Ricin is the new anthrax.
Should we duck and cover under our desks? … Where is the nearest fallout shelter? … Do we have enough canned goods to last through the winter? .. Should I send seeds to the Global Seed Vault? … Meanwhile the Dow is down 273 points, 274, 275!
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The amount of U.S. troops that will remain in Iraq above the pre-surge level of 132,000. If the surge was successful, then why are more troops necessary afterward?
We will soon reach other noxious numbers: 4,000 American dead and the 5-year anniversary.
V.I. Lenin saw this stranglehold on power.
“The social-chauvinist scoundrels cover up the defence of the predatory interests of ‘their own’ bourgeoisie with phrases about the ‘defence of the fatherland’, ‘defence of the republic and the revolution’, etc!”
Lenin’s words from 1917 have amazing relevance today. The U.S.’s military-industrial complex protects bourgeoisie profits when the young proletariat fight for American ”freedom.”
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“‘Tomorrow I will be, tomorrow I will change, tomorrow I will become;’ psychologically, we have created time — tomorrow. Is there a tomorrow psychologically? That question fills us with dread to ask seriously. Because we want tomorrow: ‘I shall have the pleaseure of meeting you tomorrow, I am going to understand tomorrow, my life will be different tomorrow, I will realize enlightenment tomorrow.’ Therefore tomorrow will become the most important thing in our life. You had sex yesterday, all the pleasures, all the agonies — whatever it is — and you want it tomorrow because you want that same pleasure repeated.
Put that question to yourself and find out the truth in it. ‘Is there a tomorrow at all?’ — except in thought which projects tomorrow. So tomorrow is the invention of thought as time, and if there is no tomorrow psychologically, what happens in life today? Then there is tremendous revolution, isn’t there? Then your whole action undergoes a radical change, doesn’t it? Then you are completely whole now, not projecting from the past, through the present, into the future.”
… You don’t say, ‘I will love tomorrow,’ do you? You love or you don’t love. Love has no time, only sorrow has time — sorrow being thought, as in pleasure.”
G: Everyone goes to bed thinking about tomorrow, about what went wrong that day. How they can change it. We must be aware of this constant want to change. Is it productive? Would it be more beneficial to understand?
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At 2 a.m. Friday, I thought I saw a shirtless dude walking up 2nd Avenue East.
Turns out, I was waaaayyyy off. The wise gentleman was wearing a white tank top – which didn’t quiet offset his pale, bare arms. He would have been shivering in the sub-zero temperatures, but he was trying too hard to flex.
This belligerent fella was closely following two bundled-up black guys.
As I passed on my way down the avenue to my apartment, one member of the duo turned to the other and shouted, “Let’s rock him.”
They wanted to fight, but a creeping squad car sniffed out their antics. Mr. Tank Top quickly whipped a u-turn and staggered back down the avenue. The other wanna-be contenders continued up the hill.
I thought: ‘Welcome back from St. Paul, Andy.’
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Wikileaks.org, a whistleblower Web site, was recently told to cease operations by a California court.
Last week, Wikileaks broke a story about an inside U.S. military initiative that authorizes fighting terrorists in Iran and Syria. The New York Times wrote about the issue, which Wikileaks broke.
Wikileaks, which allowed sources to post anonymously since 2006, provided people the ability to dissent.
If employers embezzle, or the government lies, people with knowledge should have an accessible outlet such as Wikileaks. They should have the ability to speak openly and freely, without consequence.
With 1.2 million documents posted on the site, there was a definite need for something like this.
This is an assault on press freedoms, but a more pragmatic approach is establishing a future site like Wikileaks.
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