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“If I wanted America to fail” logged over 120,000 hits in less than 36 hours; and then the Twitter page for Free Market America, the group behind the video, was suspended midway through Earth Day.

This illustrates the value of alternatives to outlets like Twitter, Google, and Facebook.

A BRITISH man refused entry into the UK because he put on 31.8 kilograms (70 pounds) was considering taking legal action against border officials.

Border control authorities barred Derrick Agyeman, 37, from returning to the UK after he spent a weekend with friends in Amsterdam

A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”.

So, Pennsylvania's AG Tom Corbett, who just won the Republican primary nomination for Governor on Tuesday, is pressuring Twitter to reveal the names and contact info of two Twitter users who have been critical of him. Will the fascism never end? Oopps.... better watch what I say online, since I live in PA. Obersturmbannführer Corbett might target me next....

San Francisco, unlike most other cities in Silicon Valley, has a 1.5% payroll tax. And even more stunning is that they consider gains on stock options part of payroll, meaning that any San Francisco based company going public or being acquired could get hit with a massive tax bill in the tens of millions of dollars.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife mistakenly left their eight-year-old daughter behind following lunch at a country pub recently.“The PM and wife Samantha were distraught when they realised Nancy wasn’t with them,” his office confirmed in a statement, according to British media.

“Thankfully when they phoned the pub, she was there safe and well.

“The PM went down straight away to get her.”

The British government has bad news for extremists and the Qaeda-curious: It might get a tiny bit less convenient for you to access videos of your favorite jihadi media.

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that YouTube has begun removing videos featuring the extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, following complaints from the British government to the White House about the content.

I'd rather recruit ex-drug dealers, convicts and even child molesters rather than consider anybody who has been in the pay of the British Government.

The Tweets, Tics And Turns Of Twitter Politics

The tweet might go something like this:

Political convo on Twitter is more opinionated, more negative. Diff from that in blogs or lamestream media, sez new study by Pew. Like duh!