Articles by iconoclast_555

I don’t have the info, but spying on AP reminds me of 1970. Any thoughts?

http://news.yahoo.com/harvard-professor-apologizes-keynes-comments-183558611.html

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/rise_of_the_conservative_revolutionaries/?source=newsletter

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Examples:

Article 22.
• Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

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Article 23.
• (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
• (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
• (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
• (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

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Article 24.
• Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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Article 25.
• (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
• (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

http://www.soundings.org.uk/

A priori, I’ve always found the gun debate somewhat puerile. For the sake of a comma, what was originally a duty somehow became a “right” with little sense.

Jefferson’s comments on the need for continual revolution has a seed of truth, especially given recent events. However, as a justification of “gun rights” it’s a load of horse shit.

With a paranoid nation, completely devoid of contacts with the (rest of?) the civilized world, in the grip of fear because of a 19 year-old, the utter gutlessness of uhmericans comes to mind once again.

If we are to have arms to protects us from a tyrannical government, why the fuck are we so afraid of a 19 year-old who probably bought his arms, and purportedly manufactured his bombs, legally? What sort of alternative reality is going on over there?

More people were killed the other day in Texas – where a highly explosive factory was allowed to be built and to function within 100 yards of a small town. A 2.1 (Richter) earthquake was produced by the conglagaration – and neither the conservative press nor the GP have much to say about it.

I’m sad to say that as a nation , the U S of A has a serious problem with priorities and values. I’m driven to repudiate such a disfunctional society.

Sue me.

It appears that 2 arseholes blew up some bombs in Boston.

For shame. A terrible tragedy, but one that has been seen in hundreds of other cities around the world.

Never, though, have I seen a city shut down as a result of terror. It is said that 6000 law enforcement officers are on the hunt of a 19 year-old. schools are closed, public transport as well. What a mess.

I remember the Madrid train bombings, where 191 were killed and 1800 wounded. If there was any “change” in day-to-day life, it was the repulsion of the population. But there was no “close-down”, the metro continued to run.

What happened to the “home of the free and land of the ‘BRAVE’?

2 barely adult criminals are capable of disrpting the society of a megalopolis? What message does this send to other possible terrorists?

What message does this send to those who might study the concept of assymetrical warfare? For a pittance you can make your enemy spend billions.

And a nation that supposedly prides itself on the concept of freedom is the quickest to overlook freedom for the sake of “safety”.

Storm Thorgerson died.

Any Pink Floyd or Led Zep fan will know…