February 2012
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I have re-installed the missing-e even though the...
nappystays replied to your photo: Please Reblog
Is that your cat? Is his/her name Cat?
No that’s a cat I met in Europe when I went there. It’s a male cause all male cats are blond and females are black.
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Me: This book is depressing
Sarah: So don't read it then
Me: Well it's not depressing me, it's just sad
Sarah: You totally just said it's depressing
Me: Yeah but even if I stop reading it, people will still die of hunger
Sarah: Oh I didn't know it was about that
Me: And if I continue reading it, people will still die of hunger
Me: How's your dog?
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WatchMe 4 years ago.
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Problems I have with some of the Tramway...
I am a Tramway proponent myself but not because it’s European, not because it looks good, not because it’s the latest technology (which it isn’t and the conservatives are right on this one: it’s a fucking streetcar, like back in the 1890s) and no not because it’s great for local businesses: I couldn’t give a shit (about the businesses themselves, I do give a...
I'm sorry I gotta sleep now, I have to work...
I can’t do anything to the Syrians who are dying, talk to Vladimir Putin don’t look at me. I can’t do anything to the starving kids, only weeks ago I thought starvation was something that comes and goes, after severe drought maybe. What would you think if 1 kid dies of hunger every day? Well the real number is every 5 seconds, does it make a difference? Honestly listening to Ted...
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“Names are just words
Our eyes are our names”
– Fairuz - Asamina
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This Just In
Ziegler Destruction Massive, recommended over facebook by a relative; Bakounine Dieu et L’état, which I’ve read already. I had to stop myself from reading beyond page 1 today, it’s such an exciting read; Veblen The Engineers and The Price System, I discovered Veblen reading a book from Routledge called 50 major Economists, he invented the word Conspicuous Consumption in the...
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Intro for Mais El Reem, as recorded on the Abu Ali...
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UN Resolution 40/148; In Favour: Almost everyone;...
United Nations
General Assembly Distr. GENERAL 13 December 1985 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
A/RES/40/148 13 December 1985 116th plenary meeting
Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities and all other forms of totalitarian ideologies and practices based on racial intolerance, hatred and terror
The General Assembly,
Recalling that the United Nations emerged from the struggle...
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If a chicken lays an egg in the middle of the...
“The golden leaves of September
Under the windows
Reminded me of you.”
– MP3 for the Fairuz song. The theme of this song is very similar to Autumn Leaves, which incidentally Fairuz sings as well, with an intro unique to the Arabic version.
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I think I love Noam Chomsky's comma intonation at...
http://youtu.be/-kPlEJlmWuc Sound recording of Government in the Future (1970) by Noam Chomsky. Also available in pamphlet book format from Seven Stories Press.
January 2012
32 posts
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Words I've learned, reading The Theory of the...
prowess: exceptional ability or skill; valor in combat
pecuniary: relating to or involving money
conspicuous: easily or clearly visible; attracting attention through being remarkable
diligence: persistent and hard-working effort in doing something
prosody: the study of the structure of poetry and the conventions or techniques involved in writing it, including rhyme, meter, and the patterns of verse forms
deprecate: deplore; to express condemnation of something or somebody
inviduous: producing resentment or ill feeling
refractory: uncontrollable, stubborn, rebellious
tenacious: determined or stubborn
propensity: tendency
teleology: study of causes; goal-directed activity
herald: bringer of news
rapacious: greedy and grasping, especially for money, and sometimes willing to use unscrupulous means to obtain what is desired
epithet: descriptive word added to somebody's name (la2ab) King of Pop
predilection: a particular liking or preference for something
inchoate: just beginning to develop; chaotic and lacking structure
indolence: laziness
prepotency: dominance
niggardly: very reluctant to give or spend something
precarious: based on uncertain premises
impecunious: poor
incipient: beginning to develop
approbation: approval, consent
protract: make something last longer
aberrant: not typical
putative: generally accepted; thought to exist, or to have existed at some time
complacent: self-satisfied in an unreflective way and without being aware of possible dangers; eager to please
satiate: gratify desire
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“[…]Corporate income taxes in 2010 amounted to only 8.8 per cent of all...”
– Ken Georgetti is president of the 3.3 million member Canadian Labour Congress
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Rob Ford vs. Public transit
Public Transit should cater as a priority to people who use it, not to drivers who would potentially use it, or to drivers who would like more lanes on the road. If Ford is really doing any long-term planning by preferring subways, what kind of long-term vision does he have for Jane? Under Transit City Jane was promised a streetcar by 2018 in anticipation of an even more increased crowding, under...
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I’m interested to know why Jane and Finch got completely ignored by the Provincial Government and the City, after being promised 2 much needed streetcar lines? The 35 Jane and the 36 Finch routes are a source of revenue for the TTC, they are THAT busy. Yet Jane and Finch gets treated as though it’s not worth a subsidy or a capital investment, instead it’s faced with service cuts....
“We are tall wood sticks. Each on her own, we are flimsy and weak. But when we...”
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“Si vous ne pensez point, les gouvernants ne pensront guère.”
– Alain
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The Pen is Mightier than the Molotov: RE:... →
domesticterrorism:
SOPA/PIPA is an example of how much capitalism relies on the state to protect the existence of property. Without the kind of state coercion on the internet that SOPA/PIPA represents, most information and art has been - to an extent - free to all people. The internet represents a commons, the free use of which is a threat to the profits of property owners. What is happening now...
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The Pen is Mightier: On Self-Ownership vs. Human... →
Reblogging domesticterrorism:
Occasionally I’ve come across the reactionary type who justified their over-emphasis of property rights by saying that “your body is your property.” I always chuckle at the implications. The point is to get across that “property rights are human rights,” but the neat thing about property in our society is that it can be bought and sold, foreclosed on, or...
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“The foundation of rights is such that no one earns them; everyone ought to enjoy...”
– Alain
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“Oh yeah. Take say “The Multilateral Agreement on Investment” the...”
– Noam Chomsky on the Internet. From an interview with Allan Gregg in June 2000. Answering the question: “Do you see the internet as providing an alternative means to get public views discussed outside of the traditional media?”
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“L’arbre va tomber
Les branches salissaient les murs
Rien ne doit rester...”
– Francis Cabrel - L’arbre va tomber
On the subject of parking.
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What if
Just what if every payment we make is proportional to our income. Every single purchase, every single bill etc. Seriously that would solve a lot of problems and I guess isn’t as radical as saying: “hey everything is free and everyone can have as much of anything as they want” which is really my opinion and I stand by it.
Instead what I’m proposing now is to say that...
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WatchBeethoven
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“What an easy thing to say “formalities should be done...”
– Apparently I said this.
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WatchHighway; short film by Ariya Watty.
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WatchDrawings by Micah Lidberg
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“Because Wall Street became such a symbol for the Occupy movement, everyone...”
– Apparently I said that.
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“For a period in the late Nineties denim became unfashionable. 501s —...”
– The Internet
Not sure if it's because I listened to it a... →
