By Winston Monroe
"Bush announced he would scuttle the bill with a 'pocket veto' . . . But that can happen only when Congress is not in session . . . And the Senate maintains it is in session because it has held brief . . . meetings every two or three days with only one senator present. The White House's view is that Congress has adjourned."
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"At least 43 people have been killed in the western Kenyan town of Kisumu after violence blamed on the disputed presidential election. Witnesses say the police fired live bullets after protesters threw stones, claiming fraud in last week's poll."
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as President he would seek to “find some way to sanction” doctors “who took money to provide abortions to women
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The Homeland Security Dept.'s over reliance on outside contractors and insufficient management of them could leave the U.S. vulnerable
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The second half of 2007 saw violence drop dramatically in Iraq, but the progress came at a high price: The year was the deadliest for the U.S. military since the 2003 invasion, with 899 troops killed. Seems there was a bit too much celebration about 'winning' despite the hard facts.
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Largely ignored by the media, the latest story to come out of Washington changes the world. The story's unlikely source was the staid World Bank, which published updated statistics on the economic output of 146 countries. China's economy, said the bank, is smaller than it thought. About 40% smaller.
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UK's Channel 4 news broadcasted a new video of the Bhutto assassination which they say "provides the most conclusive evidence yet that Benazir Bhutto was shot.
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"We may have certain tendencies, but [we choose] how we behave and how we carry out our behavior," Huckabee said in an interview Sunday with Tim Russert of MSNBC's "Meet the Press."
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If she makes it to the White House, Sen. Hillary Clinton said today her husband will take on the same responsibilities as traditional presidential spouses, with no access to National Security Council meetings.
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"Pakistan's general election is "likely" to be postponed for several weeks in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination"
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America now joins Russia, the U.K., and China as one of the world's endemic surveillance societies. Still think Orwellian comparisons are hyperbole?
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"History, they say, doesn't repeat –but it does echo. Looking back at other situations, other republics and empires, one is tempted to draw parallels between then and now. The parallel drawn most often is the decline of the British Empire .In the end America will follow its own unique path. All Republics end, and so do all Empires." 4 for pause.
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rudy's folks say the darndest things..
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How to tell if you will soon be living in a fascist state
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Oil prices pushed higher this week as concerns over the health of the US economy were overshadowed by a bullish combination of geopolitical events and falling US stockpiles.
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For cash-strapped consumers already beset by higher gasoline prices and escalating mortgage rates, the hits just keep on coming. This time, it's food. For the 1st time in modern history it might be cheaper to eat out than to cook at home.
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"Americans today are seeing the same sheepish submissiveness that characterized Germany after the burning of the Reichstag." Is democracy slowly disappearing? Hitler and Franco did it in Germany and Spain. Is Bush doing it in the USA?
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The scene of the attack was watered down with a high-pressure hose within an hour, washing away evidence, according to a reporter at the scene. A top lawyer also says Pakistan's decision not to conduct an autopsy violated Pakistani law and raised new supicions.
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Benazir Bhutto paid the ultimate price for stating that US imperial policies of propping up tin horn dictators causes world terrorism. She dared to say so. Condemning what she called "A False Choice for Pakistan", the late Benazir Bhutto laid "terrorism" at the White House doorstep.
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Morales constitutional reforms meet opposition from rich Bolivian lowland states."They (The U.S.) want to drive a wedge between governments in South America. They don't want South America integration. They want free markets for U.S./multinational corporations, as everyone in South American knows.
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President Bush may soon have a new reason to avoid left-leaning Vermont: In one town, activists want him subject to arrest for war crimes.The measure asks: "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against
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Bill Kristol could not be more wrong on most issues. I guess this gets you kicked upstairs to a N.Y. Time job. What a joke.
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Written before Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday, it puts much needed context around her assassination, and the statements made by the Pakistan, and U.S. governments. Bush had said Mursharraf is "truly is somebody who believes in democracy." Could Musharraf have been trying to "guarantee his political future" by murdering Benazir Bhutto?
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People are so far removed from their duties as citizens that these elected employees can get away with anything. Remember they work for us and if we are not satisfied with their performance they should be kicked out of office. And even more important when they do something illegal they should be held accountable.
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"When we talk about how these are good schools for these kids, one of the things we want to think about is, why are they not in upper-middle-class white communities? Why are they good schools for low-income African-American and Latino students and not good schools for affluent white kids?"
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Cannabis can have some extremely potent effects on sex. Some of the effects are directly physiological, while many others are simply perceived – but a perceived effect more often than not also leads to an actual, physiological change.
