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Date Sent: 2013-11-28
Freedom's Phoenix Thanksgiving Edition for Thursday, November 28, 2013 |
Microsoft Denies Monitoring Skype Calls After Banning Users For Bad Language
Israel to privatize famed Uzi submachine gun's maker -- Bill Would Restrict Electronic Cigarettes in New York -- Labor: new measures to make insulting military personnel a criminal offense -- The Other Feds-Snooping-On-Foreigners Scandal -- It Is Now Illegal To Smoke In Your Own Home In San Rafael, California -- A new wave of U.S. mortgage trouble threatens -- Federal government books $41.3 billion in profits on student loans -- Obama Administration Gathering Records on Porn Site Usage To Use Against People Viewed As Radical -- Behind the scenes video of "Meet Ron Paul" illustration in progress -- Jesse Ventura Q: "You Want A Revolution In America?" A: "YES! ABSOLUTELY!" --
Everyone Was Talking About A Stock Bubble... Just Before The Last
Bubble Burst -- Bitcoin Tops $1000 -- China Is On A Debt Binge And A
Buying Spree Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen Before -- US Bank Customers to Pay for Deposits if ‘Easy Money’ Fades Away -- Digging in: Why US won’t Leave Afghanistan -- General Electric’s Crony Capitalism -- Is the Superpower Afraid of Iran? -- Army Scores a Super-Stealthy Drone That Looks Like a Bird -- Iran: White House Lying About Details of Nuke Deal -- ‘Non-partisan’ group paid $1 million to produce positive Obamacare stories -- Iran: It’s Not about Nuclear Weapons -- US warplanes defy Chinese air defence edict with B-52 flyover of disputed area -- Penny Lane: Gitmo's other secret CIA facility -- Rigged Honduran Elections
AZ: Property Six is performing a live acoustic
set on TODAY November 28th, Thanksgiving Day!; Christmas Party @ the
Hancock's - Sat Dec 14th, 2013 - 5 p.m. til ??
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News Link • Entertainment: Games
Microsoft Denies Monitoring Skype Calls After Banning Users For Bad Language
11-27-2013
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Company suspends accounts of foul-mouthed Xbox gamers
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News Link • Israel
Israel to privatize famed Uzi submachine gun's maker
11-27-2013
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AFP
Israel plans to privatize loss-making Israel Military Industries, manufacturer of the Uzi sub machinegun, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said, explaining that, despite its "excellent products," the company had losses that did not permit its survival.
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News Link • Drug War
Bill Would Restrict Electronic Cigarettes in New York
11-27-2013
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Trendsetters who have circumvented New York City’s general public using tobacco bans by “vaping” digital cigarettes would no for a longer time be capable to do so beneath legislation proposed by the City Council that would crack down
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Military
Labor: new measures to make insulting military personnel a criminal offense
11-27-2013
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The Telegraph
“Next month in Parliament for the first time ever it would be a specific criminal offense to attack members of our Armed Forces, ensuring they are treated with the dignity that their bravery deserves. I want the Forces to feel at ease in our country.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The Other Feds-Snooping-On-Foreigners Scandal
11-27-2013
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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
HuffPost broke a big exclusive today with a story by Glenn Greenwald, Ryan Grim, and Ryan Gallagher about NSA monitoring the porn viewing habits of targets the agency has deemed to be radical.
It's a great story, but it also provides an interestin
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News Link • Drug War
It Is Now Illegal To Smoke In Your Own Home In San Rafael, California
11-27-2013
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Reason Magazine
In a unanimous decision, members of the San Rafael City Council have approved the strictest type of smoking ordinance in the country. Assembly Bill 746 bans residents of apartments, condos, duplexes, and multi-family houses from smoking
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News Link • Housing
Insight: A new wave of U.S. mortgage trouble threatens
11-27-2013
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Reuters
U.S. borrowers are increasingly missing payments on home equity lines of credit they took out during the housing bubble, a trend that could deal another blow to the country's biggest banks.
The loans are a problem now because an increasing number
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Federal government books $41.3 billion in profits on student loans
11-27-2013
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The federal government made enough money on student loans over the last year that, if it wanted, it could provide maximum-level Pell Grants of $5,645 to 7.3 million college students. The $41.3-billion profit for the 2013 fiscal year is down $3.6 bill
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama Administration Gathering Records on Porn Site Usage To Use Against People Viewed As Radical
11-27-2013
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Jonathan Turley
The National Security Agency under Obama has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites to be used as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of people consider radicals.
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News Link • Humor
Millennials in the Workplace Training Video
11-27-2013
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youtube
Planning to hire Millennials in your office? This guide will teach you how to co-exist with this challenging new generation of workers.
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News Link • Books
Behind the scenes video of "Meet Ron Paul" illustration in progress
11-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, Mat Blankenship
This is a short video of illustrator Ron Branch creating images for the biography of Ron Paul for youth. If you would like a copy of this book for your kid's Christmas stocking the Amazon link is at the bottom.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Jesse Ventura Q: "You Want A Revolution In America?" A: "YES! ABSOLUTELY!"
