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Florence Kelley was an American social and political reformer. Primarily, Kelley worked against sweatshops and advocated for minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and childrens' rights.
She was a member of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and an activist for woman suffrage and African-American civil rights.
She was a follower of Karl Marx and a friend of Friedrich Engels whose book, The Condition of the Working Class in England, she translated into English. The translation she made is still used today.
Kelley also helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Any physician performing an abortion must do so in a manner that gives the fetus the best chance of survival? I don’t think “abortion” means what you think it means, Texas State Legislature.
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Kevin de León is a Democratic member of the California State Senate, elected to serve Los Angeles County’s 22nd Senatorial district in November 2010.
The district includes Downtown Los Angeles, East Hollywood, Echo Park, Elysian Valley, Mt. Washington, Lincoln Heights, South Los Angeles, the Cities of Alhambra, South Pasadena, San Marino, Vernon and Maywood, and unincorporated portions of Los Angeles County.
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The oath Kerry references here is the NSA Security Oath, which states:
Upon being cleared to protect the sensitive information of the National Security Agency, I subscribe to this oath freely, without mental reservation, and with the full intent to exercise meticulous care in abiding by its items.
I solemnly swear that I will not reveal to any person any information pertaining to the classified activities of the National Security Agency, except as necessary toward the proper performance of my duties or as specifically authorized by a duly responsible superior known to me to be authorized to receive this information.
I further solemnly swear that I will report without delay to my security representative the details and circumstances of any case which comes within my knowledge of an unauthorized person obtaining or attempting to obtain information concerning the classified operations of the National Security Agency.
I fully appreciate and understand that the security of the information and activities of the National Security Agency is of vital importance to the welfare and defense of the United States. I affirm that I am familiar with the provisions of Sections 793, 794 and 798, Title 18, United States Code.
I do hereby affirm any understanding that the obligations of this oath will continue even after severance of my connections with the National Security Agency and that they remain fully binding on me during peacetime as well as during wartime.
However, it’s important here to acknowledge the more important oath Snowden took while serving shortly and working with the NSA: the Constitution of the United States.
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The Jim Crow laws were, too!
Here are some other laws that are just laws:
- In New Jersey, it is illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a murder
- In Missouri, it is illegal to drive with an uncaged bear (but caged bears are OK)
- In Nevada, it is illegal for a man to buy drinks for more than three people at a time (Rap Genius co-founder, Maboo, would have a hard time with this)
- In Wisconsin, it is illegal to serve butter substitutes in state prisons (if you can’t believe it’s not butter, it’s illegal)
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John Forbes Kerry (is an American politician who is the 68th and current United States Secretary of State.
He served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, and was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Kerry was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election but lost to incumbent George W. Bush.
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Scott Stearns is VOA’s State Department correspondent. He has worked as VOA’s Dakar Bureau Chief, White House correspondent, and Nairobi Bureau Chief since beginning his career as a freelance reporter in the Liberian civil war.
He has written for the BBC, UPI, the Associated Press, The Jerusalem Post, and The Economist. Scott has a Bachelors and Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University.
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Voice of America is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government.
VOA produces about 1,500 hours of news and feature programming each week for an estimated global audience of 123 million people “to promote freedom and democracy and to enhance understanding through multimedia communication of accurate, objective, and balanced news, information and other programming about America and the world to audiences overseas.”
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According to meteorologists, the heat wave was caused by the jet stream, a big river of air high above Earth that dictates much of the weather for the Northern Hemisphere. Jeff Masters, meteorology director at Weather Underground,, had this to say about the jet stream:
I've been doing meteorology for 30 years and the jet stream the last three years has done stuff I've never seen. The fact that the jet stream is unusual could be an indicator of something. I'm not saying we know what it is.
… LOL at “the fact that the jet stream is unusual” being an indicator of something that Masters claims he’s unsure of. Uh, try global warming?