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Alabama's Republican Governor Bob Riley may have attempted to conceal illegal corporate donations to his 2002 and 2006 campaigns by representing them in campaign finance reports as having come from individuals, according to an an investigation carried out by the Montgomery Independent.
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FTA: Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.
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Perhaps the reason why the CIA’s well-documented role in the global drug trade is never really acknowledged is because it never really ended.
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"I’m sure I could turn on prime time television any night of the week and see something equally if not more graphic fictionalized for my “entertainment,” but when it’s an actual dead person, I need to be protected from it."
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Former head of the CIA's clandestine service Jose Rodriguez claims he can take the White House down over a torture cover-up scandal. Rodriguez said he may testify before the House Intelligence Committee if he is granted immunity from prosecution, The Sunday Times reported.
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New Jersey this week launched one of the most ambitious efforts in the country to control mother-to-child transmission of HIV, making screening tests mandatory for all pregnant women in the state beginning next year.
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In current world conflicts more civilians are victims. During World War I, civilians made up fewer than 5% of all casualties. Today, 75% or more of those killed or wounded in wars are non-combatants. Some end-of-year food for thought.
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End of Year Letter Describes Plan to Identify, Challenge Voters in 2008... This is illegal. Call your congress person to ask for prosecution.
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“Anyone can kill anyone,” said Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme...The word assassin has its origins in the Nizaris, a violent Islamic sect that emerged at the end of the 11th century in what is now northern Iran. The killers of Benazir Bhutto may find that instead of destroying the movement she headed, they have draped her in a martyr's mantle.
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Police abandoned their security posts shortly before Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday, according to a journalist present at the time, and unanswerable questions remain about the cause of her death, because an autopsy was never performed.
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Employing public signage in the pursuit of suspects is probably about as old as criminology itself, so it's no surprise to see the FBI leveraging the latest technology to erect some of the largest, most versatile wanted posters in history.
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The laws need not apply to Dick Cheney and his minion squad, you see. As I read this, my mind flashed back to reporting that Murray Waas did in the months prior to the Libby trial, and a point which I made back then:Lookee here, Junior was willing to do pretty much anything to save his own ass from being tarred with the liar brush.
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The revelation raised eyebrows, in part, because Huckabee is the lone candidate in the race believed to still be giving paid-for-speeches; but also, because of Huckabee's explanation for staying on the lecture circuit.
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In this interview Benazir says that Bin Laden was murdered.
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In an e-mail sent to a confidant in the US two months ago, assassinated Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she would hold the country's current leader Pervez Musharraf "responsible" because his government did not do enough to provide for her security."I would hold Musharraf responsible," Bhutto wrote in the October e-mail.
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This graph depicts the Presidents budget request for 2008. The center circle is the discretionary budget. Military/National security funding can be found on the left side of the graph. The entire Federal budget is in the bottom right hand corner.
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Blowing the whistle on big-time tax cheats could make some informants wealthy -- as long as they have hard evidence and plenty of patience.
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U.S. Reps. Robert Wexler (D., Fla.), Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.) and Tammy Baldwin (D., Wis.) are members of the Judiciary Committee and have called for hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney. This is the full editorial initially refused publication in other leading newspapers. Reward the Philidelphia Inquirer for their courage!
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Hillary Clinton's "inevitability" was manipulation at its finest. Republicans and Democrats used it to secure the support of unsuspecting voters.
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For the past few months, the federal government has been celebrating the fact that U.S. cities are experiencing "an unprecedented cocaine shortage" due to increased law enforcement in the southwestern United States and Mexico. But fact-checking by NPR reveals that while there are indeed spot shortages of cocaine, they are neither nationwide nor u
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A plan to sell Saudi Arabia highly accurate Boeing Co bomb-guidance kits is roiling Israel's backers in the Congress, setting up a potential clash with President George W. Bush. The administration could formally notify lawmakers as soon as January 15 of the possible sale to Riyadh of Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAM, technology.
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According to this website, only Rudy, Huck, Mitt, McCain and dead Fred will be on the next Fox debate. Even though Ron Paul is polling higher than Thompson on all national polls. Gonna be a boring debate when everyone agrees.
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This study focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.
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Now imagine the same money going towards health, education, etc.
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The influential publication The Nation has named Kucinich the candidate who most matches its ideals.
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Professional Jackass Glenn Beck had [FAIR’s] Norman Solomon on his show to dish the dirt on who owns the other corporate media empires, never suspecting that Solomon might actually criticize CNN on its own turf.
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The mainstream media has awakened to this movement and to the extraordinary support you have given it. Your calls, letters, and emails have clearly made a difference. Already 140,000 people have joined us in demanding impeachment hearings for Vice President Dick Cheney by signing up at WexlerWantsHearings.com.
