Text 20 Jun 23 notes

edward-the-conartist:

fact: Americans promote sex to further disorientate mankind on its path to God

fact: American blood is 25% human 75% Monsanto pesticides

Fact: 9 out of 10 Americans will have genocide fantasies at least twice in their lives

via aaa.
Text 19 Jun 3 notes

Back lawn’s covered in spiderwebs.
Rose bushes are covered in spiderwebs.
Fence is covered in spiderwebs.
Everything’s covered in spiderwebs.

Text 18 Jun 89 notes

thehouseofgoldandbones:

Me: Xbox off.
Xbox One: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. 

Photo 18 Jun 12,610 notes did-you-kno:

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Photo 18 Jun 1,150 notes

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Video 18 Jun 5 notes

descentintotyranny:

Glenn Greenwald: As Obama Makes “False” Surveillance Claims, Snowden Risks Life to Spark NSA Debate

June 18 2013

Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the NSA surveillance story earlier this month, joins us one day after both President Obama and whistleblower Edward Snowden gave extensive interviews on the surveillance programs Snowden exposed and Obama is now forced to defend. Speaking to PBS, Obama distinguished his surveillance efforts from those of the Bush administration and reaffirmed his insistence that no Americans’ phone calls or emails are being directly monitored without court orders. Greenwald calls Obama’s statements “outright false” for omitting the warrantless spying on phone calls between Americans and callers outside the United States. “It is true that the NSA can’t deliberately target U.S. citizens for [warrantless] surveillance, but it is also the case they are frequently engaged in surveillance of exactly that kind of invasive technique involving U.S. persons,” Greenwald says. After moderating Snowden’s online Q&A with Guardian readers, Greenwald says of the whistleblower: “I think what you see here is a person who was very disturbed by this massive surveillance apparatus built in the U.S. that spies not only on American citizens, but the world, with very little checks, very little oversight. He’s making clear his intention was to inform citizens even at the expense of his own liberty or even life.”

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Video 18 Jun 33,358 notes

thesmithian:

…up to 200,000 people angry with high costs and poor public services took to the streets. Protesters in Rio de Janeiro burned cars and looted buildings as police attempted to disperse them with teargas and rubber bullets. Aerial images showed thousands of people attempting to storm the congress building in Brasilia. The rallies…are some of the biggest ever seen in the country…

more.

Video 18 Jun 1,664 notes

antinwo:

antinwo:

That’s right, folks.. Geraldo Rivera broke the story.  The U.S. & British armed forces protect and sell Afghan heroin.  They say if we didn’t Al Qaeda or the Taliban would get the money .. $100’s/billions/year.  The money goes to those who own the Federal Reserve and International Monetary Fund.

Afghanistan went from producing around 8% of the world heroin before 9/11 to over 90% after.

Link 18 Jun 403 notes Diamonds Are Bullshit»

drownedeyes:

priceonomics:

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American males enter adulthood through a peculiar rite of passage - they spend most of their savings on a shiny piece of rock. They could invest the money in assets that will compound over time and someday provide a nest egg. Instead, they trade that money for a diamond ring, which isn’t much of an asset at all. As soon as you leave the jeweler with a diamond, it loses over 50% of its value. 

Americans exchange diamond rings as part of the engagement process, because in 1938 De Beers decided that they would like us to. Prior to a stunningly successful marketing campaign 1938, Americans occasionally exchanged engagement rings, but wasn’t a pervasive occurrence. Not only is the demand for diamonds a marketing invention, but diamonds aren’t actually that rare. Only by carefully restricting the supply has De Beers kept the price of a diamond high.

Countless American dudes will attest that the societal obligation to furnish a diamond engagement ring is both stressful and expensive. But here’s the thing - this obligation only exists because the company that stands to profit from it willed it into existence.  

So here is a modest proposal: Let’s agree that diamonds are bullshit and reject their role in the marriage process. Let’s admit that as a society we got tricked for about century into coveting sparkling pieces of carbon, but it’s time to end the nonsense.

I’m so glad someone managed to articulate, both artfully and with research, something I’ve believed ever since I was 10 years old.


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