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Date Sent: 2014-10-22
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
Idaho city's ordinance tells pastors to marry gays or go to jail
When miscarriages of justice occur, prosecutors must answer for actions -- Either Praise the Police, or Shut Up -- Woman Taken Hostage By Bank Robbers Killed By Police Who Fire 600 Bullets Into Car -- How Angry Guys Explain Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing (and why they're wrong) -- Cop Arrests Subway Performer For Singing, Despite Cop Reading Aloud Rule Saying It's Permitted -- Ex-cop accused in Coral Gables DUI traffic death wants case dismissed -- Maine shellfish dealer to be sentenced for unauthorized purchases of lobsters -- Is Mexico a Failed State? -- At Last! A Use for the TSA! -- Injection Of Brain Nerve Cells Into Spine Help Paralyzed Man Walk Again -- 10-22-14 -- Jordan Page - Tony Tangalos - Eric Murphy -- LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EDT) -- The Entry of Ebola into the US Has Hallmarks of a Planned Happening -- Man In Japan Arrested For 3-D Printing Revolvers -- American released from North Korea -- U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS -- Turkey Murders Press TV Reporter Serena Shim -- The New Underground Economy in Germany -- 'Plunge protection' behind market's sudden recovery -- Edward Snowden and the Golden Age of Spying -- TRAFICANT Documentary - Finishing Funds Campaign -- ISIS Video: America's Air Dropped Weapons Now in Our Hands
AZ: Jordan Page to play concert at the Hancock's in Phoenix on October 24th, 2014; PrepperFest Expo, October 24-26, 2014, Westworld in Scottsdale, AZ; Survival Rendezvous – Young, AZ – November 8-11, 2014
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News Link • Marriage
Idaho city's ordinance tells pastors to marry gays or go to jail
10-21-2014
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Washington Times
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, city officials have laid down the law to Christian pastors within their community, telling them bluntly via an ordinance that if they refuse to marry homosexuals, they will face jail time and fines.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
When miscarriages of justice occur, prosecutors must answer for actions
10-21-2014
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On the skimpiest evidence he charged a 19-year-old man with multiple counts of child rape. He may have played fast and loose with trial rules in order to get a conviction. The defense attorney was unaware of significant exculpatory evidence
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Either Praise the Police, or Shut Up
10-21-2014
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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)
"Proclaiming 'not all cops are bad' implies rational people might somehow believe the opposite," Lynch whined. "It lends cop-haters a credibility they don't deserve. And it minimizes the dedication and professionalism police officers
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman Taken Hostage By Bank Robbers Killed By Police Who Fire 600 Bullets Into Car
10-21-2014
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Jonathan Turley
They took Singh hostage and fled in a car. However, the police were quickly on their tail and trapped the car. She may have had a glimmer of hope. After all, there were some 33 police officers surrounding the car. That is when the police opened up
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
How Angry Guys Explain Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing (and why they're wrong)
10-21-2014
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Simple Justice
After the Supreme Court's denial of cert in Jones, there appeared to be a sudden shocked recognition that people get sentenced for the crime for which they were just acquitted.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Cop Arrests Subway Performer For Singing, Despite Cop Reading Aloud Rule Saying It's Permitted
10-21-2014
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A New York subway performer was arrested and violently assaulted by a NYPD officer for the crime of inadvertently making the officer look like a fool. Street performer Andrew Kalleen, 30, was arrested after explaining to the officer
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Ex-cop accused in Coral Gables DUI traffic death wants case dismissed
10-21-2014
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The former Coral Springs police officer is making the request after a Miami-Dade judge, in a little-noticed decision, tossed out evidence that showed Muñoz was drunk, with blood alcohol measuring nearly three times the legal limit.
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News Link • Food
Maine shellfish dealer to be sentenced for unauthorized purchases of lobsters
10-21-2014
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The owner of a seafood dealership was snared in a federal and state probe that began with an allegation that more than $1 million worth of lobsters were stolen from one of the state's largest cooperatives is to be sentenced
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News Link • Mexico
Is Mexico a Failed State?
10-21-2014
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Every time they find a mass grave, they think it's the one they're looking for â€" but it isn't. No, this isn't a Halloween tale: it's a real life story about 43 missing Mexican students who once attended the Escuela Normal Rural Isidro Bur
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
At Last! A Use for the TSA!
10-21-2014
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Lew Rockwell blog
A guy tried to dispose of some trash, only to find that in totalitarian Amerika, "the dump buries you in dump rules. … [It] refuses to take my cans of old paint unless I buy $45 of cat litter and over a period of several weeks suffer
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News Link • Housing
Floods don't wash with this amphibious floating house
10-21-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Stu Robarts
Living in an area prone to flooding has historically meant that you need high sockets and deep pockets. Baca Architects, however, has come up with an altogether more ingenious solution. Its "amphibious house," designed to float on floodwater before b
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News Link • 3D Printing
Carvey: The desktop 3D carving machine
10-21-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Colin Jeffrey
3D printers are the appliance of choice for a new generation of makers keen to rapidly prototype straight from their computer.
