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youth brigade - the last day of the year

woke up, it was the last day of the year
people all around acting pretty weird
living off of memories and recalling their regrets
remembering the good and bad and planning their ammends

la vida buena es simple
todo es bien bueno con alegria

woke up, it was the last day of the year
people all around acting pretty weird
living off of memories and recalling their regrets
remembering the good and bad and planning their ammends

la vida buena es simple
todo es bien bueno con alegria

do you think about
the things you'll never know
tu piensas en la muerte
o vives para hoy?

do you think about
the things you'll never know
tu piensas en la muerte
o vives para hoy?

oye
somos
los brigados
juvetud
vivos

woke up, it was the last day of the year
people all around acting pretty weird
living off of memories and recalling their regrets
remembering the good and bad and planning their ammends

la vida buena es simple
todo es bien bueno con alegria
la vida buena es simple
todo es bien bueno con alegria

el ultimo dia del año
el ultimo dia del año
el ultimo dia del año
el ultimo dia del año

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saddam hussein
1937 - 2006

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gorgeous!







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mele kalikimaka, comrades!

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wow, that was quite a hangover this morning! :D

vodka is my best friend.

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what the heck is "free market anti-capitalism"?

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some rarely (?) seen photographs of the 1999 "battle of seattle":











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"i've never killed a man, but i've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction."

- mark twain

rightist dictator, augusto pinochet, dead at 91.



you know you sucked at life when people are out in the streets celebrating, at the news of your death.

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"all things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the measure of their strength, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth... all is for all!"

- peter kropotkin

happy 164th birthday, pete!

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from the honolulu advertiser:

hawaii's historic day of "infamy" began just before 8 a.m. dec. 7, 1941, as a clear sunday sky was penetrated by 183 japanese planes. the first wave of the surprise attack on pearl harbor saw japanese bombers targeting american aircraft carriers and battleships at pearl harbor while dive-bombers struck hickam field and other u.s. air bases on oahu. a second wave of 170 planes followed, attacking bellows field and ford island. the assault lasted approximately 90 minutes, and when it was over, 2,388 men, women and children had been killed, including 1,177 sailors from the u.s.s. arizona. among the dead were 49 civilians, many killed by friendly fire as u.s. forces tried desperately to mount a defense. nearly half of the u.s. pacific fleet, including all but one of its battleships, had been anchored at pearl harbor that morning. the attack left a total of 21 vessels sunken or damaged, and 323 military aircraft around the island damaged or destroyed. historians note that the ongoing war with china had placed japan in need of oil and other resources—resources that could be acquired through military action in the east indies and southeast asia. u.s. intelligence officials had anticipated an act of japanese aggression—a presumption that prompted president franklin d. roosevelt to transfer the u.s. fleet to pearl harbor 18 months earlier as a deterrent—but were nonetheless surprised by the attack on pearl harbor. by that evening, after consulting his military advisers, roosevelt had composed his famous address to congress asking for a declaration of war against japan. the nature of the attack galvanized american opinion in favor of entering world war ii, a defining moment that would set the stage for the country's emergence as an eventual superpower. in hawaii, patriotic fervor was no less intense, but it was complicated by the suspicion cast upon japanese immigrants and americans of japanese ancestry. this in turn led to a historic rallying of local nisei eager to prove their loyalty.