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Operation Falcon is the clearest indication yet that the Bush administration is fine-tuning its shock-troops so it can roll up tens of thousands of people at a moment’s notice and toss them into the newly-built Halliburton detention centers. This should be a red flag for anyone who cares at all about human rights.
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Rhetoric should not be driving drug policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue.
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An international from Australia news group investigates and reports on their findings - Great video.
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Congress is perched to enact the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007," probably the greatest assault on free speech and association in the United States since the 1938 creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Since September 11, 2001 no American has died from homegrown terrorism.
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More than 1 million people worldwide are being infected with STDs every day because of reliance on 'abstinence-only' funded programs.
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While substituting for Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe, David Shuster once again goes after Congressman Ron Paul on his comments on Meet the Press. The following video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast on December 27, 2007
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Teaser for Doug Benson's upcoming doc: Super High Me, in which he smokes weed constantly for 30 days and then doesn't smoke at all for 30 days and documents the results. Looks ABSOLUTELY amazing!
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Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan, as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, according to defense officials involved with the planning.
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Former head of the CIA's clandestine service Jose Rodriguez claims he can take the White House down over a torture cover-up scandal. Rodriguez said he may testify before the House Intelligence Committee if he is granted immunity from prosecution, The Sunday Times reported.
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Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" scared him. Seriously.
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Longtime associates of President George W. Bush are consolidating their hold on American media with a string of recent purchases Robert Bass, all attended Yale University where Ed was a classmate and friend of George W. Bush. The brothers later became Bush's number 5 career patrons, as well as business dealings with now President Bush.
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Romney continues to repeat a meme that serves primarily one purpose: the justification of totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
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At the time of submitting - news coming in that Benazir Bhutto has been killed by suicide bomber. At least 10 other people also killed at the same time.
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This short documentary was made before NATO's military intervention in Kosova. 9 years have past since the war, and most Westerners have forgotten why this misery was bound to happen. Some things can't be forgotten or forgiven.
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After receiving hundreds of complaints the NYT was forced to retract its hit piece on Ron Paul stating "The original post [the hitpiece] should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul."
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Canadian environment officials are downplaying the discovery of high levels of a radioactive substance called tritium found recently in the groundwater of a landfill.
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Mike Huckabee removes all doubt about his worthiness of the presidency in one fowl swoop...
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Congress and the Bush administration have rationed Pseudoephedrine under the guise of the war on drugs. The replacement product--Phenylephrine--might as well be a placebo. This article assembles evidence that the switch was designed to subsidize a well-heeled Germany company that spent millions in lobbying for the law.
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Kris Kobach, chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out a self-congratulatory litany of accomplishments. Among them was one particularly eye-catching item: “To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!” Did we mention it’s illegal? And that Kris Kobach is proud to be doing it? ...
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The onset of the Iowa caucuses finds Clinton aides racing to lower expectations, bracing for a possible loss there and contemplating a dwindling lead in the polls in New Hampshire and South Carolina. So, what has stripped the mighty Clinton campaign juggernaut of its image of invincibility?
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ISRAELI military prosecutors have announced they will not press charges over the army's use of cluster bombs during the war against Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon, actions that had been widely criticised by human rights organisations.
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The RS-24 missile was launched from the Plesetsk launch facility in northern Russia and its test warheads successfully hit designated targets on the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula some 4,340 miles east, Strategic Missile Forces spokesman Alexander Vovk told The Associated Press.
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With a deficit that only gets bigger and bigger by the day that President Bush is in office, and clearly the war on drugs is a faliure! Why after the government's report that came out and listed the three most addictive drugs alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine, all big money makers, and all legal. How is it not now a time for a change in this country?
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Forget about "domestic terrorism" from people who want to harm our nation or people. What happens when citizens demand change and the establishment refuses to budge?
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The FBI is planning to build the world's largest biometric database to aid the agency in its law enforcement duties. Little has been said, however, about the impact such a system would have on American citizens, or on the technology and policies that would be used to keep false positives minimal.
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Turns out it's a very sketchy list including a lot of economists.
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Prisoners should not be allowed to tell even their attorneys about the ways in which they were "interrogated".
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A guide to presidential candidates’ humble abodes.
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Once every year, Wired News compiles a list of the most entertaining tech-centric misstatements and verbal foibles from government officials, CEOs and tech luminaries.
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A statue of the infant Jesus on display near Miami in Florida is being fitted with a Global Positioning System device after the original figurine was stolen.
