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July 9, 2007
White House again to defy Congress on attorney firings
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Woman Arrested for Not Watering Lawn
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White House Debate Rises on Iraq Pullback
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Metallica: Terrorist threat?
Give me a freakin' break. He was detained because of his beard?
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July 8, 2007
Mortgage vultures swoop on US housing crisis
Now how stupid do you have to be to sign over the deed to your house to a "temporary purchaser"?
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Feds: Dog fights held at Vick property since '02
Fifty-four pit bulls were recovered from the property during searches in April, along with a "rape stand," used to hold dogs in place for mating; an electric treadmill modified for dogs; and a bloodied piece of carpeting, the documents said.
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Fights would end when one dog died or with the surrender of the losing dog, which was sometimes put to death by drowning, strangulation, hanging, gun shot, electrocution or some other method, according to the documents. The property has an aboveground swimming pool, and investigators were seen looking into the pool during the second search.
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Republicans Find Fringe Candidate In South Dakota
Where did this guy crawl out from?
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The Man-Crush Primary
apparent that the Republican candidates appear to get a disproportionate share of praise. Note that my informal survey deliberately excluded the comments by right-wing pundits Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. If these were added the picture would look even more skewed towards benefiting the Republican candidates.
Read about this "important" Presidential characteristic here. What hogwash.
IPhone Battery-Replacement Plan Draws Flak
How a 'fourth tier' religious law school infiltrated the US Government
It is not surprising, therefore, to learn that many people are beginning to wonder whether America is on a downward slope towards its own form of Sharia, where secular matters are governed by religious law, especially when an increasing number of legal posts are being filled by students from one poorly regarded faith-based law school. Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has roughly 500 students and is ranked at the rock bottom as a “fourth tier” law school in an authoritative survey published by U.S. News & World Report.
Look for life not as we know it, U.S. report urges
They said Friday that NASA'S current approach to "follow the water" works well if the assumption is that life everywhere is just like life is on Earth--based on water, carbon and DNA.
But the "life as we know it" approach could easily miss something exotic, the National Academy of Sciences panel advised.Duh.
Why must humans assume that all life in the universe (which is something we know very little about anyway) must be similar to life on Earth?
Bush Lays Ground For Back Door Draft
Feel the draft here.
Judges OK warrantless monitoring of Web use
Apparently: Privacy rules don't apply to Internet messages, court says
Isn't that great?
Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect's computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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The ruling "further erodes our privacy," the attorney said. "The great political marketplace of ideas is the Internet, and the government has unbridled access to it."
Lessons Bush Learned from Hitler
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.Bush learned how to rule ruthlessly though he is hated by the people. Hitler never got more than 37 percent of the vote in several elections called over a short period of time ending with the act of terrorism that Hitler would exploit to consolidate his dictatorship. That act was the Reichstag Fire, Hitler's 911. It's hard to imagine that anyone would dare go back to the well given the press "Reichstag" gets. Nevertheless, the tactic, having proved successful for Nazis would be tried again. No one ever accused Bush of being imaginative. His gang would simply repeat a tired, old Nazi tactic and expect the people to go along. And, for the most part, the people did precisely that.--Adolf Hitler
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Goebbels Would be Proud.
of bright shiny plastic and the star power veneer of bimbo and bozo celebrity as well as the gangsta soundtrack make what should embarrass a borderline intellect look hot, but, what’s the real problem?
The real problem is the hydra headed Bitch Media. The real problem is who is controlling the appearance and flow of information; the perception of reality. Goebbels would indeed be proud.
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Try an experiment and listen, attentively, to mainstream radio and TV news for a couple of days with the intention of getting a feel for what it is determined that you should hear. What do you hear?
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Errant Afghan civilian deaths surge
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EU pours £3.8bn into 'brainwashing campaign'
The European Union is spending £3.8 billion a year on "propaganda" to win over its sceptical citizens, it is claimed.
As well as publishing a plethora of pamphlets and employing an army of public relations staff, the EU has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on teaching aids, school trips and even cartoons.
According to Lee Rotherham, the author of a new book which examines the EU's
spending on its image, such initiatives are an "outrageous and cynical attempt to brainwash the young". The Europa Diary, a gift from the EU to schoolchildren, is one example cited by Mr Rotherham in Hearts & Minds: the Tax-funded PR Campaign to Make us Love Brussels.
Chinese city bans anonymous web postings
Because we can't have the people standing up for what they believe is right.
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July 6, 2007
Fox News: Universal Healthcare Breeds Terrorists
Stay scared people! Emmanuel Goldstein...um, I mean Osama bin Laden's gonna get ya!
