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      <title>tracer200 From Panama &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;City&lt;/span&gt; Beach, FL , Beautiful Shell Island HD</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:54:42 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>This is a couple of short videos I shot with my Canon T4i of the coast of Shell Island in Panama City Beach om a 22ft. Boston Whaler I Rented last September, its very beautiful. I took the boat out for 8 hours, just my girlfriend and I and it was gorgeous, I have never uploaded anything that I recorded on this site so I just thought I would share it with the community, I know its no JDAM or Firefight video which is what I came to this site for back in 2007 but it is beautiful, we saw dolphins, stingrays, and jellyfish. Hope you enjoy the scenery.</description>
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      <title>Farrakhan To Detroit: Investment Needed In &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;City&lt;/span&gt;</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:06:04 -0400</pubDate>
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May 17, 2013 12:26 PM

By JEFF KAROUB
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan urged Detroit's pastors and majority black population Friday to join him in an effort to buy neglected properties and take other steps to help revitalize the struggling city where the movement started more than 80 years ago.

The fiery orator offered few specifics in a speech to the Detroit City Council, but made plain his displeasure with Gov. Rick Snyder's decision to appoint an emergency financial manager. He likened the takeover to buzzards circling over a carcass.

&quot;The city abandoned, crime and violence rampant, and the governor has seen fit to take away the rights of the voting public,&quot; Farrakhan said, referring to putting someone in charge of the city's finances that wasn't elected. &quot;I don't know what democracy really means if you can be given the right to vote and then somebody can take it away.&quot;

He said the city's downtown is &quot;coming along pretty good&quot; as its buildings are bought and renovated, but many other areas are &quot;like a wasteland.&quot;

&quot;But a wasteland always gives opportunities those who have a vision,&quot; he said.

Detroit's problems include high crime, joblessness and abandonment; its budget deficit is about $330 million and rising.

&quot;Suppose we in leadership, the pastors of the city, stop arguing,&quot; he said. &quot;Why shouldn't we come together and own Detroit?&quot;

At the movement's annual convention in February, Farrakhan called on blacks nationwide to curb economic disparities by cutting back on excessive spending, pooling resources and investing in land. The Nation of Islam has more than 1,500 acres of farmland in Georgia, and leaders have said the group is looking to buy thousands more acres in the Midwest.

Now based in Chicago, the Nation of Islam was founded in 1930 in Detroit by Wallace D. Fard, who the movement says attracted blacks on the margins of society with a message of self-improvement and separation from whites.

The group, which promotes black empowerment and nationalism, was rebuilt by Farrakhan in the late 1970s.

He became notorious for calling Judaism a &quot;gutter religion&quot; and suggesting crack cocaine might have been a CIA plot to enslave blacks. Farrakhan has over the years denied claims of anti-Semitism, arguing his remarks are often taken out of context and that criticism of Jews in any light automatically earns the &quot;anti-Semite&quot; label.

His message on Friday was one of unity among races and religions, but he said he's focusing on African-Americans because they are city's majority population.

Farrakhan said it was important to return to Detroit &quot;at a time of intense dark.&quot;

&quot;We got to come home and help this city,&quot; he said.

Farrakhan also is scheduled to deliver an evening public address at Fellowship Chapel on the city's northwest side.

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      <title>Huge response shuts down &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;City&lt;/span&gt;'s ex-offender job fair</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:13:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The City of Philadelphia shut down a career fair for ex-offenders today after an unexpected crowd of thousands showed  up, resumes in hand. There were lots of disappointed job seekers and potential employers this morning.

The city was expecting about 1,000 people to show up, but about three times that number were standing in a line that wrapped around the Municipal Services Building, across from City Hall. And when someone jumped the line, order collapsed.

There was no yelling, no shoving - just 3,000 people all trying to get into the job fair at once.

Everett Gillison, the deputy mayor for public safety, says the space designated for the event could not handle the crowd, so they closed it down shortly after it began. &quot;We took as many resumes as we could,&quot; he told  KYW Newsradio  afterward, &quot;but those that did not have resumes, we told them we were going to reschedule.  And we are going to reschedule it for the Convention Center.&quot; Of course there was frustration.

