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Should Animals Have Rights?
• Phoenix ObjectivistsFor their second October meeting to be held on Thursday the 29th, after watching a lecture by Tibor Machan on DVD, Phoenix Objectivists will discuss and debate the issue of animal rights.
Genesis 4
• arcleinIt would be as if we terraformed Venus and then prepared a group of colonists to occupy Venus who knew nothing of us. This is the story been told. It is not creditable that this story was created by a people who confronted every day with a spear i
Let’s Pass the Hat to Finish Rio Nuevo Gardens
• http://papatodd.comThe genius think-tank that is the Tucson City Council outdoes themselves again. After they blew through millions of taxpayer dollars to fund Rio Nuevo and left us with nothing but a big hole in the ground, Mayor Bob and the seven dwarfs (I put Mike
Stimulating the Stimulus? Stimulus 2.0? You Be the Judge
• Pro PublicaToday’s roundup of stimulus coverage: So, what’s really in a name? The Senate is on the verge of dropping another $20 billion on jobless benefits for the unemployed and an extended, expanded tax credit for homebuyers
Watchdog: Treasury and Fed failed in AIG oversight
• GoogleTreasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is "ultimately responsible" for regulators' failure to rein in massive bonus payments at American International Group because he led the agencies that provided AIG's lifelines, according to a bailout watchdog.
Taxpayers foot bill for missing items
• PoliticoAbout once a month, Rep. Robert Brady gets a special request from a fellow lawmaker.Should he or she personally cover the cost of a missing office item, or should taxpayers? With every such request in the past year, Brady has decided to let taxpa
Wall Street on Track to Award Record Pay
• WSJ & VideoEven as the economy is sluggish and unemployment approaches 10%, these firms have been boosted by a stronger stock market, thawing credit market, a resurgence in deal making and the continuing effects of various government aid programs.
Foreclosures Hit All-Time High
• The Business InsiderForeclosures hit another all-time high in Q3 with almost 938,000 homeowners filing, according to Realty Trac
Bank Lobbyists Are Not Only Trying to Kill NEW Legislation, They Are Trying to Weaken EXISTING Regul
• Zero HedgeEveryone knows that the lobbyists for the financial giants are trying to kill any tough new regulations. But they are also trying to weaken existing regulations.
Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicine
• NaturalNews.comPrepare to have your world rocked. What you're about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You're about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly w
Is The Bloom Coming Off The Rose?
• The Market TickerCitibank and Goldman reported this morning and both put up what looked at first blush to be better-than-expected numbers.But both sold off in the premarket. Why? Put more generally, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch", or TANSTAAFL. The "st
Global Police Seek More Power
• The New AmericanDuring a conference in Singapore this week, delegates to the Interpol-United Nations meeting agreed: the budding global police force needs more power.
Foreclosures rise 5 percent from summer to fall
• APThe number of households caught up in the foreclosure crisis rose more than 5 percent from summer to fall as a federal effort to assist struggling borrowers was overwhelmed by a flood of defaults among people who lost their jobs. (Duh!)
You Will Get Health Insurance at DMV—Literally (It’s in the Bill)
• cns newsIn the future, Americans will be offered the convenience of getting their health insurance at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Terrorists have WMDs
• arclein“They already have,” the defense contractor said. Then he told the story of how, just last January, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had bungled a WMD experiment using bubonic plague. From the Telegraph and other sources around Jan 19, 200
Bakken in Canada
• arcleinMulti-frac horizontals are a "game changer" for oil and gas drilling because of their potential to increase recoveries from established plays. The technology is unlocking tens of thousands of barrels of oil per day in Canada and hundreds of thousands
Government Is Actively Spooking Money Market Fund Shareholders
• Economic Policy JournalWhat the hell is this about? A member of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, a.k.a. The Plunge Protection Team, is out spooking investors.
Finding New Homes for Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners
• Future of Freedom FoundationThe government was afraid of releasing the Yemenis (even though they had been cleared for release) because Guantánamo itself might have radicalized [them], exposing [them] to militants and embittering [them] against the United States,” and I should a
Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn (VIDEO)
• HuffPoA group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration. David Bronner, the president of Dr.
Orly Taitz Responds To Judge's $20k Fine: Shove It!
• TPM MuckraskerReached on her cell phone by TPMmuckraker and informed of the $20,000 fine imposed on her by a federal judge this morning, Birther attorney Orly Taitz responded, first, with laughter. "So he didn't recuse himself?" Taitz asked, after letting out a
Ron Paul on Freedom Watch MSNBC &CNN
• You TubeYou Tube description The Judge talks to Dr Paul about HR 1207 and scumbag Lindsey Graham
Health bills would mandate children's dental coverage
• McClatchy NewsPediatric dental care, which has long been a concern of children's health advocates, would get a major boost from each of the pending national health overhaul proposals, as all call for expanding coverage. "The silver lining of all this heated deb
Report calls for global U.N. pact to ban organ sales
• Reuters"We affirm as a primary principle no financial gain [for the donor] should be coincident with obtaining organs and tissues for transplant," University of Pennsylvania academic Arthur Caplan, one of the report's authors, told a news conference.
Faced with a deep recession, Cuba tries socialism lite
• Miami HeraldSince he took office early last year, Raúl Castro has been saying that the country's severely battered economy needs fixing. In a widely quoted August speech, Castro said Cuba was spending more than it made. "Nobody, no individual nor country, can
Hey, libertarians! Politics makes you stupid.
• Brad SpanglerIt’s rather easy to see that anarchists active in the Libertarian Party are pretty much operatively minarchists with regard to their electoral political activism. An anarchist who may have escaped from the trap that is a political party may still win
Jury: Police Had Right To Beat Suspects
• RadGeekThe three suspects, because they eluded police, fell under the guidelines that justified the actions of the 20 officers who beat the three men on camera in a 14-minute video shot by Fox 29.
Few answers in kid's police shooting death
• News-Gazette (h/t The Agitator)Members of the black community mourned one boy's death and called for another 15-year-old to be released from juvenile detention. The boy's were in a home they had permission to be in. The cop's gun went off all on its own say cops.
Support Your Global Police? - by Will Grigg
• Pro LiberateWhen last we checked in with Ronald Noble, he was enjoying a lucrative career as a reward for helping cover up a crime against humanity in which he was deeply implicated. In 1994 a position that appears to have been created especially for him by then
BREAKING: Oh Yeah! - Dr. Orly Taitz Esq. - Standing v Obama + Felonies
• nationalwriterssyndicate.comObama’s identity, employment, and residence information. The use of a multitude of social security numbers alone is indicative that Mr. Obama appears to have committed a substantial number of felony violations
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