June 2012
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New French law to limit CEO pay to 20 times of... →
luckyclive:
alexeikaramazov:
Sounds like a great law to me.
Quatre pour vous, France. Vous allez, France.
That seems good yo me. The only thing is that it must go farther: worker-control of businesses, like cooperatives, control through sit-down strikes.
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Positively Persistent Teach: goodmorningteachera... →
positivelypersistentteach:
goodmorningteachera answered your question: Tackling Teacher Turnover at Charter Schools
What is a charter school? We don’t have them in the Philippines.
Short definition is that it is a school run with public funding, but not overseen by the local school boards. Therefore, it is not…
Charter schools sound nice but too independent. Unions are not allowed,...
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“Last year, during his best three-month stretch, Jordan Golson sold about...”
– The New York Times, “Apple’s Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay.”
Apple is the greatest company in the world.
(via inothernews)
The sad part here is, he’s making $11.25/hour? That’s actually quite a bit more than any other retail outlet.
(via freeze-frame42)
^my thoughts. i’m making...
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How BuzzFeed makes viral hits in four easy steps.... →
sarahlee310:
LOL! Knew it was Reddit. :)
Reddit is the best. They are so revolutionary in that users vote on stories making them come forward. A cool idea.
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“I don’t know.”
– Texas Governor Rick Perry, when asked by Bob Schieffer what, exactly, Perry based his claims that President Obama’s invocation of executive privilege in the “Fast and Furious” case was “Nixonian.” (via politicalprof)
Well, it start with Nixon, sort of, but Perry is a bit wrong about it. Executive...
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“Every day, all across America, prosecutors charge people with crimes that the...”
– Jonathan Rapping, “Who’s Guarding the Henhouse? How the American Prosecutor Came to Devour Those He is Sworn to Protect.” (via letterstomycountry)
The country is messed up. The banks have been bailed out and the people sold out!
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Cruel and usual: US solitary confinement →
sunpol:
hermannview:
verbalresistance:
As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often without cause.
The US does not keep data on the number of inmates in solitary confinement.
The spectre of Bradley Manning lying naked and alone in a tiny cell at the Quantico Marine Base, less than 50 miles from Washington, DC, conjures up images of an...
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That gross little coup in Paraguay mostly no one... →
youlikemealready:
In Washington, a US State Department spokeswoman, Darla Jordan, said: “We urge all Paraguayans to act peacefully, with calm and responsibility, in the spirit of Paraguay’s democratic principles.”
And I just laughed and laughed and laughed.
I wonder if the U.S. govt. supported this coup… They supported the Honduras govt. after the coup. I’ll look this up for my...
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“Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then...”
– Arthur Sylvester
I best quote I’ve heard and its so true!
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Operation Twist Threatens Inflation In the Same... →
The Post told readers that with the Federal Reserve Board’s “Operation Twist”selling short-term debt to buy longer term debt:
“the Fed is able to bring down more stubborn long-term rates — from corporate loans to mortgages — without “printing more money” to do so. Increasing the money supply increases the chance of inflation, which invites political criticism.”
This is not true....
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“You can pretty much put their campaign on a tweet and have some characters to...”
– Talk Straight: Obama Spends Entire Presidency Blaming Bush For Bad Economy, Now Complains Romney Blaming Him For Economic Woes…
First off, people don’t really like either party and since both parties are corrupted, its lying to say Americans like one more than the other.
As for his comment...
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“Unmanned droned strikes are all about American domestic politics rather than...”
– America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda. (via mehreenkasana)
More than deluded, it believes that drones are the way to go. That they are inexpensive. I fear that if this is the fighting of the future it will be like George Orwell’s 1984 where the public doesn’t know what...
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“When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of...”
– Arundhati Roy (via amriti)
Well the United States government must forget Article 18 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights:
“Everyone has the freedom to thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his [or her] religion or belief, and freedom, either...
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“the right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning...”
– Opinion from the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875). This decision relates to the occupy movement’s actions. (via hermannview)
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War drums for Syria? →
baseballlibertarian:
As usual Ron Paul is the only one talking any common sense when it comes to Syria. Beating the war drum is the wrong response to the situation. We have no authority or national security reason to intervene in their affairs. It is none of our damn business.
This is why a Mitt Romney Presidency scares the crap out of me. With all the warmongering neo-cons that advise him...
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30,000 secret surveillance orders approved each... →
americawakiewakie:
(Photo Credit: Jonathan McIntosh) A federal judge estimates that his fellow federal judges issue a total of 30,000 secret electronic surveillance orders each year—and the number is probably growing. Though such orders have judicial oversight, few emerge from any sort of adversarial proceeding and many are never unsealed at all. Those innocent of any crime are unlikely to...
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HermannView: America is not America: Its a police... →
hermannview:
Editor’s note: This post was originally posted on Interesting Blogger. Its publication on Dissident Voice (a radical magazine for social justice) was rejected interestingly.
I was recently reading the Webster’s New World College Dictionary and I came upon the word “police state.” Sadly it…
Since the article did so well, I am reblogging it again so those who didn’t see it...
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Occupyla is not dead, we are building community,...
occupyla:
We’re at 626 wilshire tonight at 9:30 to talk logistics and strategy. Check it out, lurk, introduce yourself, get involved. We are just getting started and the ideas are straight up flowin.
Exactly! Occupy is alive and well. If you want to bring change to the world, here’s a place to start!
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“The American people are tired of war, particularly the “boots on the ground”...”
