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truther
January 23, 2015
Once upon a time, there was a saying "no taxation without representation." Well, in America's transition to an utopia of French or even Venezuelan caliber, for half the population taxation became an anachronism from
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truther
October 7, 2014
For the second year in a row, America's richest 14 individuals made more from their annual investments than the $80 billion provided for people in need of food. Nearly half of the food-deprived are
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truther
July 23, 2014
After years of delay, Russia plans to deploy this year the first satellite of its new constellation replacing the space component of the early warning system, Russian media reported. It will also double as
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truther
July 2, 2014
Food stamps have become a major facet of the American system. And as the number of welfare recipients increases, so does the number of items that can be purchased with a food stamp Electronic
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truther
May 20, 2014
The past 25 years have seen the advent of a disturbing trend in the America – militarization of its civilian law enforcement. This unsettling rise is evident with the regular use of paramilitary police
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truther
April 15, 2014
The predatory corporate prison enterprise aims to privatize profits and socialize losses. This combination has led to a situation where correctional facilities have only one incentive: ensure that new bodies arrive as fast as
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truther
March 28, 2014
Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up
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truther
March 10, 2014
Social media has made everyone’s life an open book (one that’s open a bit too far in some cases). As more and more companies and individuals come to rely on the Internet as a
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truther
February 19, 2014
Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done
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truther
January 29, 2014
Lawmakers in both chambers of US Congress have reportedly reached a deal to cut almost $9 billion from the food stamp program on which nearly 47 million Americans rely to afford food.
The cuts to
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truther
January 8, 2014
Forth Amendment – The right of the individuals to be protected in their persons, homes, papers and effects, against irrational searches and seizures, shall not be breached, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon
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truther
December 27, 2013
Debtors prisons have a sordid history that was thought to be best left behind in Medieval Europe and in Charles Dickens' fictionalized accounts of the 19th-century hellholes of Victorian England.
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truther
December 26, 2013
The United States has about five percent of the world’s population and houses around 25 percent of its prisoners. In large part, that’s the result of the “war on drugs” and long mandatory minimum
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truther
December 25, 2013
It has been well documented that despite the platitudes suggesting that the United States is the beacon of freedom, it is actually the location with the most filled cages of human beings. The capital
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truther
December 4, 2013
People who are hungry are more inclined to support of the welfare state policies that help the poor, new research suggests.
The extraordinary results of a Danish study suggest that the state of our bodies
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truther
October 28, 2013
Millions of people are in for a shock at the end of the week when their food stamp benefits will be cut across the board.
There is little chance that Congress will act to avert
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truther
September 25, 2013
There's a fairly basic question at the core of the current food-stamp debate in Congress. Why has the program grown so rapidly over the past few years — to the point where 47 million
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truther
September 10, 2013
There was much discussion of Friday's "disappointing" non-farm payrolls goal-seeked, seasonally adjusted, X-13-ARIMA conceived jobs "number." The conclusion was that it showed an economy which one year after the start of QEternity was growing
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truther
July 11, 2013
Republicans are making more noise about dropping food stamps from farm legislation that previously failed to pass the House of Representatives because of disagreement over cuts in nutrition assistance
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truther
June 18, 2013
Last week we talked about the many survival uses of the tampon. But unless he specifically packed one in a bag or car, a man’s unlikely to have one on him in a pinch.
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‘Doomsday sputnik’: Russia said to launch new missile-attack warning satellite
truther July 23, 2014 0After years of delay, Russia plans to deploy this year the first satellite of its new constellation replacing the space component of the early warning system, Russian media reported. It will also double as
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