From Russia, with love

Slurs slurs slurs. Nothing new, just a strange juxtaposition after coming from Berlin.

barackobama:

“Same-sex couples should be able to get married.”—President Obama 

fuckyeahrussianlanguage:

dyingofcute:

Moscow

Nooooooooo… That’s St. Petersburg, and no Kremlin of any sort in sight.

ahahahhahaha

thelinguafile:

fuckyeahrussianlanguage:

sointerrobanging:

Giggles ensue. (We’re there, I guess?) Teacher asks questions. Awkward.

However “blah-blah” is being used commonly by the Russians.

Why not? Does it mean something… dirty? :O

(serious question, though)

Heh. It’s close to the word бляд (whore) and бля is used more as an epithet like “shit.” Heh.

ilovecharts:

Over 150,000 people living in secret North Korean gulags

jspark3000:

When it comes to the sex slave trade — and by that I mean the continual rape of millions of girls forced into abusive slavery — there is a lot of reblogging, misinformation, angry but pointless Facebook statuses, and anti-slave Tweets on Twitter that are more about popularity than action.

So what can we do?

Here’s a list of sites and organizations with real information that can actually do something.

Continue Reading

(via humantraffickingexists)

This weekend I’m going to try and update you on the following:

Human trafficking orgs in Russia

Ways to get involved

The huge Salier document dump

HOLD ME TO IT TUMBLRFOLK

mohandasgandhi:

jasencomstock:

nationaljournal:

Susan Clark of Santa Monica, Calif., who opposes health care reform, stands on Wednesday with a red hand painted over her mouth to represent what she said is socialism. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

View snapshots from outside the Supreme Court during the health care law arguments.

susan clark, you look very stupid.

I see absolutely no difference.

Or this. She told me to watch out for the “death panels” today.