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National Security Republicans Go Gunning for Senate Front-Runner Rand Paul

So, a Tea Party-favored candidate for the U.S. Senate is leading in his primary race to replace a sitting Republican senator who... more

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Your New Facebook Friend: The IRS

Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Posts Documents Detailing Law Enforcement Collection of Data From Social Media Sites:

EFF has posted documents shedding light on how law enforcement agencies use social networking sites to gather information in investigations. The records, obtained from the IRS and DOJ Criminal Division, are the first in a series of documents that will be released through a FOIA case that EFF filed with the help of the UC Berkeley Samuelson Clinic.
One of the most interesting files is a 2009 training course that describes how IRS employees may use various Internet tools -- including social networking sites and Google Street View -- to investigate taxpayers.

The IRS should be commended for its detailed training that clearly prohibits employees from using deception or fake social networking accounts to obtain information. Its policies generally limit employees to using publicly available information. ...

The documents released by the IRS also include excerpts from the Internal Revenue Manual explaining that employees aren't allowed to use government computers to access social networking sites for personal communication, and cautioning them to be careful to avoid any appearance that they're speaking on behalf of the IRS when making personal use of social media.

Computer World, IRS, DOJ Use Social Media Sites to Track Deadbeats, Criminal Activity
PC Magazine, EFF Describes How Govt. Gets Info From Social Sites
PC World, Your Next Facebook 'Friend' Could be a Federal Agent
Web CPA, IRS Uses Social Networks for Tax Probes
Wired News, Undercover Feds on Social Networking Sites Raises Questions
ZDNet, The IRS and FBI Are Looking for You on Facebook

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End the Fed; its a private banking cartel that runs this country for the NWO by creating a monopoly on currency. The income tax is illegal and unconstitutional and so is the IRS. Prior to the US being taken over by a parasitic mafia, we had a budget surplus and no income tax b/c we had tariffs on imports. Free trade is piracy.Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Posts Documents Detailing Law Enforcement Collection of Data From Social Media Sites: EFF... more

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Black cabs on the road to China

Mini and Rolls-Royce are now German, Jaguar Land Rover is Indian, Aston Martin is Middle Eastern. In a few weeks’ time,... more

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Meg and Carly on the Stump

It's fashionable for ex-CEOs to come out of retirement and run for office. California's next gubernatorial and senate... more

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Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter addresses the media during a news conference on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 inside his... more

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IT'S STARTING: REGIONAL WALGREENS SAYS 'NO NEW MEDICAID' PATIENTS AS OF APRIL 16..

Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their... more

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Epic debate on marijuana takes place on Current, check it out and weigh in.

The war for marijuana decriminalization wages on. Fight the good fight.

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Gordon Brown admits to 'lying' in Iraq enquiry

Gordon Brown is to correct his evidence to the Iraq Inquiry after accepting defence spending had not risen in real terms every... more

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Nestle censor Greenpeace advert - removed from youtube

Dear Nestle's PR department, Hey! How are you doing? I know that when we highlight the damaging effect your business is... more

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China Helping Iran with Military Technology and Hardware

Recent developments in Iran confirm that China is providing Tehran with critical defense technologies and weapons systems, including some that violate stated Chinese policies aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation.

The disclosure of Chinese military aid comes as the Obama administration is trying to persuade Beijing to join other members of the U.N. Security Council, European Union member states and major non-aligned states such as Brazil to adopt a new set of tough sanctions to punish Iran for its nuclear-arms program.

Proliferation of defense industrial know-how and brain power from Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics to Iran — specifically advanced anti-ship missiles, nuclear technology and ballistic-missile designs — has been at the top of U.S. government concerns since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

One of the more recent issues is the expected delivery to Iran of state-of-the-art Almaz-Antei S-300 air-defense missiles systems under a contract originally signed in 2005 between Teheran and Russia's Rosoboronexport (ROE), the state-run arms-export agency.

The U.S., Israel and others have objected to Russian S-300 deliveries on the grounds that the missiles will significantly improve Iran's surface-to-air missile network and reduce the chances — if deemed necessary at some point — of successful air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Iran has made little effort to disguise what analysts say is a modern-day "underground railroad" of Russian and Ukrainian scientists who traveled to the Islamic state on what were officially deemed "tourist" visits or to attend scientific conferences with benign themes.

In reality, the scientists are engaged in assisting numerous Iranian weapons-development programs.

A CIA report to Congress made public in 2009 states that assistance from Chinese and Russian entities "has helped Iran move toward self-sufficiency in the production of ballistic missiles."

Some of this Russian assistance has produced results for Iran, such as the Shafaq fighter/attack aircraft, which has been traced back to aircraft designs developed many years before at the Mikoyan Design Bureau and other aeronautical research centers of the former Soviet Union.

But, over the longer term, Moscow's most significant contribution was encouraging Western nations to concentrate inordinately on the proliferation of people, technology, equipment and skills from Russia and Ukraine to Iran.Recent developments in Iran confirm that China is providing Tehran with critical defense technologies and weapons systems,... more