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Military Industrial Complex US Weapons Man: F-35 Fighter Plan Was 'Acquisition Malpractice'
02-07-2012
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ABC News
The man now in charge of buying weapons for the U.S. military said that the stealth F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -- one of the most expensive defense programs in U.S. history at three quarters of $1 trillion -- was put in production so prematurely the e
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Iran Israeli Ad Mocks Iran's Nuclear Program, Mystery Explosions
02-07-2012
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ABC News (video)
The Israeli government had nothing to do with the ad.
Samsung had nothing to do with the ad.
But an ad for an Israeli cable company featuring cross-dressing Mossad agents who blow up an Iranian nuclear facility using a Samsung tablet has caused
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Transportation House Republicans’ transportation bill survives a beating in committees
02-07-2012
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Washington Post
Under the GOP plan, that trust fund money would be redirected to pay for roads and bridges. Mass transit would turn, instead, to a one-time $40 billion allocation from the general fund that would be shared with other popular programs, including bicyc
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Iran Ray McGovern: My Take
Obama’s Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran
02-07-2012 Ray Mcgovern
In a televised interview before the Super Bowl, President Obama had the chance to send a clear signal to Israel not to launch a preemptive war against Iran but instead offered ambiguous remarks that Israeli hard-liners might read as a partial green l
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Iraq U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by Half
02-07-2012
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New York Times
Less than two months after American troops left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as half the enormous diplomatic presence it had planned for Iraq, a sharp sign of declining American influence in the country.
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Activism RON PAUL Billboard on I-40 in the Arizona High Desert
02-07-2012
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Psychictaxi YouTube Channel
Seven hours each way from Phoenix with a stop in Prescott to pick up Trevor, and we're beat - but ecstatic. Take THAT, Lamestream media!
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Marriage Federal Appeals Court Overturns Prop. 8 Ban On Gay Marriage
02-07-2012
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CBS News
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued their decision Tuesday to uphold a ruling in which now-retired U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco struck down Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on gay marriage..
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Corruption Nobel peace prize jury under investigation
02-07-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize's original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed We
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Afghanistan U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
02-06-2012
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by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals. Just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “ha
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Healthcare Industry Karen Handel Drove Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood
02-07-2012
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The Huffington Post
A Komen insider told HuffPost that Karen Handel, Komen's staunchly anti-abortion vice president for public policy, was the main force behind the decision to defund Planned Parenthood and the attempt to make the decision look nonpolitical.
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Legislative Mischief Congress obviously needs to outlaw parody on the Internets
02-07-2012
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The Sideshow
House Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) made himself the target of online ridicule after confusing a spoof article about Planned Parenthood as a factual news report. An article posted to the Onion's website on headlined, "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion A
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Free Trade World Black Market Booms
02-07-2012
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www.news.yahoo.com
We all know black market goods are available all over the world, but what you may not know is that if you add up all revenue generated from un-taxed business it would equal the second largest economy of the world, behind only the United States.
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WAR See No Evil: A Strange Absolution of Obama’s Warmongering
02-07-2012
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www.chris-floyd.com
It's hard to say which is more disturbing in Patrick Cockburn's recent analysis of America’s warmongering toward Iran: his portrait of wily Jews manipulating and "bamboozling" the American power elite into acting against their own interests and good
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Economy - Economics USA The AGs Must Not Settle
02-07-2012
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arclein
A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of “robo-signing” and the attorneys general of the 50 states is pending for Monday, February 6th; but it is still not clear if all the AGs will sign. California was to get over half of the $25
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Revolution Nevada! Clark County Vote Fraud
02/7/2012
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The Intel Hub
Caucuses are a hotbed for corruption. Votes can be changed, tossed, or miscounted at almost any time in some caucus settings. Transparency has been eliminated in the process as some counties wisp their results away to a secret location to tally the v
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Archaeology Did Early Humans Ride the Waves to Australia?
02-07-2012
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arclein
Barring a smattering of genes from Neanderthals and other archaic Asian forms, all our ancestors lived in the continent of Africa until 150,000 years ago. Some time after that, say the genes, one group of Africans somehow became so good at exploiting
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Israel Obama says U.S. working ‘in lockstep’ with Israel on Iran
02-06-2012
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AFP
President Barack Obama sought to reassure Americans over the threat posed by Iran, saying the United States was working “in lockstep” with Israel to bring Tehran to heel over its suspect nuclear program.
Obama said the Islamic republic was “feelin
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Camera Fraud Red-light cameras boost coffers, rile drivers
02-06-2012
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San Francisco Chronicle
Anyone in California snapped violating a red light pays a fine of $480, and according to the traffic-watch site TheNewspaper.com, no other jurisdiction anywhere has a tab that high. The second-highest fine in the United States is $250, and it is usua
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Homeland Security Muslim man: My workplace quip made me a terror suspect
02-06-2012
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A casual text message to work colleagues encouraging them to ''blow away'' the competition at a trade show allegedly plunged a Muslim man into a terrorism probe. Telecommunications sales manager Saad Allami says the innocent message, aimed at pumping
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World News Argentina condemns British "militarization" in Falklands
02-07-2012
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Reuters
Argentina's president on Tuesday accused Britain of "militarizing the South Atlantic" and vowed to complain to the United Nations as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.
