Reddit on April 24, 2011: Top Posts and Discussions

Sunday, Apr. 24th 2011

News on 4/24/11

Syrian Forces Open Fire On Demonstrators (NSFW)
r/worldnews · blinkergoesleft · 1641 pts
Bahraini student in UK lost his scholarship and was threatened after participating in peaceful protest in UK
r/worldnews · umopapisdnwei · 632 pts
WikiLeaks: The Guantanamo Files - the beginning of 779 files from the camp
r/news · harrytuttle · 596 pts
A crowd of officers then surrounds a young woman who is holding hands with a little girl aged about six. The child shouts out "freedom" and punches one tiny fist into the air. She is grabbed by police, starts to cry, and is pushed with the woman into a police car.
r/worldnews · ambiversive · 555 pts
WTF is going on in Syria? [NSFW]
r/news · shamusmclovin · 479 pts
Female Protester Disrupts Muslim Radicals Rallying in Frankfurt, Germany
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 356 pts
Chinese police detained up to 40 Christians who tried to converge at the site of a banned Easter service Sunday and placed 500 more under house arrest.
r/worldnews · epitaph25 · 175 pts
In Rome, 150 Roma whose camp had been dismantled took refuge in one of this city’s ancient basilicas, creating a standoff on Saturday with city officials
r/worldnews · ambiversive · 148 pts

Politics on 4/24/11

Sports on 4/24/11

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Woke up to this...

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An Easter project I made that has nothing to do with Easter

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Stages of Procrastination

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Well, that meme's ruined.

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FBF on the weekend

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Least interesting man in the world.

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And everyone is invited

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Trolldad loves Easter

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Introducing: Romantic Kanye

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Saturn photobombs moon. (at 8 o'clock)

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Look how stupid you look when taking photos with iPad2

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Life imitates art [NSFW]

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I don't think I've ever seen one that big and consistent

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This guy is quite active on Reddit

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The Guys in my dorm

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This sounds really gay

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This is happening to me right now.

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Guns n' Ducreux-ses

r/AdviceAnimals · 97 pts

Reddit on April 24, 2011

Sunday, Apr. 24th 2011

News on 4/24/11

Syrian Forces Open Fire On Demonstrators (NSFW)

Bahraini student in UK lost his scholarship and was threatened after participating in peaceful protest in UK

WikiLeaks: The Guantanamo Files - the beginning of 779 files from the camp

A crowd of officers then surrounds a young woman who is holding hands with a little girl aged about six. The child shouts out "freedom" and punches one tiny fist into the air. She is grabbed by police, starts to cry, and is pushed with the woman into a police car.

WTF is going on in Syria? [NSFW]

Female Protester Disrupts Muslim Radicals Rallying in Frankfurt, Germany

Chinese police detained up to 40 Christians who tried to converge at the site of a banned Easter service Sunday and placed 500 more under house arrest.

In Rome, 150 Roma whose camp had been dismantled took refuge in one of this city’s ancient basilicas, creating a standoff on Saturday with city officials

Politics on 4/24/11

Kentucky church won't marry straight people unless they can also marry gay people. Seriously...Kentucky. Didn't see that one coming.

Save the Rich, Pay Your Taxes: NY janitor making $33,000 a year pays an effective tax rate of 25%. And the effective tax rate for a resident of the Park Avenue building, earning an average of $1.2 million annually? A cool 14.7%

Just stumbled onto this - Bloomberg TV channel has been airing a series called "Intelligence Squared Debates." Experts intellectually representing both sides of an argument without resorting to sensationalism or partisanship...on American TV!

Obama's understanding of "a nation of laws": the most powerful political and financial elites who commit the most egregious crimes are to be protected while the most powerless figures who expose the corruption and criminality of those elites are to be mercilessly punished.

Look what they're doing over at r/canada. Can we do this in November on r/politics?

Sports on 4/24/11

Ugh....ESPN...

This is what happens when you catch a player's 1st major league home run ball...

Blackhawks rally to force game 7 after losing first 3 games against Canucks.

Flopping/Acting in -American- football..

Why can't the NBA figure out a way to broadcast their games with big head mode turned on?

Pictures and Memes