Idiots: Hundreds Queue to see Kennedy Grave

Hundreds of people lined up to be among the first visitors yesterday to the grave of Sen. Ted Kennedy, reports the Washington Post...
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Modern Novels' Shift: We Can Understand Them

The 21st-century novel is being reacquainted with an old friend: the plot. Today's best writers are abandoning the notion that literary novels need to be all but impenetrable to readers without advanced degrees, writes Lev Grossman in the Wall Street Journal. "The revolution is under way," he says. "The novel is getting...

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OZschwitz: Motorists who appeal fines save millions

Motorists in NSW and Victoria have saved more than $6 million by appealing parking and speeding fines over the past year, Freedom of Information documents reveal.

In NSW, 13,974 clued-up drivers successfully appealed fines, avoiding payments totallin...

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Idiot: Immoral Timorese Ramos-Horta wants to forgive Indonesian crimes

THE President of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta, has called on the United Nations to stop gathering evidence against the killers of hundreds of Timorese, saying his people must put the...

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YaY! Statist OZschwitz minister missing after going on hike

Police have begun a search for Victorian Government minister Tim Holding who is missing on Mount Feathertop in the state's north-east.

A bushwalker, who was the last person to see Mr Holding, said he saw the minister's footprints...

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Let's Start Paying for Water—Or Lose It

You may receive a water bill every month, but you’re not actually paying for water. You’re paying for the cost of service, and this free-rider problem is...

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Why the 'Cunt' Word is Losing its Bite

Rethinking the most taboo term in English.

There is still one word I can never bring myself to say in front of my....

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Excellent! Israhell's Olmert Charged With Corruption

Israel’s attorney general has officially indicted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges, the BBC reports. The 61-page charge, filed in court today, accuses Olmert of...

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YaY! Colombian Prez Comes Down With Swine Flu

President Alvaro Uribe has the swine flu and officials are contacting other South American governments whose leaders attended a recent summit along with the...

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Taliban Cut Off My Nose, Ears for Voting: Farmer

An Afghan farmer who dared walk to a polling place for the presidential election 10 days ago paid a bitter price, losing his nose and both ears...

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U.K. Prepares to Imprison Encryption Passphrase Refuseniks

Encryption is a powerful privacy and security tool. It is absolutely essential to our modern way of life.

Every time you use your credit card, the merchant that accepts it transmits the data on its magnetic strip in encrypted form to a processing center for approval. A similar process occurs when you log on to your online bank or securities account. Indeed, without encryption,...

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Ancap Good News: Austria Stands Firm on Bank Secrecy—for Now

The last 18 months have brought unprecedented pressures on offshore centers to relax bank secrecy laws, particularly in relation to tax investigations.

While Switzerland has been the centerpiece in the global campaign against bank secrecy laws, it's hardly been the only jurisdiction targeted in this regard. Another of our favorite offshore centers...

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Lifeboat Strategy

You and your wealth are under a level of scrutiny that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. Identity thieves…e-mail surveillance…data mining…a variety of threats to your wealth and privacy that...

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Tax Terrorism & Fear -- Official IRS Policies

In 1757, one of the patron saints of conservative political philosophy, Edmund Burke, (below left) wrote: "No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

Two centuries later...

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Oldest Swiss Private Bank Says No to IRS Demands

Under the heading "Yankees Go Home," I predicted last month: "Swiss bankers have concluded they don't need or want Americans any more, with all the costly and...

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The Philippines as a Tax Haven?

De Facto Offshore Financial Center

But that's history. What my email correspondent S.W. suggests is that the Philippines, while not a true tax haven, is in may respects, an...

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Seven Myths About Alternative Energ

As the world looks around anxiously for an alternative to oil, energy sources such as biofuels, solar, and nuclear seem like they could be the...

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Pssst! Want a Ticket? Hey, I’m Legit. Really.

EVERYTHING in Don Vaccaro’s world is called ticket something-or-other.

There’s his software and online resale company, TicketNetwork, and Web sites like TicketLiquidator.com and TicketsPlus.com. And his trade convention...

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Students Get New Assignment: Pick Books You Like

For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage.

But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she...

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YaY! Blast Kills 12 Police Recruits in Pakistan

A suicide bomber killed at least 14 community police recruits Sunday in Pakistan's Swat Valley in the deadliest attack since...

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YaY! OZschwitz poLICEman convicted for army theft

A POLICE officer involved in a mentoring scheme to guide troubled teens away from a life of crime has been convicted of stealing military equipment.

When the theft of $315 worth of camouflage...

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L-plater lies in logbooks put practice rules in a spin

A THIRD of young people surveyed by a NSW youth organisation have lied on their logbooks or plan to cheat on the requirement they complete the...

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OZschwitz statists to apologize for institutional abuse of children

THE hundreds of thousands of people who were abused and neglected as children after being placed in institutions or foster care are to get a formal apology from...

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OZschwitz slave pen: Bligh's vow of forum on anti-bikie laws 'a sham'

PREMIER Anna Bligh's promise of public consultation before the Queensland Government introduces tough new anti-bikie laws has been exposed as a hollow sham, a motorcycle group says.

The planned legislation seeks to...

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Bullshit Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few

A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world's finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of...

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Dual-screen laptop on sale by Christmas

While growing numbers of office workers – especially in the financial industries – use several desktop monitors to track many programmes and information sources at the same time, no manufacturer has yet...

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The 10 Douchiest Colleges in the US

From Brown to Bob Jones, 'what kind of douche do you want to be'?

In college, acting insufferable is pretty much a given. “The question for America's youth is:...

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Despicable Yale Sides With Dictators by Censoring Cartoons

Yale University has “handed a victory to extremists” by deciding to pull images of the prophet Muhammad from its upcoming book on the Danish cartoon controversy, writes Mona Eltahawy in the Washington Post. Eltahawy is a...

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OZschwitz: Statist Liquor bans linked to petrol sniffing rise

There are fears petrol sniffing has again taken hold in Western Australia's east Kimberley since the Government introduced alcohol bans in Halls Creek.

This week, a Senate Committee conducted...

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Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism

I'm sure that you have had this experience before, or something similar to it. You are sitting at lunch in a nice restaurant or perhaps a hotel. Waiters are coming and going. The food is fantastic. The conversation about all things is going well. You talk about the weather, music, movies, health, trivialities in the news, kids, and so on. But then...

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Statist Memos: CIA Kept Prisoner Awake, Chained for 6 Days

In late 2007, a year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a...

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Planet found that defies the laws of physics

It's the planet that really shouldn't exist – or at least not for long. It is 10 times the size of Jupiter, orbits its own star in under 24 hours and should soon be...

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GOP Hopeful: I Was Kidding About Assassinating Obama

A Republican gubernatorial candidate is under fire tonight for an offhand remark that he’d buy a license to hunt President Obama, the Twin...

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Biofuel Boom Runs Out of Gas

Once considered a win-win for the environment and energy independence, America’s biofuel industry is sputtering to a halt, the Wall...

