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Copy this Why We Fight
"WHY WE FIGHT, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war ..."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 video · google_video · documentary · history · war · america · fascism · military · corporatism · economy
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3405669348838274375&q=why+we+fight&total=36030&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&p... - cached - mail it - history
Copy this O'Reilly Radar > Supernova 2005: Attention
"With continuous partial attention we keep the top level item in focus and scan the periphery in case something more important emerges."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 continuous_partial_attention · psychology · anthropology · philosophy · cognition · collaboration · internet · lifestyle · market · media · mind · network · organization · productivity · social · social_software · web · technology · culture · future · for:mandrak · for:to_mi · for:ognjen · email · geek · history · interesting · article
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/supernova_2005_2.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Israel compensates for ringworm treatment -- Siegel-Itzkovich 310 (6976): 350 -- BMJ
"He was 16 and had come from Syria. "The nurse shaved our heads and poured hot wax on to remove all the hairs from their roots. Then we were sent for radiation. I myself never had ringworm,""
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · israel · radiation · america · crime
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/310/6976/350/a - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Ringworm Children: Zionist Genocide against Jews using Radiation
"In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba flew to America and returned with 7 x-ray machines, supplied ... all » to him by the American army."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 documentary · film · israel · history · radiation · to_watch
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7749694216572836816 - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The World of Tomorrow - New York Times
"People will want artists to return them to certain periods. They will suffer what I call hyper-nostalgia as they look back to a time when people talked robustly about ideas like democracy."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 prediction · predictions · new_york · history · future · 100_years_from_now · nytimes · science · art · economics · interesting · for:mandrak · nyc
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/nyregion/thecity/30year.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=thecity&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin - cached - mail it - history
Copy this israelinsider: Views: Ringworm and Radiation
"Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 children · holocaust · racism · radiation · israel · america · factcheck · documentary · film · history · ww2 · sephardi · genocide
http://web.israelinsider.com/views/3998.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Rollback the Lead-Free Initiative - HSDD Newsletter
"Environmentalists who favor restriction of lead in electronic circuits point out that the reactor didn't actually explode, and that we shouldn't have nuclear reactors, anyway. I don't find that response very satisfying."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 criticism · electronics · environment · eu · hardware · history · lead · politics · pollution · technology · solder · pcb · tin · rohs
http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/news/10_01.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Naughty Adolf on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"Der Fuehrer enjoyed simple pleasures like this game of "Blind Man's in Zer Buff" with some Rhinemadchens"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · photo · photograph · 写真 · hitler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutfield2/518142043/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this New Palestine Party; Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed - Wikisource
"Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut)..."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · document · israel · einstein · politics · media · nytimes · letter · wikipedia · wiki
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/New_Palestine_Party%3B_Visit_of_Menachen_Begin_and_Aims_of_Political_Movement_Discussed - cached - mail it - history
Copy this AFP: Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US
"This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution," which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 activism · article · colonialism · freedom · government · history · law · liberty · news · politics · USA · america · secession
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA - cached - mail it - history
Copy this "The President’s Coming-Out Party" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
"The NSC is chaired, of course, by George W. Bush, whose personal authority is invoked for each and every instance of torture authorized. And, according to Kiriakou as well as others, Bush’s answer is never “no.”"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 crime · history · justice · law · news · torture · america
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/12/hbc-90001917 - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Pure Torture, by Tom Moe; Notre Dame Magazine - University of Notre Dame
"I found I could intellectualize pain, which allowed me to take a quantum leap in my tolerance of it. Sometimes, though, the problem was staying in touch with reality enough to keep alive."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 torture · history · vietnam · waterboarding · politics · war · america · guantanamo
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Copy this J. T. Gatto interviewed by Lennart Mogren, Sweden, March 2003
"School didn't have to train kids in any direct sense to think they should consume nonstop, because it did something even better: it encouraged them not to think at all."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 gatto · video · school · schooling · education · children · parenting · interview · politics · history
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Copy this Against School, by John Taylor Gatto
"If children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would never truly grow up."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 activism · class · college · culture · education · essay · family · gatto · history · indoctrination · libertarian · life · opinion · parenting · philosophy · politics · psychology · public · reading · reference · school · schooling · social · society · sociology · learning · for:mandrak
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Copy this Charles Darwin: Religious belief
"I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 article · atheism · biography · christianity · darwin · essay · evolution · history · interesting · philosophy · quotes · religion · science · society · for:mandrak
http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/cd_relig.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Paranoid Shift | Memes.org
