February 2012
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When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via socialismartnature)
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Vonnegut on The Daily Show back in 2005. Not that it’s any of my business, but I’ve always been a little disappointed that Vonnegut became religious towards the end of his life. He discusses it briefly in this interview:
Your subject for this week is evolution, and my training is scientific. But I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can’t...
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Check out "in Bb 2.0" →
great idea, gorgeous sounds.
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January 2012
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Supporters of clean energy can win the messaging battle if they can focus the...
– Damn right. @drgrist on point: “Keystone surprise: Greens stronger & GOP dumber than predicted”
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Bankrupting America: Billboard Correctors →
Awesome bus shelter ad liberation action.
bankruptingamerica:
Via JustSeeds.org:
Our friends at the California Department of Corrections have been hard at work, and this week released a new series of modified bus shelter advertisements supporting Occupy Wall Street West. From their press release:
Liberated Ads Confront Foreclosure Crisis
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astride an animal full of pride and panic, in the starting gate for a...
– Vonnegut
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via kerryquotesquotes)
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Here’s a fact that’s hard for most Americans to swallow: economic growth is...
– Richard Heinberg in “MEMO TO THE #OCCUPY MOVEMENT (A Post Growth Economy)” (via cultureofresistance)
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...
– Buddha (via yoongfan)
56 min after NYE in Brooklyn.
December 2011
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It's Official: President Obama Signs Indefinite... →
Happy New Year. socialismartnature:
BREAKING: Obama ushers in New Year by signing indefinite detention military defense bill (NDAA). It sure puts a fine point on the theme of 2011 — revolution AND repression.
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President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law. As you know, the White House had threatened to...
In fairness to the much-maligned GOP field, they face a formidable hurdle: how...
– Glenn Greenwald (via cultureofresistance)
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Son, it is very rude to ask a man where he is from. If he is from Texas, you...
– Via NYT Magazine