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The Building of Nazi Germany, Part 1

Posted on February 21, 2008 in Images

Adolf Hitler with Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht and the Directors of the Reichsbank (May 5, 1934)

Nuremberg Rally for Unity and Strength: Hitler Greets Protestant Reichs Bishop Ludwig Müller (right) and Catholic Abbott Schachleitner at the Tribune of Honor (September 1934)

Leading Industrialist Carl Friedrich von Siemens (left) and Banker Franz von Mendelssohn meet with Nazi party officials:

industrialists and capitalists in nazi germany

German Industrialists Salute the Flag at a Rally for the German Economy in Berlin

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Gondry on Cynicism

Posted on February 20, 2008 in Articles

“I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don’t like cynical people. I don’t like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don’t have to justify it. You don’t have to fight for it.” – Michel Gondry

Bjork – Declare Independence, directed by Gondry:

Why Would They Negotiate With Us?

Posted on February 20, 2008 in Quotes

If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with [tag]Israel[/tag]. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been [tag]anti-Semitism[/tag], the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have [tag]stolen their country[/tag]. Why would they accept that?

— [tag]David Ben Gurion[/tag] on the Israeli/[tag]Palestinian[/tag] [tag]Conflict[/tag] (via dmiessler)

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Posted on February 20, 2008 in Uncategorized

This quote really resonates with me:

I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don’t like cynical people. I don’t like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don’t have to justify it. You don’t have to fight for it. – Michel Gondry

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants^1

Posted on February 19, 2008 in Articles

Everyone tuned into the US democratic primary will be aware that the Clinton camp has gone bibliography crazy in the past day or two, accusing Obama of borrowing without credit a few lines of a speech given this weekend from Massachussetts governer Deval Patrick. Clinton’s strategists hope to bring Obama’s cultish suporters back to reality, since a man with no original words is certainly not a man worth listening to for very long. Patrick fired back that his friend, Obama, was free to use his ideas and rhetoric if he liked. Possibly more remarkable than the Clinton-camp response is that of Republican strategist, Holly Robichaud. “It certainly goes in the face of his squeaky-clean image,” she wrote in a weekly blog for the Herald. “It is clear he used the same words – there is no question about it. It will hurt him, but maybe not enough for him to lose ground.” His squeeky clean image? How many of us have written a paper at one point during our careers with perhaps an improperly labelled or cited source?

As a result of Plagiarism-Gate, I’d like to be the first to recognize the source for Obama’s most memorable line to date: Yes We Can. Bob the Builder, a children’s television character created by Keith Chapman, was the source of this popular line of vernacular. He sings a song which is sourced below for all to review. I mention this because I want to make sure we’re all being as up front as possible about where our ideas come from before those drips over at Clinton and Republican headquarters decide to take a bite. And also because it’s gonna take a hell of a lot longer than a phonecall to Patrick for Chapman to come up with an animated response allowing Obama access to Yes We Can, with all the clay figures and the stop motion and all that.