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Canton Police Officer: “I’ll Kill Every One Of You Motherfuckers!”

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Set You Free News We are seeing more and more videos surfacing about police officers abusing their power. CNN made a report recently about a Canton police officer Daniel Harless cursing and threatening the driver during the traffic stop last month. (click the image on the left to play the video) The report uncovered that [...]

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Ghana Moves to Arrest Homosexuals

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In a new burst of African homophobia, Mr. Paul Evans Aidoo, a government minister in Ghana, has drawn much national support and international condemnation after calling on the country’s intelligence services to round up Ghana’s gay population. The move by the minister follows months of campaigning by the Christian Council of Ghana calling on Ghanaians [...]

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Russian solar probe to predict Earthly cataclysms

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Russia Today Some scientists believe bursts of solar activity cause natural disasters on our planet, but until now the star has been too difficult to reach or explore in any detail. Some Russian researchers think they have the solution. ­Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis – apocalyptic pictures are becoming an ordinary part of news bulletins across [...]

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World we see is make-believe, top British scientist says

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Herald Sun The human brain creates its own version of reality, and the world we see around us is mostly make-believe, according to a top British scientist. Professor Bruce Hood will explore the limits of the human mind in a series of prestigious lectures for the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the oldest independent research [...]

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Tar sands and Canada’s meddling in EU affairs

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Keith Taylor PS Europe Petroleum products originating from destructive tar sands exploration in Canada are making their way onto the European market The extraction of fuel from tar sands is an environmental disaster. If the European Commission fails to recognise the impact of tar sands extraction in the Fuel Quality Directive, it will seriously threaten [...]

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Extreme Right Thrives in Germany

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Christian Watjen The Epoch Times Last week’s terrorist attacks in Norway have shocked the world into a highlighted awareness of the threats posed by right-wing extremism. In Germany, where militant neo-Nazi groups are increasingly violent and hostile to the state, they are also becoming more entrenched in local municipalities, especially in economically deprived regions of [...]

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Ancient port discovered in Egypt

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Sean McLachlan Gadling Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a harbor on the Red Sea that was used for international trade. The excavation at Mersa Gawasis has revealed traces of an ancient harbor. It’s long been known that the Egyptians traded down the coast of Africa, but the location of their embarkation was unknown. A [...]

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US-backed forces launch military offensive in Somalia as aid is used as a weapon of war

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By Susan Garth World Socialist Web Site African Union forces have launched a military offensive against the al-Shabab militia in Somalia. The African Union is propping up the Transitional Federal Government that was installed by the US-backed Ethiopian invasion of December 2006. Somalia is currently in the middle of the worst drought in the region [...]

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New study finds cancer-causing mineral in US road gravel

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Terra Daily As school buses drive down the gravel roads in Dunn County, North Dakota, they stir up more than dirt. The clouds of dust left in their wake contain such high levels of the mineral erionite that those who breathe in the air every day are at an increased risk of developing mesothelioma, a [...]

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US presses N. Korea for ‘irreversible’ disarmament move

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AFP via Space Daily The United States on Thursday pressed North Korea to take “concrete and irreversible” steps to give up its nuclear arsenal at talks on how to improve hostile relations. The US State Department said the first day of the talks in New York had been “serious and businesslike”. North Korea’s representative also [...]

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“Economic Armageddon”: Washington’s Response to a Failed Ecomomy: More War

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By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Global Research As the second decade of the 21st century began, the US economy had not recovered from the Great Recession that began in December 2007. The economy’s failure to recover was despite the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus in the country’s history. There was a $700 billion bank bailout, [...]

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The Pentagon Rules America: Militarism and the Crisis of the Civilian Economy

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By Sherwood Ross Global Research “Have we as a nation gone mad, waging war in the Persian Gulf while society crumbles?” Seymour Melman asked rhetorically when I interviewed him for The Progressive 19 years ago. Even though Melman, a professor emeritus at Columbia University’s school of industrial engineering, departed this life in 2004, his question [...]

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