December 2011
90% of American Media Is Owned by 6 Companies.
occupyallstreets:
In the early 1980s ninety percent of American media was owned by 50 companies. Today, in 2011, that same ninety percent of broadcast influence is owned by just six companies.
In other words, 232 media executives more or less control “the information diet of 277 million Americans,” according to the graphic.
Source: Frugal dad
“Can you love people and lead them without imposing your will? Can you deal with...”
– Tao Te Ching (via sun-hawk)
Invisible Children →
rightsandhumanity:
This organization is saving Child Soldiers that have been kidnapped from their homes in Uganda and forced to fight. Help stop this and please spread the word <3. Truly a great organization that really shows one person can make a difference.
“Consider the irony: governments today impose austerity on the rest of us because...”
– Richard Wolff “Lehman Brothers: financially and morally bankrupt”| Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Monday 12 December 2011 10.27 EST
This has been going on in our public lands for a long time. (via drwh0)
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we...”
– John Lennon (via sun-hawk)
“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and...”
– Carl Sagan (via oniverse)
“Democracy doesn’t just happen by accident, you have to get off your butts and...”
– Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner (via truthcafe)
Fox News Made Moscow Riots Look Riotier with... →
reallyfoxnews:
The Moscow activists who protested the Russian elections in the streets of Moscow Tuesday did not do a good enough job of looking scary and violent, it seems, because Fox News cut its coverage of the protests with footage riot police and streets on fire — in Athens. Animal New York’s Marina Galperina spotted some suspicious palm trees looking awfully healthy for December in...
Watchiheartmyart:
Lois van Baarle, Trichrome Blue, 2009
The National Defense Authorization Act is the... →
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If Obama does one thing for the remainder of his presidency let it be a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act – a law recently passed by the Senate currently which would place domestic terror investigations and interrogations into the hands of the military and which would open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so...
African science programs are empowering home-grown... →
jtotheizzoe:
In Uganda, home-grown computer science programs are empowering a new class of professional scientists to invest in their own futures. It isn’t happening through the “Big Science” of atom smashers and spaceships, either. It’s through nimble, entrepreneurial projects that have direct impact in their home countries.
They suffer from a lack of qualified teachers and some growing pains,...