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Releasing Libby protects Bush & Cheney
Wilson said, "It casts a cloud of suspicion over the president and begs the question whether the president is participating in an ongoing obstruction of justice and cover-up of criminal activity within the White House." I asked him how: "By ensuring that Libby will have no incentive to talk with the special prosecutor."
The whole point.
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Pentagon Understates War Casualties, Says Veterans Group
According to these documents, as of June 30, 2007, US casualties in Afghanistan totaled closer to 7,500 (killed, wounded, injured, and medically evacuated). In Iraq, the total is almost 58,000.
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Some say defense project is unnecessary
And we allow them to continue to get away with such shit.
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Experts: Pills becoming the new marijuana on campus
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Experts: Pills becoming the new marijuana on campus
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Brutal: Teen Gang Forces Mom, 12-Year-Old Son to Have Sex
And this is the world we live in.
Here's the link. There's video.
July 5, 2007
ABC News Accused Of Aiding Terrorists
ABC News has been accused of aiding potential terrorists after a news article that discussed why the attempted terror attacks on the UK were unsuccessful led to many angry readers claiming the the company was educating future car bombers on how to better hone their techniques.
WTF?
More Drivers Sue Over 'Hot Fuel' Losses
The litigation seeks to force the oil industry to install gas pumps that have temperature-compensation equipment.
Get ripped off at the pump here.
Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet: report
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They also indicated that during the last period between ice ages, 116,000-130,000 years ago, when temperatures were on average 5 C (9 F) higher than now, the glaciers on Greenland did not completely melt away.
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Poll: Majorities say income gap too wide
About seven in 10 said discrepancies between income levels are too large, a sentiment voiced by nearly two-thirds of those from households earning at least $80,000 a year, the survey said. Three-fourths of people earning less than $80,000 agreed.
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You gotta love priorities
"They just started taking boxes," Charles Hobby said. "Some of those boxes, I understand, had lotions, massage oils."
The horror! So maybe the answer to getting Libby in prison is to catch him using a butt plug in a southern state.
Here's the link.
Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People
Get trapped here.
On July 4, Put Away the Flags
Um. Yeah.
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Working Assets: Boycott the iPhone
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Working Assets argued that if consumers who wanted the iPhone but didn't want a service carrier with unsavory corporate practices, such as "turning consumers' information over to the National Security Agency without warrants, their efforts to wipe out net neutrality, or the close-to-100% Republican giving of their new chairman," they would be "out of luck."
Pointing out that it is "perfectly legal, according to a recent decision from the U.S. Register of Copyrights, for American consumers to unlock their phones for use on whatever network they would like," and that "Apple is trying to take away that right by locking the iPhone to AT&T's network," Working Assets urged its list of activist/customers and online audience to sign a petition telling Steve Jobs to allow for open access to the iPhone on other phone networks.
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How to meet and marry a billionaire
Work hard, take risks, maybe build your own business. That's the traditional route to financial success. Of course, there's another highly traditional path to acquiring wealth that isn't talked about quite as much these days: Marry money.
Real money. As in not a mere millionaire (a dime a dozen these days) but an honest-to-goodness billionaire - make that 10 figures after the dollar sign, please.
And this from Money Magazine.
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You gotta love priorities
"They just started taking boxes," Charles Hobby said. "Some of those boxes, I understand, had lotions, massage oils."
The horror! So maybe the answer to getting Libby in prison is to catch him using a butt plug in a southern state.
Here's the link.
Washington State to set medical marijuana limits
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If the law is going to be changed, dissenters would rather see stronger protection from arrest or an allowance for group growing operations. Defining the 60-day supply, they say, is a do-nothing compromise aimed mostly at pleasing law enforcement.
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New Missouri law protects killing of intruders
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Bush braces Americans for prolonged struggle in Iraq
And that war has what exactly to do with this one?
Throw up here.
Plague of bioweapons accidents afflicts the US
Plague, anthrax, Rocky Mountain spotted fever - these are among the bioweapons some experts fear could be used in a germ warfare attack against the US. But the public has had near-misses with those diseases and others over the past five years, ironically because of accidents in labs that were working to defend against bioterrorists. Even worse, they may be only the tip of an iceberg.
"What a wonderful world..."
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Oil a factor in Australian role in Iraq: minister
Nelson's startling comments caused an immediate stir in Australia, one of the United States' few major allies in the increasingly unpopular war, but Howard quickly backed away from the explosive contention.
As if you didn't already know.
