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Politics: Republican Campaigns With Protesters on the Sidewalk, Gingrich Skips an Appearance
01-09-2012
New York Times
The protesters waved signs and chanted, supporting two competing candidates in the Republican primary: Ron Paul and an individual named Vermin Supreme, who wore a rubber boot on his head and danced while speaking through a megaphone.
Mr. Pauls su
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World News The Stench of Tony Blair Continues
01-09-2012
Lew Rockwell blog
Blair the plunderer merely reflects the current kleptocracy Blair, Bush, Cheney, Santorum, Gingrich, Clinton, Romney, et al. writ large. They all made their millions "legally," of course in Washington, after all, if you're not in jail, you're e
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Political Geometry: A Lesson for the Media - by L. Neil Smith
01-09-2012
L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Like me, you may have noticed a lot of confusion, latelysome of it genuine, most of it pretty transparently affectedwith regard to exactly where, on the traditional right-left political spectrum, Congressman, physician, and 1988-2012 Presidential c
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TAXES: State State citations surge; FDOT paying Cops to patrol
01-09-2012
CBS News
The Florida Department of Transportation is covering speed limit signs with plastic bags -- an apparent violation of federal guidelines that suggest speed limit signs be posted after every major intersection and paying for the troopers' presence -- a
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Housing DoJ contacting additional banks on mortgage deal
01-09-2012
Reuters
As the government nears a deal with top banks to resolve mortgage abuses, the Justice Department has begun reaching out to other banks to gauge their interest in joining the wide-ranging settlement, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Military Ex-U.S. Army soldier arrested over aid to Somali militants
01-09-2012
Reason magazine
A former U.S. Army soldier trained in intelligence and cryptology has been arrested and charged for trying to help the Somali al Shabaab militant group, an al Qaeda affiliate, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.
Craig Baxam, 24 and from a
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Energy Football Pitch-Sized Batteries Could Change the World of Renewable Energy
01-09-2012
Oilprice.com
2011 saw huge advances in solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and these advancements will continue into 2012. In fact 2012 could be the year that renewable energy sources start to seriously compete with traditional fossil fuels
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Outdoor Survival A Reliable Propane Insulin Refrigerator
01-09-2012
www.survivalblog.com
It is an absorption type ammonia system (as used in recreation vehicles) and appears to be a high build quality unit manufactured in Hungary.
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Internet Racial slur on Papa Johns Pizza receipt goes viral
01-09-2012
www.rawstory.com
When an Asian-American customer of Papa Johns Pizza in New York City decided to vent by posting a receipt that identified her as lady chinky eyes on Twitter, she may have thought she was just letting off steam.
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Iraq Perry Outdoes Opponents and Appears To Suggest the Re-Invasion of Iraq
01-09-2012
www.jonathanturley.org
Even with Ron Paul shredding Newt Gingrich as a chickenhawk, Rick Perry outdid a field of candidates who appear to be running on promises to invade or bomb other countries. However Perry is the only guy who is not only eager to start another war bu
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Activism FreeKeene Owns Santorum
01-09-2012
www.freekeene.com
The parts the AP video didn't show you of the Santorum event - Here's the full video, with multiple angles
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Techno Gadgets SolarKindle promises three months of unplugged reading time
01-09-2012
www.gizmag.com
What if you could read on your Kindle for three months straight? SolarFocus will be showing off a Kindle case at CES this week designed to do just that. Called SolarKindle, the case can provide you with months of reading time and over 50 hours of rea
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Insight: Rivals set to pounce on Santorum's past
01-09-2012
www.reuters.com
Rick Santorum's last-minute surge in the Iowa caucus brought him neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney in the first contest of the 2012 race to select a Republican presidential candidate. But it came too late to attract the harsh scrutiny usually visited on
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Economy - International Borrowers turn lenders as banks tap firms for cash
01-09-2012
www.reuters.com
Blue-chip names like Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), Pfizer (PFE.N) and Peugeot (PEUP.PA) are among firms bailing out Europe's ailing banks in a reversal of the established roles of clients and lenders.
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Iran Russian, French warships off Syria, Iran, US drones over Iranian coast
01-09-2012
www.prisonplanet.com
US, Russian French and British air and naval forces streamed to the Syrian and Iranian coasts over the weekend on guard for fresh developments at the two Middle East flashpoints.
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Health and Physical Fitness What Is Inflammation?
01-09-2012
www.lewrockwell.com/Mark Sisson
Existence is suffering, according to certain schools of thought. I don't know that I'd go quite that far, but I would emphatically state that anyone who spends a modicum of sentient time in the space time continuum we call existence is gonna experien
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Philosophy of Liberty McElroy's Musings
Our Psychopathic Management By Crisis
01-09-2012 David McElroy
Positions of power draw psychopaths to political theatres' spotlights, preening their deceits to entice you to accept their shackles for bread and circuses. Jesus Christ is libertarian, follow him!
