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Weekly Digest for June 26th

26 Jun 2009 @ 6:45 AM

	Posted Cop pulls gun at McDonalds because order took too long — 7:21am via Reddit
	Posted Some initial data from the Tor Project about Iran — 3:39pm via Reddit
	Posted Ayatollah Khamenei denounces Western interfearance in Iran’s election, labels the UK ‘most evil of western governments’. — 4:39pm via Reddit
	Posted Low Bandwidth HTTP DoS Attack — 6:39pm via Reddit
	Posted Cops can put a box of pot on your doorstep that you were not expecting, wait for you to bring it inside, kick the doors in, kill your pets in front of your children, make you sit in your pets’ blood, and it’s 100% legal. — 11:11pm via Reddit
	Posted In 1982, 1gb of RAM would have cost $149700 to produce. In 2009, 1gb of RAM costs close to $5 to produce. ..Times have changed. — 2:29am via Reddit
	Shared The Truth Rundown — 8:20am via Google Reader
	Shared Happy Summer Solstice — 2:26pm via Google Reader
	Posted Iran blames “terrorists” for clashes. It was “rioters” before. — 3:08pm via Reddit
	Posted “Obama tried to make it sound as though everyone was implicated in the financial breakdown and therefore no one was really to blame. That is not what happened. The regulatory system was systematically gutted and dismantled by the government in Washington at the behest of the banking interests.” — 4:36pm via Reddit
	Posted Take two mirrors, a handful of mice and some slightly confused looking birds and this is what you get. [vid] — 7:07pm via Reddit
	Posted Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number [VID] — 9:56pm via Reddit
	Posted Top 5 Most Sinister Corporate Logos. I never did trust those Vodafone people! Anyone that spells “phone” like “fone” is corrupted by the power of evil! — 11:17pm via Reddit
	Posted Chavez may end patents on medicine in Venezuela — 1:02am via Reddit
	Shared Treasurer may be safe, but this isn’t a good look – Michelle Grattan on the Ozcar affair — 1:16am via Reddit
	Posted Nokia & Siemens Aided Iran Censorship — 2:38am via Reddit
	Posted As a billion starve and the U.S. economy crumbles, Goldman Sachs to make record bonus payout — 3:57am via Reddit
	Posted Anti-fluoride extremists are the new terrorists! — 5:27am via Reddit
	Shared Utegate was faked: police chief to shed light on fake email — 6:18am via Reddit
	Posted It’s been one year since George Carlin left us… — 7:38am via Reddit
	Posted Iranian TV is Referring to Green Revolution Protestors as “Terrorists.” : You can’t make this shit up — 10:46am via Reddit
	Posted Former scientologist Monica Pignotti writes “My 9 lives in Scientology”, her living hell in the Sea Org (scientology work force). This is too insane to even believe. — 11:23am via Reddit
	Posted White House re-commits to posting bills online for public commentary — now will post bills before they are passed by Congress, at a point when language can still be changed, and allow for more than 5 days of public commentary. — 11:51am via Reddit
	Posted Swedish ‘Pirates’ Call for Free Internet– A newly-formed political party wants to abolish patents, limit copyrights to a few years, and protect consumers’ data privacy — 4:09pm via Reddit
	Posted Tomorrow morning, NASA’s LCROSS spacecraft swings by the Moon, 9,000 km above the surface – Live video streaming of the flyby begins at around 5:20 AM PDT (12:20 GMT) — 7:58pm via Reddit
	Posted Nokia is called out on supplying spy-monitoring to Iran for their networks; Nokia then responds, hey, Western governments require the same eavesdropping devices. WTF?! — 10:54pm via Reddit
	Posted Frank has filed a bill that would eliminate federal penalties for personal possession of less than 100 grams of marijuana. It would also make the penalty for using marijuana in public just $100. — 11:13pm via Reddit
	Shared Police in Brisbane shut down social bike ride (23 cyclists vs. 17 police). Reason… no bells! — 11:17pm via Reddit
	Posted First the UK, then Australia, now Germany censors the net — 11:44pm via Reddit
	Posted The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world’s most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale. — 12:59am via Reddit
	Posted Remember the girl who had 56 stars tattooed on her face while sleeping? Yeah… she lied. — 1:25am via Reddit
	Posted Australian Deputy PM, Julia Gillard aims to forge stronger ties with Israel — 3:05am via Reddit
	Posted Propaganda film from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. I admit I’ve only recently started paying attention to Iran, but… this is whack. — 3:14am via Reddit
	Posted William Engdahl’s “Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order” — 3:38am via Reddit
	Posted Switzerland Steals Billions from Africa Yearly By Allowing Corrupt Officials to Stash Money There — 3:56am via Reddit
	Posted Review of Halliburton’s Army – How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War. By Pratap Chatterjee. — 4:55am via Reddit
	Shared Victoria: Colac man with H1N1 Influenza 09 dies in hospital, second Swine Flu death in Australia. — 4:59am via Reddit
	Posted The Lone Gunmen (March 4th 2001) depicted a conspiracy to hijack a commercial aircraft and slam it into the World Trade Center — 1:46pm via Reddit
	Posted Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House. — 4:44pm via Reddit
	Posted Nixon supported abortion; For interracial babies — 6:37am via Reddit
	Posted Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated — 6:55am via Reddit
	Shared East Timor: Australian troops defend Australia’s interests, not Timorese people, says activist — 8:36am via Reddit
	Shared New Zealand anchorman feels he’s not treated fairly by the channel, and has prepared to get justice on air with a saw — 9:59am via Reddit
	Posted The Conspiracy Files: 7/7 — 4:54pm via Reddit
	Posted £100m black hole discovered in 2012 Olympics accounts — 5:08pm via Reddit
	Shared Conroy’s at it again… — 7:07am via Reddit
	Posted The Toaster Project: An attempt to build a toaster from scratch, starting with mining the raw materials to a fully working toaster that sells for $6 — 12:58pm via Reddit
	Posted ‘If I didn’t confess to 7/7 bombings MI5 officers would rape my wife,’ claims torture victim — 5:56pm via Reddit
	Posted Pirate Bay retrial denied; judge declared “unbiased”; The Pirate Bay will now file charges against Sweden for violation for Human Rights — 6:08pm via Reddit
	Posted Start a fire with your Cell Phone — 6:15pm via Reddit