August 2012
White Terrorist Plot to Assassinate the 'Commander... →
questionall:
white terrorist cell on a military base in Georgia plotted to assassinate President Barack Obama and stage a military coup. It murdered two former members of the cell. It bought $87,000 of military grade weaponry and land in Washington state. It planned to bomb a dam in Washington and poison its apple crop. It planned to take over Fort Stewart in Georgia.
The National Security...
“Class warfare: a technique by which teachers, nurses, firemen, and cashiers are...”
– Mike Lofgren: A Devil’s Dictionary (via theamericanbear)
Or the cost of everything else, for all that matters.
(via abaldwin360)
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Are the Daleks too popular to be scary anymore? →
A short article on the Daleks’ impact on British culture and their endless, reliable defeats.
“Rachel was standing in front of this home. As the bulldozer approached she stood...”
– Four eyewitnesses describe the murder of Rachel Corrie (via azspot)
“Historian William Blum recently documented that, since 1945, the US has...”
– Passage to Ecuador: Chomsky, Assange, sham justice, sham democracies. (via London Progressive Journal)
Iraq has been torn to pieces by sectarianism since the US invasion and occupation, Libya is in turmoil in the aftermath of NATO intervention, Pakistan is being destabilised and a proxy war is...
“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea’s asleep, and...”
– This may be my favourite quote from any Doctor Who episode ever.
(It’s from Survival, the last Seventh Doctor serial.)
Cyborg tissue is half living cells, half... →
singularitarian:
They beat like real heart cells, but the rat cardiomyocytes in a dish at Harvard University are different in one crucial way. Snaking through them are wires and transistors that spy on each cell’s electrical impulses. In future, the wires might control their behaviour too.
“If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another...”
– Ann Coulter
She also goes on to blame Bill Clinton for 9/11 and says that global warming is “religion” on the left
(via abaldwin360)
One of the many Coulter quotes that I didn’t think even she was capable of:
“If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another...
America Is Becoming A Dire Police State, Yet Few... →
The time for action was three months ago, fellow citizens and members of the global community. But late is better than never.
NDAA, H.R. 347, H.R. 1981, and our rapidly emerging police state — these things are now reality. I had been trying to warn my show’s viewers, and this column’s readers, since I first found out about NDAA around December 1st of last year.
But maybe I was wrong.
I was...
“Half the world’s starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.”
– Roseanne Barr (via pesticidal)
“It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear...”
– The Invisible Committee (via euphoria-corpses)
“Moreover, societies in which equality is valued are more likely to recognize the...”
– Michael Newman
“It is only in folk tales, children’s stories, and the journals of intellectual...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“I’d decided the campus was just a place to hide. The whole college scene was...”
– Charles Bukowski (via myheadisweak)