"In his book, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," William Blum warns of how the media will make anything that smacks of "conspiracy theory" an immediate "object of ridicule"."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · media · politics · fascism
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Copy this "Happy Counterterrorism Day" by Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
"A penny loaf to feed the Pope. / A farthing o’ cheese to choke him."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · government · harpers · history · politics · terrorism · torture · guyfawkes · fawkes
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001590 - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
"Prejudice employs negative stereotypes in images or verbally abusive terms to demean and degrade the objects of its narrow view of superiority over these allegedly inferior persons."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 psychology · zimbardo · fascism · prejudice · lucifer_effect · nazism · history · anti-semitism
http://www.lucifereffect.org/links_dehuman.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Iron law of oligarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Iron law of oligarchy states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic or autocratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop into oligarchies."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 oligarchy · politics · history · wikipedia · sociology · society · psychology · organizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Money As Debt
"Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it ... is being created."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 animation · bank · banks · currency · debt · documentary · economy · education · film · history
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279 - cached - mail it - history
Copy this "The oil we eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq" by Richard Manning (Harper's Magazine)
"This is the end result of a factory-farm system that appears as a living, continental-scale monument to Rube Goldberg, a black-mass remake of the loaves-and-fishes miracle."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 agriculture · anthropology · article · earth · economics · economy · energy · environment · farming · food · future · history · iraq · nutrition · oil · politics · war · sustainability · ecology
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915 - cached - mail it - history
Copy this You and the Atomic Bomb by George Orwell, October 19, 1945
"It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 orwell · history · atomic · bomb · essay · ww2 · war · politics · society
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/0000/1945_orwell_you-and-the-bomb.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Damn Interesting » The Revenge of the Fighting Quaker
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · democracy · fascism · politics · MacGuire · Butler
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=883? - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
The trouble started on July 30 1942 when the New York Herald-Tribune ran an article entitled "Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank".
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · fascism · bush · history · germany · guardian · nazi · hitler · nazism · propaganda · business · politics · war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Untitled
"The World Values Surveys were designed to provide a comprehensive measurement of all major areas of human concern [...] two dimensions dominate the picture: (1) Traditional/ Secular-rational and (2) Survival/Self-expression values."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 anthropology · graph · culture · statistics · psychology · religion · history · politics · sociology
http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_54 - cached - mail it - history
Copy this When the CIA financed European Intellectuals [Voltaire]
"Since 1947, the American administrations implemented an interventionist policy backed up by the secret services and the CIA in particular, aimed at preventing the development of Communist Parties in Europe"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · war · cold_war · CIA · Kongress · Kulturelle · Freiheit
http://www.voltairenet.org/article136478.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Did the Soviets really build a "doomsday machine"? - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine
"A quartz nuclear-war mountain! Something phantasmal about it, like a satanic big rock candy mountain. But the quartz mountain melts in comparison with the Perimetr dead-hand system at Kosvinsky."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · war · cold_war · america · russia · nuclear · politics · strangelove
http://www.slate.com/id/2173108/pagenum/all/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
"This is the triumphant culmination of two centuries of flawed white-people thinking, a preposterous mix of authoritarian socialism and laissez-faire profit­eering, with all the worst aspects of both ideologies rolled up into one pointless, supremely idi
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · fascism · corporatism · iraq · war · corruption · profiteering · history · halliburton · privatisation · rollingstone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle/print - cached - mail it - history
Copy this How Americans Lost Their Right To Own Gold
"In reality, those theoreticians dislike monetary stability, because they dislike the fact that by means of money the individual may escape the arbitrariness of the government..."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 money · currency · gold · economy · economics · politics · history · roosevelt · banks · banking
http://users.rcn.com/mgfree/Economics/goldHistory.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Idi i smotri (1985)
A war movie directed by Elem Klimov.
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 movie · film · imdb · war · ww2 · russia · germany · history · art
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein
"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 einstein · socialism · essays · capitalism · culture · economics · economy · education · history · ideas · society · sociology
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Einstein.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this eXile - Issue #266 - War Nerd - Om Der Man! - By Gary Brecher
"That's the happy tale I'm telling today: the battle of Omdurman near Khartoum, Sudan in 1885, when it was Faith vs. Maxim Guns, spears vs. long-range artillery."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 war · history · brecher · africa · britain · humour · exile · colonialism · islam · sudan
http://www.exile.ru/2007-June-29/war_nerd.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Aquarians and the Evangelicals (Reason Magazine 2007)
'“In the wildest hipster, making a mystique of bop, drugs, and the night life, there is no desire to shatter the ‘square’ society in which he lives, only to elude it,” wrote the Beat author John Clellon Holmes.'
