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Economists weigh in on Ron Paul
Post Date: 2012-01-30 19:18:30 by tom007
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Economists weigh in on Ron Paul Al Jazeera speaks to five economists about the presidential candidate’s economic policies. Ron Paul says the Federal Reserve system is 'dishonest, immoral, and unconstitutional' [GALLO/GETTY] Amherst, MA - At a debate in New Hampshire in January, the Republican presidential candidates were asked what they'd be doing if they weren't standing behind the podia. Most said they'd be watching sports. But not Texas congressman Ron Paul. "I'd be home with my family," Paul said. "But if they all went to bed, I'd probably read an economic textbook." Ron Paul gets plenty of media attention for his ...
What you have not heard about the Keystone Pipeline
Post Date: 2012-01-30 18:19:45 by tom007
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What you have not heard about the Keystone Pipeline 01.24.2012 · Posted in Politics and Elections If you believe all the stories about the Keystone XL Pipeline , you would think it is the standard battle between oil interests and environmentalists. It ignores the reality that there was substantial opposition in Nebraska, a Republican state because the pipeline would run through an aquifer and a spill would endanger drinking water and water needed for farming. The state’s Republican Governor said he would only support the permit if the pipeline was rerouted. Opposition in Nebraska was across party line from conservative farmers to liberal environmentalists. Transcanada the ...
The Billionaire Boychik Behind Newt Gingrich
Post Date: 2012-01-30 17:42:31 by X-15
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ALTHOUGH IT ALWAYS sounded kind of gay to me, “Boychik” is the funky, yiddishy term of endearment that fellow Jews have for their rich-as-hell billionaires. One of the wealthiest Jew boychiks out there is a smiling, liver-spotted old Jew rat named Sheldon Adelson. Forbes called him the third richest man in America back in 2008/09 and is now currently rated the 8th richest “American,” but that’s surely a nebelous description when it comes to Jews. Adelson is spending tons of his moolah pushing Newt Gingrich right now. Hell, the self-described historian and major league phony ”conservative” Gingrich would be be history without this creep. And it’s ...
The Koch Brothers
Post Date: 2012-01-30 15:14:25 by tom007
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The Koch Brothers Charles and David Koch are each worth about $25bn, which makes them the fourth richest Americans. When you combine their fortunes, they are the third wealthiest people in the world. Radical libertarians who use their money to oppose government and virtually all regulation as interference with the free market, the Kochs are in a class of their own as players on the American political stage. Their web of influence in the US stretches from state capitals to the halls of congress in Washington DC. The Koch brothers fueled the conservative Tea Party movement that vigorously opposes Barack Obama, the US president. They fund efforts to derail action on global warming, and ...
Poll: I feel like harassing my U.S. Representative...
Post Date: 2012-01-30 13:11:18 by X-15
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sometime in the next couple of days. Give me two issues I should hang around his neck. My call to his Dee-Cee office will have to be about 60-90 seconds in length: I don't want to tax the mental faculties of his aides too much :-)
Is Ignorance Bliss?
Post Date: 2012-01-30 10:52:26 by christine
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Joe Fetz emails: The more that I learn about economics and political philosophy the more I feel powerless to change what is going on. In fact, it is almost depressing to know the truth of the world around you while also knowing that everybody else around you is completely clueless. I am certainly not a smart man, but I do my best to attempt to educate people with my own knowledge, but it is like beating myself in the head with an old boot. Sometimes I almost wish that I was still ignorant and just going through life just like everybody else. My question is: Do you ever feel like this? Like maybe you might be happier if you didn't know what is really going on? Joe, it is a very tall ...
'First modern humans settled in Arabia'
Post Date: 2012-01-30 10:02:16 by tom007
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'First modern humans settled in Arabia' Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:45PM GMT A new study by a team of British and Portuguese researchers suggests that first modern humans settled in Arabia on their way from the Horn of Africa. Genetic analyses conducted at the University of Leeds and the University of Porto revealed the earliest stages of modern human migration from Africa to the rest of the world. "One popular model predicts that the early stages of the dispersal took place across the Red Sea to southern Arabia, but direct genetic evidence has been thin on the ground," explained Dr. Luisa Pereira of the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto ...
Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S.
