“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson

Stop pretending it's a democracy.

We are sleep walking into a future where we can't guarantee the basic needs of our society. No amount of casino capitalism will protect us from ecological collapse. You can’t eat Bitcoin. The Bond market won’t heat your home. Time to produce the things we actually need.

Happy Birthday, Willie Nelson. April 29, 1933 (93 years old). We have got to start thinking about what kind of world we will leave behind for Willie!

Marco Rubio: For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)

This is how mass innocence is manufactured: When an American soldier dies, it is a tragedy with a name, a face, a hometown, a grieving family shown on the news. When a Vietnamese village was bombed, when a Yemeni wedding party was hit by a drone, when an Iranian girls' school

En la Inglaterra medieval, existían leyes que dictaban quién podía comer qué según la clase social. Nobleza: Venado, res, cordero, aves de caza. Los cortes más grasos. Asados enteros. Campesinos: Cebada, avena, guisantes, frijoles. Carne tal vez dos veces al año en festivales.

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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George Orwell

We are where we are.

So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chaıned to other human bodięs for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they

🇰🇵 North Korea has nukes - The world was at peace 🇵🇰 Pakistan has nukes - The world was at peace 🇷🇺 Russia has nukes - The world was at peace 🇨🇳 China has nukes - The world was at peace 🇮🇱 But when Israel falsely told Trump that Iran is just one week away from nukes - Trump

During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said: “Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece?

1. you are not separate; you never were, never could be 2. fear is a messenger; not a master 3. the mind is not a camera; it is a projector 4. the enemy is not the world; it is the ego 5. everything is connected

I think he has forgotten what he said a decade ago because the object of his speech has not changed.

Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at their best—lessons for building wealth & living a better life: Buffett: "Write your obituary and try to figure out how to live up to it. For business, you just want to make sure you don't make any mistakes that take you out of the game or come

The United States spends approximately $47,000 to $65,000 per year to incarcerate one person. It spends approximately $16,500 per year to educate one child. This arithmetic is not accidental. An educated person with economic options is a less reliable source of prison revenue