Archive for November, 2007
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Three states are fighting over dwindling water supplies. Imagine a modern industrialized nation like ours unable to provide clean and fresh water to its cities. Read the full story
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
A crowd of roughly 400 anti-war demonstrators — most of them high school and college students — marched through downtown Seattle today, carrying signs and chanting slogans such as "This is what democracy looks like!"Read the full story
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
The free alternative paper is calling the arrests an assault on the First Amendment — an argument that might not fly in court, given that investigators say they videotaped Weekly employees selling ad space to undercover officers who openly claimed to be prostitutes.Read the full story
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
What do the writers of the Daily Show think of the ongoing writers' strike?Read the full story
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Remember those sonic blasters I blogged about here on BoingBoing (and reported on NPR) a while back? Noah Shachtman at Wired reports that the Saakashvili regime in Georgia is using them to crush protestors. Read the full story
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
From the Big Brother is becoming more affordable department... San Antonio-based AT&T Inc., the nation's largest phone company, has launched a service that enables small and midsized businesses to monitor facilities and equipment from remote locations via their high-speed Internet connections.Read the full story
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January. Google is prepared to bid on its own without any partners, say ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
A Florida death row inmate has been granted a stay of execution by the US Supreme Court in an action that offers further evidence that a de facto national moratorium on executions is in place. The stay, announced Thursday afternoon, came four hours before Mark Dean Schwab was scheduled to ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Strikers shut down French trains and buses, disrupted electricity production at nuclear plants and barricaded universities Wednesday, giving President Nicolas Sarkozy the toughest challenge yet to his ambitious plans for restructuring the country's huge social welfare programs.Read the full story
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure to provide $50 billion in short-term funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. VOA's Dan Robinson reports the legislation, which passed the House by a vote of 218 to 203, now awaits a vote in the Senate where ...
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