Friday took Forever!

Hello, and thank god were at the weekends edge. Spring is breaking and I'm goin' outside!



40% Rise in Price of Food has lead to Protests in 34 Nations and 40 Nations Now Ban Certain Exports. The Global Food Crisis is Here. [worldnews] (iconflict.com)

Does THIS Explain the Rice Shortage? "The Chinese ... stopped exporting [rice to America] when the American dollar got too weak for them to make a profit." [worldnews] (wcbstv.com)

"Experts fear the cost of bread could soon follow the path of rice, the price of which has triggered riots in some countries and prompted countries to cut off exports." [business] (moneynews.com)

Imagine if the media were forced to drop its fascistic fetishes with flag pins and religions and instead ask John McCain if he would torture as president [politics] (opednews.com)

Jon Stewart on Hillary's Declining Respect for The Voters [politics] (youtube.com)

Flowers for Helen wiki (wordhop.com)

Iraqis Represent 17% to 21% of the World’s Refugees, and the People Responsible are Oblivious [worldnews] (chycho.com)

Bush admin needs to be reminded that Iraq is not a war -- it's a country. [politics] (alternet.org)

McCain has changed for the worse since 2000, because defending a lie leads to bigger lies. McCain, like Bush, is now resorting to fiction: We're in Iraq "to fight al Qaeda." [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

For countless Americans, this past winter brought with it something distressing - revelations that the American dream, neatly packaged and sold for decades, has become their worst possible nightmare. [politics] (populistamerica.com)

US wardrums: Iranians are killing Americans inside Iraq; acuses Syria of Nuclear Weapons; Iraq`s Mahdi may restart full-scale fight AND Petraeus promotion an ominous sign of possible war... [worldnews] (presstv.ir)

Understanding the Taliban [worldnews] (newstatesman.com)

We've declared that "the era of U.S.-funded major infrastructure projects is over," yet daily life in Iraq is worse than it was before the invasion. Did that era of major rebuilding ever start? [worldnews] (theseminal.com)

U.S. contracted ship fires toward Iranian boat [worldnews] (reuters.com)

30 electric cars companies ready to take over the road [technology] (venturebeat.com)

Good-Bye, Cheap Oil. So Long, Suburbia? [business] (businessweek.com)

The Act to Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults (washingtonwatch.com)

India rejects US advice on Iran [worldnews] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Exotic Quantum State Of Matter Discovered [science] (sciencedaily.com)

My Parents Managed to Raise Two Kids on One Salary. That's Impossible Today -- What Happened? (alternet.org)

Ontario gets 407 Megawatts of solar power contracts, originally expected 88 Megawatts [environment] (treehugger.com)

The Return of MKULTRA? Evidence Mounts that Drugs Were Used on CIA “Ghost Detainees” During Coercive Interrogations [worldnews] (infowars.com)

The Making of 5 Modern Marvels of Engineering: Construction Truths Behind Contemporary Wonders [offbeat] (weburbanist.com)

Stronger Than Steel: Bamboo may be the world's greenest raw material. Architects and bicycle designers are catching on [environment] (newsweek.com)

Facebook - "It came from the CIA" [worldnews] (nzherald.co.nz)

Scientists use T-Rex protien from fossilized T-Rex bone to prove link to birds [science] (eurekalert.org)

Human line 'nearly split in two' -- Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study suggests. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

Money, sooner: Tax rebates are being sent out early [happy] (blogs.moneycentral.msn.com)

The Earth Clock - its really scary - but totally fascinating [environment] (celsias.com)

Water Footprints Calculator . How much water went into producing that product.? Far, far more than you'd think [environment] (celsias.com)

7 Common Foods That Can Actually Get You High [offbeat] (cracked.com)