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Krugman Cassandra http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/what-profit-hath-a-man-of-all-his-labor/

Elizabeth Warren for taxes http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm185/Ultimoron/EWarrenquote.jpg

Istanbul: 4th city for billionaires? http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0329/billionaires-2010-hong-kong-new-york-london-cost-of-living-large.html

Go to the bathroom wrong, get a fighter escort http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/09/f-16s-scrambled-due-to-inappropriate-bathroom-use.html

Israel's appropriation of water from Palestinians http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/water.html

Obama pisses on Palestinians http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/obama-united-nations-speech.html "But, he said, Palestinians must make peace with Israel before gaining statehood themselves." Yeah, because Israel's been really working toward that.

Annotated response to Obama's "no actual progress for you" speech: http://www.cnas.org/blogs/abumuqawama/2011/09/pres-obamas-speech-general-assembly.html

Jewish Israeli terrorism http://www.haaretz.com/news/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-of-the-bat-ayin-underground-1.206876
Club an Arab child to death, get six months community service http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jan/22/israel

How do you define 'wealthy'? http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/09/20/324037/wealthy-people-have-a-different-view-of-who-the-wealthy-people-are-from-the-rest-of-us/

SSL TLS 1.0 hacked http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/

GOP to Fed: let economy fail. http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/stan-collender/2372/gop-fed-let-economy-fail

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/business/obamas-tax-on-millionaires-faces-obstacles.html?src=recg&pagewanted=all
"In 2009, 238,000 households filed returns with adjusted gross incomes of at least $1 million. One-quarter of them paid an effective federal income tax rate of less than 15 percent, the data shows, and 1,470 paid no federal income tax at all."

http://www.cracked.com/article_19433_the-6-most-horrifying-lies-food-industry-feeding-you.html
http://civileats.com/2009/05/06/freshly-squeezed-the-truth-about-orange-juice-in-boxes/
http://www.slashfood.com/2011/01/24/fake-blueberries-in-cereals-baked-goods/

Man, I love self-describing URLs.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/09/19/rats-not-recklessness-may-have-done-easter-islanders-in/

History: genocide in Bangladesh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Liberation_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_telegram#The_Blood_telegram