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• Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

  — Robert Tew (via thelittlephilosopher)

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• The House is likely to vote on CISPA this morning. Here's another big reason to oppose it

  hipsterlibertarian:

  Information provided to the federal government under Cispa would be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other state laws that could otherwise require disclosure (unless some law other than Cispa already requires its provision to the government).

  And another:

  With this week’s Boston bombs and ricin scares, Congress is surely in its standard “do something to show we’re tough on security” mode. Cispa will have an easier time passing than it should as a result.

  And another:

  It’s up to all of us to say, “We’re not going to sacrifice all of our liberties for the illusion of safety.” If you value any semblance of privacy in our increasingly digital world, call your House member’s office.

  You know the drill:

  • Call your Representative
  • Tweet at your Representative
  • Email your Representative

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• Letters To My Country: Some Brief Legal Commentary On The Decision Not To Mirandize The Surviving Marathon Bombing Suspect

  letterstomycountry:

  DOJ has indicated that they will not be Mirandizing the Marathon bombing suspect for now, invoking the public safety exception established by New York v. Quarles. Here’s what the public safety exception is, and what it isn’t.

  The public safety exception is an exception to the general rule…

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• Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized – Not A Human Right

  losingsenseofdimensions:

  Do you believe water is a basic human right? According to Nestlé CEO water is a foodstuff that should be privatized, not a human right. Nestlé CEO Peter Brabe

  “…a good example is the organic movement. “Organic is now best”. But organic is not best. After 15 years of eating GM Foods in the USA… not one single case of illness has occurred from eating them to date”
  
  “Access to water should not be a public right.”
  
  Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck, everybody. a walking pile of shit.

  scumbag.

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• n0ar:

  watch this please. . its 15 min video that will change your view on the news . .and TV 

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• You know, the Constitution was written for a very precise manner. It was not designed to restrain the individual, not to restrain you: it was to protect your liberties and to restrain the federal government. But liberty, liberty has to be re-emphasized because we have been careless over the last 100 years,” insisted the candidate. “We have taken liberty and chopped it up into pieces. Some people think liberty has to do with personal habits, which I agree. Other people think liberty is how to spend your money, and they defend that part and then they fight about when to do what.

  I think what we need to do is make this emphasis that liberty means you have a right to your life and your privacy and the way you want to live your life, as long as you don’t hurt people, and you have a right to keep and spend your money as you want to.

  But freedom, freedom is a wonderful idea, and that’s why I get so excited. But I really get excited when I see young people saying it. It is a wonderful idea. Freedom is popular, don’t you know that? Freedom brings people together.”

  — (via masqueradeofaspersions)

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  fearandwar:

  It’s really sad that we even have this debate.

  How many will acknowledge that both were/are full U.S. citizens and this is a domestic terror incident?

  This is like textbook civil liberties stuff. An accused criminal is 1) a U.S. citizen, 2) in the territorial United States, 3) in custody, and 4) doesn’t have known connections with any foreign armed force. Yes, the crime was horrible. But there’s not even an argument that this case is anywhere near any gray area.

  Due process of law means absolutely nothing if the person ultimately in charge of prosecution can just take it away on the belief that the accused is a really, really bad person. We don’t give accused criminals due process rights because we like criminals.

  This is why nobody is going to take Mark Simone out using a weaponized drone while he’s sitting at a cafe, despite his apparent hatred of the Constitution.

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  tinyclicks:

  Overpassin’

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  anarcho-queer:

  House Republican’s Propose To End 40 Hour Work Week Law

  House Republicans have introduced a bill that would end the 40-hour work week, dismantling an important component of the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 and hurting middle-class families across the country.

  Sponsored by Rep. Martha Roby (AL), the dubiously-titled “Working Families Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1406) would remove the requirement that employers pay a cash premium for overtime work and instead allow them to offer employees compensatory time off. The effect would be an FLSA that is undermined of its only incentive against excessive hours and a cheaper way for employers to demand mandatory overtime.

  Eileen Appelbaum, a senior economist with the Center for Economic Policy and Research, says the bill’s major effect would be to hurt workers, “likely increasing overtime hours for those who don’t want them and cutting pay for those who do.”

  IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger wrote a letter to Congress encouraging them to vote against the bill.

  “Employers can already work within the existing laws to allow workers adjusting work schedules around family needs without changing the 40-hour workweek,” Buffenbarger wrote. “‘Comp time’ proposals let the employer decide whether workers can use any accrued compensatory time. Additionally, nothing would prevent the employer from forcing workers to take time off individually or limiting whether workers can use the compensatory time at all if it is too burdensome to the work-load.”

  The bill was referred to committee and could come to a vote in the House as early as next week.

  Whoa, whoa there. No.

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• In cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between 82 and 97 percent of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years.

  Of the 13,288 people killed by terrorist attacks last year, seventeen were private U.S. citizens, or .001 percent.

  — The National Counter Terrorism Center’s 2011 Report on Terrorism (via prettayprettaygood)

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• Occupy Monsanto » March Against Monsanto – May 25, 2013

  go-mine-the-sun:

  “Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world’s food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. This site is dedicated to empowering citizens of the world to take action against Monsanto & it’s enablers like the FDA, USDA, EPA, GMA, BIO, and the processed food companies that use Monsanto’s products.

  We urge you to help organize and attend the closest March Against Monsanto taking place on Saturday, May 25, 2013!”

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  hypeward:

  CISPA: Big Brother is watching you. 

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  tinymediaempire:

  “so stop her, stop her! this is killing me. an understudy part for such industry.”
  24x36” 5 color screenprint.
  2013
  
  to be released at my show at The Cotton Candy Machine in Brooklyn NY on may 10th

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