February 2012
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“Capitalism has no built-in moral code other than maximizing profits. Whatever...”
– Doug Harvey (via azspot)
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Worming Our Way out of Death.
bartholomewfromthesun:
Image: Photo Researchers, Inc.
Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal.
Planarian worms have amazed scientists with their apparently limitless ability to regenerate. Researchers have been studying their ability to replace aged or damaged tissues and cells in a...
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“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com (via vodkashits)
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Last Spanish Civil War Scot Thomas Watters dies . →
marxandsparks:
The last surviving Scot who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War has died at the age of 99.
RIP Comrade.
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Israel developed over 100 torture methods against... →
neverdancewiththedevil:
GAZA – The Center for Prisoners’ Studies in Gaza has revealed that Israel security forces has developed more than a hundred mental and physical torture methods designed to elicit confessions from Palestinians during interrogations.
Israel uses torture against the prisoners from the moment they are arrested until when they are let free, said CPS director Raafat Hamdouna,...
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Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest →
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Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries;...
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US Intelligence Community: Iran Is Not Actively... →
theamericanbear:
And now, my 21,847,019,823th post saying exactly the same thing about Iran:
[To] the extent that the federal government has [any] role to play in lowering gas prices, one of the biggest things they can do is stop making the world believe that Iran faces an imminent attack on their nuclear facilities that will potentially inflame the entire Middle East and threaten the security...
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New biological studies reconfirm that “human... →
satans-advocate:
In a world filled with mostly well intentioned people and tons of senseless violence its completely natural for those people to develop an assortment of justifications and rationalizations for the horror that is taking place around them. One of the most popular of these rationalizations is what I like to call “the human nature cop out”. This is basically the notion that violence...
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Undercover Anarchist: Never Forget, Never Forgive →
undercoveranarchist:
For every fallen Anti Fascist and for every victim of fascists!
Linn Newborn Shot to death by neo nazis in Nevada, USA, on July 3, 1998.
Daniel Shersty Shot to death by neo nazis in Nevada, USA, on July 3, 1998
Davide ‘Dax’ Cesare aged 26 from Italy Stabbed 19 times…
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juchepresident:
okay getting to be friends with people is really difficult because social interaction either annoys me or makes me panic
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“Scientists do not trust what is intuitively obvious, because intuitively obvious...”
– Carl Sagan - Wonder and Skepticism. (via scipsy)
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I regret taking this many classes this semester.
So many books and so little time.
Points for saving the world I guess?
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Chicago factory occupation saves jobs →
anticapitalist:
A 12-hour occupation by workers at a Chicago factory on February 23 won an agreement that will save workers’ jobs for at least three months so they can seek other ways to keep their plant open and producing.
The factory on the northwest side of the city is the former Republic Windows & Doors plant, where union members occupied for a week in December 2008 after the previous...
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“Markets allocate resources based on the principle of one dollar, one vote, and...”
– Joshua Farley, Ecological Economics
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anarchotranshuman:
Liberate Not Exterminate by the Curious George Brigade, republished by Anarcho-Transhuman.
Click image for imposed-PDF ready for printing.
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Virginia delegate Dave Albo says the abortion... →
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Students Physically Attacked for "Mic-Checking"... →
socialismartnature:
It says a lot about Zionist supporters of Israel that their immediate response to a non-violent “mic check” by Occupy Albuquerque and Palestine solidarity activists is to make recourse to brute violence and physical intimidation.
I mean, can one even imagine the media and political frenzy if a group of Palestinians or Muslims physically assaulted Zionist students in such a...
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London is no safer even with all its CCTV cameras →
anticapitalist:
London is considered the most spied-on city in the world, courtesy of its ubiquitous CCTV cameras, purportedly there to reduce crime. But according to a recent report, there’s been little or no change in London’s crime rates since they were more widely installed in the mid 1980s.
Privacy activists are worried that Britain will become the bleak totalitarian society George...
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