petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 25 2009 | video, music, politics
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Quoted: Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken part in a musical program, which was sponsored by the Russian government to promote healthy life-style among...
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2009 | politics, people
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 08 2009 | news, photography, travel, international, politics, cities
Quoted: The regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il appears to be rolling back reforms and putting succession plans on hold. Speculation has been swirling about whether the ailing Kim has anointed his youngest son as successor. But, as NPR's Louisa Lim reports — after a rare five-day visit to North Korea — Kim Jong Il now is back on center stage.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 01 2009 | history, ideas, politics, developmentQuoted: In such ideas, one finds a bridge between his inescapable moral imperative to break with a destructive fantasy-world through a decisive Act, and his recognition that the conditions for action, for the shaping of the site événementiel must be created through a long history of much less dramatic but no less decisive Acts. In a sense, this is a shift from revolutionary gesture to revolutionary gestation.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 29 2009 | iran, events, history, politics, photography
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petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 07 2009 | politics, newsQuoted: Thomas Corwin of Ohio — who served as a governor, a U.S. representative, a U.S. senator and secretary of the Treasury under Millard Fillmore in the 1850s — believed that having a sense of humor caused him political grief. "Never make people laugh," he told a young politician. To succeed, you must be "solemn as an ass." All the great monuments on Earth, he said, have been built to honor solemn asses.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 03 2009 | planning, history, politics, cities, new york
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2009 | nature, people, politicsQuoted: Was the passage from Lenin to Stalin necessary?
I just realized that the link might not work correctly. I apologize for that, here is a better link: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2779
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2009 | books, politics, ideasInteresting early ideas on the role of cooperation in evolution.
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