October 2011
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Prince Charles has been offered a veto over 12... →
Ministers have been forced to seek permission from Prince Charles to pass at least a dozen government bills, according to a Guardian investigation into a secretive constitutional loophole that gives him the right to veto legislation that might impact his private interests.
Since 2005, ministers from six departments have sought the Prince of Wales’ consent to draft bills on everything from...
“Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that...”
– Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones | UK news | The Guardian (via iamdanw)
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Occupy first. Demands come later | Slavoj Žižek |... →
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Class Rules Everything Around Me / WOT, NO... →
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OWS: Fighting the politics of illusion →
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“Those who hold power like simple, clear demands. Demands give them an...”
– Dan Hind (via jhnbrssndn)
Hippy nonsense of the week.
If we all just mill about being nice to each other, then capitalism is bound to pack up and go home…
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Thing is, I don’t see anybody ready to start lobbing Molotov cocktails just yet. Of course, things may be...
“Those who hold power like simple, clear demands. Demands give them an...”
– Dan Hind
“I Demand to Know What You’re Demanding!” Some... →
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Andrew Sullivan: How I Learned to Love the... →
kateoplis:
“You can ignore much of this if the economy is generating enough jobs and sufficient dynamism to distract attention. That’s why Dancing With the Stars exists. But after the deepest recession since the 1930s, the patience runs out. That, it seems to me, is the core of what has been happening. The global public, more aware than ever of what is going on in the world, and more able than...
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Why Corporate Elites Should Be Petrified of Occupy... →
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The Cramps “Love Me”...
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The Cramps “Human Fly”...
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The Cramps “Voodoo Idol”...
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...
Word of the Day: Gymnophoria
mabelmoments:
The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you
You can look. But you can’t touch, OK?
Former Vice President Dan Quayle Eats a Plantain →
rigidmorality:
Dan Quayle visits Venezuela, says some shit he doesn’t mean to a reporter and then takes a bite out of a plantain. After having partially chewed this bit of palntain, Quayle says, in a flaccid way that only Quayle could, “Muy Bien!”
I don't want this country to become England.
Because “England” isn’t a fucking country, the United Kingdom is.
Oh wait, it already is.
Siri: Steve Jobs pisses his pants from beyond the...
I’m sure there’s been a ton of posts about this already, but really? Siri the ‘intelligent assistant’? If I had an assistant like this (and I have), I would have fired him/her* by now (and I have).
Siri is not an intelligent assistant. Not even an assistant. I’ll tell you what Siri is. Siri is your co-worker’s precocious, diverting-for-about-twenty-minutes,...
