A flash podcast while Paul is on vacation. Werner Herzog’s war on chickens, Slavoj Žižek’s war on tulips, news updates from the tech desk, and @horse_ebooks unmasked? Also, in honor of President’s Day: Ronald Reagan’s Greatest Laughs, a roundup of some of our Presidents’ most beloved zingers, and Teddy Roosevelt, the First Cryptozoologist?

Show Notes

• Werner Herzog on Chickens
• Dangerous Minds: Slavoj Žižek Hates Tulips
• Gawker: How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet’s Favorite Spambot
• Twitter: @horse_ebooks
• Newsmax: Ronald Reagan’s Greatest Laughs
• Youtube: “Yakety Sax”, Theme From Benny Hill
• Cryptomundo: Happy President’s Day: Bigfoot and Teddy!

Novelist Leland Cheuk has taken the brave step from the solitary writer’s den to the comedy stage. He discusses dealing with New York City comedy audiences who’ve seen it all and how the two creative pursuits differ, before getting sidetracked by Downton Abbey talk.

During Breaking News, Paul discusses Occupy the SEC, The Pentagon’s $51 Billion ‘Black’ Budget, the taxpayer-funded fringe science funhouse that is DARPA, and an Unidentified Flying “Egyptian eye” hovering over pastures in Georgia. He also remembers Santa Cruz songwriter Cassidy Meijer, who passed away this past weekend.

About the Guest

Leland Cheuk

Leland Cheuk‘s writing has appeared in publications such as Spinner, 7×7.com, CellStories, Punk Planet, Is Greater Than and Mostly Fiction, and his book reviews appear regularly in The Rumpus. Cheuk has also been a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He is working on a novel and a collection of stories.

Interstitial Music

• “Hell Fire” by Sin in Space
• “Take Me Aboard” by Sin in Space
• “New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones” by FEAR

Show Notes

Breaking News

Occupy the SEC

• Occupy the SEC Comment Letter on the Volcker Rule
• In a 325-Page SEC Letter, Occupy’s Finance Gurus Take on Wall Street Lobbyists | Mother Jones
• Occupy’s amazing Volcker Rule letter | Felix Salmon

The Pentagon’s $51 Billion ‘Black’ Budget

• See for Yourself: The Pentagon’s $51 Billion ‘Black’ Budget | Danger Room | Wired.com
• Google Spreadsheet: 2013 DOD Black Budget
• Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion | Danger Room | Wired.com
• Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld by Sharon Weinberger

Pseudoscience News of the Week

• ‘Egyptian eye’ hovering over pastures | Examiner.com

Remembering Cassidy Meijer

• Sin in Space | MetroActive Music
• Comeback Kid | Santa Cruz Good Times
• Sin In Space band page (with music downloads)
• The Cobwebs | Myspace

Leland Cheuk

• The Rumpus
• Mostly Fiction
• Is Greater Than
• Leland Cheuk stand-up comedy clips on YouTube
  

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Polly Carl of the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage is revitalizing American theater by taking inspiration from the commons. She’s heading to Emerson College in July to start up the Center for Theatre Commons. On this episode, she chats about the state of non-profit and storefront theater, issues of access both in the theater and in the technology sphere, and disruptive versus dysfunctional narratives.

During Breaking News, Amanda Hess discusses the week’s assaults on abortion rights, and and Aaron Cynic provides an update on Occupy Chicago. Also, Paul discusses the drumbeat for war with Iran, attacks on LGBTQ rights in Russia, and a wooly mammoth allegedly caught on camera in Siberia.

About the Guests

Polly Carl

Polly Carl will be heading to Emerson College in July to start up the Center for Theatre Commons. She is currently the editor of the online journal HowlRound and the director of the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage. Polly produces, dramaturgs, commissions, writes, and consults. She spent two years as Director of Artistic Development at Steppenwolf Theatre and served eleven years at the Playwrights’ Center—seven as Producing Artistic Director. She moderates a lot of panels, sits on committees and boards, and passionately loves her dogs. Her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society is from the University of Minnesota.

Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess is the Lifestyle Editor for GOOD. Prior to joining GOOD, she covered sex and gender for TBD, and wrote The Sexist blog for the Washington City Paper.

Aaron Cynic

Aaron Cynic is a zine writer, internet radio host, blogger, musician, and project organizer from Chicago. He mainly publishes a zine called Diatribe, but has published a few other one shot zines. Aaron has also contributed to numerous other websites and publications and currently writes for Chicagoist. When he’s not writing or watching bad sci-fi, he’s singing for the band Burning Luck.

Episode Markers

• 01:14 – “Power Doesn’t Run On Nothing” by the Thermals
• 02:20 – Breaking News
• 10:50 – “Toybox” by the Geraldine Fibbers
• 11:52 – Amanda Hess on abortion rights
• 40:39 – “Slave Labor” by Mariachi El Bronx
• 41:51 – Aaron Cynic on Occupy Chicago
• 57:30 – “Working Man” by Boaz Vilozny
• 58:59 – Pseudoscience News of the Week
• 1:04:19 – “Actor Out of Work” by St. Vincent
• 1:05:04 – A Theater of the Commons with Polly Carl
• 1:51:10 – “Serpents” by Sharon Van Etten

Show Notes

Breaking News

War Against Iran?

• Wonkette: One Month Later, Half of U.S. Forgets Iraq War, Wants New War (With Iran)
• Poll in November which found less than half of Israelis support war in Iran
• NBC News: Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
• Al Jazeera: US hits Iran with new sanctions
• The Guardian: Obama orders new sanctions on Iran, including ‘deceptive’ Central Bank
• Haaretz: Rick Santorum: Obama helping Iran obtain nuclear weapons

LGBTQ rights in Russia

• Russia Today: St. Petersburg bans promotion of ‘gay lifestyles’
• Advocate: State Dept. Denounces Russian Antigay Bill
• AllOut: Russia Silenced

Abortion rights with Amanda Hess

• Washington Post: Amid abortion debate, Komen cancer charity halting grants to Planned Parenthood
• GOOD: Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women’s Health for All
• Feministing: Komen apologizes, says they will continue funding Planned Parenthood
• GOOD: Damage Control: Why the Backlash Against the Komen Foundation Succeeded
• USA Today: Obama mandate on birth control coverage stirs controversy
• Feministing: White House stands firm as Catholic groups rail against new contraception rules
• Feministing: Obama administration sidesteps religious institutions on no-cost birth control
• Jezebel: Obama’s Birth Control Compromise Is Actually Pretty Good
• ThinkProgress: Catholic Bishops Demand All Businesses Be Given The Right To Deny Women Contraception Coverage
• Tulsa World: Oklahoma Senate panel approves personhood bill: Life begins at conception
• Wonkette: Senator Mocks Crazies With ‘Each Sperm Is Sacred’ Amendment

Occupy Chicago with Aaron Cynic

• Occupy Chicago
• Pastebin: Occupy Chicago MAYDAY
• Adbusters: What will happen at #OCCUPYCHICAGO?
• That Egy Guy: AdBusters… again
• Diatribe Media

Pseudoscience News of the Week

• The Sun: ’Woolly mammoth’ spotted in Siberia
• The Cosmos News: Woolly Mammoth Caught on Video Alive in Siberia?
• Dangerous Minds: Blurred Photo Footage Apparently Shows Mammoth or Elephant or Bear with a Fish

A Theater of the Commons with Polly Carl

• Howlround
• Howlround: Artists, Institutions, and the Decline of Public Discourse
• Shareable: Building a New American Theater of the Commons
• Twitter: #NEWPLAY
• Livestream: #NEWPLAY TV
• The New Play Map
• Howlround: Burning Down A House
• Lecture: Charles Baxter, “Undoings: Dramatic Actions That Can’t Be Undone” (iTunes link)
• Charles Baxter: Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

