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Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
"Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the aut ...[Read more]
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The Un-Internet and War On General Purpose Computers
Facebook, Twitter, Apple and others try to increasingly contain and control how people use their computers and devices, limiting their freedom and choices. This article analyzes this 'un-internet' phenomenon. ...[Read more]
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The Four Companies That Control the 147 Companies That Own Everything
Study finds that four companies control the 147 other companies that practically control everything through conglomerate holdings and stake holders. ...[Read more]
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3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US | Occupy America
In the last few days, the U.S. government census figures have revealed that 1 in 2 Americans have fallen into poverty or are struggling to live on low incomes. And we know that the financial hardships faced by our neighbors, colleagues, and others in our ...[Read more]
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Wikileaks revealed US espionage of Indigenous Peoples in 2011
Wikileaks documents reveal that u.s. and canada have engaged in espionage, illegal wiretapping of indigenous peoples, and pressurized governments including ecuador, iceland, in order to stop adoption of the document of rights of indigenous peoples. ...[Read more]
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Cry It Out: The Method That Kills Baby Brain Cells
It turns out that the "Cry It Out" method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more ...[Read more]
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Preliminary Report: Record Temperatures at South Pole (and nearby AWS sites
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Major Pest May Be Resistant To Genetically Modified Corn
One of the nation's most widely planted crops ...[Read more]
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Some Assembly Required: One last jump to lightspeed | Massively
Blog post by gamer reports the final moments of the massively multiplayer game, Star Wars Galaxies, on the day it is shut down by Sony Online Entertainment. The closedown preceded the launch of Star Wars The Old Republic, the new Star Wars mmo, just by tw ...[Read more]
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Why I (and probably 600,000 others) stopped playing World of Warcraft | VentureBeat
Blizzard's flagship online game, World of Warcraft, shed around 600,000 players in the last quarter even though it released one of its most successful expansion packs yet. Blizzard chief executive Mike Morhaime said players blitzed through the content fas ...[Read more]
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Does Having Children Make You Unhappy?
Statistics show that parents are less happy than the average population. In the April edition of the online Journal of the British Psychological Association, researcher Nattavudh Powdthavee, of the University of York in Great Britain (whose own academic w ...[Read more]
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