May 2012
18 posts
A crying need for change →
amodernmanifesto:
I OFTEN think that one of the tremendous tricks of capitalism is getting us to accept an absurd state of affairs as normal—inevitable even. But to quote one of my favorite poets, Naomi Shihab Nye, “If you tilt your head just slightly, it’s ridiculous.”
To give just one example, the United Nations came out with a report a couple years ago—a study of global wealth that found the...
“First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I...”
– Martin Niemöller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6
“If people do not actively combat a political regime which oppresses them, it may...”
– Terry Eagleton, Ideology: an introduction, p.34
[n.b. immiseration is as good a technique of control as inspiration, or even the misidentification of the needs of the ruling classes as your own. Along with force, a technique of increasing the rate of exploitation (austerity) can be a technique for...
Kevin Nealon's excellent suggestions for "more...
inothernews:
“Be the President’s driver, as well.”
“Butler.”
“Poolboy.”
“Caddy.”
“Take out the garbage.”
“Fluffer. He could be a fluffer.”
“Shooshing people at the Library of Congress.”
(via Real Time)
Keeping Tina's Dreams Alive: Now For The Fun Part! →
There are two fundraisers for Tina about to happen. Clear your calendar! This is going to be FUN!
Anonymous: In response to the recent events in... →
anoncentral:
In response to the recent events in Chicago, a message from Occupy San Diego to the Worldwide Resistance that joined in the anti-NATO demonstrations, as well as to the various Occupations, students in Quebec, and worldwide resistance as it was condensed by OSD GA (05/23/2012).
Text: In…
“Our enemies are not 7,000 miles from home. Our enemies are right here and we...”
– War Medals of Dishonor thrown out — RT
Romney Pledges 6% Unemployment By 2016... In a... →
joegressivism:
Well at least he isn’t pledging to make it worse I guess?
6 tags
“… America’s real problems have nothing to do with what we do in our bedrooms and...”
– Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich in Of Bedrooms and Boardrooms (via tartantambourine)
Amen
10 tags
Tina needs support
Keeping Tina’s Dreams Alive: Tina, My Sister, Has Brain Cancer http://t.co/9cRyDAwk — The Hermit Krab (@TheHermitKrab)
WatchWhat is the government collecting about you and why? (via NSA’s Bill Binney, Kirk Wiebe, Tom Drake and Diane Roark Tell Glenn Beck Why Government Is Gather Data on You | Video | TheBlaze.com)
April 2012
16 posts
Texas attorney general exposes millions of voters’... →
sinidentidades:
The office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott mistakenly gave attorneys access to millions of Social Security numbers in a case against the state’s voter ID law, officials admitted Wednesday.
The numbers were included with a voter database the state was ordered to turn over to plaintiff attorneys. Abbott’s office reportedly said that only the last four digits were supposed to...
“Obama is not some hapless victim whose actions on this issue are constrained by...”
– Obama Lies About Federal Marijuana Law to Rolling Stone (via humanformat)
Battle over EU budget set to turn ugly →
sinidentidades:
Negotiations over the European Union budget looked set to turn ugly Wednesday as a drive to ramp up 2013 funding ran into a push to impose a decade of austerity on Brussels.
The European Commission is expected to call at 1100 GMT for a budget next year of 138 billion euros ($182 billion), according to EU sources. That would mean an increase of 9.0 billion euros, although...
Africans shocked by uncivilized antics of European... →
Africans say they have little hope that Europe will ever become civilized, after a week in which Spain’s King Carlos went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. “You can take the European out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the European,” sighed one resident of Kinshasa.
August Mwanasa, of Libreville in...
Young men in Mexico say the U.S. no longer offers... →
sinidentidades:
In a typical year, the young men in this agricultural region of western Mexico would have made the journey north to America. But not this year or for this generation: a better future across the border is a promise they no longer trust.
“For years, we dreamed of America, but now that dream is no good,” says 18-year-old Pedro Morales, sitting in the elegant Spanish colonial square...
George Zimmerman's Website Raised $200,000 →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
Remember when George Zimmerman sought donations from his website? You know, the one that looked like it was designed in the mid-’90s, and that proudly featured a photo from a vandalized black community center? Turns out Zimmerman raised $200,000.