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Iran West readies oil plan in case of Iran crisis
01-09-2012
www.reuters.com
Western powers this week readied a contingency plan to tap a record volume from emergency stockpiles to replace nearly all the Gulf oil that would be lost if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz
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Environment New Material Can Scrub Carbon Dioxide Right Out of the Air at Unprecedented Rates
01-09-2012
Clay Dillow via PopSci.com
If cleaning carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was easy, wed already be doing it. But carbon capture has proven to be a tough technology to feasibly roll out on a grand scale, and that means all the things we do that produce carbon dioxide emission
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Huntsman Campaign Playing Dirty
01-09-2012
http://imgur.com/a/Jw679
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I cant believe how stupid these people are. As campaign insiders many of you are aware we created the fake video here www.youtube.com... and made it look like it came from the ron paul people. This is a suprise it
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TERRORISM 25-year-old man arrested by feds in Fla. bomb plot
01-09-2012
AP
Federal officials say a confidential source told them in Sept. 2011 that Osmakac wanted al-Qaida flags. Two months later, the federal complaint said, Osmakac and the confidential source "discussed and identified potential targets in Tampa" that Osmak
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Gun Rights Student disciplined after reporting knife at school
01-09-2012
NBC News
A family is baffled that their teenager was disciplined after he reported to his teacher that he accidentally brought a small pocket knife to school. "I hate that Jack felt like he did was he was supposed to do, and for him these are dire consequence
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WAR: About that War How Iran Could Affect Your Wallet in 2012
01-09-2012
US News & World Report
President Obama recently signed a law that could essentially prevent Iran, the world's third-biggest oil exporter, from selling oil to many of its usual customers. Europe is preparing to enact its own embargo on Iranian oil. There's wiggle room in te
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Economy - International Swiss central bank chief quits over wife's currency deal
01-09-2012
Reuters
Swiss National Bank Chairman Philipp Hildebrand resigned with immediate effect on Monday, saying he could not prove he had been unaware of a currency trade made by his wife and wanted to protect the integrity of the central bank.
Hildebrand's deci
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Drug War DEA helped Colombian drug trafficker launder cash, new report reveals
01-09-2012
The Envoy
The documents "describe American counternarcotics agents working undercover together conducting numerous wire transfers of tens of thousands of dollars at a time, smuggled millions of dollars in bulk cashand escorted at least one large shipment of
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Events: Arizona New Hampshire Primary Watching Party Tues Jan 10th, Hancock's 5 p.m. til???
01-09-2012
www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
We will be broadcasting the New Hampshire GOP Primary results beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday, January 10th, so if you want to come by to see how they are going to sling it this time, come by the Hancock's Tuesday evening.
Letters to the Editor
Philosophy: Libertarianism The Libertarian Gas Chamber Mentality
Written by: Mike Renzulli
While civilian deaths during combat situations are tragic, if they do die during military actions like what is described in this video, that is the fault of groups like Hamas or countries like Iran.
If Hamas was not lobbing rockets at Isr
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Outdoor Survival Driving, Post-TEOTWAWKI
01-09-2012
Survivalblog.com
Waiting months after TEOTWAWKI to drive to your retreat is more than foolish, it is suicidal. Anyone driving post-event without an armored vehicle (or with one, just look at the ambush scenes from "Patriots") will take casualties.
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Immigration MAN SWARM: THE SLAUGHTERING OF AMERICA'S WILDLIFE
01-09-2012
www.newswithviews.com
In my own media battles on the population/immigration/environmental front, I have had to contend with big time radio talk show hosts who support unlimited immigration growth, i.e., Ernest Hancock of www.freedomphoenix.com
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Food Depression Cooking: A Visit to Claras Kitchen
01-09-2012
www.backdoorsurvival.com
Not too long ago, I was on the receiving end of some buzz around the net indicating that there was an overabundance of web sites that focused on the food aspect of survival and prepping.
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Techno Gadgets Eton (hand) cranks out new self-powered products at CES
01-09-2012
www.gizmag.com
While insufficient battery-life can be annoying in most mobile devices, getting cut off from the outside world because your radio has run out of juice can be much more serious.
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Iran Iran starts underground nuclear work, condemns American to die
01-09-2012
www.reuters.com
Iranian and Western sources said on Monday Iran had switched on a uranium enrichment plant deep inside a mountain, a momentous step that aggravates Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West.
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Iran UAE delays oil pipeline to bypass Hormuz
01-09-2012
www.reuters.com
The United Arab Emirates has delayed the launch of a crucial oil pipeline to bypass the Straits of Hormuz to mid-2012, which analysts said would add to supply worries at a time when Iran threatens to block the strait for all the Gulf's oil.