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073010
3 more US troops die in southern Afghanistan - Boston.com bringing the U.S. death toll for July to at least 66 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war (Obama's war)
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect Administration Wants To Expand Reach Of National Security Letters. (no Constitution for you)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Quality Politico Journalism (WaPo lies routinely)
U.N. rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade | GlobalPost (you know, the blockade they promised to end ... someday)
Israeli settlers evict Palestinian family from their home of 70 years | World news | guardian.co.uk - Takeovers have created dozens of Jewish 'outposts' in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City in recent years
Beijing Wary Of Rising Tide Of Veterans' Discontent : NPR
UK government to be sued over Congolese 'conflict minerals' | World news | The Guardian Campaign group Global Witness claim British firms bought minerals from rebel militias (wait ... they can do that?)
Leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel killed - Telegraph One of the top three leaders of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel," has been killed in a gunbattle with soldiers (country-destroying Republican/Obama war on some drugs)
Biohazard - By David E. Hoffman | Foreign Policy What the world doesn't know about germ warfare.
BBC News - Brazil's sex tourism boom Young children are supplying an increasing demand from foreign tourists who travel to Brazil for sex holidays

BP denies Texas a cash advance, gets scathing response - Yahoo! News (they deserve each other)

President Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’ - TheHill.com
Hullabaloo: digby: Joe Scarborough: "Most Americans Are Like Me" (yeah, we all killed our interns and got big jobs on MSNBC)
YouTube - Anthony Weiner Rips Apart Republicans on 9/11Health Bill
Does an Endorsement From Sarah Palin Help Republican Candidates? - Newsweek (no: SATSQ)

Deflation Risks - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com more people at the Fed are taking the risk of a Japanese-type trap seriously. But not all of them:
Obama Housing Bailout Under Attack - CNBC (HAMP, the program designed to fail)
House to vote on stripping HUD secretary Donovan’s travel budget - TheHill.com (they're going to strip the travel budget as punishment)


Suburban Phila. burglaries on the rise | 6abc.com
Surge in 'virginity repair' operations on the NHS | Mail Online (revirgination)

YouTube - The Dubai Fountain - Baba Yetu



072910
China Floods PHOTOS: Worst Floods In A Decade Leave 30,000 Trapped
Is Israel a liability for the US? | Al Jazeera Blogs
Opposition Demands Answers: War Logs Spark German Debate on Afghanistan Conflict - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International The Social Democrats are threatening to withhold support for an extension of the German mission's mandate if the government does not provide answers about alleged wrongdoings revealed in the secret reports.
Australian forces backing Afghan war lord - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Leaked documents from the Afghanistan war appear to confirm that Australian forces are backing a local war lord who has been extorting money from NATO convoys carrying supplies to Coalition forces.
Eschaton: Time Magazine Can't Die Soon Enough (girl mutilated by family during US occupation: so we can't leave)
France's Sarkozy Orders Illegal Gypsies Expelled - CBS News French President Ordered Authorities to Expel Illegal Roma Immigrants and Dismantle Their Camps - amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma. xs
Lawmakers in Catalonia Vote to Ban Bullfighting - NYTimes.com
BBC News - UN declares clean water a 'fundamental human right' (next up: air and food)

Crews Step Up Work to Contain Michigan Oil Spill - NYTimes.com an oil spill, believed to be among the largest ever in the Midwest, might reach Lake Michigan if efforts to contain the oil were not strengthened.

Matt Sledge: Just How Far Is the "Ground Zero Mosque" From Ground Zero? (2 1/2 blocks, and it's an office building, not a mosque)
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Mosque? TPM Rounds Up The Latest In Right-Wing Fear-Mongering | TPMMuckraker
Veterans Funding Passes With Overwhelming Majority As Republicans Abandon Tough Talk On Voting Against Spending
Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen: Our Divisive President - WSJ.com Barack Obama promised a new era of post-partisanship. In office, he's played racial politics and further split the country along class and party lines.
Ariz. sheriff: I’ll jail immigration protesters | Raw Story
Math Is Hard: John Thune's Plan To Eliminate Deficits In 10 or Many, Many Years | TPMDC
Vitter, Breitbart Revive Death Panel Smear In Attack On FDA Breast Cancer Drug Decision | TPMDC
CNN Thinks Racist Flame Thrower Erick Erickson is Qualified to Weigh in on Race Relations | Video Cafe
Sherrod Critic: She Used 'Lynching' To Gin Up Democratic Voters | TPMDC

Timing of stock sales by Moody's chief raises questions | McClatchy The chief executive of Moody's Investors Service sold almost $3 million in company stock this year, and $7.1 million last year, both times right before his company's stock price fell from its peak levels (what they do)
Congress Is Rethinking Its Ban on Internet Gambling - NYTimes.com The taxes could yield as much as $42 billion for the government over 10 years, supporters said (4.2 Bn/yr is peanuts but 16 times what HAMP spent)
FOXNews.com - Quick Analysis of the Arizona Immigration Law Ruling
Obama Insists On Performance Standards For Teachers - Politics - The Atlantic


BBC News - US experiment hints at 'multiple God particles' (physics goes polytheistic)
Every black hole may hold a hidden universe - space - 23 July 2010 - New Scientist
Extreme Close-Up of the Face on Mars | Universe Today
BBC News - Pampered pigs 'feel optimistic' Pigs feel optimistic or pessimistic about life depending on how pleasant their environment is, researchers at Newcastle University have found.
YouTube - Telescopic Evolution - Waking Life excerpt
Researchers Say Asteroid Has 1 in 1,000 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2182 | Universe Today
Ten key indicators show global warming "undeniable": Scientific American
BAMS Annual State of the Climate | 2009
Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950: Scientific American Researchers find trouble among phytoplankton, the base of the food chain, which has implications for the marine food web and the world's carbon cycle. (besides food, half the world's oxygen declining 1%/yr)

Amis-free Booker prize longlist promises to 'entertain and provoke' | Books | The Guardian Booker prize longlist of 13 ignores Amis, McEwan and Rushdie for novels characterised by humour and storytelling
Feted British authors are limited, arrogant and self-satisfied, says leading academic | Books | The Guardian Gabriel Josipovici dismisses the portrayal of Barnes, Rushdie and co as modern literary giants

Jasmine Tyler: Congress Passes Historic Legislation to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity (but retains racial discimination ratio of 18:1)
Underwear packaging reportedly recalled from Walmart after Cullman pastor’s complaint - Cullman, Alabama - Frank Boren, pastor of New Hope Christian Center Church of God in the Springhill community (picture of underwear on package was "too revealing," "pornographic" and "too gay")
The Intimidator- by GarE Maxton
Thoughts On a Train: Alban Berg's Lulu: Up Close but Not Too Personal (Part 1)
YouTube - V Pomparkour Ladder Sport
YouTube - Imitating a xylophone
List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia
BBC News - The women who choose not to be mothers
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Broadus Effect? Social Desirability Bias and California Proposition 19
Maxton's Art Gallery

Net Index by Ookla (broadband speeds around the world)
/g/ - Technology (4chan cracks Glenn Beck's website - all registered users)
> The Real Question About Facebook Questions: What Will The API Do?
Hacker Proves Facebook’s Public Data Is Public
s BBC News - Details of 100m Facebook users collected and published
Facebook Goes (Very) Public With Questions Product (all your privacy are belong to our advertisers)
Quora - A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.
How to Turn Your Android Phone into a Fully-Automated Superphone
1dl.us :: Your all-in-one tool site.
Listiki - Bringing order to the real-time web, like now!

072810
Pakistan Plane Crash: Airblue Jet Crashes Near Islamabad With 152 On Board
House Approves Money for Wars, but Rift Deepens - NYTimes.com The 308-to-114 vote, with strong Republican support
The Plum Line - Dear Dems: Stop reading from Rove's playbook on Afghanistan "We should support our men in uniform who are currently in harm's way," she said. (Karen Hyer is a real idiot)
Jon Stewart Mocks Media For WikiLeaks Reaction - Stewart showed clip after clip of pundits essentially saying the information is "nothing new." Stewart fired back; "I'm not responding to the 'newness' of the reports - I'm responding to the 'fucked-upedness' of it!"

Haim Saban to CBS: Cancel Oliver Stone's Showtime Series | TheWrap.com (criticism of Israel is always wrong)
Police destroy dozens of buildings in unrecognized Bedouin village in Negev - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Oil Spill: 100 Days On And Gulf Life Will Never Be The Same
Good-bye and good riddance to Tony Hayward, BP's gaffe master: An editorial | NOLA.com
Offshore drilling legislation is in express lane in Congress | NOLA.com
Gulf Surface Oil Vanishing Quickly - NYTimes.com
Criminal probe of oil spill to focus on 3 firms and their ties to regulators
Oil spill update: State of emergency declared as 800,000 gallons of leaked oil begins flowing through Kalamazoo County | MLive.com - a 30-inch oil pipeline in Marshall sprung a leak and released oil into the Talmadge Creek, which feeds into the Kalamazoo River.

France24 - French sprinter breaks 10-second barrier in 100m dash (the "sprint gene")

Harry Reid: New Energy And Oil Bill Draft Unveiled, Less Sweeping Than Failed Climate Legislation (diminished expectations)
Democrats' 2010 Strategy: Republican Party, Tea Party Are 'One And The Same' ... overlapping the two groups to paint the GOP as a party of extremists and the grassroots activists as tools of the establishment (that'll work)
The Daily Caller double-standard | Media Matters for America (oh, but the bloggers!)
Arizona Immigration Law: Judge Puts Hold on Key Provisions on SB 1070 - ABC News U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put on hold are the "reasonable suspicion" section that would allow police to arrest and detain suspected illegal immigrants without a warrant and a provision making it illegal for undocumented day laborers to solicit or perform work.
Fleeing Phoenix out of fear of Arizona's immigration law - latimes.com As families leave the city, and state, some neighborhoods — already suffering from the weak economy — are left with fewer customers to sustain businesses (Repubicans: well, we got rid of all the brown people)
Arizona Deportation Stats: Thousands Deported Even Without New Law (Republicans: we don't need no steenking laws)
Jasmine Tyler: Congress Passes Historic Legislation to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity (20 years too late, and they even say sorry)
Bush Memoir Release Has Republicans Concerned "Monumentally bad timing" was the reaction of one former Bush aide who learned of the book release date.

NOW Questions Obama's Reluctance To Nominate Elizabeth Warren, Asks Whether Sexism At Play (Obama hates uppity women)
Economist's View: A Triple Dip?
Larry Summers and the White House economic team : The New Yorker Larry Summers and the White House economic team.
How Did We Know The Stimulus Was Too Small? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
On Walking Away | FDL News Desk HAMP’s complete failure – to date only $250 million of the $75 billion promised by the program has even been spent (program designed to fail, spectaculary failed and did nothing to help you)
Calculated Risk: Treasury: HAMP Re-default Rate incorrect
HAMP Report Revised After Analysts Question New Metric
Credit Cards Transfer Money From Poor To Rich Households: Study
Matthew Yglesias » The Not-So-Scammy Interchange Fee Scam Because credit card spending and rewards are positively correlated with household income, the payment instrument transfer also induces a regressive transfer from low-income to high-income households in general
Job Title: #2200 - Bus Operator Wages start from $13.18/hr to $14.54/hr (remember those rich Repubicans who thought bus drivers shouldn't make any money?)
The State Worker: Schwarzenegger orders more furloughs for state workers (Aaahnold destroyed Califoria, but voters will elect eMeg)
Fools Gold: Inside the Glenn Beck Goldline Scheme | The Big Picture

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Bravery, bullshit, and scientific illiteracy
On Walt, Mearsheimer, Weiss, Greenwald And Me, Ctd - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - I think the chilling effect of this charge of fomenting anti-Semitism by criticizing the actions of the pro-Israel lobby is worse than getting it all out in the open. (cf Pejman for the Israel Lobby position)

Mauritania's hidden manuscripts | World news | Guardian Weekly Precious Arabic manuscripts from western Africa are under threat as Mauritania's desert libraries vanish
Math Is No Match for Locust Swarms | Wired Science | Wired.com
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies - Our cyborg past: Medieval artificial memory as mindware upgrade (ars memoria is the new transhuman but they don't use that term)
You Are Not So Smart

Disputed chemical bisphenol-A found in paper receipts
Air-conditioning: Keeping cool and green | The Economist Innovations in air-conditioning systems mean cooling down buildings is going to require less energy
Print - Invasion - Esquire - You think it'd be impossible to share your house with your wife, your daughter, and fifty million or so Argentine ants. And you would be correct.
Has the Most Common Marijuana Test Resulted in Tens of Thousands of Wrongful Convictions? | Investigations | AlterNet More than 800,000 people are arrested on marijuana charges each year in the United States, many on the basis of an error-prone test (Republicans ruining peoples lives with test that is always positive)
5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men | Reproductive Justice | AlterNet

Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever (mostly men)
Young Women, Newsweek, and Sexism - Newsweek
Fire the Bastards! pp. 1-2 (Gaddis The Recognitions)
ADILEGIAN | "Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books," by Jonathan Franzen
On the wings of commerce: Penguins and lipstick, strawberries and gold—aloft, By Barry Holstun Lopez (Harper's Magazine)
Lost Highway Article - Premiere Sept. 96 - David Foster Wallace: David Lynch Keeps His Head
Learn Your Damn Homophones
Reader's Almanac
YouTube - Undoubtedly the best 'dancing in the rain' video ever

Apple Sued Over Claims IPad Tablet Overheats in Sunlight, Warm Conditions - Bloomberg (just don't use it when the temp is above 75, said Steve Jobs)
iPad Users Are 'Selfish Elites,' Study Says
Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know
Eric Schmidt: The World Doesn’t Need A Copy Of The Same Thing
Cyber Mastermind Arrested: Suspect Accused Of Infecting 12 Million Computers

072710
BBC News - Nato probes reports raid killed 45 Afghan civilians
Wikileaks: War Diary: 2004-2009
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » - Unimportant Yet Dangerous (NYT - remember Bill Keller bowing to Bush pressure and throwing the 2004 election to the Republicans?)
WikiLeaks Creates Fresh Doubt About Afghan War, Secrets
WikiLeaks Afghan War Diary Reactions
Is WikiLeaks the Pentagon Papers, Part 2? Parallels, and differences, exist.
Daniel Ellsberg describes Afghan war logs as on a par with 'Pentagon Papers' | World news | The Guardian (yeah, well, what does he know?)
Wikileaks Too Confusing for Citizens? | Firedoglake
Wikileaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too - Science and Tech - The Atlantic
Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history | World news | The Guardian
Afghanistan war logs: our selection of significant incidents | World news | guardian.co.uk
Afghanistan war logs: US covered up fatal Taliban missile strike on Chinook | World news | guardian.co.uk
Military Disputes Its Own WikiLeaked Missile Report | Danger Room | Wired.com
Why WikiLeaks turned to the press | Dan Kennedy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk That WikiLeaks went to the press with the Afghanistan war logs shows old-fashioned news organisations still have a role to play (yeah, disseminators of reporting done by honest people who disclose their source info)
White House Attempts to Downplay Fallout from Wikileaks Afghan Logs | FDL News Desk
Why is the NY Times Underplaying Account of Task Force 373’s Extrajudicial Killings? | The Seminal (NYT: nothing to see here, move along)
ISI paid Taliban to kill Indians in Kabul: Wikileaks - Hindustan Times
WikiLeaks report fictitious, says Pakistan's ex-spy chief Hamid Gul - CSMonitor.com WikiLeaks' release of classified US documents include claims that Pakistan's former spy chief Hamid Gul ordered attacks against NATO troops (who do you believe, me or your lying leaks?)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Barack & Hamid’s Excellent Adventure
Why WikiLeaks’ ‘War Logs’ Are No Pentagon Papers - ProPublica
Afghanistan war logs: Wikileaks founder rebuts White House criticism | World news | guardian.co.uk Julian Assange rejects accusation that publishing thousands of secret US military files about the war in Afghanistan has compromised America's national security
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: more revelations to come | Media | guardian.co.uk Whistleblowing site Wikileaks says it has a 'backlog' of further secret material after publication of Afghanistan war logs
Pentagon Can't Account For $8.7 BILLION In Iraqi Reconstruction Money, Audit Finds (trust the military, then look in Cheney's bank account)
Nancy Pelosi: How Dare the Administration Say they Would Veto Intelligence Reform? | Emptywheel (same old Bush)

