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Date Sent: 2009-10-26
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, October 26, 2009 PM edition |
Who OWNS Foreclosed U.S. Properties? -- 14 Americans killed in 2 Afghan helicopter crashes
Stimulus Contracts Go to Companies Under Criminal Investigation --
Immigration Agents Mishandle Informants -- Detroit house auction flops
for urban wasteland -- Government
Education (no thanks) - by Craig Cantoni -- U.S. OKs emergency use of experimental
antiviral for swine flu -- A new world order forged in crisis --
Climate targets can't be achieved, say
energy companies -- Tariq Mehanna: Obama's Latest Muslim Target
- by Stephen Lendman -- Information on Flu Vaccines Gets Animated -- In Disarmed England, Machine-Gun Armed
Police Patrol Violent London Neighborhoods
AZ: CameraFRAUD at AZ51 and Highland
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Who OWNS Foreclosed U.S. Properties?, Part I & 2 Scam in the making
10-26-2009
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Seeking Alpha
A thanks to Edward Harrison who publishes the blog “Creditwritedowns.com” for his superb explanation of foreclosure and title issues dealing with “foreclosed” properties " in his commentary “What are the legal rights of lenders and homeowners in fore
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News Link • WAR: About that War
14 Americans killed in 2 Afghan helicopter crashes
10-26-2009
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AP
Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than 4 years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale conference on the futur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Stimulus Contracts Go to Companies Under Criminal Investigation
10-26-2009
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Pro Publica
The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
For now, no more charges for whistle-blower lawyer
10-26-2009
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Detroit Free Press
Stefani is one of 5 lawyers facing misconduct charges for their actions during the text message scandal [forwarded to the press]. He represented former cops who alleged their careers were ended by the mayor in retribution for pursuing investigations
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Immigration Agents Mishandle Informants
10-26-2009
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AP
One immigration agent was accused of running an Internet pornography business and enjoying an improper relationship with an informant. Another let an informant smuggle in a group of illegal immigrants. And in a third case, an agent was investigated f
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Housing
Detroit house auction flops for urban wasteland
10-26-2009
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Reuters
In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded.
After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of "no bid" for properties listed in an auction book
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Fidel Castro's sister says she worked with CIA while in Cuba
10-26-2009
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Miami Herald
Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro, cooperated with the CIA in the 1960s -- a time when the U.S. agency was plotting to assassinate Fidel and overthrow his revolution -- according to an exclusive Univisión-Noticias 23 report
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News Link • Corruption
Tombstone officials face investigation over possible open meeting violation
10/26/2009
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The Sierra Vista Herald
After receiving a complaint alleging a violation of Open Meeting Law during an Oct. 13 Tombstone City Council meeting, along with reviewing a video clip of the incident, Cochise County Attorney Edward Rheinheimer said his office decided to initiate t
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News Link • General Opinion
Who knows Onions for the flu?
10-26-2009
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BlueLoriBlogSpot
This was sent to me in an e-mail laugh if you like but we now have onions under the beds, under the couch and in a basket in the kitchen. Since my husband has recently been supervising the remodeling of two hospitals where people have come in
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News Link • Corruption
Madoff friend Jeffry Picower found dead in pool
10-26-2009
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Reuters
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffry Picower, the biggest beneficiary of Bernard Madoff's fraud, was found lying at the bottom of the pool at his home, police said. Police were investigating the death of the 67-year-old investor as a drowning.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Whitney Tilson: We Need To Break Up Goldman Sachs
10-26-2009
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The Business Insider
Goldman Sachs is a great firm but it's minting money because it has an implicit government guarantee. This is ridiculous. The firm should be split in two.
Wall Street reforms should include high capital requirements and a reinstatement of Glass St
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
1st polygamist sect criminal trial set to begin
10-26-2009
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AP
The first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of women is set to stand trial today, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child custody case in American history.
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News Link • Philosophy: Fascism
Predator Drones Now Defend Commercial Shipping
10-26-2009
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The Business Insider
For apparently the first time ever, U.S. Predator drones will be patrolling Somali waters.
Yet they're there not to protect U.S. military forces.
Rather, they'll be patrolling one of the most dangerous, yet vital, commercial shipping routes fro
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Controversial study suggests vast magma pool under Washington state
10-26-2009
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McClatchy News
A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams -- according to a new study that
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Movie Quotes: 25 Most Memorable Movie Quotes of All Time
10-26-2009
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Mondo Frazier
What are the Top 25 Most Memorable Movie Quotes of All Time? How many have readers heard or used?
