May 2012
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Police kill naked man found eating face off of... →
pieceinthepuzzlehumanity:
One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp, police said.
The bloodshed began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building. Witnesses...
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Is market anarchism derived from classical...
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Both! Often, market anarchists don’t find these philosophies, properly contextualized, to generally be at odds.
Classical liberals (a.k.a. market liberals) advocate a free market economy. Socialism seeks a world where the means of production are owned by workers. Many market anarchists believe that freed markets lead to that world. The state-granted monopoly privileges...
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Estimates Place Iraqi Body Count Over 1 Million... →
disobey:
Over a million Iraqis are dead from America’s war.
That sentence is a cognitive litmus test. Some people’s immediate reaction is, “That can’t be right,” because the United States couldn’t do that. Or because crimes on that scale don’t still happen. Or because they do happen, but only in horrible places that the United States hasn’t rescued.
One million is a “Grandpa, what did you do...
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disobey:
“What troubles me about this… I think it’s beyond hypocrisy. I think it’s something to do with class. A lot of people have accused Obama of class warfare, but in the wrong direction. I believe this is Obama chortling with Jimmy Fallon about lower class people. Do we believe, even for a second, that if Obama had been busted for marijuana — under the laws that he condones — would his life...
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“I’m not in favour of people being in cages. On the other hand I think people...”
– Noam Chomsky, self-described anarchist (via whakatikatika)
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“If one prison guard beats you twenty times a day while the other guards beat you...”
– Roderick Long (h/t Tom Woods)
As one of the commenters notes:
More conclusive proof that gliberals don’t really mean it when they revert to conservative-esque love-it-or-leave-it arguments (“why don’t you move to Somalia?” etc.).
They really just mean, “Love it and shut the f*ck up.”
(via...
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The Food Police State: LA County confiscating raw... →
According to Mark McAfee (see quotes below), both LA County and San Diego county have attempted to acquire customer names and addresses from Organic Pastures (www.OrganicPastures.com) for the sole purpose of sending “food confiscation teams” to customers’ homes to remove the raw milk from customers’ refrigerators. Using both phone calls and home visits, these teams...
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“Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and...”
– Bill Hicks (via whakatikatika)
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Snapshot of the American Voter
Obama: Sends drone strikes throughout Yemen, killing innocent civilians.
Obama: Sends drone strikes throughout Pakistan, killing innocent civilians.
Obama: Sends drone strikes throughout Somalia, killing innocent civilians.
Obama: Sends drone strikes throughout Afghanistan, killing innocent civilians.
Obama: Sends drone strikes throughout Iraq, killing innocent civilians.
Obama: Puts crippling trade sanctions on Iran to provoke another war, similar to events leading up to Pearl Harbor.
Obama: Signs NDAA, which allows for the indefinite detainment of US citizens on US soil, without a trial or charges.
Obama: Specifically instructs Congressional Committee writing 2012 NDAA to expand the aforementioned powers in the bill.
Obama: Expands and appoints executive agencies to bypass Congress and extend the powers of the executive branch even more than Bush.
Obama: Uses millions of tax dollars for personal vacations.
Obama: Assassinates two American citizens, one being only sixteen years old, without any due process.
Obama: Campaigns on closing Guantanamo Bay. Doesn't close Guantanamo Bay.
Obama: Calls for the arrest of alleged whistle-blower PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly leaking video footage of American soldiers killing Iraqi civilians ruthlessly and illegally.
Obama: Campaigns on transparency in government. Denies more FOIA requests than all previous administrations combined.
Obama: Speaks out against money in politics. Receives more money from Wall Street than any politician in history.
Obama: Endorses the torture of aforementioned Bradley Manning for eighteen months at Quantico before he's even charged with a crime.
Obama: Calls for excessive Pell grants, which inflate the price of college tuition for everyone.
Obama: Says he will not sign ACTA. Signs ACTA.
Obama: Signs the NDRP Act, allowing for the nationalization of any natural resource, product, factory, industry, business, or property on american soil in peacetime.
Obama: Announces end of American occupation of Iraq. Leaves 10,000 troops in Iraq.
Obama: Says he supports gay marriage.
American People: Why would anyone NOT vote for Obama?
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Plastic-Eating Fungi Found in the Amazon May Solve... →
anti-propaganda:
‘A group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR). As part of the university’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory educational program, designed to engage undergraduate students in discovery-based research, the group searched for plants and cultured the...
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“Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has created or reconfigured at...”
– Fareed Zakaria (via disobey)
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Nine dangerous things you were taught in school. →
1. The people in charge have all the answers. That’s why they are so wealthy and happy and healthy and powerful—ask any teacher.
2. Learning ends when you leave the classroom. Your fort building, trail forging, frog catching, friend making, game playing, and drawing won’t earn you any extra credit. Just watch TV.
3. The best and brightest follow the rules. You will be rewarded for your...
