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Palestine -- Israel Palestinians to renew efforts for bid to U.N.
01-20-2012
www.washingtontimes.com
Palestinian officials say that they will resume their effort to gain U.N. membership, and that they could launch a nonviolent third intifada because they see no chance of reaching a peace deal with the current Israeli government.
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Iran Agency: Iran shuts down shops selling Barbie dolls
01-20-2012
Associated Press
Police have closed down dozens of toy shop for selling Barbie dolls, part of a decades-long crackdown on signs of Western culture in Iran, the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Friday.
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Republicans stand together to oppose piracy law
01-20-2012
Associated Press
Standing in near unison, the four remaining contenders seeking the Republican presidential nomination are condemning a proposed anti-online piracy law that its critics say is overly aggressive.
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Police State Man arrested after spitting on sidewalk in Daytona Beach
01-20-2012
www.clickorlando.com
An 18-year-old Daytona Beach man was arrested after he violated a city ordinance by spitting on a sidewalk, which police said created an unsanitary environment for others in the area.
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Israel From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go!
01-20-2012
www.settlersofsamaria.org
Lately Ive been having trouble sleeping. I sit here in my living room in Karnei Shomron, Israel, on the 8th night of Chanukah, wondering what other miracles lay in store on January 3rd and in the months ahead. The name Ron Paul is constantly at my f
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Philosophy: Anarchism 'A' Was For America: My Journey to Voluntaryism Pete Eyre
The ideas of liberty and of voluntaryism specifically have made me a better person. Most individuals mean well, but they've only been exposed to the misinformation peddled in gun-run schools and by the mainstream media
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Marriage Marriage Revival?
01-20-2012
arclein
What is behind this shift? Another recent Pew survey reported that four in 10 Americans think marriage is "becoming obsolete." Particularly interesting is that 47 percent of those who think marriage is becoming obsolete say they would like to marry
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Iraq How can we help the Iraqis who risked their lives to help us?
01-19-2012
Philadelphia Inquirer
I've received a slew of e-mail from Iraqi interpreters who are in hiding because Shiite militias have pledged to kill the "traitors" who aided the Americans. I've also received e-mail from U.S. military officers desperately trying to get their "terps
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Politics: Republican Campaigns What Is It About Ron Paul?
01-19-2012
youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
This video was based on an article written by Rafi Farber, YouTube user name, merfitudinal. You can read the entire article here: http://settlersofsamaria.org/vote-ron-paul-free-israel/
Please take the time to visit his site and thank him for writ
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World News 8 Guilty for Prison Massacre in Rare Trial of Haitis Police
01-19-2012
New York Times
In a country where officials who abuse their power are almost never held accountable, 8 of 14 police officers tried for a 2010 prison massacre were found guilty on Thursday in the southern city of Les Cayes, Haiti.
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Drug War Honduras Congress OKs Drug-Related Extradition
01-19-2012
AP
Starting Feb. 1, the Central American nation will be able to sign extradition treaties with other countries, including the United States, which has sought the change.
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Space Travel and Exploration Russia, US explore new joint moon base colony
01-19-2012
Terrence Aym
The Russians are serious about the moon and think the U.S. should be too. Their incentive can be summed up with one word: China. Quite simply, China wants to own the moon. The Russian Federation and its space agency Roscosmos finds itself in the curi
Terrence Aym
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain To Hold Rally Together In South Carolina
01-19-2012
www.huffingtonpost.com
The comedian and host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" will hold a rally in South Carolina this Friday with former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. The event will be entitled "THE ROCK ME LIKE A HERMAN CAIN: SOUTH CAIN-OLINA PRIMARY RA
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World News Situation Deteriorates, Pakistan Tells US Envoy to Stay Away
01-19-2012
antiwar.com
The US State Department is reporting today that a request to allow Special Envoy Marc Grossman to visit Pakistan has been turned down by the Pakistani government, citing the prevailing situation in the nation.
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Protests and Protesters Egyptian critic of military rule beaten in street
01-20-2012
www.apnews.myway.com
A clip posted on social networks showed a small crowd punching and kicking Nawara Negm, and hurling abuse at her. Her assailants could be heard saying she wanted to drive a wedge between the ruling military and the people.
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Israel What is it about Ron Paul?
01-20-2012
www.dailypaul.com
I wrote this article, "From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let my People Go!" on December 29th. Since then it has gone viral.
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Economic Stimulus Cleansing Land Titles With Ellen Brown
01-20-2012
arclein
Only 16 percent of the mortgage assignments were valid.
Twenty-seven percent of the invalid assignments were fraudulent, 35 percent were "robo-signed" and 10 percent violated the Massachusetts Mortgage Fraud Statute.
The identity of fina
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Stephen Colbert Comes Out for Ron Paul
01-20-2012
www.dailypaul.com
..... asked by Mika Brezenski on MSNBC's Morning Joe about who he likes, Colbert being funny initially says "Herman Cain" .... Mika then presses him asking who he likes that is still running and Colbert replies: "Ron Paul"
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Politics: Republican Campaigns Ayatollah Santorum the Sanctimonious (ASS)
01-20-2012
www.lewrockwell.com/Thomas J. DiLorenzo
In a January 18 interview with Glenn Beck Rick Santorum decided to compare his view of the Constitution with that of Ron Paul. His statements can only be described as delusional and totalitarian.
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Science Ancient Mechanism For Mammalian Evolution
01-20-2012
arclein
The retro-transposon's copy-and-paste behaviour has long been considered totally self-serving. However, the study showed that when a retro-transposon containing a CTCF-binding sequence spreads around a mammal's genome, it can deposit functional CTC
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Internet Salmon Khan ON SOPA and PIPA
01-19-2012
youtube (h/t Lew Rockwell blog)
What SOPA and PIPA are at face value and what they could end up enabling. The heroic founder of Khan Academy"learn almost anything for free"explains these two State power grabs on behalf of corporatist pressure groups.
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TAXES: Federal Millionaires Back Buffett Tax If Theyre Exempt
01-19-2012
Bloomberg
Millionaires support Warren Buffetts view that the wealthiest should pay more in taxes, as long as its other rich Americans, according to a survey released today.
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Internet 7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site
01-19-2012
New York Times
In what the federal authorities called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the FBI seized the Web site Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise bas
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States' Rights A Judge Rules Vermont Cant Shut Nuclear Plant
01-19-2012
New York Times
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Vermont from forcing the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor to shut down when its license expires in March, saying that the state is trying to regulate nuclear safety, which only the federal government can do.
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Freedom's Phoenix Tom Woods on DYI w/ Ernest Hancock Jan 18th Video Drew Phillips
Jan 18th, 2012 - Hour 3 Thomas Woods Webpage: TomWoods.Com Webpage: RevolutionPac.Com Thomas Woods, Ph.D., Revolution PAC Advisory Board Chairman, New York Times bestselling author and senior fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute.
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Government Anonymous takes down Department of Justice, RIAA, Motion Picture Association and Universal Music
1-19-12
http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-doj-universal-sop
In response to todays federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.
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Housing
The root cause of the housing bubble and collapse
01-19-2012 Menckens Ghost
In a continuation of a sorry tradition of badly biased thinking and superficial reporting, it appears that the narratives from the ideological media about the housing collapse and corresponding financial meltdown have been incomplete.
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Politics: Republican Campaigns RNC May Face Messy Delegates Issue
01-19-2012
www.npr.org
If the GOP presidential race is not effectively over following the South Carolina primary, it could easily drag on for months with potential confusion about delegate counts.