February 2012
14 posts
“Many of Earth’s major atmospheric circulation patterns have seen significant...”
– Meteorologist Jeff Masters: ‘The climate has shifted to a new state capable of delivering rare and unprecedented weather events’ (via solitaryforager)
“I covered Rick Santorum’s little prayer meeting earlier this week, at a chapel...”
– Pamela Kripke (via azspot)
“Iraq, despite the brutality of Saddam Hussein, was a prosperous country with a...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Fuck Yeah Drug Policy: “Many users of psychedelics... →
fuckyeahdrugpolicy:
“Many users of psychedelics report the experience as a consciousness-expanding one, and conventional wisdom suggests that such drugs should increase brain activity and blood flow to the brain.
Instead, the research in PNAS showed that psilocybin decreased blood flow to specific regions of the…
Fuck Yeah Drug Policy: Whether we're discussing... →
fuckyeahdrugpolicy:
“It’s one thing to advise the population on what may be good or bad for our health. Many people have chosen to quit smoking, for example, for health reasons even though they enjoy it. But it is quite another thing to demand that adults should change their habits at the whim of medical researchers,…
Bill Gates funds technology to destroy your sperm →
anti-propaganda:
‘Mass vaccination is apparently not the only depopulation strategy being employed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as new research funded by the organization has developed a way to deliberately destroy sperm using ultrasound technology. BBC News reports that the Gates Foundation awarded a grant to researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) to develop this...
Help stop former Monsanto VP from attaining top... →
anti-propaganda:
‘The one man who may be responsible for more food related illnesses and deaths than anyone in history, Michael R. Taylor, has just been promoted from US Food Safety Czar to Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA, a position which would enable the giant biotech company Monsanto to silently and legally feed cancer causing vegetables to every living person who is not 100%...
January 2012
66 posts
“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
“The threat of human-made climate change and the urgency of reducing fossil fuel...”
– Jim Hansen, NASA scientist
Cowards in Our Democracies
(via solitaryforager)
“Decolonizing is about the culture we’ve allowed to calcify around us. A culture...”
– Occupy Wall Street or Decolonize Wall Street?
(via solitaryforager)
“I hope you would make mention of the fact that the very land upon which you are...”
– John Paul Montano, Anishnaabe writer,
“Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street Activists”
(via solitaryforager)
“Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this...”
– Albert Einstein, statement on the occasion of Gandhi’s 70th birthday (1939); Einstein archive 32-601, published in Out of My Later Years (1950)
One of my favorite quotes about Gandhi.
(via mohandasgandhi)
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“From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.”
– Mikhail Bakunin
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“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”
– Noam Chomsky
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“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more...”
– Noam Chomsky
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“If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll...”
– Nikki Giovanni
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“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The...”
– Mikhail Bakunin
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“In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or...”
– Catharine MacKinnon
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“We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to...”
– Marian Wright Edelman
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“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not...”
– Marian Wright Edelman
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“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural...”
– Noam Chomsky
“The inherent principles of human existence are summed up in the single law of...”
– Mikhail Bakunin (via solitaryforager)
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must...”
– Elie Wiesel (via solitaryforager)
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the...”
– Simone Weil (via solitaryforager)
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders...”
– Maya Angelou
“There will be life after growth, and it doesn’t have to play out under...”
– Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth (via solitaryforager)
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the...
A Great Need
crashinglybeautiful:
Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
—Hafiz (c. 1320 to 1389), translated by Daniel Ladinsky
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think...”
– Joan Didion
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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell
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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared...”
– Emma Goldman
“…communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via azspot)
“I suspect the real purpose of this bill [NDAA] is to thwart internal, domestic...”
– Chris Hedges,
Why I’m Suing Barack Obama
(via cultureofresistance)
“I was blessed with the inability to grow up and adapt to this society.”
– Craig Junjulas
<3 Asperger’s.
(via cultureofresistance)
