December 2011
173 posts
Show me what Fascism looks like →
ratsandcandy666:
Defying Veto Threat, Senate Advances Indefinite Detention Measure
The Senate has advanced a controversial measure that would authorize the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect without charge or trial anywhere in the word, including the United States. The provision is attached to a large military spending bill that’s before the Senate this week. On Tuesday,...
November 2011
286 posts
Life began 3 billion years ago with a planetary...
leekfixer:
iheartchaos:
When life was still forming in the chemically rich pools of early Earth, it perhaps wasn’t quite life as we know it, with individual organisms competing against each other but perhaps a giant planet-wide mega-organism that freely shared components of life amongst each other, and this mega-organism was named LUCA, or Last Universal Common Ancestor.
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“Take, say, sports — that’s another crucial example of the indoctrination system,...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Something that is extremely true and I am absolutely guilty of
(via sociopoliticaldribble)
Ideas, Opinions, Rants, and Cool Shit.: A list of... →
anticapitalist:
1 Europe 1.1 aktivix.org
1.2 autistici.org
1.3 boum.org
1.4 cybrigade.org / espiv.net
1.5 immerda.ch
1.6 Isole Nella Rete Project
1.7 nadir.org
1.8 nodo50.net
1.9 no-log.org (closed to new subscribers)
1.10…
The fruits of liberation | Glenn Greenwald →
[…] It’s acceptable to make arguments that American wars should end because they’re costing too much money or American lives or otherwise harming American strategic interests, but piles of corpses of innocent children are something only the shrill, shallow and unSerious — pacifists! — point to as though they have any meaning in terms of what should be done.
This kind of thinking would, I...
Occupy Wall Street versus the Tea Party
cognitivedissonance:
Just a few stats on the two movements…
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Hunger in America →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
Last year, 17.2 million households in the United States were food insecure, the highest level on record, as the Great Recession continued to wreak havoc on families across the country. Of those 17.2 million households, 3.9 million included children. On Thanksgiving Day, here’s a look at hunger in America, as millions of Americans struggle to get enough to eat in the...
“Alas, my brothers, this god whom I created was man-made and madness, like all...”
– Nietzche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via phredosophy)
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let it flow: Confront Racism: Zeitgeist Movement... →
proteanbeing:
peopleofcolor:
If you’re the kind of person who knows there’s a lot of problems in our society, and you’re looking for solutions for what to do about it, there’s a good chance you’ve found yourself here on our blog.
There’s also a good chance you might have come across…
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“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via haereticum) 