The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official. The revelation of this extraordinary plot, which would probably have provoked an uprising by [...]
Read more →Gandhi remains today the only complete critique of advanced industrial society. Others have criticized its totalitarianism but not its productive apparatus. He is not against science and technology, but he places priority on the right to work and opposes mechanization to the extent that it usurps this right. Large-scale machinery, he holds, concentrates wealth in [...]
Read more →You can’t trust anybody these days. At the root of the systems of oppression we labor under is the concept of the Nation State, and the idea that the Nation State has some kind of automatic right to enforce its will on the population unlucky enough to be born within its borders. It is a [...]
Read more →This is the official flag of the Planetary Design Science Revelation. PDSR is the internal name for the process that produces the hexayurt project and the various other things I’m working on. The work is Buckminster Fuller and Gandhi. The attitude is pure Jack Sparrow. The politics are being defined. Game on. [if anybody wants [...]
Read more →Sea of flags on the hill, with massive cable runs all over the place. Mostly various kinds of radio and computer guys, working to make systems internationally interoperable. Testing testing. Nearly everybody is either in camo (various nations, you get to know the pattern by eye) or the “working contractor” uniform (a particularly functional, I-work-18-hours-a-day [...]
Read more →Applying the palettes of the old masters to your own digital photographs, using photoshop. So simple, so elegant, so devious. Works, too.
Read more →Tip of the hat to the barking mad Maoist International Movement who’s use of youtube is brilliant beyond all reason. Only 45,000,000 served by Mao, mind you. But the videos… god, this guy is good.
Read more →60% of developed world cancer is from too little vitamin D? Let this be true.
Read more →WAPO A case in point is Ahmed Belbacha, 37, an Algerian who worked as a hotel waiter in Britain but has been locked up at Guantanamo for five years. The Pentagon has alleged that Belbacha met al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden twice and received weapons training in Afghanistan. His attorneys dispute the charges and say [...]
Read more →Reason on gender inequality in pay. June O’Neill, an economist at Baruch College and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, has uncovered something that debunks the discrimination thesis. Take out the effects of marriage and child-rearing, and the difference between the genders suddenly vanishes. “For men and women who never marry and never have [...]
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