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Augster posted:Hey I recognize that Yup!    (Shep Fairey)  PS. If anyone has any Soviet propaganda posters/photos of those cool-as-heck cubist-type statues please share  E: like this: 
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Augster posted:Hey I recognize that Breitbart put it more succinctly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o&t=50s
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  quote:August 7: Anniversary of the Marin County courthouse rebellion
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I'm sort of afraid to ask: is this intended to say lol frivolous women! or lol frivolous media!? 
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TFNC posted:I'm sort of afraid to ask: is this intended to say lol frivolous women! or lol frivolous media!? definite frivolous media. It was the summary of the top stories on some day in July 
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Exclamation Marx posted:PS. If anyone has any Soviet propaganda posters/photos of those cool-as-heck cubist-type statues please share You came to the right place, here's a few of my favourites:      
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...what? Anyway, some pictures from yesterday, we blocked all truck acess to our city's port in protest against Dilma's refusal to negotiate with strikers. To those who do not know, brazilian universities have been on strike for about 3 months now. Our claims include better carrer plans for university teachers, more student scholarships and handouts (no such thing as student loans over here, public education is free, including universities) and more broadly increased education spending.  (the sign reads NEGOTIATE DILMA)   The national strike council is sick and tired of the government playing hardball and postponing talks, so the general paradigm now is radicalization. Dean offices are being occupied and in Rio's UFRJ the university staff burned tires in the universities acess routes (just for clarification, the strike includes students teachers and staff, everyone's on the same side). The idea is to pressure the government economically so they come to the negotiation table. edit: poo poo, breaking tables
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 Hedy Lamarr (1913 – 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age". When she worked with Max Reinhardt in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe" due to her "strikingly dark exotic looks", a sentiment widely shared by her audiences and critics. Mathematically talented, Lamarr also co-invented—with composer George Antheil—an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary for wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.
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 This at first appearance pretty boss looking fellow was in his time the director of a certain business venture which the humanitarian Roger Casement, known for his anti-slavery work that helped curb the atrocities caused by rubber extraction in the Congo Free State, graced with the following words of praise: “This Putumayo Slavery is indeed, as Hardenburg said (...) a bigger crime than that of the Congo”. The gentleman above is known as Julio Cesar Arana and he did the impossible: He showed the world that the heart of darkness may not be the home of the worst terrors. Casement, whose industriousness and bravery had known no bounds when he exposed the atrocity factory that the Congo Free State had become under the guidance of the Belgian king Leopold II who had personal ownership of the state, found his next target in the Putumayo, a 1000-kilometer long tributary river of the Amazon which was at the time one of the rubber boom areas in South America.  my antislavery brings all the boys to the yard The rubber boom was by no means the first industry to penetrate the area. Quinine-seekers and others had passed through already, but none did quite so profoundly disturb the ecology and societies of the area as rubber did, the ecological impact being that the harvesting methods used were chosen based on speed and usually this meant killing the trees in one area by tapping them as much as possible before moving on to the next one. Arana started his project by trading with Colombian rubber traders who had established themselves at the Caraparaná and Igaraparaná tributaries of the Putumayo. These traders had slowly arrived since 1880s and claimed areas and the Indians living in them their property, their conquests as common phrase had it. Arana owed his eventual domination of the area's trade to his methods and his location. From up the river the Colombian rubber traders would rather sell the material downriver rather than upriver to Colombia or other possible routes. To provide the rubber itself the traders had established a debt peonage system (that still survives in the Amazon today) by various means, either trading wares to Indians that would accept them and persuading or forcing them to collect rubber as payment, or simply either taking the women and children of a village hostage or just forcing a debt upon any Indian they could find, then making them work to pay back a fraction of that imaginary debt. It doesn't really matter whether you believe in the debt shouldered upon you in such a way or not when it is given at gunpoint.  