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humansofnewyork:

“If you could give one pice of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?” “Disperse. If you’re in a group, you’re a target.”

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luminocity:

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lmprovident:

An East German soldier helping a boy cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall,’ 1961.
From what is known, the photograph was taken the day the emerging Wall was put up in August 1961 and the boy was found on the opposite side of the wall from his family. Despite given orders by the East German government to let no one pass, the soldier helped the boy through the barbwire. Near the exact time this photo was taken, it was said that the soldier was seen by his superior officer who immediately detached the soldier from his unit.
Concerning the fate of the soldier, most descriptions that come with photograph say that “no one knows what became of him.”

powerful

that german soldier could get it

jesus christ dom

May 9, 1942: These California farm families are preparing to evacuate to internment camps, as documented by photographer Dorothea Lange.

Centerville, California. Farm families of Japanese ancestry awaiting the evacuation buses which will take them to the Tanforan Assembly center along with 595 others evacuated from this district under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 34. 05/09/1942

Dorothea Lange, photographer. From the Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority

May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. You can find our past posts on Japanese American Internment & Relocation under the #Japanese American Internment tag.

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thepeoplesrecord:

There are now more Americans in jail than were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
May 9, 2013

There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”

And it’s not just a relative population thing.

The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. How does that compare to other countries?

It’s 7-10X as high:

Japan has 63 per 100,000,

Germany has 90 per 100,000

France has 96 per 100,000

South Korea has 97 per 100,000

Britain has 153 per 100,000

And it’s a rapidly exaggerating trend: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. More than half of America’s 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”

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Hey guys, I won’t be posting anything for a long time. Something spurred me to get involved in political activism once again, and it’s not the Boston Marathon bombing. Fashion and lifestyle just doesn’t interest me as much anymore. There’s a chance that I’ll start a political blog focusing on independent, libertarian leaning political and social views. Who knows? I might return. Happy blogging folks!

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What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

maxlibertarios:

basedheisenberg:

They might actually find the guys responsible.

Post Bombing:

Pictures dug up from the same spot as the blast:

Posted on Al jazeera:

Censor the Internet, and lose the world.

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