Denied marriage at home, mixed-faith couples from warring Lebanon and Israeli head for Cyprus

The two couples had never met each other, and probably never would. They had come from opposite sides of a border between longtime...

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Amnesty: Israel Is Denying Palestinians Water

Israel is guzzling the region's water supply to keep its farmland lush and its lawns green while many Palestinians struggle to get the bare minimum for life...

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Where Bush Was Bashed, Obama Gets Free Pass

GOP faithful can't fathom why press goes so easy on new president

Supporters of George Bush are miffed about the passes...

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Efficient Market Theory and the Crisis

Neither the rating agencies' mistakes nor the overleveraging by financial firms was the fault of an academic hypothesis.

Our financial firms drove too fast, our central...

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Freakonomics Guys Freak Out Climate Acolytes

Wouldn't it be great to make global warming disappear with a helium balloon, a few miles of garden hose, and a stream of sulfur dioxide? “Maybe, but not if you’re...

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Fuck the FDA! Clove Cigarettes Banned: Enter Clove 'Small Cigars'

FDA, importer disagree over definition of a cigarette

For one California importer of smokes, an awful lot has come to rest...

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Funny: Arnold Hides Vulgar Message to Legislators in Veto

Bill's author recently told governor to 'kiss my gay ass'

Though all political vetoes send some message, a recent one by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to carry two—with the less-obvious...

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Somali Women Whipped by Religious Enforcers for Wearing Bras

Underwear 'fraudulently advertises assets' to suitorsMuslim Shabaab religious enforcers in war-torn Somalia are finding time to whip Muslim women for wearing bras. Bra-wearers are being punished because...

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French court convicts Scientologists of fraud

A court yesterday convicted the French branch of the Church of Scientology of organised fraud. The Scientology Celebrity Centre and a related bookshop in...

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OZschwitz: Anti-human rights poLICE, head to Asia to fight courageous 'smugglers'

AUSTRALIA is preparing to dispatch police across Asia to fight people smugglers and expand intelligence and security ties with Indonesia under a landmark deal that...

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Vigilante Video

Alleged teen thieves got what they deserved

A video of five teenage boys being beaten by vigilantes and forced to...

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Karadzic Caught Discussing Genocide on Wiretap

Prosecutors reveal tape as Bosnian leader's trial goes on without him

Radovan Karadzic was caught on tape ordering the...

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Death row may go private in Arizona

Arizona spends $4.7 million each year to house inmates in a super-maximum-security prison. But in a first in the criminal-justice world, the state's death-row inmates could become...

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It's Official: Criminal Gangs ATF and FBI Don't Get Along

In April 2005, sheriff's deputies reached a suburban Seattle home in time to prevent a firebomb from detonating. But there was nothing the sheriff's department could...

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A miracle: First U.S. Official Resigns to Protest Afghan War

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine who fought in Iraq and subsequently joined the State Department, said he believes the war is simply fueling...

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The Collapse of the British Liberal Order

Via Instapundit comes a disturbing report that one-fifth of the British electorate would consider voting for the British Nationalist Party (BNP), which is considered by almost everyone left...

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Russian Banks Foreclose on Pigs, Lingerie

As defaults soar, banks stuck with weird collateral

With loan defaults soaring, Russia’s banks have had to seize a lot of...

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King scraps Saudi woman flogging for sex talk show

Saudi Arabia's king waived a flogging sentence on a female journalist charged for involvement in a risque TV show, the second such pardoning of such a high profile case by...

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Dubai slave pen: 'What the fuck?' Aussie arrested after swearing at policeman

Dubai International Airport, he did what many young Australians would do. He swore.

"This guy in a blue shirt grabbed my wrist quite hard, pulled me towards...

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OZschwitz: Statist idiots flaming panic over continent's imaginary coastal flooding... in the next hundred years...

URGENT action to cope with the impact of rising sea levels needs to start now, including improving evacuation routes for coastal communities during extreme storms and...

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Idiot: Dickhead poLICE officer charged after pulling gun on chainsaw-wielding man at the end of his act

A Baltimore city police officer delivered the fright of a lifetime to a haunted house employee, pulling a gun on the chainsaw-wielding man at the end of his act, authorities said on Monday.

Sergeant Eric Janik, 37, was charged with assault and...

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Another statist rights violation: Customs nab man with pythons taped to body

Customs officials in Norway say they had arrested a man who tried to illegally import 14 snakes and 10 lizards into the country by taping the reptiles to his body.

The snakes, king pythons that are large in...

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Vicious Japanese statists ruin actress' career over nothing more than personal drug use

More than 6000 people crowded outside a Tokyo courthouse as Japanese actress Noriko Sakai pleaded guilty to drug use and prosecutors sought a prison sentence in a trial that has caused a...

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Who speaks for America's Jews? J Street lobby group works to loosen big beasts' grip on Congress

Boost for J Street as Obama adviser attends conference, but Israeli ambassador will be...

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Thanks to statists: 9 Million Hungry In North Korea

North Korea should take urgent steps to improve its "abysmal" human rights record by providing food to its hungry citizens, a UN envoy said yesterday as he released...

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YaY! Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years

The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of...

