The Fourth Amendment states, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things [...]
“As you’ll recall, almost every price on the planet ultimately relates to dollars. You can buy an orange here in Granada [Spain] for euros. But the global market in oranges is priced in dollars. So when people figure out how much something is worth – in global terms – they typically refer to dollars. And [...]
You want to read. This is beyond many people. You want to read something informative. I hear a ‘second’ in the room. You turn to the internet because you know that mainstream news doesn’t flow anywhere but to the sycophantic sewer where it belongs (but which hopefully will be treated or turned to compost, at [...]
I imagine there’s a book about blurbs, somewhere. I wonder who blurbed for it, and how recursively. Could one write a blurb about a blurb? Seriously, here is my favorite, on the Grove Press paperback edition of Henry Miller’s Black Spring. “Miller is subversive–quite possibly the most honorably, gloriously subversive author who ever lived….He is [...]
Of all film genres, documentary is my favorite. Perhaps this is in line with my preference in reading for nonfiction. I stopped being a vegetarian some time ago… Tonight we finished Waco: The rules of engagement. You may have to be a C-SPAN junkie to enjoy sitting through quite a bit of congressional testimony, but [...]
“A great many people knew that the attacks of September 11th were coming. Some of those people made a great deal of money from them. They knew exactly which stocks were going to plummet as a result of the attacks, and they knew that the attacks were going to succeed. Otherwise they would not have [...]
Fifty-thousand above zero. “Bush’s asserted power to detain as “enemy combatants” even those people who were detained outside of a traditional “battlefield” — rather than charge them with crimes — was one of the most controversial of the last eight years. Yet the Obama administration, when called upon to state their position, makes only the [...]
It gets more and more ‘Orwellian’ every day… “One of the newest additions to Australia’s ‘blacklisted hyperlinks’ list is Wikileaks; the website that publishes anonymous submissions of sensitive info on everything from corporations, religion and governments.” > here at Techradar or here at Wikileaks itself.
Browse library. Check out The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. At Stalin’s rise listen to Lew Rockwell podcast. Here Lew pitch the necessity of reading The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Smile at train.
[...]a poising, an uneasiness, all the others pressed in around, feeble ones, second sheep, all out of luck and time[...]