principles of the Geneva Convention to the detention of people here at Guantánamo Bay.
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They are not legal criminals, they are illegal criminals. Thus everything is permitted, even the illegal. Also, everything is permitted, even cognitive dissonance, when you're as psychotic (even sociopathic, at times) as the American Military and Justice Department.
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"Strategy!"
Democrats, meet me at camera 3… let me see if i have this straight. You need to replace perhaps the most beloved liberal in the history of the Senate with a candidate who believe Kurt Schilling is a Yankee fan because if this lady loses the healthcare reform bill, that the beloved late Senator considered his legacy, will die. And the reason it will die is because if Coakley loses Democrats...
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