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UK gulag: Armed officers w/ Sub Machine Guns placed on routine foot patrol for first time

A hand-picked team from CO19 will carry Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns in gun...

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Statist insanity continues: A case of innocence executed

It is unlikely you've ever heard of Cameron Todd Willingham. He was an out of work Texas mechanic in the state's poor rural north-east who cared for his three small...

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OZschwitz gulag: Labor charged with mistreating boat people

THE Human Rights Commissioner, Catherine Branson, has criticised conditions on Christmas Island and demanded the Rudd Government stop detaining people there...

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Mwahahaha! Sicilian prefers prison to house arrest with wife

A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at...

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The Liberal Mind

Are Liberals Out of Their Minds? Why do modern liberals think and act as they do? The radical left's politics and its destructive effects on our basic freedoms have provoked...

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Grooming the citizens: The child-molester approach to governing

In "The Liberal Mind," Dr. Lyle H. Rossiter gives us some insight into how so many people bought into the seemingly self-evident absurdity that they could live...

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Ancap Good News: Atheist Ads to Hit NYC Subways

Eight atheist organizations are the creators of a unique month-long ad campaign beginning next week in Manhattan subways that will challenge...

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Legalizing Pot May Be Women's Work

Good for AG Eric Holder for announcing that the Justice Department will let medical marijuana laws stand, writes Kathleen Parker—at last, the 14 states that give cannabis to..

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Funny: Another NYC Anchor Swears On-Air

After one anchor's angry F-bomb and another's strange chicken-copulation metaphor, a third New York local newscaster accidentally slipped in some off-color...

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YaY! Gunmen Kill High Ranking Pakistani Army Officer

Police in Pakistan say gunmen have killed a high-ranking army officer and another soldier during an ambush in Islamabad.

Authorities said two gunmen riding a motorcycle fired into...

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OZschwitz Parliament: Take this watch and shove it, minister told

The Northern Territory Opposition has presented the Essential Services Minister, Rob Knight, with a gold watch and a jar of petroleum jelly on behalf of a disgruntled former public servant.

The Opposition's essential services...

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Australian cyber attacks smite atheist websites

Australian atheists are under attack, with the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention knocked offline in a major cyber...

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OZschwitz nanny state breeds stupidity

Here's another triumph of the NSW Government: tough new legislation against pool owners. Under proposed changes to the Swimming Pools Act of 1992, council officers will have the right to invade private property and...

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Medvedev, oligarch clash over corruption of the courts

President Dmitry Medvedev rebuked Russia's former richest man on Wednesday after the oligarch bluntly told a Kremlin meeting that favourable court rulings were impossible without....

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OZschwitz: Blueprint, the idiotic Transport and Tourism Forum wants govt to get into property development

THE state's public transport agencies should get into the property development business, selling or renting land around key transport hubs at a premium....

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Nebraska is hiring international criminals: Wanted by Interpol, man ends up in prison - as a guard

A simple Google search of Michal Preclik's name turns up an Interpol wanted poster from his native Czech Republic. So where was he arrested? In Nebraska's...

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Traditional Iraqi values: Primitive, conservative father runs over daughter for becoming 'westernized'

Police in a Phoenix suburb are looking for a father suspected of using his car to run over his daughter because she was becoming too "westernised" and was not living...

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A lot of people really hate contemporary art

A lot of people really hate contemporary art. That's a given. But there's one artist who has become the whipping boy for every section of the art world, from the old fogey...

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Rights violations: Oppressive Hamas toughens Islamic code

A campaign to push increasingly strict morals has met unexpected resistance from Palestinians, reports Rory McCarthy in Gaza City.

It began with a rash of unusually assertive...

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Statist Injustice: Judges' ruling opens new front for smoker lawsuits

Massachusetts' high court has said Philip Morris USA may have to pay for diagnostic chest exams so smokers can get early warning they have developed lung cancer, possibly opening a new...

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Israhell wants law of war changed and a blank check on their vices, supposedly to fight terrorism

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his government to draw up proposals to amend the international laws of war after...

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OZschwitz statist idiots refused Russian jets on Black Saturday

Victorian authorities knocked back the offer from Russia of massive water-bombing aircraft to help fight Black Saturday bushfires because they were unsuitable for the terrain and would have...
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OZschwitz slave pen: Gamblers face a cap on what they ris

POKER machine users will be forced to cap the amount of money they risk when gambling, under a proposed shake-up to be recommended by the Government's...

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YaY! OZschwitz soldier dead, one wounded in firing exercise

A Sydney-based Australian soldier is dead and another was seriously wounded after a mishap during a live firing exercise...

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Suicide nurse has a right to encourage depressed people to kill themselves; To hell with the statists!

A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation in at least two deaths and could face...

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Another statist idiot: Moscow Mayor Promises a Winter Without Snow

Pigs still can't fly, but this winter, the mayor of Moscow promises to keep it from snowing. For just a few million dollars, the mayor's office will hire...

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YaY! Soldiers, militants die in Pakistan fighting

At least 20 militants and four soldiers died in fierce overnight fighting between the Taliban and Pakistan troops pressing a major offensive for...

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OZschwitz: Officers sacked, charged over extortion and fake raids

Two Liverpool police officers have lost their jobs and have been charged with corruption and other offences over allegations investigated by the Police Integrity Commission in February, a...

