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Video of Tasering Death
Grant Gochnauer dropped this in our inbox this morning; this it he private footage of the tasering death of a Russian citizen, Robert Dziekanski, by police recently that sparked a big controversy. If you watch the whole thing around, 6:40 is when the police show up and the interaction between then and Robert starts. To be [...]
Continue reading...2/3 of NYU Would Sell Right to Vote for Scholarship
Thursday, November 15, 2007
The full quote is they would give up their right to vote in the next election for a scholarship. I wonder if that stat is that surprising? Two reasons I can think of this not being that surprising is: A lot of people felt the last 2 elections were bullshit with all the shenanigans that ensued [...]
Continue reading...Comcast Sued over Traffic Blocking
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Ohhhh FACE! Comcast is finally getting slapped with a lawsuit pertaining to their secret manipulation of BitTorrent and other P2P traffic using the traffic shaping software from Sandvine. A lot of folks originally thought the traffic blocking (technically called “traffic shaping” but it’s more like “traffic ub3r-p0wn4g-ing”) just applied to BitTorrent traffic (because the RIAA and [...]
Continue reading...What can $611 billion buy?
Monday, November 12, 2007
Boston.com put together a very cool slide show of what $611 billion, the cost of the US’s war in Iraq, could buy. Some of the more interesting points were: Billed as the most expensive high school ever build, Newton North High could be built 4000 more times around the US at the cost of the Iraq [...]
Continue reading...Private Security Immunity from Law in Iraq to End
Sunday, November 11, 2007
The Raw Story has the scoop on a law the Iraq interior ministry is set to ratify that would remove immunity for all the private security agencies currently serving in Iraq. The argument from the private military side is that if the law passes, private military forces will pull out of Iraq. Private military companies question [...]
Continue reading...Pelosi and Reid Kill Renewable Energy Funding
Saturday, November 10, 2007
This is an interesting story from Toby Barlow’s blog. Vote Solar describes the issue as: Thursday morning, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi decided to drop the renewable energy standard out of the energy bill and drop the tax title. No tax title means no extension of the investment tax credit for solar, and no extention of [...]
Continue reading...2008 Presidential Quick Reference Guide
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Handy for the upcoming elections, this is a grid of all the candidates for the 2008 Presidential Election along with their stances on all the major issues including energy, Patriot Act, Iraq War, gay marriage and so on. The grid is quick and easy to navigate. You can click the image above for a bigger version [...]
Continue reading...Requests Wanting off Terror Watch List Surge
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
That’s weird… people DON’T want to be a randomly compiled list of terrorists so their travel plans get delayed or completely cancelled? I don’t get it… Looks like the department of Homeland Security is fielding thousands of requests a month to get taken off the terror watch list as the algorithm used to put people on [...]
Continue reading...Retard Town, USA Gives Detention for Hugs
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Pictured in the middle above is Megan Coulter who got detention for 2 days, for a quick arm-around-the-shoulders hugs to 2 friends before the weekend… Really? Illinois… seriously? 2 days detention for a hug? District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that he thinks the penalty is fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were [...]
Continue reading...FBI Adding Anti-war Protesters to Criminal DB
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
When CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright left for a peace talk on October 3rd to Canada, they were surprised to be denied entrance into the country because their names were contained in the FBI’s Criminal Database; a DB typically set aside for names of “sex offenders, [...]
Continue reading...FEMA Holds Fake News Conference
Monday, October 29, 2007
Todd Swarthout just sent in a… story… that is awesome cripplingly stupid. Pat Philbin, pictured above, is the man that oversaw public affairs at FEMA. He apparently decided last week to announce a press conference covering FEMA with regards to California’s disaster. So far so good… The only sticking points were that the press conference was: Announced 15mins before [...]
Continue reading...Corrupt Sheriff Joe Arpaio Subpoenas Phoenix New Times
Friday, October 19, 2007
Over the years the Phoenix New Times have published story after story articling the corruption and underground dealings of “America’s Toughest Sherrif”: Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In a retaliation for this constant uncovering of his illegal dealings (illegal immigration disputes, Mexican drug cartels, the Minutemen, political ambition, and turf disputes between prosecutors and the judiciary) Joe Arpaio [...]
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Friday, November 16, 2007
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