Joshua Foust.

"The crime here is not that a law is being passed to normalize a routine practice; it is that this was a routine practice and we chose not to care about it in the first place."

here in full.

about this time last year:

"Since the Taliban era, there are 8,000 more schools and 140,000 more teachers, he added.

About 70 percent of the girls and 97 percent of the boys in RC-East now have access to a state-sponsored education, as well as access to basic healthcare that has increased to nearly 80 percent, resulting in a 25 percent reduction in infant mortality, adding up to about 90,000 lives, Maj. Gen. Rodriguez said."

(source.)

presenter Seyi Rhodes went to Sierra Leone for series 2009 episode 4 of Unreported World to investigate the psychological after-effects of the war on some people.

Rhodes meets Patrick, who has memory problems.

the end credits rolled as the camera focused on a young person who had their head buried between their legs.
they were sat among some rocks.

jogging.

go jogging.

for this you need running shoes, trainers.

jogging.

going jogging.

buy some trainers.

go jogging.

The container carrying around 110 people, believed to be migrants, was found about 15 miles south of Quetta..."The death toll is 46," said a police official, Ghulam Dastagir.
:...
Survivor Nizar Ahmed, 15, told AFP from hospital that he came from...Paktia..."We have all come from Afghanistan and we were going to Iran," he said, without being able to explain why they were bound for the Islamic republic or when they left home.

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I sit in the middle of them. Kune, to my right, speaks French. He speaks loudly and is keen on reporting his story. To my left, Bilal is whispering in English. He is shy and scared. When he finds out I am Italian, his face brightens and he starts naming the Italian soccer players he knows.

When Kune understands what Bilal is saying, he starts shaking his head and says: "les enfants…avec tous les problems il a, il pense au foot…"

systemic

fuck this for a laugh

How can I be sure that none of your jewelry contains conflict diamonds?

Do I know where the diamonds you sell come from?

Can I see a copy of your company's policy on conflict diamonds?

Can you show me a written guarantee from your diamond suppliers stating that your diamonds are conflict-free?

structural

the new

is

YOU ARE ALL FUCKERS

and to take this advice and learn to live with

the drinking of milk

DON'T be a crack addict

'for them to accuse is unthinkable'

get yer scrips

Ad Reinhardt - - > Bridget Riley

YOU KNOW, DON'T YOU, WE BELONG TO SOME FAMILY OF ARTISTS, SAME ONE, NOT CHINESE OR INDIAN OR JAPANESE OR ITALIAN, MAYBE MUSLIM, THAT NON-FIGURATIVE ARAB AND PERSIAN CROWD.

also to be clear

There! I have reverted to the Eliot lecture metaphor, but it seems peculiarly appropriate in this situation. Arendt jumps up and down on it at the safer edges of the pond. Kertész treads light where it is thinnest.

My Cousin went to a Walter Pater dinner party and all I got was this lousy 'Naomi Wolf LOLZ CATS' tee-shirt

When, as LS mentions, Virginia Woolf suggests in 1938 that it doesn't matter whether women support liberal democracy or fascism because middle class women like her are having such a dreadful time, I feel a rising hatred for her. Privileged and racist, I think. But then I reason she didn't know what was happening, how could she have known?

The fact is, I think the camps are now treated as an old horror story, something of a bore. Let us move on to other matters. By all means let us move on to other matters.

Arendt and Refugees.

In dealing a product of fine art we must become conscious that it is art rather than nature

- Kant

some highlights from the Mai '68 edition of Prospect (somedisco antecede)

Žižek
From the 1970s onwards, a new figure of the “spirit of capitalism” emerged: capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist structure of the production process and developed a network-based form of organisation founded on employee initiative and autonomy in the workplace. Instead of the hierarchical chain of command, we get networks with a multitude of participants, organising work in the form of teams or projects, intent on customer satisfaction. In this way, capitalism is transformed into an egalitarian project

Astrid Proll (Baader-Meinhof)
We lived a kind of armed existentialism.

Rudi Bogni
1968 in Italy was more about hormonal growth than about politics. It brought us the Red Brigades, but not democratic maturity. I mistrusted from the outset a movement based on megaphones and one-liners.

P.J. O'Rourke
Mind-altering drugs were the best part of the 1960s.

"Defense officials said the Army troops inflicted heavy damages on the rebels as they put up resistance, adding that 19 bodies of LTTE fighters were found in subsequent search operations."

the poster who has put this up calls it One of the Greatest Scenes of The Sopranos.

damn right.

an instrumental of Xzibit's Paparazzi is the tune, and i must admit i was flashing on this when i saw Il Divo yesterday, which makes very effective usage of Fauré's Pavane at one stage