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Funny: No Wedding Gifts, Please; Just Fund My Startup

Drue Kataoka and Svetlozar Kazanjiev have come up with a novel way to hit up their wedding guests for cash: explain the cash will be used to generate even...

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YaY! ID-Theft Ring 'Victimized' Bernanke

No less a public figure than the chairman of the Federal Reserve was one of 500 individuals victimized by an identity-theft ring that combined technologically sophisticated methods with...

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Extortionist Tax Collectors Use MySpace, Google to Find 'Tax Evaders'

Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman.

State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to...

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Three superstitious clowns rely on snake charmers and sorcerer but drop dead anyway

Three persons die of snake bite

In three separate incidents, at least three persons including a woman died of snake bite since past twenty-four hours even as venomous snakes are...

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Thanks to Statists: Mexican Drug Informants Import Violence to US

The Obama administration and state governments are spending billions to keep Mexico's escalating drug war from spilling over the border. But the feds fighting trafficking have also relied on....

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For Boom-to-Bust Ireland, Another Great Migration

The collapse of the Celtic Tiger is prompting another mass exodus from Ireland's rural west, the Wall Street Journal reports, with young workers once again abandoning their hometowns for...

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Idiots: Romanians Boo Madonna for Defending Gypsies

Madonna spoke up for gypsies during a concert in Romania, leading thousands of audience members to boo her, the AP reports. “I found out that there is a lot of...

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YaY! Four British soldiers die for sake of 150 votes

Just 150 Afghan voters dared to go to the ballot box in the area of Helmand province where British soldiers sacrificed their lives to secure a safe election day...

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OZschwitz slave pen: Aborigines Ask UN For Refugee Status

A group of Australian Aborigines has asked the United Nations to register them as refugees, claiming emergency laws brought in to curb alcoholism and sexual abuse have made them...

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U.N. Report Advocates Teaching Masturbation to 5-Year-Olds

The United Nations is recommending that children as young as five receive mandatory sexual education that would teach even pre-kindergarteners about masturbation and topics like gender...

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OZschwitz: NSW statists in $300m health scam

A GROUP of urologists were paid to operate on public patients in a private hospital they own because the NSW Government needed to cut elective surgery waiting lists to....

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OZschwitz: We're failing to nurture wisdom, uni chief asserts

UNIVERSITIES are value-free zones and need to reassert the primary purpose of education, building the ethical and moral character of students, a Sydney...

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The High Court unanimously declared the Australian Military Court unconstitutional

AUSTRALIA'S controversial military justice system is in disarray after a bizarre case where a sailor accused of ''tea-bagging'' a superior officer brought down...

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Anarcho-capitalist good news: Heard about the company that runs Britain?

It inspects schools, trains our armed forces, helps protect our borders, maintains our nuclear weapons, runs our trains and operates our prisons.

Most of the public will never have heard of...

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Manipulative U.S. is monitoring journalists in Afghanistan

The International Federation of Journalists complained Wednesday that news people covering the war in Afghanistan are being monitored by the U.S. military to see if they are...

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YaY! Nato suffers deadliest year in Afghanistan since 2001 invasion

International forces have suffered the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since 2001 after four United States soldiers were killed in a...

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GM monkeys with DNA of THREE parents raises hope of eradicating incurable diseases

A revolutionary IVF technique that creates babies with three biological parents has been developed by scientists.

The procedure - designed to...

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Asexuals leave the closet, find community

When she wasn't drawn to boys as a teenager, Cathy Roberts figured she was just shy. As she steered men away from her college bed, she convinced herself she...

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Feds plan nationwide campaign to erase public fears about vaccine dangers

Federal authorities plan to initiate a nationwide campaign in the coming weeks to persuade Americans to get the swine flu vaccine and to erase any public skepticism about...

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Chinaschwitz: Executed Prisoners Currently Provide 2/3 Of All Transplant Organs

China is trying to move away from the use of executed prisoners as the major source of organs for transplants.

According to the China Daily newspaper, executed prisoners currently provide two-thirds of all transplant organs.

The government is now launching a...

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Real US unemployment rate at 16 pct Says Fed official

The real US unemployment rate is 16 percent if persons who have dropped out of the labor pool and those working less than they...

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Statist insanity continues: 'Cash for Refrigerators' Debuts in Fall. Really.

Before heading home to face the anger at the now infamous health care "town halls," Congress rushed through an extension to what was then considered a popular program: Cash for...

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Anarcho-Capitalist Good News: Democrat Fundraiser Charged in Citibank Scam

A major fundraiser for Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, was charged yesterday with using bogus...

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Broke, California Holds Huge Garage Sale

Just how bad has California’s budget crisis gotten? So bad that it’s holding what it’s calling the “Great California Garage Sale” this weekend, hoping to unload piles of junk and...

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YaY! Argentina Court Rules Pot Prosecution Unconstitutional

The Argentine supreme court yesterday ruled against punishing personal use of marijuana, calling such laws unconstitutional, the BBC reports. Argentina joins a...

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The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Bullshit Statistics

Every once in awhile, you'll hear a statistic so striking you can hardly believe it's true. Our first impulse is to repeat it, because knowing interesting things...

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6 Bullshit Facts About Psychology That Everyone Believes

Every once in awhile, you'll hear a statistic so striking you can hardly believe it's true. Our first impulse is to...

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Funny: To Hell in a hack attack, Christians targeted on Facebook

A malicious hacking attack on a Christian dating site has been used to break into Facebook accounts and post obscene and racist comments.

The online group called...

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Ancaps Good News: Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy dead

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died Wednesday at his home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain...

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Idiot: French mayor bans spitting, is farting next?

In a bid to halt the spread of swine flu, the mayor of a small French town has banned spitting and wrote to football chiefs to demand that footballers who spit...

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YaY! Former OZschwitz minister faces new charges of corruption, perjury

THE jailed former Queensland government minister Gordon Nuttall is facing fresh charges of corruption and perjury.

Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission said yesterday that...

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YaY! OZschwitz MP was abused by her partner

AS LABOR MPs rallied around a colleague who was allegedly assaulted by her partner, the Minister for Women, Tanya Plibersek, said more...

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Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore, the filmmaker behind Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Sicko, has a new film coming out, titled Capitalism: A Love Story. Moore is after...

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Scare Mongers Take Note: ‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy

REMEMBER “peak oil”? It’s the theory that geological scarcity will at some point make it impossible for global petroleum production to avoid falling, heralding the end of the oil age and, potentially...

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Paying off the statist parasites: Postal Service Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit

The Postal Service is offering up to $450 million to employees if they will agree to quit their jobs, it announced Tuesday, the latest effort by the financially...

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YaY! Court Orders Fed to Disclose Emergency Bank Loans

The Federal Reserve must for the first time identify the companies in its emergency lending programs after losing...

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CIA spies 'certified' torturers with only 2 weeks training

WASHINGTON — With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after 9/11 and handed them the keys to the most...

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Funny: Big Business Wants to Put Global Warming on Trial

Facing broad new US regulations on emissions, big business wants to put the science behind global warming before a judge, the Los Angeles Times reports. “It would be evolution versus...

