Letter from a slave to former master

Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I […]

More howling mad police violence

Can someone email me at khannea.suntzu@gmail.com with the names and badge numbers of these three cops? Home adresses? Let’s ruin their lives really badly. I’ll re-print all verifiable details right here. * http://bangordailynews.com/2011/10/31/news/nation/google-refuses-to-remove-police-brutality-videos/ * http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/01/25/reporters_without_borders_press_freedom_index_slams_us_for_occupy_wall_street_arrests.html * http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561251/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/police-agencies-admit-saving-body-scan-images/ * http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/28/travel/tsa-vipr-passenger-train-searches/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 * http://www.kfiam640.com/pages/NEWS.html?article=9653697 * http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nxu96/obama_signs_ndaa_with_signing_statement/ * http://wonkette.com/456282/surprise-homeland-security-coordinates-ows-crackdowns-nationwide * http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-03/police-occupy-LA/51606342/1 * http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/12/police-are-using-sound-weapons-designed.html * http://i.imgur.com/VI488.jpg * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA&feature=share * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLgmtZjEJo&feature=uploademail […]

Dearest Politicians

I understand you have a country to run, and I understand the Netherlands are succumbing to a global crisis, largely caused by systemic reasons not directly attributable to policies or wrongs enacted by anyone locally. We have now inherited a systemic crisis, largely because of the thoughtlessness, the corruption, the short-term mindset or sheer incompetence […]

687,000 U.S. High-Tech Jobs Lost in a Decade

A new study released by the National Science Board (NSB) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) raises concerns about the global leadership of the U.S. in Science and Technology investments. The report also highlights massive job losses in high-tech. According to the NSB, the U.S. lost about 687,000 jobs in high-tech since their peak of […]

WSJ: Man vs. Machine, a Jobless Recovery

(thanks James) U.S. Companies Are Spending to Upgrade Factories but Hiring Lags; Robots Pump Out Sunny Delight (link) Each month when the labor department figures are released in the US I also check this table for the Labor Force Participation figure. This month there is great news for the re-election of Obama that the jobless […]

I so hope

8 and then 50 Fire rises hot and bright from the Wood beneath the sacrificial caldron: The Superior Person positions himself correctly within the flow of Cosmic forces. Supreme Accomplishment. “Tip over the caldron and get rid of its stagnant contents once and for all.” If you have any comments please email me Check out […]

The Rise of the Praetorian Class

By Pete Kofod Much attention has been paid to the “disappearing middle class” and the “vanishing American Dream.” While the observations are largely accurate, they are also misleading. The traditional three-tier model of the upper, middle and lower class broadly categorizes people according to income and net worth. One significant problem with this model is […]

I Laugh at your SOPA

(Reprinted from Gwyn) PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. While discussing SOPA with Moon Adamant, after reading this nice article from the WordPress gang, we came to the following conclusion: are legislators so stupid as not to foresee that all this will backfire? Imagine that I’m ruthless […]

Apocalypse Soon!

Religious nutcases are always issuing dire warnings about the end of the world, but when a group of highly respected scientists does so, we should probably sit up and listen. On 10 January the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is an imaginary device which […]

Red versus Blue : Higher Ground Dominance

Date: January 10 (overlapping till wednesday in some timezones) Time: 2300-0000 CET, 2200-2300 GMT, 1400-1500 SLT (please always doublecheck!) (I am timezone dyslexic d’urrr) SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/delinquent/30/185/87, Please don’t fall down after teleporting in, it’s a long fall. Format: This is an RvB event. Make sure you understand the premises. This will be a non-voice event. […]

The Wanted A-List

Would it be possible to start an institute that starts an exhaustive listing of people that may have committed war crimes, not exempting American nationals, and working to identify US (or other) civilians, soldiers, officers, politicians, corporates, henchmen and mercenaries – and then (a) collect information on the crimes of the person, start a dossier […]