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The Covid pandemic laid bare the reality that all women know, we hold up more than half the sky. Traditional women’s labour, derided as unskilled labour and massively underpaid, is what keeps our ...
by NY brit expat
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on Sun Mar 05, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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A week ago, I returned home from a two-week trip to Scandinavia. Setting aside the two travel days, I spent 3 days with friends in Denmark, 6 days traveling alone in Sweden and Norway, and closed out the trip with another 3 days in Denmark. I’ve...
by foresterbob
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on Fri May 06, 2022 at 05:30 AM PDT
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By now you have probably heard all about how Donald Trump wanted to buy Greenland. It’s a preposterous idea, and only believable because of how preposterous Donald Trump is. Trump was scheduled to travel to Copenhagen at the beginning of September, but...
by Walter Einenkel
189 comments
on Wed Aug 21, 2019 at 09:40 AM PDT
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The US recognizes but no longer really celebrates JV Day, and recognizes National Blueberry Popsicle Day, but not the queen we overthrew (by proxy) in order to seize Hawai'i. and it is also Setting ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Sun Sep 02, 2018 at 06:13 AM PDT
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Seven years ago Donald Trump signed an advertisement in the New York Times urging action on climate legislation, but today he wants the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords. A June 2016 article in Vox (reprinted from Grist) titled Donald...
by ybruti
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on Sun Nov 13, 2016 at 05:02 PM PST
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By now you’ve heard the speculation by the DHS and the Obama administration about the recent publications from Wikileaks. Maybe you even heard Mike Pence hand-wringing over recent Wikileaks this past Sunday. BUT — have you heard the latest from GOP...
by tirelessirony
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on Wed Oct 19, 2016 at 04:12 PM PDT
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Tick, tick, tick, ...
(1896) It's ...
by hungeski
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on Wed Jun 17, 2015 at 10:46 PM PDT
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Copenhagen cafe shooting took the life of 55 year old film director and wounded three police ...
by annieli
223 comments
on Thu Feb 19, 2015 at 06:00 AM PST
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The BBC is reporting a man believed to be the shooter who carried out two attacks in the Danish city of Copenhagen has been shot and killed after opening fire on police. Two separate attacks ...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 09:16 AM PST
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Why are they murdering Jews? What are we going to do about it?
I don't see how we can draw any other conclusion. Whether we call them jihadis or Islamists, terrorists claiming to represent Islam ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 07:54 AM PST
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Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was invited to participate in a 2007 art exhibition on the theme "The Dog in Art" in the town of Tällerud in Värmland, Sweden. Vilks submitted three pen and ink ...
by BvueDem
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on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 12:30 AM PST
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Earlier today I posted about a breaking news story about a shooting at a debate on free speech in Copenhagen, Denmark that left 1 dead and 3 wounded, with the suspects still at large. Now word ...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Feb 14, 2015 at 05:31 PM PST
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Danish National Police may have shot and killed the suspect who killed one 55 year old man and wounded three police officers at a free-speech event in a Copenhagen cafe. A later, second shooting ...
by annieli
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on Sat Feb 14, 2015 at 04:35 PM PST
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Noted nutlog Pam Geller is trying to provoke a terrorist response in Texas, the state of Open Carry mania - the goods are below the fold after Norman Rockwell rolls over a couple of times...
by annieli
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on Sat Feb 14, 2015 at 10:17 AM PST
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This just popped up on the BBC website a few minutes ago. [See Update below] Very little information available as yet. It was a debate about blasphemy; the French ambassador was reportedly one ...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Feb 14, 2015 at 08:33 AM PST
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Cross-posted with EcoWatch & co-authored by Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
" Zero emissions is an ambitious but achievable goal. "
--UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Zero has become the most ...
by Renewable Rider
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on Thu Sep 04, 2014 at 05:24 PM PDT
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h/t JoeMyGod
You may or may not know about the largest musical contest in the world. No, it's not American Idol, as much as Fox would like to think it is. It's the Eurovision Song Contest, now ...
by Dave in Northridge
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on Thu Apr 10, 2014 at 02:52 PM PDT
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James Clapper and the U.S. won in Copenhagen, just like Buzz in Rebel Without a Cause.
America's best and brightest at the NSA have inadvertently declared war on the law of physics. They spied on ...
by FishOutofWater
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on Thu Jan 30, 2014 at 11:58 AM PST
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I was recently asked by a friend to contribute to a sort of compact reference on fracking (you can see the product here ). As I was working on the section on the economics of fracking, it struck me ...
by joe shikspack
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on Mon Sep 10, 2012 at 05:55 AM PDT
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Todd Stern prepares to abandon humanity to the fossil fuels that are poisoning our planet. As President Obama’s special envoy for climate change - the top American negotiator at the UN - he’s in ...
by RLMiller
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on Tue Aug 07, 2012 at 09:10 AM PDT
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