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America’s Judicial System ‘Antagonistic’ - OhmyNews International

According to blaring tabloid headlines, five Black and Latino teenage boys had been accused of gang raping Meili and then beating her head and body to a bloody pulp with a rock. Allegedly, the teenagers had engaged in marauding behavior called "wilding" during the hours before the attack her. Police revealed videotaped confessions that captured the young men offering details of the crime during an interrogation session at a police station in the park.

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America’s Judicial System ‘Antagonistic’ - OhmyNews International

According to blaring tabloid headlines, five Black and Latino teenage boys had been accused of gang raping Meili and then beating her head and body to a bloody pulp with a rock. Allegedly, the teenagers had engaged in marauding behavior called "wilding" during the hours before the attack her. Police revealed videotaped confessions that captured the young men offering details of the crime during an interrogation session at a police station in the park.

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From Whence We Come - OhmyNews International

It goes without saying, that in this world where we are constantly bombarded with the pains of life’s challenges and the news of world events that seem so far beyond our control, that all around us are unreported and under discussed simplicities that are in fact, capsules of the beauty, the communication and the exchange of experiences that we as living beings are truly capable of.

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Remembering the Super Bug of 2005

On February 5, 2005, the New York City Department of Health in conjunction with the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center called a press conference and issued an urgent health alert to the public. The event was especially targeted towards men who have sex with men. According to health officials, one individual had been infected with what appeared to be a never before seen particularly potent and apparently mutated strain of HIV that had rapidly progressed to full blown AIDS.

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Political Cortex: “The New Yorker” Cartoon: The Jokes on the People

The "New Yorker" cover page makes fun of the sad fact that vast swaths of voters actually believe that the Obama’s depicted in the cartoon are real. But, it also shines a light on the units of the media machine that have inadvertently helped perpetuate the rumors and innuendo that have led to misperceptions about the Obama’s patriotism.

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Alabama Blueberry U-Pickin

J.T., his wife Shirley and their daughter all toiled together to plant the first hundred or so bushes. There are now 900 bushes directly beside his house and more than 650 across the road.

Link to "Shelby County Reporter"

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The Million “Individual” March-Gay Pride NYC (EDGE)

This day transforms Gotham into a hubbub of pink-inspired Mardi Gras festivities, and according to Heritage of Pride, the group that organizes the massive event, more than 300 organizations, which included religious, school, corporate, activist and AIDS organizations, politicians and even a gay sailing instruction company

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Downtown Gotham laments closure of Meatpacking District eatery :: EDGE

After 23 years of serving countless steak frites, muscles and Boudin Noire in an area more known for beef racks, leather daddy’s, transgender prostitutes, club kids and Hogs and Heffers, the modern landmark 24 hour French diner that served the fashionable alongside the "freaky" has closed its doors. News reports account Morellet signed a lease for $6,000 in 1995. The landlord reportedly sought to increase the rent to around $700,000 per year-or $58,000 per month-this past year. And Morellet was left with little choice but to close shop after a period of unsuccessful negotiation.

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Guest column: Alabama accents are music to hiz ears - St. Petersburg Times

It got me to thinking. Why do we speak the same language differently? The shades of drawl even in this town are distinct. After living 15 years in Dunedin, listening to a lot of familiar New Yorkese, I found these accents to be colorful and charmin’, darlins’.

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On opting out of Public Financing: Pennies for Votes | The Agonist

excerpt: (Opinion)

Until we as a nation begin to aggressively address the growing influence that money has had in politics, we will continue to witness the political pollution that money buys on an increasingly grand scale.

http://agonist.org/cody_lyon/20080621/on_opting_out_of_public_financing_pennies_for_votes

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