Some hope to go with that?

saharareporters: Royal Dutch Shell Accused Of Poor Response To...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:11:05 -0400

Royal Dutch Shell Accused Of Poor Response To Spreading Oil Pollution In Bayelsa

By SaharaReporters, New York

Residents of Ikarama, a riverine town near Taylor Creek in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa, have condemned officials of Shell Petroleum Development Company for their poor and nonchalant response to oil spills in the Niger Delta.

The community today accused Shell of a slow response to an oil spill that occurred Ikarama on June 4.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:05:14 -0400

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josherrralmonddd: pettyartist: sleepingwithpiercethemice: sero...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:25:58 -0400

josherrralmonddd:

pettyartist:

sleepingwithpiercethemice:

serotonical:

How to break out of a zip-tie- potentially life-saving information

You guys, please share it. You never know when someone is going to need this information.

PLEASE reblog this— zipties are one of the most common ways of binding a person upon kidnapping because they are cheap and hard to break.

Knowing things like this puts you one step closer to freedom if, heaven forbid, you fall into a situation where you need to use this information.

and if tied behind your back

"Let me be clear: I don’t believe that previously non-raping audience members are going to take to..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:57:36 -0400

“

Let me be clear: I don’t believe that previously non-raping audience members are going to take to the streets in a rape mob after hearing one rape joke. That’s an absurd and insulting mischaracterization. But I do believe that comedy’s current permissiveness around cavalier, cruel, victim-targeting rape jokes contributes to (that’s contributes—not causes) a culture of young men who don’t understand what it means to take this stuff seriously.

And how did they try and prove me wrong? How did they try to demonstrate that comedy, in general, doesn’t have issues with women? By threatening to rape and kill me, telling me I’m just bitter because I’m too fat to get raped, and suggesting that the debate would have been better if it had just been Jim raping me.

This isn’t just coming from anonymous trolls. Local comics — whom I know and work with — have told me to shut the fuck up. One hopes I’ll fall down a flight of stairs. (He later apologized—to my boyfriend, not me.)

”

- LINDY WEST, writing on Jezebel, “If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Then Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?” (via inothernews)

almondskeyess: ghareeba: Iraqi orphans singing. UNICEF claims...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:44:44 -0400

almondskeyess:

ghareeba:

Iraqi orphans singing.

UNICEF claims that there are approximately 800,000 orphans in Iraq today.

In Iraqi state orphanages, 1 in 3 children face abuse.

“I’m too young for all this pain, I’m too young for all this agony
I live in an Orphanage,
and my dreams sleep with me”

x

this documentary made me cry waterfalls and broke my heart to billions of pieces, man :/

ruem: wunderscheisse: blaien: so this commercial is being...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:51:59 -0400

ruem:

wunderscheisse:

blaien:

so this commercial is being taken down and off of tv after Cheerios got complaints from people about how this commercial is promoting bi-racial families. as a child coming from a bi-racial family i’m actually astonished and disgusted. it’s 20 fucking 13 people, get a grip.

Wait what

What then can we all just spread this around online cause it’s pretty damn cute

rurounidrew: odinsblog: A Bronx bus company is offering tours...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:02:41 -0400

rurounidrew:

odinsblog:

A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” the New York Post reports.

The company, Real Bronx Tours, has taken largely white foreign tourists around the Bronx. The tour guide was caught mocking the Bronx by Post reporter Candice Giove.

Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.

“Last week, on the first stop of the $45 tour, guide Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, pointed out a housing project. She then mocked the Grand Concourse, modeled after a Parisian boulevard,” reports Giove.“‘Do you feel like we’re on the Champs-Elysées?’ she teased a couple from Paris.”

The tour also included a drive near a food pantry at a church. Battaglia wondered out loud, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it. We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.

The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London.

The Bronx borough president harshly criticized the guide and the tour.

The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.” [emphasis mine]

Fuckery.

Legally Present: Media's Focus on Ancestry of London Attackers Unwarranted- Ademola Adewale-Sadik

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:08:07 -0400

Legally Present: Media's Focus on Ancestry of London Attackers Unwarranted- Ademola Adewale-Sadik:

legallypresent:

Huffington Post:

Last Wednesday in London, 25-year-old British serviceman and father Lee Rigby was brutally killed in broad daylight by two Islamic extremists of Nigerian descent. In avideotaped rant, one of the suspects claimed that this act of terrorism was in response to the presence of…

ediong: Soldier films ongoing offensive against Boko Haram,...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:05:18 -0400

ediong:

Soldier films ongoing offensive against Boko Haram, says more civilians have died than targeted insurgents

75-year-old Pakistani man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham two weeks ago. Barely any media coverage

Fri, 31 May 2013 10:18:51 -0400

75-year-old Pakistani man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham two weeks ago. Barely any media coverage :

doyayoda:

deafmuslimpunx:

thirstrani:

Detectives appeal for witnesses after Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed to death as he returned home from local mosque

But no one is going to talk about this, are they

Disgusting…

may the poor man rest in peace.

