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Finland has become the first country in the world to declare that high speed internet access is a legal right. Finnish telecommunications companies will be required to provide the 5.2 million people of Finland with internet access at a speed of one megabit per second.

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Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine has said she will throw her support behind Sen. Max Baucus’ compromised health care reform bill. This bill fails way short of the goals set by the Obama administration during his campaign and has been blasted by Democrats and Republicans alike.

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The religious and political leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is visiting Washington, D.C. during the week. In a stunning and stupid move, President Obama has delayed his meeting with the historic leader of Tibet in order to kiss the ass of President Hu Jintao in November. What this is really saying is that he values the economic friendship of China more so than the people of Tibet who are suffering under the communist dictatorship.

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Texas is an odd state that is an assortment of anti-big government supporters, oil barons and law and order wielders. Remember, this is the state that warns all who can hear/read to not mess with it. Apparently, this applies to ten year old Texas residents as well. In continuing its long history of limited government and supporting individual’s rights Texas has issued a $260 ticket to a ten year old student for being disruptive in class. Yes, you are reading this correctly, a ten year old.

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In a recent poll of 1,000 adults conducted by Star Tribune only 30% of Minnesotans supported a White House run for Republican governor Tim Pawlenty. The question that garnered a whopping 30% of support was, “Would you like to see Tim Pawlenty run for president in 2012, or not?”

In response to that question, 30% of all respondents said “yes,” 55% said “no,” and 15% either didn’t have an opinion or refused to answer.

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Texas Rep. Ron Paul is known as being a staunch Republican-Libertarian hybrid that has incredible disdain towards the federal government. He has also produced a few sons, one of which has decided to run for the Senate in Kentucky.

Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist (eye doctor) and founder of Kentucky Taxpayers United, an anti-taxation organization. He has also spent considerable amounts of time crusading for his father, Ron, on his numerous Presidential campaigns.

Congressman Ron Paul had this to say regarding his sons campaign:

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Dutch Trading Company, Trafigura, has agreed to pay $46m to the 30,000 people who were harmed because of their illegal dumping of toxic waste in the African state of Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast).  This is to be in addition to the $198 million that was paid by Trafigura directly to the government of Cote d’Ivoire.

This case caught my attention for a few reasons. First off, anytime a multi-national corporation is accused of harming 30,000 people in Africa I think it is important to say something.

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A couple in Florida are going to be drinking more Coca-Cola now, because a dead animal turned up in one of their Diet Pepsi cans. The FDA says that the creature appears to be a toad, “the animal was lacking internal organs normally found in the abdominal and thoracic cavity.” The Pepsi bottling plant that this contaminated can came from was inspected and nothing peculiar was found.

Pepsi is denying that the toad could have ended up in their cans. The people who almost drank the dead toad have different feelings on the matter.

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