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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-29: Dollhouse ends, Caprica begins
RT: @CapricaSeven: #Dollhouse and #Caprica in one night?! You can do it! // Yes, & I will! # Text LAMBI to 50555 to instantly donate $5 to @LambiFund of Haiti – Haitians need to be at CENTER of rebuilding process. … Continue reading
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Tagged Caprica (TV), Dollhouse (TV), Haiti, Lambi Fund of Haiti
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Government by psychopathy
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission had granted the fake-persons known as corporations vast new powers of “free speech” by which to further corrupt American democracy.
Posted in Polis
Tagged Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API), Citizens United v. FEC, corporations, diabetes, Eli Lilly, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, free speech, GMO (genetically modified organisms & foods), good government bad government, Haiti, Jim Gottstein, Joel Bakan, Monsanto, natural disasters, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychopathy, Shaun of the Dead (movie), The Corporation (book and film), U.S. Supreme Court, zombies, Zyprexa
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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.
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-15: Haiti relief efforts
Devil’s Logic: explanation of Robertson’s “pact w/ the devil” language about Haiti. http://bit.ly/7YzzyL # RT: @crossedgenres: New blog post: A Festival of Skeletons serialization has begun! http://bit.ly/6fhgSL # RT: @alydenisof: It occurred to me this morning, as I was pumping … Continue reading
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Tagged Crossed Genres, Dollhouse (TV), Haiti, Yéle Haiti
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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.
Posted in No Way Way, Polis
Tagged Atlantic.com, Barack Obama, Bible, Book of Job, Christianism, Christianity, earthquake, FiveThirtyEight.com, God as a bully, good government bad government, Haiti, in the news, King David, KSKA-FM, Matthew Yglesias, Media Matters for America, natural disasters, Pat Robertson, Psalms, Red Cross, slavery, Steve Aufrecht, Ta-Nehisi Coates, theodicy, Think Progress (blog), video, Voice from the Whirlwind, What Do I Know? (blog), Wikipedia
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