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And… we’re on their side? What is this world coming to? Sure, we make fun of juggalos a lot here at Guyism, and I’ll be honest in saying that their music is some of the worst garbage I’ve ever heard, but I have to respect their closeness as a community. Juggalo pride is a very real thing, and Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope have real love for their fans.

That’s why they’re suing the FBI. At the annual Gathering of the Juggalos, J and Shaggy made what may be the biggest announcement in their professional career. Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation placed Juggalos in their National Gang Threat Assessment document, classifying them as a “loosely organized hybrid gang.” This is patently ridiculous: liking a musical group doesn’t make you a criminal. So now it’s time for ICP to fight back, as they announced that they were in the early stages of filing a suit against the FBI to have the group removed from the list.

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Views: 292 | Added by: Teesus | Date: 2012/08/13

Free Syrian Army fighters claim to have shot government MiG-23 jet over Deir Ezzor and captured the pilot.

Free Syrian Army fighters in Deir Ezzor said they had downed the MiG-23 fighter jet early on Monday morning as it flew low on a bombing mission over the town's Mohassan district. Video shows part of a jet bursting into flames, followed by ecstatic rebel cries of "God is great".

Syria's state news agency, Sana, said the jet had suffered a technical failure on a training mission and the pilot had ejected. The rebels said they had shot the MiG down using a heavy machine gun and captured the pilot, Colonel Mufeed Muhammed Salman, who appears in the video.

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Views: 288 | Added by: Teesus | Date: 2012/08/13

After decades of almost total silence, certain aspects of the national media have finally started to report on the fact that various aspects of the government have been the majority source for illicit drug dealing in the US.

Thursday was host to bombshell, “breaking” news as TheBlaze journalist Jason Howerton decided to take credit for a story that is neither breaking, nor surprising. At least, not for those of us that have been following this and closely related stories for quite some time.

According to Howerton, the situation formerly spun as a “botched” gun running scandal, known as Fast & Furious, that has since seen 5 ATF agents take the fall for, “isn’t what you think it is.” Instead, according to the journalist, “It wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government and Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels.”

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The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), filed a civil lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder Monday for what Issa alleges was Holder’s failure to cooperate with a congressional subpoena.

Issa promised to sue after the House of Representatives found Holder in contempt of Congress for allegedly failing to provide documents related to committee’s investigation into the botched ATF operation known as Fast and Furious.

Issa tweeted the news on Sunday night, referring to the civil lawsuit as “charges” against Holder. The lawsuit, filed in D.C. federal court midday Monday, contends that the Justice Department’s view of executive privilege goes too far.

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Views: 326 | Added by: Teesus | Date: 2012/08/13

MORE than four million Americans have lost their homes since the housing bubble began bursting six years ago. An additional 3.5 million homeowners are in the foreclosure process or are so delinquent on payments that they will be soon. With 13.5 million homeowners underwater — they owe more than their home is now worth — the odds are high that many millions more will lose their homes.

Housing remains the biggest impediment to economic recovery, yet Washington seems paralyzed. While the Obama administration’s housing policies have fallen short, Mitt Romney hasn’t offered any meaningful new proposals to aid distressed or underwater homeowners.

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Views: 268 | Added by: Teesus | Date: 2012/08/13

Many conspiracies have been forming ever since London was voted as the 2012 host for the summer games back in 2005.

Soon after the vote, Britain began planning and constructing the Olympic Park along with various elements. These elements have gradually shown signs of mystery and controversies that are linked to secret organizations.

London-based secret investing organizations include possibility movements of the Illuminati, Freemasons, the British Royal Family and the highly funded pro-Israeli lobby or Zionist groups.

The pro-Israeli lobby in Britain has been statistically proven to be more powerful and influential than its influential branch in the US.

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Views: 236 | Added by: Teesus | Date: 2012/08/13

The U.S. cable networks won't be covering this one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier in the day.

Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison.

And someone out there seems to be quite disappointed that word is getting out so swiftly; the Wikileaks web site is reportedly sustaining 10GB worth of DDoS attacks each second, which is massive.

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Views: 244 | Added by: Teesus | Date: 2012/08/13

It’s enough to make even the most ardent Obama cynic scratch his head in confusion.

Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Who knew?

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WASHINGTON -- He's been in Congress for nearly 13 years, but Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has only seen two of his bills pass into law during that time.

Ryan, who Mitt Romney has tapped as his running mate, passed a bill into law in July 2000 that renames a post office in his district. Thanks to Ryan, the post office on 1818 Milton Ave. in Janesville, Wis., is now known as "Les Aspin Post Office Building."

The other time Ryan saw one of his bills become law was in December 2008, with legislation to change the way arrows (as in bows and arrows) are hit with an excise tax. Specifically, his bill amended the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 39-cent tax per arrow shaft, instead of a 12.4 percent tax on the sales price. The bill also "includes points suitable for use with arrows in the 11 percent excise tax on arrow parts and accessories."

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LONDON (AP) — The secret-busting organization WikiLeaks says it's been the victim of a sustained denial-of-service attack which has left its website sluggish or inaccessible for more than a week.

In a statement released late Saturday the group said the assault intensified around the beginning of August and has since expanded to include attacks against affiliated sites.

Denial-of-service attacks work by overwhelming websites with requests for information. WikiLeaks has said it's been flooded with 10 gigabits per second of bogus traffic from thousands of different Internet addresses.

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The typical afternoon furor in Times Square became something more menacing on Saturday as throngs of police officers drew their weapons and pursued a man with a large knife down Seventh Avenue and then shot him to death.

The scene was chaotic, confusing and almost certainly dangerous. Yet many bystanders stopped to watch, record video and take photos.

Lincoln Rocha, 28, and his wife, Priscilla Rocha, 28, were visiting New York City from Brazil. While walking down Seventh Avenue, they noticed three police officers talking to a man on the sidewalk. The man pulled out a knife, and the officers pulled out their guns.

“And that’s when I started taking photos,” Mr. Rocha said.

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Cut taxes. Raise defense spending. Balance the budget. That, in a nutshell, is the promise of Mitt Romney's 162-page, 59-point economic plan. But if that refrain sounds hauntingly familiar, it should. After all, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and the leading lights of the Republican Party have been repackaging that same formula for over three decades.

But repeating the same falsehood—even for 30-plus years—doesn't make it any more true. As it turns out, that patron saint of small government Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt during his tenure, while Bush nearly doubled it again by January 2009. While their supply-side snake oil did not match the economic growth and job creation of periods of higher (even much higher) taxation, it did produce staggering increases in income inequality.

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