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Tuesday is just another day in georgia

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|politics|

He Will Say Anything to Get Elected: The 72 Pandering Policy Reversals of John McCain (thecarpetbaggerreport.com)

Georgia, Israel, the CIA, the US and Russia. It’s all about the oil. (tbrnews.org)

The US is not a superpower. It is a bankrupt farce run by imbeciles who were installed by stolen elections arranged by Karl Rove and Diebold (populistamerica.com)

At JFK Airport, Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office (alternet.org)

Well, there's an incredible operation going on in China to use the latest, what's now called homeland security technology -- networked surveillance (alternet.org)

Massachusetts citizens almost certain to decriminalize marijuana - 72% in favor of decriminalizing marijuana (media-newswire.com)

India - Getting Away With Murder: 50 Years of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (hrw.org)

It takes one to know one -- Bush To Putin: "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century" Yeah, right, Except when directed at Iran? (huffingtonpost.com)

How did the BBC lose a million US readers? « Reportr.net (reportr.net)

China's Gold Medals Found to Have High Lead Content (huffingtonpost.com)

Take Care, Chinese Gymnastic Girls! (en.epochtimes.com)

|environment|

Environmentalism is the most politically diverse movement in history. Monbiot replies to the "hypocrites" accusation (celsias.com)

Millionaires are purchasing entire ecosystems around the world and turning them into conservation areas. Their goal? To stop environmental catastrophe (telegraph.co.uk)

Ocean "Dead Zones" Become Worldwide Problem (huffingtonpost.com)

80% Efficient Solar Panel?! Works at Night?! (ecogeek.org)

2 Large Solar Plants Planned in California, Will Each Be 10 Times Bigger Than Largest Now in Service (cleantechnica.com)

|science|

Scientists inject artificially created human stem cells under the skin of mice, "tumors" emerged after 9 weeks containing human brain tissue, cartilage tissue and muscle tissue... (sciencedaily.com)

Scientists Produce Hydrogen Using Process Found in Plants (bloomberg.com)

Two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest amount of free will, then atoms themselves must also behave unpredictably (sciencenews.org)

Scientists say we can see sound (livescience.com)

How to Become a Late Riser: 5 Reasons Why Sleeping In Every Day Will Boost your Productivity (lifeevolver.com)

The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids (livescience.com)

|economics|

How China has changed the world (smh.com.au)

What They Teach you at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism by Philip Delves Broughton (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk)

How to Conceal Massive Economic Collapse (globalresearch.ca)

Dollar intervention: Facts versus ideology (itulip.com)

Steve Saville On The US Dollar And Gold (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)

|fun/geek|

The World of Web Trolling (nytimes.com)

Timeline: the chronology of cannabis (cannabis.net)

5 things we learned about Michael Phelps (nbcolympics.com)

Olympic FAIL compilation (uk.youtube.com)

Think Photosynth was impressive? Have a look at the latest photo viewing creation by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research (istartedsomething.com)

The Web Entrepreneur's Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources (insidecrm.com)

Cats on the Blink (amos.indiana.edu)

Amazing High Speed Captures of the Kayes Effect (c00lstuff.com)

War in South Osetia - 89 pictures made by a Russian soldier. (navoine.ru)

Wednesday is off the table

. . . .Because It Might Force Her To Admit Congress’ Complicity In Allowing The Torture Techniques Used On Prisoners In Guantanamo Bay . . . .


|politics|


Rep. Dennis Kucinich calls for 1,000,000 signatures by September 10, 2008 to increase the pressure to impeach President Bush (impeachment.kucinich.us)

The Enabling Act of 1933 (Nazi Germany) compared to The Patriot Act of 2001 (United States) (vote-ron-paul-in-2008.blogspot.com)

Pelosi Took Impeachment Off The Table Because It Might Force Her To Admit Congress’ Complicity In Allowing The Torture Techniques Used On Prisoners In Guantanamo Bay (jackandjillpolitics.com)

Speaker Pelosi admits SHE HASN'T EVEN READ IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES (impeachforpeace.org)

Keith Olbermann and guest tear apart the Bush DoJ's claim that the anthrax mailings were the work of one "mad scientist" acting alone (belowgroundsurface.org)

Yes, She Can: Hillary Clinton feels no guilt about encouraging her supporters to mess up Barack Obama’s big moment, thus undermining his odds of beating John McCain. (nytimes.com)

As John McCain runs an increasingly negative, sarcastic campaign, some prominent Republicans are deciding that it would be better for the country if Barack Obama were the next President. (theseminal.com)

Cindy Sheehan Makes It On Ballot To Oppose Nancy Pelosi (afterdowningstreet.org)

Does anyone find it ironic that Pakistan can get it together to hold their corrupt President, who fires top judicial officials for personal & partisan gain, accountable with impeachment, but we can't? (theseminal.com)

Ignoring forged war documents is a dangerous precedent (dailykos.com)

How Is John McCain's Affair Different from John Edwards'? (alternet.org)

KBR/Haliburton worker raped, locked in shipping container for days to prevent her from reporting the attack (alternet.org)

|environment|

Temperatures Hit 80 Degrees in the Arctic: 2008 May See a Record Sea-Ice Melt After All (dailykos.com)

The Alarm is going off real loud on Climate Change - Is Anyone Listening? (celsias.com)

Bush Changes Rules: Political Appointees, Not Scientists, Now Decide Species Protection Status (msnbc.msn.com)

U.S. Takes the Lead in Wind Energy Generation [environment] (celsias.com)

A 3000-year-old Practice May Revolutionize the Future of Farming (planetsave.com)

IKEA to Invest $77 Million in Clean Tech, Could Result in Solar Sales in Stores (greenbiz.com)

Devastating declines of amphibian species around the world mean that we're in a "mass extinction spasm" (nbc11.com)

The Environmental & Health Benefits of Hemp (naturalnews.com)

Solar Antennas Could Eventually Replace Solar Panels (thoughtsonglobalwarming.blogspot.com)

|science|

5 Scientific Theories That Will Make Your Head Explode (cracked.com)

Surpassing Nature, Scientists Bend Light Backward (nytimes.com)

The Pill may put you off smell of your man and ruin your relationship (timesonline.co.uk)

What is energy and how it works (bizaims.com)

Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions (nytimes.com)

Nikola Tesla: The Genius Who Lit the World (video.google.com)

Why real and imagined disgust have the same effect (newscientist.com)

Learning how to cook food stimulated a big leap in human cognition some 150,000 years ago (livescience.com)

Optimism in Evolution (nytimes.com)

Startup Has E. Coli Pooping Black Gold...Fossil Fuel From Bacteria. (dailytech.com)

|economics|

Productivity increases since the 1970s indicate that average U.S. wages should be around $58,000/year. They are $36,000/year currently, with corporations pocketing the difference. (bobgiloth.com)

What Recent Market Movements Teach Us About Financial Markets (stefanmikarlsson.blogspot.com)

Guess Who's Buying The US Dollar (fnarena.com)

Women, Repeat This: Don’t Ask, Don’t Get (nytimes.com)

The Great Gold Robbery of 1933 (mises.org)

Our Economic Past - Construction Boom and Bust Between the World Wars (fee.org)

|fun/geek|

A good view on what makes Phelps so special (bbc.co.uk)

Visualisation of traffic driven by various social news sites (xach.com)

The Robot's Rebellion (overcomingbias.com)

Wikipedia List of cognitive biases (en.wikipedia.org)

This is insane (chilloutzone.de)

Bush looking very enthusiastic at the Parade of Nations (youtube.com)

George W. Bush at Olympics (loqu.com)

2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony (nbcolympics.com)