Monday is for(giving)

Hello, and welcome to the week; Blog style.




|politics|

Bush Cronies, Neocons, Get Kurdish Iraq Oil Rights (motherjones.com)

CANADA is our biggest OIL supplier, NOT SAUDI ARABIA...something's fishy here... (iconflict.com)

Keith Olbermann is the only member of the MSM that covered the HUGE Cheney false flag op story. (youtube.com)

The McCain Strategy Is Vintage Karl Rove, the Media Loves It, and the Obama Camp Is Not Taking It Seriously Enough (huffingtonpost.com)

Corporate Media Ignores White House Planning of "False Flag" Operations to Trigger War with Iran (buzzflash.com)

One of the Reasons the Bush administration was able to fool the United States into war in Iraq was the bullshit Anthrax-Iraq Association. John McCain was a key player in that lie. (openleft.com)

Despite the denials, Britain is complicit in America's secret detentions on an Indian Ocean island (guardian.co.uk)

Sunday New York Times Editorial: "Voters cannot trust the totals reported by electronic voting machines; they are too prone to glitches and too easy to hack." (whytuesday.org)

New British government committee may police the Internet (geeksaresexy.net)

76% Want Bush Put On Trial At The Hague (foolocracy.com)

These policies aren't "truly alarming" -- they are illegal and unConstitutional. They are BEYOND simply alarming. (dailykos.com)

Judging Nancy: Is Someone Finally About to Bring the Gavel Down on Cable's Most Reprehensible Talking Head? (huffingtonpost.com)

The Power of Nightmares:The Rise of the Politics of Fear (video.google.com)

|environment|

Cracks appear in ice under Mars lander (msnbc.msn.com)

each 5 mph you drive over 60 mph is like paying an additional $0.30 per gallon for gas (earthfirst.com)

This map shows the acidity of precipitation across the lower 48 states of the United States (nature.org)

Nissan Motor Co said on Monday it has developed an accelerator pedal that can push back on the driver's foot when it detects excess pressure and poor fuel efficiency. (reuters.com)

Sonar triggers adverse behavioral changes in whales (newstrackindia.com)

|science|

Minding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs (sciam.com)

The Latest Technology May Not Have Transformed Your Health, But It Has Changed Science (actualtechreview.blogspot.com)

Kids need the adventure of 'risky' play. A major study says parents harm their children's development if they protect them too much. (guardian.co.uk)

A material has been created with a never-before-seen structure. It's similar to a quasicrystal, which is itself bizarre and mysterious. (sciencenews.org)

Some scientists believe that the Viking missions found life on Mars (space.com)

Giant lake found on Saturn's moon Titan (msnbc.msn.com)

Insects use trapped oxygen to breathe underwater (wildbiology.com)

20+ Unusual and Astounding Living Organisms (scienceray.com)

Olympic Science 101: Physics & Physiology Behind the Games (popularmechanics.com)

|economics|

GM posts huge loss, Exxon posts huge profit.... Wasn't it the lobbying of gas companies that persuaded these automakers to stop the electric car production? (money.cnn.com)

China Trade Promises All Snake Oil -- China has exploited the U.S. consumer market while U.S. companies have been restricted to selling to China bulk goods such as grains, scrap, and chemicals (huffingtonpost.com)

Most Americans can no longer maintain their standard of living. And the core problem isn't the housing crisis or rising oil and food prices (alternet.org)

When this man said the world’s economy was heading for disaster, he was scorned. Now traders, economists, even Nasa, are clamouring to hear him speak (business.timesonline.co.uk)

Your Friday Bank Failure (fdic.gov)

You think subprime was bad? It's about to get much, much worse (nytimes.com)

|fun/geek|

Audi Snook Concept (loqu.com)

10 Fascinating Facts About the Ancient Olympic Games (neatorama.com)

Don't call the cops. Ever. - It's clear that the police have become as big a menace to the average American as any officially designated "criminal" could ever be (lewrockwell.com)