January 2011
“Not sure if you heard this already, but a friend of mine who went to the school...”
– Anonymous comment on Radical Hott Off Notes
Wow.
(via robot-heart-politics)
Glenn Greenwald | Government-Created Climate of... →
…But more significant than the legal soundness of this fear was what the fear itself signified. Most of those expressing these concerns were perfectly rational, smart, well-informed American citizens. And yet they were petrified that merely donating money to a non-violent political and journalistic group whose goals they supported would subject them to invasive government scrutiny or, worse,...
“What we want is transparent government, not transparent people.”
– Julian Assange destroys Steve Kroft again and again. I’d love to see the whole unedited interview. (via firelily)
When the politically fueled murder of a 9-year-old... →
idonteverwanna:
Wow.
“As her mother tells it, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores had begged the border vigilantes who had just broken into her house, “Please don’t shoot me.”
But they did — in the face at point-blank range, prosecutors allege, as Brisenia’s father sat dead on the couch and her mother lay on the floor, pretending that she too had been killed in the...
Al-Jazeera: Egyptian protesters have called for a... →
li13el:
jonathan-cunningham:
Why is it called the April 6 movement?
The April 6 Youth Movement is an Egyptian Facebook group started by Ahmad Maher in Spring 2008 to support the workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6. Per wikipedia.
Thanks!
Al-Jazeera: Egyptian protesters have called for a... →
Why is it called the April 6 movement?
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Massey continues to lie about the explosion that... →
Previously: A mine in West Virginia owned by Massey exploded, killing several workers. Investigation by NPR determined that Massey had the methane sensors that are required by law (because they help prevent explosions) were disabled. While Don Blankenship ran Massey it was common practice to disabled methane sensors. Don Blankenship stepped down from his position last December. Ten days ago,...
For-profit schools continue to bankrupt low income... →
Hundreds of thousands of people go into debt every year enrolling in for-profit higher education programs like DeVry and Argosy — sold on the idea that they’ll graduate with skills that will lead to opportunity and a better life. In reality, many come out with a mountain of debt they can’t pay back and no better prospects at employment.1
Thankfully, the Obama administration is trying to rein...
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn (via kateoplis)
Egypt is repressing free speech with the help of... →
This is war profiteering in the information age and should be prosecuted as such.
I can't watch MSNBC for right now
socialistexan:
Their being just as bad as Fox! I feel like they’re trying to paint the protestors as Anti-American extreme Islamic terrorists.
Chris Matthews was throwing out legitimate questions that people would have, and that have been answered, and getting something that honestly isn’t true or very vague.
Example (paraphrased): Matthews asks if this is had a religious aspect or if it was...
“We don’t expect anything from Obama, whom we regard as a great hypocrite. But we...”
– Egyptian blogger and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy talks to U.C. Irvine history professor Mark LeVine at Al Jazeera.
(“We Don’t Expect Any Help From America, Just To Leave Us Alone.” | The Awl)
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution...”
– John F. Kennedy (In a 1962 speech at the White House)
Governor Rick Perry Urges Republican Voters to... →
damekatharsis:
My rage-o-meter reading is officially on imminent meltdown:
Well, there is a lot of fat to cut from our public schools, especially those in our biggest urban areas like Houston and Dallas. I am concerned that some the highly diverse Magnet public schools in this city are becoming hotbeds for liberalism. Do we really need free school bus service, Black History Month, Hispanic...
Things a Rape Victim Shouldn't Have to Do, Part...
rabbleprochoice:
[TRIGGER WARNING for rape and self-harm]
thingsmostgrey:
Throw herself down the stairs to avoid carrying the resultant pregnancy to term.
“You will see me on the news.” Stella* said with complete seriousness. “I’ll throw myself down the stairs. I’ll do what it takes. I need to get rid of this baby.”
The gravity of what she was saying hadn’t immediately hit me. Stella...
“With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith...”
– The House GOP’s Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones
All rape is fucking forcible, you assholes. I hate you all, Republicans. Seriously. Every last one of you. I don’t think I will ever feel safe in this country as a woman, and I am terrified for my daughter’s future.
(via greaterthanlapsed)
So,...
80% of all Mosques in the US are "controlled by... →
HOST: Congressman, how widespread do you think this radical jihad sentiment is in US mosques? How many mosques do you think are infected?
KING: The only real testimony we have on it is from Sheikh Kabbani who was a Muslim leader during the Clinton Administration, he testified back in 1999 and 2000 before the State Department that he thought over 80 percent of the mosques in this country are...
Profiles of the Targeted: FBI Raided My Home,... →
redguard:
Anh Pham and her husband were still in bed when the FBI came to their home on September 24th. Pham’s husband went to the door and returned to tell Pham that FBI agents were at the door and wanted to speak to her. Pham asked him if they had a warrant. Pham’s husband didn’t know. Pham left the bedroom with her husband to go see if the FBI had a warrant, but by that time it was “almost...