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YaY! Home Office climbs down over keeping DNA records on innocent

Civil liberty campaigners claimed a victory today after the government announced it is dropping current proposals to retain the DNA profiles of innocent...

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US scientist charged with attempted spying for Israhell

A top American scientist who once worked for the Pentagon and the US space agency NASA was arrested Monday and charged with attempted spying for Israel, the Department of ...

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White House Gangsters Urge Other Networks to Disregard Fox News

Senior Obama administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to accuse Fox News of pushing a particular point of view and not being a real...

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Obama Tries to Kneecap Chamber of Commerce

The Obama administration is deliberately freezing out a US Chamber of Commerce seemingly chilly to its entire agenda. White House officials have pointedly ignored the...

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'New atheists' want to decry religion, not just promote secularism--Excellent!

Can a non-religion schism? Maybe that’s too dramatic a phrase, but there’s a rift growing between so-called “new atheists,” who favor an aggressive, mocking stance toward...

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Target Will Pay Shoppers to Bring Their Own Bags

Target and CVS will reward customers for using reusable shopping bags, and the efforts could take a billion plastic bags out of circulation. Though some retailers—notably...

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Detroit politics is so corrupt candidates have to bribe special interests with their own campaign funds

A long-secret cost of Detroit elections -- paying for endorsements -- is generating controversy in the City Council election, even though most candidates...

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YaY! One statist less: Judge, ex-DA Jennings dies at 53

Longtime official suffers massive heart attack during sailboat race

Gregg County is mourning the loss of District Judge...

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Healthy Living Tips: 3 Runners Drop Dead in Detroit Marathon

Michigan authorities will conduct autopsies today on three men who died within a 16-minute span during yesterday's Detroit marathon. Just after 9am, a 36-year-old collapsed on the course after...

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Site Lets Investors See and Copy Experts’ Trades

The trouble with mutual funds is that investors can feel as though they have put their money in a black box. The 90 million Americans with money in funds know...

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Taliban Money Men Outwit US

The Taliban is thriving financially, despite the US’ best efforts to clamp down on its cash flow, thanks to a sophisticated collection of revenue streams including...

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Funny: $5M African Leadership Prize Goes to ... Nobody

Committee passes over all three candidates, doesn't award $5M to any

Nobody has won this year's $5 million Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, the committee responsible for picking a winner...

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A Real Anarchist Society?

History's Most Overlooked Mystery

Disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization

With a culture that stretched from western India to Afghanistan and a population numbering...

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Goldman Motherfucker, Can You Spare Us A Dime

AT the dawn of the progressive era early in the last century, muckrakers attacked the first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, for creating capitalism’s most...

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Frankfurt Book Fair VS Corrupt Chinese Propaganda

As China extends its economic reach, it has also increased efforts to promote its culture, or “soft power,” to counter Western influence and improve its...

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South Africa’s longtime police commissioner charged with corruption

The drug trafficker and the police commissioner were once nattily attired pals, or so the allegations go. The two men would shop together here in the...

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Fed Parks Official Pored Over 3,400 Porn Pics at Work

A federal investigative report has declared a parks official clean even though he pored over thousands of porn pics on his computer while he was supposed...

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OZschwitz: Minister's unlawful act scuppers 7200 homes

THE state's biggest housing project has collapsed after the Planning Minister, Kristina Keneally, admitted she acted unlawfully in approving the...

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OZschwitz: ICAC scandal-- three councillors prosecuted

Three former Wollongong councillors are being prosecuted for allegedly providing false or misleading information during investigations into corruption at...

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'Justice' for electrocuted kin, 94 years later

Nationally syndicated radio host Tom Joyner raised his hand in victory.

Nearly 100 years had passed since his...

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Catholic Diocese files for Chapter 11 due to sexual abuse by priests

Delaware's Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, court documents showed on Sunday, in the face of more than...

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Rajaratnam Became Billionaire Driving Analysts, Demanding Edge

Every weekday at 8:35 a.m., Galleon Group’s 70 analysts, portfolio managers and traders pack into a conference room on the 34th floor of the...

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Song Decoders

On first listen, some things grab you for their off-kilter novelty. Like the story of a company that has hired a bunch of “musicologists,” who sit at computers and listen to songs, one at a time, rating them element by...

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That's a nice antitrust exemption you got there, insurance industry. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it

President Obama mounted a frontal assault on the insurance industry on Saturday, accusing it of using “deceptive and dishonest ads” to derail his health care legislation and threatening to...

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Nya-nya-nya! Biblical sex row over explicit illustrated Book of Genesis

A sexually explicit illustrated Book of Genesis by controversial artist Robert Crumb, which features Bible characters having intercourse, has been condemned by...

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Parasites in a feeding frenzy: Haggling starts over EU jobs

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso's closest aides treated themselves to a celebratory pint of Guinness in Kitty O'Shea's, a pub opposite...

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Violence wielding statists are muscling in: EU eyes bigger global role

The 'Yes' vote by Irish voters on the Lisbon Treaty has brought forward the prospect that the European Union might play a greater role in...

