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Weekend Reading Time!

By Tamahome Jenkins · November 28, 2009

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I trust you’ve had a good holiday. I’ve taken the last couple of days off for it, so this week there’s a short list. See you on Monday!

Wikileaks publishes 500,000 pager messages sent on 9/11 – Wikileaks, the 21st century whistleblower hotline, has released a half a million pager messages that were sent on September 11, 2001. Anybody can see them, and the hope is that it will shed some light on the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. I’ve said before that certain things just don’t add up, and it looks like this will be the closest thing to an actual investigation we’ll get.
How to hide an airplane factory – During World War II, the United States found an ingenious way to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant. Who would thought that a really big tarp with the picture of a town on it could do the trip.
Frontline: A Class Divided – The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered, an Iowa schoolteacher gave her third-grade students a lesson in discrimination. The reactions are powerful, and according to Frontline, the documentary that followed is the most request video in its history.
3 Weird Disasters Involving Food – Mental Floss, that weekly weekend assignment staple, has an interesting post on three foods that committed mass murder.
10 Great Moments in U.S. (Political) History – Kinda speaks for itself.