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WOLVES: THE ALPHA CONCEPT IS A MYTH

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:14:49 -0400

By wolveswolves.tumblr.com

The term ‘alpha’ with regard to wolves exists for a long time. But where does it come from?

At the end of the ’60, David Mech wrote his book ‘The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species’. He based this book on one of the most important…

"This government has failed us…The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:13:34 -0400

““This government has failed us…The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us.””

- Malcolm X (via kwamezulushabazz)

"“They’re college educated. They’re well-spoken. The daughter herself argued before the United States..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:11:35 -0400

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“They’re college educated. They’re well-spoken. The daughter herself argued before the United States Supreme Court,” Sherman says. “They’re not what I expected.”

Eleven of Fred Phelps’ 13 children have law degrees. Four are estranged from the family, and most of the rest live in the family compound and practice law.

“They have a very well-respected law firm in Topeka,” Sherman says. “People in town said, ‘Well, we don’t like them, but if we want to win a case, we’ll go to them.’ “
[…]
The protests are in themselves a source of some income, according to Potok. Over the years the Phelpses have filed lawsuits against communities that try to stop them from demonstrating.

“And as a general matter they have won,” he says. “They know their First Amendment rights very well, and they’ve been very good at defending them.”

When they win, they often receive tens of thousands of dollars in court fees. And their winning streak is likely to continue, now that the Supreme Court has decided that Westboro’s right to free speech trumps the right of families to bury their loved ones undisturbed.

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- NPR: A Peek Inside the Westboro Baptist Church (via memejacker)

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Fri, 24 May 2013 06:09:35 -0400

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opexxx:

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thebestworstidea: softgore: “This piece was primarily a trust...

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:07:15 -0400

thebestworstidea:

softgore:

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important

So every single person who told me ‘ignore them they’ll go away’ and ‘you can’t let them know they bothered you’ and ‘They’ll stop if they don’t see you react’ and all that bull shit, my entire school career, I want you to look good and hard at this.

I want you to think about what you said.

What you keep saying.

What you are telling your children.

You are making them powerless.

we-are-star-stuff: stfuconservatives: pilosopogyno: This man,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:05:34 -0400

we-are-star-stuff:

stfuconservatives:

pilosopogyno:

This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.

On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”

He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.

Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.

To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.

This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.

This is what sick people in America are resorting to. But BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, right guys?

I live in a third world country and we have free healthcare

but yeah, USA is the greatest country in the world

Entrevista exclusiva a una AnonyMiss - Mujeres activistas de Anonymous

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:02:04 -0400

Entrevista exclusiva a una AnonyMiss - Mujeres activistas de Anonymous

Anonymous: We are legion.: On being critical of bigots, and their racist friends

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:55:12 -0400

Anonymous: We are legion.: On being critical of bigots, and their racist friends:

anonyops:

Hate mongers, bigots, homophobes, transphobes, racists — this goes out to you: Y U no liek people different from you? Seriously, chill the fuck out.

This week, I tweeted about the arrest of known hater, Aaron Walker. Walker runs an “everyone draw Mohammed” blog, an Islamophobic…

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Thu, 23 May 2013 12:43:00 -0400

FBI Spent 44 Months Probing Leak To TSG #OpGitmo

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:37:23 -0400

FBI Spent 44 Months Probing Leak To TSG #OpGitmo:

MAY 17—In response to The Smoking Gun’s publication of a classified CIA terrorism report, the Department of Justice launched a lengthy leak investigation that included subpoenaed telephone records, interviews with dozens of government officials, polygraph and computer examinations, and “a fair amount of time trying to dig up information about the site itself,” according to FBI records.

The federal probe is detailed—albeit in a significantly redacted fashion—in 682 pages of FBI records released last month. More than 350 other pages related to the criminal probe were withheld in their entirety by bureau officials who processed a Freedom of Information Act request filed by a TSG reporter.

The FBI investigation, run by Washington, D.C.-based counterintelligence agents, sought to determine who provided TSG with a 12-page CIA report detailing the organizing activities of al-Qaeda members imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay (and the U.S. government’s inability to effectively combat these efforts).

The classified document, which can be found here, includes sensitive material from several U.S. intelligence organizations and their foreign counterparts.