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Immoral Cheney Blasts Unethical Obama for Torture Probe

Dick Cheney lambasted Barack Obama today for his decision to name a special prosecutor to look into Bush-era terror interrogations. The move raises “doubts about this administration’s...

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It's Official: The 4-Day Week Works

An energy- and money-saving solution that pretty much everyone can get behind: three-day weekends.

Workers of the world, unite in giving Utah a...

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Netherlands Slave Pen: Rights Violating Statists Move to Block Teen's Around-the-World Solo Sail

Social workers in the Netherlands have taken legal action to try to stop a 13-year-old girl from sailing around the world on her own.

They want Laura Dekker to be made...

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Suction Dredge Gold Miners Hoppin’ Mad Over Ban

California has drawn a line in the sediment and outlawed suction dredge gold mining, a practice in which frame-mounted, vacuumlike machines suck up the riverbed of mineral-laden mountain streams and...

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Private Lands Key to Saving Species

Public wildlands such as parks and reserves are great—but they’re not enough to save the world’s flora and fauna from mass extinction due to...

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Disturbing New Chemical Weapons

World governments may be militarizing biology and other life
sciences to make strange and disturbing weapons. A 2007 report by the
British Medical Association warned of...

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Finding Happiness by Cultivating Positive Emotions

Most scientists who study emotions focus on negative states: depression, anxiety, fear. Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has spent more than...

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Invasion of the Buddhist Body Snatchers Hits Bangkok

In the chaotic traffic of Bangkok, the first to arrive on the scene of an accident is often not an ambulance but a Toyota pickup packed with...

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Funny: Shanghai Seeks to Stamp Out 'Chinglish' Signs

Foreign tourists in Shanghai may soon have to go without the amusement of photographing signs in mangled English: City authorities, long embarrassed by the signs, are...

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London Cameras a Bust: 1 Crime Solved Per 1K

Surveillance cameras are nearly worthless in the fight against crime, a London police report concluded, with fewer than one crime solved annually for every...

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OZschwitz gulag: 'Have the keys': Bikies to poLICE

The president of the state's largest outlaw motorcycle gang has offered Queensland Police the keys to their Brisbane clubhouse ahead of...

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NASA May Begin Outsourcing Due to Financial Problems

NASA will rely on contractors to help pick up additional tasks as the U.S. space agency deals with money issues

Facing growing financial issues that may eliminate future...

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Rats deserting the sinking ship: China reduces holdings in US debt

China reduced its holdings of US government debt by the largest margin in nearly...

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Universal circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States

In an effort to reduce the spread of HIV, public health officials are considering the promotion of “universal circumcision” for all baby boys born in the United States.

The move comes after officials analyzed the...

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The Secret Royals: illegitimate children of British monarchs

Phillipa Jones, author of The Other Tudors: Henry VIII’s Mistresses and Bastards reveals some noble personages that you won't be seeing on your...

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UK: Taxpayer Funded Organizations Purging Common Words And Phrases So Not To Offend

It could be construed as a black day for the English language — but not if you work in the public sector.

Dozens of quangos and taxpayer-funded organisations have ordered...

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Hundreds of 9/11 first responders die of cancer; US government has refused to help

New York's emergency services were among the first on the scene of the 9/11 disaster but put their personal safety in jeopardy. Those involved in the rescue and clean-up operation quickly...

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New meth formula avoids anti-drug laws

TULSA, Okla. – This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious...

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Anarcho-Capitalist Good News: Rhode Island To Shutdown Government For 12 Days

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri proposed Monday to...

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Funny: TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT

worst nights of all time

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Goldman Gives Trading Tips to Top Clients First

Goldman Sachs is withholding stock tips from the thousands of clients who receive the company's written research reports until days after they're passed along to the firm's...

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Immoral poLICE entrap 22 innocent men in North Laurel prostitution sting

Howard County police said Monday they had charged 22 men with solicitation of prostitution during an undercover operation in North Laurel Friday.

Vice detectives and female officers worked Friday afternoon to...

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Foreign GPs who commute to Britain: £100-an-hour Poles and Lithuanians fly in for shifts our doctors won't do

The huge extent to which the NHS needs foreign doctors to treat patients out of hours is revealed today.

A third of primary care trusts are flying in GPs from as far away as...

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Teen Lotto Winner Faces Bankruptcy

Callie Rogers was once the UK's second-youngest lottery winner, coming into more than $3 million in 2003 at the age of sixteen. Now at 22, she’s attempted...

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CIA Threatened to Kill, Rape Detainee Families: Report

A newly declassified CIA report says interrogators threatened to kill the children of a Sept. 11 suspect. The document, released today by the Justice Department, says one interrogator...

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OZschwitz: Cyber criminals 'stealing tax refunds' from statist ATO thieves

The tax office has warned that cyber criminals are stealing Australians' identities online to claim their tax refunds.

News Ltd says the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued the warning to taxpayers after a...

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YaY! OZschwitz poLICE officer's jaw broken in city attack

A police officer has suffered a fractured eye socket and jaw in an attack in Melbourne's CBD overnight.

The plain-clothes sergeant, aged in his 40s, was...

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What Libertarianism Is by Stephan Kinsella

Property, Rights, and Liberty

Libertarians tend to agree on a wide array of policies and principles. Nonetheless, it is not easy to find consensus on what libertarianism's defining characteristic is, or on what...

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Thanks to statists, homelessness grows in shadow of White House

"Part of the change in attitudes that I want to see here in Washington and all across the country is a belief that it is not acceptable for children and families to...

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Survivors of Israhell's attack on USS Liberty tell their stories Yesterday

Israel’s deadly 1967 attack on U.S. spy ship is personal for S.C. author



Jim Kavanagh was scraping and repainting a satellite dish atop the USS Liberty when...

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Ancap good news: 14 Catholic churches in South Florida to close

South Florida church members are mourning after the Archdiocese of Miami says it's closing 14 congregations.

Rev. Thomas Pohto told his Dania Beach congregation that he was...

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New Heroin Addiction Treatment-- Heroin

Medical heroin may be effectively used to treat heroin addiction, Canadian scientists have discovered, but their dramatic findings may be railroaded over political and...

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We the People Congress

The We The People organization exists to fight a government that "continues to systematically plunder our People's wealth, ignore constitutional checks and balances and destroy the...

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Land Of Decree And Home Of The Slave: Feds cracking down on garage sales; Can They Get Anymore Pathetic Than This?

If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and...

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HOW THE REPEAL OF ALL GUN LAWS WILL FREE AMERICA

What would happen if we repealed all gun laws in 2010?

In the last edition, I posted how 20,000 gun laws and other programs cloned from American Gun Control have furnished valuable information as to how far...

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LIBERTY or SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sustainable Development rules are sweeping America, implementing a new system of justice and a new system of economics, while pretending to use...

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The Cultural Devastation of American Women

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The Cultural Devastation of American Women is a factual investigation into the American woman’s abuse of liberation. Levant burrows into the psyches and habits of American women. She exposes over-spending, over-decorating, obsessions with...

