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Ron Paul Wins the CPAC Straw Poll for President, What’s Next?
In his own words, on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Show, here is Ron Paul:
Breast Implants As A Terrorist Weapon?
The Detroit Free Press reports:
British intelligence agencies have reportedly monitored terrorist communications bragging that women suicide bombers have already undergone surgery to hide explosive bombs in their breast implants.
“You could certainly put a liquid of any kind in a saline device, and a gel implant theoretically could be opened and replaced with a different type of gel,” said Maryland plastic surgeon Dr. Craig Person.
“I believe that any liquid in a breast implant, or any gel with a silicone-type of implant would be hard to detect with a body scanner,” Person told 9NewsNow.
Greg Palast: The Right Testicle of Hell — History of a Haitian Holocaust
Greg Palast writes on GregPalast.com:
1. Bless the President for having rescue teams in the air almost immediately. That was President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland. On Wednesday, the AP reported that the President of the United States promised, “The initial contingent of 2,000 Marines could be deployed to the quake-ravaged country within the next few days.” “In a few days,” Mr. Obama?
2. There’s no such thing as a ‘natural’ disaster. 200,000 Haitians have been slaughtered by slum housing and IMF “austerity” plans.
3. A friend of mine called. Do I know a journalist who could get medicine to her father? And she added, trying to hold her voice together, “My sister, she’s under the rubble. Is anyone going who can help, anyone?” Should I tell her, “Obama will have Marines there in ‘a…
New TSA Security Regulations in Light of Christmas-Time Double-Header Scare
Jeffrey Goldberg writes on the Atlantic:
Sometimes the stupidity is too much to bear. From the new guidelines for international air travel:
U.S.-bound passengers aboard international flights must undergo a “thorough pat-down” at boarding gates, focused on the upper legs and torso.
Thanks for letting us know, TSA, that the search should be focused on the upper legs and torso. As I’ve said on numerous occasions, pat-downs that ignore the crotch and the ass are useless. We recently saw in Saudi Arabia the detonation of a rectal bomb, so it really doesn’t take much creativity to imagine that terrorists will be taping explosives to their scrotums. Of course, TSA is not going to be feeling-up people’s scrotums anytime soon, so the question remains: Why does our government continue to make believe that it…
Wal-Mart Sued for Videotaping Employees and Customers in Bathroom
NATHALIE TADENA writes on ABC News:
A Pennsylvania Walmart Supercenter videotaped employees and customers in a unisex bathroom, several former and current Walmart employees alleged in a lawsuit filed this week.
Seven former and current employees from the Tire and Lube department at the Walmart in Easton, Pa., filed a lawsuit in county court against the Arkansas-based corporation and four local managers Dec. 21.
Several employees discovered an “off-the-shelf” video camera in a store bathroom March 31, 2008, according to the court filing. The unisex bathroom, which also served as a changing room, was used by employees and customers. Customers and employees were not notifed of the surveillance, according to the court filing.
“I am incredulous that anyone would think that it’s appropriate conduct for any reason to photograph people in a changing room…
Google Pays No Taxes on Its £1.6bn Ad Revenues in Britain
Robert Watts writes in the Times:
Google, the internet giant whose informal corporate motto is “don’t be evil”, did not pay any tax on its £1.6 billion advertising revenues in Britain last year.
The firm, which has a substantial presence in London, diverted all its advertising earnings from customers in Britain to its Irish subsidiary. The arrangement allowed Google legally to avoid paying more than £450m in corporation tax to HM Revenue & Customs in 2008, The Sunday Times has established.
The disclosure prompted politicians to criticise Google, widely lauded as a pioneer of the internet age, for “ducking its social responsibility” and for “tax avoiding”. Accounts filed with Companies House in the past week show Google’s 2008 UK corporation tax bill amounted to just £141,519 — and that was tax on the…
7 Stories Barack Obama Doesn’t Want Told
JOHN F. HARRIS writes on the Politico:
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on.
A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering. As Washington returns to work from the Thanksgiving…
Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About ‘Climate-Gate’
John Lott writes on Fox News:
A coordinated campaign to hide scientific information about climate change appears unprecedented. Could it wind up costing us trillions?
Science depends on good quality of data. It also relies on replication and sharing data. But the last couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations. Computer hackers have obtained 160 megabytes of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England. These e-mails, which have now been confirmed as real, involved many researchers across the globe with ideologically similar advocates around the world. They were brazenly discussing the destruction and hiding of data that did not support global warming claims. The academics here also worked closely with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate…
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Ukraine Closes All Schools and Cinemas over Swine Flu
Anya Tsukanova reports via AFP:
KIEV — Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Friday ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine’s schools and cinemas in the toughest measures adopted yet to combat the swine flu virus in Europe.
“From today, all the school establishments in Ukraine — be they private or public — will be put on three weeks of holiday,” she told her cabinet in comments carried on Ukrainian television.
Tymoshenko said the government would also be banning “all public gatherings, every concert and every cinema showing for three weeks.” The government will also introduce “special regimes” to limit the movement of Ukraine’s citizens from one region to another for non-urgent purposes, she said. Ukraine has borders with four EU countries.
