Phony marijuana targeted by recent state legislation sounds worse than the real thing, if you believe Georgia’s governor. Chase’s Law strengthens a ban on "synthetic marijuana," ground-up plant material laced with chemicals that mimic marijuana. Chase Burnett, the bill’s namesake, was f... Read more...
I’m not saying we’re being sold out for mere chump change. But I am saying that each time we look at this bill, we find something else that just ain’t right. I want you to remember these names: Lamar Smith, Joe Baca, Howard Berman, Marsha Blackburn, Mary Bono Mack, John Carter, Steven Chabot,... Read more...
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07/03/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in A Truth Moment,
African-American Awareness,
Death,
Dont Believe The Hype,
F*ck Outta Here,
Factoid,
Freeing Slaves,
War,
World News
A new campaign spreading across the Internet says it has one goal in mind: Make Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the violent Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) “famous” so he can be brought to justice The campaign may be working. #StopKony has been trending worldwide on Twitter since ... Read more...
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01/03/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
Politics As Usual,
Technology,
World News
If there is one war that Greece could not afford to join, that is with the global computer hacking collective known as Anonymous. Yet as of minutes ago, that is precisley what happened, after Anonymous, as part of what it now calls Operation Greece, took down the Greek Ministry of Justice (http://... Read more...
You may be fooling yourself if you're not worried about your ability to be at ease with fine dining at a five-star restaurant, or taking charge of hosting a business or social dinner. If you wish to climb either the social or corporate ladder, you must have a veneer that is smooth and polished. Whil... Read more...
When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability. The Senate had been scheduled to hold a proceedural vote next week ... Read more...
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18/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
Politics As Usual,
Propaganda,
Protest/Activism,
Stranger than fiction,
Technology,
World News
What are SOPA and PIPA? (No, we're not talking about Kate Middleton's sister.) Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thwart copyright infringement but that Web experts warn could threat... Read more...
Since the release of a website that monitors nearly 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloaders, even more pro-SOPA figures have been found downloading copyrighted material. Earlier this week, it was found that employees of major copyright holders Sony, Universal, and Fox were all found... Read more...
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16/12/2011,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in download,
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The web may not be perfect, but SOPA is a reactionary bill to a broken copyright system. One thought alone: The ‘broken web’ is ironically what makes it work. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) will starve the web of the oxygen that it needs, issue its marching orders and censor the U.S... Read more...