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Congress seeks hearing on Cheney’s role in water diversion
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Bush Filed a Motion Last Year to Uphold the 33-Month Sentence of Victor Rita, a 24-Year Marine Corps Vet Convicted on Same Crimes as Libby
Yet last year the Bush Administration filed a “friend-of-the-court brief” with the Supreme Court, in an attempt to uphold a lower court’s ruling that a 33-month prison sentence for Victor Rita, who was convicted of the same exact charges, perjury and obstruction of justice, was “reasonable.”
Now isn't that interesting?
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One out of Two Hospitals Chooses Hugs or Halo to Protect Their Infants
Isn't that special?
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Allergic US employee sues to ban perfume at work
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Kansas Shoppers Step Over Dying Woman
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Police have refused to release the video, saying it is part of their investigation.
"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said Tuesday. "The fact that people were more interested in taking a picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."
Humanity falls faster.
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'Free' energy technology goes on display
Steorn is challenging worldwide cynicism over its claims to have stumbled upon a revolutionary discovery that creates clean, constant energy and could end the global fuel crisis.
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July 4, 2007
Most in Poll Believe Gays Can't Change
It's the first time in a CNN poll the majority has held that belief regarding homosexuality.
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Update: Since this posting was getting quite a discussion going I thought I'd repost it.
Attorneys see irony in Libby case
A former deputy drug adviser, federal prosecutor and Superior Court judge, Walton seemed a perfect fit for the new president. And Walton didn't disappoint, proving to be exactly the kind of no-nonsense judge Bush was looking for.
Until now.
When erasing former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case, Bush said Walton was being too harsh.
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Men line up to get something off their chests
Get rid of your "moobs" here.
'Women shouldn't drink alcohol'
Children's Commissioner Paul Mason said pregnant women who drank starved their babies of oxygen and risked their being born with smaller brains and life-long problems.
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Dead on the Fourth of July
And oh, while you’re at it, don’t give a moment’s thought to the men and women fighting the Bush/PNAC wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You know, the troops who are out there supposedly fighting for your freedom, or for an end to terror, or for regime change, or for Iraqi liberation, or for the spread of democracy, or for oil, or for George Bush and Dick Cheney or whatever. Don’t let them spoil your fun. After all, it’s a holiday. Enjoy.
Heck, it’s a war, and people die, right? Have another hot dog. So what if nearly 3,600 Americans and nearly 300 ‘coalition’ forces are dead on this Fourth of July? So what if hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis are dead on this Fourth of July? So what if tens of thousands of young men and women are no longer whole in mind and body? It’s a holiday. Play ball.
Yeah, it’s been a bloody few months, - the worst, in fact, since that other amazing fireworks show called Shock and Awe. Do you even remember that spectacular night? Never mind, it’s party time in America. Don’t let images of innocent people being blown to bits get in the way of your fun. Don’t get upset about a needless war that has been raging for more than four years with no end in sight. Just go for a swim on this lovely day. And tomorrow is a workday. Damn.
Celebrate here.
On His Last Day in Office, Bush Will Pardon Himself and Cheney
Never before has an American president had a vice president who boasts about working on the dark side, and conducts a virtual super-secret government from the vice president’s office while he desperately tries to keep truth from law, and bullies and intimidates those who disagree.
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Congress should call the leading constitutional authorities in the nation, and devise a series of subpoenas to directly call the president and the vice president to testify on matters that could involve violations of law. This would lead to a historic test case that would decide, once and for all, whether Thomas Paine was right when he stated that in monarchies the king is law, but in America, the law is king.
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Government UFO Lies
For almost sixty years the public has been hearing about flying saucers and then UFOs. Press coverage has ebbed and flowed, but polls have always shown a very high awareness score. Motion pictures, tabloids, and TV programs have picked up the slack with a mélange of fiction and some truth. Unfortunately, much of what we have been told by the “powers that be” has been false. Many different government agencies have shared in the misrepresentation and have provided outright LIES as well. These include the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, United States Air Force, etc. The press and certain other academic and supposedly scientific groups, such as SETI (Silly Effort To Investigate) have often blindly accepted and promulgated nonsense without any effort to get at truth. Hopefully, the LIES presented in this paper will help cause these protectors of the public to do their job: seek and present truth.
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Carry on yawning - it will help keep you awake
This chills the brain, making it more alert and able to perform better.
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RECRUITMENT LIES
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Girl could give birth to her sister
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July 3, 2007
Iraq draws up plans for privatisation gold rush
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NYC man held for reciting 1st Amendment
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GRRR! Pop Culture Fireworks on the 4th
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Why do we hate them?
