Police State, Tech Tips, Auto-Correct, Fun, Fake Reviews

Police State

• Here's How Your Senators Voted on Udall Amendment to Strip Out War and Imprisonment Power Grabs
• 30 Signs That The United States Of America Is Being Turned Into A Giant Prison
• US banks back protester crackdown--"A prominent political activist says that US banks are paying big money for police forces to crackdown on Occupy demonstrators who, in turn, are protesting banks that steal police pensions."
• New York Fed Brownshirt Jason Barker Urges Police to Crack Skulls of #OWS
• Brain Rot: I am the 99%

Tech tips

• Why all HDMI cables are the same--Do you want to be a douche nozzle?
• How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day You Bought It
• Ninite Easy PC Setup - Silent Unattended Install Multiple Programs At Once
• iTunes library, fixing a broken one or moving one
• Broken App? Get a Refund! Your Guide to the iTunes Refund Process
• The Dirty Secret of Inkjet Printers
• H-P: Why Our Ink Is Expensive
• JavaRA--Just updating doesn't remove the old, unpatched versions in your computer
• "Does anyone have an extra Microsoft office suite pass key."
• A letter on behalf of the world's PC fixers

Auto-Correct

• The 12 Funniest iPhone Auto-Correct Fails
• Damn You Auto Correct!
• Parents Shouldn't Text

Fun

• Woman single-handedly cuts off two countries from Internet
• Rats Causes Virgin Broadband Outage In Scotland
• Why computer voices are mostly female
• Let's End Unboxing Videos
• Why People write “First” in the comments-- Even over TCMP
• Legal disclaimers: Spare us the e-mail yada-yada
• Why the fax machine refuses to die--The Onion reports that fax machines are still pretty impressive if you think about it.

Fake Reviews

• Amazon Users Post Rave ‘Reviews’ Of UC Davis Pepper Spray
• AudioQuest - Coffee 26.3' HDMI Cable - White - 65-082-16
• Diamond HDMI Digital Audio/Video Cable W/ Ethernet Connection
• Officially Licensed Star Wars Luke Skywalker Ceremonial Jacket with Medal Of Yavin
• Cornell software fingers fake online reviews

Corporations, Monsanto and GM Crops, Food and Politics, Air Fare, Cigarettes

Corporations

• A Family’s Billions, Artfully Sheltered--"An examination of public documents involving Mr. Lauder’s companies, investments and charities offers a glimpse of the wide array of legal options for the world’s wealthiest citizens to avoid taxes both at home and abroad." NYT
• Wal-Mart ramps up ballot threats to speed new stores--"In a push to expand across California without interference, Wal-Mart is increasingly taking advantage of the state’s initiative system to threaten elected officials with costly special elections and to avoid environmental lawsuits."
• Corporations Hate Regulation, Until They Love It
• 'Occupy The SEC' Scrutinizes The Volcker Rule For Loopholes
• Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the Movement Against Corporate Power
• Rep. Deutch Introduces OCCUPIED Constitutional Amendment To Ban Corporate Money In Politics
• The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became "People" -- Thanks to Corrupt Courts Working for the 1%

Monsanto and GM Crops

• Maine farmer heads group challenging genetics giant
• Judge Who Ruled Humans Have 'No Food Rights' Resigns, Takes Job with Monsanto Law Firm
• Why Is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto?
• Why Is Damning New Evidence About Monsanto's Most Widely Used Herbicide Being Silenced?
• GM crops: EU parliament backs national bans
• GM crops promote superweeds, food insecurity and pesticides, say NGOs
• Monsanto Corn Under Attack By Superbug The Onion

Food and Politics

• Congress Pushes Back On Healthier School Lunches
• US Congress Seeks to Cut Food Stamp Program
• Feast Your Eyes: 16 Cents of Each Dollar You Spend on Food Goes to the Farm. What Happens to the Rest?
• Sugar Policy: Sweet Deal for Producers, Sour for Consumers--It's been going on for a while.
• War and corruption are responsible for famines, not droughts

Air Fare

• Senator: Travelers Should Be Reimbursed Fees For All Lost & Mishandled Bags
• Spirit Airlines To Charge $5 To Print Your Boarding Pass For You
• United CEO: Airfares Are Only Going To Get More Complicated
• Airline asks passengers for fuel money after they’re left stranded in Vienna
• US Senate to airlines: Stop shafting your passengers (please?)

Cigarettes

• Obama urges Americans to quit smoking, angering Big Tobacco
• 'Unlawful' tobacco pricing leads to £225m fine by OFT
• Judge Blocks Graphic Cigarette Warnings NYT
• Australia cigarette 'plain packaging' law passes Senate
• Should we ban cigarettes?: 'Cigarettes, not guns or bombs, are the deadliest artifacts in the history of civilisation.'

