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FBI Report Mentions Plot To Kill Occupy Protesters |  FDL News Desk
More revelations from the Occupy FOIA request made to FBI. Turns out, there were plans to kill occupy protesters via snipers. An identified [redacted] of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors in Houston, Texas, if deemed necessar ...[Read more]
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It’s Official: Facebook Is the Department of PreCrime
News has just broken about a freedom activist and former Marine named Brandon Raub, who was arrested (apparently without a warrant or being read his rights) on the evening of August 16th. Details are still coming in, but it appears that his “crime” wa ...[Read more]
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Raids, Harassment at Occupy Tent Cities Start Broader Conversation About Criminalizing Homelessness
Xander is always reaching out to people, so it wasn't surprising to see him talking to police officers outside the Bank of America building on one of the first nights those sidewalks were occupied. In planning for the start of Occupy San Francisco (then k ...[Read more]
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Ecuador Grants Asylum to Assange, Defying Britain
Ecuador said on Thursday that it had decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Seeking asylum, Mr. Assange has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the police scuffled with and arrest ...[Read more]
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Briseira Torres was kept in jail for four and a half months after authorities WRONGLY suspected her of being in the U.S. illegally. They didn't bother to check her long-form birth certificate, which would have immediately exonerated her. She was unable to ...[Read more]
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Fukushima mutant butterflies spark fear of effect on humans
Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies living near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The gruesome discovery has led scientists to fear that the leaking radiation could affect other species. Researches said that arou ...[Read more]
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Outcry Against Police Union Leader’s Bigotry Makes for Unlikely Alliance of Cops, Occupiers
For the uninitiated, it is almost too fantastic to believe. A police department's union, supremely tone-deaf in a city with a discriminatory history, puts out a newsletter that open-heartedly embraces racism, sexism and homophobia - the very things of whi ...[Read more]
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Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Christians by Syrian ‘Rebels’
Syrian President Basher Assad isn ...[Read more]
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Google: Western governments increasingly indulge in online censorship
Governments not widely blamed for censorship are increasingly asking Google to remove political content from its services, the company said as it released its bi-annual transparency report. The IT giant has been publishing data on how and why they have b ...[Read more]
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Iceland Dismantles Corrupt Government Then Arrests Bankers
Last week 9 people were arrested in London and Reykjavik for their possible responsibility for Iceland ...[Read more]
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Part 2 of documentary : "American Spring" Even the cold early spring of 2012 could not deter Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists in New York city. People from different backgrounds continue to come out onto the streets. The agenda driving all the protest ...[Read more]
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