Compare the media response in Boston to that of West, Texas: the explosion there was 100x as large, killed many more people, and literally shattered a poor community that will be forever scarred by that incident. And of all things, it could have been prevented, it could have been safer (why the fuck would you zone that next to hospitals and residences?). It was full of preventable tragedy that was instead written into its design, all at the beck and call of “industry”.
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internet browser. tags: politics, science, and pretty things.
US and Canadian Politics. technology.
environment. energy. education. health.
civil rights. social equality. novelty items.
and just maybe 1 lolcat. Glorious and free. in Toronto
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Hey, how many males reading this had to, in the last year, Google the phrase “rape culture” because you were accused of being part of it, yet had no idea what it was?
—6 New Kinds of Anxiety the Internet Gave Us | Cracked.com
protip: dismissing ‘rape culture’ as a ridiculously overwrought dispute equal to people who care too much about serif / sans serif or coke / pepsi? literally the definition of rape culture.
the cultural processes that minimize rape are precisely the same ones that treat ‘being accused of something you didn’t know you were doing’ as ‘being falsely accused of something made up that’s not real’.
see also conflating something that directly affects something like a third of all women //at least//, and indirectly affects //all women everywhere all the time// via behaviour policing with, idk, that one dude who can only like star wars //or// star trek but not both.
like, are you kidding me with this ‘is it really a real problem if i don’t already know about it’ bullshit? do you realize how heartless you look when you say things like ‘oh those poor ignorant dudes who just //didn’t know// about this issue that literally affects the entire other //half// of the population of the earth and also is entirely the fault //of// dudes’? BC THAT’S NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR YOU.
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Seriously David Wong? I’ve been so impressed with Cracked lately, too.
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This is the wanted poster currently being circulated by Boston police for Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19. His brother, who was pronounced dead following a shootout around 1:30 this morning, has been identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
(Poster source: Business Insider.)
oh man, he’s just a kid too.
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A man is sexually assaulted by four women. Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star assaults him again.
Enquiring minds are eager to know what the heck befell a young man who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a group of women in downtown Toronto.**Trigger Warning: Rape culture, victim blaming - exercise caution before clicking the link or reading further**
After a man - who is alternately referred to as a teenager - in Toronto reported to the police that he had been the victim of a sexual assault at the hands of four women in their thirties, Rosie DiManno thought it would be a good idea to pen one of the most disgusting, victim-blaming, pathetic excuse for an article I have ever had the misfortune of reading. DiManno inexplicably thought it was appropriate to write about a sexual assault using the following phrases:“Of course, one man’s sexual assault is another man’s sexual fantasy come true.”
Having a fantasy of multiple simultaneous partners is not an invitation to be raped.
Mustn’t be seen to make light of an alleged sexual crime simply because the victim is a male…snickering quotient.”Excuse me, but I simply don’t see the “snickering quotient” of someone being outnumbered, overpowered, and sexually assaulted. I doubt the millions of victims of sexual assault - victims of all genders - see that either.
“Sexual assault, you say? Lucky guy others say, nudge-nudge, a fivesome and didn’t even have to pay for it.”
Those people are despicable human beings, they are wrong, and they and their boss should probably be promptly fired from the Toronto Star.
“They could be sex molls or sex maulers.”
The fact that they were reported as perpetrators of a sexual assault makes them criminals, actually. What journalism program taught DiManno or any of her superiors that this was okay?
“Some “assaults’’ are merely unwanted touching, annoying for an adult woman but should be slapped down when they occur rather than directed to police.”
This teenager was offered a ride home by these women, and taken instead to an abandoned parking lot and assaulted. If this is something the police should ignore, I’m not sure what their role is in society.
Wanted: Bad girls in black minidresses and stilettos, approach with caution.
Yes, the sexual predators in their thirties are just “girls,” as well as an excellent punchline, according to the Toronto Star.
This isn’t DiManno’s first horrifying and utterly hamfisted attempt at being clever. In January, she came under fire for her disgusting coverage of another sexual assault, and the Star immediately came to her defense. As a result, another victim of sexual assault has been publicly mocked, mere weeks after teenage rape victim Rehteah Parsons tragically took her life after being mocked by her peers.
Please sign the petition to have Rosie DiManno fired. This is reprehensible, unacceptable, and cannot be allowed to continue.
(Thank you to reader verolynne for bringing this to my attention.)
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Red Lake Nation Tribal Council issues an order of eviction to Enbridge and forbids the building of any pipelines on their land
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A true Sheepdog, gotta be more vicious, motivated, and driven than a serial killer to protect the ones you love.
That is one hard motherfucker, this guy better bet getting free drinks for the rest of his life.
This should have WAY more notes. The worst part is that the NYPD lawyers are claiming that by law the police officers who watched the incident had no duty to protect any of the individuals on the train. It’s disgusting.
not like they’re supposed to “serve and protect” or anything. but thank god for people like this guy.
