December 2011
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“The catastrophe is the real issue. The differing opinions as to what caused the...”
– Jay Sheib at 21 C The Future is Here.Samuel R. Delaney: Dhalgren Lives On: Samuel R. Delaney’s Dhalgren as both book and theatre.
by Ashley Crawford, June 9, 2010
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“After all, if the book makes any social statement, it’s that when society...”
– Samuel Delany quoted in and article by Josh Lukin in The Minnesota Review. About Samuel Delany
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“Freedom in the future will require us to have the capacity to monitor our...”
– Cory Doctorow at 28c3 transcript The Coming War on General Computation
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“According to James, the succesful Haitian slave revolt of 1791-1804 deserved to...”
– Keith Hart in The Memory Bank. CLR James and the idea of an African revolution
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“We need to regulate expectations market players, most notably hedge funds. Net,...”
– Roger L. Martin quoted by Steve Denning at Forbes.The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
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“This clarifies one lesson I’ve taken from Occupy Wall Street:...”
– Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic.Proto YouTube: How 1970s Video Collectives Anticipated Our Strange Internet
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“What financialisation shows us is that value is derived these days, and for the...”
– Marina Vishmidt at Variant issue 42. The Economy of Abolition/Abolition of the Economy: Neil Gray in exchange with Marina Vishmidt
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“As the strip grew in popularity, Watterson repeatedly rejected his syndicate’s...”
– Gareth Dimelow at Sabotage Times. Calvin and Hobbes: The Greatest Comic Strip In The World: How one little boy and his tiger are stars of the funniest, most intelligent comic strip of all time.
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“Whether a language lives or dies, says K. David Harrison, an associate professor...”
– Tina Rosenberg at New York Times Magazine (Paywall). Everyone Speaks Text Message
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“The estrangement of the United Kingdom might then turn out to be only the first...”
– Jan-Werner Muller at Boston Review. A Shared Fate:The Political Implications of the Eurozone Crisis
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“People are getting rich off the information economy because the government...”
– Dean Baker at Firedoglake. David Brooks Is Projecting His Self Indulgence Again
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“Today “intellectual property” is the central monopoly on which the profits of...”
– Kevin Carson at Center for a Stateless Society. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin via Jack Saturday
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“Not only must we accept that basic properties of our universe are accidental and...”
– Alan P. Lightman in Harpers. The accidental universe: Science’s crisis of faith
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“In AIDS, he said, “we all started in the same place: with the same lack of...”
– Jonathan Mann bio at Health Right International.
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Floods wreak havoc in Tanzania →
At least 23 people have been killed in the worst floods to hit the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam in 50 years, officials have said.
“The tragedy has left at least 23 people dead and 4,909 displaced,” Said Meck Sadick, Dar es Salaam’s regional commissioner told the AFP news agency on Thursday, warning that the death toll could rise.
Businesses were forced to close and...
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Officials prepare mass graves as nearly 700 dead... →
The Philippine National Red Cross put the toll at 652 killed and more than 800 missing. The casualties far exceeded the 464 people killed in 2009 when a tropical storm dumped heavy rain on the main Luzon island, inundating nearly the entire capital Manila.
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“Today’s environmentalism is as much a victim of the contemporary cult of utility...”
– Paul Kingsworth in Orion Magazine. Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
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“One day, perhaps many years from now, Americans will read about the abuses of...”
– Conor Freidersdorf in The Atlantic. No, Obama Does Not ‘Deserve to Be Trusted on Drones’ The latest result of a major abuse of power: 59 unexplained bodies in Pakistan. What is the president thinking?
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“The U.S. has been waging war in the Gulf for more than two and a half decades,...”
– Toby C. Jones in The Atlantic. Don’t Stop at Iraq: Why the U.S. Should Withdraw From the Entire Persian Gulf: Our experiment in militarizing the region has made it more volatile, less free, and more costly to American interests and values
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sloth unleashed: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer... →
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“The watershed event was Newt Gingrich’s takeover of the House, in 1995....”
