The Gulag

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The U.S. has the highest prison population in the world, even more than the more populous China. Incarceration Incorporated is the biggest growth industry in the service economy. Indentured Servitude is profitable benefit to this industry.

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Renton cops shredding Internal Affairs records that relate to their attempts to shut down a cartoonist

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So....Bradley Manning escaped the aiding the enemy charge but was hit with 19 other guilty verdicts - the court will "be lenient" and not give him the maximum 130 years and he is likely to spend the next 40 years as the US' most recent political prisoner.  And the irony of Edward Snowden taking refuge in the home turf of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is just too much.

[waldopaper]

"...I know I fights for dot liberty which Gott im himmel intends every Dutschman should have, no matter who say, 'Nix com arous, Dutchy. I guess not"."

Ja... dem brix aus der back ob der teater... ve shur nuff see dem now.