November 2011
88 posts
“A Jewish state doesn’t prevent a holocaust. In fact, the place where Jews are...”
– Noam Chomsky in a 2004 interview with Jennifer Bleyer (via mohandasgandhi)
poignant.
tl;dr: a “jewish state” is unfortunate for everyone, including jews; or: peace in the middle east?? — just around the..solar system.
“I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, ‘You got...”
– General Wesley Clark, explaining how the White House led the campaign of misinformation to pave the way for war in Iraq 6/20/03 (via jonathan-cunningham)
wow. amazing. ”just stick to the script, ok, wes. just stick to the script.”
highsee asked: Did you get hacked, or something?
Wary Of SOPA, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New,... →
Redditors have flocked over the last week to a new subgroup on Reddit.com they’re calling the Darknet Plan–or sometimes Meshnet, as the name seems to still be in flux–with the aim of building a mesh-based version of the Internet that wouldn’t be subject to the control of any corporation or government, with a focus on anonymity, peer-to-peer architecture and strong resistance to censorship.
...
“The key trick of Endless War is to permanently maintain two contradictory...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
trouble is, “war is a racket.” — cbg
“You hear a lot of talk from the Republicans and the bosses in industry about the...”
– Regulations don’t kill jobs, they create them (via ryking)
this is so commonfuckingsense that obviously it needs repeating. regulation is good for everybody, anyone arguing against regulation is either a fox-news muppet or is a human-parasite business twat looking to make a buck...
Yes, this is a chart of the entire economy. →
dcdecoder:
motherjones:
It is the greatest thing we have ever seen.
Spend a little time getting to know… everything. Can we get it in poster size?
Alexander Ryking: A brief note to the #Occupy... →
politicalprof:
To the #Occupiers:
Folks, you won. It’s time to get out of the tents and move forward.
Seriously: you won. Prior to your movement, the only thing anyone talked about in American politics was austerity. About the need for budget cuts aimed at the poorest and most vulnerable…
@ryking, in one breath you acknowledge that you can’t ask those in power (the “child...
Watchpantslessprogressive:
sarahlee310:
Lobbying Firm’s Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street
A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up w/ Chris Hayes.”
The proposal was...
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Deficit caused by wars, tax... →
inothernews:
randomactsofchaos:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday urged the congressional debt committee not to propose any cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
“This country does in fact have a serious deficit problem,” he said to about 200 people packed into the Senate Budget Committee room.
“But the reality is that the deficit was caused by two wars - unpaid for. It was...
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by...
redjeep:
paxmachina:
GOP quote of the day.
_______________________________________________________
The cost to rent a Republician Congressman for one vote… $ 5,000
The cost to rent one for the entire term… $ 25,000
The cost to buy one outright… your own PAC and 4 lobbyist to launder the money.
To vote them out of office… Priceless
~redjeep
socialist argument? didn’t you mean...
REUTERS: More than one in five children across the... →
“BOOTSTRAPS, BOOTSTRAPS, BOOTSTRAPS, YOU LAZY FU—!! oh, you don’t have boots. umm.”
carry on, nothing to see here.
“Eschewing hierarchy, the various [Occupy] groups have never sought to explain,...”
– Joshua Green, “The lack of a message for Occupy Wall Street.” (via ryking)
people are going to have to get used to the fact that there’s nothing to be done regarding ows grievances until the next election cycle. their complaints stem from the people who are in power now, do you really...
Mohandas Gandhi: It’s getting rather exhausting... →
mohandasgandhi:
It’s getting rather exhausting listening to people try to use the Tea Party rallies as some sort of check on the Occupy Wall Street movement in order to demonize it. While the Tea Partiers do have some legitimate political concerns, for the most part, they were and still are pawns. Why was there…
why OWS:TEA PARTY is APPLES:BANANAS please read.
The question "Why are these people protesting?"...
“if you have to ask, then you don’t really give a [flying] shit about the answer.”
say ‘what’ one more time.
“The right to assembly is being crushed; the... →
syntheticpubes:
(and the pizza = vegetable thing passed.)
“Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict “Occupy”...”
– Homeland security was mobilized to end the OWS protests: the Patriot Act and creation of the Department of Homeland Security have now been used to stop peaceful political action in the United States. (via jonathan-cunningham)
“first they came…” — cbg
“The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the...”
– Scalia and Thomas dine with healthcare law challengers as court takes case - latimes.com
Say what you want about demands or white-boy dreadlocks, if you think our system isn’t TOTALLY FUCKED you are probably just a moron.
(via rachelfershleiser)
An episode of the BBC's Frozen Planet documentary... →
mohandasgandhi:
In the U.S., Frozen Planet is being aired by Discovery. They were involved in the joint-production of the series. Yet they are still refusing to accommodate Frozen Planet in its entirety.
You’re a joke, Discovery. Science isn’t up to utilitarian referendum. The climate deniers of the United States will never come around unless they’re able to be educated and we’re quickly...
