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Short sentence for cop who murdered man sparks riots!

OAKLAND, Kalifornia - November 7, 2010 - Philip Means could sympathize with the hundreds of people protesting Johannes Mehserle's two-year sentence for killing Oscar Grant Friday night - right up until they surged into his neighborhood and started screaming, jumping on cars and smashing windows.

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Outraged resident bags a couple of parking CCTV spy cars!

LONDON, England - November 5, 2010 - An angry resident remonstrated with the crew of a CCTV "spy" car before covering up their camera lens.

The man made his feelings known after he spotted the Westminster council Smart car, which was monitoring illegal parking in Maida Vale.

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Family says thug cops tasered man to death!

GALLATIN, Tennessee - November 5, 2010 - A mother says she saw Gallatin police officers sic a police dog on her son while he was handcuffed and then Taser him to death because they thought he had filed a false police report. The man had called police because he thought his mother was missing.

The wife and mother of the late Jeffery Woodward said he went into cardiac arrest and died after

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American Gestapo assaults passengers who refuse body scanner!

WASHINGTON - November 2, 2010 - Having been taught by nuns in grade school and later going through military boot camp, I have always disliked uniformed authorities shouting at me. So I was unhappy last week when some security screeners at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago started yelling.

“Opt out! We got an opt out!” one bellowed about me in a tone that people in my desert n

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Action Alert: Driver gets ticket in retaliation for telling off parking officer!

DENVER, Colorado - November 4, 2010 - A Denver parking enforcement officer took revenge on a driver who called him a "meter maid" by asking a co-worker to write the driver a false parking ticket, 9Wants to Know has learned.

The parking officers then mailed the $150 handicapped parking ticket to the driver late, so by the time he received it, the fine had doubled.

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Privacy advocates fear massive fed health database!

WASHINGTON - November 4, 2010 - Computerworld - Several privacy groups have raised alarms over plans by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to build a database that would contain information about the healthcare claims of millions of Amerikans.

The concerns have surfaced because the OPM has provided few details about the new database and because the data collected will be share

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Unfree Amerika: City bans McDonald’s Happy Meals!

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia - November 3, 2010 - Fast food giant McDonald's said Wednesday it was "extremely disappointed" at a ruling by San Francisco authorities banning high-calorie Happy Meals, which use free toys to entice children to eat their food.

The response came after the Kalifornian city's board of supervisors voted to forbid restaurants from giving gifts with meals that contai