February 2012
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“Iran is not some fictive evil empire; its rulers are not Mings the Merciless....”
– “Centrifugal State” - Who Is IOZ
I hate to just plop down the conclusion to a piece, but this contains a crucial point I can’t emphasize enough, even at the risk of being repetitive and repeating IOZ’s repetitions:
Accepting (and I don’t) that some wars, sometimes,...
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“Power and Slaughter love armed intervention across the globe.”
– this ghost, referencing Samantha Power and Anne-Marie Slaughter (via thenewephemera)
Power and Slaughter are jokes operating within jokes contained within a larger farce. Good thing they’re just fictional characters with punny names and no one takes their horrible ideas seriously, yknow?
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Clint Mansel - Welcome to Lunar Industries (Three...
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Headline: "Koran Burning in NATO Error Incites... →
versus a quote buried towards the end of the article:
“This is not just about dishonoring the Koran, it is about disrespecting our dead, and killing our children,”
Fuck the Times.
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“Tireless pro-democracy advocate”… What is it like to be a tireless...”
– @Unhaunting
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The Jeremy Lin Problem - NYTimes.com →
petersheik:
David Brooks knows less about sports than he does about politics, economics, and culture, and that, my friends, is saying something.
One of the easiest and possibly most abrupt ways to learn that Liberalism sucks is when one of your Liberal friends tells you how much they like columns by David Brooks.
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Meth Labs in the Rain
criminalwisdom:
by Scot Siegel (Via) Mostly I am afraid of small Oregon towns whose primary industry is Jesus.
Thursday Thorsday - Believe That.
(related: JESUS FUCK WHERE’D THE WEEK GO)
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"The idea, in a nutshell, is that when a unit... →
motherjones:
Dr. Waitman Beorn, the Iraq vet and Holocaust studies expert who blew the whistle on Marines’ use of a Nazi SS flag in Afghanistan, explains how poor moral judgment can snowball in a military culture.
This is actually the opposite direction of how war and war crimes work. War Crimes proceed from War itself. Racism, as well, proceeds from war itself. To quote myself, RACISM IS PART...
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“A submerged state, according to political scientist Suzanne Mettler, is what you...”
– THIRTY MORE YEARS OF HELL
I do so enjoy anything that reinforces the idea of “Greatest Generation my ass”
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“Asked where the men were being taken, the MoD had initially indicated that they...”
– RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
Do read the article because what we have here is some quite explicit war crimes committed by the US and UK armed forces. When they say “question the legality” they mean in reference to these acts in particular (plus the...
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“[drone critics] would like nothing more than to malign these efforts and help Al...”
– an anonymous senior American counterterrorism official….
I guess I’d be commenting under anonymity too if I was speaking such absolute horseshit in defense of what amounts to State-based terrorism. Fuck this guy,
FUCK THIS GUY AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY HORSE HE RODE IN ON
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“[Javin] James claims after he yelled at the [NYPD], they tried to make sure he...”
– Eyewitness To Bronx Police Beating Claims The Officers Then Went After Him - NY1.com (via 6h057)
standard. operating. procedure.
Think Kelly’s gonna ever resign? Think Bloomberg even gives a shit? Think the NYPD think there’s anything wrong with this?
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superbowl sunday drone update →
FUCK THE SUPER BOWL, I’M JUST REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT FLYOVER, YOU?
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6h057:
hungryghoast replied to your post:There’s something about the little white lies of…
i was just talking about this ad w/ Paul which inspired me wondering: “how much nicer Improv Everywhere would be if they didn’t fucking record everything. if they recorded nothing.”
My brain just broke.
No but really folks, that ad is really nice and all, except that it’s an ad....
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“So apparently Newt Gingrich is insane because he wants to establish a moon...”
– Who Is IOZ? - De la terre à la lune
We get plenty of the surreal from the Republican candidates and their loony ideas, but what’s really insane is our political reality, regardless of party.
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