This is good news. The Virginia state legislature is on the way to repealing a mandatory vaccine and letting people make their own choices.
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This is good news. The Virginia state legislature is on the way to repealing a mandatory vaccine and letting people make their own choices.
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When an Arcata High junior wore a cannabis-related shirt to school one day, administrators brought down the hammer. School officials then searched his mothers car unwarranted, without consent. (Good read)
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"Federal District Court Judge Suzanne Conlon has dismissed an ACLU challenge to the Illinois law that makes recording someone in a public space without their permission a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison."
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A mother from Sydney, Australia has been forced to immunise her daughter by a Family court.
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Are you tired of politicians not being subject to the same rules as we are? The executive branch can't use wiretapping on congressman, despite the fact that they can use the patriot act on the rest of us. Now, the patriot act is bad, but shouldn't politicians be subject to the same rules as the rest of us?
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A 13-year-old student at Tacoma's Truman Middle School just wanted to show his team spirit when he wore a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey to his school's Seahawks appreciation day on Friday.
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The major record labels are known for their harsh stance on copyright infringements, which in an ironic turn of events is now costing them millions of dollars. Revealing a double standard when it comes to ‘piracy’, Warner Music, Sony BMG Music, EMI Music and Universal Music now have to pay Canadian artists $45 Million for the illegal use of thousands of tracks on compilation CDs.
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"Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with Wikileaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland.
He experienced a similar incident last year at Newark airport.
An archive of his tweeted account from today follows."
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A federal jury will be asked to decide whether it is acceptable for an African American person, but not a white person, to use the "n" word in a workplace.
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Saying they want to publish a version that won't be banned from some schools because of its language, two scholars are editing Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to eliminate uses of the "N" word and replace it with "slave," Publishers Weekly writes.
The edition, from NewSouth Books, will also shorten an offensive reference to Native Americans.
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"California's law making it illegal to impersonate people online just went into effect.
Now this hobby will get you dinged for up to $1,000 and/or a year in jail."
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Mike Bell and Alfred McDonald set up a flash site that scrolls through the various media personalities who have casually called for a journalist’s death.
Now there is a site documenting casual calls for the death of Julian Assange.
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This bill would provide, subject to exceptions, that any person
who conducts a public event at night that includes prerecorded music
and lasts more than 31/2 hours is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine of $10,000 or twice the actual or estimated gross receipts
for the event, whichever is greater.

Dec. 22: In an exclusive interview with msnbc’s Cenk Uygur, the WikiLeaks chief denies that he conspired to commit espionage with U.S. Army Specialist Bradley Manning, asserting that such claims are “absolute nonsense.”
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Words have never killed anyone ever. Not one person in the history of mankind has been killed by a spoken or written word.
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Internet service providers are to be asked by the government to tighten up on website pornography to try to combat the early sexualisation of children.
Ministers believe broadband providers should consider automatically blocking sex sites, with individuals being required to opt in to receive them, rather than opt out and use the available computer parental controls.
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China has banned newspapers, publishers and website-owners from using foreign words - particularly English ones. It said standardized Chinese should be the norm: the press should avoid foreign abbreviations and acronyms, as well as "Chinglish" - which is a mix of English and Chinese.
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The man behind a controversial book considered a "how-to" guide for pedophiles was arrested in Colorado, officials in Florida said Monday.
"You cannot engage or depict children in a harmful relationship," said Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd as he described the Florida obscenity statute that officials used to charge Phillip Greaves with distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct.

Here's a story you won't find on the mainstream news... an 11 year old girl, quite familiar with gun safely, not only stopped 2 home invaders, armed with a gun stolen from another home invasion where the homeowner was stabbed to death, successfully defender her home against the 2 perpetrators. Evidently, Common sense and education go against mainstream policies, so this story never made the news...
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"You Should Be Following His Example" To American Media - Ex CIA analyst tells CNN to its face that they are nothing more than white house stenographers!
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