THE #GOP AND #ALTRIGHT HAS MADE #AOC THEIR #PELOSI FOR 2020
WITH FAKE NEWS ABOUT HER TAKING OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

GOP Claims AOC Working Harder To Seize Control Of Democratic Party

The GOP trains its sights on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and The Squad, accusing them of pushing ahead with a socialist takeover of the Democratic Party.

THEY BEGAN THE DARK MONEY FAKE STORY IN THE SPRING AND RECYCLED IT THIS WEEK

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Ocasio-Cortez Has Ties To A Dark Money Group | The Daily ...

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Dark Money Group Linked To Ocasio-Cortez To Spend ...

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5 days ago - Daily Caller News Foundation logo ... Ocasio-Cortez has in the past called dark money the “enemy to ... Organize for Justice calls itself the “sister organization” of Justice Democrats ... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 17, 2018 ... on a month-old page called “Watercooler Politics,” Quartz reported.

AOC-linked dark money group to spend $500G attacking ...

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A Shadow Looms: Dark Money Tied to AOC is About to Shred ...

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5 days ago - According to the Daily Caller, AOC has ties to her own dark money group ... In fact, Quartz reports the group's already forked over $20,000 on ...

• WHAT SHE REALLY SAID
• Ocasio-Cortez Calls Out ICE Detentee Centers As Concentration Camps
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• AOC Challenges FBI On Handling Of White Supremacist Violence

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Pain is written on a cat's face, U of C researchers find

BILL KAUFMANN
Updated: January 17, 2020

Cats may be notoriously aloof, but their facial expressions are giving away their inner pain, says a University of Calgary researcher.

In fact, the scientist and his colleagues at the University of Montreal are confident enough in what felines’ furry grimaces tell us, they’ve crafted a handy photo manual into reading cat angst.

That six months of research at the Quebec university involving about 50 cats with pre-existing illnesses will help veterinarians better detect pain and provide relief that’s usually better-delivered to dogs, said Dr. Daniel Pang, associate professor of anesthesia and analgesia.

“Veterinarians have had a hard time measuring pain, especially in cats,” said Pang of the U of C.

“Something that works faster, it’s what we haven’t had.”

That feline 0-2 grimace scale measures the level of expression in cats’ muzzle tension, whiskers change, head and ears position and orbital tightening in their eyes.

Ginger relaxes on the examination table at a lab in the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. AZIN GHAFFARI / AZIN GHAFFARI/POSTMEDIA

“What people find easiest is looking at changes to their eyes, but you can’t look at just one thing, there are other indicators,” said Pang.

For instance, said the researcher, ears rotated outwards signal the presence of pain, as do squinted eyes.

Whiskers bunched together also denoted discomfort, according to the guide.

Cats that were used in the research had been suffering such maladies as trauma, intestinal conditions and skin problems, said Pang.

Resulting pain medication given the feline patients further confirmed the pain scales’ hunches, he added.

“Because our scales worked well for all those things, we’re pretty confident they’ll work well all-round,” he said.

Heavier shedding of fur, he said, could signal stress or a skin condition, “but isn’t as specific.”

As he explained the findings, which are part of a student’s PhD project three years in the making, Pang caressed an orange domestic long hair named Barney which leaned into his touch while a female named Ginger looked on.

“They’re both pretty happy cats,” said Pang.

That research was built on studies done on the facial features of cats’ traditional prey — mice and rats.

“Everything we learned from the rodent work, we kind of switched out that species and adapted it to cats,” said Pang, who co-authored the study with Dr. Paulo Steagall and lead author Marina Evangelista, PhD student at the University of Montreal.

“There are similar facial features in horses, cattle and sheep.”

A dog’s body language has always been more expressive and easier to interpret, said Pang.

“They’re easier to read and we’re more used to being around them, and cats don’t care (about being expressive),” he said.

How useful the scale is to cat owners isn’t quite as certain but should theoretically be beneficial, said Pang.

