tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167528762011-12-18T04:02:37.432-08:00A Phoenix Journal of Revolutionary Ideas and ActionPhoenix Insurgenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07312328294843841459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16752876.post-45688038483328593682009-02-02T16:21:00.000-08:002009-02-02T16:32:08.889-08:00

I've been spending most of the last year doing things other than writing. Having spent quite some time posting here rather lengthy piece sometimes several times a week, I suppose I needed a break. Well, the holiday is over and I'm back to writing again, only this time I'm doing it at another site. Most pieces will be in the same format as the others but I'm hoping to do some collaboration and

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Hardly a newscycle goes by these days without two seemingly contradictory things happening: a police officer praises the “less lethal” TASER as his savior in a tight spot; and, someone gets killed or seriously injured by a TASER. It isn't unusual for this second case to occur in circumstances that shed considerable doubt on the first case, whether because of the nature of the victim (young, old,

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In the process of getting ready to write something new about the anti-war movement here in Phoenix, I re-read my past writings on the topic. Looking them over, I realized, why bother? Nothing has changed. Ritual and ineffectiveness still dominate the movement, as do activists who need the war to justify their management of others (to get votes, to build organizations or just to massage their

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The Chicago Times reported last week that the city has linked up all the high school surveillance cameras into a network that feeds into the city's 911 headquarters, forming a network of 4500 cameras. Already, the city's transit cameras and some private business cameras have been similarly routed to police headquarters.Here's the thing about this article: the real news isn't the cameras being

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Montel Williams was interviewed on Fox about Heath Ledger's death and he threw a fit because the media was fawning over Heath while ignoring the deaths in Iraq. But which deaths did he mean?Montel Williams: "How many people have died in Iraq since January one? "Fox Host: "It's about 20"Montel Williams: "No its not about, it is 28"But, in fact, if Montel, a former Naval Intelligence officer, had

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So, weapons designer Anh Duong has developed a mobile lab (it's inflatable!) chock full of high tech identification gear, such as a retina scanning devices, computers and a satellite uplink to Washington, DC. She hopes to make more efficient the decision-making process that soldiers go through every day: "Do I let him go? Keep him? Or shoot him on the spot?" Those are her words.While the

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Over at BLDGBLOG earlier this week there was an interesting article on the environmental impact of servers. It's something most folks don't think about (and neither do IT people, apparently, since a huge majority of them expressed stunning ignorance of their industry's contribution to climate collapse).The writer at BLDGBLOG cites a recent piece from the New Scientist that revealed, among other

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Plenty of evidence has linked the CIA and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies to drugs trafficking over the years. Most people in the US don't remember Burmese warlord Khun Sa. Sa was the CIA's longtime heroin pusher in Southeast Asia. He was the guy who used to run heroin during the Vietnam War in conjunction with the CIA's infamous Air America Airlines. In that particular

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I generally support striking workers, and I'm quite sympathetic to the position of the writers on this one, especially since this appears yet again to be a case of the elite using technology to upend workers power on the job not least by attempting to cut workers out of the profit they are due by redefining the means of distribution. In essence, these new technologies have been applied as a

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Having visited Mexico a few times in the last year and having met up with the Other Campaign twice in Magdalena (most recently in early October), I have become more and more interested in the Zapatistas and revolutionary struggle in Mexico. I certainly have followed and supported them over the many years since their 1994 uprising brought them to my attention, but revolutionary organizing in

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This may not seem like the kind of question you would expect discussed here at Phoenix Insurgent, but bear with me for a moment. Why is it that despite the self-confident promises of the techno-philiac transhumanists, the constant reassuring of better things to come from our technology-loving elite and their scientist cadres, not to mention the treated-as-inevitable prognostications of the

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The fires in California put lives at risk as immigrant workers stay away from shelters out of fear of deportation.Evacuations raise deportation fearsFlames were only one worry for some illegal immigrants in the fire zone. Equally scary were the crowded roads and evacuation centers, heavy with law enforcement officers, including U.S. Border Patrol agents. Some wondered if they would be deported

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I took a bit of an unannounced hiatus for a few weeks to work on some other projects and to support and then participate in the Continental Indigenous Encuentro organized by the EZLN (among other groups) that took place in Magdalena, Mexico a few weeks ago. I'm back now and a little more free in terms of time, so regular updates will proceed as normal from here on out. I may be forced to do

