Author: mediahitman

By Joshua Kopstein A street artist who hung satirical posters criticising police surveillance activities has been arrested after an NYPD investigation tracked him to his doorstep. With the help of a small crew, the artist now identified as Essam Attia had placed the fake Big Brother-style adverts in locations throughout Manhattan, using a fake Van Wagner maintenance van and uniforms to avoid detection.

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A community information meeting about the Paulsboro train derailment and hazardous chemical release did not turn out as planned.The forum was designed to reassure residents and answer questions, but when the PA system failed, hundreds of people became unruly, and started shouting questions and concerns to state officials.

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By David Swanson Many of us have heard the current period referred to as a second gilded age. Or we’ve seen the current inequality in wealth in the United States compared to that of 1929. But we have not all given sufficient thought to what ended the first gilded age, what created greater equality, what created the reality behind that category our politicians now endlessly pretend we are all in: the middle class.

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Max Raskin Bloomberg Under sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies, dollars are hard to come by in Iran. The rial fell from 20,160 against the greenback on the street market in August to 36,500 rials to the dollar in October. It’s settled, for now, around 27,000. The central bank’s fixed official rate is 12,260.

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One of the first parts of the Illuminati network that new researchers discover is the group of organizations which connect into the British-based secret society called The Round Table.

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J.D. Tuccille reason.com Can the government really go pawing through our email at will? Well, pretty much so, it turns out, at least, until the Supreme Court gets around to focusing a little bit of its attention on this newfangled, electronic world of ours.

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