Reddit on May 27, 2009: Top Posts and Discussions

Wednesday, May. 27th 2009

News on 5/27/09

Australian government admits less than 32% of secret censorship list is related to underage images
r/worldnews · pastr · 366 pts
Deng Yujiao was an unknown 21-year-old worker in a Chinese provincial town: one of millions quietly scraping a living. Now she is an unwilling hero to tens of thousands of compatriots after stabbing to death an official who she says tried to rape her when she rejected his advances.
r/worldnews · jones77 · 208 pts
Feral girl in Siberian city of Chita was brought up by cats and dogs
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 133 pts
Texas man given 65 year jail sentence for funding schools and social welfare programs controlled by Hamas
r/worldnews · sidewalkchalked · 130 pts
Turns out FBI Informant made up supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues
r/news · RichardPryor · 127 pts
Wiwa vs Shell Oil trial postponed. Ken Saro-Wiwa, an acclaimed writer and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was hanged along with eight other Ogoni leaders
r/worldnews · yellowcakewalk · 125 pts
Twenty years after Tiananmen, China erases the incident by buying off scholars and giving students something to dream about.
r/worldnews · koavf · 125 pts
EU sues Sweden, demands law requiring ISPs to retain data
r/worldnews · ninex · 82 pts

Politics on 5/27/09

Sports on 5/27/09

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In case there is any doubt, I want to assure you that these pictures are real and not clever composites made in Photoshop. Chipmunks can be very easy to get along with, once you've taken the time to befriend them.

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Swine Flu Pandemic billboards in Australia.

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Slave Leia Pillow Fight [PIC]

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I shot the Serif

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Something landed on my cousin's apartment complex, it came from Israel [pic]

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Forbidden love (pic)

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What a chair!

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This landed on my cousins porch, it came from Gaza [pic]

r/pics · 101 pts

Reddit on May 27, 2009

Wednesday, May. 27th 2009

News on 5/27/09

Australian government admits less than 32% of secret censorship list is related to underage images

Deng Yujiao was an unknown 21-year-old worker in a Chinese provincial town: one of millions quietly scraping a living. Now she is an unwilling hero to tens of thousands of compatriots after stabbing to death an official who she says tried to rape her when she rejected his advances.

Feral girl in Siberian city of Chita was brought up by cats and dogs

Texas man given 65 year jail sentence for funding schools and social welfare programs controlled by Hamas

Turns out FBI Informant made up supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues

Wiwa vs Shell Oil trial postponed. Ken Saro-Wiwa, an acclaimed writer and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was hanged along with eight other Ogoni leaders

Twenty years after Tiananmen, China erases the incident by buying off scholars and giving students something to dream about.

EU sues Sweden, demands law requiring ISPs to retain data

Politics on 5/27/09

Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove, both of whom dropped out of second-rate colleges, are claiming that Sotomayor, who graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and was an editor of the Yale Law Review, doesn't have the intellect to serve on the Supreme Court.

"At a time when the feds are spending with such abandon in an effort to stimulate the economy why is it tolerable to leave states in a position where they are forced to fire teachers? How can there be federal funds readily available for banker bonuses but not to keep teachers in the classroom?"

A 12 year old Afghani boy was taken to Guantanamo, tortured and abused for over seven years

Conservative radio host who got waterboarded admits technique may produce bogus intelligence

For the fourth year in a row, US marijuana arrests set an all-time record! A marijuana smoker is arrested every thirty-eight seconds!

Sports on 5/27/09

Barcelona 2, Manchester United 0

Meet Two-Year Old Pool Prodigy: Keith “I’m a hustler baby“ O’dell Jr.

Jose Canseco vs Hong-Man Choi [Vid]

A youtuber documenting LeBron's many traveling violations.

Red Wings win in OT, 2-1. Will meet Penguins for Stanley Cup.

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