Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Headlines below the fold

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Iranian police "clash with protesters"...204 arrested....and protests are continuing.

LATimes says:
The protests received wide international coverage despite a government ban on foreign media and large-scale filtering of websites and the shutting down of some telecommunications services.

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Thousands of voter ID's found buried in the ground with the illegal weapons of the Ampatuan's private militia.
Gee, wonder what they're doing there...


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Russia planning to seed clouds...
China's military has a lot of experience with weather modification methods.

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Clan behind massacre in the Philippines probably was behind 200 other "extrajudicial killings".


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The US Government misused Native American trust funds for years.
After 13 years of suing, they have settled for a measly three billion dollars.


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The UKTelegraph:
The Plain English Campaign has announced the winners of its Golden Bull award for incomprehensible gobbledegook...

shortest example:
American Airlines

'Property Irregularity Receipt'

Translation: We lost your luggage.

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