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		<title>Information Liberation</title>
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		   <title>David Stanley, RIP</title>
		   <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:52:06 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>I'm not quite sure how to say this, but I've just received word long time InfoLib poster David Stanley aka Dave has reportedly passed.  His girlfriend says he committed suicide two days ago on Wednesday, February 1st.  

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		   <title>FBI Uses Chainsaw To Tear Door Down In Terrifying Raid -- On Wrong Apartment</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:13:06 -0500</pubDate>
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In a scene straight out of a horror film, the FBI used a chainsaw to tear down a woman's door in a terrifying drug raid, all on the wrong apartment.  The innocent mother was ordered to the ground, all while her 3-yr-old daughter screamed in horror ...</description>
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		   <title>Skype Chats Between Megaupload Employees Recorded with a Governmental Trojan?</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:13:03 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>From CNET News:
In one exchange, MegaUpload managers fretted via Skype IM chat in 2007 that founder Kim Dotcom wasn't "safe with his money" and "the current situation is a bit risky," according to documents U.S. authorities filed with a New Zealand ...</description>
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		   <title>Panopticon Coming to a Neighborhood Near You!</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:12:59 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>    The US is fast  becoming one massive open air prison camp. Few realize that one  by one their natural rights are being stripped by the fascist "criminal"  law system. As  we've noted in the past, more than 30% of those under 23 have  been arreste...</description>
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		   <title>Feds Seize Sports Streaming Domains in New Super Bowl Crackdown</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:12:46 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>In a new round of seizures the US authorities have taken control of domain names belonging to several popular sports streaming sites including Firstrowsports.tv, Firstrowsports.com and Soccertvlive.net. All affected sites now redirect to a notice fro...</description>
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		   <title>FDA's New Claim: "Your Body Is a Drug--and We Have the Authority to Regulate It!"</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:12:27 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs--and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states!

We wish this were a joke, but it's the US Food and Dru...</description>
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		   <title>ACLU Sues for Records on Assassination of US Citizens</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:12:24 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, complaining that the Obama Administration failed to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests relating to ...</description>
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		   <title>Get Off the Road to War: Stop the Sanctions on Iran</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:12:19 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>  It would be  nice if the U.S. kept its word when it signs those international  agreements that are in some kind of accord with rights and advance  the international maintenance of rights.

     The U.S. has  not done this with Iran.

     The U...</description>
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		   <title>Ireland: Website accused of defamation is closed by judge</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:12:07 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>A JUDGE yesterday ordered a website to be shut down and said lawmakers should think about making it illegal to post "patently untrue" allegations about people on the internet.

Mr Justice Michael Peart was speaking after he granted Damien Tansey va...</description>
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		   <title>Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:11:46 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Lawsfrom the nice-little-country-you've-got-here deptNumerous Wikileaks cables have highlighted the pressure that the US has brought to bear on several foreign government...</description>
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		   <title>Pirate Bay Verdict Signals Threat Of Huge New Anti-Piracy Campaign</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:46 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Today*s Supreme Court rejection against The Pirate Bay signals the start of a new campaign targeting 150 file-sharing sites, say anti-piracy figures. A lawyer for the Hollywood movie studios says she expects Swedish sites and those providing them wit...</description>
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		   <title>Rick Santorum Hates Ron Paul's Libertarian Ideas</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:10:01 -0500</pubDate>
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Former-Senator Rick Santorum has the only consistently anti-libertarian platform in the race. He explicitly rejects Constitutionally limited government, an individual right to freedom, equal rights, the right to the pursuit of happiness, due proces...</description>
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		   <title>L.A. teacher suspected of lewd conduct keeps benefits</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:09:51 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>A teacher charged with 23 counts of lewd conduct in his classroom successfully thwarted attempts by the Los Angeles Unified School District to fire him. In the process, the teacher, who is accused of spoon-feeding his semen to blindfolded children, m...</description>
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		   <title>DEA investigates Montana state legislator for medical marijuana views</title>
		   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:09:04 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>A member of Montana's state legislature says the Drug Enforcement Agency began investigating her over support for medical marijuana laws.

