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The IRS's Job Is To Violate Our Liberties - by Ron Paul

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:24:07 GMT

Read more on this subject: Ron Paul Says...
News Story Source: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk
"What do you expect when you target the President?" This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President Clinton. Recent revelations that IRS agents gave "special scrutiny" to organizations opposed to the current administration's policies suggest that many in the IRS still believe harassing the President's opponents is part of their job.
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2nd Amendment Activist James Kaleda Ejected from Gun Control Hearing

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:07:02 GMT

Read more on this subject: Gun Rights
News Story Source: youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
Second Amendment activist, James Kaleda, was forcefully removed from a hearing on a new gun control bill in NJ during his testimony. Notice in the video the legislators laugh as they have their security (armed with guns of course) remove Kaleda before he finished his testimony. Kaleda receives a standing ovation from the gallery during his ejection. So this is how liberty dies, to a thunderous applause? No matter your views on gun control, someone should have the right to finish their testimony before Big Brother forcibly removes them from the hearing for daring to present a view separate to theirs. By the way this was a hearing for a bill that would enact gun confiscation in New Jersey.
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5 Monkeys

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:10:07 GMT

Read more on this subject: Government
News Story Source: youtube (h/t John Stuart)
Start with a cage containing 5 monkeys.... this story illustrates how human society keeps doing the same things over and over again because - "that's the way....
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IRS Abuses Have Been Going on For Many Years

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:23:29 GMT

Read more on this subject: Religion: Believers
Opinion Column by Greg J. Dixon
The present IRS scandal didn't start with the Obama administration. Nixon had his "Enemies list," and it was the IRS that brought Al Capone to heel, not the FBI. Following is an excerpt from Chapter 8 of my book, The Trail of Blood Revisited that gives the details of how the Internal Revenue Service removed the tax-exempt status of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple, in Indianapolis, Indiana in May of 1995 and published it in their May IRS IRS Quarterly. They did it in order to punish us, thinking that it would destroy the church financially. It actually had the opposite effect, in fact the giving increased which showed that the members were not giving for the tax benefits but unto the Lord. The church had actually given up it's exempt status voluntarily in 1984 but the IRS doesn't recognize this status on the part of a church or an individual, only if the IRS does it unilaterally. The following articles were from the July 8, 1995 Indianapolis
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Know Your Garden's Insect Friends and Foes

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:10:01 GMT

Read more on this subject: Agriculture
News Story Source: popularmechanics.com
Insects are virtually everywhere, and it's impossible to keep them out of your garden. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. A wide variety of insect life promotes biodiversity in the wild, and the same is true for your garden. Most of the insects you encounter in your garden are probably of the beneficial variety. So, when designing your garden, make sure to leave some areas wild and undisturbed. Leave a section of the grass unmowed, build bug boxes, spread mulch, and plant a wide variety of flowering plants, including angelica, buckwheat, dill or fennel, marigolds, and sunflowers.
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Why Don't We Have Fusion Power?

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:06:42 GMT

Read more on this subject: Energy
News Story Source: popularmechanics.com
Fusion energy, simply, is the exact opposite of fission energy, which comes from splitting an atom and is widely used to power nuclear plants and weapons. Fusion occurs constantly on our sun, which produces most of its energy via the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. When nuclei fuse, they create a heavier nucleus and produce a little leftover energy in the process. Fusion doesn't produce runaway chain reactions the way fission can, so there's no need to worry about meltdowns. Nor do fusion reactions produce the large amounts of dangerous radioactive waste that fission reactions do. That's why it's such a dreamy source of energy.
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World's Smallest Liquid Droplets Created in Atom Smasher

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:00:53 GMT

Read more on this subject: Science, Medicine and Technology
News Story Source: livescience.com
The droplets were made inside the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, where particles are sped up to near light speed and then smashed together. When researchers collided protons with lead nuclei, they were surprised to find that the result was teeny, tiny droplets of liquid. These liquid drops are miniscule, at about 1/100,000 the size of a hydrogen atom or 1/100,000,000 the size of a typical virus. [Dazzling Droplets: Photos Reveal Mini Worlds] The researchers consider the droplets liquid because they flow more like a liquid than like any other state of matter.
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Food Allergies Testing for Anger Management in Children