&quot;People want jobs,&quot; said one man.  &quot;In the city right now, with jobs it's just ridiculous trying to find one.  It's almost impossible.&quot; &quot;It's really hard out here,&quot; another man said.  How long had he been trying to get work? &quot;At least two years now.&quot;

Gillison says 25 employers were on hand for today's event.  Last year, he said, 1,000 people showed up and 435 people got jobs, so this year they advertised through &quot;partners.&quot; Then, Gillison says, it got on social media and snowballed.
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      <title>League 2 Playoff Final: Bradford &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;City&lt;/span&gt; vs Northampton (3-0) </title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:04:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Game over after half an hour, Bradford City promoted.
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      <title>CIA/Military/International Banker Final Stage Occupation US?</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 09:47:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Love, or hate, Alex Jones does he have a point? If anyone actually cares, and see all that he sees all of his waking hours, there is no break from the anger and the real fear. In Louisiana, it is a law that you cannot sell a lawnmower, or any other item for cash at a tag sale. You can go to jail for that. Corporate Organized Crime and International Bankers want their cut of every transaction. So, who is really in charge? Are you represented for your taxation? 

International bankers and corporate organized crime finance and rig elections. They rig courts. Police protect international criminals, not US citizens complaining about being ripped off exercising Free Speech. Who was protected during Occupy Wall St in New York City, OWS? International bankers were protected. Citizens who organized were spied on police and arrested. So, are we under soft occupation, soon to go hard? Do you remember the Enron power scandal in California. Enron sold electricity outside the states so there would be blackouts in California. Rates went up 4x. Citizens who yelled and complained were arrested, some may have even got prison. The connected thieves, got rich, almost none went to prison. The Enron money put Arnold Schwarzenegger in as governor and George W. Bush in as President. Obama is a worse protector of the UN, bankers, and corporate organized crime. 

Connecticut US Senator Chris Dodd took bribes from international bankers and then sold all of American out as head of the Banking Committee. All Americans might owe criminal bankers $50,000 to $100,000 just because of the Dodd crimes. Dodd was never arrested. Steal a candy bar from a corner shop and you get arrested and some cases you get jail. Why should elite like Dodd who belong to secret societies be exempt from all the laws we the people have to obey. 

Do you know the Caesar crossing the Rubicon, about when the military is the government? Look it up. 

The enemies to the international take over are religion, independent minds, gun owners, families, the self-employed, small business owners, and especially family farmers. 

The military is now declared in charge. They now run US streets and anything and everything goes. Tanks and checkpoints are the new normal. Machine guns shooting Americans from open doors on military helicopters will go mainstream. Armed drones killing Americans in America is ready. 

What the CIA did to the continent of South America from the 1950's has now come home to roost in America. Have you heard of the  United Fruit Company ]?

 This post breaks down their method ] of occupation.</description>
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      <title>Russian Plane Catches Fire 18-05-2013</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 17:39:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The Vnukovo airport in Moscow was closed temporarily after a plane caught fire upon landing.

The aircraft operated by UT air was carrying 140 people, but no injuries were reported. A TV crew travelling aboard the flight managed to capture the events as passengers were evacuated.

The left landing gear leg caught fire as the flight arrived from the southern Russian city of Stavropol.

Preliminary reports suggest the brake wheels were destroyed. The airport closed just before 8 am local time and reopened under two hours later once the Boeing 737 had been removed from the runway.</description>
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      <title>Dozens hurt in chemical weapons attack in Damascus</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 16:08:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2013 - Dozens of people were being treated for respiratory difficulties following the attack, according to reports carried by the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV channel.
Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons-laced mortars in a Damascus neighborhood Saturday, injuring dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed.

 The channel also reiterated reports by the BBC Thursday that chemical weapons were used in Saraqib in Idlib province on April 29. Two helicopters dropped devices on the town, which is located southwest of Aleppo, as it came under bombardment from regime forces, the report said. Adding new details to the reports of that Saraqib attack, doctors at a local hospital said that they treated eight people who had breathing problems or constricted pupils. One woman, Maryam Khatib, died of her injuries, while her son Mohammed  was injured when he rushed to attend to her. A doctor who treated Khatib said her symptoms were similar to poisoning caused by organophosphates, ingredients used in nerve gases and insecticides.

Her son told the BBC's Ian Pannell that there was a &quot;horrible, suffocating smell&quot; and that he lost his eyesight for three or four days. The following edited video purports to show the aftermath of the mortar attack in the city.

Meanwhile, the Syrian opposition claimed it killed four Iranian men in an attack on their convoy on Friday, as well as seven Hezbollah gunmen who had joined Assad forces in the city of al-Qusayr in Homs province.

Eighteen Hezbollah men were killed in that city last month.

On Wednesday, UK Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman stated that chemical weapons had been used in at least two attacks in Syria.

The US government has intimated that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime against its own people would potentially constitute the crossing of a &quot;red line&quot; for possible military intervention. Still, US President Barack Obama claimed two weeks ago that the intelligence about the use of chemical weapons in Syria was insufficient.

The Syrian government and opposition forces have both blamed each other for an attack in Aleppo in March and another in Homs in December 2012 in which chemical weapons were allegedly used.

Earlier in May the UN panel looking into war crimes in Syria backed down from a claim it had made that rebel forces used chemical weapons.

Syria has asked the UN to investigate only the Aleppo attack, whereas UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon insists on investigating both incidents, creating a sticking point that has so far prevented an inquiry from proceeding.

The UN estimates that the two-year Syrian war has claimed over 80,000 lives, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights putting that figure at 94,000.</description>
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      <title>Demonstrations in Rihaniyya  resignation for erdogans government.</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:47:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Demonstrations in Rihaniyya of Bantakia demanding the resignation of the Turkish government and bear responsibility for the blasts in the city.</description>
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      <title>Syria's Assad, in an Interview, Suggests Peace Talks Are Unlikely to Succeed</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:19:32 -0400</pubDate>
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - President  Bashar al-Assad  of  Syria , in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility of serious progress arising from peace talks planned for next month, and to back away from earlier statements by Syrian officials that the government was willing to negotiate with its armed opponents.&quot;We do not believe that many Western countries really want a solution in Syria,&quot; Mr. Assad told Argentina's Clar'in newspaper in an interview published online on Saturday, blaming those countries for supporting &quot;terrorists&quot; fighting his government.

&quot;We support and applaud the efforts, but we must be realistic,&quot; he said, referring to efforts by the United States and Russia to broker talks in June. &quot;There cannot be a unilateral solution in Syria; two parties are needed at least.&quot;

Mr. Assad took a hard line throughout the interview, according to a transcript in English provided in advance to The New York Times. He declared that he would run for election as scheduled in 2014 and would accept election monitors only from friendly countries like Russia and China.

He also accused Israel of directly aiding rebels by providing intelligence on sites to attack, refused to acknowledge any mistakes in his handling of the two-year-old crisis, and disputed United Nations estimates that more than 80,000 people had died in the conflict.

All those contentions are likely to fuel what is already widespread pessimism about the potential talks. It is unclear who will talk to whom, and about what. The opposition in exile remains unable to unify fragmented rebel groups behind its political leadership, even those that nominally fall under the umbrella of the opposition's Free Syrian Army, let alone the growing cadres of extremist Islamist fighters who openly reject the opposition leadership and are a source of increasing concern in the West.

Mr. Assad's supporters have long contended that his wide array of foreign foes, including the United States, Israel and Sunni-led Persian Gulf states, benefit less from a resolution than from a prolonged Syrian conflict that weakens Mr. Assad and his allies, Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militant group. That view is increasingly shared by some rebel leaders, increasingly frustrated with the West's unwillingness to give them untrammeled support.

In meetings with his supporters ahead of the talks, Mr. Assad has projected confidence, suggesting that the United States would accept his remaining in power if American officials believed that he was militarily strong and could curb jihadists. He told a group of Lebanese politicians visiting Damascus, the capital, this month that his forces were carrying out offensives to retake rebel-held territory in Homs Province and the suburbs of Damascus to increase his leverage at the talks.

&quot;The battlefield will decide who is strong when they enter negotiations,&quot; he said, according to one of the visitors, Abdelrahim Mourad, a former Parliament member whose party is allied with Hezbollah. &quot;America is pragmatic. If they found out they were defeated and the regime is the winner, the Americans will deal with the facts.&quot;

Whether that view is realistic or not, Mr. Assad's opponents inside and outside Syria widely doubt that he is willing to make meaningful concessions - doubts he reinforced in the interview, refusing to recognize any element of the armed opposition as representing legitimate Syrian demands or even to talk to the rebels unless they disarm.

&quot;We are willing to talk to anyone who wants to talk, without exceptions,&quot; he said. &quot;But that does not include terrorists; no state talks to terrorists. When they put down their arms and join the dialogue, then we will have no objections. Believing that a political conference will stop terrorism on the ground is unreal.&quot;

Mr. Assad appeared to be backing off previous overtures by members of his government. On Feb. 25, Ali Haidar, the minister for national reconciliation, told Syria's Parliament that the government was ready to meet with armed opposition groups.

