June 30, 2012

* Horizontalism: the battle for the soul of Occupy Wall Street
* Video of prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda at Zimmerman hearing
* California ban on Foie Gras production & sale begins tomorrow
* Facebook building server farm near the Arctic Circle in Sweden
* Wozniak slams piracy case against Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom

* Coast Guard sets no protest "safety zone" around arctic drilling
* Era of testing on Chimpanzees to end later this summer [Bioqual]
* Eventual fiscal union "to make the Euro an irreversible project"
* Thousands march in downtown Los Angeles against planned Walmart
* Columbia's Constitutional Court decriminalizes drug possession

  June 28, 2012

* Politics of Supreme Court ruling to uphold Affordable Care Act
* CNN, Fox erroneously reported "individual mandate" struck down
* O'Reilly would "apologize for being an idiot" if mandate upheld
* Former Grayson advisor to co-host late show with Russell Brand
* Waldo Canyon Fire burns hundreds of homes in Colorado Springs

  June 27, 2012

* SCOTUS spikes 1912 Montana law limiting corporate campaign cash
* Legal costs of Oakland police officer misconduct $13M last year
* Joe Biden calls Jerry Brown "smartest guy in American politics"
* Marc Cuban says high-frequency traders are the ultimate hackers
* Mob stormed jail, killed Mormonism founder Joseph Smith in 1844

  June 26, 2012

* Evidence that Mars has vast subterranean reservoirs of water
* Louis CK selling 2012 tour tickets exclusively on his website
* EU Commissioner to ignore rejection of ACTA by Euro parliament
* Intelligence Committee regularly watch videos of drone strikes
* Carter: drone strikes "abet our enemies & alienate our friends"

  June 24, 2012

* British Library collection of nature recordings made before 1950
* Kevin Kelly's list of must-see documentaries & educational films
* Peefeeyatko documentary on Zappa's later Synclavier compositions
* Illustrations by French artist Chéri Herouard; some images NSFW
* Morsi defeats former prime minister Shafiq in Egyptian election

  June 23, 2012

* Assange seeking asylum at Ecuadorian Embassy in London [pictures]
* White House finally acknowledges direct action in Yemen & Somalia
* Syria confirms shooting down Turkish warplane over Mediterranean
* The scam Wall Street learned from gangsters: US v. Carollo et al
* Reddit founder says site was started with horde of fake accounts

* Obama forces Romney's hand on immigration reform and gay marriage
* Dell won't renew American Legislative Exchange Council membership
* Michigan Rep. Lisa Brown silenced by colleagues for saying vagina
* Supreme Court rules FCC fines for broadcast obscenity are illegal
* Uruguayan congress to debate state controlled sales of marijuana

  June 14, 2012

* Republican National Committee Latino website features Asian kids
* Call for rule against public breastfeeding in US military uniform
* British Columbia's top health officer advocates MDMA legalization
* Jehovah's Witness elders told to keep reports of pedophilia secret
* Catch by Blanco preserves San Francisco Giant's first perfect game

* Egypt high court calls for dissolution of newly elected parliament
* Film documentary on the life of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei
* Love triangle soured friendship of Albert Camus & Jean-Paul Sartre
* Paris Review literary magazine part of CIA weaponization of culture
* Fionna Apple's first album in seven years: The Idler Wheel reviewed

* More of my pictures of Morris Dancers at the Conservatory of Flowers

  June 13, 2012

* John Major: Murdoch warned UK government over policy toward Europe
* Sell Social Security to Wall Street to fund wars and bank bailouts
* Johnson & Johnson leaves the American Legislative Exchange Council
* JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony confirms he ran a hedge fund
* Comcast refuses to comply with subpoenas; accuses copyright holders

  June 12, 2012

* Travel books about the US emphasize caution regarding politics
* SEC response to volatility of markets during 2010 "Flash Crash"
* NDAA unconstitutional: judge clarifies indefinite detention ban
* Gilliam's letter to Universal in regard to editing Brazil [1985]
* Rebecca Kaplan is far and away Oakland's most popular politician

* Elizabeth Warren tells Mitt Romney why corporations aren't people
* Florida ends voter purge; one in six on purge list found eligible
* Students for Sensible Drug Policy smoke White House softball team
* DoJ memo on NSA Domestic Spying; DoD Fourth Estate Administration
* Falkland Islands to hold referendum on "political status" in 2013

  June 6, 2012

* Solar Impulse first intercontinental flight powered by the sun
* Supreme Court lets "baseless" charges stand in Blackwater case
* Sharp increase in US drone strikes in Pakistan in last two weeks
* Bilderberg meeting protest photos at hotel in Chantilly Virginia
* Wisconsin governor beats recall; Dems would take Senate majority

  June 2, 2012

* New member of Myanmar parliament Aung San Suu Kyi profiled
* Google informs users in China about censorship in realtime
* Profit driven surveillance leads to innovations in injustice
* Mubarak sentenced to life; 840 died during 18-month uprising
* Connecticut becomes 17th state to legalize medical marijuana

* Prokudin-Gorskii took color photos for Russian Czar [1909-15]

  June 1, 2012

* SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashes down after visit to ISS
* Off-the-record discussions of leading citizens at Bilderberg
* Greek financial crisis leading to constraints on governments
* Judge sends Zimmerman back to jail after lies about finances
* Chicago policeman: "First amendment right can be terminated"

* Supremacist elected to Pennsylvania GOP's central committee
* Backlash against secretive intellectual property agreements
* Fedora pays Microsoft for right to boot on ARM architecture
* FDA denies request to change name of Corn Syrup to "Sugar"
* Hemmingway's standing desk; Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf