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Vermont Bans Fracking

May17
2012 Written by Slashdot

eldavojohn writes "Vermont is the first state to ban fracking (hydraulic fracturing), a process that was to revolutionize the United States' position into a major producer of natural gas. New York currently has a moratorium on fracking but it is not yet a statewide ban. Video of the signing indicates the concern over drinking water as the mo [...]

Iran Threatens Legal Action Against G...

May17
2012 Written by Slashdot

New submitter PantherSE writes with an article at CNN about the geopolitical importance of labeling, excerpting thus: "Iran has threatened legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf on its maps 'Toying with modern technologies in political issues is among the new measures by the enemies against Iran, (and) in this regard, [...]

Only 22% of California 8th Graders Pa...

May11
2012 Written by Slashdot

bonch writes "22 percent of California eighth-graders passed a national science test, ranking California among the worst in the U.S. according to the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress. The test measures knowledge in Earth and space sciences, biology, and basic physics. The states that fared worse than California were Mississip [...]

Police Arrest 6 Year Old Girl: Mom As...

Apr23
2012 Written by Blogging With Jeffrey

As reported on change.org, Salecia Johnson is six years old. On April 13, her teachers say she had a temper tantrum in class — but instead of putting her in time-out, the school called the police. Salecia was handcuffed, charged with battery, and kept in police custody for an hour before her parents found out what was going on. Though a [...]

YouTube Ordered To Remove Videos, Fil...

Apr20
2012 Written by Slashdot

suraj.sun sends this excerpt from Deutsche Welle: "YouTube was told by a regional court in Hamburg on Friday not to display seven out of 12 contested clips without permission from the German copyright fee collecting society Gema. Gema claimed that its members were losing money every time their music was being displayed on YouTube. A proper l [...]

Asian Call Center Workers Trained Wit...

Apr18
2012 Written by Slashdot

gManZboy writes in with a troubling story about tax dollars being used for overseas call center training. "Despite President Obama's recent call for companies to 'insource' jobs sent overseas, it turns out that the federal government itself is spending millions of dollars to train foreign students for employment in some booming career [...]

Petition To Free Peace Corps Voluntee...

Apr08
2012 Written by PortalTaxi Admin

As reported by Change.org, Jason Puracal is an American who’s right now fighting for his life in a Nicaraguan prison called La Modela — known to be one of the world’s most dangerous jails — after being convicted of crimes many people say he didn’t commit. Just four years earlier, in the same Nicaraguan courtroom [...]

Egypt Banned Porn, But How Much of th...

Apr05
2012 Written by Slashdot

pigrabbitbear writes "The recent web pornography ban in Egypt has raised questions about the evils of censorship (and porn) and the changing tide of popular attitude of Egyptians. It perhaps reflects the emerging influence of more conservative Muslim elements in government, a shift . Apparently the same ban was passed 3 years ago but [...]

EA Defends Itself Against Thousands o...

Apr05
2012 Written by Slashdot

donniebaseball23 writes "Video game publisher Electronic Arts has not only had to defend itself against 'worst company in America' labels, but GamesIndustry International has revealed that EA's been receiving thousands of letters protesting the inclusion of same-sex relationship content in games like Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old [...]

Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Ill...

Apr04
2012 Written by Slashdot

LordofEntropy writes "Though unlikely to pass any First Amendment test. Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer has a bill on her desk that would in essence make 'trolling' illegal. The law states 'It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use any electronic or digital device and use an [...]

Forensic Experts Say Screams Were Not...

Apr01
2012 Written by Slashdot

Hugh Pickens writes "As the Trayvon Martin controversy splinters into a debate about self-defense, a central question remains: Who was heard crying for help on a 911 call in the moments before the teen was shot? Now the Orlando Sentinel reports that Tom Owen, a leading expert in the field of forensic voice identification sought to answer th [...]

NY District Judge Dismisses Blogger S...

Mar31
2012 Written by Slashdot

The Chicago Tribute reports on a ruling announced Friday that the Huffington Post violated no law in profiting enormously from the unpaid contributions of bloggers who wrote much of the content that has spurred the site's success. Says the article: "John E. Koeltel, a district court judge in New York, dismissed a class action sought brought [...]

China Plans To End Executed Prisoner ...

Mar25
2012 Written by Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes "China said that it planned to end the practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within five years, according to the state media report on Friday. Instead, China's vice minister of health Dr. Huang Jiefu said that the country will rely on a new national donation system for organ transplants at a conf [...]

Do Not Use Text-Enhance.com or Follow...

Mar10
2012 Written by PortalTaxi Admin

Text-Enhance.com - Hackers! Publisher’s of Adware! You should not Join their site, buy their advertising or click on their text ads. When you purchase advertising and put your ads on a site or blog you are doing business with them. When you put those ads on a web site or in a blog with out the permission of the publisher you are st [...]

Connect With Us On Facebook, Twitter,...

Mar10
2012 Written by PortalTaxi Admin

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Andrew Breitbart, Your Bell is Tollin...

Mar04
2012 Written by Wretched Success

“. . . . it has become an understood thing that no one can live by his talents or knowledge who is not ready to prostitute those talents and that knowledge to betray his species, and prey upon his fellowman.” — William Hazlitt, “On the Pleasure of Hating” Andrew Breitbart is dead at the age of 43. A warrior for conservative causes, he became [...]