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Dead stowaway in a jet wheel-well is not an unknown tragedy, but this one managed to sneak on at a major US airport...
leading to questions about security there.

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Where did all the hopes for Obama go?
The American people were sold an illusion, not reality.
That's why the word is "dis-illusioned".
One doubts a Hillary, who had faced 12 years of criticism and scrutiny, would be facing these problems...

And NPR discovers THE BILLBOARD.

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An activist who questioned shoddy school construction that led to many of the deaths in the 2oo8 Chinese earthquake has been sent to jail.
and some of that tainted milk has been "recycled" into the market.

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Amir Sadghi has been arrested, reports Tehran24...

Iranian security forces arrested one of our Photographers, “Amir Sadeghi” at the office of Farhang-e-Ashti newspaper in tehran.
The number of journalists arrested in Iran has reached to 55 persons.
NYTimes story HERE.
the ranks of those imprisoned now include artists, photographers, children’s rights advocates, women’s rights activists, students and scores of journalists. Iran now has more journalists in prison than any other country in the world

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It's Carnival time again...no not as in Mardi Gras, but in election time in the Philippines...
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and watch out for Ping in a Wig...
But why is Archbishop Cruz defending him?
Cruz is a traditional leftist who stands for the people's rights against the big shots...place conspiracy theory here.


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1.5 million bat colony is located...under an Austin city bridge...