Monday the cinco de mayo

Happy day.

Pay Attention, This is How They'll Sell War With Iran [politics] (dmiessler.com)

Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship, hijacking planes and killing innocent people as a false pretext for war. [worldnews] (wanttoknow.info)

Very Interesting: Interactive Graph of American Spending [business] (nytimes.com)

Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal? [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Warren Buffett says worst of the credit crunch has passed for Wall Street and the Federal Reserve averted chaos by rescuing Bear Stearns [business] (bloomberg.com)

"There was a time when journalists would expose the sheer incompetence or evil of the Government, now instead they condemn comedians as irresponsible for doing just that" [worldnews] (botlbrush.com)

Would Americans be pissed off enough to do something about Iraq if they knew the invasion was intended to *raise* oil prices, not lower them? [politics] (alternet.org)

Was Hillary Clinton Wrong on the 2 Big National Security Issues of Our Time? [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Fox News Sunday - Howard Dean explains bluntly why Democrats have been avoiding Fox News [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Hillary Clinton has a Shell Oil lobbyist speaking on behalf of her gas tax plan [politics] (blogs.abcnews.com)

Investigation uncovered cases in which US soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits by the Army [worldnews] (thenation.com)

Obama proposes windfall profits tax that could cost Big Oil $15 billion a year [business] (bloomberg.com)

Shell Pulls Out of Big Wind Farm Project [business] (businessweek.com)

Biggest Worry of 2008: The Bush Administration Refuses to Turn Over Power [politics] (tencartrain.com)

McCain calls for 700+ new nuclear plants (and 7 Yucca mountains) costing $4 trillion [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

The All-White Elephant in the Room [politics] (nytimes.com)

They're Global Citizens. They're Hugely Rich. And They Pull the Strings. And They Have Little in Common with You. [politics] (washingtonpost.com)

CBS/NY Times: Voters Approve of Obama's handling of Wright, Now Leads McCain by 11 [politics] (dailykos.com)

U.S. Beats War Drum as Iran Dumps the Dollar [worldnews] (politicallore.com)

Under the Bush Administration's watch, according to French intelligence, Bin Laden was treated in an American hospital in Dubai for 10 days in July 2001, where he was visited by a CIA agent. (media.www.ntdaily.com)

Hitler Youth or Homeland Security High: Delaware gets first Dept. of Homeland Security charter school (ledgerdelaware.com)

FAIL (Conflict of Interest) FDA approved bisphenol A (BPA) based on research provided by the American Plastics Council [business] (scienceprogress.org)

People no longer die of tasings, instead die of "excited delirium" [politics] (azcentral.com)

Investigation uncovered cases in which US soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits by the Army [worldnews] (thenation.com)

Who Will Tell the People? - New York Times (nytimes.com)

Sustainable BioFuels - An Oxymoron? [technology] (triplepundit.com)

The oh-so innocent sounding Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 establishes a national database of newborn DNA (capitolhillblue.com)

When countries around the world subsidize oil, everyone loses. [business] (newsweek.washingtonpost.com)

Underwater "deserts" are emerging in tropical oceans as the oxygen vanishes from seawater [environment] (telegraph.co.uk)

Solving Our Water Problems - Desalination Using Solar Thermal Power [environment] (theoildrum.com)

Just imagine how accommodating our government would be if they thought that the general population were just as dangerous, when provoked, as the very people they are telling us to be terrified of? [politics] (populistamerica.com)

Study shows no link between heavy use of marijuana and lung cancer -- can we stop wasting billions of tax dollars on possession arrests? [politics] (theseminal.com)

"Chevolution": How Che's Face Wound Up On All That Stuff... [worldnews] (salon.com)

Palm Oil and its horribly destructive impact . What do we do if we don't want to keep supporting the companies that keep doing this ? [environment] (celsias.com)

Air pollution c*ckblocks bees. [offbeat] (washingtonpost.com)

What We Know (and Hate) About Consciousness [science] (livescience.com)

Probably the most intelligent website on the internet [science] (askphilosophers.org)

New Ocean Current Discovered [science] (sciencedaily.com)

Alcohol & Tobacco worse than Marijuana and Ecstacy (lolegag.com)

10 Things Your Airline Won't Tell You [business] (finance.yahoo.com)

Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art (discovermagazine.com)

Thankful for her doggedness, the ever righteous users of the web aggregator site Reddit decided to send her over $3,000 worth of flowers [politics] (blogs.independent.co.uk)