January 2009
162 posts
Creating Currency For A Resilient Local Economy →
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theseeds:
“…Imagine a world of sufficiency where needs are met through a web of local relationships, where meaningful exchanges circulate goods and services independent of the availability of national dollars.
One of society’s most common misunderstandings about money is that it is an object, when it is actually an agreement of trust. According to Lewis Lapham, author of Money and Class...
“A New Zealand girl pulled over under suspicion of DUI returned a reading six...”
– Daily DUI: Pregnant 14-Year-Old Ticketed For DUI, Registers Six Times Legal Limit (via fwarg)
Seriously
ben:
How the fuck does Tumblr make money?
I’ll never understand these folks who work in the internet.
Well, they have this program that instead of rounding off to the nearest cent it puts the all rounded off fractions of a cent into a bank account…..
In public comments, Rove has presented himself as the victim of a Democratic witch-hunt, particularly after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Fox News’ Chris Wallace two weeks ago that she supported a renewed probe into the politicization of the Justice Department. “I think that we have to learn from the past, and we cannot let the politicizing of the — for example, the Justice Department, to go...
U.N. crime chief says drug money flowed into banks →
VIENNA: The United Nations’ crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Perestroika 2.0 Beta →
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theseeds:
“…All industrial countries will be forced to rapidly deindustrialize on this time scale, but the one that has spent the last century building an infrastructure that has no future — based on little houses interconnected by cars, with all of its associated moribund, unmaintainable systems — is virtually guaranteed to fall the hardest. An American’s two greatest enemies are his...
“On Tuesday, January 27th, 2009, former AIG executive got sentenced to 4 years in...”
– What’s Wrong with our Justice System (via ariah)
AFP: Brown sees 'new world order' after crisis →
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blacklungsblackhands:inthegloaming:
You know, it’s hard to argue that those who believe in the “new world order” conspiracy are a bunch of kooks, when world leaders are publicly talking about it.
When I saw this yesterday my spine went cold.
I am not that paranoid after all.
The case against Candy Land →
Just as a thought experiment: Imagine what the manual for Super Mario would read like were it structured like Candy Land:
To explore Super Mario Galaxy, just hit the “action” button. At that point the game will randomly determine what action you have selected, and whether it was successful. When the action is over, hit the button again to see what’s next!
How one good man’s intentions took him from a fuel... →
Critics who contend federal prosecutors too often go far beyond common sense and the law in enforcing bureaucratic gobbledygook, especially on environmental matters, could list as Example One the strange case of Krister Evertson, aka federal prisoner number 15003-006.
Evertson is spending 21 months in the Sheridan, Oregon, federal prison for an environmental “crime” in which no environmental harm...
List of Bilderberg attendees - Wikipedia, the free... →
This is the enemy
Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises →
slackr:
(via sujay)
The reset button
thehackerethic:
Press the reset button. Do it now. Escape your zombie state.
Get up early. Stay up late. Take a road trip. Read a fucking book. Listen to an old album or discover a new one. Pull out your sketch books or pick up a guitar. Find some way to flip your mental state on its ass. Don’t let yourself burn out and join the ranks of the undead. Or are you already there?
The...
Ignorant by choice
thehackerethic:
You’re stupid. You’re inexperienced. You’re maladjusted. You’re human. You deny your flaws, frustrated at yourself. Make peace with your limits and look for ways to grow. Or, ignore your flaws, and choose to foster your own ignorance.
And don’t just make peace with your humanity, use it to your advantage. Use it to teach others. Use it to fuel your own creativity. Nothing exists...
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done...”
– Peter Drucker
Wasp inspires brain-boring surgical robot →
The female wood wasps of the Siricidae family use a needle-like ovipositor to deposit eggs inside pine trees. This has two dovetailed shafts, each covered in backward-facing teeth. To bore into wood, the wasp rapidly oscillates each shaft backwards and forwards. As the shaft is pulled backwards, its sharp teeth catch in the wood’s tissue and prevent it from retreating, so with each...
“It’s just a handful of people that run everything, and that’s provable… I have...”
– Bill Hicks (via errorgorilla)
Yea its called the Bilderberg group. (CFR, Bankers, Oilers, etc. Rockefeller family, Kissinger and then some.)
(via collectiverevolution)
Better Than Owning →
The web is also a social common good. The web is not the same as public roads, which are “owned” by the public, but in terms of public access and use, the web is a type of community good. The good of the web serves me as if I owned it. I can summon it in full, anytime, with the snap of a finger. Libraries share some of these qualities. The content of the books are not public domain,...
Iceland Is Burning →
collectiverevolution:
clothedinsky:
seashelllz:
homecoming:
sparo:
While Americans were watching the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as successor to the deeply unpopular conservative George W. Bush, thousands of Iceland’s citizens were fighting riot police around the Icelandic parliament building Althingi to try to prevent the world’s oldest parliament from meeting.