March 2012
ihopericksantorum:
I hope Rick Santorum forgets his keys are in his back pocket and sits down really hard.
Activist Requests Her FBI File, Learns What Color... →
frustrated-teenage-anarchist:
logicallypositive:
karamazov-alexei:
Last year, a blogger, activist, and “amateur pornographer” named Furry Girl requested her FBI file on a lark. Last month, she got it and posted some of its highlights online.
Among other details, Furry Girl learned that she and a few others were followed for several days several years ago while they planned and ...
Police officer punches rape victim in the face and... →
When officers arrived, Gibson said she was hiding in a closet naked. She said the officers ordered her to leave the closet.
“I told them what had just happened to me and I asked for a female officer and the officer said I didn’t have that option because it wasn’t my house,” Gibson said. ”I told them I was naked. I told them I had just been raped and that I did not feel comfortable coming out of...
Top 5 Stratfor Revelations →
Up to 12 Pakistani active-duty and retired officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew that Usama Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and were in regular contact with him. The Pakistani chief of staff is denying the report.
Dow Chemicals hired Stratfor to spy on activists in Agra who continue to protest over the Bhopal environmental disaster that blinded many workers and destroyed...
February 2012
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“Should not we reconsider the term ‘smart cities’? If we speak about people in...”
– Someone from the audience at Social Cities of Tomorrow conference in Amsterdam. (from Shareable)
“One out of every 10 Wall Street employees is likely a clinical psychopath,...”
– One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers (via ronmarks)
““People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take...”
– Banksy
(via anoncentral)
Virginia’s Senate voted (39-1) to nullify NDAA... →
U.S. House Votes to Make Protests Illegal →
sageoflogic:
mythryndil:
writtenmemory4:
are you fucking serious
the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
“The U.S. and its Western allies are sure to do whatever they can to prevent...”
– Noam Chomsky: Article (via stay-human)
“Don’t doubt your power, or you give power to your doubts.”
– Ernesto Che Guevara (via nirvikalpa)
Obama administration applauds TransCanada decision... →
solitaryforager:
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
“Of course, I told him he was nuts to rule anything against Halliburton.”
– WikiLeaks: Disgraced Judge Said He Was Targeted for Investigation After Ruling Against Halliburton | Truthout
The world we live in and a perfect example why healing our world and protecting it with regulations is probably not going to happen in time.
(via stopkillingourworld)
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (disputed), as quoted by Ronald Wright in A Short History of Progress (via earlyfrost)
Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV... →
socialismartnature:
Damn. This is fascinating, if not deeply disturbing. Just one more way that European colonialism decimated the people of Africa, leaving behind death, destruction, and disease in it wake; a wake that still troubles the progress of humanity today.
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For decades nobody knew the reasons behind the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But it is now clear that the epidemic’s birth...
“Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic,...”
– George Orwell (via americandissident)
FLASH! Obama caves: Keystone XL Pipeline to be... →
climateadaptation:
The White House issued a statement supportive of TransCanada’s latest plan, saying, “The President welcomes today’s news that TransCanada plans to build a pipeline to bring crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf of Mexico.”
“As the President made clear in January, we support the company’s interest in proceeding with this project, which will help address the ...
“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn, on Kurt Vonnegut. (via libertarians)
“If every image made and every word written from the earliest stirring of...”
– Michael Shermer (via cocknbull)
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t...”
– Pericles
(looks like Trotsky’s not as much as an original as we thought… xD)
“They who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness.”
– John Milton, 1642
“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via mutualaddiction)
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world,...”
– Karl Marx (via philosophy-quotes)
So happy someone finally has the opiate quote in context.
Karl Marx liked a lot of things about religion! He thought it a great way to instill morality and philosophy into the masses. His goal was a world where that wasn’t needed.
He also saw the religious...
“Assaults and terrorism in indiscriminate form should not be employed. More...”
– Che Guevara