Who Is Behind the 25,000 Deaths In Mexico? | The Nation Calderón's war, assisted by the United States, terrorizes the Mexican people, generates thousands of documented human rights abuses by the police and Mexican Army and inspires lies told by American politicians that violence is spilling across the border (in fact, it has been declining on the US side of the border for years) (one word for you: Republicans)
Statistical Analysis and Visualization of the Drug War in Mexico | Diego Valle's Blog
Uniform Impunity | Human Rights Watch This 76-page report details 17 cases involving military abuses against more than 70 victims, including several cases from 2007 and 2008. The abuses include killings, torture, rapes, and arbitrary detentions
Latest Vatican document is final straw for women - The Irish Times - Mon, Jul 26, 2010
Oliver Stone: 'Jewish Domination Of The Media' Propagates Holocaust Myths (well?)
Report: Some mentally ill detainees deported were US citizens | Raw Story (oh well, they were probably brown)
L'Oreal Heiress Met By French Police, Questioned About Her Finances

BP Oil Spill: Where Did All The Crude Go? Mother Nature Breaks Down Slick in Gulf of Mexico - ABC News As Size of Slick Shrinks, Experts Say Oil is Breaking Up, Staying Below Surface
Ousted BP CEO Tony Hayward: I Was 'Demonized' In The U.S. he may be "too busy" to make it to hearings on the Gulf Oil spill.
BP CEO Hayward’s Next Assignment: Siberia

Catfood Commission’s Social Security “Expert” Alice Rivlin Makes A Huge Blunder | FDL Action (Obama's commission to dismantle Social Security is ignorant of basic facts, just like ...)
Illegal Immigration Fingerprint Program, Secure Communities, Has Advocates Up In Arms ("Secure Communities" "Perfect Citizen" - someone has been reading too much Orwell)
Megan McArdle’s Hack Post on Elizabeth Warren’s Scholarship « Rortybomb (McMegan McAddled McHack McArdle, the shame of the Atlantic Monthly, is always wrong)
DISCLOSE Act Faces GOP Filibuster In Senate (Leiberman cops out)
Eric Boehlert: Glenn Beck's Incendiary Angst Is Dangerously Close to Having a Body Count
Colbert Returns, Takes On Sherrod Fiasco
Sherrod Scandal Is A Conservative Problem, Argue Brian Stelter And Greg Sargent
MoveOn.org: Breaking: Andrew Breitbart admits true allegiance to Al-Qaeda

Permanently High Unemployment - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com The point is that while policy makers may think they’re being prudent and appropriately cautious in their responses to unemployment, there’s a good chance that they’re prudenting and cautiousing us into a long-term jobs catastrophe (Bankers and Obama don't care about fucking jobs)
Ma! He’s Looking At Me Funny! - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com That’s basically the thrust of Mort Zuckerman’s op-ed accusing Obama of “demonizing” business (+FT does no fact checking: "But I guess such rules don’t apply if you’re a conservative.")
Europe's Debt Still Cause for Worry - Kiplinger
Debate Heats Up Over Stimulus Spending - WSJ.com ("debate in the WSJ's mind: Hoover was right)
Apartment Rentals Surge in U.S. on Home Foreclosures, Job Gains - Bloomberg

postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies - Our cyborg past: Medieval artificial memory as mindware upgrade
Vaccine campaign plea: parents who lost baby Dana stonewalled by government (call Jenny McCarthy and Oprah)

Maryland's High Court Strikes Down Montgomery County Fortunetelling Ban Under First Amendment | American Civil Liberties Union (discrimination against gypsies)
Fortuneteller can continue getting paid to gaze into the future, Maryland court rules
Fortunetelling Protected Under First Amendment « Mary K. Greer's Tarot Blog
D.A. investigating why Bell council members get nearly $100,000 a year for a part-time job - latimes.com
POM sued by Hogan Lovells over legal tab Bartnoff, as she considered the order, said, "If I am throwing 80 years of First Amendment jurisprudence on its head, so be it." (First Amendment is so passe)

$pread Magazine – Whores And Other Hackers
There will be blood: why Apple and Intel are destined to clash
Akamai: World's Net connection speeds rising | Wireless - CNET News (and corporate-controlled America is getting even slower)
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apple’s Official Response To DMCA Jailbreak Exemption: It Voids Your Warranty | Cult of Mac (also: fuck-you, FCC)

072610
What is WikiLeaks? | Open Culture
Afghanistan: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk
View Is Bleaker Than Official Portrayal of War in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
The War Logs: Reaction to Disclosure of Military Documents on Afghan War - At War Blog - NYTimes.com
A Note to Readers - Piecing Together the Reports, and Deciding What to Publish - NYTimes.com (and, of course, what not to publish)
The Unwinnable War II: Didn't We Know All This Already? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (well, if "we" means "dirty fucking hippies," then yes)
WikiLeaks 'Afghan War Diary' Provides Ground-Level Account Of Afghanistan War
WikiLeaks Founder On Afghan War Diary: Evidence Of War Crimes In Leaked Documents (hey, support the Generals)
WikiLeaks: Evidence of War Crimes in Afghan Docs - CBS News Founder Julian Assange Says "No Reason" to Doubt Documents, which Include Unreported Incidents of Afghan Civilian Killings (no one will be held accountable)
Wikileaks Afghanistan Log Released on Eve of War Supplemental Vote | FDL News Desk
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards' | CommonDreams.org
Ezra Klein - WikiLeaks and the press (media tried their best to ignore info)
The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (compare w/Pentagon Papers)
PressThink: The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization
Close Read: WikiLeaks and the War : The New Yorker
BBC News - US military curbs 'reduce' Afghan attacks in some areas (reducing civilian killing reduces attacks, and conversely...)
NATO rocket killed 45 Afghan civilians: government | Reuters

Why has the Post series created so little reaction? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert - NYTimes.com
Hearing on Lockerbie Sets Off More Finger-Pointing - NYTimes.com (completely botched)
Verdict Due in the Trial of a Khmer Rouge Figure - NYTimes.com (one bad apple)
CIA Tapes Destroyed Without Lawyers Included On Memo
Pool Parties and Golf - Your Tax Dollars at Work - CBS Evening News - CBS News Questionable Spending at the Department of Justice is Poorly Monitored
How to Relax at Pentagon? Watch Child Porn | SciTechBits - Interesting Bits of Science & Technoglogy Served For You!
Think Progress » McCain On The Iraq War: ‘We Already Won That One’ (in the deluded minds of war-hawk Republicans: mission accomplished!)
Mexican Officials Say Prisoners Acted as Hit Men - NYTimes.com Prisoners in a northern Mexico jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guards’ weapons and vehicles, officials said Sunday, revealing a level of corruption that is stunning even in a country where prison breakouts are common as guards look the other way.

Day 96 - The Latest on the Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
BP CEO to walk away with $18 million: report | Reuters BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward will collect a pay and pension package worth at least 11.8 million pounds ($18.03 million)
Daily Kos: BP to replace Hayward with Dudley BP Is Expected to Replace Chief With American - It's an image move, having nothing to do with substance.
Gulf toxicologist: Shrimpers exposed to Corexit “bleeding from the rectum”; Dispersant “ruptures red blood cells, causes internal bleeding” (VIDEO) | Florida Oil Spill Law (seems to disperse body cells too)
NOAA Admits Toxic Corexit Dispersants May Be In BP Gulf Oil Spill Seafood | Alexander Higgins Blog

No To Oligarchy | The Nation Bernie Sanders
the u.s. middle class is being wiped out here's the stats to prove it: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance (and they do)
Bruce Bartlett on the deficit, economy and VAT: Six questions for Bruce Bartlett | The Economist ("The word “chutzpah” is insufficient to describe how utterly indefensible the Republican position is, intellectually.")
Sources of Our Current Deficit - Brad DeLong (Republicans are hugely responsible for the deficit but won't say so and neither will Dems)
"Can American Conservatism Ever Be Reformed?" - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Ezra Klein - The public's incoherence on spending -- and spending cuts -- in one graph
Ezra Klein - A chart is worth a thousand words
File:PerCapitaInflationAdjustedDefenseSpending.PNG - Wikipedia
The American Spectator : America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution In short, the ruling class has a party, the Democrats. But some two-thirds of Americans -- a few Democratic voters, most Republican voters, and all independents -- lack a vehicle in electoral politics. (+Tribe, Bok, Kagan and Obama)
Trickle Down Meanness - Maxine Udall (girl economist)
High-debt History - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
E.J. Dionne Jr. - Enough right-wing propaganda

Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect Webb And "White Privilege." (conserva-dem outrage at non-existent affirmative action)
Bloggers aren't the problem -- The Washington Post is. | Media Matters for America (including Ruth Marcus, elite wanker who convieniently forgets the Post's own wanking) (EJ: "When an outlandish charge for which there is no evidence is treated as an on-the-one-hand-and-on-the-other-hand issue, the liars win.")
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect - Defining Lynching Down (Jeffrey Lord invents racist definition of lynching)
Matthew Yglesias » The Care and Feeding of the Liberal Psyche - But in terms of emotional impact, nothing will make a difference like Warren. (which is why ...)
Senate Strips Funding For Legal Settlement To Black Farmers From War Bill | TPMMuckraker (what they've always done in racist Amercia)
GOP lawmakers optimistic about 'no' votes (the party of fuck-you)
Ted Haggard: 'I Over-Repented' For My Meth-Gay Prostitute 'Crisis' | TPMMuckraker (said the mouthpiece of Satan)
Danny Westneat | 'Self-made' myth divides us | Seattle Times Newspaper Nowhere is the myth as confused with reality as in rock-ribbed Eastern Washington. The place depends utterly on the government and communal resources for its existence, from the New Deal irrigation system still being paid for by taxpayers elsewhere, to farming subsidies and crop price supports. Yet in their own minds, they are mavericks living off the land (it's always the other guys leeching off big government)
Momentum For Senate Filibuster Reform Builds

The Republicans Approach To Jobless Benefits | Prose Before Hos Senate Republicans filibustered against a bill to extend jobless benefits to over 2 million unemployed Americans, saying they were fiscally unwise and irresponsible given the current national deficit. It’s too bad all of these Republicans voted for Bush’s tax cuts ($34bn vs $2.2 trillion)
U.S. Small-Business Aid May Create $300 Billion of `Junk' Loans - Bloomberg The way lawmakers see it, “everyone’s a good borrower, and that’s just not the case.”
Calculated Risk: Private Investment? Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as saying it is time for private investment to take over from government stimulus (but "there is no reason for significant new private investment.")
HAMP Is Hurting Liberalism | FDL News Desk It’s putting a face of bureaucratic incompetence on a program designed to help people (the program designed to fail, failed: "The Administration designed this entirely on their own, using money already appropriated. And they designed it terribly.")
Neel Kashkari, TARP Guru, Supports Cutting Entitlements, Citing 'Me-First' Attitude Of Beneficiaries (Neel Kashkari, head of the Program Designed to Fail is moving on to make sure Social Security fails: people actually expect to get back the money they paid in! give it to the bankers!)
Goldman reveals where bailout cash went - USATODAY.com Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public Friday night.

Op-Ed Columnist - Who Cooked the Planet? - NYTimes.com But will any of the deniers say “O.K., I guess I was wrong,” and support climate action? No. (SATSQ)
Monarch migration mystery solved by Canadian researchers - Winnipeg Free Press why monarch butterflies east of the Appalachians showed up later in the year than those found west of the mountain range, which runs roughly from Atlantic Canada to Alabama.
Growing Body Parts - 60 Minutes - CBS News
Quantum time machine 'allows paradox-free time travel' - Telegraph Quantum physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe it is possible to create a time machine which could affect the past without creating a "grandfather paradox". ("post-selection" the new "back-action?")
Gamma-Ray Bursts Could Halt Photosynthesis | Wired Science | Wired.com
Edge: The New Science Of Morality

The Real Scoop on Ad Age in the 'Mad Men' Era - Advertising Age - Rance Crain
L.A. Places: Pasadena: Arts and Crafts
Paul Raushenbush: The Complex Power and Wisdom of Religious Texts: Introducing HuffPost's Scripture Commentary Series (along with crystal healing, quack doctors and Creationism)
How Religious Is Your State? - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (American South: MS, AL, AK, LA, TN, SC, OK, NC, GA, KY)
NVSRP: Deaths: Final Data for 2006 (highest in religious states)
Five Best Book Recommendation Services

MediaShift . Writers Explain What It's Like Toiling on the Content Farm | PBS
MediaShift: Search Results | PBS : content farms

Sissy Bounce, New Orleans’s Gender-Bending Rap - NYTimes.com
Fired Over Facebook: 13 Posts That Got People Canned
AT&T's Insane Service Plan Strategy | Sascha Segan | PCMag.com
iPhone 'Jailbreaking' Legal Under New Government Rules (Apple can no longer sue you for using "their" phone but that's all)
50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers - Smashing Magazine
Major Flaw Found in Apple’s Safari Browser
Android 3.0: 10 things Google should change | News | TechRadar UK

072510
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation | World news | The Guardian
Inside the Fog of War - Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com (notice the difference)
US Troops Captured In Afghanistan: Report
Idea of Boycotting Israel Is Repellent - Newsweek - The very idea is repellent (said the Zionist neocons at Newsweek)
U.S. Military Strike On Iran Likely, Ex-CIA Chief Says Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush,
British girls undergo horror of genital mutilation despite tough laws | Society | The Observer Female circumcision will be inflicted on up to 2,000 British schoolgirls during the summer holidays – leaving brutal physical and emotional scars. Yet there have been no prosecutions against the practice
The blackest hearts: War crimes in Iraq | World news | The Guardian In March 2006, four US soldiers, strung out after months in the deadly battleground south of Baghdad, hatched a plan: to carry out one of the worst war crimes ever committed in Iraq
Germany to Investigate Deaths in 'Love Parade' Stampede - WSJ.com
Death Toll Rises to 19: Focus Shifts to Organizers after Love Parade Stampede - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
China’s Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet - NYTimes.com
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima' - Middle East, World - The Independent The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about battle
WHO | Depleted uranium
How to Write about Haiti - Haiti Rewired

National Journal Magazine - The Gray And The Brown: The Generational Mismatch A contrast in priorities is arising between nonwhite young voters and white, older voters - Minorities now make up more than two-fifths of all children under 18, and they will represent a majority of all American children by as soon as 2023 ... fully four-fifths of this rapidly expanding senior population is white
Records Show Doubts on ’64 Vietnam Crisis - NYTimes.com - Even at the time, there was widespread skepticism about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in which the North Vietnamese were said to have attacked American destroyers on Aug. 4, 1964, two days after an earlier clash. (but no one wanted to say that Johnson lied us into war ...)

