December 2011
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“Women cannot be expected to struggle alone against the forces of discrimination...”
– Benazir Bhutto in a 1995 speech in Beijing at the World Conference of Women. This is a beautiful speech, go read all of it. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
Bhutto was 500% right.
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AP: Bombing during Christmas mass near Nigeria... →
Merry Christmas, one and all.
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If every family reused the wrapping from 3 gifts,... →
Good to know I’ve done my bit, then. I put my pressies in gift bags, which can then be re-used.
motherjones:
Stat of the day. (More where that came from here.)
Merry Christmas and a Happy Boxing Day Eve, Tumblr.
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“It’s the media. They never report the good things that the Ku Klux Klan does.”
– Fuck a duck. You couldn’t make this shit up.
From “Why Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters Didn’t Hurt Him in Texas” over at The Atlantic. This quote comes from a voter in Texas’ 14th congressional district, in a 1996 focus group. We don’t even. (via motherjones)
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“There are as many domestic workers in London now as in Victorian times.”
– These days domestic workers are more likely to be self-employed, well-qualified and well-paid than their 19th century counterparts. Yet in some respects the industry has changed surprisingly little. (via theeconomist)
Dickens ain’t dead yet.
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The Mirror used hacking every day, says... →
“Phone hacking at the Daily Mirror was a “bog-standard journalistic tool” used “every day” which was joked and laughed about by showbiz reporters and “entirely accepted by senior editors”, the Leveson Inquiry heard yesterday.
A former Daily Mirror financial reporter, James Hipwell, told the inquiry how he saw reporters “a few feet away”...
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Twins born with one body and two heads →
“Hospital officials in northern Brazil say a woman have given birth to conjoined twin boys with one body and two heads.
Obstetrician Neila Dahas of the Santa Casa de Misericodia Hospital in the city of Belem says the twins were born Monday by Cesarean section. She says on the hospital’s website that each boy has his own brain and spinal cord, but they share all other organs,...
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Britain's new year resolution: intervene in... →
“David Cameron describes Somalia as “a failed state that directly threatens British interests” and will convene a summit in London in February to bring together the countries currently active in the Horn of Africa state. A number of key decisions are expected to be made there, ranging from humanitarian aid to military missions.
The Prime Minister’s decision to tackle the...
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Sweden: record sentence for Stockholm puppy... →
15 months is not enough. Anyone who can look at a puppy and wants to hurt it is a serial killer in waiting.
euralmanac:
A 22-year-old man from southern Stockholm was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Wednesday for ”sadistically” torturing a puppy to death.
”As far as I know a court has never before sentenced anyone to such a long term in prison for cruelty to animals in Sweden before,”...
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WatchSounds good to me.
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braiker:
Do they know it’s Global Orgasm for Peace Day at all? Kudos to Adam Gabbatt and Ryan Jones for brilliantly, uh, pulling off a potentially disasrous man-on-the-street video. Now, “lie back and think of Syria.”
Indeed. Fav quotes: “I feel like I haven’t done enough for world peace, but this is definitely something I could follow through on.”
Adam: “Have...
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Another mince pie? →
Scientists find the secret to a long, indulgent life
….”Italian scientists from the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome have now come a step closer to understanding how dieting works. It causes the body to activate a molecule called Creb1 which in turn activates another set of molecules linked to longevity called the sirtuins.
While overeating ages the brain and...
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Scientists say Turin Shroud is supernatural →
“Italian government scientists have claimed to have discovered evidence that a supernatural event formed the image on the Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
After years of work trying to replicate the colouring on the shroud, a similar image has been created by the scientists.
However, they only managed the effect by scorching equivalent linen...
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Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious... →
“A deadly strain of bird flu with the potential to infect and kill millions of people has been created in a laboratory by European scientists – who now want to publish full details of how they did it.
The discovery has prompted fears within the US Government that the knowledge will fall into the hands of terrorists wanting to use it as a bio-weapon of mass destruction.
Some scientists...
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Protesters 'Deserve to Be Thrown Into Hitler's... →
This has to be the most mind-boggling piece of fuckwittism that I’ve seen all day.
reuters:
Robert Mackey at The Lede writes: In comments published by the Egyptian newspaper Al Shorouk on Monday, the adviser, Gen. Abdel Moneim Kato, said that the protesters who came under attack by soldiers were delinquents “who deserve to be thrown into Hitler’s ovens.”