Qaddafi blames ravers.
He blamed the unrest on “foreign hands,” a small group of people distributing pills, brainwashing, and the naïve desire of young people to imitate the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
Twitter, the wonder drug.
2.22.2011 |
BREAKING: Arab League Suspends Libya From Meetings
First, Tunisia and then Egypt. Now, Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen.
Not a time for happy despots.
(Source: newsflick)
2.22.2011 |
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Demonstrators march through downtown Manhattan to protest against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 in New York.
2.5.2011 |
![thedailywhat:
Fauxtion of the Day: Hosni Mubarak is up for grabs on eBay, with 100% of the proceeds going to Oxfam America.
Buy your very own used Egyptian dictator! President Hosni Mubarak is 82 years old. He is currently the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, a position he has held for 30 years! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to buy your very own despot!
I hope this is the first of a series.
[nerdcore.]
After my own heart…](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg3xurc6F01qzpwi0o1_250.jpg)
Fauxtion of the Day: Hosni Mubarak is up for grabs on eBay, with 100% of the proceeds going to Oxfam America.
Buy your very own used Egyptian dictator! President Hosni Mubarak is 82 years old. He is currently the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, a position he has held for 30 years! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to buy your very own despot!
I hope this is the first of a series.
[nerdcore.]
After my own heart…
(Source: thedailywhat)
2.4.2011 |
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[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
Snowball flashmob at Columbia University’s Low Library. Never thought I would see anyone sled down the steps of Alma Mater.
2.4.2011 |
— Me, just now.
Remember back in the day when friends called to see how you were doing?
Now, they just look on Facebook to see you’re still single, LinkedIn to see you’re still unemployed, and Twitter to see what you had for breakfast.
1.26.2011 |
Season two of The Walking Dead is now on TV.
But the special FX were better. You can totally tell she’s not real.
1.26.2011 |
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Drug War Drones: Could They Have An Armed Future?
It is widely known that the United States commonly uses unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs in combats zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, especially along the latter’s mountainous, porous border with Pakistan. Entered into service in 1995, their use has only increased after a intensified field test and development periods of OIF and OEF where the drones became lighter, more efficient, and armed with advanced surveillance gear and weaponry.
Now, the drones are drawing interest from stateside police departments. WSVN reports that the Miami-Dade police department:
MDPD purchased a drone named T-hawk from defense firm Honeywell to assist with the department’s Special Response Team’s operations. The 20-pound drone can fly for 40 minutes, reach heights of 10,500 feet and cruise in the air at 46 miles an hour.
“It gives us a good opportunity to have an eye up there. Not a surveilling eye, not a spying eye. Let’s make the distinction. A surveilling eye to help us to do the things we need to do, honestly, to keep people safe,” said Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus.
(Techblog Spectrum at ieee.org correctly points out this is not an armed drone)
1.23.2011 |
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via The New York Times: March 29, 2007
“The nation faces some very tough choices in coming years,” (Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.) said. “That such a large share of the income gains are going to the very top, at a minimum, raises serious questions about continuing to provide tax cuts averaging over $150,000 a year to people making more than a million dollars a year, while saying we do not have enough money” to provide health insurance to 47 million Americans and cutting education benefits.
A major issue likely to be debated in Congress in the year ahead is whether reversing the Bush tax cuts would slow investment and, if so, how much that would cost the economy.
Mr. Greenstein’s organization will release a report today showing that for Americans in the middle, the share of income taken by federal taxes has been essentially unchanged across four decades. By comparison, it has fallen by half for those at the very top of the income ladder.
1.23.2011 |
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