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Tased Until Dead: The Epidemic of Taser Crazy Cops
                   
buzzflash.net
Jul 25, 2008
        

existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/07/tasers-catnip-for-... sent by vaquero since 36 minutes Since 'Taser' use has become widespread more than 290 people have been killed, possibly murdered, by taser crazy cops. In response to this epidemic of violence, Amnesty International released a statement damning the use of "... tasers to subdue non-compliant or disturbed individuals who do not pose a serious danger to themselves or others." That --I daresay --describes most of the... [read full story]                    

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Is Cheaper Oil A Good Thing?

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5 hrs ago 4 related
        

How far can it fall? Since oil hit $100 a barrel for the first time early this year, Americans (who consume one-quarter of the world's energy) began cutting back. Even before the market meltdown, Americans consumed 800,000...

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ACORN Fraud in Pennsylvania, Ohio

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5 hrs ago 486 related
        

UPDATE: The NY Times notices ACORN (More of "the McCain campaign made me do it". It's all an eeevil conspiracy against The One, despite the fact that all these creepy people keep springing full-grown from the head of Zeus, The...

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Search Ads vs. Organic Results: Google's Conflict of Interest

25hoursaday.com
5 hrs ago 1 related
        

John Battelle has a blog post entitled When Doesn't It Pay To Pay Attention To Search Quality? which contains the following statement and screenshot the top result is the best result - and it's a paid link. In the past I've...

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TechCrunch Turns Into FuckedCompany 2.0

25hoursaday.com
5 hrs ago
        

Some of my readers who missed the dotcom boom and bust from the early 2000s may not be familiar with FuckedCompany, a Web site that was dedicated to gloating about layoffs and other misfortunes at Web companies as the tech...

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