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The WAR AGAINST BOYS: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men

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The author of the provocative bestseller Who Stole Feminism? returns with an equally eye-opening follow-up. "It's a bad time to be a boy in America," writes Christina Hoff Sommers. Boys are less likely than girls to...

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The War Against Men

Every man in America must read this explosive exposé of the frightening assault waged on American men for more than a generation. It identifies the...

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The Manipulated Man

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'A provokative, runaway bestseller.' Newsweek'Extraordinary... a vigorous answer to Women's Lib.' The Times'No one escapes her...

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What that statist cocksucker, Alexander Haig, said...

"Let them march all they want, as long as they pay their...

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How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themselves

An inspiring journey into the lives of families and teachers in the poorest communities of India, Africa, and China who have successfully created their own private schools in response to...

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First Obama Rendition Says FBI Starved, Threatened Him

When military contractor Raymond Azar was arrested in Afghanistan, he was hooded, shackled, stripped, photographed naked, then flown to Alexandria, Va., in the first known...

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Ron Paul's Son Raises $433K for Senate Run

Rand Paul borrowed a page from his dad’s playbook this week, raking in $433,509 in online donations in just 24 hours, reports CQ Politics. That’s may not...

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Flickr Cowardly for Taking Down Obama Joker

Flickr is catching fire for its decision to take down the now-infamous image of Barack Obama photoshopped to look like the joker. Flickr says it...

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Joke about a stupid Ozzie

A Muslim was seated next to an Australian on a flight from London to Melbourne and when drink orders were taken, the Aussie asked for a...

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Insane Danish Lawmaker: Kill All Mutts

A rash of attacks by aggressive dogs in Denmark has lawmakers considering a ban on breeds such as pit bulls and...

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Thanks to statists, Bali running out of alcohol

Believe it or not, Bali could be running out of high-quality booze after the re-elected Indonesian Government started clamping down on illegal alcohol importation.

Late last month...

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YaY! Female poLICE officer was knocked unconscious

A female police officer was knocked unconscious when a violent 22-year-old man resisted arrest and became aggressive early this morning.

The officers were conducting...

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OZschwitz: Prosecutors shoot machine guns at a conference, but it's serfs that pay the bill

TWENTY of the state's best prosecutors were learning how to shoot machine guns at a conference costing NSW taxpayers...

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Taliban Chops Off Fingers of Afghan Voters; Well, It's a Start... Now Export it to the West

The Taliban is following through on its threat to chop off the fingers of Afghan voters, the Los Angeles Times reports. In southern Afghanistan, considered the...

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Ensign Family Values: My Affair Wasn't 'Legally Wrong'

John Ensign says that his affair with a friend's wife was different than former President Bill Clinton's relationship with a White House intern because he didn't...

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Funny: Surprise! Fox News Is Liberal: Stewart

Jon Stewart made a discovery on last night's Daily Show: Fox News has turned into a big, fat liberal! As proof, Stewart showed a series of...

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Primitive Superstitious Muslims Begin Ramadan 'Holy' Month

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan has begun across most of the Muslim world, ushering in 30 days of dawn to dusk fasting and extra...

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Vietnam massacre: U.S. soldier 'sorry' ; Fuck you, statist! Die!

The US army officer convicted for his part in the notorious My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has offered his first public...

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Statist Humanity: Mock Executions Among CIA Torture Tactics

A report long suppressed by Bush administration officials set to be released next week says the CIA used mock executions as part of post-9/11 interrogations, Newsweek reports—though federal law...

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'Angry, Aggressive' Lesbian Sex on Tap for Natalie Portman

After one look at the script for Natalie Portman’s next project, Black Swan “is already on the must-see list of 2010,” Carson Reeves blogs for ScriptShadow. Why? “Ecstasy-induced hungry aggressive...

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Thanks To Destructive Statists: US-Canada Border Crossings Plummet

Fewer Americans visited Canada last month than at any time since record-keeping began in 1972, as new passport controls and a weak...

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Female orgasms and a 'rule of thumb'

During intercourse, the female orgasm can be elusive. What frustrated woman hasn't wondered:...

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Crony Capitalism: Poor Nations Pick Up Tab as Obama Woos Big Pharma

The Obama administration is thwarting poor countries' access to affordable drugs in order to win Big Pharma's support for health care reform, according to Doctors Without Borders and...

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YaY! Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession

Mexico has enacted a controversial law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging...

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YaY! Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession

Mexico has enacted a controversial law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging...

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Artificial life is only months away

Artificial life will be created within four months, a controversial scientist has predicted. Craig Venter, who led a private project to sequence the human genome, told The Times that his team had...

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Professor Richard Dawkins wants to convert Islamic world to evolution

The author of The God Delusion and The Selfish Gene, whose new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, is serialised in The Times next week, has topped bestseller lists all over the world but never...

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Iranian statists rape boy who defied Tehran hardliners

The 15-year-old boy sits weeping in a safehouse in central Iran, broken in body and spirit. Reza will not go outside — he is terrified of being left alone. He says he wants to end his life and it is not hard to understand why:...

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Intimidatory Probe Launched After Gitmo Lawyers Bare Secret CIA Pics

The Justice Department is seeking to determine if military defense attorneys for Guantanamo Bay detainees broke...

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Swaziland King Again Sends His Whore-Wives on Spending Spree While Africans Starve

Swaziland King Mswati III sent several of his 13 wives on a multi-million-dollar shopping spree in the Mideast and Europe while two-thirds of his subjects...

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Malaysian slave pen: Beer-Drinking Model Demands Public Caning

A Malaysian model sentenced to caning for drinking beer wants her punishment carried out in public, CNN reports. Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, will be the...

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You go girl: Saima Muhammad--The Women’s Crusade

IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe:...

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Thankfully, Ancient Rite Fades in Japan: Communing With the Dead

Far from Japan's hypermodern cities, a few old, blind women are among the last of a centuries-old tradition—they are mediums, or the "itako," calling forth the spirits of the dead for...

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Corrupt prosecutors raid Porsche offices

The offices of German luxury carmaker Porsche have been raided by federal prosecutors probing the alleged market manipulation of Volkswagen...

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Statists to Start Testing H1N1 Vaccines in Kids

Data from tests on adults show it is safe to start trying out the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine in...

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WTF! Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other

With the development of killer drones, it seems like everyone is worrying about killer robots. Now, as if that wasn't bad enough, we need to start worrying about...

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Thanks to statism: Australia's suicide epidemic

AUSTRALIA has dangerously miscalculated its suicide statistics - by as much as 30 per cent in NSW and Queensland - leaving a silent and growing epidemic of mounting deaths.

The figures are in stark contrast to years of backslapping by...

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OZschwitz: Big name schmucks lose super showdown

SOME of the country's biggest names in investment have been shown up by new league tables highlighting the underperformance of their superannuation funds in the past...

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School Kids Buying Their Breakfast Sticks Using Fingerprint Readers

In case you don’t get the “breakfast stick” reference: “Texas: In-School Suspension Program” Uses GPS Tracking Systems Attached to Students.
Via: Chronicle Telegram:
For lunch Monday, Elyria High School served up...