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Vaclav Klaus: Lisbon Treaty not a good thing for Europe, nor for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic

Czech President Vaclav Klaus has compared the Lisbon Treaty on EU reform to an unstoppable speeding train, suggesting he may have to sign it.

A staunch opponent to...

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YaY! Iranian commanders assassinated

Several top commanders in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have been killed in a suicide bombing in the volatile south-east of...

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Weird and wacky inventions wowing Londo

Portable gyms, two-man submarines, aphrodisiac bedsheets, bra fixers and Wondercubes are among the wacky but smart innovations catching the...

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Statist MEPs call for compulsory brainwashing 'EU lessons' in schools

MEPs are calling for school pupils to be forced to take European Union lessons to counter "lies" about Brussels.

Leaders of the centre-right EPP grouping...

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Mwahahaha! Harvard’s Bet on Interest Rate Rise Cost $500 Million to Exit

Harvard University’s failed bet that interest rates would rise cost the world’s richest school at least $500 million in payments to escape derivatives that...

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Iran To Completely Drop U.S. Dollar From Foreign Exchange

Iran's Trade Promotion Organization has announced a near future plan to completely exclude the US dollar from the country's foreign revenues and...

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The Coming of the Food poLICE

In his 2001 book A Cook's Tour, chef/television host Anthony Bourdain describes a war in the United Kingdom:

It's war. A fight for the hearts, minds, and souls of...

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Evil personified: Churches involved in torture, murder of thousands of African children denounced as witches

The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried...

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There's No Way to Enforce a Texting While Driving Ban

Both the E-mailers and the ban proponents should use more common sense, says Radley Balko

Forget flu season. Several times per year, America comes down with...

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Funny: Target Blasted Over 'Illegal Alien' Costume

Target has apologized for an "illegal alien" Halloween costume that comes complete with green card and orange jail suit. The company is removing the costume....

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Look Out, Wall Street: Fascist Feds Using Wiretaps Now

Insider trading case against Galleon is first to use the tactic

The bad boys of Wall Street better watch their mouths. Federal prosecutors used wiretaps to...

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Immoral poLICE raid Atlanta strip club

Atlanta police officers raided an Atlanta strip club Saturday morning, arresting 29 people for drug sales and other...

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Funny: Disney upset about Australian beer ad with 'Ho White' and the 7 dwarfs. Throw another shrimp on the boobie

Disney is reportedly up in arms over an Australian beer ad that depicts Snow White and the seven dwarves in bed.

The Telegraph reports that in the...

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Irrational Morehouse College Bans Students in Drag

Morehouse College insists that the "image of the strong black man needs to be upheld," and that most definitely involves not dressing up like a strong...

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Gorilla crucifixion 'not meant to offend'

An artist has defended his installation of a lifesize gorilla on a crucifix in a former London church, saying it is designed to highlight a threatened African...

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OZschwitz gulag: Temporary visas equal torture

The old warhorses Philip Ruddock and Kevin Andrews have stirred from their slumbers for a last battle against the infidel horde. Like those sad veterans at Anzac Day booze-ups for whom...

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Atlantis found?

THE secrets of a lost city that may have inspired one of the world's most enduring myths - the fable of Atlantis - have been brought to light beneath the waters off...

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OZschwitz: Rees urges public service: keep it simple, stupid

NSW public servants will be put under a plain-English microscope to make sure the documents they produce are clear and precise.

Premier Nathan Rees has ordered an...

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YaY! Rio drug trading entrepreneurs downs police helicopter

At least 12 people have been killed and a helicopter was downed in fierce clashes between drug gangs and police in Rio de Janeiro, weeks after the city won its...

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YaY! OZschwitz: Transportation fare restitutionists pocket $25m

ABOUT half the fines issued for train fare evasion in NSW remain unpaid, leaving close to $25 million in offenders' pockets.

Office of State Revenue figures....

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Union Chief Takes On White House

The leader of one of the nation's biggest labor unions is not playing ball with the White House, writes Ben Smith. AFSCME's Gerry McEntee seems to be...

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US pushes Thais to extradite

A SENIOR US. Justice Department official on Tuesday told Thai officials the extradition of suspected arms dealer Viktor Bout is 'a matter of great...

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5 states where taxes are low -- and in some cases, nonexistent

For the first time, South Dakota edged past Wyoming to capture the top spot in the Tax Foundation's annual state-by-state ranking of business tax climates.

What makes the state such a tax haven?

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YES! 2 Madoff Victims Sue SEC Regulators are responsible for victims' losses, suit claims

Two investors who lost a combined $2.4 million to Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme have sued the SEC for negligence. The lawsuit argues that the commission should....

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British Intelligence Had Mussolini on WWI Payroll

Britain’s overseas intelligence service helped Benito Mussolini finance his first forays into Italian politics, newly uncovered documents show. Hoping to keep Italy...

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Baptist church book burning will include The Bible (non-KJV), works by the Pope, Mother Theresa, Billy Graham, and contemporary Christian music

A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James versions of the Bible, popular books by many...

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In Its First Bullshit Estimate, Iraq Says 85K Killed Since '04

At least 85,694 Iraqis lost their lives from 2004 to 2008 in violence, the Iraqi government said today in its first comprehensive tally released since the war began. Another...