Feinberg: He's Not Writing Checks Because BP Hasn't Put Money In Liability Account Yet | Crooks and Liars (beginning to sound like ...)
Gulf Oil Spill: BP Tries To Block Release Of Oil Spill Research (facts are anti-corporate and must be hidden)
BP CEO Tony Hayward To resign Before Tuesday: Reports (rich, clueless twerp to quit)

Howard Dean Calls Fox News 'Absolutely Racist' For Handling Of Shirley Sherrod Controversy (like, hello?)
Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Johanna Wald - After Shirley Sherrod, we all need to slow down and listen The subtext to all this? Let's wrap up this incident quickly so we can all go on our vacations guilt-free, secure in the knowledge that our "post-racial society" remains intact.
Op-Ed Columnist - There’s a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin’ - NYTimes.com What does it say about America now, and where it is heading, that a racial provocateur, wielding a deceptively edited video, could not only smear an innocent woman but make every national institution that touched the story look bad? ... This wasn’t a failure of due diligence — there was no diligence. (there's a pattern here)
Op-Ed Columnist - You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing - NYTimes.com - The Obama White House is too white - The West Wing white guys who pushed to ditch Shirley Sherrod before Glenn Beck could pounce not only didn’t bother to Google, they weren’t familiar enough with civil rights history to recognize the name Sherrod.
On the Media: Even when in error, Andrew Breitbart is on the attack - latimes.com "Above all, attack, attack, attack," Giles said. "Never defend."
Think Progress » Breitbart’s New Conspiracy Theory: The ‘Purported’ Farmer’s Wife Is A Plant - In his desperation to defend his ugly tactics, Breitbart is resorting to dragging an innocent family’s name through the mud.(wouldn't be the first time, would it?)
Sarah Palin Facebook Post DELETED, Social Network Apologizes (for racist Palin comment)
Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades - NYTimes.com (too extreme for America)
Balkinization: "Persuasion" versus "authority" (and "authoritarianism") in the law (Kennedy not "swing vote" SC firmly in the hands of extemists)
Is the ‘Kennedy Court’ Over? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com Is the ‘Kennedy Court’ Over? (no, and it won't be for a long time)
Putting A Face To The Cost Of Dem Cowering - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime Putting A Face To The Cost Of Dem Cowering - The vast majority of working Americans have suffered from this horribly damaging reflex from the Obama Administration and the Dems (the timidity of governing: the mistake of electing of black Pres who's afraid of "racial controversy" and just about everything else)
Robert Greenwald: Carly Fiorina: Runs to the Tea Party, Away From the Truth (the destroyer of HP wants to T-party California)
Angle Backtracks On Social Security: 'I've Never Said' I Wanted To Scrap It (video) | TPMDC
Conservative Counter-Event Boasts Bigger Size Than Netroots (But It's Not) | TPMDC
Daily Kos: There is a group of people, mainly older, conservative, white males, who believe that blacks get too many advantages. The false story about Ms. Sherrod feeds that narrative.
Why Friends Don’t Let Friends Cite The Atlantic’s “Business and Economics Editor”: Further to the Megan McArdle is Always Wrong chronicles. « The Inverse Square Blog (McMegan McAddled McArdle and the shame of the Atlantic +Loathesome)
Mesmerized by the Right | Firedoglake

After bailouts, new autoworkers make half as much as veterans in same plant After bailouts, new autoworkers make half as much as veterans in same plant (why, it's almost like the banksters planned that ...)
Timothy Geithner: Allow Bush Tax Cuts For The Wealthy To Expire (video)
Al Franken Endorses Elizabeth Warren For Consumer Protection Bureau
Why Conservatives Hate Keynes | Firedoglake
The political genius of supply-side economics | Martin Wolf's Exchange | FT.com

UK government warned over 'catastrophic' cuts : Nature News Royal Society predicts 'game over' for British science (rightwing governments everywhere hate science)
Mayan king's tomb discovered in Guatemala

Does Language Influence Culture? - WSJ.com New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish - About a third of the world's languages (spoken in all kinds of physical environments) rely on absolute directions for space ... Pormpuraawans, we found, arranged time from east to west.
The Advantages of Being Helpless: Scientific American Human brains are slow to develop--a secret, perhaps, of our success
Guest Blog: Frans de Waal on the human primate: Strength is weakness
The Advantages of Being Helpless: Scientific American Human brains are slow to develop--a secret, perhaps, of our success
A man outside: John A Hall's biography of Ernest Gellner - The National Newspaper
McLemee on Hall on Gellner — Crooked Timber
Book Review: Ernest Gellner - WSJ.com A defender of the West when it was most embattled, a defender of reason at a time of dangerous irrationality.
Zip It by Paul Romer, City Journal 23 July 2010

Condé Nast Hopes to Wean Itself From Ad Revenue - NYTimes.com - publisher of titles like Vogue and Vanity Fair that are wildly expensive to produce yet cost subscribers as little as a dollar, is betting its future that the answer is yes.
Norman Spinrad At Large: Eat The Canada Geese!!
Daily Kos: Most Successful Conspiracy Theory Evah (anti-global warming)

The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com (famous on the internets for all eternity)
YouTube - Sparks Jane Wiedlin Cool Places

Top 50 Branded Facebook Pages, June 2010: Clear Winners Emerge | Ignite Social Media
Quick & Easy PC Setup for Windows XP - Allmyapps

072410
North Korea Warns of Nuclear Response to Naval Exercises - Bloomberg
Netanyahu: I deceived US to destroy Oslo accords > Palestine > Damaging video released - He dismisses the US as “easily moved to the right direction” and calls high levels of popular American support for Israel “absurd”.
U.S. tries to calm Iraqis over hazardous waste | McClatchy
Associated Press: Saudi: OK to uncover face in anti-burqa countries
US Soldiers Kidnapped In Afghanistan: Report
LRB · Gareth Peirce · The Framing of al-Megrahi
U.S. charges top leaders of Tijuana-based drug cartel - latimes.com

Crime and punishment in America: Rough justice | The Economist America locks up too many people, some for acts that should not even be criminal (while the real criminals ...)
Penal reform in South Carolina: Prisons full, coffers empty | The Economist Southern Republicans think it’s time to slow down the growth of locking up (American South a prison-state)
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » A Nation of Jailers
Rough justice in America: Too many laws, too many prisoners | The Economist Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little
Trading prisoners in the Low Countries: It's a deal | The Economist (prisoner shortage in W.Europe)
Emptier prisons: Inmate population drops for first time in 40 years - CSMonitor.com The number of inmates in state prisons declined in 2009 after a long upswing. Efforts to control skyrocketing corrections budgets are a key reason.
Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex - Infoshop News
Daily Kos :: Diaries - Criminal InJustice

Gulf Coast Oil Spill Could Cost Tourism Industry $22.7 BILLION, Study Finds
Researchers confirm subsea Gulf oil plumes are from BP well | McClatchy
BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle | CommonDreams.org
Daily Kos: BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: 60
Success at containing earlier oil spills led to BP gusher | McClatchy

CNN anchors attack the scourge of anonymity - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - the plague of "anonymous bloggers" who are "a bunch of cowards" for not putting their names on what they say, and who use this anonymity to spread "conspiracy," "lunacy," "extremism" and false accusations (from the most trusted name in propaganda and lies +Roberts is creepy)
Scenes From the Gulf Clean-Up: Local Crew Takes On BP - National - The Atlantic

Breitbart lied about Shirley Sherrod. Now he's lying about the NAACP. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine Breitbart lied about Shirley Sherrod. Now he's lying about the NAACP.
Timeline of Breitbart's Sherrod smear | Media Matters for America - On CNN Newsroom, Sherrod claims she was told to resign because she would "be on Glenn Beck tonight."
Did fear of racial backlash trigger administration blunder? | McClatchy
Bob Herbert - Shirley Sherrod, Thrown to the Wolves - NYTimes.com - The most obvious and shameful fact is that the Obama administration, which runs from race issues the way thoroughbreds bolt from the starting gate, did not offer this woman anything resembling fair or respectful treatment before firing and publicly humiliating her.
Shirley Sherrod To Obama: Come To Georgia, See How 'Regular Folks' Live
Daily Kos: The Corporate Empire Strikes Back: Corporate Dems Seek "Alternative" To Public Option. Again. (again)
Alaska terrorism: Terrorism case shocks remote Alaska town - latimes.com The FBI says the weatherman in tiny King Salmon, aided by his wife, had an assassination list and was an adherent of Islamic extremism.
Judge Blocks Arizona Law That Would Eliminate Domestic Partner Benefits For Gay State Workers
Hidden Danger: How The GOP Could Kill Health Reform Without Repealing It | TPMDC
GOP Rep. And TN-GOV Candidate Wamp: States Might Have To 'Consider Separation From This Government' | TPMDC (please!)
Coburn Turns Over Emails To Feds Investigating Ensign Scandal | TPMMuckraker Coburn and Ensign were roommates at a Christian house on C Street at the time of the affair.
Hullabaloo The Five Circles of Conservative Hell

Prop 19 Legalizing Marijuana Would Generate “Hundreds of Millions” Annually for the State According to Official Analysis | Elections
White House: 9% unemployment until 2012 - Jul. 23, 2010 (or maybe 10 or 11% ... remember when?)
Here Comes The Real Stress: Only 27% Of China Project Loans To Be Repaid In Full | zero hedge

The safety and efficacy of ±3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with chronic, treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder: the first randomized controlled pilot study — J Psychopharmacol (MDMA)

I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space!!! » Archive » Issue 01 Cover
what I got wrong about LUGs « Emily Nagoski :: sex nerd ::

Correspondent's diary: By the West Pier | The Economist Our Obituaries Editor's diary

How to Organize Your Life with Springpad
The Holy Grail of Ubiquitous Plain-Text Capture

072310
Pentagon Child Porn Scandal: Security Agencies Were Left At Risk, Investigators Say dozens of military officials and defense contractors, including some with top-level security clearances, allegedly bought and downloaded child pornography on private or government computers.
New Believers: A Religious Revolution In China : NPR China's Leaders Harness Folk Religion For Their Aims
Table: The World's Happiest Countries - Forbes.com

Protofascism Comes to America | Commentary | AltWeeklies.com - "The Tea Party is a protofascist movement."
Eco - "Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt"
LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Resistance Is Surrender
No To Oligarchy | The Nation - The 400 richest families in America, who saw their wealth increase by some $400 billion during the Bush years, have now accumulated $1.27 trillion in wealth.

Gulf Oil Spill: Feds Work To Put A Price On Damage
Oil Rig Alarm Was Not Fully Turned On, Worker Says - NYTimes.com (they "didn't want to wake anyone up")

Abortion Supporters Now Blast Administration Over Health Law : NPR (Obama's "Stupak on Steroids")
Republicans Threaten Repeals, Subpoenas If They Take Back The House (it's what they do)
GOP Rep. And TN-GOV Candidate Wamp: States Might Have To 'Consider Separation From This Government' | TPMDC (over Health Care Reform, the new slavery
"Grassroots" Rove-linked group funded almost entirely by billionaires - War Room - Salon.com Four of them, including three from Dallas, have put up 97 percent of the money for his new political operation (payback time)
Rockies Gone Wild: Colorado Races Devolve Into All-Out War
Paul Dobson, Phoenix Cop Who Opposes Arizona Immigration Law, Is Now Under Investigation - Arizona policy considers only certain types of public opinions off-limits for officers. (profiling opinions)
FORA.tv - Race, Rights, and Politics in America # NAACP President Says Van Jones Fired Over Neo-McCarthyism (and Obama want to avoid any "racial controversy" which proved to be an excellent strategy)
The Washington Monthly - Blame Where Blame Is Due (Senate fucks up Energy Bill)
Rachel Maddow Responds To Bill O'Reilly Over Shirley Sherrod, Ratings (video)
Not Smart to Run Against Obama | FrumForum
The Washington Monthly . The far-right Washington Times published two op-eds, on the same page, on the same day, demanding the impeachment of President Obama.
Mass. Sen. Kerry docks yacht in RI, saving $500K - Boston.com Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is docking his family's new $7 million yacht in neighboring Rhode Island, allowing him to avoid paying roughly $500,000 in taxes to his cash-strapped home sta
Inhofe Still Insists 'We're In A Cold Spell': Is The Heat Getting To The Senator? (more batshitinsane Inhofe)

Are Depressions Necessary? | The American Prospect The current crisis has revived an old debate about the utility of economic downturns - More like the forest fire caused by a careless camper than the natural cleansings produced by mother nature. (Samuelson vs Krugman +careless camper = bankers +we're not cleansing the real rottenness)
Pay Czar Criticizes 17 Bailed-Out Banks For Huge Pay Packages -- But Won't Go After Money Already Paid
HAMP Comedy: Requiring a Death Certificate for a Modification Edition. « Rortybomb (the program Obama designed to fail, did even better!)
TARP Watchdog Questions if HAMP Results are Worth the Cost « HousingWire (program designed to fail, failed in more ways than one: success! +Geitner)
Calculated Risk: Deflation Watch
Why Obama will nominate Warren (Felix Solomon is optimistic)
Barney Frank: Elizabeth Warren Should Head CFPB, By Recess Appointment If Necessary
For-Profit Colleges and the Student-Loan-Default Gap | Fast Company students at for-profits are much more likely to default on student loans -- 23% default after four years compared to fewer than 10% of public-university grads.
Race and Class | Mother Jones . We could target based on poverty, perhaps with some sort of regional cost of living adjustments. (wait 'til Fox gets ahold of this)

More than 100 Earth-like planets found in just past few weeks | Mail Online
asteroids_comets_sc_0-000-100_2010.png (PNG) Asteroids/comets visited in scale)

The Beauty Advantage: How Looks Affect Your Work, Your Career, Your Life - Newsweek Handsome men earn, on average, 5 percent more than their less-attractive counterparts (good-looking women earn 4 percent more)
Parking takes up space - Greater Greater Washington
The Photo That Brought AIDS Home - Photo Gallery - LIFE
Die young, live fast: The evolution of an underclass - life - 22 July 2010 - New Scientist

Last Kodachrome roll processed in Parsons | Business News for Wichita Kansas | Local Journal of Wichita Business News and Kansas Business News | Wichita Eagle
YouTube - Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City

How HuffingtonPost Will Take Over The New York Times
Analyzing The Facebook Contract: Is Mark Zuckerberg Screwed?
India's Rs.1,500 laptop a godsend for students
Malware Spreading Via USB Drives -- Malware -- InformationWeek - The Stuxnet rootkit launches even with AutoRun and AutoPlay disabled and is known to affect Windows 7 Enterprise Edition x86 operating systems.
UPDATE: Should you be worried about the Windows "LNK" vulnerability? | ZDNet
Can Windows kill the Internet? - Computerworld Blogs
Microsoft LNK Vulnerability Brief Technical Analysis(CVE-2010-2568) - Security Labs
Mitigating .LNK Exploitation With SRP « Didier Stevens
Ariad « Didier Stevens
Secunia: Apple software has the most holes | Software, Interrupted - CNET News
Remove Antivir Solution Pro (Uninstall Guide) (like Anti-Virus 2009 trojan)

072210
State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq | McClatchy - State Department "contractors"
Court Says Kosovo Independence Legal, Expect More States | HULIQ - If yes to Kosovo, why not Karabakh, Abkhazia and S. Ossetia
BBC News - G20: No charges over Ian Tomlinson demo death (just like America)
No charges over Ian Tomlinson G20 death // Current
YouTube - IDF Officer refuses to protect Palestinians
A fifth of girls pregnant by 18, survey reveals - UK - The Independent

Gulf Oil Efforts SUSPENDED: BP Shuts Down Well Work Due To Bad Weather
Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Safety Concerns - NYTimes.com

Eugene Robinson - Obama needs to stand up to 'reverse racism' ploy
Shame on Obama? | Talking Points Memo
Vilsack, White House apologize to former USDA official - CNN.com - Vilsack told reporters that he alone made the decision regarding Sherrod, with no White House involvement. (oh, sure)
Tom Vilsack: Shirley Sherrod Has 'Been Put Through Hell,' Deserves New Job (Drudge rocks their world)
Sherrod: I'm a Victim of Breitbart, Fox 'Racism' | Media Matters for America - "The news media should tell it like it is and not the way they want it to be," she said.
In meeting, Messina praised Sherrod handling - Ben Smith - politico.com (chickenshits)
Keith Olbermann Blasts Fox News Over Shirley Sherrod, Begs Obama To Stop Enabling Them (he can't control his Republican impulses)
Rachel Maddow Show: Omission Accomplish (White House firing of Sherrod at Breitbart and Fox's behest)
The Plum Line - Shirley Sherrod blasts Fox News as racist
Beck Subtext: Obama Planning to Assassinate Tea Partiers | Informed Comment
I-580 shooter was headed to ACLU and other non-profit to kill people | abc7news.com (same organizations targeted by Beck for assassination)
The shame of right-wing "journalism" - Joan Walsh - Salon.com Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson distort facts to smear liberals, and it works. What liberals should learn
Woolsey to introduce ‘robust public option’ bill | Raw Story

Senate Democrats’ Plan to Aid Small Businesses Hits G.O.P. Resistance - NYTimes.com - One Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted against it. (is really a Republican)
Weekly Claims Turn Higher, Keeping Jobs Outlook Fragile - CNBC New U.S. claims for jobless benefits climbed more steeply than anticipated last week, the latest sign that the moribund labor market is struggling to recover.
Key Democrat backs keeping tax cuts for rich - Yahoo! - Senator Kent Conrad (is really a Repubican)
Geithner Refuses To Say Whether He'd Be Happy With Warren Leading Consumer Agency
No Fed Plans for More Economic Support, Bernanke Says - NYTimes.com (let them eat nothing)
Boehner's three brothers lost jobs during recession - TheHill.com he agrees with other Republicans that the cost of extending unemployment benefits should be offset with other spending cuts.(+tax cuts for the rich)s
As credit card holders play it safe, issuers increase non-penalty service fees

Antibody Neutralizes 91% of HIV Strains, Strong Step Towards a Vaccine | Singularity Hub
BBC News - Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there in 50 years.

