Bush 'spoiling for a fight' with Iran - "US officials in Baghdad and Washington are expected to unveil a secret intelligence "dossier" this week detailing evidence of Iran's alleged complicity in attacks on American troops in Iraq. The move, uncomfortably echoing Downing Street's dossier debacle in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is one more sign that the Bush administration is building a case for war." -- 'Cause we luv killing!
The neocons have learned nothing from five years of catastrophe - "Their zealous advocacy of the invasion of Iraq may have been a disaster, but now they want to do it all over again - in Iran." -- Of course, catastrophe is relative.
U.S. officials: Probe eyes Iran ties in Karbala attack - "The Pentagon is investigating whether a recent attack on a military compound in Karbala was carried out by Iranians or Iranian-trained operatives, two officials from separate U.S. government agencies said."
Here We Go Again - Pentagon leaks 'proof positive' against Iran - "Either Bush and his zionist handlers are convinced that we're braindead, or they're certain Americans don't have the cojones to stop them."
Senators warn against war with Iran - "Republican and Democratic senators warned Tuesday against a drift toward war with an emboldened Iran and suggested the Bush administration was missing a chance to engage its longtime adversary in potentially helpful talks over next-door Iraq."
Rift looms as Europe resists US call - "European governments are resisting Bush Administration demands to curtail exports to Iran and to block transactions and freeze the assets of some Iranian companies, officials on both sides say."
US money is 'squandered' in Iraq - "Millions of dollars in US rebuilding funds have been wasted in Iraq, US auditors say in a report which warns corruption in the country is rife."
Chavez a threat to democracy, US intelligence chief says - "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez exports a form of "radical populism" throughout Latin America that poses a threat to democracy, the top US intelligence official said Tuesday. John Negroponte, during hearings on his nomination to become deputy secretary of state, warned that frustration in Latin America about the lack of prosperity under democratic governments could further fuel the populism advocated by Chavez."
Lawmakers say terror bill goes too far - "A proposed law would give authorities critical new tools to thwart the scary prospects of a terrorist attack in California, supporters said Wednesday, while critics insisted it is a giant step backward to McCarthy-style communist witch-hunt tactics."
FBI turns to broad new wiretap method - ""What they're doing is even worse than Carnivore," said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who attended the Stanford event. "What they're doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets.""
Rockefeller Admitted Elite Goal Of Microchipped Population - "Hollywood director and documentary film maker Aaron Russo has gone in-depth on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, who personally told him that the elite's ultimate goal was to create a microchipped population and that the war on terror was a hoax, Rockefeller having predicted an "event" that would trigger the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan eleven months before 9/11. Rockefeller also told Russo that his family's foundation had created and bankrolled the women's liberation movement in order to destroy the family and that population reduction was a fundamental aim of the global elite."
Sowing the Seeds of Surveillance - "Technology has an almost irresistible lure. When we build systems for surveillance, experience teaches that we will inevitably use them for purposes other than those for which they were originally designed." -- But humans generally fail to learn from history.
Bush is left isolated as America turns green - "George Bush may have two years to run on his presidency, and remains personally opposed to mandatory caps on carbon gases, but the change in the Senate illustrates how the rest of America has moved on. Congress, big business, state governments such as California, and mayors have embarked on a course that could bring America into step with the international community on climate change."
Scientists charge White House pressure on warming - "U.S. scientists were pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's skepticism, in some cases at the behest of a former oil-industry lobbyist, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday."
ExxonMobil's War on Science - "With an elaborate network of phony think tanks and slick public relations firms, ExxonMobil has become today's Big Tobacco, defrauding the public and waging a war on science."
U.S. climate researcher: We've got 10 years left - "While a leading U.S. climate researcher claims there's a decade at most left to address "global warming" before environmental disaster takes place, the federal government issued a report showing the year 1936 had a hotter summer than 2006."
London suburb to charge drivers parking fees based on emissions - "Residents of a suburban London district will soon pay annual parking fees based on how much carbon dioxide their cars emit, penalizing owners of gas guzzlers."
California may ban conventional lightbulbs by 2012 - "A California lawmaker wants to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs as part of California's groundbreaking initiatives to reduce energy use and greenhouse gases blamed for global warming."
New Fatherhood Initiative Leaves Some Dads in the Cold - "The Bush Administration's new initiative to improve fatherhood in America raises questions about how best to strengthen families: by encouraging parenting skills or by promoting marriage?"
Older people take bad news in their stride: study - "Older people are able to take bad news more in their stride than their children or grandchildren which can make them more risky gamblers as losses don't scare them, according to a U.S. study."
Is MS new "Vista" both garbage and dangerous? - "Bad enough that innocent you now has a paperweight where your PC was a minute ago. But, there's more. ... Even without deliberate abuse by malware, the homeland security implications of an external agent being empowered to turn off your IT infrastructure in response to a content leak discovered in some chipset that you coincidentallyhappen to be using is a serious concern for potential Vista users. Non-US governments are already nervous enough about using a US-supplied operating system without having this remote DoS [denial-of-service] capability built into the operating system. And like the medical-image-degradation issue, you won't find out about this until it's too late, turning Vista PCs into ticking time bombs if the revocation functionality is ever employed."
"Smokable" pain drugs promise faster action - "The Palo Alto, California-based company is developing drugs that can be "smoked," and, like nicotine in cigarettes, pass through the lungs and into the bloodstream almost instantly. Investors like the idea."
The Saga Of the Lost Space Tapes - "Only in recent years was the agency reminded of what it once had -- clean and crisp first-man-on-the-moon video images that could be especially valuable now that NASA is planning a return trip. About 36 years after the tapes went into storage, NASA was suddenly eager to have them. There was just one problem: The tapes were nowhere to be found."
Hubble trouble - "Considering this is historically a devilish week for NASA-related endeavors, I suppose today's Hubble news could be worse, but it's not great. It seems that everyone's favorite flying eye had something of an electrical short earlier this month and switched itself into safe mode. NASA scientists have gotten a look, and they've concluded that two of the three channels on the ultra-popular, historically tetchy Advanced Camera for Surveys have taken a substantial hit."
Poll: Parents Prefer A Trekkie To A Date Met Online - "Parents would rather see a daughter date a stranger met at a biker bar or a Star Trek convention than someone met over the Internet."
Quote of the Day
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
~ Leading Nazi leader, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials before he was sentenced to death
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