Monatsarchive: Mai 2016

FBI bugging public light fixtures and bus stops

In the paranoid nightmare as reality department, KPIX is running this story saying FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.

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Meaning as a function of consequence?

The fact remains that meaning, and its perception, as seen from the logotherapeutic angle, is completely down to earth rather than afloat in the air or resident in an ivory tower….the perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically … Weiterlesen

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This is America!

Guardian: A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge after authorities say he grabbed a Muslim woman’s hijab on a Southwest Airlines flight in December and pulled it off. Federal authorities say 37-year-old Gill Parker Payne, … Weiterlesen

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Illiteracy in the 21st Century

From CounterPunch: Illiteracy is now a scourge and a political tool designed primarily to make war on language, meaning, thinking, and the capacity for critical thought. Chris Hedges is right in stating that “the emptiness of language is a gift … Weiterlesen

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Munich to Catalonia

According to Preston in The Spanish Civil War, Chamberlain’s failure to confront Hitler over Czechoslovakia in averting a general European war sealed the fate of the Spanish Republic. Prime Minister Negrín had at that point been pinning his hopes on … Weiterlesen

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Falange Encounters with Rousseau

Elsewhere, the prisoners underwent a rudimentary trial and were shot for crimes such as failing to go to mass, reading Rousseau and Kant, criticizing Hitler and Mussolini or admiring Roosevelt. —Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War, (New York: Norton, 2007), … Weiterlesen

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