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|politics|

Kucinich Gets Hearing -- Just Don't Call It an Impeachment Hearing (blogs.wsj.com)

Why no impeachment? Because party leadership including Pelosi had been briefed by the Bush Administration on torture policies and could be held legally responsible? (messageboards.aol.com)

Bush’s “classified” torture programs, were vastly larger, and more well documented, than anyone had imagined. (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)

Know why the Bush administration said they weren't torturing people? Because newly released memos show they created their own definition of what torture was. No joke. (donklephant.com)

How Obama Became Acting President (nytimes.com)

America spends $217 million per hour, every day of every year, on health care, far more than the rest of the world. And we get less coverage and more bureaucracy. (theseminal.com)

Fox News Busted as a Propaganda Tool for the Bush Administration (webtvhub.com)

|environment|

Renewable energy was listed as an energy solution, and guess what? Americans chose it over drilling by an overwhelming 76 percent to 19 percent. (solveclimate.com)

Will clotheslines turn dryers into relics? -- "That simple change dropped our average monthly bill by more than $100." (chicagotribune.com)

Villagers in western India burned a Dow Chemical building site. Dow is synonymous with deaths of 3,800 people in the catastrophic industrial accident in Bhopal. It is still hated. (canada.com)

Life outside of civilization... (news.bbc.co.uk)

Over the next 20 years, the rapid adoption of LED lighting in the United States could reduce electricity demands by 62 percent and thus eliminate 258 million metric tons of carbon emissions (technologyreview.com)

|science|

How “The Big Lie” works. Opinions, rumors, and outright lies can easily be "misremembered" as truths, particularly when they are heard repeatedly, or leave a strong emotional imprint. (thunderbolts.info)

Cancer Killer Found In The Ocean -- Marine Biotechnologists Treat Cancer With Mud-loving Ocean Bacteria (sciencedaily.com)

The "dirty dozen" are 12 fruits and veggies that, even when washed, tend to maintain high levels of pesticide residue unless they're grown organically (huffingtonpost.com)

why doctors are prescribing drugs they know won’t work (telegraph.co.uk)

"We'e evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick" - Robert Sapolsky discusses physiological effects of stress (news-service.stanford.edu)

Read faster instantly. Seriously, you will be reading 300 words per minute instantly. (spreeder.com)

Next: a Medical Wikipedia (pcworld.com)

|economics|

How Wall Street Wrecked Your Retirement (alternet.org)

People's Republic of China - A "Balance of Financial Terror" Against the US (infowars.com)

How American's View Business (bp2.blogger.com)

We are at a critical moment in history. Never before has money been debased on such a grand scale. (kitco.com)

|fun/geek|

How often have you stopped to ask yourself questions like these? (deoxy.org)

Spam King Escapes Prison, Murders Family, Kills Self (gizmodo.com)

The 5 Creepiest Death Rituals From Around the World (cracked.com)

You Definitely Have Not Seen The Mercedes-Benz Buses (loqu.com)