September 2011
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Police grab $2 million worth of cars after... →
whyareyoumadatlaxbrah:
This Lamborghini was among 13 high-end cars impounded by Canadian police. This could be the plot for a movie, “Fast and Furious Canada,” or maybe “Fast and Furious, the Young and the Rich”
Police in British Columbia say they impounded $2 million worth of high-end vehicles this week after witnesses reported the 13 cars racing on a metro Vancouver highway at speeds of...
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Americans help Gaddafi - supreme conspiration →
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Rick Perry has overseen 235 executions. Will he... →
I feel like I am reading some old pre-civil war trial.
We are now basing our conclusions for death row on statistics.
Bravo Texas, Bra-fucking-vo….idiots.
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TFI Daily News: Hunt for Gadhafi: Saddam all over... →
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By Kimberly Dozier, AP, Aug. 30, 2011 WASHINGTON—Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is on the run, his capital all but fallen to rebels, his hometown under siege.
Now comes another difficult task for the rebels and the civilian government they are trying to install: capturing Gadhafi before the…
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Aljazeera: Former Bush Administration Official... →
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David Welch, former assistant secretary of state under George W Bush
Welch now works for Bechtel, a multinational American company with billion-dollar construction deals across the Middle East. The documents record that, on August 2, 2011, David Welch met with Gaddafi’s officials at the Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, just a few blocks from the US embassy.
During that meeting Welch...
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The Truth Feed: Col. Muammar Qaddafi Addresses... →
thetruthfeed:
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called today Thursday 1st September on the Libyan people to continue resistance against the armed terrorist rebels of the National Transitional Council (NTC) who have been struggling since 11 days for control of the capital city Tripoli, with NATO doubling its…
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DIRTY. RICH. POLITICAL: PARIS SUMMIT TO DISCUSS... →
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Libya’s transitional leaders and representatives from nearly 60 countries gathered in Paris to discuss the political, economical and social future of Libya as a democracy.
Hilary Clinton praised the efforts of the pro-democracy and anti-Gaddafi rebels:
CNN:
‘“Winning a war offers no…
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Gaddafi vows to continue fight →
abodyofthoughtandmedia:
In a broadcast on a Syria-based pro-Gaddafi news channel on Thursday, Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, announced that he will not surrender, and will continue on fighting.
Calling on NATO, the UN, and the broader international community to stop intervention in Libya, Gaddaffi claimed that their civil war was a direct result of the world’s intervention, announcing for the...
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Elizabeth Warren vs. Scott Brown: It's On!
motherjones:
Our favorite (only?) Elizabeth Warren .gif is back! That’s because the badass Harvard professor and former Obama adviser, who proposed a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau before anyone else even thought we needed one, just launched an exploratory committee to challenge Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in 2012.
Brown’s strategy so far has been to label Warren an out-of-touch Harvard...
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White House: Obama agrees to Boehner's wishes,...
NYPD monitored where Muslims ate, shopped, prayed →
From an office on the Brooklyn waterfront in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York Police Department officials and a veteran CIA officer built an intelligence-gathering program with an ambitious goal: to map the region’s ethnic communities and dispatch teams of undercover officers to keep tabs on where Muslims shopped, ate and prayed.
The program was known as the...
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For Authoritarian Regimes, Turning Off the... →
nebulasresolution:
What’s the News: Social networking has been a star of the Arab Spring revolutions. People can’t stop talking about how Twitter and Facebook helped protestors organize, and when Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suddenly cut access to the Internet and cell phone service on January 28th, many wondered how the protestors would share information and keep momentum. But as it...
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WASHINGTON POST: "Of last year’s 100 highest-paid... →
inothernews:
Yes, by all means, let’s continue to give corporations and the wealthiest tax breaks. Because they’re creating jobs with all that cheddar.
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“Can fat people be healthy? A provocative new study shows that obese people who...”
– CBS article on a new weight study via @Fatheffalump on Twitter (via shallanelprin)
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Justice Department attempts to block AT&T merger...
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then A while back, AT&T announced it would attempt to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion, in an attempt to shore up deficiencies in its wireless network. Other companies and consumer groups, most notably Sprint, loudly complained.
now Now the Justice Department’s trying to block the merger. “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low-priced rival would remove a...
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Manic, Chill: Judge Rules Many Portions of Rick... →
Key parts of a controversial Texas law requiring women to receive sonograms before getting abortions are violations of free speech rights, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Gov. Rick Perry had classified the bill as “emergency legislation” during this year’s legislative session, and was backed by…
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August 2011
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Intelligence is freedom.
peaceandlight:
Intelligence is freedom. You are given the power to act as you wish with the knowledge and wisdom that you have gained. You are free from negative consequences of unwise, rash actions that result from a lack of intelligence. It’s like a deep breath. A deep breath of fresh, clean spring air. It’s liberating. It’s full of beauty. It’s the breath of life. Freedom.
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“Capitalism in its raw form can’t pull us out of this hole.”
– Bill Gross, a billionaire Republican, and one of the chief investment officer of the giant bond fund Pimco.
He believes “the government needs to arrest America’s dangerous economic slide.” That sentiment is growing. Economists and the financial industry want policymakers to boost the economy.
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Steve Jobs' Resignation Letter →
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple”s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my...
2011 World's Most Powerful Women - Forbes →
apsies:
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State
Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil
Indra Nooyi, Chief Executive, PepsiCo
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Melinda Gates, Cofounder, Cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Sonia Gandhi, President, National Congress Party of India
Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
Christine Lagarde,...
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ShortFormBlog: Rape victim forced to apologize to... →
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One nightmare after another: In 2008, a seventh grade special-ed student in Missouri told school administrators that she’d been raped by one of her classmates. Rather than fulfilling its legal obligation to report the incident to authorities, the school accused the girl of lying, made her write…
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