Reddit on July 5, 2010: Top Posts and Discussions

Monday, Jul. 5th 2010

News on 7/5/10

To check mates claim, chess champion Bobby Fischer is exhumed in Iceland.
r/worldnews · Dante2005 · 720 pts
Toronto G20 Police threaten to rape and torture journalist and female protesters. Male officers strip search and cavity search females.
r/worldnews · salvia_d · 382 pts
Blockbuster stock to be delisted from NYSE
r/news · matildaparker · 220 pts
‘Why do you hate us?’ [the US officer asked], ‘Because you blow down our doors, enter our houses, pull our women by the hair and kick our children. We cannot accept this. We will fight back, and we will break your teeth, and when your teeth are broken you will leave...It is just a matter of time.’”
r/worldnews · Orangutan · 215 pts
An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones, laptops and digital cameras — are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo.
r/worldnews · missesquillax · 189 pts
Iranian mother of two to be stoned to death
r/worldnews · MoonPoint · 184 pts
Judge "rejected all of the EFF's arguments" on P2P cases
r/news · toyotabedzrock · 113 pts
Turkey threatens to break all diplomatic ties with Israel
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 105 pts

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Hey reddit did you do this as a kid?

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In 1992, James May was fired from his job for putting a secret message in an issue of Autocar Magazine...

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Can I help?

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So, this is what I did with my weekend.

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Today is that day.

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You're not allowed in my fort

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Gender equality...

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Reddit on July 5, 2010

Monday, Jul. 5th 2010

News on 7/5/10

To check mates claim, chess champion Bobby Fischer is exhumed in Iceland.

Toronto G20 Police threaten to rape and torture journalist and female protesters. Male officers strip search and cavity search females.

Blockbuster stock to be delisted from NYSE

An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones, laptops and digital cameras — are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo.

Iranian mother of two to be stoned to death

Judge "rejected all of the EFF's arguments" on P2P cases

Turkey threatens to break all diplomatic ties with Israel

Politics on 7/5/10

Sean Hannity deemed "too uncivil" and not "fact based" is dropped from a Utah radio station. Good for you KSL for standing up to the Hannity-insanity.

If the Tea Party's top concerns are debt and size of government, where the fuck were they when George W. Bush was President?

1. Right-wingers shout loudly about bogus story. 2. Fox News picks up bogus story. 3. Fox News start complaining that "liberal media" are ignoring bogus story. 4. Other outlets then cover bogus story. 6. Media outlets determine bogus story is bogus long after damage is done. 7. Repeat.

Why is it more of a crime to document an oil spill than it is to cause one?

Remember the cop from MO who shot a dog on tape? He trolled the paper's forums and released sealed records of the people who posted in the comments

Sports on 7/5/10

60% Of NBA Players Broke 5 Years after Retirement

Dammit!

Jamarcus Russell's Career Is Only Getting Better

Amare Stoudemire to the New York Knicks!

Bob Probert vs Marty McSorley

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