11-27-2013
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Daily Paul
Jesse Ventura Q: "You Want A Revolution In America?" A: "YES! ABSOLUTELY!"
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Everyone Was Talking About A Stock Bubble... Just Before The Last Bubble Burst
11-27-2013
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Zero Hedge
One of the more painfully clueless observations made by pundits in recent weeks is that just because everyone is talking about a bubble, there can not possibly be a bubble.
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News Link • Internet
Stick to Old-School VHS:
11-27-2013
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http://www.dailypaul.com, LapHog
None of the targets were accused of being involved in terror plots, except against a sweaty palm and a clean keyboard.
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Tops $1000
11-27-2013
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Zero Hedge
Well that escalated quickly. Having broken above $900 yesterday to new record highs (and a 100% gain in a week), the crypto currency is not looking back now. On what is higher than average volume this morning, Bitcoin just broke above the magic $1000
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News Link • China
China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Unlike Anything The World Has Ever Seen Before
11-27-2013
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com, By Michael Snyder
When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Inflation Watch: Thanksgiving Dinner Edition
11-27-2013
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Zero Hedge
While shoppers will perceive the discounts on Black Friday as 'saving' them fortunes, the cost of the 2013 Thanksgiving Day dinner may be the most expensive ever.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?
11-27-2013
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TED
The human brain is puzzling -- it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a tremendous amount of energy for its weight and has a bizarrely dense cerebral cortex. But: why?
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
US Bank Customers to Pay for Deposits if ‘Easy Money’ Fades Away
11-27-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Russia Today
Americans may have to start paying to keep money in the bank.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government
Germany's biggest parties agree to form 'grand coalition'
11-27-2013
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globalpost.com
Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have settled the terms of a coalition pact with their Social Democrat rivals, but the agreement has yet to be put to a vote.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Internet
Cloud computing in China: On the verge
11-27-2013
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globalpost.com
It's big business. But simmering cybersecurity tensions between China and the US could spell trouble for the industry.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Sexuality: Sex and the Law
Manly, Manful…Man Up? The Language of Manliness
11-27-2013
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http://www.artofmanliness.com, Brett & Kate McKay
Unless you regularly read this blog, you may never have heard someone use the word manliness in writing or conversation.
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News Link • Prepping
Letter Re: Being Prepared to Homeschool
11-27-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, SurvivalBlog.com
As a home-educated graduate and home school parent who happens to be a prepper, I have given a great deal of thought to homeschooling after a collapse as my children are not grown.
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News Link • Obama Administration
General Electric’s Crony Capitalism
11-27-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Hunter Lewis
This is an adaptation of chapter 10 from Hunter Lewis’s book Crony Capitalism in America: 2008-2012.
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News Link • Iran
Is the Superpower Afraid of Iran?
11-27-2013
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Patrick J. Buchanan
“Iran’s Nuclear Triumph” roared the headline of the Wall Street Journal editorial. William Kristol is again quoting Churchill on Munich.
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News Link • Drones
Army Scores a Super-Stealthy Drone That Looks Like a Bird
11-27-2013
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http://www.wired.com, By Allen McDuffee
The big problem with drones is they look like, well, drones.
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News Link • Iran
Iran: White House Lying About Details of Nuke Deal
11-27-2013
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http://freebeacon.com, BY Adam Kredo
Iranian officials say White House fact sheet is ‘invalid’
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News Link • Obama Administration
‘Non-partisan’ group paid $1 million to produce positive Obamacare stories
11-27-2013
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http://capitolcityproject.com, Joe Schoffstall
With the roll out of Obamacare being as disastrous as possible for the Obama administration, one group was given a $1 million grant to help lead a rebranding effort with hopes of salvaging the law in the eyes of the American people.
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News Link • Iran
Iran: It’s Not about Nuclear Weapons
11-27-2013
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http://fff.org, by Sheldon Richman
Iran: It’s Not about Nuclear Weapons. Everyone says so.
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News Link • Military
US warplanes defy Chinese air defence edict with B-52 flyover of disputed area
11-27-2013
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http://www.theguardian.com, Spencer Ackerman
US warplanes have directly challenged China’s claims of an expanding territorial air defence zone, flying dramatically and without incident on Monday over a disputed island chain.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Penny Lane: Gitmo's other secret CIA facility
11-27-2013
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By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO
A few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the Guantanamo Bay prison, hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a closely held secret.
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News Link • Freedom's Phoenix
Freedom's Phoenix Marketplace
11-27-2013
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Freedom's Phoenix Marketplace
The infrastructure for tomorrow's Agorist is being created now! Subscribe to FreedomsPhoenix for free and access the Marketplace to set up your own Shop.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Spies Are Freaking Out About Edward Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache Of Secrets
11-26-2013
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businessinsider.com
British and U.S. intelligence officials say they are worried about a "doomsday" cache of highly classified, heavily encrypted material they believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has stored on a data cloud.
