Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat in the French presidential election makes him the ninth European leader to be booted out since the region’s debt crisis began.

Sanctioned for his flamboyant personal style and slowing economic growth, Sarkozy lost to Socialist Francois Hollande, who got 52 percent of the vote against 48 percent, five polling estimates showed. Sarkozy becomes the second French president to lose a re-election bid since World War II after former President Valery Giscard d’Estaing was vanquished in 1981.

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Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been forced to take a 36% pay cut. However, at $1.7 million a year, he's still one of best paid leaders in world.

Mr. Loong earns four times the salary of Obama and eight times the wage of Cameron. He will be taking a pay cut following public anger over income inequality.

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In case you were wondering, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of "Fooled By Randomness" and "The Black Swan" (not the Aronofsky movie) is endorsing presidential candidate Ron Paul.

This is according to Taleb's Facebook page.

Amen, brother Taleb!

Here is a list of Congressional politicians in favor of the bills known as SOPA and PIPA . This list also contains the amounts of money these politicians received from the SOPA and PIPA backers who bought their favor in voting yes for both bills.

Who sold themselves out, and who sold the justice system down the river for money. These are the politicians who took money, to support the most damaging bills that would put control of the global internet into the hands of the Hollywood directors.

Get the money out of politics. Voting out these people is the one way to clean house and clean out the corruption in the U.S. government.

This just in from a friend of mine at the Gates Foundation.

It'll make you want to throw all the bums in Congress out! ASAP!

Don't you just hate it when you return from vacation and after a few days you feel like you need another one?

Well, I am beginning to feel that way already with all the news about NDAA indefinite detention, SOPA internet censorship, protests, unemployment, wars, etc.....

Leave it up to Americans - with the help of our politicians in Washington, D. C. - to start the New Year off with a bang!

Wow!

The Minister of Truth should be featured in some Ron Paul commercials. LOL!

Well, wonders never cease to amaze me!

The United Nations is stepping up to the plate to do the job we pay our elected public servants in Washington, D.C. to do - protect our constitutional rights!