October 2011
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Hello, America. You *Still* Don't Get It? →
From the blog: The Hand That Feeds You . A particularly wonderful post.
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The Game of GOP Brinksmanship Last Spring... →
… actually created COST America 370,000 #jobs? I guess all the uterus, Sharia law, birth certificate-focus didn’t stimulate the economy the way they had planned? There’s a shocker.
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Watch#p2 @cspanwj
wjlounge:
Quick mashup from the last segment of today’s @cspanwj
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Refining Solar Energy →
New possibilities from refinements of existing technology? Let’s hope so.
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Occupy Phoenix's most devoted protesters →
The homelessness situation in Phoenix is dire. According to an October 2011 report by the advocacy group Phoenix Homeless Rising, Arizona has one of the highest poverty rates in the country: 18.6 percent as of 2010. There are approximately 17,000 beds in Phoenix shelters, which is woefully inadequate for a homeless population that ranges between 20,000 to 30,000 on any given day. Heavily...
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Foreclosure Firm Throws Halloween Party Dressed As... →
I don’t even have words for this. I think every possible professional association they’re connected with needs to see these photos and hear from consumers. More on that later.
Link to the full story.
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TSA Employee Chastized For Leaving Note About... →
Hopefully the TSA got his freak on with a note in his file. Yes, I’m assuming a *male* wrote it.
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Activate the Mechanism!: If I say that Paul Ryan’s... →
AWESOME article. #Obama #p2
abaldwin360:
The Truth Has A Well-Known, Well, You Know
By Paul Krugman
Greg Sargent takes us to Paul Ryan’s latest speech, in which Ryan expresses outrage over what President Obama is saying:
Just last week, the President told a crowd in North Carolina that Republicans are in favor of, quote, “dirtier air, dirtier water, and less people with health...
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“The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, from a speech to the AFL-CIO Illinois state convention on Oct. 7, 1965 (via liberalsarecool)
TheRiverWanders: Past is prologue.
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WatchOur children is learning but all their vote are belong to us.
joost5:
New GOP-backed Florida voter rules make a well-intentioned civics teacher a criminal for handing out voter registration forms.
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budgiebazooka:
occupywallstreet:
On January 29, 2011, Hillary Clinton told Hosni Mubarak: “We urge the Egyptian authorities not to prevent peaceful protests.”
On October 25, 2011, Oakland Police told peaceful protesters: “I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly. If you refuse to go now, chemical agents will be used.”
well that’s not awkward
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It's Up To Us - #OccupyCollege Gains Traction →
The corporate enslavement of America includes saddling people with so much debt in their pursuit of the American Dream (work hard, study hard, do well) so that the graduates are ready-made indentured servants. Nice plan. #NOT
OccupyCollege.org is working to change that.
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WatchI believe President Obama hoped to garner good will by extending the Bush tax bribes (also called “cuts”, similar to lacerations, perforations, etc…) but I sure hope he’s change his set of expectations.
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It's been confirmed that Scott Olsen (Iraq War vet...
The #OPD #OaklandPD better start shitting its collective pants. #occupyOakland
boehnertroll:
Fuck. Everything.
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The Huffington Post points out that retired U.S.... →
THIS motherfucking shit makes me MAD. #ows #occupyOakland #99
omgimaduck:
mindbabies:
inothernews:
So Oakland’s cops did what sniper’s bullets, improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades couldn’t: they hurt a U.S. soldier.
Good job, Oakland PD.
OH man, OPD is kicking themselves in the face so hard right now.
Sign here Investigate the Oakland Police Department’s brutal...
Largest mass extinction in 65 million years... →
Like the dinosaurs.
ninefoldgoddess:
Environmental scientists say they have concrete evidence that the planet is undergoing the “largest mass extinction in 65 million years”. Leading environmental scientist Professor Norman Myers says the Earth is experiencing its “Sixth Extinction.”
Scientists forecast that up to five million species will be lost this century. “We are well into the opening...
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Demand Mayor Jean Quan Stop the Police Repression... →
omgimaduck:
This type of violence cannot happen again in Oakland or any other city around the country. We demand that mayors and police chiefs around the country refrain from similar Oakland-style police attacks, we the concerned citizens of the country are watching.
I need everyone to give a fuck. I need everyone to stop what they’re doing, and sign this. I need everyone to reblog this. If...
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Things that no one else really cares about...:... →
creativeorelse:
Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit! We can get that for minimum wage. That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they…
“We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube...”
– United States – Google Transparency Report (via midwestmountainmama)
Good.
(via youarenotyou)
Just in case you thought the law was on your side.
(via sexandjender)
Good!
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St Paul's Cathedral canon resigns over #OWS
guardian:
“I resigned because I believe that the chapter has set on a course of action that could mean there will be violence in the name of the church.”
The canon chancellor of St Paul’s Catherdral, Dr Giles Fraser, on his resignation in protest at plans to forcibly remove demonstrators from its steps
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“So let’s fucking quit justifying it by saying, ‘Oh, that’s what happens’ and...”
– reddit user gloomdoom, in response to the Oakland PD’s behavior towards OWS protesters. (via abaldwin360)
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Video of Action In #occupyOakland #OaklandPD #OPD... →
Tweep .@OakFoSho tells the #OPD what it is. Bravo. Gives me chills and tears at the same time.
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America?
guardian:
Photograph: Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images (top) Darryl Bush/AP (bottom)
Police used teargas after scuffles broke out between officers and protesters demonstrating against dozens of arrests at an Occupy Wall Street camp in Oakland, California
This doesn’t look like my country. Well, it *does*… but back in the days of Kent State.
The Oakland Police Department...
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Absolute. Fucking. DISGRACE: Woman In Wheelchair... →
This link should take you to a yfrog stream by “Adreadonymous” who posted this photo of what looks to be an elderly or movement-impaired person who was teargassed along with everyone else at #occupyOakland.
SINCE WHEN did it become illegal to protest for your rights? SINCE WHEN do police departments get military authority to attack *the people* who PAY THEIR SALARIES and *the same...
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Tell MSNBC To Sanction Pat BuKKKanan →
goodreasonnews:
skunderthoon:
truth-has-a-liberal-bias:
MSNBC has a Pat Buchanan problem and it’s time they stop ignoring it.
This week Buchanan, a paid MSNBC analyst, has appeared across the media promoting a new book. Here are just a few examples of his conduct during this publicity tour:
Buchanan appeared on a “pro-white” radio program, where he attacked America’s increasing diversity...
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