May 2012
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U.S. Department of State: Statement on the... →
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Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC May 26, 2012
The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms yesterday’s massacre in the Syrian village of Haoula. United Nations observers have confirmed that dozens of men, women, and children were killed…
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MPG of a Human - Do the Math →
jtotheizzoe:
A walking human gets about 75 MPG (miles of travel per gallon of food energy). A biking human? Even better, at 290 MPG.
But when you factor in all the fossil fuels that go into making that food, we only get 18 MPG walking and 70 MPG on a bike. Check out the full rundown of the energetic calculations at Do The Math.
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I found there was, within me, an invincible... →
1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
2. 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…
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Barticles: Heads-up & Bottles Down →
barticles:
I’ll be chatting with Mike McConnell on WGN in Chicago at 11:35 central time today to discuss my most recent column about obesity and government.
On a related note, today’s NYT reports that the Bloomberg administration in NY is planning to ban the sale of large sodas and “other sugary…
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The Technical Gentleman: TechGent Politics: If it... →
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Buddy Roemer, the former Louisiana governor who unexpectedly jumped into the GOP presidential primary, and subsequently jumped out of that race to unsuccessfully be a part of whatever it was Americans Elect imagined itself to be doing, announced Thursday that he is suspending his presidential…
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Squashed: Why do the ultra-rich feel they deserve... →
squashed:
The Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have accused President Obama of keeping an “Enemies List.” That sounded a bit … dramatic, so I though I would check out what they were upset about. It turns out it was this little page listing names, donation amounts, and a bit of…
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Americans Elect abandons bid to end two-party... →
sinidentidades:
Americans Elect, a well-financed group that aimed to help a viable third party candidate enter this November’s presidential race, has announced it is ending its web-based push to break America’s two-party system.
The organisation, which was founded with millions of dollars from its initial wealthy backers, had little trouble in organising a push to get on the ballot across...
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يا عمال العالم اتحدوا: US Charity Secretly Funds... →
arielnietzsche:
Newly declassified FBI files are shining an inconvenient light on Israel’s nuclear weaponization research program and how it has been secretly funded from the United States. Iranian negotiations with the UN Security Council resume on May 23 in Baghdad following initial sessions in Istanbul. The…
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A Global “No” To a Nuclear-Armed Iran
arielnietzsche:
A 21-nation Pew Global Attitudes survey finds widespread opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. And in most countries, there is majority support among opponents of a nuclear-armed Iran for international economic sanctions to try to stop Tehran’s weapons program. The Chinese and the Russians are notable dissenters in this regard. The poll also found majorities in Western...
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BREAKING: Obama embraces marriage equality →
think-progress:
OBAMA: I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Update: Sign our petition THANKING President Obama
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Visiting Jazz Fest
twonew:
by Bradley Warshauer (via)
part one
Jazz Fest is the only large music festival in the world where the dominant scent is fried shrimp. Not that there aren’t plenty of folks smoking weed, enough so that you’ll get a blast of it in your face if the breeze is right; it’s just that, in New Orleans, the food—the po-boys and jambalaya, the seafood plates and gumbo—is better than pot. Spend...
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Me in Silico: Iran Nuclear Debate, solely in Legal... →
meinsilico:
It began in 2002 when it was disclosed that Iran had been for at least a decade, operating 2 facilities on Natanz and ??? that were doing undeclared Uranium enrichment, as it was obliged to do to IAEA.
Board of Governors of IAEA decided (uniquely) that Iran was under obligation to clear up all…
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Anatomy of a stoning →
visualoop:
Via
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Let's spread this Transgender Couchsurfing...
moobar4lyfe:
TransCouchNetwork is “a couchsurfing network intended to connect trans people in need with safe and supportive places to crash. if you have or are in need of a couch, floor, or spare room, send an ask or submit with any relevant information you’re willing to share and we’ll try and connect you with other couch lenders or surfers near you.” This is great! Let’s spread the word!!!...
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Fuck Yeah FTMs!: Great News for Virginia Transfolk... →
fuckyeahftms:
Virginia embraces a SIMPLE mechanism for changing one’s gender marker on a driver’s license !