Arana used the same methods as the Colombians he initially set to trade with and then eclipse, but since he wanted to control the rubber collection itself, not being content simply as buyer for the Colombians, he sent hundreds of paid men, many originally from Barbados looking to do any work that was offered, into the jungle. Isolated and completely dependent on Arana's organization for supplies and pay the hired men quickly noticed that they would have to extract large quantities of rubber to avoid becoming indebted to Arana (or to pay off interest in debts already accumulated). To gather more rubber they began to methodically enslave the local indigenous population and force them to work in their stead. Prior to Arana's paid labour there had been much variation between the methods used by the rubber traders varying from attempts at some kind of only slightly parasitic coexistence where the traders used peaceful means to get a tribe or village into a situation where they would have to provide rubber to outright violence perpetrated by characters of very unusual passions: "[A particularly cruel Colombian trader and fugitive from the law] Don Crisóstomo was himself killed, 'accidentally' shot by one of his companions of conquest. Crawling along the floor in his own blood, Don Crisóstomo beckoned for his gun in the corner. But nobody would accede to his last request, for they well knew [..] that he would die killing, taking as many of his companions with him as he could." In the period between 1900 and 1907 Arana's men slowly penetrated the length of the river and either bought out Colombians, persuaded or forced them to join the PAC, brutalized them into leaving the area or simply killed them. An account of how a former trading partner was treated by Arana's thugs may provide a small taste of what the PAC meant to the local indigenous population. "One of them, David Serrano, told Hardenburg how but a month before a 'commission' of Arana's had chained him to a tree and then these model employees of the 'civilizing company', as they called themselves, forcibly entering his wife's room, dragged the unhappy womand on the porch, and there, before the tortured eyes of the helpless Serrano, the chief of the commission outraged his unhappy victim. They took all his rubber, together with his wife and his son, and Serrano heard later that she was being used as a concubine by the criminal [Miguel] Loayza while his tender son acted as a servant to the repugnant monster." By the time of Casement's arrival, the area's rubber trade was completely in the hands of Arana and his Peruvian Amazon Company and the effect of this on the river's population may be inferred from what Joseph Conrad wrote about the mental state of Casement upon his return from South America: "[...]He faced the horrors, hardships and dangers of Putumayo with the same disinterested eagerness he had always shewn. He came back in a state of nervous collapse so serious that he often wakened shrieking in the night, and there were certain photographs and notes he brought back that he could not look at without terribly intense mental agitation and physical emotion." The tone of the correspondence within the Peruvian Amazon Company, as displayed by a letter from the company's manager in Iquitos to director Arana himself, was rather different: ...as you are aware, in undertakings like ours the capital is applied to and spent in conquering or more properly attracting to work and civilization the savage tribes... However, the PAC's incentives for getting the savages interested in work must have given the indians a very curious view of what being civilized actually means. “Around 800 Ocaina Indians arrived in La Chorrera [PAC’s main rubber-gathering station] to hand over the products they had harvested (…) After they were weighed, the man who led them, Fidel Velarde, selected 25 of them, accusing them of laziness. This accusation made by Velarde was enough for Macedo and his accomplices to order that sacks dipped in gasoline were placed on the Indians like a tunic and set alight. The order was duly obeyed and one had the dreadful image of those miserable [Indians] emitting sharp and doleful screams running towards the river hoping to leap in and save themselves; but all of them died”  "Because of an order from above, Flores killed only 40 Indians in two months, but flogging, torture and mutilations continued. They cut off fingers, arms, ears and legs and [the Indians] were castrated. These deeds were done by one of the accused -- an employee of J. C. Arana and Brothers" "Another edifying spectacle that we witnessed was the condition of the poor Indians who loaded and unloaded the vessels that stopped at the port. There were from fifty to sixty of these unfortunates, so weak, debilitated, and scarred that many of them could hardly walk. It was a pitiful sight to see these poor Indians, practically naked, their bones almost protruding through their skins, and all branded with the infamous marca de Arana [flogging scars] staggering up the steep hill, carrying upon their doubled backs enormous weights of merchandise for the consumption of their miserable oppressors. Occasionally one of these unfortunate victims of Peruvian 'civilisation' would fall under his load, only to be kicked up on his feet and forced to continue his stern labours by the brutal 'boss.'"  It is as if in their speed to discharge their own financial obligations and the constant threat of the higher ups in the PAC simply cutting the supply lines of any rubber station (as the collection houses along the river were called) that resisted its will resulted in a culture of wanton piracy and violence, the PAC sending small river boats full of armed men to menace both the Colombian traders they felt confident enough to challenge and the locals. Casement estimated that at least 40,000 Indians must have perished during PAC's operations, which seems a paltry number compared to the estimated millions of Congolese murdered during its rubber boom, but the small population of invaders in the Putumayo yet somehow still manage to shock with their disturbing inventiveness. The quotes below are from Putumayo - The Devil's Paradise which contains the testimony of W. Hardenburg who was captured by PAC thugs and taken prisoner for some time. "Thus it is to their advantage to extract the greatest amount of rubber in the least possible space of time, and to do this the Indians must either be paid or punished. If paid, the payment must be great enough to tempt a placid, indolent Indian to continuous exertion ; if punished, the punishment must be severe enough to extract from his fears what cannot be obtained from an appeal to his cupidity. As the " civilising company " apparently does not believe in paying for what it can obtain otherwise, the rule of terror has been adopted throughout the company's dominions. Those who have studied the history of the Congo will see here preciselythe same conditions which produced such lamentable results in the Belgian companies' sphere of operations. It would be strange indeed if, under such a system, some sort of abuse did not take place[...] 