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Amber Alert Issued at 5:11 PM Friday 24 August 2012
Description
UPDATE - Release Immediately 24 Aug 2012
NEW INFORMATION - Vehicle - 2006 Dodge Caravan silver, rental vehicle with unknown Ontario or Quebec Licence plate Two males possibly in vehicle also along with the female and two abducted children listed below.
MEDIA Contact Thomas RUTTAN 905-453-3311 extension 4027 Peel Police Service PLEASE BROADCAST THE FOLLOWING UPON RECEIPT THE PEEL POLICE SERVICE HAS REQUESTED AN AMBER ALERT FOR TWO ABDUCTED CHILDREN IN PEEL REGION. Victim 1 Louis GALLEGO-HAMMADIEH, Age 9 Victim 2 Benny GALLEGO-HAMMADIEH, Age 8 Believed to be in the company of Randa HAMMADIEH (female) Age 33 Details of Incident: Biological Mother at 11:20am abducted two children from foster home In the company of 2 unknown males driving the vehicle used in the abduction. Headed towards highway 410 in Brampton.
Amber Alert
Issued at 5:11 PM Friday 24 August 2012
Importance:
High
Recommended Action
If observed call 911.
Source: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/alerts/pr35/caon0696/weather?ref=warnings_citypage
More info: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/08/24/brampton-boys-sought485.html
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World Silent as Muslim Massacre Goes On in Myanmar | Veterans Today
By Kourosh Ziabari
Friday, July 20th, 2012
Mohammad Hossein Nikzad, a close personal friend and a senior student of political science just called me a few hours ago, worriedly talking about the dire situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the atrocities the Buddhist Rakhines are committing in the East Asian nation.
He called my attention to the mainstream media’s flagrant inattention to the heartrending genocide of the Muslims in Myanmar, saying that they are only a few second-rate news websites and some of the Iranian news agencies which have given coverage to the course of events.
And unfortunately, he was right. My searching for factual reports and articles regarding the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar by the extremist Buddhists yielded no significant results. I only found some pictorial reports of the burning of Myanmarese children published by Iranian news websites, an article by Ramzy Baroud which was republished in some Asian newspapers and an editorial by Dr. Ismail Salami on Press TV. Neither Reuters, nor New York Times, nor Washington Post, nor Fox News nor their comrades and cronies in France, Germany, Britain, Australia and Canada had uttered a single word regarding the painful days the Muslims of Myanmar are experiencing.
Rohingyas are a Muslim people living in the Arakan region. As of 2012, 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar. The United Nations says that they are one of the most persecuted minorities of the world. As a result of systematic discrimination they have endured over the past years, many of them have migrated to Bangladesh and Malaysia and currently 300,000 Rohingya Muslims live in Bangladesh and 24,000 in Malaysia.
The persecution of the Rohingya Muslims dates back to the early World War II when the Japanese forces invaded Burma which was then under the British colonial rule. It’s said that on March 28, 1942, about 5,000 Muslims were massacred in Minbya and Mrohaung Townships by the Rakhine nationalists. According to Amnesty International, the Rohingya Muslims have long suffered from human rights violations and as a result, scores of them immigrated to neighboring Bangladesh for better living conditions.
One instance of discrimination against the Muslims of Rohingya is that they are denied the right of citizenship by the government. Many of them have escaped to Bangladesh and as many as 111,000 of them live in the Thai-Myanmar border.
According to the website of Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Rohingya Muslims require government permission to marry, are forbidden from having more than two children per family and are subjected to modern-day slavery through forced labor. Because the national government denies them the right to citizenship in their homeland, many Rohingyas have their land confiscated and they are restricted from travel.
The Human Rights Watch considers the denial of the right of citizenship the most important problem the Muslims of Rohingya face. The government of Myanmar considers the Rohingyas to be “resident foreigners.” This lack of full citizenship rights means that the Rohingya are subject to other abuses, including restrictions on their freedom of movement, discriminatory limitations on access to education, and arbitrary confiscation of property.
Some independent sources have told the Human Rights Watch that the government authorities continue to require Rohingya Muslims to perform forced labor. According to HRW, those who refuse or complain are physically threatened, sometimes with death, and children as young as seven years old have been seen on forced labor teams.
But what brought to light the deplorable situation of the Rohingya Muslims once again was the “2012 Rakhine State riots” which led to the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims who were murdered by a Rakhine mob of 300 while on their way back from the country’s former capital Rangoon. It said that three Rohingya youths raped and killed a Rakhine woman and as the government sentenced two of them to death, a self-directed group of extremist Rakhine nationalists attacked a bus of Rohingya Muslims and killed ten of them. According to a group of UK-based NGOs, 650 Rohingya Muslims were killed from June 10 to 28, 1,200 went missing and more than 80,000 others were displaced as a result of rioting, arson and rape.
