3 days ago

Howard Stern defends Ellen Degeneres/Rosie O’Donnell and Gay rights

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If the order comes from above, we can dig a pit to bury you alive in half an hour, and no one on earth would know,” the agent said, according to a translation of the author’s statement provided by the rights group Human Rights in China. “As far as we, state security, can tell, there are no more than 200 intellectuals in the country who oppose the Communist Party and are influential. If the central authorities think that their rule is facing a crisis, they can capture them all in one night and bury them alive. Cite Arrow ‘Buried Alive’: A Dissident’s Words Become a Catchphrase
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It’s a Girl - In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide”.

This documentary film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters’ lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.

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Former Philadephia police captain Ray Lewis, arrested and cuffed while protesting at #OWS this morning. They eat their own.

Former Philadephia police captain Ray Lewis, arrested and cuffed while protesting at #OWS this morning. They eat their own.

3 months ago

Chris Hedges: “What happens is in all of these movements … the foot soldiers of the elite — the blue uniformed police, the mechanisms of control — finally don’t want to impede the movement and at that point the power elite is left defenseless … the only thing I can say having been in the middle of similar movements is that this one is real, and this one could take them all down … I can guarantee you that huge segments of those blue uniformed police sympathize with everything that you’re doing.” — Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges brings his 20 years of experience as a war correspondent, having covered movements and revolutions throughout the the world, to the discussion.

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