February 2012
41 posts
“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not...”
– Anais Nin, Journals (via thedesertsoflove)
“Racism is still a really big issue in this country especially around immigration...”
– Hari Kondabolu - Mexican Stereotypes
(via warriorsrise)
News media distributes propaganda to prepare for... →
earthisalie:
jonathan-cunningham:
Diane Sawyer of ABC News created and aired a ‘report’ filled with fabrications, uncritically repeated government accusations, and outright lies.
Sawyer begins by warning of “a kind of shadow war being waged by Iran around the world” — based on her blind acceptance of totally unproven Israeli accusations that Iran was behind three bombings yesterday in India,...
fuck yeah sex education: Signs of an Abusive... →
dreamdecay:
Using Intimidation
• Making your partner afraid by using looks, actions, gestures.
• Smashing or destroying things.
• Destroying or confiscating your partner’s property.
• Abusing pets as a display of power and control.
• Silent or overt raging.
• Displaying weapons or threatening their use.
• Making physical threats.
Using Emotional Abuse
• Putting your partner down.
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earth is a lie: I chanced upon a hobo... →
earthisalie:
In the past, I would sometimes pull up to a red light and notice a person standing near the road. It was generally a disheveled male holding a sign, a cup, or an inverted baseball cap. I would subconsciously conclude this person was homeless, probably unemployed, and looking for some charity….
"You think graffiti is ugly? Gigantic posters of...
If you're really committed to consumerism as...
sinidentidades:
don’t buy anything. Boycott everything because nearly everything is at the expense of someone’s exploitation.
Revolutionarily: things i wish i'd learned in high... →
tahlalaliaaa:
everything in your history books, with few exceptions, is filtered through the lens of white Eurocentric eliminationst thought. you will only learn what a board of educators, working with a biased, racist agenda, decide is fit for you to know unless you go out and educate yourself. unless you sit down, shut up, and listen to other voices
history is not something you absorb and...
While the world whines about the Grammy's and...
“Hate what you fear, and fear what you don’t understand”
– The new GOP slogan. (via socialistexan)
The list is endless…
(via theowlintheolivetree)
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.
(via timmytime)
YES YES YES THIS THIS THIS
(via whatsajuthika)
I want this emblazoned on my forehead for all of the American entitlement people out there.
(via baxtavius)
Why can't anarchists draw straight lines?
anticapitalist:
They don’t have any rulers!
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St. Petersburg’s Anti-Gay Propaganda Bill...
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/russiastpete.html
Political leaders in St. Petersburg are about to make it illegal for any person to write a book, publish an article or speak in public about being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. The ruling party led by President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin could make millions of people invisible with the stroke of a pen.
Our opponents are...
Some Politics: Why was MegaUpload really shut... →
humanformat:
m3ntalist:
In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. (http://goo.gl/A7wUZ) I present to…
earthisalie:
US drones murdered 9 people in Yemen last night. But it’s ok, because they were suspected of being terrorists. Suspected, so they were executed. Whether or not they were a threat to you or I is unclear. What is clear is that they were murdered by missiles paid for by our tax dollars. Happy Tuesday, we’re all serial killers.
earth is a lie: Amazonian Mushroom Eats... →
abaldwin360:
gizmodo - We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. It’s easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isn’t is recyclable—there isn’t a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a…