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So ends my time at LJ.
For those who didn't get the message, I will be over at inksome as sidereal_strat If you want to join inksome, hit me up with a comment with your email address and I'll issue you an invite.
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"A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war: ‘This way of settling differences is not just.' This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and ( Read more... ) -
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America likes to promote its self as the "home of the free" but, unfortunately, we have the embarrassing honor of being known as the incarceration nation. The U.S. has less than five percent of the world's population but almost 25 percent of the world's prison population, incarcerating more of its citizens per capita than any other country in the ( Read more... ) -
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On this day, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed.
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From Common Dreams today
I think about this whenever I think about one of this country's most enduring mythologies: the American Dream. As the story goes, everyone is born equal in America, into a country with a level playing field, where, with hard work and perseverance, anyone can achieve economic stability and financial success. Integral to the idea of this American ( Read more... ) -
From my local humgreens mailing list
Nationally, we achieved ballot access in 19 new states for a record-setting total of 41 states. In spite of a virtual blackout in mainstream media, Cynthia McKinney garnered 20% more votes for Green Party president than in 2004, and Congressional challengers increased votes for Green Party candidates by 50%. In District 1, Carol Wolman, won 8.4% of ( Read more... ) -
Providing buzzkills & reality since 1993
Seven years before Tisquantum (Squanto, to most of us) helped the Pilgrims recover from their disastrous first winter in America, he was kidnapped by an English cod fisher and fur trader who was diversifying into the human trade. Tisquantum and other stock were shipped to Spain under hatch, a murderous passage, and most of the survivors were sold ( Read more... )
