Flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station. Copenhagen Phil playing Ravel’s Bolero.
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Quote: Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D., (born December 7, 1928)
American Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Professor (Emeritus)
Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, Author, and Activist
The reality is that under capitalist conditions–meaning maximization of short-term gain–you’re ultimately going to destroy the environment: the only question is when.
Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky,(The New York Press, 2002), 58.
Quote: Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti, Ph.D., (born 1933) Political Scientist,
Political Scientist, Historian, Author, Lecturer, and Culture Critic
Wealth is pursued without moral restraint. The very rich try to crush anyone who resists their endless, heartless, unprincipled accumulation. Like any addiction, money is pursued in that obsessive, amoral, singleminded way, revealing a total disregard for what is right or wrong, just or unjust, an indifference to other considerations and other people’s interests–and even one’s own interests should they go beyond feeding the addiction.
Thus it is necessary and desirable to have laws to protect the environment, workers’ lives, and consumer health because big business has a total indifference to such things, and–to the extent that they cut into profits–an outright hostility toward regulations on behalf of the public interest. We sometimes forget how profoundly immoral is cooperate power.
Michael Parenti, Blackshirts & Redshirts, (City Light Books, 1997), 154.
A Question for the Mayor and Citizens of Vallejo — 10/19/11
Purveyors of Bigotry Alert!
The Story of Your Enslavement
Jesus Returns!
AU’s Barry Lynn on FOX News: Does Faith Have Any Place on the Campaign Trail?
Plaza Cleaners of Portland, Oregon Should Be Given A Medal
Give them kudos! Plaza Cleaners, 909 NW Everett St. in Portland, Oregon
On Weed: Dazed And Confused No More
The American experience with prohibition of alcohol proved that we are capable of learning from our mistakes. The experience with prohibition of marijuana proves that we are also capable of doing just the opposite
. . . This week, the Gallup organization reported that fully 50 percent of Americans now think marijuana should be made legal. This is the first time since Gallup began asking in 1969 that more Americans support legalization than oppose it.
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Bolivia Scraps Controversial Highway Plan
Protesters camp out in front of the government palace to
protest against the construction of the highway [Reuters]
President Morales cancels plans to build highway through a nature reserve after sustained protest from Amazon Indians . . . Morales did not abandon the idea of a highway through Bolivia linking Brazil with the Pacific coast, but said on Friday it would no longer cut through the pristine Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory National Park, or TIPNIS.
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