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Woostopalypse

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Woostopalypse is a 20 year old guy from Pennsylvania, USA

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours" - Stephen Robert
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  • informationliberation - You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

    Rated Apr 19 2009 • 36 reviews • politics • informationliberation.com

    From the page: "Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls â€oeone of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the 18th century.â€

    They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy. This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves."

  • http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-11/ann-druyan.html

    Rated Apr 16 2009 • 6 reviews • astronomy • csicop.org

    Ann Druyan argues that we can learn a lot from the Bible's story of Adam and Eve. When Eve ate the apple from the tree of knowledge, she was rightfully skeptical of a jealous and angry God. Adam and Eve's skepticism and hunger for knowledge caused them to rebel against an authority who wanted them to stay ignorant and naive about the world. We should view Adam and Eve not as sinners but as freethinkers. Adam and Eve escaped from God's "maximum-security prison with twenty-four hour surveillance."

  • Mythbusting Canadian Health Care, Part II: Debunking the...

    Rated Apr 16 2009 • 12 reviews • liberal politics, healthcare • ourfuture.org

    From the page: "In America, a lucky employee with gold-plated employer-based coverage may well get access to A-level care (though that level of coverage becoming rarer by the month, even among the professional classes). On the other hand, about 50 million under-insured Americans are barely scraping by with C or D-level care; and the nearly 50 million with no insurance at all get next to no care whatsoever. Worst of all: 18,000 Americans die every year due to lack of access to healthcare. That's one every 30 minutes, around the clock, every day of the year -- the equivalent death toll of six 9/11s every single year that passes."



    We need a healthcare system based on human needs; we need a single-payer system.

  • http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1823335

    Rated Apr 16 2009 • 29 reviews • vimeo.com

    At the end of the video, it becomes clear that the promises of human rights are directed only to Burma. Where is the US's campaign for the right of Palestinians or Colombians? The US government spies on its own citizens and deports innocent people to secret prisons. Don't fall for rhetoric. This is neoliberalism packaged and sold as human rights.

  • ei: Obamas deadly silence

    Rated Jan 02 2009 • 4 reviews • politics • electronicintifada.net

    From the page: "Democrats are not simply indifferent to Palestinians. In the recent presidential election, their efforts to win swing states like Florida often involved espousing positions dehumanizing to Palestinians in particular and Arabs and Muslims in general. Many liberals know this is wrong but tolerate it silently as a price worth paying (though not to be paid by them) to see a Democrat in office."

  • How the mobile phone in your pocket is helping to pay for...

    Rated Nov 28 2008 • 1 review • telegraph.co.uk

    From the page: "Few people have heard of this rare mineral, known as coltan, even though millions of people in the developed world rely on it. . . More than 80 per cent of the world's coltan is in Africa, and 80 percent of that lies in territory controlled by Congo's various ragtag rebel groups, armed militia and its corrupt and underfunded national army"

  • Thumbs Down - Representation of Women Film Critics in...

    Rated Nov 28 2008 • 1 review • awfj.org

    From the page: "Women are under-employed as reviewers of film in the nation's 100 largest circulation newspapers. Not only are women outnumbered as film critics, staff writers, other types of critics, and freelancers, women also review fewer films on average than men... these findings suggest that film criticism in this country's newspapers is largely a male enterprise, echoing the heavy male dominance behind the scenes and on screen in the film industry. "

  • http://townhallmeeting.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/fin...

    Rated Nov 28 2008 • 41 reviews • townhallmeeting.org

  • Message Machine - Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden...

    Rated Nov 28 2008 • 1 review • nytimes.com

    In the beginning of the Iraq War, the Bush regime covertly hired "military experts" to appear on the major news networks. It turns out those experts weren't experts at all. Instead, they were hired as propagandists, echoing the Bush Administration's talking points.

    Fox News is not the only one who is guilty of selling the Iraq War. ABC, NBC, CNN, and CBS also used these "military experts" in their coverage.

  • AFP: Eligible voters illegally purged in six US states:...

    Rated Oct 10 2008 • 2 reviews • politics • google.com

    From the page: "Tens of thousands of voters in at least six battleground states have been removed from election rolls or have been illegally blocked from registering to vote, according to an investigation by the New York Times"