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If I Had A Hammer

Windy City Rollers @ 7th Inning Stretch

with Drew B.

'Iran can also be wiped off the map' -May 8, 2006

May 8, 2006

Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday that "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map."

"Teheran is making a mockery of the international community's efforts to solve the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program," Peres told Reuters, adding that "Iran presents a danger to the entire world, not just to us."
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961301962&pagename=JPost/...

Obama Said to Request That Paterson Drop Campaign

President Obama has sent a request to Gov. David A. Paterson that he withdraw from the New York governor’s race, fearing that Mr. Paterson cannot recover from his dismal political standing, according to two senior administration officials and a New York Democratic operative with direct knowledge of the situation.

The decision to ask Mr. Paterson to step aside was proposed by political advisers to Mr. Obama, but approved by the president himself, one of the administration officials said.

“Is there concern about the situation in New York? Absolutely,” the second administration official said Saturday evening. “Has that concern been conveyed to the governor? Yes.”

The administration officials and the Democratic operative spoke on condition of anonymity because the discussions with the governor were intended to be confidential.
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Tis the Season to be Jelly

http://spiritwritings.com

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!

- Lord Byron

-Albert Einstein

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.

War After War, Sonic Youth

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BOUNDARY VIOLATIONS-HAKIM BEY

on memes of borders, frontiers and the discorporation of Capital

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The metaphor of nationalism springs to mind first of all -- boundaries are borders, violations are invasions. The individual is hypostatized not as a sovereign monarch (who might after all mingle and mate with other monarchs) but as a closed-off area surrounded by an abstract grid of map-lines, political separations, exclusions. A border-crossing here is a violation, not an act of trade, or love, or harmonial association. The border is not a skin which can be caressed, it is a barrier. In relation to the inviolate body, all "others" are simply potential wetbacks, illegal immigrants, terrorists traveling on forged documents.

http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/boundary.htm

Mesmeric Revelation By Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

http://www.petroleumiran.com

FCC to Take a Stand on Net Neutrality

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to announce a plan on Monday to formalize the idea of net neutrality. The move, which supports a campaign promise made by President Barack Obama, will prevent the information superhighway from becoming a toll road giving preferential treatment to those who pay for it.

The move would formalize rules the FCC has already been imposing on a case by case basis. Last Fall, under the previous administration and previous FCC chairman, Kevin Martin, the FCC ruled that Comcast could not throttle (or limit) bandwidth for peer-to-peer (P2P) networking traffic. Comcast is challenging that ruling, but formalizing the guidelines being imposed would help support the FCC decision.

The announcement is also predicted to expand the scope of the concept of net neutrality to include broadband wireless service. A formal net neutrality guideline preventing preferential treatment of certain content or services could be applied to situations like the Google Voice app rejection by Apple, which the FCC is already investigating.

The battle lines get a little foggy at times. The convergence of cable TV, Internet service, mobile communications, and entertainment can make it difficult sometimes to tell whether a given entity would be harmed by or benefit from the ability to accelerate bandwidth for certain applications while throttling bandwidth for others. One provider's preferential treatment is another provider's discrimination.

The complex web of incestuous relationships between the various content, device, and service providers isn't who the FCC is trying to protect though. The move to formally back net neutrality is aimed at protecting smaller businesses and average consumers.

Borrowing the ever-popular Information Superhighway analogy, allowing providers to discriminate between types of traffic and offer preferential access to their own content or traffic from customers who pay the most is the equivalent of privatizing the United States highway system.

Imagine if private companies owned the highways and had the ability to control which lanes you could drive in based on your ability to pay. Large corporate customers with enormous budgets would get to fly by in the left lane of the highway. Smaller businesses and individuals who can afford it would get to drive on the slower highway lanes-frequently slowed down by frustrating construction projects. Average consumers would not be allowed on the highway at all. They would be forced to drive on surface streets-plodding along at a snail's pace, constantly interrupted by stop signs and street lights.

The Internet, and all of the resources it has to offer, is too vital to allow access to be restricted in this way. While the battle lines are drawn along more frivolous lines like whether or not Comcast can impede traffic to BitTorrent, allowing any discrimination at all is a slippery slope that can evolve into much more negative consequences.