Attention Disorders Can Take a Toll on Marriage - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries : NPR
BBC News - 'Cut down on meat to lose weight'

Fred Wilson: Apple is evil and Facebook is just a photo-sharing site | VentureBeat
Verizon To Kill Unlimited Data Plan This Month? (who could have predicted?)
Researchers: Authentication crack could affect millions - Computerworld

072110
World-Wide Military expenditures : America's sacred, banktupting military /a>
Interview with Mariela Castro: 'We Need Changes in Cuba' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington.
Bill Clinton: Pushing Free Trade On Haiti Was A 'Mistake' That Contributed To Hunger | Crooks and Liars
Palestinian jailed for rape after claiming to be Jewish - Telegraph A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with an Israeli woman who believed he was Jewish because he introduced himself as "Daniel". (sex while being non-Jewish a crime)

BP's oil spill caused by fed's 'dangerous culture of permissiveness' | McClatchy

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : No Crimes Re:Bush US Attorneys
Hullabaloo Forced Pregnancy For Sick People (Obama's great compromise: "Stupak on steroids")
Obama administration apologizes for firing Shirley Sherrod | McClatchy Apparently fearing conservative attacks that it was anti-white, the administration of the nation's first black president rushed to dismiss her without asking to see the rest of the video or waiting to learn other facts about her. (White House fingerprints all over this)
Firing of USDA official (Shirley Sherrod for something she didn't say 24 yrs ago) highlights larger political problems involving race A fuzzy video of an Agriculture Department official opened a new front Tuesday in the ongoing war between the left and right over which side is at fault for stoking persistent forces of racism in politics (another fake video from Andrew "Slimeball" Breitbart)
Will media fall for Breitbart's attempt to spin his spectacular failure? | Media Matters for America (satsq: yes)
Shirley Sherrod Scandal: How The White House Is Backing Away From The Decision To Fire Her - she was fired because everyone panicked in the face of a media scandal that turned out to be non-existent and which unraveled the moment people began the work of diligent verification (more lies from the Obama team)
American Crossroads GPS, New Rove Group, Has Dems Questioning Obama's Political Operations
Bush Official on Sex, Meth and Oil: What's the Big Deal? | Mother Jones (Gale Snortin')
Think Progress » Ben Stein: The Unemployed Are People With ‘Unpleasant Personalities…Who Do Not Know How To Do A Day’s Work’ (Ben Stein: fat, rich, stupid, selfish Republican like the ones that caused the economy to crash)

Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Surprisingly Passes - TIME
Inside Man - Magazine - The Atlantic Timothy Geithner
The Top 10 Things You May Not Know About the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act | The White House No more taxpayer-funded bailouts. If a company can’t make it, it will have to liquidate.
Hullabaloo: digby: Exploding the Social Security Myths - They have been lying for 70 years
You Won't Believe How Little Stimulus We'll Get If We Diverted The Bush Tax Cuts Into Stimulus Spending (Megan McAddled McArdle can't do math, makes a fool of herself and the Atlantic)
Fiscal Drag - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com we continue to expect extension of most of the expiring 2001/2003 tax cuts. This adds almost a full percentage point to the drag on growth from Q4 2010 to Q4 2011 to what we had already estimated (Goldman: Repubican tax-cuts a drag on the economy)
Dems to Extend Bush’s Middle Class Tax Cuts - Swampland - TIME.com
Unemployment Extension: Republicans Delay Final Vote

BBC News - Astronomers detect 'monster star'
Having White Roofs Would Save the U.S. $735 Million per Year | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

What really happened to Phoebe Prince? - By Emily Bazelon - Slate Magazine - "I've wrestled with how much of this information to publish. Phoebe's family has suffered terribly. But when the D.A. charged kids with causing Phoebe's death and threatened them with prison, she invited an inquiry into other potential causes. The whole story is a lot more complicated than anyone has publicly allowed for." (un-intended consequences)

Selling A Positive Self-Image / Group weighs in on advertising impact Group weighs in on advertising impact
About-Face: body image, media, eating disorders, and more
New Smithson!- Why I Hate Anthony By Shaenon K. Garrity
pandagon.net: Nice Guy-ism, now in cartoon form!
Flickr Photo Download: For Worse or For Worse
"Smithson" Written by Shaenon Garrity, Art by Robert Stevenson, Brian Moore, and Roger Langridge
Hulu - Parks and Recreation: I'm Just a Girl
Widow of fallen Wharton firefighter at center of legal dispute | Chron.com | The family of a Wharton firefighter who died battling a massive egg farm blaze is fighting to keep his widow from receiving death benefits, arguing that the 37-year-old had found out his bride of two years was born a man.

Pulse of the Nation: U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter

072010
Cause and effect in the War on Terror - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Britain, unlike the U.S., is currently in the process of Looking Backward, Not Forward, as they investigate both the events that led them to the attack on Iraq as well as their involvement in America's torture regime ... the U.S.-led invasions had substantially raised the number of plots against Britain. (Obama: no moral center)
A Rumsfeld-era reminder about what causes Terrorism - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (2009)

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Reject the Diaspora, Threatening to Split World Jewry Last week, a committee in the Israeli Knesset passed a measure that would effectively undermine all branches of Judaism other than the most militantly Orthodox.
Israel to Diaspora: Drop Dead - The Atlantic
Friedman - Can We Talk? - NYTimes.com - I find Nasr’s firing troubling
Kwon Ho Ung, North Korea Official, Reportedly Executed North Korea executed a former Cabinet official who was in charge of talks with South Korea,

BP's Photoshopped Command Center Just The Latest In A Pattern Of Deception
Interior Secretaries Under Bush And Obama Exposed By House Panel For Lax Oversight Of Oil Drilling

Alan Grayson To Republicans Blocking Unemployment: 'May God Have Mercy On Your Souls' (what souls?)

Pension fund takes control of Philadelphia's 10 Rittenhouse Square condo building | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/20/2010

Elizabeth Warren Could Head CFPB Without Senate Confirmation (but little Timmy hates women)
Tim Geithner’s Ninth Political Life « The Baseline Scenario - Financial “reform” is already very weak. If Secretary Geithner gets his way on consumers protection, pretty much all of the Democrats efforts vis-à-vis the financial sector’s treatment of customers have been for naught. (nothing succeeds for Republicans like huge failures)
Information Processing: Social Darwinism: 21st century edition

Information Processing: Social Darwinism: 21st century edition
3quarksdaily - Darwin's Method
The Domestication of Man: the Social Implications of Darwin - Powered by Google Docs
Adventures in Very Recent Evolution - NYTimes.com
The Dragon's Tales: Once Upon the Permian: Beaked Bites of a Lost Lineage

SpringerLink - Journal Article False rape allegations - These false rape allegations constitute 41% the total forcible rape cases (n =109) reported during this period.
They called me a child pornographer - Salon.com I took some photos of my kids naked on a camping trip. A drugstore employee called the police -- and my family's life became a living hell - t out of the nearly 3 million child abuse reports made every year, seven in 10 of them are without merit. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 60 percent of child abuse or neglect reports are "unsubstantiated.

Henry Blodget: Murdoch's First Newspaper Paywall Not Off to a Great Start Some early numbers are leaking on Rupert Murdoch's London Times paywall experiment.
Times loses almost 90% of online readership | Media | guardian.co.uk Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic

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071910
Top Secret America | washingtonpost.com (mostly costly waste +giving up privacy to make you less secure)
A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space.
Frontline video | washingtonpost.com
The Real U.S. Government - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com . Secrecy is the religion of the political class, and the prime enabler of its corruption ... "amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight." (lookin' at you, Pres Above-It-All)
Wanted by the CIA: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk (Obama's war on things he doesn't want you to know)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Wikileaks on TED

Haass: Time to Get Out of Afghanistan - Newsweek Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan.
US military build-up in Kandahar will bolster Taliban, warns security monitor | World news | The Guardian Nato's counterinsurgency tactic shows no signs of success, says Afghanistan NGO Security Office (doing what we do well: making things worse - but good for Halliburton!)
Op-Ed Columnist - Rome Fiddles, We Burn - NYTimes.com If the Vatican is trying to restore the impression that its moral sense is intact, issuing a document that equates pedophilia with the ordination of women doesn’t really do that.
Pakistani Taxes Widen Divide Between Rich and Poor - NYTimes.com because the politicians who make the rules are also the country’s richest citizens, and are skilled at finding ways to exempt themselves.(why that sounds like ...)
July 2011 “Withdrawal” From Afghanistan to Include Four Troops, One Damaged Field Medical Kit | FDL News Desk
Gurkha ordered back to UK after beheading dead Taliban fighter | Mail Online (winning the hearts and heads)
Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Muslim bus drivers’ ban on guide dogs
Muslim bus drivers refuse to let guide dogs on board? *UPDATED* | Daily Mail Watch
Syria Bans Full Islamic Veils At Universities
The Department of Justice and Law Reform: Ahern Welcomes Coming Into Law of Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010
BBC News - Seventeen partygoers shot dead in Mexico 'Kill them all' (your Republican war on drugs and other countries)
Matthew Yglesias » Shocking True Tales of Austerity: Bleak Growth Outlook Leads to Loss of Investor Confidence in Irish Debt (they protected their bankers, too)

U.S. Tells BP to Prepare for Reopening Oil Well After Seep Found - Bloomberg Allen said a “seep” was found “a distance” from the well and anomalies had been observed at the well head ("seep" = gusher)
Firedoglake “Do you think the spill proves off-shore drilling is just too dangerous and should be banned in U.S. waters, or was this a freak accident and offshore drilling can be made safer and should not be banned?” (nice framing, Michael)
Oil Cap Leak? Coast Guard Concerned About Seabed Floor Leak, BP Wants Cap On

Hullabaloo: Ratigan's Righteous Rant - Today he's ragging on GE. I wonder how much longer he'll last.
Op-Ed Columnist - Dog Days of Obama - NYTimes.com “Only 13 percent of Americans say Mr. Obama’s economic programs, among them the stimulus package, have helped them personally. Twenty-three percent say they have hurt, while 63 percent say they have had no effect.” Ouch. (Pres "I'm Not Leaving My Bunker")
Think Progress » Sessions And Cornyn Refuse To Detail GOP Agenda, Offer Zero ‘Painful Choices’ To Cut Spending GREGORY: But wait a minute, conservatives need a Democratic president’s debt commission to figure out what it is they need to cut?
Daily Kos: GOP wants to go back to the good old days of George W. Bush
Judge a Presidency By Its Crises Avoided - TIME
The GOP’s Phony Religious Diversity: Peter Beinart on Nikki Haley - The Daily Beast religious barriers are alive and well. Just ask Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley. Peter Beinart on the GOP’s phony diversity ... The GOP’s basic problem is that many Republicans equate Christianity, or at least Judeo-Christianity, with Americanism
The Washington Monthly 0 When Trent Lott Is The Voice Of Reason - But Lott said he's not expecting a tea-party sweep. "I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people," he said.
Democracy Corps » Special Report on the Tea Party Movement The Tea Party is a grass-roots, intensely ideological, conservative Republican movement, fired up by Fox News and Glenn Beck. It is not remotely an independent or populist revolt against the elites or a working class revolt rooted in frustration with the recession, Wall Street and government
Hullabaloo: digby: It's Official (tparty heros: Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, otherwise they're just very conservative, dumb, Republicans)
Tea Party movement funding - SourceWatch (the usual "independent" suspects like Rove and Freedom Works)
Geoffrey Dunn: Palin's Bigoted Twitter Calls on Muslims to "Refudiate" (go tbaggers)
The Tea Party’s hawk | The Cable Sarah Palin is waging a battle inside the Tea Party movement to exempt defense spending from the group's small-government, anti-deficit fervor.
Mel Gibson's tirades are the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry of right-wing Catholic ideology. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine His tirades are the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry of right-wing Catholic ideology ... what he is issuing is the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry—and sexual hypocrisy—that stretches from the Crusades through the Inquisition to the "concordats" between the church and Hitler and Mussolini.
What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand? (jpg)

5 Financial Bubbles: Are We Facing a Bubble of Bubbles? | Balance Junkie
Unemployment Extension: The GOP's Nearly Unprecedented Deficit Demands Congress has never allowed extended unemployment benefits to lapse at a time when the national unemployment rate is above 7.2 percent.
Calculated Risk: Summers: More Fiscal Stimulus Now, Reduce Deficits when economy has recovered
John R. Talbott: The Real Reason Geithner Is Afraid of Elizabeth Warren Geithner, being very close to the nation's biggest banks, is concerned that Warren, if chosen, will exercise her new policing and enforcement powers to restrict those abusive practices at our commercial banks that have been harmful to consumers and depositors (+she's a woman)
Robert Kuttner: The Warren Drama: Another Missed Opportunity? (hanging another woman out to dry and choosing a busniness-friendly guy instead)
A Keynesian Success Story: Germany's New Economic Miracle - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International During the worst of the global financial meltdown, Berlin pumped tens of billions of euros into the economy and spent hundreds of billions propping up German banks. Now, the country is reaping the benefits as Germany is once again Europe's economic motor (Obama/Summers/Geitner/Repubicans missed opportunity)

AIDS breakthrough: Gel helps prevent infection A vaginal gel containing an AIDS drug cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner.
Black Holes: Peering Into the Heart of Darkness (w/ Video)
Rivers of Ice - Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya
Naval laser test blasts drones from the sky - usatoday.com

WGBH | Station | Forum Network | Free Online Lectures from PBS and NPR
BBC News - Swiss bank to lift lid on hidden Kafka works the Israeli state claims them as part of the country's cultural heritage ... arguing that because Kafka was Jewish, his works belong there. (that could be a useful precedent)
DIY medicine on YouTube: It’s not a how-to, people! - The Globe and Mail
The Agnostic Cartographer - John Gravois
Why Do Anonymous Geeks Hate Scientologists?
Why Online Dating Is So Unsatisfying | Dan Ariely | Big Think
Postcards from a Peaceful Divorce

Cyberwarrior Shortage Threatens U.S. Security : NPR there are now only 1,000 people in the entire United States with the sophisticated skills needed for the most demanding cyberdefense tasks
Jezebel v. Jon Stewart – Why We Worry But a review of the Jezebel staff (listed on the left of their page) reveals that the number of male writers/editors is quite low. Zero. (pot, kettle)
11-Year-Old Viral Video Star Placed Under Police Protection After Death Threats ... An astonishingly profane rant in which Jessi tells Internet haters to "suck my non-existent penis" and "Get AIDS and die" and hurls epithets no 11-year-old should know. (parent fail)
Windows token kidnapping returns to haunt Microsoft | ZDNet
WPA CRACKER WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes, for only $17.
Internet Accuracy Project
Google to Discontinue Nexus One

