February 2011
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Egyptian Actions Highlight Dangers in U.S.... →
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Cindy Cohn at EFF
The Egyptian regime’s shutdown of the Internet in an attempt to preserve its political power highlights the dangers of any government having unchecked power over our Internet infrastructure, and puts a fine point on the risks to democracy posed by recent Congressional proposals to give the President a broad mandate to dictate how our internet service providers...
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A CIA-trained terrorist ends up in our hands and...
On October 6, 1976 a bomb exploded on Cubana Airlines flight 455, blowing it out of the sky and into the waters off Barbados, killing everyone on board, including Fernandez’s father, the captain of Cuba’s national fencing team.
Posada, 82, a Cuban-born Venezuelan-citizen, was considered the mastermind— a CIA-trained explosives expert who would stop at nothing in his personal...
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“Dori Duz was a lively little tart of copper-green and gold who loved doing it...”
– Catch 22
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When culture's meet
they clash, they meld, they flow, and neither is ever the same.
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Why do I have multiple people telling me a word I...
but I get no responses to asking what word I should use instead? Should I take this to mean no one really cares?
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ohsocontrary-deactivated2011071 asked: I don't think you can make that argument, actually. If the issue of what it's called never comes up, then fine, go about your business. But if someone who finds it to be important ever corrects you, you SHOULD make an effort to be more inclusive.
I'd also like to point out that it's not necessary (and healingsakina didn't say it was necessary) that you...
I'd also like to point out that it's not necessary (and healingsakina didn't say it was necessary) that you...
January 2011
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Watchastrangerdanger:
farhaaan:
ISRAELI SETTLERS’ ANGER AT PALESTINIANS HARVESTING ON PALESTINIAN LAND
Settlers uproot dozens of Palestinian olive trees; IDF lets settlers protest inside Palestinian village. Residents of the settlement of Shvut Rachel clashed with Palestinians picking olives in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, after the settlers held a march to protest the “security threat”...
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Egypt viewed US military aid as reward for keeping... →
mohandasgandhi:
Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak and his generals have viewed generous US military aid as an “untouchable” reward for keeping peace with Israel, according to leaked US documents posted by WikiLeaks.
The secret diplomatic cable from 2009 underscored the deep ties between the two countries and Washington’s difficult position as a week of massive street protests threatened to...
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“The new activism by Islamists - who want a role for Islam in their...”
– AP
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new wave feminism: Abortion & class →
newwavefeminism:
The more i read into the GOP and abortion legislation, the more disgusted i am with congressional classism. According to the New York Times :
The tax credits that are encouraging small businesses to provide insurance for their workers could not be used to buy policies that cover abortions….
This is really important. Making abortion more expensive and less...
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BREAKING: Judge rules entire health care reform... →
theatlantic:
And so it begins…
I’m concerned about the individual mandate in the health care bill. I understand the justification; when everyone has health care, costs will go down. It seems to me though that if you mandate everyone to buy insurance without control the price of insurance, you’re just instituting policy to line the pockets of the same insurance companies that have...
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Part of the reason why I just say whatever is on...
I think that’s one of the reasons children learn so much better than adults; no one hesitates to patiently correct a child. I’m always willing to post comments that I get that are critical or repudiate my points. You don’t even really have to be polite, because personally I care nothing for social niceties. Just save the personal attacks. You and I don’t know each other.
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Dear Other Continents,
thenewfilo:
whatafricaisnot:
Please stop using me as an example when referring to starving children. There are hungry kids EVERYWHERE.
Sincerely, Africa.
Thank you for writing this. EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY has poor people. Even the richest countries in the world.
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Only 1/10 of the cells in your body is human.
You’re much more colony than individual.
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I can hear a massive murder of crows outside the...
I love crows.
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ohsocontrary-deactivated2011071 asked: Hi. So, I'd just like to explain why you came off as so disrespectful toward healingsakina. You essentially said, "I don't really give a fuck what the correct terms are. They take too much effort to understand/keep track of." Um. What? Your peacoat example does not work. Do peacoats have religious significance? Cultural importance? Are they political? Are they the mark of a...
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As always, I'd love to get different perspectives...
And I can understand if for some reason this topic makes you angry, but if you’re not civil I’m not going to give you my soap box.
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Part of growing up for me was recognizing my...
But I can honestly say that I don’t find me using the term headdress instead of hijab or anything else is one of those times. Anyway, even if it were, I never would have learned about privilege and nor would anyone else if that’s the way people were approached for “transgressions” of language. Yes, its not anyones responsibility to educate anyone or inform them about...
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Healing Sakina: please get a clue: Egyptian women... →
healingsakina:
birdshine:
healingsakina:
i know ya’ll are quite self-satisfied reblogging that tweet, and i realize both the original tweeter and most of you really mean well. but please, EDUCATE YOURSELVES. the burqa is a particular style of covering that is common in Afghanistan & Pakistan. the word burqa does NOT mean headscarf, or…
I always say “headdress”, which I’m pretty sure is...
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new wave feminism: I'm conflicted. →
newwavefeminism:
There is a lot of outrage at the fact that the GOP wants to redefine rape. I’m more outraged at the fact that they’re limiting access to abortion for the poor. I feel like that aspect of this entire situation is getting lost in the middle of all this internet activism. Obviously, i think it’s…
This is absolutely correct, and this is also whats happening in Texas with the...
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“…when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing,...”
– — Marquis de Sade (via littlepool)
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Al-Jazeera: Egyptian protesters have called for a... →
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Whats with people demanding Obama help the...
Why should Obama do anything? Why should America be involved? In America, we rarely ever discuss things that happen in other countries, and when we do, we only discuss it in the context of how we should get involved.
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California man arrested with explosives outside... →
darling80m:
From The Detroit News:
An ex-Army veteran from California who is accused of driving to Metro Detroit’s largest mosque with a trunk full of explosives is behind bars after being charged with making a terrorist threat.
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“Egypt doesn’t have control of its people the way we do here.”
– Joe Biden, today on MSNBC
This wasn’t the thing to say.
(via thecookieateu)
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This man fell 1,000 feet and didn't die. In fact,...
A climber slipped and fell approximately 980 feet down a mountain face in the Scottish Highland Mountains while trekking with 24 other climbers and survived, Agence France Presse reports. When a helicopter rescue crew found Adam Potter, 36, approximately 30 minutes after the fall, he was awake, on his feet, and reading a map. “We honestly thought it couldn’t have been...
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Less than 15% of Wikipedia's contributers are...
Surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women.
About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center of the...
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“As you grasp running water, so it becomes still in your hand. And so, in...”
– Buddha
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Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
hitrecordjoe:
We Americans are giving the Egyptian government shit for trying to block information. Meanwhile, American cable companies refuse to offer this world-renowned news source, which would be the best place on TV for us to see what’s going on over there.
I’ve had Al Jazeera English’s live stream up for about three days now.