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Troops airlifted out of Iraq to face Assad’s forces Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Following similar reports by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, Israeli intelligence sources confirm that US Special Forces are massing in Jordan on the Syrian border having been transferred from Iraq. On Sunday Edmonds reported that …
Read More »MPAA Head Chris Dodd on Online Censorship Bill: China’s the Model
5:31 PM, DEC 12, 2011 BY DANIEL HALPER Jen Rubin makes the case today that the anti-piracy bills pending in the House, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and Senate, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), are likely unconstitutional. The bills essentially call for censorship of online speech in such …
Read More »Google chairman says online piracy bill would ‘criminalize’ the Internet
By Gautham Nagesh – 12/12/11 02:11 PM ET An online piracy bill in the House would “criminalize linking and the fundamental structure of the Internet itself,” according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt said the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would punish Web firms, including search engines, that …
Read More »Internet piracy bill: A free speech ‘kill switch’
By Bill Wilson, Americans for Limited Government – 12/12/11 10:14 AM ET What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic “kill switch” on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas. Proposed federal legislation purporting to protect …
Read More »Congress considers bill to censor Internet
Overkill on Internet piracy By Jennifer Rubin Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, …
Read More »Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front
Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates. Link
Read More »Admiral Theatre Offers Lap Dances For Holiday Toy Donations
December 12, 2011 1:13 PM CHICAGO (CBS) — If you’re a stingy, Scroogey type at Christmas, the Admiral Theatre has an incentive for you to change your ways. Yes, that Admiral Theatre. Beginning Monday and continuing through Saturday, the Admiral is offering a free lap dance to anyone who donates …
Read More »SAVAGE OFFERS GINGRICH $1 MILLION TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE
(subject to all the terms and conditions to be expressly stated by dr. Savage, including gingrich dropping out within 72 hours of today) The republican presidential field has come down to two candidates who have a real chance of getting the nomination: newt gingrich and mitt romney. While it’s true …
Read More »The Origins of the Fed
Mises Daily: Friday, December 02, 2011 by Ron Paul The Federal Reserve cartelizes the banking industry, allowing individual banks to inflate together, earning them and the government enormous profits, while making sure that they are never held accountable for their fraudulent practices. The Federal Reserve Cartelizes the Banking Industry
Read More »Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
In celebration of the opening of Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, the Art Institute will project Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire—a single, eight-hour-long nighttime take of the Empire State Building—from the museum’s Bluhm Family Terrace across Millennium Park to the upper stories of the Aon Center. Warhol’s …
Read More »How Blago got whacked (and Obama got away)
CHICAGO, December 8, 2011 ― If you didn’t know it was the Blagojevich saga, you might think it was a script for a “Goodfellas” sequel: An ambitious young man marries the daughter of a powerful Chicago political boss. The boss “makes” the man and gives him his start in the …
Read More »Peoples Gas on-bill New Furnace financing in Chicago
New Furnace Loan Program Financing Available Now! December 5, 2011 Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas are excited to announce the launch of the on-bill financing program for high-efficiency furnaces! Financing options are available beginning today for qualified residential customers. Eligible residential customers of Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas can now apply for a low-interest loan to purchase a high-efficiency …
Read More »Jon Corzine to tell House panel he doesn’t know where customers’ money went
By David S. Hilzenrath, Thursday, December 8, 5:51 AM Jon S. Corzine, the former U.S. senator and New Jersey governor who presided over the collapse of the commodities brokerage MF Global, says he cannot explain what happened to “many hundreds of millions of dollars” that the firm was holding for …
Read More »Game on in Iowa as GOP attacks target Gingrich
Also on Wednesday, in hopes of reviving a flagging rival campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry launched an ambitious effort to compete against Gingrich for the support of Christian evangelicals by emphasizing his Christianity in a flood of new commercials in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa. Separately, Texas Rep. Ron …
Read More »Blagojevich hit with 14-year prison sentence
A contrite former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison, capping one of the state’s worst political scandals and humbling a controversial and defiant figure who rode into office as a champion of reform. The sentence handed Blagojevich was the second-longest ever delivered in federal …
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