December 2011
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Ocean Acidification: Some Organisms Already... →
ScienceDaily (Dec. 22, 2011) — A group of 19 scientists from five research organizations have conducted the broadest field study of ocean acidification to date using sensors developed at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
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2011 in Photos: from the Front Lines of the Bay →
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The ‘Occupy’ movement lives →
The hashtag#occupywallstreet inspired the most basic of organizing strategies: sit-ins. OWS sit-ins became encampments, many of which are now being dismantled by law enforcement and debilitated by weather. As the movement is increasingly out of the sight of pundits and the popular media, and criticized as leaderless and lacking a clear purpose, it has become fashionable to talk about OWS...
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US seeks to 'terrorize' OWS protesters →
Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen, who was severely injured by US police during a recent anti-Wall Street demonstration, says the government is terrorizing people to rob them of their right to protest.
“First and foremost, they’re not respecting our right to assemble, to protest and to redress our government for grievances…By the tactics they’re using, they are in fact terrorizing some of...
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25 Best Occupy photos of 2011(PHOTOS) →
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SOPA, NDAA, & Now H.R. 3166: Enemy Expatriation... →
To add engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their nationality.
Sponsor: Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA15]
Status: This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Explanation: Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general...
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Obama Makes It Official: Suspected Terrorists Can... →
Despite having once threatened to veto the bill due to controversial language about the treatment of suspected terrorists, the president signed the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on Saturday. Barack Obama did not keep his lingering concerns about aspects of the bill law a secret, however. In justifying his decision to sign NDAA into law, Obama said in a statement,...
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Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill-With... →
This afternoon, Obama signed the controversial Defense authorization bill, despite his reservations about provisions related to the treatment of terrorism suspects. The National Journal reports:
President Obama signed on Saturday the defense authorization bill, formally ending weeks of heated debate in Congress and intense lobbying by the administration to strip controversial provisions...
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Raw Story’s Mike Rogers: Ron Paul hiding an... →
Raw Story’s managing director Mike Rogers was a guest on Thursday’s The Ed Show, discussing Ron Paul and the real ramifications of the candidate’s views on “states’ rights,” civil rights, and the rights of LGBT people under a potential Paul administration.
Related: Paul once criticized equal pay, AIDS patients, sexual harassment victims
The Paul campaign prominently featured the endorsement of...
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‘Occupy’ protesters interrupt Ron Paul: ‘Why do... →
As part of their promise to “go big,” protesters with the 99 Percent movement have been interrupting campaign-related events all over Iowa in the week leading up to the nation’s first major presidential candidate selection contest, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul was not given an exception.
During a rally with veterans last night, candidate Paul saw his speech interrupted by a group of about 20...
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Occupy protester banned from flight home for... →
A protester associated with Occupy London was barred from boarding his flight home to Malaga for Christmas because he was carrying “anarchist” literature, according to a report in the U.K. newspaper The Independent. The demonstrator was kept off the flight because the pilot worried that he would distribute literature and “upset” other passengers.
Police claimed that John Charles Culatto, 34, was...
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Chavez: U.S. May Be Behind Leaders’ Cancer →
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hinted that the U.S. may be behind a “very strange” bout of cancer affecting several leaders aligned with him in South America.
Chavez, speaking a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, said the Central Intelligence Agency was behind chemical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and that it’s possible that...
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No longer just theories: The top 10 conspiracy... →
anonymissexpress:
By Mike Adams via @Wildey2
2011 was the year in which many conspiracy “theories” became conspiracy FACTS. Articles that used to earn you a tinfoil hat designation suddenly were front-page news stories across the country. The world is stranger than we can imagine, it seems, and 2011 proved it yet again.
Here are the top ten conspiracy facts that emerged over the last year:...
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The Machine...
…loves consumers. The Machine is afraid of Citizens.
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Cultural Diversification Also Drives Human... →
ScienceDaily (Dec. 22, 2011) — Changes in social structure and cultural practices can also contribute to human evolution, according to a study that has recently been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), contributed to by the lecturer Mireia Esparza and assistant Neus Martínez-Abadías, from the Anthropology Unit of the UB’s Department of ...
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Rep. Paul says defense bill assures ‘descent into... →
GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul warned that the National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by Congress this month, will accelerate the country’s “slip into tyranny” and virtually assures “our descent into totalitarianism.”
“The founders wanted to set a high bar for the government to overcome in order to deprive an individual of life or liberty,” Paul, the libertarian...
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AP: CIA eyes up to 5M tweets a day →
The Central Intelligence Agency is systematically monitoring Twitter, following up to 5 million foreign tweets a day, according to a new report.
The CIA’s Open Source Center reviews and analyzes information widely available to the general public, including Twitter and Facebook, and keeps eyes on everything from blogs to tweets to more traditional media, The Associated Press says in a feature...
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If you dont agree.....
…with some of what Ron Paul’s policy ideas are, then okay. But of those of you who voted for Obama, did you get your cake and eat it too? Other than the fact that Obama is a blazen corporate whore, it is funny that during this time in US politics that the leading Republican Presidential Candidate sounds more liberal and in touch than the sitting Democratic President. Other than ending...
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Man At Bar Ribs Cop 'Aw, You Suck At Darts,' Cop... →
A man at a bar in Murrieta, California ribbed an off-duty cop that he ‘suck[ed] at darts,’ the cop, 42-year-old Dayle Long, reportedly responded by pulling out a gun and executing him in front of a shocked crowd in an incident one man described as ‘the most horrific scene I’ve seen in my entire life.’
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Status of S.968 - PROTECT IP Act of 2011(PIPA) at... →
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Status of H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA)... →
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Post from Reddit Regarding Nintendo's Support of...
Response from Nintendo of America regarding SOPA (self.SOPA)
submitted 11 hours ago by tomdumont
Hello,
Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. I’ve forwarded your comments on SOPA to the appropriate departments within the company so that your feedback will be heard.
Please know that Nintendo is strongly in favor of free speech. In fact, the entire video game industry recently fought...
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SOPA vote rescheduled for this week, attempts... →
Despite what you may have heard at the end of last week, the vote for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is not delayed until 2012 nor is it delayed “indefinitely” – instead members of Congress hoping to run the act through a vote without any more internet-based campaigns to stop it have secretly rescheduled for the middle of this week. This blacklist legislation is also known as the PROTECT...
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NDAA And SOPA: What You Need To Know This Morning →
1) Some Occupy L.A. protesters may get a lesson in free speech — Los Angeles Times — Prosecutors say the non-violent protesters, who exercised their freedom of speech rights, can avoid court trials and jail time by paying $355 to a private company for a re-educational program about the freedom of speech. I’m sure the founding fathers would be proud.
2) Americans will be...