zecg's Bookmarks About (quantum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/moew95.html - cached - mail it - history

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

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8404777388320594019 - cached - mail it - history

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

http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm - cached - mail it - history

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

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

http://memes.org/paranoid-shift - cached - mail it - history

"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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRrGfMc700 - cached - mail it - history

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/ - cached - mail it - history