day arthur schopenhauer truth that is naked is the most beautiful and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes ; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself . arthur schopenhauer una nota sobre el terrorismo rafael s nchez ferlosio 14 10 2016 ahora la idea de que las muertes sin odio las eliminaciones son muertes limpias suele aplicarse para acreditar la necesidad de unas muertes ; donde no hay odio ni pasi n no hay subjetividad motivos irracionales y hay por tanto objetividad racionalidad ; y quien dice racionalidad dice necesidad y quien dice necesidad dice justicia . no parezca tan caricaturesco que a n los hay m s insensatos . el guardia se mata y se tira porque no hay nada personal contra l ; su muerte es solamente el medio de afrentar al poder que representa . full article always tell the truth . that way you don t have to remember what you said . mark twain the surveillance state descends on the dakota access pipeline spirit camp october 10 2016 aclu for the past six months at the confluence of the cannonball and missouri rivers history has been made at one of the largest international gatherings of indigenous people in recent history . representatives from well over 100 indigenous nations and thousands of people have camped prayed and taken action in solidarity with the standing rock sioux tribe against the construction of the dakota access pipeline on and near the tribe s sovereign land in north dakota . full article silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly . mahatma gandhi russia terror and taxes dominate debates ; climate poverty abortion barely mentioned by adam johnson oct 13 2016 fair a review of topics mentioned and questions asked in the first three presidential vice presidential debates shows a significant emphasis on russia terrorism and taxes pushing aside most other issues including climate change abortion education campaign finance and lgbtq rights . full article if you can not find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it ralph waldo emerson needed now a peace movement against the clinton wars to come by andrew levine october 7 2016 counterpunch barack obama won the 2009 nobel peace prize for not being george w. bush . this seemed unseemly at the time but not outrageous . seven years later it seems grotesque . as the steward in chief of the american empire obama continued bush s afghanistan and iraq wars and extended his war on terror into libya syria yemen somalia pakistan and elsewhere in africa and the middle east . full article bad sport of the day lewis hamilton nuestras convicciones m s arraigadas m s indubitables son las m s sospechosas . ellas constituyen nuestro l mite nuestros confines nuestra prisi n. jos ortega y gasset provoke . la ruptura radical y la cr tica audaz rika goyarrola 07 10 2016 ahora el manifiesto del primer n mero de la revista provoke firmado por los fot grafos takuma nakahira yutaka takanashi el cr tico koji taki y el poeta okada takahiro dec a en este preciso instante el lenguaje pierde sus referentes concretos en otras palabras su realidad para flotar en el espacio . como fot grafos debemos capturar con nuestra propia mirada los fragmentos de esta realidad que ya no puede ser aprehendida por el lenguaje y debemos producir activamente materiales visuales capaces de suscitar un nuevo lenguaje e ideas . full article buscamos cada noche con esfuerzo entre tierras pesadas y asfixiantes ese liviano p jaro de luz que arde y se nos escapa en un gemido . idea vilari o americans are still getting arrested for marijuana possession at staggering rates oct 5 2016 disinfo according to a new crime report published last week by the fbi the drug war is still a pervasive cause for arrest in the united states . the data which covers recorded arrests for violent crime and property crime as disclosed by local police departments revealed that arrests for simple possession of drugs mostly marijuana are still widespread across the country . full article de querer ser a creer que se es ya va la distancia de lo tr gico o lo c mico . jos ortega y gasset the forgotten libyan lessons and the syrian war by robert parry october 6 2016 consortiumnews.com most intelligent americans republicans as well as democrats now accept that they were duped into the iraq war with disastrous consequences but there is more uncertainty about the war on libya in 2011 as well as the ongoing proxy war on syria and the new cold war showdown with russia over ukraine . full article creo que la actitud m s l cida m s sana es tener presente que la vida y que el amor se acaban . idea vilari o qui a tu berta c ceres par c cile raimbeau octobre 2016 le monde diplomatique on veut du travail et du d veloppement en ce jour d avril 2016 une vingtaine de paysans brandissent leurs machettes autour d un meneur le pistolet la ceinture . face eux des am rindiens lencas accompagn s d cologistes de diverses nationalit s tentent de se rendre sur le site du barrage agua zarca . ils veulent poursuivre le combat de berta c ceres honor e par le prix goldman pour l environnement en 2015 et assassin e un an plus tard ou celui de nelson garc a tu quinze jours apr s elle . bient t la d l gation internationale doit reculer pour chapper aux lames mena antes et aux jets de pierres . les policiers