February 2012
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Climate change threatens traditional [bird]... →
Here’s a reason for Republicans to finally care about climate change: It threatens straight monogamous bird marriage. According to a new study, unpredictable climates cause birds to Gingrich it up, making them more likely to play the field rather than sticking with one partner.
Birds typically bond with one partner for a season, and sometimes for longer — most birds play the field at least a...
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Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence... →
Frank VanderSloot is an Idaho billionaire and the CEO of Melaleuca, Inc., a controversial billion-dollar-a-year company which peddles dietary supplements and cleaning products; back in 2004, Forbes, echoing complaints to government agencies, described the company as “a pyramid selling organization, built along the lines of Herbalife and Amway.” VanderSloot has long used his wealth to advance...
January 2012
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In November 1933 Retired Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy business leaders in the US were plotting to overthrow the President FDR. FDR was pushing through radical new legislation called the New Deal, which among other things, would pose new regulations on banks and increase the taxes on the wealthy from 52% to 63%. In 1933, General Butler met with Gerald MacGuire, a wealthy bond...
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GIANTS WIN!!!!
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GIANTS WIN!!!!
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The Problem with Romney →
This video illustrates the problem with the Romney Presidency. Whether you agree or disagree with the Occupy movement, one thing is clear Occupy points out the inequity and problems in our current system. When Romney is asked about these issues, his response is more telling then America is right and you are wrong, it illustrates that he believes their are no issues which need to be addressed in...
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PIPA/ SOPA
So I was watching Up with Chris Hayes this morning, and they were discussing SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate PIPA regarding on-line Piracy (See entire clip here). He had on a VP from viacom Richard Cotton discussing why the bill was needed. Here is the transcript of what I found to be the most interesting argument for SOPA/PIPA:
“The internet is very young. It has grown up with a...
How to Investigate Your Elected Officials |... →
manicchill:
With last week’s Iowa Caucuses in the United States, we’re starting the long haul to November’s election day where we’ll be inundated by hundreds of advertisements and speeches filled with all kinds of promises. But how do you know whether those promises will be kept, or what the your member of Congress is really about? The truth is, a candidate can tell you a lot more about what...
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Chart of the Day: Federal Programs Surprisingly... →
Via Siddhartha Mahanta, I see that Mitt Romney is suggesting that social welfare programs ought to be turned over to the states because our bloated federal bureaucracy is — well, so bloated. Unsurprisingly, Romney is wrong. Here’s a chart from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities showing just how much overhead the feds add to a variety of programs:
There’s no real way to...
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Mitt Romney's favorite success story took millions... →
Mitt Romney says questioning his record at Bain Capital makes you an enemy of free enterprise, but it turns out one of his favorite success stories would have been a failure without tens of millions in government subsidies:
As Mitt Romney defends his record running a private equity firm, he frequently points to a fast-growing Indiana steel company, financed in part by Bain Capital, that now...
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FRIDAY, JAN 13, 2012 4:58 AM EST Arthur Brisbane... →
The New York Times‘ Public Editor Arthur Brisbane unwittingly sparked an intense and likely enduring controversy yesterday when he pondered — as though it were some agonizing, complex dilemma — whether news reporters “should challenge ‘facts’ that are asserted by newsmakers they write about.” That’s basically the equivalent of pondering in a medical journal whether doctors should treat diseases,...
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CANNABIS TREATMENT THREATENS DEADLY PAINKILLER... →
Pharmaceutical painkillers are now responsible for more deaths in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined. The pharmaceuticals are responsible for more than 15,000 deaths conservatively in 2008 alone. With no sign of slowing down, the painkiller industry is becoming wildly popular among Americans — as a result, so is the high rate of painkiller abuse. Classified as dangerous by the...
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Enemy Expatriation Act could Stip Americans of... →
When Barack Obama inked the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve, the president insisted that he wouldn’t use the terrifying legislation against American citizens. Another new law, however, could easily change all of that.
If the Enemy Expatriation Act passes in its current form, the legislation will let the government strike away citizenship for anyone engaged in hostilities, or...
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The American Empire
Their is an interesting debate going on right now, one which I feel is being ignored by everyone. Ron Paul has mentioned numerous times, that the United States is an “Empire”. The other Republican candidates tend to brush off this declaration, neither acknowledging it nor denying it. Ron Paul has gained numerous supporters who are staunchly opposed to Empire Building. The interesting...
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A question for pro-choicers beings a bunch of...
