Jean-Luc Mélenchon's policies are no far-left fantasy | Philippe Marlière | Comment is free | The Guardian
6 weeks ago by sunpig
"Humans First!" is more than a manifesto title, it is a democratic imperative: a sixth republic in place of the current republican monarchy; the nationalisation of energy companies (as energy sources are public goods) and, less often noticed, the ecological planning of the economy, the core of Mélenchon's political project.
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6 weeks ago by sunpig
James Kelman — On Self-Determination » Christie Books
8 weeks ago by sunpig
Power is a function of its privileged ruling elite. To be properly ‘British’ is to submit to English hierarchy and to recognise, affirm and assert the glory of its value system. This is achieved domestically on a daily basis within ‘British’ education and cultural institutions. Those who oppose this supremacist ideology are criticised for not being properly British, condemned as unpatriotic. Those Scottish, Welsh or Irish people who oppose this supremacist ideology are condemned as anti-English. The ‘British way’ is sold at home and abroad as a thing of beauty, a self-sufficient entity that comes complete with its own ethical system, sturdy and robust, guaranteed to outlast all others.
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8 weeks ago by sunpig
John Lanchester · Marx at 193 · LRB 5 April 2012
9 weeks ago by sunpig
Complicated though Marx’s model of the world is, the modern world is more complicated still. This exerts great pressure in one more area, one Marx would have recognised through a favourite saying that comes from Hegel: quantity changes quality. What this means is that you can have an explanatory system which accounts for certain phenomena – in this case, the way capitalism produces things which run against its own main current of accumulation and exploitation – while the broad direction of travel remains the same. But a point comes when the phenomena mount up, and stop seeming like isolated contradictory examples and look instead like a basic challenge to the central ideas. Something like this has happened with the countercurrents that run inside capitalism.
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9 weeks ago by sunpig
Bring back the 40-hour work week - Salon.com
10 weeks ago by sunpig
It’s a heresy now (good luck convincing your boss of what I’m about to say), but every hour you work over 40 hours a week is making you less effective and productive over both the short and the long haul. And it may sound weird, but it’s true: the single easiest, fastest thing your company can do to boost its output and profits — starting right now, today — is to get everybody off the 55-hour-a-week treadmill, and back onto a 40-hour footing.
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10 weeks ago by sunpig
Dutch government in lockdown as AAA-rated country comes unstuck | Business | The Guardian
11 weeks ago by sunpig
Dutch government in lockdown as AAA-rated country comes unstuck
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11 weeks ago by sunpig
Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Rick Santorum’s bogus statistics - The Washington Post
11 weeks ago by sunpig
@brad_frost Get a "Don't euthanize me, bro!" bracelet as soon as you arrive! Saved my ass last time I saw my dentist!
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11 weeks ago by sunpig
In Afghanistan it's lies that are really killing our soldiers | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
11 weeks ago by sunpig
RT @amendlocke: Simon Jenkins on Afghanistan - Dying for lies:
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11 weeks ago by sunpig
Scottish Review: Now that I see the puny alliance in the 'No' camp, I'm voting 'Yes'
12 weeks ago by sunpig
Quintin Jardine: "Now that I see the puny alliance in the 'No' camp, I'm voting 'Yes'" /via @amendlocke
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12 weeks ago by sunpig
Marx was right! | In Defence of Marxism
november 2011 by sunpig
"Marx was right!" /via @amendlocke
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november 2011 by sunpig
“The Grass Is Closed”: What I Have Learned About Power from the Police, Chancellor Birgeneau, and Occupy Cal « zunguzungu
november 2011 by sunpig
"Why did so many people allow the police to beat them rather than get out of the way?" @zunguzungu on #Occupy Berkeley
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november 2011 by sunpig
LRB · John Lanchester · Once Greece goes…
july 2011 by sunpig
Good summary of the Greek crisis by John Lanchester in the LRB: "Once Greece goes..." /via @theplayethic
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july 2011 by sunpig
The Osama bin Laden exception - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
may 2011 by sunpig
RT @evilrooster: Re #OBL: This. I STFU at the time b/c people were not in a listening mood, but it's good to see som ...
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may 2011 by sunpig
Opinion: the time for the independence referendum is now | Caledonian Mercury - Politics
may 2011 by sunpig
RT @thoughtland: Loving Stewart Kirkpatrick's forthright argument for an indy referendum now #sp11 / & gives us all ...
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may 2011 by sunpig
Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
april 2011 by sunpig
RT @TheOnion: In Focus: Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta
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april 2011 by sunpig
Is AV better than FPTP? « Gowers's Weblog
april 2011 by sunpig
RT @tomcoates: Absolutely fascinating and detailed investigation of AV and FPTP as recommended to me by @parkersweb: ...
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april 2011 by sunpig
BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere
february 2011 by sunpig
RT @Glinner: In case you missed it last night, "Twenty Reasons why it's kicking off everywhere"
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february 2011 by sunpig
How to Minimize Politics in Your Company // ben's blog
august 2010 by sunpig
Ben Horowitz: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company:
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august 2010 by sunpig
Mexico and the Failed State Revisited | STRATFOR
april 2010 by sunpig
"From Mexico’s point of view, interrupting the flow of drugs to the United States is not clearly in the national interest or in that of the economic elite. Observers often dwell on the warfare between smuggling organizations in the northern borderland but rarely on the flow of American money into Mexico. Certainly, that money could corrupt the Mexican state, but it also behaves as money does. It is accumulated and invested, where it generates wealth and jobs. "
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april 2010 by sunpig
Charlie's Diary: Designing society for posterity
november 2009 by sunpig
"Designing a space habitat/generation ship with the implicit parameter that the crew are expected to work 40-60 hours a week is a really bad idea; efficiency is the enemy of redundancy, and multiple redundancy (in life support and propulsion) is absolutely vital to any such project (because it provides resiliency that is essential to have any hope of recovering from a disaster). What if the population crashes? If you've designed your ship to require a 40-hour work week by 1000 maintenance crew and you're down to 250 crew, you're going to die. A 10-hour work week, in contrast, gives them a fighting chance of survival in event of a major die-off."
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november 2009 by sunpig
Doth I protest too much? | Mark Thomas | Comment is free | The Guardian
october 2009 by sunpig
"Protest is part of the democratic process. It wasn't the goodwill of politicians that led them to cancel developing countries' debt, but the protests and campaigning of millions of ordinary people around the world. The political leaders were merely the rubber stamp in the democratic process. Thus any targeting and treatment of demonstrators (at the G20 for example) that creates a "chilling effect" – deterring those who may wish to exercise their right to protest – is profoundly undemocratic."
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october 2009 by sunpig
Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama…
january 2009 by sunpig
Lovely data visualization from Dopplr (via <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/16/dopplr/">Simon Willison</a>)
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january 2009 by sunpig
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