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Glen Beck: Poisonous Progaganda at the Crackpot Fringe

Politics Tea’d Off Forfeiting a both-houses Republican victory, rational conservatives ignored or excused the most hateful kind of populist claptrap (e.g., the fetid weirdness of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project). The poison they’ve helped disseminate will still be in the American bloodstream when the country needs it least. By Christopher Hitchens• Illustration by Ross MacDonald January…

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Anna Ardin Assange Rape Accuser” honeypot or rabid feminist

The First Swedish woman involved in the Julian Assange rape investigation may have stopped cooperating with the prosecution — and moved to the West Bank. According to Australian site Crikey, Anna Ardin, identified back in August by a Swedish paper as one of Assange’s accusers, “may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service…

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Glen Beck scams coin buyers judge orders customers gold frozen

Judge Freezes Assets of Beck’s Gold Advertiser — By Stephanie Mencimer | Wed Dec. 8, 2010 10:32 AM PST Glenn Beck might, for once, be right: the government is coming for your gold. But only if you happened to buy it from one of Beck’s advertisers, the Superior Gold Group. At the request of prosecutors…

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Lennon: The working class hero, eyewitness tributes his life and work 30yrs[video]

Lennon’s death: I was there By Tom Brook BBC News, New York Tom Brook was the first British journalist to report live from the scene of John Lennon’s murder outside the former Beatle’s home in New York on 8 December 1980. Here, he gives his personal recollections of what it was like to cover the…