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Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan studies how new media can both upend and consolidate power structures around the world. Most recently, he has investigated the ways offline and online social networks ignited revolutionary movements such as the Arab Spring, the London Riots, and the Occupy movement. Unlike many of the pundits who opine on social media’s effects from afar, Ramesh has done extensive field research, and spent two months in Egypt last summer interviewing a diverse array of Egyptians about Mubarak’s ouster. On this episode of Radio Free Ruin, he shares some of his conclusions from his research, and explores the nuances and complexities in the relationships between new media, class, power structures, and social movements.

During Breaking News, Paul does a roundup of the week’s Occupy news, including the brutal crackdown on Occupy Oakland and the ensuing solidarity marches, Occupy Foreclosures, the NYPD’s treatment of transgender detainees, and courts that are theatening Twitter and WordPress with jail time for Occupy-related activities on their networks. We also look at the arrest of documentary filmmaker Josh Fox at a congressional hearing about fracking, the semiotics of Rick Santorum’s sweater vest, Snoop Dogg’s support of Ron Paul, and Newt’s moon colony.

About Ramesh Srinivasan

Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan, Assistant Professor at UCLA in Design and Media/Information Studies, studies and participates in projects focused on how new media technologies impact political revolutions, economic development and poverty reduction, and the future of cultural heritage. He wrote for the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, and was recently on NPR discussing his fieldwork in Egypt on networks, actors, and technologies in the political sphere. He has worked with bloggers who were involved in overthrowing the recent authoritarian Kyrgyz regime, non-literate tribal populations in India to study how literacy emerges through uses of technology, and traditional Native American communities to study how non-Western understandings of the world can introduce new ways of looking at the future of the internet. He holds an engineering degree from Stanford, a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab, and a Doctorate from Harvard University.

Episode Markers

• 0:28 – Intro
• 1:38 – Breaking News
• 25:33 – “Falcon Jab” by Ratatat
• 26:18 – Revolution Offline and On with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan
• 1:09:26 – “Wanna Be A Wolf Like Me” by The Hood Internet(Lil’ Troy x TV On The Radio)
• 1:11:57 – Outro

Show notes

Breaking News

Occupy Oakland, Occupy Foreclosures, the NYPD’s treatment of transgender detainees, and arresting Twitter

• In These Times: Hundreds Arrested in Oakland, Cities Across Country March in Solidarity
• Mother Jones: Journalists—Myself Included—Swept Up in Mass Arrest at Occupy Oakland
• Radio Dispatch roundup of Occupy Oakland and Solidarity March news
• The Paramus Post: One Hundred Brooklyn Community Members And Occupiers Peacefully Disrupt Foreclosure Auction
• Dignity by Ken Layne
• Jezebel: In NYPD Custody, Trans People Get Chained to Fences and Poles
• Streetwise & Safe: Transgender Community Demands for NYPD Accountability And Proposed Changes to NYPD Patrol Guide (PDF)
• Twitter Was Just Subpoenaed By New York City In A Case Involving An Occupy Wall Street Activist
• The Atlantic Wire: If a Twitter Subpoena Comes by Fax, Did It Really Happen?
• Scribd: Subpoenaing WordPress for Occupy Plano

• The Guardian: Josh Fox, director of Gasland, arrested at fracking hearing
• Design Observer: Rob Walker on Santorum’s Tragic Sweater Vest
• The Atlantic Wire: Snoop Dogg (Sort Of) Backs Ron Paul

Newt’s Going to the Moon

• Discover Magazine: The Newt-onian Mechanics of Building a Permanent Moon Base
• The Washington Post: Ground control to Major Newt: Gingrich’s moon base, brain science talk not much of an oddity
• Forbes: Why Newt Gingrich’s Moon Colony Is A Good Idea And Why It’s Still Not Possible
• Moon, a film by Duncan Jones