Post Date: 2012-01-29 10:05:39 by tom007
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Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S. Allen West Posted: 01/28/2012 9:45 pm React Important Funny Typical Scary Outrageous Amazing Innovative Finally Follow Allen West , Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012 , Tea Party , Florida Primary , President Barack Obama , Allen West Florida , Allen West Tea Party , Florida Primary 2012 , Florida Primary Election , Florida Primary Election 2012 , Obama 2012 , Palm Beach County Gop , Rep. Allen West , Politics News share this story 1,444 168 192 Get Politics Alerts Sign Up Submit this story Speaking to a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach for the Palm Beach County GOP, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) fired off a humdinger of a line that ...
Power vs. People in the Digital Age
Post Date: 2012-01-29 03:05:07 by Tatarewicz
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For the record, when it comes to government censorship, we’re all for it. By all means, censor the bastards...starting with those spineless little oxygen-thieves in Congress. We jest, of course. The fact that politician’s regularly and enthusiastically exercise their right to free speech may well be the biggest advantage their opposition enjoys. In other words, we wouldn’t be without their self-defeating pronouncements and double-talking idiocy. Not for a second. Here to share the latest on the unfolding “Battle Digi-tal,” we present a column by the inimitable Jeffrey Tucker. For the record, when it comes to government censorship, we’re all for it. By all ...
DAVOS DEBATE: Should You Buy A New $65 Million Plane ... Or Pick Up A More Stylish Older One And Refurbish It?
Post Date: 2012-01-27 20:00:01 by tom007
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DAVOS DEBATE: Should You Buy A New $65 Million Plane ... Or Pick Up A More Stylish Older One And Refurbish It? Henry Blodget | 13 hours ago | 3,384 | 26 A A A inShare52 Gulfstream 650 The 650. See Also BLODGET And HUFFINGTON: Here's How To Fix Capitalism BLODGET And HUFFINGTON: Here's How To Fix Capitalism Swiss helicopter Arianna Huffington And Sheryl Sandberg Marooned In Remote Swiss Town After Helicopter Mishap roubini davos cnbc Roubini Is Scaring Everyone At Davos With Talk Of Global Recession It is a matter of serious debate. Should you buy a brand-new top-of-the-line jet? Or an older, more stylish refurbished one? At a party in Davos last night, a hedge-fund mogul and ...
No budget, no cuts, no plan
Post Date: 2012-01-27 08:27:47 by ndcorup
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> No budget, no cuts, no plan by Joseph Farah Jan. 27, '12 It has been more than 1,000 days, the equivalent in time of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s entire presidency, since the federal government had a budget. Most Americans don’t realize Barack Obama has operated through his entire first term without any spending plan whatsoever. Why? Because Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress for the first two years of the Obama administration never bothered to pass one. And Democrats who control the Senate still refuse to approve one now. Yet, this isn’t considered news by most of the major media in the U.S. – therefore, most Americans are completely in the dark ...
Libertarian Foreign Policy Brief prepared exclusively for our subscribers by Colonel Douglas Macgregor
Post Date: 2012-01-26 13:17:39 by christine
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How and when America’s ongoing budgetary crisis will be resolved after Americans elect a President in November 2012 is a mystery, but trillion-dollar deficits stretch as far as the eye can see and the Federal Debt is now 100% of U.S. gross domestic product.[i] When interest rates on the U.S. Treasury’s securities rise – and they will – the U.S. Government’s cost of servicing the nation’s ballooning debt will soar[ii] confronting Americans with a new, more profound fiscal crisis; in Senator Tom Coburn’s words, “the specter of default.”[iii] Mitt Romney’s grandiose plans for a 450 ship navy along with Rick Santorum’s ...
The Infamous C-Word
Post Date: 2012-01-26 10:01:58 by tom007
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The Infamous C-Word Cword By Anatoly Liberman for the OUP Blog, Oxford Etymologist Like all word columnists, I keep receiving the same questions again and again. Approximately once a month someone asks me about the origin of the F-word, the C-word, and gay. Well, the C-word has been investigated in great detail, and a few conjectures are not so bad. By way of introduction, I should note that, judging by the examples in the OED, the English C-word was not offensive or at least not always offensive in Middle English. No combination of sounds appeals to our prurient instincts because of their intrinsic qualities. To shock or make us blush, they need a certain attitude on our part. ...
