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Nearly one in five women surveyed said they had been raped or had experienced an attempted rape at some point, and one in four reported being beaten by an intimate partner. One in six women have been stalked, according to the report. “That almost one in five women have been raped in their lifetime is very striking and, I think, will be surprising to a lot of people,” said Linda C. Degutis, director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the survey. “I don’t think we’ve really known that it was this prevalent in the population.”

Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Report Sexual Assault - NYTimes.com (via cultureofresistance)

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The problem is that, for years, liberals coasted on the coattails of FDR, got very complacent and generated no new ideas. So, when the GOP came to the waterhole and stole their clothes, they didn’t know what to do; they thought they had hegemony. Group one retreated to the ivory tower: effete crybabies, they became useless politically. Group two, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), became GOP-lite and a pure fundraising operation.

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Mr Gingrich is mixing up nations and peoples. Nations are always “invented”. Peoples are not. The American revolutionaries who courageously shook off the yoke of British imperialism “invented” a nation with a flag, a progressive constitution and laws that govern the land. The “peoples” who made up those revolutionaries - the English, Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Scots-Irish, French and others - became overnight citizens of this new United States of America.

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Speaking on Friday, Mr. Bevis noted that in 2010, the southern half of Greenland lost an extra 100 billion tons of ice under conditions that scientists would consider anomalously warm.

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“Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” ~ Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (1988)

Consider this rather dramatic contrast: when 300 liberals are arrested during an anti-Putin protest in faraway Moscow, the New York Times splashes the news onto its front page. But when 700 radicals are arrested in an anti-Wall Street rally in New York itself, the Times systematically ignores them, pushing the news onto its obscure ‘City Room Blog’.

The difference in framing between these two items is particularly remarkable. First of all, there’s the title: “Moscow Moves to Quell Second Day of Anti-Putin Protests.” Compare the laden term “to quell”, which implies an authoritarian type of crackdown, with the following matter-of-fact statement: “Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge.”

Then compare the introductory paragraphs of the two articles: “Russian authorities acted decisively to quash a second day of anti-government protests,” versus “In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge.”

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The New York Times Asks “Where Did Global Warming Go?” While Ignoring Its Own Failed Coverage

The NYT coverage of climate change has been atrocious but, as pointed out in this article, the same can be said about other media sources. Unless one makes a conscious effort to seek out reliable scientific sources, it is unlikely one will be well-versed in current global warming news. How do we care to change this?

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What’s the Matter Rick!? Afraid of a Little Thumbs Down!?

Apparently so, his latest video “Repeal,” the first to follow “Strong” (the most hated youtube of all time) has comments and ratings disabled. Way to show you’re a man of the people Rick, by completely shutting out anything resembling dissent.

-Joe

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The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (via cultureofresistance)

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We are the legacy of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our fifteen billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction.

Carl Sagan (via cultureofresistance)

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And Rick Santorum wants to cut the food stamp budget because he thinks its unneeded.

tragic On Monday, a mother in Texas shot her two children before killing herself. She died at the scene of the shooting. The children later died in the hospital — the daughter on Wednesday, the son Thursday. Just two hours before the shooting, daughter Ramie Grimmer updated her Facebook status...

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Billion-dollar disasters of 2011 (as of Dec. 7, 2011) Groundhog Day blizzard » January 29-February 3, 2011 Midwest/Southeast tornadoes » April 4-5, 2011 Southeast/Midwest tornadoes » April 8-11, 2011 Midwest/Southeast tornadoes » April 14-16, 2011 Southeast/Ohio Valley/Midwest tornadoes » April 25-28, 2011 Midwest/Southeast tornadoes » May 22-27, 2011 Midwest/Southeast tornadoes and severe weather » June 18-22, 2011 Southern Plains/Southwest drought and heatwave » Spring-Fall, 2011 Mississippi River flooding » Spring-Summer, 2011 Upper Midwest flooding » Summer 2011 Hurricane Irene » August 20-29, 2011 Texas, New Mexico, Arizona wildfires »

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According to Andrews and Bows, “a 4 degrees C future is incompatible with an organized global community, is likely to be beyond ‘adaptation’, is devastating to the majority of ecosystems, and has a high probability of not being stable.”

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What is notably lacking in the “conventional” versus organic debate are studies backing up the claim that organic can’t feed the world’s growing population. In an exhaustive review using Google and several academic search engines of all the scientific literature published between 1999 and 2007 addressing the question of whether or not organic agriculture could feed the world, the British Soil Association, which supports and certifies organic farms, found (PDF) that there had been 98 papers published in the previous eight years addressing the question of whether organic could feed the world. Every one of the papers showed that organic farming had that potential. Not one argued otherwise.