Jack Diehl
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25 Anonymous Arrested, Infiltrated, and the Fallout
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(También en Español) News of Note: “Interpol: Suspected Anonymous Hackers Arrested“ “February 28, 2012 Interpol said Tuesday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America. The international police agency said in a statement that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain…
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(También en Español) On Monday Wikileaks began releasing the beginning of over 5 million emails taken from the Global Intelligence Company Stratfor. The information is believed to have been given to Wikileaks by Anonymous, who hacked Stratfor’s servers in December 2011. According to Wikileaks: On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files,…
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Lesbian Judge No Longer Marrying Straight Couples
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(También en Español) News of Note: Gay Texas judge won’t marry straight couples Tonya Parker, an African-American lesbian judge in Texas, refuses to marry straight couples until everyone in the state has the right to marry. Turning away would-be newlyweds is “my opportunity to give them a lesson about marriage inequality in this state,” Parker…
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Most single Christians are having sex
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(También en Español) News of note: A recent study reveals most single Christians are having sex. We undress why. Dr. Jenell Williams Paris, an anthropologist and the author of The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex Is Too Important to Define Who We Are, says the high rates of premarital sex are a call to…
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(También en Español) News of Note: New Hampshire Lawmaker Urges Married Couples To Practice Abstinence A New Hampshire lawmaker with a history of surprising statements suggested on Thursday that married couples who want to use contraception should practice abstinence instead of using birth control pills State Rep. Lynne Blankenbeker (R-Concord) made the claim — noting…
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Occupy Joins the Fight Against Private Prisons
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(También en Español) News of Note: Occupy Joins the Fight Against Private Prisons “Yango, a middle-aged African-American DC native active in both Occupy DC and the prison divestment movement, spent over a decade in Rivers Correctional Facility, a private prison located in Winton, North Carolina, 251 miles outside DC…. “Yango described his time there as…
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(También en Español) H.R. 2483: “Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011” introduced in July amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Commodity Exchange Act to require a whistleblower employee to first report information relating to misconduct to his or her employer. It prohibits any award unless this is first step is taken unless the company…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich All Promise To Ban Porn The top three Republican presidential candidates pledged a war on porn today which means that they have promised more action to ban porn than to create jobs. The conservative group Morality In Media is head over heels…
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Russian cities introduce baby ‘drop boxes’ to stop unwanted children being left in bins
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(También en Español) News of Note: Russian cities introduce baby ‘drop boxes’ to stop unwanted children being left in bins Anonymous baby drop boxes have been introduced for the first time in Russia. The Krasnodar Territory in south Russia bought five of the so-called baby drop boxes in the beginning of November so mothers could…
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(También en español) News of Note: Gates Foundation gives $750 million to Global Fund The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave $750 million Thursday to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to help assure that the organization can keep supplying AIDS drugs while it seeks to adjust to the economic downturn. The…