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Corruption SC gov faces 37 charges he broke state ethics laws
11-23-2009
AP
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford faces ethics charges he broke state laws more than 3 dozen times by violating rules on airplane travel and campaign money. Sanford's lawyers claim the allegations involve minor and technical aspects of the law.
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Activism Libertarian inebriates, unite!
11-23-09
Daniel Heller
All right all of you unholy degenerate lovers of libertyits time to get our drink on! Liberty on the Rocks! is meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday, November 24th, from 6:00-9:00 pm at Montis La Casa Vieja on Mill Ave.
Daniel Heller
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Economy - Economics USA Dollar Slump Persisting as Top Analysts See No Bottom
11-23-2009
Bloomberg
The most accurate dollar forecasters predict the worlds reserve currency will continue sliding even when the Federal Reserve begins to raise interest rates, which policy makers say is an extended period away.
Standard Chartered Plc, Aletti Gest
Global Edition Letters to the Editor
Healthcare "Inflamed Natural Paranoia" and pre existing "Constitutional Rights" of Insanity
Written by: Max Woody Media-ocre
Its hilarious how the pre-existing condition of "inflamed natural paranoia" is now completely taking over "logical thought processes of the reporter Michael Boldin of this mis-information agenda and false echo report. Saying this "healthcare bill i
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Healthcare Big PHARMA's U.S. Dollar has No Value or business being used within the Senate..
Written by: Max Woody Media-ocre
Its too bad the Republicans "slowed talked" and "slow walked" this entire issue for over 37 weeks with lies and disinformation such as Senators KYL and MCPain. The NO voting Republican Senators protecting the BIG Pharma "no competition allowed" attit
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Employment & Jobs Rising unemployment taxes could hinder hiring
11-23-2009
AP
As if small businesses needed another reason not to hire, consider their latest financial burden: The cost of rising unemployment itself. It's forcing higher state taxes on companies to pay for unemployment insurance claims.
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Arizona's Top News Massage businesses vanish during crackdown
11-23-2009
East Valley Tribune
As many as half the massage establishments in Mesa may have shuttered their doors since police began a crackdown on illicit activity two months ago.
The vanishing businesses are a result of police arresting employees on prostitution charges and is
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Sexuality Spray May Delay Ejaculation
11-23-2009
HealthDay
[stock tip] A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a second study, according to the company that developed it.
PSD502 -- which combines the drugs lidocaine and prilocaine -- is sprayed on
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Science, Medicine and Technology Solar Water Cleansing
11-23-2009
arclein
The Sun's rays, combined with photocatalysts, can be used to destroy pollutants dissolved in water. Many pollutants are removed from the water by this photochemical cleaning process, very efficiently and, using sunlight as the energy source, also in
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Criminal Justice System 9/11 defendants want platform for views
11-22-2009
NY Times
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali
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Arizona's Top News Illegal housing bidding on rise
11-22-2009
Arizona Republic
Prices on some foreclosure homes are being dropped below the opening bid just hours or even minutes before the auction. Buyers aware of the "drop bids" scoop up the houses before other bidders know about the price drops.
Drop bids violate the stat
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Science, Medicine and Technology Thousands of strange creatures found deep in ocean
11-22-2009
AP
The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive dumbos that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.
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Currencies What Has Government Done to the Dollar?
11-22-2009
DollarDaze (h/t Strike the Root)
The U.S. dollar has changed from being a paper certificate for a tangible asset to a fiat currency - a paper note declared legal tender. By looking at the history of American paper money one can clearly see the distinction.
The following image sho
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops
11-22-2009
BoingBoing (h/t Strike The Root)
DJs at local underground parties have been losing their laptops to police raids - even when they're not DJing. They're being told that they'll lose their laptops - and often their livelihood - for an indefinite period of time, with no information on
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Torture Taser manufacturer recommends use on genitals
11-22-2009
Wendy McElroy
Taser International, in the users manual that comes with every Taser, states the following, application of the Taser to the genitals is PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE. Taser openly encourages the use of the weapon on the groin. For the stun gun mode, or
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Internet Britain's Obercomputenfόhrer
11-22-2009
Wendy McElroy
If the US is proposing draconian rules to implement the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, it's nothing compared to the British proposal....an unelected official with the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight in the name of protectin
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New World Order We Have The Advantage
11-22-2009
DishonestMoney.com
Taking a serious look at government wrongdoing is no easy task. Not because the damning evidence is hard to find, but because the truth (once found) is very hard to swallow. How does one reconcile the fact that we are being led into slavery (and to s
Joe Plummer
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Climate Change Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
11-22-2009
Wendy McElroy
The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia as evidence that scientific data have been rigged to make it appear as if humans are causing global warming.
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States' Rights Enough is Enough!
11-22-2009
Walt Garlington
I am no revolutionary, but if Congress is intent on passing an unconstitutional healthcare bill despite repeated requests not to, I say we should be equally intent on not obeying it.
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Michael Boldin
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Currencies ICE probing spike in dollar index futures
11-22-2009
Market Watch
The lead contract surged as high as 82.18, up from 75.38 close on Thursday. Such a move was improbable given that in spot market, the dollar's moves against major currencies such as the euro was limited to about 1%.
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Science, Medicine and Technology Nice Talking to You
11-22-2009
arclein
By the end of last year there were an estimated 4.1bn mobile subscriptions, up from 1bn in 2002. That represents six in 10 of the world's population, although it is hard to make a precise calculation about how many people actually use mobile phones.
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History The Real History of Thanksgiving and the Important Thanksgiving Message that Never Gets Told!