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The NYT's nationalistic double standard - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The New York Times' editorial policy -- it cannot be "torture" if the United States does it ("rough interrogation")
U.S. has now lost 75 percent of Guantanamo habeas cases | McClatchy
State Department warns employees about new website highlighting Top Secret facilities | The Cable (that would be illegal top-secret "facilities")

EU Authorities: Implementation of Net Surveillance Directive Is Unlawful | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Nini and the European Dream - The Globe and Mail - In Spain, almost everyone is ‘not in education or employment.’ It’s the end of the job for life
Odierno: Iran 'training militants' to attack U.S. troops in Iraq | McClatchy
Burka ban ruled out by immigration minister - Telegraph Britain will not follow France by introducing a law banning women from wearing the burka, the immigration minister has ruled.
Yubari: From the culture of coal to the cult of caramel « Spike Japan
“Do I have your permission to say something sexual?” – Scotland’s new law against “indecent communication” | openDemocracy - It will soon be illegal to communicate with someone sexually – either in writing or in speech – without obtaining their consent
African Immigration to Europe - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Joe Sacco: Not in my country | World news | The Guardian A tale of unwanted immigrants

BP execs should go to jail - Baltimore Sun
Giant oil skimmer won't work in Gulf spill cleanup - Yahoo! News
Obama To Open Up 1.8 Million Alaskan Acres To Oil Drilling

Presidential Job Approval Center
Wash. Post ombudsman says his paper should cover the phony New Black Panthers story | Media Matters for America (because Fox had 95 phony stories)
YouTube - Rachel Maddow - ACORN gets the Last Laugh (except for that little de-funding; another story Fox ran with and the rest of the media followed)
Video Cafe » NAACP president on NBPP: 'They're not in our group' "The reality here is that the New Black Panther Party is like 12 people, 13 people" (but worth 95 stories on Fox - why, it's ACORN all over again!)
Why is CNN still allowing Mark Williams on its network? | Media Matters for America - Mark Williams' own fellow tea partiers no longer want anything to do with him, why does CNN? (RNN)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » I’d Recommend a Shitload of Scotch (+great writing from JC)
The Embarrassing Racist 'Satire' of Tea Party Leader Mark Williams
Tea Party Federation Expels Mark Williams Over 'Offensive' Response To NAACP's Racism Charge
YouTube - Tea Party Signs You Won't See on TV

Cassandra Time - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com there was only one chance at doing this on a sufficient scale. And the administration didn’t take that chance (no vision, no knowledge, no moral center)
Obama's Economic Dilemma: To Spend or Not to Spend - TIME
More On Deficit Limits - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Inspector General Criticizes Treasury's Role In Auto Dealer Closures - WSJ.com (contrast with banksters)

Scholars and Rogues » Climate disruption denier Monckton responds to detailed scientific rebuttal with attempted intimidation (updated)
MIT Scientists Create Fibers That Can Hear, Sing, Generate Electricity | Ecouterre
Fayum mummy portraits « That's How The Light Gets In
Wild cat found mimicking monkey calls; Predatory trickery documented for the first time in wild felids in Americas

Chicago cop: 'Scary' growth of gangs in war zones :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime Chicago cop who served in Afghanistan and Iraq has warning: Gang members are coming home with military training
Is excited delirium killing coked-up, stun-gunned Miamians? - Miami New Times - Fifty-two people died in Florida after being hit by the 50,000-volt department-issued Tasers, second only to California's 55.
Frank Sinatra, Jilly Rizzo, Jeffrey Perrotte; parole battle pits Sinatra family against killer of singer's right-hand man - latimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - The Good News About Mel Gibson - NYTimes.com a powerful and canonized figure in the political and cultural pantheon of American conservatism.
Broken Secrets

mail-tube-map-medium-large.png (PNG) Daily Mail Editorial Process depicted as a Tube map)
Deuteronomy 25:11-12 - Passage Lookup - New International Version - BibleGateway.com (batshit-insane Bible passage of the day - every word is true!)

Kodi, 1997 – 2010 « Whatever
Attention movie pirates: New round of lawsuits coming
The five stages of Facebook grief - Computerworld The world's largest social network is about to hit 500 million. But users are losing interest. Here's why.
Red Dead Redemption: World in Motion - Page 1 | DigitalFoundry | Eurogamer.net
YouTube - 11 Annual Gathering Of The Juggalos Infomercial
MAD MEN: Best Pick Up Lines Mashup video
Adactio: Journal—Analogue Inception
YouTube - Balloons and Dyson Air Multiplier™ fans
Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night - Accommodations on Airbnb

Rivals Hit Back at Apple Over iPhone 4 'Death Grip' Claims | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

071710
Richard Haass In Newsweek: Rethink Afghanistan Because Nation Building Is Not Working And We're Not Winning
Taliban's Mullah Omar orders attacks on women, U.S. says | McClatchy
The Torturer’s Burden | The Seminal (they have, or should have, PTSD - in the future, all Presidents should do their own torturing)
US Says Israel Rocket Shield Will Work (US-funded "Iron Dome")
Clinton Heads To Afghanistan As US War Fears Grow
Mexico Drug War Sees First Ever Car Bomb (Obama continues to de-stabilize Mexico with his Repubican drug war)
America – The Grim Truth | EFAM | Escape From America Magazine
The Iranian Regime's Numbered Days - Forbes.com The country's conservative and influential merchant class is on strike. This does not bode well for Ahmadinejad's government (well, consider the source)
Champion of UK burka ban declares war on veil-wearing constituents - UK Politics, UK - The Independent
Fibi Netanyahu - by Liel Leibovitz > Tablet Magazine - "the only way to deal with the Palestinians is to “beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable ... America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. ” (calling Abe Foxman)
LRB · Tariq Ali · Not Crushed, Merely Ignored Tariq Ali on the recent killings in Kashmir
Twitter / WikiLeaks: Real change begins Monday in the WashPost. By the years end, a reformation. Lights on. Rats out. (this could be interesting)

Despite Gulf cleanup efforts, nature will have to do most of it | McClatchy
Gulf Oil Spill 'Blob' Changes But Never Vanishes, Presents Ongoing Battle For U.S.

After The Fall - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - Republican shutdown of government - And if anyone remotely connected to the administration should die — oh, boy.Oh, and you can be sure that many media figures will play right along.
Hullabaloo: Forced Pregnancy For Sick People (Obama caves again: compromise between Stupak and Nelson: no moral center)
America’s Dilemma: Teachers or Food | Emptywheel (White House starves poor people so Republicans can have their tax cuts; who they gonna screw next?)
Who Can Obama Nominate To Head Up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? | The Seminal (Dawn Johnson redux + not a woman for sure)
Republicans divided on the importance of an agenda for midterm elections (because it would look really, really, crazy)
Top 5 Republican Retro Refrains They'll Sing For Recess | TPMDC
Boehner: No New Regs! | TPMDC A moratorium on all new federal regulations, for a year.
Cliff Schecter: The NRA Protects a Potential Serial Killer (protecting terrorists, domestic abusers and now serial killers: your NRA at work)
Judge: Law Penalizing Fake Heroes Is Unconstitutional (because it violates free speech)
Arizona Immigrant Deaths In Desert Soaring
Man With Neo-Nazi Ties Leading Patrols In Arizona
Two Utah State Employees Accused Of Compiling 'Illegal Immigrants' List | TPMMuckraker
REPORT: Fox News has hyped phony New Black Panthers scandal at least 95 times | Media Matters for America (Murdoch=Moloch)
Hullabaloo: A Teabag Scorned Is Not Pretty (tbaggers go ballistic on Scott Brown's Facebook)
The Plum Line - Senator Vitter suggests Rachel Maddow only looked like a woman "a long time ago"
Congressman introduces resolution to protect citizens who videotape cops These types of arrests have become an epidemic throughout the country as more people are carrying some type of video-recording device on them at all times (cops: you have no right to see what we do)
Rep. Towns Introduces Resolution Condemning Arrest of Citizens Filming Police Officers « jonathan turley (yeah, that'll teach 'em)

Axelrod: Warren A Candidate To Lead New Consumer Protection Bureau | TPMDC ("a candidate" - Geitner will win this one, for sure)
Obey: White House Suggested Cutting Food Stamps to Pay for Education Program « The Washington Independent (new Obama plan to screw the starving poor: because the rich aren't rich enough)
Obama SLAMS Republicans For Obstructing Economic Progress In Weekly Address (video) (but has no problem with reducing food-stamps)
The Rich Catch Everyone Else’s Cutback Fever - NYTimes.com (more NYT sympathy for the super-rich, time for another tax-cut!)
Timothy Geithner's realm grows with passage of financial regulatory reform (just the guy you want to have even more power: Republican policy WIN)
10 Cities Where Sellers SLASHED Home Prices In June (PHOTOS) Boston, Massachusetts - 34% Of Homes Had Their Price Slashed
Mystery trader buys all Europe's cocoa - Telegraph Even Willy Wonka might struggle to use this much chocolate. Yesterday, somebody bought 241,000 tonnes of cocoa beans
Economic Crisis Forces Local Governments to Let Asphalt Roads Return to Gravel - WSJ.com Asphalt Is Replaced By Cheaper Gravel; 'Back to Stone Age'

The Great Higgs Boson Rumormill
Vaccine that will protect against every type of flu - Telegraph could be available within a few years
Self-Referential Aptitude Test
Breakthrough achieved in explaining why tectonic plates move the way they do
Gene Makes Some Drink More When Other Boozers Are Around | Wired Science | Wired.com
Making Way for the Pipeline: A Treasure Trove in the Baltic Sea - spiegel online

Infographic: Countries Where Gay Marriage is Legal - good Blog
Cinema's most pivotal gay sex scenes - Gays and Lesbians - Salon.com As "The Kids are All Right's" refreshing love scene hits theaters, a look back at the hook-ups that got us there
YouTube - How To Tell People They Sound Racist
Massachusetts State Trooper barred from airport duty - The Boston Globe Orders abruptly changed for officer disciplined for improper conduct (paid for stalking, only transferred, of course)

LRB · James Meek · Some Wild Creature - Tolstoy and his crazy wife
Atheists Use Blow-Dryers to De-Baptize Nonbelievers Adopt Provocative Ceremony to Make a Point About Baptism
'I Write Like' Website Goes Viral, Authors Bewildered the site's text analysis is largely keyword based. Even if you write in short, declarative, Hemingwayesque sentences, its your word choice that may determine your comparison.
Top YouTube Videos 2009: See What Made The List

Microsoft Is Trashing Us For Not Eating Enough Crow About Bing's Market Share Gains--So We'll Eat A Bit More Crow
Facebook assets frozen in bizarre New York lawsuit - Jul. 13, 2010
BetterPrivacy :: Add-ons for Firefox

071610
The Rachel Maddow Show - Maddow: The hard choice in Afghanistan - 'Each Additional American Life Sacrificed To A Goal We Know We Won't Reach Is A Moral Outrage'
Vatican Puts Ordaining Women Priests on Par With Child Sex Abuse Is a priest who sexually abuses a child as sinful as one who ordains a female cleric? Some say a new set of laws issued by the Vatican implies one is just as bad as the other.
Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime | World news | guardian.co.uk Revised Catholic rules put female ordination in same category of crime under church law as clerical sex abuse of minors
The Daily Mash - Pope Says Child Abuse The Same As Using The Wrong Cutlery

Oil Spill Capped for a Second Day, Offering Some Hope - NYTimes.com
Guest Post: Initial Results from Well Integrity Test Are Inconclusive « naked capitalism (you've just been BP'd)
BP Faces New Scrutiny in Lockerbie Case - NYTimes.com
Oil Spill Lawsuits: BP Spending Big To Acquire An Army Of Expert Witnesses In the latest salvo of BP's War On Everything, the company is deploying its deep pockets in an attempt to buy up every single scientist it can get its hands on, in order to create an army of expert witnesses to take up its side in court
How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico? | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS
How much oil has spilled in the Gulf? - Boston.com
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash | Reuters
Robbing New Orleans to Pay for BP's Spill | Mother Jones
Marine Biologist: Corexit Being Sprayed by Coast Guard | Crooks and Liars (BP's Navy)
Marine Toxicologist: Oil/Corexit Mix Caused Heart Palpitations, Liver, Kidney Damage and Bleeding From the Rectum | Video Cafe
YouTube - MSNBC July 15: Matt Simmons still says BP covering up MASSIVE HOLE miles away, cap test is "absurd"
YouTube - UDK - 50,000 barrels mass physics
Plugging the Gulf oil leak with the works of Ayn Rand. | Facebook

Will the Bush-Cheney Check Ever Be Paid? Maybe. - Politics - The Atlantic
Torture and Truth | Emptywheel
Classified documents reveal UK's role in abuse of its own citizens | Law | The Guardian Previously secret papers show true extent of involvement in abduction and torture following al-Qaida attacks of 2001
Britain Investigates Torture—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) (the speech Obama will never give)

Statement on Obama Administration Policy Excluding Abortion Coverage from High-Risk Pools | CommonDreams.org (Obama reverses women's rights:: Stupak won, after all)
Obama Administration Applies Stupak Amendment to High Risk Pools | RHRealityCheck.org
Planned Parenthood decries restrictions on abortion coverage in high-risk pools - The Hill's Healthwatch
Health Law Sparks Abortion Fight In Pennsylvania : NPR
Think Progress » Peter King: Republicans Shouldn’t ‘Lay Out A Complete Agenda,’ Because It Might Become ‘A Campaign Issue’
Shameful GOP Ad Blames Democrats for Scarce Jobless Aid - Business - The Atlantic (Rove)
The Bush Revival: How Jeb, Rove, Gillespie Are Leading The GOP Again
Well Known: Twitter; Little Known: John Roberts: Overview - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Only about a third of Americans (34%) know that the government’s bailout of banks and financial institutions was enacted under the Bush administration. Nearly half (47%) incorrectly say that the Troubled Asset Relief Program – widely known as TARP – was signed into law by President Obama (Rove)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Zero Mississippi Public Radio pulled Terry Gross’ program Fresh Air because of a single complaint by someone who heard some mild talk about sex from Louis CK (the word "sex" can't be mentioned on the radio in Taliban-dominated Mississippi)

What Went Wrong: The Rahm Factor - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (Obama's Chicago team FAIL +the two crown princesses from Maine [Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins]
Larry Summers and the White House economic team : The New Yorker (sabotaged from the inside, from the beginning +no jobs for you)
Ezra Klein - The scariest jobs graph you've seen yet adding new jobs at a rate of 200,000 a month would take us 150 months -- or 12.5 years -- to get back to normalcy.(12 years of free-loading drug-taking bums)
Tim Geithner’s Ninth Political Life « The Baseline Scenario On top of all this, it now appears that Secretary Geithner will oppose Elizabeth Warren becoming the new chief regulator responsible for protecting consumers from defective financial products – despite the fact that she has led the way for this issue, on both intellectual and political fronts, over the past decade. (Geitner: Republican at work)
Wall Street Is Laundering Drug Money and Getting Away with It | Economy | AlterNet So why isn't anybody being punished?

