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All the Libertarian news you can use for the weekly of January 16th, 2009

I'm so tired of all the inauguration and Bush farewell speech coverage, so you'll just have to go elsewhere for that.

As war continues in Gaza, the Palestinian death toll is nearing 1000 people.

The UK continues its march towards Orwellian utopia, you can now be denied the ability to adopt if the agency deems you too fat. I wonder if you can be too fat to pay taxes as well? In other UK police-state news, The Home Office has adopted a new plan to allow Police the ability to hack into personal computers without a warrant.

A New York court has forced retailer Amazon.com to collect sales-tax even though they have no physical presence in the state. How did they manage that, you ask? They roped in Amazon affiliates based in New York. A dangerous trend that I'm sure we'll see more of.

If you're traveling to the US under the visa waiver program, you are now required to register online with the Department of Homeland Security. The new mandate covers 35 countries.

In an update to a story posted last week, the BART officer who gunned down 22-year old Oscar Grant has been arrested. Justice? More likely, there were simply too many videos of the crime for the department to ignore.

From the Kiss-Your-Rights-Goodbye Department, a chilling ruling by the Supreme Court. Prosecutors can now use illegal evidence against you. In this case, illegal police seizures.

Anarchoblogs is an Anarchist blog aggregator released this week by Charles Johnson.

That is it for this week, I'll leave you with the Adam Smith Institute's article on How to Promote the Free Market in 2009.