corruption
A prime locale to talk bribery, suspect campaign funding, and all other instances of political corruption. The shadier, the better.
SIGNATURE SAFETY!!
Signing your name on any type of document whatsoever needs to be done with caution. You need to read it, understand it, agree with it 100%, AND if need be, go over it with your lawyer, otherwise, NEVER under ANY circumstances sign ANYTHING from ANYBODY. In the eyes of the law, a signature is more often than not taken as an agreement, so in other words, once you put your signature on a document of any kind, you are agreeing to and/or with whatever it is that the document says. Removing your signature from said document could be possible, but it is not a guarantee, so the absolute best thing to do would be to not apply your signature to anything that you are even slightly conflicted about.
By Crazy-Inker4 years ago in The Swamp
Drugs and Street Art vs. the US Government
Keith Haring’s “Crack is Wack '' mural stands tall, 35 years after its creation and although Haring has passed away and the crack cocaine epidemic has subsided the mural serves as a lasting reminder of both. Additionally, the mural is an emblem of grassroots activism in its purest form, street art. Keith Haring, born in 1958, is well known for his distinguishable art style characterized by bright colors and a cartoonish depiction of people. Haring began his work in New York subways. With black paper and chalk in hand he would ride from station to station looking for blank spaces in walls or trains that he could draw on. Haring did most of his work during the height of the AIDS epidemic, which he was passionate about due to his own sexual preferences as well as having contracted the disease himself. Unfortunately, AIDS is what took Haring’s life in February of 1990 at the age of 31. He used his talent in order to call attention to the disease, and most importantly put an end to the hurtful stigmas surrounding gay men at the time. Additionally, he used his art to advocate for other large issues such as the crack cocaine epidemic which took many young lives in the United states. The United States media and government were constantly broadcasting wrongful and stigmatized information about AIDS and crack cocaine, thus making these matters of public health taboo. Haring explicitly went against this taboo and created graphic images of sexual reproductive organs and sexual positions when it came to his artwork about AIDS. In an article about the relationship between AIDS and art, Mary Wyric states that “social realities for disenfranchised people are represented in accessible forms that educate and promote political intervention at a grassroots level,” Haring knew this and used it to his advantage in order to bring attention to another large issue, the crack cocaine epidemic (46).
By Beca Damico4 years ago in The Swamp
Qatar Drained 6,500 Workers to Death
Qatar is a tiny but super-wealthy country in the Arab Gulf with a GDP worth 183.47 billion US dollars (2019)[1] and a population of 2.8 million inhabitants. In 2014, the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence accused Qatar of sheltering and hosting international blacklisted jihadi moneymen like Jarallah al-Marri. Soon after, the country was accused by Trump of financing terrorism, which spark a diplomatic crisis in 2017 between Qatar and the rest of the middle east[2].
By Ayoub Bouamri4 years ago in The Swamp
Are Conservatorships A Problem?
For every positive, there is a negative. Some negatives can give you a false positive and I am not talking about pregnancy tests. What I mean is, a lot of negative people, negative feelings, and negative behavior hide behind the guise of coming from a place of love or working towards the greater good. This type of behavior is manipulative, misleading, and a form of gaslighting.
By Christina DeFeo4 years ago in The Swamp
The ever-increasing fuel prices in India.
India is not new to inflation, especially when it comes to fuel prices. The ever-increasing petroleum and diesel prices are taking a steep upward ride in recent times. Currently, petroleum and diesel prices stand above Rs.100/L in almost all the states. It’s well above 100/L in all the metropolitan cities. As of 1st November 2021, the oil prices have increased for the sixth consecutive day. Diesel prices have gone up 30 times in the last 38 days. Every 6 a.m. in the morning new prices become applicable and it changes every day. The increase in recent times is almost frightening.
By Shreyan Ghosh4 years ago in The Swamp
The BBC Is Dead
We live in truly extraordinary times. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is falling apart. The institutions which we have come to trust as the standard bearers of British culture and history have since eschewed their responsibility to those who pay their wages and chosen to sacrifice their integrity at the altar of expediency.
By Adebayo Adeniran4 years ago in The Swamp
Tucker Carlson is Incomprehensible to Outsiders
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has a vast audience that comes to him for information even though his reporting often takes the form of raising questions and then not answering them. I went into this planning to jump on the bandwagon of mocking his “Just asking questions” routine. But then I read the opinion piece 'Let's go Brandon' chants are demonstrations of pro-Biden unity. And I was really struck by something: I didn’t understand what he was talking about or what point he was trying to make.
By Buck Hardcastle4 years ago in The Swamp
The Business of Kidnapping School Children in Nigeria.
The Zamfara kidnapping was a mass kidnapping of 279 girls aged between 12 to 17 years on 26th February 2021. Armed bandits raided the Government Girls Science Secondary School which is a boarding school. This was the second school kidnapping in Nigeria during 2021, occurring nine days after the Kagara kidnapping in which over forty people were kidnapped in a raid on a state school in the state of Niger.
By DEEPAK SETHI5 years ago in The Swamp