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Slackernomics: Basic Economics for People Who Think Economics is Boring

If you think economics is boring, then maybe you've been learning about it in the wrong places. The humorous, informal style of Slackernomics makes it easy to learn a wealth of information that you will...

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

Starred Review. Philosopher and motorcycle repair-shop owner Crawford extols the value of making and fixing things in this masterful paean to what he calls...

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Walter Block's joke...

The only legitimate function of government is to force everyone to read...

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Ridge's shocking allegation against Ashcroft, Rumsfeld

Republican Tom Ridge has a scathing book coming out, and it's not going to be welcome news for fans of the George W. Bush administration.

One of the former Homeland Security chief's serious charges, as related in a promotion for his forthcoming book Thursday:...

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Life Expectancy Hits New High of Nearly 78

U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.

The increase is due mainly to...

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Germany: Statist Merkel again the most powerful (and ignorant) woman: Forbes

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is among the world's 100 most powerful women in a list topped for the fourth consecutive year by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to...

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Deluded Burma junta urges West to lift sanctions; ANCAPS reject their urges

YANGON (Reuters) - Army-ruled Myanmar urged Western countries on Thursday to lift economic sanctions and allow the country to modernize and...

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Taxpayer Funded Hit Squads? Almost...

CIA Hired Blackwater to Help With Hit Squads

The controversial private contractor Blackwater was enlisted by the CIA during the Bush administration for a secret plan to form...

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US slave pen: Curfews For Adults? New Jersey Officials Say It's Possible

Curfews might not be just for kids anymore in one northern New Jersey city.

Seeking to curb violence after a spate of deadly...

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US gulag: Mother Arrested For Blogging About Cops

A 34-YEAR-OLD woman, the mother of a 12-year-old girl, has been locked up in a Virginia jail for three weeks and could remain there for at least...

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Bombshell: Corrupt FBI trained NJ blogger Hal Turner to incite others

A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to...

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YaY! Taxman driven around the bend attacks Christchurch Inland Revenue building

A taxman driven around the bend by continuing work woes drove his car through the building where he had worked for...

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OZschwitz: Labor 'bottom-feeding scum'-- Buswell

Troy Buswell has lashed out at Labor's rejection of the Liberals' plan for longer shopping hours, labelling Opposition MPs bottom feeding "scum" for effectively...

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OZschwitz: WA's slackest voter-serfs revealed

The northern Perth City of Wanneroo has the most apathetic voters in the State, according to a list of slacker localities released by...

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Travel: The world's best freebies

The best things in life are free, they say. But it's become pretty obvious to me that "they" don't spend much time travelling.

Anyone who's spent any time on the road will know that...

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Second teen bashed at China's inhumane net bootcamp

A 14-year-old boy was in critical condition in hospital with kidney failure after repeated beatings at an internet...

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Suharto's corrupt and murderous son wants Indonesian presidency

The son of the late Indonesian dictator Suharto has launched an attempt to become president, says an aide, despite a "track record on legal matters" that includes...

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Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: Dalai Lama cannot sit in Senate gallery

The Dalai Lama will be barred from sitting in a parliamentary gallery reserved for distinguished visitors when he visits Australia later...

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Statist rights violation: Italian city bars Muslim 'burqini' swimsuit

The anti-immigration mayor of a northern Italian city has barred Muslim women from wearing the controversial body-concealing swimsuit known as a burqini, an Italian newsagency has reported.

Women wearing the garment made up of a...

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Buffett: Cut Our 'Greenback Emissions'

Just as carbon emissions could have a dire effect on the environment, Warren Buffett thinks “greenback emissions” could wreak havoc on the economy, he writes in the New York Times. The government has spent...

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Police video, officer's report conflict on arrest of former Conn. FOI lawyer who was Tasered

A Connecticut police department's surveillance video appears to contradict an officer's report of an incident that ends with police subduing a former state agency lawyer with...

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Economist Rose Friedman Dead at 98

Rose Friedman, economist and collaborator with husband and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, died yesterday of heart failure, the Chicago Tribune reports. Rose was...

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Drug tourism: The world's first cocaine bar

"Tonight we have two types of cocaine; normal for 100 Bolivianos a gram, and strong cocaine for 150 [Bolivianos] a gram." The waiter has just finished taking our drink order of...

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Oppressive and Manipulative Afghanistan Forbids Reports on Election Violence

The Afghan government ordered journalists to stay silent on any insurgent attacks that may happen during the presidential election Thursday, the Guardian reports. The gag order is...

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Criminal Dictator Gadhafi Readies Private Jet for Lockerbie Bomber

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has his private jet ready to zip into Glasgow to pick up the Lockerbie bomber, reports the London Times. Scottish officials say they have made a decision about...

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Statist 'morality': Britain/U.S. knew about extermination of Jews but suppressed it, Vatican claims

L'Osservatore Romano said the British and American governments ignored, downplayed or even suppressed intelligence reports about the Nazis' extermination plans.

They could have bombed Nazi...

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Oh shucks! CIA's Black Helicopters End Up In Court

More than seven years ago a group of Americans traveled to Siberia to buy a pair of Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the CIA’s post-9/11 clandestine operations in Afghanistan. As with many “black” programs, the contract had...

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China passing the baton of growth from state-funded infrastructure investment to the private housing sector

The Chinese government is attempting to pass the baton of growth from state-funded infrastructure investment to the private housing sector, a risky but necessary move to...

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Ancap Good News: Baby boomers still getting high

Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to...

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Idiots: Stone-age farmers were responsible for global warming 7,000 years ago, scientists claim

They said the 'slash and burn' method of clearing forests released greenhouse gases that would otherwise have been locked up in...

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UK statist idiots struck off a paramedic, for nothing more than getting a car park blow job

A paramedic who was given oral sex in a hospital car park while on duty was today struck off.

Married David Brammer was caught on CCTV with a mystery...

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UK: Barbarian poLICE Taser use 'up nearly a third'

The sharp rise followed the decision to allow forces in England and Wales to give Tasers to officers who do not...

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Brutal statist purges strike fear in new Chechnya

Svetlana Bazhayeva fiddles with her headscarf and talks quietly about the events of the past two months. The 51-year-old Bazhayeva raised her own twin sons, now 25, as well as her two nephews, the sons of her sister who came from a village where there were no...

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OZschwitz: WA Labor kills shopping hours reform

A bid to extend shopping hours in Perth has failed after Labor this morning decided to oppose the...

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UK idiots: Alton Towers theme park and their irrational restrictions

Hairy hunks who love skimpy swimming trunks beware! A British theme park wants you to cover up and think about getting a wax...

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YaY! Liechtenstein's prince defend his country's banking secrecy laws

Germany has been pressuring Liechtenstein to clamp down on confidential banking practices that, it claims, allow wealthy Germans to...

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Robot sex part of the future of tourism

It sounds like science fiction, but robot bar staff, hotel rooms that change colour, cruise ships as big as aircraft carriers and even robot sex are part of the future for...

