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  • September 6, 2010

Big Brother

U.S. soldiers punished for not attending Christian concert

August 19, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By Chris Rodda (Talk To Action) On May 13, 2010, about eighty sol­diers, sta­tioned at Fort Eustis while attend­ing a train­ing course, were pun­ished for opt­ing out of attend­ing one of these Chris­t­ian con­certs. The head­liner at this con­cert was a Chris­t­ian rock band called Bar­low­Girl, a band that describes itself as tak­ing “an...
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Right wing pressure groups game Digg to censor liberals

August 5, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By ole­ole­ol­son (Blogs.Alternet) A group of influ­en­tial con­ser­v­a­tive mem­bers of the behe­moth social media site Digg​.com have just been caught red-​​handed in a wide­spread cam­paign of cen­sor­ship, hav­ing mul­ti­ple accounts, upvote padding, and delib­er­ately try­ing to ban pro­gres­sives. An under­cover inves­ti­ga­tion has exposed this effort, which has been in action for more than one year....
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Illinois professor fired for stating Catholic view of homosexuality

July 11, 2010
By Jules Siegel

(CNA/​EWTN News) The Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois has fired an adjunct pro­fes­sor for teach­ing in a class on Catholi­cism that homo­sex­ual acts vio­late nat­ural moral law. Dr. Ken­neth How­ell was informed that he could no longer teach in the university’s depart­ment of reli­gion. The deci­sion came after a stu­dent com­plained that Howell’s state­ments were “hate speech.”...
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Happy Bloomsday! Apple censors ‘Ulysses’ webcomic on iPad/​iPhone

June 15, 2010
By Nyc Labrets
Happy Bloomsday! Apple censors ‘Ulysses’ webcomic on iPad/​iPhone

On, 'Bloomsday', June 16th, the day that the events in James Joyce's book 'Ulysses' takes place, (a book that was once banned in the United States for being deemed 'obscene'), Apple users will be able to read a censored version of it on their iPads.
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Tags: 1984, Corporate Over-Reach
Posted in Big Brother, Fail, Fascism, Featured, Feminism, Mac sucks, Media, NSFW, Religion, Sex, Social Studies, Why Try? | No Comments »

Christian indoctrination prisons proposed with born-​​again staff

May 25, 2010
By Jules Siegel

Amer­i­cans United for Sep­a­ra­tion of Church and State today warned cor­rec­tions offi­cials in three states not to use pub­lic funds to send inmates to a pro­posed “Christians-​​only” prison in Oklahoma. Cor­rec­tions Con­cepts, Inc., has pro­posed build­ing a pri­vate prison in Wakita, Okla., that will indoc­tri­nate pris­on­ers in fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­tian­ity and will be staffed solely...
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Terrorists win when Lebanese candidate becomes Miss USA

May 17, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By Der­rick Henry (NY Times) Pageant orga­niz­ers on Sun­day night crowned a 24-​​year-​​old Lebanese immi­grant from Michi­gan as Miss USA 2010. Rima Fakih was born in Lebanon, moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York City, where she attended a Catholic school. She told pageant orga­niz­ers her fam­ily cel­e­brates both...
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Blackwater (XE) funds Android app so kids can report ‘suspicious behavior’

May 11, 2010
By Jules Siegel

Want to earn tons of cool badges and prizes while com­pet­ing with you friends to see who can be the best Amer­i­can? Down­load the Snap­Scouts app for your Android phone (iPhone app com­ing soon) and get started patrolling your neighborhood. It’s up to you to keep Amer­ica safe! If you see some­thing sus­pi­cious, Snap...
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Detainees accused of possessing popular Casio F91W watches

May 10, 2010
By Jules Siegel

Due to its claimed use in ter­ror­ism, pos­ses­sion of the Casio F91W watch was listed in Com­bat­ant Sta­tus Review Tri­bunal reports and other gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments as a rea­son for these detainees’ con­tin­ued deten­tion. The watch was pop­u­lar all over the Moslem world because it had great prayer alert fea­tures. Among those listed: Abdul­lah Kamel...
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Petitioners tricked voters into switching to the GOP

April 29, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By Brian Joseph (The Orange County Reg­is­ter) Since mid-​​March, at least 99 writ­ten com­plaints have been sub­mit­ted to state elec­tions offi­cials by Orange County res­i­dents who say they were reg­is­tered to vote Repub­li­can with­out their con­sent. The Reg­is­ter found an addi­tional 74 vot­ers who said they were duped or coerced into reg­is­ter­ing to vote...
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FDA approved microchip implants in humans in 2004

April 26, 2010
By Jules Siegel

By Died­tra Henderson WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion on Wednes­day approved an implantable com­puter chip that can pass a patient’s med­ical details to doc­tors, speed­ing care. VeriChips, radio fre­quency microchips the size of a grain of rice, have already been used to iden­tify way­ward pets and live­stock. And nearly 200 peo­ple work­ing...
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Antidotes

Petraeus condemns Florida church’s plan to burn Korans

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Julian E. Barnes and Matthew Rosen­berg (WSJ) KABUL—The top U.S. com­man­der in Afghanistan said the planned burn­ing of Qurans on Sept. 11 by...
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New study shows immigrants boost wages and productivity

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Andrea Christina Nill (LAPro­gres­sive) Tues­day, the Fed­eral Reserve Bank of San Fran­cisco released a report essen­tially debunk­ing the right wing myth that immi­grants...
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From Canada to Mexico on one tank of diesel

Posted by Jules Siegel

(Jalop­nik) Craig Hen­der­son drove from Blaine, Wash­ing­ton to the Mex­i­can bor­der — a dis­tance of 1,478 miles — with­out stop­ping to refuel. He burned...
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The fallacy of ‘Zombie’ Japan — the U. S. should have it so good

Posted by Jules Siegel

By Steven Hill (LA Pro­gres­sive) Dur­ing and before the cur­rent eco­nomic cri­sis, few coun­tries have been vil­i­fied as an eco­nomic bas­ket case so much...
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