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 capitalism · christianity · culture · history · libertarian · philosophy · politics · religion · Haight-Ashbury
http://www.reason.com/news/show/120265.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Perspective 24 March 2005 - Tom Harpur
"Ignorance and blind faith were championed; frauds were passed for sacred truths; dissent of any kind was labeled heresy and within a very short time all of Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 christianity · religion · history
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/perspective/stories/s1331087.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this From Myth to Man: a review of Tom Harpur’s The Pagan Christ | Seven Oaks Magazine.
"The translation of texts such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Pyramid Texts, the Amduat, and the Book of Thoth, provide “irrefutable proof that not one single doctrine, rite, tenet, or usage in Christianity was in reality a fresh contribution"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 harpur · christianity · religion · history
http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/commentary/72_comm3.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur
"The big difference between the Jesus legacy and other mythological traditions like that of the Egyptian god Horus, was that devotees of the other religions never viewed their divinities as historical figures"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 religion · christianity · christ · paganism · history · harpur
http://www.tomharpur.com/books/books_thepaganchrist.asp - cached - mail it - history
Copy this "Pravda" means both "truth" and "justice"
"Every time the word "pravda" comes to my mind, I am exhilarated by its stunning beauty. Such a word is not, apparently, to be found in any [other?] European language. Apparently, it is only in Russian that "truth" and "justice" are called by the same wor
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 pravda · russian · language · linguistics · history · russia · interesting
http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/pravda-istina-e.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Zeitgeist - The Movie, 2007
"They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." -Gerald Massey
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 film · movie · religion · politics · history · documentary · war
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Official Release - Full Film.avi - The Pirate Bay
"ZEITGEIST, The Movie details the history of the current geo-political structure starting with a history of Christianity, and developing through the formation of current governments and their eventual goals."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · christianity · film · movie · politics · war
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3727127/ZEITGEIST__The_Movie_-_Official_Release_-_Full_Film.avi - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan | Journal of World History, vol. 6, no. 1 (1995)
"Stable traditional civilizations were built to resist change. This entailed either resisting new technology or channeling the effects of new technology into socially acceptable patterns."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · 歴史 · japan · 日本 · europe · technology · tradition · culture
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:BEna4-QSeH8J:www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh061p075.pdf - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Internet Archive: Details: Fifteen years among the top-knots; or, Life in Korea
Title Fifteen years among the top-knots; or, Life in Korea / Creator Underwood, Lillias H. (Lillias Horton), b. 1851 / Publisher Boston, New York [etc.] : American tract society
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 photography · history · photographs · book · korea · free_book
http://www.archive.org/details/fifteenyearsamon00undeiala - cached - mail it - history
Copy this 平安京図
A diagram of the Japanese capital in the Heian jidai.
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 日本 · 歴史 · history · japan · kyoto
http://www.kyoto-arc.or.jp/kyouzu.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
Some texts by Lafcadio Hearn. ("Lafcadio Hearn is almost as Japanese as haiku. Both are an art form, an institution in Japan.")
