February 2012
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“Laws are not written to protect you, but to control you. Ignore any law that...”
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“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I...”
– Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry.
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Anonymous reveals Haditha massacre emails — RT →
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“There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way...”
– The Eleventh Doctor
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Year of the storm
2012 is the year of the storm.
The Pirate Bay will reach an age of 9 years. Experiencing raids, espionage and death threats, we’re still here. We’ve been through hell and back and it has made us tougher than ever.
The people running the site has changed during the years. No sane human being would put up with this kind of pressure for 8 years in a row. An insane hobby that takes time...
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January 2012
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Robert Reich: Who is Sheldon Adelson and What Has... →
robertreich:
Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino owner, is now the poster boy for what’s terribly wrong with our campaign-finance system. Adelson, you may recall, had, before the South Carolina Republican primary, donated $5 million to the pro-Gingrich Super Pac “Winning Our Future” – giving Newt a pile…
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1/19/12
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“Correspondances
La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent...”
– Charles Baudelaire
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WatchI LOVE TED TALKS:
“Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.”
-Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.”
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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life...
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Whatever Happened to Gus
Combustication
Medeski,...
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Being at the bottom of the heap in terms of social... →
A foundation in Germany has analyzed the social justice records of all 31 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ranking each nation in such categories as health care, income inequality, pre-school education, and child poverty. The overall performance by the United States — which boasts of being an egalitarian society — outranks only Greece, Chile, Mexico,...
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“Daniel Ellsberg, who passed the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971...”
– http://socialistworker.org/2012/01/12/undisputed-person-of-the-year
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Free Education: MIT Open Courseware →
Political Science
An array of political science related courses, which, for example, include:
Political Philosophy: Global Justice
Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions
Political Economy I: Theories of the State and the Economy
The…
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Republicans Have Shut Down the NLRB. The President... →
The reason we have the NLRB is:
“…to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy.”
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New York City Council to Vote Against Corporate... →
Missoula, Montana; Boulder, Colorado; and South Miami, Florida, have all done it, but you know it’s really catching on when the Big Apple jumps on board. The New York City Council will vote Wednesday to get rid of corporate personhood in a growing nationwide backlash against the much-maligned Citizen’s United ruling.
Passed on January 21, 2010, Citizens United gave corporations the same political...
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December 2011
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