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“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...”
– Noam Chomsky (via niennaweeps)
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http://antibanks.takethesquare.net/ →
September 17th EVERYWHERE!
In the United States they are preparing to occupy Wall Street, in Spain they will demonstrate at the Stock-Market headquarters… What’s going to happen in your city?
Actions #AntiBanks everywhere!
International Jammers!
We call on jammers across the world to occupy financial districts on September 17:
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Dispatches from the Apocalypse →
What natural disasters reveal about our planet and its destiny.
By by Junot Díaz, from Boston Review
September-October 2011
Diaz uses the situation in Haiti as a spring board to critique globalization, neo-liberalism and the assault on the poor and middle class by the most wealthy in our society.
excerpt:
Apocalypse comes to us from the Greek apocalypsis, meaning to uncover and...
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JP Morgan May Take Over Bank Of America →
The consolidation of the US financial industry continues, facilitated by the US tax payers.
Article calls this a rumor, we will see.
Via: 24 7 Wall Street
There is a rumor circulated on Wall St. that JP Morgan will take over Bank of America within the week. The government will support the deal with a $100 billion investment in preferred shares issued by the combined entity.
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U.S. Falls Behind in Race Toward Open Government →
By Susan Crawford
Via Bloomberg:
When Brazil’s government buys anything from fighter jets to a fancy villa, details are available online within 24 hours. Such disclosures are a powerful way to combat corruption, and are a model for official openness that could inspire other nations……link
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Sophie Podolski
Sophie Podolski
Born 8 October 1953
Brussels, Belgium
Died 29 December 1974 (aged 21)
Brussels, Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Occupation Poet and Graphic artist
Known for The book Le pays où tout est permis
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Slavoj Žižek on the meaning of the recent riots in... →
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“Western democracies are only the political facades of economic power. A façade...”
– José Saramago
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Traveling
I am on a short trip to the east coast. I will post some photos to my mobile blog http://candidstreet.Tumblr.com
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Fredric Jameson on The Wire →
Realism and Utopia in The Wire
Criticism, Vol 52,
No 3-4, Summer/Fall 2010,
pp. 359-372
Preeminent American literary critic and Marxist political theorist opines on the complexities of The Wire; it is pleasure to see something as important to me as The Wire taken seriously.
Worth reading.
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gordon hon's: Capitalist Neo-Nihilism from a... →
gordon-hon:
I write from my lovely bourgeois holiday in Greece but had we been at home during the riots who knows what I could have grabbed from the local Londis. I would at last have been able to express my outrage at their mark up on organic brown tahini by kicking in their windows & scrambling out of…
LINK to Entire Post
This is humorous and frightening and true.
Wikipedia...
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"Karl Marx was right" - Roubini speaks with Wall...
Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel)
Posted Sunday 14th August 2011
“WSJ: So you painted a bleak picture of sub-par economic growth going forward, with an increased risk of another recession in the near future. That sounds awful. What can government - and what can businesses - do to get the economy going again, or is it just sit and wait and gut it out?
Roubini: Businesses are not doing...
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“If we want to reduce poverty, we have to stop doing the things that make people...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich
(via azspot)
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Photographing Borges
Richard Avedon … wanted to photograph Borges (‘I photograph what I’m most afraid of, and Borges was blind’) and, in 1975, he flew to Buenos Aires to do exactly that. En route, Avedon learned that Borges’s mother — with whom the writer had lived almost his entire life — had just died that very day. Avedon assumed the session would be cancelled but the...
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