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[Image description: A drawing of Delirium from the Sandman comics. Part of her head is shaved, but the long hair is standing up as if in a mohawk. There is a star tattoo on her cheek. She wears a raggity ball gown with a black top with a white belt and off the shoulder sleeves with a white poofy skirt with frills at the bottom, highlighted with gold ink.]
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[Image description: A drawing of Delirium from the Sandman comics. Part of her head is shaved, but the long hair is standing up as if in a mohawk. There is a star tattoo on her cheek. She wears a raggity ball gown with a black top with a white belt and off the shoulder sleeves with a white poofy skirt with frills at the bottom, highlighted with gold ink.]
—Becky Cloonan
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In 1885, nineteen-year-old Wilson A. Bentley took his first successful photomicrograph of a snow crystal. He went on to capture over 5000 such images before he died on Dec. 23, 1931, after walking six miles in a blizzard in order to photograph more snowflakes.
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Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.
The latest example is You Tube’s compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group’s Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.
Uncut Interview of the Day: Courtesy of OccupyWallSt.org‘s Kyle Christopher comes this unaired footage of Occupy Wall Street protester Jesse LaGreca taking the news media (and particularly Fox News) to task for their coverage of the ongoing demonstrations — now in their third week — in an interview taped for On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren, which, “shockingly,” was abandoned on the cutting room floor.
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Scenes From A Protest of the Day: A NYPD officer setting up barricades ahead of tonight’s ongoing march on Wall Street was caught on tape telling a colleague that his “little nightstick” was “going to get a workout tonight.”
Below: We Are Change founder Luke Rudkowski struck by a police baton during a melee between NYPD officers and protesters in the Financial District. A second angle on the same scene follows underneath.
Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan were present at the Financial District fracas and say they were struck with nightsticks and sprayed with Mace. Watch their report below:
