February 2012
191 posts
The Rapture Will Be Pink: Hillary Clinton and the...
sydnormonster:
It seems difficult in our current milieu to have a thorough investigation of Western, particularly American, politics without any encounter of the issue of LGBT rights. I cannot help but understand this through queer theory and Durkheim’s analysis of the sacred and profane. Two sides seemingly dominate the discussion: on the right a refusal to endorse such profane behavior...
How to Chain VPNs for Complete Anonymity →
Big name individual hackers and hacker groups everywhere in the news are getting caught and thrown in jail. Everytime I see something like this happen, I won’t lie, I get a little sad. Then I wonder, how are these guys getting caught? If a group like LulzSec, with all the fame and “1337-ness” can get caught, I think my hacker comrades are doing something wrong.
When members of LulzSec started...
How to Permanently Delete Files to Protect Privacy... →
anticapitalist:
Permanently deleting files is something that a lot of people aren’t aware of. Actually, most people think that once a file is deleted, it is gone forever. This is not the case. Hard drives write to the disk via magnetic charges, positive and negative correlate to 1s and 0s for binary. This is then interpreted into information for the computer to use and access.
When you delete...
The 3 points I want to highlight from the Stratfor...
sharquaouia:
Quoted from here
But it was the events of 9/11 and the subsequent “war on terrorism” that elevated the stature of the firm [Stratfor], turning it into a highly sought after informant for major Western media organizations like Bloomberg, Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and the BBC.
Furthermore, many of the internal documents forwarded around are from Western or...
MASSIVE LEAK REVEALS CRIMINALITY, PARANOIA AMONG...
gedenkenbrauchtwissen:
Feb. 27, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dow pays “strategic intelligence” firm to spy on Yes Men and grassroots activists. Takeaway: movement is on the right track!
WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading...
sinidentidades:
EVERYTHING is white supremacy. Let me explain.
— Says the white man on the internet.
“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
#the act of throwing shade
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akagoldfish:
of-praxis:
In Los Angeles, mass stops of young African American men and boys resulted in the creation of a database containing the names, addresses, and other biographical information of the overwhelming majority of young black men in the entire city. The LAPD justifi ed its database as a tool for tracking gang or “gang related” activity. However, the criterion for inclusion in...
Rick Santorum winning more support from Republican... →
tartantambourine:
This is the most surprising story of the day:
Over the past several weeks, Republicans have watched squeamishly as presidential contender Rick Santorum has waded into multiple controversies that risk alienating half the 2012 electorate: women. But in fact, Santorum has grown more popular among women while talking about his opposition to abortion, his disapproval of birth...
People like Tim Wise are a blessing and a curse.
sinidentidades:
I won’t even try and dismiss the idea that some of what Tim Wise has said is really problematic, but that’s for another conversation. White people like Tim Wise are both important and dangerous. They’re important in the sense that white people won’t listen to PoCs when it comes to the concepts of whiteness and white privilege.
Of course, that says something even more sinister...
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“Imagine you are a hyper-educated avant-gardist in grad school learning to write....”
– David Foster Wallace, Charlie Rose interview
Update: Stratfor email suggest Israel was...
occupyallstreets:
Email
you're a (cis) boy and i like you
grave-wisdom:
and these are some reasons why:
you barely ever reinforce patriarchy and when you do and realize it, you apologize. not because i was offended, but because what you said was offensive. you respect women regardless of colour, size, sexuality and recognize the fact that some women have a penis, and they are to be respected too. you don’t care what beauty standards i reject and...
Socialism - The utopian idea that human action is...
rethinksocialism:
elemental-thing:
rethinksocialism:
baseballlibertarian:
If you remove all private property, profits, and the means of production you’ll remove all incentive to work, produce, and thrive.
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
Yes, because we want to remove the means of production.
Society, screw it, let’s just not produce anything and all die. That’s real socialism!
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ghostorballoon:
I had a conversation with a guy at a thing last Friday about John Keel. I claimed (perhaps in poor taste) that Keel was in his own way for US postmodernity as Schreber was for German modernity (qua Santner). While briefly talking about Keel’s themes and fixations, the guy said “that sounds a lot like Philip K. Dick” which is a good point too.
Anyway it got me thinking about my...
Anonymous asked: How can you sit there and state...
servile-masses-arise:
I can sit here and say that because it’s true. Meat production continues to accelerate. Veganism may have made the demand for meat slightly less than it would have been otherwise, but with overall demand for meat growing so rapidly, it’s had no effect on production.
Ask someone who knows about economics. Even if there was a significant reduction in the demand for meat, that...
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Race and incarceration in the USA: the effect on...
zeezeescorner:
Philip N. Cohen posted this chart comparing the rates of incarceration across racial groups in the USA (via Sociological Images). Cohen writes:
to understand the disparate impact of this change on Black men in young adulthood primarily — and secondarily, Latino men — here are the rates of incarceration for men by age and race/ethnicity (Blacks here exclude Latinos; Asians and...
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God, I found some old debate files. Topics...
interruptions:
ECOMANAGERIALISTIC TECHNOCRATIC AGRICULTURAL DISCOURSES ARE ANTHROPOCENTRIC AND WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE THE HUMAN RACE TO OMNICIDE
TURNING TO THE STATE TO PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS INTERRUPTS CONSCIOUSNESS OF PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE’S CONNECTION TO CAPITAL
YOUR IDENTITY POLITICS LACKS ANY THEORY OF HOW OPPRESSION IS MATERIALIZED AND REPRODUCED-THE PROLIFERATION OF IDENTITY BECOMES...
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“Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with...”
– Plato (via skinnymalink)
this quote is like the most tendentious way to illustrate the difference between (the verbs) “affect” and “effect”
“Crucially, an opposition to capitalism and landlordism, and a politics of class...”
– Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt - Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (2009)
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...
Police arrest and stripsearch innocent man after... →
anticapitalist:
Sansone, 26, is a father of three and Kitchener, Ont., resident. As a younger man, he admits getting into trouble with the law, but claims to have lived clean for years. He’s now a certified personal support worker, husband and father of three. He was even reportedly offered a job at the very same school where this bizarre story begins. On Wednesday, Sansone arrived at his...
“Money comes into the federal government through taxes and bonds. The vast...”
– Ezra Klein, “Romney’s Budget in Less Than 150 Words” (via interruptions)
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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...
Crime Rates During the Oakland Commune
occupyallstreets:
From: Jordan, Howard Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:13 PM To: Harmon, Reygan Cc: Santana, Deanna; Orologas, Alexandra Subject: FW: City of Oakland Weekly Crime Report: 24-30 Oct 2011
Fyi. Not sure how you want to share this GOOD news with MJQ. It may be counter to our statement that the Occupy Movement is negatively impacting crime in Oakland.
Howard A. Jordan Interim...
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Me: NO DON'T POST PORN I AM IN PUBLIC
Dash: OH DID YOU SAY HARDCORE BDSM
“Vulgar socialism […] has taken over from the bourgeois economists the...”
– Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (via rethinksocialism)
“Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, each at different points in their...”
– Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements « INCITE! Blog (via shoulders)
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observe how the men involved in the civil rights movement cared ALL about their racial oppression, but dished out their own...