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zuky:
thesmithian:
…[some] may not remember what made Iran-Contra such an extraordinary scandal. The Reagan administration “raised money privately” by selling weapons to a sworn enemy of the United States. Why? Because it wanted to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. And when I say “illegal war,” I mean that quite literally—Congress told the Reagan administration, in no uncertain terms, that Reagan could not send money to the Contras. Period. The Reagan administration, unrestrained by laws and the Constitution, did so anyway, and much of the president’s national security team ended up under indictment.
more.
Reagan knew everything. However, I bet this Time magazine piece doesn’t get into the juiciest part of Iran-Contra, which is that in the 1980s the CIA put into operation a crack cocaine pipeline to import narcotics from Central and South America and distribute it in US inner cities. This is not a “conspiracy theory”, this is a documented conspiracy, most rigorously researched and reported by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Gary Webb, whose series in the San Jose Mercury News and subsequent book “Dark Alliance” literally got him killed. To me, that’s the story of Iran-Contra: not that Reagan sold weapons to Iran, but that the US government imported and sold crack to Black America, as part of an arms and drugs trade which funded war in the Third World and which devastated lives and filled prisons in the USA.
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arguments that should be used against Yahoo buying out Tumblr:
- their initial offer is too low
- possible unnecessary ad space
- stricter regulations
arguments that should not be used against Yahoo buying out Tumblr:
- “TUMBLR IS MEANT FOR OUTCASTS AND WEIRDOS ONLY”
- “NO ONE ELSE IS ALLOWED TO TOUCH OUR SACRED GROUND”
- “FANDOMS UNITE AGAINST FACEBOOKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
er….
or how about their terrible history with ruining the startups they acquire?
(see geocities, delicious, flickr,)
What is one thing Yahoo has done successfully? Not a rhetorical question. I’d like to know, if anyone has an answer.
Um. The one thing they’ve done good is create a useful homepage that many people continue to visit. Particularly for their news aggregation, which, yeah, super weird to think about but a lot of people use yahoo for news.
I had no idea. Fascinating.
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arguments that should be used against Yahoo buying out Tumblr:
- their initial offer is too low
- possible unnecessary ad space
- stricter regulations
arguments that should not be used against Yahoo buying out Tumblr:
- “TUMBLR IS MEANT FOR OUTCASTS AND WEIRDOS ONLY”
- “NO ONE ELSE IS ALLOWED TO TOUCH OUR SACRED GROUND”
- “FANDOMS UNITE AGAINST FACEBOOKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
er….
or how about their terrible history with ruining the startups they acquire?
(see geocities, delicious, flickr,)
What is one thing Yahoo has done successfully? Not a rhetorical question. I’d like to know, if anyone has an answer.
Yahoo Board Approves Tumblr Acquisition -
Yahoo’s board of directors has approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr, according to a breaking news alert from The Wall Street Journal.
The deal is reportedly an all-cash acquisition, according to WSJ. Tumblr and Yahoo have not released any official statements.
There were rumors circulating Friday about the Tumblr acquisition, which stated Yahoo’s board, under the direction of still-new CEO Marissa Mayer, would discuss the potential over the weekend.
According to a report from AllThingsD, Mayer was interested in the platform’s younger-skewing user base, and had been in talks with the board about Tumblr for the last six weeks. AllThingsDalso reported no other parties made bids on Tumblr.
Yahoo is planning a large press conference in New York Monday, which helped give those rumors credence.
Stay tuned to Mashable for more on this developing story….
well this should be interesting
It was great while it lasted, everybody.
Forgive me for having zero confidence in Yahoo.
(Source: fuzzyhorns)
zuky:
…[some] may not remember what made Iran-Contra such an extraordinary scandal. The Reagan administration “raised money privately” by selling weapons to a sworn enemy of the United States. Why? Because it wanted to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua. And when I say “illegal war,” I mean that quite literally—Congress told the Reagan administration, in no uncertain terms, that Reagan could not send money to the Contras. Period. The Reagan administration, unrestrained by laws and the Constitution, did so anyway, and much of the president’s national security team ended up under indictment.
more.
Reagan knew everything. However, I bet this Time magazine piece doesn’t get into the juiciest part of Iran-Contra, which is that in the 1980s the CIA put into operation a crack cocaine pipeline to import narcotics from Central and South America and distribute it in US inner cities. This is not a “conspiracy theory”, this is a documented conspiracy, most rigorously researched and reported by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Gary Webb, whose series in the San Jose Mercury News and subsequent book “Dark Alliance” literally got him killed. To me, that’s the story of Iran-Contra: not that Reagan sold weapons to Iran, but that the US government imported and sold crack to Black America, as part of an arms and drugs trade which funded war in the Third World and which devastated lives and filled prisons in the USA.
o_o
“Considering how some transphobes behave, I’m starting to think gender is an anti-social construct”
78 trans [women or colour] murdered [so far] in 2013, mutilation common -
Added the ‘woman of colour’ above because we all know who, exactly, is actually dying.
(via biyuti)
“Pounce?”
“It’s to remind me to be more aggressive.”
(via wordscanbesexy)
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“Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest operator of for-profit prisons, has sent letters recently to 48 states offering to buy up their prisons as a remedy for “challenging corrections budgets.” In exchange, the company is asking for a 20-year management contract, plus an assurance that the prison would remain at least 90 percent full, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Huffington Post.” —
Cash in Exchange For State Prisons
Please think of what this means. Private companies are buying prisons from states under the conditions that the prisons remain full- providing incentive for states to make criminals and give prison sentences. Surely it must not be overlooked then, that 1 in 100 Americans are imprisoned and we also have the world’s longest and harshest sentences.
(via thefreelioness)