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The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was behind a controversial decision to block California's attempt to impose tough emission limits on car manufacturers, according to insiders at the government Environmental Protection Agency.
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$4.7 billion of taxpayer money is being well spent to protect you.
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"I'm not a lawyer and I'm not sure if they broke the law or not but what they did do, I think, is try to impede our investigation," said 9/11 Commission co-chair Thomas Kean. "Because we asked for...anything to do with those detainees, because they were the ones who knew most about the plot of 9/11 and that was our mandate."
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Huckabee Suggests Opponents Commit Suicide
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A demonstration is planned using a 260-foot-diameter "rectifying antenna," or rectenna, to take in 1 megawatt of power transmitted earthward by a satellite orbiting 300 miles above Earth.
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Approximately 1,000 Iraqi citizens, of both Shia and Sunni religions, joined together on the sectarian fault line in Rawaniyah, the Karkh District of Baghdad, to march with one another in what they called a “Peace March”, Dec. 19.
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If we really want to control marijuana and keep it away from kids, why not try a method that actually works?
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The last statements of 405 convicted offenders, morbidly preserved on the web by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Charles Nealy, executed on 3/20/07: "...Don't bury me to the left of dad, bury me on the right side of mom."
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Some New York firefighters who lost sons in the attack plan to take on the former mayor in GOP primary states
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You have got to be kidding me!
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Reporters and too many politicians continue claiming that happy days are here again in Iraq. Golly, that surge has been soooo successful – and things are going just swell. In fact, US soldiers have even been told to treat approaching Iraqi civilians as … civilians!
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Instead of telling people who they think is the best candidate, The Concord Monitor is just telling readers not to vote for Mitt Romney.
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Megachurch leader in mega-sized sex scandal.
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i pictorial look at how the cable news channel would have covered such events as the titanic sinking kent state and others
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With a red 9/11 armband and clutching a copy of what looks to be Norman Podhoretz's book "World War IV," an animated Rudy strikes a heroic pose similar to those found on 30s era German and Italian propaganda posters.
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You may well have read a recent post we did on the breakthrough Nanosolar technology (a lot of people did!). Well, here’s a brief update. The Nanosolar blog has just made a rather special announcement...
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Who needs health insurance? Certainly not kids.
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Convicted of killing his wealthy parents after confessing 19 years ago, Martin Tankleff moved closer to freedom Friday when an appeals court said there's enough new evidence to convince a jury he's innocent.
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When asked by about his use of medicinal marijuana mitt romney ignores the man in the wheel chair and moves on.
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Torture's defenders insist that the rough stuff gets results, but evidence suggests it's hard to get anything under torture, true or false.
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If you're ticketed by Green Bay police, you'll get more than a fine. You'll get fingerprinted, too. It's a new way police are cracking down on crime.
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According to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, the state suffered a net tax increase of $505 million under Huckabee. With Mike as governor, state spending exploded more than 65 percent between 1996 and 2004, which just happened to be more than three times the inflation rate.
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Of China’s total carbon emissions, which by some estimates now exceed those of the United States, just over a third are incurred in the course of making products for foreign consumers.
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Congratulations! You no longer have the right to receive e-mails from your union at work.
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Finally Ron Paul on Meet The Press!!!
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Israel plans to build 740 new homes in settlements in occupied East Jerusalem, a minister said, despite its commitment to freeze all settlement activity.
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The Federal Election Commission will effectively go dark on Jan. 1 because Congress remains locked in a standoff over the confirmation of President Bush's nominees to the panel. As a consequence, the FEC will enter 2008 with just two of six members -- short of the four votes needed for the commission to take any official action.
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On the surface Mitt Romney looks and talks like the perfect Republican candidate. But scratch the surface and you'll see the truth. This post shed's some light on Romney's true weakness (which, regardless of what the media would have you believe, is not his religion).
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The Bush administration insists it does not “torture” but refuses to say whether it believes waterboarding is torture or not. But hundreds of hours of videotape were recorded of Zubaydah’s incarceration and torture. That evidence would settle the dispute over the question of whether the president of the United States authorised war crimes.
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In 1896 William Jennings Bryan brough down the house with his Cross of Gold speech in which he railed against the gold standard. Americans responded because many felt they had indeed been crucified upon a cross of gold by the bankers and the rich men of the east. Today it's their houses they've been nailed to, and their houses they'll go down with.
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Plutonium stocks are already a source of mounting concern to the scientific community. Plutonium is highly toxic, especially if inhaled.
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1,000 attorneys call for probes into criminal, unconstitutional activity.
