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☭: Someone is trying to make the argument that America is the most oppressive, most genocidal, most imperialistic country...
Sources or it didn’t happen.
I can’t think of a single example where we’ve been imperialist or…
bruh, bitches be jealous of our FREEDOM
jk this country is the worst, and all of the above examples illustrate the true nature of out imperialistic country. Im going to start wheatpasting these bad boys around town
Can the government throw you in jail for offering advice on the Internet about what food people should buy at the grocery store?
That is exactly the claim made by the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. In December 2011, diabetic blogger Steve Cooksey started a Dear Abby-style advice column on his popular blog (www.diabetes-warrior.net) to answer reader questions. One month later, the State Board informed Steve that he could not give readers advice on diet, whether for free or for compensation, because doing so constituted the unlicensed, and thus criminal, practice of dietetics. The State Board also told Steve that his private emails and telephone calls with readers and friends were illegal, as was his paid life-coaching service. The State Board went through Steve’s writings with a red pen, indicating what he may and may not say without a government-issued license.
But the First Amendment does not allow the government to ban people from sharing ordinary advice about diet, or scrub the Internet—from blogs to Facebook to Twitter—of speech the government does not like. North Carolina can no more force Steve to become a licensed dietitian than it could require Dear Abby to become a licensed psychologist.
That is why on May 30, 2012, Steve Cooksey joined the Institute for Justice in filing a major free speech lawsuit against the State Board in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Charlotte Division. This lawsuit seeks to answer one of the most important unresolved questions in First Amendment law: When does the government’s power to license occupations trump free speech?
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Machistado: Libertarians are SOOOO close, but yet so far.
Daisysnotebook just said
If people are so bad that they cannot be trusted to freely conduct themselves in appropriate and non-coercive ways, then how can they be trusted with a monopoly on power?
and I…
Easy Fruit & Herb Flavored Water
Ingredients
- fruit — 2 cups berries, citrus, melons, pineapple…most fruits will work (see recommended amounts in directions)
- herbs — a sprig of mint, basil, sage, rosemary, tarragon, thyme, or lavender
- water (tap or filtered)
- ice
DirectionsSupplies needed: 2 quart pitcher or jar with lid; muddler or wooden spoon
General formula for whatever fruit/herb combo you desire.
1. If using herbs, add a sprig of fresh herbs to jar/pitcher; press and twist with muddler or handle of wooden spoon to bruise leaves and release flavor; don’t pulverize the herbs into bits.
2. Add approx. 2 cups of fruit to jar/pitcher; press and twist with muddler or handle of wooden spoon, just enough to release some of the juices
3. Fill jar/pitcher with ice cubes.
4. Add water to top of jar/pitcher.
5. Cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Suggested flavor combinations:
ALL CITRUS (no herbs) — Slice 1 orange, 1 lime, 1 lemon into rounds, then cut the rounds in half. Add to jar and proceed with muddling, add ice & water.
RASPBERRY LIME (no herbs) — Quarter 2 limes; with your hands, squeeze the juice into the jar, then throw in the squeezed lime quarters. Add 2 cups raspberries. Muddle, add ice & water.
PINEAPPLE MINT — Add a sprig of mint to the jar (you can throw in the whole sprig; or, remove the leaves from the sprig, if you prefer to have the mint swimming around and distributing in the jar). Muddle the mint. Add 2 cups pineapple pieces, muddle, add ice & water.
BLACKBERRY SAGE — Add sage sprig to jar and muddle. Add 2 cups blackberries; muddle, add ice & water.
WATERMELON ROSEMARY — Add rosemary sprig to jar & muddle. Add 2 cups watermelon cubes; muddle, add ice and water.Pineapple mojito. Great idea!
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#WikiLeaks Announces 'New Encrypted Facebook'
The WikiLeaks Twitter feed announced on 20 May 2012 that the WL Friends/Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL) network is ready to launch an ‘encrypted Facebook’. This comes amidst growing concern for user privacy and safety at the Facebook website.
Facebook recently came out in support of CISPA, a proposed US law that infringes on privacy and freedom of speech. Facebook’s attitude towards user privacy has led some to leave the site. “…I think it’s important to not use services that you have issues with, even if they are free,” wrote Engadget and Gizmodo cofounder Peter Rojas, and artist Hazel Dooney recently cited the same issues on her blog as her reason for leaving.
The ‘about’ page at Friends of WikiLeaks states:
Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL) is an independent network made up of people from across the globe who defend WikiLeaks and promote its mission and values. We are a global collection of people with shared beliefs and intentions linked together as a strong and resilient network.
FoWL clarified that it is independent from WikiLeaks:FoWL is not a subsidiary of WikiLeaks, nor is it subordinate to WikiLeaks. FoWL is a separate network that has the express purpose of supporting, promoting, publicizing and encouraging any individual or collective which shares WikiLeaks’ common values and goals.
12 reasons
One WikiLeaks tweet noted that “Facebook sells your information to governments, is lauded by MSM. WikiLeaks gives government information to you for free and we’re terrorists”. Following this statement, WikiLeaks tweeted a dozen reasons why this new site is better than Facebook.
- WL Friends introduces you to people you want to know, but don’t know yet. Facebook connects you to people you already know - no point.
- Facebook is a mass surveillance tool. You put your friends into it, you betray your friends. Do friends betray friends? WL Friends doesn’t know your friends. It introduces you to new friends.
- Facebook records everything you do, hands it over to the US government and corporations. WL Friends doesn’t.
- WL Friends keeps your data so encrypted, not even the system admins can decrypt it. You and your friends decrypt on login automatically.
