Those beautiful houses
I live beside.
Somebody please tell them
give them a clue
of you, Zamzam,
who shines like the morning light
like the scales
of a colorful fish,
while you were gone on Hajj
had many memories.
Your friend, Aisha died of love.
at long last [I realized]
both I and the camels
need love.
After dinner with Ghi and Alejandro (Taken with Instagram at Pho Sizzling)
Occupying Wall Street and Tahrir Square: Feathers of the Same Bird | Truthout →
“The tear gas used on protestors in Tahrir Square was manufactured by Combined Systems Inc., a US based company. The same company provided the pepper spray used in UC Davis demonstrations,” she tells me, adding, “This is a period of global unrest. It cannot be stopped. We will occupy everywhere.”
The Apple of Steve Jobs needed HyperCard-like products like the Monsanto Company needs a $100 home genetic-engineering set.
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Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die
HyperCard R.I.P.
So if your goal is to enrich the Arringtons of the world while maybe, if you win the lottery, scooping some of the groundscore that they overlooked, then by all means, bust your ass while the bankers and speculators cheer you on. Instead of that, I recommend that you do what you love because you love doing it. If that means long hours, fantastic. If that means leaving the office by 6pm every day for your underwater basket-weaving class, also fantastic.
(via Daily Kos: Fiscal inequality: Godzilla vs. Ants)
As long as corporations are people and money is speech, then democracy is a farce. If you want to live like a person and not an ant, that has to change.
Kickstarter - Global Village Construction Set →
The greatest open source hardware project ever - GVCS gives you the means to manufacture a modern civilization on a DVD!
Oakland police will no longer indiscriminately use wooden or rubber bullets, Taser stun guns, pepper spray and motorcycles to break up crowds, under an agreement announced Friday.
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OAKLAND / Agreement reached on crowd-control tactics - SFGate
November 06, 2004|Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
RAW VIDEO: Protester who helped rescue injured vet talks about ordeal [warning: strong language] - Video - KTVU San Francisco →
Shocking first-person account of what happened in Oakland - an interview with the woman who was standing by Scott Olsen. Very sad.
Mary Meeker, an investor and former financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, compiled this imaginative report to inform the discussion of America’s financial situation and outlook. USA Inc. examines the U.S. government’s income statement and balance sheet, interprets the underlying data and facts, and illustrates patterns and trends in easily understandable terms.
