August 2011
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Pakistani American woman killed in cold blood at... →
This is a truly tragic and demoralizing story. I don’t even want to get into the details and I’m going to copy and paste my friend’s (her cousin) words to describe what took place. Please Reblog this post, this story needs to be heard:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jozh6/could_you_stay_in_a_relationship_where_the/
My cousin Nazish Noorani was insensibly murdered 3...
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Robert Reich: How Austerity Is Ushering in a... →
robertreich:
Not only is the United States slouching toward a double dip, but so is Europe. New data out today show even Europe’s strongest core economies – Germany, France, and the Netherlands – slowing to a crawl.
We’re on the cusp of a global recession.
Policy makers be warned: Austerity is the wrong…
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Mohandas Gandhi: How Safe Are You? What Almost $8... →
mohandasgandhi:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/16
The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was…
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“Last year my federal tax bill … was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of...”
– Warren Buffet