February 2012
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“[L]ong before Barack Obama achieved any significance on the political scene, I...”
– Glenn Greenwald on the follow the leader mentality pervasive in American politics.
(via aheram)
I’d be interested in response to this Greenwald article from Ari Kohen or Squashed, if they see this and are so inclined.
(via jeffmiller)
Why? When it comes to critically questioning the bloodsoaked...
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Obama: I'm getting 'better as time goes on' →
During an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, President Obama said that he gets “better as time goes on” at his job and that he believes the grassroots movement that propelled him to victory in 2008 will help him win a second term.
“What’s frustrated people is that I’ve not been able to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008....
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Sure, you can buy a cigar in Boston...if you're... →
hipsterlibertarian:
The city of Boston has quietly banned all cigars which cost less than $2.50.
Translation: Blunts, no. Fancy Habanos, yes.
Second translation: Poor people smoking, no. Rich people smoking, yes:
The ban is effective February 1, 2012.
But for those upper class cigar aficionados, the elite few who are still allowed to smoke indoors at their pricey cigar bars, will...
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Nobel peace prize jury under investigation →
aheram:
The jury that awarded the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama is under investigation. Key quote:
“Do you see Obama as a promoter of abolishing the military as a tool of international affairs?” Heffermehl asked rhetorically.
Not at all.
Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and inventor, gave only vague guidelines for the peace prize in his 1895 will, saying it should honor...
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“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules...”
– Banksy
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Washington state legislators introduce NDAA... →
(Jan. 30, 2012) – With the introduction of the Washington State Preservation of Liberty Act, Evergreen State legislators have the opportunity to exercise their right and duty, and interpose on behalf of their citizens to halt a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of federal power.
Five Washington state representatives introduced HB 2759 on Tuesday. The bill condemns the unlawful...
January 2012
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“When a new technology comes along […] and destabilizes the way the industries...”
– Yochai Benkler, Prof. of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard on Megaupload’s shutdown.
Most laws exist to keep the big corporations in power.
(via anticapitalist)
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Will we learn from Rome? →
baseballlibertarian:
Hopefully we will at least get to see some gladiator fights before the collapse.
The rise of Rome from a crossroads town to world mastery, its achievement of two centuries of security and peace from the Crimea to Gibraltar and from the Euphrates to Hadrian’s Wall, its spread of classic civilization over the Mediterranean and western European world, its struggle to...
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Is it the government's responsibility to...
fuckyeahdrugpolicy:
“The state’s exercise of power over people through the criminal justice system is often also justified as a means of rehabilitating them. Again, this is an after-the-fact justification: imprisonment had been around for a long time before state officials took the idea of rehabilitation seriously. But if people are going to be imprisoned anyway, doubtless it’s a good idea (from...