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Phila. black firefighters sue union, cite racism

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:17:44 GMT

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In a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, an organization of African American firefighters accused the Philadelphia firefighters union of being "racially harassing and abusive" to blacks.

Why not discard religion and just teach the Golden Rule?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:59:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This may be duplicate, but I'm too excited by these questions and the answers Karen provides.

Clip Source: blog.ted.com

With the launch of the Charter for Compassion, it's the TED Blog's pleasure to unveil Karen Armstrong's responses to the top 10 questions asked and voted on by the TED and Reddit community. (See all the questions users asked.) She covers the nature of compassion, the history of the conflict in the Middle East, and tough questions such as these:

Religion seems to cause racism, extremism -- why not get rid of it?

What's the point of a God that doesn't intervene?

Why not discard religion and just teach the Golden Rule?

A Q&A that rewards deep reading. Enjoy!

Tags: religion

800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They argue the drug war “is doing far more harm than marijuana itself ever will,” because

* it diverts hundreds of thousands of police agents from serious crimes “to the pursuit of harmless tokers”;
* it costs taxpayers at minimum $10 billion a year to catch, prosecute, and incarcerate marijuana users and sellers;
* it enables government to snatch the cars, money, computers and other properties of people caught up in drug raids even if they have had no charges filed against them; and
* it allows “police agents at all levels to trample our Bill of Rights in their eagerness to nab pot consumers.”

The drug war has also unleashed a torrent of racism in the form of unjust sentencing, which confines crack-cocaine users who are mostly black to prison for longer terms than powder snorters, who are mostly white.

Hightower and Frazer say authorities have perverted the infamous “Patriot Act” of 2001 for use in non-terrorism cases, allowing “sneak-and-peak” search warra

Clip Source: www.laprogressive.com

800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot

Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons — but the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails as well.

“People convicted of possessing even one ounce of marijuana can face a mandatory minimum sentence of a year in jail, and having even one plant in your yard is a federal felony,” progressive organizer Jim Hightower and co-author Phillip Frazer point out in the November issue of “The Hightower Lowdown.”

Police arrest someone in America every 36 seconds on marijuana charges, with a record 872,000 arrests made in 2007, “more than for all violent crimes combined,” Hightower and Frazer point out. They note that 89 per cent of all marijuana arrests “are for simple possession of the weed, not for producing or selling it.”

Tags: drug addiction, 800, 000 americans busted annually for pot

New York Post embroiled in racism row

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:54:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Probably all over American media, others may be interested though.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

The New York Post is facing allegations of racism and sexism in a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled former employee

Sandra Guzman was sacked by the newspaper at the end of September and believes she was targeted because she had spoken out about discrimination at the paper, and because she is black and female

In documents filed in the District Court in New York, Ms Guzman says there is a culture of discrimination at The Post that goes all the way to the top

Ms Guzman relates a series of alleged incidents involving executives from the newspaper making sexist, offensive and racist remarks

"Virtually all the executives, managing directors and news reporters are white males who wield enormous power and influence at the company,"

The paper's editor, Australian Col Allan, earned the nickname Col Pot for his take-no-prisoners approach to editing Sydney's Daily Telegraph.

'Racist' cartoons

One of the officers says to the other, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill".

Tags: racism

Definition

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:29:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Why do I trust this resource?

Clip Source: www.lewrockwell.com

it is typically associated with left wing or socialist analyses, policies and prescriptions. For example, poverty is caused by unbridled capitalism; the solution is to heavily regulate markets, or ban them outright. Racism and sexism account for the relative plight of racial minorities and women; laws should be passed prohibiting their exercise. Greater reliance on government is required as the solution of all sorts of social problems. The planet is in great danger from environmental despoliation, due to an unjustified reliance on private property rights. Taxes are too low; they should be raised. Charity is an insult to the poor, who must obtain more revenues by right, not condescension. Diversity is the sine qua non of the fair society. Discrimination is one of the greatest evils to have ever beset mankind. Use of terminology such as "mankind" is sexist, and constitutes hate speech.

Tags: social_justice definition

Flashback: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Touted False Limbaugh Quote in June

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:35:21 GMT

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Clip Source: newsbusters.org

Flashback: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Touted False Limbaugh Quote in June

On the June 3, 2009 Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, host Rachel Maddow cited a false quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh in which the radio host supposedly said he wanted to award Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin the Medal of Honor. Since Limbaugh expressed interest in becoming part owner of the St. Louis Rams in October, several MSNBC hosts have repeated that and other false quotes.

Reacting to Limbaugh calling then Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racist, Maddow declared: “When you get called racist by the guy who says the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. should get the Medal of Honor, consider yourself honored. Also, nauseated.” Maddow’s dishonest rant was originally reported by NewsBusters’ D. S. Hube.

Viewers are still waiting for MSNBC to retract its charge of racism against Limbaugh based on fabricated quotes.

Not in New York, or LA, or Dallas, or Miami - this time

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:49:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Police investigate racist mob attack

Police were today investigating a racist attack in which a mob armed with metal poles, bricks and sticks ambushed a group of Asian students.

Four people suffered stab wounds when they were attacked close to City University

Tags: global racism, racism

African Muslim with 'violent genes' gets sentence cut

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:34:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: *wtf*......

Clip Source: www.nature.com

An Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour — the first time that behavioural genetics has affected a sentence passed by a European court. But researchers contacted by Nature have questioned whether the decision was based on sound science.

A court in Italy has cut a prisoner's jail term because he has genes associated with aggressive behaviour.Ingram Publishing

Abdelmalek Bayout, an Algerian citizen who has lived in Italy since 1993, admitted in 2007 to stabbing and killing Walter Felipe Novoa Perez on 10 March. Perez, a Colombian living in Italy, had, according to Bayout's testimony, insulted him over the kohl eye make-up the Algerian was wearing. Bayout, a Muslim, claims he wore the make-up for religious reasons.

“There's increasing evidence that some genes together with a particular environmental insult may predispose people to certain behaviour.”

Pietro Pietrini
University of Pisa

Tags: genetics, science, law, sentencing, racism, eu, islam

Apostle Claver

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:15:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Absolutely a Stand Up Man. Outstanding.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Apostle Claver

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Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the democrats

Tags: news, politics, activism, truth teller

Truth-speaker upsets Larry King's circus of silly

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:26:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ((((((((((tom kennif))))))

This guy is some kinda beautiful.

Clip Source: thisainthell.us

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Clip Source: thisainthell.us

CNN, Larry King (barely a)live. Shoshanna Johnson (former POW), Dr Phil, and some JAG officer that I would pronounce my gayness for if I knew who he was.

Paraphrasing here, but the JAG said: As I sit here listening to all this psycho-babble crap, with you guys talking about PTSD nonstop, how come not once have you guys hit on this guys last name being “Hasan” and discuss Islamofacism.

Phil and Shoshanna lose their minds, accuse him of racism, general mayhem, etc.

Best TV moment I ever witnessed.

Tags: truth, islam, dhimmi dumbasses, larry king

The trouble with diversity: celebrating difference doesn't reduce inequality

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:27:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More:

If you're worried about the growing economic inequality in American life, if you suspect that there may be something unjust as well as unpleasant in the spectacle of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, no cause is less worth supporting, no battles are less worth fighting, than the ones we fight for diversity…

Our identity is the least important thing about us. And yet, it is the thing we have become most committed to talking about. From the standpoint of a left politics, this is a profound mistake since what it means is that the political left -- increasingly invested in the celebration of diversity and the redress of historical grievance -- has converted itself into the accomplice rather than the opponent of the right.
Clip Source: www.prospect.org
What's important about The Great Gatsby, then, is that it takes one kind of difference (the difference between the rich and the poor) and redescribes it as another kind of difference (the difference between the white and the not-so-white).
books like The Great Gatsby (and there have been a great many of them) give us a vision of our society divided into races rather than into economic classes. And this vision has proven to be extraordinarily attractive.
the commitment to appreciating diversity emerged out of the struggle against racism
Our commitment to diversity has thus redefined the opposition to discrimination as the appreciation (rather than the elimination) of difference. So with respect to race, the idea is not just that racism is a bad thing (which of course it is) but that race itself is a good thing.
And what makes it a good thing is that it's not class. We love race -- we love identity -- because we don't love class.

