Anarcho-primitivism. History[edit] Origins[edit] Anarchism started to have an ecological view mainly in the writings of American individualist anarchist and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. In his book Walden, he advocates simple living and self-sufficiency among natural surroundings in resistance to the advancement of industrial civilization.[2] "Many have seen in Thoreau one of the precursors of ecologism and anarcho-primitivism represented today by John Zerzan. For George Woodcock, this attitude can also be motivated by the idea of resistance to progress and the rejection of the increasing materialism that characterized North American society in the mid-19th century.
"[2] Zerzan himself included the text "Excursions" (1863) by Thoreau in his edited compilation of anti-civilization writings called Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections from 1999.[3] This tendency was strong enough as to call the attention of the CNT–FAI in Spain. Recent themes[edit] Main concepts[edit] Domestication[edit] Philly mayor hopes curfew plan brings back the love. Philadelphians react to teen 'flash mob' attacks Police commissioner vows enforcementEarlier curfew in some parts of town follows rash of mob attacksThe mayor delivered a tough sermon on the attacksThe fight against teen violence also targets parents (CNN) -- Philadelphia has been plagued by teen violence, but the City of Brotherly Love is fighting back.
Mayor Michael Nutter announced this week a robust initiative that began with a stiff curfew at 9 p.m. Friday. The effort comes after a string of attacks on residents by groups of young people who are alerted to sudden gatherings at a given place via e-mail and social media. "It's a growing problem in this country, police Commissioner Charles H. Nutter delivered tough remarks about the problem in a church sermon Sunday that has received national and international attention, a blunt no-excuses scolding that happened to coincide with the start of the England riots.
He said fathering is engaging with the child and shaping them. Gov. Rick Snyder signs redistricting bills designed to give GOP political edge. With little fanfare Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law today new political maps for Michigan, redrawn by his Republican allies in the Legislature without Democratic interference. In a statement, the governor avoided the political reality that Republicans carved out for themselves. The GOP now has a 61-49 advantage in the state House, according to political analyst Bill Ballenger, a 23-15 edge in the Senate, and a 9-5 advantage in Michigan’s delegation to Congress. But Snyder did lament the decline in Michigan’s numerical clout in Congress. “At our peak, we had 19 seats in Congress. We only have 15 today and next year we are going to drop to 14 because Michigan was the only state in the nation to actually lose population over the last decade,” he said in a statement. “This clearly shows why we need to fundamentally reinvent Michigan as place where businesses can grow and create jobs and people can raise a family.
" "Voters deserve fair and competitive districts," Brewer said. Michigan medical marijuana law set for fall legislative review. AP File PhotoAttorney General Bill Schuette The legislative push to place tighter controls on medical marijuana will begin in the fall and one change could make it a felony for a physician to authorize use of the drug by falsely certifying the applicant has a debilitating condition. Attorney General Bill Schuette, law enforcement officials and lawmakers said today the 2008 voter-approved law is intentionally vague, so as to allow profit-oriented marijuana dispensaries to openly sell the drug to customers who can now obtain a certificate with minimal effort online. When voters approved the citizen-initiated medical marijuana law, "they did not vote to legalize marijuana or a pot free-for-all, which is what we have here in Michigan,” Schuette said.
“We need to bring this law back into line to what voters intended.” Bills introduced on the House’s last day in session before summer break on June 30 make a couple of big changes. Rep. US railway blocked phones to quash protest - Americas. A rail transit provider in the United States disabled mobile phone services to prevent a planned protest on Thursday, attracting criticism and unflattering comparisons to crackdowns on dissent in the Middle East. Demonstrators in northern California's Bay Area had planned a protest to condemn the shooting death of Charles Hill, who was killed on July 3 after Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officers responded to complaints about a drunk man at a station in the city of San Francisco. Hill was fatally shot in the torso - police said he had lunged with a knife - and protesters responded eight days later with a demonstration that shut down three San Francisco BART stations.
BART's police force had been criticised before, in 2009, after a white officer responding with several colleagues to a complaint restrained an unarmed black man on the ground of a train platform and then fatally shot him in the back. Unflattering comparisons Blackout a legal uncertainty. 'Corporations are people, my friend...' Thank God for Mitt Romney. In a moment of candour he likely thought would win him much needed support from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, the presidential candidate explained his thinking to a heckler - who asked why he didn't feel corporations should share more of the economic burden of reducing the deficit: "Corporations are people, my friend ... of course they are.
Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? In fact, he's right. Ironically, the idea of a corporation as a person, however defined, originated with the need to ensure that the corporations that arose with capitalism - and especially with the growth of larger firms with the industrial revolution - could both assume debts and liabilities and be held legally responsible for them in the same way that natural persons would be. This was an evolution of common law, where only a person could be sued or sue someone. A product of the imperial age. How America Could Collapse. August 11, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The following article first appeared on the Web site of The Nation.
For more great content from the Nation, sign up for its e-mail newsletters here. A few months ago, a friend in the entertainment industry told me of a new business model in Hollywood: hoarding videotapes. In the last few years, economists have spent a lot of time and energy thinking about bank runs. Worryingly, there’s been very little consideration of how systemic collapses can happen in another, perhaps more dangerous realm—the industrial supply system that keeps us in everything from medicine to food to cars to, yes, videotape.
Barry Lynn of the New America Foundation has been studying industrial supply shocks since 1999, when he noticed that global computer chip production was concentrated in Taiwan. The Simian Line: Depression, Mental Illness. Note: Other quotation sections to consider are Suicide, Self-Injury, and Misery/Despair/Anxiety/Grief. Depression Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.
–Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet There’s no grand excellence to it. I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. ... Oh shut up. Blues like this lives out of sight of the world, I think. Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket. The Best Newspaper Headlines of 2000. INFOGRAPHIC : Software Piracy The Untold Tales. Piracy and illegal file sharing is a curse for any developer and software company. As soon as the new version of a popular piece of software hits the streets, it is pretty much being pirated before you can say “o-arrr!”. Same with games, music and movies. For every person who buys something legally, there’s probably 10 who are taking the risk of stealing it. Our infographic this week is on this very subject and comes courtesy of Starmedia. It goes all the way back to the swinging 60′s when the first software patent was granted and to 1975 when the first software piracy cases occurred.
Finally, the infographic looks at some illegal download stats. Let us know in the comments what you think of the infographic. FedEx and Pepsi Are Top Defense Contractors? 5 Corporate Brands Making a Killing on Americas Wars | World. September 3, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Chances are, if you’ve ever sent a package overnight, bought a PC or a can of soda, you’ve paid your hard-earned money to a major Pentagon contractor.
While large defense corporations that make fighter jets and armored vehicles garner the most attention, tens of thousands of “civilian” companies, from multi-national corporations hawking toothpaste and shampoo to big oil behemoths and even local restaurants scattered across the United States, all supply the Pentagon with the necessities used to carry on day-to-day operations and wage America’s wars. And they’ve made a killing doing it since 9/11. In 2001, the massive arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman ranked one, two and five among Department of Defense contractors, raking in $14.7 billion, $13.3 billion and $5.2 billion, respectively, in contracts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Why the Breakfast Most Americans Will Eat Today Is a Corporate Scam | Food. September 2, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Breakfast in America is a corporate scam. Not all of it. But nearly every breakfast staple -- cold cereal, donuts, yogurt, bagels and cream cheese, orange juice, frappuccino -- is a staple only because somebody somewhere wanted money. Wake up and smell the McCafé. Seeking to provide sanitarium patients with meatless anti-aphrodisiac breakfasts in 1894, Michigan Seventh-Day Adventist surgeon and anti-masturbation activist John Kellogg developed the process of flaking cooked grains.
In pre-Corn Flakes America, breakfast wasn't cold or sweet. "Breakfast was the biggest meal of the day. The Great Cereal Shift mirrored -- and triggered -- other shifts: Farm to factory. "Cold cereals are an invention of vegetarians and the health-food industry, first through Kellogg's and then through C.W. As is orange juice, another breakfast contrivance marketed as healthy for kids. E Ink promises thinner, lighter, higher resolution, and color e-paper displays New Tech Gadgets & Electronic Devices.
E Ink is already doing swift business in the growing e-reader market, but just like any technology company, it can’t sit still for fear of being overtaken or made redundant. With that in mind, the company has used IFA 2011 to show us some future products and the latest updates to its displays that are coming to market. E Ink’s biggest success to date has to be the monochrome display found inside the best selling e-reader on the market: the Amazon Kindle . At IFA 2011 E Ink revealed some interesting facts about that monochrome display including how much potential it has for the future. First of all, the displays are made in rolls of up to 1km in length and over a meter wide. The resolution on the Kindle is SVGA, a mere 800 x 600 pixels and 167dpi. Anyone wondering what comes next for the Kindle also got a hint from E Ink as to whet we can expect from the next iteration of the device.
Moving from glass to plastic also means E Ink can put their displays in more products. Protests Erupt in the US and Bolivia Targeting 'Progressive' Presidents Who Are Failing to Protect the Environment | Environment. September 6, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. In many ways the two protests could not be more different. And yet, on separate sides of the equator the protests share a profound commonality. A Pipeline for Climate Poison and a Road through the Rainforest The protests in Washington, which are ongoing, target a proposed 1,700-mile pipeline, the Keystone XL, that would carry petroleum mined from Canada's Tar Sands through the central U.S. to Texas for refinement. The legal authority to permit the pipeline's construction or stop it lies with President Obama.
Thus far the President has sent mixed messages about the Tar Sands project. "His environmental policies have been terrible," said one of the Washington protesters, Nancy Romer, a member of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, explaining why environmental groups have decided to hold Mr. List of electronic music genres. This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology. A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology.[1] Examples of electromechanical sound producing devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, and the electric guitar.
Purely electronic sound production can be achieved using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer, and computer.[2] Genres[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] Jump up ^ T. Wikileaks Provides Proof that UK is Eradicating Turks and Caicos Islanders Since Early 2000s. With the help of confidential Wikileaks cables from 2004-2009, and after, we discover that the UK has been plotting to remove Turks and Caicos Islanders from power in their country.
For years, Turks and Caicos has been targeted for corruption by the UK, even though the UK has been "over seeing" the territory for decades. The Turks and Caicos government had repeatedly informed the UK of the threat of foreigners and illegal immigration from Haiti. The proof now exists that the UK plotted to turn a blind eye to the illegal Haitian dilemma in Turks and Caicos for political purposes. Now that the UK has removed Turks and Caicos from self government in 2009, it is clear that the UK is benevolently helping the illegal Haitians to solicit their support to eradicate Turks and Caicos Islanders. The population of Turks and Caicos Islanders is currently outnumbered by foreigners (expatriates and illegal Haitians alike). The Turks and Caicos Islanders are being eradicated by the UK.
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