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tiffanyannelise:
Those of you that are Pro-Choice and think it’s perfectly okay for a woman to have an abortion please answer me this…would you abort a litter of puppies/kittens or any other type of animal for that matter? Or would you think that was cruel? If you wouldn’t abort an animals fetus because you feel as though that would be cruel please explain to me how that...
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Dear Republicans, you have us all wrong →
Dear Republican candidates: You are campaigning on talking points that do not actually appeal to us. Why are you doing that? Who told you we want these things?
Dear Rick Perry: We don’t want our troops in Iraq. We don’t think President Obama was too quick to get them out. We think he was too slow. We don’t want to go back into Iraq militarily. We don’t care if Iraq’s Shiites like Iran’s Shiites...
Santorum Tells Kids With Gay Parents: You’d Be... →
WHAT!?!? Your better off having a parent in prison then two loving parents of the same sex at home? Are you on Crack?
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The Chamber of Commerce wants to limit Citizens... →
Earlier this week, the branch of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that seeks to limit consumers’ access to the courts publisheda brief description of what it deemed the 10 “most egregious examples of frivolous and abusive litigation” from 2011. The list is meant to support its argument that the legal system is “packed with frivolous suits.” According to the Chamber, such litigation is an oppressive...
U.N. Envoy criticizes United States for not... →
youthiswasted:
WASHINGTON — December 2, 2011 — The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to know why federal officials are not protecting the rights of Occupy demonstrators whose protests are being disbanded — sometimes violently — by local authorities.
Frank La Rue, who serves as the U.N. “special rapporteur”...
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Chrome Extension Warns You When You Browse A... →
Worried about whether or not your favorite Web site is supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act? A new Chrome extension seeks to lift those fears.
After installing No SOPA, users get a warning message reading “SOPA Supporter! This company is a known supporter of the dangerous ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’,” every time they visit a SOPA-supporting Web site.
Congress could resume debate on SOPA as early...
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“peachsss asked you:
2012-01-02 02:06 Tell me about these foreign tax...”
– MarrinerKeynes: Great question. I’m not surprised, I asked Charles Schumer, Senator from NY, about it once and he didn’t know either. See everyone loves Reagan, but it was Reagan who killed manufacturing in this country, by passing the Foreign Tax Credit. Basically what it says is that companies do...
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RON PAUL
This is a discussion I had with a Ron Paul supporter regarding their economic plan. I had some questions and over the last few days this is the most interesting one. Essentially Ron Paul is advocating to break down all the regulations which protect society and is advocating for a type of anarchy. And is this how civil societies work? Lets allow the citizens to get poisoned and die, they can...
December 2011
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America’s corporate tax obscenity →
In 2010, Verizon reported an annual profit of nearly $12 billion. The statutory federal corporate income tax rate is 35 percent, so theoretically, Verizon should have owed the IRS around $4.2 billlion. Instead, according to figures compiled by the Center for Tax Justice, the company actually boasted a negative tax liability of $703 million. Verizon ended up making even more money after it...
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Keynes was Right →
Keynes Was Right
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: December 29, 2011
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“The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.” So declared John Maynard Keynes in 1937, even as F.D.R. was about to prove him right by trying to balance the budget too soon, sending the United States economy — which had...
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Hysterically Funny Elizabeth Warren Video →
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Fact Check: Keystone XL Would Ship Foreign Oil To... →
More corporate tax dodging. Excerpt: “Keystone XL would divert Canadian oil from refineries in the Midwest to the Gulf Coast where it can be refined and exported. Many of these refineries are in free trade zones where oil may be exported to international buyers without paying U.S. taxes. And that is exactly what Valero, one of the largest potential buyers of Keystone XL’s oil, has told its...
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Republican Candidates for President and Jobs
One only needs to look at the current field of Presidential Contenders for the Republican Party to understand that not only do Republicans not care about the economy, they really don’t care about jobs at all. Leading the Polls are Social Conservative candidates Gingrich, Bachman, Paul, Santorum and Perry. All Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay candidates with no plans on how to create jobs. Romney is...
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Crisis Pregnancy
Went to the local Shop Right and was harassed by the Crisis Pregnancy people looking for donations. And people who didn’t know what they were all about were giving them money. I was about to slap one of them when they turned to me and said “Choose Life”.
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HUGE METHANE PLUMES ARE DISCOVERED IN ARCTIC OCEAN →
Russian scientists sampling the waters of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf have discovered enormous plumes of methane, some more than a kilometer wide, bubbling up from the thawing seabed. Igor
Melting Arctic Ocean Raises Threat of ‘Methane Time Bomb’
While scientists have long believed that thawing permafrost in Arctic soils could release huge amounts of methane, in recent years they began to...