Tony Bradley is an information security and unified communications expert with more than a decade of enterprise IT experience. He tweets as @PCSecurityNews and provides tips, advice and reviews on information security and unified communications technologies on his site at tonybradley.com.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/bizfeed/172290/fcc_to_take_a...

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Rexroth - En Español

La poesía ha cambiado poco en el curso de los siglos,
los temas siguen siendo los mismos.
“Por amor de Dios, despójate de tus vestidos y
métete en la cama,
nuestra vida no es eterna”.
“Los pétalos caen de la rosa
nosotros caemos de la vida
los valores caen de la historia igual que los hombres bajo las bombas.
Sólo una mínima parte sobrevive,
sólo un logro desconocido
que puede grabarse sobre las lápidas,
en todos los campos de batalla:
“Pobre diablo, nunca se enteró de nada”.
Dentro de mil años,
vendrán hombres con gafas y con palas,
y darán conferencias en las universidades sobre el atraso
y sobre los avances culturales.
[…]
Este año hemos hecho cuatro grandes ascensos,
hemos acampado durante dos semanas en lo alto de la montaña,
hemos observado cómo Marte se aproximaba a la tierra,
y cómo se extendía la aurora tenebrosa de la guerra
sobre el cielo de una civilización decadente.
Estos son los últimos años terribles de la autoridad.
La enfermedad ha alcanzado un punto crítico.
Diez mil años de poder,
el combate entre dos leyes:
el reino del hierro y la sangre derramada, contra
la persistente solidaridad de la sangre y el cerebro
que aún están vivos.

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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:48:39 +0100
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Imperceptible Strategies, Unidentified Autonomous Organizations
:: A Drifting Seminar :: London, October 23rd, 2009 ::

Anarchist and autonomous politics are often associated, in a kneejerk way, with a celebration of chaos and disorder: a rejection of all forms of organization. The reduction of radical politics to a cheap joke (?anarchist organization, what?s that??) comes to substitute for an actual understanding of autonomous organizational practices. Far from rejecting organization all together, the history of autonomous politics contains a wealth of different modes of organizing, from the formation of temporary autonomous zones to affinity group models, maroon communities to networks and collectives.

These are forms of organizing that not always acknowledged as being organizations because they do not conform to what it is assumed organizations necessarily are: durable, static, and hierarchical. This understanding of organization obscures and makes difficult an actual engagement with the merits and weaknesses of different forms of organizing. But what would be found if rather than working from a fixed and unchanging concept of organization, one that excludes temporary forms of organization from consideration, it was attempted to tease out the organizational dynamics from all the temporary alliances and alliances that appear and disappear?

Might it be possible that we are already enmeshed in a world of unidentified autonomous organizations, a milieu of potential liberation that has remained imperceptible because of a narrow understanding of what organizations are? And might it not be that this imperceptibly, rather than being a condition to be addressed as a problem, could rather be part of building of what Robin D.G. Kelley calls an infrapolitical sphere: a space for politics coming out of people?s everyday experiences that do not express themselves as radical political organization at all.

The aim of this encounter is to explore the connections between anarchism, autonomism, and the revolutions of everyday life, drawing out conceptual tools useful to developing and deepening the politics of these infrapolitical spaces and organization. How can we strategize and build from the connections and movements of the undercommons, working from everyday encounters to compose new forms of social movement? How can we connect and work between spontaneous forms of resistance without forcing them into some larger form that ossifies them?

This event will not be based around formal presentations, but rather will rather take the form of a drifting seminar. Participants will be asked to read several pieces of text that will form the basis of discussion and exploration.

Registration for the event will be approximately 10 quid. There will be some limited travel funding available. If you wish to be considered for this funding indicate this when you register.

For registration and information contact: stevphen [NO SPAM] autonomedia [DOT] org / Sponsored by the Anarchist Studies Network & Minor Compositions

Sponsored by the Anarchist Studies Network (www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk) & Minor Compositions (www.minorcompositions.info).

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