Saturday link dump

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• The U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional for the government to restrict the political activity of corporations. Findlaw has the full decision. In reporting this, Keith Olbermann of the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company called for a violent revolution but decried the fact that guns and ammunition are in corporate hands.
• Rioting has broken out between Christians and Muslims in Jos, Nigeria, the site of deadly riots in 2008. The Independent reports upwards of 500 dead.
• A poll by ABC News suggests over eighty percent of the U.S. public supports medical marijuana, with support for legalization at 46%. This is a significant shift in attitude from previous generations; the admission that Bill Clinton had smoked marijuana once when he was in college thirty years earlier was a significant scandal in 1992.
• The California Supreme Court voided legal limits on the amount of marijuana a medical user is allowed to own.
• Charles Levinson and Margaret Coker of the Wall Street Journal describe al-Qaeda's influence in Yemen.
• Blogger Mick Hartley reports that the North Korean economy is in shambles again and that the state is responding by declaring war against "the class enemies within the socialist society".
• Douglas Mwonzora, a leading Zimbabwean opposition Member of Parliament, faces criminal charges for insulting President Mugabe.
• A Palestinian newspaper reports that Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of using atomic bombs in Gaza. At least one of the two sources is untrustworthy.
• Venezuela accused the United States of causing the Haiti earthquake as a test run for a HAARP attack on Iran. HAARP is a communications tool for bouncing signals from submarines off the upper atmosphere.
• The liberal radio network Air America has declared bankruptcy and stopped operating.
• Right-wing activist Charles Dyer of Oklahoma, known online as July4Patriot, has been charged with child molestation. Related: The police and the Hate Trackers website reporting this have received death threats.
• Some comedy from the Onion: "Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian"
• Jon Stewart of the Daily Show mocks Keith Olbermann's rhetorical excesses.