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Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer prize winning writer and former New York Times correspondent, compares the U.S. Christian right to 20th Century fascism. Hedges openly blasts the role of Christianity in politics and discusses how the far right Christian believers are perpetuating bigotry and intolerance.
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"This host, n021.dhs.gov, is registered to the United States Department of Homeland Security, and may be shared by multiple users."...."Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism."
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The national media seems to have a crush on our ex-governor, but here in Arkansas, we know better.
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Come on, no list of assholes and fuck-ups could be complete without the Dipshit in Chief. Who will tell this president what everyone but him already knows? The theory of evolution. And the times tables. And where the sun goes at night.
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Turns out Huckabee is in Texas begging for money from people who believe free education comes from Moscow - also known as the Pit of Hell, that women should only be able to work if they have their husband's permission, and that most diseases are caused by personal sin. Likeable guy that Huckabee. Just the thing to bring the country together again
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Blonde Ambition averaged $48 per screen on Friday for a total box office of $384. Based on an $8 ticket price, that means that 6 people paid to see the movie at each of those theatres, and only 48 people went to see the movie! That’s amazing! One of the worst performances a movie has ever had.
I'm sorry about this post... I really am... but...Truth is Stranger than Fiction...
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A declassified document shows J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to imprison 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to the Catholic faith. His wife Cherie is a Catholic and there had been speculation that he would convert to Catholicism from his Anglican faith after leaving office.
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The most impressive documentation about the children of North Uganda and their disturbing stories. These children live in fear of abduction by rebel soldiers, and are being forced to fight as a part of violent army. To see Africa through young eyes is humorous and heart breaking, quick and informative - all in the very same breath!
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The commission's chairmen said they believed the C.I.A. had made a conscious decision to impede repeated and detailed inquiries about interrogations.
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Since the most conflict-ridden years in the early 1990s, a continuous decline was registered up to 2002. Since that time the number has held steady at around 30 active armed conflicts per year. This is probably also the case for 2007.
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On Dec. 13, a trio of bipartisan Congressmen penned a letter calling for an investigation into the FDA's handling recently of a drug that was denied approval for terminal prostate cancer patients. The letter raises serious questions concerning unethical behavior at the FDA and should infuriate every American.
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An army unit committed mutiny and refused to carry out orders in Iraq.
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The CIA's official explanation for destroying at least two videotapes depicting severe interrogation techniques "fails the straight-face test," according to an expert witness who testified on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee.
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By Winston Monroe
The key to taking back our country from the Warmongers, the lobbyists, the immoral, is a resolve to see it through, a vision of a return to Constitutional Law; an urgency to return to what our country was founded on. We need to bring especially those we have elected into compliance with the Constitution - the law governing our government.
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Santa Delivers 37,000+ copies of The Constitution to Bush...Sixty Foot Scroll of Bush Scandals On Display...
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I'm not sure what I think about this.
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By Winston Monroe
Violence broke out in New Orleans on Thursday after police shut the gates of City Hall against protesters who were attempting to enter a City Council meeting that was voting on housing demolitions. When the protesters broke through, police began using pepper spray and tasers and even engaging in fistfights with the demonstrators.
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FBI confiscate $400K from a man who is charged with no crime...
By Winston Monroe
Says Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flint, “...but I’m saying, if you got four friends, all gay, living in the same apartment, how are you going to know which one’s gay? I’m surprised no one’s even asking that question. Why do you break up with your wife and move in with gay guys?”
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The More People See of Giuliani, The Less They Like Him...
By Winston Monroe
A University of Maryland research team has used plasmon technology to create the world's first invisibility cloak for visible light.
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By Winston Monroe
The US Senate late Tuesday passed a half-trillion dollar budget bill for 2008 that includes 70 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, dealing a major victory to President George W. Bush.
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By Winston Monroe
FOX News wonders why Edwards and Obama won't appear on their shows after repeatedly calling Edwards a "phony," "fool," "pinhead," "socialist," and "intellectual lightweight," and Barack Obama a "domestic terrorist."
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Campaign Trail Gets Nasty -- Latest Victim? Obama...Clinton Donors Overlap : How To Legally Buy A President
By Winston Monroe
President Bush, who has said he doesn't believe the government should set arbitrary automobile mileage standards, is signing into law a requirement that motor vehicles meet an average 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
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By Winston Monroe
The GOP's clamor to identify itself as a party of Christian piety has failed to include some key elements of the faith -- namely Christian principles, according to a Washington Post columnist who says modern Republicans recall the hypocrisy of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Person of the Year: Vladimir Putin
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The MPAA has rejected the one-sheet for Alex Gibney's documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side," which traces the pattern of torture practice from Afghanistan's Bagram prison to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay.
