February 2012
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The Scale of the Universe. Awe Inspiring. →
And the music is fantastic.
Dear everyone remotely connected to Jezebel:
dammitjean:
anedumacation:
Now would be a great time to resign in protest.
What they just did, which was, let me remind you, posting screencaps of a woman’s rape that was uploaded to youtube, that goes so far beyond the pale of human decency….
I cannot believe they thought this was okay simply because they hid the identity of the woman.
There are survivors on that staff, or there were, last...
Herbert Hoover's acceptance speech for the 1932...
ulyssesscat:
is eerily apropos today (if you over look the references to WWI and the need for massive tariffs to protect American agriculture).
Mr. Chairman and My Fellow Citizens:
In accepting the great honor you have brought me, I desire to speak so simply and so plainly that every man and woman in the United States who may hear or read my words cannot misunderstand.
The last three...
Today I learned Monsanto made a good amount of the... →
Iran is not what you think. Here are some links to...
Note mine
Some inconvenient facts about Iran you won’t know about from the usual blather:
Significant improvement in life for ordinary Iranians since the 1979 Islamic revolution as measured by the UN Human Development Index
Teaching evolution in Iran
Fastest scientific growth in the world
Significant drop in child mortality since the 1979 Islamic Revolution
Progressive treatment...
mashkwi asked: I wasn't trying to appeal to anyone's emotions by making that comparison. The footage of what is happening in Syria speaks to people's emotions well enough by itself. I was making the comparison because ,as stated, the world was blamed for it's inaction in Rwanda and it was blamed for it's interference in Libya. I don't believe the reasons for the violence in Rwanda,...
Sowing Doubt: In Rwanda the world was blamed for... →
mashkwi:
sowingdoubt:
mashkwi:
What will the world do for Syria?
This is so completely ignorant. Rwanda and Libya are vastly different situations. Gaddafi was a rotten figure for a lot of reasons but certainly is not guilty of an evil, let a lone genocide, on par with what happened in Rwanda. There are greater…
I don’t see how my pondering was ignorant. I know Rwanda was a genocide and...
To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A Short Response...
facingreality:
By Don Gato
It was a little weird to wake up today to an article by Chris Hedges on a website called “Truth-Out” when “truth” is in such short supply in the piece. Hedges was trained as a journalist and worked for years at such luminaries of lies like the New York Times, so it shouldn’t be a secret where he’s gotten his sensationalism, his tendency to lie, his hyperbole, and,...
At a news conference FBI agents warn of threat... →
The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.
“We are being inundated right now with requests for training from state and local law enforcement on sovereign-related matters,” said Casey Carty, an FBI supervisory special agent.
FBI agents said they do not have a tally of...
A Quick Listing of The United States’ Record of...
astrangerdanger:
US on Russian and Chinese UN Veto: “Disgusting”, “Shameful”, “Deplorable”, “a Travesty” … Really?
verbalresistance:
A Quick Listing of The United States’ Record of Veto Use at the United Nations (UN): 1972–2011 *
(Including Resolutions against Decades of Atrocities and Violations, Often Supported and/or Bankrolled by the...
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In Rwanda the world was blamed for not...
mashkwi:
What will the world do for Syria?
This is so completely ignorant. Rwanda and Libya are vastly different situations. Gaddafi was a rotten figure for a lot of reasons but certainly is not guilty of an evil, let a lone genocide, on par with what happened in Rwanda. There are greater reasons Libya was chosen for interference; these reasons did not exist for Rwandan intervention. That our...
Obama orders Iranian Central Bank freeze in new...
solitaryforager:
“I have determined that additional sanctions are warranted, particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks to conceal transactions of sanctioned parties, the deficiencies in Iran’s anti-money laundering regime and the weaknesses in its implementation, and the continuing and unacceptable risk posed to the international...
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“There can be no greater crime than coalition with the bourgeoisie in a period of...”
– Trotsky in The lessons of Spain—the last warning
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The US Government thinks it has the right to... →
Even worse, President Obama’s hit list of those he approves for assassination is completely secret; we only learned that Awlaki was being targeted because someone happened to leak that fact to Dana Priest. The way the process normally works, as Reuters described it, is that targeted Americans are selected “by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of...
January 2012
80 posts
Watchsubtextsoul:
Shigeto - Lineage Mini LP [Stream] - Available Tomorrow 1/31/12 (thnx2TheFader)
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Free Screening Thursday February 2nd for ACT OF...
tumblangeles:
Come see ACT OF VALOR Thursday, February 2nd at 7:30PM at the AMC Puente Hills! Go to www.gofobo.com/rsvp and use the code WOMRTL4173 to download your passes. Screening is first come, first serve so please arrive early.
An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary...
swani:
In the first half of the 20th century, the manufacture, transportation and distribution of ice blocks was one of the largest industries in the country. It employed hundreds of thousands of people, and several large corporations got very rich off of supplying a vital service.
But after WWII, everybody bought refrigerators. By the early 50s, pretty much every American home could make their...
In Chile, a student occupation of schools has... →
A rejection of privatized and failing school structures, the students have begun deciding what they want to learn and how. They’ve begun constitution classes and philosophy classes, practicing cooperative learning, with students teaching students and students teaching teachers.
Weekly assemblies have become standard.
One of the most notable accomplishments of the student movement is the...