I find myself wondering, how dare the media ask ‘why do they hate us?’ Don’t they know the answer? Don’t we know the answer? Weren’t we the ones who demolished Iraq? Wasn’t it our PM, Tony Blair, who gave a green light to the Israelis to flatten Lebanon? Wasn’t it Tony Blair’s government who dismissed the democratically elected Hamas in Palestine? Wasn’t it Blair who allowed the Israelis to starve Gaza?
For those who still fail to realise, to kill is rather simple, to turn towns into piles of rubble isn’t that complicated either. Yet, to raise a child may take a few years, to build a city takes hundreds of years and to establish harmony between human beings takes thousand of years. We should stop lying to others and to ourselves. We know perfectly well why they hate us, they have some good reasons, as things stand momentarily, we are the ones who are killing them en mass. It is us who demolish their towns and kill their kids.
Thus, rather than raising the pathetic question, ‘why do they hate us?’ we’d better evade our self-righteous mode, and ask ourselves, ‘why do we hate them so much?’ or even, ‘why do we hate so much?’ in general.
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Bush Commutes Libby's Jail Sentence
The president who led the nation into a disastrous war in Iraq by peddling false statements and misrepresentations has come to the rescue of a White House aide convicted of lying by commuting his sentence.
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Libby had become a symbol of the Bush White House's problem with the truth. After all, his lies had been designed to block FBI agents and federal prosecutors from learning the full truth of a White House effort to discredit a critic who had accused the Bush administration of twisting the prewar intelligence. And now the final act in the long-running CIA leak scandal--Bush's commutation--stands as another symbol of this grand theme: lying doesn't really bother this crowd.
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White House won't rule out Libby pardon
"He thought any jail time was excessive. He did not see fit to have Scooter Libby taken to jail," Snow said.
Now isn't this the behavior of a dictator?
Doesn't a dictator decide the appropriate punishment for a crime?
Isn't that what Bush just did?
There is no judicial system. Just whatever Cheney...oops, I mean Bush, decides is appropriate.
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Infertility breakthrough with first birth from lab-matured egg
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Republic to Empire
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If you are young and don't like to read (I hope this hasn't become a redundancy), then you are probably unaware of the transition from a republic to an empire. One of the reasons I'm so contemptuous of modern politicians is that I don't compare them with each other; I compare them with the great men of the past. The last elected president who had genuinely great accomplishments on his résumé was Dwight Eisenhower.
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There is no such thing as a flawless politician. We should never expect perfection in anything involving human beings. But there very much is such a thing as character, and that's where we've gotten careless in our choice of leaders.
The foundations of character are honesty, courage and fidelity. An adulterer who is unfaithful to his wife is hardly likely to be faithful to his oath of office. John F. Kennedy was an adulterer and a playboy, but he was the first president to be marketed like a bar of soap or a tube of toothpaste. It becomes more and more difficult these days to distinguish between accomplishment and image.
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Blumner: Bush and the merger of church and state
In addition to all that, Bush will leave us with a system of church-state entanglements on an epic scale. By pouring billions of dollars into religiously affiliated social service providers, Bush will have accomplished precisely what the nation's founders warned against: a process by which people of many faiths and none at all are forced through compulsory taxation to underwrite other people's religious activities.
Everything Bush touches turns to shit.
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The case against God
Or invading a sovereign country.
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Study: 30 percent of U.S. adults have abused alcohol
Alcoholics who got treatment first received it, on average, at about age 30 -- eight years after they developed dependence on drinking, researchers reported.
Drink more here.
Hollywood hates pirates, but can it use them?
"File sharing has been going on for years now and yet the movie industry continues to see record profits and revenues," said Fred von Lohmann, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group for Internet users. "Clearly file sharing is not killing the movie industry, far from it."
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Libby: Force a Dictator to Act Like One
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The Day the Rule of Law Died
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July 2, 2007
New Drug Deletes Bad Memories
Researchers at Harvard and McGill University (in Montreal) are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories.
Think of the possibilities:
1) The things you soldiers do/see in war will become, well, forgotten.
2) Did I have sex last night? What was his name again? Hmmm. I must've stayed home and just watched TV. I wonder why I can't remember.
3) I never said I wouldn't raise taxes. (Oh wait, politicians must already have the amnesia drug.)
Forget what you want here.
Spending is hotter than the 4th of July
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Poor sense of smell may be Alzheimer's
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Lieberman: Iran has declared war on the US
Joe.
Shut up.
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Global Unease: Anti-Americanism on the Rise
That's because you can't fight terrorism with, well, more terrorism and expect to win. Oh wait, they're not expecting to win, hell they're not even trying to win. Instead it's all about making shitloads of money for themselves and their friends.
