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To Big Oil

Ruthie — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:31:54 +0000

To Big Oil Chevron, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, Soon you’ll burn in hottest hell, All the oil that you desire Coating you to fuel the fire. “We the People” fast asleep Through the Crime of the Century. Wrecked our planet, slimed our seas Stole our sweet Democracy Occidental, AMOCO Thought the People didn’t know – Wouldn’t believe that it was true… We do, we do, we do, we do!! Cheating, bribing, [...]

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LOCAL FIGHTS AGAINST AUSTERITY ARE GROWING ACROSS THE U.S.

Shake Anderson — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:11:09 +0000

BY MARK VORPAHL Between sequestration, with its damaging impact on workers and the economy, and the billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other necessary social programs that President Obama is pushing, it is evident that the economic policies of both major parties are not intended to promote a recovery for working people. You cannot lift up a nation’s economy while slashing away at its consumers’ pocketbooks. [...]

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The US government has been running a quantum Internet for over two years

Shake Anderson — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:37 +0000

It’s a perfectly secure Internet that by definition cannot be penetrated by wiretaps and eavesdropping — and the US government has been sitting on it for the last two-and-a-half years. A longtime goal among cryptologists has been to perfect the “quantum Internet” — which, in the most basic way possible, uses the main principle of quantum mechanics to transfer communications from one point to another. Still confused? Technology Review explained [...]

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FARGO 14 OCCUPY PHILLY PROTESTERS FOUND NOT GUILTY!

OO Media Collective — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:12:33 +0000

By jackiews On March 5, 2013 · In the matter of The People V. Wells Fargo the jury has found us, the 12 Occupy Philly protesters arrested in November 2011 for a sit-in against the banks’ predatory lending practices and mafia-like policies, NOT GUILTY. We would all ask for you to please share this story with your networks and local press. Free speech just triumphed over property rights, even as [...]

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Livestream Footage Saves OWS Activist from Police Set-up

OO Media Collective — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:13:13 +0000

In the police version of events, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy protestor Michael Premo charged the police like a linebacker, taking out a lieutenant and resisting arrest so forcefully that he fractured an officer’s bone. That’s the story prosecutors told in Premo’s trial, and it’s the general story his arresting officer testified to under oath as well. But Premo, facing felony charges of assaulting an officer, maintained his innocence. [...]

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LAPD Officer Allegedly Publishes Manifesto : Blue Line Broken

@wiseoldsnail — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:09:29 +0000

7 February 2013 This cover photo is of Christopher Dorner w/ Chief William Bratton, who was recently hired for a few months of ‘consulting’ for the OPD by the city of Oakland, for $250,000. Bratton’s history includes implementing racial profiling in the form of what has recently been judged as the unconstitutional policy of ‘stop and frisk.’ He was also instrumental in making it appear that crime in NYC was [...]

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I Feel Dirty

94danielb — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:46:44 +0000

I feel dirty. He touched me tonight. I did not want him to. She stood there watching as he touched me. She said they had the right. She also said I was lucky that I did not end up on the ground, face down. Yes, I got lucky tonight. I shut down my computer at 7pm after 10 hours at work; put on my cool black jacket, gray beanie cap, [...]

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Informed and Dangerous: Why is A. F. James MacArthur in jail?

Oakland Cami — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:28:01 +0000

By Leo Zimmermann This article was originally published on Indyreader.org. Beth Emmerling and Bruce Emmerling contributed research to this article. Journalist A. F. James MacArthur has been in jail since December 1, 2012. Known for reporting on crime and politics as The Baltimore Spectator, MacArthur is currently being held without bail or access to visitors. He was initially arrested at his home for allegedly violating an expired probation, but is [...]

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the dervish

@wiseoldsnail — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:45:02 +0000

© i come to wonder in the middle of the night why certain personalities provoke me to a fight is it weakness or strength dressed in disguise soldiers gather medals but it is no surprise that folks despise a civilian dressed in armor, a woman dressed to kill all convention, distention, prolonged detention a woman dressed to re-create the fabric of her will it’s time for folks to realize the [...]

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Closeted in the 21st Century

lavenderjoan — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:17:46 +0000

It still happens and not just in junior high school. LGBT people live double lives even today. My sister called me the other night so I could watch Jody Foster come out publicly at the Golden Globe Awards. Anderson Cooper declared his gayness just last year. If it is still difficult for actors and media people to live proudly in the open, there must be a high degree of prejudice [...]

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