October 2011
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#Occupy #OccupyWallSt #EverPresentProtest
September 2011
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Robert Reich: Why This is Exactly the Time to... →
robertreich:
Seems like only yesterday conservative nabobs of negativity predicted America’s ballooning budget deficit would generate soaring inflation and crippling costs of additional federal borrowing.
Remember Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the United States? Recall the intense worry about…
July 2011
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El Hierro To Become World's First Renewable Energy... →
via HuffPost
May 2011
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Gay Marriage versus Cousin Marriage on a US Map →
March 2011
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Now on Twitter
@tannerspracklen
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I Support a People's Libya
Why I support President Obama’s decision to use limited military action in Libya:
1.) The people of Libya overwhelmingly want our assistance, at least in the limited capacity that we are providing it now. If this turns into a permanent occupation, things would likely change.
2.) We are fighting an actual army instead of a hodgepodge group of individuals who are oftentimes unidentifiable.
3.)...
February 2011
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A joke going around...
A unionized public employee, a teabagger, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the teabagger and says, “Look out for that union guy — he wants a piece of your cookie.”
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Van Jones: Introducing the American Dream Movement →
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This may be the most hateful anti-immigration law... →
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Today 26 Republicans voted against the majority of their party and 122 House Democrats voted against the White House to prevent the extension of three of the most privacy-intrusive provisions in the PATRIOT Act. All is not lost.
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Latest USA Today/Gallup Poll
Latest USA Today/Gallup Poll: 61% of Republicans, 72% of Independents, and 86% of Democrats agree that we should speed up withdrawal from Afghanistan. If only we had this sort of representation in Congress…
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A New Low
If you thought Jersey Shore was trashy, just wait until you see Bad Girls’ Club. I came up with a new name for this kind of programming: trashsploitation.
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January 2011
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Brisenia Flores, 9 years old, killed by racist... →
It’s hard to face the world when you know that people are capable of doing this kind of thing.
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Thunderstorms Spawn Anti-Matter →
Pretty cool!
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Dilma Rousseff Inauguration: Brazil's First Female... →
Good things happening down south…
December 2010
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Robert F. Kennedy - The Mindless Menace of...
One of the most touching and timeless speeches that will ever be made…
On the Mindless Menace of Violence
City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
April 5, 1968
This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains...
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I stand with Senator Bernie Sanders
Sorry Bill and Barack, today I stand with Bernie Sanders against the Obama/Republican tax proposal. I stand with Senator Sanders because I know that MY GENERATION will have to pay the nearly $1 trillion it will cost to extend these tax cuts for people who do not need them. The working-class is hurting and American wealth disparity between the richest and poorest is greater than ever. We need REAL...
November 2010
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My thoughts on the latest WikiLeaks dump...
The leaks showed clear evidence that, in actuality, our military occupation of the middle east contradicts our government’s purported rationale for it. And also, that our national public dialogue (including but not limited to mainstream media dialogue) of the issue is off point.
The leaks exposed the military industrial complex for what it is, a $1.1 trillion+ taxpayer-funded venture for...
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No War Politicians and Profiteers 2012: A Pledge...
In 2012, I pledge to vote EXCLUSIVELY for candidates that support complete withdrawal of our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by the end of 2013. More of our brothers and sisters are dying every day, and I will not accept it as some sort of inevitability. They are being treated as sacrificial lambs for the benefit of war-profiteers who have no interest in ever creating peace and stability in...
September 2010
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“Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and...”
– Robert “Bobby” Kennedy
August 2010
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resmc:
If your rights are limited by the powers that granted them.
If your rights were granted by someone else.
If your rights are not equal among the receivers.
They are not rights. They are gifts for the privileged.
spectrumnaut :: .
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Johnny Cash: Radical Poet
Johnny Cash wrote nothing short of radical poetry. His lyrics frame political and economic issues in human terms that articulate an ethos of compassion that, in my humble view, has yet to be matched. Here I’m including the lyrics of two of my favorite Johnny Cash songs.
The first song is called “Don’t Go Near the Water,” and I think its lyrics are more important today...
July 2010
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Watch the two-part series called “Powering the Future” on the Discovery Channel. We can get beyond fossil fuels if we have the political will to do it!
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June marks the record for Army suicides in a... →
Bring the troops home now!
The Imminent Crash of the Oil Supply →
June 2010
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Conflicts of Interest and the Will of the People
The judge that ruled against the moratorium on deep sea oil drilling turns out to have been heavily invested in oil. We are going to find out about the will of America in the coming months. Ultimately we are going to decide whether or not we like living here.
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The BP escrow account is Constitutional, you...
Joe Barton and Michelle Bachmann are out stomping out tyranny wherever it may be found! This time they have been so brave as to stand up to Obama and the Federal Government on behalf of Tony Hayward and BP and say “enough is enough already! Obama’s shakedown has violated BP’s due process rights!” If that sounds absurd to you, well, you must have a functioning, healthy brain...
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Joe Barton’s apology to Tony Hayward of BP, and his subsequent framing of Hayward’s agreement with Obama (to pay at least $20 billion in damages) as a violation of due process, may be the straw that broke the camel’s back. I am the camel.
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Record Number of US Kids Facing Summer of Hunger →
Lack of food —> fatigue and malnutrition —> lower-learning capacity and further disadvantaged students —> less academic success —> reduced likely-hood of higher education or employment —> poverty —> lack of food.
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“…The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism...”
– From Aldous Huxley’s letter to George Orwell, sent October 21, 1949
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“Tomorrow, after my death, some men may decide to establish Fascism, and the...”
– From Jean Paul Sartre’s “Existentialism is a Humanism”
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“A big part of the problem is that corporations have such great influence over...”
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Offshore Drilling Moratorium Now!
Members of Congress and President Obama: Place a moratorium on offshore drilling now!
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BP's Cover Up of the Worst of the Spill →
“The things I’ve seen: They just aren’t right. All the life out here is just full of oil. I’m going to show you what BP never showed the President.”
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Fox News' Faux Outrage
Watching Fox News’ faux outrage over the BP oil spill is, perhaps, the most annoying thing I’ve ever seen. Here’s Sean Hannity on offshore drilling on April 1st of this year: “We’ve got the oil reserves in Alaska. We’ve got them off the coast of Florida. We’ve got them off the coast in California. We’ve got them in the Gulf. We know where the oil...
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Scientists Warn of Unseen Deepwater Oil Disaster →
A good article explaining some of the major environmental concerns pertaining to the Gulf Coast oil spill that are not immediately visible. In the end, the overall ecological impact is going to be massive. We can’t afford more fossil fuel disasters!
May 2010
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After Fix Fail, a Dispiriting Summer of Oil, Anger →
Failed plan after failed plan, BP now hopes to have the spill contained (as in plugged but not cleaned up) by… August! If our Congress was worth a damn, they’d come in on the holiday and vote to end oil subsidies this afternoon. We are nowhere close to even containing the spill, let alone cleaning it up. Ending our fossil fuel dependence isn’t going to happen with a Congress...
“In one short decade we have been reconditioned to be entertained by the most...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via ericmortensen) (via kateoplis)
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Piyo Piyo: American Meat Is Even Grosser Than You... →
In the focus on E. coli and salmonella, meat contaminated by heavy metals, veterinary drugs and pesticides has been slipping through the bureaucratic cracks.
In 2008, Mexican authorities rejected a shipment of U.S. beef beause the meat exceeded Mexoco’s reulatory tolerence for copper….
April 2010
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Imagine if the Tea Party was Black →
“Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark “other” does so, however, it isn’t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary,...
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“One of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr in his 1967 essay “Where Do We Go From Here?”