Revolution Offline and On with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan

• rameshsrinivasan.org
• Starting with Culture Before Technology – My work from Egypt : Ramesh Srinivasan
• The Washington Post: London, Egypt and the complex role of social media -The Washington Post: Five myths about social media -NPR: Twitter Helped To Distort Egyptian Protests
• Al Jazeera: The Stream w/ Ramesh Srinivasan- Did social media oust Mubarak?
• The New Yorker: Response to Malcolm Gladwell
• Evgeny Morozov: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

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Malcolm Harris joins Radio Free Ruin to discuss the unexpected link between Adderall and the Occupy movement, precarity, a chemically-engineered generation dependent on pharmaceutical companies, the unpredictable life of the freelance writer, and why there’s no going back.

During Breaking News, we survey the week’s bad reporting on Apple and Foxconn, the precedent for such labor practices that was set in the Caribbean and South America post-NAFTA, Iraq’s ever-uncertain future, the precarious lives of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and haunted iPhones.

About Malcolm Harris

Malcolm Harris is the life and art editor for Shareable Magazine and also edits The New Inquiry, a journal of cultural criticism. He’s the editor of Shareable’s book Share or Die: Youth in Recession, which will be available as a print edition in April from New Society Publishers. He has also contributed to N+1, Jacobin, YES! and Utne Reader. Find him on Twitter @destructuremal.

Episode Markers

• 0:47 – Intro
• 1:20 – Breaking News
• 19:02 – “Playaz Club” by Rappin’ 4 Tay
• 20:18 - Adderall and Occupy with Malcolm Harris
• 1:07:49 – “Don’t Give Me No Bammer Weed” by RBL Posse
• 1:09:19 – Outro
• 1:10:24 – “SF Anthem” by San Quinn

Show notes

Breaking News

• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: NYT’s Apple Debate Factcheck, Without Facts
• Naked Capitalism: New York Times Tells Us Only Chinese Near Slave Labor Could Handle Steve Jobs’ Demands
• Cnet: Apple-Foxconn tale goes well beyond Apple, and tech
• ProPublica: By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn
• The Atlantic: Making It in America
• Wikipedia: Free Trade Area of the Americas
• Businessweek: Iraq: Under Worse Management
• YouTube: Marines Respond to Sean Hannity On Occupy Wall Street
• Financial Times: Veterans’ Struggle When Returning Home
• New York Public Library: Precarity: A Reader’s Guide
• SEED Magazine: The True 21st Century Begins
• Transform > Precarity. New Wikipedia Entry
• Beachcombing’s Bizarre History Blog: Hauntings and Technology: the Teflon Effect

Adderall and Occupy with Malcolm Harris

• Rortybomb: Youth unemployment in the United States in line with Arab Spring countries
• N+1: Bad Education: The Student Debt Complex
• The New Inquiry: School’s Out Forever
• Shareable: The Get Lost Generation
• Wikipedia: Adderall
• ABC News: Adderall Drug Shortage Will Continue in 2012, Government Officials Say
• Alternet: Pay Attention: How Big Pharma Contrived the Great American Adderall Drought
• The Rumpus: Stephen Elliot: The Adderral Diaries
• New York Times: Hooked: How Medicine’s Dependence on the Pharmaceutical Industry Undermines Professional Ethics
• Wikipedia: Franco Berardi
• The MIT Press: Franco Berardi: The Soul at Work, From Alienation to Autonomy

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Author Anne Elizabeth Moore joins Radio Free Ruin to talk about her work, third world garment labor, why the manufacturing of technology gets more attention than garment work, the state of women in the comics industry, cats, and much more.

During Breaking News, host Paul M. Davis delves into Mike Daiseys’ one-man show The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, the nuances of the tech industry’s suicide-inducing Chinese factories and why all tech makers are complicit, and a cigar-shaped UFO flap over the South.

