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Pentagon Advisors Warn Of Coming International Crisis

“It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,” Joe Biden - Pentagon Adviser

The chairman of a key Pentagon advisory panel has echoed recent claims by both Joe Biden and Colin Powell, warning that the next administration will face an international crisis within months of taking [...]

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Man Jailed for Neglecting His Lawn

BAYONET POINT - On Friday morning, Joseph Prudente put on a pair of shorts and his “Grandpa Gone Wild” T-shirt. He took off his wedding band and put his heart medication in a plastic Wal-Mart bag.
Then his daughter drove him to jail. Grandpa had time to do.
His crime? He had disobeyed a court order that [...]

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Sheriff Strips Concealed Weapons Permits

COMMENT: It is clear that the intention is to demonize gun ownership while making the ‘permit’ aspect convey a privilege rather than a right, as guarded by the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. Further, the claim that the former sheriff was ‘corrupt’ is meant to justify the revoking of permits, which are also associated emotionally [...]

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Cops Tase 66-year-old Minister Over ‘Joke’

A reverend claims security guards dragged him out of a Toledo, Ohio hospital and tasered and beat him because he told a joke, CBS reported Friday.
Rev. Al Poisson said he was visiting the hospital to see a man who had been injured while Poisson was shopping with his 6-year-old grandson. According to the reverend, an [...]

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Tased Until Dead: The Epidemic of Taser Crazy Cops

Since ‘Taser’ use has become widespread more than 290 people have been killed, possibly murdered, by taser crazy cops. In response to this epidemic of violence, Amnesty International released a statement damning the use of “… tasers to subdue non-compliant or disturbed individuals who do not pose a serious danger to themselves or others.” That [...]

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