“Berkeley, Calif., is famous for taking on bold, liberal causes, which is why...”
– http://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133247483/berkeleys-latest-liberal-cause-sex-changes
Berkley is the capital of radical reform in the U.S. I can see why this proposal is getting a lot of arguments but we have to consider San Francisco has been doing this for a while. Also not very many people want...
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Patriot Act Vs. Patriot Act →
I’ve heard some people say that the two parties in Washington are far too alike, and that their similarities disenfranchise a large number of people. This is completely preposterous. The rapidly approaching expiration of The Patriot Act serves as a perfect example. The Republicans (Michael Rogers from Michigan) want to extend it until 2012. The Democrats, on the other hand, want to...
“You’ve heard all about Christina Green, but do you know about Brisenia Flores?...”
– When the politically fueled murder of a 9-year-old girl in Arizona is NOT national news | Media Matters for America
The trial details are frightening and disgusting.
(via shorterexcerpts)
Ron Paul, Ralph Nader agree on... →
brosephstalin:
greenstate:
hipsterlibertarian sent this to me, what do youse guys think? a libertarian/green party alliance?
i think it’s pretty badass, actually.
I see massive potential right here.
Let’s stop the wars and government oppression, then we can talk about how far corporate control of the government has to extend to be considered ‘free’. Even the...
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Billionaire ruled unfit to stand trial due to drug... →
cognitivedissonance:
Financier and cricket mogul Sir Allen Stanford was unfit to stand trial on charges of running a $7-billion fraud and needs treatment for a drug addiction, a US judge ruled.
Stanford’s trial had been due to begin this week but was postponed indefinitely until he could be considered fit to prepare his defense.
The financier has pleaded not guilty to 21 counts of fraud,...
“You just can’t pull labor and full employment apart. It’s not a matter of...”
– The Virtue of Unions | Mother Jones (via ziatroyano)
Are black women invisible? A new study says yes. →
so-treu:
manifestfreedom:
“According to some it could be because we do not fit the “stereotypical” image of womanhood. Or as the article in Psychology Today puts it, “when people discuss ‘women’s issues’ or when research is conducted on gender bias, the focus is usually on white women. And when people discuss ‘racial issues’ or when research is conducted on racial bias, the focus is usually...
“I hope that Paul Ryan explains to us why we should trust him and his...”
– Ryan’s Selective Memory, Willingness to Repeated Failed Conservative Policies Troubling | One Wisconsin Now (via pantslessprogressive)
“The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term ‘globalization’ to...”
– Noam Chomsky (via soupsoup)
Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato found... →
socialisimo:
One of Uganda’s most prominent gay rights activists has been murdered in his home weeks after winning a court victory over a tabloid that called for homosexuals to be killed.
David Kato, the advocacy officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda, was bludgeoned to death in Mukono, Kampala, yesterday afternoon. Witnesses saw a man fleeing the scene in a car, and police are investigating.
...
Banning cell phones while driving does nothing to... →
The new study, which was completed in December, looked at crashes (and not just at those involving cellphones) in those four places and found no decrease in accidents, despite the bans’ having reduced the use of hand-held cellphones 41 to 76 percent. The researchers obtained those numbers by going out to street corners and exit ramps to observe how many people had cellphones up to their ears...
“…the “war on science” is only the most blatant, surface manifestation of a...”
– David Brin (via azspot)
The Maddow Blog - Where is the American center? →
Don’t know about you, but I found last night’s string of quotes from President Eisenhower just amazing. By now, very many of us have come of age in an America where that Republican icon would be to the left of any Democrat on the national scene today. But in post-World War II America, President Eisenhower represented the Republican Party and the American center:
“Workers have a right to...
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Watch
Yesterday, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan hosted a segment on the extreme, prolonged isolation in which Bradley Manning has been kept for eight months now, despite having been convicted of nothing. He had on his panel a “Democratic strategist,” a “Republican strategist,” and “a Washington insider.” Ratigan tried without any success to get them to understand...
scourgehealer asked: http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/Details-given-in-alleged-rape-attempt
Report: 97% of scientists say man-made climate... →
mohandasgandhi:
This data comes from a new survey out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study found that 97 percent of scientific experts agree that climate change is “very likely” caused mainly by human activity.
The report is based on questions posed to 1,372 scientists. Nearly all the experts agreed that it is “very likely that anthropogenic...
“If feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of...”
– Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooks
Are you listening, Sarah Palin?
(via petitefeministe)
Sharia law
corruptpolitics:
I don’t understand the sudden fear of Sharia law. I’m under the impression that the first amendment (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion) prevents any sort of Sharia attack on America. Maybe if legislators read the Constitution they would grasp this simple fact as well.
State legislators are wasting time and tax money drafting ridiculous bills....