Whew. I almost forgot.
I kept reading...
But the other dominant nations of the world, Russia, China and the European countries fared no better, and no nation or the United Nations has filled the void in world leadership. In China's case, its rising economic and military power is viewed with deepening suspicion by some nations.
Dominant nations?
Maybe one of the non-dominant (would that be "lesser"?) nations could lead the world out of the hell that the dominant nations have created.
One can hope.
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Russia shuts down Allofmp3.com
The site, Allofmp3.com, was quietly closed as the Kremlin sought to end criticism from the United States that Russia was failing to clamp down on music and video piracy.
However, an alternative site run by the same Moscow company has already emerged. MediaServices says that mp3Sparks.com is legal under Russian law, using many of the same arguments advanced in support of allofmp3.com.
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'Scepticism' over climate claims
The public believes the effects of global warming on the climate are not as bad as politicians and scientists claim, a poll has suggested.
The Ipsos Mori poll of 2,032 adults - interviewed between 14 and 20 June - found 56% believed scientists were still questioning climate change.
There was a feeling the problem was exaggerated to make money, it found.
Now, we humans would never overhype anything just to make money now would we? Nah. Never.
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Bush Commutes Libby Prison Sentence
And we let them get away with this shit.
The sentence was too harsh? Too harsh? WTF? Why doesn't he look at some other people that have been given harsh sentences? Oh wait, they're not his friends nor accomplices. Sheesh, stupid me.
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Ignorant on Purpose
Keep everything in perspective, but always pay attention.
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Stress 'makes us fat'
The link between stress and obesity has been known for more than a decade but these findings are the first to explain how exactly the connection works.
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Europeans see US as threat to peace
Now isn't that interesting?
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The Plan to Disappear Canada
Pundits would pontificate, editorialists would erupt, security forces would be unleashed.
Instead, a virtual conspiracy to make the country disappear through assimilation into the U.S. gets barely a mention.
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Mechanical Fingers Give Strength, Speed to Amputees
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Lieberman calls for wider use of surveillance cameras
“The Brits have got something smart going in England, and it was part of why I believe they were able to so quickly apprehend suspects in the terrorist acts over the weekend, and that is they have cameras all over London and other of their major cities,” Lieberman said.
“I think it’s just common sense to do that here much more widely,” he added. “And of course, we can do it without compromising anybody’s real privacy.”
Be continuously watched here.
Glimpse of Time Before Big Bang Possible
Unfortunately, any such picture will always be fuzzy at best due to a kind of "cosmic forgetfulness."
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July 1, 2007
When the Vice President Does It, That Means It’s Not Illegal
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How Cheney abused his power in war on terror
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The claims that Mr Cheney manoeuvred to circumvent both American and international law came as the vice-president last week faced three new congressional demands that he release information on his activities.
Cheney is the world's most dangerous man. It is doubtful he will ever pay for his actions.
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Meet Eclyse - the amazing zebra crossing
But in reality there is no artificial colouring on display here. This amazing but natural coat belongs to Eclyse the zorse.
Her father is a zebra, while her mother is a horse. And she's walking proof of how a child inherits genes from both parents.
Yes, there is a picture. Check it out here.
It's the people vs. the government, new poll suggests
That's because it's different shit but the same stench.
"It is a sad commentary in America today that many Americans have lost faith in their government," Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, said. He added, "Americans don't believe that their government is representing them, is acting on their behalf. The polls show it."
And are you surprised by the anger?
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Bush Cites Israel as Model for Success in Iraq
Huh?
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In Steps Big and Small, Supreme Court Moved Right
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Egypt bans all female circumcision
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A survey in 2000 said the practice was carried out on 97% of the country's women.
Think about that for a moment.
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Doctors freeze eggs of girls, 5
Doctors have managed to extract eggs from five-year-old girls and freeze them for use when they are old enough to have children.
The scientific advance, which had been thought impossible, will enable girls suffering childhood cancers such as leukaemia to become parents in later life. Thousands are left infertile each year after undergoing chemotherapy.It also opens the possibility of storing girls’ eggs to protect them against any form of infertility in later life.
Chores top children in marriage
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Church Blasts Premarital Sex Proposal
Looks like somebody needs to get laid.
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Science Not to Blame for Non-Religious Scientists
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So why are scientists less religious? The data indicate that being raised in a religious home is the best predictor of how religious someone will be—scientist or member of the general population.
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Floods are judgment on society, say bishops
JFC these people!
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Oswald 'had no time to fire all Kennedy bullets'
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Never-before-seen Hitler footage to air on US television
Well, that makes me feel better.
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