I found myself in a crowd of people against the glass window of the Haymarket Lounge at the hotel on the corner. The police walked into us, spraying Mace on everyone and clubbing people. I remember somebody shouting that a woman was having a heart attack. This was a big mass of humanity being crushed. And as the mass fell backwards, my back was to the window, and I could hear this glass breaking. And all of a sudden the whole window collapsed, and everybody fell into the bar, where delegates were sitting there drinking and talking as if this was routine for a political convention. The police came charging in after us, and there were people all over the place, bleeding, cut. They were just arresting anybody who looked like they didn’t belong in the hotel. I don’t know what happened, but I walked out. I don’t even know where I went.

http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/politics/index.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/reliving-the-1968-democratic-convention.html

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On Sept. 7, 2006, Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, stood before an audience of economists at the International Monetary Fund and announced that a crisis was brewing. In the coming months and years, he warned, the United States was likely to face a once-in-a-lifetime housing bust, an oil shock, sharply declining consumer confidence and, ultimately, a deep recession. He laid out a bleak sequence of events: homeowners defaulting on mortgages, trillions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities unraveling worldwide and the global financial system shuddering to a halt. These developments, he went on, could cripple or destroy hedge funds, investment banks and other major financial institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.....

Read up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/magazine/17pessimist-t.html

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Russian Soldiers cought on camera - robbing a bank in Georgia.

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The U.S. and Poland signed a preliminary accord today that will allow for 10 U.S. interceptor missiles to be based in the eastern European country, completing a defense system that Russia opposes.

The U.S. has agreed to Polish requests including modernization of its armed forces in exchange for the location of the missiles

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White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004.

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The websites of Georgia's government have been under denial-of-service attacks for weeks, with Russian hackers fingered as the culprits.

Key Georgian commercial Internet servers - remain under sustained attack from thousands of compromised PCs aimed at flooding the sites with so much junk Web traffic that they can no longer accommodate legitimate visitors."

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Maryland - When the shooting stopped, two dogs lay dead. A mayor sat in his boxers, hands bound behind his back. His handcuffed mother-in-law was sprawled on the kitchen floor, lying beside the body of one of the family pets that police had killed before her eyes.

After the raid, Prince George's County police officials who burst into the home of Berwyn Heights' mayor last week seized the same unopened package of marijuana that an undercover officer had delivered an hour earlier.

Police claimed "Trinity was an innocent and random victim of identity theft. Apparently, so were four or five other county residents whose names and addresses were stolen and used as addresses on drug packages,"

story stolen from : BaltimoreSun.com

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China has detained 82 suspected terrorists in the first half of the year on allegations that they were plotting attacks against next month's Olympics, according to state media reports Thursday.

Police nabbed the suspects in raids on five separate terrorist rings in the traditionally Muslim Xinjiang region of China's far west, regional police chief Chen Zhuangwei was quoted as saying by newspapers and the official Xinhua News Agency.

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John McCain denied a Republican colleague's claim that he roughed up an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on a diplomatic mission in 1987, saying the allegation was "simply not true.

However his comments did not square with Cochran's detailed recollection of the alleged incident...

"McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table and I don't know what attracted my attention," Cochran said in an interview with The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. "But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever ...

Continue reading "G" »

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Within minutes of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the District's gun ban, leaders of the National Rifle Association began work on legal challenges against gun restrictions in Chicago and San Francisco, while gun-control groups said the decision would only strengthen their efforts.

bluck bluck bluck ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the record $2.5 billion in punitive damages that Exxon Mobil Corp had been ordered to pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska.

Although it took the company just under two days to bring in $2.5 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2007 - the damages were reduced to 507.5 million.

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The world's population set to reach 7 billion in 2012.

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Sunday mornings won't be the same...

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In a recent report, the Defense Department inspector general estimates that nearly half of the military's $316 billion weapons budget went unchecked last year because the IG's office lacked the manpower.

