January 2012
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Janet Liang needs bone marrow match. Now. →
whineandbeer:
frakintosh:
On August 24, 2009, Janet Liang was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She was 22.
Now, she’s 25, and she has two months to find a bone marrow donor match.
Fuck cancer. Cancer is the worst.
If you haven’t already joined the National Marrow Donor Registry, please consider doing so.
Myths & Facts about bone marrow donation
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Tunisia: “Persepolis” Trial a Setback for Free... →
The trial of a television director on morality charges for airing a controversial animated film is a disturbing turn for the nascent Tunisian democracy, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 23, 2012, a Tunis court announced that Nabil Karoui, director of Nessma TV, will go on trial on April 19 for airing the French animated movie “Persepolis.”
On October 7, 2011, the privately owned Nessma...
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"this unmitigated shit show"
Still the most accurate description of American politics EVER.
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“We still are seeing sick fish offshore and the USF survey confirmed our findings...”
– USF study finds more sick fish in oil spill area than rest of Gulf of Mexico
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“They may claim to be crusaders on behalf of unborn children, but there is more...”
– author Sara Paretsky in: Our bodies, our fertility, Chicago Tribune yesterday
Really worth reading the whole thing.
(via stoppatriarchy)
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As recently as July 2011, the U.S. government... →
rightsandhumanity:
Urge the U.S. State Department to stop authorizing the shipment of weapons, ammunition, and equipment that Egypt’s government could use to violently suppress human rights.
Take Action!
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“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Somalia food crisis recovery will take two years –... →
The food crisis in Somalia is no longer at emergency levels but the needs remain “huge” and it will take at least two years for the country to recover, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said.
Malnutrition rates in some areas of the drought-hit Horn of Africa country have improved, the ICRC said, but the charity warned an ongoing conflict between the Kenyan army and...
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A few months ago, someone around here (can’t remember who, sorry!) recommended The Bone Doll’s Twin to me.
I would very much like to give this person a high five, because I’m loving this book.
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In Unprecedented Move Scientists Agree to Halt... →
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“I can’t think of a cognitive process that’s not involved in StarCraft,” says...”
– Inside the Mind of a Video Game Champ: Cognitive scientists are observing StarCraft 2 players to learn how humans multitask
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“Explored this week in back-to-back papers in the journal Nature, the survey...”
– Pathogenic Landscape of HIV: Hundreds of Connections Between Viral and Human Proteins Identified in Work That May Reveal New Drug Targets
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Unsafe abortions rise as contraceptive funding is... →
Global abortion rates have stopped falling, ending a period of rapid decline that began in 1995. However, the proportion of abortions that are dangerous continues to rise. Paradoxically, morally conservative US restrictions on foreign aid may have promoted the abortions they sought to restrict.
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IRA dissident convicted of murdering 2 soldiers →
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Thousands 'forcibly relocated' in Ethiopia, says... →
Human Rights Watch says people in the remote western Gambella region of Ethiopia are being moved to inadequate villages to free up land for commercial agriculture.
Sorry I disappeared for a week. I’d pretend it was because I was busy doing something really important, but I was really just playing Skyrim.
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Flu Pandemic, Climate Change May Be Linked, Study... →
A shifting global climate pattern could portend a flu pandemic, and possibly an opportunity to stop the virus early, a study suggests.
The link, according to researchers, is weather’s influence on the migratory patterns of wild birds, the primary pool for human flu.
“Changes in flight patterns — length, stopovers — can bring together bird species that otherwise...
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Is Kazakhstan moving towards real democracy? →
Every seat in parliament currently belongs to the party of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Nur Otan.
But a new election law passed three years ago means that at least two seats in the new parliament will be held by the party that comes second, no matter what share of the vote it polls. Yet no real opposition has been permitted to stand and the president’s party is assured a huge...
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“Despite all this, I looked for ways to feel human. I have always loved animals....”
– Notes From A Guantanamo Survivor. (via flavorpill)
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U.N. says Syria stepped up killings after monitors... →
A senior U.N. official told the Security Council on Tuesday that Syria accelerated its killing of pro-democracy demonstrators after Arab League monitors arrived, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said.
“The under-secretary-general noted that in the days since the Arab League monitoring mission has been on the ground, in fact an estimated 400 additional people have been...
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TAKE ACTION: Demand Iran Reject Anti-Human Rights... →
standwithfreeiran:
Send an e-letter through United4Iran.
Your Excellency:
I write to express concern about a new bill before the Iranian Parliament that contravenes Iran’s international human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. I am especially concerned about provisions within the new penal code that violate the rights of Iranian citizens...
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US expels Venezuela's Miami consul Livia Acosta... →
The United States has declared Venezuela’s consul general in Miami persona non grata and said she must leave the country by Tuesday.
The diplomat, Livia Acosta Noguera, is alleged to have discussed possible cyber-attacks on the US while based at the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico in 2008.
The FBI has been investigating the comments, AP news agency says.
The US state department did not...
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Drug to Treat HIV in Children Shows Promise Via... →
For children and adolescents with HIV infection, the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the use of raltegravir, an antiretroviral drug that slows the spread of HIV infection, offers a new weapon to treat HIV infection in children. So says Sharon Nachman, M.D., Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and the Principal...
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'Occupy Nigeria' emerges ahead of mass strike →
Talking of ‘1 percent cabals,’ opponents of Nigeria’s government are angry about its removal of a fuel subsidy and its weak response to ongoing attacks by a radical Islamist sect.
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Chechnya rebel clash with Russian troops 'kills... →
Four Russian security personnel and at least three Islamist militants have been killed in clashes in Chechnya, says Russia’s Interior Ministry.
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Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of 2011! →
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U.S. concerned about Bahrain activist, urges probe →
The United States called on its ally Bahrain on Saturday to investigate the case of a prominent Bahraini human rights activist who the opposition says was beaten by security forces.
Opposition activists said several security officers threw Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, to the ground and beat him on the head, neck and back after a protest march on Friday.
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“Saturday also saw pro-government demonstrations in Damascus amid mourning for 26...”
– Syria on edge as monitors prepare to give initial report
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No massacre, but South Sudan 'a disaster zone' →
The UN’s top official in South Sudan says “no evidence” has been found of reported mass killings, but warned that 60,000 people urgently need aid.
Hilde Johnson, the UN Special Representative for South Sudan, said reports that more than 3000 people were killed last week when thousands of armed youths attacked the Pibor region of Jonglei state appeared to be a false alarm.
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“In some senses, African forests have gone through a number of catastrophes in...”
– Africa’s rainforests ‘more resilient’ to climate change
Questions? Requests? →
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the Huffington Post featured my post on their... →
sweetupndown:
This is me not freaking out with the sheer excitement of it.
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Jamaica 'to cut ties with British monarchy' →
Jamaica’s new prime minister has said that it is time for her country to cut ties with the British monarchy and declare itself an independent republic.
Speaking at her inaugural address on Friday, Portia Simpson Miller, said her government would “initiate the process of detachment from the monarchy”, establishing a republic with a president as head of state, and breaking off...
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“With such an underwhelming record in office, how does the ANC win elections? By...”
– How the ANC Lost Its Way
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3,000 villagers reported killed in South Sudan →
MORE THAN 3,000 villagers were massacred in the recent burst of communal violence in South Sudan, local officials have said, with the fledging South Sudanese government, which just won its independence six months ago, seemingly unable to stem the bloodshed.
If the death toll is confirmed – UN officials and South Sudanese army officers have yet to do that, saying they were still collecting...
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“Climate change, industrial pollution, ozone depletion, damage to the physical...”
– Why libertarians must deny climate change