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News Link • Energy
New Li-ion anode achieves 70 percent charge in just two minutes
10-21-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Dario Borghino
Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a new, proof-of-concept anode for lithium-ion batteries that can charge to 70 percent of its capacity in only two minutes and has a very long lifespan of ten thousa
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News Link • Inventions
Cheap, ultra low-power light source runs on just 0.1 Watts
10-21-2014
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http://www.gizmag.com, By Dario Borghino
Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new low-cost flat panel light source that could pioneer a new generation of brighter, cheaper and greener lighting devices to rival LEDs.
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News Link • Pandemic
The Entry of Ebola into the US Has Hallmarks of a Planned Happening
10-21-2014
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http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
More information is available that suggests the the government had advance information that ebola was coming to the US and that the government expects a much larger outbreak of the disease in the US than it admits.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
What It Could Be Like to Live on Mars
10-21-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Kate Greene
I'd always wanted to visit Mars. Instead I got Hawaii. There, about 8,200 feet above sea level on Mauna Loa, sits a geodesically domed habitat for testing crew psychology and technologies for boldly going.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
IBM Stock Plummets as Company Abandons Chip Business
10-21-2014
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http://www.wired.com, By Klint Finley
IBM's stock price is on the decline, after the company agreed to pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take on its ailing chipmaking business and abandoned its controversial "2015 Roadmap" to deliver $20 earnings per share by next year.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
American released from North Korea
10-21-2014
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http://edition.cnn.com, By Elise Labott
Jeffrey Fowle, an American arrested in North Korea in May for leaving a bible at a club for foreign sailors, has been released and is on his way home, a senior State Department official told CNN on Tuesday.
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News Link • TERRORISM
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
10-21-2014
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http://www.thedailybeast.com, Jamie Dettmer
Not only are foodstuffs, medical suppliesâ€"even clinicsâ€"going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS 'taxes' and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.
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News Link • Movies
TRAFICANT Documentary - Finishing Funds Campaign
10-21-2014
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https://www.kickstarter.com, by Eric Murphy
TRAFICANT is the untold story of the most bombastic, prophetic, and ultimately unraveled politician in American history.
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News Link • Inspiration
A 12-year-old app developer
10-21-2014
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ted.com
Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames â€" Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers.
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News Link • Torture
Blowing the Whistle on CIA Torture from Beyond the Grave
10-21-2014
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The APA in 2002 famously revised its ethics code to permit a psychologist to follow "governing legal authority" even if it clashed with the APA's own code of ethics. It was the Nuremberg Defense of "just following orders."
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News Link • TERRORISM
ISIS Video: America's Air Dropped Weapons Now in Our Hands
10-21-2014
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http://www.thedailybeast.com, Josh Rogin
In a new video, ISIS shows American-made weapons it says were intended for the Kurds but actually were air dropped into territory they control.
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News Link • Israel
How the Israel Lobby Set Beto O'Rourke Right
10-21-2014
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http://www.veteransnewsnow.com, By Nathan Guttman
It was almost a textbook case of how the establishment pro-Israel lobby works its magic â€" and a story not yet completed in early September, when The New Yorker magazine took note of what had happened to O'Rourke.
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News Link • Archaeology
Three Steps Back - Viking Disaporia
10-21-2014
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arclein
the first Viking Settlements on the west coast of Greenland, it was also around this time that the Arctic Dorset peoples mysteriously disappeared and the Thule peoples simultaneously emerged to take their place. Who were the replacements? According
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News Link • Archaeology
Viking Weave in the Pacific North West
10-21-2014
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arclein
t is possible to pass virtually ice-free through the Northwest Passage in a mere 21 days. This occurrence, combined with versatile, shallow-draught Vikings ships, the Medieval Warm Period, and the relative shortness of the upper Passage (see Map 5c)
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News Link • Agriculture
Is Everything We Know About Nicotine Wrong?
10-21-2014
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arclein
Atropa Belladonna, also known as Deadly Nightshade, is one such plant that has offered medical and therapeutic benefits but can also be highly toxic, psychedelic and even lethal. Perhaps you remember the story on how Emperor Augustus of Rome was pois
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Radio/TV Show • Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock - Radio
Host:
Ernest Hancock
10-21-14 -- David Blume (Blume Distillation) MP3 & VIDEO LOADED
David Blume (Internationally renowned biofuel and regenerative agriculture expert and founder of Blume Distillation ) on developing educational outreach programs that demonstrate the benefits of building sustainable food and fuel production programs
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Feature Article • Propaganda
Public Worry Over Remote Threats
Ivan Eland
The breathless news coverage of the miniscule number of people in the United States that have so far contracted the Ebola virus has led to a typical irrational response in some quarters.
