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Heather King / WITN:
NEW INFO: YouTube Video Shows Pepper Spray At Kinston Walmart … Chaos erupted at Walmart in Kinston on Black Friday. An off-duty police officer ended up using pepper spray on a crowd and a former Kinston police officer was arrested. — A video of the incident has been posted on YouTube.
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Debbie Goffa / L.A. NOW:
Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of chaos — Matthew Lopez went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead was caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was “competitive shopping.”
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Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Shootings, pepper-spray attack mar Wal-Mart Black Friday sales
Shootings, pepper-spray attack mar Wal-Mart Black Friday sales
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William Nottingham / L.A. NOW:
Villaraigosa, Beck start countdown to Occupy L.A. closure — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ordered the shutdown of the Occupy L.A. encampment on City Hall grounds at 12:01 a.m. Monday, saying officials can no longer “maintain the public safety of a long-term encampment,” according to a statement issued Friday.
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Ian Lovett / New York Times:
Occupy Los Angeles to Be Evicted From City Hall Park — LOS ANGELES — The Occupy Los Angeles protesters have probably received a warmer reception than most of their counterparts elsewhere in the country. With vocal support from the City Council, the protesters have been allowed to remain …
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Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
LAPD gives Occupy L.A. protesters Thanksgiving turkeys
LAPD gives Occupy L.A. protesters Thanksgiving turkeys
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
GQ thinks Ed Schultz is one of ‘The Least Influential People Alive’ — Wow. Is it that time of year all ready? — Well, yes it is. When publishers come up with end of the year lists. Here's one from the December GQ: the magazine's list of “The 25 least Influential People Alive” MSNBC's Ed Schultz comes in at #3.
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Jeremy Warner / Telegraph:
Death of a currency as eurogeddon approaches — It's time to think what hitherto markets have regarded as unthinkable - that the euro really is on its last legs. — They need to wake up fast; it's happening before their very eyes. In its current form, the single currency may always have been doomed …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Support Builds for a Plan to Rein In Medicare Costs — WASHINGTON — Though it reached no agreement, the special Congressional committee on deficit reduction built a case for major structural changes in Medicare that would limit the government's open-ended financial commitment to the program, lawmakers and health policy experts say.
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Ian Lazaran / Conservatives4Palin:
We Now Have The Resources To Run The Palin Reconsider Television Ad In The Sioux City, Iowa Market Next Week — Your contributions have made it possible for us to run the Palin reconsider television ad next week in the Sioux City, Iowa market. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make it possible.
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Radley Balko / The Huffington Post:
Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime … Drug War , Crime , SWAT Team , Violent Crime , Asset Forfeiture , Byrne Grants , Chicago , Chicago Pd , Law Enforcement , Leap , Marijuana Possession , Police , Police Abuse , War On Drugs , Politics News
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Tom Wicker, Times Journalist, Dies at 85 — Tom Wicker, one of postwar America's most distinguished journalists, who wrote 20 books, covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for The New York Times and became the paper's Washington bureau chief and an iconoclastic political columnist …
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Doc / DocPop.org:
Occupy News Bin — Though I often disagree with the sentiments I hear by folks at Occupy Wall Street encampments, I strongly support their rights to say them peacefully. So when I see so much footage of police using heavy handed tactics on non-violent protestors it not only makes me more sympathetic to OWS... it makes me feel sick.
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Not Photoshopped: Beam of Light Shines on Fallen Soldier's Miracle Dog — Reported by ABC News' Kimberly Launier: — It was an overcast day in Newport, N.H., when a simple “20/20″ shoot turned into something that made me wonder about life after death.
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Is the end near? — I am seeing reports of 7.7 on the Italian ten-year bond, over eight percent on the two-year bond, 6.5 percent on the six-month note, and so on. Here is one account. — Maybe these markets simply will shut down soon. There is so much talk about what the Germans should do, but I don't see the viable options.
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Valentina Za / Reuters:
“Awful” Italy debt sale heightens euro zone stress
“Awful” Italy debt sale heightens euro zone stress
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Andrew Osborn / Telegraph:
Russian newsreader fired after Obama middle finger insult — A top Russian female newsreader who appeared to defiantly show US President Barack Obama her middle finger during a live newscast has been fired. — Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about APEC
Matthew Continetti / Weekly Standard:
Anarchy in the U.S.A. — The roots of American disorder. — Ever since September, when activists heeded Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn's call to Occupy Wall Street, it's become a rite of passage for reporters, bloggers, and video trackers to go to the occupiers' tent cities and comment on what they see.
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