Udall Amendment, Obama, GOP, Local Politics, Hacking, Fucks News

Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a "Battlefield" They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window

Obama

• Why Do Liberals Keep Sanitizing the Obama Story?
• Obama gets mic checked--"Over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested while bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st Amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out."
• Michael Moore Calls President Obama's First Term "Heartbreaking," "A Disappointment"
• Obama 'Bundlers' Have Ties to Lobbying NYT
• Andrew Sullivan: Why Obama Still Matters
• Both confusing and upsetting
• Fooled you.

GOP

• David Frum: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
• The Virus of GOP Ignorance: Why Don't Media Protect Us From the Lies Spewed in the Republican Primary?
• Gingrich Calls Child Labor Laws 'Stupid', Wants To Replace Janitors With Poor Kids
• Deadbeat Rep. Joe Walsh, Who Owes $100k In Child Support, Receives "Pro-Family" Award From Family Research Council
• Send in the Republican clowns

Local Politics

• Gov. John Kitzhaber stops executions in Oregon, calls system 'compromised and inequitable'
• Judge blocks Fla.'s new welfare drug testing law--Thanks to the ACLU
• Louisiana prohibits residents from using cash when buying, selling secondhand goods
• Disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback lands Kansas teen in principal's office--And now she is taking a stand (NYT) for her tweet. Update: Governor Brownback apologizes to Emma Sullivan over Twitter tiff
• The Price of Intolerance--"There should be no doubt about the moral repugnance of Alabama's law, which seeks to deny hardworking families the means to live. But even some of the law’s most enthusiastic supporters are beginning to acknowledge the law’s high economic cost." NYT

Hacking

• James Murdoch resigns as director of Sun, Times and Sunday Times
• Hugh Grant, Milly Dowler's parents lead tabloid battle
• J.K. Rowling chased from home by press, she says
• Murdoch Paper Was Spying On The British MPs Investigating It
• Murdoch's News Corp accused of trying to bribe Australian senator
• The press on trial--"Evidence implicates 28 Murdoch journalists; The Sun named in phone hacker's notebook; Judge warns press not to victimise witnesses."
• British paper turns readers into newshounds--"A British newspaper has thrown open its office doors, let the readers stride in, and invited them to peer over reporters' shoulders -- digitally, at least."

Fucks News

• Fairleigh Dickinson PublicMind Poll Shows Fox News Viewers Less Informed on Major News Stories
• 7 Things Fox Viewers Are Wildly Misinformed About
• Understanding The History And Purpose Of FOX News

SOPA, Surveillance, Telcos, Phone Followers, Carrier IQ, AT&T

SOPA

• Senator Promises To Filibuster Internet Blacklisting Bill
• Tech Companies Not Taking a Stand on Censorship Are Being Blacklisted
• Even the Business Software Alliance now backpedaling on SOPA support
• Surprise! Microsoft quietly opposes SOPA copyright bill--Their hesitation may be the reason why the BSA is backing off.
• AmericanCensorship.org

Surveillance

• 9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats
• The state wants to know what you're up to. But why do we let it?--"What drives the spread of surveilliance is not a desire to diminish evil, but the desire to control."
• Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
• Do We Have Any Right to Privacy Outside Our Homes?
• License Plate Scanners Logging Our Every Move
• Federally-Funded Street Lights Capable of "Recording Conversations"
• Real ID Act blocks some Americans from any ID

Telcos

• Why Telecoms Get Away With Screwing Customers to Pump Up Their Massive Profits--The telecom trust’s use of the FCC to raise your rates is a direct example of how corporate greed impacts each of us
• The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Too Much for Bad Service
• Free Texts Pose Threat to Carriers--"Professor Keshav estimates it costs the carriers about a third of a penny to send text messages. Considering that the major carriers charge 10 to 20 cents to send and receive them, 'it's something like a 4,090 percent markup,' he said." NYT
• Senators Introduce Bill To Ban Mandatory Binding Arbitration Clauses In Cellphone Contracts--It restores consumers' right to sue.
• Telemarketers, Collectors Could Target Cells Under "Mobile Information Call Act--"ICYMI: Bill collectors and telemarketers would be able to robocall cell phones under legislation seeking to end 20 years of consumer protection, New York’s senior senator said."

Phone Followers

• Court Says Warrantless Mobile Phone Tracking Is Unconstitutional
• How much privacy can smartphone owners expect?
• Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday

Carrier IQ

• Carrier IQ Tries to Censor Research With Baseless Legal Threat
• Carrier-IQ Tries To Sue TrevE
• Carrier IQ retracts cease and desist letter sent to security researcher, says it doesn't track Android users

AT&T

• Into the depths of AT&T's let-us-buy-T-Mobile astroturf campaign
• FCC deals blow to AT&T, T-Mobile merger
• AT&T withdraws FCC application for T-Mobile merger--A temporary measure while they contest the DOJ's antitrust suit against them.

