November 2011
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South Dakota Profits When Native Kids Get Thrown... →
drst:
A year-long NPR News investigation has found that nearly 700 Native American children in South Dakota are being removed from their homes every year. In South Dakota, Native American children make up less than 15 percent of the child population, yet they make up more than half of the children in foster care. Nearly 90 percent of them are in non-native homes or group homes, according to...
October 2011
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212 killed so far in US drone attacks of Somalia
lacaagbathaan:
That is 212 famine stricken Somali’s killed in one week by United States drone attacks.
212 Somali CIVILIANS killed by US and US allies in 1 week.
Somali’s part of the 99% being killed by the 1%. OWS Stand up!
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“Declarations of American exceptionalism rest on the belief that the United...”
– The Myth of American Exceptionalism (via nomindallthought)
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this article demonstrates the fact that gov. sean... →
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ayiman:
What a pile of bullshit.
democracy? wtf is democracy?
“All Alaskans” apparently does not include the actual residents of an area whose lives would be adversely impacted by the presence of a huge gold mine.
Northern Dynasty is a Canadian company, too. Based out of Vancouver. I guess the concerns of a bunch of suits in Van are worth more than those of the local...
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STFU, Conservatives: ladiesmakingcomics submitted:... →
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ladiesmakingcomics submitted:
That “abortion causes breast cancer” graph pisses me off for a number of reasons. For one, it’s pretty damn obvious that if you take any kind of straight-edge and line it up right, the spike of breast cancer cases in the ’70s starts in 1971 and ends in…
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“The point being: if you miss a few home payments, you have a very high...”
– Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone (via robot-heart-politics)
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$6.7 billion
theweekmagazine:
What it would cost, per year, to provide “modern family planning methods” to people who don’t have access to them.
$6.9 billion Amount Americans are expected to spend on Halloween this year.
Earth’s 7-billion population milestone: By the numbers
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50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010 →
azspot:
The number of millionaires increased by about 20 percent.
(via ethicalecon)
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mohandasgandhi:
I absolutely adore that Wikileaks is on the verge of being shut down because funding is being blocked (remember that Assange hasn’t been formally charged with anything) and corporations are permitted to throw money at anything and everything in the name of “free speech” thanks to Citizens United. Donating to Wikileaks apparently doesn’t constitute as free speech, though, because...
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The Unpatriotic Act: Ten Years Later →
mohandasgandhi:
The USA Patriot Act became law ten years ago today. Bearing the awkward name, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, it passed the US Senate by an overwhelming vote of 96-1, with only Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) in dissent, voicing deep concerns about the impact the new law would have on civil...
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Study Finds USA Has Among the Lowest Economic... →
amydentata:
stfuconservatives:
Put differently, if you are born poor in America you are likely to stay poor in America.
Countries where you have a better chance of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and making it rich:
France
Germany
Sweden
Canada
Finland
Norway
Denmark
The American Dream is alive and well… in other countries that aren’t America.
-Joe
“If you want to live the...
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“So much talk in the media today, about where are the black fathers? The missing...”
– Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow) on Counter Racist Evolving Engineer Radio Program (listen here)
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USDA threatens $60,000 fine, federal raid against... →
lifting-of-the-veil:
rhetoricalities:
The US government’s assault against innocent American citizens continues to get more aggressive and just plain strange, with new reports of harassment against honest owners of ordinary lemon trees. Health Freedom Alliance (HFA) reports that officials from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are now spying on people whom they suspect are in possession of...
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We need Dungeon Masters for the real world →
Are you a gamer? Are you a game designer? Are you currently designing bullshit badges for users that don’t give a fuck, or worse, that they care so much they’re ignoring real life? In that case, I have a clarion call I hope you will hear.
Stop trying to make games better. They are fine. It’s life that is broken. Start fixing that.
Our schools are broken. They churn out people with little...
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Random Acts of Chaos: Socializing risk,... →
cognitivedissonance:
From PoliticusUSA:
Today’s wealthy conservatives feel like they are entitled to suck the rest of us dry. The people who are Occupying Wall Street aren’t parasites. They are regular Americans who have seen our political and economic systems used as a weapon…
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WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial blockade and raise new funds.
Assange, speaking at a press conference in London on Monday, said a banking blockade had destroyed 95% of WikiLeaks’ revenues.
He added that the blockade posed an...
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[TW child abuse, murder, racism] A couple adopts... →
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This is disgusting, and reminded me of this story as well.
Fucking privileged bullshit.
what the motherfucking fuck
What the ever living fuck?
I’m not surprised to see that they are white conservative Christians who were abusing adopted...
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Texas Prisons Quit Serving Lunch On Weekends
progressivefriends:
“To be fair to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, other states – Ohio, Arizona, Georgia- follow similar protocol. But the Times reports that the policy “appears to be out of step with the stands adopted by the American Correctional Association.”
More here.
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