Harvard scientists map the inside of the human brain as magnetic resonance scanner builds first 3D interior maps of brain
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Keanu Reeves is a vampire.
Now, look at this:
That’s “Paul Mounet”, a french actor, who “died” in 1922.
His body never was found.
Then, look at this:
An unknown man, painted in 1530 by Parmigianino.
Compare them:
i believe.
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You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968, you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like “forced busing,” “states’ rights,” and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now that you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is that blacks get hurt worse than whites.
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Lee Atwater, a head republican strategist, in an anonymous interview in 1981. He is admitting that republicans use coded-language to appeal to the racists in their base. Because, as he always said, “people vote their fears.”
Lee, who would eventually become the head of the Republican National Committee, helped Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush win their Presidential elections by teaching them to use overtly-racist tactics.
When the N-word became taboo, Republicans began referring to black people in less-direct ways, with terms like “welfare queens.” They learned how to say the N-word, without saying the N-word.
Sadly, this still continues today. As seen in Newt Gingrich’s claim that Obama is a “food stamp President” and Rick Santorum’s assertion that he doesn’t “want to make black people’s lives better by giving them someone else’s money.”
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And when you call them out on it, they accuse you of racism because “I DIDN’T SAY THEY WERE BLACK, I DON’T SEE COLOR”
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Thats why when people get all up in arms “WHY ARE YOU SEEING RACISM EVERYWHERE!!!” as if they must overtly say “Lets keep down the Niggers” in order for us to understand they are not working for us, but against us. Ya’ll aint that slick, but alot of people seem to fall for this shit.
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We have to keep agitating
Ann Wright is a retired Army Reserve colonel and 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She served as a diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. In March 2003, she made headlines when she resigned from the State Department to show her opposition to the invasion of Iraq. She is a co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience.
In the run-up to the demonstrations against the NATO summit in Chicago this month, Ashley Smith interviewed the State Department official-turned-antiwar activist.
Last Month
Three more people I’ll never meet
Never see again.
Friends of friends
gone forever.
Someone’s going to say
it’s a tragedy
The scene, it’s getting smaller
everyday
We’re still alive so we can
We’re still crying, laughing, coughing.
Three more people I’ll never meet
friends of friends of friends.
They’re just memories
Not even my own
To add to a list
that grows everyday
Points on a map
That so few
Will read.
Three more people I’ll never meet
I hope this list won’t grow
more this year
But
Life’s going on
whether I want to stop
and smell the roses,
the freshly excavated dirt
and all.
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In essence, London has abdicated all rights and responsibilities to the International Olympic Committee, and implemented legislation which creates radical new spatial demarcations not only within the Olympic Park, but because of the distributed nature of the Olympic venues, across the whole of central London. London has surrendered the traditional rights to the city to the demands of the Olympic ‘family’ and their corporate paymasters. What the IOC want, London will give. London will be on brand lockdown.
The most carefully policed Brand Exclusion Zone will be around the Olympic Park, and extend up to 1km beyond its perimeter, for up to 35 days. Within this area, officially called an Advertising and Street Trade Restrictions venue restriction zone , no advertising for brands designated as competing with those of the official Olympic sponsors will be allowed. (Originally, as detailed here , only official sponsors were allowed to advertise, but leftover sites are now available). This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing clothing prominently displaying competing brands, or from entering the exclusion zone with unofficial snack and beverage choices. Within the Zone, the world’s biggest McDonald’s will be the only branded food outlet, and Visa will be the only payment card accepted.
A friend posted this up on her facebook. We live in weird times.
Posted May 25, 2012 at 12:19am in brands olympics london antiglobalisation activist anti-olympics
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