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Funny: Late passenger makes hoax bomb call to delay plane

A businessman running behind schedule triggered a bomb scare on an plane in a desperate attempt to...

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Funny: Is that the embassy? I need help with my breasts

It was one of the more unusual requests - but by no means the only weird plea for help that British embassies have received.

A British woman who had gone...

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OZschwitz: Oppressive watchdog launches unjust decency probe into Kyle and Jackie O stunt

The communications watchdog will investigate whether Kyle and Jackie O’s infamous lie detector stunt breached...

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OZschwitz: Rudd increases funds for mystic Brethren cult

THE Federal Government was criticised yesterday for increasing funding for Exclusive Brethren schools to an estimated...

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Backward peasants revolt against Pierre Cardin's village vision

Locals revolt against the octogenarian fashion designer and his plans to turn their hill-top village into a 'cultural...

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YaY! Tobacco smugglers to make a packet from UK's Customs blunder

£88.6m of seized assets could be returned because officers failed to notice change in the law

Millions of pounds seized from tobacco smugglers over the...

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UK: 3,000 days of protest and counting... the lonely life of heroic Brian

His body is weak, but Brian Haw’s spirit is still willing – even after eight years of protesting

Brian Haw is definitely not a morning...

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Oliver Stone revealing 'Secret History of America'

Oliver Stone is making his most ambitious stab at American history yet.

The controversial director is creating a 10-part documentary series for...

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Idiots in science: 'Big Wave' Theory Challenges 'Dark Energy'

The 'Big Wave,' a new explanation for the universe's mysterious accelerating expansion, is sending ripples through the world of astronomy. According to the theory, the...

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Free cocaine: Tiny amounts on 90 percent of US paper money

Chances are there's cocaine in your wallet. Researchers looked at 234 bank notes from 17 cities in the U.S. and found that...

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DNA Evidence Easy to Fake

Think DNA evidence is foolproof? In fact, it's so easy to fabricate that "any biology undergrad" could engineer a crime scene, claim...

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Without Bush, Left Forgets Wars

It wasn't exactly back in the Crusades that opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was the left’s most passionate cause, uniting...

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The Odd Clever People Every Organization Needs

As we ponder how the Western economies can navigate their way out of the recession, we might easily make the harsh judgment that...

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Excellent! Suicide Bomber Rams Truck Into Police Station in Russia, Killing 20

At least 20 people were killed and dozens were wounded when a suicide bomber rammed a truck filled with explosives into a police headquarters in Russia’s tumultuous...

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OZschwitz slave pen: Legislation for midwives may drive homebirths underground

A SENATE committee has acknowledged that proposed legislation for midwives may ''drive homebirths underground''.

The Government chairwoman of the so-called Senate's Community Affairs Committee, Claire 'Gimme' Moore, said...

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OZschwitz: Former mayor on bribery charges

A FORMER mayor of Strathfield, John Abi-Saab, appeared in the NSW District Court yesterday charged with trying to bribe a...

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Reader’s Digest to File Chapter 11

Reader’s Digest Association Inc., the publisher of the pocket-sized magazine, will likely file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy under an agreement with a majority of...

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YaY! Milwaukee Mayor Gets Beaten Up

A 20-year-old man has been arrested for a pipe attack on the mayor of Milwaukee as he came to the aid of the mother of the suspect's...

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Immoral US Nuns Dodge Specter of Sex Abuse

Last week the largest group of American nuns held its annual meeting, and once again they refused to let survivors of sexual abuse in Catholic schools attend. When even the bishops have acknowledged...

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Statist Death Squads Ramp Up Killings of Gay Iraqis

Hundreds of gay men have been executed in Iraq in the last few months, CNN reports. Though homosexuals are...

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Crony Statism: Internal Memo Confirms White House Deal With Big Pharma

A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been...

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Cocksucking NY Park Cops Squeeze Kid's Lemonade Stand for $50 Fine

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OZschwitz: Statist hospital staff acting as a cartel

THE entire team of anaesthetists at St Vincent's Private Hospital - more than 30 doctors - is under investigation for acting as a cartel.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is moving to...

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Mexican Drug Cartels Turn Into Government

Mexican drug cartels have evolved into mafia empires, charging protection fees to businesses and providing social services and jobs where...

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UK: Come dancing; at taxpayers’ expense

Councils have shrugged off the economic crisis to go on a hiring spree with the intention of teaching us how to play, how to walk and even how to...

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Idiots: Progressives Call For A Boycott On Whole Foods

Whole Foods Markets is under the microscope after shoppers found out that the trendy supermarket’s CEO holds conservative views about the government and...

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Citigroup Says Two Traders Exempt From Pay Review

It cited "people involved in that process" who said Citigroup told the U.S. Treasury Department that energy trader Andrew J. Hall, with a pay package of $...

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Shit for brains: Top rabbis declare day of fasting over 'evil' swine flu

Two leading Israeli rabbis have announced this coming Wednesday will be a day of fasting and prayer because of the swine flu epidemic.

The unusual fast day was...

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Afghanistan passes 'barbaric' law diminishing women's rights

Rehashed legislation allows husbands to deny wives food if they fail to obey sexual...

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Polio surge in Nigeria after vaccine virus mutates

Polio, a dreaded paralyzing disease stamped out in the industrialized world, is spreading in Nigeria despite efforts to stamp it out. And health officials say in some cases, it's...

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Obama Camp Plants Fake Doctor At Jackson-Lee Forum

I was reading the Chron’s piece about Sheila Jackson Lee’s town hall, when something caught my eye:...

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US gulag: NJ Cops Treat Dylan Like a Complete Unknown

A New Jersey police officer in her 20s didn't recognize Bob Dylan when she responded to a call about a suspicious, shabbily dressed man staring into a...

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Time to Fold Online Poker Ban

The government's online poker ban isn't just hypocritical—given that state lotteries are "the nation's most aggressive promoters of gambling"—it's unfairly slandering a sport that requires...

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More Ancap Good News: Lynndie England Speech Canceled by Threats

A lecture by Lynndie England—the woman who became the public face of the Abu Ghraib scandal—had to be canceled at the Library of Congress yesterday after multiple threats led to...

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It's Time for Newspapers to 'Grow a Pair'

Newspapers are doomed, and if they’re looking for someone to blame, they should start with themselves, writes Bill Wyman for Splice in the second part of his...

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Ancap Good News: Nation's Only Late-Term Abortionist: 'I Will Never Be Safe'

The murder of George Tiller has left the nation with only one provider of late-term abortions—and that makes Warren Hern...

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Idiots: We have a 'right to starlight', astronomers say

The public's "right to starlight" is steadily being eroded by urban illumination that is the bane of astronomers everywhere, the International...

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Statist patrols by US, European, Chinese, Russian and Indian ships, failed to halt the pirate attacks but Egyptian fishermen return with captive pirat

The crews of two Egyptian fishing vessels that overpowered pirates off the Somali coast have sailed into Red Sea waters on their way home along with...

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More looney-tunes in the Middle East: Fatah elects Israeli to governing body

The Fatah movement of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has elected an Israeli Jew to one of its governing bodies for the first time in the secular nationalist movement's...