Black Friday, Raising Hellions, Underaged Indiscretions, Real World, To Catch, Sex Education, Erecticle Discoveries

Black Friday

• US Black Friday marred by shootings, pepper-sprayings
• Police body slam leaves grandpa bloody, unconscious at Wal-Mart
• Pepper Spraying may have Cost Billions

Raising Hellions

• Merrylee Primary nature play zone 'cuts accidents'
• Give me balls or give me death
  
• No Matter How Much You Protect Your Kids, Sooner Or Later One Of Them's Going To Drown In A Swimming Pool The Onion

Underaged Indiscreations

• N.J. bill to address teen cell phone 'sexting' approved by state Senate panel--" Juveniles caught sending sexually explicit photographs via their cell phones would not face criminal prosecution but rather intense education on the ramifications..."
• Court frees U.S. teen jailed 10 years for oral sex--"A Georgia man sentenced to 10 years in jail without parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 walked free on Friday after the state's top court ordered his early release."
  
• Parents Sue D.A. for Charging Their 6-Year-Old Son With a Felony After He Played Doctor With a 5-Year-Old Girl

Real World

• Restaurant Just Says No To Children Under 6
• Would you like to see adult-only flights?
• A Sign for all Time

To Catch

• Row over photo in shopping centre--"A Facebook campaign is calling for people to boycott a shopping centre after claims a man was questioned by police for taking photographs of his own four-year-old daughter." In the end, Braehead shopping centre owner changes UK photographs policy.
• Man Photographing Grandson In Park Deemed Suspicious By Police And Media
• He’s labeled a sex offender for life — for sleeping with his own wife
• State pays millions for contract psychologists to keep up with Jessica's Law
• Penny Arcade: Our Connected World

Sex Education

• Parents' Porn Fears Exaggerated, Experts Say
• Swimsuit issue
• The smart Dutch take on teen sex--Also, What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex
• Let's talk about sex – to four-year-olds
• The Funniest Sex Education Posters Of All Time
• Big fail for sex classes
• Daughter Thinks It's Time To Have Sex Talk With Parents The Onion

Erecticle Discoveries

• LiCD
• SMBC
• Justin Bieber's Underage Sex Tale Could Have Unhappy Side Effect: Teen Boys Engaging in Early Sex Could Have Small Endowments

Occupy Movement, Gender Danger, Abortion and Birth Control, Abstinence, Rape

Occupy Movement

• Let Journalists Work, City Police Are Ordered NYT
• Occupy my TV: The birth of the citizen video reporter
• Occupy The Movie
• Pong
• Krugman: We Are the 99.9% NYT
  
• Next for the Occupy Movement: Target and Drive Corporate Shills Out of Congress
• Police Violence on Occupy Protestors Is Unhealthy for Democracy

Gender Danger

• Senegal Curbs a Bloody Rite for Girls and Women--Stop female circumsion. NYT
• Ultrasounds worsen Asia women shortage: UN
• "Wife-sharing" haunts Indian villages as girls decline
• 'Bridenapping' – a growing hidden crime
• European Union bans its own film on Afghan women in jail for "moral crimes"
• Fury over young activist publishing nude self-photo--Blogger Aliaa Elmahdy explains why she posed naked.
• Egyptian women's group calls on men to try the veil
• Fury rages over rape case in Turkey
• Pakistani court upholds gang-rape acquittals
• Rape Cases Soar in Somali Camps: Gangs of armed men terrorize internally displaced women in Somalia
• Afghan woman's choice: 12 years in jail or marry her rapist and risk death
• American woman accuses Egypt police of sexual assault--"Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American woman, said she was beaten, groped, and prodded by police near Tahrir."

Abortion and Birth Control

• Contraception already prevents 112 million abortions a year, by U.N. estimates. NYT
• Women Out Front In Defeat Of MS Abortion Measure
• Ban Birth Control? They Wouldn't Dare...
• House passes bill on abortion funding
• Obama Promises to Veto Abortion Bill
• That’s not what 'misogyny' means
• Mexico: Court upholds provision saying life begins at conception

Abstinence

• Texas Schools Slowly, Begrudgingly Admit Abstinence-Only Education Isn't Working
• Florida: Young people acquire nearly half of all new STDs--"Florida’s current sex education policy focuses on abstinence-only programs, which do little to help sexually active teens prevent STDs."
• Wisconsin GOP Senate Passes Abstinence-Only Bill That Prohibits Teachers From Teaching Contraception
• New GOP bill cuts comprehensive sex ed, funds abstinence-only programs
• Every sperm is sacred--Anti-contraception activist Santorum believes only abstinence is permissible in the eyes of God.

