July 2012
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“because we don’t live in a post-racial society teaching your child to be...”
– chiseled god of the seam: i am so fucking tired of white people thinking we live in a post-racial society (via racebending)
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Watchmclarissa:
Perhaps one of the most needed episodes right now from neo classic scifi show The Outer Limits.
The Hunt
It looks at what it means to be human (of course, it’s TOL) but also ideas of slavery, empathy, revenge and the futility of violence.
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“To solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or, in...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (via socialuprooting)
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“A basic fact about the human condition is that it is easier for us to harm each...”
– Moral Enhancement, Julian Savulescu and Ingmar Persson argue that artificial moral enhancement is now essential if humanity is to avoid catastrophe. (via socialuprooting)
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Olympic brand #McDonald's suffers #Twitter... →
fivedee:
Boris Johnson’s endorsement of McDonald’s Olympic credentials has proved to be a kiss of death, cementing the fast food giant at the bottom of a brand reputation tracker monitoring Twitter sentiment toward the 25 official sponsors of the London Games.
The mayor of London told reporters on Thursday that criticism of McDonald’s was “all just bourgeois snobbery”.
“It’s classic liberal...
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Brazilian Indians fear ‘absurd’ setback over land... →
Brazilian Indians have expressed their anger and dismay as a new directive threatens to weaken their control over their lands.
The directive, signed by Brazil’s Solicitor-General, prohibits the expansion of indigenous territories, upon which many tribes depend for their survival.
It is a result of pressure from Brazil’s powerful rural lobby group which includes many politicians who own ranches...
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Your "New World" is Our "Old Country" →
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Eighty percent of Lakhotas on Pine Ridge are unemployed; 49 percent live below the Federal poverty level and per capita income staggers at a mere $6,286.
To add insult to injury, we American Indians make up a mere 1-percent of the population in our own land. Let that stat sting, stew and seep for a second. We can spare the minute, and it’s imperative that we do. …
OK. Back to it...
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The road to Hell is paved with religion and... →
When the greedy White ruling class decided to loot the rest of the world’s nations of their wealth they carried with them, their Laws, their customs, their Government, their Technology, their diseases and their Religion. The greatest lessons about how the west and by extension the western model of development work can be found in the way they shamelessly conducted themselves in other...
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“In the second scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised a story is written...”
– Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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“Any way of life based on the hyper-exploitation of renewable resources is by...”
– A New Declaration, Posted on 02/01/2012 by Derrick Jensen
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“Today orthodox economics is reputedly being harnessed to an entirely new end:...”
– The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
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The Ice Man: Crowley & Aziraphale's New Year's... →
theciaonafreelancebasis:
Crowley and Aziraphale’s New Year’s resolutions Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett present New Year’s resolutions of the demon Crowley and the angelic Aziraphale — characters in their collaborative novel, Good Omens.
Crowley:
Resolution #1: I must accept that Super-Gluing valuable coins to the sidewalk and then watching events from a nearby café is not proper demonic...