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Japan’s earthquake heard from Alaska
The VENTS Program of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has released sound files and a YouTube video of hyrdophone recordings of the March 11 earthquake. Sound was sped sped up 16 times. Text in the video explains that the first … Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, Japan, video
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders
The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are “persons” by granting their extremely deep special interest pockets pretty … Continue reading
Shark (a story for Haiti)
“Shark” is an excerpt from the novel-in-progress Cold, posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres’ Post a Story for Haiti project. Please donate to Haiti earthquake relief.
Haiti: Disaster profiteering v. helping Haiti rebuild for Haitians
“We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy — which is part natural, part unnatural — must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations” (Naomi Klein). How can we help rebuild Haiti for Haitians?
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-13: Haiti earthquake
Today’s tweets were dominated by news of yesterday’s magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, the idiotic statement about the earthquake by Christianist Pat Robertson, & the Prop 8 trial in California.
Posted in The Daily Tweets
Tagged Bent Alaska, Christianism, Christianity, earthquake, Firedoglake (blog), FiveThirtyEight.com, Haiti, in the news, lgbtq, Marriage equality, natural disaster, Pat Robertson, Prop 8, Red Cross, Sarah Palin, Wyclef Jean, Yéle Haiti
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Helping Haiti (& telling Pat Robertson to STFU)
How can we help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday’s devastating earthquake? By sending them assistance — not by blaming them, as Christianist lackwit Pat Robertson so predictably does.
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