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Capitalizing on Senator Larry Craig's restroom bust, a Minnesota minor league baseball team this Sunday is giving away a promotional item celebrating the Republican politician's arrest last year at the Minneapolis-St.Paul airport

According to an undercover cop's account, while in the airport bathroom, Craig "tapped his toes several times and moved his foot closer to my foot." The officer, Sgt. Dave Karsnia, was seated in an adjoining stall and believed Craig's footsie was a signal that the politician was seeking sex.

Courtesy: The Smoking Gun

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President Bush recently vetoed a bill that would limit interrogation techniques to those approved in the Army Field document, a publicly available document.

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"I don't think I've touched marijuana since the late 70's"

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I don't even want to touch on this one ...

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The city of Santana Ana wants to know.

http://www.ci.santa-ana.ca.us/pd/Graffiti.asp

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I think he's got my vote.

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Numerous users are now reporting that Google banned Cuba from accessing most of its solutions but there is no official reason for this. However, Google Earth, AdSense, AdWords,Code Search, Desktop and Google Sky are all unavailable for the Cuban users.

The Cuban Daily News reports that every time a consumer tries to access one of the technologies mentioned above, the Mountain View company displays a message saying that "We’re sorry, but this service is not available for your country".

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Mayor Micheal Bloomberg claimed yesterday that "fraud" was behind the unofficial results in the New York Democratic Presidential primary that produced zero votes for Barack Obama in some districts.

Unofficial tallies on election night gave Obama no votes in 78 out of more than 6,000 election districts.

Courtesy: Post

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81-year-old Fidel Castro has resigned as Cuba's president..

follow up

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Two former high-ranking policy experts from the Bush Administration say the U.S. has been gearing up for a war with Iran for years, despite claiming otherwise.

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann ellobrate on why they believe a war with Iran had become inevitable.

Courtesy: Esquire.com

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In a stunning reversal the Nobel Peace Prize was taken back and awarded to George Bush...

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On Thursday, the city and IBM Corp. are announcing the initial phase of what officials say could be the most advanced video security network in any U.S. city.

The system could be programmed to alert the city's emergency center whenever a camera spots a vehicle matching the description of one being sought by authorities. It could alert emergency officials if the same car or truck circles the Sears Tower three times or if nobody picks up a backpack in Grant Park for 30 seconds.

Follow Up

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Barack Obama will be speaking today at Washington Square Park today at 5, learn something.

Washington Square Park
Fifth Ave. at Waverly Pl., New York, NY 10003

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An MIT student with a fake bomb strapped to her chest - later claiming it was art - was arrested at gunpoint Friday at Logan International Airport, officials said.

The device had wires connected to a battery, allowing it to light up, he said. Simpson also had Play-Doh in her hands, he said,

"She's extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used," Pare told The Associated Press. "And she's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."

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Army records first UAV kills..

Army scouts in Iraq spotted two men planting a roadside bomb Sept. 1, they called in a nearby Hunter unmanned aircraft, which dropped a laser-guided bomb and killed the two men.

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SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C - Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country, including the United States.

Yesterday, September 11th one student was told to remove her shirt bearing the American flag..

fucked up

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Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant.

The test wouldn't be used to finger any single person as a drug user. But it would help federal law enforcement and other agencies track the spread of dangerous drugs, like methamphetamines, across the country.

In the study presented Tuesday, one teaspoon of untreated sewage water from each of the cities was tested for 15 different drugs. Field said researchers can't calculate how many people in a town are using drugs.

Continue reading "Community Urinalysis" »

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Unites States troops are firing over a billion shots a year, leading to ammunition shortages in police forces across the country..

Probably some of the best news I have heard about the war in Iraq in a long time.

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A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences and break scientific laws.

For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.

nerds

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Manuel Noriega former dictator and drug king of Panama has served his time in federal prison just outside of Miami.

Originally intended to serve a sentence of 30 years, Noriega has been released on good behavior.

Today he is set to go back on trial to face France's request to extradite him on money laundering charges. He is also wanted in Panama for the death of two political figures.

