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ALL I WANNA SAY IS THAT THEY DONT REALLY CARE ABOUT US
This image gives me so much anxiety.
nooooooooo, we’re just lazy, right?
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Passage to Ecuador: Chomsky, Assange, sham justice, sham democracies. (via London Progressive Journal)
Iraq has been torn to pieces by sectarianism since the US invasion and occupation, Libya is in turmoil in the aftermath of NATO intervention, Pakistan is being destabilised and a proxy war is being stoked by the US and its allies in Syria.
Filed under: Not surprised.
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The Pay Equity Act failed to pass the senate today, thanks entirely to Republican opposition.
Does this really surprise anybody? The Republican Party have been a giant bag of dicks for… oh God, it feels like forever. They don’t give a fuck about the struggles or the suffering of anybody who isn’t part of their (white, rich, male) club.
I’ve been a republican my entire life. During the last election I disagreed with so many of McCain’s policies, I actually voted for Obama.
It is my feeling that the Republican Party has lost its way lately. Only problem is the Democratic Party isn’t much better. To me, it’s like trying to play an online game with intense packet loss. The president can keep sending information to congress, but unless they are actually capable of seeing it and replying appropriately … we are just going end up being incapable of doing anything.
Obama has the general idea, and based on what I have witnessed in the republican primaries … I have to vote for him again. The State of the Union basically sealed that for me, because I didn’t disagree with a single statement President Obama made.
Only problem is, re-electing him won’t do any good. We need to replace every single no-good, backwards congressman. If they stand in the way of progress then give them no votes. It will take a nation to invoke change, not just one man. Ignore your political background, if your congressman is not doing the right thing vote for another candidate.
If we could get as active as we were about SOPA in replacing congress, our country just might have a chance.
What if Tim Tebow were Muslim? Something to think about. I really like the comparison with Muhammad Ali, but more importantly the concluding thought:
“But as Tebowmania makes its way into politics, sports, religion and the everyday life of the mainstream United States, it is important to think about how we approach religion in this country. How we approach religious freedom in this country. Do we accept freedom of religion, any religion? Or do we accept freedom of Christianity?”
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BAD ASS
“#rebel flag”
No, fuck you, tag this “racism,” “murder,” “KKK,” “white supremacy.” Oh wait, I’ll do it for you. This is a LOT of shit, but one thing it isn’t is “bad ass,” and it’s certainly not a representation of “justice.”
And before you pull the “I’m honoring my heritage” bullshit - it is NOT OKAY to honor your heritage if you heritage is slavery, lynchings, oppression, murder, torture, and rape.
You better get a knife and CARVE that thing off your body, because it makes me want to puke.
Justice.
Justice?
REALLY?
How is it just to have enslaved people?
What is just about having beat them?
What is just about chasing them for trying to escape, and maiming them to punish them from trying to do it again?
What is just about the fact that you tried to SECEDE FROM THE COUNTRY rather than give up your slaves?
What is just about the fact that that LYNCHING NOOSE you have next to your “proud rebel flag” was used to hang people of color unjustly?
What about your heritage is there to be proud of in light of all that? The justice would be for every confederate flag to be burned and never displayed again.
I think this is honestly one of the worst tattoos I have ever seen. The confederate flag does have its place — in history museums. Outside of history museums, no.
Also, “Southern Justice” plus a fucking NOOSE? Can we stop and think about that one for, oh, HALF A FUCKING SECOND. Oh my God, why are you glorifying the greatest act of treason in America? Why are you glorifying the HORRIBLE MURDERS of POC?
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Leipzig - An international team of scientists have successfully sequenced the Neanderthal genome, and the evidence shows that humans in Europe, Asia and Papua New Guinea carry Neanderthal genes - while African peoples are 100 percent human.
(via BBC: Neanderthal genes ‘survive in us’)
An international team led by scientists from the respected Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have successfully sequenced 65 percent of the Neanderthal genome. It is the first time that the genetic code of an extinct human relative has been decoded, and the present announcement cam after 4 years of diligent study.
The results of this study, published Thursday last week, are similar to the findings reported (and foretold) last month here in Digital Journal, but the final publication of this study by researchers Svante Pääbo, Adrian Briggs and colleagues truly shows that years of denial about interbreeding between the two primates should now really come to an end.
One of the co-authors of the scientific paper, Adrian Briggs, stated unambiguously that the DNA of “Humans and Neandertals are 99.5 percent identical,” as is quoted in the English language section of Der Spiegel.
Better yet, and a blow to Caucasian and Asian racists, the comparison of the human and Neanderthal genome makes it clear that it is only Africans who are 100 percent Homo sapiens, while in European (including American and Australian settlers) and Asian populations one can find up to 4 percent DNA stemming from the archaic and often maligned Neanderthal species - a hominid that went extinct more than 20,000 years ago. A graphic designer at the BBC has transformed this information into a surprising graphic everyone should take a look at (see above).
Meanwhile, the team keeps working in order to isolate the last 35 percent of the genome as well, and perhaps we’ll see even more interesting revelations in the future.
Detractors remain, of course, especially since archeologists have until now come to different conclusions and have a different timetable when it comes to human evolution. A New York Times article from May 6 gives voice to these two ways of thinking.
Digital Journal (tip-off via Carla)
Only Africans are pure? Wait until the guys at Stormfront read about this.
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Fuck.
Not even tagging this. This is too important for that.
Not American, but yes, reblogging.
Fuck this.
This screenshot looks sketchy and it all sounds unbelievable but it’s actually telling the truth
America needs another revolution
People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
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