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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)
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Wednesday is full of links
These have been sitting around for awhile. Please take a moment to indulge.
The new invasion of Iraq - Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region [politics] (independent.co.uk)
The CIA's stats on each country's account balance. See America? No no, scroll down more... [politics] (cia.gov)
In 2 years as a Senator Obama authored 152 bills - Hillary: 20 in 6 years [politics] (you.presscue.com)
The truth is that Senator Clinton supported NAFTA before she ran for president. That is indisupatable. She called it 'a victory' in her book. She told people it has proved its worth. Those are facts. [politics] (dailykos.com)
Hillary"s Connection to Monsanto's Aspartame--An Eye Opening Must Read! [politics] (dailykos.com)
Latest Polls: Obama Up 57-43% In Texas, 54-46% in Ohio [politics] (usaelectionpolls.com)
Red States Turning Blue Thanks To Bush: In Virginia, Democratic Senate Candidates Leads by 20%, With 34% of Support Coming from Conservatives [politics] (prosebeforehos.com)
"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people." -Henry Kissinger [politics] (populistamerica.com)
Former Congressman Warns Of Martial Law Camps In America [politics] (infowars.net)
Inside the world of war profiteers - From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S. [politics] (chicagotribune.com)
How come the deep-pocketed Google can still manage to come off as a good guy? I think it's because we can barely tell that Google is the world's fastest-growing advertising company. (slate.com)
Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists [science] (guardian.co.uk)
Male Enhancement (Enzyte) Maker Found Guilty of Fraud (news.yahoo.com)
Why the Arabs were defeated by Israel in 1948. [politics] (english.aljazeera.net)
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis (wikileaks.be)
860,000 people are now on the US "Terror Watch List" , and the bulk of them are US citizens. [politics] (blog.wired.com)
In Sweden all government mail - including local government email - is public domain by rule of law (findarticles.com)
Pay Monsanto, or Starve - Prepare to be Infuriated... (celsias.com)
Thanks to Bush's new cuts on public funding for land-grant schools, agribusiness (Monsanto) is gaining a huge foothold in the future of our food. [politics] (alternet.org)
Coburn and Obama Announce Launch of Website to Track Federal Spending [politics] (obama.senate.gov)
Time to Dump the Federal Reserve [politics] (lewrockwell.com)
50 years ago, conservatives worried that the presidency was evolving toward virtual dictatorship. Today’s conservatives would agree, but wish it would evolve faster. [politics] (reason.com)
One of the secret weapons of World War II first came to light after two men stumbled across a strange object in the woods of western Montana [science] (missoulian.com)
History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks are an Inside Job [politics] (youtube.com)
"There is no reason that Arizona should not be the Persian Gulf of solar energy" (cnn.com)
Potential Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods [science] (inteldaily.com)
First sight 3,500 metres below the Antarctic waters? Life [science] (environment.newscientist.com)
After a long wait, the Encyclopedia of Life, the massively comprehensive and collaborative effort to catalogue all key information about all life on Earth, has gone live! [science] (eol.org)
Everthing Science Believes About Autism is Probably Wrong [science] (wired.com)
Electron Caught On Film For The First Time [science] (scientificblogging.com)
Gatorade erodes teeth faster than Coke, a new study shows. (medicinenet.com)
100+ MPG, Runs On Compressed Air, 6 Passengers, No Emissions - $17,800 - Coming 2009 To USA (zeropollutionmotors.us)
Venus Revealed: Probe Discovers Extraordinary Weather System of the Morning Star [science] (dailygalaxy.com)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. [science] (physorg.com)
Fishing nets drive evolution of small fish [science] (sciam.com)
Flint and Steel: What Causes the Sparks? The answer will surprise you! [science] (survivaltopics.com)
Friendly bacteria, superfoods, cholesterol busting spreads, 99% germ free, whiter than white [science] (bbc.co.uk)
Plastic (Not) Fantastic: Food Containers Leach a Potentially Harmful Chemical [science] (sciam.com)
Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search? (heymann.stanford.edu)
Diet Overkill: 25 Of the Most Ridiculous (and Ineffective) Popular Diets [science] (rncentral.com)
The God Particle [science] (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
Store Your Electricity for When the Sun "Don't Shine" - Sharp Developing Better Batteries for Solar Power [science] (thedailygreen.com)
The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch.. is a 61 year old freaktrain (salon.com)
To Be (1990) (youtube.com)
Big list of things that offend Muslims (amboytimes.typepad.com)
