what do you think of the wbc coming to town?
Anonymousidk, don’t know enough yet to confirm my suspicions that they are just heartless trolls. so whether or not people should react to their presence is something i can’t determine. i’ll probably wanna go check out what’s happening but the facebook groups invite many annoying people to go and participate in pointless bullshit to show them love, peace, understanding blah blah blah. standing up for the LGBT community is important, i don’t think anyone can get through to those maniacs, best to just pay no attention or go out in support of the people WBC is oppressing, not try to change them.
FBI Lables Occupy Movement a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
Cases where the FBI entraps activists with undercover informants have become a common tactic to smear Occupy’s intent & to put occupiers behind bars for serious offenses. Cases include the Cleveland 5 (accused of attempting to blow up a bridge) & the NATO 3 (accused of having Molotov cocktail materials; attorneys say the evidence was planted by an informant).
By the way, Russia Today is a great news source that gives an international perspective on news happening in the United States. Throw it in your Google Reader!
Food for Thought
http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/anarchism-in-no-church-in-the-wild-as-seen-from-kanye-west-and-jay-zs-ivory-tower/
Submitted by: thrivingindystopia
I admit, the video is all eye-candy and has little meaning and the fact that Jay-Z and Kanye created the song contradicts the video.
[T]ake the notion of “political correctness”. It is true that movements of conscience have piled demands onto people faster than the culture can absorb them. That is an unfortunate side-effect of social progress. Conservatism, however, twists language to make the inconvenience of conscience sound like a kind of oppression. The campaign against political correctness is thus a search-and-destroy campaign against all vestiges of conscience in society. The flamboyant nastiness of rhetors such as Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter represents the destruction of conscience as a type of liberation. They are like cultists, continually egging on their audiences to destroy their own minds by punching through one layer after another of their consciences.
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Phil Agre on Political Correctness (via jonathan-cunningham) Any time someone brings up “well I’m not ‘politically correct’” it calls for a mega-side eye. Because, what? Your desire to say whatever you want however you want to say it trumps the comfort and well-being of the people around you? (via stfuconservatives) |
Deep in the rainforests of the Indian state of Meghalaya, bridges are not built, they’re grown. For more than 500 years locals have guided roots and vines from the native Ficus Elastica (rubber tree) across rivers, using hollowed out trees to create root guidance systems. When the roots and vines reach the opposite bank they are allowed to take root. Some of the bridges are over 100 feet long and can support the weight of 50 people.
A new study shows that young black people are considerably less likely to use and abuse drugs than whites — less than any other group other than Asians, in fact — yet they are ten times more likely to be arrested for it.
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