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Funny: 'Retox' a worry if you go off the grass

REFORMED cannabis users opting for a crash diet and gruelling exercise regime stand a greater chance of "retoxifying" than...

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More statists' medicine: Cell Phone-Style Stun Gun

Until someone figures out how to make an iPhone app that delivers a million volts of dystopian-bandit-neutralizing electricity, gadget-loving paranoiacs will have to settle for...

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More idiots: US Teens Join Hardline Israeli Settlers

Young Americans are joining a movement of hardline Jewish settlers who vow to...

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OZschwitz: Corruption watchdog for federal MPs long overdue

The current political culture in Australia decrees that if you hand a minister $10,000 in a paper bag marked ''for you'' in return for a talk about your business plans, it is a...

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In Taiwan's tragedy, the government doesn't value human life

IF TAIWAN'S President, Ma Ying-jeou, thought he might be treated presidentially as he toured a centre for survivors of last weekend's typhoon he was...

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OZschwitz: Developers, miners attack unjust heritage laws

MINING and development groups have condemned proposed fines of up to $1.1 million for destroying indigenous heritage in NSW, saying the new laws are...

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Dishonest Dubai crown prince banned over horse doping

The International Equestrian Federation has banned the crown prince of Dubai from riding in endurance races for 10 months after his horse tested positive for a steroid.

Sheik Hamdan bin Mohammed al Maktoum was also ordered to pay...

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Idiot: Georgia Lawmaker, Tommy Benton, Calls For Caning, Executing Marijuana Offenders

State Republican lawmaker Tommy Benton (31st House District) favors “caning” minor marijuana offenders and “executing” those who...

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UK slave pen: Boom in government regulation

Over the last ten years there has been a striking boom in government regulation – which now consumes an estimated...

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How to promote the free market in 2009

2008 was not an easy year for defenders of the free market. The credit crunch, the banking crisis, and the beginnings of a recession all fuelled the belief that markets are inherently...

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UK: Regulatory Myopia

This response to Financial Services Authority Discussion Paper 09/2
argues that regulators, not under-regulation, are to blame for the
financial crash. It points out that the banks are...

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The War on Capitalism

According to mainstream human rights thinking all human rights are
“indivisible”. Therefore, this mantra insists, economic, social and
cultural rights such as the right to an adequate living and the right
to social security should...

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Mexican migrant workers leave Canadian union

According to the CBC:

Migrant Mexican farm workers in Manitoba – the first in Canada to join a union – have now...

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Violent gangs prosper due to criminalized drugs

The Toronto Sun reported that drugs has been identified as the number one revenue source for organized crime. This is not really a surprise, but...

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Funny: Cuba Runs Out of Toilet Paper

The financial crisis, which has already hit shit-hole Cuba's economy hard, is about to give the country another big kick, this time in the...

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Outrageous injustice: Exxon to pay $600,000 for deaths of 85 lousy, protected birds

Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has pleaded guilty and will pay $600,000 in fines for the deaths of 85 protected migratory birds in the company's...

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Corrupt Indonesian Government Attempts to Stop Burma Democracy Meeting

Burmese democracy leaders have successfully concluded a meeting in the Indonesian capital Jakarta to push a plan for transition to democracy in Burma. The Indonesian government earlier attempted to...

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YaY! EU steps up sanctions against Myanmar in response to Suu Kyi verdict

The European Union (EU) on Thursday stepped up sanctions against Myanmar by adding members of the judiciary responsible for the verdict of Aung San Suu Kyi to the existing list of officials subject to...

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Voting machine hack successfully changed votes

A team of computer scientists at University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan and Princeton University announced a new way to electronically...

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Invisible doorways or portals a step closer to reality, claim scientists

Using a technique known as transformation optics, the researchers have revealed a way to alter the pathway of light waves that...

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Idiot: Obese Surgeon General Nominee Consults for Burger King

Burger King has paid Regina Benjamin, President Obama’s pick for surgeon general, $10,000 this year for serving on an advisory panel to the fast-food giant, the Washington Times reports. Administration reps say the Alabama physician used her position on Burger King’s nutritional advisory board to advocate for...

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Top-Earning Celebs Over 50

Forbes ranks the entertainment industry’s top earners age 50 and older in the last year:

1. Oprah, 55, $275 million. Viewership for her show...

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African animals: Scottish Gem Expert Hacked to Death in Kenya

Renowned Scottish gem expert Campbell Bridges has been killed by a mob armed with spears and machetes in Kenya's Tsavo National Park, the Independent reports. The murder is believed to be...

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Barbarian Chinese poLICE Beat, Detain Artist at Earthquake Trial

Ai Weiwei, China's leading artist and a prominent critic of the country's government, said yesterday he was beaten and detained when he tried to...

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Idiot: 'Bourgeois' Golf Courses Tee Off Chávez

Hugo Chávez has gone after oil conglomerates and media companies, and now he's hitting the capitalist pigs where it hurts: at the golf course. The Venezuelan president is trying to...

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With Fewer Customers and Fixed Labor Costs, U.S. Postal Service Faces $7 Billion Net Loss in 2009

The U.S Postal Service faces a net loss of $7 billion in fiscal year 2009 even if it succeeds in cutting its costs by $6 billion, according to testimony provided to a Senate subcommittee last week by the...

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Idiot: Hillary Clinton Suggests Congo Government Ownership of Industry Would be a Good Thing

In a television interview Monday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that it would be a good thing for the government to take an ownership interest in industry.

“How can you help this country?”...

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YaY! Public schools to be able to turn independent

A plan by the Government to allow public schools to switch status to become independent will create more...

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OZschwitz: Government 'hush-hushing' genetically modified crops review

As West Australia prepares to give the tick to genetically modified crops, the government has...

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OZschwitz idiots: Call for dingoes to be reintroduced to prevent extinction

SCIENTISTS are calling for dingoes to be reintroduced into large areas of Australia to help prevent the further extinction of native...

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YaY! Australian troops kill Afghan police officer

AUSTRALIAN troops in Afghanistan have shot dead an Afghan policeman who failed to stop at a checkpoint.

A second policeman was...

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OZschwitz gulag: poLICE to 'search without warrant'

POLICE will have to release arrested terrorism suspects after seven days - or charge them - and will be able to...

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Michael Douglas devastated by statists' drug charges against son

US actor Michael Douglas said his family was "devastated" by the arrest of his son, Cameron, accused by authorities of...

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Thieving statists muscle Switzerland: No way to hide for U.S. 'tax cheats' after UBS deal

The days of secret bank accounts are numbered for U.S. taxpayers and European tax dodgers should also watch out after...

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US slave pen: Airlines to Require More Passenger Data

WASHINGTON -- Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at...

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Useless UN stalls on Myanmar statement

The UN Security Council has failed to agree on a statement condemning Myanmar for extending Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest, a verdict the...

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Excellent: Rise In Militia Groups Across US

Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends.

The stress of a poor economy and a...

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Montessori Schools Taking Biometric Security To New Big Brother Levels

ALDIE, Va.—The Boyd School, a progressive Montessori school with seven locations in Northern Virginia, recently completed a biometric security installation designed to...

