“We take in so few refugees worldwide. We resettle less than .1 percent. That .1 percent benefits us more than them. It dumbfounds me how the word refugee is consided something to be dirty, something to be ashamed of. They have nothing to be ashamed of. We have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity. There are 65.3 million people who have been forced out of their homes because of war. The largest number in history. We are the ones who should be ashamed.”
Luma Mufleh
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Category: video
Papering over poverty
“The Tories last year voted against a housing bill, right, this bill, it wasn’t asking much, it wasn’t attempting to turn Buckingham Palace into temporary housing for sex offenders. It was suggesting that private landlords have a legal obligation to ensure their properties are fit for human habitation. What sort of fucker votes against that? I wonder how many of the seventy Tory MPs, who are also private landlords, voted against that, including David Cameron? I’ll give you a clue: it was all of them!” Jonathan Pie, played by British actor Tom Walker, suggests that a healthy UK economy would need to do more than to create an environment in which only the wealthy do well.
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Labskaus
“I escaped war and bombs, swam to Europe and ran—all the way to Hamburg. No fence was too high, no sea was too deep, no day was too long. I overcame all of these challenges, but now I am about to fail.”
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Why are people so angry? Blame modernity
“The modern world’s cherished ideas of liberty, equality and prosperity are more popular than ever before. The problem is that it is difficult for the vast majority of the human population to realise them.” Pankaj Mishra appearing on yesterday’s Newsnight programme.
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Farewell address to the american people
Plenty of questions remain regarding the conduct of the United States of America. Still, the 44th President manages to stand out amongst the political leaders of our time. Will his words be remembered?
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Complexity is the enemy of security: how to stay relevant in a hacked world
“And one way to fight back is through Open Source. To make sure that the systems we use are trustworthy and can be verified and can be veryfied by anybody [sic]. Relying on Open Source to bring us privacy and trustworthy security is a crucial point for our future on the Internet. The Utopia is gone, it’s not coming back. But we can do what we can to maintain as much trust on the Internet as possible. And openess is key to trust. Without openess there is no trust—without trust there is no democracy.”
Mikko Hypponen
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Angst
“Sie wollen eine Wahl gewinnen? Ihnen laufen die Wähler weg? Sie haben inhaltlich nicht so viel auf der Pfanne? Und eigentlich läuft gar nichts bei Ihnen? Dann haben wir das Richtige für Sie!”
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Why Brexit happened—and what to do next
“We might not achieve that today, but at the very least we have to call upon our politicians and our media to drop the language of fear and be far more tolerant of one another.”
Alexander Betts
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Spiel des Lebens
“Ziehe eine Status-Karte und schlage Deinen Lebensweg ein!”
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Am I wrong
IQ2 Racism Debate: Stan Grant
“…everytime we are lured into the light, we are mugged by the darkness of this country’s history. Of course, racism is killing the Austrailian Dream! It is self evident, that it’s killing the Australian Dream! But we are better than that.”
Stan Grant
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How to let altruism be your guide
“However complex politically, economically, scientifically the question of the environment is, it simply boils down to a question of altruism versus selfishness.”
Matthieu Ricard
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Dan Pink on persuasion
“Just be a little bit more human.”
Daniel Pink
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Why privacy matters
“Mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind.”
Glenn Greenwald
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Worldwide awards 2015 highlights
“Worldwide Awards 2015 went down on Saturday January 17th at Koko London, with live performances from Adrian Younge and Bilal, Dorian Concept Trio, Taylor McFerrin, Melanie De Biasio, The Heliocentrics with Sunra members Marshall Allen and Noel Scott, Fatima and The Eglo Band, and Anushka! And that’s just the live bands! On the DJ tip, we had Lil Silva, Lone, Seven Davis Jr, Alex Patchwork, Skinny Macho, Clap! Clap!, Atjazz and more holding it down on the decks throughout the night.”
Gilles Peterson
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How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust—time to act
“And whoever tells you that they have nothing to hide simply haven’t thought about this long enough. ‘Cause we have this thing called privacy. And if you really think that you have nothing to hide, please make sure that’s the first thing you tell me because then I know, that I should not trust you with any secrets because obviously, you can’t keep a secret [sic]”
Mikko Hypponen
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Brussels Express: bike messengers
The psychology of evil
“Paradoxically, it was God who created Hell as a place to store evil. He didn’t do a good job of keeping it there, though.”
Philip Zimbardo
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This structure of surveillance will stop us doing things which are right
“We now face the greatest threat to our liberties since the second world war. We are sleepwalking into despotism. Because of the amount of material that is being collected, because these databases, which are not about tiny items of information, will be used and not just by governments. Snowden was working for a corporation. They will be accessed by others in government and because, that’s most important of all, people will start to self-censor. We will find that the very fact of the total surveillance of our activities means that we are going to sort of … it’s not a question, as the foreign minister said, of ‘if you haven’t done anything wrong you have nothing to fear’. [sic] This structure of surveillance will stop us doing things which are right, that we know we should be doing.” Anthony Barnett appearing on yesterday’s Newsnight programme.
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On Don Lemon, race, and “respectability”
“Whenever a young black man pulls his pants up, the very inner workings of the cosmos immediately realign in his favour.”
Jay Smooth
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