Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
But Will It Make You Happy?
August 14th, 2010In the “normal” world, in our “normal” careers, we would have an annual combined income of roughly US$100,000. What horror would the U.S. government commit with the portion of the taxes it would demand from us? We now live well on a tiny fraction of what we would make in our “normal” careers. We have […]
Erica Goldson: Coxsackie-Athens Valedictorian Speech 2010
August 2nd, 2010It’s definitely worth clicking through to read the whole thing. Via: America Via Erica: And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change. […]
New Zealand: Country Calendar: Growing Strong — Whangarei Growers Market
July 19th, 2010We were over at my mother and father in laws’ house on Saturday. They have a television, so we all watched Country Calendar. Country Calendar is usually very good, but it was particularly good this time. Most of the food purchased in New Zealand is sold through the retail networks of just two large corporations. […]
Arizona: Hundreds of Thousands of Speeding Tickets Ignored by Drivers; Not Enough Process Servers to Handle the Load; Dozens of Speed Cameras Coming Down
July 13th, 2010Technofascism Blog is going again after a short break. Via: AZ Family: Dozens of photo-enforcement cameras on freeways throughout the state are coming down this week. A total of 76 cameras will cease operation on Thursday. The photo-enforcement program, which was meant to catch speeders on Arizona’s freeways, has been controversial from the beginning. The […]
Comrade Simba on Fox-14
June 20th, 2010Video at the link. Via: Comrade Simba: Too bad it was only a three minute human interest story crammed in between sports and stock market crap but not bad for a brief overview. At least the dig at wal-mart got through which is the main point of what this whole homestead thing is all about. […]
Iceland Rewrites Law to Create Haven for Investigative Reporting
June 19th, 2010Via: Independent: Iceland has passed a sweeping reform of its media laws that supporters say will make the country an international haven for investigative journalism. The new package of legislation was passed unanimously at 4am yesterday in one of the final sessions of the Icelandic parliament, the Althingi, before its summer break. Created with the […]
No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission for Total Transparency
June 7th, 2010This is a very interesting piece about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Via: The New Yorker: He had come to understand the defining human struggle not as left versus right, or faith versus reason, but as individual versus institution. As a student of Kafka, Koestler, and Solzhenitsyn, he believed that truth, creativity, love, and compassion are […]
Backyard Gardens Become Income Generators in Lean Times
May 23rd, 2010Of course, the Dervaes family is the center of gravity for urban farming in Los Angeles. If you’re wondering about what’s possible along those lines, you won’t find a more astonishing and encouraging example than Path to Freedom-Urban Homestead. Via: Los Angeles Times: Locking up his station wagon, the one with the scratched paint and […]
Professor Tim Bell: Computer Science Unplugged
April 27th, 2010Tim Bell, a University of Canterbury Professor of Computer Science, developed a series of materials for teaching computer science concepts to children, “Through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.” He calls the curriculum Computer Science Unplugged. He spoke about Computer Science Unplugged on Radio New Zealand’s Nine […]
Time Magazine: “What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?”
March 16th, 2010I don’t agree with a lot of the woowoo in this article [cheap fuel cells powering off grid shanty towns?], but it’s still a good article and it describes a lot of things that Becky and I implemented in our own lives years ago. You’re probably sick of seeing this repeated on Cryptogon, over and […]