State House Democrat Diane Sands tells the Missoulian she was contacted by a defense attorney with some unusu...</description>
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		   <title>The SOPA Wake-Up Call to Abolish Copyright</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:08:53 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>I*ve blogged quite a bit lately about SOPA and PIPA and the recent Internet blackouts and other protests against these bills, which threaten free speech and the open Internet (Mike Masnick et al. at Techdirt have also been great on exposing and analy...</description>
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		   <title>Currency Wars</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:08:47 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>he talk is all about jobs, jobs, jobs in Washington and on the campaign trail as the unemployment rate continues to be elevated and long-term unemployment is higher than ever. Since getting government out of the way isn't an option, late last year co...</description>
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		   <title>19 Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For In America</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:08:42 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>With each passing year, the difference between America's prisons and America's public schools becomes smaller and smaller.* As you read the rest of this article, you will be absolutely amazed at some of the crazy things that school children in Americ...</description>
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		   <title>Gingrich Staffers Attack Ron Paul Supporter in Florida</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:07:53 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Yahoo News  reports that Newt Gingrich staffers stomped on the flip-flop-wearing feet of a sign-toting Ron Paul supporter in Windermere, a small town outside of Orlando:
 Noticing the awkward optics, Gingrich aides and security personnel swarmed Dil...</description>
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		   <title>Former CIA Agent Charged Under Espionage Act For Reporting Torture</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:07:50 -0500</pubDate>
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In a recent ruling by the Justice Department, former CIA agent John Kiriakou was charged with four felony counts of espionage for discussing the torture involved in CIA's interrogation program with reporters. Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains th...</description>
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		   <title>Memphis Police Delete Photographer's Cell Phone Pictures</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:07:46 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - If you are on a public street and take pictures or video of Memphis Police with your cell phone, you could end up in the back of a squad car and your pictures could be deleted. 

ABC 24 News photographer Casey Monroe said ...</description>
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		   <title>Justice Department Backs RIAA Against Pirating Student</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:07:37 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>The Department of Justice has filed a brief siding with the RIAA in its civil case against the file-sharing student Joel Tenenbaum.The RIAA is protesting a demand from the student*s legal team, who want the court to reduce the massive $675,000 fine o...</description>
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		   <title>Pirate Bay Founders* Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:03:12 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>A few moments ago Sweden*s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay criminal trial. This means that the previously determined jail sentences and fines handed out to Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Go...</description>
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		   <title>The Pirate Bay Statement on Prison Sentences: "2012 is the Year of the Storm"</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:03:03 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Year of the storm

2012 is the year of the storm.

The Pirate Bay will reach an age of 9 years. Experiencing raids, espionage and death threats, we're still here. We've been through hell and back and it has made us tougher than ever.

The peopl...</description>
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		   <title>Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay Without A Direct Order</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:02:56 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>While some Dutch ISPs have been ordered by a court to block access to The Pirate Bay (after fighting it in court for years), the order only applied directly to two ISPs: xs4all and Ziggo.  BREIN, the local anti-piracy group, had then demanded that ot...</description>
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		   <title>Why Ron Paul Will Not Win - Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2012 Election Results</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:02:30 -0500</pubDate>
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A funny news sketch from The Onion, updated and edited by some RP supporters for 2012!...</description>
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		   <title>Under Obama, the Freedom of Information Act is Still in Shackles</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:01:13 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Three years ago this past weekend, on his first full day in office, President Barack Obama issued his now infamous memo on transparency and open government, which was supposed to fulfill his campaign promise to lead the "most transparent administrati...</description>
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		   <title>CBO: Taxes Will *Shoot Up by More Than 30 Percent* Over Next 2 Years</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:01:07 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>(CNSNews.com) - The amount of money the federal government takes out of the U.S.  economy in taxes will increase by more than 30 percent between 2012 and  2014, according to the Budget and Economic Outlook published today by  the CBO.

At the same ...</description>
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		   <title>"Police State USA": Will Grigg on LRC Radio</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:48:48 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Download 

Lew Rockwell talks to Will Grigg on the militarist de-civilization of America.
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		   <title>How Patents Have Held Back 3D Printing</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:48:33 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>The purpose of the intellectual property system that we have is to promote the progress.  When there is strong evidence that certain elements of it hold back the progress, it seems like something that should be explored.  Glyn recently wrote about th...</description>
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		   <title>Worship of the Mob</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:35:23 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Several months ago, I was visiting some friends in Sydney and was invited to the house of a friend-of-a-friend for some late night drinks and a chat. My host and his friends were left-wing bohemian types and had been informed by my friend that I am a...</description>
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		   <title>Pre-Election Euphoria</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:35:20 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>The year before a presidential election is a period of great euphoria for the American people, for this is the period of time when presidential candidates are extremely nice to the American people. 