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This is a special edition of the news roundup dedicated to police. As the city gets set to have another public beatification ceremony for another dead cop, let's take a second to remember what cops really do in a day's work. And this is just what they've been up to recently!Officials fire Alton police chief accused of sex assaultAlton's chief of police has been fired weeks after the South Texas

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Another Phoenix cop has been killed while executing a racial profiling stop (jaywalking!?). The media has been so busy focusing on the fact that his killer was undocumented that it has completely missed the racist motivation behind the initial police contact. As police in Arizona have increasingly become enforcers of immigration laws, they have surged to the front lines of the battle over the

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In a week where bin Laden has yet again shown up, conveniently-timed, curiously-bearded and denouncing capitalism, today's Wall Street Journal article on the Red Army Faction in Germany couldn't be better timed to shed some light on the murky world where terrorism and intelligence services come together. Spurred by the mysterious murder of Deutsche Bank Chairman Alfred Herrhausen, the article

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A lesson in the way bias for the invader's point of view can subtly be transmitted through the language and perspective of a piece of journalism. Consider this excerpt courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor: 'Sheikh's death threatens US success in Anbar Province'Sheikh Abu Risha's death, which was the result of a roadside bomb explosion near his home in the provincial capital Ramadi, comes at

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(1) "The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history." -Buenaventura Durruti Global Warming Impact Like 'Nuclear War'Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) security think-tank said global warming would

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9/11 is the myth that the elite of all political parties have selfishly used to coerce and convince us into supporting wars of aggression, handing over our already too limited freedoms and looking the other way while a massive security state is built and then unleashed on the world and us. They've reinforced it at every cynical turn. Whether you believe the government's story of the events of

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I recently became aware of a very good anarchist journal out of Britain called Voices of Resistance from Occupied London. In it they cover a wide range of topics and their first issue has a lot of interesting stuff in it. In this issue, there's a great interview with the always interesting Mike Davis about surveillance and security in the modern city. To the question, "Why aren't cameras being

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Comedians from the Australian TV show "Chasers War On Everything" were arrested yesterday for accomplishing what so far the actual protesters of the APEC summit have been unable to do: puncture the high security surrounding the event. Riding in an official-looking caravan, flagged as Canadian (because "they thought Canada would be a country that might not be too closely scrutinised and might

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Congratulations to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) today for going out on strike against the installation of GPS in their vehicles, despite opposition from the city and even rival taxi organizations, some of whom have been actively intervening against the NYTWA with leafletting and other tactics, including deploying "dozens of volunteers to taxi stands at the city's airports and the

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If you like the hilarious clip below, consider reading John Taylor Gatto's awesome, "An Underground History of Public Education". The whole thing is online for free and I highly recommend it. Also, if you have an mp3 player, a great radio show called Unwelcome Guests has been airing readings of chapters from the book, so you can effectively 'read' it as an audio book if you want.In modern

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Yet again, we have the ugly face of imperialism hidden behind a facade of human rights. The heat ray will be more humane, we are told. A more humane way for the elite to impose their will on the world? I'm not buying it and every day the new weapon is kept out of the hands of soldiers, the better. Note that some officers have "asked for the system as part of a broader weapons package on

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I've been following this for about five days on some option traders discussion forums and I thought some of you all might be interested in it. I admit that I've been sitting on this in part because of the wild speculation surrounding it and in part because I wanted to see if some clear explanation would emerge. None has been forthcoming - and believe me, I've been looking - so I opted to post

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Mesa: Remember Mario Madrigal Jr., Executed by Mesa Police Officers! Demand Justice this Saturday!Four years have passed since one of the most notorious police killings in the valley’s history, Mario Madrigal Jr. was coldly executed by three Mesa cops in August of 2003 at his own home, in front of his family. He was fifteen, unarmed, and passive in the police presence, but these Mesa cops still

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Reading the news that one of the largest manufacturers of school uniforms in Britain is considering sewing GPS tracking devices into the clothes schoolkids are compelled to wear, just so parents can follow their kids to and from school, I can't help but notice a few things.Of course, this isn't the first time that GPS has been sold to scared parents as a panacea to their poorly-justified fears.

