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Collected things from around the internet. You may find them interesting.



Foreclosing on the commons - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Under George W. Bush, it was an Outrage! that the U.S. government was indefinitely imprisoning poor, innocent foreigners without so much as charging them with a crime. Under Barack Obama, killing poor, innocent foreigners without so much as charging them with a crime is now a mark of a Successful Foreign Policy, showing the president has the cojones to authorize mass murder based on an international stop and drone strike policy of profiling.

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Spy Pictures from the Prague Secret Police Surveillance Archives - Imaging Resource

“Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.” - Kafka

The Unfuckables – The New Inquiry

“Now, you might point to Obama’s murderous foreign policies, his expansion and strengthening of the surveillance state, his aggressive support for the Drug War, his coddling of corporate power, etc., and wonder how his gay marriage stance mitigates all that. Well, it doesn’t.

As recent polls have shown, a large percentage of liberals support many of Obama’s horrid positions, particularly his increased use of drones (which are coming to a city near you). Obama’s reelection image is Warrior President, tougher than Romney, ballsier than the entire GOP. Mix in some pseudo-populist rhetoric, rail against the very corporate forces that keep him in power, play the gay marriage hand right down the middle, and a second term is all but inevitable.”

emily horne of A Softer World has "CORN DOGS" knuckle tats | Dinosaur Comics

Another World Is Possible: The Radical Alternative to Austerity

Burning Our Future To Fuel The Past « I . D O U B T . I T/

Protest Silenced For The Super-Rich « I . D O U B T . I T/

Houston Is Safer Today | The Agitator

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Disgraced Strauss-Kahn faces new rape claims over sex party at Washington hotel - Europe - World - The Independent

It’s OK, because Strauss-Kahn is a rich man, and the person doing the accusing is a filthy prostitute, therefore she’s just in it for the money/is a golddigger/is lying/can’t be raped anyway.

Taxing times for Bonn’s street hookers | HIV / AIDS, science, sex, drugs

Stumbling and Mumbling: Why Labour disappoints