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A mix of headlines and stuff
A good mix of articles today which is as follows:
My favorite!!!!
Who Bought Your Politician? Check With Our Embeddable Widget
www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/wired-campaign-widget?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29The South Baltimore Neighborhood Association fails to get answers from city and casino officials about the traffic impact the new casino will have on the neighborhood at their meeting last night
http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/11/14/city-plans-full-speed-ahead-for-south-baltimore-casino-residents-learn/The FBI and CIA can read your email, here’s how
http://www.zdnet.com/yes-the-fbi-and-cia-can-read-your-email-heres-how-7000007319/?s_cid=e539Baltimore parking fines during Sandy added up to $7,000
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/sun-investigates/bal-city-issued-7000-in-parking-fines-during-sandy-driving-ban-20121112,0,4710454.storyChildren living in poverty 28 per cent more likely to become obese
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/917858-children-living-in-poverty-28-per-cent-more-likely-to-become-obeseSurvivors File U.N. Complaint Against Canada for Failing to Prosecute George W. Bush for Torture
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/survivors-file-u.n.-complaint-against-canada-failing-prosecute-george-w.-bush-tortureRIAA: Pirates Are Bigger Music Fans Than Average Consumers
http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-pirates-are-bigger-music-fans-than-average-consumers-121113/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29Israel has declared war on Gaza and they will bear the responsibility for the consequences
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-14/hamas-announces-it-now-open-war-israelThe CIA’s unaccountable drone war claims another casualty :Tariq Aziz, the 16 yr old Anti Drone Campaigner. http://t.co/xWfhWkuv
Our freedom is directly linked to our ability to produce our own food. This film explains how we are losing this…
http://t.co/1qM63T6BFracking—Elephant in the Gas
http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/11/12/fracking-the-elephant-in-the-gasThat’s all, as Anti-Flag says in their song That’s Youth (I’ve been listening to a lot of them recently. Revolutionary stuff!)
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UK migrants face patriotic test →
“Migrants applying for a British passport will soon have to be able to recite the first verse of God Save the Queen, under an overhaul of the UK citizenship test due this autumn.”
Theresa May will go down in history as a regressive, error prone, homophobic, xenophobic, all the people -phobic Home Secretary.
Essentially, Theresa May is the worst Home Secretary Britain has ever had and that’s how she deserves to be remembered.
This reminds me of the loyalty tests in the United States in the 1950s or the pledge of allegiance in the U.S. I agree that it is immoral. It is definitely just a way to weed out migrants coming to the UK & disregards all other culture.
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Constructions of Interest: If we have a referendum on the EU we could actually end up... →
If we have a referendum on the EU we could actually end up leaving.
The decision to stay or go won’t be taken on economic reasoning though, heavens no. The British public are notorious for failing to take a rational look at any situation they’re involved in? Lets ask the monarchy or the House of…
On the government side, I’d imagine they want to be part of it. But the people of the U.K. probably are sick of the EU. From a friend who went to the UK said residents ofcthe country get angry if you say their country is part of Europe. I bet this would factor into an anti-EU decision
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One hundred and fifty people gathered at an Ash Wednesday event organised by Pax Christi and the London Catholic Worker in repentance and resistance to British nuclear weapons. The group proceeded to the M.O.D. building on White Hall, as activists broke off to mark the building that controls British nuclear weapons. Seven Catholic Workers, a Quaker, a doctor and a priest were detained and searched.
– The Nuclear Resister. Those subs must be eliminated!