May 2013
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Angelina Jolie writes about her preemptive double... →
This surprised the hell out of me. What surprises me more is that Jolie isn’t taking this opportunity to call for a war on cancer. I don’t know how anyone touched by this disease doesn’t, at some point, wonder why the government spends trillions on banks and fighting terror but only millions on fighting the disease that is kills so many more people than terrorists do. We all know someone with...
October 2012
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NYT: alternative currency creator facing up to 20... →
thepete:
From the NYT:Bernard von NotHaus, a professed monetary architect, will soon be sentenced for minting and distributing a form of private money called the Liberty Dollar. And a bit more:Described by some as “the Rosa Parks of the constitutional currency movement,” Mr. von NotHaus managed over the last decade to get more than 60 million real dollars’ worth of his precious metal-backed...
November 2011
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Website666 is done.
Sadly, real life is getting to be a pain in the ass and I’m finding myself forced to consolidate my efforts online even more than I already have. I’ll continue posting stuff like I have on Website666.com but I’ll be doing it on my lifeblog at http://thepete.com/life or on my Tumblr. So please follow me in either place or on Twitter.
This blog will stay up but I’ll...
OWS rant by someone else (and a challenge by me)
sirmitchell:
I’m having a really hard time understanding my country right now. I’m seeing an overwhelming amount of apathy, laced with immaturity, on a level that is unbearable.
Democrats, Republicans, and every other bastard in Washington (minus a few like Kucinich, Paul, Sanders) do not give a single shit for any one of us unless it makes them richer, or more powerful. For years they’ve...
A week of Wall Street layoffs
mlesblog:
theamericanbear:
As protesters find new ways to “Occupy Wall Street”, major financial firms have been busy handing out pink slips this week.
It’s the second week of what’s expected to be a brutal season for job cuts as big banks have already announced that there will roughly 75,000 fewer people working at their firms.
Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase commenced new rounds of...
“Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.”
– -Issac Asimov (via penny-royal)
It’s also the first option of the most desperate. :\
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
Sigh… this is some serious...
The right to assembly is being crushed; the... →
thereisnogod:
apoplecticskeptic:
syntheticpubes:
(and the pizza = vegetable thing passed.)
“I declare congress a vegetable.” Awesome.
Totally on point.
BRING IT! I’m sick of people pretending that we don’t live in a corporate police state simply because America doesn’t look like the novel “1984”. These American frogs clearly need the water they’re...
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“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and...”
– Orson Welles (via executions)
Wrong.
1) We’re not born alone. Our mother is there and at least one other person, like a doctor or a midwife. Sometimes even our dad is there.
2) We don’t live alone. Even if we never marry and never have roommates, most of us have neighbors and, beyond...
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Migrating Website666 to a new server
You’ll still be able to follow Website666 on Tumblr, but the main site will be at website666.com. Please pardon the site while I whip up the new layout and get the graphics to show up properly on the main site.
October 2011
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America leaves so many "normal" people behind,...
This is beyond wrong, but utterly unsurprising. Found via btx91:
“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The statistic is shocking, until it begins to make sense. Gender non-conformists face routine exclusion and violence. Transgendered people are disproportionately poor, homeless, and incarcerated. Many of the systems and facilities intended to help low-income...
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Just a reminder: The USG likes to trump up...
I spotted this tweet two weeks ago and opened it in a tab but then forgot to blog about it. Basically, it’s proof, once again, that the USG doesn’t like to bother with actual terrorists. Instead preferring to pretend people with intent but without means deserve to be arrested for wrongthinking and being stupid enough to trust an FBI plant who is pretending to be someone he isn’t....
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"...What we learned was that the Fed provided $16...
From a great WaPo op-ed by indy Senator Bernie Sanders (it’s on Sanders’ site, too):
Trust in government is at an all-time low. That’s not because Washington is too heavy-handed with Wall Street. Quite the contrary! The American people are angry and disillusioned because they see our government act boldly to protect Wall Street CEOs but not ordinary Americans. When Wall...
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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the... →
kateoplis:
An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. […]
The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York’s OWS movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of...
Nobody should be this wealthy. →
simplyopinions:
Tax them, now.
Holy shit—imagine making $131 million a year! That’s like winning PowerBall once a year.
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“Did God have a mother?” Children, when told that God made the heavens and the...”
– Michio Kaku (via cwnl)
Awesome to see scientists brave enough to speak openly about the absurdities of religion. In science everyone and everything has a “mother”. It’s called causality. If God created the universe, who created God? If my child asked me, I’d explain:...
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Hillary Clinton Over Joe Biden in 2012? Possible -... →
underpaidgenius:
Will Obama swap Bidon for Hillary Clinton? Interesting possibilities, and Woodward says it’s being discussed.
No, no, no way is Obama swapping Biden for Clinton. Back in 91, there was talk of HW Bush swapping out Dan Quayle for Dick Cheney. Ironically, Dick Cheney said he wasn’t interested in politics >_< The point is, there’s often talk of swapping out...
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Because That Would Be Monstrous
adamserwer:
From Gideon Rose’s How Wars End, on U.S. public opinion toward Japan in 1944:
In response to a December 1944 poll asking “what do you think we sould do with Japan as a country after the war?” 13 percent of Americans wanted to “kill all Japanese” and 33 percent wanted to destroy Japan as a political entity. The poll’s comparable question on Germany did not even include the first...
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Ha! We can't trust science after all!
From discoverynews:
That Faster Than Light Neutrino Theory Is ‘Almost Certainly Wrong’
Ian O’Neill:
OK, so it seems this grand announcement was premature, especially as the OPERA research had yet to be reviewed by peers in the field. It’s little wonder that a flood of publications contradicting the OPERA results hit the arXiv preprint server faster than the (alleged) neutrinos themselves!
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“Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts...”
– Carl Sagan (via ageofreason)
This is why, for now, I think the human race is doomed. We seem to be terminally distracted by petty, useless things while our world nears a point where it can no longer support our existence. Hell, so many people treat the economy like a living creature with a right...
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I can't wait for 10/10/11! Anonymous says it's...
Did this ever happen? I’ve been dealing with my ailing cat all day so I haven’t been on Twitter much.
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http://intheshadowofyggdrasil.tumblr.com/post/11185... →
This post is a reply to a reply from umbrellaface (check out the thread here):
So no. No atheists can say whether there is a god or not. Instead they can repeat the same stupid answers, and assume a person asking this question is religious. There may be proof of evolution, there is no proof of where we came from, who caused this big bang, why there is water and sun and sex and science. Where...
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"With fifty men we could subjugate them all and...
simplyopinions:
“They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned… They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features… They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance....
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USA.gov: Happy Columbus Day! thepete: Um, "Happy"?... →
falconieri:
usagov:
Every year, on the second Monday of October, the United States celebrates Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Americas. Columbus’ official siting of new land was October 12, 1492.
Columbus, a native of Italy, scoured Europe for royal sponsors of his expedition to find the New World. Finally, in…
@usagov, LIAR
“LIAR” indeed, Falconieri. Aren’t we all...
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Humanity: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
thestealthblogger:
“Forgive me if I don’t give a fuck about hippy protesting, I go the other route of busting my ass day & night to better my life.”
—
Adam Tilzer, lead musician of the Avon Junkies
Dude, seriously?
Pardon me if I couldn’t give a fuck for your cynical, simplistic, hipster bullshit, but you can go fuck yourself. I’ve never even heard of you or your band so...
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