December 2011
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Mistaking the Lightning for the Sun
By love what is bitter becomes sweet
bits of copper turn to gold.
By love the dregs are made clear
and pain begins to heal.
By love the dead come alive,
and a king becomes a slave.
This love, moreover, is the fruit of knowledge;
no fool will ever sit on the throne of love.
When did a lack of knowledge
ever give birth to this love?
No, Ignorance only falls in love
with what is lifeless....
Keystone XL pipeline →
I really don’t understand why can’t we just invest into solar & wind energies. Why does our government insist on wasting amarican tax dollars on methods that just haven’t work.
Deep Green Resistance Massachusetts:... →
fyeahsociology:
50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
baseballlibertarian:
Read the rest of them.
#1 A staggering 48 percent of all Americans are either considered to be “low income” or are living in poverty.
#2 Approximately 57 percent of…
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows →
paxamericana:
The same RIAA that makes examples out of ordinary folks by suing them for millions of dollars for file sharing? Turns out someone there’s been pirating full seasons of Dexter. Nine million dollars worth. Whoops!
That number—$150,000 for each of the 60 episodes illegally downloaded on the RIAA HQ ISP (OK?)—comes compliments of YouHaveDownloaded which logged the BitTorrent activity...
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Deep Green Resistance Massachusetts: Scientific... →
theashkaari:
Not a spiritual hell. Not an afterlife. A literal hell, here and now.
Human beings are resilient creatures. We have overcome every challenge. We have learnt to shape and control the environment to suite ourselves, but we can not continue down this path. We can not continue to…
Robert Redford: Congress and Keystone XL, A... →
cultureofresistance:
The Congress is ending the year much as it began — playing politics with our nation’s future and putting American families at risk to score partisan points.
In the closing act to a shameful year of paralysis and indecision on the issues that matter most, House Republicans held common-sense tax relief for American families hostage to a holiday gift to Big Oil.
After the...
Kazakhstan Disables the Internet →
occupyallstreets:
Kazakhstan’s president on Saturday imposed a three-week state of emergency in an oil town where 10 people were killed in a clash between police and demonstrators. The city of Zhanaozen has had their internet and local cellphone towers disabled. They claim that they have gained control of the people by imposing a curfew. According to the associated press, internet users are...
“Globalization – the handmaiden of Cheap at All Costs – is celebrated as a...”
– The Walmartization of America Redux: How the Relentless Drive for Cheap Stuff Undermines Our Economy, Bankrupts Our Soul, and Pillages the Planet (via cultureofresistance)
The main failure of modern day economics is how quickly they overlook external cost and the social cost to a society. I think...
