Meme - /meem/
"A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea,
that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution.*"
Ideosphere Samples - Archive September 04
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The Defense Department would be wrong to exonerate an Army general who sparked international ire for describing the U.S. war on terrorism as a Christian battle against Satan, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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'In an effort to attract federal funding, draw new students and prepare graduates for careers in the expanding field of homeland security, universities are augmenting existing courses and launching entire programs around security, defense and terror issues.'
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Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote. "The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security..."
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Learning to Live With Biometrics
Public schools increasingly rely on fingerprint recognition to create cashless cafeterias and track overdue library books, but privacy advocates express concern.
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FTC Eyes 'Educational' Marketers. Companies that snooker students into revealing personal information under the guise that it will be sent to colleges better watch it.
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'In July, the Texas Court of Appeals turned down software programmer Evan Brown's appeal for a jury trial to decide who owned an idea in his head.
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Waging The War Of Ideas In The Global War On Terror. Condoleezza Rice spoke to the Institute on "Waging the War of Ideas in the Global War on Terror."'
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'Schwarzenegger is setting two dangerous precedents for education in California. He struck a deal with the California Teacher's Association (CTA) to suspend constitutionally guaranteed K--12 school funding. And he proposed suspending the promise, for the first time in forty years, that every eligible California high school graduate would have a place at the University of California or a California State University.'
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A nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion.
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"...how are readers to know whether the reviews, news accounts and feature stories they read are accurate, both factually and contextually? Asked more philosophically, how do readers know they are learning the Truth?' (Article...)
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Judges In Row Over Torture Ruling.
'Appeal court judges yesterday defied human rights campaigners by ruling that British courts could use evidence extracted under torture, as long as British agents were not complicit in the abuse. (Article...)
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Tens of thousands of American troops deployed to Afghanistan and
Iraq were ordered to take FDA approved anti-malarial Lariam, a scored white pill, three times a week... "people taking Lariam occasionally experience severe anxiety, feelings that people are against them, hallucinations, depression, unusual behavior or feeling disoriented...." (Article...)
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A real-time running total of the amount of money spent by the US Government to finance the war in Iraq. (based on estimates from Congressional appropriations) (Website...)
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Non-Violent Demonstrations in Haiti. On February 29 representatives of the Bush Administration kidnapped the democratically elected president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and flew him to the Central African Republic. The Haitian people overwhelmingly elected him twice, only to see both terms of office brutally interrupted by military coups. (Article...)
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RNC: New York Lockdown. On one side are 36,000 cops. On the other side are at least 250,000 protesters expected to converge on the city from all across the United States and Canada. (Article...)
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Trying to make sense of the war on terrorism and U.S. military might, Sociologist Georgi Derlugian teaches about empire at Northwestern University and shares some books on the subject. (Article...)
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British scientists said on Wednesday they had received permission to clone human embryos for medical research, thought to be the first such license given in Europe. (Article...)
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Emerging "Surveillance-Industrial Complex" Is Turbo-Charging Government Monitoring, ACLU Warns in New Report. (Article...) - (Report...)
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Thirty-Five U.S. Senators Ask President Bush to Rescind Policy That Expose Wetlands, Streams, and Other Waters to Pollution: Senator Feingold Leads Efforts Protect the Nation's Waters. (Article...)
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Biopharm Locations Must Be Made Public: Court Ruling an Unprecedented Victory for Citizen Oversight of Biotech Experiments. (Article...)
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Olympics' digital security unprecedented. If you're going to the Olympics, you'd better be careful what you say and do in public. (Article...)
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Prozac, the anti-depression drug, is being taken in such large quantities that it can now be found in Britain's drinking water. (Article...)
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"...the failure of the press to cover the climate crisis has left the United States ten years behind the rest of the world in addressing this issue." (Article...)
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New BLM Management Plans Would Open More than 80 Percent of Affected Lands to Oil And Gas Development. (Article...)
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Bush slips and states "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." (Article...)
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A U.S. federal appeals panel yesterday upheld a lower court's decision to stop cameras from transmitting live video of Maricopa County, Ariz., Jail prisoners to the Internet (people awaiting trial). (Article...)
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