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• 2012-04-12

  Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero

  One million Mexicans said they returned from the US between 2005 and 2010, according to a new dem-ographic study of Mexican census data. That’s three times the number who said they’d returned in the previous five-year period.

  And they aren’t just home for a visit: One prominent sociologist in the US has counted “net zero” migration for the first time since the 1960s.

  Experts say the implications for both nations are enormous – from the draining of a labor pool in the US to the need for a radical shift in policies in Mexico, which has long depended on the billions of dollars in migrant remittances as a social welfare cornerstone.

  Source: azspot

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  (via thedisneydaily)

  Source: disneymagicalworld

• 2012-04-11

  

  textsfromhillaryclinton:

  notnadia:

  Because once a joke is made, you can only follow it through to its natural conclusion.

  Original image by Diana Walker for Time.

  Source: notnadia

• 2012-04-06

  <3

  barackobama:

  Remarks by the President and the First Lady at the International Women’s Day Reception:

  East Room

  4:52 P.M. EST

  MRS. OBAMA: Thank you so much. So I get to speak first while he stands and watches. I love this. (Laughter.) Look at me adoringly. (Laughter.)

  THE PRESIDENT: I can do that.

  These two, etc.

  Source: barackobama

• 2012-03-16

  tru luv

  (via clementina)

  Source: obama2016

• 2012-03-15

  too obvious?

  argument that desperation, not hate, leads to terrorism… alleviate desperation, eradicate terrorism? interesting perspective. 

  “In fact, extreme poverty is more than the lack of material resources necessary to meet an individual’s basic needs. One critical component of the phenomenon is when an individual lacks the opportunity  to make meaningful choices that will sustainably improve her life. The work of Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen emphasizes the need for meaningful choice as the end and the means of development. Choice is powerful and opens the door to hope, opportunity, change, and a better future.”

  http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/linking-extreme-poverty-and-global-terrorism/

  
  

• 2012-03-14

  “At that point we might finally acknowledge that raising, killing and eating animals must be done differently. When omnivores recognize that our way of producing and eating meat reduces not only slaughterhouse workers but all of us to a warped state, we’ll be able to bring about the kind of changes that will reduce both meat consumption and our collective guilt. Pachirat says he has changed as a result of his experience, becoming increasingly interested in what he calls “distancing and concealment.” He now intends to work on those issues as they relate to imprisonment, war, torture, deployment of drones and other sophisticated weaponry that allow impersonal killing. And it’s because these connections make so much sense that we should look more carefully at how we raise and kill animals.”

  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/the-human-cost-of-animal-suffering/?ref=opinion

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  never, ever, ever give up

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  Source: tooshaknowsbest

• 2012-03-12

  Would I support one candidate against another? Yes, for two minutes — the amount of time it takes to pull the lever down in the voting booth. But before and after those two minutes, our time, our energy, should be spent in educating, agitating, organizing our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the neighborhood, in the schools.

  — Howard Zinn (via azspot)

  (via azspot)

  Source: c4ss.org

• 2012-03-06

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  Source: morefunthanbeingsad