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Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature US flags into piles of dog poo in public parks.

"We have sent out extra patrols to try to catch whoever is doing this in the act," said police spokesman Reiner Kuechler.

"But frankly, we don't know what we would do if we caught them red handed."

Legal experts say there is no law against using faeces as a flag stand and the federal constitution is vague on the issue.

People in many areas are being told that if they don’t vote- Sunnis and Shia alike- the food and supply rations we are supposed to get monthly will be cut off. We’ve been getting these rations since the beginning of the nineties and for many families, it’s their main source of sustenance. What sort of democracy is it when you FORCE people to go vote for someone or another they don’t want?

The total number of votes cast was 115.7 million. To get the number of

eligible voters, take the census data shown in the first reference

above for 1990-2000 and extrapolate to 2004. This gives 213.8 million

eligible voters in 2004. 

It starts when the Bush administration tells Fox News to report unsourced, unsupported rumors about an individual or institution. Fox News repeats these rumors over and over again, with increasing frequency and urgency over two or three weeks' time. Then the president makes a statement that alludes in a subtle, usually non-committal, way to the rumors Fox News has been reporting. When the president makes a statement, that's news, and it forces the rest of the media to explain what he is alluding to. In that way the rumors become news in the mainstream press, and people start to believe them to be factual. See how simple that is? The president can get the American press to report as fact anything--anything--he wants them to say, no matter how outlandish, without ever being identified as the source....
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