Occupy Wall Street is now entering it’s second month, and the campground in Liberty Plaza in Lower Manhattan is now a symbol in cities across the world of a new type of nonviolent civil disobedience. So far, the New York City Police Department has made 992 arrests connected to the Occupy Wall Street protests. These [...]

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Youtube has been trying to rid itself of all the videos from the “Radical Cleric,” Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been pinned with instigating the stabbing of a British member of Parliament and for the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas. Youtube had agreed to remove all videos of Anwar al-Awlaki, but their attempts has been futile. [...]

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The whistle-blower website, Wikileaks, has been facing immense pressure from world governments. Recent actions taken by businesses (and possibly instigated by governments and news coverage) may have caused the greatest damage to-date. Earlier this week, the web hosting company for the website, Amazon, canceled it’s account on the EC2 cloud computing environment, saying that the [...]

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The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, traveled to Silicon Valley to meet with top internet industry leaders to discuss a new proposal to make it simpler to conduct wiretaps on Internet users. Facebook and Google were among the top companies, with whom Director Mueller met on his trip. The [...]

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Many people do not trust Facebook, yet still don’t want to go as far as delete their Facebook accounts permanently. Facebook by no means has assured it’s users that their privacy is a top priority. Certainly the movie The Social Network has not helped Facebook in their PR problems with information privacy either. Information independence [...]

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Birke Baehr -”what’s Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference?” Ted Talks: The Next Generation From the series: Teenagers Inspiring Positive Change “They are the next generation of thinkers, artists, scientists, social activists and entrepreneurs.”

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President Obama announced a Patient’s Bill of Rights that will be made possible under new  health reform. Essentially, the bill would create a basic set of consumer protections that end some of the health insurance companies’ abuses and establish a sense of fairness for the consumer. Some highlights: Prevents insurance companies from denying coverage to [...]

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It is hard to imagine really how much oil is leaking into the Gulf from the BP oil spill. This video is a visualization of that amount of oil using mass physics — simulating 25,000 barrels. The video was created by Elude (youtube.com/user/Elude87) and was rendered using the UDK Unreal Engine 3. 25,000 barrels – [...]

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John Steward has a great delivery–both entertaining and serious. In this episode, the Daily Show outlines the opinion-as-news approach to Fox News.

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Facebook has launched a new page devoted to US politics (Facebook.com/USpolitics). The page will monitor how US politicians, political campaigns and elected officials use Facebook to connect with citizens. Facebook and other forms of social media have become vital places for politics, political support and interest, and building connection between users, campaigns and political figures. [...]

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