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New York Times: Iranians working for the C.I.A. in the 1950's posed as Communists and staged bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected president [politics] (nytimes.com)

The Hillary Clinton Myth Unravels At Last [politics] (northstarwriters.com)

Reasons to impeach a president: unconstitutional surveillance, defying subpoenas, misleading the public, misusing federal agencies, failure to execute the law [politics] (watergate.info)

Recently the Canadians passed $1 USD. The Australians are set to pass, and even the Yen is approaching 1c. Bush today: "We believe in a strong dollar policy." Could've fooled us. [business] (blogs.wsj.com)

Americans "living like broke college students": Credit Card Debt Hits Record $943.5 Billion (usatoday.com)

Nanotechnology and the fight against cancer. A progress report [technology] (forbes.com)

1,301 Florescent Bulbs Lit Solely by Magnetic Fields [science] (gizmodo.com)

String theory: From Newton to Einstein and beyond [science] (plus.maths.org)

Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope is Amazing [science] (geeksaresexy.net)

We've all heard of déjà vu, but what about these other 9 similar phenomena? [science] (listverse.com)

1 in every 99.1 adults in America is behind bars - the highest US incarceration rate in history (nytimes.com)

Halliburton/ State Dept. Rape Stories Get Worse and Worse [politics] (opednews.com)

The Cost of War. "You lose your helmet, you have to pay. If you get blown up and you lose your helmet, they still bill you." (guardian.co.uk)

His IQ may have approached 300. He was the youngest professor in history, and discovered black holes. Then he threw it all away. Why? And why are there so many like him? (cpsimoes.net)

U.S. General Taguba: Military has Video of an American soldier in uniform Sodomizing a Female Detainee, and Information of the Sexual Humiliation of a Father and His Son [politics] (democracynow.org)

Man runs into a college classroom and threatens to kill students - but it's a cop holding a dummy gun and the students weren't told. If I had been in that classroom, I would have shot that cop dead. (newsobserver.com)

"Marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." William F. Buckley, Jr. (Nov 24, 1925 - Feb 27, 2008) (nytimes.com)

Video: Garbage can be turned into oil through a green method. We dispose of enough garbage per year to create a years worth of usable oil! Why aren't we funding these guys millions! UP VOTE THIS!! (libertyfromoil.com)

The Tennessee GOP is Smearing Obama as Anti-Semitic. Care to tie up their phone lines with some public outcry? (615) 269-4260 [politics] (tngop.org)

San Jose Police To Use Crowd Control Sound Wave Weapons! [politics] (infowars.net)

For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn how to cultivate and cook with cannabis, study which strains of pot are best, and more. [worldnews] (kansascity.com)

Bosnian Serbs Try to Attack U.S. Consulate - The Serbs fought against the German Nazis, too! [worldnews] (infowars.com)

Magnitude 4.7 quake in northern England [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Dark Secrets from Inside Putin's Russia [worldnews] (pbs.org)

Cooling Trend Puts Global Warming Theory in Doubt - It's STILL the Sun (NOT Bovine Flatulence) causing it! [worldnews] (infowars.com)

Teenagers Live In “stunning ignorance” Of History And Literature [worldnews] (nytimes.com)

Cameras with built-in geotagging on horizon [technology] (news.com)

Google Buys Into Undersea Cable [technology] (informationweek.com)

24 Hours Inside Your Body (nytimes.com)

He started by noting that defining life is as much of a philosophical question as a biological one... a self replicating system capable of Darwinian evolution." [science] (arstechnica.com)

Study: Prefrontal Cortex In Jazz Musicians Winds Down When Improvising [science] (scientificblogging.com)

Courts declare that merely making a copyrighted file available on a shared drive is not grounds for infringement. (p2pnet.net)