Tags: equity, fairness, diversity, economics, class-issues

Two Common Objections to Capitalism

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:39:49 GMT

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The system of voluntary exchange and experimentation based on secure private-property rights — what we loosely call "capitalism" — expands rather than restricts our material and nonmaterial opportunities. Substituting elite power for voluntary exchange invites all sorts of epistemological problems and moral disasters. For these reasons, capitalism deserves to be defended.

Clip Source: mises.org

A lot of people object to what they call "capitalism," but their objections hold little or no water once they are examined critically.

Capitalism Exploits the Poor

economic historian Gregory Clark points out that if you look at real returns to land (rental rates), they have fluctuated but remain virtually unchanged. The same holds true for capital (interest rates). Real wages for unskilled workers, meanwhile, have exploded.

Sources of mortality have also fallen: infant mortality and maternal mortality are miniscule fractions of what they used to be, and life expectancy has increased radically.

Capitalism Is Structurally Racist and Sexist

Milton Friedman said about politics, commerce, and differences: commerce reduces and harmonizes our differences while politics turns those differences into a source of tension and violence.

Capitalism punishes sexism and racism.

Tags: economics, capitalism

Beck: Black Obama fans were 'taught to be slaves,' while progressives like Stern are 'taking you to

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:50:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This goes beyond mere coded words and "coincidental" targeting -- this is just naked ol' racial stereotyping of the lowest kind.

It came, incidentally, at the end of an equally incendiary attack on the SEIU's Andy Stern -- the day before, Beck told his audience that Stern was "really running our country" -- which he wrapped up with a truly vicious attack on both the Obama White House and on progressives in general:

Most likely, it'll happen sometime after Christmas. You're gonna see this economy come up -- we're already seeing it, and now it's gonna start coming back down again. And when you see the effects of what they're doing to the economy, remember these words: We will survive. No -- we'll do better than survive, we will thrive. As long as these people are not in control. They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered!

The fearmongering doesn't get much more naked than that. Combined with the race-baiting, that's quite a show Fox News has there.

Clip Source: crooksandliars.com

Beck's race-baiting is admittedly more subtle. There are moments when it's glaring, as it was when he called President Obama a "racist" who "hates white people and white culture". But if you watch his show a lot, you know that there's racial undertone to much of what he does.

Well, yesterday on his Fox News show, Beck's race-baiting went from "subtle" to "outright".

He ended one of his long rants about the evil effects of progressivism by featuring an audio snippet of a black woman being interviewed by a Detroit radio station:
UPDATE: C&L broke this "Obama money" audio on Oct. 10th. It was an out of context piece of audio that Limbaugh used for his own race baiting segment.

Which inspired Beck to say this:

Beck: All right. These are the people who have been abused by the system. They've been taught they needed the government. They've been taught to be slaves, and their master is Washington! Both parties!

Tags: glenn "chciken little beck, lunacy, racism, idiot, serial moron

Obama, Planned Parenthood & The KKK

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:49:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Planned Parenthood founder refers to blacks as "human weeds"

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Obama, Planned Parenthood & The KKK

Tags: planned parenthood, politics, obama, hillary clinton, racism

China's black pop idol exposes her nation's racism

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:39:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Ugh. Yellow people and black people mixed together is very gross," was one representative post. And Lou's critics are incensed not only by her colour but also because she is apparently the product of an extramarital relationship. Another blogger wrote: "Numb! This bitch still has the audacity to appear on television! I don't know what to say! One cannot be shameless to this kind of level!"

Lou admitted to Neteast News that the level of hostility had come as a shock. "The whole thing was a big bomb to my family and me and it caused great harm," she said. "I wish netizens could tolerate my particular parentage and let it go as soon as possible."

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

China's black pop idol exposes her nation's racism

Contestant on Shanghai TV talent show draws barrage of internet abuse because of her skin colour

She is attractive, effervescent and has an appealing voice. But these qualities alone would not have made Lou Jing the most famous television talent show contestant in China and the subject of national debate in the world's most populous country. The reason they are talking about Lou is because she is black.

The 20-year-old daughter of a Chinese mother and an African-American father who left the country before she was born, Lou was a highly unusual entrant to Shanghai-based Dragon TV's Go Oriental Angel. Her appearances – she became one of five finalists – have provoked a storm of abuse on the internet, a rare debate on racism in the media, and a bout of self-examination in a country where skin colour is a notoriously sensitive subject.

Tags: china, racism, chinese racism