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November 6, 2015

Elephant Comes To The Rescue

Elephants have some of the most emotionally complex lives in the animal kingdom. If you need proof, look no further.

Thongsri is a 17-year-old elephant living at a sanctuary in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and when she sees her caretaker in trouble, she does the only thing she knows how to do.






You can’t watch this video and see anything but Thongsri’s genuine concern for her caretaker. She wasn’t going to let anything happen to him.

http://boredomtherapy.com/elephant-rescues-caretaker/?as=6034641160484
November 5, 2015

Meaning, Uses and Forms of the word 'fuck'.



Science F*cking Confirms It: 11 Reasons Cursing Is Good For The Soul

http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/reasons-cursing-is-good-for-the-soul/879294/
November 5, 2015

Arctic Sea Ice Has Slight Decline From 2014

Still above the record low in 2012 but the overall trend is a death spiral. Ice free summers in the Arctic are likely by 2030.

By the way, Gore never said the Arctic would be ice free by 2014! He said models point to an ice free Arctic by 2030 but a few models were suggesting it could happen by 2014. Had the trend continued the way it was up until 2012 and instead of rebounding slightly, we could have seen an ice free arctic by 2014. Watch the trend line on the graph, it was dropping like a rock and would have flat lined by now had it kept going down like it had been.

From 1979 to 2015 the average decline has been about 311 KM cubed. This puts us ice free in aprox 18 years.

However, the rate of decline seems to be increasing. From 2002 to 2012 it dropped 7,000 KM cubed in ten years for a rate of decrease of 700 KM cubed per year. If it drops at that rate we will see ice free summers by aprox. 2023. Split the difference for a conservative estimate and you have an ice free arctic in summer by the year 2027.

November 3, 2015

To be clear Anonymous Hacked several KKK Twitter accounts to obtain identities not mailing lists.

There are a couple of posts suggesting they just got emails off of KKK mailing lists which would be pretty weak since anyone could sign you up for something like that. Some fake Anonymous groups might have done this but not the one that is doing the release on the 5th.

By the way one of the guys that comes up on the first release is this guy: Frank Ancona from Park Hills, MO His Facebook page comes up with KKK all over it so I don't think he cares about being outed. Think he runs the KKK group that was involved with Ferguson.





November 3, 2015

This Anonymous KKK stuff is confusing but isn't this their website?

It seems to indicate an Anonymous source outed the GOP Senators but they are not denying that that they are legitimate:


Operation KKK, an Anonymous-led effort to shut down the Ku Klux Klan, has begun early. The hacktivist collective, who had promised to reveal the identities of up to 1,000 KKK members on the first anniversary of the Ferguson protests, has published dozens of phone numbers and email addresses belonging to members of the Ku Klux Klan.


TheAnonMessage ?@TheAnonMessages

Anonymous names US Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Cornyn (R-Tx.), Dan Coats (R-In.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) as members of the KKK.


11:15 AM - 2 Nov 2015



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Joy Butler Are we going to get some supporting facts? I don't want any of them to be able to snake out of this.

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Anonymous @Joy Butler, that was a leak from an "anon" source. The real list of 1000 kkk members will be published on nov 5th by the original team who started operation kkk a year ago and who hacked kkk'S twitter accounts and revealed identities of some kkk members back then.

http://anonhq.com/opkkk-anonymous-unmasks-kkk-reveals-identities-of-prominent-members/

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Ku-Klux-Klan/108381552519797?source=whrt&position=8&trqid=6212744304454339570



November 1, 2015

Stunning lack of empathy, wealth privilege scum, remark of the week

So I was just talking to my sister who is an Interior Designer and has a lot of wealthy clients. She was talking to a client about how expensive college was getting and that she was barely able to put her daughter through college. She then went onto say that soon only the wealthy will be able to afford to send their kids to college to which the rich piece of shit replied: "Good!"


Yep, they don't even try to hide their shallow, cold hearts and huge ego's anymore. This lady comes from old oil money and has never worked a fucking day in her life! She even has nanny's take care of her kids and her brain has gone to mush because she doesn't use if for anything. It took my sister everything she had not to go off on this lady. In any other circumstance she probably would but she has to pay the bills and pay off those college loans.



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