Posts Tagged ‘one world government’
Thursday Forever
* Thursday at C21: Christopher Newfield, “The Humanities in the Post-Capitalist University.” Then, this weekend, elsewhere at UWM: After Capitalism.
* I have a short piece on “WALL-E and Utopia,” pulled from the Green Planets intro, up today for In Media Res’s Pixar week. I also owe SF Signal a post that should go up … eventually that’s also in conversation with the Green Planets stuff (though not cribbed quite so directly).
* The humanities and citation.
* White House petition: abolish the capitalist mode of production.
* More acutely, when you consider the math that McKibben, the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) all lay out, you must confront the fact that the climate justice movement is demanding that an existing set of political and economic interests be forced to say goodbye to trillions of dollars of wealth. It is impossible to point to any precedent other than abolition. Great piece from Chris Hayes.
* College towns and income inequality.
* But, clearly, if we can afford such a massive increase in professional staff, as well as such an increase in executives whose salaries have been escalating very dramatically, the sharp decrease in the percentage of all instructional faculty who are tenured or on tenure tracks is a matter of a dramatic shift in priorities—in the conception of the university.
* Gasp! At Elite Colleges, Legacy Status May Count More Than Was Previously Thought.
* On the disinvestment/reinvestment cycle. Returns to university endowments 1980-2010. The Soul of Student Debt. Against anonymous student evaluation.
* Vice interviews Matt Taibbi on his new book The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap.
* Understanding Wonder Woman, at LARoB.
* When Spider-Man fought misleading sex education.
* Could Mystery Science Theater return?
* How the Super-Rich Really Make Their Money.
* Companies used to borrow in the markets as a last resort finance investment in their business. Now it’s a front for shareholder giveaways.
* Capitalism and Nazism: Now It Can Be Told.
* The school, called Explore + Discover, will be available to children between the ages of 3 months and 2 years. Tuition is $2,791/month for kids who attend five days a week. You can also pay $1,990 for three days a week or $1,399 for two days but don’t you love your child?
* For men, having children is a career advantage. For women, it’s a career killer. University managers believe women themselves are primarily responsible for the gender imbalance in higher education, according to research published today.
* There’s Even A Gender Gap In Children’s Allowances.
* “Faculty ignored requests from women and minorities at a higher rate than requests from White males, particularly in higher-paying disciplines and private institutions.” Reviewers will find more spelling errors in your writing if they think you’re black.
* David Foster Wallace Estate Comes Out Against the Jason Segel Biopic. Meanwhile, this insane Lifehacker piece suggests we bracket the whole “suicide” bummer and take David Foster Wallace as our lifecoach.
* Atheist lawsuit claims ‘under God’ in NJ school’s daily pledge recital harms children. I guess I’m just another survivor.
* Wired goes inside Captain Marvel fandom.
* Woman writes about something traditionally regarded as a male-orientated industry or area of interest; if she’s conveying love, she’s doing it “for attention” (so what?) or “fake” (whatever that means); if she criticizes, she’s insulting, whining, moaning, on her period; if she says anything at all, her argument or point is made invisible because her damn biology is getting in the way.
* What That Game of Thrones Scene Says About Rape Culture. George R.R. Martin doesn’t want to talk about it.
* Aaron Sorkin Wants To Apologize To Everyone About The Newsroom.
* Does world government have a future?
* Texas Prisons Are Hot Enough to Kill You.
* #MyNYPD.
* The great Colbert rebranding begins.
* Netflix and Mitch Hurwitz Joining Forces Again.
* Nichelle Nichols Talks with Janelle Monae.
* Game of the night: solar system simulator Super Planet Crash.
* Joss Whedon’s New Film Isn’t in Theaters, But You Can Watch It Online for $5.
* Forrest Gump, as directed by Wes Anderson.
* “The only thing preventing a catastrophe from a ‘city-killer’ sized asteroid is blind luck.”
* Horrific, tragic story out of Rutgers.
* Risk of New York City coastal flooding has surged by factor of 20, says study.
* The latest on the big animal personhood case in New York. Dolphins as alien intelligence.
* That Time Cleveland Released 1.5 Million Balloons and Chaos Ensued.
* CIA torture architect breaks silence to defend ‘enhanced interrogation.’ Facial recognition and the end of freedom. The end of net neutrality and the end of the Internet. Late capitalist subjectivity and the sharing economy.
* Bullied Kids at Risk for Mental Health Problems 40 Years Later.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 24, 2014 at 7:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Sunday Night Links
* The New World Order One World Government wants to ban golf! Wake up, sheeple!
* From Aaron’s latest Sunday Reading:The Intellectual Situation of n+1. For U.S. universities, a failing grade in economics. The Irish Begin to Wake Up to the Fact That They are Repaying Money That is Then Burned. The Hand That Feeds. Historicizing the Conservative Think Tank. A short history of the vibrator. The Inside Story of How John Carter Was Doomed by Its First Trailer.
* Longform.org flashes back to another This American Life truth panic.
* Roland Barthes’ last doctoral student describes the writing of his dissertation. Via MeFi.
* Scientists think they’ve figured out what’s causing Colony Collapse Disorder (again). Surprise! It’s pesticides. Also via.
* Crooks & Liars has some advice for Lakoff-style reframing.
1. Never say Entitlements. Instead, say Earned Benefits.
2. Never say Redistribution of Wealth. Instead, say Fair Wages For Work.
3. Never say Employer Paid Health Insurance. Instead, say Employee Earned Health Insurance.
4. Never say Government Spending. Instead, say The People Are Investing.
5. Never say Corporate America. Instead, say Unelected Corporate Government.
* And here comes the Romney shadow cabinet. It’s even worse than you think!
Written by gerrycanavan
March 18, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with Barbara Ehrenreich, bees, black helicopters, colony collapse disorder, conservators, David Sedaris, debt, dissertations, Don't Think of an Elephant, economics, framing, general election 2012, George Lakoff, golf, inflation, insects, Ireland, John Carter, leave me the birds and the bees, Mitt Romney, n+1, New World Order, one world government, pedagogy, pesticides, philanthropy of a particular sort, politics, poverty, Roland Barthes, science fiction, sex, shadow governments, think tanks, This American Life, truth, United Nations, vibrators
What I Did Instead Of What I Was Supposed To Do Today
Caught up on some of David Graeber’s writings on anarchism, via this AskMe. Does anyone know the answer to this question? I just can’t get past my sense that ecological rationality requires a global superstate, not autonomous, self-organizing collectives.
Written by gerrycanavan
December 7, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with anarchism, David Graeber, ecology, one world government, politics, statism
Courageous Underdogs Fighting a Corrupt Elite Engaged in a Conspiracy to Suppress the Truth or Foist a Malicious Lie on Ordinary People
Written by gerrycanavan
June 3, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with atheism, climate change, cryptoatheistic Muslim socialists run the country, denialism, evolution, extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds, HIV and AIDS, one world government, paranoia, skepticism, smoking, swine flu, vaccines