– Medea Benjamin (via charlesbivona)
I heard a similar reason by Jon Stewart who supported drones last night on Comedy Central and it sickened me. I fear this is being used to get around the Vietnam Syndrome. Then it will be like 1984 with wars every day and no one knows who we are fighting! We must...
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“‘Tell them straight,’ said Uncle Sam,
‘That it’s a dirty war;
Mention the...”
– James K Baxter.
A Bucket of Blood for a Dollar
(via brokenglazedtears)
Imperialism and “blood for oil” are no myths as this quote alludes to. To say that the “West” is the Free World is a lie.
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I've noticed that nearly all of the people arguing...
socialistexan:
Fun fact for y’all: We, Eastern European Jewish people and people with Jewish heritage, weren’t the only ones slaughtered.
PoC, GSMs, the disabled, Romani, soviets, socialists, communists, anarchists (any leftist really), religious dissidents (including Catholics and Jehovah’s Witnesses), Poles (another of my people), and many, many more (Wikipedia has a nifty list:...
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“America’s second-largest bank is relocating its business-support operations to...”
– 3 Years After Taxpayer Bailout, Bank of America Ships Jobs Overseas | Mother Jones
Just in case you needed another reason to hate those pricks
(via progressivefriends)
What a surprise. Part of the economic elite of America outsources workers. Disguisting. Remember that “Obama always...
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“I ask this sincerely: what kind of country targets rescuers, funeral attendees,...”
– Glenn Greenwald, US Again Bombs Mourners (via theamericanbear)
Well, this is just another sign that America is no. 1 in being a terrorist state. That is what America is, no question.
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NY governor moves to decriminalize possession of... →
breakingnews:
The New York Times: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced legislation to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in public view.
The Times’ reports:
Advocates of such a change say the offense has ensnared tens of thousands of young black and Latino men who are stopped by the New York City police for other reasons but after being instructed to empty...
“I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As...”
– An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)
Well heres a take on it not often uttered or shared
(via threezerooo)
Interesting perspective from a Vet. I’d like to talk to someone like that, in fact.
“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two...”
– Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
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Republicans hear woman's testimony on coal... →
sarahlee310:
SarahLee: This should make you angry - for so many reasons. I’ve got to add the following snippet from the article:
Now, that photo of Makayla Urias is a photograph of a naked child, a child exactly as naked as nine-year-old Kim Phuc was when, forty years ago, an Associated Press photographer snapped a picture of her, while she was running and crying from American napalm. You’ve...
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“…there is no other country that calls itself a democracy, Israel excepted, that...”
– Doug Henwood (via azspot)
Exactly. That is why at my graduation ceremony I didn’t say the national anthem. I’ve said it before and I don’t need to say it again. Why is it about a flag being bombarded. Who cares? I would rather it be something about what America is like, not some...
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“The CIA announced that it had eliminated ‘four militants’. In truth there were...”
– Drones are god awful (via humanformat)
This is why the drones must be stopped “by any means necessary.” This does not mean violence. As Attallah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s son(?) writes in The Autobiography of Malcolm X: “Malcolm X never advocated violence. He was an advocate of...
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News to Me: Economic Reality Bites →
n-morgan:
by Peter Schiff
Recently by Peter Schiff: The Real Crash
Many people became convinced that data releases earlier this year indicated that “recovery” in the U.S. was imminent. But as I have been saying for months, this evidence would ultimately be shown to be as reliable as…
Exactly, there is not a recovery. A lie by Obama and all of the government overall. People must...
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News to Me: Farmer Panic! Crops Die As Gov't... →
n-morgan:
06-04-2012 • www.mobile.wnd.com
GREELEY, Colo. – Farmers in Colorado are watching their fields dry up amid one of the worst droughts in the state’s history.
But just a few feet beneath them, the water is so plentiful it’s flooding basements and causing septic systems to overflow.
Yet the government will not permit farmers to pump the water to save their crops.
That is...
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The next step: Occupy the Power Elite
Editors Note: This was originally posted on Interesting Blogger.
By Burkely Hermann
I just read a post on a Tea Party blog asked why occupiers were not protesting the Bilderberg Group, which is meeting in Virginia this week. Many conspiracy theorists accuse it of trying to take over the world. This could be why occupiers haven’t focused on it. But, the post didn’t focus on a report written in...
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WOW! Now the "libertarian" cultural Marxist pieces...
communismkills:
They’re even siding with the communists!
What a surprise, what a surprise.
Yes, while America has done some things wrong, this does not mean it’s the most genocidal, most oppressive country ever… WHICH IS WHAT THE FUCKING POST SAID.
I agree with you that it is not the most genocidal and oppressive, but it is still the no. 1 terrorist state in the world. This may be hard to...
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“News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch has hit out at Google over its Street View data...”
– Rupert Murdoch blasts Google on Twitter, gets blasted back (via ryking)
He is so ignorant considering that he was the no. 1 violator of privacy, conducting efforts even farther than the U.S. government, by hacking into Twitter accounts. The U.S. government taps the phones of Americans. Murdoch...
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News to Me: FBI Free To Ambush Our Bill Of Rights →
n-morgan:
06-04-2012 • www.cato.org
“There is no Declaration of Rights,” he explained.
There was no section in the Constitution protecting citizens’ individual rights against an imperious government in this new America — similar to the charges Thomas Jefferson made against King George…
Well, its the Federal Bureau of Intimidation, so what do you expect? A sample from this...
