by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Human Rights, Ideas, Podcasts(E), Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Wars
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Face To Face (a Russell interview at age 90) http://youtu.be/OziPcicgmbw http://youtu.be/TedtMmUq8ig...
by Pier Marton | Dec 22, 2012 | Middle-East, Politics, Wars, Women
From The Guardian: The Israeli and the Palestinian: ‘We have discovered this joint pain’ It was only later, after the intense shock had subsided and a heavy pain was starting to bed in, that Robi Damelin was told what her first words were on hearing...
by Pier Marton | Dec 21, 2012 | Death, Humor, Politics
Today’s NRA News Conference – an Onion prediction from May 2012 – NRA Sets 1,000 Killed In School Shooting As Amount It Would Take For Them To Reconsider Much Of Anything ‘Yeah, Something Like 1,000 Dead Kids,’ Reports Spokesperson News •...
by Pier Marton | Dec 18, 2012 | Humor, Politics, Popular, Quotes
POLITICS MEANS I AM NOT TELLING YOU MY INTENTIONS. I am showing you an action that is causing a reaction from you while I am playing another chess piece over here. And together I will triangulate some secretive way where I WILL ACHIEVE POWER OVER YOU. I am not trying...
by Pier Marton | Dec 16, 2012 | Jewish, Politics, Spectacle, Wars
Updated (Feb. 2013) Violence Has a Price. As Arne Naess would have said: EVERYTHING COUNTS – LET US USE EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO STOP THIS. One look, and your life was absolutely changed. Michael McGowan, one of the first police officers to arrive at Sandy Hook...
by Pier Marton | Dec 6, 2012 | Ideas, Idées, Middle-East, Politics, Sci/Nat, Wars, Women
Source: (check out) BBC 4’s Open Sesame – Science in the Desert with David Shukman – Available for the next year. Peace through Science! SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a “third-generation”...