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Who Says We're All In This Together?

Economics is not science. It is propaganda for the corporate sector. How politicians blind you with pseudo science in order to disguise the corporate rape of our economy.

55 comments    money politics economics
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Domestic Violence and Fundamentalist Christianity

Domestic violence is the hidden tragedy: those tears and terrors are silenced, even more effectively by the Fundamentalist Christian philosphy of male domination in the households.

90 comments    discipline domestic violence
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10 Best American Protest Songs

    10.  "Mr. Wendal"(Arrested Development) 3 Years, 5 Months, & 2 Days in the Life of. . . , 1992 I can hear all of the die-hards in the bloggosphere now, the old hatters, the mad dying hippies:  "But this isn't even a protest song!  give...

6 comments    music politics top 10
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The Best 10 Protest Songs

For as long as people have sung there have probably been songs of protest! There is something incredibly moving about a group singing with passion as any English football fan will tell you! Well this is a personal view of my favourite protest...

82 comments    lyrics top 10 top ten
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Facts on the Tower of London (with Photos)

The Tower of London is at the center of nearly all the dramatic history of the city of London. Many facts about old London's people, executions, tragedies, and tyrannies, seemingly unconnected to each other, have intertwined themselves in this old...

43 comments    tower of london tower london
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What Do The Occupy Wall Street Protesters Want Or Demand?

Like much of the world I am paying close attention to the Occupy Wall Street movement, in fact if I were in New York or Rome right now then I would probably be attending to show solidarity. The movement has yet to gain any real traction in the UK,...

30 comments    americans capitalism wall street
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The Top 10 Most Popular Songs of 1970 in the Viet Nam War Era -- Whale Song to Hard Rock

This year of the Viet Nam War was exceedingly interesting for music in that all kinds of heretofore unimaginable things to Americans were used to create it. Whale song was first recorded in 1970, leading researchers in the next couple of decades to...

20 comments    politics viet nam war
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How My Swimming Pool Party Became a Civil Rights Lesson

In the summer of 1962 I was still blissfully unaware of the Civil Rights Movement and Civil Rights Laws. Martin Luther King hadn't given his famous, "I Have a Dream Speech" yet, there had been no racial riots in the northeast and the only thing I had on my mind was the fun I was going to have at the pool party that my parents were giving for my 10th birthday.

77 comments    civil rights martin luther king
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How The Sixties Changed America and the World

The sixties were a decade that changed America and the world. Before the hippie movement and free love we had beatniks, but in the early sixties most people thought they were oddballs . By the end of the 1960's the beatnik ideas such as questioning...

21 comments    music politics america
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Occupy Syracuse Part II, Urban Camping

Here are my thoughts on the nascent Occupy setup in my hometown of Syracuse. I camped with them for a night and joined them for a rally the afternoon after. Check this hub for pics, vids, and my thoughts on the occupation.

1 comment    new york camping wall street
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