December 2011
45 posts
My new favourite conspiracy theory
superdiscochino:
benkraal:
Is that the United States has secret colonies on Mars and that Obama went there, via teleportation, as part of a covert CIA program in the early 80s.
occupy NASA, ben. tell the truth to the whole human race.
This video is particularly wonderful with the added snow graphics.
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http://mountaingoatssingmountaingoats.tumblr.com/
is not very good. But the concept tickles me.
Fact-Check Fail[ure] Leads to Poor Analysis... →
pol102:
This story spread like wildfire across the internets in the last two days. The reason is simple: a documentary film about why McDonald’s didn’t succeed in Bolivia (which, btw, seems really interesting and worth watching) was just released. But someone must have failed to notice that the documentary points out that McDonald’s closed its Bolivia franchises in 2002—not “just recently”—and...
'Anonymous' hackers hit US security firm Stratfor →
I haven’t noticed any errant charges on my card, but if I do, I’ll be sure to double the charity donation.
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Lockerbie bomber protests innocence in 'last'... →
Imagine for a moment that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was not in anyway responsible for this bombing.
South Sudanese 'press-ganged' by rebels in... →
Not Surprising.
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Mexico disbands Veracruz-Boca del Rio police force →
Right, these guys are just going to sit on their hands and wait to be police officers again.
US Peace Corps cuts Honduras role amid security... →
No specific threats, just the world’s highest murder rate.
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McSweeney’s Opens Poetry Series →
Stoked about this.
Ethiopian court finds Swedes guilty of aiding... →
Bad news. Journalists: Remember, never ever hold someone else’s gun.
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Mercosur approves Palestinian free trade deal →
Interesting, it’s like Mercosur was invented to stir up shit with traditional powers. At the same summit they voted to stop recognizing Falkland flags of convenience. I’m sure that will make Argentina happy, and the UK will roll their eyes.
Mexico City closes vast trash dump →
to mine it for recyclables and fuel. Seems like a good idea, but I remain skeptical DF can execute.
Today is the anniversary of the invasion of Panama... →
We, 22 years later, have no idea how many people were killed in the invasion, figures ranging from 200-5000 are bandied about. 20,000+ were displaced.
Noriega was captured and held in American and French prisons. He’ll likely be set free from a Panamanian prison next year, so long as they don’t try him for the murders of Hugo Spadafora & Moises Giorldi. Even if they do,...
Forensic Examiner Found No Match of Cables on... →
reuters:
Kim Zetter at Wired - A day after a government forensic expert testified that he’d found thousands of diplomatic cables on the Army computer of suspected WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, he was forced to admit under cross-examination that none of the cables he compared to the ones WikiLeaks released matched.
You’re fucking kidding me.
“It was sung by David Hasselhoff at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.”
– The song Reunited (Of course it was).
“There is a business book called Never Eat Alone. It might be worth reading, but...”
– Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
“He’s better because he’s real, because he exists, because he wants more than...”
– I Told My Boyfriend I Was Born a Boy
“It means being concerned about the poor and the needy, and giving a fair shake...”
– What It Means to be A Liberal Person of Faith, in America.
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Was Gertrude Stein a Collaborator? →
War is complicated, so are people.
DR Congo's Tshisekedi insists he is... →
Course he might very well be. The whole elections were cluster fucked. This could get ugly(er).
Berenson cannot leave Peru →
Bullshit.
Venezuela honours Simon Bolivar with new coffin →
Yeah, that’s exactly what he would have wanted. You’re a fucking genius, Chavez.
Oil in Brazil →
Is there really anything quite so immoral as an oil company?
“It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to...”
– Moses Maimonides
“Solidarity, it seems, being the last refuge of the mugged.”
– Kevin Mattson
“Gray are the passing days. One by one the embers of hope have died out. Terror...”
– Berkman’s diary
Argentina to 'tighten' controls on newsprint... →
This is so convoluted. The government wants the only newsprint manufacturer in the country to make more newsprint. Ostensibly to drive down the price, or at least to create greater availability of newspaper. The objections from the two dominate news orgs ring hollow to me, but I feel like I must be missing something here.
Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts →
Say what you want about capital and christmas, this is fucking awesome.
Paris court sentences Carlos the Jackal to life in... →
As it should be.
I was talking to my father yesterday about this. To me it seems Carlos never had a chance, his father named him, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, after Lenin. Sent him to a Cuban guerrilla camp. And enrolled him in a soviet school know for it’s KGB connections.
Obviously Carlos is responsible for his actions, and is paying the costs. And worse, he, like many other former...
“The story of nationalism in the Balkans is that everyone remembers what was done...”
– Charles Simic
Peru’s president shakes up his Cabinet; singer... →
Clear anti-Calle-13 discrimination.
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Panama's jailed ex-ruler Noriega 'to return... →
Let the bastard come home.
2 journalist were facing trumped up terrorism... →
If you are a journalist, don’t touch weapons that are not yours.
Sonia Pierre is dead at 48 →
Heart Attack. Too soon, much too soon.
Chile Communists request poet Pablo Neruda's... →
Odd, I didn’t realize he had died of cancer, I had always assumed (read somewhere?) that he’d been murdered.
Socrates, Brazil's Philosopher King →
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The FBI Thinks I'm Pretty →
Alia Malek’s reading is attended by the FBI.
Paris cleans lipstick off Oscar Wilde grave →
Paris is run by savages.