11-23-09
www.LCLReport.com
We discuss the real history behind the first Thanksgiving and we explore an extremely important Thanksgiving message that never gets told! Please Share this with your Family!
Tarrin Lupo
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Corruption Cuomo Took Campaign Cash From Lawyers With Matters Before Him
11-23-2009
Bloomberg
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomos campaign fund took tens of thousands of dollars from law firms representing clients his office investigated or accused of wrongdoing, state records show. [That's how fundraising is done.]
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MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM) Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact
11-23-2009
Financial Times
Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to de-index its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper indust
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Media: Print Newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks
11-23-2009
AP
While US newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies have their circulation rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies. New auditing rules made it easier for newspapers to count a reader as a paying customer.
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Arizona's Top News Would you pay a toll to beat traffic?
11-23-2009
Arizona Republic
Solo drivers on Interstate 10 could soon zip past traffic by paying a toll to use the carpool lane if a prediction by former U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters proves right.
She says high-occupancy toll, or HOT, lanes on I-10 could soon be
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers ME: Teen killed by NYC police was shot 11 times (from behind)
11-23-2009
AP
A teenager killed by NYC police over the weekend was shot 11 times. Dashawn Vasconcellos, 18, died of gunshot wounds to the torso, neck and extremities. Police fired a total of 14 times. Vasconcellos had 3 gunshot wounds in the middle of his back, fi
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Precious Metals Gold hits record above $1,167/oz as dollar slips
11-23-2009
Reuters
Gold hit a record high at $1,167.45 an ounce on Monday as dollar weakness pushed the metal through key technical resistance levels, fuelling momentum buying after the metal's sharp run higher earlier this month.
Spot gold was bid at $1,165.45 an o
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Energy PetroBakken THAI Update
11-23-2009
arclein
This project will highlight the applicability of the THAI technology in Saskatchewan's conventional heavy oil resource base. We believe that a significant portion of the Province's estimated 20 billion barrels of unrecovered conventional heavy oil
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Climate Change Global Warming Geology
11-23-2009
arclein
The beginning of the current global warming era started at the zenith of the last ice age, some 13,000 years ago, which leads us to believe we are a little more that halfway through the earths current warming cycle (of 25,000 years).
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Federal Reserve Fed under fire as public anger mounts
11-22-2009
AP
Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag.
Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say.
The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
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Criminal Justice System Terrorism Trial May Point Way for 9/11 Cases
11-22-2009
NY Times
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, suspected of being a Qaeda terrorist, was captured in Pakistan in 2004, held in secret prisons run by the C.I.A. and then moved to the naval base at Guantαnamo Bay. During about five years of detention, he says, he was confine
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Drug War Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops
11-22-2009
Reuters
Licensed Californian collectives that adhere to the rules say legitimate operations like theirs are being sucked into a sweep against what local prosecutors deem rogue pot shops.
"We are low-hanging fruit for the cops," said the manager of a West
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Obama Administration Obama Signed a Contract with the Chicago Socialist Party
10/08/08
tpo.net
Everything on the Post Below is Hyperlinked to a site within the Chicago Democratic party archives, there is no conjecture, no guessing, The fact is that as recently as 1996 Senator Obama was an active member of the Chicago Democratic Socialist Party
Anonymous Watchman
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Homeland Security Shortage Slows a Program to Detect Nuclear Bombs
11-22-2009
NY Times
The Department of Homeland Security spent $230 million to develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but had to stop because the United States has run out of a crucial raw material, experts say.
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Climate Change In the trenches on climate change, hostility for foes
11-22-2009
Washington Post
Newly disclosed private exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual circle that appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its enemies.
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Law Enforcers or Peace Officers Brotherhood of Plunder: Snapshots of America's Criminal Oligarchy - by Will Grigg
11-22-2009
Pro Liberate
Frustrated when his demand didn't reduce Hills to a puddle of compliant jello, Cohen -- a police sergeant placed Hills under arrest, handcuffed him, and detained him until the businessman signed a promissory note to repay Marinilli.
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Economy - International Bets rise on rich country bond defaults
11-22-2009
Financial Times
The mounting level of debt in the industrialised world is prompting a growing number of investors to use the derivatives market to bet on the chance of rich governments defaulting on bonds. The volume of activity in sovereign credit default swaps
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Government Can the Postal Service be Saved?
11-22-2009
CBS News
The Postal Service is legally prohibited from taking tax dollars. But in order to stay afloat, the agency has been borrowing from the US Treasury: At last count, it owes the government $10.2 billion. It lost $3.8 billion in the recent year
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Healthcare How the Senate Bought the First Healthcare Vote
11-22-2009
Washington Post
And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor midafternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote -- and to trumpet the financial "fix" she had arranged for Louisiana. "It's not a $100 million fix. It's a $300 million fix."
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Vaccines and Vaccinations Did U.S make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?
11-22-2009
Reuters
As U.S. health officials struggle to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans against the pandemic of swine flu, some are looking regretfully at one easy way to instantly double or triple the number of doses available -- by using an immune booster cal
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Federal Reserve Fed Beaten: Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle
11-22-2009
Huffington Post
An entertaining report of the political machinations that led to Ron Paul's "End the Fed" getting passed out of committee over Chairman Frank's and the Fed's objections in no small part courtesy of FireDogLake.com.
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Political Parties Rex Murphy on Sarah Palin
11-22-2009
arclein
There are two great political speakers in the America today. Sarah Palin is the other one.
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Politics: General Activism Easy Way to Help with Ron Paul's Visit to Arizona
11-21-2009
FreedomsPhoenix
Printing out PDFs from this site at home for us to distribute (you can help with that too if you wish)