April 2012
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March 2012
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Lack of backbone does not only make us responsible for crimes we commit,it makes us in equal part responsible of the crimes of our leaders !
— نَمِر (@xxxTigerxxx) March 29, 2012
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Culture of Resistance: Wait, Did CNN Just Lose... →
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fralcon:
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
As TVNewser’s Chris Ariens reported today: “CNN bore the brunt of the downward trend the news networks experienced this month and for much of the first quarter, when compared to the busy first few months of 2011. For the month of March, CNN was down -50% in total viewers and down -60% in A25-54 viewers (Total Day). The net...
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Lobbyists, Guns and Money →
What is ALEC? Despite claims that it’s nonpartisan, it’s very much a movement-conservative organization, funded by the usual suspects: the Kochs, Exxon Mobil, and so on. Unlike other such groups, however, it doesn’t just influence laws, it literally writes them, supplying fully drafted bills to state legislators. In Virginia, for example, more than 50 ALEC-written bills have been introduced,...
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French President Sarkozy Sees Opportunity for... →
anarchyagogo:
In the wake of a horrific rampage, in which Mohamed Merah (now dead after a 32-hour standoff with police) reportedly murdered three French soldiers, three young Jewish schoolchildren, and a rabbi, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has begun calling for criminal penalties for citizens who visit web sites that advocate for terror or hate. “From now on, any person who habitually...
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Woman (Shaima Alawadi) from Iraq found severely... →
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
EL CAJON, Calif. — A 32-year-old woman from Iraq who was found severely beaten next to a threatening note saying “go back to your country” died on Saturday.
Hanif Mohebi, the director of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he met with Shaima Alawadi’s family members in the morning and was told that she was taken off life support...
A college student costs the state $8,667 per year;... →
occupyallstreets:
“Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today,” writes the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America - more than 6 million - than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.”
Is this hyperbole? Here are the facts. The U.S. has 760...
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Monsanto ‘Biotechnology Book for Kids’ Caught... →
anti-propaganda:
‘Facing direct opposition from the public, biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow are now making a disturbing attempt to brainwash developing minds into accepting their genetically modified foods using blatant lies and propaganda. In a last ditch effort to potentially sway public opinion, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has launched the “Biotechnology...
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Today In Anti-Choice Terrorism: The Firebombing in... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
The always brilliant Melissa McEwan:
There are a lot of things that don’t get called terrorism in this country, but chief among them is the anti-choice movement, which is the most brazen, unapologetic terrorist campaign in the US, its co-ordination and orchestration done right out in the open, where no one in the media or politics will call it what it is. It is...
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Robert Reich: What Republicans Argue When They... →
robertreich:
Republicans are desperate. They can’t attack Obama on jobs because the jobs picture is improving.
Their attack on the Administration’s rule requiring insurers to cover contraception has backfired, raising hackles even among many Republican women.
Their attack on Obama for raising gas prices has elicited scorn from economists of all persuasions who know oil prices are set in global...
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No one asked their names. →
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mehreenkasana:
In the days following the rogue US soldier’s shooting spree in Kandahar, most of the media, us included, focused on the “backlash” and how it might further strain the relations with the US.
Many mainstream media outlets channelled a significant amount of energy into uncovering the slightest detail about the accused soldier – now identified as Staff Sergeant Robert...
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The U.S. Empire’s Achilles Heel: Its Barbaric... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Reports
The American atrocities in Afghanistan roll on like a drumbeat from hell. With every affront to the human and national dignity of the Afghan people, the corporate media feign shock and quickly conclude that a few bad apples are responsible for U.S. crimes, that it’s all a mistake and misunderstanding, rather than the logical result of...
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8,200 Strong, Researchers Band Together To Force... →
Academic research is behind bars and an online boycott by 8,209 researchers (and counting) is seeking to set it free…well, more free than it has been. The boycott targets Elsevier, the publisher of popular journals like Cell and The Lancet, for its aggressive business practices, but opposition was electrified by Elsevier’s backing of a Congressional bill titled the Research Works Act (RWA)....
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Watchoccupyallstreets:
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, speaks about Spy Files.
Companies such as HP and Cisco Systems secretly monitor their customers activities. To see if you’re being monitored check out WikiLeaks SpyFiles Map.
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Robert Reich: If You Took the Greed Out of Wall... →
robertreich:
Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs vice president, resigned his post Wednesday with a stinging public rebuke of the firm on the oped page of the New York Times — accusing it of no longer putting its clients before its own pecuniary goals.
But if Mr. Smith believes his experience at Goldman is something new, he doesn’t know history. In 1928, Goldman Sachs and Company created...
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Watchanonymissexpress:
DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? – with Nozomi HAYASE / RAP NEWS #wikileaks
“My name is Nozomi Hayase. I am a writer at World Beyond Borders and WikiLeaks Central. I am one of those ordinary people whose life was changed by the Collateral Murder video. This film shot WikiLeaks into public awareness and I think in a way, its release embodies what the organization is really about....
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'Anonymous OS' turns out to be intelligence test,... →
anonymissexpress:
By Kevin Fogarty, via c@clownz
March 15, 2012, 3:04 PM — Here’s a tip for how to safely use the operating system various media outlets have reported was released this week by the hacktivist collective Anonymous: Don’t.
“ #Protip - Don’t use Anonymous OS, we don’t know anything about it and can’t vouch for it.” —@YourAnonNews, 11 a.m., 15 March, 2012.
Reported originally as...
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“But after the shooting, a source inside the police department told ABC News that...”
– Neighborhood Watch Shooting of Trayvon Martin: Probe Reveals ‘Questionable Police Conduct’ - ABC News (via robot-heart-politics)
The officer. corrected. the witness.
Okay.
(via deliciouskaek)
This is ridiculous. If Trayvon was white and George was black, George would have been arrested as soon...
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Dick Cheney Cancelled His Trip To Canada Because... →
socialuprooting:
After sending tens of thousands of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan during his eight years as U.S. Vice President, Dick Cheney canceled a speaking engagement in Canada because it was deemed “too dangerous.”
George W. Bush’s former right-hand man was scheduled to appear in Toronto on April 24 to discuss his time in office and the current American political situation, but bowed out...
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Second judge strikes down Wisconsin's voter ID law... →
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theamericanbear:
More good news in the poll tax Voter ID fight:
MADISON — A second Wisconsin judge has struck down the state’s voter identification law less than a week after another judge temporarily stopped it.
Online court records say Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess issued a permanent injunction Monday. It will complicate plans for state board of...
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