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Industries are scrambling to avoid being a victim under the new health care legislation

Insurance companies, unions, medical device makers and others in the health care industry are furiously lobbying lawmakers to shift burdens onto...

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US gulag: FBI Doing Facial Recognition Scans on DMV Photo Records

In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and...

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Crisis crushes marriages

GLOBAL markets may be edging towards recovery, but the worst impact of the global financial crunch on families and couples may...

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100 years of fearing technology

For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words....

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YaY! Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 annually

Increased contraceptive use has led to fewer abortions worldwide, but deaths from unsafe abortion remain a severe problem, killing 70,000 women a year, a research institute reported Tuesday in a major global survey.

More than half the deaths, about 38,000, are...

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Tea-Party Protesters Hit 'Pro-Obama' Jersey School

A band of tea-party protesters descended on a New Jersey elementary school yesterday, complaining that a class song hailing President Obama was...

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Ancap Good News: Mayo Clinic Turns Away Medicare, Medicaid Patients

The Mayo Clinic, which has gotten plaudits from the White House for its low spending on Medicare and Medicaid patients, is turning some of those patients away. The clinic will stop accepting Medicaid patients from...

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Fido, Fetch My Tax Break!

A bill with appealing benefits for pet owners and advocates alike is crawling through Congress, though it’ll probably be put down without....

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YaY! Colorado Will Lower Minimum Wage

Colorado is set to become the first state to lower its minimum wage next year. The state’s minimum wage is....

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Neutral Swiss Becoming US Lapdogs, Critics Charge

Some Swiss politicians are griping that the country's prized neutrality appears to be sliding as the government adopts a more accommodating stance toward...

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Gutsy 'Tax Evaders' Face Looming Deadline

Thursday is the deadline for Americans to come clean about the money they have hidden offshore, in places like Swiss bank accounts. No one can say with certainty how...

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Iranian Journalists Flee From Statists, Fearing Retribution for Covering Protests

Dozens of reporters, photographers and bloggers have either fled Iran or are trying to flee in the aftermath of the disputed June...

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The World Transhumanist Society

The World Transhumanist Society and forthcoming associated magazine, THE TRANSHUMANIST, offers a new, sensible, pragmatic voice for those who believe in individual freedom and...

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Funny: Fucking White House Better Watch Its Mouth

At least around reporters suddenly quoting official profanity

Lately, the White House has had quite the potty....

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Rights violating Houston County sheriff’s deputy busts innocent naked bicycle rider

A Warner Robins man is accused of riding his bicycle naked around midnight Thursday in front of a 24-hour fitness center in Warner Robins that has windows...

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How to Fund a Start-Up

Now that you've calculated how much you need (see "How to Calculate Start-Up Costs", next comes the tricky part: getting your hands on...

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Entrepreneurs Take On Tax Man

Business Owners Seek to Cut Costs by Appealing Property Assessments

The bad economy and the deteriorating...

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Innovative Ways to Reel in Cash

As the credit crunch makes raising financing more difficult, small business owners are finding innovative ways to reel in extra cash...

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China Nurtures Futures Markets in Bid to Sway Commodity Prices

Chinese leaders are concerned that their nation's enormous economic expansion is becoming an excuse for foreign suppliers to inflate commodity costs. So, they hope to...

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In Rural India, Mr Right Must Have a Toilet

Brides-to-be insist suitors offer indoor plumbing

India's economy may be booming, but 665 million people in the world's...

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God is not the Creator, superstitious academic claims

The notion of God as the Creator is wrong, claims a top academic, who believes the Bible has been wrongly translated for thousands...

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UK: Thieving Brown to Repay $20K in Expense Scandal

Gordon Brown has been sent a bill for £12,415 ($19,600) for questionable expense account claims, and the prime minister intends to pay up, 10 Downing St. announced...

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More statist idiots: School Suspends 1st-Grader for Cub Scout Eating Utensils

A first grader was suspended for 45 days from school for bringing a Cub Scout combined knife-fork-spoon utensil to class, triggering an uproar...

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YaY! Calling for the Impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama

Enough is enough. We're calling for the Impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama. And if you agree, you can join us right now.

Right here and right now, you can add your voice to ours...

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Sexual perversity in America

Author Daniel Bergner talks about extreme erotic behavior and why we have more in common with sadists and fetishists than...

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Funny: Wife bans FBI head from online banking

FBI Director Robert Mueller was banned by his wife from doing online banking after he nearly fell for...

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Cheapskate Lord Paul, deputy speaker of the Lords, scamming on allowances

A multi-millionaire ally of Gordon Brown pretended that a small flat occupied by one of his employees was his main home so he could claim £38,000 in expenses from...

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Hedge fund heroines outdo men in City

MEET the City’s alpha females. At a fundraising award evening last week, some of London’s most successful female financiers emerged from the shadows of the...

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'Eurosclerosis' threatens EU economic recovery

As Asia and the United States emerge from the global economic crisis, Europe appears likely to be the world's laggard, threatening a return to the dark days of...

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Ancap Good News: Booming OZschwitz blackmarket for contract labour

AN UNDERGROUND network of labour agents is procuring illegal workers in Asia and India to supply Australia's growing blackmarket for contract labour.