1. The pacific Indians of the Putumayo are forced to work day and night at the extraction of rubber, without the slightest remuneration except the food necessary to keep them alive. 2. They are kept in the most complete nakedness, many of them not even possessing the biblical fig- leaf. 3. They are robbed of their crops, their women, and their children to satisfy the voracity, lascivious - ness, and avarice of this company and its em- ployees, who live on their food and violate their women. 4. They are sold wholesale and retail in Iquitos, at prices that range from £20 to £40 each. 5. They are flogged inhumanly until their bones are laid bare, and great raw sores cover them. 6. They are given no medical treatment, but are left to die, eaten by maggots, when they serve as food for the chiefs' dogs. 7. They are castrated and mutilated, and their ears, fingers, arms, and legs are cut off. 8. They are tortured by means of fire and water, and by tying them up, crucified head down. 9. Their houses and crops are burned and destroyed wantonly and for amusement. 10. They are cut to pieces and dismembered with knives, axes, and machetes. 11. Their children are grasped by the feet and their heads are dashed against trees and walls until their brains fly out. 12. Their old folk are killed when they are no longer able to work for the company. [...] Another sad sight was the large number of involuntary concubines who pined — in melancholy musings over their lost liberty and their present sufferings— in the interior of the house. This band of unfortunates was composed of some thirteen young girls, who varied in age from nine to sixteen years, and these poor innocents — too young to be called women — were the helpless victims of Loayza and the other chief officials of the Peruvian Amazon Company's El Encanto branch, who violated these tender children without the slightest compunction, and when they tired of them either murdered them or flogged them and sent them back to their tribes. [...] This state of affairs is intolerable. The region monopolised by this company is a living hell — a place where unbridled cruelty and its twin-brother, lust, run riot, with consequences too horrible to put down in writing. It is a blot on civilisation ; and the reek of its abominations mounts to heaven in fumes of shame." But that was then and that kind of things don't happen anymore, right? sources: M. Taussig: Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man Charles C. Mann: 1493 D. Graeber: Debt - the First 5000 Years W. Hardenburg: Putumayo - The Devil's Paradise http://www.archive.org/stream/putumayodevilspa00hardrich/putumayodevilspa00hardrich_djvu.txt http://www.lab.org.uk/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=the-putumayo-atrocities-an-amazon-heart-of-darkness.html&blogger=Farje&Itemid=59 Deleuzionist fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Aug 11, 2012 |
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Well at least Archie and Jughead are out of the closet now. Also, when did Archie become manga? Archie does his part for the civil rights movement. "We allow blacks to eat here, so why wouldn't animals be allowed to order?" Keep it classy Arch.  Archie's first interracial kiss. Is this from the 60s? Archie really is on the cutting edge. Oh, 2010? Also, the catgirl seems to cement Archie's manga status. Or maybe she's just a furry? How the gently caress should I know. 
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That's Valerie from Josie and the Pussycats.  EDIT: She and Archie had a baby together earlier this year:  EDIT: Sorry about the leeching. Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Aug 12, 2012 |
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A buddy of mine just changed his Facebook profile picture to this:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XP_QbU580 Mayor of Reykjavík salutes Pussy Riot at Gay Pride. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Aug 12, 2012 |
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 Indiana, PA Evening Gazette - 9 August 1945 posted:The utter desolation facing the Japanese, unless they surrender, as result of development of the atomic bomb is illustrated on the map above. Scientists say that if 1000 of the new weapons were exploded within each of the five circled areas, they would destroy virtually all life and property in the enemy homeland.
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Facebook friend got a picture of Romney in Ashland, Virginia today yeah it's instagram but whatever
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How quaint.  I always wondered who made the KKK's LARPing costumes.  Oh, hello depressing image. 
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Augster posted:Facebook friend got a picture of Romney in Ashland, Virginia today I don't know what dates this photo more, the Intagram filter or the that digital camera from 1997. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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FCKGW posted:I don't know what dates this photo more, the Intagram filter or the that digital camera from 1997. I don't know what's more embarrassing for you, your terrible spelling, your bizarre digital camera opinions or the fact that you're too stupid to obey the one rule this thread has. 
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quote:A 1944 opinion poll found that 13% of the U.S. public were in favor of the extermination of all Japanese. 