Although the CIA had Manuel Noriega on the pay roll for a number of years to help American interests in Latin America he was captured after Bush Senior ordered a military invasion in 1989.

Noriega is now 72 years old, and is facing trial in the same courtroom where he was convicted of drug trafficking in 1992.

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The New York City council is now pushing to ban the words "ho" and "bitch"

but now what am i suppose to call a girl after she fuks everyone i know ?

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190,000 ak-47's and pistols lost in iraq...

In attempt to build the Iraqi police force the United States issued the weapons and now can not track up to 30%.

The Pentagon has acknowleded that some of the weapons may be used against the U.S. military

The United States has spent $19.2 billion trying to develop Iraqi security forces since 2003, including at least $2.8 billion in equipment.

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President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government’s authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.

i knew i wasn't hearin' shit

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Russia has recently sent out on a conquest for the north pole, while conducting one the deepest submarine dives ever, they have symbolically placed a national flag to claim the energy riches of the aritc...

Canada was the first to dimiss the Russian conquest, but i don't even think they have an army.

The land is woth billions of dollars in oil and natural gas..

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America continues to impliment a new security system based around London's "Ring of Steel"

A similar system is coming to New York City, which plans 100 new surveillance cameras in downtown Manhattan by year's end and 3,000 — public and private — by 2010. Chicago and Baltimore plan expanded surveillance systems as well.

better commit your crimes inside

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preach.

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A recent NASA report has claimed on at least two separate occasions Astronauts have taken-off into space while being under the influence of Alcohol. (would be a sick L ride)

A panel set up by NASA to review the health of astronauts concluded that on at least two occasions astronauts were allowed to launch into space despite warnings from doctors that they were too intoxicated to fly

The panel was assembled after the attempted murder / kidnapping diaper incident

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Tennakey - Feds arrested 67 Ryan Lynn Oakley on an attempt to sell nuclear secrets to foreign countries..

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Reknowned author, Thomas Friedman discusses the "Greening of Geopolitics." Innovative and honest insight on how "America can regain its international stature by taking the lead in alternative energy and environmentalism."

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=46dd3d6fde496927d1d80e1120a79631b58bde60

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Four years to the day, u dumb fuck.

How will Republican candidates win next year -- or even beyond -- by backing a war that's supported by just a third of the public?

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On Borrowed Land

Editor's Letter
by Graydon Carter

It is an ongoing mystery to me why Republican administrations are such wretched protectors of our land, inasmuch as Republicans own so much of it. At present, the current administration may be the greatest impediment to correcting the world's environmental slide. From the moment he entered office, "the worst environmental president ever," in Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s estimation, began hacking away at three decades' worth of hard-fought protections for our air, water, and land. In the six subsequent years, the White House has rolled back some 400 environmental-protection laws. And in the 20 months he has left on the clock, President Bush is poised for more environmental backsliding. As Kennedy points out in "Texas Chainsaw Management," the president has so fully greased the revolving door between Washington and the oil, gas, and logging businesses that virtually every government agency having to do with the environment is now in the hands of men and women who used to work for, defend, or lobby for the very polluting industries their departments were established to police.

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Heres the front and back of a T-Shirt given out during the Al-Sharpton

Tony Yayo and his G-Unit camp were marked men in New York City on Monday (april 2) as protesters took to the streets wearing "Ban 50" t-shirts and smashing G-Unit CDs.

In a press conference before the rally, Reverend Al Sharpton joined Czar Entertainment President Bryce Wilson and Cynthia Reed in an act of public grievance for an alleged assault on Reed's 14-year-old son by G-Unit's Tony Yayo. Along with other parents and community leaders, they issued a call to action to advocate against artists and industry executives who use violence to sell records.

Yayo (real name: Marvin Bernard) was arrested on March 24 and charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child (see "G-Unit's Tony Yayo Arrested For Allegedly Slapping Teen") in connection with an incident in which he allegedly attacked the 14-year-old son of Jimmy "Henchmen" Rosemond, who is The Game's manager and CEO of Czar Entertainment.