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 hearn · japan · 日本 · history
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/lh/hearn.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this YouTube - Generalissimo Stalin visits Berlin
"Part of the Stalin Film genre, The Fall of Berlin is regarded as the ultimate glorification of the Soviet dictator on celluloid, pretty much deifying him as a benevolent peacemaker who likes to tend to his little garden..."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 stalin · history · berlin · germany · war · video · youtube · chiaureli · propaganda · russia · soviet · ww2
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Copy this JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 anthropology · earth · education · reference · society · visualization · maps · mapping · history · SCIENCE · mankind · evolution · interesting · genetics · biology
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Samurai Archives Japanese History Page
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 日本 · 歴史 · japan · history · japanese · resource · study · samurai
http://www.samurai-archives.com/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Sack of Washington: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
"Comparisons of America and Rome are everywhere these days [...] A more disturbing—and largely ignored—similarity lies in the wholesale privatization of the U.S. government, which has blurred the line between public good and personal gain."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · america · rome · murphy · book · excerpt · vanity_fair · politics
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/06/murphy200706?printable=true¤tPage=all - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Mahatma Gandhi Album: Gandhi on Jews & Middle-East
"And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they are going about it the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not geographical tract. It is in their hearts."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · essay · gandhi · israel · palestine · politics · war
http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/mideast.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Does God Play Dice? - Professor Stephen Hawking
"Many scientists are like Einstein, in that they have a deep emotional attachment to determinism. Unlike Einstein, they have accepted the reduction in our ability to predict, that quantum theory brought about."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 lecture · hawking · quantum_physics · interesting · determinism · history · einstein · black_holes
http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice2.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library: Home Page
"The Trust’s main tasks are to edit and publish the best of Berlin’s unpublished writing, including his letters; to publish collections of his best uncollected work; to post other material, and relevant information, on this website..."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 isaiah · berlin · writings · book · books · archive · biography · history · ideas · liberty · philosophy · reference · isaiah_berlin
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Copy this YouTube - Ayn Rand - Mike Wallace Interview 1959 Part 3
part 3
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 ayn · rand · society · politics · history · america · interview · youtube
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Copy this YouTube - Ayn Rand - Mike Wallace Interview 1959 part 2
An interview with Ayn Rand from 1959. (part 2)
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 ayn · rand · society · politics · history · america · interview · youtube
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Copy this YouTube - Ayn Rand - Mike Wallace Interview 1959 part 1
An interview with Ayn Rand from 1959.
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 ayn · rand · society · politics · history · america · interview · youtube
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Copy this Joe Bageant: The Ghosts of Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson
"The movie I want to open with tonight. It's a horse being slaughtered by acid freaks in the throes of a nervous breakdown -- a hideous, horrible disgusting thing. Got to get it. Listen to this!"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 hst · leary · bageant · thompson · history · society · culture · counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant05162007.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Observer | Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
"Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 letter · bin_laden · history · iraq · america · war · politics
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4552895-110490,00.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Charlie's Diary: Shaping the future
"Meet your descendants. They don't know what it's like to be involuntarily lost, don't understand what we mean by the word "privacy", and will have access (sooner or later) to a historical representation of our species that defies understanding."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 future · futurism · culture · history · information · reading · science · sciencefiction · technology · sociology · society · singularity
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_the_future.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this How three million Germans died after VE Day | Books | Arts | Telegraph
"Given that what amounted to a lesser Holocaust was unfolding under their noses, it may be asked why the western Allies did not stop this venting of long-dammed-up rage on the (mainly) innocent."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 germany · war · ww2 · history · genocide
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/04/15/bomac14.xml - cached - mail it - history
Copy this An Alternative Theory of Unions
"In other words, those workers were not paid what their work was worth. Circumstances being what they were, companies would have been stupid to insist on paying them so little."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 unions · history · economics · economy · business · bubble · opinion · blog · labor · work
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Copy this They Thought They Were Free
"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with rea
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · fascism · nazism · racism · germany · essay
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free_nn4.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this ISRAEL's Deliberate ATTACK on the USS Liberty (1967) --BBC Report
As the Liberty sat within eyeshot of El Arish, eavesdropping on surrounding communications, Israeli soldiers turned the town into a slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners.
