November 2011
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“A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest...”
– Pirates and Emperors - Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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Modern Age Slavery - The Wage Slave →
occupyonline:
This site (click-through) is very informative and provides a lot of interesting facts. Here is its introduction:
Today, most people suffer under globalistic slavery: either wage slavery or physical, chattel slavery. There are currently more than 27 million people physically enslaved as chattel. 1 Approximately 95% of the 6.4 billion persons now living suffer under wage slavery...
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“But the US had a hard time keeping up with itself, or with the world that it...”
– America deceptionalism (via cultureofresistance)
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10 things you should know about International... →
1. One in three women die or are seriously injured as a result of gender-based violence. Violence against women results in more deaths among women ages 15 to 44 than the total number of women who die because of war, malaria, and cancer.
2. An estimated four million women and girls are bought and sold worldwide each year, either into marriage, prostitution or slavery.
3. One out of every six...
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“The existing health structures were no longer able to care for patients...”
– Dr. Narcisse Wega, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Cameroon. Cholera has now spread to all districts of Cameroon’s larest city, Douala, home to 2.1 million people. See how MSF is responding. (via doctorswithoutborders)
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Cities spend millions to evict Occupy protesters,... →
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tylerkingkade:
Example: Atlanta spent $500,000 in just two weeks policing Occupy Atlanta. A local shelter, facing lawsuits to stop the city from shutting it down, said $500,000 would fund them for at least two years.
Read my latest story for more.
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Native blood: the truth behind the myth of... →
mohandasgandhi:
It is a deep thing that people still celebrate the survival of the early colonists at Plymouth — by giving thanks to the Christian god who supposedly protected and championed the European invasion. The real meaning of all that, then and now, needs to be continually excavated. The myths and lies that surround the past are constantly draped over the horrors and tortures of our...
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Cruel and Unusual Idiocy →
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Minneci v. Pollard, a case that involves cruelties inflicted on a prisoner that should be considered violations of the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.” There is, however, an unfortunate catch. Because Pollard was held in a privately operated prison, both his jailers and the federal government are claiming that...
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I lost a child to the Occupy movement.
itsallgone:
Just thirteen days ago I was eight months pregnant.
Everyone loved rubbing my belly.
I even wore my “Baby On Board” shirt over my gigantic stomach.
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“They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones....”
– Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census (via ryking)
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Water Fluoridation War: Government Admits Dangers,... →
feminismistheshit:
anti-propaganda:
‘It was only a few years ago that if you labeled fluoride as a dangerous substance, you would be laughed at and scorned. For years, a select minority of individuals were the only ones raising the awareness of this health concern. Their cries have been and continue to be met with dissonance, despite the fact that the public’s opinion on fluoride has ...
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Obama's Immigration Legacy: 46,000 Parents of U.S.... →
“We’re taking them where we take all the kids,” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer told Clara, an undocumented worker living in New Mexico, as he took away her 6- and 1-year-old little girls after a joint raid with the Drug Enforcement Agency turned up nothing in their trailer. Nothing, that is, except Clara and her sister’s undocumented statuses. The two women asked if their...
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Mac McClelland: Ohio's War on the Middle Class →
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ladyjournos:
Wherein I go home, watch public servants get axed, visit the warehouse of unbearable sorrow, hang with jobless thirtysomethings living in abandoned homes, and consider whether my generation is flat-out screwed.
Mother Jones || November/December 2011
We recommend this. And, if you’re looking for a Tumblr Thursday recommendation, we recommend you follow Lady...
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99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement - animation
It has been the rallying cry of the Occupy movement for the past two months - but is the US really split 99% v 1%? As poverty and inequality reach record levels, how much richer have the rich got? This animation explains what the key data says about the state of America today
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Judge Who Set Unsecured Bail For Jerry Sandusky Is... →
cognitivedissonance:
When Jerry Sandusky was initially arraigned, as previously reported by Sara Ganim, prosecutors requested $500,000.00 bail and that Sandusky be required to wear a leg monitor. District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, however, ordered that Sandusky be freed on $100,000.00 unsecured bail. She ordered that Sandusky be freed and pay nothing unless he failed to show up for a court...
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Are We an Orwellian or Huxley Dystopia? →
occupyonline:
HUXLEY FEARED
There would be no one who wanted to read book. Those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. The truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. We would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the...
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“Unnecessary specialized language is used to humiliate those who are not supposed...”
– Aurora Levins Morales, Certified Organic Intellectual from Telling to live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (via art-is-the-word)
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Gitmo costs $800,000 per detainee per year. →
motherjones:
Inmates in stateside federal prisons only cost 3 percent of that.
Hey, Congress: Still looking for budget cuts?
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“Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you...”
– World War Z by Max Brooks (via lowbird)
everyone follow m1nou. everything on their blog is wonderful.
(via thecallofthewild)
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Congress Got 25% Richer During Height of Recession →
occupyonline:
Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members’ financial disclosure forms.
Nearly 90 percent of that increase is concentrated in the 50 richest Members of Congress. Two years ago, Roll Call found that the minimum net worth of House Members was slightly...
