Nicolas Henin: The man who was held captive by Isis for 10 months says how they can be defeated ‘The winner of this war will not be the party that has the newest, the most expensive or the most sophisticated weaponry, but the party that manages to win over people’ VIA Independent UK by Adam […]
VIA PULPTASTIC Destructive tanks first rolled out onto the battlefields during World War I nearly a hundred years ago. A century on, some of them can still be found in those same combat zones, which are now peaceful meadows and serene beaches. Nature has swallowed these instruments of war, with hauntingly beautiful results. #1. Shumshu, Russia. u-96 #2. […]
VIA “pulptastic.com” Pulptastic You know you’re at a family reunion when you hear the following words every couple of minutes: “Oh you look so much like *insert family member here* when they were your age!” Despite being annoying, sometimes your Aunt Martha’s observations are spot on. And here’s the proof: #1. This little girl looks EXACTLY […]
VIA “themindunleashed.org” If I have learned something from Socrates is that you cannot teach people anything; you can only make them think. You can only draw out of them the wisdom which is latent within them. And by doing so, you help open their eyes, making them realize that they were born with wings and that they […]
Trump and others are proving it: we can’t handle the truth VIA Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi Donald Trump said this to supporters at an Alabama rally: “Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as […]
VIA US UNCUT by Lacey McLaughlin Congress actually did something productive today: diverting billions of dollars in Wall Street subsidies to help repair America’s infrastructure. On Thursday the House approved a five-year, $305 billion bill that will lower dividends from the Federal Reserve to finance highway and transit improvements. As much as $9 billion in Wall Street […]
VIA UPWORTHY by Lori White What’s in a name? For fish, the stakes of a name are quite high. With a new name, a fish that was once never even considered edible by society becomes THE fish to eat. Sure it’s delicious … but what’s its NAME? Image via Evan Blaser/Flickr. Renamed fish can get […]
VIA MIC.com by Tom McKay Civilization was pretty great while it lasted, wasn’t it? Too bad it’s not going to for much longer. According to a new study sponsored by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, we only have a few decades left before everything we know and hold dear collapses. The report, written by applied […]
VIA The Mind Unleashed by Sophie McAdam, TrueActivist.com This excellent short film from activist Wesley PP Hall does a fantastic job of simplifying concepts that our leaders and mainstream media would prefer us to dismiss as confusing or complex. The voiceover is provided by John Perkins, who wrote the book ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’, a shocking expose of international corruption. The […]
VIA The Atlantic by James Bennet In his offices overlooking Lake Washington, just east of Seattle, Bill Gates grabbed a legal pad recently and began covering it in his left-handed scrawl. He scribbled arrows by each margin of the pad, both pointing inward. The arrow near the left margin, he said, represented how governments worldwide […]
