Nihar Dreams of Pavement

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socialuprooting:

Ari Melber: Obama won’t tell us if he can kill US citizens on American soil

Ari Melber, a commentator on the Dylan Ratigan Show, argued that the President refuses to release legal basis on which he basis his policy of assassinating American citizens anywhere without due process. All in the name of fighting terrorism. Could he kill American born children? Well, he already has. Ratigan argued that if the decision were implemented by a Republican President, then there would have been outrage. Instead we have silence.

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bouncingdodecahedrons:

“These are some of the things hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution. It has the sound of epic myth, but it’s simply a description of the evolution of the cosmos as revealed by science in our time. And we, we who embody the local eyes and ears, and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, we’ve begun at last to wonder about our origins. Star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and, perhaps, throughout the cosmos. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

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