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By Winston Monroe
CLEVELAND -- Perry Kucinich, brother of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was found dead Wednesday morning at his east-side home. Perry Kucinich was found by another brother, Larry Kucinich, at about 9 a.m. The county coroner said that an autopsy is set to be performed to determine the exact cause of death.There were no signs of foul play.
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By Winston Monroe
Not everyone has the same definition for the term ‘renewable fuel’. The United States Air Force (an otherwise major buyer of renewable energy) is well on their way to becoming coal-powered. On Monday, the USAF carried out a transcontinental test flight using a 50-50 blend of standard jet fuel and coal-based ’synfuel’.
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By Winston Monroe
Carmakers could have introduced an effective smog-killing catalytic converter as early as the 1950s, but GM had a lucrative stake in preventing it, as well as keeping leaded gasoline.
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By Winston Monroe
An extraordinarily brave Jamie Leigh Jones testified before the House Judiciary Committee today. Not-so-brave was the Justice Department -- they were supposed to send a representative, but none showed up. John Conyers was quite righteously indignant about the failure of the Justice Department to appear.
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By Winston Monroe
Raw Story reports that Homeland Security is preparing to use satellites to observe us here in the US.
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By Winston Monroe
First, the military tried to erase Schwarz's photo from his camera's memory card. Now the MPAA is objecting to the "image of the hood"; the MPAA also censored the poster for the documentary The Road to Guantanamo, because it showed a detainee "hanging by his handcuffed wrists, with a burlap sack over his head and a blindfold tied around the hood."
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By Winston Monroe
Huckabee supporter no more. This man cannot be entrusted by our nation to run our country. Don't fall for Huckabee, the tax hiking, bribe taking, amnesty loving, false conservative....
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By Winston Monroe
On 12/14, Democrats.com was excited to announce Rep. Robert Wexler's campaign to demand impeachment hearings for Dick Cheney. Wexler's goal was 50,000 signatures but with your support, Wexler's petition is near 100,000!
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By Winston Monroe
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he would keep Congress in session over the holiday break solely to block President Bush from making recess appointments. It was an apt ending to one of the most bitterly partisan congressional sessions in memory.
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By Winston Monroe
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz has been waging a ferocious behind the scenes battle with the NEW YORK TIMES, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, and has hired DC power lawyer Bob Bennett to mount a bold defense against charges of giving special treatment to a lobbyist!
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Manufacture of consent, deceiving the stupid masses with "necessary illusions," covert operations that the media and Congress pretend not to see until it all becomes too obvious to be suppressed. We then shift to the phase of damage control to ensure that public attention is diverted to overzealous patriots or to the personality defects of leaders
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By Winston Monroe
While radio does pay a fee to songwriters, it pays no performance rights fee, in contrast to just about every other developed country on the planet. The broadcasters argue that they are providing free advertising to musicians, who then make money from touring and record sales.
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Speaking the truth out loud!
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>...Sayyed Imam al-Sharif is blasting Osama bin Laden for deceiving the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, and for insulting the Prophet Muhammad by comparing the Sept. 11 attacks to the early raids of the Ansar warriors. (He) even calls for the formation of a special Islamic court to try Osama bin Laden and his old comrade Ayman al-Zawahri.....>>
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By Winston Monroe
Rhetoric should not be driving drug policy. Legalization would strip addiction down to what it really is: a health issue.
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By Winston Monroe
Marijuana prohibition costs US taxpayers nearly $42 billion dollars per year in criminal justice costs and in lost tax revenues, according to an economic analysis released this week.
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By Winston Monroe
Curse this photographic imagination of mine. Curse it.
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By Winston Monroe
Today on the Ed Schultz Show, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) discussed his effort to increase public pressure for the commencement of impeachment hearings against V.P. Dick Cheney. Wexler has launched a website — WexlerWantsHearings.com — to collect signatures in support of his call. "This Is Not The Lunatic Fringe. This Is Mainstream America."
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By Winston Monroe
The prosecution of a Republican official for phone-jamming in New Hampshire was slowed by the Justice Department until after the 2004 election, an unnamed official alleges.
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By Winston Monroe
California has vowed to take the Environmental Protection Agency to court (for the third time) over its effort to reduce greenhouse emissions from vehicles.
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By Winston Monroe
So do good girls and boys.
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By Winston Monroe
With hundreds of accumulating scandals, one brave soul decided to write them all down. Hugh's List is now a sixty foot scroll of indictments, good for history and hopefully good for impeachment.
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By Winston Monroe
In his press conference today, President Bush said: "It’s what I do during my presidency. I go around spreading good will, talking about the importance of spreading freedom and peace."
