Faux Conservatives Smear Ron Paul Ahead Of Iowa Run InWith the latest polls showing Ron Paul within touching distance of the lead in Iowa with less than three weeks to go to the caucus, the phony conservative big guns have set about a desperate campaign to smear the Congressman, for fear that he could actually win.
Appearing on on Fox News Channel's "On the Record with Greta van Sustren" on Wednesday night, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh lambasted Paul, claiming that “right now anybody other than Ron Paul could beat O... (more)
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Parents Sue After Teen Dies During Wisdom Tooth SurgeryVERY interesting info on the pointlessness of wisdom teeth extraction. |
Send In The Drones: The Predator State Goes Domestic“Eventually, we’ll have to put an end to this, one way or another.”
Sheriff Kelly Janke of North Dakota’s Nelson County uttered that ominous sentence in mid-September, during what the local media giddily described as a stand-off with local farmer Rodney Brossart and his family. B... (more)
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BBC Faked Polar Bear Footage re Climate AlarmismAs if the climate alarmist scams revealed in Climategate I and Climategate II were not enough, not to mention the deliberate misrepresentations in Al Gore’s propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, we now learn that the BBC faked a key scene in the £16 million, seven-part TV series, Frozen Planet... (more)
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Consumers Don't "Create Jobs": Reisman vs. BlodgetGeorge Reisman, professor emeritus of economics at Pepperdine University responds to a recent article by Henry Blodget at Business Insider.
Dear Mr. Blodget:
I've read your article "Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs."
In a capitalist economy, the wealth of the rich is in the form of capital, i.e., wealth e... (more)
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MF Global's Fractional ReservesJon Corzine told the House Agriculture Committee, "I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date." The public is outraged that the former CEO of bankrupt global financial-derivatives broker and prime dealer in US Treasury securities MF Global doesn't know where the missing $1.2 billion in client funds went.
Corzine is the member a few e... (more)
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Inside Wukan: the Chinese village that fought back
For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.
The last of Wukan’s dozen party officials fled on Monday after thousands of people blocked... (more) Video here |
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Gold Falls $80/oz, Down Over $125/oz In Last 3 Days
Gold fell after the Fed “statement failed to hint at further quantitative easing despite acknowledging slowing global growth,” Suki Cooper, an analyst at Barclays Capital in New York, wrote in a report. - Bloomberg News
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35 Shocking Facts That Prove College Has Become A Giant Money Making ScamCollege education in America is a bad joke. Instead of preparing the next generation of leaders for the jobs of tomorrow, the college education "industry" has become a giant money making scam. We constantly preach to our high school students that they "need" to go to college and we tell them to not even worry about how much it is going to cost because a college education is "always" worth the money. Then we lend them outrageous amounts of money so that they can pay the gigantic... (more)
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Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPAWikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wants to blank out all pages of the online encyclopedia to oppose the pending SOPA anti-piracy bill in the US. Wales, who has asked the Wikipedia community for input on the idea, fears the bill could seriously hurt the Internet and thinks that blanking out Wikipedia will send a strong message to lawmakers.
Later this week, the Senate’s House Judiciary Committee will vote on the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA).
Supporte... (more)
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Rupert Murdoch Personally Lobbies Congress For SOPA And PROTECT IPWell, well. Apparently dealing with the fallout from the News of the World reporters hacking into phones in the UK isn't keeping Rupert Murdoch busy enough. He showed up in DC last week to make a personal plea to Congress to support SOPA and PIPA and censor the internet. It's been clear for quite some time that Rupert Murdoch doesn't get the internet. His his... (more)
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Ron Paul: Defense Bill Establishes Martial Law In AmericaTop tier presidential candidate Ron Paul has decried the ‘indefinite detention’ provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, warning that it represents an arrogant, bold and dangerous attempt to establish martial law in America.
Speaking with the Alex Jones Show today, Congressman Paul went on the offensive against the bill, which is set to be signed into law by President Obama later this week.
Section 1031 of the NDAA bill, which itself defines ... (more)
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US calls for ban on in-car phone use ... even with BluetoothThe government's transportation safety experts recommended Tuesday to ban all American drivers from using portable electronic devices — including cellphones, even if you use a hands-free device.
The recommendation, which isn't binding but which is likely to influence the decisions of Congress and state legislatures in writing new safety laws, makes only two exceptions: You could still use GPS navigation devices, and you could use your cellphone in an emergency.