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The increasing high-tech-ization of warfare not only increases the power of the American elite to project its will on the rest of the world, but it also reduces the exposure of Firth Worlders to the resistance of those being imposed upon.Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for IraqThe Reaper is loaded, but there's no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a video console

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A case in point: China, where the government is going to blanket the city of Shenzhen (with more than 12 million residents) with a network of linked up surveillance cameras and force almost every resident to carry a computer-chipped id card that carries their work, health, residency status and criminal record, as well as a whole host of other information that might still be considered nominally

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More evidence that the solution to the ongoing collapse of the environment has to be a massive step back from industrialism - in this case from the production of carbon dioxide. Acting after the fact is not good enough.Trees Won't Fix Global WarmingThe plan to use trees as a way to suck up and store the extra carbon dioxide emitted into Earth's atmosphere to combat global warming isn't such a

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There was a fuck up at the China Daily online and they accidentally included the following sentence in an article about how Beijing is getting ready for the Olympics (leaving out the more than one million poor people that have been displaced unceremoniously to make way for tourists, stadiums and trains, of course):The offending sentence:"Security was tight around Tiananmen Square, where troops

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The US is making preparations for war with Iran right now. Cheney is pushing hard for airstrikes and with Congress leaving town for its summer recess the likelihood of an attack is significantly raised. Cheney appears to want some kind of a provocation, either in terms of clear evidence of Iran caught in the act of arming or supporting Shiites in Iraq or a large attack on the US or US interests

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The Wall Street Journal - sometimes lampooned as the War Street Journal for it's never-ending love affair with war of all kinds - has run a curious article on non-violence and social change. Anyone who reads this blog or my other writings knows that I adhere to the notion that we should use whatever means work to achieve our goals. It's my opinion that non-violence doesn't really exist in

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Just another warmonger... he claims he would withdraw from Iraq (yeah, right), but only so he could intensify the imperialist war in Afghanistan and free up troops for more invasions, like in Pakistan. Whatever he does, it's clear that he doesn't intend to diverge from the bogus and manipulative anti-terrorist narrative that the Bush Administration and the rest of the elite have set up and pray

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Redflex, the spy camera company that installed speed cameras on the 101 Freeway that goes through Scottsdale (and whose national HQ is at 15020 N 74th St in Scottsdale) may begin switching some of its cameras over from red light versions to surveillance cameras as one California town hopes to start using them for policing and prosecution beyond red light running. Here's your ammunition for you

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The Angry Brigade was an armed clandestine anarchist organization that was highly influenced by the Situationists in Paris. Rooted in the squatter movement in Britain in the early 70's, the Angry Brigade engaged in largely symbolic bombings throughout the country, targeting government officials, offices and private symbols of capitalist exploitation.There are a few books on the group. One I

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Report: Deportation Devastating FamiliesFamilies split up and returned to the South in the name of defending white supremacy. Where have I heard this before in American history?An estimated 1.6 million children and spouses have been separated from family members forced to leave the country under toughened 1996 immigration laws, a human rights group said Wednesday.The separations have taken a

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"To see how the world would look if humans were gone, I began going to abandoned places, places that people had left for different reasons," says Alan Weisman, journalist, in a recent interview in Scientific American. After covering the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, Weisman became intrigued with the idea of just what would happen to the planet if humanity just up and disappeared. How

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Cell phones are sold as a convenience or even as a necessity for safety, but we ought not to forget the power they have for tracking and regulating our lives in ways that were never possible before. You are now reachable at all times and in all places, as your boss probably knows. Some bosses are now using cell phones to track their employees at work and, in fact, you're now traceable all day

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Human greed takes lion's share of solar energyMore cold water to splash on those who hope we can use so-called "green energy" to maintain our imperialist First World lifestyle.HUMANS are just one of the millions of species on Earth, but we use up almost a quarter of the sun's energy captured by plants - the most of any species. The human dominance of this natural resource is affecting other

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Strange brewings and strange bedfellows in Iraq and Iran these days. If it was ever clear what the hell Al Qaeda really is and whether they actually have an independent existence apart from the CIA,MI6 and the ISI, it sure gets murkier every day with regard to Iran.From ABC News (Australia): Al Qaeda threatens to 'annihilate' IranThe self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq has given Iran a

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Data on Americans mined for terror riskThe elite use tech to increase their ability to wage war at home on potential threats. Note the liberal critique which only seeks to make the system more efficient, not to question its overall objective. Would such a system have caught John Brown before Harpers' Ferry? This is the question radicals must answer."'Each of these initiatives is extremely

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After a short summer break, I have returned to regularly updating the site. Thanks to everyone who kept emailing while I was away from the website - I have tried to reply to everyone. If I missed you, hit me again, I may have overlooked it. Look for some new content in the near future, along with the usual regular news links. I may try a few different styles of posts, we'll see. As usual

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I've been busy with various other projects, so I apologize for the lag in posting this last week. No regrets from an ex-Algerian rebel immortalized in film"'This was not just a tactic. It was part of a whole strategy that included mass participation. It was specifically targeted at occupiers, not just anybody,' he said, his small, almost boyish body devoured by a large armchair. 'We killed women

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Despite complaining about the media obsession with covering her case, hypocrite Hilton gave an interview to Barbara Walters from jail. It seems she called home from jail just as her mom happened to be chatting it up with the world famous journalist, an old family friend (such is the elite life, I suppose). Mom quickly arranged an impromptu interview.Perhaps taking a card from the President's

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A recent Washington Post/MSNBC article about US forces joining up with Sunni insurgents to attack Al-Qaeda contained this interesting little nugget towards the end:Kuehl said later that he would probably supply weapons to the militiamen, but in limited amounts. The fighters have given the Americans identification, including fingerprints, addresses and retinal scans, so the soldiers believe they

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I remember some conversations around 2002 and 2003 about how much many of us anarchists in Phoenix hated the way the liberal left was so anti-libertarian when it came to anti-war organizing. Already sick of the antics of the anti-war left, some of us put forward the idea of an anarchist/libertarian alliance against the war and the curtailing of civil liberties.However, trapped in their silly

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Somebody's Watching You"Cop Watch LA is no longer relying on mere coincidence to capture images of police misbehavior. Dressed in black and red Cop Watch T shirts, the young members are motivated and vigilant — telling their own stories of victimization at the hands of police. When many young adults are often sleeping in during the weekends, they are often getting up before 7 a.m. to patrol

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I was forwarded this article by a friend of mine. Despite being published in a sad yuppie men's magazine ('Stay Young, Retire Rich' blares this month's cover), the piece is actually very good and I recommend it highly.Pretty much every piece of plastic ever made is still around, you know, and less than five percent of all plastic made is ever recycled, so the rest has to go somewhere. Ever

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The Phoenix New Times this week featured a cover article about right-wing activist, Emily Mitchell, famous around these parts for having prodded a gullible ASU student into starting up an ASU club for Caucasian students. In October of last year I wrote a piece examining the organization and the many supposed justifications that its supporters put forward in its defense.At its base, though, the

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I wrote this article in late 2005 in response to the killing of a Phoenix police officer. It analyzes the history of policing in the US (and locally), putting the media love affair with the police department and dead cops in the context of American class struggle and the system of white supremacy.But there is a real tension between the public image of policing, defended so single-mindedly by the

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How To Control The $40 Million Slave"See, the NBA’s rules of “cleaning up” the league (whether it be the dress code, no celebrations, taunting, fighting, arguing with refs, long shorts, headbands, etc) are in response to what the media thinks and in turn projects to the public . When I used the term "cleaning up the league" and likened it to "whitening up the league", I meant it. Regardless of

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A Metropolitan police officer monitors CCTV screens in London, April 20, 2007. It could be the four million closed-circuit television cameras, or maybe the spy drones hovering overhead, but one way or another Britons know they are being watched. All the time. Everywhere. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)

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Anti-Yuppie Action has called a protest for this Sunday. Phoenix Insurgent has happily endorsed the event and recommends for everyone who wants to keep Yuppie scum out of Tempe to come out and get creative. There will be all kinds of opportunities for fun and mischief. Let's let these colonizing fucks know what kind of welcome they can expect every day in our neighborhood if they decide to

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I don't talk about sports on here too much, but I think damn near everyone knows that tomorrow's a big night for the Suns. Although it's decision to suspend Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw is unjust, the NBA has inadvertently provided us a great lesson in why anarchists are against law.The law, like this NBA rule, is written by people other than those affected by it, and those who make the law,

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Typically I do not do this, but I have been involved in a discussion on another blog about technology and it's applications, as well as the relevance of a critique of technology and, specifically anti-industrialism, and I thought it might be of interest to readers of my blog. This discussion got its start as a response by a blogger to a flier I wrote and handed out at an Al Gore speech at ASU.

