(via Latino Rebels)
An eight-year-old girl from one of the last uncontacted tribes in the Amazon was captured by loggers in Brazil, tied to a tree, and then burned alive, the Telegraph reports. She was killed as part of a campaign to move the indigenous people off their land
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What is wrong with humans?
(via joshsternberg)
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Kowloon Walled City documentary (Part 1/4) + english subtitles
Jean Quan’s lawn fence has been turned into art! #occupyoakland
That’s fucking brilliant.
Wow.
Happy 10th Anniversary, Travelers Diagram!
Ten years! That’s a long time ago, y’all. Back then no one knew what a blog was, no one even joked about not knowing what a blog was. Gawker was still years away. The go-to’s were BoingBoing, Robot Wisdom, Fimoculous, Scrubbles.net, Low Culture, Caterina.net, Tom Moody, Momus, Memepool, Consumptive.org, gmtPlus9, Sharpeworld, The Minor Fall The Major Lift and others.
From my original Blogger platform, I switched to WordPress, then I did Del.icio.us for a while. Now it’s all about Tumblr.
My first post was “Hello. Welcome. As you can see, everything is still very prelim. Hope you enjoy. -Tim.”
Ten years later, everything is still very prelim. Thanks for following! Enjoy.
Who Really Owns The NYPD? →
It’s called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York’s finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.
The corporations pay an average of $37 an hour (no medical, no pension benefit, no overtime pay) for a member of the NYPD, with gun, handcuffs and the ability to arrest. The officer is indemnified by the taxpayer, not the corporation.
New York City gets a 10 percent administrative fee on top of the $37 per hour paid to the police. The City’s 2011 budget called for $1,184,000 in Paid Detail fees, meaning private corporations were paying wages of $11.8 million to police participating in the Paid Detail Unit. The program has more than doubled in revenue to the city since 2002.
The taxpayer has paid for the training of the rent-a-cop, his uniform and gun, and will pick up the legal tab for lawsuits stemming from the police personnel following illegal instructions from its corporate master. Lawsuits have already sprung up from the program.
Holy shit. That’s disturbing.
(via randyhate)
