Reddit on July 1, 2011: Top Posts and Discussions

Friday, Jul. 1st 2011

News on 7/1/11

Portugal drug law show results ten years on - Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal's decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked.
r/worldnews · galt1776 · 2789 pts
WikiLeaks and Datacell to sue Visa & MasterCard for engaging in an unlawful, U.S. influenced, financial blockade
r/worldnews · maxwellhill · 1848 pts
Hackers steal $680,000 - raised to help the homeless and abused women - from Iowa church
r/news · misterAction · 383 pts
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Kansas from enforcing new rules for its abortion providers.
r/news · twolf1 · 274 pts
Brown University Study: US wars leave 225,000 dead, cost $4.4 trillion.
r/worldnews · desitexan · 197 pts
Pharmageddon: how America got hooked on killer prescription drugs - people are dying unintentionally from painkiller ODs at rates exceeding the crack cocaine epidemic of the '80s & the black tar heroin epidemic of the '70s combined
r/news · shallah · 165 pts
Propaganda exposed: Official Israeli government websites were forced to remove a video clip of a man claiming to be an American gay rights activist who was banned from participating in the flotilla to Gaza after it was revealed to be a hoax.
r/worldnews · Wraith12 · 130 pts
China's President Hu Jintao has warned the Communist Party that corruption could cost it the support of the people - in a speech marking 90 years since the party was founded.
r/worldnews · sidcool1234 · 127 pts

Politics on 7/1/11

Sports on 7/1/11

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took my niece to a safari today... nailed it

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I went in to get an STD check and saw this on the wall. I like the pleasure graph myself.

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Just some guys attending the first space shuttle showing

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Apparently Death can never be reached

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Stay classy, Spiderman

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Spotted a familiar face on a PA highway...

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Philosoraptor on the devil [xpost from atheism]

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I wish more people did this....

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Hipster Seinfeld on modern names.

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Son, I am not disappoint.

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Hank Hill's Message to Praise-Worship Bands [PIC]

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Good job sir !

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It's turtle time.

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Wrong Way

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my boyfriend left his reddit account logged in. i made this one for him to see when he gets home.

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Forever Alone in the library

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Business Cat-new supplies

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Where Sheltering Suburban Mom ideas come from

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Reddit on July 1, 2011

Friday, Jul. 1st 2011

News on 7/1/11

Portugal drug law show results ten years on - Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal's decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked.

WikiLeaks and Datacell to sue Visa & MasterCard for engaging in an unlawful, U.S. influenced, financial blockade

Hackers steal $680,000 - raised to help the homeless and abused women - from Iowa church

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Kansas from enforcing new rules for its abortion providers.

Brown University Study: US wars leave 225,000 dead, cost $4.4 trillion.

Pharmageddon: how America got hooked on killer prescription drugs - people are dying unintentionally from painkiller ODs at rates exceeding the crack cocaine epidemic of the '80s & the black tar heroin epidemic of the '70s combined

Propaganda exposed: Official Israeli government websites were forced to remove a video clip of a man claiming to be an American gay rights activist who was banned from participating in the flotilla to Gaza after it was revealed to be a hoax.

China's President Hu Jintao has warned the Communist Party that corruption could cost it the support of the people - in a speech marking 90 years since the party was founded.

Politics on 7/1/11

Movement to abolish Corporate Personhood gains traction as Americans become more concerned about corporate dominance of our government

During Bush Presidency, Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion Without Asking for Anything to Reduce the Deficit

The US Dept. of Interior: "If hemp had not been outlawed, it could have supplied enough of humanity’s need for paper to make unnecessary the cutting of vast tracts of forest."

To blur the line between abortion and homicide, Mississippi and Alabama are charging dozens of women with murder or other serious crimes who have miscarried or had stillbirths

Budweiser, Coors, and Miller are not brewed by American owned companies. Support your local craft brewery this 4th of July weekend.

Sports on 7/1/11

The Worst Contract In Sports History Begins Today: The New York Mets gave 48-year-old third baseman Bobby Bonilla a $1,193,248 check today – and will have to give him another one every July 1 for the next 25 years.

NBA websites remove any mention of players.

Why did the Yankees and Mets get tax breaks, while the FDNY might be facing cuts?

Brian Wilson takes his frustration out on the water cooler.

Lebron dunking on a ten year old

Pictures and Memes