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The Illinois General Assembly may attempt to legalize assisted suicide during next week’s Lame Duck session.
The Illinois General Assembly may try to legalize assisted suicide next week.
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5 Vietnamese Communist Party officials jailed for helping abducted blogger +
5 Vietnamese Communist Party officials jailed for helping abducted blogger
Vietnam has jailed five party members for feeding information to Duong Van Thai, a blogger who is believed to have been abducted in Thailand last year and resurfaced in Vietnamese custody, the human rights group 88 Project reported, citing sources inside the government.
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Vietnamese court sentences blogger to 12 years in prison for anti-state propaganda
Read More »FDA may finally ban artificial red dye from beverages, candy and other foods
A decision on Red No. 3, the synthetic coloring made from petroleum, could come in the next few weeks.
FDA may finally ban artificial red dye from beverages, candy and other foods
PH: Lariosa
Aaron-Matthew Lariosa – Muck Rack
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New Trier High School (Chicago suburbs): What it’s like to be a minority at an 83.3% white school
Sophomore Aaron Matthew Lariosa, an Asian American, believes that while ignorance is why people are racist, the topic of race itself is sensitive.
“People are ignorant in a way,” stated Lariosa. “The topic [of race] is really touchy.”
In 2016, Newsweek magazine ranked New Trier as the top open-enrollment high school in Illinois and the 17th best high school in the country.
New Trier High School is an affluent high school. I wonder who his parents are?
New Trier High School is known for its arts program, which the U.S. Department of Education has recognized as one of the top 25 in the country.
The American Foreign Service Association, established in 1924, is both professional association and exclusive representative for the U.S. Foreign Service. AFSA’s close to 16,800 members include active-duty and retired members of the Foreign Service at the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Commercial Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and U.S. Agency for Global Media.
CAMPUS RECRUITING AND THE C.I.A.
Victor Marchetti & John Marks – CIA & The Cult of Intelligence
Copyright Office exemption makes McDonald’s ice cream machines repairable
McDonald’s always-broken ice cream machines might finally get easier to fix. That’s because the US Copyright Office granted an exemption allowing third parties to diagnose and repair commercial equipment — including the ones that make your McFlurries.
Copyright Office exemption makes McDonald’s ice cream machines repairable
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Copyright change removes exclusive McDonald’s ice cream machine control from Rockton company
The center of the Rockford resident’s frustration sits miles away from the W. Riverside Blvd. McDonald’s: Taylor Company. The manufacturer assembles and manages the infamous machines in Rockton.
Ho-Chunk launches casino construction in Beloit + More
Ho-Chunk launches casino construction in Beloit (archived)
More than 200 people came to Willowbrook Road Friday morning for the official beginning of construction of a Ho-Chunk casino, convention center, and 312-room, 18-story hotel.
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The Ho-Chunk casino and hotel project is estimated to cost $405 million. When complete it will employ an estimated 1,500 people, Ho-Chunk officials have said.
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Read More »160 Soldiers From Machesney Park-Based Illinois Army National Guard Unit To Deploy Overseas
MACHESNEY PARK — Soldiers and their families and friends filled the Harlem High School gymnasium on Thursday for a ceremony to recognize their service and sacrifice ahead of an overseas deployment that could last about a year.
160 Soldiers From Machesney Park-Based Illinois Army National Guard Unit To Deploy Overseas
IL: Hard Rock Casino Rockford workers to hold union rally on Friday
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Pro-union workers at the Hard Rock Casino Rockford will rally on Friday against what they call an “anti-union campaign.”
Hard Rock Casino Rockford workers to hold union rally on Friday
They just opened up in August.
[2003] War and Empire: The Truth That Rockford Couldn’t Bear to Hear
This is the Rockford College graduation speech Chris Hedges tried to give on May 17, 2003, before being drowned out by shouts and boos and fog horns. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, he is author of the highly recommended War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning.
War and Empire: The Truth That Rockford Couldn’t Bear to Hear
I saw this video months ago, but recently came across the text on Antiwar.com while searching for something else. He calls Putin a dictator, but Russia was fighting U.S.-backed terrorists in Chechnya at the time (see after the cut). The reason why the speech interested me is that Rockford isn’t far from where I grew up.
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Read More »Khaled Hosseini
I was recommended Khaled Hosseini’s book, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by someone I’ve been conversing with on Goodreads. While it’s fiction, it appears that this person takes it how Muslims really are. From the critical reviews that I’ve read, so far, my immediate takeaway is that the book is Anti-Communist (the Soviets didn’t invade Afghanistan) and Islamophobic. Others have said that it’s racist and makes the case for ‘humanitarian intervention’ aka invasion based on women’s rights or children’s rights.
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