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The website of BART’s (Bay Area Rapid Station) Police Officer’s Association (http://www.BARTpoa.com) has been the subject of a cyber attack (not claimed by Anonymous) leading to the shutdown of the website (pictured) and leading to the leak of the personal information (e-mails, names and addresses) of more than 100 members. Besides the attack on BARTpoa.com,...
San Francisco-based Anons are urging anyone interested to participate in rescheduled, peaceful protests to take place at 5:00 P.M. (local time) on Monday at the Civic Center Bay Area Rapid Station (BART). Anons and many other groups are angered over the fact that BART authorities actually turned off its cell service in a “totalitarian display” to prevent planned...
The funniest thing about Wile E. Coyote is how far he has gone beyond the edge of the cliff before he gives that big-eyed “Uh-oh!” expression, realizing he’s got a long fall coming. It isn’t funny to the coyote but it is to us. It’s our schadenfreude: the joy we derive from the misfortune of people with whom we don’t identify. Many world leaders are now...
“Democracy, democracy!” they shout en mass as they gather in their thousands on Arab streets, people from all walks of life walking and yelling , “we want Democracy,” the cry can be heard from Egypt to Libya to Yemen to Tunisia to Algeria and Bahrain and in other parts of the Arab World and resonating throughout the whole world. A monumental shift...
It is no secret that the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions have started a new tsunami of sorts in authoritarian regimes of the Middle East. It is quite heartening to see people on the streets of other major metropolises demanding similar rights and freedoms, as their Egyptian brethren have achieved, after such a momentous and historical movement. When the 18 day long...
Mass protests recently broke out in North Africa and the Middle East, with the protests in Tunisia & Egypt garnering more coverage than those in Jordan & Yemen. Yet protests in all four of these countries are bringing about the change that the people desire, at least the people that aren’t in “control” of the nation. The Egyptian protests began...