September 2009
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US Spec Ops operates psywar websites targeted at... →
ledgergermane:
The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”.
SOCOM’s Joint Military Information Support Command, which “orchestrates a 24/7 multi-media...
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Israeli Strike On Iran 'Inevitable'
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An Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities now looks inevitable and President Obama appears to be doing his best to speed the process along, Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal. The president has accepted Iran’s offer for talks—despite Iran making it clear that its nuclear program won’t be up for discussion—Stephens writes, making it clear to Israel’s leaders that he’s not...
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Where there is smoke there is fire.
Except when it’s just something smoldering. Or, a smoke machine. Or, maybe a cigarette. And I guess a car with a bad engine.
But other than that…
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The commonality of difference.
The first step to understanding people is to realize there are very, very few people in the world who think like you. You can lament that as your awkwardness or you can celebrate it as your specialness but, really, it makes you neither worse nor better than anyone else. It’s just the same for everybody.
In that way, the first step to understanding other people is to understand yourself.
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“There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the...”
– Douglas Adams (via somethingintellectual)
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Why capitalism fails →
azspot:
Minsky called his idea the “Financial Instability Hypothesis.” In the wake of a depression, he noted, financial institutions are extraordinarily conservative, as are businesses. With the borrowers and the lenders who fuel the economy all steering clear of high-risk deals, things go smoothly: loans are almost always paid on time, businesses generally succeed, and everyone does well. That...
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“Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn’t they? It pays high...”
– Major General Smedley Butler | War Is A Racket (via retropolitics)
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“Jerusalem – Peace activists in Toronto may be protesting TIFF’s Tel Aviv...”
– NOW Magazine // News // Eviction notice: Canuck MPs monitoring the conflict wander onto one of Jerusalem’s battlegrounds By CARMELLE WOLFSON
my friend carmelle, who has been in jerusalem since this winter, has been writing more and more lately. i have a lot of respect for her.
(via garconniere)
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Full of Schmitt →
When did I stop being the person I was on the internet and adopt the pound6 cover identity? Why? What caused it?
It was a brewing feeling, really — a bubbling rage fueled by the bold-faced lies and pollution of thought pervading the mainstream media and the government. But, for every bubbling cauldron there has to be a tipping point. And, as is befitting for indelible paradigm-shifting moments,...
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August 2009
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somethingintellectual:
So, I have writers block. I suck at transitioning from my shitty beginning paragraph to my decent information.
I suspect the problem is with the ‘shitty beginning paragraph’.
If you’re not happy with it, how can you expect anyone else to be? It’s the fight between the ‘I want it to be good’ side of you and the ‘I want it to be...
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Note to DVD menu designers:
Stop putting spoiler material in the damn menu clips you ignorant asses. In a popcorn adventure, no one cares but in anything remotely dramatic you’re ripping the heart out of the movie before the viewer gets a chance to watch it.
Some of us are first time watchers, you doddering pissants, for the sake of hoping people say, “Oo, look at what they did with those clips. How pretty and...
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thefrancakes:
Why do boys hate me am i not pretty enough
Oh, hush. Most of us boys are just shallow and self-involved. Someone worth your while will come along. “Just keep swimming.”
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Watch3rdeyevisions:
Taylor Swift is now one of my favorite people in the world…lol
not only is she cute but she’s also a thug now!
Yessir, you are right. I have never heard a lick of her candy pop music before (no hate, just not my thing) but doing THIS video just upped her stock in my world. “I knit sweaters!” is just straight-up thug, yo.
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BREAKING NEWS!
Robert Kennedy still 67% more dead than Ted. Bill O’Reilly cites this as proof that Obamacare is evil.
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Huckabee: Kennedy would have been urged to die... →
robot-heart-politics:
So wait? We’re not allowed to talk about Ted Kennedy post mortem, in reference to how hard he fought for serious health care reform and a public option, but you can tell egregious lies about how Ted Kennedy would have been pushed to die even sooner under Obamacare? Seriously? Are you really fucking serious?
I am so sick of this bullshit. This. Is. Bullshit.
Welcome to...
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