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New York Seeks to Ban Geiger Counters & Air Monitoring Hardware

The Village Voice is running a story that New York officials are lobbying to remove Geiger counters (and any other kind of air quality or asbestos detector) from the hands of citizens unless authorized to carry them by the police: And it’s not just devices to detect weaponized anthrax that they want the power to control, [...]

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Google Refuses to Run Impeachment Ad

Laurence Hartje just sent in news of a story Daily Kos is running on an Ad that Google refused to run in their AdSense network. The ad is as follows: Help Impeach Cheney NOW Nonpartisan, the time is here. House JC 202-225-3951 Demand ACTION YaliesorImpeachment.org Google’s response as to why it wouldn’t run the ad was as follows: “At this time, Google [...]

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