Reddit on May 29, 2009: Top Posts and Discussions

Friday, May. 29th 2009

News on 5/29/09

Shell to Appear in Court on Charges of Crimes Against Humanity over their Actions in the Niger Delta
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Wal-Mart, the biggest corporation in the world, told Green Day they would not carry their new CD unless they took out the 5 times in 17 songs where they used the word F***. Green Day refused. BRAVO Green Day. I believe in free speech.
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You got to love it - "One of Canada's most respected research organizations has a black eye after being forced to withdraw three reports on copyright and intellectual property because they contained plagiarized information"
r/worldnews · salvia_d · 119 pts
British town of Luton, members of the Muslim community confronted extremists and drove them from the streets.
r/worldnews · seven11 · 118 pts
North Korea is preparing to move an intercontinental ballistic missile from a factory near Pyongyang to a launch site on the east coast
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Canada's Governor General defends her decision to eat raw seal heart
r/worldnews · fuzzybunn · 29 pts
At the same time as Bush officials were accusing Iran of harboring Al Qaeda terrorists, Iran was secretly helping the U.S. bomb taliban units and find Al Qaeda operatives
r/worldnews · Nurgle · 27 pts
An Iranian official talks about yesterday's mosque bombing that killed 20 people: "The terrorists, who were equipped by America in one of our neighbouring countries, carried out this criminal act in their efforts to create religious conflict and fear and to influence the presidential election."
r/worldnews · blackstar9000 · 26 pts

Politics on 5/29/09

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Perfect choice of picture, Time.

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I Saw this on LeVar Burton's Twitter Page

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Actual cigarette brand I've seen in Japan

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What I live for

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can you run that by me again?

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So my friends and I decided to get drunk in the woods last week when this gem was captured [PIC]

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In a photo provided by Red Bull Air Race, Austrian pilot Hannes Arch heads past a pylon before hitting a bird in the final four in the second round.....

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The Photography of Hunter S. Thompson

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Reddit on May 29, 2009

Friday, May. 29th 2009

News on 5/29/09

Shell to Appear in Court on Charges of Crimes Against Humanity over their Actions in the Niger Delta

Wal-Mart, the biggest corporation in the world, told Green Day they would not carry their new CD unless they took out the 5 times in 17 songs where they used the word F***. Green Day refused. BRAVO Green Day. I believe in free speech.

You got to love it - "One of Canada's most respected research organizations has a black eye after being forced to withdraw three reports on copyright and intellectual property because they contained plagiarized information"

British town of Luton, members of the Muslim community confronted extremists and drove them from the streets.

North Korea is preparing to move an intercontinental ballistic missile from a factory near Pyongyang to a launch site on the east coast

Canada's Governor General defends her decision to eat raw seal heart

At the same time as Bush officials were accusing Iran of harboring Al Qaeda terrorists, Iran was secretly helping the U.S. bomb taliban units and find Al Qaeda operatives

An Iranian official talks about yesterday's mosque bombing that killed 20 people: "The terrorists, who were equipped by America in one of our neighbouring countries, carried out this criminal act in their efforts to create religious conflict and fear and to influence the presidential election."

Politics on 5/29/09

Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology - Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology.

You're Always Right, Onion: "Obama Revises Campaign Promise Of 'Change' To 'Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas'"

Gen. Petraeus was on FOX today and gave a blockbuster interview, probably not the one Fox expected.

How to interrogate a terrorist: "He was a diabetic and couldn't eat anything with sugar in it." ... the Americans brought him some sugar-free cookies. "We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him," Soufan recalls. "So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures."

Remember: history shows categorically that once the state can lock `them' up without a fair trial, torture, rape them or sodomize them - well; sooner or later it will be able to do the same to your children or mine; or to you and me.

Sports on 5/29/09

Lakers beat the Nuggets, in Finals for 2nd year in a row.

ESPN’s Erin Andrews Wants Badly to Compete on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

Lakers to NBA Finals | After beating the Nuggets 119-92 in Game 6

Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra will not run in the Belmont Stakes, opening the way for jockey Calvin Borel to return to Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird in his quest for a personal Triple Crown.

Sex or Tennis (listen to the audio clip)

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