"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 ...[
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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. ...[
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Study finds that four companies control the 147 other companies that practically control everything through conglomerate holdings and stake holders. ...[
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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 ...[
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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. ...[
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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 ...[
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One of the nation's most widely planted crops ...[
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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 ...[
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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 ...[
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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 ...[
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