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Incompetent Government Disaster Plans Leave Disabled People Behind

Four years after Hurricane Katrina exposed major deficiencies in the capacity of governments to evacuate and care for the disabled during a natural disaster, America's most...

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Brazil: Evangelical Bishop siphoned off billions of dollars

The founder of one of Brazil's biggest evangelical churches siphoned off billions of dollars in donations from his mostly poor followers to buy jewelry, TV stations and other...

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Get Ready for Bigger, Badder Bernies

HARRY Markopolos -- the whistleblower on Bernie Madoff who proved to be much smarter than the SEC -- says there are evildoers out there who will make the...

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YaY! Gun-Toting Obama Protester Defending Drug Dealers Who Shoot poLICE

William Kostric, the man who sho wed up to protest at Obama’s town hall meeting yesterday with a loaded gun strapped to his leg is listed as a...

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Cops Bust 2nd Obama Protester With a Gun; Yawn!

A protester arrested ahead of President Obama’s town hall yesterday had an unlicensed loaded gun, police say. Richard Young, 62, was...

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Secular Student Alliance

The mission of the Secular Student Alliance is to organize, unite, educate, and serve students and student communities that promote the ideals of...

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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future

In his famous 1959 Rede lecture at Cambridge University, the scientifically-trained novelist C.P. Snow described science and the humanities as...

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Excellent: New Atheists are attacking the mantra of science and faith being compatible

Must science declare a holy war on religion?

The so-called New Atheists are attacking the mantra of science and faith being compatible. Others in the science community question the...

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More Ancap Good News: LA Mayor Wants Outsiders to Run 'Failing' Schools

The mayor of Los Angeles wants to allow outside groups to place bids for control of hundreds of the city’s schools, the LA Times reports. Antonia Villaraigosa’s education reforms would allow...

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Ancap Good News: Killer Nazi, 90, Jailed for Life

A former commander in Adolf Hitler's army has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a massacre in...

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YaY! Khmer Rouge Statist Asks for 'Harshest Punishment'

The former head of the Khmer Rouge's main torture center asked the Cambodian people today to give him "the harshest punishment." Kaing Guek Eav, alias "Duch," who headed the...

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Lucky OZschwitz teacher had oral sex with student. Well good for her!

A former Ballarat teacher allegedly performed oral sex on a student and sent him photographs of her...

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UK slave pen: 300 children a day added to DNA database: 400,000 under-15s on Big Brother roll

More than 300 children a day have their DNA taken by the police and added to the national database.

Already 412,670 youngsters under...

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Big Brother Britain has more CCTV cameras than China

Britain has one and a half times as many surveillance cameras as communist China, despite having a fraction of its population, shocking figures revealed yesterday.

There are...

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Congo: Statists raping women, wholesale

Congo's Rape Epidemic Worsens During U.S.-Backed Military Operation

For the women of eastern Congo, a U.S.-backed Congolese military operation meant to save them from...

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And now you know that the world has gone to hell: US Grads Turn to China

Large numbers of American graduates shut out of the job market at home are turning to the East for opportunities, the New York Times reports. A surge of...

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YaY! Costa Rican Leader Has Swine Flu

Nobel Peace laureate and Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said today that he has swine flu, showing that...

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Italian Court: It's OK to Threaten Kids With Kick in the Pants

There’s nothing wrong with telling teens they’ll get kicked in the pants for misbehaving—at least not in Italy, the country’s high court ruled today. A mom had accused her son’s...


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Gun-Toting Protester at Obama Event Unrepentant; Excellent!

The man who showed up at President Obama's town hall today with a gun defended his right to do just that when...

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Idiot: Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak Jails Yawning Man for 6 Months

Make sure you've had a good night's sleep before going to court in Illinois. Clifton Williams, 33, went to support his cousin during a hearing on a felony drugs charge, but...

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Thanks to Statists, Angry Russian Hurls Cup at Mona Lisa

A Russian woman distressed that France had refused to grant her nationality took out her frustration on a defenseless national treasure, Reuters reports. “The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as...

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Why Ayn Rand Is Still Relevant

More than 25 years after her death - we are still in love with and obsessed by all things Ayn Rand. Visit a book store and you'll still see plenty of that precious shelf space devoted to her and her novels. Two of her books, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead...

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OZschwitz: 75% of cabbies dodging income tax; YaY!

Three-quarters of cabbies have no qualms about dodging their taxes, according to new research into...

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Anglican leader to white Australians: Compensate Aborigines or leave the continent

ALL non-Aboriginal Australians should be prepared to leave the country if the indigenous people want that, making restitution for the vile sin of...

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Christian love: Archbishop to abused woman: "Go to hell, bitch"

THE Catholic archbishop Denis Hart told a woman abused by a priest to "go to hell, bitch" in conduct which a magistrate...

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Rock band Radiohead make more money via free album

The fast-growing online economy is revolutionising how we do business.

Free: The Future of a Radical Price
By Chris Anderson
Random House, 274pp, $35

WHEN the British rock band Radiohead launched the...

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Taliban deputy calls Associated Press, says he's not dead

According to a Pakistani minister, Talibani deputy Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a shootout with another leader. But apparently, he's not as dead as they...

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Gay sex can lead to swine flu, Malaysian media says

Malaysia's state-run news agency is urging its readers to avoid homosexual sex and...

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Stop unwanted RFID scanning with Identity Stronghold shields

Identity Stronghold recognized the need for privacy protection for RFID chipped items and created a new industry in RFID shielding protection in...

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Forget Chastity: Marry and Fuck Earlier, Say Evangelicals

The evangelical stress on abstinence until marriage is fantastic, writes Mark Regnerus—himself devout—in Christianity Today, "but promoting it has...

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City of San Francisco's Top Parasitical Earners (2008)

In the 2008 calendar year, the City and County of San Francisco had nearly 9,000 employees who were paid at least $100,000. Find out who they were, what departments they worked for and...

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Unethical Feds Battle to Keep Rendition Case Under Wraps

The Obama administration is fighting to keep details secret in the case of a former Guantanamo detainee who says he was...

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Sugar price reaches 28-year high

The price of raw sugar has increased to its highest level since 1981, as...

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Immoral Kremlin Statists Give Themselves Authorization To Invade Other Countries

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has introduced a bill to parliament that would allow the country's armed forces to intervene beyond...

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YaY! Thieves Steal $16M From Saudi Princess in Italy

Thieves made off with $16 million in cash and jewels from the safe of a Saudi princess in Sardinia, the BBC reports. Investigators believe the burglars...

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Internet Freebies Whack Porn Biz

The American porn movie biz is not so hot anymore, and the recession isn't the only reason. Porn entrepreneurs say free content on the Internet is...

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Libertarianism 101: Who is David Nolan?

Since the Grand Canyon state is also the Goldwater state, it’s no wonder that
one of the co-founders of the Libertarian Party decided to live in the
hot desert of Tucson, Arizona. David Nolan, once a Goldwater Republican
in his youth, decided...

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