January 2010
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On 22 January, the United States secured "formal... →
John Pilger, The Kidnapping of Haiti, for The New Statesman, January 28, 2010.
“There’s no doubt,” reported [Matt] Frei [BBC reporter] in the aftermath of America’s bloody invasion of Iraq in 2003, “that the desire to bring good, to bring American values to the rest of the world, and especially now to the Middle East … is now increasingly tied up with military...
WatchBerlin Fashion Week, January 20-23 2010. Vladimir Karaleev Presentation. Video by Fette. Music by [Post-Foetus], Wives.
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The xx, VCR (Matthew Dear Remix). Via...
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There is no chance that the Turbine Hall will fall... →
Jan Otakar Fischer, A Berlin Landmark Keeps on Keeping On, NYT, January 18, 2010.
About the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft founded by Emil Rathenau in 1887. More: Wiki, Angelic propaganda.
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WatchMichel de Broin, La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel, 2009, Mirror ball, 1000 mirrors, 7.5 meters in diameter.
The largest mirror ball ever made was suspended from a construction crane 50 meters above the ground to render the starry sky to the citizens of Paris for one night in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event. Via.
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Female-owned small businesses, now just 16% of... →
Mark D. Wolf, Women-Owned Businesses: America’s New Job Creation Engine, Forbes, January 12, 2010. Via Ms. Bekman. How à propos!
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L.A. is 80 miles wide. It doesn't need big... →
Quote from Carolina A. Miranda, aka C-Monster in Alissa Walker, Dear Jeffrey Deitch: Free Ideas for Your New Museum, Fast Company, January 12, 2010.
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In a segment that will be telecast on Tuesday’s... →
Brian Stelter, Guantánamo Reunion, by way of BBC, NYT, January 10, 2010. Via.
Brian Neely, an Army veteran who spent six months at the prison in 2002 met with two former detainees, Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed, to apologize for his role in the imprisonment. (Both men have pursued legal action against former Defense Secretary Ronald H. Rumsfeld.)
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Sweeney said he would have voted in favor of the... →
Adrienne Lu and Jonathan Tamari, Same-sex marriage rejected in New Jersey, January 8, 2009.
Why even bother? See also: Portugal authorizes same-sex marriage.
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WatchEmily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Our Hell, 2009. Directed by Jaron Albertin. Via dariuscaine.
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Dr. Irwin Goldstein says that when you read about... →
Elizabeth Cohen, New Year’s resolution: Have more sex, CNN, January 7, 2010.
Really? And this one is also quite the gem:
“Evolution is not politically correct,” [Stuart] Brody [professor of psychology at the University of the West of Scotland] says. “Evolution strongly rewards behaviors that increase the likelihood of successful gene propagation, and only one behavior...
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And this is what bothers me about so many of these... →
Terry Gilliam in interview with Nick Gazin for Vice Magazine. Highly recommended read.
I mean this: “When I left America I was so angry about what was going on in the late 60s that I wanted to start throwing bombs. I was just like, “There are a lot of shits out there and they all should die.” So I actually left America because I thought I would probably make a better cartoonist than a bomb...
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Cabinet ministers expressed shock at the defiant... →
Charles Bremner, France’s elite colleges rise up in revolt against Nicolas Sarkozy, Times Online, January 6, 2010. Via.
That good old positive segregation. It’s coming at ya.
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Fuck off, Twitter and Facebook. Hey, who needs the... →
The Rude Pundit, Our Destruction Seeds Sown: A Final “Fuck Off” to This Awful Decade (Part 1), December 28, 2009. Via.
And starting the new year with a loud fuck off is the proper way to go.