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 egypt · israel · history · war · politics
http://www.icomment.org/index.php/main/video/show?id=3892303&s=100&xn_auth=no - cached - mail it - history
Copy this "Islam is not much more than a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of plagiarisms." - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
"Some heartless Christian critics have suggested that he was an epileptic (though they fail to notice the same symptoms in the seizure experienced by Paul on the road to Damascus)"
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · religion · essay · atheism · culture · islam · christianity
http://www.slate.com/id/2165033?readit=reddit - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker
"The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon, visible at the scale of millennia, centuries, decades, and years. It applies over several orders of magnitude of violence, from genocide to war to rioting to homicide to the treatment of children and anima
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 anthropology · violence · civilisation · history · war · psychology · trends · sociology · pinker
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Copy this The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV - CommonDreams.org
"By 1967, King had also become the country’s most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 mlk · king · history · media · war · politics · class · economy · america · fascism
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/04/304/ - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Why the Pentagon doesn't want you to know its bombers finally work. - By Gregg Easterbrook - Slate Magazine
"A bomb called the JDAM was developed that locates itself in three-dimensional space using GPS signals, and continuously corrects its position via satellite guidance as it falls."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 war · technology · army · military · history · politics · america · bombers · strategy
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Copy this Hatred of America unites the world | St Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph
"Even more perplexingly, Islamists are more supportive of democracy than Muslim moderates. The richer these people get, the more they favour radical Islamism."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · fascism · empire · history · politics · war · telegraph
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Copy this FT.com / Home UK / UK - Youth and war, a deadly duo
"In Mr Heinsohn's view, when 15 to 29-year-olds make up more than 30 per cent of the population, violence tends to happen; when large percentages are under 15, violence is often imminent."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 demographics · politics · society · history · war · sociology · violence · population · interesting · books · for:ognjen
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Copy this Echolalias
"From the infant's prattle to the legacy of Babel, from the holy tongues of Judaism and Islam to the concept of the dead language and the political significance of exiled and endangered languages today, Echolalias traces an elegant, erudite, and original
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 philosophy · linguistics · psychology · history · mythology · books
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Copy this Jefferson Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 bible · history · society
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Copy this Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk
"At the time, the Iranians claimed that this terrible cocktail had been given to Saddam by the US. Washington denied this. But the Iranians were right. [...] Donald Rumsfeld was one of President Ronald Reagan's point-men at this period."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · iraq · iran · history · frisk · war
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Copy this Darley and Batson: Good Samaritan Study (from 1973.)
"Ironically, a person in a hurry is less likely to help people, even if he is going to speak on the parable of the Good Samaritan. (Some literally stepped over the victim on their way to the next building!)."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · psychology · experiment · abstract · social_psychology · situation · disposition · religion
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Copy this SPACEWAR - by Stewart Brand - Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums.
"When computers become available to everybody, the hackers take over. We are all Computer Bums, all more empowered as individuals and as co-operators."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history_of_computing · history · article · computers · culture · games
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Copy this Larry Walters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"He was immediately arrested by waiting members of the LAPD; when asked why he had done it by a reporter, Walters replied "a man can't just sit around"."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · geek · flight · balloon
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Copy this eXile - Issue #253 - War Nerd - Why I Hate WW II - By Gary Brecher
"Stalin he won because his brand of fascism was actually way more ruthless and bloody and effective than Hitler's smalltime snobbery, and because Stalin had the whole US industrial machine backing him."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 geek · funny · ww2 · war · history · opinion · interesting · fascism · brecher
http://www.exile.ru/2006-December-15/war_nerd.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this New Meanings for "Inherited" Customs? (by Hannes Kremer)
"If we view matters correctly, we have no reason to reject giving new meaning to inherited customs as long as we see a variety of political possibilities in, for example, the popular custom of the Christmas tree."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 nazism · history · propaganda · archive · christmas · christianity
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Copy this Unmentionable lessons of the midterm aftermath. - By Diane McWhorter - Slate Magazine
"The taboo is itself a precept of the propaganda state."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · fascism · history · democracy · liberty · media · politics · war · bush
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Copy this nthposition online magazine: The last cargo cult
"A new dispensation was on the way, when the white man would vanish from the islands, and his cargo - Western goods - would be diverted by magical means to the local people, who were its rightful owners."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 cargo · cults · anthropology · history · melanesia
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Copy this Goebbels on Radio (1933)
"In this speech given on 18 August 1933, Goebbels develops his thinking on the directions German radio would take. The occasion was the opening of a radio exhibition."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · nazi · goebbels · radio · propaganda · speech
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Copy this The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades
"Recently, however, research has established strong evidence supporting the theory that the distinct surface patterns on these blades result from a carbide-banding phenomenon produced by the microsegregation of minor amounts..."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · technology · wootz · sword · swords · metallurgy · steel · interesting · 面白い · damascus
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Copy this Looking Good - washingtonpost.com