 And why not? They*re seeking votes. They*re see...</description>
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		   <title>The Seven Lies of Robert Reich</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:35:12 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Robert Reich who was secretary of labour under Bill Clinton wrote an article that he called "The Seven Biggest Economic Lies". I intend to show the reader how deeply flawed this article is in the hopes that sound economic principles may get the atten...</description>
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		   <title>Houston Woman Says Cops Beat Her For Videotaping</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:33:20 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>HOUSTON*A mother has accused three Houston police officers of brutality.  She said they bruised and punched her in the face over a cell phone video.

Her face is bruised, left arm swollen, lips are busted in two places and her back is scarred.  Ann...</description>
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		   <title>The Past, Present and Future of Internet Censorship</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:33:11 -0500</pubDate>
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When legislators in the US abandoned their support of SOPA and PIPA in the wake of mass popular protest earlier this month, many of those who had been mobilized by the legislation*which would have granted the US government almost total power to blo...</description>
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		   <title>Gold Procrastinators: The Endless Agony</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:30:15 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>It happened    again on Wednesday, January 25. Gold shot up by $50.  

Across the    nation, a band of perpetual procrastinators thought to themselves:    "I knew! I knew! Why didn't I buy?" 

        This is    the never-ending cry of the perpet...</description>
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		   <title>Surrounded by the Achievements of Capitalism | Jeffrey A. Tucker</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:33:17 -0500</pubDate>
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Presented by Jeff Tucker at "Contemporary Issues in Economics," a high school seminar hosted at the Mises Institute and sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis, 18 November 2011....</description>
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		   <title>The State of the Union: Just Another Reality Show</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:29:45 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description> It looks just  like a reality show that*s not going to be renewed for another season.  President Obama*s State of the Union ratings are headed in the same  direction as American Idol*s so far this season * down. 

     Let me make  a secret confes...</description>
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		   <title>British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:29:40 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'.

Leigh Van Bryan, 26, was handcuffed and kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealer...</description>
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		   <title>Harvard Prof: MegaUpload Shutdown is an Attempt to Kill Technology</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:29:33 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown Bloomberg interviewed Yochai Benkler, Prof. of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Benkler criticizes the actions of the Department...</description>
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		   <title>Megaupload Users Plan To Sue... As Their Files &amp; Data Are About To Be Destroyed</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:29:24 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Soon after Megaupload was shut down, we heard from some lawyers for (legitimate) users of the service who were exploring whether or not they could sue the US government for taking away their access to the data.  There was some uncertainty as to wheth...</description>
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		   <title>Congress Woman Outraged as She is Wiretapped...But Voted for the Patriot Act</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:29:18 -0500</pubDate>
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You reap what you sow! She obviously sounds like she has a guilty conscience....</description>
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		   <title>Leon Panetta's explicitly authoritarian decree</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:29:02 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>CBS News* Scott Pelley appears to be one of the very few American journalists bothered by, or even interested in, the fact that President Obama has asserted and exercised the power to target U.S. citizens for execution-by-CIA without a shred of due p...</description>
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		   <title>Cop Block Founder Seeking Donations For Upcoming Legal Battle</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:28:47 -0500</pubDate>
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A little over a week after launching my *Defensive/Offensive* fundraiser I*m happy to announce that donations to date (1.29.12) total just over $1,200! I*m inspired and excited by the flood of supporters who*ve come to my aid on such an important i...</description>
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		   <title>Australia: Thousands of parents illegally home schooling</title>
		   <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:27:42 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>As a new school year begins, more than 50,000 Australian children will be home-schooled and in most cases, their parents are doing it illegally.