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By Winston Monroe
Rudy Giuliani's new ad, in which he wears a fuzzy red sweater vest while sitting in front of a Christmas tree and promises strict constructionist judges for Christmas, brought moans and mockery from Joe Scarborough and his co-hosts. Scarborough wondered whether even Jesus could get Mike Huckabee "to say something nice about Rudy Giuliani's ad."
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Neil tries to question Ron Paul about him keeping $500 from a white supremest. Ron comes back fighting.
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By Winston Monroe
President Bush, who has said he doesn't believe the government should set arbitrary automobile mileage standards, is signing into law a requirement that motor vehicles meet an average 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
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By Winston Monroe
This morning on "The View," Barbara Walters displayed the Christmas card she recently received from the White House. She said it was the most religious White House Christmas card in her memory. The card included explicit religious references beyond just a bible verse.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/13/the-white-houses-super-c_n_76648.htmlI'm sure this somehow ties in with that WAR on
TERRORISM DRUGS EDUCATION IMMIGRATION EASTER CHRISTMAS... wait, this just in...it's offical...
the Secular-Progressives have apparently laid siege upon The Pearly Gates, it's a WAR ON GOD!
Oh... I almost forgot... MERRY CHIRSTMAS!!!
http://www.cracked.com/article_15719_pagan-orgies-human-sacrifice-bizarre-origins-christmas.html
By Winston Monroe
Earlier this week, former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones revealed that in 2005 she had been “
raped by multiple men at a KBR camp” in Baghdad. For the past two years, her congressman, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), has been pushing the federal government to investigate the matter, but he “says neither the department of State nor Justice will give him answers” on the status of the investigation.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/13/poe-not-isolated/http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ABC_Sexual_assault_claim_against_State_1217.html
By Winston Monroe
An analysis by Prof. Anthony Coughlan
Today the European Union leaders signed the Lisbon Treaty. This treaty gives the EU the constitutional form of a state. These are the ten most important things the Lisbon Treaty does:
1. It establishes a legally new European Union in the constitutional form of a supranational European State.
2. It empowers this new European Union to act as a State vis-a-vis other States and its own citizens.
3. It makes us all citizens of this new European Union.
4. To hide the enormity of the change, the same name – European Union – will be kept while the Lisbon Treaty changes fundamentally the legal and constitutional nature of the Union.
5. It creates a Union Parliament for the Union's new citizens.
6. It creates a Cabinet Government of the new Union.
7. It creates a new Union political President.
8. It creates a civil rights code for the new Union's citizens.
9. It makes national Parliaments subordinate to the new Union.
10. It gives the new Union self-empowerment powers.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2773
By Winston Monroe
Look, which has already won major kudos on the film festival circuit and will be in theaters this Friday, is sure to be a thought provoking and controversial film. It purports to be
made entirely out of surveillance footage shot without the knowledge the people involved.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/70257/
By Winston Monroe
Currently, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) is under investigation by the FBI for his relationship with Alaska energy company Veco, whose CEO
pled guilty to bribing government officials, including Stevens’ son Ben Stevens. The FBI is also investigating Stevens’
use of earmarks to reward his friends. This summer,
FBI agents raided Stevens’ home in Alaska, the first ever raid of a sitting senator’s home.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/18/stevens-rodent-control/
By Winston Monroe
WASHINGTON -
White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws and let them keep their guests a secret.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071217/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_secrecy;_ylt=AuKRuVWTpgt92YXaiD6NWy8DW7oF
By Winston Monroe
Temple University student Nick
Carangi, founder of Philly911Truth confronted Bill Clinton on Tuesday at a Hillary fund raiser and
received a visit from Secret Service agents at his parent's house today.
http://www.wearechange.org/2007/12/nick-from-philly911truthorg-visited-by.html
By Winston Monroe
A Senator betrays the American Spirit and undermines our Freedom and Constitution
http://unamericanrevolution.com/policy/betrayal-of-the-american-conscience/
By Winston Monroe
The NSA has the ability to eavesdrop on your communications—landlines, cell phones, e-mails, BlackBerry messages, Internet searches, and more—with ease. What happens when the technology of espionage outstrips the law’s ability to protect ordinary citizens from it?
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200604/nsa-surveillance
By Winston Monroe
CINCINNATI — All five voting systems used in
Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election, a report commissioned by the state’s top elections official has found.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15ohio.html?http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_Ohio_voting_machines_have_critical_1215.htmlhttp://www.bradblog.com/?p=5443#more-5443Texas Voting Machines allow for "Corrections"...
