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what if they replaced anthony bourdain with kelis on no reservations 

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aloofshahbanou tagged me to post my ‘top 10 albums.’ this was really hard. i tried to choose albums that i came to in different parts of my life, but have remained important to me. so, in no particular order:  

1. Beyoncé - Beyoncé

i think i will remember when this album was released for the rest of my life: it was the night before an economics final, and i was studying with a couple people. we all stopped studying (lol bad decision for all of us) to listen to it (one of them was a huge drake fan and had to listen to mine like 3 times before we got to the next track). i think and hope these songs will be played for the rest of my life.

2. King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King

i think this is one of the first albums i ever bought. it’s so far out and so full of life. the end of of epitaph really moved me when i was younger. the people who made this are just so talented and i wish they could’ve made more than just this album together. s/o to kanye for sampling this too; that meant a lot to 18 y/o me.

3. ESG - A South Bronx Story

you should really read about esg if you don’t know them… check their wiki. for those who don’t want to read, just listen to this song. 

4. Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations

if you haven’t heard this album, just listen to the first track because wow. what a start. buffy sainte-marie is such an inspiration and i really wish there were more musicians like her; i wish more musicians didn’t have shitty politics. i also like that wave of folk musicians ‘going electric’ &c.

5. Michael Jackson - Thriller

in middle school i remember a bunch of people spent a couple months trying to learn how to moonwalk. i wonder if kids today still do that. i hope so. so many good memories set to this music. also s/o to the music videos this album gave us.

6. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

any album with a song called ‘leave me alone’ was destined to appeal to me. looking back now, i like this album because it took sad kids like me to the disco… the lord is good.

7. The Beach Boys - Smile

i wish psychedelic bands would do more vocal harmonies and stuff because it sounds amazing. maybe i’m just out of the loop on that one… there’s an edit on youtube where someone edited the smile session box set into an album. that’s always amazing to listen to (i think this is a different one than the one i downloaded a couple years ago). Favorite tracks: Surf’s Up (piano demo), vega-tables,  (linking these because there are so many versions)

8. Fugees - The Score

“so while you fuming, i’m consuming mango juice under polaris” #goals

9. Real Estate - Real Estate

i’m kind of  cheating and kind of doing a dual one. i found out about real estate and the feelies around the same time. they’re both from my part of new jersey, so they’ve always been linked to me. the first time i heard real estate, they blew my mind. it was one of those “i’ve needed this all my life without knowing it” situations. the same with the feelies’ crazy rhythms. it really meant a lot to young me that there were bands that actually came from (near) where i lived. not much comes from where i live except maybe milk and republicans. favorite tracks: beach combers, pool swimmers, snow days

10. Björk - Homogenic

fuck radiohead. *drops mic*

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I Second That Emotion // Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

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One of the most troubling things about the AIDS epidemic is that it could have been stopped so easily by rolling out life-saving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) early on. Not only do ARVs prevent HIV from developing into AIDS, they also reduce transmission rates and increase people’s willingness to get tested. But Western pharmaceutical corporations have colluded in pricing these essential drugs way out of reach of the poor. When they were first introduced, patented ARVs cost up to $15,000 per yearly regimen. Generic producers were able to manufacture the same drugs for a mere fraction of the price, but the WTO outlawed this through the 1995 TRIPS agreement to protect Big Pharma’s monopoly. It was not until 2003 that the WTO bowed to activist pressure and allowed southern Africa to import generics, but by then it was too late – HIV prevalence had already reached devastating proportions. In other words, much of the region’s AIDS burden can be directly attributed to the WTO’s rules and the corporations that defended them. And they are set to strike again: the WTO will cut patent exemptions for poor countries after 2016. This dearth of basic drugs has gone hand in hand with the general collapse of public health institutions. Structural adjustment and WTO trade policies have forced states to cut spending on hospitals and staff in order to repay odious debts to the West. Swaziland, ground-zero in the world of AIDS, has been hit hard by these cuts. When I last visited I found that many once-bustling clinics are now empty and dilapidated. Neoliberalism has systematically destroyed the first line of defence against AIDS. The point I want to drive home is that the policies that deny poor people access to life-saving drugs and destroy public healthcare come from the same institutions and interests that helped create the conditions for HIV transmission in the first place.

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Neoliberal plague: AIDS and global capitalism (via sociolab)

This is called genocide. (via atomicdomme)

Bayer CEO: “We don’t make medicine for poor Indians”

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In the latest front of Holocaust-related litigation, a federal class-action suit was filed Wednesday on behalf of survivors of Nazi death camps, alleging that Bayer AG, the giant German-owned chemical and pharmaceutical company, participated in cruel medical experiments by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele.The suit, filed by a group of lawyers already involved in a spate of other Holocaust-related litigation, alleges that Bayer "monitored and supervised those experiments, and used them as a form of research and development for its corporate benefit."

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IN CASE YOU HAVENT HEARD YET

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Dominican Republic to be ‘Socially Cleaned’ of all Hatians/Dark Skinned Dominicans in two days

In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.

 At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans:

According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.

Dominican Republic has always had a longstanding hatred towards Haiti for years but what they’re doing is literally taking anyone who’s family lineage cannot be traced back to 1929, and putting them on a one-way bus back to Haiti, whether they were born in the DR or not. They don’t care. 

The US State Department has denounced the Dominican government for this plan, and pointed out that it is a gross violation of human rights according to the U.N. charter.

Below are 5 things you need to know about what is happening in the Dominican Republic:

The DR government has revoked the citizenship of more than 100,000 Dominicans born in the country of Haitian parents.

Many of the Dominican-born Haitians facing the looming threat of deportation have never visited Haiti or know anyone there.

The criteria the government will use in deciding who is to be bussed out of the country is “dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features.”

The DR government claims to have established a legalization process for Dominican-Haitians wishing to remain in the country, but the system is close-to-impossible, according to sources on the ground.

Even though currently the deportation of Dominic-Haitians persists as only a possibility, all evidence points to it happening.

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Please don’t spread the name and face of the Charleston shooter, call him a white terrorist because that’s all he is, don’t give him the respect of learning his name or recognizing his face. All he wants is to be famous, now he will be infamous. He only deserves to be known as a white homegrown terrorist and imagined as a monster because that’s what he is. Instead learn the names and faces of the victims, they deserve to be remembered not the monster.

Remember:

Clementa Pinckney

A Democrat state senator who was also the pastor at the Emanuel African Methodist Church.

Cynthia Hurd

A librarian at the Charleston County Public Library. She’d been working there for 31 years and was a manager as St. Andrews Regional Library.

Sharonda Coleman-Singleton

She was a revered and a mother of three, she was also the coach of the track team.

Tywanza Sanders

A recent graduate from Allen University in Columbia. He was recently working as a barber. It is said that he died trying to save one of his family members.

Please, if you hear about more of the victims, add their names and a little about their life. 

Go to this link to learn more about these victims. What I posted is only a short summary.

Also if anything like this happens again, do this instead of showing the shooter/terrorist. This is a tragedy and I will do my best to raise awareness, I hope you will too. Thank you.

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While working as a senior analyst in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2009, [Daryl] Johnson authored a report warning about the increasing dangers of violent right-wing extremism in the United States, sparking a political firestorm in the process. Under pressure from Republican lawmakers and popular talk show hosts, DHS ultimately repudiated Johnson’s paper. Johnson drew his conclusion on his 15 years of experience studying domestic terrorist groups — particularly white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

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Video: ‘My brother is gone because of you’ — Feras Morad’s sister to Long Beach police

The sister of a man shot dead last week by Long Beach police broke down as she took to a bullhorn and direc

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people in the 60s had so much free time

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baby baby don’t cry - the miracles 

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‘Lulu’ - Mary Fedden (1915–2012)

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María Izquierdo, pintora mexicana que nació un día como hoy pero de 1902 en San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco. Fue la primera artista mexicana en exhibir en Estados Unidos, pues mostró su trabajo en el Art Center de Nueva York en 1930.  En sus obras se puede observar su nacionalismo, transmitiendo un colorido México, sus costumbres y tradiciones; también le da su espacio a las mujeres, la maternidad y la feminidad. 

Junto con Frida Kahlo, fue de las primeras en luchar contra el machismo de esa época y a liberarse de el quedarse con su labor de ama de casa.

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“Naturaleza muerta con alcatraces” Rufino Tamayo (1924)

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Almost two years before the April 1, 1964, military takeover in Brazil, President Kennedy and his top aides began seriously discussing the option of overthrowing Joao Goulart's government, according to Presidential tape transcripts posted by the National Security Archive on the 50th anniversary of the coup d'tat. "What kind of liaison do we have with the military?" Kennedy asked top aides in July 1962. In March 1963, he instructed them: "We've got to do something about Brazil."

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