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  • My book, The Big Handout: How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live In and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills Rodale, 2011. weaves an accessible narrative that lays bare the subsidy systems and reveals just how bad subsidized-farm policies have become for our health, welfare, and foreign policy.

    Maria Rodale: Six Ways To Help End Big Farm Handouts Maria Rodale 2011

  • Storm Damage Storms Wreak Havoc Associated Press Billy Burns stands on his front porch talking to a neighbor after a tornado hit Pleasant Grove just west of downtown Birmingham on Thursday.

    Tornadoes Leave a Trail of Devastation Timothy W. Martin 2011

  • Wreak a desolation which shall slowly consume this world, inescapable, unstoppable, resistless.

    The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 4/13/09: AmazonFAIL: How Online Social Tools Can Wreak Havoc-and Repair It yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'AmazonFAIL: How Online Social Tools Can Wreak Havoc-and Repair It'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Amazon started de-listing the sales ranks for many queer, feminist and sexually informative books over the weekend, causing angry consumers to fire back with a Twitter-based campaign, pointing to a petition that received over 10,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.

    AmazonFAIL: How Online Social Tools Can Wreak Havoc-and Repair It 2009

  • Apparently Al-Qaeda's great master plan for attacking America will be to smuggle their nukes -- you know, the nukes from Iraq! hahaha -- across the Arizona desert and hope that they don't die of thirst first and then Wreak Their Evil Upon Us All, killing all good Americans in nuclear fire.

    Wingnuts on Parade Kiva Oraibi 2005

  • Apparently Al-Qaeda's great master plan for attacking America will be to smuggle their nukes -- you know, the nukes from Iraq! hahaha -- across the Arizona desert and hope that they don't die of thirst first and then Wreak Their Evil Upon Us All, killing all good Americans in nuclear fire.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Kiva Oraibi 2005

  • KOPPEL: I was trying to think of something that would be appropriate to say on an occasion like this and as is often the case the best you can come up with is something that Shakespeare wrote for Henry V, "Wreak havoc and unleash the dogs of war."

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2005 2005

  • Wreak havoc on the lives of those who will soon kill me?

    The Courage To Be Christian MIKE NAPPA 2001

  • Wreak havoc on the lives of those who will soon kill me?

    The Courage To Be Christian MIKE NAPPA 2001

  • Wreak vengeance on Natalie Arho, restore an errant husband or at least provide some dignified shelter for the night.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

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