About Anne Elizabeth Moore

Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, Truthout columnist, and author of Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh (Cantankerous Titles, 2011), Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007) and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of now-defunct Punk Planet, founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects. Moore exhibits her work frequently as conceptual art, has been the subject of two documentary films, and her work appeared on the radio program Snap Judgment and in the Progressive, Bitch, and on Truthout. She has written forThe Onion, Feministing, The Stranger, In These Times, The Boston Phoenix, and Tin House. She has twice been noted in the Best American Non-Required Reading series. Her work with young women in Southeast Asia has been featured in Time Out Chicago, Make/Shift, Today’s Chicago Woman, and Printmagazines, and on GritTV and NPR’s Worldview. She recently mounted a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her latest book, Cambodian Grrrl, is the first in a series of four volumes on independent culture, globalization, and women’s rights in Southeast Asia.

She is currently based in Chicago and likes cats and pie.

Episode Markers

• 03:11 – Breaking News: Apple, Foxconn, Mike Daisey’s The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, and why we’re all implicated
• 26:23 – Breaking News: Pseudoscience Science Story of the Week
• 29:16 – “My Mistakes” by Eleanor Friedberger
• 29:45 – Garment Work with Anne Elizabeth Moore
• 1:02:08 - “Over the Gates” by Cooper McBean and the Vested Interests
• 1:02:38 – Women in Comics and Media with Anne Elizabeth Moore
• 1:28:25 – “Victorian America” by Emily Jane White
• 1:29:40 – Outro

Show notes

• Breaking News
  • Tech manufacturing labor: we’re all implicated
    • This American Life: Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
    • Public Theater: The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
    • Mike Daisey’s blog
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
    • Apple’s internal accounting of its environmental & labor practices, including for first time, full list of suppliers
    • Workers’ Rights Coalition
    • Alternet: Suicide Threats and Strike Attempts at Apple Manufacturer: China’s Workers Fighting for Rights at Work
    • Kotaku: Mass Suicide Threats at Xbox 360 Plant
    • Consumerist Company Directory
  • Pseudoscience News of the Week
    • Examiner.com: Third East Coast cylinder UFO report in past 24 hours
    • Fifth cigar UFO case: Mississippi woman reports object ‘right above trees’
• Conversation with Anne Elizabeth Moore
  • Anne Elizabeth Moore dot com
  • Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh
  • Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
  • Truthout: Ladydrawers
  • Democracy Guest List
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: UBS 12 × 12: New Artists/New Work: Anne Elizabeth Moore
  • Twitter: @superanne

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Since the rise of Napster and file-sharing, it seems like every single music fan, tech pundit, opinion columnist, and blogger has an opinion on what’s wrong with the music business, and how things should change. There’s been a lot less conversation about how the technology shifts have actually affected the many professional independent musicians who have not been the subject of “future of the music business” trend pieces.

Cooper McBean of The Devil Makes Three joins Paul at Casa de Gato for a conversation about how technology and the Internet have transformed the lives of professional independent musicians for better and worse, the shady corners of the music business the Internet hasn’t disrupted, connecting with fans online, those “future of the music industry” trend pieces, whether bands using Kickstarter are enterprising or lazy, and Cooper’s advice for aspiring musicians.

During Breaking News, Cosmologist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein joins us to discuss the latest Cylon (military drone) news, the case of Bradley Manning, microagressions and Shit White Girls Say To Black Girls, why science is the 99%, and the enigmatic case of the Lesbian Bigfoot hunter.

About the Guests

Cooper McBean is a member of The Devil Makes Three, which recently released the live album Stomp and Smash: Live at the Mystic Theatre and will be touring with Flogging Molly in early February. He also fronts the country and folk band Cooper McBean and the Vested Interests. Originally from Vermont, Cooper now calls Austin his home, and can be found on Twitter @thecoug.

Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a cosmologist holding a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her first postdoc was a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship in the Observational Cosmology Lab at Goddard Space Flight Center. Find her professional work online at cprescodweinstein.com and her non-professional blog at chandapw.tumblr.com.

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Show Notes:

Breaking News

• Motherboard: The Cargo Chopper That’s Hauling Drones to War
• Danger Room: Marines Want iPads to Control Robo-Copter Brains
• Danger Room: Almost 1 In 3 U.S. Warplanes Is a Robot
• Motherboard: Are Drones Collecting Too Much Information
• New York Times: Judge recommends Manning charged with all counts
• Wikipedia: Daniel Ellsberg
• Shit White Girls Say To Black Girls: blog.franchesca.net
• Microagressions
• Scientific American: Science Is the 99%
• YouTube: Neal Degrasse Tyson on Bill Maher
• Cryptomundo: Out Bigfooter Speaks Up For Lesbian Tolerance
• San Diego Gay & Lesbian News: Lesbian Biologist on Cult Hit Finding Bigfoot Spills the Beans

Cooper McBean Interview

• Danny Barnes: How To Make A Living Playing Music
• The New York Times: Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog
• The New York Times: Frustration and Fury: Take It. It’s Free.
• Techdirt: Amanda Palmer Talks About Record Labels, Art, Commerce & Retiring To Open A Juice Bar
• Crowdfunding Nation: The Rise and Evolution of Collaborative Funding
• Wikipedia: Jeff Mangum
• Wikipedia: Brian Wilson
• Mule Train

Episode Markers

00:02:39: Breaking News with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
00:51:19: “Bangor Mash” by The Devil Makes Three from the album Longjohns, Boots and a Belt
00:52:15: Interview with Cooper McBean
01:24:18: “Over The Gates” by Cooper McBean and the Vested Interests
01:54:02: “Black Irish” by The Devil Makes Three from the album Stomp and Smash: Live at the Mystic Theatre
02:20:19: “Gracefully Facedown” by The Devil Makes Three from the album Do Wrong Right

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Radio Free Ruin is a radical talk show about tech, culture, and politics. Hosted by Paul M. Davis, the show is a freewheeling chat with activists, writers, leading thinkers, comedians, artists, and musicians about the week’s most important news and the burning topics that dominate these precarious times.

In the breaking news roundup: Journalist Michael Hastings declares the Afghanistan war “hopeless”, US Judge seizes hundreds of sites and orders they be handed over to Godaddy, Ron Paul’s candidacy reveals the failure of contemporary liberalism, the New Hampshire GOP deems the US Constitution insufficiently foundational, “Shit White Girls Say…To Black Girls”, and much more, including Obama’s alleged secret CIA mission to Mars in the early ’80s.

This is an “alpha” episode to work out the kinks, so no guests this time. Please forgive the sibilants and the audio artifacts, they will be fixed in future episodes. Thanks for listening, and check back next week for an episode with Malcolm Harris of The New Inquiry. We’ll be chatting about the relationship between Adderall, Occupy, and Gen Y.

Show Notes:

• Michael Hastings: McChrystal Was ‘Complex,’ Obama Was Naive, Afghanistan Is Hopeless
• Ron Paul’s Ideas Expose Deep Contradictions in American Liberals’ Worldview
  US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook
• US Senator Seeks Answers from DHS Over Hip-Hop Blog Seizure
• Google Transparency Report | Google Transparency Report map
• Stop Online Piracy Act (Wikipedia)
• Why SOPA Is Bad – How the Stop Online Piracy Act
• U.S. Constitution No Longer Original Enough for New Hampshire GOP
• Sh-t White Girls Say … to Black Girls
• #slatepitches on Twitter
• Three Reasons James Franco’s Novel Might Not Be Bad
• Against Pepper: Against Pepper: Salt needs a new companion
• White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars

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