As reported by Associated Press, 1,336 homes belonging to the Rohingya Muslims were burnt during the unrest. However, The Platform, a UK-based human rights organization puts the number at 6,000. The Burmese army and police were accused of playing a leading role in targeting the Rohingyas through mass arrests and arbitrary violence.
Due to a media blackout in Myanmar and the lack of direct access by the independent journalists to the region, it’s impossible to verify the number of those who have been killed or the homes which were destroyed in the recent riots; however, what is clear is that the Rohingya Muslims are undergoing intolerable hardships and should be paid due attention by the international community.
In the recent weeks, the Burmese opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi made the headlines when it was announced that she finally delivered her Nobel acceptance speech at Oslo’s City Hall two decades after being awarded the prize and almost two years after being released from house arrest. Suu Kyi, however, unpardonably ignored the plight of the Rohingya Muslims and never spoke a word about the hardships and injustices that have befallen them.
In a blatant act of censorship, the Western mainstream media have also stayed away from the massacre of Rohingya Muslims, showing their strong anti-Muslim bias and their duplicitous attitude toward the concept of human rights.
The Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are living under extremely appalling circumstances. The dictatorial government of Myanmar has deliberately neglected their ordeal and the international community is overlooking their suffering. Is it in compliance with our human values to remain indifferent and apathetic to this unspeakable tragedy? The Western mass media are run by a number of Islamophobes associated with the Israeli lobby. Isn’t it our duty to stand up and protest their indifference to the suffering of Myanmar Muslims?
Copyright © 2012 Veterans Today. All Rights Reserved.
[Image: An ethnic Rohingya, from Myanmar and living in Malaysia, cries during a rally to stop the killings and violence toward the Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar, near the Myanmar’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur June 15, 2012. (© Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters, via bazuki.com)]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7m1ccLsf91qb5wbbo1_500.jpg)
World Silent as Muslim Massacre Goes On in Myanmar | Veterans Today
Friday, July 20th, 2012
Mohammad Hossein Nikzad, a close personal friend and a senior student of political science just called me a few hours ago, worriedly talking about the dire situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the atrocities the Buddhist Rakhines are committing in the East Asian nation.
He called my attention to the mainstream media’s flagrant inattention to the heartrending genocide of the Muslims in Myanmar, saying that they are only a few second-rate news websites and some of the Iranian news agencies which have given coverage to the course of events.
And unfortunately, he was right. My searching for factual reports and articles regarding the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar by the extremist Buddhists yielded no significant results. I only found some pictorial reports of the burning of Myanmarese children published by Iranian news websites, an article by Ramzy Baroud which was republished in some Asian newspapers and an editorial by Dr. Ismail Salami on Press TV. Neither Reuters, nor New York Times, nor Washington Post, nor Fox News nor their comrades and cronies in France, Germany, Britain, Australia and Canada had uttered a single word regarding the painful days the Muslims of Myanmar are experiencing.
Rohingyas are a Muslim people living in the Arakan region. As of 2012, 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar. The United Nations says that they are one of the most persecuted minorities of the world. As a result of systematic discrimination they have endured over the past years, many of them have migrated to Bangladesh and Malaysia and currently 300,000 Rohingya Muslims live in Bangladesh and 24,000 in Malaysia.
The persecution of the Rohingya Muslims dates back to the early World War II when the Japanese forces invaded Burma which was then under the British colonial rule. It’s said that on March 28, 1942, about 5,000 Muslims were massacred in Minbya and Mrohaung Townships by the Rakhine nationalists. According to Amnesty International, the Rohingya Muslims have long suffered from human rights violations and as a result, scores of them immigrated to neighboring Bangladesh for better living conditions.
One instance of discrimination against the Muslims of Rohingya is that they are denied the right of citizenship by the government. Many of them have escaped to Bangladesh and as many as 111,000 of them live in the Thai-Myanmar border.
According to the website of Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Rohingya Muslims require government permission to marry, are forbidden from having more than two children per family and are subjected to modern-day slavery through forced labor. Because the national government denies them the right to citizenship in their homeland, many Rohingyas have their land confiscated and they are restricted from travel.
The Human Rights Watch considers the denial of the right of citizenship the most important problem the Muslims of Rohingya face. The government of Myanmar considers the Rohingyas to be “resident foreigners.” This lack of full citizenship rights means that the Rohingya are subject to other abuses, including restrictions on their freedom of movement, discriminatory limitations on access to education, and arbitrary confiscation of property.
Some independent sources have told the Human Rights Watch that the government authorities continue to require Rohingya Muslims to perform forced labor. According to HRW, those who refuse or complain are physically threatened, sometimes with death, and children as young as seven years old have been seen on forced labor teams.