“Cat owners are great because they know their cat so well when they see a change, they tend to spot it anyway,” he said.

Interpreting the meaning of that change, Pang added, might not be so easy.
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CrimethInc.'s Lifestyle Anarchism: Is it Revolutionary or Just a Petty-Bourgeois Prank? 

(Anarchist Studies Network Conference 2008)

Peter Seyferth


CrimethInc.’s Lifestyle Anarchism: Is it Revolutionary or just a Petty Bourgeois Prank?
By Peter Seyferth

CrimethInc. is a youthful group of anarchists with roots in Situationism and subcultures like punk rock. In their aesthetically outstanding publications they advocate dropping out of school or work and adopting an ecstatic, fun-seeking, petty criminal counter-cultural lifestyle that they claim is anarchistic and revolutionary.

CrimethInc. has been attacked by several anarchists (mostly adherents of syndicalist or insurrectionist lifestyles) for different reasons: According to those critics, CrimethInc. is a bunch of arrogant, privileged, white middle-class kids. Therefore CrimethInc. has no class analysis or “real theory” and does not understand or explain capitalism fully. They are much too simplistic and reduce society to the tension between having fun and being bored, while they should reduce it to class antagonism. They also ignore the central role of white supremacy. Consequently, CrimethInc. initiates actions that are not only useless (like Food Not Bombs or squatting) and non-threatening to capitalism and the state (because counter-cultures validate the dominant culture), but that are in fact dependent on capitalism’s oppression of non-whites and the poor, and that are hence directed against revolution. What CrimethInc. should do, according to the critics, is to provide serious revolutionary information (about school and workplace unions, about solidarity with struggling communities, about building social centers, and about supporting prisoners and asylum seekers etc.) and to engage in physical attacks on the system (e.g. bombing police stations).

For the most part, these criticisms are reactions to CrimethInc.’s introductory book Days of War Nights of Love (2000). Since then, many books, journals, papers, pamphlets, and other publications have been released by the CrimethInc. collective. In those works they defend their perspective and present it as part of a broader, more inclusive approach to revolution: There is not one objectively right way to overthrow capitalism, but there are many—and this is a strength rather than weakness. The CrimethInc. authors offer an “admittedly cursory analysis of class and declassing” in which they call desertion and refusal “the essence of resistance,” especially since unemployment rates are constantly increasing and workplace organization is further loosing relevance. In numerous “How to…” articles they give most of the serious revolutionary information requested by their critics. Issues of race and gender are dealt with, struggles abroad are given attention to.

In my contribution to the panel and/or publication I will analyze most of the CrimethInc. publications to date. I will concentrate primarily on the possible range of prefigurative politics in fields like class/classlessness, gender, race, and other dividing lines—and how useful CrimethInc.’s recommended “recipes” are. What would one have to add to this joyous and playful lifestyle to make it more threatening and thus revolutionary? To this question I hope I can offer answers that are at least worthy of discussion.

Location: Loughborough University, UK
Event Date: Sep 6, 2008

LIKE ADBUSTERS CRIMETHINC. IS A CONSUMER CULTURE REVOLT THE ANARCHISM OF BREAKING STARBUCKS WINDOWS THE DAY AFTER YOU
WENT FOR AN AMERICANO 

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Rabble Rousers and Merry Pranksters: A History of Anarchism in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s

Introduction

 ....................................................................................................................v

 Acknowledgments

 ........................................................................................................ix

 Abbreviations

 .................................................................................................................x

1. The Early Years: The Mid-1950s to the Mid-1960s

Anarchism Before the 1950s .....................................................................................1

The Deadening Consensus .......................................................................................4

The Legend of Bill Dwyer and Student Provocateurs:Wellingtonian Anarchism ......................................................................8

Rationalism, Anthropology and Free Speech Fights:Anarchism in Auckland ..........................................................................................16

Anarcho-Cynicalism................................................................................................20

Aftermath: Dwyer the Anarchist Acid Freak .......................................................22