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has confirmed that investigators have pinpointed...

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Buildings that eat carbon dioxide? Fish bacteria that light the streets? Meet the architects rebuilding our future

Imagine the cityscape of the future. Forget skyscrapers studded with undimmed lights. Instead, think of...

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YaY! 10 Dead as Gunmen Hit Pakistani Army HQ

Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan's army headquarters today, sparking a ferocious gun battle outside the...

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OZschwitz gulag: Drug buses will swoop on parolees

TWO high-tech buses will hit the road this month to take random urine samples from released prisoners to make sure they are not breaking their parole conditions by...

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OZschwitz slave pen: Government considers tracing welfare money

PEOPLE who receive family assistance payments or welfare could have their purchases tracked via barcodes as part of a new income-management system being explored by...

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Berlusconi urged to apologise after insulting stupid female politician on TV

An indignant wave of political opponents, women’s groups and online activists are clamouring for the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to apologise for a sexist insult that he made to a female politician during a...

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Property owners agree to tax themselves to fund Metrorail to Dulles

Phase two of Metrorail’s expansion to Dulles International Airport got a green light when the Western Alliance for Rail to Dulles got the final signatures it needed on a petition to tax property owners to...

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U.S. should scale back tax imperialism

Obama is expanding an already tough policy of taxing worldwide income, but he could be laying the groundwork for a global...

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Australia bank loses tax avoidance case to NZ's thieving authorities

Westpac Banking Corp. used complicated financial transactions to avoid paying tax, a court said Thursday, dealing a blow to Australian banks fighting nearly...

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Courageous Calif. sisters get 6 years in prison for tax 'fraud'

Two Southern California sisters have been sentenced to six years in federal prison and ordered to pay $14 million in restitution for their role in defrauding...

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The Immoral IRS Tax Fraud Program Reveals $65B in Under-Reported Income in 2008

A government watchdog today said the Internal Revenue Service's program to prevent tax fraud led to $65 billion in under-reported income in 2008, but the program is still marred by...

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US slave pen: Statist pigs stop more than 1 million people on street

A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who...

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A sober, though still retarded, prospective MP: 'People should need a licence to drink'

DRINKERS should have to get a licence to enjoy their favourite tipple - and could lose it if they overindulge, says a prospective...

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Statists at NASA deliver, not a big bang, but a giant flop

But initial photos show that the moon didn't give the reaction to the double jabs that NASA expected.

And the public definitely didn't...

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Unprincipled Blair Now an Apologist For Commie Slave Regime: Give China's Leaders a Break

Western democracies shouldn't stop asking China's leaders tough questions on human rights, but they also need to understand the huge task that lies before China and recognize the progress the nation has...

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Idiots: Discredited Nobel Peace Prize Goes To An Underachieving, Parasitical, Statist Collectivist-- Obama

Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize laureate? "They could have awarded it to Kylie Minogue and I wouldn’t have been half as surprised," writes Ben Brogan of the Telegraph, who thinks...

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YaY! 6 killed in UN military plane crash

AT LEAST six people died in Haiti on Friday after a UN plane carrying 10 passengers crashed close to the capital, police said.

The plane plunged as it...

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Corrupt New Orleans Police Force Faces Swarm of Inquiries

The warning has become routine for the police over the last few months here.

Four years after the department was accused of...

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Iranian Site Reports a Death Sentence for Protester

An Iranian man arrested in his country’s postelection unrest has been sentenced to death, according to reports on a Web site aligned with the reformist...

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YaY! Florida Mayor's Dad Threatens Her at Gunpoint

She'd endorsed his opponent in another mayoral race

Local politics took a bizarre turn in Florida’s Broward County Tuesday night, when Mayor Stacy Ritter’s father—an 84-year-old World War II veteran—showed up at her home with a gun and threatened her. After a brief struggle...

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'Kiss My Gay Ass': Calif. Dem After Heckling Arnold

Slightly different forum, very different personalities, same heckle. And California Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano apparently followed up his “You lie!” interruption of...

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A Quarter Of The World Is In A Muslim Cult

A quarter of the world's population is Muslim, and nearly two-thirds of the religion's adherents live in Asia, according to an extensive...

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Funny: O Giveth Thou Unto Me a Break: Conservatives Are Rewriting the Bible

There are some things that happen that so cry out for parody that a buzzer goes off in the head of every humor writer on the...

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Sperm, Grapefruit Slow Aging, But Ya Gotta Swallow It

The fountain of youth may be filled with grapefruit and human sperm, according to Austrian researchers. The scientists found that spermidine, a chemical compound abundant in....

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YaY! Troops Despair, Question Afghan Mission: Chaplains

Morale is not good at the Forward Operating Base in Wardak province. Soldiers there are starting to lose hope, base chaplains tell the Times. “They feel they are....

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Corrupt Singapore Court Rules Against Magazine

Singapore's highest court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that the Far Eastern Economic Review, a News Corp. magazine slated for closure, defamed two of the...

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Sick culture: Gaza Film Exposes Deadly Breast Cancer Taboos

A heart-wrenching Gaza cartoon inspired by a real-life case follows the story of a young Palestinian woman in a refugee camp who dies of breast cancer because of...

