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soulabstracts:

United States of Hypocrisy

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gotitgrowingon:

mohandasgandhi:

carton-rouge:

84-year-old Occupy Seattle participant Dorli Rainey, pictured above after being pepper sprayed by Seattle Police on November 15th.

She later wrote about the incident:

“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’”

84. That’s all I have to say.

Stay classy Seattle. And Portland. New York. Oakland. Etc.

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Unfortunately this passed me by and I didn’t wear purple today.  Next year…

herblondness:

Facts terrify me.

Its a shame this isn’t reproduced with the source BUT, so disturbing and probably factually correct - it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

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greaterthanlapsed:

For example, one featured a guy who steals a little money regularly, until he has enough money to buy a really fast car - which he promptly crashes. Another featured a terminal cancer patient whose cancer went away ‘miraculously’. And another featured a woman who jogged regularly, and yet on her wedding day she tripped and hurt her leg badly - thus making her miss her wedding and also stopped her running. The stories were designed to illustrate events that could be ascribed to moral justice, divine intervention, or luck/fate.

So they read these stories and then asked the listener how the event could be explained. The surprising thing was that the kids hardly ever offered up supernatural explanations. Instead, they would say that maybe the cancer patient slept a lot, which helped her get better. Or, for the athletic woman who tripped on her wedding day, “because she tripped over a rock while she was walking. People usually trip over stuff and fall.”

Adults, on the other hand, readily offered up supernatural explanations. There was a clear trend, too, as you can see in the graph - the older the child, the more likely they were to explain these strange happenings by recourse to the supernatural.

Epiphenom: Supernatural explanations just don’t occur to kids - they need to be taught them

This was a smallish study, but interesting results. I’d feel better about putting more stock in it if we could get similar results with a larger sample size. I’d also be interested to see data on children and adults from different cultures and geographic locations.

Really interesting study.

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aljazeera:

Former IMF boss claims immunity in civil case | Dominique Strauss-Kahn says sexual assault charges against him impaired IMF’s ability to tackle global economic crisis.

What a disgusting worm.  I have no words.