February 2012
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“The question is: Should the privatization of public water supplies be allowed?...”
– Peter Brabeck - President of the board of directors of Nestlé.
Oh really? Your view is that water is a food stuff? Well our view is that food is a human right too, so fuck off.
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Did anyone notice the similarity between Rap and...
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Earlier today I finished a book on hunger written by a Swiss man in French. Jean Ziegler - Destruction Massive. Heartbreaking book. Ziegler makes the point that there’s enough food production on the planet to feed 12 billion so the fact that hunger is the number 1 killer in the world is inexcusable. Maybe in earlier centuries famine were due to shortage, he says, but not anymore. So what are...
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“This is not to say that what has come to be called modern standard (ie modern...”
– Edward Said (via rimeswriting)
Makes me want to read some Edward Said this. I think written French has a similar history, it is largely based on a handful of works published when printing really took off. But spoken dialects in my opinion trump “classical” written languages in their...
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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.