SPACE.com -- Record Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere Puzzles Scientists - "Something is going on that we do not understand,"
Primordial Sperm Gene Found | Wired Science | Wired.com
Nuclear fusion – what is it worth? | Steven Cowley | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Experiments in fusion power have at last started to prove its viability. It would be foolish not to continue funding research

Une Affaire de Famille - Forbes.com The unhappy fallout between Europe's richest woman and her daughter--and the man in the middle.
William Faulkner Goes Online, 50 Years Later: Audio Recordings : NPR
Shareable: The Guy Who Worked For Money

Don't Rape, Part I: Society teaches 'Don’t get raped' rather than 'Don’t rape' | The Dominion
3quarksdaily

Apple could face EU probe under new antitrust rules - Rethink Wireless
Apple's Brewing Shitstorm (Dave Winer with a big grain of salt)
Steve Wozniak: use a MiFi as backup for your iPhone 4 :: MIFI 2352 WIRELESS HOTSPOT – European online distributor of MiFi, Eye-Fi, Huawei and Major Mojo
The iPhone 4 Redux: Analyzing Apple's iOS 4.0.1 Signal Fix & Antenna Issue - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News
The New iPhone’s Other Performance Problem - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
E-Commerce News: Opinions: Is Apple the New Toyota?
What we know about iPhone 4's antenna (FAQ) | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews
Daring Fireball: Translation From Apple's Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English of the 'Letter From Apple Regarding iPhone 4'
How I Think The iPhone 4 Antenna Press Conference Is Going To Play Out
Apple Engineer Told Jobs IPhone Antenna Might Cut Calls - Bloomberg
Apple deleting mentions of Consumer Reports' iPhone 4 piece on forums, can't delete your thoughts -- Engadget (don't be so sure)
Apple: Hold Different | Know Your Meme
iPhone 4 Vs HTC Evo Video

Would Wordpress Sue The Maker Of Thesis, A Leading Wordpress Theme? – with Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg
Software Freedom Law Center Says WordPress Themes are GPL | The Blog Herald
Cisco Linksys among "millions" of hackable routers | NetworkWorld.com Community Black Hat talk will show how DNS rebinding can access consumer routers
“Millions” Of Home Routers Vulnerable To Web Hack « The Firewall - Forbes.com
WineHQ - Wine Announcement This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes

071510
Shahram Amiri, Iran Nuclear Scientist, Reportedly Paid $5 Million By CIA
Argentina Passes Gay Marriage Bill | News | Advocate.com the first country in South America to legalize same-sex marriage.
Good Neighbors - time
Sudan 'unprepared' for referendum - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Vatican: Ordination Of Women A 'Grave Crime'
Saudi Arabia | Islam | Wahhabism | Ahmed Bin Baz A kingdom divided How Sept. 11 led a preeminent scholar to challenge the House of Saud's teachings on Islam.

The motive behind whistle-blower prosecutions - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com government concern over leaks is about avoiding embarrassment and other accountability; national security harm is but the fear-mongering excuse (Obama hates transparency)
Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak waste, mismanagement and a willingness to compromise Americans' privacy without enhancing security (Obama hates embarrassment)
Spy Files | American Civil Liberties Union (Obama hates you)

Gulf Oil Spill Stopped: BP Says Oil Leak Is HALTED
BP faces US ban on new oil and gas drilling licences - Telegraph

Grim | Talking Points Memo reading between the lines, you're left with the distinct impression that Cheney, 69, is entering the late stages of congestive heart failure (will avoid prosecution)
Dems To Dems: Don't Worry! Obama Still More Popular Than Bush Was! | TPMDC (reassuring)
The Plum Line - Politico's theory: Liberal bloggers don't care if Dems sustain large losses this fall In private conversations, White House officials are contemptuous of what they see as liberal lamentations unhinged from historical context or contemporary political realities (we'll see who's out of touch)
Daily Kos: Phil Griffin and MSNBC Scarborough's crappy show is last in the advertising demo among the four cable morning shows ... Griffin is the guy who had Oliver North anchor MSNBC for most of 1999. He's the guy who pays white supremacist and Hitler apologist Pat Buchanan (literally) to camp out at MSNBC HQ. (they tried really hard to be a Republican network)
Utah Illegal Immigration List: Investigators Examining Records For Origins Of List Terrorizing Immigrants (Republican terrorists at work)
Karl Rove’s Self-Delusions Hit New Heights–Forgets He Outed Valerie Plame | Emptywheel
Megyn Kelly's minstrel show - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - by Dave Weigel
The Numbers Behind Palin's Facebook Strategy | techPresident
PBS Won't Air Paul McCartney's Jab At Bush During White House Concert Special "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is" — is "tactfully excised from the TV version," which will air on July 28. (nice, polite, journalism)
CJR: Journalists Should Recognize That The Economy Is 'The Most Important Thing' (but it's too compliated for them to understand)

Wall Street Reform Passes (only took two years)
Sen. Ted Kaufman: The Wall Street Reform Bill: How Much Did We Lose Getting to 60? (almost everything except Consumer Protection which would have looked really bad for Pres Floating-Above-It-All)
Erskine Bowles and the Price of Ignorance: $335,000 a Year | TPMCafe (Atrios: "The catfood commissioners are well-rewarded know-nothing sociopaths" - $335K/yr to get rid of Social Security - Obama's idea of "bi-partisanship)
Deficit Peacocks on Parade | FDL News Desk
Companies pile up cash but remain hesitant to add jobs Nonfinancial companies are sitting on $1.8 trillion in cash, roughly one-quarter more than at the beginning of the recession.
Voters Say To Hell With Deficit Reduction, Help The Unemployed (Congress deaf to their pleas)
Foreclosures hit record: U.S. foreclosures jump in second quarter to record high - latimes.com Bank repossessions increased 38% in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier for a record total of 269,952 (the new normal)
t r u t h o u t | How the Sneaky Hands of the Big Banks Are Working Overtime to Rip You Off

Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Why Our Universe Must Have Been Born Inside a Black Hole A small change to the theory of gravity implies that our universe inherited its arrow of time from the black hole in which it was born. (torsion)
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex | Video on TED.com
The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it - The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ. - the space between anxiety and boredom was where creativity flourished. (No Child Left With Any Creativity)
How Creative Are You? - Newsweek Torrance Test of Creative Thinking measures your CQ: how well you think creatively.
DNA talent tests for kids … way ahead of the science (but still for sale) - latimes.com
MSU paleontologist questions traditional views of triceratops, torosaurus
BBC News - Internet has 'not become the great leveller’ according to Harvard academic Ethan Zuckerman.
40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine | 40 Things You Need to Know about the Next 40 Years

The New Abortion Providers - NYTimes.com (anti-abortion terrorists eliminated abortion from hospitals)
Los Angeles Why firing the desk-sleepers, burnouts, hotheads and other failed teachers is all but impossible
The Last Psychiatrist: "Nobody will understand what went on in this house to drive my dad to this level of insanity"

YouTube - Ferris Club
YouTube - Star Wars Subway Car
English Russia » Ice diving in Kazakhstan

Teens Now Getting High Off 'Digital Drugs' - KOTV.com (iPod is the new gateway drug to heroin)
The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating
NZCS News - - NZ Computer Society
2.5 Million Muslims Threaten to Quit Facebook on 21st of July!
iPhone 4 Reviewers: Who Caught The iPhone's Antenna Issues? (Photos) (not the companies who get Apple ads)
Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Technotica - msnbc.com
Fired Over Twitter: 13 Tweets That Got People CANNED

071410
False Claims Led to Attacks on Grenada, Iraq Twenty years ago this past Saturday, 1,900 United States marines and paratroopers invaded the tiny Carribbean island of Grenada (the model for Iraq: lies +managed media)
Iceland Review Online: MP Considers Suing Over Magma Energy Decision (someone sold all of Iceland's mineral rights for 65 years, renewable)


BP Is Set to Test Whether New Well Cap Stops Gulf Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
Gulf Oil Still Gushing After Cap Efforts Suddenly Halted

Anybody Got A Plan? | Talking Points Memo (nice description of Obama's strategy)
Daily Kos: Poll: People want government spending cut, but ... the spending that people want cut most is for foreign aid and the military. There was practically no support for cutting public spending on health care and education. (so we'll get rid of Social Security because Israel and the Church of the Military)
The Washington Monthly - When An Entire Political Party Moves To Bizarro World - Spending should be paid for, Kyl said, but tax cuts shouldn't ... Bush's tax cuts led to massive deficits, and if existing policies are left in place, those tax policies will be the single biggest factor in our budget deficits for many years to come. (and their corporate media buddies)
Billboard From Official Tea Party In Iowa Compares Obama, Hitler « Oliver Willis (stay classy, Republicans)
Judge blocks new Neb. abortion screening law - Yahoo! News (Nebraska anti-women)
FOXNews.com - NAACP Resolution Calls on Tea Party to Repudiate 'Racist Elements' in Movement "When you look at the crime and poverty and family breakdown of the African-American community ... you see a half-century of failure by the NAACP," (said the Republicans)

Monetary policy: The view from the Fed | The Economist For the next two years, at least, inflation looks likely to be well below what is generally understood to be the Fed's target rate.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines... - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
Federal Reserve: Continued High Unemployment Threatens Fed Policy Of Pursuing 'Maximum Employment' (you can see what that looks like)
Calculated Risk: FOMC Minutes: Forecast revised down
Fears Grow as Millions Lose Jobless Benefits - NYTimes.com (and they'll blame it on ... Obama!)
The Economic Case for Extending Unemployment Insurance | The White House
Too Rich to Live? - WSJ.com The estate tax is set to come roaring back in January. That sets the stage for a perverse calculus: End it all—or leave a massive bill for your heirs to deal with. (death-panel for old rich people?)

Who Rules America? Power, Politics, & Social Change

How Microbes Defend and Define Us - NYTimes.com (C-Diff)

Glacier Loses Nearly 3 Miles of Ice — Overnight - Ecocentric - time.com
'The chicken came first, not the egg', scientists prove | Metro.co.uk ‘It had long been suspected that the egg came first but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first,’ said Dr Colin Freeman
UC Irvine Release: Whisker stimulation prevents strokes in rats :: UC Irvine today

The US may be the richest nation, but it's not the happiest - CSMonitor.com The United States, which had the highest gross domestic product per capita, can't claim to be as happy as Denmark and New Zealand
Netflix's (Surprisingly) Most-Rented Films of All Time - Newsweek
Recording Industry vs. The People . RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!
RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales | Techdirt
RIAA Radar: Home a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Bob Dylan Discography | How to Listen to Dylan
Brick, A Literary Journal: Issue 85: The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock

Disabling Facebook Connect on Non-Facebook Websites | dhcollier.com

071310
Israeli Military Finds Flotilla Killings Justified - NYTimes.com (as if there was ever any doubt)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com hauling out one of the neocon Right's most disproven though still-favorite myths: that Jewish American voters are about to abandon Democratic politicians en masse because of their supposed lack of devotion to Israel.
France Burqa Ban: French Parliament Approves Ban On Face Veils
Abuse Took Years to Ignite Belgian Clergy Inquiry - NYTimes.com (coverups all over the place - why Belgium raided the Catholic Church)
Hullabaloo "Not Having Sex Doesn't Make You Sick (said the Catholic Bishops - no birth control for you)

At BP, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders - NYTimes.com ("Boldness" = "dangerous risk-taking and cost-cutting")
NOAA Hoarding Key Data On Oil Spill Damage - Dan Froomkin - NOAA insists on putting the data through a ponderous, many-weeks-long vetting process before making it public. (another arm of BP)
Breaking News: Due to Public Outcry, Coast Guard Rescinds Ban of Reporters and Photographers from Oil Spill - Washington's Blog - "We have provided unprecedented media access to the largest oil spill response in US history" (said Captain Jim McPherson, BP spokeman)
Did BP Ask For Lockerbie Bomber's Release? U.S. Senators Seek Probe Of Al-Megrahi Emancipation
Daily Kos: Bobby's berms already washing away the contract to build Bobby's berms was awarded by Jindal to the number three contributor to his congressional campaigns. (how predictable on both counts: how Republicans work: failure +cronyism)

Majority of Americans lack faith in Obama: poll - Yahoo! News Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they lack faith in President Barack Obama
Harry Reid on President Obama: 'He Doesn't Like Confrontation,' Isn't 'Tough Enough' On Repubs | Crooks and Liars Now, think about this: Harry Reid is saying Barack Obama needs to be tougher. Let that sink in. (wrong man for the job)
Log Cabin Republicans Challenge DADT If the Log Cabin Republicans win their case, their lawyer says he will ask a federal judge to do what President Obama has so far failed to do – halt the policy immediately nationwide.
David Vitter Birther? GOP Senator Supports Lawsuits Over Obama Birth Certificate (video) (teh crazy goes on)
Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Judge Napolitano: Bush & Cheney Should Have Been Indicted (but we're looking forward, not backwards, which is why we're in such a mess)
The Washington Monthly - Fiorina And The Tax Fairy (delusional - no wonder HP fired her)

Ezra Klein - 'A Chart That Screams, "Extend Unemployment Benefits!" ' (heartless Republicans +conservaDem Nelson +the number of lazy people has risen dramtically)
Ben Nelson Bucks Party, Helps GOP Block Jobless Aid (Nebraska unemployment: 4.9%)
News from The Associated Press
Strategic Defaulters as the New Welfare Queens « naked capitalism his is a very clever push to stoke jealousy among what is left of the middle class to keep the focus off the way the banksters wrecked the economy, got lots of cash and prizes, and have every reason to repeat that profitable exercise.
Economist's View: Fed Watch: A Deepening Divide? (they don't know what the fuck they are doing)
FTC Urges States To Rein In Frivolous Debt-Collection Lawsuits Overwhelming Courts Given the current balance of power in debt-collection cases, it's easy to scare people
Op-Ed Contributor - America Builds an Aristocracy - NYTimes.com
Government Type and Economic Prosperity Visualized - Kiplinger
Four Economic Benchmarks We Need Now - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review

A Scientist Takes On Gravity - NYTimes.com (Erik Verlinde)
Large Hadron Collider rival Tevatron 'has found Higgs boson', say rumours - Telegraph
UC takes scientific journals to task over fees - latimes.com
Belly-buttons key to success in sport: study - Yahoo! News
Medications found to cause long term cognitive impairment of aging brain - Benadryl

NASA: First half of 2010 breaks the thermometer — despite “recent minimum of solar irradiance” « Climate Progress
Heat Waves Could Be Common By 2039 In U.S., Finds Stanford Study Devastating heat waves that result in fatalities and crop losses may increasingly become a common occurrence in the United States over the next three decades

t r u t h o u t | Henry A. Giroux | The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism - "upscaling of ignorance"
Dan Gilbert: LeBron James Letter Had Nothing To Do With Slavery (everything he said was a projection)
YouTube - RetroBites: Hunter S. Thompson & Hell's Angels (1967)
FCC Swear Word Censorship Policy Tossed By Federal Court
Police Officers CHARGED In Katrina Bridge Shootings Four more New Orleans police officers have been charged in the deadly shootings of two people in Hurricane Katrina's chaotic aftermath and could face the most serious punishment yet – the death penalty

Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich -- Why welfare reform has failed - washingtonpost.com (Clinton's answer to "welfare queens" - more rightwing policy - like DOMA, DADT, etc)
The True Purpose of Welfare Reform

The Coming Battle Over the Cost of Birth Control - The Daily Beast Dana Goldstein - Health-care reform raised the possibility that birth control could soon be free for most women. But not if conservative activists have their way.
One in five adults in love with someone other than partner - Telegraph
Honor Killings in America - Honor Killing Victim Noor Almaleki - Marie Claire
Johann Hari: So that's OK then. It's fine to abuse young girls, as long as you're a great film director - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Scientologists vs. Anderson Cooper: Church Attacks CNN Host
Nicolas Cage Took Psychedelic Mushrooms with His Cat (video)

Schneier on Security: The Threat of Cyberwar Has Been Grossly Exaggerated There's a power struggle going on in the U.S. government right now. It's about who is in charge of cyber security, and how much control the government will exert over civilian networks. And by beating the drums of war, the military is coming out on top
North Korea 'not responsible' for 4 July cyberattacks
More women lured to pornography addiction - Washington Times 9.4 million women access adult websites each month, and 13 percent of women admit to accessing pornography at work.
ESRB accidentally releases email addresses of Real ID complainants | Joystiq

071210
Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan? - NYTimes.com
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect When Nation-Building Becomes Cowardly Escape (infrastucture fail; military's mission is killing people)
Afghanistan is a catastrophe. But we will have to wait for a new Chilcot to admit it | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian Our leaders would rather avoid embarrassment than be honest about the horrific futility of the wars we are fighting (sounds like you know who)
North Korean soldiers defect to China fuelling fears of imminent military clash - Telegraph An upsurge in the number of North Korean soldiers defecting into China fuelled fears of food shortages and an imminent military clash.
Anger in Costa Rica over deal to ‘invite’ 46 US warships | Raw Story - and 7,000 US Marines to enter the country as part of an anti-drug effort.
Uganda bombs kill 74, Islamists claim attack | Reuters
» Stunning photos of Child Labor in Bangladesh nmvsite
AFP: Bangladesh bans religious punishments In some cases, rape victims were flogged for being a "participant" to their assault.

