January 2010
No, we can't
soupsoup:
marco:
Thomas Friedman:
The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected. The most striking feature of Obama’s presidency a year later is how thoroughly that movement has disappeared.
In part, it disappeared because the Obama team let it disappear, as Obama moved to...
“Corporations have 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
The White Stripes - Black Math
“Haiti was isolated: no diplomatic recognition, official embargoes on trade. “You...”
– Reclusive Leftist (via marnalicious:-smart-tart-) (via misterjt) (via gamesockson) (via jhnbrssndn)
“What the world should be pondering instead is: What is Haiti owed?
Haiti’s...”
– IMF to Haiti: Freeze Public Wages Richard Kim at the Nation
Bolding mine.
This is why when Bill Clinton says Haiti has a modern economic policy, I want to shove hot pokers through his eyes.
This is also what we should be fighting for.
(via champagnecandy)
(via bowfolk) (via...
The Devil Writes Pat Robertson A Letter
bebelestrange:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/the_devil_writes_pat_robertson.html
January 15, 2010 By Frank James
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune published a letter from Satan to evangelist Pat Robertson, responding to his comment that Haiti’s persistent troubles, including the earthquake, are due to a pact the nation made with Mephistopheles. Actually, it wasn’t Satan who wrote the...
Doctors Without Borders on Tumblr →
soupsoup:
staff:
Doctors Without Borders is doing an extraordinary amount in Haiti. Please support their efforts and donate anything you can.
“I haven’t lived. I’ve died a few times.”
branduponthebrain:
suicidewatch:
the many suicides of young Harold Chasen.
one of my all-time favorite movies.
deeza: The Black Keys - 10 A.M. Automatic