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Mr Cuddles posted:I don't know what's more embarrassing for you, your terrible spelling, your bizarre digital camera opinions or the fact that you're too stupid to obey the one rule this thread has. Snap.  G20 Toronto
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That's as good a place as any to post this: 442nd Infantry Regiment and the Nisei Brigade.  Units of Japanese-Americans who fought in World War II... in Europe. One of those "yeah, we trust you... but, hey, Italy!" I'll leave it to the gallery as to how to interpret these cats, but regardless it's pretty fascinating. Here's the modern 442nd, 100th Battalion, out of the Army Reserve, still in Hawaii. For those GiP, yes, apparently even though they're infantry they're in the AG vice National Guard for whatever weird reason: 
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Here's the modern 44nd, 100th Battalion, out of the Army Reserve, still in Hawaii. For those GiP, yes, apparently even though they're infantry they're in the AG vice National Guard for whatever weird reason: The battalion is out of Hawaii but they've got companies on other islands like Guam and Samoa. They replaced my unit at the end of my last deployment, they were some pretty chill dudes. Their B company speaks Samoan on their internal radio frequencies, it's pretty cool. Unsurprisingly, they got treated like poo poo during their predeployment training by racist assholes who never even let anyone below the rank of lieutenant (oddly enough lots of their junior officers were white guys pulled from the IRR) write an op order and they got treated like dumb children the whole time. Yet another reason I'm glad I got out.  Miners at Blair Mountain, West Virginia posing with a dud bomb dropped on them by private aircraft that had been hired by the local Sheriff. They dropped high explosive and chemical rounds on the miners. After the battle almost 1,000 miners were tried for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, accessory to murder and treason against West Virginia. All because they had the temerity to unionize.
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All that 442nd brigade made me curious about the Puerto Rican 65th infantry regiment "Borinqueneers" (a portmanteau of Bonrinquen and Buccaneers).  Here is their coat of arms with that stupid loving sheep that is in the Puerto Rico coat of arms. Seriously gently caress that sheep, anyways one day the big wigs had a brilliant idea! "What would happen if we combine the forces of the Army, navy, air-force and marines to liberate an island occupied by enemy forces?"  Operation "PORTREX" From Wikipedia: quote:The 65th Infantry Regiment distinguished itself when the United States conducted a military exercise code named "Operation PORTEX", meaning Puerto Rico Exercise, on the island of Vieques on the eve of the Korean War. The objective was to see how the combined forces of the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force would do as liberators of an enemy captured territory (Vieques) against the aggressors. The core of the aggressor ground forces were made up of Hispanic soldiers, most of which belonged to the 65th Infantry Regiment. Good God I can smell the  from that statement. That makes me loving proud, probably this will get the respect for them right? Again from Wikipedia: quote:Mass court martial loving academy graduates.
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I had to stop and do a double take with this pic. Chinese militia 1945. Two guns in this photo. One looks like a Thompson clone, but the rifle in the foreground made me really stare. 
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ElMaligno posted:loving academy graduates. I'm fond of the slur "ring knocker" myself. For those unfamiliar, graduates of US service academies have these huge, gaudy Jostens-esque class rings. I've heard varying etymologies, but personally my understanding was that Academy grads could call upon their ol' boys network advantage by knocking their ring against the table to emphasise that they were Academy grads vice nasty plebians who went to State schools and then graduated Officer Candidate School. Completely anecdotal, but I didn't particularly notice Academy grads as being any better or worse officers than anyone else, which is pretty baffling considering they spend four years in a military environment before commissioning. Whereas other officers were either in ROTC and spent a scattering of hours per week doing .mil stuff, or are plain OCS graduates who wore hippy hair and nipple piercings and got drunk through all of college, but then got a wild hair and passed a drat 8-10 week course and got the exact same lieutenants bars as the other schmucks.  Anyway, on a separate note we're discussing "OMG Obama wants to sterilise 15yr old white girls without parental consent!!!!" in the Freep thread. That reminded me of a film I saw... shite, 17 years ago. If you speak Spanish, and/or are a generally patient person and interested in Bolivian socialist film, this is worth a look-see on YouTube: [b]Sangre del Condor ("Blood of the Condor") or Yawar Mallku in Quechua. I won't give away the plot twist, but it's a film about indigenous Bolivians getting dicked over by American imperialism, and subsequently by the criollo (Euro-descended) upper class. It's a bit old school, but a film worth seeing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4cH8w5WEk  In all seriousness, if some film aficionado goon buckles down and watches this, it'd be great to get your opinion/endorsement here.
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Soviet Commubot posted:
I wonder why no one has ever made a Braveheart/Gettysburg/Saving Private Ryan style movie about the battle with the miners as underdog heroes. Bill Blizzard and his comrades deserve to have a lot more people know of their fight. You could even pull a Inglorious Basterds and have the miners win the battle changing US history for the better. A picture related to the video I poster earlier.  Photo by Ásta María Karlsdóttir
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Here's my favourite US Army unit:
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Ras Het posted:Here's my favourite US Army unit:  Another victim of the anarcho-communist clique that secretly controls d&d (Clumsy banned him because he sperged out in CD about how the pictures thread was full of communists.) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I never realised I was a C-C-Communist  Thanks for sharing, ekuNNN. Cosmonauts!    
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FreudianSlippers posted:I wonder why no one has ever made a Braveheart/Gettysburg/Saving Private Ryan style movie about the battle with the miners as underdog heroes. Bill Blizzard and his comrades deserve to have a lot more people know of their fight. 
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