laura-berger:

a quiet ride // © laura berger

f-ckyeah1990s:

Noam Chomsky talking about the internet in 1997

liberalsarecool:

Banksters to pay back pennies on the dollar on foreclosure abuses from 2009 and 2010.

Federal regulators announced an $8.5 billion settlement with 10 banks over foreclosure crimes. The deal includes $3.3 billion in direct payments to borrowers as well as $5.2 billion in other assistance, like loan modifications and forgiveness of deficiency judgments.
 
The crooked bastards involved are Aurora, Bank of America, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, MetLife Bank, PNC, Sovereign, SunTrust, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.

Modern life makes me sad. 

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you’d collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.” 
― Aldous Huxley, Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-consumerism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-corporate_activism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization

misspausunshine:

i need to follow all the people who actually reblogged this. I thought this place was an empty hole.

johnrosenburgh:

Reasons why we ought to question everything:

 ”As far as I can see, all he has to offer are brilliant redescriptions of the past, supplemented by helpful hints on how to avoid being trapped by old historiographical assumptions. ” Rorty Foucault and Epistemology, 1986, ^{[231] wikipedia}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#The_Archaeology_of_Knowledge

http://theinternationalcoalition.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/noam-chomsky-top-10-media-manipulation_08.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

johnrosenburgh:

Eric Hobsbawm died today. Historical sad face

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2012/oct/01/eric-hobsbawm-an-appreciation?fb=optOut

http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/r0512_02.htm

Humuniods are rubbish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prTarrgvkjo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#Philosophy_of_science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#Criticisms

Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry

johnrosenburgh:

Lo

I read Karl Marx and I liked it.

johnrosenburgh:

Nuff said.

johnrosenburgh:

and the elderly and the disabled, so well done douchbag.