It is compulsory to send children between the ages of six and 16 to school, or register them for home ...</description>
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		   <title>60 Minutes Highlights Free Market Conservationism</title>
		   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:51:53 -0500</pubDate>
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Who knew Texas had hundreds of rare exotic animals from all over the globe?  Apparently, hunters who want to kill these exotic animals created a massive market for exotic hunting trips in the US, businessmen in turn have created massive wild life p...</description>
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		   <title>16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Americans Dependent On The Government Is At An All-Time High</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:42 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.* Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent ...</description>
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		   <title>Conning the Poor</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:40 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>The biggest con in history * bigger even than Social Security * might well be the one in which statists have conned the poor into believing that the welfare state helps them. If those at the bottom of the economic ladder were ever to realize how badl...</description>
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		   <title>Zero Percent Uber Alles</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:37 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>We are getting a sense of what life is like with the new Fed policy of openness. It means that the chairman tries to beat the world record for the longest, most-boring press conference in modern history. Ben Bernanke is getting even better at that cr...</description>
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		   <title>Waist Deep in the Big Muddy</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:25 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>With its announcement this week that it will keep interest rates near zero until at least late 2014, the Federal Reserve has put another large crack into the foundations underlying the US dollar. In a misguided attempt to provide clarity and transpar...</description>
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		   <title>Active duty cop: 'The war on drugs is a war on people'</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:23 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Speaking to Raw Story recently, an active duty police officer who asked not to be named threw down the gauntlet over the part of his job he hates most: the drug war.

*I did not get in law enforcement to destroy a person*s future because that perso...</description>
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		   <title>The Three Biggest Lies the Government Is Telling You</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:16 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>  Government  lies are legion. 

     So  many are its lies, that narrowing them down to three of the most  important is a demanding task. But our current crisis has been chiefly  enabled by monetary policy, fiscal policy, and the global military  ...</description>
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		   <title>LA porn industry moving to Vegas?</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:13 -0500</pubDate>
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Every year the porn industry rakes in $14 billion. A majority of porn is shot in the Los Angeles area, but now new regulations are jeopardizing the industry. Many feel this will be a blow to the profitable business and many believe the government s...</description>
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		   <title>Geriatric Prison Nation</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:09 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Who hasn't seen "The Shawshank Redemption" featuring aging convicts Red Redding (Morgan Freeman) and Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore)?  The movie was set in the 1940s when most prisoners were young tough guys and of course in this case the cerebral And...</description>
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		   <title>Dying Inside: Elderly in prison</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:31:07 -0500</pubDate>
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The US' massive prison population is getting older. 

Long sentences that were handed out decades ago are catching up with the American justice system.

Prisons across the country are dedicating entire units just to house the elderly.

During...</description>
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		   <title>The Chimera of Tax Fairness</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:30:52 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night President Obama played the fairness card in calling for higher taxes on upper-income people. He said:
[W]e need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of Members of Congress, pa...</description>
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		   <title>MD Gov. wants to tax apps, e-books, other downloads</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:30:49 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>ANNAPOLIS -- Marylanders might have some extra inspiration when they download "Angry Birds" to their smartphones in coming months.

The state would charge a 6 percent sales tax on virtually every downloaded product under an obscure provision in Gov...</description>
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		   <title>Obama Accused of Contempt of Court in 'Birther' Hearing</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:25:37 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>President Barack Obama was accused by prosecution lawyers of being in contempt of court after failing to show up for a *birther* hearing in Georgia that seeks to establish whether he is eligible to appear on the state ballot in November.
           ...</description>
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		   <title>ACTA - the latest threat to internet freedom, just signed by the EU</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:25:22 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Yesterday the European Union, the UK and over 20 other countries signed the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). ACTA is an international treaty, disguised as a trade agreement, whose purpose is to increase and harmonise copyrigh...</description>
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		   <title>AP Exclusive: New taste for Thai elephant meat</title>
		   <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:24:15 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>BANGKOK (AP) -- A new taste for eating elephant meat -- everything from trunks to sex organs -- has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species.

Wildlife officials told The Associated Press that they were alerted...</description>
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		   <title>European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA</title>
		   <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:05:45 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>This is interesting.  Kader Arif, the "rapporteur" for ACTA, has quit that role in disgust over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA.  A rapporteur is a person "appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue."  However, it ap...</description>
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		   <title>Security video shows police lied about Rand Paul's behavior</title>
		   <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:05:43 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>If Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was acting *irate* during a recent visit to Nashville International Airport, it certainly hid it very well.

