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29-Year-Old Deaf Woman Hears Her Voice for the First Time [VIRAL VIDEO]
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Jeff Bezos is No Steve Jobs — But Amazon Could Be the Next Apple
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How America finally caught up with Anwar al-Awlaki – Telegraph
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A Venn Diagram for Rick Perry: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme | Mother Jones
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What the Controversial Ford Bailout Ad Got Wrong | Swampland | TIME.com
In 2008 and 2009, when the economic collapse cratered the auto industry, Ford did not follow General Motors and Chrysler to Capitol Hill asking for taxpayer cash to keep running. The reason was simply that Ford had better prepared for the collapse, as Paul Ingrassia explained at the time. That said, Ford did benefit indirectly from the bailouts–and supported them before Congress–since the company shares suppliers with its competitors. But supporting a bailout is not the same as getting a bailout.
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The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality – Salon.com
After several unsuccessful efforts to assassinate its own citizen, the U.S. succeeded today (and it was the U.S.). It almost certainly was able to find and kill Awlaki with the help of its long-time close friend President Saleh, who took a little time off from murdering his own citizens to help the U.S. murder its. The U.S. thus transformed someone who was, at best, a marginal figure into a martyr, and again showed its true face to the world. The government and media search for The Next bin Laden has undoubtedly already commenced.
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A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration’s most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC. Early last month, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights were retained by Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Obama assassination target (and U.S. citizen) Anwar al-Awlaki, to seek a federal court order restraining the Obama administration from killing his son without due process of law. But then, a significant and extraordinary problem arose: regulations promulgated several years ago by the Treasury Department prohibit U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with individuals labeled by the Government as a ”Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” and those regulations specifically bar lawyers from providing legal services to such individuals without a special “license” from the Treasury Department specifically allowing such representation.
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Business Insider and Over-Aggregation : CJR
behind each of those links is a huge CMS (content management system) architecture, whereby every external link is generated from a dedicated permalink page which people navigating the website are never supposed to see.
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Fett gilt als ungesund – und ein Staat kann das Verhalten seiner Bürger am einfachsten über eine entsprechende Besteuerung lenken. Deshalb gibt es in Dänemark nun eine Fettsteuer. Die führt etwa dazu, dass Butter rund 30 Cent teurer wird.
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Hartz IV: Zahl der Mini-Minijobs nimmt zu – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Wirtschaft
Schlecht bezahlter Nebenjob statt guter Hinzuverdienst – dahin geht der Trend bei Hartz-IV-Empfängern: Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen nimmt die Zahl der Mini-Minijobs bei Langzeitarbeitslosen zu. Dabei hatte die Bundesregierung das Gegenteil geplant.
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During this week’s Tiger Bay meeting in St. Petersburg, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn promised a tough stand against law-breaking protesters at the Republican National Convention.