The Green State

April 20, 2013 with 17 notes

tags: i cannot believe that was necessary. MAPS ARE HARD.

Ambassador to the Czech Republic wants to remind all of you fuck faces that Chechnya is not in the Czech Republic.

As many I was deeply shocked by the tragedy that occurred in Boston earlier this month. It was a stark reminder of the fact that any of us could be a victim of senseless violence anywhere at any moment.

As more information on the origin of the alleged perpetrators is coming to light, I am concerned to note in the social media a most unfortunate misunderstanding in this respect. The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities - the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation.

As the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman noted in his message to President Obama, the Czech Republic is an active and reliable partner of the United States in the fight against terrorism. We are determined to stand side by side with our allies in this respect, there is no doubt about that.

Petr Gandalovič
Ambassador of the Czech Republic

April 20, 2013 with 20 notes

ipomoeaj:

God, that would blow if that was your boat.

April 19, 2013 with 17 notes

Wonder how many people had to google Chechnya today.

April 19, 2013 with 16 notes

this dude is a dick.

April 9, 2013 with 853 notes

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher brought intentional misery and suffering to millions of people.

An evil person doesn’t become a saint just because they die.

best image of the day.

April 9, 2013 with 1,448 notes

Resource on why Thatcher was the worst of the worst.

bashi-bazouk:

Her government was happy to let a massive British city collapse, forcibly evacuate the city - because it elected a left-wing council.

She put millions out of work, following Monetarist policy that she had to abandon when it was clear the situation was getting worse.

She shut down democratically-elected local government when it disagreed with her.

She shut down independent television when it disagreed with her.

She let a British MP starve to death on hunger strike.

She believed homosexuality was something dirty, wrong, and something to not be talked about.

She propped up the racist apartheid South African government.

She considered Nelson Mandela to be a terrorist.

She supported the fascist Chilean dictator Pinochet.

She stockpiled coal for months before provoking a fight with the coal unions - knowing they’d go on strike, and leaving them to starve.

She used the Hillsborough disaster as another excuse to demonise Liverpool and the working class - when it was actually caused by shoddy policing.

She deregulated the banking system and the stock exchange - leading to the current economic crisis we are in today.

‘There is no such thing as society - only the individual’.

She actually believed poor working class pensioners and millionaires should pay the same amount of council tax - the Poll Tax.

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This is just off the top of my head - please add to it.

she also destroyed the lanarkshire steel industry.

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April 6, 2013 with 865 notes

Today, when the acquisition of wealth, quickly and in large amounts, is admired above any other human endeavor, every medical emergency or catastrophic illness is seen as an opportunity for some to enrich themselves beyond their wildest dreams. It’s no wonder that our healthcare is so much more expensive than that of every other developed country in the world, where the costs are not only much lower, but people also live longer than we do. Unlike us, other countries have the peculiar notion that profit has no place in any situation in which the basic decencies that human beings owe to one another ought to be the first consideration, and for that reason regulate the cost of lifesaving drugs and operations. In other words, they are less greedy than we are and far more humane.

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Health Care: The New American Sadism (via theamericanbear)

I was literally told last time I was in the ER: “You need an MRI, and we’d do one if you could pay, but it won’t kill you to just wait til you can afford it.”

They admitted that my quality of life is terrible, that I’m completely crippled by my symptoms (and getting worse), that something is seriously wrong in my brain— then had the nerve to still look me in the eye and send me home.

It’s nothing but greed and callousness… My life has a price tag on it, and it’s a price I can’t afford to pay so I’m fucked.

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April 6, 2013 with 163 notes

quickhits:

States with weakest gun laws have highest rates of gun violence. Duh.

MSNBC:

The math seems simple enough: weaker state gun laws equal more gun violence, so says a report released by the Center for American Progress.

According to the report, states with easier access to legal guns rank higher on an aggregated scale of indicators that includes gun-related homicides, suicides and the shooting deaths of women and children.

“Across the key indicators of gun violence that we analyzed, the 10 states with the weakest gun laws collectively have an aggregate level of gun violence that is more than twice as high—104% higher, in fact—than the 10 states with the strongest gun laws,” the report, America Under the Gun, reads.

“I think the report confirms what I experienced during my 25 years as a federal agent — firearms laws work,” David Chipman, a former official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, told MSNBC.com. “What also struck me is that the release of such a report is news.

“It is a sad state that through pressure from the gun lobby, attempts to prevent the CDC and the Department of Justice from publishing similar annual reports has been largely successful,” he added.

When your argument is so weak that you literally work to ban knowledge from entering the conversation, you’ve got to wonder what it is that you’re protecting. When the truth is an impediment to your position, then your position is bullshit. And when that bullshit is about how many people your position is killing every year, your position is just plain evil.

The NRA are not good people. They’re no different than tobacco lobbyists who knew they were killing people, but lied and said their product was harmless, because there was no money saving lives.

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April 6, 2013 with 4,433 notes

genderedintelligence:

‘Domestic Violence: A resource for trans people’ was produced in 2009 by The Greater London Domestic Violence project, in collaboration with the LGBT Domestic Abuse Forum and NHS Barking & Dagenham.

The resource has been written primarily to assist trans people who experience domestic abuse. There is information as well as links to UK resources.

To view the full booklet, click here.

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April 6, 2013 with 129 notes

anthroagronomy:

Beacon Hill Food Forest: A proposed permaculture foraging food forest in an urban Seattle park.

Beacon Food Forest website.

NPR article regarding Beacon Food Forest

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