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Fox most trusted news channel in US, poll shows

Explains so much.

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Obama At House Republican Retreat In Baltimore: Full Video, Text

This is a lot of fun.
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Yeah that was great. Never mind the fact that military spending makes up like 4/5 the budget, Jeb!
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Damn why does the CIA keep constantly popping up now? Turns out they're branching out into the private sector but are stuck in a "services" oriented mindset lol. Though I guess at least they're doing their part to try and grow the economy, amirite.
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The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont

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Palin and the tea-party "movement": nothing new
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To quote Wikipedia: Libertarians embrace viewpoints across a political spectrum, ranging from pro-property to anti-property (sometimes phrased as "right" versus "left"), from minarchist to openly anarchist.

edit-What Shiren said.

edit2-Left-libertarianism article on wikipedia
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In a Message to Democrats, Wall St. Sends Cash to G.O.P.
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http://www.enterprisecorruption.com/?page_id=39 <-Best place to start, probably. Some say he's just another internet conspiracy theorist, others swear by his investment advice and claim he's right in his predictions more often than wrong.

See also
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Dear Mexico,

You can have Texas back, we've decided we don't need it anymore. No, please, take it back.

Please?

Love,

America
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We're cool, Adi. Don't worry. I consider you "one of the good ones".

And usually I have no beef with Texans. I don't care if their football teams beat my football teams, right? But I read articles like that and I think man it's time we start messing with Texas.
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Washington (CNN) -- The FBI announced that it has concluded its investigation into the 2001 anthrax mailings, saying Friday that a biodefense researcher carried out the attacks alone.
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The title of the paper, “Development of an Aerosol System for Uniformly Depositing Bacillus Anthrax Spore Particles on Surfaces,” demonstrated that to create anthrax in a dry aerosol form of the sort that can be dispersed through the air is a long and difficult process involving a lot of highly specialized machinery.

The original culture has to be incubated; spore pellets are then collected with a centrifuge; those spores are dried “by a proprietary azeotropic method,” before an “amorphous silica-based flow enhancer” is added to turn the otherwise sticky anthrax spores into an aerosol, after which the material has to be passed through a series of ever finer mesh screens that are activated by a pneumatic vibrator.

The point, as one scientist specializing in fine particle chemistry told me, blows a large hole through the 92-page summary of the investigation released last week by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department, the main conclusion of which is that Bruce E. Ivins, a scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, in Maryland, was the anthrax mailer.

“Note that the proprietary azeotropic drying technique and the pneumatic mill are both superspecialized pieces of equipment, neither of which is at Detrick,” the specialist in fine particles, Stuart Jacobsen, said in an e-mail message.

But the F.B.I.’s entire case against Mr. Ivins is that he was able to manufacture the anthrax used in the attacks at his Fort Detrick lab, working late at night on the days before the actual anthrax mailings so nobody would see what he was doing.
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Oh, right. Because nobody ever does anything for others, just themselves. We should all be scolding our parents for being selfish enough to want kids which destroy the planet, is that it?

Why haven't you killed yourself to save the planet yet Dracko? Why are you being so selfish?
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We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
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http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/what-you-get-when-hcr-passes

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Greenwald on Wikileaks
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A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully

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Starting to see why Dracko didn't respond to you. :(
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I can see the initial attack perhaps being justified. After all, I don't know what an AK47 or an RPG looks like when viewed through youtube quality footage. And the pilots had heard from some ground troops in the area that they were under fire, so it's understandable that they reacted the way they did. Initially.

What I cannot see as being justified, at all, is shooting up the black van that shows up and tries to help the wounded guy who's still alive. Attacking unarmed people trying to help a wounded person is against the rules of engagement and defies the Geneva Conventions. Not to mention the children in the van.

Heads should roll for this but they won't because that's not the world we live in.

The mainstream media will treat this as an aberration, a few "bad apples", like they did with Abu Ghraib. But it isn't. It's war and these kinds of incidents are actually par for the course in wars. We are able to see them as aberrations because we are not exposed to the reality of warfare reading the Pentagon's press releases and we don't have a mainstream media that is much interested in covering the reality of warfare like they were in Vietnam. Can't risk losing access to those high level government officials they always like to quote anonymously, see.

As usual, Greenwald is on point about how this propagandizing works, in this case about Afghanistan (Warning: If the leaked chopper video angered you don't read this, it involves an attempted cover-up of the murder of pregnant women at the hands of US troops).

While this stuff isn't pleasant to hear about it's extremely necessary that the public know about what's really going on "over there". It's public money that's funding these crimes and it will ultimately be public outrage that ensures anything is done about them.
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Support The Troops?

Barack Obama is operating with the war powers granted George W. Bush three days after the 9/11 attacks.

Greenwald - Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen

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K thx for playing!

protip: i'm not talking about just politics anymore
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A tangentially related question for you: Do you think it's really possible for someone to choose their beliefs, or are beliefs the result of automatic processes that are largely invisible to us?
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Uh-oh!

Quick everyone act surprised.
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