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5. Welcome to Orwell's nightmare.

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 09:29 PM

Oct 2013

Aka, the "fourth estate."

Bought and paid for by the idle, gilded class in the good old US of A.

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Man sets himself on fire at National Mall 'over government shutdown' [View all] HipChick Oct 2013 OP

Oh, dear God. RavensChick Oct 2013 #1

"it appears" "if it turns out" That would be called speculation Cerridwen Oct 2013 #3

those words have no place in a news story FirstLight Oct 2013 #4

Welcome to Orwell's nightmare. Cerridwen Oct 2013 #5

agree lunasun Oct 2013 #7

Same here. n/t cynatnite Oct 2013 #12

There could well be circumstantial evidence pointing to Pretzel_Warrior Oct 2013 #14

Is it Tunisia yet? malaise Oct 2013 #6

It's happening. JaneyVee Oct 2013 #8

"early speculation"--stop right there. nt truebluegreen Oct 2013 #9

"If it turns out to be a self-inflicted ignition..." ScreamingMeemie Oct 2013 #10

Really sad, after what happened yesterday.... KoKo Oct 2013 #11

Oh come on. That's three sequential "if's" there Recursion Oct 2013 #15

What a horribly written article. Connie_Corleone Oct 2013 #16