hammerito:

zainyk:

Mississippi Bill Changes Name of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ to ‘Gulf of America’

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Judge Martin McKenna ruled that, as the closures would hurt disadvantaged groups such as the elderly and the disabled, which is contrary to the conditions laid down in equalities legislation, the councils would just have to scrap their plans and think again. And he also made it crystal clear – as he quashed the closure decisions and told the councils to pay campaigners’ legal costs – that he was sending a message to other local authorities intent on restructuring their library services.

The councils had claimed “hyperbole, exaggeration and hysteria” on the part of the campaigners. But Judge McKenna, reflecting on how the case had been conducted, described the campaigners’ approach as “perfectly reasonable” and “proportionate” even in the areas where their legal claim had not been successful.

destery:

mad-hatter-matador:

shhplease:

Tottenham’s main shopping area, before and after London riots, from the guardian.

jesus

oh my god.

jesus christ people please be okay.

sexgenderbody:

tranquality:

sabbbb:

thefuckingloudestazns:

Spread widely: The Fuckin’ Loudest Asians’ statement on the anniversary of Vincent Chin’s murder. No justice 29 years later. Hit us up at thefckingloudestazns@gmail.com for the pdf - print and post it at school, at work, and in the community.

pay attention. not just 29 years later, but even 3 weeks ago.

So much of this goes unheard because the institution of white supremacy in the U.S uses tactics like deeming Asians the “model minority” to erase the extremely oppressive experiences faced by Asian people.

this.

One thing: collected, the two were made to pay millions, not 3k. But otherwise, crimes like this piss the fuck out of me. Ignorance is the worst thing in the world.

lickystickypickyme:

A new study from researchers at the University of California Academy of Science and the University of British Columbia indicates that global sea turtle populations are mistakenly ingesting fatal quantities of plastic debris.

Photos show plastic remnants found in the stomachs of young sea turtles on the coast of Argentina. The hundreds of colorful, ocean-weathered shards spread over a white backdrop are a killer in the guise of a beautiful mosaic.

Though only .025 percent of all plastic ends up in the ocean, that’s .025 percent of 260 million tons manufactured each year. One billion single-use plastic bags are distributed every day. Up to three in every 1,000 find a way to the ocean.

Seventy-five percent of green turtles examined had swallowed plastic, often bags which resemble jellyfish, a staple of turtle diets.

“Sea turtles have spent the past 100 million years roaming seas free of pollution and are now sadly the post animal for impacts of our throwaway society on endangered species,” says the report, which does not paint an optimistic future.

jayparkinsonmd:

“A human being at rest runs on 90 watts,” he says. “That’s how much power you need just to lie down. And if you’re a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you’ll need about 250 watts. That’s how much energy it takes to run about and find food. So how much energy does our lifestyle [in America] require? Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts. Now you can ask yourself: What kind of animal requires 11,000 watts to live? And what you find is that we have created a lifestyle where we need more watts than a blue whale. We require more energy than the biggest animal that has ever existed. That is why our lifestyle is unsustainable. We can’t have seven billion blue whales on this planet. It’s not even clear that we can afford to have 300 million blue whales.”

loveslight:

westmaiden:

toliveanddieinlondon:

This is Hideaki Akaiwa. When the Tsunami hit his home town of Ishinomaki, Hideaki was at work. Realising his wife was trapped in their home, he ignored the advice of professionals, who told him to wait for the army to arrive to provide search and rescue.

Instead he found some scuba gear, jumped in the raging torrent - dodging cars, houses and other debris being dragged around by the powerful current, any of which could have killed him instantly - and navigated the now submerged streets in pitch dark, freezing water until he found his house. Swimming inside, he discovered his wife alive on the upper level with only a small amount of breathing room, and sharing his resperator, pulled her out to safety.

If he had waited for the army, his wife of 20 years would be dead.

Oh, and if that’s not enough badassery for one lifetime, Hideaki realised his mother was also unaccounted for, so jumped back in the water and managed to save her life also. Since then Hideaki enters the water everyday on a one man search and rescue mission, saving countless lives and proving that two natural disasters in a single day, and insurmountable odds can’t stand in the way of love. This man is my hero.

<3

this is what love is

GMH.

missmarycherry:

clinging:

colossal picture. the death toll hasn’t been confirmed yet, but it’s rumored to be in the thousands. if you want to know what Japan’s like right now, well here it is.

There is something going on in the world. There’s people getting killed in Libya and Bahrain. There’s a border war going on with Cambodia and Thailand, and the escalating tension between South Korea and North Korea. Not to mention the numerous natural disasters we’ve experienced all over the world in this decade and the disasters like the oil spill off the Gulf coast we’ve caused. Now there’s a massive earthquake that has hit Japan. Japan hasn’t been hit that hard for 300 years.Like many have said whether or not you think the world is ending or whatever there is obviously something wrong with the world,mother nature and our environment is fighting back,and it’s about time we finally listened. All my thoughts and go out to everyone in any country who is and are going through some tragedies and crisis like this.