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Watch voter fraud in the Texas legislature. See for yourself. It's SOP. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/39986/

One non-U.S. Trader eyeing the Schumer/Graham trip to China and wondering why the two Senators would risk a trip to that country and taking a stance on currency and trade that likely will irritate if not offend their reluctant host. That trader and others remind of the protectionist message the trip sends around the world and they remind that with China the second largest holder of FX reserves in the world messrs Schumer and Graham need to tread lightly amid concern that a shift in China reserve management could upset a now fragile greenback and a U.S. deficit funding...

Love It Or Hate It -- It's your ChoiceOver the past ten years the federal government created about 30,000 new laws and regulations. That's just at the federal level of government."If only there were one law that ruled the world," one person recently quipped.There's several dozen if not a hundred issues where government has overstepped the power granted to it by the people. A person could write a hundred articles, one article per issue, that exposes each government abuse of power and abuse of citizens.What if there was one article that could do the job of one hundred separate articles?...

The president of Intel, Paul S. Otellini, warned a federal panel addressing tax issues that because of high tax rates in the United States, his company may build its next $3 billion semiconductor factory overseas. ... "The problem that we have and which the industry has is that it costs us $1 billion more to operate inside the U.S. than outside of the country," he said. "It's not wages and capital; its almost all attributed to tax benefits--or the lack thereof--in the United States compared to what is offered elsewhere."

Greenspan text: sticks to tax reforms says we need to reverse the drift to an overly complicated tax code that is burdened with too high marginal rates and special provisions. Says we can increase economic efficiencies by lowering tax rates and simplifying. US needs to boost saving and consumption tax would encourage saving.

Hundreds of Michigan residents are getting a big surprise this tax season--hefty tax bills for cigarettes they bought online over the past four years. The state sent the bills to 553 residents last week after subpoenaing 13 online tobacco shops for names of Michigan customers and their order histories, a Michigan Treasury Department spokesman Caleb Buhs said on Friday. The tax bills are based on information from just one store, and the state expects to collect more names from the others. Collectively, the people receiving this first round of bills owe the state $1.4 million, an average of $2,500 per...

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, the majority of life on earth may have suffocated. The "Great Dying," a catastrophic event that killed 90 percent of Earth's marine life and 75 percent of the life on land, was caused by a combination of warmer temperatures and lower oxygen levels, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Washington. In other words, the extinction was precipitated by global warming, rather than an asteroid collision, the reigning theory. The findings, to be published in the magazine Science, are largely based on comparisons of fossils found in South Africa's...

N.Y. asks online cigarette buyers to cough up taxNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that smokers who bought cigarettes over the Internet had better be prepared to cough up taxes they tried to avoid by going online. "The law says you got to pay your taxes. The handful of people who don't are just stealing from the rest of us," Bloomberg said in a weekly radio address. The city's finance department this week sent letters to 3,700 smokers asking them to fork over $1.3 million in city taxes from Internet tobacco purchases. The annual loss to the city from...

Market & Stations To Air "A POW Story" Baltimore WBFF Friday 10/22 8PM Birmingham WTTO Friday 10/22 7PM Buffalo WUTV Friday 10/22 8PM Cedar Rapids KGAN Friday 10/22 7PM Champaign, IL WICD Friday 10/22 7PM Charleston, SC WMMP Friday 10/22 8PM Charleston, WV WCHS Friday 10/22 8PM Cincinnati WSTR Friday 10/22 8PM Columbus WSYX Friday 10/22 8PM Dayton WKEF Friday 10/22 8PM Des Moines KDSM Friday 10/22 7PM Flint WSMH Friday 10/22 8PM Greensboro WXLV Friday 10/22 8PM Greenville/Asheville WLOS Friday 10/22 8PM Kansas City KSMO Friday 10/22 7PM Las Vegas KVWB Friday 10/22 8PM Lexington WDKY Friday-10/22 8PM...

Germany and Adolph Hitler didn't have WMDs Saddam Hussein had weapons more lethal and destructive than anything Hitler had.So do the industrialized countries. The difference being that some leaders are evil and/or insane. Thus, they can't be trusted no matter what weapons they own. Evil leaders are weapons of mass destruction. Ever since terrorists flew jet planes into the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon terrorists have been recognized as WMDs.It's only fitting that evil leaders be labeled as weapons of mass destruction.To the main stream media: spin your wheels proclaiming that Hussein isn't evil. 