Tony Yayo and his G-Unit camp were marked men in New York City on Monday (april 2) as protesters took to the streets wearing "Ban 50" t-shirts and smashing G-Unit CDs.

Courtesy: Heppler

Continue reading "million man march againt hip hop" »

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In an odd twist to the highly formal hearing, a wig-wearing protester at the back of the hearing room sported a bright pink T- shirt that said 'Impeach Bush.'

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/usa/news/article_1278546.php/Ex-CIA_agent_hit_in_gut_by_unmasking__Roundup_

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"I was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z," Mohammed said in a statement read during the session, which was held last Saturday.

Other plots he said he was responsible for included planned attacks against the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building and New York Stock Exchange, the Panama Canal and Big Ben and Heathrow Airport in London—none of which happened.

He said he was involved in planning assassination attempts against former Presidents Carter and Clinton, attacks on U.S. nuclear power plants and suspension bridges in New York, the destruction of American and Israeli embassies in Asia and Australia, attacks on American naval vessels and oil tankers around the world, and an attempt to "destroy" an oil company he said was owned by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Sumatra, Indonesia.

He also claimed he shared responsibility for assassination attempts against Pope John Paul II and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8NSEAHO0&show_article=1

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http://www.freedomtofascism.com/

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About one month after a State of the Union address in which he didn't once mention Hurricane Katrina or Gulf Coast recovery, President Bush returns to the still struggling region today, stopping first in Mississippi and then heading to New Orleans. A White House release this morning notes, "The Federal government has committed more than $110 billion to help the Gulf Coast recover from Hurricane Katrina. President Bush remains committed to progress on all fronts in the Gulf Region, and will discuss progress in education as well as other reconstruction efforts." This will be his first visit since August 29.

Courtesy: NBC First Read

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The vice president left Kabul wearing a black suit and shiny dark cordovan cowboy boots - having just become the highest-level Bush administration official to have spent the night in a war zone - the unscheduled overnighter at Bagram Air Force Base. The vice president spoke on the record with the pool about the attack -- speaking, seated on a desk, in his Airstream, silver-skinned on the outside and leather-seated and wood-paneled on the inside, cabin set up inside the C-17 military cargo transport that had ferried him to Pakistan and Afghanistan and out as well.

"I was provided quarters overnight," he said of his Bagram stay. "It seems to me it was 10 occlock in the morning. I heard a loud boom... The Secret Service came in and told me there had been an attack on the main gate."

He was moved "for a brief period of time" to one of the base bomb shelters near his quarters, the VP said. "As the situation settled down and they had a better sense of what was going on, I went back to my room."

Link..
http://drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

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Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

To conduct surgical air strikes against Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli war planes would need to fly across Iraq. But to do so the Israeli military authorities in Tel Aviv need permission from the Pentagon.

Read Up..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/24/wiran124.xml

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Giuliani balls out...

Making $100,000 a speech, Giuliani also requires provided transportation of a "private aircraft that MUST BE a Gulfstream IV or bigger"

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0216071giuliani1.html

Check the actual documents for his flight requrements

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An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday.

Astronomers are monitoring an asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036.

Although the odds of an impact by this particular asteroid are low, a recent congressional mandate for NASA to upgrade its tracking of near-Earth asteroids is expected to uncover hundreds, if not thousands of threatening space rocks in the near future, former astronaut Rusty Schweickart said.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2007-02-18T174347Z_01_N17363374_RTRUKOC_0_US-ASTEROID-DEFLECTOR.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

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Prince Harry will be serving on the front line in Iraq by the end of the month.

The 22-year-old prince will head for Basra with comrades from the Blues and Royals Regiment within days and will then probably be deployed along the border with Iran.

A senior military source said: "The final details are being sorted, but he is definitely going. Naturally, his royal status has to be taken into account - but he will see action."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=exclusive--harry-to-fight-in-iraq%26method=full%26objectid=18634497%26siteid=89520-name_page.html

..Im an ethnocentric ass-hole that hates on all, but this is a real stong play on his part, definatley earns my respect..

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