September 2009
“But if fraud is not bad enough for you, how about murder? Because five...”
– Rachel Maddow & Scahill: “Defund-ACORN” Law Should Apply To Defense Contractors For Fraud & Murder - Democratic Underground (via curate)
“…I wouldn’t mind hearing about values from our current president. And more...”
– Drew Westen (via azspot)
TWILIGHT IN THE RIVER PAVILION by Chiang She...
lastchatwithphontaine:
translated by Kenneth Rexroth
I lean on my rustic gate Above the swift river In the evening and hear The distant sound of women Beating clothes. The little bridge Arches over the fishes And turtles. Once in a great while Someone crosses. A reflection Appears on the water, then is gone.
Uncle Dave Macon - Keep My Skillet Good and...
WatchArun Gupta asks “What Anti-War Movement?”
Street Report From the G20 →
Since no terrorists showed up, those in charge of the heavily armed security forces chose to deploy their forces around those who were protesting.
Not everyone is delighted that 20 countries control 80 percent of the world’s resources. Several thousand of them chose to express their displeasure by protesting.
Unfortunately, the officials in charge thought that it was more...
“The question here, really, is what have we done to democracy? What have we...”
– Arundhati Roy (via azspot)
American Working Class in Free Fall
tsparks:
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in The Flag and carrying The Cross.”
—Sinclair Lewis
‹soapbox› The American poor and now much of the middle class is in free fall. There is a mortgage foreclosure every 8 seconds, official unemployment is pushing 10%, under employment is endemic. There is a great tidal wave of discontent and anger; this anger is being agitated by...
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010 →
ledgergermane:
1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past
8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions
9. US Arms Used...
America's Teacher - Naomi Klein Interviews Michael... →
Fine interview in which Moore says, among many other things: You can’t avoid the anger boiling over at some point when you have one in eight mortgages in delinquency or foreclosure, where there’s a foreclosure filing once every 7.5 seconds and the unemployment rate keeps growing. That will have its own tipping point. And the scary thing about that is that historically, at times when...
Afghans haven't been the main engine of global... →
For most of its 20 years, Al Qaeda’s commanders recruited very few Afghan militants into their ranks because their parochial world views, their lack of international travel experience, and their poor education made them useless as global operatives. But when the Taliban was forced from power across the border in Pakistan—where it became a target in what the Bush administration called...
Earth is outside of ‘safe operating space’ →
“Again and again, we find that a little environmental damage is OK,” Jonathon Foley, a climatologist and ecologist at the University of Minnesota said, but at some point, the planet just can’t take it anymore, which is especially true when it’s taking multiple hits at once. “In science, we look at one issue at a time. In the real world, all of this stuff is hitting...
100 People Every Minute Pushed Into Poverty by... →
In the time it takes G20 leaders to tuck into dinner tonight thousands more people will be pushed into poverty and forced to survive on less than $1.25-a-day.
Classified McChrystal Report: 500,000 Troops Will... →
Embedded in General Stanley McChrystal’s classified assessment of the war in Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counterinsurgency strategy will require 500,000 troops over five years.
WatchBernie Sanders: Memo to Wall Street: The Recession Isn’t Over
G-Infinity: Covering G20 From The People's... →
ledgergermane:
thedaytheytriedtokillme:
Police using an LRAD in Pittsburgh? Interesting feeds from the protests including twitter backlash.
Al Franken Reads the 4th Amendment to Justice... →
Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, who was testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee today to urge reauthorization of expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act.
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Today’s Judiciary Committee hearing...
LSD makes a comeback as a possible clinical... →
The preliminary study picks up where investigators left off. It explores the possible therapeutic effects of the drug on the intense anxiety experienced by patients with life-threatening disease, such as cancer.
WatchMoore Says Greedy Media Execs Killed the News Industry
dreaming...
cathartesaura:
The life I’ve always wanted I guess I’ll never have I’ll be working for somebody else Until I’m in my grave I’ll be dreaming of a live of ease And mountains Oh mountains o’ things To have a big expensive car Drag my furs on the ground And have a maid that I can tell To bring me anything Everyone will look at me with envy and with greed I’ll revel in their attention And mountains...
“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via loveyourchaos) (via leahisawkward) (via thedeathoftruespirit) (via iisabelle)
Murder Ballads →
What do Cliff Edwards (1928), Lloyd Price (circa 1959), The Rulers (1967), R.L. Burnside (late 1980s/ early 1990s), Grateful Dead (live in 1993), and Nick Cave (live in 1996) have in common?
Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest TV Series on YouTube →
Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest had a short run (38 episodes) in the mid ’60s, but it included many great folk artists.
Collapse or survive: the stark choice facing our... →
Johann Hari writes:
As man-made warming rises by up to 2.4C, all sorts of awful things happen – whole island-states in the South Pacific will drown, for example – but we can stop it. If we turn off the warming gases, the temperature will stabilise. But if we go beyond 2.4C, global warming will run away from us, and we will have lost the “Stop” button. The Amazon rainforest will dry...
WatchMajora Carter, an urban redeveloper and the founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), has worked since the late 1990s to bring together the worlds of urban renewal and environmental sustainability. The connections are many but often overlooked.
“In seventeen years of doing this, nothing bad had happened to me. I was never...”
– Gary Webb on his experience of mainstream journalism. (Via spuriousbile) (via ryking) (via retropolitics)
The Holy Grail of the Unconscious →
Great overview of Carl Jung with a discussion of his newly available journal Liber Novus.
Sara Corbett writes:
Had he been a psychiatric patient, Jung might well have been told he had a nervous disorder and encouraged to ignore the circus going on in his head. But as a psychiatrist, and one with a decidedly maverick streak, he tried instead to tear down the wall between his rational self and his...
Clifton's Dumpster Diving Howto
1. Bring some containers in your trunk/backseat rubbermaid type stuff works best. You’ll need as many as possible even if they aren’t very big (you really don’t need to take THAT much food out of the dumpster anyhow, other folks gotta eat too). You’ll need these containers to seperate stuff, you’ll understand when you get there.
2. Have your sink at home empty, and...
WatchFrom Boing Boing: PRX, the Public Radio Exchange, is an online marketplace connecting radio producers with radio programmers. But it’s also a massive library of searchable content- some of it very good- that you can get lost in for hours.