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on December 27, 2013 in World News

Rapist avoids jail sentence for a second time

Victim’s family ‘disgusted’ as rapist avoids jail sentence for a second time An Alabama man who earlier this year was sentenced to only probation for repeatedly raping his teenage neighbor will avoid jail for a second time, after widespread outrage in the community forced a judge to re-sentence him. Austin Smith Clem, 25, was found guilty in September of raping  his female neighbor three times during her adolescence, the first  known attack coming when the girl was just 14 years old.  Limestone County Circuit Judge James Woodroof sentenced Clem to  30 years in prison last month, but used an Alabama… View Article

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on December 22, 2013 in World News

Gay False Flag Attacks

Media analyst Mark Dice lays out a trend of “gay false flag attacks” in which members of the gay community have been caught faking hate crimes against themselves in efforts to manipulate the public’s emotions and “further their cause.” Video: Gay False Flag Attacks www.rightedition.com

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on December 22, 2013 in World News

Town Hall Erupts into Revolt Against Machine Politics

                        Al Sharpton’s Chicago Town Hall Erupts into Revolt Against Machine Politics On Thursday, a town hall meeting hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to address gun violence exploded into a revolt against “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the aldermen in City Hall, with panel and audience members calling to vote out their elected officials. One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea Party” style meetings in some of Chicago’s south side communities such as Altgeld Gardens and Trumbull Park. “This was a historic event,”… View Article

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on December 22, 2013 in World News

Requests for Removal of Political Content

            Google reveals sharp rise in requests for removal of political content Google revealed a sharp rise in requests from governments asking for political content to be removed from the web in its latest transparency report published on Thursday. From January to June the search giant received 3,846 government requests to remove content from its services – a 68% increase over the second half of 2012. “Over the past four years, one worrying trend has remained consistent: governments continue to ask us to remove political content. Judges have asked us to remove information that’s critical… View Article

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on December 22, 2013 in World News

White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling

                          White House Tries to Prevent Judge From Ruling on Surveillance Efforts WASHINGTON — The Obama administration moved late Friday to prevent a federal judge in California from ruling on the constitutionality of warrantless surveillance programs authorized during the Bush administration, telling a court that recent disclosures about National Security Agency spying were not enough to undermine its claim that litigating the case would jeopardize state secrets In a set of filings in the two long-running cases in the Northern District of California, the government acknowledged for the… View Article

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on December 21, 2013 in World News

Chuck Norris hits new heights in Christmas stunt

It’s one of the truly epic stunts ever caught on video, that of muscle man Jean-Claude Van Damme, the Belgian-born actor, doing the splits between two moving trucks. The video, which has been viewed nearly 62 million times, was set up to demonstrate the stability and precision of Volvo Dynamic Steering, installed on the two tractor-tractors that are driven backwards as Van Damme uses their rear-view mirrors to brace himself. The incredible performance comes from an actor who also has done a long list of martial arts action films, including Bloodsport in 1988, Kickboxer in 1989, Universal Soldier in 1992,… View Article

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on December 21, 2013 in World News

BP, Chevron dumped radioactive waste into Louisiana waters

Lawsuit alleges BP, Chevron dumped radioactive waste into Louisiana waters Oil behemoths BP and Chevron dumped toxic waste – including some radioactive material – from their drilling operations into coastal waters, claims Louisiana parish Plaquemines in a lawsuit removed to federal court Thursday. Plaquemines Parish alleges the companies released oil field waste  into ocean water “without limitation,” violating the Louisiana State and Local Coastal Resources Management Act of 1978. The law requires companies to clear, revegetate, detoxify or restore polluted areas, which the companies did not do, the lawsuit claims. The pollution, along with the companies’ lack of adequate  maintenance… View Article

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on December 21, 2013 in World News

RSA took $10 mln from NSA to weaken encryption

Major computer security firm RSA took $10 mln from NSA to weaken encryption – report The National Security Agency arranged a clandestine US$10 million contract with computer security power RSA that allowed the spy agency to embed encryption software it could use to infiltrate the company’s widely used products, Reuters reported. Revelations provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and  first reported  in September showed that the NSA created and perpetuated a  corruptible formula that was ultimately a “back door”   into encryption products. Reuters later reported RSA became the lead distributor of the  formula, installing it into a software tool… View Article

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