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Ryan: New GOP budget to be released in March will build off previous year, call for same Medicare reforms

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 7:41 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Republicans are going to work off the budget the House GOP passed last year to come up with its proposals for the next fiscal year budget, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said Sunday, adding that the GOP is "not backing off of any of our ideas, any of our solutions." …

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Greenpeace activist: Why Oz shouldn't Bankroll Coal & HRL proposal

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:45 PM EST (New Matilda)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

Julien Vincent: "A company called HRL want to build a commercial-scale coal-fired power station at Morwell, Victoria, using their coal-gasification technology which makes a brown coal power station as clean as black coal (that is, dirty).

world-news, us, obama, australia, climate-change, america, gas, carbon, co2, victoria

NS analysis: Why the UK's £1 trillion debt is no cause for panic

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:35 PM EST (New Statesman Contents)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

UK current debt levels (now £1 trillion) , measured as a percentage of GDP, are historically low. As the graph provided shows, the national debt has actually been higher for 54 of the last 100 years ands is now 60% of GDP (over 250% after WW2) .

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Allen West Tells Obama, Reid, Pelosi 'Get the Hell Out of the USA'

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:14 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Seeded by Cornhusker4Palin

'This is a battlefield that we must stand upon and we need to let president Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and my dear friend, the chairman of the democrat national committee, we need to let them know that Florida is not on the table.

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Congressional GOP Slam Obama Sloganeering, Accuse President Of Slow March To Election Day

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:57 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Seeded by Cornhusker4Palin

Several Republicans fanned out Sunday ahead of the congressional work week to denounce the president's policies, enunciated during the State of the Union, but unlikely to win passage.

politics, obama, socialist, class-warfare, envy, redistribution, tax-increases, runaway-spending

What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine? It's not science, that's for sure

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:54 PM EST (Science-Based Medicine)

Seeded by Chris-735081

One of the themes of science-based medicine is to be suspicious of any form of medicine that is not science-based.

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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the '1 Percent' | News & Politics | AlterNet

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:24 AM EST (AlterNet.org)

Seeded by Grae

While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice.

Higher Taxes Help the Richest, Too

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:34 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by Handshake

Beyond some point, there seems to be little gain in satisfaction from bolstering your private spending.

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GOP Candidates To Unemployed/Uninsured Woman: You're On Your Own. She Applauds (VIDEO)

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:46 AM EST (Addicting Info)

Seeded by Ms CYPRAH

So, imagine you’re Lynn Frazier. You have found yourself unemployed and without insurance for the first time in over a decade. You are also a republican.

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