The prime minister’s tough actions came as Ukraine confirmed its first deaths from the…
Man Sues the Bank of America for “1,784 Billion, Trillion Dollars”
Joe Rauch of Reuters writes:
Dalton Chiscolm is unhappy about Bank of America’s customer service — really, really unhappy.
Chiscolm in August sued the largest U.S. bank and its board, demanding that “1,784 billion, trillion dollars” be deposited into his account the next day. He also demanded an additional $200,164,000, court papers show.
Attempts to reach Chiscolm were unsuccessful. A Bank of America spokesman declined to comment.
“Incomprehensible,” U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said in a brief order released Thursday in Manhattan federal court.
“He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a ‘Spanish womn,’” the judge wrote. “He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers.”
Chin has experience with big numbers. He’s the judge who sentenced…
Take the Pledge to End American Socialism!
I, as an outstanding conservative warrior fighting against “socialism” in America, do hereby vow the following:
Places I will no longer visit:
National Parks
State Parks
City Parks
Public Libraries
Any sporting event stadium funded with public funds
I will never again travel on:
Sidewalks
City streets
The Interstate Highway System
Public transit
National Defense divisions no longer required to protect my family:
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines
Benefits I will no longer accept:
VA loans
Pell Grants
Medicaid
Medicare
Social Security
Weekends
Farm Subsidies
Services I will no longer use:
U.S. Patent Office
Local Police service
Local Fire service
911 emergency phone service
State colleges
Community colleges
Public schools
Municipal garbage service
Balance The Budget
Here is a centralized location for people to search, decipher, and discuss the myriad ways federal funds are allocated every year, and even control where their tax dollars go, line by line, as they try their hand at balancing the federal budget.
BalanceTheBudget.com is a virtual ‘town hall’ where concerned citizens and groups can share their ideas on balancing the budget, gather for news, review resources and tutorials, blog about budget solutions, and vent fiscal frustrations.
Using data provided by the Congressional Budget Office,
BalanceTheBudget.com maps out the U.S. budget outlays, budget deficit,
and total accumulated debt in a user-friendly format so even political neophytes can assimilate the data and make informed changes.
The World According to Glenn Beck: NBC HQ At 30 Rock is the Heart of A Communist Conspiracy!
Watch and learn, folks:
Obama Has A 9/11 Truther in His Administration, and He’s Working for the Environment…
Ben Jones, Politico: As a reader asks, how did Van Jones make it through vetting to become Obama’s
Green Jobs czar?
Though very well regarded by officials of both parties, and a
major figure in the new environmental movement, he’s the type of figure who typically stays outside government. The only reason his various outrageous statements and affiliations haven’t become a major issue yet is, paradoxically, because they’re being driven by Glenn Beck.
And another day, another statement for the White House to
distance itself from. This one: Jones appears to have signed a 9/11 Truther statement suggesting the Bush Administration “deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.” The group confirms it’s him.
Birthers may be the new Truthers, but this is a tough one to explain.
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U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Is Guarded by Sexually Confused Frat Boys
John Cook, Gawker: Wonder what it’s like to guard State Department facilities in Kabul? In photos first published by Gawker, security contractors get their kicks peeing on one another, simulating anal sex, doing “butt shots,” and “eating potato chips out of ass cracks.”
These photos were provided to us by the Project on Government Oversight, which has just written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton detailing its investigation into the “Lord of the Flies environment” that has overtaken the private contractors who guard State Department employees in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to POGO, employees of ArmorGroup North America—a unit of contracting giant Wackenhut—get their jollies off by “deviant hazing [that] has created a climate of fear and coercion, with those who declined to participate often ridiculed, humiliated, demoted, or even…
For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty
As the 2007–08 presidential campaign cycle offered up the usual slate of Washington insiders, Ron Paul, an obscure Congressman from Texas brought an alternative voice that challenged the political establishment.
Advocating a philosophy of sound money, a non-interventionist foreign policy, strict Constitutionalism, and individual liberty, Dr. Paul inspired a unique grassroots movement unmatched in American history — the repercussions of which continue to reverberate today and into the future of the American psyche.
For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty follows this historic campaign from the perspective of grassroots activists, and showcases the unique, often bizarre, yet groundbreaking projects they undertook as they brushed aside traditional campaign methodology.
Fired for Using ALL CAPS IN EMAIL
NextWeb: Vicki Walker, an Auckland (New Zealand) accountant, was sacked for sending supposedly confrontational emails with words in red, in bold and in CAPITAL LETTERS.
The Employment Relations Authority in New Zealand ruled that Walker was not fairly terminated from her position after sending the emails to co-workers. Her previous employers, ProCare, have now been ordered to pay New Zealand dollars $17,000 (US $11,500/€8000) for unfair dismissal.
Fired in December 2007, after two years with the company, ProCare claim Walker had “caused disharmony in the workplace by using block capitals, bold typeface and red text in her emails.”
Walker claims that the one email used in evidence was in regard to how her team should fill claim forms, and specifies a time and date highlighted in bold red, and a sentence written in…
The Rise And Fall of the U.S. Dollar 1800–2009
Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge: And this is just the beginning. Chairman Ben has yet to be fully unleashed.