Inna lilahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon

This Real Husbands of Hollywood show has me in tears!

Tue, 28 May 2013 22:43:23 -0400

This Real Husbands of Hollywood show has me in tears!

palestinianliberator: Hey Lexi! It’s a pretty messy and complex...

Sun, 26 May 2013 09:55:49 -0400

palestinianliberator:

Hey Lexi!

It’s a pretty messy and complex situation, in that there are factors dating back to Israel’s founding 64 years ago that continue to contribute to every aspect of the situation.

But I’ll do my best for a brief “What’s happening now”.

The Gaza Strip is a tiny 4 by 23 mile strip of land along the Mediterranean that is home to 1.6 million Palestinians, 80% of whom are refugees who were forced into that corner when they were kicked out of their homes during Israel’s founding in 1948.

In 2006, the US and Israel basically forced an election on the Palestinian people to decide what group would run the country, and the top two contenders were Fatah, which has a long-running history of aiding the Palestinian cause but have recently become nothing more than Western-Backed and funded cronies, and Hamas, which was basically a more radical group that was created as a response to Israeli aggressions and the lack of an armed, unified group to resist it.

The US and Israel were banking on Fatah winning, but instead, Hamas won, because it was basically an election of “The old and corrupt” against “The “not” old and corrupt”, and the Palestinian people wanted a change from the stalemate we had been stuck in with Fatah.

Because Israel and the US weren’t happy with the results, they funded and armed Fatah to “fight out” Hamas, who were democratically elected through an process that they pushed in the first place, which resulted in civil war, and Hamas being pushed into the Gaza Strip, where they currently rule, while Fatah retains control of the West Bank.

After the brief civil war, Israel imposed a siege on the Gaza strip, allowing no-one in or out, no medical/building supplies, food, clothing, or anything else without Israeli approval, which was never granted.

Fast-Forward, to 2012, the Gaza Strip is in shambled, people are dying of malnutrition, facing medical crises’ because they have no supplies, and are basically forced to merely “exist”, rather than to live as normal human beings. The siege is so severe, that Israel has literally set a calorie limit in which it dictated the amount of food that was allowed in that would keep people from just barely starving to death, with multiple reports stating that within 6 years, the Gaza Strip will be an unlivable region unless something drastic is done to save the area.

Last month, Israel “accidentally” killed a 13 year-old boy as he was playing soccer with his friends after a bullet struck his abdomen. Shortly after, they opened fire on a 23 year-old mentally disabled man who wondered too close to the “buffer zone” surrounding Gaza, and refused to allow anyone to treat his wounds, from which he could have been saved. He died shortly after.

In retaliation, the PFLP [another armed group within Palestine] launched a rocket attack on Israeli patrol forces near the border of Gaza, wounding 4.

That attack is what Israel considers the “start” of the current conflict, while ignoring the previous two killings.

Israel responded by assassinating one of the top leader of Hamas and the Gaza Strip, who had at the time been drafting peace-plans towards Israel, despite having a history of terror attacks.

Hamas then responded by launching many rockets into Israel, while Israel continued to launch relentless, punishing air-strikes on the Gaza Strip. Due to the fact that the strip is so small and so crowded, and due to Israeli use of massive missiles in their strikes, no where is safe within the strip, and no one is allowed to even leave. There are no places to seek shelter, no places to hide, and nothing to do but stay in place and pray that you’re not the next piece of “collateral damage”

In the last 4 days, 73 Palestinians have been killed, with early reports claiming 21 children, 9 women [two of whom were pregnant] and 6 elderly among them, with an estimated 700 injured [with injuries ranging from mutilations resulting in physical disabilities, broken bones, or other less extreme tragedies], of which 150 are children.

In the same time frame, 3 Israeli civilians have been killed from the same blast on Thursday.

While Israelis have an active missile defense system called “Iron Dome”, which shoots down rockets, along with sirens to warn of incoming rockets and when to seek bomb shelters to protect themselves from the home-made rockets of Hamas, those in Gaza are subject to shelling by land, air and sea.

