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Arrr You Being Lied To About Pirates? Shore! Oar: Racism in Today's U.S. Media
Images of the “third world” have long been distorted before they are displayed to the American public. Most people don’t even know that “third world” refers to the Cold War and should have died along with “red scare” and those bomb drills where schoolchildren were put under desks. American ignorance abounds when it comes to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under colonial power, empire, genocide, media bias, offensive, oil, racism, third world.
Tags: africa, africans, alexander the great, bandits, barbarians, bomb drills, cold war, colonization, crime, cultural bias, economics, empire, emporer, haystack, ignorance, johnny depp, kareem, massacre, Media, media bias, oil, piracy, pirates, prejudice, psychology, racism, red scare, robber, rwanda, rwandan genocide, Somalia, starvation, stuff white people like, third world, toxic waste, western culture, white people
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A State of Nobel Panic: Thoughts On Climate Change, Part 1
It’s not easy being green. However, it’s hard to avoid that fact that it’s very shortly going to be easier, or a least more comfortable, than the alternatives. In Al Gore – yes, that cardboard politician with the beady eyes -’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he said, ” However, despite a growing number of honorable [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2007 under Adminstration, Adolf Hitler, Al Gore, Atmosphere, Bush, EPA, George Orwell, Nobel Prize, North Pole, Roger Revelle, Stephen L. Johnson, Svante Arrhenius, Winston Churchill, acceptance, agency, alternative, asia, atlantic, australia, auto industry, automotive, automotive industry, average temperature, blogger, carbon, change, chemistry, climate, coal, conspiracy, dioxide, dynamite, environment, environmental, environmental policy, fight, glacier, global, global warming, green, ice cap, industry, leader, melting, methane, nature, nobel, north america, oil, pacific, paradox, peace, polar, politician, prize, protection agency, quiz, south america, south asia, speech, temperature, warming, word, world.
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“Rules are for Public School Bitches” : Paris and Bush
Paris Hilton’s agency just dumped her. Here’s the story, from the Sydney Daily Telegraph- yeah, her humiliation has been plastered all over most of the available surfaces in the English speaking world. Again. Everyone loves to hate Hilton. I guess there was too much drama for the Beverly Hills-based Endeavour talent agency, which has represented [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under Beverly Hills, Bush, Bush Administration', Donald Evans, Endeavour, George W. BUsh, Guantanamo, Iraq War, Joan Walsh, Lil' Bush, Paris Hilton, Sex Roles, Texas, U.N., bitch, double standard, economics, immigration reform, oil, scapegoat, sexual inequality, social class, society, sociology.
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