Thursday, February 14, 2008

Thursday is a Telecom featured, Waterboarding event!

Waterboarding has been banned, and Telecom Immunity has been rejected. Two steps in the right direction..................................................although Bush will veto both of them :(

On a simpler note~ Here are 3 youtube videos that have been created by the candidates, the original from Obama, 'Yes We Can', the parody of Mccain, and then Hillary's attempt.



Senate Passes Ban On Waterboarding, Other Techniques. On Collision Course with Whitehouse [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

House Rejects Telecom Immunity as FISA Clock Ticks Down [politics] (ecommercetimes.com)

Bush says US will waterboard whether legal or not [politics] (news.yahoo.com)

John McCain, who was tortured back in 'Nam, just voted NO on banning waterboarding and torture. (nytimes.com)

Bush admits to violating the 4th Amendment of the Constitution, that he swore to defend. [politics] (cbsnews.com)

President Bush pressured the House on Wednesday, saying "terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison." [politics] (foxnews.com)

Great idea - Obama's energy plan to invest $150 billion over 10 years to establish a “green energy sector” to add up to 5 million jobs in the next two decades [politics] (nytimes.com)

Obama launches economic manifesto - to include a "Credit Card Bill of Rights" [politics] (telegraph.co.uk)

I hope you haven't given $$ to Hillary, because if you have, she's sold your info to a direct-mail spammer. [politics] (npr.org)

Maybe We Should Start Tracking Each FBI Agent By Satellite 24 Hours A Day Since They Have Routinely Proven To Be Criminals Who Can't Be Trusted [politics] (9-11themotherofallblackoperations.blogspot.com)

Department of Homeland Security to use spy satellites to monitor the country [politics] (ap.google.com)

U.S. may shoot down errant spy satellite -- In reality, of course, U.S. just wants to show Russia and China it can shoot down a satellite [science] (cnn.com)

America's Creeping Fascism [politics] (thegoodargument.com)

Sissy Nation: We've become a herd of Holsteins. Soft, lazy, stupid, knee-jerk, head-bobbing, fundamentalist, high-brained, less-than-human humans now. [politics] (salon.com)

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (nicholasgcarr.com)

While bloggers and print journalists lock horns over media hierarchies and journalistic standards, Web 2.0 is making Google a noiseless fortune (signandsight.com)

Nine Secrets Health Insurers Don’t Want You to Know (health.com)

Why YOU should want to legalize marijuana (classicilliterature.blogspot.com)

World Bank prohibits Mali from subsidizing its farmers, so that heavily subsidized Amercian farmers can wipe them out. (theglobeandmail.com)

Material selectively swallows CO2 [science] (scienceblog.com)

Neuroscientists are probing why some married couples can maintain the spark for years. [science] (online.wsj.com)

Teleportation and Wormholes: The Science of 'Jumper' [science] (livescience.com)

Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth [science] (esa.int)

The Physics of Gridlock [science] (theatlantic.com)

Map of Humanity [Image] (joeydevilla.com)

Caffeine: A User's Guide to Getting Optimally Wired [cogsci] (scienceblogs.com)

New Solar Collector So Efficient It Works At Night (groovygreen.com)

COLOUR MUSIC IN THE NEW AGE: De-mystifying De Clario (home.vicnet.net.au)

Jaanix (jaanix.com)

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