June 2009
“While a lot of the media hype today focuses on the U.S. “withdrawal,” that is...”
– Jeremy Scahill (via azspot)
The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million →
The end of an Internet era.
Deadly Ambush Could Indicate Threat to Pakistan's... →
The USA is skilled at creating enemies where stability was once the established rule.
The group that has asserted responsibility for Sunday’s ambush is led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, one of the many militant commanders in Pakistan and Afghanistan who fight — sometimes against each other — under the banner of the Taliban. In early 2008, Bahadur’s group struck a peace deal with...
Nigerian Rebels Drive Up Oil Prices →
It warms my heart that Iraq’s oil reserves are being auctioned off to these same oil companies. What could go wrong?
Spurning a Nigerian government offer of amnesty, members of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have continued a series of attacks on oil installations. The group and its allies have now shut down a total of about 900,000 barrels a day, according to...
“The rich and the influential are the pitiful ones. They have so much to lose!...”
– Teodoro M. Locsin, Sr., diary entry, December 29, 1941 (via mlq3) (via curate)
Slow Money Principles
ambivalence:
Principles - Slow Money: investment strategies appropriate to the realities of the 21st century
“In order to preserve and restore local food systems and local economies; in order to reconnect food producers and consumers and reconnect investors to that in which they are investing and to the places in which they live; in order to promote the transition from an economy based on...
This Is Your Country On Drugs →
“And after watching a series of scandals unfold, I’ve come to the conclusion that...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot)
“The grand dialectic it sets forth pits the grounded stability of Wad Hamid...”
– clout of africa - bookforum.com / in print (via igather)
Amazing coincidence! I’m just now starting Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
“You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.”
– Lorrie Moore (via psychotherapy) (via xintoxication) (via aurorae)
Rise Of Obesity May Be Chemicals, Not Diet?
ambivalence:
[via It’s Time to Learn From Frogs - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com]
“This month, the Endocrine Society, an organization of scientists specializing in this field, issued a landmark 50-page statement. It should be a wake-up call.
“We present the evidence that endocrine disruptors have effects on male and female reproduction, breast development and cancer, prostate cancer,...
“…we choose to live like monks anyway (having taken no such vow of contemplation)...”
– Rolf Potts, Vagabonding (via apileofblog)
Where indigenous peoples are fighting to defend... →
curate:
indigen:
Arizona
The Navajo nation is fighting uranium mining through the US courts. Radiation levels are 450 times the normal levels. Other uranium mines are opposed by indigenous groups in Australia, India, Canada, Niger and Botswana.
Botswana
The Bushmen of the Kalahari desert have been progressively pushed out of their traditional lands by the state to make way for mining.
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“I think poetry always comes out of what you don’t know. And with students I say,...”
– W.S. Merwin, 6/26/09 (via sometimesagreatnotion)
Bad, Dangerous, Smooth Criminal and other Michael... →
retropolitics:
Matt Bors
With the King of Pop’s frightening visage blaring from every cable station, website and newspaper in the land, what better time for news to break that Obama is preparing to assert radical executive powers: The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, is drafting an executive order that would...
DFW@Harper's →
davidfosterwallace:
All of David Foster Wallace’s writings, as featured in and around Harper’s.
“New monthly survey data from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern...”
– Another casualty of the recession: Recent college grads - Yahoo! News (via shorterexcerpts) (via poortaste)
Motorcycle bomb kills 15 in Baghdad market →
earthmancomehome:
Another bombing- over 200 dead this week. Four days until US withdrawal begins.
“Every day in America, a.k.a. Oceania, we see the growing power of Big Brother’s...”
– Paul Craig Roberts (via azspot)
“So, what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit...”
– Bill Maher (via azspot)
A note from Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi →
bossa:
electronicalrattlebag:
“Dear Friends
To all who believe in freedom and democracy Please sign this petition to the United Nations to stop the violence, arrests and torture in Iran. The situation is really really bad.
Please forward it to whoever you know Best and lots of love Marjane Satrapi”
via Drawn
“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere....”
– Matt Taibbi, The Great American Bubble Machine
He’s just getting started.
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(via danielholter) (via datatimesemotion)
“And since you are talking about factories and industries, do you not see the...”
– Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism. (via igather)
“A woman serving a short sentence in a Houston, Texas, jail for possession of...”
– Houston police mum on marijuana prisoner’s death | Raw Story (via poortaste)
“The issue of lying is probably the biggest harm, if you will, to the system of...”
– Mark Sanford on Bill Clinton lying about the Lewinsky affair, Huffington Post (via soupsoup) (via asprettyasasong) (via retropolitics)
clothedinsky:
The Goddess wept tears of blood...