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Gov't to Japanese Serfs: Fuck Serfs Fuck, We'll Pay You

With Japan’s aging, pension-collecting population eating away at the country's coffers, its leaders have decided they need more kids who can in turn support the...

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Evil council bosses gave Baby P director a pay rise and called her a heroine for deflecting criticism

The woman whose social workers failed to save Baby P was hailed as a heroine by her council bosses, she said yesterday.

Sharon Shoesmith was treated to a...

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More Statist Idiots: Plumber with shattered arm left horrifically bent out of shape has operation 'cancelled four times'

A plumber whose arm was left twisted grotesquely out of shape in an accident ten months ago has had an operation to correct it 'cancelled four times'.

Torron Eeles, 50, has been left unable to work since...

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'Charming!' House cuts workweek to 2 1/2 days

In theory, the best job in American politics is the President of the United States.

But the president's now got some competition:

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Brain-dead African bishops speak of Obama in religious terms

African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms—putting them very much at odds with many of their U.S. counterparts.

Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, Ghana said Wednesday that there was...

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OZschwitz slave pen: Are they barking mad? Cafes no longer fit for a dog

MOSMAN residents who already find it a struggle to park the Range Rover near their favourite cafe now face a new challenge - where to park...

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YaY! OZschwitz lawyer's face slashed

A prominent lawyer has been assaulted in an apparently random attack in his home in Melbourne's...

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OZschwitz: Forced glass ban won't work: hotels association

A group representing licensed venues says the Queensland Government's move to ban glass in 41 pubs and clubs will...

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Pentagon auditor deemed serial failure

Some members of Congress are so disturbed by failures and malfeasance described in a recent government report that they are considering removing the agency that...

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Obama agrees to keep Israhell's nukes secret

President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with...
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BOOK REVIEW: Why Ayn Rand is hot again

Sources from the New York Times to the United Kingdom's Guardian agree that 2009 is the Year of Ayn Rand. Fortuitously surfing the wave of Rand fascination is the first...

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USAschwitz: Criminalizing Everyone

"You don't need to know. You can't know." That's what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had...

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UN calls for new reserve currency

The United Nations called on Tuesday for a new global reserve currency to end dollar supremacy which has allowed the United States the "privilege" of building a huge...

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6,000 fugitives are expected to turn themselves in at Newark

Charles Scott woke one morning to pounding at his front door. A dozen federal marshals armed with shotguns and wearing bulletproof...

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Jersey City Mayor Healy issues statement on one councilman's guilty plea, other's resignation as president

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy released the following statement this afternoon on the guilty plea by Councilman Philip J. Kenny and the "temporary" resignation as...

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Most clueless man on the planet leaves $100,000 Audemars Piguet watch in his Ferrari parked on the streets of Jersey City

A weekend visitor to Jersey City from York Haven, Pa., reported his car burglarized.

The man told police he had his 2000...

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In Coup-Torn Guinea, Statists Rape Women in Public

In the west African nation of Guinea, where a military junta seized power in 2008, 50,000 people attended a political demonstration in a stadium last week, where they...

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State Courts: The Darker Side

For less encouraging news about state judiciaries, we can turn to the state of Texas, where a man was sentenced to death in a trial in which the prosecutor and presiding judge were having...

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Government, the Bell tolls for thee

My latest piece at the Center for a Stateless Society is about government employees' fear and loathing of emerging technologies that make it harder for them to get away with stuff like this...

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Keystone Cops Mistake Darth Vader's Latest Film For A Porno--Raid Premises

Darth Vader in a porno? No way! Seriously, no way. According to the U.K.’s Metro, David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader in the first three Star Wars films had...

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Italian group debunks Shroud of Turin

Scientists have reproduced the Shroud of Turin — revered as the cloth that covered Jesus in the tomb — and say the experiment...

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Amerikan gulag: Dozens Arrested Outside White House

Dozens of people were arrested in an anti-war protest outside the White House today. A press release issued by protest organizers put the number at 82, while CNN reported that...

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Criminal FTC Threatening Bloggers re 'Reviewing' Freebies

New media critics must come clean or risk fine

Bloggers, Tweeters, and Facebookers who receive payments or free products from companies and in turn hype or review them—without mentioning the arrangement—could be on the hook for...

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UN Names Norway Best Place to Live

Niger, Afghanistan round out list of 182 nations; China makes big gains

Norway is the best country in the world to live in, according to the...

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Courageous rapper Method Man charged with failing to pay taxes

NEW YORK–Grammy-winning rapper Method Man has been arrested in New York City on felony charges for failing to pay his taxes.

The 38-year-old rapper turned himself in Monday morning. Authorities say he failed to pay nearly...

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Unjustly accused: Teacher's suicide a sad tale to the end

David Dewees died an innocent man.

Maybe that's reason enough to take one's own life – there will never be a finding of guilt on the criminal charges brought against the apparently...

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Dominatrix prepares to whip Canada's prostitution law, claims it has been very, very bad

If she could do it herself, Terri-Jean Bedford would strike down Canada's prostitution laws, perhaps using the riding crop she plans to bring...

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Asset Protection: Index Of Asset Protection Resources

We live in a world where privacy and individuality are under attack. The right to privacy is more than an abstract necessity, it is also a psychological...

