" Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against...
created by Terri Potratz | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 333 views | 10 recommendations | 6 comments
A dolphin die-in took place in Washington yesterday at the Japanese embassy, as environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins to protest what they said was the 'horrific butchering' of thousands of...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 299 views | 20 recommendations | 4 comments
" 2008-09-04 13:42:03 - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A bill that would allow men in Iran to take additional wives without the consent of their first wife has provoked so much controversy that parliament has had to...
created by rahul | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 193 views | 7 recommendations | 1 comment
Ketcham references Boyle on the Anthrax attacks in the American Conservative:The Anthrax Files: The FBI claims to have caught the killer. But so much evidence has been neglected or mishandled that many experts still have doubts. By Christopher Ketcham, amconmag.comwhich Boyle...
opinion by Erik Larson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 166 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Article by Erik Larson, work in progress; suggestions and links welcomeThis article is an overview of some of the ways in which 9/11 has been used; manipulating public fears and understanding, increasing military...
opinion by Erik Larson | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 406 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The reason court hearings are public is so that there is oversight and accountability; so the government, i.e. those running it, can't throw you in prison forever just on their "say so" without the public being witness to the evidence. It's a hallmark of civilized nations....
Well, I guess it does pay to read the fine print. The wording of the copyright at the end of Mickey Mouse's first cartoon with sound on screen was Steamboat Willie, created in 1928. While most lawyers agree...
Starting next year, severly overweight Alabama state employees will have to pay $25 more in health insurance in order to cover the increased risk of health problems faced by the obese. Taxing individuals for their...
A Saudi Arabian court is to rule next month on the divorce of an eight-year-old girl from a man in his fifties. It's ridiculous. As far as i know, no marriage, with 8 years old girl, is allowed in any religion. It's forbidden!" The girl, who still does not know...
created by renovatio | 4 years ago 1118 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
Not surprisingly, the Beijing Games had the biggest online presence of any Olympics. Yahoo's Olympic site, for example, tripled its traffic compared with Turin in 2006.As this New York Times piece discusses, NBC...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 457 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
Several trade unionists in iran were arrested on may day one has been sentenced to death. The koran says that tyrants will burn in hell. For more case details and to sign the petition and perhaps save the life of a decent humane human...
created by Sputnic | 4 years ago 178 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
After the US Government granted amnesty to the telecoms that helped it illegally spy on American citizens, the Electronic Frontier Foundation turned its attention to the government itself. What did the government...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 203 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Gary Glitter finally arrived in Britain yesterday – claiming he was the victim of a ‘show trial’ and that his human rights were breached. The shamed pop star paedophile was given VIP treatment at Heathrow and smirked as he was fast-tracked through the airport with a...
"Unexploded ordnances of cluster bombs, left by Russian attacks, pose risk to life of civilian population in the conflict zone, the Human Rights Watch warned on August 21. It said that its researchers saw more unexploded submunitions from cluster bombs in and around the...