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Worker Fired After Turning In Gun Found On The Job

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 1:08 PM EDT (AOL)

Sometimes it doesn't pay to do the right thing. Just ask John Chevilott, a former public-works employee in Wayne County, Mich., who earlier this month found a loaded, snubnosed revolver while mowing grass in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood, turned it in and was promptly fired.

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As Obama OKs Weapons to Bahrain, Neurosurgeon Tortured by Regime Faces Trial for Treating Protesters

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2012 11:50 AM EDT (Democracy Now!)

Seeded by storyartist

We’re joined by Dr. Nabeel Hameed, who is one of Bahrain’s only neurosurgeons and among dozens of Bahraini physicians and nurses who have been arrested and tried for treating anti-government protesters.

politics, revolution, torture, bahrain, weapons-sale, arab-spring, nabeel-hameed

Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says -

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 10:51 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Seeded by bonos_rama (Clipped by bonos_rama)

He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.

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Traffic jam trap police to stay silent

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 3:24 AM EDT (Dutchnews.nl)

Seeded by cartooncat (Clipped by cartooncat)

The lawyer for a suspected petrol thief caught in a police-made traffic jam has accused the public prosecutor of hampering his attempt to get at the truth. The suspect, a 47-year-old man from Tilburg, is accused of driving off from a petrol station without paying. In order to …

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Julian Assange's World Tomorrow: Nabeel Rajab & Alaa Abd El-Fattah (E4) - YouTube

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2012 2:06 AM EDT (YouTube)

Seeded by storyartist

I learned most from Nabeel during Julian's questions about Al Jazeera, which revolutions they cover, and why - a little back story of Middle East politics. Also, I've seen comments that Iran instigates pertaining to protests, and their conversation covers that point.&nbs …

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FOCUS | Why Tibet Matters

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 11:22 PM EDT ()

Seeded by zippybob

In recent months we have seen harrowing images and footage of Tibetans who have set fire to themselves as a form of protest. Since February, 2009, 35 Tibetans have sacrificed themselves, in an act of desperation, which emerges from the anguish of oppression. Tibetans who have sel …

world-news

If The TSA Can Ignore The Fourth Amendment, The NYPD Can, Too

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 1:14 PM EDT (Men's News Daily)

Seeded by Dr Know

If The TSA Can Ignore The Fourth Amendment, The NYPD Can, TooPerry Chiaramonte writes on FoxNews about the NYPD's "Stop-and-Frisk":

politics

Report: Security breaches underreported by TSA | NJ.com

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 1:01 PM EDT (NJ.com)

Seeded by Dr Know

Top ranking TSA managers are not telling the head office about nearly half of the security breaches at the country’s major airports — including Newark — making it more difficult to spot dangerous weaknesses in the national fight against terrorism, according to a …

politics

Fables of Wealth

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 12:32 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by multifariousone

Our most destructive lie, he added, “is that it is very easy for any American to make money.” The lie goes on. The poor are lazy, stupid and evil. The rich are brilliant, courageous and good. They shower their beneficence upon the rest of us.

politics

Should Libertarians Be Conservatives?

Seeded on Mon May 14, 2012 6:54 AM EDT (LewRockwell.com)

Seeded by libertarianblue

Conservatives are having a heyday calling President Obama a socialist. What they block out of their minds is that by their own measure, they are socialists too. . . . But while conservatives want to protect the a …

politics, libertarian-conservative-conflict

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