February 2012
January 2012
#FDA approves implanted #RFID chip for humans →
elige:
anonymissexpress:
In the category of unbelievably bad ideas that we all knew were making their way toward reality whether we like it or not comes the news the FDA has just approved VeriChip’s implantable RFID chips for use in humans. These are the same chips that we’re currently using to identify our pets. VeriChip is touting the chips’ medical applications, as a way of potentially...
“I want to make sure people understand actually drones have not caused a huge...”
– Barack Obama on the drone program that kills 1 militant for every 10-15 civilians. (via humanformat)
“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
—Albert Einstein
“Imagine the massive retaliatory response that would be triggered if Iran were...”
– George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace - Salon.com (via solitaryforager)
“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.”
—Malcolm X
Harper bans pre-op and non-op trans* people from... →
peak-society:
boobsanderson:
Sec 5.2(1)(c) of the ID screening regs of Aeronautics Act: “An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents.”
OH FUCK NO.
Trigger Warning: Socialist Ponies: For Immediate... →
occupyallstreets:
American prosecutors have warned that data from users of file-sharing site Megaupload could be deleted from host servers within days.
US officials have blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men, saying the site facilitated millions of illegal downloads of movies, music and other content.
A letter filed by prosecutors on January 27 said storage companies Carpathia...
“The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is a normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
—Assata Shakur
“When a new technology comes along […] and destabilizes the way the industries...”
– Yochai Benkler, Prof. of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard on Megaupload’s shutdown.
Most laws exist to keep the big corporations in power.
(via anticapitalist)
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
—Voltaire
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– This. THIS. Read it. Now read it again. Now the next time you victim-blame, or rag on women for any of the above, you can kindly pull your lip over your head and swallow.
(via youwouldreblogtoanything)
After 12 years of battling to stop Monsanto's... →
“Whenever journalists are arrested/detained for reporting the news, everyone’s...”
– KGO Radio reporter Kristin Hanes • Discussing her arrest late Saturday as the Occupy Oakland protests flared up. She and Gavin Aronson of Mother Jones were among the over 200 people placed into custody Saturday night, as the Oakland protests reached a new breaking point — including the burning of an...
Good Reason News: She's not "losing her faith",... →
abaldwin360:
thisgingersnapsback:
[Edited: Title. It fits better.]
When I first started “doubting” my religion, I recall a very heated, emotional conversation my mother and I had in the car. I was about ten or so, perhaps, and I remember her telling me, “I’m just sad I won’t see you in heaven.”
Years passed. She was convinced I was “going through a phase.” I was still made to go to church,...
“Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual...”
– (via thecryingame)
i like being fat and ugly and getting laid so idgaf what anyone says
(via menstrualpsycho)
potent:
I used to wish that I was a dumb fuckhead like everyone else so it would be easier
gangsta - tune-yards
himynameiscarl:
i fucking hate that “so what do you want to do with your degree” question
i don’t want to explain to every person who asks why i believe that college isn’t a employee factory, why i believe that there’s more value to an education than economic opportunity, that studying what i’m interested in will lead me down the road toward jobs that i’m interested in
also i don’t really have...
“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros)
Eh this is completely wrong. He was actually quite fond of the Reagans. It was at a White House dinner however. Here is what...
Are White People Racially Oppressed? →
Trigger Warning: Socialist Ponies: Anonymous... →
akagoldfish:
bbcity:
But it’s my responsibility to study and dedicate my life and mytime to what a bunch of dicks with firms think is the appropriate “training” for the vapid, soul-sucking jobs they offer.
Have fun living your life being such a sycophant. Your ideology isn’t individualist. And it’s not voluntary if life choices that would have been possible are obliterated for the sake of...
“1031, the statement of authority to detain, does apply to American citizens and...”
– Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), sponsor of the National Defense Authorization Act (via disobey)
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
il-ny-a-pas-dinfec:
anirishginger:
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you...
Monsanto: 'There is no need for, or value in... →
anti-propaganda:
‘There is a growing body of scientific evidence which proves that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are inherently different from natural organisms, including the way the body processes them, as well as how the immune system responds to them. But Monsanto, the largest purveyor of GMOs in the world, believes that GMOs are no different than natural organisms, and that GMO...
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Thousands of writers, of poets, of scholars, have laboured to increase knowledge, to dissipate error, and to create that atmosphere of scientific thought, without which the marvels of our century could never have appeared. And these thousands of philosophers, of poets, of scholars, of inventors, have themselves been supported by the labour of past centuries. They have been upheld and nourished...
thebesieged:
I find it funny how many libertarians tell others to learn economics when they cant even distinguish between what socialism actually is and what their school history teacher said it is.
Socialism = workers control over the means of production.
Things which arent socialist: The Democrats, any fucking centre-left/centrist party, Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, North...
