Such heavy handed tactics! Personally, i like the "is", but to just pull the plug on a group is really overbearing, in my view. "Facebook has silenced a 20,000-strong campaign group dedicated to the seemingly...
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I love treehugger. Always a technological development that can make you feel just a bit better about the future of the planet..."Ruihong Zhang, a bioengineer from UC Davis, may have just found a possible solution to...
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"it seems a blogger ran a campaign against the Disney-owned radio channel KFSO, which runs a talk show whose host argues that torture is a great things and ridicules torture victims, demands that named journalists be...
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"TMZ has confirmed that the home of Suzanne Somers was completely destroyed in a fast-moving fire that also engulfed several other multi-million dollar homes in Malibu. "
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"And recently, Gaza medics started reporting unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and deep internal wounds, as well as amputation of organs or death, according to UKâs The Guardian."
I am forwarding this mail on from another list becuase I think this is a very important moment for Thailand. Hello,>> This mail is sent by Bcc. As you know, there was coup d'etat in> Thailand on Sept.19. Despite the attempt by the military council to> portrait...
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"Israel has lost its mind. It has become crazed. It has unleashed its terror, and we don’t know what’s going to come next. At the rate this is going I don’t even rule out a nuclear strike. I really seriously do not rule it out (let me be wrong, please!). I...
Here is the list of all Vancouver area MPs and their constituency office phone numbers:LIBBY DAVIES: 604 775 5800HEDY FRY: 604 666 0135DAVID EMERSON: 604 775 6284STEVEN OWEN : 604 664 9220UJJAL DOSANJH: 604 775...
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I am passing this on from nettime. ----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -----> Datum: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:41:40 +0400> Von: Trade Union Solidarity Action Committee of Saint> Petersburg and Leningrad region> Betreff: [fse-esf] harassment and repressions in...
I'm passing this along from the burningman list.
It is an eyewitness account from a woman named Ilsa about an incident
of poilice brutality against a man named Zack at a Seattle Critical
Mass Bike Ride....
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"A bike ride through the streets of downtown Winnipeg ended in chaos and arrests yesterday.
Members of Critical Mass Winnipeg -- an activist group that promotes bicycle use over automobiles -- claim police used excessive force when several cyclists were arrested near the...
via nettime
Dear All,
>
>... Alaa el Fatah, who is well known in open source and blogging
>circles and as a democracy activist was arrested at one of the recent protests in support of the judiciary, along with other activists who were there at the time.
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>I'd urge you to...
"Cunard's Queen Mary 2 arrived at the new $56 million Brooklyn Cruise
Terminal this morning but heavy fog blocked views of the Manhattan
skyline, the Statue of Liberty and even Governors Island on the other
side of Buttermilk Channel."
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"NEW YORK -- A man who remained in his seat after his subway train pulled into the last stop in Coney Island on Thursday was found to be dead, police said. "