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Live Tax Free and Worldwide On A Luxury Yacht

Presented here is a whole new twist on finding absolute freedom in a semi-free world - - including living the absolute best of lifestyles in some of the world's most exotic safe-havens - - getting offshore residency - - getting a second citizenship - - and doing it all free of...

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Filthy statist poLICE lie, when they claim, tweets aided protesters' criminal activity

The quick evolution of technology has changed the way Americans do almost everything, including how law enforcement combats crime, and consequently, how criminals elude...

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YaY! OZschwitz WA: Local government wipeout: Cull to one-third of all councils

A once-in-a-century shakeup of local government in Western Australia is likely to see a swathe of shires stretching from the Northern Territory border to the Southern Ocean erased forever from the State's political map.

The revelation means...

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Statist idiots: Venezuela to outlaw violent video games to prevent crime

Shouts of "Kill him! Kill him!" ring out as the preteens train their virtual assault rifles on the last remaining terrorist and spray him with bullets. Blood splatters. The enemy collapses. And they cheerfully...

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OZschwitz gulag: Compensation for lawyer after a malicious wrongful arrest

A LAWYER has won $40,000 in compensation after NSW police wrongfully arrested her and then falsified official documents, alleging she had committed a...

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Book sheds light on Britain's spooks

The first official history of Britain's MI5 was published on Monday, ending 100 years of secrecy over British spying during two world wars, the Cold War and the current fight against...

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Funny: 'Racist' skateboarder in hospital after tussle with Indian wrestlers

A skateboarder needed hospital treatment after allegedly vandalising a car and racially abusing its occupants, who turned out...

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Incompetent Fergie, Duchess of York, forced to close US business as debts pile up

The Duchess of York has been forced to close her US-based lifestyle and promotions business amid mounting debts.

Sarah Ferguson, who faced millions...

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OZschwitz gulag: Moore Park dance festival: 40 innocent people arrested for drugs

Forty people have been arrested for drug possession at a Sydney music festival.

A police drug operation remained in place during...

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Lockerbie witnesses paid up to $3.5m to give evidence

Two key figures in the conviction of the Lockerbie bomber were secretly given rewards of up to $US3 million ($3.5 million) in a deal discussed by Scottish detectives and the US government, according to...

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YaY! OZschwitz poLICEwoman critically injured in car crash

A 27-year-old female police officer is in a critical condition after she was hit by a car on Oxford Street early today.

Police were told the officer, who was performing...

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The Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Children owned like pets: Greer

THE self-dubbed ''living legend'' Germaine Greer was her usual self at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas yesterday, ticking off everything from American libertarians to...

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OZschwitz stock market tip: How to make $1m

Get on a good thing and stick to it

First thing to do is to accept that you will not achieve this goal without being prepared to...

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YaY! Afghan statist shoots dead two American statists

An Afghan soldier on guard at a joint base with U.S. troops shot dead two American servicemen and wounded two others as they slept...

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Spotlight on Speech Codes 2009: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses

FIRE's third annual report on campus speech codes, Spotlight on Speech Codes 2009: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses found that American colleges and universities continue to...

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Author of 'The Cartoons That Shook the World,' Speaks at Yale and Confronts One of Her Censors

The New Haven Independent reports that Jytte Klausen, whose book The Cartoons That Shook the World was censored by the Yale University Press, spoke at Yale yesterday evening, leading to...

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Public college surprised to learn that students have rights that are protected by the First Amendment

Victory for First Amendment: Pittsburgh-Area College Allows Student to Advocate for Concealed Carry on Campus, Abandons Repressive Policy

After months of national media attention...

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YaY! Farmer's daughter disarms statist-terrorist and shoots him dead with AK47

An Indian farmer’s daughter disarmed a terrorist leader who broke into her home, attacked him with an axe and shot him dead with his own gun.

Rukhsana Kausar, 21, was with her parents and brother in Jammu and Kashmir when...

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That Village Idiot, Prince Phillip, Blasts Supermarkets And Second-Home Owners

Prince Philip has taken a pot shot at supermarkets and second-home owners who he says are threatening the traditional village, in remarks...

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Funny: In search of the Hill's Freemasons

The reporter walked into his office expecting a normal day at work: cup of coffee, call some sources, the usual routine.

But this wasn’t going to be an ordinary day at all...

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Federal Reserve Appeals Order to Disclose Emergency Bank Loans

The Federal Reserve is appealing a judge’s order requiring the central bank to identify the financial institutions that benefited from its emergency loans, according to...

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Ancap Good News: Labour plans to halve Britain’s deficit with spending cuts and asset sales worth £75 billion

Senior ministers are demanding that the pay of judges, top civil servants and NHS managers be frozen within weeks as the cuts package begins to bite. The remaining...

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Gore Vidal: We'll Have A Dictatorship In The U.S. Soon

He has crossed every boundary, I say. “Crashed many barriers,” he corrects me.

Last year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he...

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YaY! Ex-prosecutor admits $600k mortgage scam

A former part-time Hillsborough County prosecutor pleaded guilty yesterday to defrauding two mortgage companies and could face a federal prison sentence when she...

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