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Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

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Jeffrey R. Young Chronicle Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia U., is developing the Freedom Box, a personal server that makes data harder to intercept. “The Net we have is increasingly monitored, measured, and surveilled everywhere by everybody all the time,” he says. “Our Net has been turned against us. Computer networks proved their [...]

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NYPD Ordered to Stop Marijuana Possession Arrests

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Phillip Smith Stop the Drug War New York City may soon shed its infamous reputation as the pot bust capital of the world. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly Monday issued an internal order to the NYPD telling officers they can no longer arrest people for marijuana possession in public view if the marijuana was not in [...]

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The invasion of chemicals in vitamins and supplements

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S. D. Wells Natural News The general public is still shopping at Walmart and common drugstores for synthetic multivitamins and calcium supplements. The bad news is what you don’t know might hurt you. Walking into a nutritional nightmare is easy if you don’t know about supplements. Dangerous supplement’s can reverse what you are trying to [...]

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FILM REVIEW: ‘The Wonderful World of Tony Blair’

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Patrick Henningsen Infowars I suppose I’m not alone in being part of a growing camp of media consumers who fall into the category of being perennially disappointed by the 21st century mainstream media’s complete inability to produce any investigative material with real teeth. With all their access, budgets and resources, I still expect that once [...]

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The truth about Gardasil, and why Rick Perry’s endorsement threatened the health of millions

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Ethan A. Huff Natural News Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s failed plot to force Merck & Co.’s Gardasil vaccine on millions of young girls in the Lone Star State has sparked renewed interest among Americans, as to what all the controversy is about concerning the vaccine (http://www.naturalnews.com/033571_R…). The mainstream media’s response to the incident has included [...]

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Sunspot 1302 unleashed towards Earth, detected on shortwave radio

By   /  September 27, 2011  /  Environment  /  No Comments

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Digital Journal Scientists are monitoring a sunspot that produced an X1.9-category solar storm that was unleashed over the weekend and could be headed towards Earth. Sunspot 1302 was so strong that it has been detected shortwave radio on this planet. Digital Journal has reported in the past about intense solar storms and so far nothing [...]

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Iran says could deploy navy near U.S. coast

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MSNBC Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States’ Atlantic coast, in what would be a major escalation of tensions between the long-standing adversaries. “Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders,” the [...]

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AnonAustria publishes personal data of Austrian Police

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TechSpot The Austrian branch of the Anonymous hacking group, AnonAustria, has published the personal information including addresses and dates of birth of nearly 25,000 police officials, ranging from low rank beat officers to senior commanders in the police force. AnonAustria posted the private information as a searchable database on its Twitter account yesterday, justifying their [...]

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Astronomers discover new way to measure Universe

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PhySorg Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its heart, millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun. When these dark hearts of galaxies actively accrete matter they become incredibly bright. These are quasars, and they outshine everything else in the universe.Astronomers at Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute have found a new way [...]

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U.S. Continues to Back Afghan Warlord Linked to 2006 Massacre and Torture of Prisoners

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Democracy Now New revelations about a U.S.-backed warlord in Afghanistan are raising questions about whether the United States has violated its own laws in its aim to defeat the Taliban. The Atlantic magazine reports the United States, under both former President George W. Bush and President Obama, has actively supported the police commander in Kandahar, [...]

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Is breaking up Syria really an option?

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Voice of Russia While new fighting erupts in Syria between the pro-government forces and rebels for the control of several key cities, the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moualem, addressing the U.N. General Assembly, said that the West is trying to create “total chaos” to break up Syria, and blamed months-long anti-government demonstrations on “foreign intervention”. [...]

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Shutdown, austerity and depression for America

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Shutdown, austerity and depression for America

Russia Today For the third time this year, the United States government faces a potential shutdown as lawmakers in Washington try to tackle spending issues on Capitol Hill. With unrest on Wall Street, Washington and across America, how severe of a threat is this shutdown and what could come of it? “If we don’t act [...]

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