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• Spoofing on Tragedy -

  William Henderson is reporting that there are fraudsters posting fake messages on the Internet who are pretending to be the Sandy Hook school shooter.
  
  I have lived through a number of these school shootings, shopping mall shootings, and similar events. The Mainstream American Media has settled into a [...]
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• Witness #8 Speaks -

  A Discovery Hearing was held yesterday morning in the Sanford Shooting Case which I watched on the InSession TV program. The most interesting part of their coverage for me was the material about Dee Dee.
  
  First, they played the recording which was given to Defense; it was unintelligible and [...]
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• Miami: Chasing Bygone Lights -

  The Miami Herald building has been denied landmark preservation status; it will be demolished. The property was sold by McClatchy to the Genting Group.
  
  "The building became home to The Miami Herald when the newspaper outgrew its original building, and it became the birthplace of El Nuevo Herald," [...]
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• SoFlo Local Notes -

  For the rest of us . . .
  
  Some people have become fed up with the over-commercialization of the winter holidays, while others have become antagonized by the proliferation of cultural diversity gestures lately. For the sake of those who are disgruntled, disaffected or just plain grumpy, one gutsy rebel [...]
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• Sanford Cache-Cache --

  George Zimmerman Case --
  
  The true identity of Witness #8, who has been nicknamed Dee Dee for this case, is being protected by the Court. I don't feel I need to know her true identity, but she has been such a nebulous presence so far that she doesn't seem [...]
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• Mammary Miami News -

  In Miami's latest bid to recreate pre-Castro Havana sleaze here on the Florida peninsula, it seems like anything connected to prostitution is irresistibly attractive, whether it's boob enhancement surgical procedures or soft porno production.
  
  Thus, with a gambling casino on its way to replace their newspaper building, all [...]
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• During Austerity or Disorder -

  Does anyone still remember
  Inspector Fabian of Scotland Yard?
  
  I must admit that he had faded almost completely from my memory until I came across this book review.
  
  Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami is a True Crime account of a real life murder reconstructed [...]
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• The Dee Dee MacGuffin -

  Trayvon Martin Shooting . . .
  
  Has this witness been suborned?
  
  Don West from the George Zimmerman Defense Team has done due diligence by initiating an investigation into the authentication of Witness #8 aka Dee Dee, who remains a murky presence in this case due to lack of [...]
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• Writing Thru The Funky Blues -

  A landmark newspaper strike
  in the early Sixties presaged the
  trouble the American Press is in today . . .
  
  I had been a very active student journalist under the aegis of Columbia J School no less as background to the event when I found myself in the [...]
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• The Last Orange -

  Who Lost Miami?
  
  Miami's Big Orange icon is being renamed La Gran Naranja this New Year’s Eve, leaving many North Americans in SoFlo feeling disgruntled. It's the end of an era.
  
  # Another case of rental ambiguity.
  This is only the tip of a [...]
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