March 2012
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URGENT: Google privacy policy change
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mohandasgandhi:
fuckyeahfeminists:
Just got this in an email
In just a few hours, new policies will take effect at Google, endangering your privacy.
Tech publication Gizmodo reports, “things you could do in relative anonymity today [like your web searches], will be explicitly associated with your name, your face, your phone number come March 1st.” And this applies...
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nedhepburn)
The Perils of Thinking Like an Individual →
It seems like common sense that the principles of sound financial management should be the same for people and governments, and for centuries moralists (and to a lesser extent economists) have frowned on excessive levels of individual debt. But the economy is not a single entity in any meaningful sense. Rather it’s a vast, complex system of hundreds of millions of workers and consumers, hundreds...
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“Over just the last year 41 states have cut spending for public higher education....”
– Robert Reich: Stop Starving Public Universities and Shrinking the Middle Class (via pantslessprogressive)
“At the same time that the price of gasoline is rising, the US oil industry is...”
– Christian Science Monitor
And another one! Yeah, we’re exporting record amounts of American-made gasoline to other countries instead of lowering prices here. Obama’s fault… how exactly?
-Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
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“One of the reasons I think Santorum is talking about religion is also to shine a...”
– Is Rick Santorum Missing JFK’s Point On Religion? (via kileyrae)
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81% of Israelis Oppose Unilateral Strike on Iran →
Despite all of the warmongering hysteria, the overwhelming majority of all Israelis oppose a unilateral strike on Iran.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
Only 19 percent of Israelis support an attack against Iran without the backing of the United States, a new poll released on Wednesday found.
In the poll conducted by Shibley Telhami, Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow and the Anwar Sadat...
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So apparently, the House is voting on the "Blunt...
stfusexists:
Pro-tip: If they can spend less money on their employee’s benefits, every employer will be “morally opposed” to covering birth control. Do these people seriously not understand that if there is a loophole, EVERYONE will exploit it?
Police officer punches rape victim in the face and... →
When officers arrived, Gibson said she was hiding in a closet naked. She said the officers ordered her to leave the closet.
“I told them what had just happened to me and I asked for a female officer and the officer said I didn’t have that option because it wasn’t my house,” Gibson said. ”I told them I was naked. I told them I had just been raped and that I did not feel comfortable coming out of...
Top 5 Stratfor Revelations →
Up to 12 Pakistani active-duty and retired officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew that Usama Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and were in regular contact with him. The Pakistani chief of staff is denying the report.
Dow Chemicals hired Stratfor to spy on activists in Agra who continue to protest over the Bhopal environmental disaster that blinded many workers and destroyed...
“In 2011, Wisconsin’s Republican-led Legislature enacted a new law that requires...”
– Voter ID laws keep citizens from voting Ashley Lopez (via manicchill)
Wall Street greed fueling high gas prices →
stfuconservatives:
Another fun citation for people claiming gas prices are Obama’s fault.
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13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the... →
13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.
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theafrosistuh:
beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay...
“Danica Patrick is such a.. pretty girl. She makes a lot of money and...”
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Fox 5 news anchor Ross Shimabuku, on Danica Patrick’s question to a report about why female athletes must always be described as “sexy,” and imploring him for another word to describe her.
Shimabuku was suspended today for a week without pay for his comments after he apologized… by admitting...
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“What does it say about the college coed Susan [sic] Fluke, who goes before a...”
– Rush Limbaugh, on law student Sandra Fluke, who was denied the ability to testify before the all-male panel considering contraceptive coverage.
Fuck. You.
As ThinkProgress states: “While it’s probably not even worth engaging with Limbaugh on the facts, Fluke’s testimony was about a friend who is a...
You're fucked now, UrbanOutfitters, muahahahahah! →
apihtawikosisan:
This is the big news of today and I haven’t seen it all over the place yet! The Navajo Nation (who has trademarked their name) is suing UrbanOutfitters. The suit is based on trademark infringement and violation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. This is going to be an awesome case!
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"I can’t believe I burned down a tree older then... →
motherjones:
26-year-old Sarah Barnes’s alleged response to allegedly burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world—a 3,500-year-old, 118-foot-tall bald cypress—while (allegedly) on meth. Barnes is allegedly from Florida.
“If I wanted the government in my womb, I’d fuck a senator.”
– Senator Judy Eason McIntyre; Tulsa, OK (via supcakes)
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Desperate to prove that he totally doesn't hate... →
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Report: How Payday Lenders Make Billions By... →
timekiller-s:
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first public hearings, held in Alabama Thursday, were on the subject of predatory payday lenders.
This is horrifying stuff, but for a lot of the working poor, these companies that rob them blind are their only option.
Now think about all that and remember how Congressional Republicans — in both chambers of Congress — fought tooth and...
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"My sister lost her baby... and my state requires... →
stfuconservatives:
leeleeleelee submitted: “This is the reality of Texas’ ultrasound for abortion bill. A 30 year old Texas woman’s fetus’ heart stopped beating after 12 weeks. The options given were to wait until miscarriage, give birth to it, or to abort it (the preferred, safest option). She has to look at an ultrasound of her already dead fetus and if she looks away, she will have to...
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Alabama Denies DNA Test to Potentially Innocent... →
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somepolitics:
Andrew Cohen chronicles the many uncertainties in Alabama’s case against Thomas Arthur, who was convicted of murder three decades ago and is scheduled to be executed next month. They include a key witness who recanted and then unrecanted her testimony, another man who admitted to committing the murder, and a wig containing DNA evidence that likely belongs to...
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Stratfor's Ridiculous and Sometimes Racist... →
paxamericana:
Some highlights:
Clancy Somebody who has read a lot of Tom Clancy novels and thinks he knows the Craft. Total moron. Really dangerous if he is the Customer. Never let a Briefer be a Clancy.
DIA
Defense Intelligence Agency. Also called “down river” Owns military intelligence, sort of. Its basic job is to justify increased defense budgets. These guys actually try to run agents....
Today in fucked-up things state legislatures are... →
stfuconservatives:
somuchdependsupon submitted:
South Dakota’s state House of Reps recently passed a bill on the definition of domestic violence, complete with amendments that modify an “intimate partnership” or “relationships” with the clause “with a member of the opposite sex.” So, gay man in an abusive relationship? You’re not victim of domestic violence! College roommate beating you up?...
California bill would let non-doctors do some... →
stfuconservatives:
Amazing news from California: state legislators have suggested a law that would allow health professionals outside of just OBGYNs to provide abortions. Increased access? Hurray!
-Jess
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WASH POST: "At least seven Americans employed by... →
February 2012
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“Suffocating sanctions could lead to a grave economic situation in Iran and to a...”
– An unnamed Israeli official • Calling for the U.S. to cripple Iran’s economy with harder sanctions, to cause food shortages for the Iranian public as a means to gain diplomatic leverage. The impetus of this thinking came earlier today, when North Korea agreed to halt production of new nuclear...