February 2011
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The Minority We Should Be Concerned About →
ohwowlook:
I’m very certain that this chart can be applied to almost every other country in the world, if not all.
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“I’m not sure [Frederic] Jameson would say that he is more imaginative than...”
– http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011434.html
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Not Even One Token Woman! →
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“Any business owner who uses largely unpaid labor, with a handful of underpaid,...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
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off to pan...
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Scientist Finds Gulf Bottom Still Oily, Dead
“Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist’s video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.
That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.”
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Anthropologists Trace Human Origins Back To One... →
‘Wait, That Can’t Be Right,’ Scientists Say
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Ecstasy does not wreck the mind, study claims
“There is no evidence that ecstasy causes brain damage, according to one of the largest studies into the effects of the drug. Too many previous studies made over-arching conclusions from insufficient data, say the scientists responsible for the research, and the drug’s dangers have been greatly exaggerated.
The finding will shock campaigners who have claimed ecstasy poses a real...
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“Not only does structural violence kill more people than behavioural violence, it...”
– Dr. James Gilligan (via zeitgeistmovement)
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“El patriotismo es la principal parte de la ideología mediante la cual la...”
– Trotsky (via heroescandie)
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Methods of Nonviolent Action
redlightpolitics:
Just read 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action, part of Gene Sharp’s The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action(link goes to PDF).
I came across Sharp’s ideas on MetaFilter and found his profile at The New York Times. This is how he is described:
Gene Sharp is an American intellectual whose ideas can be fatal to the world’s despots. For decades,...
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Brazilian Ronaldo was simply phenomenon in... →
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“En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones...”
– José Saramago (via tripleijueputa)
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Guide to anthropological theories and approaches →
via http://camarguais.tumblr.com/
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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
– Buddha (via Buddha Island)
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“I believe the PATRIOT Act represents the cracked domestic crown jewel of a...”
– Dennis Kucinich on the House floor today (via kateoplis)
Dennis nails it once again.
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“Near the end of the twentieth century-indeed, near the end of the so-called...”
– John Lukacs (via mlq3)
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““Everything’s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail,” he said....”
– Matt Taibi is a boss. He understands the financial crisis better than most.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
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“It has been my stance for some time now that the histories of colonialism,...”
– Homi Bhabha, 1995.
Less than one and double. Less than one and double.
(via syeda)
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laesencia asked: i have a rather important question. If i send you a self stamped envelope from DC can that somehow transport me from here to Trini for carnival? I feel like wukking! Miss ya :)
haychelsea asked: Not a question, but you're awesome. I actually applied to American for the PhD program. How do you like living in the Caribbean? I love reading your posts! :)
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“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our...”
– Howard Zinn (1922-2010.)
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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”.”
– - Milan Kundera (via govt6004)
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“Do beautiful men fall into the virgin/whore dichotomy or does their masculinity...”
– from the series On Beauty (via sophiawallace)
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“One thing that even the dim bulbs in the media should understand by now is that...”
– http://is.gd/uhYqGd
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“There are supposed to be institutions which limit what can be done in pursuit of...”
– Glenn Greenwald, from his piece on The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters
You can read the leaked proposal by Palantir et al here.
(via headphonesnotrequired) 