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|politics|

Lying Works: Obama Would Increase Taxes on Just 1% of People, But 53% Think This Includes Them (dmiessler.com)

McCain has strong ties to corporate lobbyists at center of bailout (alternet.org)

Conservative columnist George Will: "Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama." (realclearpolitics.com)

THIS is impressive! Obama spells out the most substantive, common sense, exceptionally intelligent ideas I've EVER heard regarding government, that he plans to execute as President (polfeeds.com)

Save your breath~ There's No Arguing With Conservatives ... No, Seriously, Scientific Studies Prove It........ (huffingtonpost.com)

Obama Campaign Reveals Science Advisors (blog.wired.com)

Obama just released a new ad which will be begin airing heavily in battleground states. Just him, talking for a full 2 minutes, about his economic plan. (politico.com)


|world news|

Bush, Ahmadinejad To Speak At UN (cbs2.com)

Russian warships have set off for Venezuela for joint exercises unprecedented since the Cold War. (news.bbc.co.uk)

The Sunday Times has revealed that an Israeli factory beneath the Negev desert is manufacturing thermo-nuclear weapons for atomic bombs. (presstv.ir)

Satellite images show ethnic cleansing in Iraq (reuters.com)

Russia has successfully fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile. The Bulava missile has a range of 10,000 kilometers and can carry six individually targeted nuclear warheads. (yourdefencenews.com)

|economics|

Lehman execs to share $2.5 billion bonus (business.timesonline.co.uk)

Foreign Banks in the United States will be covered by the bailout fund / Lobbyists urge speed on bailout / Is anyone paying attention to this? (msnbc.msn.com)

Elliot Spitzer. Remember him? You should: he was canned for warning us about what is happening right now. (discuss.epluribusmedia.net)

The Origins of Credit Cards, Checks, Coins and Bills (wwwc.mentalfloss.com)

Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way (nytimes.com)

What nobody's saying: The bailout will kill the U.S. dollar (afterdowningstreet.org)

Wall Streets troubles may soon be over. Government planning to transfer all bad & toxic debt from the bank's balance sheet over to the taxpayers. All reality TV broadcasts will proceed as normal (money.cnn.com)

Tab for Government Bail-Outs Rises to $900 Billion (cnbc.com)

JPMorgan Gave Lehman $138 Billion After Bankruptcy (bloomberg.com)

"Banks can no longer be under the illusion that they can make big, stupid financial bets and expect taxpayers to pick up the bill" (bbc.co.uk)

|environment|

Today the world marks a day when people start living in ecological debt, i.e. they have already used all the natural resources that Earth can provide in one year (infoniac.com)

Scientists have discovered a "chemical Equator" that divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the largely uncontaminated atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere (reuters.com)

White House Prevents EPA from Protecting America's Drinking Water (boston.com)

The Solar Cube: A Solar and Wind Powered Water Source for Remote Areas (cleantechnica.com)

Report: Birds in Decline Around the World (telegraph.co.uk)

Bill Gates Invests in Algae Fuel Company (thoughtsonglobalwarming.blogspot.com)

|science|

The Large Hadron Collider - A Layman's Explaination (vhata.net)

Wasps can remember each other according to new research. A level of social memory never seen before in insects (newscientist.com)

Ice Age geology revealed at Ground Zero; Trade Center dig uncovers pothole 20,000 years old and 40 feet deep (msnbc.msn.com)

Android: Google's Dream, Apple's Nightmare? (time.com)

NY Times Columnist calls CA Prop 2 - Farm Animal Cruelty Initiative "Most Important Election You've Never Heard Of" (nytimes.com)

Health facilities flush estimated 250M pounds of drugs a year, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water. (usatoday.com)

Incredibly well-researched paper on the devastating effects of low-fat diet and sunlight avoidance in childhood development in America. Why haven't more people put this together? (people.csail.mit.edu)

|fun/geek|

9 Mental Math Tricks (oddline.blogspot.com)

Coolest Computer Mice on the Market Today (ergoware.com)

Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: 50 Years of Integrated Circuits (wired.com)

GOOGLE planning 'data barges' at sea, away from national laws and taxes (technology.timesonline.co.uk)

What women don't get about men (independent.co.uk)

280,951 Post-its Create Spectacular Army of Slinkies (gizmodo.com)