The Google Opt Out Village Launches [Parody Video]
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Toilet-Paper Barricades
[Political Opinion]
The postpartisan, postracial, post-Clinton-dysfunction world that President Obama was supposed to usher in when he hit town on his white charger, with turtle doves tweeting, has vanished.
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Town Hall Meeting Defense: Video Game
[Political Opinion]
AIG’s PsyOps labs have used TARP money to send a horde of Republican zombies to ensure that they keep all the profits from looting America to themselves!!! These people actually believe that Socialism is good for the insurance companies but bad for you!!! Set up barricades and KEEP THOSE ZOMBIES OUT BEFORE THEY KILL YOU!!!
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Reports from Strasbourg
[Political News]
On the eve of the anti-Nato protests, a Red Zone is being built in Strasbourg--the small town in France where NATO holds it summit. Police helicopters, mounted police, national police, bulldozers, barricades, under cover police are everywhere.
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2 arrested in Cicero barricade incident
[World News]
Two people, both males, were shot. One was shot in the back and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago, Dan Proft, a Cicero town spokesman, said Wednesday morning. The other was shot in the leg and taken to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, he said. He did not know the victims' conditions.
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Patrick Cockburn: Mosul a "Ghost Town"
[World News]
"Mosul, one of the great cities of the world, looks ruinous and under siege. Every alley way is blocked by barricades and the only new building is in the form of concrete blast walls. The fact that the government has to empty the streets of Mosul of its people to establish peace for a few days shows how far the city is from genuine peace."...
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