February 2011
25 posts
3 tags
Chinese Jasmine Revolution for Freedom of Speech...
The wave of anti-government protests in the Middle East and North Africa inspired by Tunisia’s ‘Jasmine’ revolution has now reached Asia. Supporters of democracy in China planned protests similar to those rocking the Arab World, but only to be squashed.
Following in the footsteps of the Arab protesters, organizers used social media to mobilize the movement for a...
2 tags
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or... →
supersonicelectronic:
When a range of years is given, the effort to overthrow was not necessarily an active operation each year of the period.
* = successful ouster of a government
China 1949, 1950s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam...
1 tag
“If you are going to be American Culture then I feel sorry for your mom for...”
“Sincerity and truth are strong components of the Scorpio’s friends. It can...”
2 tags
2 tags
4 tags
““[Of the cuts on education, a] share of a cut to the community college...”
– Brian Murphy, President of De Anza College
1 tag
4 tags
2 tags
3 tags
U.S. Navy Exercises Contract Option for Lockheed...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/ 2011/space-110207-lockheed-martin01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e113%2efz0ao00dy2%2e3o7 MUOS (Mobil User Objective System) constellation to replace UFO (Ultra High Freequency Follow-On) system to “provide assured communications, including simultaneous voice, video and date, for mobile warfighters.”
Cost: $339.6 million
Lockheed Martini has...
3 tags
The Photo above is of North Korean children eating bread at a nursery. (Photo credit: Reuters)
As North Korea finds it increasingly difficult to feed its own people, the so-called Hermit Kingdom has ordered its diplomats to ask countries overseas for food handouts.
Calling the development “highly unusual,” The Guardian reported Thursday that the totalitarian regime’s...
3 tags
1 tag
“Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Nobel Prize lecture, Dec. 11, 1964.
(via nbr)
“I know to follow Him, rather following people or follow vanity cause that means...”
– Kendrick Lamar Growing Apart (via dreami)
“The private sector has consumed itself. It has used legalized thievery to...”
– My political science teacher
2 tags
