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TAXES: Federal High-income Californians may pay nation's highest tax rate
12-06-2012
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Thanks to passage of Proposition 30 last month, high-income Californians would pay the nation's highest marginal income tax rates -- 52%-- if President Barack Obama and Congress fail to make a deal to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff,"
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Bioterrorism Yes on Prop 37 was classic controlled opposition
12-06-2012
Farm Wars
Monsanto doesnt want a ban. Solution? Promote coexistence and divert anti-GMO forces to make sure they don't turn into a powerful force demanding a ban.
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Syria Wider Chaos Feared as Syrian Rebels Clash With Kurds
12-06-2012
New York Times
The convoy of gun trucks waving the flag of the Syrian rebels whizzed through the Syrian village of Ras al-Ain rushed in to battle the ethnic Kurds.
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Economy - Economics USA The Platinum Coin Scam to "Solve" the U.S. debt crisis?
12-06-2012
Washington Post
Under current law, the Treasury is technically allowed to mint as many coins made of platinum as it wants and can assign them whatever value it pleases.
Under this scenario, the U.S. Mint would make a pair of trillion-dollar platinum coins.
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TAXES: Internet Online sales tax to be added to defense authorization bill
12-06-2012
The Daily Caller
This may be the last Christmas of online shopping without paying sales tax. A proposed online sales tax has been offered as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, much to the ire of opponents.
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Justice and Judges No Food Rights Judge quits to work for Monsanto law firm
12-06-2012
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com, Rady
As courts and bureaucrats continue to assert that citizens have no fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice, we find Monsanto lurking nearby.
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Military Pentagon planning for multinational military operation in Mali
12-06-2012
www.washingtonpost.com
U.S. military planners have begun to help organize a multinational proxy force to intervene next year in Mali, the famine-stricken, coup-wracked African country that has become a magnet for Islamist extremists, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Environment Synthetic fuel the answer to U.S. oil dependence
12-06-2012
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
The U.S. can eliminate its dependency on crude oil if the country switched to production of synthetic fuel using a combination of non-food crops, natural gas and coal, according to researchers at Princeton University.
In a paper produced by the Am
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Afghanistan Here's What Life Is Really Like In Post-Apocalyptic Afghanistan
12-06-2012
http://www.businessinsider.com, Geoffrey Ingersoll
People told me I was crazy for doing it.
I hadn't even opened the package containing my shiny new NYU Master's in Journalism and I was already heading to Afghanistan.
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Syria US Aircraft Carriers Arrival Near Syria Sparks War Fears
12-06-2012
news.antiwar.com
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has reportedly arrived off the coast of Syria in recent days, having passed through the Suez Canal and joined a team of other ships loitering off the coast in the event President Obama orders a US invasion of Syria.
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Currencies Central Banks Hedge Their Bets
12-06-2012
http://www.thedailybell.com, by John Browne
Gold appears to be headed for an impressive price appreciation for the second half of 2012.
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Off Grid Living Man calls 14-foot canoe on Boston Harbor his home
12-06-2012
chron.com
Michael Richard Smith is a man without a fixed address, someone who leaves it to the wind and tide in Boston Harbor to help decide where he'll dream from night to night.
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Misinformation Lining Pockets or Voting Booths? - Franchi Responds to Bloomberg
12/6/2012
Reality Report
Did Bloomberg news get the facts straight, did Raw story report on damning information about me? Did Trevor Lyman's Liberty Crier embellish a headline to drive traffic to his site? Did PolicyMic accurately report on the story? Did I pay out a millio
Uncle Freedom
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Events: Arizona Christmas Party at the Hancock's Saturday Dec 8th, 2012 6:30 p.m. til ???
11-27-2012
www.meetup.com/RonPaulPhoenix
It's that time of year again for a holiday party - it has been a very busy year for all of us, so come and share in the fun and relaxation we all need - We will be raffling off a brand new Kindle Fire ($5/ticket) - Bring extra lawn chairs if you have
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Drug War U.S. Ready to Offer Mercenaries $10 Billion for a Drug-War Air Force
12-06-2012
Wired
Unsure how your private security firm makes money as the US war in Afghanistan winds down? One option: Go into the drug trade specifically the lucrative business of fighting narcotics. The State Department needs a business partner
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Internet Kim Dotcom Gets Green Light to Sue New Zealand Spies
12-06-2012
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New Zealands spy agency will have to reveal details of their secret surveillance of Kim Dotcom. The Government Communications Security Bureau will be added to Dotcoms lawsuit over an illegal January raid on his mansion,
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Food If a goat won't eat it, why should I?
12-06-2012
Farm Wars
Fiona was raised on a porch and hand fed for a good portion of her life. She eats everything out of my hand. Except those carrots...
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North American Union George W. Bush: 'Canada, Mexico and US Should Merge'
12-06-2012
http://www.thedailybell.com, by Staff Report
Former President George W. Bush stressed the importance of immigration on Tuesday at a speech in Dallas, throwing himself back in the ring as the debate over reform heats up in Washington.
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Surveillance Slowing down the surveillance state: a guide to warrantless government spying
12-06-2012
http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If the growing use of governmental tip-toeing to wiretap phone lines and emails doesnt seem serious, think again. So heightened lately are concerns over surveillance that two major organizations have published a primer on federal spy programs.
Chris Menke
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Inventions The Decades That Invented the Future, Part 7: 1961-1970
12-06-2012
Wired.com
Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest.
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Tea Party Jim DeMint resigns from Senate
12-06-2012
thehill.com
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a leading Senate conservative and founding member of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, will resign from office in January to become president of The Heritage Foundation.
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Housing Jersey shore home vanishes
12-06-2012
myfoxny.com
A man in New Jersey returned to his home after Superstorm Sandy only to find it had vanished -- and not from the storm. At issue is who tore it down and why?
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