&quot;We, the government, and me, personally, will meet, without exceptions, with Syrian opposition groups inside and outside&quot; the country, he said. &quot;The president of the country has said that we will try with everyone that is against us politically. And even those who use arms - we must try with them.&quot;

In continuing reports of violence, opposition activists in Syria said Saturday that government forces had killed and then incinerated at least 17 people in a two-day operation in an upscale neighborhood of northwest Homs, Syria's third-largest city and long a hotbed of the insurgency. Some died when government forces shelled the fields surrounding the neighborhood, Al Waer, starting Friday, and others were stabbed to death, said the Local Coordination Committees, an opposition news network with contacts in Syria. The bodies were later set on fire by soldiers and pro-government militias, the activists said.

The activists' accounts could not be independently confirmed, but videos posted on YouTube and Facebook groups controlled by rebels showed charred bodies and shattered limbs, wrapped in red cloths and carpets.

&quot;They were found dead and burned,&quot; said Abu Rami, an activist from Homs reached through Skype. &quot;We could only recognize nine men, but the rest were like black logs.&quot;

Other residents said 10 of the dead belonged to two families and included four women and two 11-year-old children.

In other developments, the elderly father of Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, was abducted Saturday by a gunman in southern Dara'a Province, close to the Jordanian border, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a network based in Britain with contacts inside Syria. The government later arrested relatives suspected to be involved with the abduction, the observatory said, adding that rebels in the area had denied any responsibility.

Mr. Mekdad's office confirmed the abduction, and residents in a neighboring village said that around 30 men, some carrying weapons, raided the family home and took the 80-year-old father, who was described by residents as &quot;not an outspoken regime supporter and not a troublemaker.&quot;

A spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army described the abduction as &quot;unconvincing and strange,&quot; given that the father did not share his son's views and was seen as having good relations with the rebels around him. The Mekdad clan numbers in the thousands in Dara'a, where the uprising began, and includes government supporters and opponents.

In the Clar'in interview, Mr. Assad also elaborated on his government's contention that the opposition was aligned with Syria's longtime foe, Israel, which has bombed Syrian territory three times this year in attacks believed to have targeted weapons being delivered to Hezbollah.

&quot;Israel is directly supporting the terrorist groups in two ways,&quot; he said. &quot;Firstly it gives them logistical support&quot; - a possible reference to medical aid Israel has given to Syrians wounded near the Syria-Israel border - &quot;and it also tells them what sites to attack and how to attack them.&quot;

Mr. Assad said that rebels had attacked a radar station instrumental to Syria's antiaircraft defenses against Israel, giving no further details.

Mr. Assad said international monitoring of the 2014 elections would violate Syria's sovereignty. &quot;We do not trust the West for this task,&quot; he said, proposing observers from &quot;friendly countries such as Russia or China.&quot;

&quot;China?&quot; the interviewer asked, presumably perplexed because China is not known for holding free elections. Mr. Assad was silent. The reporter then asked if Mr. Assad had any &quot;self-criticisms.&quot; He replied: &quot;It's illogical to carry out self-criticism before the events have been completed. If you go to watch a film you don't criticize it until it ends.&quot;

He dismissed rebels' accusations that his forces had used chemical weapons, noting that such weapons &quot;would mean killing thousands or tens of thousands of people in a matter of minutes. Who could hide something like that?&quot;

He disputed international estimates of the toll in the war, saying that it was unclear how many of the dead were Syrians and that &quot;the terrorists often kill and bury their victims in mass graves&quot; - an allegation that his opponents have leveled at his forces. Though foreign jihadists take part in the Syrian conflict, the vast majority of fighters are Syrians.


