Tag: protests
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ISPs Warn UK Over Government Email Surveillance ‘Plans’
Internet firms have warned that government plans to monitor email and social media use in Britain are liable to be used by repressive regimes elsewhere in the world to justify their state surveillance.
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Detroit Holds Parade to Rid City of Evil Spirit
Detroit is nearly broke, and the mayor is recovering from surgery. Maybe it’s because of an evil red dwarf suspected of casting a spell centuries ago.
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Atheists rally on National Mall in show of political force
from religionnews.com: Atheists and nonbelievers gathered on the National Mall Saturday (March 24) in a bid to show politicians, voters and even themselves that they have grown into a force to be recognized and reckoned with. “We are here to deliver a message to America,” David Silverman, president of American Atheists, one of the rally’s…
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Westboro Baptist to Protest Midwest Tornado Victims’ Funerals
The Westboro Baptist Church has announced that it plans to protest the funerals of victims of the tornado that rampaged through the Midwest earlier this week.
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Obama Apologizes For Quran Burning As Afghan Protests Go On
President Barack Obama apologized Thursday for the accidental burning of Qurans by U.S. forces in Afghanistan as anti-American demonstrations raged for a third consecutive day, leaving two NATO troops and at least five Afghans dead and 26 Afghans wounded nationwide.
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SOPA Is Back As Websites Go Black
A mere 4 days after announcing he was dropping the DNS blocking provisions of the bill and putting it on the shelf until a ‘consensus’ was reached, Representative Lamar Smith has brought SOPA back out to play, and just in time for the January 18th SOPA blackouts.
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dhs warns that hackers may be motivated by #occupywallstreet
from mediaite: The “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been a way to fuel people’s anger at Wall Street, and the Department of Homeland Security is concerned such high-profile events may inspire hackers to once again target big financial institutions. Members of the group Anonymous have been seen at the protests, and those who have work…
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Supercomputer Predicts Revolution Through ‘Culturomics’
from singularity hub: A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining the news for the past 30 years the software indicates points at which the likelihood for a revolution is high. When put to the test – bingo! – the software showed spikes…
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See Dick Lie, Hear Dick Talk About Torture
There’s obviously not enough fluoride and estrogens in the Vancouver water supply! A crowd of protestors showing hi-test (high levels of testosterone) gathered outside the staid Vancouver Club, chanting “shame on you” and “arrest Dick Cheney now”.
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foo fighters protest westboro baptist church in kansas
from beliefblog: Rock stars the Foo Fighters played an impromptu show for a group of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church who had come to protest outside the band’s show Friday night in Kansas City, Kansas. Band members jumped onto a flatbed truck, sporting costumes they wore in a recent video parody, parked across the street…
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Ratzinger Visit Triggers Violent Protests In Madrid
Tens of thousands were in the streets Wednesday night, to protest their tax dollars being used to host the leader of the Catholic church. The scene turned violent in short order, with police and angry youths clashing openly in the streets.
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7/28 Defcon: Black Ops, Blacklist, #FuckYouWashington
Murdoch’s Fox ran black ops dept, Fmr exec claims // British telecom ordered to blacklist Usenet search engine // Anonymous gets cyber tsar to resign // ISS to crash into the ocean in 2020 // China reportedly developing EMP weapons // Boeing’s millennium falcon floats using Nazi technology // DHS fears modified Stuxnet could attack…
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Aussie Flag Burned Over Image of Goddess
Upset Hindus have welcomed apology from an Australian swimwear label over the depiction of image of Goddess Lakshmi on swimwear at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week in Sydney last week.
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5/5 pop occulture: walpurgis wrapup
royal families & new world order* 8 Things Kate Don’t Know About Royalty* sales skyrocket for little-known £70 fragrance Kate wore* Kate Middleton, Runaway Bride? ‘Plan in Place’ In Case She Had Bolted* Queen arrives at abbey for wedding* First the Great Unveiling… and then a collective gasp* So who WERE those nuns?* The Royal…
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4/21 Defcon: Manning Up & Tracking You Down
Manning under mental evaluation, being moved to Kansas // Protesters interrupt Obama to sing support for Wikileaks suspect // President Obama’s 4/20 Facebook townhall // Poker today, alternative news tomorrow?: US shuttering online gambling sites // White House authoring new cybersecurity bill granting expanded powers to DHS