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China tightens up censorship of Internet sites

http://www.latimes.com

For years, China’s net nannies turned the other cheek to a loophole in their vast online censorship apparatus. Anyone who wanted access to blocked overseas websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and more recently, the New York Times, need only download foreign software called a virtual private network (VPN) to circumvent the Great Firewall. But in recent weeks, even these tools have begun to falter, frustrating tech-savvy Chinese and foreign businesspeople who now struggle to access Internet sites as innocuous as gmail.com and imdb.com.

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Forget About the Fiscal Cliff, the AMT Will Rob You Blind

http://www.forbes.com

While the nation’s eyes are affixed firmly on the future tax implications of the fiscal cliff negotiations, few people realize that they stand to pay larger tax bills in 2012 courtesy of a little something Congress could have — and should have – taken care of long ago: the exemption to the alternative minimum tax (AMT). As a reminder, the AMT is a parallel tax system that was originally designed in 1969 to guarantee that 155 wealthy, enterprising taxpayers would pay some amount of federal income tax.

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Independent Tax Preparers Fight Against IRS Power Grab

http://ij.org

Arlington, Va.—New Years is rapidly approaching, and with it come sweeping new regulations that could force tens of thousands of Americans out of work. Despite a federal lawsuit filed in March by three independent tax preparers and the Institute for Justice (IJ), the IRS remains committed to implementing an unprecedented licensing scheme. The new regulations benefit powerful industry insiders and burden some 350,000 independent tax-return preparers, ultimately harming 85 million taxpayers.

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Food Truck Vendors Fight Mobile Food Ordinance

http://www.al.com

An attorney for a group of food truck and push cart vendors has written members of the Birmingham City Council to say the vendors have “serious concerns” about a proposed mobile food ordinance that they say is “extraordinarily restrictive” and, if passed as written, could drive them out of downtown. “Our organization isn’t opposed to regulation, but the complexity of this ordinance is kind of astounding to me,” David Donaldson, the attorney representing the mobile vendors, said today.

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Oliver Stone on the Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age

http://ecigs.net

Academy Award-winning Oliver Stone has teamed up with historian Peter Kuznick to produce a 10-part Showtime series called "Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States." Drawing on archival findings and recently declassified documents, the filmmakers critically examine U.S. history, from the atomic bombing of Japan to the Cold War, to the fall of communism, and continuing all the way through to the Obama administration.

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Rotherham council holds inquiry after taking couple's foster children

http://www.guardian.co.uk

An urgent review is under way at Rotherham borough council of the decision to remove three young children from their foster parents because the couple were UK Independence party members.

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Chemist at Mass. crime lab, arrested for mishandling 60,000+ samples

http://www.boston.com

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57522579-504083/annie-dookhan-che... - alternate link

Government corruption at its worst. This person should spend the time behind bars that the convicts convicted by her lies and corruption have spent so far. Of course chances are that she'll be given a relative slap on the wrist compared to the time that others have been sentenced for non-violent behavior while she's trying to make money off of lies, and caging peoples bodies.

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Condoms In Porn In Los Angeles Will Now Be Mandated On Set

http://www.huffingtonpost.com

Despite strong outcry against it from the adult film industry, a measure requiring porn performers to wear condoms on set was passed by LA County voters, with 56% of the vote. The "Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act'," in addition to mandating condoms, will require porn producers to apply for a permit from the LA County Dept of Public Health to shoot sex scenes. The fee will finance periodic inspections of porn filming, and violations will be subject to civil fines and criminal misdemeanor charges. 1.2 million people thought this was a good idea.

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Does Romney’s Religion Condone Torture?

http://www.religiondispatches.org

Nobody asked Governor Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama about torture during Monday night’s “foreign policy debate”—but someone should have.

Because recently disclosed Romney campaign documents are raising new questions about the candidate’s position, and the recent appointment of a Spokane, Washington LDS bishop who in his professional life as a psychologist pioneered so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” after 9/11 has raised new questions about whether Mormonism condones torture.

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Watch the Apologists Downplay Obama's Kill List

http://www.politicalpwnage.com

Check out a rep from both the Democratic and Republican Party as they're confronted by Luke Rudowski of "We Are Change" on the legitmacy of Obama's Kill List. At least Obama's rep handles himself pretty well - can't say the same for the GOP punk.

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Head of city police union charged with DUI

http://www.unionleader.com

The president of the Manchester Patrolman's Association has been placed on administrative leave after being charged with felony reckless conduct and driving under the influence following a two-vehicle crash Tuesday night.

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Weasel Words that Politicians use to Obscure Terrible Truths

http://www.readability.com

"Never believe anything until it is officially denied," is a useful saying, advising skepticism towards whatever the government claims to be doing. This is the right mental attitude for any observer of the political scene. But for sniffing out official or journalistic mendacity, evasion and ignorance, a good guide is the use of tired and misleading words or phrases.

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Secret suspensions: Public in dark; this needs to stop

http://www.unionleader.com

The lack of information provided the public regarding the suspensions of Manchester High School West’s principal and her secretary, and Raymond’s school superintendent, and the dismissal of Fremont’s police chief, is appalling. It also ought to be, as the education community likes to say, a “teachable moment.”

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Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns

http://hosted.ap.org

Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.
After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, she wonders if her own government is to blame.

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Camden28 - Anitwar Activists

http://www.camden28.org

Great movie on netflix streaming
"In the early-morning hours of Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that FBI agents had arrested 20 antiwar activists in and near a draft board office"

Judge Fisher informed the jury they could acquit if they felt government participation in setting up the crime had gone to “intolerable” lengths that were “offensive to the basic standards of decency and shocking to the universal sense of justice.

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Trenton NJ Mayor and othewrs arrested for extortion!

http://www.wcax.com

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, his brother Ralphiel and convicted sex offender Joseph Giorgianni, a Mack supporter who owns a Trenton sandwich shop, were each accused of a single charge: conspiring to extort the undercover informants who pulled them into the scheme.

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Massachusetts judge approves taxpayer-funded sex change for inmate

http://www.foxnews.com

MA Judge approves taxpayer funded sex change operation for inmate.

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(Another) FedGov Suck-Cess Story: Volt Production Suspended.....

http://www.jammiewf.com

General Motors is halting, for a month, the manufacture of its well-known but seldom-sold Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car, according to trade publication Automotive News.

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DHS arrests drug smugglers and child porn collectors (working for DHS)

http://www.wired.com

Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year.

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American Academy of Pediatrics Changes Stance, Endorses Circumcision

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com

"The importance of this cannot be overstated. The AAP is a driving force behind health policy in America, and the experts involved in its new statement are already going on record in major media outlets to advocate that circumcision be covered on public health plans like Medicaid."

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Created by kelvin 38 weeks 2 days ago – Made popular 38 weeks 16 hours ago
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