Human Interest

This time Comcast has gone too far.

This time Comcast has gone too far.

When Seattle’s Reel Grrls – an award-winning program that teaches teenage girls to make their own media – criticized Comcast on Twitter for its outrageous hiring of FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, Comcast came after them. A Comcast VP immediately fired off an email saying the company was cutting off $18,000 in funding it had...

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Funeral for Cops Slain by Man and Teen Son

Jerry Kane and Son Joseph, 16, Didn’t Trust Cops or Government ABC-TV May 24, 2010 By RAY SANCHEZ and STEVEN PORTNOY As a small Arkansas town buried two officers gunned down during a traffic stop, new details emerged today about the father and son whose strident anti-government views led them to kill the officers...

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ACTA — See What The Government Does Not Want You To See

Click on this link to read the latest official draft of the Anti Counterfeit Trade Act (ACTA)  Document in PDF format.

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Living on Nothing but Food Stamps

The New York Times By JASON DEPARLE and ROBERT M. GEBELOFF Published: January 2, 2010 CAPE CORAL, Fla. — After an improbable rise from the Bronx projects to a job selling Gulf Coast homes, Isabel Bermudez lost it all to an epic housing bust — the six-figure income, the house with the pool and...

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Poll: Americans gloomy in ’09, hopeful for 2010

Only 16 percent call this year a good one; 72 percent optimistic for next msnbc.com December 30, 2009 WASHINGTON – For all their differences, Americans largely agree on two things: 2009 was a lousy year for the nation, and 2010 is likely to be better. Nearly three-fourths of Americans think 2009 was a bad...

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Sean Goldman One Step Closer to Reuniting with Father

Brazilian Family Gives Up Custody Fight; David Goldman Waits for Son ABC-TV Dec. 23, 2009 By JEFFREY KOFMAN, SONIA GALLEGO and MARK MOONEY A Brazilian court today took another step toward returning nine-year-old Sean Goldman to the arms of his father, David. The court ordered that Sean be reunited with David Goldman by 9...

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David Goldman Wins Court Custody Fight for Son

New Jersey Dad Hopes to Bring Son Home From Brazil for Christmas ABC-TV News Dec. 22, 2009 By MARK MOONEY and SONIA GALLEGO New Jersey dad David Goldman won a court fight today when the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that the Brazilian family of his deceased ex-wife must hand over custody of his 9-year-old...

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Taiwanese face death with ‘living funerals’

AFP November 1, 2009 By Amber Wang TAIPEI — The eulogies, the songs, the crying and the hugging all make David Tseng’s funeral virtually indistinguishable from any other such rite on Taiwan — except he is still alive. Tseng is only 25 but he is wheelchair-bound and in the terminal stage of a genetic...

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Child Protective Services to Check Out Falcon Heene’s Family

Sheriff Says Boy Too Hyper to Hide for Five Hours ABC News Oct. 16, 2009 By RUSSELL GOLDMAN and SARAH NETTER Police have asked child protective services to investigate the Colorado family of a boy who was believed to have been aboard a runaway homemade flying saucer, but was later found to be hiding...

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Deputies chase boy floating in balloon aircraft

Cops: 6-year-old takes off in family’s experimental helium-balloon craft NBC, msnbc.com and news services October 15, 2009 FORT COLLINS. Colo. – Authorities were trying to determine Thursday how to safely bring down a 6-year-old boy who reportedly clambered into his family’s experimental balloon aircraft and floated away from home, sheriff’s officials said. The bizarre...

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