February 2012
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“Public programs that provide funds for rich people are not called ‘welfare’, but...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Your government is hell-bent on turning the... →
Today’s sysadmin todo list:
0. Get corporate membership with EFF. 1. Identify all applications with user-generated content. 2. Move all associated domains to a non-US based registrar. 3. Migrate DNS, web serving and other critical services to non-US based servers. 4. Migrate yourself to a non-US controlled country. I’m sorry for US sites and users. Your government is hell-bent...
I keep seeing all my old high school friends are...
/rant.
196 people donated 79% of all the money super PACs... →
“This really is the selling of America,” claims former presidential candidate and Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean. “We’ve been sold out by five justices thanks to the Citizens United decision.” In truth, our democracy was sold to the highest bidder long ago, but in the 2012 election the explosion of super PACs has shifted the public’s focus to the staggering inequality in our political...
The US Media is leading the charge and sabre... →
It’s just remarkable to watch the American media depict Iran as the threatening, aggressive party here. Literally on a daily basis, politicaland media figures in both the U.S. andIsrael openly threaten to attack Iran and debate how the attack should happen with a casualness that most people use to contemplate what to have for lunch. The U.S. has orchestrated devastating and always-escalating...
It is always morally superior, Gandhi insisted, to... →
“where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence….I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour”
The Scale of the Universe. Awe Inspiring. →
And the music is fantastic.
Dear everyone remotely connected to Jezebel:
dammitjean:
anedumacation:
Now would be a great time to resign in protest.
What they just did, which was, let me remind you, posting screencaps of a woman’s rape that was uploaded to youtube, that goes so far beyond the pale of human decency….
I cannot believe they thought this was okay simply because they hid the identity of the woman.
There are survivors on that staff, or there were, last...
Herbert Hoover's acceptance speech for the 1932...
ulyssesscat:
is eerily apropos today (if you over look the references to WWI and the need for massive tariffs to protect American agriculture).
Mr. Chairman and My Fellow Citizens:
In accepting the great honor you have brought me, I desire to speak so simply and so plainly that every man and woman in the United States who may hear or read my words cannot misunderstand.
The last three...
Today I learned Monsanto made a good amount of the... →
Iran is not what you think. Here are some links to...
Note mine
Some inconvenient facts about Iran you won’t know about from the usual blather:
Significant improvement in life for ordinary Iranians since the 1979 Islamic revolution as measured by the UN Human Development Index
Teaching evolution in Iran
Fastest scientific growth in the world
Significant drop in child mortality since the 1979 Islamic Revolution
Progressive treatment...
