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Young leaders of Egypt's revolt snub Clinton!

CAIRO, Egypt (PNN) - March 15, 2011 - A coalition of six youth groups that emerged from Egypt’s revolution last month has refused to meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who arrived in Cairo earlier today, in protest of the United States’ strong support for former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted by the uprising.

“There was an invitation for members of t

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Assange says Internet is world's greatest spying machine!

LONDON, England - March 15, 2011 - Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has warned that the Internet was the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and an obstacle to free speech.

Speaking to students at Britain’s prestigious Cambridge University on Tuesday, the former computer hacker claimed that the Internet, particularly social networking si

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Guatemalans sue U.S. over 1940s syphilis experiments!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 14, 2011 - Guatemalans subjected to U.S. syphilis experiments in the 1940s are suing federal health officials to compensate them for health problems they have suffered.

The lawsuit comes after revelations that U.S. scientists studying the effects of penicillin in the 1940s deliberately infected about 700 Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, soldiers and orp

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NRA declines to meet with Obama on gun policy!

WASHINGTON - March 14, 2011 - More than two months after the Tucson shootings, the illegitimate Obama regime is calling together both the gun lobby and gun safety groups to find common ground. But illegitimate President Obama has no plans to take the lead in proposing further gun control legislation, aides say, and the nation’s major gun rights group is snubbing the invitation.

On

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Protesters demonstrate against the USA PATRIOT Act!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 13, 2011 - In Washington, DC on Sunday, demonstrators rallied in front of the White House in protest of repressive governments around the world.

Included in the protests were those opposed to extending the USA PATRIOT Act, which gives law enforcement authorities sweeping surveillance powers that have been criticized for endangering innocent Americans’ civil

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Teen charged in death of family hamster!

NEW YORK - March 11, 2011 - A teenager has been charged with a felony, and could face a two-year prison sentence if convicted, for killing her family's pet hamster, authorities said.

Monique Smith, 19, of Brooklyn, was arguing with a family member in June when she reached for the hamster, choked it and threw it outside the house, police said on Wednesday.

She was arrested

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Public sector unions claim outsized share of U.S. pension assets!

WASHINGTON - March 10, 2011 - More than a third of the nation’s $9.3 trillion in pension assets belong to state and local government employees, even though they make up only 15% of the U.S. work force, a study shows.

Research by the Spectrum investment group found that public-sector employees, primarily through powerful unions, have accumulated by far the most generous retirement p