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Reddit on January 2, 2012

This archive preserves Reddit's front page from January 2, 2012, featuring news, politics, sports, science, pictures, and memes.

Monday, Jan. 2nd 2012

News on 1/2/12

Shell oil company refuses to clean up its African oil spill.
r/worldnews · robotluvhottub · 2863 pts
Hawaii and Delaware join list of states allowing same-sex civil unions
r/news · bathysphere22 · 1120 pts
Website Blocking Law Implemented By New Spanish Govt: Previously legal sites may be blocked by ISPs or shut down completely, all within 10 days of a rightsholder complaint
r/worldnews · maxwellhill · 806 pts
Brazil seems to be winning the war on deforestation.
r/worldnews · [deleted] · 532 pts
'Ambulance' Drivers Saving Dying Koalas Fed Up With Being Abused by & Having Trucks Trashed - "There's no respect any more." A rescuer was threatened while trying to save a koala hit by a car. "He kept saying 'just leave the f***er to die'," says rescue service founder.
r/worldnews · anutensil · 349 pts
How the Brazilian government and environmentalists have drastically reduced the destruction of the Amazon
r/worldnews · 7zark77 · 320 pts
One of China's best known dissidents, missing for 20 months, is now said to be in a Xinjiang prison - Gao Zhisheng, an attorney who's defended activists & religious minorities, is an outspoken critic of the Chinese government
r/worldnews · anutensil · 312 pts
A U.S. District court has blocked California's low-carbon fuel requirements. Judge Lawrence O'Neill said the state's regulations requiring low-carbon fuel violated the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause: It discriminates against crude oil and biofuels producers located outside California.
r/news · AyeMatey · 197 pts

Politics on 1/2/12

Sports on 1/2/12

Pictures and Memes

Scum of the Earth

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Scum of the Earth

r/pics · 3k pts

My grandfather and his brother meeting randomly during WWII, neither knew if the other was alive.

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My grandfather and his brother meeting randomly during WWII, neither knew if the other was alive.

r/pics · 2k pts

Ready to make history

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Ready to make history

r/pics · 2k pts

So my dad fit Louis C.K. with glasses yesterday. This was the autograph I got out of it...

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So my dad fit Louis C.K. with glasses yesterday. This was the autograph I got out of it...

r/pics · 2k pts

My grandparents on their wedding night, and 60 years later

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My grandparents on their wedding night, and 60 years later

r/pics · 2k pts

He's all grown up.

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He's all grown up.

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

Pitches love vibrato

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Pitches love vibrato

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

When using a mop..

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When using a mop..

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

The end of the world

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The end of the world

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

Extremely advanced GGG, happened today twice.

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Extremely advanced GGG, happened today twice.

r/AdviceAnimals · 2k pts

I definitely felt like I was in safe hands as I left Istanbul this morning.

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I definitely felt like I was in safe hands as I left Istanbul this morning.

r/pics · 2k pts

My son and I made a card for my wife

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My son and I made a card for my wife

r/pics · 2k pts

Your local gym tomorrow

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Your local gym tomorrow

r/pics · 2k pts

It could be the sad truth...

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It could be the sad truth...

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

Successful Black Man can hook you up

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Successful Black Man can hook you up

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

Why all the 4chan posts on Reddit are screenshots

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Why all the 4chan posts on Reddit are screenshots

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

Hi there... you

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Hi there... you

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts

What could have been worse?

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What could have been worse?

r/AdviceAnimals · 1k pts