Monday is Prolonged

Hello. This week is one of the longest ever. Possibly because I'm leaving for London on Thursday. Enjoy the day's headlines!



It took me a long time to realize it, but the end result of the tragically weak dollar will be this: American hard assets will be for sale to foreign investors for dirt cheap. [business] (self.business)

China declares "people's war" to control Tibet (reuters.com)

It's happening: Republicans voting for Hillary Clinton to prolong conflict with Barack Obama, and Hillary's an easier target for McCain [politics] (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)

Top 10 Iraq War Profiteers. [politics] (cerebralblackhole.com)

Wonder what's the reason behind Cheney's visit to Iraq? Read the first four lines. [politics] (nytimes.com)

Time Magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses - Glenn Greenwald [politics] (salon.com)

What's the difference between "managing" sewage and recycling it? Turns out, clean water. [environment] (cleantechnica.com)

Former Bear Stearns CEO walked away with $232 million. It's obscene that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to richest people, when average workers can't afford health care for their kids. [politics] (tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)

Happy birthday, Department of Homeland Security, you useless, expensive, corrupt, and bureaucratically hamstrung failure of a make-work pork-barrel project. [politics] (theseminal.com)

Tomorrow marks the 40th Anniversary of My Lai Massacre: more than 500 villagers were raped, tortured, and slaughtered by American soldiers in a hamlet nicknamed Pinkville. (ap.google.com)

kissing ass: U.S. drops China from list of 10 worst rights violators [politics] (iht.com)

Clean Energy: It's Getting Affordable The argument that we can't afford renewable sources of energy falls flat when considering the growth in solar, wind, biofuels, and fuel cells [business] (businessweek.com)

"The problem is that unless the major financial (companies) are kept solvent, the economy will suffer (so much) that everybody's livelihood will be affected" [business] (forbes.com)

Ocean Power: Europe's Next Green Thing [science] (spiegel.de)

BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky [science] (gizmodo.com)

Whistleblower exposes insider trading program at JP Morgan [business] (wikileaks.org)

Europe ain't that big (goeurope.about.com)

The Conflicted Consumer: Scientists Find that Low Self-Esteem & Materialism Goes Hand in Hand [cogsci] (dailygalaxy.com)

New Artificial Organism with Advanced Group Intelligence: A Swarm of 10,000 Miniature Robots [science] (dailygalaxy.com)

Prostitution is not only the oldest profession; it predates man. [science] (blogs.psychologytoday.com)

Bottled Water and Poisonous Plastic [science] (politicalaffairs.net)

The thing that shocks me is that the liberal blogosphere has been deadly silent about the massive bailout of bankers that is taking place with taxpayer money, and fueling the collapse of the dollar. [politics] (washingtonmonthly.com)

Euro to USD went up $0.10 in less then a month! (finance.yahoo.com)

Chinese repression of Tibet is growing: Spread the word against the injustice [geek] (news.bbc.co.uk)

The Intelligence Cover-Up: House FISA bill would expose the "breathtaking extent of [Bush's] lawless behavior" [politics] (nytimes.com)

The real problem in the US is not the fact that Cheney/Bush are running a fascist takeover of the government. The real problem is that Congress is letting them do it over the protests of We the People [politics] (populistamerica.com)

Uncovered: What Causes Traffic [short video] (youtube.com)

Specialization Is For Insects (was: re: Jack of all, master of none) [programming] (c2.com)

Artificial Intelligence ? You're soaking in it. (nextbigfuture.com)

Man had $12,000 in debts, repaid $15,000 over 8 yrs, still owes $12,200. Credit card industry stopped him from testifying to congressional panel [business] (motherjones.com)

U.S. Presidents used warrantless wiretaps to spy on, blackmail, and destroy the careers of political opponents, from the 1920s through watergate [politics] (latimes.com)

Americans used to be the world's most skillful entrepreneurs and managers. Now we're laughingstocks. What happened? (slate.com)

We Are All Larry David (newyorker.com)

The man who unboiled an egg (observer.guardian.co.uk)