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In 1979, Audrey Lorde wrote “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house”. Change, she argued, must come from the recognition of those differences and the interdependency of those differences, rather than any affiliation or reliance on the ‘master’s house’ for support. Lorde’s words are at the heart of the dilemma of many attempts to effect change: to what extent do you collaborate with ‘the enemy’ or create an alternative from the position of ‘outside’? Lorde took the position that there was an ‘outside’ to fight from. While this may have been the case in the 1970s, by the 1990s Thatcher’s slogan, ‘there is no alternative’ seems to have succeeded in reducing the notion of an outside. One could argue that ‘resistance’ is now either considered to be an act of terrorism or a subversive advertising campaign.
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You wouldn’t think a war could start over such simple ideas. To be young and aware is to see old people—from the U.S. Senate to Wall Street, from newspaper editorial desks to corporate boardrooms—stalling action on every front, spouting platitudes about “balance,” committing themselves wholeheartedly to actions to be undertaken long after they’ve retired and died. To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.
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This is the Terrafon, which is basically a huge turntable for the earth. Designed by artists Olle Cornéer and Martin Lübcke, the Terrafon premiered at the Volt Music Festival in Sweden.
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from Bookmarklet
errrm what was i thinking there, that was supposed to read Besiktas - Fenerbahce. . :/
Congratulations!! The first Kiva Lending Team to reach $1,000,000 in loans is the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious! The team consists of almost 6,000 Kiva Lenders and together they have made 32,946 loans totaling $1,000,625.00 to Kiva Entrepreneurs - quite the feat and something we at Kiva are super excited about!
- mersenne
bir daha okuyun "Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious!" ahlaksız ahlakçı ve dinbazlar "din olmadan iyilik olmaz". "öbür dünya korkusu olmasa herkes suç işlerdi" gibi uyduruk şeyler söylemeyi sever. aklı başında herkes bunun böyle olmadığını bilir de, böyle ufak örneklerle hatırlatmak güzel.
- mersenne
Burdur'da köylü kadınlar için de microcredit sistemi reklam ediliyor... Grameen Bank, TC devlet teşviki de var sanırım içinde.
- Burak Arikan
kiva'yı kullanırken içimde hep bir endişe oluyor. gerçekten işe yarıyor mu, yoksa tamamen bozulmuş bir sistemde yara bantlarıyla çarkları döndürmeye mi çalışıyoruz diye. kiva aracılığıyla yardım etmiş olmak, insanı biraz rahatlatıp gazını da alıyor, mücadele edilmesi gereken asıl meseleleri kaçırmama neden oluyormuş gibi (tamamen kişisel bir problem tabi, yoksa kiva geri dönüşü yüksek olan ve gerçekten çalışan bir sistem)
- sizofroid
sizofroid bu durum çok dile getirilen bir gerçek haklısın. yardım kurumları modern dünyanın çarklarının bir dişlisi, ama her zaman bir ikilem var. bu yardımlar kalıcı mücadelenin yanında 3. dünya ülkelerinin yaşam kalitesini bir parça olsun yükseltiyor, çünkü mikrokredi sistemi direk kişilere gidiyor. elinden fazlası gelen diğer mücadeleleri etmeli tabiki ama mikrokredi diğer bağış sistemlerine oranla daha iyi gibi geliyor bana.
- mersenne
mikrokredi uygulamasının çeşitli türleri var. Bunlar içinde istismar edilenler de var. Kiva'nın yoksullara müthiş katkıları da var, kiva'yı dolandıranlar da var. Mikrokredi, yoksulluğun kökünü kazır mı kazımaz mı daha beklemek gerekiyor ama milyonlarca insanı yoksulluktan kurtardığı da ortada.
- Sarper Sılaoğlu
nacizane gorusum, microcredit anlayisinin icinde halen iyilestirilmesi gereken bircok sorun var, su yazida okuyabilirsiniz bir-iki tanesini, ve bunlari 'aid' dunyasinin yarattigi parazitik, bagimliliga dayali hayatta kalmadan ayirmak lazim: :http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index...
- nazli cakiroglu
Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.
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If the theorists are right, before it ever finds the Higgs, the LHC will see the first outline of something far bigger: the grand, overarching theory known as supersymmetry. SUSY, as it is endearingly called, is a daring theory that doubles the number of particles needed to explain the world. And it could be just what particle physicists need to set them on the path to fresh enlightenment.
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a good comment to a well-known question : For example, imagine a hypothetical reality of infinite size where different random things occured everywhere... different laws here, different rules there... anything and any rules you can possibly make up. Now, in this reality, somewhere, you would find laws that created objects with mass, and on those objects the laws allowed living things to...
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everyone that's made music with a randomized synth/sequencer knows that you can never beat random in terms of creativity.
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