[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Wikileaks reveals how irrelevant women’s rights are to US diplomacy?
- [The F-Word Blog - Jess McCabe]
Women's eNews commissioned a reporter to read through about 200 cables from 40 countries – only a small sample, but the conclusion so far suggests "the irrelevance of women's rights to the real business of US state craft"…
- Advocates Call for Immediate Action by House to Prevent Child Marriage
- [RHRealityCheck.org - Jodi Jacobson]
It's a no-brainer. But in these times of political jockeying, nothing is assured, so advocates are calling on everyone who cares about human rights and human development to contact their members and urge them to vote for this bill. [link]
- Painting the Town: 13 Unbelievable Urban Mural Projects
- [WebUrbanist - Steph]
- LinkedIn Reveals the 10 Most Overused Job-Hunter Buzzwords
- [Mashable! - Jolie O'Dell ]
- Prevent Hostage-Taking: Add Debt Ceiling To Tax Deal!
- [Campaign for America's Future - Dave Johnson]
If you like your Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, courts, roads, trains and the rest of what government does for We, the People, then you should pay attention to this. Early next year the Republicans will demand severe cuts to everything or they will allow the country to default on its debt. They mean it and they are planning for it. The coming "debt ceiling" fight can be averted by increasing the debt ceiling as part of this tax-cut deal…
Adding huge amounts to the deficit in this tax-cut bill is setting the Republicans up to take hostages again. But adding the debt ceiling increase to this deal prevents them from doing that…
It's coming for sure. Conservatives see the debt ceiling fight as an opportunity to cut, gut or shut the government and are planning for it. They are planning to create a crisis — possibly the worst the country has faced — to force panic and then [impose] severe "Shock Doctrine" reforms.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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