Rape

• Teen allegedly raped, forced to apologize for pregnancy before her church
• Special ed student raped by classmate, forced by school to apologize to him, then raped again, lawsuit claims
• College Rape Accusations and the Presumption of Male Guilt--Pressured by the Obama administration, universities abandon any pretense of due process in sexual assault cases.
• Plea deal in sex assault carries 1-year sentence; loophole may allow home detention for former officer
• NY Cop Rape Acquittal Shocks Many

UC Davis, Bad Cops, Caught on Cam, Rulings, ACLU, Red Light District

UC Davis

• UC Davis chancellor apologizes, does not resign--Saying that the 'University Needs Me'.
• UC Davis chancellor, Linda Katehi: Police defied my orders by using pepper spray
• California's Campus Movements Dig In Their Heels NYT'
• UC Davis Professor to the students: "I’m so sorry. I’m sorry we didn’t protect you. And I’m sorry we left the wrong people in charge."
• University to pay medical bills of pepper spray victims--One of them speaks out.
• Nov. 28th University System Wide Strike!
• Fox News On UC Davis Pepper Spraying: 'It's A Food Product, Essentially'

Bad Cops

• Federal Appeals Court Upholds Forced Home Entry Over DUI--Federal appeals court rules a police officer who suspects drunk driving can break into a home without first obtaining a warrant.
• Police using technology to shield internal communcations
• Turning Patrolmen Into Soldiers: How Did We Let This Happen?

Caught on Cam

• The right of citizens to videotape police--"Actions against citizen videographers go against not just the Constitution but good public policy."
• Video of pot bust spotlights lapses by police
• Google: US law enforcement tried to get videos removed from YouTube
• Police Union Punishes DA’s Office for Not Illegally Charging Woman Who Recorded Cops
• Oakland officer videotapes his killing of suspect
• Raging Cop Threatens To Arrest Ron Paul Supporters For Videotaping, Demands They Delete Video Or He'll (Falsely) Charge Them With Wiretapping
• Police Officer Goes Crazy When Told He Needs a Warrant to Search Car
• So. Fla. Cop: "We Can Videotape You, But You Don’t Have The Right To Videotape Us"
• Former Atlanta woman sues APD over camera seizure

Rulings

• Federal Courts Rule it is Not Illegal to Film Police
• Judge says recording police stop OK--" Weare man was exercising his First Amendment rights, ruling says."
• Judge worries recording police will lead to excessive "snooping around"
  

ACLU

• The Whole World Is Watching: Your Right to Videotape Police
• ACLU Sues LASD For Harassing Photographers
• ACLU: You have every right to photograph that cop
• ACLU sues Los Angeles police for detaining photographers
• ACLU: Why Cops Shouldn't Be in Classrooms

Red Light District

• Study Questions Outsourcing Traffic Camera Systems
• Denver Collects Fines On Drivers Who Stop At Red Lights
• Another Report Shows Redlight Cameras Increasing Accidents
  
• L.A. Police Commission votes to kill red-light camera program
• Judge Rules Red-Light Camera Election 'Invalid'--Says citizens cannot vote out a city ordinance.
• Broward Judge: Red Light Tix Unconstitutional--He ruled "that tickets for running red lights are unconstitutional when issued by officers because the fine is higher than those issued by red light cameras."
• Speed Camera Ban Deferred at Senate Committee
• Citizen activist grates on state over traffic signals
• Mississippi stops enforcement with red-light cameras
• Red-Light Cameras Just Don’t Work
• Motorist beats 98mph speeding charge--Proves speed cameras wrong

LGBT: Bullying, World News, Hate and Intolerance, Marriage Equality, The Ghey

Bullying

• Teen's parents: After suicide, he's still being bullied
  
• On Being Bullied and Bullying, - Mitchell Wilson
• "Religious exception" added to Michigan anti-bullying bill --Watch a Democrat Senator speak out against it.
• Colbert takes on Michigan bullying law--"Bullying is just fine as long as you get a permission slip from God." Salon
• Fox News Defends Anti-Gay Bullies, Ignores Real Victims

World News

• Mounting violence haunts South Africa's gays and mobilizes activists
• 'Honor killing' targets Turkey's LGBTs
• Cameron threat to dock some UK aid to anti-gay nations--"David Cameron has threatened to withhold UK aid from governments that do not reform legislation banning homosexuality."
• New Tunisian Government Promises 'Dignity' For Gays
• Zimbabwe: Prime Minister Criticised for Supporting Gays--"Zimbabwe PM Morgan Tsvangirai has broken ranks with President Robert Mugabe saying he now wants gay rights enshrined in the country's new constitution."

Hate and Intolerance

• Teen in gay-student slaying case agrees to 21-year prison term
• Stuart Walker found burned by roadside in Cumnock
• Danny Vega, Gay Filipino Hairdresser, Beat Into Coma by Trio of Teens
• Homophobia exacts a chilling price as hate crimes climb
• Warren Olney Apologizes For Linking Penn State Sex Scandal With Gay Adoptions
• Georgia University Forces Employees To Sign Statement Rejecting Homosexuality Or Be Fired
• Brett Ratner quits Oscars after using anti-gay slur

Marriage Equality

• Poll: Support for gay marriage continues to rise
• Gay marriage message takes gentler tone in Maine
• Judge: Prop. 8 donors have no right to anonymity
• Catholic Church steps up gay marriage attack
• Al Franken Fact Checks Chuck Grassley: Marriage Has Evolved Over Time
• Robert Crumb's Rejected New Yorker Cover
• Australia: Tasmania moves to recognise same-sex unions
• Media Reacts To Conan's Same-Sex Wedding News

