February 2012
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Japanese Construction Company Plans Space Elevator... →
i’d much rather report this stuff
J.K. Rowling Announces New Book →
ravenclaw-mormont:
In a statement released today, publisher Little, Brown has announced that they will be publishing J.K. Rowling’s next book, which will be a novel aimed at the adult crowd.
Rowling says in the release, “Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my...
“This is the worst war we’ve ever seen. And they’re getting away with it.”
– The late journalist Marie Colvin, as written in a personal obituary penned by Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum. Colvin, a reporter for the Sunday Times, was one of two western journalists killed after the shelling of a neighborhood in Homs, Syria on Wednesday. [Channel 4] (via producermatthew)
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dwarfed asked: do you believe all those things in the article 'reasons to bomb iran'?
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Bradley Manning Support Network » Call the... →
Be a good man, Leon, I know you can.
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Congressional members and Stephen Colbert, Jon... →
reuters:
Three members of Congress have received threatening mail containing a suspicious powder later found to be harmless and law enforcement officials on Wednesday warned that more may be coming.
Another U.S. law enforcement official said letters sent to television personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert threatened biological attacks on U.S. senators.
Other letters to a number of news...
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RT PLZ @opManning ”If #Manning had been a member of the #US #Marine squad that admitted to systematically murdering two dozen innocent Iraqi men, women, and children in #Haditha, #Iraq, he’d be walking free today,” Obuszewski said in a release. “Instead, he faces the real prospect of life in prison for telling...
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'Pepper Spray Cop' Suit Filed - NPR →
brooklynmutt:
Some of those Occupy protesters who famously got face fulls of pepper spray last November on the campus of University of California Davis have now filed suit in federal court.
They allege “the university used excessive force to break up the demonstration,” The Sacramento Bee writes. “The Occupy UC Davis students were sprayed as they sat on the ground.”
The American Civil...
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“This raises the possibility that the Wikileaks.org
Web site could be used to...”
– TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE - The Government of the United States is MASTER of “perception management”
http://wlstorage.net/file/us-intel-wikileaks.pdf
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“They call it the widows’ basement. Crammed amid... →
kateoplis:
“They call it the widows’ basement. Crammed amid makeshift beds and scattered belongings are frightened women and children trapped in the horror of Homs, the Syrian city shaken by two weeks of relentless bombardment. Among the 300 huddling in this wood factory cellar in the besieged district of…
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National Lawyers Guild calls for dismissal of... →
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Syria calls on foreign journalists to report to... →
reuters:
Syria’s information ministry said foreign journalists illegally inside the country should report to the government on Tuesday, hours after bombardment of a rebel neighbourhood in Homs killed two foreign journalists smuggled into Syria.
“The ministry asks all foreign journalists that have entered Syria illegally to go to the nearest centre for immigration and passports to resolve the...
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10 Excellent Reasons To Attack Iran →
disobey:
Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really truly have nukes and are in the Axis of Evil. Except Iraq, which was different.
Iraq didn’t go so badly. Considering how lousy its...
Bradley Manning, I'm with you, I love you
an empath reporting the news is a bit sadistic
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people are empty
i’m not doing readings right now
testing the music soon
its all i’m doing finally
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Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort... →
somepolitics:
In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband.
“A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be mentally prepared to conceive, continue the same and give birth to a child. The unwanted pregnancy would naturally...
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Health department raids community picnic and... →
Citizens arrest the criminals.
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“Julian Assange will most probably be freed from the sex crime suspicions,...”
– WikiLeaks to blow Swedish minister’s cover | News | Business Spectator
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32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Oldest... →
The new study suggests that permafrost could be a “depository for an ancient gene pool,” a place where any number of now extinct species could be found and resurrected, experts say
this has me really excited
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“Customers at Starbucks are paying to eat GMOs, thinking they are getting actual...”
– Sitting in Starbucks, eating GMOs - Salem-News.Com
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How to Wash Your Hair with Baking Soda →
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“In the study, scientists discovered that activating the β - isoform of the...”
– Reformulated imatinib eliminates morphine tolerance in lab studies
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Black Cat Hacks: ACTING UP - RUSSIA’S CIVIL... →
blackcathacker:
ACTING UP - RUSSIA’S CIVIL SOCIETY - Portraits by Platon for Human Rights Watch
The environmental activists camped out in the Khimki Forest near Moscow have become a national symbol of resistance to corrupt authority. For the last four years, they have been trying to prevent a highway…
“Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via descroissants)