As of April 25, 2012, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) implemented a new, and much simpler, policy for changing one’s gender marker on a VA driver’s license. Individuals can now use…
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Bradley Warshauer: Short story. "Fly." Julie... →
bradleywarshauer:
Innis takes a surgical knife to relationship stories with this smart little thing—but you’ll be surprised at the strength of your emotional reaction to a story that, literally, involves a human having an affair with a fly. The depth of the emotive force in this one’s climax is so great that it…
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Cairn Press: Forthcoming Publication, July 2012 →
cairnpress:
“Fad saol agat, gob fliuch, agus bás in Eirinn.”
(Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland.)
—Irish Proverb
We are happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Seamus Scanlon’s remarkable short story collection, As Close As You’ll Ever Be.
We look forward to…
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Liberals Are Cool: Voter Registration Down Among... →
“The number of black and Hispanic registered voters has fallen sharply since 2008, posing a serious challenge to the Obama campaign in an election that could turn on the participation of minority voters,” the Washington Post reports. “Voter rolls typically shrink in non-presidential…
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Gauging Public Opinion on Climate Change Policy :... →
sarahlee310:
Worth the time to listen.
Majorities of Americans say that global warming and clean energy should be among the nation’s priorities, according to a new survey. Will those feelings translate into any action in the government? Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication discusses the survey’s findings.
FLATOW: I’m just looking at the abstract of your...
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Ron Paul's supporters also out-delegated Romney's... →
shortformblog:
“The Paul folks couldn’t get their people turned out for the caucus,” said veteran Nevada political columnist Jon Ralston. “But they outmaneuvered the Nevada Romney people ever since and dominated the county conventions and this is the inevitable result. The question remains: To what end?”
Nevada delegates are bound by the state’s results on the first convention ballot, so...
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Robert Reich: A Question of Timing: What America... →
robertreich:
Who’s an economy for? Voters in France and Greece have made it clear it’s not for the bond traders.
Referring to his own electoral woes, Prime Minister David Cameron wrote Monday in an article in the conservative Daily Telegraph: “When people think about the economy they don’t see it…
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Husker Red: Thoughts on DOMA →
huskerred:
Our President will announce his support for same-sex marriage during the Democratic Convention in September. Mark my words.
What would such an endorsement, which I believe will be classic Axelrod (whoops, I meant Obama) material, mean for the most notable piece of federal legislation on the…
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Republican Mad-Libs, or: A peek into the creative... →
hunterblackluna:
See if this doesn’t resemble exactly what you hear out of the mainstream press some days.
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U.S. Department of State: Remarks by President... →
statedept:
Office of the Press Secretary Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan
May 1, 2012
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening from Bagram Air Base. This outpost is more than 7,000 miles from home, but for over a decade it’s been close to our hearts. Because here, in Afghanistan, more than half a million of our sons and…
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ShortFormBlog: Chen Guangcheng leaves U.S. embassy... →
shortformblog:
what Last week, after months of house arrest, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng went to the U.S. embassy in Beijing after escaping. He posted a dramatic video after the escape. However, this week, he ended up leaving the embassy as part of a deal between the United States and China.
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The Big Five: IRAN: May 2, 2012 →
thebigfivenews:
TRUE STORIES Iran Nuclear Power Plant Works at Near Full Capacity, IRNA Says Iran’s first nuclear power plant was connected at almost full capacity to the national power grid on April 28, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported, citing Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, who heads the Iranian Atomic…
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Business Insider →
INFLATION GONE WILD: Look How Much Cheaper Everything Used To Be Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-cheaper-everything-used-to-be-2012-4?op=1#ixzz1tkLxKvfw
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Daily Short #2 — Calm, Ghosts →
little-fiction:
For short story month (which is May by the way), Thomas Duncan is profiling one short story a day. Today he chose Little Fiction title Calm Ghosts, by Meredith Hambrock, and had some pretty nice things to say about us, and Meredith’s story.
Check it out and post some comments if you’re so inclined.
Thanks.
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dark-rose 101: Homophobes →
dark-rose101:
I’m surronded by them.
Full Persians, that have spent all their life in Iran, are such big homophobes, and it pisses the crap out of me.
They act as if gays or lesbians are animals, filth, a disgrace. Why can’t these people understand that homosexuals are HUMANS. Not pieces of garabage.
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Gaze Into The Faces And Minds Of The Average...
the-paradigm-shift:
Vimeo/Cyrus Dowlatshahi
Every day in the news you learn what nuke-obsessed zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks, but you rarely hear the common people.
We grabbed some beautiful everyday images of Iranians from a video by Cyrus Dowlatshahi along with statistics from a survey by RAND.
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