But what brought to light the deplorable situation of the Rohingya Muslims once again was the “2012 Rakhine State riots” which led to the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims who were murdered by a Rakhine mob of 300 while on their way back from the country’s former capital Rangoon. It said that three Rohingya youths raped and killed a Rakhine woman and as the government sentenced two of them to death, a self-directed group of extremist Rakhine nationalists attacked a bus of Rohingya Muslims and killed ten of them. According to a group of UK-based NGOs, 650 Rohingya Muslims were killed from June 10 to 28, 1,200 went missing and more than 80,000 others were displaced as a result of rioting, arson and rape.
As reported by Associated Press, 1,336 homes belonging to the Rohingya Muslims were burnt during the unrest. However, The Platform, a UK-based human rights organization puts the number at 6,000. The Burmese army and police were accused of playing a leading role in targeting the Rohingyas through mass arrests and arbitrary violence.
Due to a media blackout in Myanmar and the lack of direct access by the independent journalists to the region, it’s impossible to verify the number of those who have been killed or the homes which were destroyed in the recent riots; however, what is clear is that the Rohingya Muslims are undergoing intolerable hardships and should be paid due attention by the international community.
In the recent weeks, the Burmese opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi made the headlines when it was announced that she finally delivered her Nobel acceptance speech at Oslo’s City Hall two decades after being awarded the prize and almost two years after being released from house arrest. Suu Kyi, however, unpardonably ignored the plight of the Rohingya Muslims and never spoke a word about the hardships and injustices that have befallen them.
In a blatant act of censorship, the Western mainstream media have also stayed away from the massacre of Rohingya Muslims, showing their strong anti-Muslim bias and their duplicitous attitude toward the concept of human rights.
The Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are living under extremely appalling circumstances. The dictatorial government of Myanmar has deliberately neglected their ordeal and the international community is overlooking their suffering. Is it in compliance with our human values to remain indifferent and apathetic to this unspeakable tragedy? The Western mass media are run by a number of Islamophobes associated with the Israeli lobby. Isn’t it our duty to stand up and protest their indifference to the suffering of Myanmar Muslims?
Copyright © 2012 Veterans Today. All Rights Reserved.
[Image: An ethnic Rohingya, from Myanmar and living in Malaysia, cries during a rally to stop the killings and violence toward the Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar, near the Myanmar’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur June 15, 2012. (© Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters, via bazuki.com)]
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New Work by Banksy
Police in London have been fighting a battle with graffiti artists in an attempt to clean up the city for the Olympic games this summer. In recent times it has been common to hear of graffiti artists homes being raided, some of which haven’t spray painted in over 15 years but their marks are still scattered throughout the capital. This recent crack down hasn’t seemed to of effected Banksy much. This morning Banksy posted two new pieces of work which seem to give his personal take on the games.
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That’s always my response in job interviews when they bring up the strengths and weaknesses.
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Weaknesses. [via]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mmx5hxw01qanm80o1_500.jpg)
That’s always my response in job interviews when they bring up the strengths and weaknesses.
Weaknesses. [via]
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Barriers to Sustainability | 'How the Influence Industry Killed Climate Change Legislation'
From Bill Moyers:
The country’s best opportunity to mitigate climate change came three years ago, soon after President Barack Obama took office, with a friendly Democratic Senate and House of Representatives. The American Clean Energy and Security Act (otherwise known as Waxman-Markey, after its sponsors) passed the House – barely.
It later failed in the Senate, punted along until it was eventually abandoned in July 2010. Since then, our elected officials have largely ignored the heat-trapping gases causing enormous disruptions across the planet.
The 2009 bill saw lobbying efforts unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Environmental groups pushing for the legislation, including the Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Fund, spent a record $24.6 million lobbying in 2009, employing nearly 500 lobbyists in their hefty effort.
But even that kind of cash was grossly outmatched by the oil and gas industry, which also had a record spending year in lobbying: $175 million and 807 lobbyists. No wonder the bill didn’t stand a chance.
No piece of legislation since Waxman-Markey has been anywhere near as comprehensive in lowering carbon emissions. And smaller efforts have been decimated by the oil and gas industry’s influence on Capitol Hill. Take a recent vote to end $24 billion in tax breaks for big oil companies. 43 Senate Republicans and four Democrats filibustered to block the bill. All told, the 51 senators in favor of ending subsidies had received a paltry $5.9 million in career contributions from oil and gas. The 47 who protected the subsidies got $23.5 million.
Check out the rest of the article here.
Related:
- ‘Unburnable Carbon – Are the world’s financial markets carrying a carbon bubble?’ (Carbon Tracker)
- ‘The great carbon bubble: Why the fossil fuel industry fights so hard’ (Energy Bulletin)
(Image sources: Will Blog for Food; Carbon Tracker Initiative)