Britain and Argentina went to war over the dispu
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Palestine -- Israel Israeli court grants reprieve to abandoned Palestinian village
02-07-2012
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Washington Post
A Jerusalem court has ruled against plans to build a luxury housing development on the remains of a Palestinian village abandoned in the 1948 war that followed the establishment of Israel.
The court battle was seen as a test case for preservation
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Federal Reserve Bernanke stands firm with low-rate stance
02-07-2012
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AP
Ben Bernanke on Tuesday reiterated the Federal Reserve's plan to hold interest rates near record lows until at least late 2014. The Fed has kept its benchmark interest rate near zero for the past three years. In its policy statement in January, the F
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Criminal Justice System Prosecutors Won’t Charge Police Commissioner’s Son in Rape Accusation
02-07-2012
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New York Times
Manhattan prosecutors have decided not to file rape charges against a son of Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly after a two-week investigation of a woman’s accusation that he had attacked her inside the Lower Manhattan law office where she worked,
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Philosophy: Libertarianism Two Parties = Zero Difference
02-07-2012
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youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Mises Institute chairman and founder Lew Rockwell and Future of Freedom president Jacob Hornberger sit down with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Freedom Watch to explain how both political parties are really just two wings of the same bird of prey. Fox Bu
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Communications Young People Followed SOPA News More Than Election News
02-07-2012
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www.techdirt.com
For people who still don't recognize that there's a generational shift going on when it comes to how people view attempts to regulate the internet, communications and copyright law, they might want to start paying attention.
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Anonymous Anonymous says it will leak giant cache of Iraq war e-mails
02-07-2012
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www.washingtonpost.com
Early Friday, the FBI said that hackers from the well-known collective had intercepted and released a confidential conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard.
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Philosophy: Libertarianism The New Student Libertarian Movement
02-07-2012
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www.bleedingheartlibertarians.com
Perhaps they’re not as salient to those of you who don’t spend your days on college campuses, but Students for Liberty is pretty freakin’ amazing.
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Science, Medicine and Technology DARPA Invests In Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses
02-07-2012
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www.popsci.com
But via technology developed in part with a certain government agency, Washington-based Innovega has created a unique contact lens technology that allows the eye to focus on images projected very close to the eyes as well as objects in the real world
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World News Adam Hanieh: 'The Arab revolutions are not over'
02-07-2012
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www.links.org
The outcome of elections in Tunisia and Egypt went in favour of Islamist parties, even though the revolutions in these countries had a secular character. Islamists are also an integral part, if not the dominant force, in the revolutions in Syria, Lib
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Rule by Children
02-07-2012
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Strike the Root
Of the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, all of them, except for Ron Paul, are whores and puppets for international bankers and international corporations (I call them Cosmodemonic Transnational Megacorporations). And Paul doesn’t s
Letters to the Editor
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Written by: Joel Hirschhorn
Why am I so sick of all the media attention to the Republican presidential primaries and all the blabbering about President Obama’s advantages and disadvantages for the coming election? I just cannot get excited. My answer may also be yours: No matt
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Science, Medicine and Technology Brain Wave Decoding
02-07-2012
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arclein
These scientists have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in the brain's temporal lobe - the seat of the auditory system - as a person listens to normal conversation. Based on this correlation between sound and brain activity, they then were a
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Education: Government Schools Arizona State University unblocks Change.org after outcry
02-06-2012
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Rawstory
Arizona State University announced Saturday that it would no longer block the popular online petition website Change.org after receiving a flood of complaints from students and others.
“The university acknowledges and understands the expression of
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers Miami-Dade Cop Who Arrested Me Is A Media Spokesperson
02-06-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
The Miami-Dade police officer who had me arrested as I was covering the Occupy Miami eviction is a public information officer, meaning it is her job to deal with the media. You would think Major Nancy Perez would have known better than to single out
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Hacking, Cyber Security Hacked E-Mails "Reveal Meeting" Between Nick Griffin and Ron Paul
02-06-2012
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Political Scrapbook
Anonymous hackers infiltrated the website of the racist American Third Position Party (A3P) and an affiliated message board, WhiteNewsNow. The data dump which followed suggests Paul’s campaign team and A3P share more members than he’d like to admit.
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Politics: Libertarian Campaigns Rational Defense in a World Gone Mad - by L. Neil Smith
02-06-2012
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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Always attack in perpendicular fashion, from an unconventional and unexpected (but relevant!) direction. The enemy will be unprepared; you can strike him with your full strength while he finds nothing to attack effectively.
—L. Neil Smith
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