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Ron Paul Is Being Cheated Out of the Republican Nomination

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

infowars.com - Feb. 22 (News) - Paul Joseph Watson | The GOP establishment has resorted to vote fraud in almost every state.

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Renewables Are a Reality: How We Can Ditch Fossil Fuels Without Any Help From Congress

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Fen Montaigne - Feb. 21 (Special Report) - In an interview with Yale Environment 360 senior editor Fen Montaigne, Lovins discusses how business and society can pull off this transformation even if the U.S. Congress keeps failing to act, why climate change need not even enter the discussion, and why the oil industry will ultimately forego fossil fuels and jump aboard the green bandwagon. “One system is dying and others are struggling to be born,” says Lovins. “It’s a very exciting time.”

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As Calls For Intervention in Syria Grow, Vijay Prashad Urges Re-Evaluation of NATO Attack on Libya

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Feb. 21 (News Analysis) - as Libya celebrates a new era free of the Gaddafi regime, there are growing concerns the country’s lingering divisions will tear it apart. Libya remains deeply splintered by regions and factions. More than 500 militias exist throughout the country, leading to ongoing human rights abuses that resemble those under the Gaddafi regime.

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Spying On Campus: New York Police Caught Monitoring Muslim Student Groups Throughout Northeast

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Feb. 21 (News Report) - the New York City Police Department monitored Muslim college students at schools throughout the Northeast, including Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. In one case, the NYPD sent an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip in upstate New York, where he recorded students’ names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed.

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Rick Santorum-Linked Hospital Chain Saw Suicide Attempts, Abuse, And Parents' Rights Left At The Door

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Cherkis - Feb. 21 (Special Report) - From 2007 through the first half of 2011, Santorum served on the board of directors of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), one of the country's largest hospital chains. According to the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, as of Feb. 28, 2011, UHS owned 25 acute care hospitals and 206 behavioral health centers located in 37 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Many of those facilities include or are classified as residential treatment centers (RTCs) -- secure facilities charged with the difficult task of treating children with severe mental-health or behavioral issues, many of whom are living very much on the margins of society.

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Super PACs Overtaking Campaign Fundraising

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jack Gillum - Feb. 21 (News Analysis) - An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support. For two of the GOP front-runners, their su

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Connie Mack preaches penny-pinching on campaign trail, but has past of debt and liens

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Marc Caputo - Feb. 21 (Special Report) - Congressman Connie Mack has made penny-pinching debt-reduction central to his U.S. Senate campaign, but privately he has struggled at times with borrowing and paying his own obligations, court records show. Mack sometimes appeared to spend more than he earned, had property liens filed against him, overdrew his bank account and didn’t have enough money to pay his federal income taxes after his 2004 congressional election Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/17/v-fullstory/2646785/connie-mack-preaches-penny-pinching.html#storylink=cpy

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Trapped in unemployment

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By Scott Pelley - Feb. 20 (Special Report) - Meet the new underclass -- the four million Americans who have been unemployed for more than a year. With every additional week out of work, their chances of finding a job dwindle. It turns out that many employers don't want to hire the currently unemployed. Enter Joe Carbone , who is determined to return the American dream to the long-term unemployed in Connecticut. And he's succeeding, one job at a time. How's Carbone doing it? Scott Pelley reports.

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Boomers’ Drug Use Pushes Hepatitis Deaths Past HIV, Study Finds

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Ryan Flinn - Feb. 20 (News) - Deaths attributed to hepatitis in the U.S. rose during the past decade to surpass those from HIV, posing a future public health burden as most people aren’t aware they are infected. The baby boom generation, those born from 1946 to 1964, are the most at

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John Boehner says Bush tax cuts created 8 million jobs over 10 years

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Feb. 20 (Fact Check) - During an interview on NBC’s Today show, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, offered some job-creation statistics to cast a favorable light on the tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003. Host Matt Lauer said to Boehner, "You talk about creating jobs. When the Bush era tax cuts were passed in 2001, unemployment in this country was 4.5 percent. Today it's at 9 percent, just down from 10 percent. So why are the Bush era tax cuts creating jobs?" Boehner responded that the tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."

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Study: Whites More Likely to Abuse Drugs Than Blacks

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Maia Szalavitz - Feb. 20 (News Report) - Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate ten times higher than that of whites. But new research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.

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Sheriff Accused Of Trying To Deport Campaign Worker, Steps Down From Romney Campaign

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Elise Foley - Feb. 19 (News Report) - Republican Congressional candidate Paul Babeu, currently serving as a sheriff in Arizona, stepped down on Saturday from his position as the co-chair for the Mitt...

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Choosing sides on Sarah Palin in 'Game Change'

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By James Rainey - Feb. 18 (News Report) - 'Game Change' on HBO portrays her as woefully misinformed and emotional. Her supporters blast the film, but some former John McCain aides say it's accurate.

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A Conservative Explains Why Right-Wingers Have No Compassion

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Mike Lofgren - Feb. 18 (News Analysis) - Who are these people and what motivates them? To answer, one must leave the field of conventional political theory and enter the realm of psychopathology.

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Microwave test – an eye opener | Employee News « 2012 Indy Info – LRC

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Cardinals' ascension clouded by intrigue

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By Allen Pizzey - Feb. 18 (News Report) - Pope Benedict XVI elevated 22 men to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony at the Vatican Saturday. But the joyous occasion was overshadowed by difficult days for the church.

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Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Faith Karimi - Feb. 18 (News Report) - A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.

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Iranian warships sail into the Mediterranean - CNN.com

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Feb. 18 (News) - Two Iranian warships sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea, Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency said, amid heightened tensions.

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Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy