Tidbits, January 3, 2012

1.Toon of the Day
2.Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship 
3.Pulaski Marching Band 2012 Rosebowl plays "Union Maid" 
4.Global Revolution, Occupy Wall Street Live Streaming 
	Source, Evicted from Brooklyn Production Studio
5.Lest We Forget, Iraq's Horrific Body Count 

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1. Toon of the Day

http://tinyurl.com/78zzrse
Opportunity
Bendib

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2. Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16367042?print=true 

Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach
of censors by putting their own communication satellites into
orbit. The scheme was outlined at the Chaos Communication
Congress in Berlin. The project's organisers said the
Hackerspace Global Grid will also involve developing a grid
of ground stations to track and communicate with the
satellites. Longer term they hope to help put an amateur
astronaut on the moon. Hobbyists have already put a few small
satellites into orbit - usually only for brief periods of
time - but tracking the devices has proved difficult for low-
budget projects. The hacker activist Nick Farr first put out
calls for people to contribute to the project in August. He
said that the increasing threat of internet censorship had
motivated the project. "The first goal is an uncensorable
internet in space. Let's take the internet out of the control
of terrestrial entities," Mr Farr said.

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3. Pulaski Marching Band 2012 Rosebowl plys "Union Maid" 
www.youtube.com  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNWWG_YzF_I&feature=player_embedded

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4. Global Revolution, Occupy Wall Street Live Streaming Source,
Evicted from Brooklyn Production Studio

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/3/headlines#4

A prominent source for Occupy Wall Street’s global outreach
and live streaming was reportedly shut down by the New York
City Police Department last night. Global Revolution, a
website which has broadcast Occupy Wall Street coverage since
the movement’s inception in September, claims it received an
eviction notice at its Brooklyn studios on Monday night. The
notice states the production space is "imminently perilous to
life," and adds, "Violators of the Commissioner’s Vacate
Order are subject to arrest."

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Lest We Forget, Iraq's Horrific Body Count 

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/01/03-1

Over 162,000 people, about 80% of them civilians, were killed
in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003, according to new 
data published by Iraq Body Count to mark the withdrawal of
US combat forces. Many more grim details and numbers, 
including the fact that civilian deaths have not noticeably 
declined since 2009.

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