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:54:20 GMT

Read more on this subject: Health and Physical Fitness
News Story Source: longtimemother.hubpages.com
Some children have a right to be angry. It's not hard to see why a child who has suffered abuse, trauma or bereavement might be angry with the world and everyone in it. But what's the answer when a child in a loving home is angry about 'nothing' and, at the same time, 'everything'? Are they simply being rude and disagreeable - or is there some hidden trauma that you, the parent, remain unaware of? The obvious options would include therapy or medication. Nobody ever suggests food allergy testing to a parent tearing their hair out while trying to pacify an angry child and restore peace in their home. But anger, it seems, may be as red and raw a reaction to some foods as the welts that appear around the lips of other allergy sufferers.
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Vaccine Victims' Mother Speaks Out

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:50:28 GMT

Read more on this subject: Vaccines and Vaccinations
News Story Source: Farm Wars
Tasha shares her story of shock, disappointment, guilt and remorse in neglecting to research the side effects of vaccines before vaccinating her children. Tasha's story is real life, scientific evidence of the harm that vaccines can and do cause.
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Full Time RVing - How to Downsize Your Home to an RV

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:48:53 GMT

Read more on this subject: Self-Help: Rational Living
News Story Source: stephaniehenkel.hubpages.com
After retirement, my husband and I decided to make a drastic move. We sold our house, downsized our belongings and became full time RVers. Our plan of full timing for one year changed as we came to love the lifestyle, and ultimately, we lived in our RV for 4 years before buying a house to use as our home base. Downsizing to an RV or downsizing to smaller living quarters Once you have made the decision to be a full time RVer, you are faced with the major project of downsizing from your "sticks and bricks" home to an RV. Even if you live in a modest, three bedroom, 1500 square foot home, downsizing to an RV might be overwhelming. In our case, we have a 33' motor home which gives us about 240 square feet of living space with additional storage space in the "basement" compartments.
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Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass?

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:45:17 GMT

Read more on this subject: Science, Medicine and Technology
News Story Source: ted.com

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Corruption in the DOJ & IRS

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:04:07 GMT

Read more on this subject: Corruption
News Story Source: Free Press Publications
Someone once said "When it rains, it pours." That statement seems to be true in a metaphorical sense, especially given the breadth of major stories coming out of D.C. recently. On May 13 it was reported, "The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a 'massive and unprecedented intrusion' into how news organizations gather the news." An attorney for the AP says the records included all outbound calls which revealed the "the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters" as well as the general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the House of Representatives press gallery. According to the AP "It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls." Kelsey D. Atherton with Popular Science reports, "Electronic communications have improved drastically since the lega
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AP chief says phone probe makes news sources reluctant to talk

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:15:50 GMT

Read more on this subject: MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
News Story Source: Reuters
The Justice Department's seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency's ability to gather news, the wire service's Chief Executive and President Gary Pruitt said on Sunday. "Officials that would normally talk to us and people we talk to in the normal course of news gathering are already saying to us that they're a little reluctant to talk to us," Pruitt said on CBS's "Face The Nation" program. "They fear that they will be monitored by the government."
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50 Billion Reasons to Support Ethanol

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:08:04 GMT

Read more on this subject: Energy
News Story Source: fool.com
What about 15% blends? Does it really cost drivers at the pump? If so, how much? While ethanol does, in fact ,have a lower energy density than gasoline (thereby shortening each trip you make), the arguments surrounding the fuel are often rife with misinformation from both sides. It doesn't have to be so complicated. Controversy aside, there is one calculation that can bring everyone together to support ethanol. The calculation is so simple that you can do it on the back of a napkin. What if I told you that simply blending ethanol into motor gasoline saved the United States $50 billion in 2012? That represents the equivalent amount of crude oil displaced by ethanol. Don't believe me? Here's how it works from the first corn kernel to the last dollar. Where does ethanol come from? As you can imagine, most of the country's capacity is centered in Corn Country. There are also facilities as far west as Oregon and as far east as Fulton, N.Y.
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How Many Cops Does It Take to Handcuff One (Smallish) Guy In NYC?

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:03:34 GMT

Read more on this subject: Seriously?
News Story Source: Common Dreams
Watch the stampede of NYPD at a 135th Street subway station when Clive Utter, 31, allegedly jumped the turnstile. After he was slammed into the wall, dropped onto the floor and cuffed by a mob of at least 25 officers - and after a bystander exercising his constitutionally protected right to film the mayhem was forced out to the street - Utter was charged with resisting arrest, criminal trespass, theft of service, and criminal possession of a controlled substance. Your tax dollars at work. And a good place for budget cuts.
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