Freedom, yeah!
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US Military Demonstrates Experimental Flying Platform (1955)
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It is likely you have heard about this project of building a new city from scratch to test new urban technologies, but no people will be living there. In fact, we first heard about it some months ago (I wrote some paragraphs linking this with my memories from Dead cities and other tales, by Mike Davis, in which he depicts the construction of a german town in Utah to test the destruction potential of city centres aerial bombing).
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Let´s better concentrate on other approaches such as living labs, user experience or any other that helps us to take citizens from the begining to conceptualise, test, improve and own technologies. Let´s better concentrate on trying to make technologies make sense in the everyday life in cities, taking first steps of research to the streets. I am sure it will be a more suitable and succesful strategy to conduct urban research and technology deployment.
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Back to the past
An Obama-appointed judge rules its indefinite detention provisions likely violate the 1st and 5th Amendments
A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last December. This afternoon’s ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by seven dissident plaintiffs — including Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir — alleging that the NDAA violates ”both their free speech and associational rights guaranteed by the First Amendment as well as due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
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Our Founding Fathers, when they signed the Constitution, they were saying, ‘We are in this together,’ but we have gone from a society that values community to a society that values wealth. And that’s been great for Wall Street, but it hasn’t been good for the rest of us. We’ve gone from pools of liberty and waters of justice to trickle-down economics.–
U.S. Senate Candidate Sean Hubbard (D-TX)
Why do we still care about the “Founding Fathers”? Yeah, our financial system is really screwed up but doesn’t anyone remember all of the horrible things the colonists did for the purposes of financial gain? I find it particularly laughable to praise the “Founding Fathers” (we don’t even know who they were specifically, by the way) for their sense of community while the colonists were also enslaving Africans and slaughtering American Indians at the time the Constitution was signed - all for economic purposes. Yuck.
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It was the central bank’s total control over Britain and its imminent reach for the rest of Europe that drove colonists to dissent. It was because of the financial system that they risked their lives and citizenship to attempt to create a new system, one of democracy not dominated by totalitarian rule and hushed by censorship. The founding fathers were not perfect, and indeed no one is, but they gave the europeans a second chance. Murdering and cheating the natives from the land is wrong, but I believe that the real problem started with the idea of private property. The natives gladly signed land deeds over to the colonists, but they were under the impression that the European culture needed documentation of land shared. The extent of private property to natives wasof objects crafted. When a man paints, he uses the color of the flowers as they ripen. When a woman creates a wooden toy for a child, it is the forest that has given to her.
The severity of communication lost in translation is seen in all sorts of idealogical differences. There were no words for rape, assassinations, theft or kings before colonists invaded. Indeed, why should we ever have those ideas at all?
The point is, that we, as descendants of those same Europeans, were given a second chance to escape the tyranny of kleptocracy, and we’ve blown it. The central bank invaded us, too, and has evolved into the world bank and is in the progress of compartmentalizing entire continents into European, African, American and East Asian unions, respectively, while we as Americans are busy choosing between elephants and asses.
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blue-melancholy asked: I understand that completely. But still. I'll be coming to the show and I'm only staying that night but then I will be back the night of the 30th and I'll be coming home the night of the 2nd. So I will be there 3 nights and three days
Why the flip-flopping?
Are you staying at D-3’s house?
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Majora’s Mask Clock Tower!
I took a nice picture of it today for your viewing pleasure. I made this 100% out of cardboard, paint, and styrafoam (for the heart, moon, and orange balloon)
The clock has a working time peice too, so that’s pretty cool.Enjoy!
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