Former Apple Exec: We Knew About Worker Abuse In China And Ignored It
Post Date: 2012-01-26 09:54:58 by tom007
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Former Apple Exec: We Knew About Worker Abuse In China And Ignored It Dylan Love | 47 minutes ago | 1,436 | 21 A A A inShare40 steve jobs Dan Frommer, Business Insider Apple has allegedly known about the abuse of Foxconn workers in China for a long time without doing anything to change it, according to a new report from the New York Times. We've previously reported on the numerous difficulties that surround working for Foxconn -- employees threaten mass suicide over pay, the CEO takes his management cues from zookeepers, and there have been problems in the past regarding its hiring underage employees. An anonymous Apple executive told the Times, "We’ve known about labor ...
Adelson, Gingrich, and the Selling of America (American traitor)
Post Date: 2012-01-25 09:37:55 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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If you want to know what’s wrong with our campaign finance laws – and our political system in a more general sense – look at the way Sheldon Adelson is buying the Republican nomination for his sock puppet, Newt Gingrich. Right now, the anonymous donors to a political action committee, or PAC, can buy ads on behalf of – or against – a candidate, and spend unlimited amounts as long as there is no official connection between the PAC and any candidate. This degree of separation, however, is pure fiction: in reality, “former” aides to the candidate can and do operate these “Super PACs,” which are funded by one Daddy Warbucks or another: no overt ...
How To Tell You're Living In The Wrong Country
Post Date: 2012-01-25 09:35:36 by tom007
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How To Tell You're Living In The Wrong Country Simon Black, Sovereign Man | Jan. 25, 2012, 5:47 AM | 4,382 | 31 A A A inShare2 tsa TSA via Wikimedia Commons Simon Black URL Simon Black is an international investor, entrepreneur, permanent traveler, and self-described free man Recent Posts Yet Another Reminder That Democracy Is An Illusion How To Check Up On Your Broker Destroying America, bill by bill RSS Feed How to tell you’re living in the wrong country Yet another reminder that democracy is an illusion How to conduct your own due diligence on a bank or broker January 24, 2012 Santiago, Chile Yesterday, Kentucky senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA in Nashville ...
Romney's 14% Tax Rate Is A Turning Point In The Debate On Taxes
Post Date: 2012-01-24 16:03:21 by tom007
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Romney's 14% Tax Rate Is A Turning Point In The Debate On Taxes John Carney, CNBC | Jan. 24, 2012, 10:49 AM | 1,438 | 45 A A A inShare4 Romney Fox Bret Beier RSS Feed Mega-Pay: More Executives Are Making Over $50 Million a Year Greek Default: Why Europe Thinks It May Not Be So Bad Americans May Be Paying More for Gasoline This Spring Why Obama Shouldn't Talk About Housing and 'Fairness' 'Voluntary' Greek Debt Deal Still Possible: IIF Chief The extraordinary wealth of Mitt Romney should not be a cause for surprise, much less alarm. For as long as anyone has known the name Mitt Romney, he has been associated with wealth and power — as many of our presidents, ...
Brian Williams was a Disgrace Silencing Ron Paul, Rick Santorum
Post Date: 2012-01-24 14:31:05 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The four remaining GOP presidential candidates debated in Tampa, Fla., on Monday night on NBC, moderated by the "NBC Nightly News" grandstanding anchor Brian Williams. This spectacle was mostly a dialogue between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. During the first part of the debate, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum were basically left out. BuzzFeed reported Paul and Santorum spoke less than five minutes for the first one-third of the program. This program was a massive disgrace. Williams should be ashamed of himself for generally excluding Santorum and Paul. If these debates aren't going to strive ...
Mitt Romney Says He Won’t Release More Than Two Years Of Tax Returns Because of ‘The Internet’
Post Date: 2012-01-22 17:26:11 by tom007
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Mitt Romney Says He Won’t Release More Than Two Years Of Tax Returns Because of ‘The Internet’ By Judd Legum on Jan 22, 2012 at 11:46 am Today on Fox News Sunday, Mitt Romney said he would release his 2010 tax return (along with an estimate of his 2011 taxes) on Tuesday. Fox’s Chris Wallace pressed Romney on why he would only release two years of returns when his father released twelve during his run for President. Romney said he wouldn’t release as many tax returns as his father did because that was “before the internet.” Watch it: Romney’s answer seems to suggest that he won’t release more returns because, in the internet age, they will be ...