Teh Ghey

• Google pulls 'Is My Son Gay?' Android app
• A straight woman confesses: I love gay male porn Salon
• Thugs attack two transvestites... who turn out to be cage fighters wearing fancy dress
• Texas Pride
• "Go ahead..."
• Mr. Lovenstein: Manly as Fuck--NSFW.
• Bert And Ernie Not Gay The Onion

Occupy Movement, Supercommittee, Public-Private Conspirators, Class War, Jobs

Occupy Movement

• Occupy Wall Street Puts the Coverage in the Spotlight NYT
• Lobbying Firm's Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street
• The naked truth: Using art and strip poker to enlighten New York
• Glenn Greenwald: Here's what attempted co-option of OWS looks like Salon
• Nicholas Kristof: Occupy the Agenda NYT
• Shepard Fairey Designs 'Occupy Hope' Poster, Replaces Obama's Face With 'V for Vendetta' Mask
• Lost? Not so much.

Supercommittee

• The Supercommittee Fails—and That's Good for Obama
• Obama threatens to veto changes to $1.2T in cuts
• For Deficit Panel, Failure Cuts Two Ways NYT
• Greg Sargent: No, 'both sides' aren’t equally to blame for supercommittee failure
• Why the Super Committee is Super Illegitimate--"Members of Congress can't serve big money donors and the general public at the same time."

Public-Private Conspirators

• Billionaires Use Tax Loophole To Lower Their Tax Rates To 1 Percent
• The GOP brain explained: Why Cliff Stearns wants to subsidize successful companies
• Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal--"A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may n ot exist."
• Bell Helicopter Wants Tax Breaks but Can Afford to Pay Wall Street
• The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking

Class War

• The Economics Of Plutonomy
• The rich are getting richer, U.S. study says
• GOP sen.: Feds send checks to millionaires for not working
• Mississippi Woman Receives Three Year Prison Sentence For Feeding Her Family
• Congress Supports Homes for the Wealthy Over the Poor--"Somehow the government is managing to do exactly the opposite of what it should be doing: it's subsidizing home ownership for the rich while cutting funding for affordable housing for the poor."

Jobs

• Work for free – or not at all: the bitter choice for young graduates
• Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits--"People taking up work experience places – providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour – face losing benefits if they quit."
• Nearly 70% Of Super Rich Kids Take A Job At Daddy's Firm

UC Davis, SOPA, Supercommittee Super-Fail, Racism, Race Relations, Immigration and Visas

UC Davis

• 'Appalled' by police force on protesters, UC president orders urgent review
• UC Davis Launches Probe After Pepper Spray Video
• Officers in pepper spray incident put on leave
• Official 'spin' crumbles in the face of "too many videos"
• To the UC Chancellor: Pepper-Spraying, Baton-Wielding Riot Police Do Not Constitute "A Safe Welcoming Environment"

SOPA

• Tumblr users fight SOPA with 87,834 calls to Congress
• SOPA's latest threat: IP blocking, privacy-busting packet inspection
• Analysis: Internet Blacklist Bill Is Roadmap to 'the End' of the Internet --It's a very serious matter, but not everyone agrees with that sentiment.
• Congress seeks to tame the Internet Salon
• House Judiciary Committee Refuses To Hear Wider Tech Industry Concerns About SOPA (The Internet Blacklist Bill)--Guess we know who's pulling the pursestrings.
• #DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Political Force vs. SOPA
• Porn Gets Pulled Into National Debate Over SOPA

Supercommittee Super-Fail

• Lawmakers Trade Blame as Congressional Deficit Talks Crumble NYT
• Why the Supercommittee Was Actually a Dazzling Success
• Supercommittee failure would mean Congress’ next fight could be over blocking automatic cuts

Racism

• MSNBC Analyst: GOP Sees Herman Cain as a 'Black Man Who Knows His Place'
• Alabama’s Shame: Jewish Deli Owner Defends Documented Latinos, Receives Threats, Abuse, Boycott
• Black Student Can't Be Valedictorian
• Grind Time Now CEO, Direct Victim Of Racism In His Own Community.
• Conservative group backtracks on marriage pledge slavery language--"The original 'marriage vow' from the Family Leader, unveiled last week, included a line at the opening of its preamble, which suggested that black children born into slavery were better off in terms of family life than African-American kids born today."
• Black people can’t swim, &c.
• Racism’s resilience and adaptability guarantee it will last
• Neo-Nazi March stopped by counter-protesters in Berlin
• Geoffrey Canada Tells Stephen Colbert Racism Has Nothing to Do with the Achievement Gap
• Kung Fu Was No Hit
• "HP computers are racist."
• Educated Bigot That Much More Terrifying The Onion

Race Relations

• Record-High 86% Approve of Black-White Marriages
• Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above
• A new kind of people-watching--Psych 001 study finds that people of the same ethnicity tend to stick together.

Immigration and Visas

• What happens in Arizona doesn’t stay in Arizona Salon
• Colbert on Alabama's immigration policy: 'I told you so'
• DOJ Challenges South Carolina's Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Law
• You're getting a US visa! Oh, no, wait a minute
• Foreign students say visa program abused

UC Davis, Climate Change, Government, Environment, Ecology

UC Davis

• Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis
• Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student
• UC Davis Chancellor Emerges From Press Conf, Tells Me She Didn’t Feel Threatened
• UC Davis Professor Demands Chancellor Resign Over Pepper Spraying Of Students
• Davis Faculty Association Board Calls for Katehi's Resignation

Climate Change

• World's oceans in peril
• Thailand's Disastrous, Slow-Moving Flood
• BBC drops Frozen Planet's climate change episode to sell show better abroad

Government

• Environment: Ten Things Obama Must Do: How the president can help slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet - without waiting for Congress
• House votes to reject EU emissions control plan
• House Republicans Will Only Fix America’s Infrastructure If Oil Companies Can Drill In Arctic Wildlife Refuge

Environment

• In Pictures: Gulf seafood industry struggling
• Fracking Firm Admits It Caused Earthquakes in England
• Australian Senate passes carbon tax

Ecology

• Javan rhino goes extinct in Vietnam after last rhino poached
• Africa's Western black rhino declared extinct
• Shocking footage reveals tuna industry's slaughter of marine life
• Indonesians killed 750 orangutans in year
• Shark fin soup disappearing from the menu at Chinese weddings

Occupy Movement, Your Rights Online, Wikileaks, Politics, Euro

Occupy Movement

• Occupy Wall Street to World: This Is So Not Over!--"Two days after being evicted from Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street’s flagship occupation marked its two-month anniversary with a massive celebration of resilience."
• One Percent Solution: 1% business-controlled lobby groups pressured to clear Occupy Oakland encampment
• Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First Amendment
• An Open Letter to Mayor Bloomberg: Resign, Then Apologize for Violating the First Amendment
• Has a Harvard Professor Mapped Out the Next Step for Occupy Wall Street?
• Glenn Greenwald: OWS-inspired activism--"It’s very difficult to imagine sentiments this impassioned and profound simply disappearing because of some police raids or cold weather. It’s even more difficult to imagine how one could find this movement anything but inspiring." Salon
• The New Progressive Movement NYT

Your Rights Online

• EU Parliament Massively Commits to Net Neutrality and Open Internet
• EU Adopts Resolution Against US Domain Seizures
• SOPA Won’t Stop Online Piracy, Would Censor Everyone Else
• Viacom: Pass SOPA Or Spongebob Dies
• Feds Can Get Twitter Users’ Data Without Warrant, Judge Says
• Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos
• DOJ: Lying on Match.com needs to be a crime

Wikileaks

• White House: Why We Can't Comment on Bradley Manning
• Wikileaks' Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
• You can't bank on free speech--The "extrajudicial banking blockade" by credit card and payment companies that prevent people from donating to Wikileaks is "an historic act of censorship."
• Google Tells Congress: Financial Embargo Of WikiLeaks Shows How To Deal With Web Piracy
• The US government failed to uphold its own principles by unlocking WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts

Politics

• America's growing anti-intellectualism
• American Libertarianism: Stupid, Selfish and Mean
• Over 50% of Senior citizens say the Internet has been a negative development. They also dislike immigration, diversity, gay and interracial marriage, and tend to vote Republican
• Even Conservatives Think Republicans Are Sabotaging the Economy to Hurt Obama
• Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Democrats, Stop Caving In!"
• 10 Questions for John Paul Stevens

Euro

• Krugman: Legends of the Fail NYT
• UniCredit Trades as Junk With $51 Billion Due: Corporate Finance
• Hokey Pokey--"[T]here is no way to meaningfully restructure Italian debt without wiping out the capital base of Europe's banks, and forcing the nationalization of the entire European banking system."
• Words of a Euro Doomsayer Have New ResonanceNYT
• You can have the euro or you can have democracy – you can't have both

History: Suffer the Children, B.C., When in Rome, Roots, Hystery

Suffer the Children

• British children deported to Australia
• Report: South Dakota Removes Hundreds Of Native American Children From Their Homes, Collects Millions In Federal Funds
• Spain's stolen baby scandal--"Docs and nuns took thousands of infants at birth and sold them to childless couples. The painful truth is now emerging."

B.C.