By Winston Monroe
"The latest CIA scandal will once again teach Americans a valuable lesson: It is the CIA, not the Congress, that is the ultimate governing authority in this nation. No one messes with the CIA, and the CIA knows it. That's why it knew that it could destroy CIA's torture tapes without asking anyone's permission. And, after all, as Richard Nixon's advisers told him, better to take a bit of heat for destroying the tapes than to take the heat for what the tapes contained."
http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger12132007.html
By Winston Monroe
During a 90 day continual production test, algae was being harvested at an average of one gram (dry weight) per liter. This equates to algae bio mass production of 276 tons of algae per acre per year. Achieving the same biomass production rate with an algal species having 50% lipids (oil) content would therefore deliver approximately 33,000 gallons of algae oil per acre per year. …As a comparative, food crop such as soy bean will typically produce some 48 gallons oil per acre per year and palm will produce approximately 630 gallons oil per acre per year. In addition, the Vertigro Bio Reactor System is a closed loop continuous production system that uses little water and may be built on non arable lands.
http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/12/12/algae-biofuel-valcent-vertigro/
By Winston Monroe
Here at
ExxonSecrets, we know a little more about Ms. Perino from our 10+ years of research on global warming backlash. Her anti-environmental roots run deep.
http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/exxonsecrets...
By Winston Monroe
blogs.salon.com — A brief history of the criminalization of cannabis.
My personal favorite quote... "Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men." ...
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories...
By Winston Monroe
upload.mn — If Mr. Bush were to be enshrined on currency, this would be it...
By Winston Monroe
xenu.net — The cracked ban lists for the Scientology censorware software aka ScenioSitter. ScenioSitter is still being analyzed by critics of the cult, new information will be added to this site...
Tom Xenu's going to be pissed...
http://www.xenu.net/archive/events/censorship/wordlist.html
By Winston Monroe
Workers are allowed just 3.3 minutes to sew each $14 Victoria's Secret women's bikini, for which they are paid four cents. The workers' wages amount to less than 3/10ths of one percent of the $14 retail price of the Victoria's Secret bikini...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/victorias-secret-slave...
By Winston Monroe
Retired Col. W. Patrick Lang, a former official in the Defense Intelligence Agency, reveals that senior CIA analysts pushed for the NIE’s key judgments on Iran to be released, threatening to
speak to the media if they weren’t...
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/07/cia-analysts-willing-to-go-to-jail...
By Winston Monroe
...an organization called CDIA or Consumer Data Industry Association spent close to $1.4 million in federal lobbying to fight credit freeze laws as
reported here...
...The reason becomes clear as to why the credit bureaus want the laws put to rest, when you see the amount of money the credit bureaus are making from their reporting. The big three credit reporting agencies issue billions of credit reports every year for consumers applying for all types of credit. This creates annual revenues of around $4 billion every year for all three credit bureaus. It now becomes clear why the CDIA has spent $1.4 million lobbying against the credit freeze laws...
http://businessshrink.biz/psychologyofbusiness...
By Winston Monroe
A “sophisticated cyberattack” has been detected at Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the last several weeks, and authorities suspect the hackers are based in China. The breach might have compromised the personal information of thousands of visitors to the lab, according to a communiqué sent to employees. The intrusion is under active investigation by multiple agencies. FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Investigators have not been able to determine whether the attacks came from government or private entities in China. The statement, from Laboratory Director Thom Mason, said the attack “appears to be part of a coordinated attempt to gain access to computer networks at numerous laboratories and other institutions across the country.”
http://www.rlslog.net/hackers-attacked-us-military-institutions/
By Winston Monroe
newsweek.com — 12/07/07: Howard Fineman's exclusive interview with the presidential candidate in our Report From the Front series (Video: Jon Groat, Jennifer Molina)
***Notice the editing on the "teaser trailer" before the first ad make it appear as if Ron Paul hesitates on the IRS/Federal Reserve Abolition question ***
http://www.newsweek.com/id/73850
By Winston Monroe
npr.org — Add criminal destruction of evidence to the list of charges.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16982581
By Winston Monroe
An Ongoing Look At The Myriad Of Ways That Really Really Stupid Ideas Infect The Political Mainstream
by Tom Tomorrow
http://www.thismodernworld.com/
By Winston Monroe
youtube.com — A clip featuring Frank Luntz, the pollster that does those wonder polls that claim "minor" candidates such as Ron Paul are trailing behind everyone else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If9EWDB_zK4
By Winston Monroe
The Bush administration is launching a new government agency that will rely heavily on private security contractors to conduct surveillance in the U.S.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/69105/
