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not the onion http://www.hrw.org/node/115080 www.hrw.org Civil society will lead the way to press governments to ban fully autonomous weapons, Human Rights Watch said today at the launch of the global Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

www.filmsforaction.org The Power of Nightmares , a monumental 3 part, 3 hour documentary series by director Adam Curtis, deconstructs the myths behind the phantom specter of terrorism that has engulfed the world over...

rt.com A hacker compromised the main Twitter account for the Associated Press on Tuesday, creating momentary chaos across the world by inaccurately posting that US President Barack Obama was injured by an explosion in the White House.

oilprice.com A look at the hidden connection between the US and Chechnya.

www.kickstarter.com Create GLOWING PLANTS using synthetic biology and Genome Compiler's software

www.washingtonpost.com Institutional investors are scooping up home bargains, leaving little guys in the dust.

www.theatlantic.com Today the Sunlight Foundation unveils Churnalism, which will compare any text online to a corpus of corporate, government, and other promotional content.

www.techdirt.com You may recall a couple weeks ago the discovery that the IRS believed that it did not need a warrant to view emails over 180 days old. That got a fair bit of attention, and recently, Senator Wyden asked the IRS about this.

sustainablepulse.com A new peer-reviewed scientific paper has been released in the US stating that glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup are contributing to the modern diseases that are reaching epidemic proportions in recent decades. A direct link...