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Aug 20, 2007


This is a long news story in Mother Jones... Please everyone take the time to read it! It is an outrage!!!!!!!! Please note and comment!

This needs to stop!

A Must Read Outrage: ~School of Shock ~ visit site
Society & Culture  (tags: autistic, mentally retarded, emotionally troubled children, abuse, torture, legal torture, state supported, education? cruelty, electrodes surveillance cameras, privacy, unbelievable, violence, rights, safety, money, media, humans, law, interesting, gove )

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- 4 minutes ago - motherjones.com

Eight states are sending autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to a facility that punishes them with painful electric shocks. How many times do you have to zap a child before it's torture? Rob Santana awoke terrified. He'd had.......
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Aug 19, 2007


Miners Are Family, and Family Comes First visit site
Society & Culture  (tags: Miners, family, culture, bonds, trust, safety, risks, danger, rescue technology, business, ethics, common-sense, outsiders, disaster, investigations, rights, coal, workers, owners, federal inspectors, lies, crime, corruption, death, education, environment )

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- 2 hours ago - huntingtonnews.net
Miners are bound together in ways perhaps not unlike the bonds that develop between soldiers or others whose occupations are inherently dangerous. They share a vocabulary foreign to outsiders. Miners place great trust in the person next to them for safety
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Skyscraper Burns Near Ground Zero visit site
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- 1 hour ago - latimes.com
Two New York firefighters died Saturday battling a major blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building just south of ground zero, in a haunting scene in Lower Manhattan reminiscent of Sept. 11, officials said....




Mandatory Sentencing: Stalled Reform ~Lockdown USA~ visit site
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- 1 hour ago - time.com
Over the last decade, activists, ex-convicts, families, politicians and even celebrities have become increasingly vocal about the laws. Reforms to the sentencing structure were enacted with the 2004 Drug Law Reform Act, which allows for reduced..........
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Is It a Coup? Is It a Plot? ~Canada's Sovereignty in Jeopardy: The Militarization of North America~ visit site
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- 1 hour ago - canada.com
To some, it is a "corporate coup d'état," a conspiracy by big business to turn Canada into the 51st state by stealth. Others see it as a plot to destroy the United States by forcing it into a North American union with "socialist Canada" and "corrupt Mex..




Security Could Override Social Issues as Religious Right Considers Giuliani visit site
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- 30 minutes ago - dallasnews.com
?...when it comes to terrorism, an issue that's fast rising among Christian conservatives' concerns, she has no doubt Mr. Giuliani has the credentials to be commander in chief....
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Jun 16, 2007
Please read and note this story.....  



A Powerful, Massive Protest: Diminish the Corporate Media’s Power By Turning Off Your TV for Good!
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Business  (tags: corporategreed, warmongers, corruption, tv, dishonesty, government, freedoms, media, money, politics, profit )

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- 8 hours ago - commondreams.org
The mainstream media networks are not interested in educating the public. They are financially supported by the worst criminal polluters (oil & coal) and war profiteers (weapon contractors). Well here’s a way to significantly stop the corporate criminals
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