Box Full Of Jumble

I'm an art student and quite a lost one. I like to paddle. I try whatever catches my eye. Not always well, I might add.

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Jon Stewart on Nuclear Weapons

BILL O'REILLY: Iran's building nuclear weapons. If they get them, they might give them to some guy named Ahmed, who might take then to them Cleveland and blow everything up. So what are we going to do with that?

JON STEWART: Well, doesn't Pakistan have a nuclear weapon?

O'REILLY: Yes, they do.

STEWART: Well, couldn't they give it to somebody?

O'REILLY: I don't know. I don't think-

STEWART: -Doesn't Russia have nuclear weapons?

O'REILLY: Russia does.

STEWART: Couldn't they give it to somebody?

O'REILLY: They could-

STEWART: -The problem isn't the country that gets them. The problem seems to be the weapon.

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inside-illusion:

Dont be a dick, you might need help one day. 

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Excellent analysis of recent developments in Libya. 

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It's definitely time for bed. I've recently started to write down words that I don't know and their definition down. I wrote difficult instead of diffused and apparently, a diatribe is a lengthy piece of butter...

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I just spent another 10 quid on a book. I was only going into the bookshop to get change to buy a big issue and I walked out with a new book. The newest edition to my ever growing library is Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Foreign Policy: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis.

I think I need a prong collar or an electric shock one for when I'm surrounded by books. This would be my fifth purchase in a little over a week :\

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The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It's the illusion of knowledge - Stephen Hawking

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Can you direct me to any online version of THE RISE AND FALL OF PALESTINE: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE INTIFADA YEARS By Norman Finkelstein? I am currently reading The Image and Reality of Israel-Palestine Conflict but I cannot wait to indulge myself into every honest, intelligent book written by this magnificent man

I haven't been able to find an online copy of it. I think it's also out of print. It's on amazon but it's hellish expensive. If I come across one, I'll send you a link

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alvinwong:

What goes 173 mph at 10,000 feet that you ride like a motorcycle? It’s either a Star Wars speeder bike, which doesn’t exist, or this hoverbike invented by some Australian dude, which actually does. And you don’t even need a pilot’s license to fly it.

Chris Malloy’s prototype hoverbike has...

Someone lend me 40k!

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you've chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu

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I wish I could write book reviews as smooth as these...

"Critical and very well informed... The Rise and Fall of Palestine is also quite unusual, virtually unique, because of the rich framework of past and current history that Finkelstein brings to bear in a most illuminating way, because of the interweaving of very thoughtful (and often moving) personal experiences, and because of the singular nature of Finkelstein's perspective, which is sharply different from those that dominate discussions of the situation in Palestine." - Noam Chomsky on THE RISE AND FALL OF PALESTINE: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE INTIFADA YEARS By Norman Finkelstein. 

"This book is that very rare thing, a book of human experience informed by massive historical scholarship, prodigiously detailed political analysis, and exceptional wisdom. I do not know any book like it that deals so intimately and yet so clearly with the tragic quandaries of the Palestinian situation." - Edward Said on the same book.

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fuckyeahoddities:

How long can a chicken live without its head?

Well the record right now stands at 2 years. On 10th September, 1945, a young cockerel/rooster in Fruita, Colorado, had it’s head chopped off and lived. Incredibly, the axe left the jugular vein intact, and left enough of the brain stem to, apparently, keep the rooster chirping. Mike, as he came to be known, was something of a national celebrity in his time, featuring in Time magazine. His owner, Lloyd Olsen, charged twenty-five cents to see ‘Mike the headless wonder chicken’ in sideshows across the USA. At the height of his career, Mike was making around $4,500 a week, and was valued at $10,000. Mike was fed and watered using an eyedropper, but tragedy struck one night when Mike’s owner had left his eyedropper at a previous show. Unable to clear his airways, Mike choked to death.

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A Good Man Goes To War.

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lessonsforchildren:

Well, that Doctor Who finale was just about the most perfect goddamned thing ever. It combined the fury of the 10th Doctor, the scheming of the 7th, the epic scale of the 9th and the extra characters… holy SHIT. I’m in love.

What he said. I don't know what I'm going to do with no Doctor until the autumn though...

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Someone posted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cocm7Rz9cSk on facebook earlier today. It's If Only Out of Vanity by Staceyann Chin. Both poems are brilliant and so is she. She's straight to the point. I like that.

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jenniebrand:

PREACH.

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Let's go to sleep with clearer heads and hearts too big to fit our beds. And maybe we won't feel so alone, before we turn to stone.

Ingrid Michaelson - turn to stone

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theonlymagicleftisart:

“Nothing is Enough” (Agnes Cecile)

I love paintings like this. For some reason I've never attempted one...

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I'm getting in the mood for B.B. King in less than a month. Even though this is Muddy and not B.B., I'll be meeting one of Muddy's sons this year too. I'm probably going to listen to none stop blues. I've been listening to more hip hop than blues lately, I need a change.