March 2012
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Plan B: 'Find out what kids are good at. It will... →
“I believe that there is a demonisation of the youth throughout the media. And people are falling for it, because if you’d had no direct contact with the kids that I’m talking about how the hell can you judge them? Because you’re only judging them based on something you read in a newspaper, aren’t you?
See, this fuels the fire. If you call kids words that are...
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“There is no right way, no pure way of doing it. There is just doing it…We...”
– Bruce Springsteen
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Olympics 2012 security: welcome to lockdown London →
The imminent Olympics will take place in a city still recovering from riots that the Guardian-LSE Reading the Riots project showed were partly fuelled by resentment at their lavish cost. Last week, the UK spending watchdog warned that the overall costs of the Games were set to be at least £11bn – £2 bn over even recently inflated budgets. When major infrastructure projects such as Crossrail,...
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“How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer...”
– Isabel Allende
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“Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives...”
– George Orwell - Why I write
“So I suppose that those are my principal thoughts upon anarchy. They’ve been...”
– Alan Moore - Fierce…Flawless…
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“I don’t think that people on the Right are deluded, they’re no more stupid than...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “Mediators” (interview, bolded mine)
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“What scares the banks is any criticism that goes beyond claims of greed or fraud...”
– Propaganda Wars
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“The UN’s attempt to evade responsibility for the introduction of the cholera...”
– Haiti, Cholera and the United Nations
February 2012
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“So what’s wrong? In short, the common thread I see throughout all the failures...”
– Michael Wesch - Why Good Classes Fail
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The EU & Greece: A capitalism that has persuaded... →
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“Americans eat oysters but not snails. The French eat snails but not locusts. The...”
– Ian Robertson, Sociology [1987], pg.67
The diversity of our languages, customs, and expressive behaviors confirms that much of our behavior is socially programmed, not hardwired.
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Chris Hedges turns on OWS with divisive slurs. Gramsci says told you so…
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At Conservative Conference, Retired Police Officer...
Yesterday at CPAC, the conservative convention held this week in Washington D.C., Republic Report ran into retired police officer and anti-drug war activist Howard Wooldridge. We were interested in his take on the role of money in politics in the government’s crusade against marijuana. He explained that cynical lobbyists, who place their clients interests over America, have perpetuated the cycle...
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“The riots bothered me a great deal, on two counts. First, nothing really has...”
– Stuart Hall 