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Arkansas Town Enacts Martial Law, ID Checks Of Everyone In Public
The mayor explains that normal constitutional protections don’t apply, because, due to the high rate of property crime, anyone walking outdoors in his city is a criminal suspect. Via Russia Today: In...
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NYPD’s Staggering Stop-and-Frisk Stats
After much concern from nonprofit groups like the NY Civil Liberties Union (and public outcry), the NYPD has finally released the numbers of their precinct and racial demographics of all the 2011...
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Virginia City Is First To Pass Anti-Drone Legislation
Three years from now, will we be trusting urban police forces to use drones equipped with “Tasers and tear gas”? The Los Angeles Times reports: Charlottesville, Va., home to the University of Virginia,...
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Bigfoot DNA Hunters Push For Yeti Rights
Via Discovery News, a social movement is born: A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a Texas veterinarian, claims to have not only conclusively proven the existence of Bigfoot through genetic...
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A Cheat Sheet For Dealing With Police
Via the Police the Police (A Community Project), a quick but invaluable guide to proper response in various police-related situations. There is no guarantee, of course, as to how officers will react to...
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California “Right to Know” Act Would Reveal What Companies Have Your Personal...
It’s time that Americans had data rights. The Electronic Frontier Foundation explains an initiative being introduced by Los Angeles-area Democratic representative Bonnie Lowenthal with support from the...
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Should the State Seize Your Firearms if You’re On Meds?
Picture: RAMA (CC) The attorney for a New York State man claims his client’s firearms license was revoked after the state learned he was on an anti-anxiety medication. Is this a sign of future things...
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Police Kill Woman Fleeing Drug Warrants
I feel safer now, don’t you? Via Information Liberation: A police officer in the suburban Dallas community of Richardson, Texas, shot and killed a woman with outstanding drug arrest warrants as she...
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Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors
Another creamy morsel from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The post Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors appeared first on disinformation.
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Accepting Alternate Forms Of Intelligence In The Animal Kingdom
Our inability to perceive animal intelligence revealed the limits of our own. Via the Wall Street Journal, Frans de Waal writes: Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task....
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When Astronauts Weep
The Canadian Space Agency addresses what happens when astronauts cry in zero gravity. The post When Astronauts Weep appeared first on disinformation.
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The 1969 Science Fiction Novel Which Eerily Predicted Today
John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar, written more than forty years ago but set in an imagined year 2010 in which ever more power is concentrated in the hands of a few global corporations, is eerily...
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Sting Asked About President’s Drone Strikes
At a charity event in Sting’s honor, Luke Rudkowski asked Sting about this feelings on Obama’s drone strikes. Sting has told reporters in the past that he believes Obama was “sent from God” to fix the...
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Eight Cures That Did More Harm Than Good
Arallyn Primm writes at Mental Floss: No one likes to be sick or suffering. Humans have tried to fight against disease and affliction since we could first comprehend “Hey, I ate that root, and now I...
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London Throws Party Celebrating Death Of Margaret Thatcher
Reuters reports that only “hundreds” of people turned up for “the party of a lifetime” celebrating the death of reviled (and occasionally revered) former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher in London...
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Obama’s Drone Strikes Aren’t Killing Who You Think They Are
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Gitmo Prisoners Stage Violent Rebellion
The unrest at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (a/k/a Gitmo) that has seen brutal force feeding of hunger strikers exploded this weekend as detainees staged a rebellion armed with broomsticks and...
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So Ray Kurzweil Wants To Live Forever…
Ok, so Ray Kurzweil is a man of above average intelligence and achievement, even if he only just got his first job (Google, of course), but is a desire to live forever a wise choice or foolish hubris?...
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An Open Letter to TED
Ken Jordan, Publisher & Editorial Director, Evolver/Reality Sandwich, has written an open letter to TED’s Chris Anderson in an attempt to get the TED organization to stop squirming around for a...
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Christian Fundamentalism’s War on Higher Mathematics
I’ll be the first to admit that my math skills are rudimentary. I’d go so far as to say they’re borderline non-existent. To quote that famous plastic scholar Barbie, “Math is tough!” If you can do...
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