Why is the U.S. Treasury Department subsidizing zealots who oppose our foreign-policy objectives? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Why is the U.S. Treasury Department subsidizing zealots who oppose our foreign-policy objectives?
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Government to issue new moratorium on deepwater drilling - CNN.com
Obama Wants To Continue Deepwater Drilling If It's Proven Safe: Gibbs
You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill, Citizen ... Do Not Look! ? Washington's Blog

Repeal Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize | The Onion - America's Finest News Source (so true)
July 11: Robert Gibbs, roundtable - Meet the Press - Transcripts - msnbc.com (still can't message for shit +Harold fucking Ford)
FOXNews.com - Holder Floats Possibility of Racial Profiling Suit Against Arizona
Jon Kyl: Extend Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthy Even If They Add To Deficit
Bill O’Reilly Humiliates Sarah Palin on Fox News (Palin=Teaparty=really, really dumb)
Seven Things Republicans Were For Before They Were Against Them
Howard Kurtz - Fox News's Bill Hemmer melds middle-of-the-road persona with conservative guest list (mostly radical extremist guests on Fox)
Rand Paul: Tea Party Activists Have Been Mischaracterized As 'Right-Wing Lunatics' (Video) (o rly)
Eric Cantor Says Republicans Could Take Back The House In November: Will They Really? One thing that's truly amazing about this cycle, historically: The fact we're headed for a third-straight cycle where more than 20 seats change hands.
Poll: Majority Of Americans Not Quite Sure What 'Progressive' Means | TPMDC (rebranded "liberals")
Research 2000 Chief Says Business Has Taken 'A Fatal Hit,' Promises 'Criminal Sanctions' For Kos | TPMMuckraker

Matthew Yglesias » Debt Commission Eying Mostly-Cuts Package three-quarters of the deficit reduction would be accomplished through spending cuts and the remainder with additional revenues. (Obama's catfood commission)
Sweet public worker pensions costing retirement-strapped taxpayers more and more - NYPOST.com Cops and firefighters are guaranteed an 8.25 percent return on their contributions, and can take loans from the plans up to twice a year,at 4 percent interest (almost like the Fed)
Krugman - The Feckless Fed - NYTimes.com (inflation Fed's only mission; jobs not in their job description)
End of Census, and for Many, End of a Job - NYTimes.com (additional 700K workers about to be out of work)
Ezra Klein - Jon Kyl gives away the game on deficits "You should never have to offset cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans," he said (Republicans: our free money comes from slave workers)
The Washington Monthly - Republicans Just Don'T Like The Unemployed, Cont'd (shiftless bums choosing not to work)
Rural outsourcing helps Arkansas compete with India - Jul. 8, 2010
Aon Brings Hewitt Into The Fold - Forbes.com “leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting” with 36,000 associates in offices across 120 countries (yeah, but what do they do?)
Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate and Irvine Homes - How to Lose $1,100,000 in Irvine Real Estate
Show Him the Money - James Verini Tom Donohue scares millions of dollars out of corporations and Republicans. But is his U.S. Chamber of Commerce good for business?

Merchants of Doubt - CSMonitor.com How “scientific” misinformation campaigns sold untruths to consumers. (the same agents of Satan speading lies)
Scholars and Rogues » WordsDay: Merchants of Doubt - t Fredrick Seitz, Robert Jastrow, William Nierenberg, and S. Fred Singer were the main instigators of attacks on science in service of their ideology (adopted by all the rightwing [un]thinktanks - AEI, Heritage, Reason, CATO, etc +Chicago School of Economics and you-know-who)
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Death of Nemesis: The Sun's Distant, Dark Companion
[1007.0437] Nemesis Reconsidered
Ribbon at edge of our solar system: Will the Sun enter a million-degree cloud of interstellar gas?
The Tenacious Buzz of Malaria - WSJ.com The malaria parasite has been responsible for half of all human deaths since the Stone Age, and one in 14 of us alive today still carry genes that first arose to help protect us from its ravages.

The Science of Cougar Sex: Why Older Women Lust - Time
Leaked docs show Motorcyclist caved to advertiser pressure, fired editor - Hell For Leather
Handlebars - An Effort to Sort Out Differences in Helmet Safety Standards - NYTimes.com
Target of alleged murder for hire plot talks about ex-wife - NBCActionNews.com

Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Are Science and Religion Compatible? (yes, if you ignore the incompatibilities)
Matt J. Rossano: Why Religion Does Not Equal War (false dichotomy)
How facts backfire - The Boston Globe when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. (that would be right-wing "partisans" but the Globe wants to appear "fair")
Shankar Vedantam - The Power of Political Misinformation
Boston Globe article on correcting misperceptions - Brendan Nyhan

squid314: Stuff So yeah. Stay away from the History Channel. Unlike most of the other networks, they don't even try to make their stuff believable (plot holes and cliches in WWII)

Consumer Reports Can't Recommend The iPhone 4 Due To 'Design Defect' (video)

071110
Editorial - Security Council Blinks on Korea - NYTimes.com the Security Council’s new statement on the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan is absurdly, dangerously lame.
Eurasia Review | Eurasia Review
Disarranged Reality » Srebrenica burials mark anniversary
LRB · Adam Shatz · Mubarak’s Last Breath Egypt has never been a democracy. The military has always dominated its political life.
Diego Huerta Photographer: The day that color didn't exist / El día que no tuvimos color (hurriane Alex
LRB · Bernard Porter · Pariahs Can’t Be Choosers The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge - NYTimes.com
Paul The Octopus Finishes Historic World Cup Run (Stunning Pictures)

Washington Post and transparency: total strangers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

BP: Cap on gushing well removed, oil flows freely | al.com
BP's dubious July 27 'kill' date - The Week While BP officials claim the gushing well could be capped weeks ahead of time, skepticism abounds. What's really going on in the Gulf?
University of Georgia confirms the presence of Methane Gas in the Gulf of Mexico | Trends Forecasts and Prophecies Blog (Obama's science dept/BP: "what methane?")
BP in talks with Apache on Prudhoe Bay assets: report | Reuters
YouTube - BP Oil Spill Disaster. Steven Seagal speaks out against Oil Companies.
BP's paid less than half of claims | McClatchy

On Economy, White House Says 'Better' Isn't 'Good' - Political Punch “It’s true that there is not a great desire” on Capitol Hill to spend more money, Axelrod said, “even though there is some argument for additional spending in the short-run to continue to generate economic activity.” (the gang that couldn't message for shit)
Eschaton - Confused About The Politics - Option two is back off proposals you've previously made and have Axelrod get on the teevee and say, "there is some argument for additional spending in the short-run to continue to generate economic activity.
Lakoff: Disaster Messaging | Dog Canyon
Robert Gibbs: There Are Enough Close Races For GOP To Take The House (Obama and his Chicago incompetents: FAIL)
Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now - It's possible that he fooled gullible progressives during the election into believing he was a left-liberal partisan when in fact he is much closer to a conservative corporate shill (but it's more complicated than that)
LRB · David Bromwich · Diary When the president launched his proposal last spring, two-thirds of Americans approved the idea of national healthcare. By the time it passed the number had shrunk to a third (your establishment President)
Despite Obama's Lofty Words, Scientific Integrity Rules Are Lagging A full year later, federal agencies still have not received any new directives and some government scientists say that conditions have not improved noticeably since Obama took power.
Scientists expected Obama administration to be friendlier - latimes.com A culture of politics trumping science, many say, persists despite the president's promises. The use of potentially toxic dispersants to fight the gulf oil spill is cited as just one example
Daily Kos: Supporting the troops - Don't ever let Republicans claim to be more supportive of U.S. military personnel.
Pentagon Slams Critics Of Don't Ask Don't Tell Survey | TPMDC (military to have "gay showers")
Biden On Russian Spy Swap: 'I Thought They'd Take Rush Limbaugh' (good one, Joe)
Fox News Interviews The Head Of The New Black Panthers Party | TPMMuckraker
The Washington Monthly- Amendment Mania - excluded "persons born in the United States who are foreigners" from becoming citizens. It's 142 years later, and the Republican Party of Iowa is still on the case. (this is how deep it runs)

ZCommunications | Wall Street Criminals by Danny Schechter | ZSpace 1500 Bankers went to Jail After the S&L Crisis. Almost None Today.
Rush Limbaugh Sells Fifth Ave. Apartment for $6.5M profit and WSJ readers rail against the elitist snobbery of it all | Danwin: Dan Nguyen, (of liberals)
Free Email, Unlimited Storage, Anti-Virus & Spam Protection and Personalized Content - Mail.com
United Farm Workers invite Americans to 'Take Our Jobs' - Jul. 7, 2010
When Geithner Talks About Reducing the Deficit, He Means Steal from the Poor and Give to the Rich | FDL Action - This shows what a complete farce Obama’s Cat Food Commission really is
Republicans And Democrats Lining Up Behind Major Changes To Social Security | TPMDC
AlterNet: Wealthy Are Cashing in Huge, While Workers' Salaries Keep Shrinking

Fish oil salemen find EU in the way | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian It's tough wading through health claims for food supplements, but Brussels has rejected 80% of 900 examined so far
BBC News - Rosetta probe passes Asteroid Lutetia
The Turn - 93.12
Daily Kos: And never the twain shall meet - the case of Pepsiggedon at the Scienceblogs
LRB · Peter Godfrey-Smith · It Got Eaten - Review of What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Fodor != Chomsky)

Barefoot Bandit arrested in the Bahamas | World news | guardian.co.uk Colton Harris-Moore, 19, captured in Caribbean after allegedly crash-landing plane stolen in US
Jesse Kornbluth: 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Anniversary: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Being Attacked?
A Quick Primer On The US Newspaper Collapse
Until Cryonics Do Us Part - NYTimes.com (Alcor nuts and their wives)

American Ethnography
Urban Gardening Help

Google Co-Founder Accuses Jobs of 'Rewriting History' of iPhone and Android - Mac Rumors
Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games
Princeton University - 2010 Baccalaureate remarks "We are What We Choose" Remarks by Jeff Bezos
Blizzard Nixes Real-Name Requirement In Forums
YouTube - Know Your Meme: "Weird Al" Yankovic Helps Explain Auto Tune
Which loads faster? (google vs psyche)

071010
Casey: U.S. Could be at War Another Decade - Political Hotsheet - CBS News (the endless American "war")
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: Kabul: City Number One - Part 10 I have just got my hands on something wonderful and precious. It is five computer drives containing the unedited rushes of everything shot by the BBC in Afghanistan over the last thirty years. It fills 18 terabytes of space. ("we in the west have become like foolish bit-players blundering around in a complex regional war that we do not understand.")
Monkeys trained as battlefield killers in Afghanistan - People's Daily Online - According to the report, American military experts call them "monkey terrorists." (Chinese report)
News | France denies citizenship to Muslim man
BBC News - South Africa black-owned farms 'failing' Some 90% of farms redistributed to South Africa's black population from white farmers are not productive
Infographics – How Britain has changed since 1997 « Prospect Magazine
War & Pizza Hut: Volume 2 | Prose Before Hos 1/3 of FOX News viewers polled believe we really did find WMDs in Iraq (compared to 5% of NPR listeners).
Kristof - In Israel, the Noble Vs. the Ugly - NYTimes.com (not all Israelis think like Amercian neo/ziocon fanatics)

Gulf Oil Spill: Cap Removed From Gushing Well, Oil Flows Freely
Anadarko To BP: We're Not Paying That Bill | TPMMuckraker

NSA supposedly planning to spy on US networks, denies report ("Perfect Citizen" - you can see where they're coming from)
Poll: 55% Of Likely Voters Think Obama's A Socialist | TPMDC Have months of Fox News hyperventilating and right-wing fear mongering over our supposed socialist-in-chief finally paid off? (why, yes)
Poll: Californians Oppose Legalizing Marijuana ... But Just Barely | TPMDC

The Rich Got Rich And The Poor Got Poorer. But Ain't We Got Fun? | Crooks and Liars The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades
Tremble, Banks, Tremble | The New Republic The key to financial recovery: restoring the rule of law on Wall Street.
Is the Fed Happy with the Crappy Economy? « naked capitalism - official U3 of 9.5% is now acceptable.
The Dumbest Financial Laws Of All Time - ABC News
Pfizer: The Drug Giant That Makes Bank from Drugs That Can Kill You | | AlterNet To say that Pfizer has been accused of wrongdoing is like saying BP had an oil spill (but keep weed illegal!)

Slowing graduation rate growing problem in state - SFGate California's high school graduation rate actually declined by a whopping 4.7 percentage points, the second worst in the nation.
Intelligence: The Evolution of Night Owls | Psychology Today
Purely Obsessional OCD - Wikipedia

The Interpretive Value of Different Perspectives | Fredericksburg Remembered - two narratives reflecting on the same moment in history: the arrival of the Union army opposite Fredericksburg on April 18, 1862 (nothing has changed)
Schoolgirls Controlled by Loverboys: Math Class in the Morning, Turning Tricks at Lunchtime - Spiegel Online - Schoolgirls Controlled by Loverboys

Harper: Question types in social Q&A sites
How Offline Gatherings Affect Online Communities - Information, Communication & Society

www.me.uk RevK's rants: What a moron...(voip honeypot for telemarketers)
"Zombies" crash on I-84 near Lloyd exit | kgw.com | Portland News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | News "We're glad that everyone is alive, despite being 'undead'," Sgt. Stewart said
I Feel Safe Now (Pic) | Top Cultured (LA County Zombie Control)

070910
Hans Rosling on global population growth | Video on TED.com The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth
Poverty within white South Africa - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Iran: woman 'adulterer' will not face stoning - Channel 4 News but still faces the death penalty.
Afghanistan: Self-Immolation by Women Still Common - time
Drugs Inc | National Geographic Channel
YouTube - Hurricane Alex In Monterrey - Huracan Alex En Monterrey

Obama endorses Netanyahu as “man of peace” (no moral center)

Afghanistan War: Petraeus to Review Rules of Engagement - Time (winning the hearts and minds by blowing them up)
Non-Believer | The New Republic
Eunomia » Obama and Afghanistan - Obama’s instinct to accommodate will eventually lead him to embrace such an amoral policy, at which point he will be deserving of the contempt Prof. Bacevich evidently wants to heap on him now.
NSA setting up secret 'Perfect Citizen' spy system • The Register The paper quotes an internal Raytheon email as saying that "Perfect Citizen is Big Brother" (Obama's program to spy on American citizens illegally)

Gulf Oil Spill: Containment Cap Could Stop Leak Within 3 Days
BP prepares to change well's cap, then start plugging it

Octavia Nasr's firing and what The Liberal Media allows - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (kicked out of the Village: Abe Foxman had a fit)
The passing of decent men | World news | guardian.co.uk commenting on the death of Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. It was posted on the Foreign Office blog on 5 July, but then removed on William Hague's orders yesterday (Abe Foxman complained)
Benjamin Kerstein | Jewcy.com - Bostonian by birth, Israeli by choice (and loyal to whom?)
The neocon method « false dichotomy
Alan Gilbert: Democratic Individuality: The political paralysis of Keynsianism "A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, 'This way of settling differences is not just.' (MLK) (ideology vs theory and punishing the poor)
Meet the conservative U.S. Commission on Civil Rights | Media Matters for America (Obama's Government still Bush's)