The federal probe—code-named “Stubborn Ways”—was launched shortly after TSG’s July 2006 publication of the CIA report.

[…]

FBI Spent 44 Months Probing Leak To TSG | The Smoking Gun

Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:03:57 -0400

Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?:

FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as “the most gagged person in the history of the United States” by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations?

A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied the allegations yet gone to extraordinary lengths to silence her. Her critics have derided her as a fabulist and fabricator. But now comes word that some of her most serious allegations were confirmed by a major European newspaper only to be squashed at the request of the U.S. government.

[…]

Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked? - UK Indymedia

Palestinian refugees are not at your service

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:01:41 -0400

Palestinian refugees are not at your service:

[…]

The refugee dilemma

After two more questions, a weary Um Muhammad began fidgeting in her seat shaking her legs nervously; she answered with a defeated tone while grabbing her handbag, positioning herself to get up and leave. But the rookie eyes of the Harvard students didn’t notice her signals of departure. I asked Um Muhammad to get going and she asked me if there is “anything at all that these girls can do to help my son.” I apologized and told her not to waste her time with them.

This has been the Palestinian refugees’ dilemma since 1948: watching groups of people from across the globe stroll through the misery of their camps and and then leave. Making their personal plight and stories available to writers and advocates is for them a way to induce change and action and to advance their moral cause around the world.

But humanity is the key here. To tell stories and conduct research, one would do well to remember that refugees deserve our sensitivity when dealing with their hardships. It’s been 65 years and Palestinians in the camps are still clutching onto whatever crumbs of hope or aid they can. But ultimately they are left awaiting the day they can return to the place where their dignity and humanity can be restored: Palestine.

[…]

Palestinian refugees are not at your service | The Electronic Intifada

Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor | SISA IS DESTROYING THE LIVES OF ATHENS’S HOMELESS PEOPLE

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:25:52 -0400

Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor | SISA IS DESTROYING THE LIVES OF ATHENS’S HOMELESS PEOPLE:

thestolencaryatid:

The day we arrived in Athens, we approached a man as we walked through Exarcheia, a district that’s traditionally been home to anarchists and is now known for its high concentration of addicts. The man was glaring at the sky, shouting. I thought he was screaming at God, but it turned out he was just yelling about a broken traffic light. Cars swept past, their drivers giving him no opportunity to beg at their windows. He was inconsolable, flitting between rage and tears, but after I bought him an orange juice, he chilled out, said his name was Konstantinos and told me all about sisa.

“The cocaine of the poor! It’s the cocaine of the poor!” he shouted. He said that people he knew who smoked too much were losing limbs. “If you smoke it for six months, you’ll be dead,” he said. He claimed that he wasn’t a user, but the next day I bumped into him again and he beckoned for me to follow, squatted behind a car and smoked a pipe full of sisa. It was the middle of the afternoon.

[…] I asked him why he thought local police officers were behind the distribution of the potentially fatal narcotic. “Some of [the users] came to us and said that the police told them to go to Exarcheia. They said, ‘We cannot do it anywhere else, they send us away from all the other territories, all the other squares. They said go to Exarcheia.’”

“So you believe it’s political?” I asked.

“Yeah, this whole social movement is starting to rise up, and they want to have an excuse to come in as a savior for the residents… They’ve done it before, like two decades ago with heroin.”

I’m usually suspicious of Vice but this is really important. Please click through the link and watch the corresponding video(s) (part 1, part 2), they aren’t too long.

Anonymous: We are legion.: We are imprisoning the wrong men for all the wrong reasons.

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:43 -0400

Anonymous: We are legion.: We are imprisoning the wrong men for all the wrong reasons.:

otpglobal:

anonyops:

Releasing the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will require US Government officials to do something it is not used to doing, and something it does not like to do — admit it was wrong. It is wrong to hold these men for more than a decade, wrong to torture them, and wrong to deny their release.

This is why I believe more than 80 prisoners at Guantanamo, who have not been charged with any crimes, who have not had a trial, and who have been cleared for release are still there, wasting away in solitary cells.

If the US Government does not act to release these prisoners, they will be forced with the reality that they are losing public confidence. It is up to each of us to tell government officials that they are wrong in continuing this inhumane injustice.