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • New World Order
George Soros On The Dollar, China, Goldman Sachs, And The Economy
10-26-2009
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Zero Hedge
Below is a full transcript of the interview.
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News Link • Dollar Meltdown The
Marc Faber On The Death Of Fiat Money - "Dollar Will Go To A Value Of Exactly Zero"
10-26-2009
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Zero Hedge
"The fiscal position of the US is a complete disaster. Eventually in ten years time about 50% of tax revenues will be used to just cover the interest payments on the government debt and that is unsustainable. Then you are forced to print money... As
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Photovoltaic organic polymer advance made
10-26-2009
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arclein
The higher molecular weight of the polymers increases current density in plastic solar cells by as much as a factor of more than four, a major benefit, the researchers said.
The methodology "will greatly accelerate research in this area," Bazan said
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gene therapy experiment restores sight in a few
10-25-2009
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Reuters
9-year-old Corey Haas can ride his bike alone now, thanks to an experimental gene therapy that has boosted his fading vision with a single treatment. The gene therapy helped improve worsening eyesight caused by a rare inherited disease called Leber c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
CameraFRAUD at AZ51 and Highland Today
10/25/2009
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CameraFRAUD
Demonstration today " AZ 51 and Highland overpass in Phoenix, AZ.
From the event’s Meetup page:
Many of you have asked for and suggested a sign wave demonstration in central Phoenix and more specifically on Highway 51- home of those nasty f
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News Link • Police State
Greyhound bus passengers get screened, pat down in special TSA operation
10-25-2009
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Orlando Sentinal
Bryce Williams wasn't expecting to walk through a metal detector or have his bags screened for explosives at the Greyhound bus terminal near downtown Orlando.
But Williams and 689 other passengers went through tougher-than-normal security procedur
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Military
US Special Forces Field-Testing Plasma Knife
10-26-2009
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PopSi
To help with the problem of blood loss from traumatic wounds, the military has started field-testing a device more Mandalorian than M.A.S.H.: a plasma knife.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
Yankees 5, Angels 2: Yankees Win A.L.C.S., 4-2
10-25-2009
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NY Times
For the 40th time, the Yankees won the American League pennant, which they clinched with a 5-2 victory over the Angels in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday night.
On Wednesday night the Yankees will play the Philadelphia
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News Link • Healthcare
The Threat of Mandatory Vaccinations By Adam Murdock, MD
10-26-2009
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Campaign for Liberty
Stop the Swine Whine!
The H1N1 "swine" flu is an extraordinarily deadly virus.
You need to get the vaccine or you could suffer the consequences.
So-and-so has died in your neighborhood. Do you want to be next?
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News Link • Healthcare
U.S. OKs emergency use of experimental antiviral for swine flu (Watch Comp. Stock Monday)
10-25-2009
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MarketWatch.com
The FDA said there's only limited clinical data about whether peramivir is safe and effective, but "based upon the totality of scientific evidence available, it is reasonable to believe that peramivir IV may be effective in certain patients."
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Depression
Get ready, America: Great Depression 2.0
10-26-2009
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WND
Day presents a fact-rich case, rooted in economic history and time-tested theory, in which he concludes that an economic contraction of very large proportions is presently developin
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News Link • New World Order
Obama's new world order Redistributionist revolution vs. sovereignty
10-26-2009
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Washington Times
President Obama is on a path toward establishing a one-world government.
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News Link • New World Order
A new world order forged in crisis
10-26-2009
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Globe and Mall
It's payback time for debt-laden Americans who shopped the world to prosperity on borrowed money.
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News Link • China
Yuan's Fall Annoys the Neighbors
Link to Dollar Pulls Down China's Currency; Other Countrie
10-26-2009
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WSJ
As the dollar continues to weaken, concerns are mounting in much of Asia over another descending currency: the Chinese yuan.For more than a year, China has kept the yuan largely unchanged against the dollar. So, like the dollar, the yuan has been fal
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
More smoke and mirrors in healthcare debate
10-26-2009
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One News Now
A Christian medical group says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to buy off physicians with Medicare payments.
In an attempt to garner more physician support for healthcare reform, Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is promising legislation
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Healthcare lobbyist bundles contributions for Senate Dems
10-26-2009
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The Hill
A vital player in the battle over healthcare reform raised the most campaign contributions for Senate Democrats so far this fall, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.