"When the scientists screened out rural women, whose economic status and harder lives could skew their hormone levels, the difference in average hormone levels between symmetrical and asymmetrical urban women rose to 28 percent."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 beauty · culture · history · phi · research · psychology · article · media · gender
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Copy this The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
"Hunter-gatherers practiced the most successful and logest-lasting life style in human history. In contrast, we’re still struggling with the mess into which agriculture has tumbled us, and it’s unclear whether we can solve it."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 anthropology · article · diamond · agriculture · essay · history
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Copy this US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag
The themes of American presidents' speeches, through history
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 america · politics · tagcloud · history · interactive · interesting · 面白い · speech
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Copy this WPJ Fall 2004 - Political Islam: Image and Reality by Mohammed Ayoob
"The most important of these structural factors, his analysis suggests, were the rise of mass politics, the failure of fascism’s political competitors, and the power of nationalism."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 fascism · politics · history · middle_east · germany
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Copy this Stuck in the Canal - New York Times
"France decided that the United States would not protect France’s interests, and immediately, under Guy Mollet, began to build the atomic bomb — the result of American policy."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · nytimes · nyt · imperialism · america · britain · france · suez · eisenhower · dulles · nasser
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/28/opinion/28fromkin.html?ei=5090&en=9897b465e7b599c8&ex=1319688000&partner=rssuserland&e... - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Enabling Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"It is indicative of the care that Hitler took to give his dictatorship an appearance of legality that the Enabling Act was formally extended twice by the Reichstag (by then a puppet of Hitler) beyond its original 1937 expiration date."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 history · germany · fascism · politics
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Copy this Hummus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"His experiments with hummus purportedly resulted in the creation of the Sultan's Forty Spice variety, which spawned many imitations and has been a Middle Eastern favorite for centuries."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 food · ideas · hummus · history · gastronomy
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Copy this Category:Prokudin-Gorskii images - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"These photographs were taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii on glass plates. His images depict the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 russia · photographs · photography · photos · history · 写真
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Copy this The complete work of Charles Darwin online
"This site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts."
by zecg 2008-02-06 18:34 darwin · books · biology · zoology · evolution · education · free · history · reference · research · resource · science · for:mandrak · literature
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Copy this "The Unix-Haters Handbook" Download Page
"Thompson had written an assembler, file system, and minimal kernel for the PDP-7 All to play Space Travel. Thus Unix was brewed."
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 Unix · anecdote · history · humour
http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Lycaeum > Leda > Provoked Life: An Essay On The Anthropology Of The Ego by Gottfried Benn
"A society, whose hygiene and race cultivation as a modern ritual is founded solely on hollow biological statistics, can only represent the external viewpoint of the mass; for this point of view it can wage war, incessantly..."
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 philosophy · history · psychology
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Copy this Spacewar!
The first version of "Spacewar!" was developed for the PDP-1 at MIT in 1960. The first CRT display was a converted oscilloscope used to play SpaceWar.
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 games · history
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Copy this Gwynne Dyer's 2005 Year Ender
"The most remarkable result of the Bush administration's obsession with remaking the Middle East has been Washington's astonishing failure to pay attention to Latin America..."
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 politics · economics · history · war · iraq
http://www.gwynnedyer.net/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%202005%20Year-Ender.txt - cached - mail it - history
Copy this New Musical Experiences
"So the volume of songs has increased, both in terms of music accessible to the average consumer and in terms of what their devices can hold - but currently it appears that important aspects of the music experience itself may be diminishing."
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 music · digital · sharing · P2P · MP3 · history
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Copy this Archinect : News : Paris in Nine Minutes
"Using a Ferrari 275 GTB early one August morning in 1976, Lelouch attached a camera to the bumper of the car and sped through the streets of Paris."
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 film · history · paris · france
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Copy this Late Asuka and Nara Politics
"Late Asuka and Nara period: the Taika and Taihö reforms"
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 japan · history · 日本 · 歴史 · notes
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Copy this Taika Reform
The Reform Edict of Taika, 646 A.D.
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 japan · history · 日本 · 歴史
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id101.htm - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Japan Reference - Culture - Japanese History : Nara Period 奈良時代
Nara period, Dokyo incident and Fujiwara family
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 japan · history · 日本 · 歴史
http://www.jref.com/culture/nara_period_era.shtml - cached - mail it - history
Copy this Japan Reference - Culture - Japanese History : Heian Period　平安時代
Heian jidai - very well written
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 japan · history · 日本 · 歴史
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Copy this Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing - Google Video
"This 1972 documentary entitled "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing" covers the early years of ARPAnet, the precursor of the Internet, through interviews with the heroes of the internetworking revolution." - 30 minutes, Google Video
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 video · documentary · ARPAnet · Internet · history · web
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Copy this http://digitize.textfiles.com/
"Here, presented in the best possible way, are the attempts to sell ideas and dreams to the populace."
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 advertising · geek · history · 面白い · archive
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Copy this Evolutionary Timeline
Evolutionary Timeline: from first life-forms to homo sapiens
by zecg 2006-10-20 04:24 evolution · nature · history · reference · interesting · visualization
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