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Why Care About the N.S.A.? The End of Journalism & Privacy

by Pier Marton | Dec 6, 2013 | History, Human Rights, Ideas, Now, Politics, Tech, US, Wars, Women, World, Youth

Below, a short video clip by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger (“We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists” -& currently on a documentary on Aaron Swartz) answering these typical questions – with Daniel Ellsberg “the infrastructure for a police state,” the...

Yeb Saño: If Not Now When?

by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2013 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Eco, Education, Food, France, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Magyar, Middle-East, Native, Now, Politics, Sci/Nat, Time, World

Complete Speech: Before going on a hunger strike, Yeb Saño tells UN summit in Warsaw “colossal devastation” from Typhoon Haiyan should serve as warning to planet. Philippines lead negotiator Yeb Saño addressed the opening session of the UN climate summit in Warsaw –...

Forget It All: Alzheimer’s Fatal Epidemic

by Pier Marton | Sep 23, 2013 | Care, Death, Doc, Health, Hispanic, Humor, Jewish, Mystery, Now, Poet, Sci/Nat, Time, Women

FIRST COUSIN REMOVED Alan Berliner: In Loving Memory of Edwin Honig 1919-2011 with a sort of trailer below, edited by Alan Berliner – The Alzheimer’s Association Website From the BBC: Currently 101 million people require care, but a report from Alzheimer’s Disease...

Fukushima en 2 Minutes ou Pourquoi Dire Non Au Nucléaire

by Pier Marton | Sep 18, 2013 | Asia, Care, Death, Eco, Food, Future Tech, Now, Peace, Sci/Nat

Comprendre la situation à Fukushima en deux minutes. Fukushima in two minutes: why and how everyday radioactive water leaks out of it (while you were watching, 132 gallons have done so). Related: Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know (National...

“What do you need to see?!”- “Vous Voulez Voir Quoi?!”

by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2013 | Death, Doc, Highlights, Human Rights, Middle-East, Now, Peace, Politics, Wars, Women, Youth

Napalm/Thermite onSchoolyard sur Cour d’École Aleppo, Syria – August 26, 2013 – Alep, Syrie le 26 Août, 2013 “What do you need to see?/Vous avez besoin de voir quoi?” Mohammed Abdullatif, Eyewitness/Témoin Hand in Hand for Syria was there (Dr. Rola and other...

Walzer: Blame the Liberals for Social Inequality

by Pier Marton | Aug 15, 2013 | Afri, Asia, Books, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Spectacle, US

Michael Walzer, the author of 27 book, is co-editor emeritus of From Haaretz (Please Subscribe!) Michael Walzer tells Haaretz || Blame the liberals for social inequality. An interview with the former co-editor of Dissent magazine on social democracy and the role Big...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus