|politics|
No Candidate With More Than 50% Support in Sept. Has Lost Presidential Race Since '48. Latest ABC News/Washington Post poll: *Obama 52%* ... McCain 43% (abcnews.go.com)
We are more than halfway towards Karl Rove's America, isolated by embarrassingly inept and corrupt leaders... telling bigger and more transparent untruths while daring the press to cover them as lies. (huffingtonpost.com)
Watch the Corporate Media Flatten, Fragment, Filter and Frame the Obama-McCain Debate...showing sound-bites and clips out of context...will be masticated and mauled (huffingtonpost.com)
Conspiracy theories aside, I really think Osama Bin Laden has won. USA is falling apart along with it's economy. Just as Osama told you in 2004 (edition.cnn.com)
This is a terrible, terrible story for McCain, and yes, the biggest political story of the general-election campaign so far. (guardian.co.uk)
CNN's Campbell Brown on Palin: "Let her have a real news conference wth real questions ... Sarah Palin has just as much a right to be a real candidate as the men do. So let her act like one." (ourrepublicblog.com)
Votes are being stolen, now, by hundreds of thousands--and the Democrats aren't doing anything about it (opednews.com)
Emergency? White House admits to planning bailout for MONTHS. Updated. (dailykos.com)
Study: Liberals fear emptiness; conservatives fear chaos (scienceblog.com)
|world news|
The wreckage of a suspected US spy plane has been found near the Afghan border by the Pakistani army, but it has denied claims it was shot down (news.bbc.co.uk)
N Korea nuclear seals 'removed' (news.bbc.co.uk)
Global corruption index: Somalia most, Denmark least corrupt country (transparency.org)
Putin Gives Up on Bush: Russia is intent on mending ties with the U.S. once President George W. Bush leaves the office on Jan. 20 (bloomberg.com)
The end of the Mediterranean diet: 'If we continue like this, we’re going to become like Americans, and no one wants that.' (nytimes.com)
|economics|
Freddie Mac paid McCain aide's firm (ap.google.com)Banking crisis: Warren Buffett sees US bailout as a golden opportunity (guardian.co.uk)
FBI Launches Investigation into Lehman Brothers, and other Crunch-hit Firms (money.co.uk)
Lehman Salaries in: The Downfall of the Investment Banking Model (econompicdata.blogspot.com)
The Shadow Banking System is Unravelling (ft.com)
The Idiocy of Wall Street: Applauding Its Own Demise (mises.org)
When Paulson was the CEO of Goldman Sachs, the average pay of its 22,425 staff was $521,000 (americablog.com)
|environment|
World's First Wave Power Plant Opens In Europe (dailytech.com)Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks (cnn.com)
Al Gore urges civil disobedience to stop coal plants (reuters.com)
If you drink 2 cups of coffee a day, there are 18 coffee trees out there solely for you (treehugger.com)
Top 5 Green Technologies Still Missing from the USA (ecoworldly.com)
190 Million Tires Thrown Away Each Year: Where’s The Rubberized Asphalt Concrete (RAC)? (ridelust.com)
|science|
The patent system is stifling advances in science (news.bbc.co.uk)The LHC will be shut off until spring 2009 while engineers probe a magnet failure. (news.bbc.co.uk)
45 million year-old yeast trapped in amber now produces BEER. (msnbc.msn.com)
China will build the highly controversial Emdrive engine by the end of this year, success would revolutionize space and earth based transportation (nextbigfuture.com)
Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space (space.com)
Want your kids to understand particle physics better than you? (particlezoo.net)
US astronomers discover inter-planetary collision 300 light-years away (theage.com.au)
US Homeland Security FAST Becoming Thought Police (markstechnologynews.com)
|fun/geek|
This is a McDonalds Hamburger from 1996 (bestwellnessconsultant.com)Man decorates his entire basement with one $10 sharpie (w 360 degree photo) (kentucky.com)
Top 10 things that are surprisingly good for you (listverse.com)
The Ultimate Library with the Artifacts of Geek History (wired.com)
10 Books that will Substitute A Computer Science Degree (techoozie.com)
10 of the Worst Skateboard Crashes Caught on Tape (site.goskateorgohome.com)
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