Helen Keller -
Her Socialist Years. Writings and Speeches
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Wednesday, 17 April 2019
quote [ As they see it, global warming stands to make corporate security as high-stakes in the 21st century as it was in the 19th. ]
Pinkerton man, murdering bastard
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Wednesday, 10 April 2019
quote [ Food-system collapse, sea-level rise, disease. In his new book "Falter," Bill McKibben asks, "Is it Too Late?" ]
Happy Hump Day!
On a related note, the Netflix nature doc Our Planet is stunningly beautiful, explicitly acknowledges the threat humans pose to their home planet, and argues it's not yet too late.
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Tuesday, 26 March 2019
quote [ Instagram ?memes pages and humor is a really effective way to introduce people to extremist content,? says Becca Lewis, a doctoral student at Stanford and a research affiliate at the Data and Society Research Institute. ?It?s easy, on Instagram, to attach certain hashtags to certain memes and get high visibility.? ]
Uh oh. Somebody actually did think of the kids.
Full article in extended.
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Monday, 25 March 2019
quote [ counties that hosted political rallies with Donald Trump as the headliner in 2016 saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally in subsequent months. ]
Science supporting the existence of stochastic terrorism.
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Friday, 15 March 2019
quote [ Centre of New Zealand city locked down as police investigate explosives in crashed car and shots fired at other sites ]
Apparently there was also a bomb found in a car. Humanity was a mistake.
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A People's History of the United States -
History of the US from the perspective of the Indians, Slaves, and Laborers.
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Wednesday, 13 March 2019
quote [ In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Erik Prince, the founder and former CEO of Blackwater, on his security firm?s performance during the ... ]
Mehdi Hasan is quite a good interviewer, in a time when we need more of this kind of journalist. I still can't imagine why Prince would come on a platform like this, with such a relentless interviewer
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Saturday, 9 March 2019
quote [ A 10% increase in state gun ownership [in a state] was associated with a significant 35.1% higher rate of mass shootings ]
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
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Monday, 4 March 2019
quote [ WWF operated like a ?global spymaster?, organising, financing and running networks of ?informants?, to provide park authorities with intelligence, while publicly denying working with informants ]
accused of turning a blind eye to tortured, killed and sexually assaulted indigenous people victimized by people on their payroll.
Survival international has been stonewalling the new Messok Dja National Park due to concerns over the Baka people losing land. This is not going to be good for that process.
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Thursday, 21 February 2019
quote [ U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested Feb. 15 on drug and gun charges, but prosecutors said in a detention memo this week that he intended "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country." The Coast Guard flagged him because of internet searches of extremist web sites at work. A search of his Silver Spring, Maryland, residence yielded 15 firearms and 1,000 rounds of ammunition, the court documents say. He "compiled a list of prominent Democratic Congressional leaders, activists, political organizations, and MSNBC and CNN media personalities." ]
It's almost as if having a President who equivocates between Nazis and anti-Nazi protestors and who calls the media the enemy of the people might actually cause problems.
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Friday, 1 February 2019
quote [ The Trump administration announced Friday that it would suspend its obligations under a decades old Cold War arms control pact with Russia on Saturday... ]
This doesn't help the US, but definitly helps Russia...now you know what they talked about at their last private meeting.
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The Ecology of Freedom -
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
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