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January 30 2012

04:25

[sigalonnewsviewsalt @ sigalonnewsviewsalt] A Call For Mass Action Against The Suppression of The Occupy Movement

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SIGN THIS CALL TO ACTION These past several months have witnessed something very different in the U.S. People from many different walks of life came ...
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[sigalonminit @ sigalonminit] DreamHost’s Unhappy January Continues: First, A Database Breach, Now An Outage

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DreamHost’s Unhappy January Continues: First, A Database Breach, Now An Outage
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DreamHost has been having a rough couple weeks. The low-cost hosting provider and domain name registrar found some unauthorized activity in its databases back on January 20th, which they later admitted were a series of attacks that may have led to the theft of some of their customers' FTP passwords. The...

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[sigalonminnews @ sigalonminnews] Florida Fever: Naples Struck by Sudden Outbreak of Raging Mitt-Mania Epidemic (Robert Stacy McCain/The Other McCain)

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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Florida Fever: Naples Struck by Sudden Outbreak of Raging Mitt-Mania Epidemic  —  Mitt Romney at Naples rally, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012  —  Attention young conservatives: Your grandma loves Mitt Romney.  —  The phenomenal shift in the polls here in the Sunshine State …

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[sigalonminnews @ sigalonminnews] How conservatives lost their moral compass (Rick Pleasures/The Politico)

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Rick Pleasures / The Politico:
How conservatives lost their moral compass  —  There's irony here in that liberals have viewed shame as a conservative ally.  They associated it with Puritans and the puritanical who used shame, liberals said, to bludgeon people into moralistic behavior that denied their real passions and interests.

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[sigalonminnews @ sigalonminnews] The Man Behind Gingrich's Money (New York Times)

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New York Times:
The Man Behind Gingrich's Money  —  The trip to Jordan by a group of United States congressmen was supposed to be a chance for them to meet the newly crowned King Abdullah II.  But their tour guide had a more complicated agenda.  —  The guide was Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino magnate …

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[sigalonoddities @ sigalonoddities] 20 Best Android Apps For Photo Sharing, Gorgeous Indian Girls, 30 Websites with Full-Screen Photo Backgrounds and more

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[sigalonminit @ sigalonminit] Sony Rolls Out A Trio Of New Cyber-Shot Point And Shoots

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Sony Rolls Out A Trio Of New Cyber-Shot Point And Shoots
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In the market for a new point and shoot? Didn't think so. Why don't you take a gander at the new Sony shooters anyway?

03:59

[sigalonradiotv @ sigalonradiotv] Putin calls for new, competitive economy

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Putin calls for new, competitive economy

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated that Russia needs a new economy to restore technological leadership and boost innovation by ensuring competition.

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[Sigalonit @ Sigalonit] Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola? (Charles Arthur/Guardian)

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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola?  —  The financial performance of handset, tablet and set-top box maker Motorola suggests that it won't add $12bn (including $3bn of cash) in value to Google's business.  But how can Google possibly earn its money back from patents?

03:49

[antifuchs @ antifuchs] Quoting in full Eliza's account:

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Reports of LRAD, beatings, unprovoked taser use on subdued protesters, and a fucking tank.  Apparently a 19 year old woman with leukemia was beaten.

This is a screenshot of an infrared live video feed by broadcaster OakFoSho.  It shows hundreds of arrested protesters handcuffed and sitting on the sidewalk in rows, waiting to be taken away to...

03:47

[sigalonfrance @ sigalonfrance] SéNéGAL: Présidentielle au Sénégal : la candidature de Wade confirmée, celle de Youssou N’Dour annulée

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C'est définitif, le Conseil constitutionnel sénégalais confirme la validité de la candidature d’Abdoulaye Wade à la présidentielle. Celles des trois opposants Macky Sall, Idrissa Seck et de Cheikh Tidiane Gadio ont été retenues aussi. Mais le recours de Youssou N’Dour est rejeté. Le chanteur ne pourra donc pas se présenter à la magistrature suprême en février...
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[sigalonminnews @ sigalonminnews] Angry about inequality? Don't blame the rich. (James Q. Wilson/Washington Post)

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James Q. Wilson / Washington Post:
Angry about inequality?  Don't blame the rich.  —  There is no doubt that incomes are unequal in the United States — far more so than in most European nations.  This fact is part of the impulse behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, whose members claim to represent the 99 percent of us against the wealthiest 1 percent.

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[Sigalonbandf @ Sigalonbandf] The Weekend Is Over And Markets Are Sliding

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Well actually the weekend has been over for awhile now, but yes, the tone is negative to start the week.

Many markets are down over 0.5%, including US futures, and Japan's Nikkei, which is shown here.

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This should be a big week: First, it's jobs week, culminating with the Non-Farm Payrolls report on Friday.

But in terms of event risk, it'll all be about Greece debt talks, which should plenty of...

03:29

[Zetterling @ Zetterling] 2,200-year-old Egyptian mummy had prostate cancer

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Oldest case in Egypt: The 2,250-year-old Ptolemaic mummy, which revealed tell-tale signs of prostate cancer under high-powered digital imaging Discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy suggests the disease is caused by genetics - not the environment.

03:28

[sigalonvideo @ sigalonvideo] Yahoo! Readies Bill Maher Special, Doubles Down on Comedy Slate

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Next month, Yahoo! will host a free one-hour comedy special with Bill Maher as part of extensive slate of comedy programming, says Yahoo! video chief Erin McPherson in this interview with

Maher's performance will be streamed live from the San Jose Performing Arts Center on February 23.  More on Yahoo's plans with new comedy programming was reported last month by the Hollywood...

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