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Police crack down on California student protests

  • Callie Maidhof, a student organizer told Liveweek.net, “Regardless of what one thinks about the events of last night, the minor vandalism that occurred cannot be viewed outside the context of the physical violence inflicted by police on student activists and the broader assault on public education.”

02 Dec 09

What were the 1960s about?: An Education and Pirate Radio

  • In London at the time, there were still bombed out buildings from World War II. A more enlightened filmmaker, Terence Davies, noted in his recent Of Time and the City that the British population in the 1950s “survived in some of the worst slums in Europe!”

Eurozine - Spinoza and philosophers today - Gábor Boros, Herman De Dijn, Moira Gatens, Syliane Malinowski-Charles, Warren Montag, Teodor Münz, Steven B. Smith

  • In my view, the TTP contains two important insights: first, the central role that is played by the imagination in religion, sociability and politics; and second, the idea that the "imaginary" dimension of human sociability, although permanent, is open to reformation over time.
  • He turns our attention to a certain alliance of the "spiritual" and the worldly powers whose aim is to develop a theory that is able to make people obey both powers without any reflection
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Kristin Clemets blogg - Sykelønnssaken: Et snedig argument om tillit

  • hvorfor er det slik at høyresiden, som normalt er opptatt av å ha tillit til enkeltmennesket, ikke kan ha tillit til at folk virkelig er syke når de sier at de er det

  • Når avstanden mellom det å skape og det å bruke økonomiske verdier blir stor, kan det også påvirke forvaltningen av verdiene.

Praise George W. Bush, Damn Richard B. Cheney—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)

  • Cheney attacks Obama’s “weakness” for ordering as many as 44,000 more troops into Afghanistan—whereas he, presented with the same request, simply rolled it over for his successor to address a year later.
30 Nov 09

Essay: The war of new words - November 2009 - Armed Forces Journal - Military Strategy, Global Defense Strategy

  • IEDs were not unknown unknowns: They were an ignored known, as were the vast majority of current threats, such as insurgents and pirates. Ignorance of warfare does not make it complex.

Sociality Is Learning | DMLcentral

  • what if our efforts to curtail social interactions out of a preference for "real" learning have professional costs?
  • The practice of hanging out is consistently demonized by educationally-minded folks as a waste of time.  Yet, it is in that space where youth learn to navigate social situations, make sense of impression management, and develop the social skills necessary to be productive adults.  
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