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23 Aug 2011, 11:30 am
In 2009, NSN and Trovicor came under fire after The Wall Street Journal reported that the equipment was used by Iranian authorities to crack down on protesters involved in civil unrest following the country’s disputed presidential elections. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 7:18 pm
There's a CAT 4 storm steaming towards South Florida; a 5.8 quake struck the Northeast today, shaking courthouses from Washington DC (The White House and the Capital were evacuated and stock markets immediately soared) to Manhattan (where it struck just after the DAs office dismissed charges against DSK, causing the victim to protest that if she was lying, the good lord should strike her down...) and the largest earthquake since 1967 struck Colorado this morning. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 7:30 am
Thousands of papaya trees were chopped down on 10 acres of Big Island farmland under the cover of night last month. [read post]
20 Aug 2011, 9:11 am
According to Perlstein, "Nixon effectively associated them with the protesters in the streets. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 2:55 pm
Free Speech and BART Cell Phone Censorship For three hours on Thursday, August 11, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shut down cell phone service in four stations, prior to a planned political demonstration protesting the fatal shooting of a homeless man by a BART police officer. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 12:22 pm
In the comments to this essay, Mitford points out that what looked like a success turned out to be a muckraking failure: This, an example of muckraking that not only fizzled but backfired, illustrates the limitations of the genre: absent an ongoing protest movement which in this case failed to materialize, the mere exposure of bureaucratic absurdities is insufficient in and of itself to force change. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 11:01 am
Do authorities have a right to shut down cell phone service in the wake of flash-mob protests? [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 9:23 am
This decision comes after continued protest by immigrant communities which have criticized the DHS for focusing too much on deporting those whose only offense is being in the country without the proper documents or who have been arrested for traffic violations or other misdemeanors. [read post]
19 Aug 2011, 8:22 am
Pillay's remarks came after the Fact-finding Mission in Syria published its 22-page report concluding that Syrian government forces cracking down on the opposition may be committing crimes against humanity [JURIST report]. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 8:02 am
The 22-page report, prepared by the the Fact-finding Mission on Syria, contains allegations of summary executions, killing of unarmed protesters and torture of detainees. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 4:24 pm
Act III: As another planned protest neared on August 11, BART officials take action unprecedented in US history and shut down the underground cell phone towers in downtown San Francisco, in order to disrupt the plans. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 4:16 pm
The union represents officers who were the subject of several protests following the July 3 shooting of a knife-wielding man. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 12:57 pm
All over the world, people are using mobile devices to protest oppressive regimes, and governments are shutting down cell phone towers and the Internet to silence them. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 11:31 am
Premiums should have gone down because the laws Legg and other Legislators voted for took away benefits, and those Legislators changed the laws to make it much more difficult for their constituents to collect if they have a loss. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 3:03 am
Like Gamso, reading John's story made me think of the buddhist monks who set themselves afire in protest of the Vietnam war. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 11:39 pm
We get knocked down and we get up again. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 7:31 pm
I have been glared at in Brazil, stared down in Guatemala and gangster slang of cartel country in Mexico. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 11:35 am
While I have seen an episode or two of “The Bachelor” under protest, I believe it is a blight on society and responsible in part for the dumbing down of our collective intelligence. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 11:09 am
In any case, the Lok Pal activists weren’t buying the watered down bill and launched a new round of protests starting the day after India’s Independence Day (which is August 15). [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 9:25 am
I happened to be at the station and I could check my Facebook and Google+ pages on my Droid, and could even call home while around me BART police chased protesters up and down the platform. [read post]
