February 2012
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The Life Span of Fiat Currencies
self-ownership:
Here are some interesting points from a study of over 775 fiat currencies.
Shortest life span: 1 month
Average life span: 27 years
Longest life span: 317 years (pound sterling). However, the pound sterling has lost 99.5% of its original value.
So, what happened to these currencies?
20% failed through hyperinflation
21% were destroyed by war
12% destroyed by independence
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baseballlibertarian:
Wikileaks strikes again
Hopefully Wikileaks is never stopped. The truth always needs to be known.
Tomorrow morning 25 media organizations across the globe (including Rolling Stone and McClatchy here in America) will publish stories based on a massive cache of emails obtained by Wikileaks. According to a press release on the Wikileaks website, the emails are from the...
materialpossibilities:
stfuhypocrisy:
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abaldwin360:
Food for thought.
Really? Are you people Serious? One is a terrorist, the other a strongly religious man. No I do not agree with his ideas and options but to post something so… so idiotic. There is a fucking difference, stop hating on Christianity and complaining about them being ‘bigoted’ and ‘narrow...
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“Now because the majority of abortions are performed in the first trimester, if...”
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JON STEWART, on Virginia’s inhumane, inhuman and shameful “personhood” law that requires women wanting to get an abortion to, in essence, be subject to rape, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
What kind of weird fucking ultrasounds have you heard of?
(via captainjackjohnson)
IF YOU WANT TO...
Dear Everyone, Start Watching Al Jazeera.
sabersandphasers:
brittanysaysrelax:
I’ve been watching the Live Stream of Al Jazeera for the last 45 minutes, and
Right now, Al Jazeera is doing a story about the American media is irresponsibly reporting that Iran is a threat. The Media is actually heavily contributing to the War Mongering of this country. And while most of the American people are blind to this, the international news media...
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“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via cadburycrazed)
Seriously, white people... stop. Stop trying to...
jonaki:
meravie:
angrybrownbaby:
First off, read this letter. If that doesn’t get through to you, finish my post.
Locs are not traditionally yours and if you wear dreadlocs, you’re appropriating a hairstyle you have no business trying in the first place.
Let me show you.
Suzan-Lori Parks
Erykah Badu:
Gorgeous ladies, right? Okay now check this person out:
I don’t know who this is...
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“I’ll tell you what: I don’t criticize Lysander (Spooner). His point is very well...”
– Ron Paul (via a-petro-manifesto)
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Watchself-ownership:
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producermatthew:
Police shot and killed a pursuit suspect in Southern California Thursday evening not too far from where the Oscar Awards are to be held this weekend. The 40-year-old suspect was believed to have a firearm, according to police. [KCBS/KCAL]
Literal “what the fuck” moment. How is it okay for police to just shot someone that is SUSPECTED to...
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“A Denver family was supposed to be in Belize this week enjoying a beach getaway...”
– Denver family stranded after passport denied because of crease | KDVR.com is the website for KDVR Television, FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado
Back in the Bush days, you’d sometimes hear conservatives tell liberals and libertarians that they should just leave the country if they didn’t like what it...
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“From this we see why our ideas so often cause horror. Many people have but one...”
– “Existentialism is a Humanism” Jean-Paul Sartre (via monocled—misanthrope)
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[Link] Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. →
socialjusticeally:
It’s a short story, so read it.
This is the world social justice advocates think they want.
I love this story.
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crythias:
Deli mustard
Dijon mustard
“plain” mustard
Chinese mustard
Gulden’s mustard
You can’t have just one flavor. I need them all.
My personal favorite, goes on every fucking sammich.
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