Monday, July 20, 2009
Israeli soldiers wound 9 pacifists
In Hebron, nine foreign pacifist demonstrators were beaten by Israeli soldiers. Also, five Israeli citizens were arrested. They were protesting the illegal wall around Gaza. Full story here.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Themes for Revolution
This is a short list of books, movies and music that have inspired me in the past to question the world around me and challenge the status quo. Enjoy.
Books
1984, by George Orwell
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Waste Land, by T.S. Elliot
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzche
Movies
Fight Club, with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt
The Matrix, with Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishbourne
Fahrenheit 9-11, by Michael Moore
V for Vendetta, with Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving
Children of Men, with Clive Owen and Julianne Moore
Music
Rage Against The Machine:
System of A Down
The Nightwatchman (aka Tom Morello)
Flobots
Bob Dylan
Everlast
Public Enemy
Books
1984, by George Orwell
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Waste Land, by T.S. Elliot
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzche
Movies
Fight Club, with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt
The Matrix, with Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishbourne
Fahrenheit 9-11, by Michael Moore
V for Vendetta, with Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving
Children of Men, with Clive Owen and Julianne Moore
Music
Rage Against The Machine:
System of A Down
The Nightwatchman (aka Tom Morello)
Flobots
Bob Dylan
Everlast
Public Enemy
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Sinking the Pirate Bay
My favorite quote from this article:
"If you could make as much bread, or have as many fishes, as you needed to feed everyone, at the cost of the first loaf and the first fish plus a button press, what would be the morality for charging more for loaves and fishes than the poorest person could afford to pay?"
"If you could make as much bread, or have as many fishes, as you needed to feed everyone, at the cost of the first loaf and the first fish plus a button press, what would be the morality for charging more for loaves and fishes than the poorest person could afford to pay?"
Interview and video
Video of the Spirit of Humanity's hijacking by the Israeli navy, and an interview with former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney who was one of the passengers. Video's at the bottom of the page, by the way...
"We are unarmed civilians..."
"We are unarmed civilians..."
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Bin Laden and the CIA, by Kurt Nimmo
"How can you call George Bush a mass murderer?" a recent email asked. "In order for him to be classified as a mass murderer, he would have to kill all those people you say he's killed with his own hands."
Let us begin by using the logic of government, in particular the government of California when it prosecuted Charles Manson over thirty years ago. Manson did not personally murder Sharon Tate, et al, he ordered his crazed minions to do it. In fact, when the murders occurred, Manson wasn't even at the scene. Yet he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death (a sentence that was never carried out after California repealed in the death penalty in the early 70s).
If we use the above criteria, Bush is a mass murderer.
Let us begin by using the logic of government, in particular the government of California when it prosecuted Charles Manson over thirty years ago. Manson did not personally murder Sharon Tate, et al, he ordered his crazed minions to do it. In fact, when the murders occurred, Manson wasn't even at the scene. Yet he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death (a sentence that was never carried out after California repealed in the death penalty in the early 70s).
If we use the above criteria, Bush is a mass murderer.
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