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rt.com The federal trial against alleged computer criminal Barrett Brown has been delayed by six months. Lambert here: The Unknown Transcriber has done a superlative job transcribing this important talk [applause]. I especially like how Lessig contextualizes...
www.businessweek.com Forget green tech. The smart money is looking to capitalize on the planet's warming trend New Science Study Confirms 'Hockey Stick': The Rate Of Warming Since 1900 Is 50 Times Greater Than The Rate Of Cooling In Previous 5000 Years...
truly heartbreaking
rand paul talking 1984 (many hours into a filibuster) http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/ www.c-span.org Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster will inevitably fail at its immediate objective: derailing John Brennan's nomination to run the CIA. But as it stretches...
"The baboons are targeting empty houses and are well aware of what they are doing. They proceed according to studied plans." A minor war has broken out south of Qunfudah in the village of Kiad where large groups of hungry baboons from nearby valleys are...
www.theatlantic.com The confidential document provides the most thorough account yet of why the president thinks extrajudicial drone strikes on citizens are okay. A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the...
"this machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like" Minimum Wage Machine (Work in Progress) 2008-2010 Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches) The minimum...
arstechnica.com You can fill your virtual pockets with Litecoin, PPCoin, or Freicoin. Bitcoin Bonanza: Cyprus Crisis Boosts Digital Dollars ( CNBC) and other news items would suggest the Cypriotic bank crisis has helped spur the BitCoin value. "If I was...
www.activistpost.com Utah Legislature Approves Sound Money Posted by Connor Boyack Today, the Utah Senate passed HB317, a bill which will legalize gold and silver as tender within the state of Utah and exempt the ... As America slips into monetary oblivion,...
www.techdirt.com This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, but the Supreme Court has completely shot down the ACLU (and some activists and journalists') attempt to invalidate the part of the FISA Amendments Act that "legalized" warrantless... In...
www.progressivepress.net Birgitta Jónsdóttir is no stranger to headlines or media scrutiny. A former volunteer activist with the hacktivist group “Wikileaks,” and a current member Birgitta Jónsdóttir-parliamentarian, activist, poet, Buddhist, single mom-fights...
on.digg.com Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the wealthy investment bank Altium Capital, on the...
www.spiegel.de Shaved heads, bomber jackets, black boots with white shoelaces -- it used to be easy to spot a neo-Nazi. But young far-right extremists are wearing more stylish and more coded clothes. "norwegian" wink wink: "The German label uses Norwegian...
www.commondreams.org If the US and UK governments truly want to rebuke the role that kidnapping, torture and prolonged detention without trial played—and in some cases continues to play—in their declared "war against terrorism" than they must go beyond...
a verb On October 16, 1998, London police arrested General Pinochet on a warrant from a Spanish judge for h In the ten years since, the world has become a smaller place for brutal despots. Indeed, today a
A letter by the Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State alleges Pope Benedict XVI is asking the Italian government to grant him protection and immunity from legal ... "
Fawzia Koofi explains why she's running for president of Afghanistan. Airdate - 02/13/13 Support Committee For Fawzia Koofi In the male dominated society of Afghanistan, we rarely have women as leaders. After the removal of the Taliban Regime, we had...
marketshare There are several papal contenders waiting in the wings, but no obvious front-runner - as was the case when Pope Benedict was elected pontiff in 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II. Here are ...
mentalfloss.com Today, Pope Benedict XVI announced he would be the first pope to step down in 600 years. Even before that, the head of the Catholic Church giving up his office voluntarily was a very rare occurrence. far more common to get whacked
oilprice.com US Brewers are worried that fracking activities could pollute their water supply, upon which they rely for the production of their beer. Any form of pollution could force the closure of A moratorium on fracking has been in place in the Empire...
"...A single state-owned company ...enhances a government's relationship with OPEC." "I'd already had in my hands a 101-page document, another State Department secret scheme, first uncovered by Wall Street Journal reporter Neil King, that called for the...
litterbugs Experts have estimated that there are 29,000 objects 10 cm or larger orbiting Earth. Only 7 percent are working satellites. The European Space Agency is looking at ways to mitigate the threat.
www.alternet.org Last year, the federal government deported roughly 400,000 people, the highest number of deportations in U.S. history -- for Geo Group, that's promising business. 1984 – Inception Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) was formed as...
www.guardian.co.uk Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani pays €8.5m on Ionian retreats for family with seller happy to strike deal after 18 months of red tape from the comments: "He got for peanuts - the yacht he saw them from would have cost him more than ten times...
jubilee http://www.thedailybell.com/28748/IMF-World-Economy-Could-End-as-We-Know-It fingers crossed
