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Yes, this was the perfectly ironic night to hand out t-shirts that read “BEAT UC”…

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales mulls total blackout/strike in opposition to SOPA…
Internet votes to break Wikipedia to prove a point…

Surprising infographic of the day: Selling shit through email spam works, and their customer service is “better than most real businesses”

SCUMBAGS, ENTER HERE: US Border Patrol announces unmanned border entry point with Mexico…

Gold buyers swoop into Greece as economic pains set in…

Angeliki says her clients come in to sell their gold crucifixes, baptism tokens or other religious objects along with watches and pieces of gold.

“When you are unemployed and have to pay the bills or taxes … there is often no other solution,” she said.

GENERATION INFLATION: Gold bull predicts… “If the past is anything to go by, $US3000 to $US6000 an ounce would have to be on the cards, looking further out to five years.”
GENERATION AU: New gold bugs are young and restless…
Central banks fire the second barrel of QE…

ABC: Ron Paul winning with young voter enthusiasm, draws big crowds…
NOBAMA: Iowa youth switching parties to support Ron Paul…
BIGGER, BETTER, BOLDER: CBS gives Ron Paul coverage, then derps…
NPR: Iowa surge for Ron Paul…
IOWA GOV: Ron Paul has top Iowa operation… “Ron Paul has got probably the best organization and has a very loyal following. He’s got more yard signs and bumper stickers than anybody else”
LARGE RALLY PICS [1], [2]

APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD: Alabama faces labor shortage after kicking out immigrants, turns to prisons…

My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan (Family Guy writer)…

Feds falsely censor popular hip hop blog over a year, deny due process, hide details…

The US government has effectively admitted that it totally screwed up and falsely seized & censored a non-infringing domain of a popular blog, having falsely claimed that it was taking part in criminal copyright infringement. Then, after trying to hide behind a totally secretive court process with absolutely no due process whatsoever (in fact, not even serving papers on the lawyer for the site or providing timely notifications — or providing any documents at all), for over a year, the government has finally realized it couldn’t hide any more and has given up, and returned the domain name to its original owner. If you ever wanted to understand why ICE’s domain seizures violate the law — and why SOPA and PROTECT IP are almost certainly unconstitutional — look no further than what happened in this case.

dajaz1.com…
Re-known rap artists P Diddy, Will.i.am, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West come to defense of MegaUpload/file-sharing in collaborative effort (of note is MegaUpload’s DNS blacklisting circumvention efforts underway)…
UMG cockblocks non-infringing music video in potentially expensive screwup…

U.S. flies secret recon drone 140 miles into Iran, Iran decides to keep…
THANKS, OBAMA: Iranian military experts ‘well aware how precious’ drone is…
CYBER-BATTLE: Iran shuts down access to US virtual embassy…

Rick Perry unmercifully mocked after “Strong” commercial…
PERRY, TAKE TWO: Lofty rhetoric on values and faith at center of new ad campaign…
VALUE CHECK: “Why Rick Perry is going to hell…”

C|Net caught redhanded being douches, extra software installing douches…

Warren Redlich: If Ron Paul Wins Iowa…

One of Ron Paul’s longer term problems in this campaign is that his outlook tends to be gloomy. He frequently talks about how our country is bankrupt. While this is true, and it connects with what people are feeling now, what they really want is hope for the future.

Ron Paul can, and sometimes does, deliver this kind of optimistic view. When confronted on Meet the Press with the Keynesian attitude that cutting government spending damages the economy, Paul pointed out what happened at the end of World War II: “draconian cuts … stimulated the economy.”

COLD, STALE TEA: Only 27% of people who still call themselves “Tea Party” support Paul…
NPR: Ron Paul’s ‘Big Dog’ Ad One Of GOP Race’s Coolest Commercials…

TABLOID TEASE: Michelle Obama in sex scandal crosshairs?
ROMNEY ROLLOUT: Obama drops (golf) balls in “1,584 holes since 2009″…

Ron Paul rejects Donald Trump debate… “wildly inappropriate”
Paul/Trump debate hits the internet…

Cain campaign shot down in latest Iowa poll, 23% to 8% splat…
FLASHBACK: Consultants and fundraisers warn Cain would lose millions “if the issues persist”…
Na na na na, na na na na, hey-ey-ey…
Herman Cain forum administrator pledges support for Ron Paul…

BACK TO THE FUTURE: Putin power grab threatens to return Russia to 1980s paranoid totalitarian hell-hole… “hyper-nationalism that pits a proudly embattled Russia against a hostile, US-led, world conspiracy”
PORNOGRAPHERS AGAINST PUTIN: Russian online media comes of age… “Putin famously dismissed the Internet last year as ’50 percent pornography’”
Alliterative American assholes appropriate “PUTIN PORN”…
Shocking poll finds whopping 22% want to leave Russia…

Switzerland rebuffs entertainment lawyers’ lobbying efforts, formally keeps downloading legal…

Cleveland Browns star running back gives locker room interview covered in Ron Paul stickers and pins…

[Peyton] Hillis decided to comply with teammate Tony Pashos request (after persistent begging) that he advertise for Pashos’ favorite presidential candidate. Pashos has had bumper stickers for Paul, the candidate vying for the Republican nomination, taped to his locker all season.

OH, YOU: “You can’t see it, but there’s also Ron Paul keychain hooked around his junk.”
“Who do you support for president?” Pashos shouted. “Ron Paul,” Hillis said, simply. “He represents the constitution and what it needs to be.”
VIDEO…

VIDEO: “The Drug War is Awesome” (especially when it doesn’t apply to you)… [h/T Rob Morris]

Rick Perry tries goofy forgetful politician angle in new ad… “I’m Rick Perry and … what’s that line again?”

Beautiful time lapse flyover of earth from the orbiting space station…

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km.

More videos…

White supremacist David Duke arrested in Germany for being “undesirable foreigner”..