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  • Money and Power: The (Secret) City

    Interesting bit of knowledge about the financial world of which I was unaware. I am not putting this forward to participate in conspiracy theories. I have read enough Robert Anton Wilson to know that can never be anything more than… Continue reading

    Money and Power: The (Secret) City
  • Youth of America: Sign Up for Obamacare

    Sign up at healhcare.gov to learn more about Obamacare. October 1st is very near. This is when many will be able to sign up for the Affordable Care Act‘s mandated healthcare exchanges. Many on the Right want to see Millenials… Continue reading

    Youth of America: Sign Up for Obamacare
  • Wrong Turn: COIN Diplomacy and the Profits of War

    “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” — Carl von Clausewitz (On War) “The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.” — Carl von Clausewitz As much as we like to… Continue reading

    Wrong Turn: COIN Diplomacy and the Profits of War
  • ▶ BBC: Kings of Glam | YouTube

    Profiling the leading men of the glam rock era, Lisa Tarbuck guides us through the glittering careers of Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Noddy Holder, Brian Ferry, Elton John and honorary glam king Suzi Quatro. Industry men including producer Tony Visconti,… Continue reading

    ▶ BBC: Kings of Glam | YouTube
  • Largest fast food strike ever today: 58 cities will be affected – Salon.com

    Fast food workers today plan to mount one-day walkouts against nearly a thousand stores in over fifty cities — the largest-ever mobilization against their growing, low-wage, non-union industry, which until last fall had never faced a substantial U.S. strike. The… Continue reading

    Largest fast food strike ever today: 58 cities will be affected – Salon.com
  • Quest for Fire

    Fire is just a particularly vigorous oxidation process, one that you can understand even if you weren’t paying attention in chemistry lessons at school, as indeed James May didn’t. So what’s need to create a fire, why is a flame… Continue reading

    Quest for Fire
  • The necessity of self-promotion

    Women may fail to win chairs because they do not cite themselves enough. One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as… Continue reading

    The necessity of self-promotion
  • Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity

    Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything else. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and… Continue reading

    Poverty does bad things to your brain | Futurity
  • ‘Shift’ Your Thinking about Coffee

    My good brother Angelo Fesperman has opened a new coffee shop in Denton, Texas: Shift Coffee located at 112 E. Prairie just two blocks east of Ravelin’s Bakery. It is in a nice quiet area off the square and without… Continue reading

    ‘Shift’ Your Thinking about Coffee
  • ▶ I’m a Ramblin’ Man | YouTube

    Waylon Jennings rendition. Song written by Ray Pennington. Related articles Awesome Photos Of Buddy Holly And Waylon Jennings In A Photo Booth (buzzfeed.com) RIP Tompall Glaser, Key Architect Of Country’s ‘Outlaw’ Sound (y108.cbslocal.com) Tompall Glaser, an original Nashville outlaw, dies… Continue reading

    ▶ I’m a Ramblin’ Man | YouTube
  • ▶ Cynicism | YouTube

    As a humble anarchocynic, I am a bit ashamed that I have not posted anything on the history of ancient Cyncisim in a while. Please recognize-please RE-COG-NIZE–that the contemporary usage of the term “cynic” is a slap in the face… Continue reading

    ▶ Cynicism | YouTube
  • Drawing – Seeing vs. Knowing | Zen School for Creative People

    When we draw, there is often a conflict between what we see and what we know.  The top sketch shows the head tilted back so far it cannot be seen.  The body is “foreshortened” with the legs appearing longer and… Continue reading

    Drawing – Seeing vs. Knowing | Zen School for Creative People
  • Is there no-thing in the deep darkness?

    Three experiments are starting to study dark energy, the most abundant stuff in the universe. But a theory has just been published purporting to show it does not exist IN THE 1920s astronomers realised that the universe was running away… Continue reading

    Is there no-thing in the deep darkness?
  • Moon filling night sky Brilliant summer evening Chrysanthemum bud Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

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  • The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis | VICE United Kingdom

    The whole sorry thing is both depressing and infuriating… When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn’t believe it. The Memo confirmed every… Continue reading

    The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis | VICE United Kingdom
  • Masters Of The Country Blues | Youtube

    Mance Lipscomb and Ligntnin’ Hopkins tear it up. Introduction by Taj Mahal. Continue reading

    Masters Of The Country Blues | Youtube
  • 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

    My good sister, Stephanie E., with whom I am reading Paulo Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed sent me this article yesterday on FB. It details what the situation that Henry Giroux has been talking about in such texts as Youth… Continue reading

    8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
  • ▶ The Emperor Voiced by Mark Hamill’s Joker – YouTube

    Mark Hamill vs. Mark Hamill “Luke Skywalker” as acted by Mark Hamill [Return of the Jedi] “The Emperor” as voiced by Mark Hamill’s Joker [Arkham Games/DCUO clips] “Darth Vader” as voiced by Tom Hardy‘s Bane [Dark Knight Rises] This video… Continue reading

    ▶ The Emperor Voiced by Mark Hamill’s Joker – YouTube