April 2012
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Zimmerman forgot to tell his lawyer about his... →
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$150,000 the amount George Zimmerman’s bond was set at when he was released last week after a contentious bond hearing
$200,000 the amount George Zimmerman had in PayPal donations sitting around at the time of that…
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Prison Industries: "Don't Let Society Improve or... →
There are two very large and influential prison companies in the United States who are manipulating the system to make sure they have plenty of business: The GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). In the first part of this two-part series, I will explore The GEO Group’s influence peddling; next week, I will look at CCA.
If you have any doubt in your mind...
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Help support a #prochoice student under attack... →
the-womanifesto:
An art student at my school, Western Kentucky University, is getting tons of national heat right now for her own backlash against a pro-life group. The group covered an entire set of bleachers with 4,000 crosses and from the art classroom windows you could see that it spelled out the word “LIFE.” They also targeted students walking by and asked them questions about abortion and...
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#StopRush - Limbaugh demands YouTube remove Sandra... →
paxamericana:
Remember Sandra Fluke? She’s the law student who sent Rush Limbaugh into a multi-day rage for daring to speak out on behalf a friend who needed access to contraceptives for non-reproductive medical reasons. As a result, Limbaugh decided she was a promiscuous slut and prostitute who needed to videotape herself having sex for Limbaugh’s own sexual gratification.
Overall, Limbaugh...
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Spirit Airlines Won't Refund Ticket of Man Dying... →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
Florida resident and 76 year-old Vietnam war veteran Jerry Meekins recently purchased a ticket from Spirit Airlines to visit his daughter in New Jersey. But soon after he bought the ticket, his doctors informed him that he is dying from esophageal cancer and that he shouldn’t fly. Meekins thought he’d ask Spirit if he could get his money back: “I said, ‘What’s the...
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WikiLeaks Truck Owner Arrested For Photographing... →
Metropolitan Transit Authority police arrested a man for photographing them at Penn Station in New York City this afternoon – deleting his photo – before releasing him from a jail cell an hour later.
Clark Stoeckley was issued a summons charging him with “engaging in threatening behavior.”
“I was walking through Penn Station and I came across these MTA cops with semi-automatic weapons,” he...
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“There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a...”
– Herman Daly (via azspot)
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Antarctic Ice Melting From Below by Warming Ocean... →
A paper published today in the science journal Nature reveals that the melting of Antarctica’s ice sheet is being driven by a warming ocean more than a warming atmosphere. Which means even though summer air temperatures have not yet warmed enough to substantially melt Antarctica’s surface snows, the oceans are undermining the frozen continent from below—fueling a recent, widespread, and...
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Wind pushes plastics deeper into oceans, driving... →
While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy seas in the Pacific Ocean, oceanographer Giora Proskurowski noticed something new: The water was littered with confetti-size pieces of plastic debris, until the moment the wind picked up and most of the particles disappeared. After taking samples of water at a depth of 16 feet (5 meters), Proskurowski, a researcher at the University of...
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Truth: "I will submit to you today, that they... →
abaldwin360:
The Tennessee Democratic Party is criticizing Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, for his comments during House floor debate on a bill that amends the state “cyberbullying” law.
During the debate, Rep. Jeremy Faison spoke out against the bill, displaying a “boys will be boys”…
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