February 2012
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New Climate Central series on how reduced funding... →
climateadaptation:
“On Sept. 7, 2011, a record deluge associated with Tropical Storm Lee struck Binghamton, N.Y., dumping 7.5 inches of rain in a 24-hour period — the most the city had ever seen in such a short time. Weather forecasters, emergency managers and rescue teams knew the nearby Susquehanna River was already rising from an unusually wet summer, and that this would further swell the...
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socialismartnature:
Watching Andrew Breitbart give a keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on C-SPAN. These people are literally living on another planet. “You will never meet a more intolerant group of people than the progressive left…. The Occupy movement seeks to destroy America… “
“Thank you Mr. Brietbart. Stick around, up next we’ve got Ann Coulter...
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The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's Evolution,... →
The Swedish prosecutor sent out a memo in 2006 saying that TPB wasn’t guilty of “main” crimes — at best it aids and abets (he also mentioned that the people running TPB were very clever). But Hollywood was not happy with this and forced the Swedish Minister of Justice to visit the White House and talk about it. The United States told Sweden that if they didn’t get rid of the site, they would not...
Help Domestic Violence Victims with Pets
sarahlee310:
I read this story the other day….
A women’s shelter in Kansas City is changing their policy on pets after one domestic violence victim refused to give up the Great Dane that saved her from being beaten to death with a hammer.
A lot of shelters will never be able to afford to allow victims to bring in their pets for a number of reasons:
funding; room space; additional...
“Personally, I’m always nonviolent. But once that kind of repression manifests...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter...”
– Malcolm X
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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via occupyallstreets)
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“The President should come out for marriage equality, and he should issue an...”
– John Aravosis’ advice to the President (via ryking)
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“[Wisconsin Republican governor Scott Walker] is a clear asshole. There’s just no...”
– John Cole, And People Tell Me I Overuse the Word “Asshole”
The nation’s five largest banks just agreed to compensate home owners in 49 states who were improperly foreclosed on or who were otherwise screwed by shady mortage-servicing. Walker has announced that he’ll be taking some of that money away...
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