February 2012
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WatchWikiLeaks: Leaked Emails Expose Inner Workings of Private Intelligence Firm Stratfor, a “Shadow CIA” The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun publishing what it says are 5.5 million emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a private U.S.-based intelligence-gathering firm known to some as a “shadow CIA” for corporations and government agencies. The emails were...
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“I have no particular love for the idealised ‘worker’ as he appears in the...”
– George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (via solitaryforager)
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Kalamazoo Mutual Aid - Creating conditions for... →
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#MicCheckWallStreet - Thanksgiving Day Money Drop →
Once upon a time Valentine’s Day was a celebration of love. Now, it seems, it’s all about money. Every year it becomes more and more commercialized. Every Valentine’s Day, we collectively spend an incredibly large amount of money on lavish gifts and extravagant dinners. Just how much money is an incredibly large amount? According to the National Retail Foundation, an estimated $15.7...
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M.I.A.’s Raised Middle Finger Raises Question: Why... →
So, who used whom in the Madonna/M.I.A. Super Bowl halftime controversy—per that already famous middle finger that M.I.A. offered tens of millions of viewers before the censors could get to it? Did Madonna encourage this insurrection from her guest rapper, so that she’d have some provocation in her otherwise family-friendly set without having to take the rap herself? Or was M.I.A....
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To commemorate Ronald Reagan's birthday, I present... →
gedenkenbrauchtwissen:
The following is an excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s remarks on the American War with Vietnam (from a news conference in 1982). I have taken the liberty of correcting his historical inaccuracies because I have nothing better to do with my life.
If I recall , when France gave up Indochina as a colony (If by “gave up” you mean “begged the United States to use nuclear...
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Chicago Tribune - Romanian government collapses... →
The Romanian government collapsed Monday after weeks of protests over biting cuts meant to keep outside funding flowing to the troubled nation. Prime Minister Emil Boc said he and his Cabinet were resigning “to defuse political and social tension,” the Associated Press reported. Opposition leaders are calling on President Traian Basescu to step down as well. Crin Antonescu, who...
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ACLU - Al-Aulaqi v. Obama: Lawsuit Challenging... →
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) have filed a lawsuit challenging the government’s asserted authority to carry out “targeted killings” of U.S. citizens located far from any armed conflict zone.
In Al-Aulaqi v. Obama (Al-Awlaki v. Obama) the groups charge that the authority contemplated by the Obama administration is far...
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“To understand domination, we must understand that our capacity as women and men...”
– bell hooks, “feminism: a transformational politic”; Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; (1989); (p. 20-21). (via agradschoolbreakup)
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there are still 100-ish people missing in oakland....
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negationparty:
money for bail is needed pretty desparately. donate here
if you’re doing jail support, were jailed, or are just involved with the shit going down in oakland: <3 <3 <3 i love yall so much
Shit is dire, please pass this on!
Stay strong Oakland. Boost it, followers. There some great people there who need your support.
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“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity, it is an act of justice.”
– Nelson Mandela (via solitaryforager)
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Newt Gingrich denied any knowledge of a robocall... →
mohandasgandhi:
Gingrich’s campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond confirmed the calls were going out statewide in Florida Tuesday. The call’s claim that Romney vetoed a bill providing kosher meals to nursing home residents during his time as governor first arose Monday, when Gingrich cited a report from the New York Post.
The robocall begins by saying: “As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney...