Saturday link dump

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• Khadaffi called for a jihad against Switzerland.
• The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement leaked onto the Internet.
  • Related: European Union privacy official Peter Hustinx is upset at being left out of the treaty negotiations.
• A New Orleans police officer pled guilty to obstruction of justice in the shooting of Hurricane Katrina refugees at Danziger Bridge.
  • From 2007: A Democracy Now report on the incident.
  • From 2006: A National Public Radio report on the incident.
• John Young's Cryptome.org was shut down by Microsoft under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
  • The site is back up.
• California's Alcoholic Beverage Control is launching a crackdown on bartenders who mix drinks.
• The city of Oakland, California forbid police officers from issuing parking tickets in rich neighbourhoods.
• The U.S. government has awarded Facebook a patent on the news feed.
• Ed Brayton notes that the John Birch Society is in the Republican Party mainstream.
• Animal rights activists threatened to harass the children of former animal researcher Dario Ringach, a participant in a public discussion of animal research at the University of California in Los Angeles.
• The Economist calls out the lie going around that claims global warming stopped in 1995, when in fact records show a continuing warming.