What did the lunar eclipse look like from the moon? [pic] (apod.nasa.gov)
Fashion of African Tribes (Pics) (dailymail.co.uk)
The new invasion of Iraq - Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region [politics] (independent.co.uk)
The CIA's stats on each country's account balance. See America? No no, scroll down more... [politics] (cia.gov)
In 2 years as a Senator Obama authored 152 bills - Hillary: 20 in 6 years [politics] (you.presscue.com)
The truth is that Senator Clinton supported NAFTA before she ran for president. That is indisupatable. She called it 'a victory' in her book. She told people it has proved its worth. Those are facts. [politics] (dailykos.com)
Hillary"s Connection to Monsanto's Aspartame--An Eye Opening Must Read! [politics] (dailykos.com)
Latest Polls: Obama Up 57-43% In Texas, 54-46% in Ohio [politics] (usaelectionpolls.com)
Red States Turning Blue Thanks To Bush: In Virginia, Democratic Senate Candidates Leads by 20%, With 34% of Support Coming from Conservatives [politics] (prosebeforehos.com)
"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people." -Henry Kissinger [politics] (populistamerica.com)
Former Congressman Warns Of Martial Law Camps In America [politics] (infowars.net)
Inside the world of war profiteers - From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S. [politics] (chicagotribune.com)
How come the deep-pocketed Google can still manage to come off as a good guy? I think it's because we can barely tell that Google is the world's fastest-growing advertising company. (slate.com)
Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists [science] (guardian.co.uk)
Male Enhancement (Enzyte) Maker Found Guilty of Fraud (news.yahoo.com)
Why the Arabs were defeated by Israel in 1948. [politics] (english.aljazeera.net)
Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis (wikileaks.be)
860,000 people are now on the US "Terror Watch List" , and the bulk of them are US citizens. [politics] (blog.wired.com)
In Sweden all government mail - including local government email - is public domain by rule of law (findarticles.com)
Pay Monsanto, or Starve - Prepare to be Infuriated... (celsias.com)
Thanks to Bush's new cuts on public funding for land-grant schools, agribusiness (Monsanto) is gaining a huge foothold in the future of our food. [politics] (alternet.org)
Coburn and Obama Announce Launch of Website to Track Federal Spending [politics] (obama.senate.gov)
Time to Dump the Federal Reserve [politics] (lewrockwell.com)
50 years ago, conservatives worried that the presidency was evolving toward virtual dictatorship. Today’s conservatives would agree, but wish it would evolve faster. [politics] (reason.com)
One of the secret weapons of World War II first came to light after two men stumbled across a strange object in the woods of western Montana [science] (missoulian.com)
History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks are an Inside Job [politics] (youtube.com)
"There is no reason that Arizona should not be the Persian Gulf of solar energy" (cnn.com)
Potential Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods [science] (inteldaily.com)
First sight 3,500 metres below the Antarctic waters? Life [science] (environment.newscientist.com)
After a long wait, the Encyclopedia of Life, the massively comprehensive and collaborative effort to catalogue all key information about all life on Earth, has gone live! [science] (eol.org)
Everthing Science Believes About Autism is Probably Wrong [science] (wired.com)
Electron Caught On Film For The First Time [science] (scientificblogging.com)
Gatorade erodes teeth faster than Coke, a new study shows. (medicinenet.com)
100+ MPG, Runs On Compressed Air, 6 Passengers, No Emissions - $17,800 - Coming 2009 To USA (zeropollutionmotors.us)
Venus Revealed: Probe Discovers Extraordinary Weather System of the Morning Star [science] (dailygalaxy.com)
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. [science] (physorg.com)
Fishing nets drive evolution of small fish [science] (sciam.com)
Flint and Steel: What Causes the Sparks? The answer will surprise you! [science] (survivaltopics.com)
Friendly bacteria, superfoods, cholesterol busting spreads, 99% germ free, whiter than white [science] (bbc.co.uk)
Plastic (Not) Fantastic: Food Containers Leach a Potentially Harmful Chemical [science] (sciam.com)
Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search? (heymann.stanford.edu)
Diet Overkill: 25 Of the Most Ridiculous (and Ineffective) Popular Diets [science] (rncentral.com)
The God Particle [science] (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
Store Your Electricity for When the Sun "Don't Shine" - Sharp Developing Better Batteries for Solar Power [science] (thedailygreen.com)
The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch.. is a 61 year old freaktrain (salon.com)
To Be (1990) (youtube.com)
Big list of things that offend Muslims (amboytimes.typepad.com)
What did the lunar eclipse look like from the moon? [pic] (apod.nasa.gov)
Fashion of African Tribes (Pics) (dailymail.co.uk)
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