motherjones:

Birth control is a lot more expensive than an aspirin between your legs. Click through to find out how much you’ll spend in a lifetime.

relevant.

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Robert Reich breaks down Citizens United and it’s effect on US politics and economy…and gives inspiration for change and helping promote people power. 

please do watch. 

Of the 32 states that receive more (in federal spending) than they contribute (in federal taxes) 27 of them (84%) are republican. 

"It’s really the best you can do in life, is learn. You can’t really do anything right. You can just learn."

Louie CK

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

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yes. 

yes. yes. yes. yes. yes. 

(Source: reddit.com, via bailey)

lifeisliterallylimited:

Syria: Violence against the protesters escalated this week with reports of widespread enforced disappearances on Sunday, followed by the deployment of tanks and heavy armour onto the streets of Deraa and other towns on Monday. By Tuesday rights groups had reported even more deaths and arrests as troops were sent in to put down protests in Deraa, Douma and Baniyas.

Palestinian movements: Fatah, the Palestinian political organisation, reached an agreement with its rival Hamas on forming an interim government and fixing a date for a general election… Israel did not respond positively.. Nabil Abu Rdaineh, a top Abbas aide, said the reconciliation did not concern Israel: “Netanyahu must choose between a just peace with the united Palestinian people … and settlements”

Libya:  fighting continued through the week as heavy shelling prevented ships from docking in Misurata to deliver humanitarian supplies and evacuate the wounded. By Thursday the rebels had managed to push Gaddafi’s forces from the sea port, but thebattle for control of Misurata’s airport continued.

Americas:

• ‘Guantanamo files’ reveal details of interrogations of “high-risk” detainees, but suggest many innocents were also rounded up.
• US president calls media interest in birthplace debate a “sideshow” issue after White House releases “long-form” birth certificate.

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Disturbingly ordinary, S21 was a primary school turned prison camp during the Khmer Rouge take over of the mid-late 1970’s. The first trials against perpetrators are just now underway in a UN designated court.

Toul Sleng Genocide Museum

RELEVANT

If you live in the US, or are curious about health care reform in the US, watch this video.

It gives a great overview to a lot of pretty complicated stuff that went down re: health care reform.

The Brothers Koch: Rich, Political And Playing To Win

Jane Mayer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, profiles the brothers and their political connections in the Aug. 30 issue of the magazine. Her article “Covert Operations” describes how the brothers’ political interests “dovetail with [their] corporate interests.”

crookedindifference:

The Peculiar Behaviors of Whales and Dolphins

Yet many biologists who study whales and dolphins view such a compromise as deeply flawed, and instead urge that negotiators redouble efforts to abolish commercial whaling and dolphin hunting entirely. As these scientists see it, the evidence is high and mounting that the cetacean order includes species second only to humans in mental, social and behavioral complexity, and that maybe we shouldn’t talk about what we’re harvesting or harpooning, but whom.

“At the very least, you could put it in line with hunting chimps,” said Hal Whitehead, who studies sperm whales at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

A good article as to why we need to deal with the hunting of whales and dolphins differently as we have been up to this point.

:) I totally have this in my queue but am reblogging instead. you guys should read the article, it’s well written and gives good insight.