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Interview with security expert over latest Yemen underwear bomb plot: "It was discovered using human intelligence rather than screening procedures and technologies. It was disrupted because of proactive mechanisms put in place to stop terrorism rather than defensive approaches such as screening" (scientificamerican.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by mepper to OperationGrabAss

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Mortician discovers gunshot wound in body after Detroit police and EMTs ruled the death natural; crime scene ruined by time police start to investigate (freep.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by Andewz111 to politics

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143 mph while drunk - at night - Denver Cop keeps his job. (boingboing.net)

submitted 1 day ago by justshutupandobey to politics

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Reddit-funded PAC buys anti-SOPA billboard and TV ads to challenge SOPA sponsor US Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) in his primary fight; the billboard says "Don't mess with the Internet" (motherjones.com)

submitted 1 day ago by mepper to politics

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Declares Drug War 'A Failure,' Endorses Medical Marijuana (thinkprogress.org)

submitted 1 day ago by LaBamba00 to politics

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PolitiFact backs author's claim, "Obama has indeed presided over the slowest growth in spending of any president" (freakoutnation.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Anomaly100 to politics

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Woman Misses Flight Because of Pro-Choice Shirt (TSA and Flight Crew to Blame) (ontd-political.livejournal.com)

submitted 2 days ago by platkat to OperationGrabAss

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Governments pose greatest threat to internet, says Google's Eric Schmidt (guardian.co.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by rwal to technology

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Teenage girl was kidnapped to be sex slave of Vatican police, then murdered, says Vatican's chief exorcist. (A few years ago I would have just said that this was completely bogus, but after some of the recent revelations ... ) (telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 2 days ago by troglozyte to atheism

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Tennessee Man loses $22,000 to cops. No charges filed, no arrest made. "If somebody told me this happened to them, I absolutely would not believe this could happen in America." That was the reaction of a New Jersey man who found out just how risky it can be to carry cash through Tennessee. (newschannel5.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Mind_Virus to politics

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Greenwald - "Re-visiting Assange’s show: It's fruitful to compare the first six episodes to the vapid tripe emanating from American political television." (salon.com)

submitted 3 days ago by YouthInRevolt to worldpolitics

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The CIA is not considered governed by rule of law—an alarming situation that’s been legitimized by Obama. (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 4 days ago by koavf to politics

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A Report From Obama’s “Humane” Drug War: Armed agents broke into bedroom of 12 y/o girl, led her downstairs at gunpoint and forced her to lie on the floor next to her parents, with her hands behind her head -- DEA had warrant for the father’s arrest for selling bongs (reason.com)

submitted 4 days ago by maxwellhill to politics

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My friend painted my toaster as a graduation present.. (imgur.com)

submitted 4 days ago by castastrophe to pics

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NYPD sargeant's filthy tirade captured in shocking cellphone video; he verbally abuses a 21 year old by saying "I have the long dick. You don't. Your pretty face...I like it very much. My dick will go in your mouth and come out your ear. Don't fuck with me. All right?" (nypost.com)

submitted 4 days ago by mepper to politics

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Penn Jillette accuses Obama of class warfare for drug policy, states' rights: "You can get [medical marijuana] in California, and the feds are coming in to try to stop this. States' rights don't mean jack shit to the Obama administration on anything except gay marriage" (huffingtonpost.com)

submitted 4 days ago by mepper to politics

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Remembering Claire Lotion (dot.kde.org)

submitted 5 days ago by redsteakraw to kde

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The Terrible Truth About the TSA: It's a failure at everything it does (reason.com)

submitted 8 days ago by rbaix to OperationGrabAss

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U.S. Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA --"it is the responsibility of our judicial system to protect the public from acts of Congress which infringe upon constitutional rights." (courthousenews.com)

submitted 8 days ago by cottonball2 to politics

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Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality — TED’s organizers recently decided one idea was too controversial to spread: the notion that widening income inequality is a bad thing for America, and that as a result, the rich should pay more in taxes (nationaljournal.com)

submitted 9 days ago by CroydonC to politics

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Greenwald: "What percentage of Americans even know that the Obama administration is continuously bombing and killing civilians in Yemen, or that American soldiers are now on the ground there in an advisory capacity?" (salon.com)

submitted 9 days ago by YouthInRevolt to worldpolitics

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Most Americans did NOT support the Apollo missions in the 1960s, a reminder that Congress must often act in the face of public criticism to achieve science goals (slate.com)

submitted 9 days ago by niharjshah to space

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A German man who alleges he was subjected to "extraordinary rendition" by the CIA has taken his case to the European Court of Human Rights. (bbc.co.uk)

submitted 9 days ago by Hansaman to worldnews

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Even mathematicians agree: The use of profiling by ethnicity or nationality to trigger secondary security screening is not mathematically optimal for discovering rare wrongdoers (pnas.org)

submitted 9 days ago by mepper to OperationGrabAss

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Saddam Hussein's support of the terrorist group MEK was used by the Bush administration to advocated for the war in Iraq. Now that the West's focus is on Iran, the Obama administration is on the verge of removing them from the U.S.'s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. (salon.com)

submitted 10 days ago by YouthInRevolt to worldpolitics

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