Romney Bombs, and Other Thoughts on the Charleston Debate
Post Date: 2012-01-22 15:29:10 by tom007
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Romney Bombs, and Other Thoughts on the Charleston Debate POSTED: January 20, 10:30 AM ET Comment 125 south carolina debate Republican Candidates Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul participate in the CNN Town Hall Debate in South Carolina. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images I have an article about South Carolina and the GOP race coming out in Rolling Stone soon, so I can't say too much about that race here. But I do have a few quick notes about last night's debate in Charleston, which I had the misfortune to attend. • I was astonished to wake up this morning and read, in this morning's Wall Street Journal, this assessment of Romney's performance: ...
This Article Explains Why Apple Makes iPhones In China And Why The U.S. Is Screwed
Post Date: 2012-01-22 09:18:42 by tom007
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This Article Explains Why Apple Makes iPhones In China And Why The U.S. Is Screwed Henry Blodget | Jan. 22, 2012, 5:30 AM | 7,692 | 44 A A A inShare135 shenzhen china Wikimedia Commons Shenzhen See Also: Foxconn home FOXCONN: Yes, Our CEO Called Our Employees 'Animals' But He Didn't Mean It As An Insult Terry Gou Foxconn CEO OF APPLE PARTNER FOXCONN: 'Managing One Million Animals Gives Me A Headache' Foxconn Your iPhone Was Built, In Part, By 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour The manufacturing processes of Apple and other electronics companies have come into sharp focus of late, with the revelation of more details about what life is like for ...
Cheating, Serial-Divorcing Pig Upset By Adultery Question
Post Date: 2012-01-21 09:47:30 by tom007
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Cheating, Serial-Divorcing Pig Upset By Adultery Question by Wonkette Jr. 11:33 pm January 19, 2012 351 Comments 6407 Views Was there a highlight to tonight’s GOP debate? No. There is a GOP debate every four or five hours, constantly, forever, and there cannot be a highlight to something that is ongoing and eternal, like CNN Headline News or the Lake of Fire, in Hell. But CNN number-reader John King did manage to really get the amoral jewelry-debt piglet Newt Gingrich in full squeaking rage because, boo hoo, somebody asked Newt about his endless adultery and divorcing and banging other ladies while he’s married, etc. So did the multimillionaire academic-politician-author Newt ...
Palin Says Interview With Ex-Wife Will Help Gingrich ‘Soar’ (Ya Can't Make It Up)
Post Date: 2012-01-20 10:55:39 by tom007
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Palin Says Interview With Ex-Wife Will Help Gingrich ‘Soar’ By Alex Seitz-Wald on Jan 19, 2012 at 5:00 pm Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin defended Newt Gingrich ahead of the airing of a shocking interview tonight with his ex-wife, whom Gingrich cheated on, saying the news will only help the former Speaker’s chances of winning the South Carolina GOP primary Saturday. Palin and her husband have endorsed Gingrich. Speaking on Sean Hannity’s radio show this afternoon, Palin played her typical game of conflating the “dumbarses” in the “lamestream media” and the political left, assuming that ABC News is airing the embarrassing interview in an attempt ...
Washing Your Clothes In Hot Water Is Dumping Money Down The Drain
Post Date: 2012-01-20 10:30:05 by tom007
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Washing Your Clothes In Hot Water Is Dumping Money Down The Drain Trent Hamm, The Christian Science Monitor | Jan. 19, 2012, 5:10 PM | 158 | 2 A A A inShare4 women washing machine RSS Feed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lashes out at SOPA, PIPA NASA still not hiding aliens: Triangular 'UFO' debunked (+video) Obama at Disney World: foreign tourists could create 1 million jobs This post originally appeared at The Christian Science Monitor. I base this on the numbers calculated by Mr. Electricity on the cost of washing machines, using a set of rather rigorous data. If you wash on hot and rinse on warm, you’re going to use an average of 4.5 kWh per load, which at a cost of $0 ...
hy Congress Will be Immune from NDAA Arrest and Imprisonment -- With Exceptions
Post Date: 2012-01-19 10:40:15 by tom007
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Why Congress Will be Immune from NDAA Arrest and Imprisonment -- With Exceptions Dees Illustration Brennan Browne Activist Post Recently, Naomi Wolf penned a commentary entitled: "How Congress is Signing Its Own Arrest Warrants in the NDAA Citizen Arrests Bill". Her argument is that those responsible for passing the National Defense Authorization Act will inevitably end up its victims. She states, "Parliamentary leaders are the first to face pressure, threats, arrest and even violence when the military obtains to [sic] power to make civilian arrests and hold civilians in military facilities without due process. There is no exception to this rule." The problem with her ...
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