Why the Mainstream Media Has it Wrong On Negative CampaigningAnd -- how reporters and investigative journalists create the problemIt's always important to have information that exposes negative traits and poor voting records of  politicians. When a politician has a sever negative or accumulated negatives it may expose him or her as unqualified for the office they seek. It's especially important to expose politicians that have used deception or fraud.When people that work in the mainstream media report, comment on or complain about negative campaigning they acknowledge implicitly that they are without integrity and honesty in their work.. When reporters and investigative journalists...

Why the Swift Boat Vets (SBV) Cannot LoseThe SBV have thoroughly documented their complaints.John Kerry could quickly refute many of the SBV complaints by signing Form 180 which would make all his military records available to the public... but only if the SBV complaints are false.If Kerry's military records further verify the SBV complaints then Kerry has a motive for not signing Form 180.The main stream media will go to great lengths to obfuscate The Point -- explained below. Instead, they'll report on any number of A points. A points are half truths taken out of context from The Point...

Contact: Jade Boydjadeboyd@rice.edu 713-348-6778Rice UniversityNanoshells cancer treatment proves effective in first animal test Laser treatments eradicate all tumors from mice in trial HOUSTON, June 21, 2004 -- A revolutionary new form of cancer therapy in development at Rice University and its licensee, Nanospectra Biosciences Inc., has proven effective at eradicating tumors in laboratory animals during the first phase of animal testing. The noninvasive cancer treatment uses a combination of harmless, near-infrared light and benign, gold nanoshells to destroy tumors with heat. The treatment does not affect healthy tissue. "We are extremely encouraged by the results of these first animal...

Indian doctor duo make DNA horoscopes at birthTrivandrum | June 23, 2004 8:58:14 PM IST  A doctor duo from Trivandrum have developed a technique to map the DNA sequencing of human beings so as to predict their future tendencies and also help fight diseases. Ajit Kumar and Arun Kumar, both genetic experts from the city's main state-run hospitals, have developed the "Nano Geneseq Chip", which analyses the entire future genetic proposition of a human at birth itself. In layman terms the computer can, to almost 100 percent accuracy, predict how a child will grow-right from its height, colour and...

Help Me, I Can't Help MyselfA John Stossel SpecialApril 18 — Watching television, one might think the whole country is addicted to something: drugs, food, gambling — even sex or shopping. Stanton Peele, author of The Diseasing of America, says, "The United States has elevated addiction to a national icon. It's our symbol, it's our excuse." In Help Me, I Can't Help Myself, ABCNEWS' John Stossel reports on conflicting views about addiction and popular treatments and asks: is addiction a choice? The hour-long special airs MONDAY, APRIL 21, at 8 p.m. on ABC.Stossel interviews Sue Silverman, a self-professed sex addict....

Something for the peaceniks:"If you were an Iraqi protester over there the Iraq Republican Guard would force you to take up arms against the coalition and if you didn't they'd kill your family and then you too."

Web advertisements that masquerade as pop-up "security alert" windows generated by a surfer's computer or browser are the subject of a new class-action lawsuit, which aims to rid the Internet of the deceptive banners.The lawsuit, filed Nov. 25 in the Superior Court of Washington State, is one of the first to bring public discontent over some type of Internet advertising to the courtroom. It charges San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Bonzi Software with hoodwinking millions of Internet users into clicking to its Web site via the ads.Bonzi's "ad banners are disguised as something other than ad banners, and unwitting users see...

  Business Model Outcompetes Government Incompetence, Abuse and Corruption Sometimes a person collects so much valid information that profound revelation occurs. Such is the case this article explains. Almost every person inherently knows and experiences that the private sector provides them far greater value for their money than government. Imagine the people's outrage that would occur when instead of paying for government via hidden taxes, fees and regulations that all businesses pass on to their customers and is reflected in 20% to 30% higher prices and where employee withholding tax is "out of sight out of mind", imagine the ...

Lifestyles Sans Leviathan Government the Goal, Problem and Solution It seems that cyber patriots spend so much time fighting government abuse, trying to put out fires started by politicians and bureaucrats bent on expanding the size and reach of the leviathan that we seldom get a chance to settle back, relax and indulge in just what it is he or she is fighting for. Each person can picture in their mind's eye what it is he or she wants for themselves and their families. While no one may know just what it is that other cyber patriots seek in ...

Airing right now on the East coast. 48 hours is doing a "save the children from the Internet" piece on 48 hours. Hosted by Dan Rather That's how Dan headlined the show. It's not his exact words I paraphrased to get the his point across.