2. The Great Era of Radicalisation: The Late 1960s and Early 1970s

................27

The Youthquake, Protest Movement and Strike Wave .......................................27

The Later New Left and Anarchism .....................................................................33

The Shock of the New: The Progressive Youth Movement ...............................36

From Protest to Resistance: The Resistance Bookshops and Anarchism .........49

Third Worldism and Direct Action Maoism ........................................................56

The Fun Revolution and Anarchist Groupings ...................................................60

3. New Social Movements and Anarchism From the Early 1970sto the Early 1980s

The Rise of New Social Movements and Muldoonism ......................................73

The Women’s Liberation Movement, Anarchism and Anarcha-Feminism.....75

The Values Party and Libertarian Socialism? ...................................................

Return to the Land: Communes and Anarchism in the 1970s ..........................83

The Peace Movement and Anarcho-PacifIsm ......................................................85

4. Anarchist and Situationist Groups From 1973 to 1982

 ...................................89

Solidarity, Anti-Racism and Lumpen Activism: Anarchism in Auckland ......93

Anarchism in Christchurch Until the Late 1970s ..............................................107

Anarchism in Other Centres and the Unconventions .......................................116

Situationist Activity in Aotearoa .........................................................................121

The Springbok Tour, Neil Roberts and the Early 1980s ...................................126

Conclusions

 ................................................................................................................132

References

 ..................................................................................................................140

Carnival and Class: Anarchism and Councilism 

in Australasia during the 1970s
Toby Boraman



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HENRI LEFEBVRE A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION

https://www.academia.edu/36133029/Andy_Merrifield_Henri_Lefebvre_A_Critical_Introduction

Whose City? A study of the colonisation of the

 city and the emancipation of urban space.

James Moulding

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the applicability of utilizing Jurgen Habermas's Colonisation Thesis as a tool for analysing urban space and exploring problems within the contemporary city. In the first part the paper outlines the importance of focusing our attentions upon the city and constructing a conceptual framework! for understanding urban space. The work then outlines the theoretical framework of Habermas's Colonisation Thesis before an attempt to transpose this onto our understanding of urban space. The thesis concludes on an exploration of decolonisation and sociospatial change through both situationist theory and the lived experience of urban revolution uniting theory and practice.

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Public Space in the Post Capitalist City

M. Mac A Bhàillidh

This document forms part of an investigation into the definition of public space in the contemporary city and the nature of its ownership and control. The research and conclusions developed in this text are explored in conjunction with a series of design exercises, considered in the context of the city of Perth.

The role of public space in the city is a topical issue in the wider climate of economic downturn and political protest, as well as in the site specific context of Perth’s recently reinstated city status, and related discussion over the demolition or reuse of a number of the city’s significant former public buildings. The legal disputes and discussion over the Occupy protests, viewed alongside the congruous debate over the demolition of Perth City Hall, creates an intriguing and fluid backdrop for this research.

The Ecological Colonization of Space

Environmental History, 2005

Peder Anker

This article claims that the prospect of space colonization has been of significant importance with respect to ecological debate, methodology and practice. Cabin ecological research of the improvement of submarines and underground shelters serves as the background for understanding the emergence of the “carrying capacity” concept adopted by the space program of the 1960s. Ecologists involved in space research aimed at constructing cabin ecological systems for spaceships that were subsequently used as models to understand Spaceship Earth. Space colonies came to represent the rational, orderly, and wisely managed contrast to the irrational, disorderly, and ill managed Earth. Human environmental and moral space was to be reordered according to the ideals of cabin ecology and the astronaut’s life in outer space. Despite criticisms of the managerial ethics of space colonization in the mid 1970s, cabin ecology and space technology have became important tools for ecological management. Biosphere 2 was built in Arizona as a prototype for future colonies on Mars, for example. It currently serves as a model for how humans should live within Biosphere 1 (the Earth). The challenge of today is how to get out of the intellectual capsule that ecologists have created for environmentally concerned humanists..

Publication Date: 2005

Publication Name: Environmental History

ABOUT AUTHOR

Peder Anker

1

New York University

Faculty Member

Peder Anker’s teaching and research interests lie in the history of science, ecology, environmentalism and design, as well as environmental philosophy. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Dibner Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and been a visiting scholar at both Columbia University and University of Oslo. He is the co-author of Global Design: Elsewhere Envisioned (Prestel, 2014) together with Louise Harpman and Mitchell Joachim. He is also the author of From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design (Louisiana State University Press 2010), which explores the intersection of architecture and ecological science, and Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2001), which investigates how the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Professor Anker’s current book project explores the history of ecological debates in his country of birth, Norway. Peder Anker received his PhD in history of science from Harvard University in 1999. He is Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

Steps to an Ecology of Systems: Whole Earth and Systemic Holism

Addressing Modernity: Social Systems Theory and U.S. Cultures,

 eds. Hannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 259-88., 2011

Bruce Clarke

In this essay I give the term holism some precision as naming a

systems discourse that is still framed to some extent in a traditional

part/whole manner, and which, as a consequence, encounters the

problematics of totalization. With some important exceptions, holism

 in this sense is still at work in many of the American-based

cybernetics and systems discourses that run from 1968-71 through

 the expanding iterations of the Whole Earth Catalog, and from 

1974-84 through its quarterly journalistic spin-off, CoEvolution Quarterly. 

Visions of global unity are accorded ultimate value. As parts of the

 biosphere, organisms, species, societies, and their technologies may

 co-evolve, but it is the whole Earth that gathers them into an ecological

 union rendered as a singular totality. This holistic, counter-reductionist

 orientation was both out in front of mainstream scientific and

 social thinking – countercultural in the best sense – and at the same

 time, prone to certain theoretical equivocations and impasses tha

t Niklas Luhmann’s work both illuminates and goes beyond.

Publication Date: 2011

Publication Name: Addressing Modernity: Social Systems Theory and U.S. Cultures, eds. Hannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko (Amsterdam: Rodopi), 259-88.Show less ▴

Buckminster Fuller

Social Systems Theory

Gregory Bateson

Whole Earth Catalog

ABOUT AUTHOR

Bruce Clarke

2.0

Texas Tech University
Faculty Member

Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science and former chair in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. Research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century literature and science, with special interests in systems theory, narrative theory, and ecology. 2010-11 Senior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM), Bauhaus-University Weimar. Edits the book series Meaning Systems: http://fordhampress.com/index.php/series-imprints/series/meaning-systems.html

What is the Legacy of the Situationist International to the Critical Understanding of the Modern Urban Environment?

Charlie Hawksfield

In this way the Heygate estate was ahead of the game, its maze of walkways and tunnels
create a mesh of weaving paths around the estate and under the Elephant and Castle roundabout.

They are playful and irrational, some curve gracefully up to the first floor level (see figure 3)
others jut out of the blocks over the street like exterior staircases. In the tunnels under the traffic, artwork has been scrawled crudely on the walls, with the dripping ceilings and the roar of traffic. They fit neatly into the Situationist’s Unitary Urbanism model.
Constant wrote in Another City for Another Life- “we envisage covered cities in which
the layout of roads and separate buildings will be replaced by a continuous spatial construction elevated above the ground, including clusters of dwellings as well as public spaces” (Constant 1959). This is exactly what Tim Tinker had in mind when he designed the car parks, walkways and public spaces. He made the street obsolete, created unconventional elevated spaces connected by imaginative routes. I think Constant especially would have loved aspects of the Heygate estate (from certain angles it even looks like some of his designs for New Babylon).

These small innovations make the Heygate different from the French modernism of Le
Corbusier. Yes the blocks are built for household comfort, and the architecture is unbelievably ugly, but there is a sense of play here, and the galleries, walkways and tunnels should have set up lively social interactions. So where did it all go wrong?

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