demeurent immobiles . full article la vida es una serie de colisiones con el futuro ; no es una suma de lo que hemos sido sino de lo que anhelamos ser . jos ortega y gasset politkovskaja a 10 anni dalla morte una lunga catena di delitti all ombra del cremlino di fabrizio dragosei 6 ottobre 2016 corriere della sera tava tornando a casa con la spesa quel sabato pomeriggio di dieci anni fa anna politkovskaya la giornalista investigativa di novaya gazetache tanto fastidio dava al potere con le sue inchieste . ma nell androne del numero 8 di ulitsa lesnaya non era sola . davanti all ascensore appostato da pochi minuti c era un giovane vestito di nero con in mano una pistola automatica che la uccise con freddezza professionale . tre quattro colpi al corpo e poi un ultimo proiettile alla testa mentre anna cadeva in terra e i pomodori rotolavano sul pavimento . full article la noche no era el sue o era su boca era su hermoso cuerpo despojado de sus gestos in tiles . idea vilari o obama s gift to israel and lockheed by jp sottile september 30 2016 consortiumnews.com the israeli lobby wins again that s the obvious takeaway from president barack obama s historically large but not quite unprecedented 38 billion aid package to bibi netanyahu s supposedly intransigent government . in israel the ten year deal is seen as a solid but not complete victory for bibi . in the u.s. the deal looks like it s the cost of doing business with iran . sadly the deal also looks like a bad sign of things to come for the palestinian people . full article bad loser of the day valentino rossi keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you . walt whitman to keep a river running earth island journal robert walker tuesday september 6 2016 internationalrivers.org deep in the amazon s central basin one tribe is holding back the seemingly inexorable march of development . it came in low guns bristling through the open bay . such a strange apparition like a giant insect almost familiar but for its unnatural sound and fury and the faces staring down at them striped in the black and green warpaint of the pariwat outsider . with school in session no one thought to ask about the unwelcome intrusion by radioing funai the brazilian government s agency for indigenous affairs . as the shooting started it reminded some of carnaval firecrackers in jacareacanga . but only for an instant . the munduruku knew pariwat gunfire when they heard it so they ran . the one young man not out hunting adenilson munduruku was killed by a bullet to the back of the head execution style . could the brazilian armed forces have mistaken adenilson for an illegal gold miner as they hovered over a munduruku village and gazed upon an indigenous culture engaged in its daily rituals any such explanation must be rejected given that a dozen people were injured in the november 2012 attack children among them . one of the munduruku villagers later told human rights activist ma ra irigaray amazon watch we knew immediately that this was intimidation because of our stand against the dams planned for tapaj s. full article we talk about the internet . that comes from science . weather forecasting . that comes from science . the main idea in all of biology is evolution . to not teach it to our young people is wrong . bill nye evoluci n. la teor a que lleg por mar arantza pr danos 30 09 2016 ahora dos de octubre de 1836 falmouth inglaterra . llegu a casa a ltima hora de anoche . mi cabeza est confusa con tanto regocijo . despu s de haber llenado exhaustivamente decenas de bit coras cient ficas cuadernos de campo y diarios personales durante un lustro de navegaci n al joven charles robert darwin le cuesta describir su estado de nimo una vez en tierra firme . acababa de despedirse de su hogar flotante de los ltimos cinco a os el hms beagle nav o del almirantazgo en misi n de exploraci n hidrogr fica por los mares de medio mundo . no volver a a embarcar jam s. el futuro autor de el origen de las especies 1859 ignoraba cu n lejos habr a de conducirle aquella traves a en adelante . desconoc a a n que sus observaciones en latitudes remotas derribar an al ser humano del pedestal de la creaci n divina aunque quiz pudo intuir ya algo de su alcance transformador respecto de s mismo . el viaje del beagle ha sido de largo el acontecimiento m s importante de mi vida . ha determinado toda mi carrera subray en su autobiograf a. full article in the literal sense there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from africa . but there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights justice and freedom along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society . noam chomsky la pulseada por la verdad por sandra russo s bado 01 de octubre de 2016 p gina 12 la realidad argentina est cruzada en los medios por un falso dilema entre la mentira y la verdad . aceleradamente los debates medi ticos sobre todos los temas se vuelven cotorreos en los que indefectiblemente dos polemistas uno defendiendo a cambiemos y el otro cuestion ndolo trepan a un punto insoportable en el que uno le dice al otro est s mintiendo y el otro le contesta no mientas m s . full article congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress fair play and justice . e. l. doctorow tree of the day silver birch if you