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Aussie Government-School Forces Children to Soil Their Pants

http://www.smh.com.au

A government-school in Australia practically forces children to soil and wet themselves as part of a social engineering experiment.

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'Non-lethal' taser kills U of Cincinnati Student

http://news.yahoo.com

University of Cincinnati assistant police chief, Jeff Corcoran claims agitated 18 year old college student ignored orders to halt before being fired upon with taser. Afterwards incoherent, student goes into cardiac arrest after paramedics arrive and is pronounced dead at University hospital.

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Vet Checks Wrong Box, Faces Charges

http://www.news4jax.com

Now, Dawkins, a Navy reservist and decorated Army combat photographer who served in Iraq, is in jail, charged with passport fraud. He's facing 10 years in prison for what could be a simple misunderstanding.

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Georgia immigrant crackdown backfires

http://www.politico.com

"Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s program to replace fleeing migrant farmworkers with probationers backfired when some of the convicted criminals started walking off their jobs because field work was too strenuous, it was reported Wednesday."

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$1 Billion That Nobody Wants

http://www.npr.org

Politicians in Washington hardly let a few minutes go by without mentioning how broke the government is. So, it's a little surprising that they've created a stash of more than $1 billion that almost no one wants.

Unused dollar coins have been quietly piling up in Federal Reserve vaults in breathtaking numbers, thanks to a government program that has required their production since 2007.

And even though the neglected mountain of money recently grew past the $1 billion mark, the U.S. Mint will keep making more and more of the coins under a congressional mandate.

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Gulf oil spill cleanup workers report medical problems; lawsuit filed

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com

Help the government, die a slow, painful, and humiliating death! Despite all the assurances that what was being used to clean up the oil was "like Dawn soap, but a bit stronger", at least 200 people are already suing due to permanent disability caused by toxic chemical exposure. BP's response?

"Kenneth Fein­berg, administrator for the GCCF, said he hadn't seen any claims filed that suggest­ed the Gulf spill cleanup had caused medical illness."

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Don't Take The Plea Deal

http://www.laconiadailysun.com

Judge refuses to accept the defendant's plea deal on charges of misdemeanor reckless conduct and misdemeanor disobeying a police officer. At trial the jury acquits on both charges.

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New Authorization for Worldwide War Without End?

http://www.aclu.org

Congress is considering monumental new legislation that would grant the president–and all presidents after him–sweeping new power to make war almost anywhere and everywhere. The proposed legislation would allow a president to use military force wherever terrorism suspects are present in the world, regardless of whether there has been any harm to U.S. citizens, or any attack on the United States, or any imminent threat of an attack. The legislation is broad enough to permit a president to use military force within the United States and against American citizens.

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Mexican Protesters Demand an End to the Drug War

http://stopthedrugwar.org

Frustrated beyond belief with the bloody consequences of President Calderon's aggressive drug war tactics, the people of Mexico are finally beginning to make some noise.

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Virginia Middle School Students Suspended for Oregano Possession

http://www.aolnews.com

A few Virginia parents would probably like to know what local school administrators are smoking.

Seventh-grader Adam Grass and three other students at Hickory Middle School in Chesapeake, Va., were suspended last week after being caught with what teachers initially thought was a bag of marijuana but turned out to be a stash of oregano, The Virginian-Pilot reports.

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