April 2011
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Violence escalates in Syria; Palestinians... →
lifeisliterallylimited:
Syria: Violence against the protesters escalated this week with reports of widespread enforced disappearances on Sunday, followed by the deployment of tanks and heavy armour onto the streets of Deraa and other towns on Monday. By Tuesday rights groups had reported even more deaths and arrests as troops were sent in to put down protests in Deraa, Douma and Baniyas.
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Looks Like Trump's Right: How the Hell Did This... →
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- “The dean looked over Barack’s transcript and college boards and then suggested in a kindly way that he apply to some less competitive colleges in addition to Columbia.”
- “There were no class rankings at his high school, but Barack never made honor roll even one term, unlike 110 boys in his class.”
- “His SAT scores were 566 for the verbal part and 640 for math. Those were far...
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“I started looking into these groups in America, campaigns groups who want to put...”
– John Oliver (via godlesstruth)
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How do you know Trump is a true Republican? Like... →
On Tuesday, potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump explained the fact that he did not serve in the Vietnam War this way: “I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number. I’ll never forget, that was an amazing period of time in my life.”
The Smoking Gun checked out that claim and found that a high draft number alone didn’t explain Trump’s not serving, however....
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“After displaying white sheets to encourage Congress to defund Planned...”
– Religious Right Groups Mobilize “Defund ‘Klanned’ Parenthood” Effort
Exploiting race as a wedge is despicable — and typical of right-wingers, who are desperate to win the political support of non-whites anyway they can, no matter how hypocritically or dishonestly. And attacking Planned Parenthood...
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ryking:
“[T]he Obama administration is pursuing a new policy that would compel companies that take government contracts to disclose their political donations… Obama’s executive order earlier this week compelling disclosure of political activity from firms doing business with the government has outraged Republicans… These firms are getting paid taxpayer dollars in exchange for their services. That...
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“While government corruption comes in many forms, nowhere is it more prevalent...”
– Corporate America’s War on Political Transparency (via azspot)
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ThinkProgress » Storms Kill Over 250 Americans In... →
silas216:
Today, news agencies are still tallying reports of deaths from the most devastating storm system in the United States in decades:
Dozens of massive tornadoes tore a town-flattening streak across the South, killing at least 250 people in six states and forcing rescuers to carry some survivors out on makeshift stretchers of splintered debris. Two of Alabama’s major cities were among...
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“Patriotism is an excuse to take credit for things you had nothing to do with and...”
– Doug Stanhope (via facksake)
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“It’s really amazing that we’re even talking about this. In a sane world, the...”
– Jamelle Bouie, on why he believes President Obama’s birth certificate won’t quell the ‘rank-and-file’ birthers. (via pantslessprogressive)
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Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
Alan M. Eddison
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Welcome to the 21st-Century Food Wars: The... →
mohandasgandhi:
Welcome to the new food economics of 2011: Prices are climbing, but the impact is not at all being felt equally. For Americans, who spend less than one-tenth of their income in the supermarket, the soaring food prices we’ve seen so far this year are an annoyance, not a calamity. But for the planet’s poorest 2 billion people, who spend 50 to 70 percent of their income on food,...
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“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am...”
– Oscar Wilde (via defectivetypewriter)
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ryking:
“Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western United States, exacerbating problems for millions of water users in the West, according to a new government report. A report released Monday by the Interior Department said annual flows in three prominent river basins — the Colorado, Rio Grande and San Joaquin — could decline by as much 8 percent to 14...
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“Both Democrats and Republicans are missing the point by putting the emphasis on...”
– Dr. Margaret Flowers (via azspot)
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O'Reilly and Crowley Attack Obama for Where He... →
ryking:
For those keeping track: This week the Right has smeared Obama with birtherism, claimed he got into Columbia and Harvard based on Affirmative Action and not his grades, speculated that he accepted a scholarship meant only for foreign students, threw a fit that he didn’t make a presidential proclamation celebrating Easter (while deliberately overlooking the fact that no American president...
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“Racism in our politics is not so much a philosophy as it is a tactic. The goal?...”
– Jamil Smith - The Maddow Blog - Papers, please (via minorjive)
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“I think one of the reasons why it’s so difficult for people to get it that we’re...”
– The 11th Hour (via ne-plus-ultra)
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“Religion is one lie after another: the lie of original sin, the lie of eternal...”
– Paula Kirby, “Woman, Know Thy Place” (via incaseyouwantorneedtoknow) 