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Man in the mask returns to change world with new coalition and his own sexy novel'Mexico's politicians on both left and right receive nothing but his scorn. Is it easier to claim the moral high ground when your face is hidden? Marcos acknowledges that the mask helps, although he stresses it is also a burden. It can be itchy and uncomfortable, and it is so intertwined with his revolutionary

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The New Yorker does a very long - and pretty good - feature on the world's most famous and elusive outside/insider graf artist, Banksy. Check it out if you have a few minutes.Says Banksy: “I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I’m not sure I like it enough.”I feel that.Read it:Banksy Was Here

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Peter Gelderloos, author of How Nonviolence Protects the State (and other works), has an interesting article in the June issue of Utne Reader. Entitled, "Arms and the Movement," it is an investigation into the relationship between non-violence, armed struggle and social change. It covers ground similar to that explored in his longer book on the topic, tackling some common pacifist mythology

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I came upon some interesting analysis at an anarchist transhumanist blog called @H+ :: Anarcho-Transhumanism. That site links to some of my work and, in a piece titled "Will Robots Spark the Revolution?" discusses an essay I wrote recently about robotics and class war. While the site is certainly an interesting one - and well written - the question I have after reading the response to my work

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Ok, this article appears in the libertarian (Randian, really), free market and arrogantly named magazine Reason. Nevertheless, it's a really interesting piece on our inborn tendency to level resources, particularly income. As game theory investigates, it's coming to some conclusions that might surprise many apologists for the supposed naturalness of the capitalist system.Ronald Bailey's article

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Universities drive biotech advancement"Universities and public research institutes, rather than companies, are driving advances in biotechnology, according to a worldwide patent analysis released on Monday at the Bio conference in Boston. However, there is a global disparity in academic patenting activity, with the US and Japan well ahead of Europe."Drug-resistant TB strain cropping up"A virulent

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Thought Obama was your last hope for a fresh new face in Washington? Not many anarchists will fall for that one, but lots of other people will this election season. But, just in case, think again:This includes, Barack Obama says, the current plan to expand the overall size of the U.S. military by nearly 100,000 (65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines), and "recruiting the best and brightest to

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Police subdue some marchers as day of protests ends"Around 6 p.m., after police tried to disperse a group of demonstrators who had moved off the sidewalk into Alvarado Street, some of the few thousand participants still in the park started throwing plastic bottles and rocks at officers. Then, several dozen riot police, clad in helmets and carrying batons, started clearing the park, firing a few

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Keep in mind, although I do think the evidence (and precedent) points to inside involvement in the 9/11 attacks, I have never said I thought that the towers were brought down by anything other than two planes loaded with fuel crashing into them.Anyhow, of course I thought it was pretty interesting that the freeway collapsed in SF a couple days ago after a massive gasoline fire. I figured there

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This photo comes from Mother Jones' photo essay on "American Happiness and the Need to Consume".

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I stumbled upon an interesting article link at Black and Green Bulletin's Collapse Bulletin page today. The piece, entitled, "Phoenix Falling?", is a fascinating history of my home town, and ran originally in the High Country News. It compares the rise and fall of the Hohokam civilization that preceded Phoenix to the current situation facing us. With a record breaking drought continuing into

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As many will know, Stephen Hawking boarded a jet today and, thanks to some special dives and rolls, was able to experience weightlessness for several minutes. I'm sure that's a hell of a lot of fun, and Hawking sure looks like he's having a blast in the photo that was released. Aside from having a damn good time, the world famous scientist participated in the stunt to raise money for charity

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The best and surest way to get wealthy and stay wealthy still seems to be being born wealthy. Go figure. Despite the myth of the meritocracy, the rich aren't smarter, they're just born into wealth and have all kinds of social support from other wealthy people to stay that way. Of course, the other implication of this study - not stated in the article (see below) - is that there are various

