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- Shocking Rape Statistics
  Posted by Kaerast
  Recently released figures have shown the shockingly low rate of convictions for rape in the UK. The average conviction rate is now 5.29% - this means that for every 100 reported rapes (and remember there are always more rapes occur than are reported) the number of perpetrators found and convicted is 5.
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- No Secrets Here: Federalist Society Plots In the Open
  Posted by Damianmann from Washington Post
  The pinstriped tribe of conservative legal minds called the Federalist Society -- more than 1,000 of whom gathered at the Mayflower Hotel this week -- is playing a much longer strategic game. Yesterday they had Sen. Arlen Specter at breakfast, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff before lunch and Vice President Cheney at cocktail hour. The
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- For first time, unmarried households reign in US
  Posted by Damianmann from Yahoo News!
  It is by no means dead, but for the first time, a new survey has shown that traditional marriage has ceased to be the preferred living arrangement in the majority of US households.
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- TCS Daily - Crackberry Crunch
  Posted by Damianmann from tcsdaily.com
  When the state engineered new product manufacture controls I knew my days of (occasional) Liquid Paper and felt-tip sniffing were over. I let that one go. But the growing belief that most of us may soon need rescuing from our increasing "technology-influenced behavior" patterns may well become the next bee in the nanny-state's bonnet.
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- If You Must Know, I'm Straight
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  This is one of the few problems I share with Jake Gyllenhall.
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- Wheelchair-bound woman dies after being zapped by a Taser gun: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  Posted by Damianmann from Sun Sentinel
  A woman in a wheelchair swinging two knives and a hammer at relatives and police died after being shocked by a Taser gun, officials said.
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National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

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former US Marine, retired police; now alternately protected and terrorized by gangs of cats
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Damian is a former campaign worker for Ralph Nader and current delegate/precinct captain for Barack Obama . He is also a registered Independent voter. He's written columns for "Tabula Rasa" magazine as well as many music magazines around the globe. Whatever you do, don't offer him alcohol.
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“The Angryindian” is an internationally recognised Indigenist activist and outspoken critic of U.S. colonialism practised against Aboriginal societies in America and abroad. He is editor of IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo and the host of Radyo Inteligentaindigena, an independent, non-partisan international Indigenist podcast.
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