– Robert Reich at Alternet. The Great Republican Crackup: How Angry, White, Southern Men Took Over the GOP and Made Our Government Into a War ZoneThe GOP’s radicalism is dangerous for America. We need two political parties solidly grounded in the realities of governing.
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“What we hate are the people who we view as having found their success as a...”
– Joshua M. Brown via Ukiah Blog source (The Reformed Broker). Dear Jamie Dimon…
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“The Texas Forest Service is reporting that a minimum of 100 million and as many...”
– Whitney Radley in Culture Map Austin. Half a billion trees gone? The toll of the great Texas drought hits Houston hardest
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“eBay has done us all an enormous disservice, because eBay works in non-iterated...”
– Clay Shirky in Clay Shirky’s Writing About the Internet. A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: A speech at ETech, April, 2003
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“You’ll get more out of me,” the billionaire said, “if you treat me with respect.”
– Leon Cooperman at Boomberg. Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1%
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“Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit...”
– George Monbiot. How Freedom Became Tyranny
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“There is no panacea here, no exit strategy. Just helplessness, and waiting for...”
– Mahmoud Salem in his blog Rantings of a Sandmonkey. Underneath
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“The challenge to us is to try to configure an economy that doesn’t grow and...”
– Peter Victor interviewed by Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture. Can we manage without growth? An interview with Peter Victor. Part One
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“The policies currently shaped by the international trade regime are not...”
– Olivier de Schutter in Duncan Green’s blog From Poverty to Power. Food fight at the WTO: de Schutter v Lamy on whether trade leads to food security
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“This amounts to the system that we have in place now, except that Congress—in...”
– Richard Striner in The American Scholar. How to Pay for What We Need: Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life
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Down the rocky road →
“Thus started the 30-year odyssey for the 7.5-km passage that is appropriately called ”thehanging tapestry of a road”.
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“I think a better way to measure the degree to which the discourse has or has not...”
– Akim Reinhardt at 3Quarks Daily. OCCUPY AND HISTORY: ARE WE NEAR THE END AND WHAT WILL IT MEAN?
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“But the planet and its people cannot wait for a more propitious political...”
– Duncan Green in his blog From Poverty to Power. Northern winter, Southern spring + Gramsci rules: looking back on 2011
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“In asserting that targeted attacks on alleged anti-US militants anywhere in the...”
– Human Rights Watch US: End CIA Drone Attacks
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“Two hundred million Chinese factory workers, miners and construction labourers...”
– Mike Davis in The New Left Review. SPRING CONFRONTS WINTER
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“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens, there can be no free and...”
– Vaclav Havel in The Atlantic. What Vaclav Havel Understood: Only Democracy Guarantees Peace
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“The appeal of the drone’s eye is precisely that it does not see...”
– Manan Ahmed in The National. Flying blind: US foreign policy’s lack of expertise
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“I’m with Hayes —- it’s about enshrining the principle —-...”
– Digby at Hullabaloo. First branch #fail
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“Calvin pointed out to me both that we need a new political term for the concept...”
– Geoffrey K. Pullman in Language Log. The assholocracy. Via zunguzungu’s Sunday Reading.
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“Why it’s somehow acceptable in “can-do America” for European...”
– David Atkins at Hullabaloo. We’re not allowed to have anything nice
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“I think he would’ve been disgusted to see too much worshipful treacle being...”
– Alex Pereene in Slate.When Hitch was wrong:He was disastrously wrong
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“Fifty dollars,” I said, thinking of my unhappy mother slipping me the money...”
– Todd Walton via Ukiah Community Blog. Todd Walton: Yes, But…
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“I look forward to large chunks of the year’s labors - and that’s...”
– Sharon Astyk in Causabon’s Book. How Much Work Is Small-Scale Farming?
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“There is a system of government in which rule of law is merely a propaganda...”
– Charles Hugh Smith at Of Two Minds. The Truth Hurts—And Heals: Confidence in a systemically corrupt financial system cannot be restored without a complete public exposure of all the lies, fraud, misinformation and complicity.
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“Our desires copy or mimic the desires of others. Desire is triangular because...”
– Paul Doumochel quoted by Peter Rudd in Coromandal. Brief bio of Paul Doumochel.