Please read the following letter by SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL.

Here’s an excerpt:

ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago.

I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity.

I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.

I could have been home years ago — no one seriously thinks I am a threat — but still I am here. Years ago the military said I was a “guard” for Osama bin Laden, but this was nonsense, like something out of the American movies I used to watch. They don’t even seem to believe it anymore. But they don’t seem to care how long I sit here, either.

When I was at home in Yemen, in 2000, a childhood friend told me that in Afghanistan I could do better than the $50 a month I earned in a factory, and support my family. I’d never really traveled, and knew nothing about Afghanistan, but I gave it a try.

I was wrong to trust him. There was no work. I wanted to leave, but had no money to fly home. After the American invasion in 2001, I fled to Pakistan like everyone else. The Pakistanis arrested me when I asked to see someone from the Yemeni Embassy. I was then sent to Kandahar, and put on the first plane to Gitmo.

Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0

Samir has been cleared for release. He’s being painfully force-fed by tubes being jammed into his nose, into his stomach. He’s being stripped of all dignity, all due process, and any shred of humanity.

We are doing this. If we don’t speak up, the deaths of these men, who have not been charged with any crimes, will be on our hands.

We are imprisoning the wrong men for all the wrong reasons. anonyops.org/post/506621896… … #GTMO17 by @anonyops

— Gabriella Coleman (@BiellaColeman)

May 17, 2013

Report: Canada could see indigenous uprising

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:20 -0400

Report: Canada could see indigenous uprising

FORTY HELPFUL TIPS FOR ANTI-COMMUNISTS (A modern classic)

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:45:30 -0400

FORTY HELPFUL TIPS FOR ANTI-COMMUNISTS (A modern classic):

determinatenegation:

by J. Slavyanski

1. Constantly insist that Marxism is discredited, outdated, and totally dead and buried. Then proceed to build a lucrative career on beating that supposedly ‘dead’ horse for the rest of your working life.

2. Remember, any unnatural death that occurs under a ‘Communist’…

emergentfutures: Homeland Security seizes funds at main Bitcoin...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:47:32 -0400

emergentfutures:

Homeland Security seizes funds at main Bitcoin exchange

The US Government has taken its most serious action yet against the popular cyber-currency Bitcoin by shutting down transfers between payment provider Dwolla and a Japanese exchange where the currency is traded.

Full Story: GigaOm

we setup an anonymous pastebin, and anonymous messaging service

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:25 -0400

wearehidden:

We just setup two new services, one being an anonymous pastebin using Zerobin where data is sent encrypted with 256 bit AES encryption and completely anonymous, we can’t even know who pasted what :).

Paste.schoolofprivacy.eu

as well as an anonymous temporary messaging service using readthenburn which stores a message until it is read then deletes it, and data is sent encrypted and stored encrypted until it is deleted after being read.

Message.schoolofprivacy.eu

Hope you guys like it :)

BYOS: Data at Risk from endpoint to cloud and back again - Dark Reading

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:44:10 -0400

BYOS: Data at Risk from endpoint to cloud and back again - Dark Reading

terrasigillata: breakingnews: Greek member of parliament...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:42:45 -0400

terrasigillata:

breakingnews:

Greek member of parliament shouts ‘heil Hitler’ during session

Washington Post: A Greek member of parliament from the far-right party Golden Dawn is heard shouting ’Heil Hitler’ during an argument with members of the a far-left party, according to reports.

Here’s what’s thought to have happened: [Panayiotis] Iliopoulos, who had recently assaulted some immigrant vendors at an Athens port, got into an argument with members of Greece’s far-left Syriza party, whom he called “goats” and “filthy, scurrilous” people.

The parliament’s acting speaker, also a member of Syriza, asked Iliopoulos to leave. “Go away before we send you away,” he said, according to the Greek Reporter. As a scrum of Golden Dawn lawmakers filed out of the room, shouting angrily on the way out, “Heil Hitler” is audible at three different moments.

Reuters reports that Golden Dawn denies a neo-Nazi label though its emblem resembles the Swastika and there are published photographs of its supporters giving Nazi-style salutes.

More unsurprising news out of the Chrysi Avyi crowd.