Zimmerman’s lawyer Mark O’Mara appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, where he said that he just learned about the money on Wednesday...
Anonymous: This Is Spain today. →
anoncentral:
This Is Spain today. The people are being thrown into poverty, everything they have is being taken away. Healthcare, social security, housing. Also a new law has been made that makes people pay their mortgage to banks even after execution sale of the house (which the banks buy at low prices). And most important the right to protest has been taken away, it is now even illegal to...
UK Officially in double-dip recession →
spam420:
The UK economy has returned to recession, after shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012 and 0.3% in the last quarter of 2011.
“Wall Street has no incentive to change, because it has a monopoly on our lives....”
– Ran Prieur on Occupy Wall Street
March 2012
11 posts
“I saw dozens of peaceful protesters violently choked, stomped on, and beaten...”
– Max Berger, Welcome to the American Spring (via jonathan-cunningham)
Not messing around: Brazil confiscates oil... →
shortformblog:
17 oil workers barred from leaving Brazil after an offshore oil spill source
» “I’ve never seen a spill this small with this size of reaction.” That’s what one Chevron executive, Ali Moshiri, who is in charge of the company’s Latin American operations, said in…
“War is old men protecting their property by sending young men – rich, old men...”
– George Carlin on Real Time With Bill Maher, October 1, 2004 (via cognitivedissonance)
Tracy Knauss: Fox News killed my mother. →
abaldwin360:
Tracy Knauss
Today I posted an image called “Fox News killed my mother.” Because it did. It was the most widely circulated image I’ve ever posted. But, after about and hour I could no longer read any of the comments. Still can’t. And some of you have messaged me to say you can’t see it. So here it is again. This time, my explanation will be in the first comment instead of here....
THE GUARDIAN: "At the end of a day of... →
inothernews:
Here go the cops again.
“Your First Amendment rights can be terminated if you’re creating a scene… your...”
– Chicago police officer to NBC reporters, informing them that their First Amendment rights can be terminated if they are present on a public street- that begs the question, if being in public is enough to terminate your First Amendment rights, what good are they in the first place? (via...
“Let’s expand the discussion from just birth control and health insurance to all...”
– reddit user meldin (via abaldwin360)
He belongs in a sanitarium!!!!
okiedokidoki:
I actually really like Rick Santorum. I think he’s an inspiration
just like Obama breaking the color barrier and Hilary advancing women’s chances in the last elections, Rick finally made it possible for people with an IQ of 30 or below to run for presidency
Cracked: 6 things rich people need to stop saying →
stfuconservatives:
I love that they quote Mitch “soon-to-haves” Daniels in this.
Rich people:
STFU, Conservatives: Birth Control 101 For Idiots →
prolongedeyecontact:
bemusedlybespectacled:
This is hormonal birth control.
As you can see on the box, you take exactly one pill per day. To make sure it works, you need to take one pill every day at the same time, or it stops working. You take only one pill, and you keep taking…
February 2012
12 posts
“Once upon a time, way back in the stone ages, when Noam Chomsky was first...”
– Matt Taibbi (via soupsoup)
“Advocates for unemployed workers suspect that conservatives who would require...”
– Legislating Under the Influence (via azspot)
Why doesn't the U.S. have a high speed rail that...
other-stuff:
leftist-linguaphile:
No excuses
Excuses are what we have.
Hell why isn’t there a real rail transportation system? Why do passenger trains run on the same track at the pleasure of the freight trains?
“I’ve never defined myself by anything other than my service, and my duty, and...”
– Pinal County, Ariz. Sheriff Paul Babeu • On having to “out” himself in light of a personal scandal. The sheriff, currently running for a Republican Congressional seat in Arizona, had been dogged by rumors that he threatened to deport an ex-lover to Mexico if their relationship a secret wasn’t kept....
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Says He Might Give... →
randomactsofchaos:
other-stuff:
sarahlee310:
Sheldon Adelson plays as stubbornly in politics as he does in business. So the criticisms that he’s trying to personally buy the presidential election for Newt Gingrich are met with a roll of the eyes. “Those people are either jealous or professional critics,” Adelson tells me during his first interview since he and his wife began funneling $11...