March 2012
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President Obama's Bid To End Oil Subsidies Voted... →
WTFrack?!
Honestly, what on earth is the argument for giving subsidies to companies netting millions and billions in profits? (Let alone oil companies?!)
Seriously, could someone explain this to me?!
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'Bully': Behind Every Harassed Child? A Whole Lot... →
“Bully,” Lee Hirsch’s moving and troubling documentary about the misery some children inflict upon others, arrives at a moment when bullying, long tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as a social problem. “Just kids being kids” can no longer be an acceptable response to the kind of sustained physical and emotional abuse that damages the lives of young people whose only sin is...
NDAA Protest on TimCast →
socialuprooting:
Lasts from 3 pm (or the time of this posting) to 6 pm.
“I actually used to share that view. But I absolutely think it’s the epitome of...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
USA.gov: How the National Mortgage Settlement... →
usagov:
Through the National Mortgage Settlement, the country’s five biggest mortgage servicers must commit about $25 billion in relief to individuals and governments because they broke the law in how they managed home loans.
It will take time to figure out which individuals are eligible for help from…
Of interest…
“The Democratic Party has joined with the Republican Party to the point where we...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
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“We as a society need to glorify those who make a profit.”
– Senator Rand Paul defending oil companies on the Senate floor yesterday. The Senate is debating ending billions of dollars in tax subsidies to oil companies. Paul claims that oil companies deserve tax breaks because love money/hate Obama let’s have a tea partayyy.
Paul’s top campaign contributors?...
Obama finally opens Ethics.gov →
climateadaptation:
“During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to “create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format.” Last week, President Obama fulfilled that promise with the rollout of Ethics.gov, which “brings records and data from across the federal government to one central...
“Everything that Richard Nixon did to me, for which he faced impeachment and...”
– Daniel Ellsberg
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Men: Read this and step-up. →
This is a quite shocking and moving read, and yet, ordinary.
I found it quite upsetting, perhaps more-so since I saw a woman being harassed on the bus the other night. I’m a bit ashamed that I didn’t step in. I think I was partially in shock, and it all probably took less than a minute - though it felt like hours. When I was leaving the bus, I seriously contemplated apologizing to the...
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U.S. Department of State: Conversations With... →
statedept:
Ronan Farrow, Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues, will hold a conversation with Nancy Lublin, CEO, DoSomething.org, on Global Youth Issues. The discussion will be moderated by Cheryl Benton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, and will be available for on demand viewing soon on DipNote, the U.S. Department of State’s official blog. You are invited to...
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“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as...”
– Carl Sagan (via ikenbot)
Obama administration expands illegal surveillance... →
rockyanderson2012:
Last Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder enacted guidelines that further expand the US government’s asserted powers to collect and store private information, without a warrant, concerning individuals who are not suspected of any crime.
The guidelines constitute a further step by the Obama administration to expand and entrench unconstitutional spying operations on the...
“Let us consider the fundamental guiding principles for the United States of...”
– Rocky Anderson,
An End to Authoritarianism and Plutocracy: It’s up to us
(via rockyanderson2012)
“Not only does the Obama administration demand the right to kill whomever it...”
– Glenn Greenwald, Obama takes Bush’s secrecy games one step further
(via rockyanderson2012)
Listen Live to 'The Federal Reserve and the... →
usagov:
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, is giving a four-part lecture series called “The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis.”
You can listen live to his remaining lectures on March 27th and 29th and listen to recordings of part one and two.
You can find more information, presentation materials and on-demand video at www.federalreserve.gov/lectures
Of interest…
The Anti-Protest Bill signed by Barack Obama is a... →
rockyanderson2012:
In post-Occupy America, it’s often hard to know whether new citizen protest laws signal the end of free speech or a mere tweak of the machine. That looks to be the case with the new anti-protest bill that passed the House of Representatives overwhelmingly two weeks ago and was signed into law by the president soon thereafter. On its face, the new legislation doesn’t change a...
Martial Law by Executive Order →
rockyanderson2012:
President Obama’s National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order of March 16 does to the country as a whole what the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act did to the Constitution in particular — completely eviscerates any due process or judicial oversight for any action by the Government deemed in the interest of “national security.” Like the NDAA, the new Executive...
“I consider The Justice Party a second party. The Republican-Democratic parties...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
“After extensive study over the years, there is absolutely no question that today...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
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If abortion and birth control become illegal
prolongedeyecontact:
bebinn:
deathbysharpie:
What will happen:
sex
What won’t happen:
safe sex
What will happen:
abortion
What won’t happen:
safe abortions
Can’t put it much more simply than that.
#TRUTH
This.
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Interested in starting a garden this summer? →
usagov:
Use this guide from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find out what plants will grow best where you live.
If you live in zones 1-10, take a look at the U.S. National Arboretum’s examples of plants that should succeed in those zones.
The newly revised map reflects several changes:
A new ZIP code finder allows you to identify your area’s Plant Hardiness Zone.
Two new zones, 12 and...
Support My Candidacy on Americans Elect →
rockyanderson2012:
I have received a surge of support that has put me in second place on Americans Elect. 1,500 more supporters would put us in a strong lead. Can you help catapult us to number 1? Please go to my page and click “Support” at: http://www.americanselect.org/profile-candidate/342450/bio In the week since I announced, we have received the support of 500 additional people. If we pick...
HEADS UP! Your ISP to start monitoring your usage... →
climateadaptation:
SOPA is not needed after all…
American Indians in Oklahoma will be forced to... →
socialuprooting:
Native Americans gathering in Cushing, OK today to protest President Obama’s words of praise for the Keystone XL pipeline were forced by local authorities to hold their event in a cage erected in Memorial Park. The protestors were stunned that their community, so long mistreated, would be insulted in such an open manner instead of being given the same freedom of speech expected...
“It’s time for Washington to abandon the fiction that the cartels don’t operate...”
– End the Drug War by Fulton T. Armstrong (via caraobrien)
After a little math yesterday, Rocky's supporters... →
rockyanderson2012:
If everybody that follows this blog goes here, supports Rocky, and reblogs this post, he will be the other presidential candidate on the ballot. He is in second place, but with everyone’s support (not even monetary, just 5 minutes of your time) he could easily be in first place and be the alternative candidate this country and its people are looking for and are in need of.
Barack Obama Prepares for War Footing →
socialuprooting:
Last Friday, March 16, President Barack Obama may have quietly placed the United States on a war preparedness footing, perhaps in anticipation of an outbreak of war between Israel, the West, and Iran. A newly-propounded Executive Order, titled “National Defense Resources Preparedness,” renews and updates the president’s power to take control of all civil energy supplies,...
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Russian Anti-Terror Troops Arrive in Syria →
socialistscum:
A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a development that a United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was “a bomb” certain to have serious repercussions.
Russia, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s strongest allies despite international condemnation of the government’s violent crackdown on the country’s uprising, has repeatedly...
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