There have been talks that the conflict could escalate and that Israel may send troops within the Gaza Strip, which is a source of great fear, considering the last ground invasion Israel launched resulted in the deaths of 1400 Palestinians, between 750 and 930 of which were civilians, while Israeli forces lost 10 combatants [4 to friendly fire] and 3 civilians.

I know this is a exhausting wall of text so I’m sorry about that, but I tried to cover all the bases of the conflict so that I can have this here for future reference.

I hope I helped you a bit :)

[Made rebloggable by request]

Jaaaaaaa

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:39:20 -0400

all these Klaus feels!

Paris Chanel: Lauryn Hill and Other Celebs With Tax Problems

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:19:49 -0400

Paris Chanel: Lauryn Hill and Other Celebs With Tax Problems:

thechanelmuse:

Lauryn Hill was sentenced Monday to three months in federal prison and three months on house arrest after the prison term, for failing to pay taxes on more than $2 million in earnings during a five-year period.

She must also serve a year of supervised release and pay a $60,000 fine in…

allonsy-barcelona: Shakira - Antes De Las Seis

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:23:01 -0400

allonsy-barcelona:

Shakira - Antes De Las Seis

kittening: if people can understand that not all white guys are insane psychopath school shooters...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:43:55 -0400

kittening:

if people can understand that not all white guys are insane psychopath school shooters then why can’t people understand that not all muslims are insane psychopath suicide bombers

queeniman: thearcanetheory: modernanglophilia: Tumblr, please...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:41:47 -0400

queeniman:

thearcanetheory:

modernanglophilia:

Tumblr, please spread this like WILDFIRE. This teenager has been wrongly suspected of being one of the Boston bombers. He’s scared for his family.

Please pass it on.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311248/Sala-Barhoum-track-star-teenager-denies-involvement-Boston-Marathon-bombing-picture-widely-circulated.html

racism kills

stop it

This really brings tears to my eyes wallahi

deafmuslimpunx: playboy13-demon: Rhabdomyosarcoma is a...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:45:07 -0400

deafmuslimpunx:

playboy13-demon:

Rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancerous (malignant) tumor of the muscles that are attached to the bones.

Help me get my primo’s story on the news and spread it… His insurance won’t let him go to UCSF because they are not in the insurance company’s network…in other words they don’t want to pay! Meanwhile my primo’s is at Children’s Hospital with nothing but pain meds and his cancer spreading… I am reaching out to the world asking for help to get his story on the news and exposing healthcare insurance companies who put prices on patients life… I refuse to let this insurance get away with this type of bull. I will do whatever it takes for him to get better!

someone submitted this shit to me. pass it on.

This is awful.. I am so sorry for your cousin, I hope and pray he gets better. No one should ever be denied healthcare and insurance.. I hope that the local media will get on this shit.

thinkmexican: Shame on Brazil: Forceful Removal of Indigenous...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:53:21 -0400

thinkmexican:

Shame on Brazil: Forceful Removal of Indigenous Group Stains World Cup With the Blood of 500 Years of Genocide

While nations competed to go to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil on Friday, Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples were clashing with police over a building they’ve used as a community center in Rio de Janeiro for almost 30 years.

With the World Cup and the Olympics around the corner, local authorities have been under pressure from FIFA and International Olympic Committee to make room for housing, parking and administrative offices.

It so happens the space in question is literally steps from the famous Maracanã Stadium and was designated to become a parking lot by the World Cup organizing committee. However, leaders of Aldeia Maracanã (Maracanã Village), the group living in the building that was formerly the National Indigenous Museum, had plans to make their presence permanent and covert the space into an Indigenous school.

The forced removal of Native Brazilians by police was characterized by Aldeia Maracanã leaders as part of “513 years of struggle.”

Brazilian authorities, World Cup and Olympic organizers need to know the world is watching. This blog and many of our readers are very upset that our brothers and sisters in Brazil were treated as foreigners on their own land and violently removed from their center.

We demand accommodations be made for the Aldeia Maracanã to return and for resources to be appropriated for the establishment of an Indigenous cultural and academic center within sight of Maracanã Stadium, so that locals and tourists are forever reminded that the country’s original inhabitants are still very much alive and present in Brazil.

Photo credit: Vanderlei Almeida, AFP

illsevenyournine: “Those poor boys’ lives will be ruined because of this.” “But the girl was...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:52:44 -0400

illsevenyournine:

“Those poor boys’ lives will be ruined because of this.”

“But the girl was wearing—”

“She was drinking alcoho—”

“They won’t be able to play football anymore!”

“The boys’ futures are ruined because of her!”

“She should be held accountable, too!”

“What did she think was going to happen!?”