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  • Tech Bro Guru: Inside the Sedona Cult of Bentinho Massaro
    A portrait of cult leader Bentinho Massaro (who I'd never heard of before) by Be Scofield who spent a month with the cult in Sedona. I think Scofield over-emphasizes the tech/startup angle... since when does having a website and an instagram account qualify as a  "brilliant" use of technology? It's like the commentators who still can't get over that ISIS members use Twitter.

    Scofield's description does certainly paint Massaro as a typical narcissist guru. Why does there always seem to be a few thousand people in Boulder and Sedona who feel a need to be financially fleeced and abusively told what to believe by an unrepentant liar? (I guess if the 2016 election is an indication, it's not a phenomenon limited to New Age hotspots.)
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    - archive.org - https://medium.com/@bescofield/tech-bro-guru-inside-the-sedona-cult-of-bentinho-massaro-a56314f830ef
    cult religion sedona
  • Garden hermit - Wikipedia
    "Garden hermits or ornamental hermits were hermits encouraged to live in purpose-built hermitages, follies, grottoes, or rockeries on the estates of wealthy land-owners, primarily during the 18th century. Such hermits would be encouraged to dress like druids and remain permanently on-site, where they could be fed, cared-for and consulted for advice or viewed for entertainment."
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    - archive.org - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
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  • Denver Park Rangers Take Sleeping Bag, Tent from Houseless Man in 25 Degree Weather - UNICORN RIOT
    "The park rangers took Jackson’s sleeping bag, blankets, and his tent, yet left all of his other property on the ground. Jackson and his comrades believe the park rangers only took the survival gear to force them into shelters or force them to move farther out of sight and out of mind."
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    - archive.org - https://www.unicornriot.ninja/2017/denver-park-rangers-take-sleeping-bag-tent-houseless-man-25-degree-weather/
    denver homeless police
  • caring labor: an archive | power to the caregivers and therefore to the class
    A great archive of works on caring and domestic labour.
    Thu Dec 21 13:48:12 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/
    site socialism work
  • Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
    I've not read the book, but I enjoyed this review. I like the idea of the Cambridge University Press debate series; I should browse the titles sometime.
    Wed Dec 20 17:00:29 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/capitalism-for-and-against-a-feminist-debate/
    feminism review
  • Channel Zero Anarchist Podcast Network
    This site aggregates several anarchist audio shows.
    Wed Nov 29 15:37:11 2017 - permalink -
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  • Man who burned flag celebrates $15K wrongful arrest settlement by burning another flag
    Wed Nov 29 10:51:18 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/345989/bryton-mellot-flag-burning-urbana-awarded-15000/
    law news
  • A Time for Treason – The New Inquiry
    The new Inquiry's reading list "created by a group of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Muslim, and Jewish people who are writers, organizers, teachers, anti-fascists, anti-capitalists, and radicals" for the Trump era.
    Tue Nov 28 10:42:00 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://thenewinquiry.com/a-time-for-treason/
    anarchism capitalism politics
  • Naomi Klein on the appeal of Subcomandante Marcos | Books | The Guardian
    Tue Nov 28 09:57:25 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/03/politics
    anarchism
  • Canada Prepares for a New Wave of Refugees as Haitians Flee Trump’s America
    50,000 Haitians are losing their Temporary Protected Status.

    "As the only U.S. immigration program that grants legal rights to migrants in response to environmental disasters, the fate of the program should be seen as a de facto test case for how the world’s wealthiest country, and its largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, is going treat the coming waves of climate refugees.

    "So far, the message is clear: Go back to a hell of our making."
    Tue Nov 28 00:47:48 2017 - permalink -
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    migration
  • Hipparchia of Maroneia - Wikipedia
    "Hipparchia of Maroneia (fl. c. 325 BC) was a Cynic philosopher, and wife of Crates of Thebes. She was born in Maroneia, but her family moved to Athens, where Hipparchia came into contact with Crates, the most famous Cynic philosopher in Greece at that time. She fell in love with him, and, despite the disapproval of her parents, she married him. She went on to live a life of Cynic poverty on the streets of Athens with her husband."
    Sat Nov 25 18:46:19 2017 - permalink -
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    cynicism philosophy
  • The Soviet Union Versus Socialism by Noam Chomsky
    "When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and moulded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction."
    Wed Nov 22 22:08:33 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://chomsky.info/1986____/
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    Mischief Brew - Thanks, Bastards! (early demos, roughs, outtakes...) [FULL ALBUM] - YouTube
    Full album of Mischief Brew's "Thanks, Bastards!" demo on Youtube.
    Wed Nov 22 11:22:47 2017 - permalink -
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    music
  • Meet New York’s beloved mass transit bandit | New York Post
    "Darius McCollum impersonates transit employees, steals their subway cars and buses, then drives off on the correct routes."

    It's more than a waste that the MTA thinks it is better to keep this guy in prison for years than to cut him a paycheck.

    Wikipedia entry for Darius McCollum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_McCollum
    Wed Nov 15 18:53:05 2017 - permalink -
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    work
  • Shabazz Suleman: British IS fighter says he spent time 'on PlayStation and riding bike'
    SkyNews interview with a young British ISIS fighter.
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    ISIS rojava
  • Favorite Antifa tactics posting thread
    One of the funniest r/ChapoTrapHouse threads ever.
    Tue Oct 31 19:55:10 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://np.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/79y6w4/favorite_antifa_tactics_posting_thread/
    antifa politics
  • 2017 St. Louis protests - Wikipedia
    Sizeable protests have been taking place in St. Louis almost every day since Officer Jason Stockley was acquitted in the shooting of Lamar Smith. Rebelutionary Z has been streaming most actions live on his stream: http://rebz.tv/
    Tue Oct 24 15:45:25 2017 - permalink -
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    police protest
  • Racist, violent, unpunished: A white hate group’s campaign of menace
    A profile of RAM, a white supremacist street-fighting club that's been attending many of the right-wing rallies around the country lately.
    Sun Oct 22 10:17:48 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.propublica.org/article/white-hate-group-campaign-of-menace-rise-above-movement
    fascism politics
  • ‘Fuck the Draft’: The amazing story of Kiyoshi Kuromiya, creator of the iconic protest poster | Dangerous Minds
    "Kiyoshi Kuromiya, born in a Japanese American internment camp in 1943 in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, was a prominent underground civil rights figure and gay rights activist. Kuromiya worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. in the mid-sixties and tending to King’s children in the aftermath of his assassination. He was a founder of Gay Liberation Front –Philadelphia, worked with the Black Panther Party to advocate for gay rights, co-authored a book on a utopian future through technology with Buckminster Fuller, and was a leading pioneer in the fight to promote AIDS awareness after his own diagnosis later in life."
    Fri Oct 20 20:10:20 2017 - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://dangerousminds.net/comments/fuck_the_draft_the_amazing_story_of_kiyoshi_kuromiya_creator_of_the_iconic
    art politics
  • The never before told story of the man in the infamous ‘FUCK THE DRAFT’ posters | Dangerous Minds
    An interview with Bill Greenshields.
    Fri Oct 20 20:09:46 2017 - permalink -
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    politics
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