After being briefly detained by police officers on Monday, Paul appears to be getting some vindication in the form...</description>
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		   <title>Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited</title>
		   <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:05:40 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit.

The legislation appears to have been inspired by this Web ...</description>
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		   <title>DeKalb 'Officer of Month' fired, charged with stealing from suspects</title>
		   <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:04:18 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>A DeKalb County police *Officer of the Month* who was charged with stealing from people he had arrested has been fired, the department said Thursday.

Officer Ghayth Abdul-Mughnee, on the force for four years, was arrested Wednesday on a warrant ch...</description>
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		   <title>The Alleged Serving Size Scandal</title>
		   <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:04:08 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>When you eat Oreo cookies, if you do eat Oreo cookies, how many do you eat? Three sounds sort of reasonable to me. Surely, after three, you have been "served." If I were a guest at someone's house and ate more than that, I would try to do it surrepti...</description>
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		   <title>Profits Are Socially Responsible</title>
		   <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:03:55 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Back in 1997 Gregory Bresiger penned a piece for the Free Market tearing apart the notion of "socially responsible investing" (SRI). Managers focused on social issues instead of profits will perform poorly as resources are diverted to unproductive us...</description>
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		   <title>Was This Police Shooting Justified?</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:59:55 -0500</pubDate>
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There's a ton of debate all over the interwebs over this police shooting at a Carl's Jr. in Monterey Park, California.  

The suspect was smashing the windows at the store with a crowbar before the police shot him.  *I had heard that he had gotte...</description>
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		   <title>Assume People's Forgotten Baggage Is Part of Terror Plot, Says Homeland Security Sign in NYC Subway</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:59:52 -0500</pubDate>
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Strangers are out to get you, their forgotten baggage is probably filled with explosives, "DON'T ASSUME IT WAS LEFT BY ACCIDENT" reads an ominous sign in the NYC subway as part of Homeland Security's "If you see something, say something" fear-monge...</description>
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		   <title>NYPD Admits Using Anti-Muslim Film for Training Nearly 1,500 Officers</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:59:17 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Last year, the New York Police Dept. was caught in an ugly scandal when the Village Voice reported it showed a 72-minute film titled The Third Jihad to police as a *terrorist training* video. Officials at the time downplayed the number of officers wh...</description>
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		   <title>DOJ Wants to Know Who's Rejecting Your Friend Requests</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:59:13 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>In the latest turn in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records related to the government's use of social networking websites, the Department of Justice finally agreed to release almost 100 pages of new records. These include draft se...</description>
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		   <title>Contrary to Widespread Claims, There Is NO EVIDENCE that Iran Is Building a Nuclear Weapon</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:58:31 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Iran Is NOT Building a Nuclear Bomb

Earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said:
Are they [the Iranians] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they*re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that*s what conce...</description>
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		   <title>The Statist of the Union</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:58:10 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Unsurprisingly, President Obama*s campaign speech masquerading as the routine address to Congress, spelled out in the Constitution and known as the State of the Union, was saturated with every prevalent form of modern American statism--protectionism,...</description>
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		   <title>Peter Schiff on The REAL State of the Union</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:58:08 -0500</pubDate>
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		   <title>Limbaugh: Ron Paul "Sounds Like An Islamic Terrorist"</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:56:51 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>Slime time radio host Rush Limbaugh took to the  air yesterday and declared that GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul *sounds like  an Islamic terrorist*.

Limbaugh was commenting on the incident involving  Congressman Paul*s son, Senator Rand Paul,...</description>
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		   <title>Drowning In Hypocrisy</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:56:59 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>The US government  is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature  of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed  CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors  on the USS Enterprise, an air...</description>
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		   <title>"This was my 'draw a political cartoon' assignment"</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:56:43 -0500</pubDate>
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An awesome drawing by redditor webslingga via r/pics...</description>
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		   <title>Marine to serve no time for killing 24 Iraqi civilians</title>
		   <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:53:41 -0500</pubDate>
		   <description>A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 was demoted but will serve no time behind bars, a judge ruled, as locals in Iraq condemned the light sentence.

Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who led an eight-man squad whose other members ...</description>
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