February 2012
16 posts
Austin talking in all caps: [tw: rape] Please... →
stfusexists:
needleg33k:
Hey all
My friend is trying to get signatures for a petition against Judge David Farrell. Recently, he sentenced 2 men to 40 months in prison for raping an 11-year old. Why was the sentence so light? Because she looked older than her age and was “willing”, despite the fact that she claimed it was rape. Please reblog as far as the eye can see and sign this petition to...
Oh my godddddd
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This Means War formula: Attempt to make a movie that appeals to both romance and action fans; end up with a movie that appeals to absolutely no one.
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Conservatives Threaten to Make "Committee... →
The Harper Conservatives are making a bid to have parliamentary committee business conducted in secret.
Widely considered as a test run for all committees, the Official Languages Committee is currently debating a motion to conduct its future committee business in camera. The motion was originally introduced by Costas Menegakis (Richmond Hill, Ont., CPC). The Government Operations and...
“Iraq, despite the brutality of Saddam Hussein, was a prosperous country with a...”
– Chris Hedges
Whitney Houston’s Death is Probably Not What You... →
Statistically, the number one reason that a woman like Whitney, of her age and background, would die at this age is: heart disease. Plain, old fashioned, anyone-coulda-been-affected, HEART DISEASE.
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I’ve done all kinds of recreational drugs— I bet you have too, Amerika. But the actuarial table of why ‘Susie Bright is going to die” will not point to my drug use as cause of death. My...
Canada mining boom leaves natives in the cold -... →
braddogott:
“Great riches are being taken from our land for the benefit of a few, including the government of Canada and Ontario, who receive large royalty payments, while we receive so little,” Teresa Spence, the chief of Attawapiskat, said in a speech on January 26.
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Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's... →
soupsoup:
Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by Iran’s leaders.
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“Throughout American history, South Carolinians have led the fight to preserve...”
– Kevin Alexander Gray
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South Carolina Is a Welfare Queen →
braddogott:
According to figures from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, for every dollar South Carolinians pay in federal taxes, they receive $1.35 back. In other words, in 2005 (the last year for which comparable data is available) every single person in the state received $2,196 that he or she never earned. (Thanks to Obama’s fiscal wastrelry, the handout is even greater today.)
Of course, this...
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“Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners from the Oakland...”
– Occupy Oakland Protester
Because once you have imprisoned someone, you really need to gas them.
“I am not bitter. I am outraged. I want “fellowship” with people who are outraged...”
– Kristen Rawls, Fuck Your Prayers I want Solidarity
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January 2012
16 posts
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The analysis suggests that Canada does not face...
jakke:
“The analysis suggests that Canada does not face major challenges of financial sustainability with its public pension schemes… there is no pressing financial or fiscal need to increase pension ages in the foreseeable future.”
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So the federal government asked a couple economists to evaluate the sustainability of federal pension schemes. Here’s the result. Pensions are being cut and...
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Transgender People are Completely Banned From...
somepolitics:
Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada
stfuhypocrisy:
The shit hit the fan in the trans blogosphere last night, when it came to light that there is a disturbing new section in the Identity Screening Regulations used in airports throughout Canada. Simply put, Transgender People are Completely Banned From Boarding Airplanes in Canada.
The...
Whistleblower Comes Forward: Harper's Attempt to... →
f-yeahcanadianpolitics:
In an open letter to Canada, Andrew Frank has stepped forward to inform the public of Stephen Harper’s attempts to silence critics of the Enbridge pipeline.
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Possible human foot washes ashore on B.C. coast →
Again.
“I’m going to make a raw political statement here. A guy like Romney is a good...”
– Vice President Joe Biden talks Mitt Romney and the Republican way of thinking.
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
foulmouthedliberty:
offwithitshead:
stay-human:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you...
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For every regulation created one will be... →
Idiots.
Urination at War: Don't Be Mad at the Peeing; Be... →
"Under the circumstances, discussions with Greece...
jakke:
Don’t mean to sound all class warrior - but holy eff, is this not the coldest most arch line you’ve ever read in a press release? Seriously, when they make a movie about Greece’s default saga, I hope Meryl Streep gets to play whatever public-relations executive wrote that line.
Basically, what’s happening is this: the Greek government and the banks which hold the Greek government’s debt...
“Let’s be clear — I am an engineer; I am not telling you we shouldn’t build...”
– Mike Klink, engineer and TransCanada pipeline inspector, calling Keystone XL a potential disaster.
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What’s Behind Postal Crisis? Privatization. |... →
Consider that tens of millions of Americans used to bank their money in the Postal Savings System until it was abolished in 1966 because of pressure by the banking industry.
Despite a drumbeat of media myth-making to the contrary, the Postal Service is still very busy. Letter carriers deliver 170 billion pieces of mail each year. The Postal Service is at the center of this country’s $1.3...
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“Poor whites are rarely typified as pathological, dangerous, lazy or shiftless to...”
– Tim Wise, Honky Wanna Cracker? Examining the Myth of “Reverse Racism”
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“Even at age twelve I could tell that Jimmy Carter was an honest man trying to...”
– Tim Kreider on Ronald Reagan
December 2011
10 posts
“To prevent Africans and Native Americans from uniting, Europeans played...”
– William Loren Katz, Black Indian: A Hidden Heritage
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nowaitninjas:
The NDP criticisms in the media are always just repeated talking points and it’s frustrating. Some of the most common ones being: we don’t have a legitimate leader yet, we’re too strongly against the building of mega-prisons, we wouldn’t be capable of running a good federal government based on past provincial performance, and we haven’t been successful as an opposition yet. To...
Will NLRB Die? →
progressivefriends:
This is the FIRST I’ve heard about this. The death watch for organized labor is steadily counting down.
“There are more Americans living in poverty than there are Canadians on the...”
– Confessions of a Child Janitor | Crooks and Liars
“…and the public is standing there, amazed, because we just bailed you out how...”
– Jeffrey Sachs, talking about the collapse of the global financial system and how to end the crisis with Al Jazeera
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“Armed U.S. police officers will for the first time be allowed to operate in...”
– Border deal fuels concerns in Canada - Toronto Star
Fuck this shit.
November 2011
25 posts
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Killing emails, cheating history? - Governor Watch... →
sarahlee310:
Like Rick Perry, Nikki Haley, isn’t big on saving emails - despite running on a platform promising transparency.
ThinkProgress reblogged me! :O
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Congressional SOPA hearings: no opponents of the... →
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“He’s a stupid man’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.”
– Paul Krugman on Newt Gingrich
“A word is as offensive as those who have been victimised by it tell us it is.”
– Tim Minchin
“Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies,...”
– Chris Hedges
FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every Branch... →
The FBI has released a new gang assessment announcing that there are 1.4 million gang members in the US, a 40 percent increase since 2009, and that many of these members are getting inside the military (via Stars and Stripes).
The report says the military has seen members from 53 gangs and 100 regions in the U.S. enlist in every branch of the armed forces. Members of every major street gang, some...