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Florida: Broward Considers Airport Body Scanner BanFORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami.com) – In the wake of most countries in Europe vowing to stop using full-body scanners at airports; the Broward County Commission is looking into banning the scanners from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
The ban would be in place until the scanners have scientifically been proven safe for passengers.
The Commission is expected to take up the issue Tuesday and the TSA will have a spokesperson there to argue for the gov... (more)
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In U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' concerns about the threat of big government continue to dwarf those about big business and big labor, and by an even larger margin now than in March 2009. The 64% of Americans who say big government will be the biggest threat to the country is just one percentage point shy of the record high, while the 26%... (more)
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Swiss firm: Don't use our drugs for US executionsBasel-based pharmaceuticals company Naari has issued an impassioned plea to the US state of Nebraska to return drugs that could be used to kill prisoners on death row.
"Naari did not supply these medicines directly to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and is deeply opposed to the use of the medications in executions," CEO Prithi Kochhar wrote in a letter addressed to Nebraska Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Heavican. He also sent the letter to Nebraska Attorney... (more)
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Police Face No Punishment After Flash-Banging & Severely Burning Innocent Mother In Illegal No-Knock RaidPolice in Minneapolis will face no punishment after flash-banging an innocent mother in a "botched" drug raid. Responding to a bogus "tip" the police received, the cops got a judge to sign off on a warrant to search for drugs in the woman's home. The police failed to read the warrant and realize it did not authorize a no-knock raid, so they busted into the home without warning and threw a flash-grenade at an innocent mother of two. She was so severely burned by the flash-grenade, which burns ... (more)
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Police State Mercenaries Ruin More Lives Than They ProtectI like to think of myself as a pleasant and easy going person, but I just couldn’t help from being overcome with rage and disgust as I sat in my grimy holding cell this past Friday. The legal fees, the hassles, the boredom and the fact that I probably just lost my job definitely had me upset, but it was just the blatant corruption of the situation that I found to be absolutely sickening. The sheer arrogance and hubris exhorted by the mercenaries that were holding me and several others ho... (more)
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San Jose's $100,000 pension club: Analysis shows startling jump in six-figure pensions for retired cops, firefighters & bureaucratsWith San Jose leaders locked in a heated debate over how to curb retirement costs, an analysis by this newspaper shows a startling jump in six-figure pensions for retired cops, firefighters and top City Hall bureaucrats.
Nearly 1 in 3 retired San Jose police officers and firefighters now receive annual pensions of $100,000 or more -- up from 1 in 5 just two years ago, according to newly released records.
An increasing number of city workers are calling it quits to t... (more)
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MPAA Boss: If The Chinese Censor The Internet Without A Problem, Why Can't The US?The MPAA is getting pretty desperate, it seems. MPAA boss Chris Dodd was out trying to defend censoring the internet this week by using China as an example of why censorship isn't a problem. It's kind of shocking, really. "When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites." Is t... (more)
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Four police officers suspended after colleagues complain they 'stole cash from street beggars'A police force has launched an investigation into its own officers after claims that they took cash from street beggars.
Four West Midlands Police officers were suspended and sent home on December 1 after suspicious colleagues raised concerns about their conduct.
The force's Professional Standards Unit was then called in to investigate claims that money was stolen from beggars, believed to be Eastern European, in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham.
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Planking Spree: Wisconsin Resident Convicted for Disorderly ConductWisconsin resident Alexander Hart, 19, who went on a planking spree that included lying atop a police squad car, a bank ATM machine and merchandise displays at Wal-Mart and Lowe's stores, was convicted this week for disorderly conduct.
[...] The photographs posted on Hart's Facebook page, earlier this year, as well as incriminating YouTube videos were used as evidence against him, in a municipal court in Manitowoc. Hart plans to contest his conviction, saying he was just having fu... (more)
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A Fast and Furious String of Government FailuresUS Attorney General Eric Holder is in hot water again over Operation Fast and Furious, in which federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives lost track of hundreds of guns they had encouraged firearms dealers to sell to suspected traffickers. It's the big sequel to BATFE's Operation Wide Receiver in which multiple guns were sold to suspected cartel buyers under BATFE surveillance in 2006 and 2007.
But the plot thickens, and goes in a direction that p... (more)
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Taxation by CitationYears ago, at its inception, the Internal Revenue Service, was duly deputized as the primary government agency responsible for collecting all personal and business taxes. The IRS, as it is referred to by most, has, over the years, grown into a mammoth operation. Steadily and methodically expanding, and with the use of new technology, has become very, very proficient at keeping track of what working Americans earn, and conversely, how much earnings should be returned to feed the king&rsqu... (more)
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