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News Link • Economy - International
The ECB Changes Its Mind Which Bonds It Will Monetize, Then It Changes It Again
10-20-2014
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zerohedge.com
To get a sense of just how chaotic, unprepared, confused and in a word, clueless the ECB is about just its "private QE", aka purchases of ABS, which should begin in the "next few days" (but certainly don't hold your breath) - let alone the monetizati
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News Link • Economy - International
Nonperforming Spanish Loans Near All-Time High as Overall Credit Shrinks
10-20-2014
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
Huky Guru posted a couple of interesting charts on his blog today about shrinking credit but rising percentage of nonperforming Spanish bank loans: NPLs of banks rebounded to 16.59%. Seven points higher than in the 1994 crisis.
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
ISIS: Military Contractors' "Gravy Train" To Profits
10-17-2014
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By Sean Nevins, Mint Press
Arms contractors are "trying to exploit the crisis," -- It appears they're succeeding this regard, as investors are greedily buying up stocks of weapons manufacturers. For example, Lockheed Martin's share prices have risen from $146 a share a
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
This is why people use phones to film police
10-19-2014
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cNet
A routine traffic stop in Iowa turns into a police officer trying to trick the driver into admitting he has pot. His reasoning? The driver must have pot because he's into frisbee golf.
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News Link • Media: Print
Former WaPo chief warns of ruin when advertisers 'wake up' and pull out
10-19-2014
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A former managing editor of the Washington Post is warning of a massive shake out in print journalism once advertisers "wake up" to the reality that they are wasting money on newspaper and magazine advertising,
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News Link • Government
Meet the Men and Women Who Help Rule North Korea From the Shadows
10-20-2014
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news.vice.com
They are the world's most fearsome bureaucrats.
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News Link • Anonymous
The Latest Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous â€" And for All of Us
10-20-2014
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Wired.com
The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective known as Anonymous.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov speaks to the World
10-20-2014
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paulcraigroberts.org
Dear Readers, I now have for you the complete English transcript of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's speech to the United Nations.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Police Officer in Ferguson Is Said to Recount a Struggle
10-19-2014
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New York Times
The police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, was pinned in his vehicle and in fear for his life as he struggled over his gun with Mr. Brown, according to government officials briefed on the federal civil rights investigation into th
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House names Ebola czar as it steps up response
10-19-2014
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With Americans' fears over random Ebola exposure fueled anew by scares on a cruise ship and a tour bus, the Obama admin moved to fight accusations of incompetence naming a veteran political operative to coordinate the government response
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News Link • Surveillance
Fed-backed Twitter study draws fire
10-19-2014
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"In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading or a political smear," he wrote. "The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned mone
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
New York City jails are way too violent and expensive: report
10-19-2014
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Rawstory
And yet, New York City's jails, which now boast an all-time-high operating budget of $1.1 billion, are increasingly expensive to run. In fiscal year 2014, the cost per inmate was $96,232, a 42 percent increase from fiscal year 2007, when the annual
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News Link • Economy - International
Moody's downgrades Russia to Baa2
10-19-2014
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Reuters
Moody's Investors Service cut Russia's sovereign debt rating to 'Baa2' from 'Baa1', becoming the second ratings agency to cut the country's ratings this year, after S&P initiated a downgrade in April. Moody's said the prolonged crisis in Ukraine was
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News Link • Activism
Hillary Clinton Flying Monkey Signs Deface Brentwood Ahead of L.A. Fundraiser
10-19-2014
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Guerrilla street artist SABO, who made headlines with his Gwyneth Paltrow "Obama Drone" poster, has struck again â€" this time ahead of Hillary Clinton's upcoming Democratic fundraiser at Tavern restaurant in Brentwood.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Three Movies I Want To See
10-19-2014
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by Wendy McElroy
I confess a weakness for documentaries and "docu-dramas" which are closely based on true stories. And there are three coming out, of special interest to me:
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Can America Fight a Thirty Years' War?
10-19-2014
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http://charlesgoyette.com, by Pat Buchanan
Since 1980, writes Andrew Bacevich, the United States has invaded, occupied or bombed 14 nations in the Greater Middle East
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News Link • Energy
Lockheed's Fusion Promise: What We Know So Far
10-18-2014
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popsci.com
Can the company do what's never been done before?
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News Link • Secession
The Secessionist States of America
10-18-2014
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http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Brion McClanahan
For years those who advocated even a scholarly examination of secession were labeled "crackpots" and "fringe radicals" by the establishment.
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