Tag: homeless
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#DataDump: Homeless Hotspots, Phonehacking, Hollywood
Turning the Homeless Into 4G Hotspots at SXSW // FBI says paying cash for coffee is a sign of terrorist intent // DARPA’s Director Quits to Take Executive Slot at Google // Google Exec Joins Microsoft, Trashes Google // Supercomputer models atomic bomb saving Earth from massive asteroid
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portland giving back on christmas: “we’ve seen need skyrocket this year”
from katu: Many Portland residents spent their Christmas serving the homeless, hungry and needy. Fred Gartner says he’s been coming to the Union Gospel Mission for almost 40 years. He says the holiday meal isn’t just food for the body, but food for the soul. “For people who don’t have families, companionship is very important,”…
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troy davis execution goes ahead despite serious doubts about his guilt
from guardian: Moments before he was put to death, Troy Davis lifted his head from the gurney to which he was strapped and looked the family of Mark MacPhail, the police officer for whose murder he was convicted, directly in the eyes. “I want to talk to the MacPhail family,” he said. “I was not…
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white house & congress critters close in on debt ceiling deal
meanwhile, apple inc. has more cash on hand than the govt… from afp: With barely two days to act, US President Barack Obama and top lawmakers closed in on Sunday in on an ambitious deal to avert a disastrous debt default sure to sow chaos in the fragile world economy. “We are very close,” Republican…
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self-proclaimed ‘prophet of god’ decapitates british woman
from daily mail: The homeless Bulgarian who decapitated a British woman in Tenerife yesterday thought he was ‘a prophet of god’, it emerged today. Local mayor José Reverón said the 28-year-old man was a bizarre individual who was known to police and had a history of intimidating passers-by on the street for yesterday’s horrifying attack.…
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3/10 Newspurge: Here Comes a Chopper (To Chop Off Your Head)
California ballot initiative: ‘Pentagon papers’ whistleblowers & 9/11 Commissioners themselves call for new investigation*
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2/10 Binge & Purge: Seeders, Makers, Actions
Secret seeders plant edible veggies for inner-city poor // Raw milk cheesemakers fret over possible new rules // Military steps in to buy up gulf seafood // High sugar prices stimulate Neotame/Nutrasweet take up
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1/6 newspurge: canary in a coalmine
9/11 updates: 11 reasons why the threat from al-qaeda is not real* nfl’s mark stepnoski to match ‘building what?’ donations* audio: susan lindauer, ex-cia asset & imprisoned 9/11 whistleblower* biowars/envirohealth: all the health news for 2011, pre-written for your convenience* 2010 in review: what happened with health freedom* research linking autism, vaccines slammed as ‘elaborate…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: ForeclosureGate, EconoCrash, Portlandia Crime Haven
Story #1: Foreclosure-gate is About to Explode // Story #2: Econocrash – Welfare, Debtors’ Prisons & Dying Communities // Story #3: Oregon County Decriminalizes Heroin, Meth, Cocaine, Shoplifting & more
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Econocrash: Welfare, Debtors’ Prisons & Dying Communities
Walmarts Swell With Poor People Once a Month At Midnight — When the Govt’s Electronic Dole Payout Goes Through from usatoday: Once a month, just after midnight, the beeping checkout scanners at a Walmart just off Interstate 95 come alive in a chorus of financial desperation. Here and at grocery stores across the country, the…
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9/2 Newspurge: Oh, The Chaos Is Everywhere
US tries to extradite 9/11 FEMA videographer from Argentina // No BP investigation, the senate blocked it // Record number in government anti-poverty programs // Self-described CIA assassin dies in gun accident // John Cusack calls for ‘satanic death’ of Fox News, GOP leaders
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5th anniversary of hurricane katrina: somber ceremonies
flashback: painful lessons of hurricane katrina from buzztab: Hurricane Katrina left 1800 people dead and New Orleans virtually underwater but it was 5 years ago and today US is marking 5th anniversary of the horrible day when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The somber ceremonies commemorated for occasion started on Saturday and in Louisiana…
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econocrash: hindenburg omen & the ecstasy of empire
dreaded ‘hindenburg omen’ will play out within weeks from paul joseph watson: UBS Financial Services Director Art Cashin says that we’ll know within 3 or 4 weeks whether the dreaded Hindenburg Omen, a set of market factors that precede a stock market collapse, will unfold as many are now predicting. The Hindenburg Omen, named after…
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7/1 Newspurge: Independent’s Day
Obamaville shanty towns spread across America // Facebook page of sexy Russian ‘spy’ Anna Chapman // Billions in cash shipped out of Afghanistan // Lady Gaga’s upcoming tour to include human corpses // Obama appoints more friends & donors to ambassadorships than Bush, Clinton & Reagan // Portland police re-opening Gore investigation
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Class Warfare: 100s Protest Outside Banksters Houses In DC
Huge raucous crowds converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform. “Bank of America: bad for America!” shouted community leaders outside the house of Bank of America deputy general counsel Gregory Baer.