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The Ultimate Capitalist Ideal

Published on 2012-02-13 21:12:00

Whore Your Home.Can’t Pay Your Mortgage? Turn Your House Into An Ad"The latest manifestation of the broken housing market and the thousands of homeowners who can’t afford their mortgage payments is an eye-grabbing advertising scheme from marketing company Brainiacs From Mars. If you let them paint your house like this…… they’ll pay you up to $2,000 a month. Here’s the deal: We’re looking for houses to paint. In fact, paint is an understatement. We’re looking for homes to tu

Not So Strange Bedfellows

Published on 2012-02-13 20:50:00

Washington & Al-Qaeda, United on Syria"Mere days after U.S. officials leaked intelligence that al-Qaeda’s branch in Iraq has been infiltrating Syria to conduct terrorism, arm the opposition, and take advantage of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, al-Qaeda’s #1 Ayman al-Zawahiri condemned the Assad regime and urged support for the opposition. Simultaneously, a growing number of influential members of Congress have openly advocated aiding the rebel Free Syrian Army with w

Slammer Society

Published on 2012-02-13 20:00:00

Why are so many Americans in prison? "The US has the highest prison population in the world - some of whom have been subjected to lengthy sentences for relatively minor crimes. And that population has surged over the past three decades.Although there has been a slight reduction in the past year, more than two million people are either incarcerated in prison or in jail awaiting trial.The US has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world, with 743 people incarcerated for every 1