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Just mentioned wanting to get one of these for my wallet earlier today.

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girlsattack:

Female member of Vietnamese Popular Forces (South Vietnamese village defense) unit carries ammunition box. circa 1967.

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atac-wolfe:

Trying to cut weight in your pack? Take a tarp!

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zen-shit:

not sure if i absolutely hate this or absolutely love this

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GONNA GO WITH LOVE IT.

Love art but have always felt this way

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Volunteering at a soup kitchen won’t save the world either you narrow-minded fuck. How about strategically attacking infrastructure or supporting those on the frontlines with resources.Everyone needs to do what they can, to their utmost capacity. 

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thepoliticalnotebook:

This Week in War. A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week. It’s a mix of news reports, policy briefs, blog posts and longform journalism. Subscribe here to receive this round-up by email.

This round-up will be on hiatus the next two weeks (sorry), but will return! 

• Fierce fighting is ongoing in the Syrian town of Qusair. 
• Palestinians are delaying joining UN agencies, conventions and treaties in order to preserve the current peace effort. 
• A former Israeli border policeman killed himself and four others in a bank in Beersheba after being refused an overdraft and cash by an ATM. 
• Multiple days of clashes between Sunni and Alawite residents in Tripoli, Lebanon have left at least 11 dead. 
• Rami Khouri asks if Hezbollah is at a turning point. 
• Yemenis in the southern city of Aden rallied in support of an independent south.
• Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard who were abducted on the Sinai peninsula last week have been released by their captors, who remain unknown.
• In Tunisia, 200 Islamist protesters were arrested and one killed in clashes with security.
• Karim Mezran at The Atlantic Council worries that Algeria is a powder keg. 
• 300,000 people have been displaced by fighting in the Darfur region this year. 
• 18 soldiers and four Islamists were killed in a gun battle in Agadex, Niger. 
• M23 rebels in the Congo have declared a ceasefire for the UN Secretary General’s visit. 
• With the executions of five Yemenis, the total number executed in Saudi Arabia this year is 47.
• A wave of car bombings across Iraq on late Sunday and early Monday left 76 dead and 250 injured and on Tuesday explosions in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Tarmiyah and Tuz Khurmato added at least another 23 to the death toll. 
  
• Iranian presidential candidates Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a former  Ahmadinejad aide, and former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have been disqualified from elections. 
• Iran executed by hanging two men accused and convicted of spying for the CIA and the Israeli Mossad.
• Kim Jong-un sent an envoy to China. 
• North Korea reportedly has a new military chief. 
• The drug war is ramping up in the Mexican state of Michoácan.
• Guatemala’s top court threw out former leader Efrain Rios Montt’s genocide and crimes against humanity convictions. 
• Guantánamo’s WiFi was shut off after the hacker collective Anonymous threatened disruption at the base. 
• The transcript for President Obama’s speech on drone policy and Guantánamo Bay is in full here. 
• Prior to the speech Attorney General Eric Holder publicly acknowledged what was already known: the US had killed Americans abroad with the drone program (four, to be specific).
• The US State Dept’s annual International Religious Freedom Report  found discrimination and bigotry against Muslims and Jews on the rise around the world [PDF]. 
• A former friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Ibragim Todashev, implicated Tsarnaev in a 2011 triple murder and then was himself killed when he reportedly attacked FBI agents during questioning. 
• The word terrorism is being used to describe a brutal attack on a London street that left a British soldier dead. One of the attackers recorded a video statement directly following the murder.
• One attacker has now been identified as Michael Adebolajo, and has been connected on some level to the extremist group al-Muhajiroun. 
• The University of Kent has created a Rendition Flights Database, cataloging 11,000 individual flights to create a picture of the global renditions network. 

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Photo: Ramallah, West Bank: A Palestinian protester during clashes with Israeli troops near the village of Deir Jarir. Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

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mj-arnett:

II

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!

Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!

Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgement! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!

Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovas! Moloch whose factories dream and choke in the fog! Moloch whose smokestacks and antennae crown the cities!

Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!

Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!

Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!

Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisable suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstacies! gone down the American river!

Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years’ animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!

Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!

Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” pt. II.