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Senate Democrats Put Dream Act on Hold

Senate Democrats Put Dream Act on Hold

Senate Democrats on Thursday pulled a measure that would allow young Americans who are illegally in the United States to earn legal status through education or military service after Republicans refused to allow a vote on a version of the legislation that cleared the House Wednesday. Continue reading

House approves DREAM ACT, but Senate approval uncertain

Washington (CNN) — A hotly debated measure that offers a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children won approval Wednesday from the U.S. House.

The 216-198 vote, mostly on partisan lines, sends the so-called DREAM Act to the Senate, where it was uncertain if supporters had the votes to overcome a certain Republican filibuster against it.

The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act — or DREAM — would create a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children under the age of 16 and have lived in America for at least five years, obtained a high school or General Education Development diploma and demonstrated “good moral character,” according to a White House fact sheet. Continue reading

Palin’s website hit by cyber-attack

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TRENDING: Palin’s website hit by cyber-attack
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(CNN)– Sarah Palin is blaming supporters of WikiLeaks for a cyber-attack that briefly brought down her her political action committee web site this week.

Beginning Tuesday, an anonymous network of hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks launched a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against against companies and political leaders critical of the whistle-blowing website, which has released thousands of previously-classified U.S. government documents.

The loose network of so-called “hacktivists” is calling itself “Operation Payback.” A Twitter handle for the group took responsibility this week for attacks against Visa and Mastercard, which recently stopped accepting payments for WikiLeaks. Continue reading

BREAKING: Pacifica management lays off entire staff of Morning Show (via KPFA Worker)

Horrible act!!

The Executive Director of Pacifica Radio today dismissed the entire staff of the KPFA Morning Show–Aimee Allison, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Laura Prives, and Esther Manilla–and ordered tomorrow’s program to be taken off the air, according to the KPFA News.  John Hamilton's abbreviated report is below. The move by Arlene Engelhardt casts into doubt the future of KPFA’s most popular locally produced program—as well as the station’s single biggest so … Read More

via KPFA Worker

The Pulpo is Dead! (via Stu Scott’s Lazy Eye)

The Pulpo is Dead! In case you haven't heard, the mollusk oracle of worldwide fame, Paul the Octopus, is dead. Paul became famous this summer for his perfect (8/8) record of predicting World Cup matches; we reported (is that the right word for what we do? maybe "rambled" is better) on his prediction for the final in July. All the m … Read More

via Stu Scott's Lazy Eye