February 2012
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Davy Jones is the first Monkee to die. Monkees...
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Ideas and Opinions.: White House Applauds Decision... →
noneofthismatters:
Washington - With President Barack Obama facing fire from Republicans over the rising cost of gasoline, the White House moved quickly Monday to trumpet a Canadian company’s decision to build a section of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Cushing, Okla., to…
The Release of Stratfor Emails by WikiLeaks & Its... →
The whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks has partnered with more than twenty-five media outlets to release millions of emails from the global private intelligence company known as Stratfor. The release of the emails, which they are calling the “Global Intelligence Files,” shows the full scope of the company’s operations—how they provide intelligence services to major corporations like Bhopal’s...
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Do I smell mutual aid?: The Biggest Lie in PoliSci →
akagoldfish:
“The central ideological conflict in the United States is over the size and scope of government”
This is something you’ll probably hear if you take US Politics & Government at the college level or AP Gov in highschool. It’s also completely false.
It’s not only wrong in…
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Private Prisons Spend Millions On Lobbying To Put... →
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somepolitics:
Yesterday, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released areport chronicling the political strategies of private prison companies “working to make money through harsh policies and longer sentences.” The report’s authors note that while the total number of people in prison increased less than 16 percent, the number of people held in private federal and state facilities...
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athoughtfulreminder:
Number of people that died, were imprisoned, or tortured in the:
American Revolution (1775-1783): 27,500
Syrian Revolution (2011-2012): 221,595
Watchchampagnesocialiste:
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