Nigel Farage bundled into police van after being barricaded inside pub where he was going to promote Scottish by-election candidate.

Not everybody seems happy with Nigel.
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Obama housing nominee: Most white people won’t vote for black candidate, should be excluded from ‘democratic process’

The White House announced Wednesday that Obama will nominate Democratic North Carolina Congressman Mel Watt to take over the FHFA, which regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country’s government sponsored mortgage companies.
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Dem Rep: 2016 Pres Candidate Will Have ‘Powerful’ Database That Has ‘Everything On Everyone’. (video)

“The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” Representative Maxine Waters told Roland Martin on Monday. “That’s going to be very, very powerful,” Waters said. “That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that.
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Secretary of State Candidate Has a Major Financial Stake in Canadian Tar Sands.

Susan Rice, the candidate believed to be favored by President Obama to become the next Secretary of State, holds significant investments in more than a dozen Canadian oil companies and banks that would stand to benefit from expansion of the North American tar sands industry and construction of the proposed billion Keystone XL pipeline.
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Internet Explorer becomes Korean election issue: Presidential candidate promises to kill crypto standard locking nation into IE

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer market share may soon take a tumble in South Korea if presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo wins looming elections. The hot seat hopeful plans to abolish an anachronistic government crypto standard which has effectively locked users into Internet Explorer for over a decade.
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Gary Johnson: ‘Politics be damned,’ running to win as third-party candidate (video)

Comedy Central host Jon Stewart described being a libertarian as two halves of a friendship necklace — half Republican, half Democrat, according to the policies that traditionally appeal to each part — coming together to make a whole heart. Johnson agreed.
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