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Warning, the link below has racist content, but it is proof that JT Ready (failed politician, bad shot and anti-immigrant Rusty Childress sidekick) is a racist. It's a link to his personal page at a white supremacist social networking site called NewSaxon.com. In another fine piece on the anti-immigration movers and shakers in the Valley, New Times' writer, the Bird, has offered up a piece

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Well, now that all the world's problems have been solved we can finally turn our attention to the burning issues facing future generations, namely, robot rights. Today in London, robot ethicists (scientists) discussed the coming landmine (pun, see below) of robot-human relations. Such questions as, "who is to blame if an intelligent robot kills someone – is it the designer, the manufacturer,

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Check out this informative slide show at Slate detailing the history of racist imagery used to sell products. Most of these are gone now, but you'd be surprised at just how long some of them lasted and how they were transformed over the years in order to tone down the offensiveness (i.e., keep the money flowing in). It seems that Mars, Inc., the owners of Uncle Ben's, has opted to revive

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Super-rich population surges in 2006: survey"The number of U.S. households with a net worth of more than $5 million, excluding their primary residence, surged 23 percent to surpass one million for the first time in 2006, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The survey by Chicago-based Spectrem Group found that the number of U.S. households with more than $5 million rose from 930,000 in 2005

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For those who don't know, Rusty Childress is one of the prime movers and shakers in the local anti-immigrant movement here. A spoiled rich kid car dealer who never had to earn anything for himself, Rusty has surrounded himself with a coterie of rich and working class admirers who, because of their mutual hatred of brown-skinned immigrants and overwhelming love of all things white and privileged,

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Historically, gun ownership in this country results primarily from two tendencies, both of them racist. The first was the white wealthy elite's requirement that a large body of white men exist to police the slave population and put down insurrections. When the relatively color-blind system of indentured servitude was replaced with racialized slavery, an integral part of that bargain for white

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This should come as no surprise to radicals: you can get a lawyer to justify anything. Some readers may be familiar with science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics. It may sound kind of silly, but although these laws had their origins in science fiction, they have had some influence on robotics as it really exists in the real world.As class war anarchists with a deep critique

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Brian Powell over at the East Valley Tribune has done those of us who love freedom a real solid by revealing that some of the old intersection speeding and red light cameras that Scottsdale has stationed around the city are in fact deactivated and not working at all. Freedom! You can now safely disregard them and reclaim a little public space back from Scottsdale's ever-growing techno-police

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A terribly sad day... one more last chance for humanity gone. He will be missed like few others. As is the case with all truly great minds, humanity in its arrogance learned absolutely nothing from him."Strange business, this crusading spirit of the managers and engineers, the idea of designing and manufacturing and distributing being sort of a holy war; all that folklore was cooked up by public

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The excellent zine, G Spot, formerly published in the Valley, has posted online several great articles from their most recent issue. Home to some solid political critique, with a focus on feminist analysis, I recommend their content.In particular, I was struck by a piece deconstructing the fashion business and it's wide-ranging effects on women both inside and outside the industry. Delivered

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Millions face hunger from climate change"The report said Africa is most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The fallout from a swiftly warming planet — extreme weather, flooding, outbreaks of disease — will only exacerbate troubles in the world's poorest continent, said Anthony Nyong, one of the lead authors. Wheat, a staple in Africa, may disappear from the continent by the 2080s, the

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(Updated 6:08 pm)The British Ministry of Defence has released a study that provides a grim look at several possible futures facing humanity by 2035.Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as

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A little further down I have posted a video of a test of the government's new microwave crowd-dispersal heat ray that it hopes will revolutionize its ability to control riotous masses at home and abroad with as little collateral damage as possible.In a world that is increasingly monitored everywhere in real time all the time, thus making clandestine work against the system also ever more

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I'd like to direct everyone yet again to my homeboy's great new blog, There's Something Happening Here, to appreciate his great recent article on the role of public/street art in the attack on Tempe's gentrification.Reclaiming public space or attacking private property? Time after time of seeing working folks' evicted, their former abodes razed, and then high end condos put in their place, I've

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A few quick notes. My comrade Sphinx over at Asayake does a great autonomist/libertarian communist site from Japan in English, primarily. Not that long ago he posted the second part of his analysis of workplace struggle in Japan. Since I linked to the first part a while ago, I thought it would be worthwhile to link to the second half. I posted a comment there about an experience I had in the

