February 2012
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ideasandopinions:
Black Cat Hacks: How to Get a Copy of Your FBI File
blackcathacker:
The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful thing. If you’ve ever wanted to know just what those guvmint bastards have on you, anyway, here’s your chance. Just fill in the italics in this form letter with the appropriate information, get your signature notarized, send it off,…
As many as 220,000 people could be displaced by... →
solitaryforager:
from Deep Green Resistance News Service
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Upper class people are more likely to behave... →
sinidentidades:
neiture:
A raft of studies into unethical behaviour across the social classes has delivered a withering verdict on the upper echelons of society.
Privileged people behaved consistently worse than others in a range of situations, with a greater tendency to lie, cheat, take things meant for others, cut up other road users, not stop for pedestrians on crossings, and endorse...
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“People sometimes ask me, ‘If things are so bad, why don’t you just kill...”
– Derrick Jensen (via solitaryforager)
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“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– Arundhati Roy
Always reblog.
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“I can lose my legs and go on living I can lose my eyes and go on living...”
– Jack D. Forbes, 1934 — 2011
“We do not die by ourselves.”
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kad budu gorjeli gradovi: Now glyphosate found in... →
kadbudugorjeligradovi:
According to an article in German in the Ithaca journal, a German university study has found significant concentrations of glyphosate in the urine samples of city dwellers. The analysis of the urine samples apparently found that all had concentrations of glyphosate at 5 to 20-fold the limit for…
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Canada's tar sands: Muck and brass →
To many critics the broader environmental legacy of the tar sands is reason enough to halt the whole endeavour. To get at the bitumen, the companies bulldoze wetlands to create vast open-pit mines. Inside them, the world’s largest dumptrucks ferry paydirt to nearby separation plants, where the tarry soil is crushed and diluted until bitumen can be skimmed off. This needs lots of water and...
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Derrick Jensen and Arundhati Roy →
yesmladytron:
Post-reading discussion at Berkeley.
“If our actions make it so there is even a one-thousandth of 1 percent chance...”
– Derrick Jensen, “To Live Or Not To Live” (via cuntymint)
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“We have lost touch with the natural order of things… which day of the workweek...”
– Thomas Berry in Endgame Vol. II: Resistance I have often thought this culture cannot be saved. It can’t be. In these moments, I wander, I yearn, that I may at least remember the beauty not yet lost. (via americawakiewakie)
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– arundhati roy from the guardian (via counterworlds)
Roy doesn’t like the use of violence. Who can blame her? I don’t like it either. But nonviolence only works within a privileged context, however meager and shitty that privilege may be and to the extent it could be used effectively.
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