January 2012
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Romney leads Paul in Des Moines Register Iowa... →
Des Moines Register - Mitt Romney tops the latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll in the closing days before the Iowa caucuses, but Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are poised within striking distance. The poll, conducted Tuesday through Friday, shows support at 24 percent for Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts; 22 percent for Paul, a Texas congressman; and 15 percent for the surging Rick...
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December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Censorship, Surveillance and Hackers
futurejournalismproject: A great article in Forbes on Telecomix, a group of hackers that have aimed their sites, and hacking chops, on free-speech starved countries. The group has also exposed western (mostly American) technology firms whose products have (knowingly or unknowingly, depending on who you believe) slipped into the hands of state agencies bent on monitoring and suppressing uppity...
Dec 28th
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Mortars hit Iranian dissident camp in Iraq: Iraqi... →
Patrick Markey for Reuters - Two mortars hit an Iranian dissident camp in Iraq just days after Baghdad extended a year-end deadline for the camp to be closed as the U.N. negotiated resettlement of 3,000 residents there, the Iraqi military said Sunday.
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over...”
– The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com Go read this, it’s wonderful. (via felixsalmon)
Dec 25th
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“Friday a federal district court in Manhattan ruled that Iran and Hezbollah...”
– Mitra Amiri, Iran rejects U.S. allegation on al Qaeda operative
Dec 25th
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U.S. Troops celebrate Christmas in Afghanistan. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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The Year in 60 Seconds : 2011 A multimedia showcase of some of 2011’s top stories, including Japan’s tragic earthquake, the Arab Spring, the demise of Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi, the shooting rampage in Norway, famine in Somalia and the Royal Wedding. Multimedia editing by Jillian Kitchener.
Dec 25th
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Thousands protest ruling party in Russia Russian opposition parties exploit long-standing government corruption allegations after recent parliamentary polls with major protests. Jessica Gray reports.
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Station Commander Captures Unprecedented View of Comet NASA - International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Burbank described seeing the comet as “the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space,” in an interview with WDIV-TV in Detroit. 
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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A girl who was believed to have been swept away by... →
joshsternberg: This is an amazing story.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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China hackers breached U.S. Chamber of Commerce:... →
Ben Blanchard at Reuters - Hackers in China broke through the computer defenses of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year and were able to access information about its operations and its 3 million members, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Dec 21st
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“We really ought to let campaigns raise the money they need and just get rid of...”
– GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney, trying to distance himself from a super PAC founded by his former aides to support his bid for the GOP nomination. Romney has spoken at the same group’s fundraising events. Six months prior, his spokeswoman said of the group: “We are pleased that independent...
Dec 21st
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“This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution,...”
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 
Dec 21st
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cheatsheet: Astronomer and author Carl Sagan passed away on this day 15 years ago. In his honor, here’s one of my favorite videos on the Internet, which features Sagan reading from his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, art and animation by Adam Winnik, and music by Hans Zimmer (“You’re So Cool”).
Dec 21st
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“MPAA has this traditional, old-school Washington presence, while Tumblr has no...”
– — Mobile Commons head Jed Alpert, in a nice Forbes piece about how his company has been helping connect citizens to their Congressional representatives. (The Company That Generated 400,000 Calls To Congress About SOPA - Forbes)
Dec 20th
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“Video-gaming has become hugely popular in recent years, particularly among...”
– Keen video-gamers’ brains may reward them more (via reutersexplains) Don’t forget to follow our maiden entry to the Tumblrsphere: “Reuters Explains” which is best described as vital explanations, taken verbatim from Reuters articles, for readers from Mars or Switzerland, lovingly...
Dec 20th
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Maliki acting "like Saddam": Sunni bloc leader  →
Suleiman Al-Khalidi for Reuters - “This is terrifying, to bring fabricated confessions,” Allawi said shortly before leaving the Jordanian capital Amman to return to Iraq. “It reminds me personally of what Saddam Hussein used to do where he would accuse his political opponents of being terrorists and conspirators.”
Dec 20th
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