Increase

   Greenwood residents in the year 2002, if they remitted by the end of February, paid $270 for their water-sewer utility bill.

   Now, in 2012, the same bill cost the good citizens $438.45, an increase of 62%.

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Apple Not So Polished ... Killing People

   In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers — as well as dozens of other American industries — have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history.
   However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems.
   Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk. Under-age workers have helped build Apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within China, are often considered reliable, independent monitors. 

   Full Story >> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html
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Persecution of Christians Rising in Islamic Countries

   In Iran, for example, Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been on death row for refusing to renounce his faith.

    In Pakistan, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, is still facing the death penalty for allegedly insulting the prophet Mohammed.

   Full Story >> http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2012/January/Persecution-of-Christians-Rising-in-Islamic-Countries
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Nine Kidnappers Dead ... Both Hostages Freed.

   ... Navy Seals crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage.

   Full Story >>> http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-25/Somalia-hostages/52784424/1
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Astounding Numbers

   Statistics show that 40 percent of all pregnancies in New York City end in abortion. 

   Full Story >> http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2012/January/New-York-Abortion-Rate-Highest-in-the-US

   In British Columbia there is strong government censorship on the number of abortions executed. One can try to extrapolate from what numbers are available and an annual number of 20,000 would not be unfair.

   All are tax-payer paid.

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No GPS

   The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must obtain a search warrant before using a GPS device to track criminal suspects.

How Much?

   Bell Mobility charges a late payment charge of 3% a month for overdue bills, or 42.58% a year.   
   Who needs the mafia when we have corporate citizens like this?
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When 16 Trillion Isn't Enough

   The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills.
   Full Story >> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-debt-treasurytre80g20r-20120117,0,3458470.story
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The Number Keeps Coming Up

   Tim Tebow had the Biblical verse “John 3:16” in his eye-black under his football helmet. The football people wanted it removed.

    In the amazing Wild-Card game on Sunday, Tebow threw for exactly 316 yards, averaging 31.6 yards per completion with a television rating of 31.6.

    The football people can erase the eye-black but they can’t erase the stats. They are entrenched facts.

   Full Story >>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45936838/ns/local_news-fort_myers_fl/t/tebows-coincidence-or-divine-intervention/#.TxHBi4FjFCP

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Election

Can You Not Laugh?

If you don't want to laugh, don't go there >> http://m.wimp.com/laughtercontagious
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Diver Finds Woman's Class Ring Lost In 1930s, Returns It To Her Grandson

   On Christmas Eve, the grandson, now 75, received his grandmother's ring in the mail. 

   Full Story >>> http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-01-05/features/os-longwood-springs-ring-found-20120105_1_class-ring-scuba-diver-grandson

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Planned Parenthood Executes 329,455 US Abortions In One Year

   Planned Parenthood received nearly a half-billion dollars from the US government. The group reports it has net assets of slightly more than $1 billion.
   Full story >> http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/January/Abortion-Provider-Received-Nearly-500M-from-Gov
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Meeting Criminals With Force

   The intruder pounded her door. The intruder broke in. The young woman was afraid. She fired her gun. No more intruder.
   Full story >> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/kfor-911-call-released-after-mother-kills-intruder-20120104,0,7986770.story
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December Gun Sales Break Single-Month Record

   December saw record-breaking numbers for gun sales. Gun dealers requested more than 1.5 million background checks from the Criminal Background Check System.

   Nearly 500,000 of those took place in the six days before Christmas and an astounding 102,222 background checks were administered on December 23 alone.

   Full Story >>> http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/10418-december-gun-sales-break-single-month-record 

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Less Government

Government exists to perform a small number of discrete tasks that are difficult to perform through voluntary means. Beyond that, government is a liability, not an asset — and one that needs to be removed from our balance sheets. - Editorial from the Carolina Journal, September 2011

Brain activity to control prosthetic limbs.

The Compassion of Dr. Ron Paul

   CBS gave him 90 seconds to speak in a one hour televised debate.

   The powers that be don’t want him as president. He isn’t one of their own. He is against war and the government intruding into people’s lives.

   As with anyone who they don’t want to contend, the corporate media denounce, falsify and marginalize them

   Lately they are pushing the racist card on Ron Paul.

   Truth doesn’t stop them.

Just a Bit More, Guys

   President Barack Obama is expected to ask to increase the borrowing limit by another $1.2 trillion.
   The debt limit currently stands at $15.194 trillion and would increase to $16.394 trillion.
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Angels At Work?

   At Kmart stores around the US anonymous donors are walking in and paying off the layaway accounts of complete strangers. It seems to have started in Michigan, but the holiday spirit spread. Kmart says the stealth benefactors usually ask for accounts that include toys.
   At one store in Omaha, Nebraska, a dozen accounts were paid off in the last 10 days. At another Kmart in Tennessee, a young father was in line waiting to pay down a bit of his account when a woman stepped up and paid it for him.
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