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  • Promoted to Headline (H4) on 8/9/09: Was Obama 'Conned' by Big Pharma or Is He Just Running a 'Protection Racket'? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Was Obama \'Conned\' by Big Pharma or Is He Just Running a \'Protection Racket\ '?'

    Was Obama 'Conned' by Big Pharma or Is He Just Running a 'Protection Racket'? 2009

  • I heard her address a minatory remark within the room to "Racket" -- most excellently described, I thought; though I discovered later that I had, in imagination, misspelt him, since he owed his name to the fact that his mother had sought her delivery on the bed of a stored tennis-net.

    The Jervaise Comedy 1910

  • Fortunately, around this time he received a letter from his brother, who told him about a secret organization called The Racket which sent secret agents into France.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • Fortunately, around this time he received a letter from his brother, who told him about a secret organization called The Racket which sent secret agents into France.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • Fortunately, around this time he received a letter from his brother, who told him about a secret organization called The Racket which sent secret agents into France.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • Fortunately, around this time he received a letter from his brother, who told him about a secret organization called The Racket which sent secret agents into France.

    Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

  • War Is A Racket was a pre-Eisenhower statement on the dangers of the unchecked military industrial complex that have now come home to roost resulting in tyranny and global suffering despite those who sought to warn us.

    As General Smedley D. Butler Said: War Is A Racket 2008

  • He wrote a good piece called War is a Racket which is amazingly relevant to our current situation.

    Don’t be a Jihad Joe! | Letter Never Sent 2001

  • For illegal immigrants, having a child born in the U.S. becomes this intentional "Racket" to residing here in this land, the ramifications in 2007 was estimated to be 380.000 children annually that taxpayers forfeited in taxes.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • For illegal immigrants, having a child born in the U.S. becomes this intentional "Racket" to residing here in this land, the ramifications in 2007 was estimated to be 380.000 children annually that taxpayers forfeited in taxes.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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