December 2011
15 posts
“If you want to know what the United States would look like after this bill is...”
– America’s Future: Russia and China Use Copyright Laws to Crush Government Criticism (via azspot)
Can the U.S. Government close social media... →
“The powers with which the U.S. Government has vested itself would be disturbing and odious no matter the magnitude of the highlighted threat. But the fact that they’re now reduced to bottom-of-the-barrel screeching about Twitter Terrorism — while simultaneously claiming the “legal authority” to force the closing of social media accounts — reveals just how wide is the gap between the...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
– The late Christopher Hitchens
Late Night Snack: RIP Christopher Hitchens
(via think4yourself)
Obama to approve indefinite detention and torture... →
rtamerica:
Less than a month after he threatened to veto terrifying legislation that would cease constitutional rights as we know it, Obama has revoked his warning and plans to authorize a bill allowing indefinite detention and torture of Americans.
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“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they...”
– George Orwell (via citizensanonymous)
A member of Congress has called on the U.S.... →
newsweek:
Today in Headlines We Never Thought We Would Actually See
The Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global... →
cultureofresistance:
A peer-reviewed paper is set to appear in the Journal of Business ethics which proposes the theory that psychopaths on Wall Street have had a critical role in the global financial crisis.
Psychopathy is defined as the inability to empathize with the feelings of others. A theoretical paper, to be published in the Journal of Business ethics, will analyze the global financial...