• Why'd It Take So Long To Invent The Wheel?
• Gay caveman: 5,000-year-old male skeleton 'outed' by way he was buried
• Outdoor BBQ: A 700,000-year-old Ritual
• Next 'Great Pyramid' made in Germany?
• Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave?
• Archaeologists discover Iron Age Mickey Mouse
• Walrus Fossil Goes for $8,000
• Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago: Not husband and wife but Saxon warriors
• Gods In Color: Painted Sculpture Of Classical Antiquity
• History Lesson

When in Rome

• Warners nabs 'Rome, Sweet Rome'--Check out its humble beginning.
• Huge ancient Roman shipyard unearthed
• Roman 'factory town' for oil lamps found
• Roman history comes to life in Google Earth
• Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical secrets
• Sensational Find in Austria: Radar Helps Locate a Roman Gladiator School
• Romanes Eunt Domus

Roots

• Rethink on the origins of European men
• From Fermilab, a New Clue to Explain Human Existence?
• Caveman Science Fiction

Hystery

• Historically Hardcore
• Epic Rap Battles of History
• 6 Civil War Myths, Busted

SOPA, PROTECT IP, Military and Money, Oil, TSA, Surveillance

SOPA, PROTECT IP

• Stop the Great Firewall of America--"China operates the world’s most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship. But Congress, under pressure to take action against the theft of intellectual property, is considering misguided legislation that would strengthen China’s Great Firewall and even bring major features of it to America." NYT
• Proposed Copyright Bill Threatens Whistleblowing and Human Rights
• Joe Biden: SOPA is Un-American - but not when America does it
• SOPA: the whole world's Internet under US jurisdiction
• Yes, SOPA Breaks The Internet: By Breaking The Belief In Trust And Sharing That Is The Internet
• SOPA Will Have Grave Effects On The Health Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans
• Tech giants say SOPA piracy bill is 'draconian'
• House Judiciary Committee SOPA Hearings Stacked 5 To 1 In Favor Of Censoring The Internet
• Copyright Office will endorse SOPA anti-piracy bill
• Tumblr Takes Fight Against SOPA Up A Notch, ‘Censors’ User Dashboards

Military and Money

• Bombs, Bridges and Jobs--"Republicans – who normally insist that the government can’t create jobs, and who have argued that lower, not higher, federal spending is the key to recovery – have rushed to oppose any cuts in military spending. Why? Because, they say, such cuts would destroy jobs." NYT
• War Time Fraud Commission Ended Today - Evidence Sealed Until 2031
• Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers--"There’s the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there’s the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs."
• War Is Great for the 1% … But Makes the 99% Poorer. Top economists have also proven that war is horrible for the 99%.
• Should Cost" vs. "Did Cost": How the Military-Industrial Complex Swindles Billions of Our Dollars
• Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11
• Politicians Aren't Talking About Cutting Expensive Weapons, Just Health Care And Pension Coverage For The Military

Oil

• 35 Congressmen Move to Kill $122 Billion in Subsidies to Big Oil
• As Oil Companies Announce $24B in Profits, Rep. Stearns Says, "When Somebody Is Successful Then You Give Them Subsidies"
• Engineers, academics accuse feds of misleading public about oil supplies

TSA

• Is the TSA’s 10th birthday cause for celebration?
• Congressional report calls TSA 'bloated'
• TSA goes through woman's luggage, finds sex toy, leaves pervy note..."GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL."
• TSA Downplayed Cancer Concerns in Deploying X-ray Scanners
• Judge Tosses Jesse Ventura's Airport Scans Lawsuit
• TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
• Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports--"A small number of cancer cases would result from scanning hundreds of millions of passengers a year. For some, that's a health issue."

Surveillance

• Fresh German police-malware uncovered; everything the police said in defense to date revealed as lies
• London's Metropolitan Police spends millions of pounds on secret spy planes capable of eavesdropping on mobile phone calls
• Russian Internet Content Monitoring System To Go Live In December

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Movement, War on Terror, Torture, Gitmo

Occupy Wall Street

• Occupy Wall Street: New York judge backs eviction
• A Raid on the First Amendment: New York's Assault on Press Freedom
• Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site NYT
• Occupy Wall Street 'Media Blackout': Journalists Arrested, Roughed Up, Blocked From Covering Clearing
• Why Being Evicted Was the Best Thing to Happen to OWS in Weeks

Occupy Movement

• 84-Year-Old Woman Becomes the Pepper-Sprayed Face of Occupy Seattle 
• Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns
• Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits 18 Cities Were Consulting on #Occupy Crackdowns
• Occupy Portland Addresses Nation-Wide Crackdowns: 'Our Fight Is Not With You, But Rather With Banks'
• The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?
• Militarizing the Police: How the Drug War and 9/11 Led to Battle-Dressed Cops Cracking Down on Peaceful Protests
• Bill Moyers: "I don't think Occupy Wall Street will have the influence they want unless they do what the tea party did and take over the nominating process. Unless they do, they will never have the satisfaction that they want and that the civil rights movement, say, had back in the 1950s and '60s."
• Occupy Everywhere on November 17

War on Terror

• Iraq, Iran and the Nuclear Phantasm: We've Seen this Picture
• Poll: 62 Percent Say Iraq War Wasn't Worth Fighting
• Truth's Consequences
• PATRIOT Act at 10: the 3 worst provisions for ordinary Americans
• Rendition Victims Seek Justice Before International Tribunal
• Tracking Barak Obama's arc of instability
• Army Ranger Dies on *14th* War Deployment in 9 years