- WL Friends uses military grade cryptography and the best industry standards (OpenPGP + Elliptic Curves).
- WL Friends even uses homomorphic encryption for certain operations so WL Friends doesn’t even know how many friends you have.
- The more you use WL Friends, the less you use WL Friends. WL Friends is designed to build, not control, a robust network of shared value.
- WL Friends is designed for more than just WikiLeaks. It is a general solution to build a robust support network under hostile conditions.
- Friends of Israel, Friends of Palestine, Friends of the Tea Party, Friends of Catholicism are all possible with WL Friends.
- WL Friends is designed to make infiltration costly. No person can be seen to be more important than any other or individually targeted.
- WL Friends builds a strong support network instantly for any shared belief by connecting supporters in a way that maximizes communication.
- As time goes by the WL Friends network for any shared belief is designed to mathematically grow stronger and stronger.
‘Beta stage’
The Friends of WikiLeaks site is now signing up members.
FoWL is currently in its beta stage. This means that people from all over the world are registering to be part of this network to support WikiLeaks. For some time, nothing else will happen - we need the network to be of a certain size before we can start introducing you to candidate friends. Registering now will allow you to be a part of the network before the beta stage network gets full. As soon as we are ready to give you some candidate friends we will let you know.
It takes less than 5 min to register at https://wlfriends.org.2012-05-20 WikiLeaks Announces ‘New Encrypted Facebook’ | WL Central
Note Anonymiss: While I have no intention of signing up on either facebook or yet another social network, the list of 12 reasons is a goodun to pass on.
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"There’s an old saying that I’m a big fan of: Never try to teach a pig to sing — it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I think of this every time I get the urge to lash out at Fox News for some irresponsible, grossly unethical thing or other that the network has done or has had the gall to broadcast under the guise of being a real news organization. My criticism, like everyone else’s, won’t matter one bit — the attack will just bounce off of Roger Ailes’s prodigious belly like he was Kung-Fu Panda. Not only does Fox News not fret over its many detractors and their grievances, it generally welcomes the outrage as an opportunity to once again let its pit-bullish media relations department off the chain to maul the crap out of the poor bastard with the bad sense to hassle its master… It’s with all of this in mind that I sit here wallowing waist deep in what I know is the futility of saying a damn thing about Fox News’s latest nakedly obvious and indefensibly biased attack on Barack Obama. If you haven’t seen what I’m talking about yet — the four-minute video clip that Doocy the Clown and the rest of the crew of local news rejects on Fox & Friends aired earlier this week, benignly calling it a “look back” at the last three years of the Obama presidency — then I’m not going to go into detail for you. Suffice it to say that you really do need to see it with your own eyes to both believe it and — eventually, after it sinks in that you really are watching what you think you are — appreciate the sheer scope of its horribleness. It’s not news. It’s not even news by the very flexible standards of Fox News. At the risk of violating Godwin’s Law, it’s 1939-style propaganda and nothing more — not a thing more — and it quite frankly stands as Fox News’s darkest hour. It’s honestly so freaking shameless that even I wasn’t sure Fox was capable of creating and disseminating something like it, despite the fact that anyone as cynical as I am should’ve understood fully that it merely represents the Fox model taken to its logical conclusion."
Chez Pazienza for the Huffington Post, in Fox News Doesn’t Care About Your Outrage. (via reallyfoxnews)
Preach it.
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Saturn’s Most Habitable Moon Offers Ice, Water, Killer Views
1. Enceladus’ southern tiger stripes are actively spewing jets of ice into space. The region is also anomalously warm relative to the rest of the planet, and releasing three times more heat than a similar sized area on Earth. Until recently, scientists didn’t know why.
A study in Nature Geoscience in January explains that the heat is caused by blobs of warmer ice moving toward the surface and pushing colder ice down. Scientists think these eras of churning ice last around 10 million years, while the intervening quiet times last 100 million to 2 billion years, so Cassini is lucky to have visited during one of the active times that make up between 1 and 10 percent of the moon’s history.
“Cassini appears to have caught Enceladus in the middle of a burp,” UC Santa Cruz planetary scientist Francis Nimmo, co-author of the new study, said in a press release. “These tumultuous periods are rare, and Cassini happens to have been watching the moon during one of these special epochs.”
2. Enceladus is the sixth largest of Saturn’s 62 moons. The plumes emanating from its southern pole are just visible in this image.
3. This spectacular image of Enceladus nestled next to Saturn below the planet’s rings was taken by Cassini on Christmas Day, 2009. It was captured by the spacecraft’s wide-angle camera from 384,000 miles away.
4. Here, Enceladus is speeding by Dione, a moon more than twice its size. Enceladus orbits faster and closer to Saturn than Dione. The ring is Saturn’s outermost F-ring.
my favorite moooon.
(Source: icyblueeyes, via olibotisalover)
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What about the left wing?
And don’t use the anarchy symbol unless you’re an anarcho-capitalist. Anarchy runs on a non aggression principle, the people you see on TV smashing windows, looting stores and burning cars, those people are not true anarchists.
wait.
wait a minute.
Did that just happen?
don’t use the anarchy symbol unless you’re an anarcho-capitalist.
don’t whhh…
don’t use the anarchy symbol unless you’re an anarcho-capitalist.
don’t use the anarchy symbol unless you’re an anarcho-capitalist.
don’t use the anarchy symbol unless you’re an anarcho-capitalist.
My god. iseemusicincolor go be an idiot somewhere else. fuck anarcho capitalists.
(Source: anarchistart, via harborcityskinhead)