Thursday, October 24, 2013

timeline: 1958

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1958

jun 17: jello biafra (born)
oct 9: al jourgenson (born)

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/chronology/CE/1000/900/50/08.html
so, i can't make it across the river until i get that stupid card. and, because the stupid card is going to cost twice as much as i thought, i have to wait until after the first. i therefore can't write show reviews...

i can point out what i'm missing, though.

this is tonight in detroit. i would have enjoyed this, too.



stupid borders.

one day, we'll tear their system down and set their flags on fire.

patience.

timeline: 1993

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1993

mar 19: jeff ward (died)

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/chronology/CE/1000/900/90/03.html

timeline: 1962

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1962

nov 18: jeff ward (born)

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/chronology/CE/1000/900/60/02.html

timeline: 1888

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1888

unclear date:
columbia records (founded)

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/chronology/CE/1000/800/80/08.html

timeline: 1994

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1994

mar 22: 54-40 - smilin' buddha cabaret

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/chronology/CE/1000/900/90/04.html

timeline: 1976

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1976

july 18: aidan girt (born)

timeline: 1981

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1981

unclear date:
54-40 (founded)

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/chronology/CE/1000/900/80/01.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10900
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/21/stephen_harper_has_partisan_reasons_for_challenge_to_sovereignty_bill_hbert.html

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/21/this_is_not_how_a_protection_racket_is_supposed_to_work
https://phys.org/news/2013-10-chaos-on-a-chip.html
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/10/semantics-throne-speech-what-was-harper-really-saying
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/yasser-arafat-traces-polonium-210
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/21/araf-o21.html
http://chomsky.info/articles/20131001.htm
"More than 50 percent of Americans wrongly attributed the quote “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” to either George Washington, Thomas Paine, or President Barack Obama"

i could see jefferson. *maybe*. at least they didn't pick madison...

http://americanrevolutioncenter.org/sites/default/files/attachment/ARCv27_web.pdf
the above article is actually critical. thank god...

i think the bakunin quote is most instructive. i see no reason for an 'anti-psychiatry'. i'd rather just interact with psychiatry.

the error the author is making is actually fundamentally liberal. he's concerned with the rights of the mentally ill to accept or refuse treatment, and is willing to throw out the entirety of science for the sake of his liberal ideology.

might i make the suggestion that the following statement is not an assumption but a testable hypothesis:
all human beings are created equal.

liberalism is rooted in inherent rationality. if this assumption collapses, traditional forms of anarchism on both the left and right become unworkable and utopian.

the topic here is the precise class of people where that assumption collapses. anarchist society or not, anarchist ideas are not applicable.

so, rather than this 'anti-psychiatry' nonsense - which reduces to rejecting the science because it contradicts the ideological assumptions, which is sort of the definition of anti-intellectualism - there needs to be an evolution of thought within anarchism.

the antidote is neither obscure nor unknown: to each according to her needs.

http://libcom.org/blog/thomas-szasz-antipsychiatry-neoliberalism-22102013
there's a lot of reasons that hillary would have been better than obama. health care. queer issues. kids. women. unions. obama's been decidedly right of centre on issue after issue. hillary would not have been.

however, if your issue is war, she might be even worse. she's spent the last four years proving that, to a number of people she needed to prove it to.

i expect her to run, and i expect her to lose because she's too left-wing. just like in 2008.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/meet-the-new-hillary/280758/

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Re: out of ideas for the shower

From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>To: the initial landlord

i can commit to being there.

j

RE: out of ideas for the shower

From: the initial landlord
To: "'Jessica Murray'" <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>

Jessica, sorry..... I had to work this week and I intended to send you an e-mail but one thing came after another. I will set the repair for Saturday morning providing that you will be there and nothing else complicates the timing.
that crispy basement air, how i missed you.

it's been far too long.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/23/no-way-out-2/
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/apihtawikosisan/2013/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about-elsipogtog

the cost involved to house these people is an argument against currency, not an argument against keeping them alive.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/at-last-the-supreme-court-turns-to-mental-disability-and-the-death-penalty/280736/

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/23/exclusive_kerry_and_top_state_officials_split_over_syria_talks
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/audio-mcdonalds-tell-its-employees-to-sign-up-for-food-stamps/280812/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/23/dron-o23.html
http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/beyond-fast-food-strikes/
i haven't been following this very closely. i don't really care. part of the reason i don't care is that it's been obvious from the start that we're dealing with a show trial.

yes. the government is canada is carrying out show trials against a handful of it's appointed senators.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/22/senate_scandal_duffy_brazeau_may_appear_at_suspension_debate.html
so, fp thinks they're pouting. seems a little spoiled. not likely.

fp propaganda articles are often best understood by holding them up to the mirror. could the saudis be concerned about being exposed? might they not want their views on so many things so scrutinized? might there have been pressure from other gulf states to not act unilaterally?

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/why-did-saudi-arabia-refuse-to-join-the-un-security-council/280774/
this is actually my assessment, not their assessment. there's a rant back in there somewhere about the turks shifting south as a result of being rejected from the eu, and not wanting to join the slavic russian union as just another second class stan.

i think they put some of the recent events together re:egypt fairly well. there's some guesswork. will have to be for now. i don't think obama is serious about iran, i think it's a negotiating tactic. and i don't think american funds have stopped making their way to armed rebels in syria, as they have been for years.

i'd just want to add that the imperial strategy, here, is divide and conquer. if the americans are obstructing, it's precisely because the turks are asserting influence. the mafia principle still holds. turkey might not like what happens. but that might be why they just bought those weapons, hmmm?

http://fpif.org/turkey-middle-east-realignment/
again: why isn't it more widely understood that ethnic claims that a god provided a land for them are INSANE?

the first settlers in the area were neanderthals.