Torture

• "Dryboarding"--"[I]nterrogators decided to stuff Mr. al-Marri's mouth with cloth and cover his mouth with heavy duct tape - a technique of controlled suffocation..."
• Republicans return to the torture 'debate'
• Obama calls waterboarding 'torture'--But why have those been responsible for it before not been held accountable?
• Rep. West Defends Torture: "In The Movie G.I. Jane, Demi Moore Was Waterboarded"--No words.
• 'Torture' Judge Gets $3.4 Million Legal Defense fo--r Free

Gitmo

• Ex-Guantanamo guard tells of violence against detainees
• Gitmo Costs $800K/Year Per Detainee
• Guantánamo Bay was 'law-free zone'

Fat Tuesday, Fitness, HCR, Bad for your health, Suicide, Stem Cells

Fat Tuesday

• Man intentionally eats high-carb junk food to gain weight before trying to lose it again
• Obese Monkeys Lose Weight On Drug That Attacks Blood Supply of Fat Cells
• Map of Every McDonald's in the Country
• "Tired of being fat & ugly?"
• And God made man in his image

Fitness

• Coast pupil loses 55kg for school project
• Why gamers are a great fit at the gym--Check out Fitocracy.
• How Biking Can Save Cities Billions of Dollars in Health Expenses
• Men’s Fitness retracts article, Comic Con reacts
• P90X: Before & After--Waitaminute....

HCR

• Supreme Court to rule on Obama health care reform bill
• Health care solution is simple: single-payer
• Appeals court rules Obama health care law is constitutional, agrees to toss religious suit
• Unexpected chart of the day: Americans want more government in health care
• Ohio Voters Choose to Opt Out of Health Care Mandate

Bad for your health

• Pharmacies Accuse Pfizer of Fixing Generic Lipitor Prices
• Drugs policy advisor under fire over links to pharmaceutical company
• Medicare Eligibility Age Increase Not Part Of Dems' Super Committee Presentation
• Wal-Mart cuts health coverage for some employees
• Guatemalans sue US for deliberately spreading illness in 1940s experiment

Suicide

• "Help Yourself"--Powerful poster.
• Why we helped our much-loved son kill himself--Tragic.
• Family's suicides defy an answer

Stem Cells

• Stem cell reseach thrown into disarray by European patent ruling
• Stem-Cell Funding Ban Overturned by Appeals Court
• Stem cells transformed into brain cells to treat Parkinson's disease

Religion and Politics, Accountability, Follow the Money, GOP, Rich vs. Poor

Religion and Politics

• God’s undue influence on U.S. politics Salon
• God Knows How to Pick 'Em--"This year, we have no less than four God-called GOP candidates for president, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), (Mrs. Perry agrees) and now Herman Cain. So far."
• Rick Santorum explains God's role in American law
• House Republicans, keeping the faith--They wasted time on the 'In God We Trust' motto rather than putting people back to work. Or maybe that's the GOP's plan after all, to trust in God to provide Americans jobs.
• If the US really was a Christian Nation
• Obama administration tells Supreme Court there should be no "ministerial exception"
• Taxpayer Funded 'Crisis Pregnancy Centers' Tell Jewish Woman To Convert To Christianity Or Go To Hell
• Barry Goldwater On Christians And Compromise
• Obama's 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics--"Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values." NYT

Accountability

• New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government NYT
• Voter Rage Has Congress Worried About Job Security - Its Own NYT
• 3,000 sign whitehouse.gov petition seeking "vapid response," cookies

Follow the Money

• Its not about OWS, its about Financial Tyranny!
• Flat Taxes & Angry Voters - More Americans are questioning the Republicans' flat tax plans, which reward the rich NYT
• How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich--The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent
• Over Half of All U.S. Tax Subsidies Go to Four Industries. Guess Which Ones?
• 12 Facts About Money And Congress That Are So Outrageous That It Is Hard To Believe That They Are Actually True
• Congress: Trading stock on inside information?
• The Congress Insider Trading Scandal is Outrageous: Rep. Spencer Bachus Should Resign In Disgrace

GOP

• Senate GOP blocks Obama infrastructure plan --Mitch McConnell says Obama designed to make Republicans look bad for rejecting it.
• 49% think GOP is sabotaging economy just to defeat Obama--A fairly high number in Florida.
• Letters Reveal Eric Cantor Begged For Obama Stimulus Money To Create Jobs
• Florida GOP Senate Candidate to 99%: 'Get off your ass and go get a job'
• GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Melts Down, Screams At Constituents: 'Don't Blame Banks!…I Am Tired Of Hearing That Crap!'
• House Republican lawmakers want out of Norquist tax pledge
• GOP accuses Democrats of breaking off debt talks in supercommittee

Rich vs. Poor

• Putting Millionaires Before Jobs NYT
• Krugman: Oligarchy, American-style--"We have a society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us a democracy in name only." NYT
• How the rich rig the system Salon
• Class Warfare: The Middle Class Is Losing
• Automation Nation: Will Robots Take Our Jobs?
• 3 Misconceptions that Need to Die
• Penny Arcade: Working Conditions