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Obama insists on indefinite detention of Americans →
Think that President Obama will stand by his word and veto the legislation that will allow the government to detain American citizens without charge or trial? Think again.
The Obama administration has insisted that the president will veto the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, a bill that passed through the Senate last week. Under the legislation, the United States of...
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US Predator Drones being used in Local Police work →
When one asks why our local schools can’t afford to hire teachers, pay for books or provide other essential services, maybe this is why. When one asks why our schools are failing, and our bridges and roads are falling apart, maybe its because our local police forces are spending millions of local tax dollars to fly predator drones for local police work. See we obviously have the money for...
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Russian Election Watchdog in Cahoots with US to... →
Russian news website Life News has published emails it claims show correspondence between the US State Dept. and the Russian election watchdog Golos discussing payments for work done to discredit the results of Russia’s parliamentary vote.
Life News says it has come into the possession of 60 megabytes of Golos’ private online correspondence. According to Life News, they are letters sent and...
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100 Ways Obama is like George Bush →
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The Fed Bailouts: Money for Nothing →
I think it’s fair to say that Congressman Ron Paul and I are the parents of the GAO’s audit of the Federal Reserve. And I say that knowing full well that Dr. Paul has somewhat complicated views regarding gay marriage.
Anyway, one of our love children is a massive 251-page GAO report technocratically entitled “Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Policies and Processes for Managing...
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The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In... →
What if the greatest scam ever perpetrated was blatantly exposed, and the US media didn’t cover it? Does that mean the scam could keep going? That’s what we are about to find out.
I understand the importance of the new WikiLeaks documents. However, we must not let them distract us from the new information the Federal Reserve was forced to release. Even if WikiLeaks reveals documents from inside a...
Killing the Euro →
Even optimists now see Europe as headed for recession, while pessimists warn of another global financial crisis on the way. How did things go so wrong?
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America in Bankruptcy
Today the Federal Reserve Chairman from around the world met today in Washington to discuss the impending collapse of the EURO Zone. The result was a stunning announcement US Federal Reserve would bail out the European Union, the amount of which is still unknown. His on the heals of an audit which revealed in December of 2008 the Federal Reserve loaned approximately $7 Trillion dollars to the...
November 2011
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Women in Math: Where are the Awards? →
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As a follow-up to my series on women who have been Nobel Laureates in the sciences, I thought I’d write about women who have won prestigious prizes in mathematics (there is no Nobel Prize for math). The only problem is, it took me a while to find any. Fortunately, in recent years several groups have made strides to specifically reward women’s contributions to math since they have...
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FED Bails out EURO →
Amazing, we are talking Austerity at Home and allowing cities such as Harrisurgh, PA, Detroit, Michigan and Benton Harbor Mich. to go Bankrupt, but we have more then enough money to bail out the EU. How do you feel about your Tax Dollars bailing out Europe while our economy goes under?
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Small Business Cyber Monday →
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persephonemag:
From the article:
Happy Cyber Monday! Small Business Saturday has come and gone, but there’s no reason why you can’t continue to shop at local business and small boutiques for all your holiday gifts. We’ve polled our staff and friends to come up with a list of online shops where you can pick up some beautiful and unique gifts for everyone on your...
Federal Judge Strikes Down $285 Million Citigroup... →
letterstomycountry:
Clarification for those that may find this headline confusing: the judge wasn’t striking down the ruling to benefit Citigroup. He did it because he feels that Citigroup shouldn’t be allowed to bargain its way out of being held accountable for wrong-doing.
The problem, of course, is that the SEC has discretion on whether to bring charges or not. And the SEC might decide...
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Mayor Bloomberg's Campaign of Terror & Distraction →
You may remember that last week, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg made the sudden announcement of an emergency press conference on the subject of “terror”. What you may not know is that to people who work inside the news media and in television broadcasting, the rare event of a sudden Sunday evening press conference with top officials is either an actual emergency, or the mark of...
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Muslim Brotherhood rally calls to ‘kill all Jews’ →
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Classy!
The Muslim Brotherhood held an anti-Israel rally in a Cairo mosque that reportedly called to “one day kill all Jews.”
I know many well-educated Westerners who believe that a Ikhwan/Brotherhood-dominated government in Egypt will be a positive development. They talk about the Ikhwan being pro-business and interested in co-existence with the West....
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IMF Bailout
Can someone please explain to me how the IMF, which is essentially a Monetary Fund supported by 187 countries (Most significantly) the US and the EU can bail out the EU? The EU is going to give money to the IMF only to loan it back at a steep cost to the EU? This is ridiculous on its face. I feel like I live in a world full of idiots…
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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy →