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Bill Haywood (1869-1928) – labor organizer
“We are conspiring to prevent the making of profits on labor power in any industry. We are conspiring against the dividend makers. We are conspiring against rent and interest. We want to establish a new society, where people can live without profit, without dividends, without rent and without interest if it is possible; and it [...]
Stop Lights? We don’t need no stinkin’ stop lights!!
Traffic flows better without traffic lights. Sometimes the inherited truth is actually wrong. And if you want to make cuts, rather than cutting back on services people use and need, maybe ending certain ingrained big brother enforcement might work better (start with traffic lights, but why not the Drug War? War in Afghanistan?)
Mark Twain quote
“History doesn’t repeat itself,” Mark Twain said, “but it does rhyme.”
HTML5 + CSS3 + Firefox 4 = very cool slide show example of new tech
Put magic in a bottle, digitize it and turn it into a webpage and you have these new capabilities. DZ Slides
Robert Fisk: The Terror of Power and the Power of Terror
National Radio Project [audio: http://digitalmeme.com/audio/MakingCon_101013_Ax.mp3]
Max Keiser interview w/ Ellen Brown: what is money?
Are the elite financiers behind BIG capital pushing austerity measures to protect the dollar value of the huge bailouts they received? We’re good, now you bear the brunt of the pain? On the larger scheme of things, does money as it is now make any sense? or has it been hijacked by a Las Vegas [...]
Aztec poem
Here is the great city Of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, In this place that is renowned, In this place that is exemplary, Where the wild cactus fruit grows, In the middle of the waters, Where the eagle screeches, Where the eagle spreads its wings, Where he tears apart the serpent, Where the fish swim in the blue waters, [...]
BBC series ‘The Power of Nightmares’ introduces reasons behind the cult of fear
The what why and how to of propaganda. The Power of Nightmares, this is first episode in a three part BBC series that explores the logic behind promoting nightmare scenarios as a means of uniting a nation behind an agenda, as a means of power and control, and as a tactic that tends to engulf [...]
Salman Khan on the Khan Academy
Old news for many, but a really great source for education via YouTube videos: Khan Academy Sal gives a presentation on the Khan Academy, how it started and what sets it apart and challenges the notion that free is somehow by definition less valuable than very expensive, and that live is always and necessarily better [...]
Manfred Max-Neef on the difference between growth and development
Growth is a quantitative accumulation. Development is the liberation of creative possibilities. Every living system in nature grows up to a certain point and stops growing. You are not growing anymore, nor he nor me. But we continue developing ourselves. Otherwise we wouldn’t be dialoguing here now. So development has no limits. Growth has limits. [...]
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