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News Link • Climate Change
Climate targets can't be achieved, say energy companies
10-26-2009
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Telegraph
Energy companies have privately warned the Government that its climate change targets are "illusory" and "delusional" as global leaders prepare to sign up to stricter guidelines at the Copenhagen climate change conference in six weeks.
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News Link • Constitution
When Asked Where the Constitution Authorizes Congress to Order Americans To Buy Health Insurance...
10-26-2009
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CNSNews.com via Rense.com
...Pelosi Says: 'Are You Serious?'
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Ed Vallejo
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
Information on Flu Vaccines Gets Animated
10-26-2009
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www.whitehouse.gov
The "Getting a Shot: You can do it!" episode was developed as part of a collaboration between Department of Health and Human Services and the Jim Henson Co. The episode will premiere on PBS Kids on Monday, October 26th, but here’s a preview of one of
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Climate Change
Hurricane Forcing
10-26-2009
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arclein
Using horizontal wave action at the ocean surface, passive no-return valves would capture energy by closing after a wave has passed through them, allowing the circular interior of each device to raise the level of the seawater within the device by, o
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News Link • Climate Change
Albedo Yachts
10-26-2009
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arclein
Enter "marine cloud brightening," a geoengineering scheme that would increase cloud reflectivity over the ocean by spraying them with an ultrafine saltwater mist from ships. The clouds, containing more particles, would cast enough sunlight back into
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robert klein
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News Link • Activism
CameraFRAUD at AZ51 and Highland Today
10/25/2009
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CameraFRAUD
Demonstration today " AZ 51 and Highland overpass in Phoenix, AZ.
From the event’s Meetup page:
Many of you have asked for and suggested a sign wave demonstration in central Phoenix and more specifically on Highway 51- home of those nasty f
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News Link • Police State
In Disarmed England, Machine-Gun Armed Police Patrol Violent London Neighborhoods
10-25-2009
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www.securitymanagement.com
And yet,...supposedly,...everyone in England is safer now that they are disarmed?
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Chip Saunders
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News Link • History
CIA Plant at House Kennedy Assassination Investigation
10-25-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
Last Friday, October 16, the New York Times, for the first time, shined a light onto the JFK-CIA-Joannides scandal with a story entitled “C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery.” The story soon began appearing in other mainstream newspapers and o
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
REAL ZOMBIE DOGS!!!! 1940's russian experiment. part 1
10-25-2009
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You Tube
You Tube description - severed head of a dog brought back to life in the early 1940's by the Soviet Union.
by the way the dogs in these vids are heavily sedated so they do not feel pain. including the severed dog head.
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News Link • Voting: Vote Fraud
Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been bought
10/25/09
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The Rag Blog
Computer software "disappeared" 16,000 votes from Al Gore's column at a critical moment on election night, allowing George W. Bush’s first cousin John Ellis, a Fox News analyst, to proclaim him the winner. The election was officially decided by less
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News Link • Police State
Britons Weary of Surveillance in Minor Cases
10-25-2009
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NY Times
It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government has extraordinary powers to intrude into citizens’ liv
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News Link • Free Trade
Asian leaders seek to reduce Western trade ties
10-25-2009
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Reuters
Asia-Pacific leaders called for regional-wide free trade and other measures to reduce dependence on the United States and big Western markets as Asia leads the way out of the global economic downturn.
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama urged A
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Baghdad bombs kill 132, government slams neighbors
10-25-2009
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Reuters
2 suicide bombs tore through Baghdad, killing 132 people, wounding more than 500 and leaving mangled bodies and cars on the streets in one of Iraq's deadliest days this year. The two blasts shredded buildings and smoke billowed from the area near the
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News Link • Government
A Quick Guide from NYC on How to Torture Landlords
10-25-2009
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Economic Policy Journal
New York state's highest court has just bitch slapped a bunch of landlords who think they can provide apartments for the people of NYC at a rate that reflects the market rate.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cell phone video shows police beating of student
10-25-2009
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San Jose Mercury News (video)
A cell phone video shows San Jose police officers repeatedly using batons and a Taser gun on an unarmed San Jose State student, including at least one baton strike that appears to come after the man is handcuffed, as they took him into custody inside
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News Link • Obama Administration
4th Grader asks Obama, "Why do people hate you?"
10/15/2009
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YouTube
He also asks, "Why are people supposed to love you?"
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