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Woman sat dead in front of TV for 42 years gizmodo.com — Croatian police said she was last seen by neighbours in 1966, when she would have been 42 years old. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Category: Humanity |
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McCain's Offshore Drilling Position A Flip From 3 weeks Ago www.huffingtonpost.com — On Monday, John McCain told a crowd in Texas that he was abandoning his long-time support for a federal ban on drilling along the nation's coastlines in favor of allowing states to decide for themselves.But how recent a convert is McCain to this position? More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Nature, Politics |
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Is the Internet Making Us Stupid? www.npr.org — Right now, you're probably happy that you have the vast resources of the entire Internet at your fingertips. It's a feeling of power, isn't it? All that information, all that content, right there for you whenever you want it? While the Internet allows us to get lots of information very quickly, it also encourages us not to look at it very closely. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Humanity, Technology |
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The Vatican Bans Filming of "Angels & Demons" www.dailygalaxy.com — Father Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Diocese of Rome, said: “Normally we read the script but this time it was not necessary. The name Dan Brown was enough.” More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Entertainment, Politics, Religion |
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Sweden Approves Bill To Tap All Forms Of Communication techdirt.com — Recently, we had mentioned a bill under consideration in Sweden that would open up all forms of communication to government monitoring, and Slashdot passes on the news that the bill has been narrowly approved. Apparently a few "safeguards" were added, though those were not detailed in the article. There's still plenty of controversy about this, but it seems like yet another law put in place by those who do not understand the law of unintended consequences. This law will be abused -- and the privacy of many people will be at risk. As for those who are actually planning terrorist attacks or whatever, they'll quickly migrate to more secure forms of communication (if they hadn't already). More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Privacy, Technology |
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Law School to Organize Bush War Crimes Trial www.afterdowningstreet.org — A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Category: Government |
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www.mcclatchydc.com — An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Humanity |
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France to Ban illegal Downloaders From Using the Internet technology.timesonline.co.uk — Anyone in France who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under a controversial new law that makes the country a pioneer in combating internet piracy. "There is no reason that the internet should be a lawless zone," said President Sarkozy, as he endorsed the "three-strikes-and-your-out' rule. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Technology |
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Mississippi River overflows 19 levees uk.reuters.com — The swollen Mississippi River has flowed over the top of 19 levees in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois, and another 29 levees are at risk, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Wednesday. The river over-topped at least nine levees overnight as water levels rose in the Midwest's worst flooding in 15 years. The river was cresting More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Humanity, Nature |
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Japanese Lawmaker Says 9/11 Was Inside Job search.japantimes.co.jp — .Fujita, along with a growing number of individuals — including European and American politicians — are leading a charge to conduct a thorough, independent investigation of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. More… 0 Comments Submitted By: destiney Categories: Government, Humanity |