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        <media:title>Syria's Assad, in an Interview, Suggests Peace Talks Are Unlikely to Succeed</media:title>
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      <title>Germany: Justin Bieber leaves pet monkey trapped behind bars </title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:05:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Ruptly</dc:creator>
      <description>Beliebers won't want to believe it, but Canadian heart throb Justin Bieber will have to irrevocably abandon his pet monkey Mally to a German zoo if he does not send someone or go himself to retrieve the pet from a &quot;secret place&quot; by midnight tonight. Mally was left behind in Munich by Bieber after a concert in March, and Bieber has been charged with a fine of tens of thousands of dollars to cover the costs for the monkey's upkeep, including food and medical costs.
The capuchin monkey, whose full name was O.G. Mally (Original Gangsta Mally) before he was renamed &quot;Bubele&quot; by the German shelter, was originally seized by customs officials when it was discovered that the 19 year-old singing sensation lacked the correct paperwork for him. Mally was quarantined by German officials and held at the Munich-Reim animal shelter when he was just 14 weeks old. A spokesperson for the animal shelter said that the monkey had been taken from his mother at too young an age and was in need of veterinary care.
&quot;I don't think that Justin Bieber really took care of him and therefore I don't think he misses him too much,&quot; said Sofie Hoermann, a keeper at the animal shelter.
German officials from the animal sanctuary said that Mally had been clinging to a toy stuffed cat during his stay there. He initially needed to be fed by hand hourly since he could not eat on his own, with his favourite food being grapes. Tons of Twitters devoted to Mally have sprung up since he was gifted to and then taken from Bieber. Mally will join a group of capuchin monkeys outside of Bavaria if he is not picked up tonight.
Mally was presented to Bieber as a gift for his 19th birthday on March 1 from the rapper Jamal &quot;Mally Mall&quot; Rashid. Shortly before Mally was confiscated, Bieber posted pictures of them together on his Instagram account. This is not Bieber's first controversial pet. He made headlines when he gave his pet hamster, PAC, to a fan after a concert in New York City. The hamster died three months later, allegedly of renal failure.
Meanwhile, Bieber is expected to perform his new song &quot;Take You&quot; at the Billboard Awards on Sunday in dedication to his on-again-off-again girlfriend, pop starlet Selena Gomez. The two were spotted clubbing together in Los Angeles at Supperclub on Tuesday night. Gomez will sing her new single &quot;Come and Get It&quot; at the Billboard Awards, but it will be too late for it to serve as a message to Bieber from Mally.</description>
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        <media:title>Germany: Justin Bieber leaves pet monkey trapped behind bars </media:title>
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      <title>Busted - Priest caught on helmet cam performing oral sex on man in public</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:01:12 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Sunday</dc:creator>
      <description>Spanish priest dismissed after he's allegedly caught on camera performing oral sex on man  
Father Francisco Javier Ruiz was replaced by Bishop of Cartagena Manuel Lorca Planes after a cyclist's helmet-cam footage emerged. The priest says it's not him in the video. Spain's Diocese of Cartagena has removed Father Francisco Javier Ruiz as pastor of a church in Murcia after he was seemingly caught on video participating acts of a sexual nature with another man in a well-known &quot;cruising area.&quot;

A Spanish priest has been removed from his job after apparently being busted on camera performing oral sex on another man.
 
Father Francisco Javier Ruiz was dismissed from his position in the Churra section of the city of Murcia by Bishop of Cartagena Jose Manuel Lorca Planes on Wednesday.

It came after footage emerged purportedly showing him in an erotic embrace with a pal.was captured by cyclist Alejandro Mejias' helmet-cam.

Mejias was biking on trails through the wooded area of Los Cuadros de Murcia - an area reportedly popular with dog owners - when he stumbled across the pair,

He can be clearly heard uttering a profanity on seeing the two men.

The footage, uploaded to YouTube, has been seen more than 7,000 times and spread across Facebook and Twitter, reports La Verdad.

Ruiz claims it is not him in the images and has contacted police to have the clip destroyed, 

&quot;I have never been in the area and I do not recognize those images that you are describing. It is a montage,&quot; he added.


But Spanish media has widely reported that it is him in the video. A statement from the Diocesis of Cartagena said the priest had been replaced by Antonio Ballester Serrano.

Father Francisco Javier Ruiz was replaced by Bishop of Cartagena Manuel Lorca Planes after a cyclist's helmet-cam footage emerged. The priest says it's not him in the video.</description>
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      <title>Muslims illegal takeover streets of Paris</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 10:52:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>krash</dc:creator>
      <description>I'm not racist, hateful, or prejudice towards any religion or a person's decision of lack thereof.  I believe everyone is entitled to their own beliefs.  

However, when one belief begins to disregard the laws of the country and/or city that it's residing within, and making life difficult for the other's living among them, I believe the people in charge of the city's law enforcement needs to take a stand.

Unfortunately &quot;political correctness&quot; has run amuck on our generation's watch and everyone is so damn afraid of being outed as some sort of bigot for taking a stand for what is right for everyone, and not just one particular group of people.</description>
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        <media:title>Muslims illegal takeover streets of Paris</media:title>
        <media:category label="Tags">muslim, islam, sharia law, paris, france, political correctness</media:category>
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