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Wolfi Landstreicher has delivered yet another interesting translation, this time of documents and analysis surrounding the mysterious French rebel group, Os Cangaceiros. I have been a long time fan of Wolfi's Willful Disobedience and his joint effort, Killing King Abacus. Last years's translation of Fire to the Powder Keg: War and Social Guerrilla Struggle in Iraq was quite enjoyable, even if

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This is the text of a Phoenix Insurgent flier distributed today at Al Gore's ASU appearance to show his popular film, "An Inconvenient Truth".If you've seen Gore's movie, you already know the state of the planet. The environment is not just on the verge of collapse - it is collapsing! Things are bad and they're going to get worse. Unfortunately, Al Gore's limited political imagination cannot

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(1) This piece doesn't quite go far enough - after all, less cops are a good thing, not a bad thing. However, it does make a very good point that is so often missed: these technologies exist to control people and to prevent not just crime, but insurrection. In that sense, they are just like the police. They are a tool that exists and will spread because the elite class wants to keep us all in

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A comrade of mine has a new blog that focuses on the various conspiracies between the politicians, bureaucrats and capitalists in our beloved city, which is undergoing several major gentrification projects right now, largely centering around this yuppie-socialist light rail project. He has posted a fine article on the increasingly toxic environment here in Arizona, which includes an overview of

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The planet continues to be the subject in a vast experiment to which it has not consented: genetic modification of plants and animals has already begun to have far-reaching and potentially catastrophic effects. Capital, ever seeking new markets, regardless of the consequences, and an eagerly compliant (an dependent) scientific class that largely views anything resembling public input or

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The Phoenix anti-war movement delivered Monday the latest sequel in its seemingly never-ending series of boring and ineffective protests against the war in Iraq. The Arizona Republic reported that "Demonstrators marched a favored route for protests, making the short walk from Sen. Jon Kyl's central Phoenix office to McCain's office, where the names of Arizonans killed in Iraq were read during a

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Rev. Terry Rebert recently placed 3100 crosses on church property to remind locals of the sacrifices that American soldiers have made in Iraq."This is not a protest against war. It's a protest against sin, which causes war," Rebert said Wednesday. "It's to communicate that we should never forget the sacrifice of our soldiers. We forget about the sacrifice of giving their life for our freedom."It

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A new study predicts what I think we all knew: the US prison population is heading for more records in the future. In an age where the US consistently ranks down at the bottom of almost every positive social indicator, it's good to know we're still number one at something.The study, reported in USA Today "[t]he number of inmates in U.S. prisons likely will rise nearly 13% during the next five

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In what either must be a heck of a prediction, a damn good guess or a thinly veiled confession before the fact, the video below shows noted PNAC Neo-Con, former Deputy Defense Secretary, architect of the Bush's Iraq invasion and current President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz delivering the commencement speech at West Point on June 2, 2001. His topic: "'surprise' and 'courage.'""This year

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Industry is the enemy for barricaded India farmersNot everyone wants development, it turns out."Salim, she says, was trying to defend the family's land, earmarked by India's communist state government of West Bengal for a chemicals hub in a low-tax Special Economic Zone (SEZ).'"I lost my son, I can't do anything about that, but I can save my land -- even if I have to sacrifice two more of my sons

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The New York City government has plans to spend $180 million dollars on hand scanners for all city employees. The government says it's just so that they can track work hours, not to gather information on workers (if so, what was their objection to with time cards?).The local union, however, has not been pacified by the "privacy will be protected" argument that employers routinely trot out in

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Most articles on the topic of GPS and other similar technologies extol their supposed virtues and, on the rare occasions when they do address the downsides of being tracked all the time, it's generally within the context of the justifiable inconvenience it will cause some allegedly deserving minority, such as a criminal or an immigrant. When slightly broader dissent is permitted, the dominant

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My homeboy at the blog Asayake has posted the first half of a two part analysis of the modern Japanese workplace. The analysis at this blog is always stellar, and this particular piece is no exception. It's a very interesting look at workers self-organization, the work environment and the bosses' attacks on workers, not to mention the state and methods of workers' struggle in the office and the

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