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November 2010
Ron Paul To Destroy Central Banking In An Andrew Jackson-like Rage →
thehill.com
“Paul is poised to take over the Financial Services subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve in the next Congress. With the power of that pulpit, Paul said he hopes to shine a light on the Fed’s policies, which he has long criticized as opaque and secretive, and make the case that the bank’s monetary policies harm the U.S. economy.
Speculation has swirled that Paul would immediately use his subpoena powers as chairman of the subcommittee to compel testimony from Federal Reserve officials, but in an interview with The Hill, the Texas lawmaker said he has other plans.
“I’ve thought about it, [but] I don’t think I would start with [subpoenas],” Paul said.
“They’re likely not to yield … so that has to be held in reserve,” he said. “I just don’t think I should start off with that.”
Instead, Paul said he wants to foster a debate about the Fed’s role in the American economy and begin the push for greater congressional oversight. He said he wants to use the subcommittee to “discuss the relationship of monetary policy to the business cycle and particularly how they create the booms and the busts” in the economy.
But that doesn’t mean Paul plans to ignore the subpoena card in his hand.
“The idea that the Fed can create trillions of dollars and not have to respond to Congress is pretty amazing,” he said.”
Epochal
A video loop. A video
loop of a Rhode Island wind inspiriting the natural-colour tresses
of one Bernardine Dorn
as she adjusts the sit of her shades, while the boom
finds its level, then recounts her decades-
long exploits in
the Weathermen.
An etched plate. A plate
depicting a troop of shades infilling each other’s footprints that pass
behind one Bertran de Born
who’s clutching his severed melon by its medieval
tresses while bemoaning, well, plans best-laid.
Something explodes.
Connect them.
— Ken Babstock
(via octothorp)
Rockaria!
Electric Light Orchestra
“Rockaria!” by Electric Light Orchestra
Fancy (featuring T.I. & Swizz Beatz)
Drake
“Fancy” by Drake Ft. T.I. and Swizz Beats
Emic understanding of a feminine mind, rapped. also: drake et al present an argument for a view of makeup and grooming as selfempowering in north american culture, using those same tools of western patriarchy.”
(via honeyroyalex)
“Our problem is that our long doctrination in dualistic thinking has made it a matter of common sense that we can control our nature only by going against it. But this is the same false common sense which urges the driver to turn against the skid. To maintain control we have to learn new reactions, just as in the art of judo one must learn not to resist a fall or an attack but to control it by swinging with it.”
—Alan Watts
What's up with Dave? Is he okay?mom
Turns out Dave is fine. The doctor says it wasn’t something serious like we thought it was (we thought he might have had a seizure because of the way he was twitching). Turns out he’d just passed out from lack of blood flow and lack of a steady diet.
How are you, Mother? How are the kids in your class coping with the holiday season? I will write you again before the month is through.
“There was a fairy at my cradle. I have looked after her gifts. I have tended them well - like a gardener.”
—
Q: They (those gifts) also grow through suffering?
J: Through suffering and all other means, all you need is passion.
Jacques Henri Lartigue in interview.
“The God of the Christians in dead, he was made of rotten wood.”
—Popé, after beating the shit out of the Spanish and establishing a united kingdom of disparate Puebloan peoples. (via davethebrave)
Freerice.com →
freerice.com
still so great
Listen
“Love My Way” by The Psychedelic Furs
Carl Sagan
Loch Lomond
“Carl Sagan” by Loch Lomond
"Me Japanese Boy, I Love You"
I haven’t done one of these playlists for a while. Listen in order!
Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley (Full Text PDF) →
dl.dropbox.com
: an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
Ends and Means is a book of essays on war, religion, nationalism and ethics.
“It’s a manual on education. A handbook on psychotherapy and mind control. A solution to the horrors of the bi-parent family, the monstrous father-mother pressure cooker. Too much, indeed, for one book; but there’s more. Island is a treatise on living, on the living of each moment. And most important and staggering, the book is a treatise on dying.”
—Timothy Leary on Aldous Huxley’s Island
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
—Aldous Huxley
“The “life as tool” attitude is horrifying in the Matrix, but comes from a place of revenge, fear and anger on the part of the machines. How much more cold, terrifying, calculating and machine-like is it to have no emotional baggage at all, no second thoughts throughout the day at using life, something we desperately search the universe for, as a tool?”
—Davthbrv on silkworms. Preach, brother.
Listen
“Stars have natural vibrations that are sound waves, just as musical instruments do.”
Here are some star-songs:
- HR3831, discovered by Kurtz, a new class of star with a powerful magnetic field. It pulses every 11.7 minutes.
- Xi-hydrae, an old star in the constellation Hydra. It is 130 light years away and 60 times brighter than the Sun. Its sounds, which have been featured in club music in Belgium, are reminiscent of African drumming.
- A “white dwarf” or dead star 50 light years away.
New Mutant Silkworms To Toil Endlessly For Our Benefit →
wired.com
Snippets of spider genes let mutant silkworms spin silk stronger than steel. Scientists have coaxed miles of spider-like silk from a colony of transgenic silkworms, opening the door for large-scale production of super-strong, tough and flexible fibers.
“We can make a lot more silk from the silkworm process than you could possibly make from spiders,” said molecular biologist Malcolm Fraser of the University of Notre Dame.
Bleh.
At what point are we to hold ourselves personally responsible for bringing about new life for the purpose of extracting some material? Every individual caterpillar born will be born to die before its transformation but for the few chosen to perpetuate the wretched new species.
I WENT out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
The Song of Wandering Aengus, W.B. Yeats
Another the Letter
Wire
“Another The Letter” by Wire
Relax In Mui Ne
Onra
“Relax In Mui Ne” by Onra
In 2006, Onra went to Vietnam for the first time, the land of his grand-parents, and managed to bring back some 30 Chinese and Vietnamese old vinyls. He then made a full album with this material called Chinoiseries.
Onra is a French beatmaker currently residing in Paris.
- last.fm