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News Link • Government
The FDA Wants 23andMe To Stop Selling Its Genetic Testing Kits
11-26-2013
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businessinsider.com
The Food and Drug Administration is ordering 23andMe to stop selling its saliva collection kits for its personal genome service.
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News Link • China
NSA Fallout Spreads: Qualcomm Probed By Chinese Regulator In "Confidential" Investigation
11-26-2013
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Zero Hedge
The recent collapse in the forward guidance from Cisco and various other tech and telecom companies has been widely attributed to the world's - and mostly China's -
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News Link • Syria
Al-Qaeda Seizes US Aid Warehouse From Syrian Rebels
11-26-2013
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antiwar.com
US Aid Finally Reached Syria, Almost Immediately Was Seized
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News Link • Iran
US Envoy Assures Israel: Attacking Iran Still an Option
11-26-2013
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antiwar.com
Hours After Deal, Ambassador Is Talking Up War
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News Link • Torture
Face It: America Is Likely to Torture Again
11-26-2013
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theatlantic.com
The taboo surrounding it hasn't recovered from the Bush years"and helping to reestablish it is our generation's responsibility.
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
CIA remains behind most drone strikes, despite effort to shift campaign to Defense
11-26-2013
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Washington Post
Six months after President Obama signaled his desire to shift the campaign to the Defense Department, the CIA’s drone operations center in Langley, Va., is still behind the vast majority of strikes.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Respected Economist Says Higher Ed Bubble Starting To Burst
11-26-2013
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Vedder said federally subsidized college loans forced tuition rates through the roof and wreaked havoc on college students’ checking accounts and future debt, but worst of all the program hurt the very students it aimed to help: low-income ones.
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News Link • Drug War
Three Hundred Inmates Released Thanks to Chemist Who Faked Evidence
11-26-2013
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Reuters
Following the release of more than 300 inmates, Annie Dookhan, a Massachusetts state chemist who used to "process" drug samples almost 3 times as quickly as her colleagues, pled guilty to fabricating her results. Police estimate
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News Link • Misinformation
Powerful Lies
11-26-2013
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8.gsb.columbia.edu
Most people become stressed when lying, but new research shows that people with power feel just fine when lying " and are better at getting away with it.
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. says may pull out all troops as Afghan leader holds up deal
11-26-2013
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Reuters
Karzai told National Security Advisor Rice the US must put an immediate end to military raids on Afghan homes and demonstrate its commitment to peace talks before he would sign..."Without a prompt signature, the US would have no choice
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News Link • Police State
Rise of the Warrior Cop, a CATO Inst. Debate vs Mark Lomax, Exec.Dir. of Nat'l Tactical Officers
11-26-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
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News Link • Camera Fraud
D.C. cops go ‘nuclear’ with traffic cameras
11-26-2013
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Washington Times
20 gridlock cameras will also capture the license plates of vehicles that fail to clear crosswalks or intersections before a traffic signal changes. 32 cameras will be placed at stop signs to ticket drivers who don't come to a complete stop,
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
The 10 Corporations That Control Almost Everything You Buy
11-26-2013
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zerohedge.com
We know the ten "people" that run the world, that 25 cities represent over half the world's GDP, and that the world's billionaires control a stunning $33 trillion in net worth...
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News Link • Gun Rights
Philadelphia Votes to Ban 3-D Printed Guns
11-26-2013
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NBC News
The Philadelphia City Council banned the use of 3-D printers to create firearms. The bill prohibits people from creating part or all of a firearm using the three-dimensional printing technology. Licensed gun manufacturers are not affected.
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News Link • Racism
White Woman Experiences 'Walking While Black'
11-26-2013
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I think I had my first experience of being stopped for Walking While Black. Mind you, I’m not black. I’m a 52-year-old white woman. Last night, I was walking from dinner down 14th St. near Spring Rd. with my sons, who are black.
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News Link • Torture
Woman sues officer who repeatedly applied mace to her genitals
11-26-2013
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Rawstory
Zapater was arrested on a suspected parole violation. During a strip search, Zapater observed a plastic baggie protruding from Ms. Tapia’s vagina.” Instead of asking her to remove the package, Zapater allegedly “sprayed a chemical agent on
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News Link • Egypt
Here's what $230 million in US aid bought Egypt's military since the revolution
11-26-2013
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globalpost.com
Despite the upheaval of the last two years, it was business as usual for US companies providing Egypt's tanks, helicopters, and bullets. GlobalPost looks at some of the key contracts.
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News Link • World News
Thai protesters step up campaign to oust government
11-26-2013
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Reuters
The protesters defied a tough security law imposed across Bangkok late on Monday to control tens of thousands of protesters rallying against Yingluck and her billionaire brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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News Link • Propaganda
Katie Couric: Grovels to New Media
11-26-2013
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The Local Voluntary
All the world is a stage. And at this stage, It’s time to see the final curtain fall. We are done with your sniveling kind.
The best part of the joke: She is ten years too late. Yahoo is a dinosaur. Nobody cares as you and your handlers’ kind d
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