Hullabaloo: digby: The Village In Full Effect (they are the real "American People")
Hullabaloo: digby: Le Hameau de la Potomac (2009: origins of the "Village")
Dana Milbank Calls Premise For Arizona Immigration Law 'A Fallacy'
Emmer In Damage Control Mode: Meeting Waiters After Claiming They Made $100K In Tips | TPMDC Minnesota state Rep. Tom Emmer, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor (Repubicans aghast that other people might make money - as low as $2.13 per hour too much)

Alan Grayson To The Fed: 'We'll Be Back'
Remarks by the President on the Economy at Smith Electric Vehicles in Kansas City, Missouri | The White House
Open Left:: Mixed messaging bewilderment at how the White House sometimes says two different things in its messaging (the gang that couldn't message straight, or at all)
Mark Penn: Poll Shows People Support Checks and Balances, But Want More Limits on Supreme Court Justices

Walking Away From Million-Dollar Mortgages - NYTimes.com (let's rewrite the lede: "After lying to you for years about the "sub-prime" crisis and brown people, turns out it was rich people all along. Sorry.")
Who’s to Blame for the Housing Bubble? - Developments - WSJ (2009 WSJ: brown people borrowing beyond their means caused Bubble)
What Went Wrong? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (Larry Summers?)
When Unemployment Benefits Run Out | MintLife Blog (the rich laugh and get richer)
'Hollywood Accounting' Losing In The Courts | Techdirt (you could call this "tax evasion")

Despite Obama's Lofty Words, Scientific Integrity Rules Are Lagging (it wouldn't be business-friendly)
Female mice 'can be turned lesbian by deleting gene' - Telegraph by deleting a single gene at embryo stage, scientists have discovered.
It's Only A Theory: On Pythagorean structures and Summer musings

Guns to Be Allowed in Louisiana Houses of Worship | The Atlantic Wire
What Can Our Times Learn From the Launch of the London Times’ Pay Wall? -- Daily Intel
Olive oil: U.S. cracks down on smearing of the product's reputation - latimes.com

Cavs owner's letter mocked for Comic Sans font - CNN.com
Why Facebook Killed A $100 Million Baby the marketplace for virtual goods is expanding. Projected to reach $10 billion globally, this year (real goods distracting people from not-so-real goods)
Experts Agree: Gen Y Will Not Grow Out of Social Networking [STUDY] By 2020, members of Generation Y (today’s ‘digital natives’) will continue to be ambient broadcasters who disclose a great deal of personal information in order to stay connected and take advantage of social, economic, and political opportunities
Google Maps gets native URL shortening.
GodBlock - Protect your children | GodBlock by Jeffrey Crouse — Kickstarter
Ghostbusters (1984) - Are You a God?

070810
Anti-terror stop and search powers to be scrapped | Law | guardian.co.uk Police forced to abandon power to stop and search the public without reasonable suspicion after European court rules it illegal
Norway Al Qaeda Arrests: 3 Suspected In Terrorist Bomb Plot a terrorist plot linked to similar plans to bomb New York's subway and blow up a shopping mall in England.
Iraq's widows: a grim legacy for postwar Iraq - Nation - TheState.com as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count (mission accomplished, time for war crimes trials)
Judges: gay refugees must get asylum | World news | guardian.co.uk Ruling that protects gay and lesbian asylum seekers may help restore Britain's reputation as a human rights haven
CathiefromCanada: Worst yet (G20)
Amputee alleges G20 police ripped off his prosthetic leg
Why the 'five metres' mattered - The Globe and Mail
Schiller et al. v. NYC/Dinler et al. v. NYC (Challenge to Fingerprinting and Detention during Republican National Convention) | New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) - American Civil Liberties Union of New York State The City has since agreed to expunge or destroy the fingerprints from all participants arrested for minor offenses (suspending the Constitution when convienient gets a slap on the wrist, if that)
Topic : Canada's 'guest workers' - thestar.com

Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells — and no one at all is checking to see if they are leaking | Raw Story - more than 1,000 wells have lingered in that unfinished condition for more than a decade. (what's a little leaking oil?)
Wonk Room » Bush MMS Director Defends Tenure: ‘When I Was There It Seemed To Work Well’ (we're sure it did)
Alliance for Justice Releases Report on Oil-Industry Ties to Fifth Circuit Judges Hearing Drilling Moratorium Case | Alliance for Justice

Federal gay marriage ban is ruled unconstitutional
Federal Court: DOMA Section Violates Equal Protection | FDL News Desk
National Briefing - West - Hawaii - Governor Vetoes Same-Sex Unions - NYTimes.com
Bay Windows - New England's largest GLBT newspaper
Why The Tea Partiers Should Oppose DOMA - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
$200 Million GOP Campaign Avalanche Planned, Democrats Stunned (Rahm is shocked)
CNN Drops Editor After Hezbollah Comments - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com - He warned Muslim men that abuse of women was against Islam.”
A Tiny Revolution: Credibility William Barr is on the board of directors of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN. Barr was a senior advisor in the Reagan administration, which attempted to assassinate Fadlallah, missing him and killing more than eighty bystanders.
WTF CNN?
The Plum Line - MSNBC's excuse for banning Markos doesn't hold water Markos got publicly dressed down and banned by the president of the network, no less, all because he got under Scarborough's skin with a few nasty little Tweets (that would be Repubican Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough)
Ann Coulter: Michael Steele Was 'Right' About Afghanistan, Bill Kristol 'Must Resign' (crazy times )
Sharron Angle's Advice For Rape Victims Considering Abortion: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade (be a good wife to your daddy)
Jon Stewart Rips Fox News For Their Fear Of Muslims (video) (and racisim)

IMF says U.S. on mend but job rate to stay high - MarketWatch the unemployment rate will stay above 9% through 2011,
Federal Reserve weighs steps to offset slowdown in economic recovery Federal Reserve weighs steps to offset slowdown in economic recovery
Unemployment Extension Standoff, Day 36: Blaming The Unemployed (lazy, drug-taking leeches says Congress)
These Are Not the Ones We Have Been Waiting for... - Grasping Reality with Both Hands I had expected that we economists would have to fight Democratic political advisors who would be pushing for policies that were bad in the long run but that gained votes in the short run. I had never expected to be fighting Democratic political advisors who are pushing policies that are: * bad in the long run. * bad in the short run. * lose votes too. (our a-historical, a-political, a-economic Pres)

Structural Basis for Broad and Potent Neutralization of HIV-1 by Antibody VRC01 -- Zhou et al., 10.1126/science.1192819 -- Science
Rational Design of Envelope Identifies Broadly Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibodies to HIV-1 -- Wu et al., 10.1126/science.1187659 -- Science
Inactivity 'no contributor' to childhood obesity epidemic, new report suggests
If the Earth Stood Still
Huffington Post publishes anti-Darwin smears from creationist think tank - Huffington Post - Salon.com
Why Men and Menopause Don't Mix - Newsweek Now that menopause has come out of the closet, men seem to be claiming it as their own. We object.

Nation's suburbs show increasing diversity, Brookings report finds
Frank Gruber: What To Do With the Suburbs?
Nimble Cities: Help Slate improve urban transportation. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
Wonkette : That’s Objectivist: Ayn Rand in the 21st Century
Study: Marijuana Prices to Crater If Legalized - CBS News Pot Could Go from Nearly $400 an Ounce to Around $40 In California If Legalization Measure Is Successful

Larry Rivers’s Daughter Seeks Return of Nude Videos - NYTimes.com - films and videos of his two adolescent daughters, naked or topless, being interviewed by their father about their developing breasts. (creepy old guy)

redcode.nl - Patent Infringement...!? (for describing the patent)
Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine | Fast Company
Prince Claims Internet Is Dead, Lady Gaga Disproves It | Fast Company
Apple BANS Developer From App Store Over Fraud
Men Use Facebook To Hook Up, Break Up (Study) but 42% of women are okay with sharing photos of themselves looking "visibly intoxicated,"

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U.S. Counterterror Chief: We Need Debate on CIA Terror Targets - Newsweek (Obama's targeted assassination program for Americans - more Bush than the old Bush)
Wikileaks Leaker Bradley Manning Finally Charged | Emptywheel
Adventures in media transparency - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Congo: The Sucking Vortex Where Africa's Heart Should Be The lesson from this article? If you want to see what's wrong with Africa, don't look to Time to find out.
A White God Freakout -- RollingStone.com (Alex Perry's meltdown +the dangers of Google in more ways than one (FOTIFAE - now first hit) +projection: the "kitchen she seems to have wandered into by mistake.")
Russia, US Considering Spy Swap Deal involving Russians recently arrested in the United States and an imprisoned nuclear researcher, his brother said Wednesday (why they arrested the gang who couldn't spy for spying)
Guernica / Living with the Enemy Applying the ideas of Holocaust survivor Jean Améry to present day Rwanda, our author argues that reconciliation after genocide is just another form of torture
Statistical Analysis and Visualization of the Drug War in Mexico | Diego Valle's Blog (your Republican War on *)


Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Beg For A Chance To Take Basic Measurements (BP puts Top-Hat on information)
Gulf Awash In 27,000 Abandoned Oil And Gas Wells

Media Filters: For Washington Post, Krugman not a reliable source but Wall Street analyst totally impartial—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine) - spare us the charade of your virginal “objectivity.” (more crap from Republican WaPo)
Jon Stewart Enlists Nouriel Roubini To Refute Fox News (video)
Michael Hastings Still Attacked By Military Correspondents, For Not Following 'Formula' (why journos have no credibility anymore)
Instaputz: The Formula ("Has anything of late so well explained the institutionalized awfulness of the media's Pentagon coverage?") (NYT John Burns supports "following the Formula" in covering military)
Huffington Post Buys Pollster - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Created Recession As 'Payback' For Racism 230 years of racial oppression and because Obama simply doesn't like America (yeah, Greenspan and Bush had nothing, nothing to do with it)
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect Flashback To The Bush Days At The DoJ.
Octavia Nasr Canned at CNN | Talking Points Memo (our Israeli media)
FOXNews.com - Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds says Bob Dane, director of communications at FAIR, a conservative organization that seeks to end almost all immigration to the U.S. (FAIR and balanced on Fox)

Why Isn’t Investment Higher? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Truly, we live in a time of mass delusion — or maybe make that elite delusion — where there are lots of things that everyone believes, without a shred of evidence to back that belief
Ralph Martire: Deficit hawks wrong to nix jobless benefits extension - The State Journal-Register (Bush's tax-cuts=40% of deficit; unemployment benefits=3% so lets cut the benefits that are keeping people alive)
Mayberry Machiavellis: Obama Political Team Handcuffing Recovery
EU CAPS Bank Bonuses: Company Performance To Dictate Bonus Pay (what an un-American idea!)
Foreclosures the majority of area sales | mydesert.com | The Desert Sun Fifty-six percent of all home sales in Riverside County in the first three months of the year involved foreclosure or bank- owned properties, according to RealtyTrac
Ezra Klein - Research Desk researches: How do the U.S., Switzerland and Sweden spend money? (public spending?)
Inflation Spike Alarms Britain - BusinessWeek British price inflation including housing costs hit a 20-year high of 5.3% in April, sending shockwaves through an economy still struggling to exit recession
Stubborn Inflation Raises Fear for British Recovery - NYTimes.com
How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late: Andy Grove - Bloomberg (too late +little billionaire Tommy Friedman is wrong again))
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Summer Opportunities for Indentured Servitude.

'Climategate' Investigation Vindicates Scientists, Finds Research Reliable (well, what would you expect these "experts" who rely on "facts" to say?)
No Age Limit on Picky Eating - WSJ.com
Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works | Magazine
The Lucretian swerve: The biological basis of human behavior and the criminal justice system — PNAS ("no free will" clashes with criminal justice)
YouTube - Year On Earth

ScienceBlogs, we have a problem | Science | guardian.co.uk
Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » ScienceBlogs trashes its bloggers’ credibility.
Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » ScienceBlogs trashes credibility: Leaked response from editor.
Say hello to…PepsiCo??!? WTF? : Pharyngula
Alliances, Beginning and (Maybe) Ending : Casaubon's Book
Pepsi Ethics : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
A Pepsi Blog? Initial Thoughts : The Thoughtful Animal
Seed, Conflicts of Interest, and Sleaze : Good Math, Bad Math
Welcome to inescapable conflict of interest. : Adventures in Ethics and Science
Transparency regarding Food Frontiers : Page 3.14
Huffington Post Is Afraid of Criticism From Their Own Writers : The Primate Diaries

Center for Ethics — Crooked Timber The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has decided to close down its Center for Ethics for budgetary reasons (can't afford ethics anymore)
Walmart Reportedly Spending MILLIONS To Fight $7,000 Fine Over Trampling Death Of Employee
Glenn Beck starts online 'university' - Andy Barr - politico.com
Glenn Beck under fire for touting Nazi author's book
How feminist blogs like Jezebel gin up page views. - By Emily Gould - Slate Magazine
Savage Truth is a cold one :: Chicago Sun-Times :: Letters to the Editor (Terry Savage makes herself famous on the internets for all eternity for being a joyless captialist wanker)
YouTube - The Block Is Hot_part 2
YouTube - Judy & Liza "LIVE at the London Palladium" - Hooray for love


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AP owes China an apology - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com A few cigarette stubs into a forearm for a handful of days? That's it? That's "torture"? Not according to the official definition of that term adopted by the U.S. Government, as explained by John Yoo ("organ failure" +total double standard)
BBC News - Belgian child sex abuse police probe death threats (Vatican saber-rattling)
Human rights activist tries to stop death by stoning for Iranian woman - CNN.com
CBC News - Canada - G20 reporters complain to police watchdog Four journalists have filed complaints with Ontario's police watchdog, alleging physical assaults and threats of sexual violence by police during the Toronto G20 summit, their lawyer says.

Thaddeus Russell: Does U.S. Support for Israel Threaten American Safety? - The Daily Beast the United States has given more than $100 billion in aid to Israel, which has been roughly one-third of all foreign aid given by the U.S (was supposed to "make American safer")
Israeli judge: Learn from Nazis - Israel News, Ynetnews Retired Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto says as part of PR war, Israel should adopt tactics used to distribute Protocols of Elders of Zion
B'Tselem - Publications - By Hook and By Crook, July 2010 Some half a million Israelis are now living over the Green Line: more than 300,000 in 121 settlements and about one hundred outposts, which control 42 percent of the land area of the West Bank
Tax-Exempt Funds Aiding West Bank Settlements - NYTimes.com (win-win)

Recovery effort falls vastly short of BP's promises In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day. (we've seen this before, but no consequences for the biggest lies)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Journalists who come too close to oil spill clean-up efforts without permission could find themselves facing a $40,000 fine and even one to five years in prison under a new rule instituted by the Coast Guard late last week. (First Amendment suspending for entire Gulf of Mexico and all US land near beaches - Coast Guard, local cops owned by BP

Rep. Barney Frank: Why We Must Reduce Military Spending
DownWithTyranny!: Is Rahm Correct In Predicting That The Right's Vicious Attacks On Obama Will Cause Sane Americans To Rally Around Him Despite His Poor Performance? (as usual, no)
Gallup: Tea Party’s top concerns are debt, size of government - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (see, if you just called them Republicans, then they would seem really crazy because these were not concerns when Bush was idiot-in-chief)
Jan Brewer's 'Beheaded' Bodies Claim Disputed By Local Law Enforcement Agencies (but what about the zombies?)
Mexico's Drug War Heats Up Near Arizona Border
EBay’s Lost Years - The Bay Citizen As a CEO, Meg Whitman has had her ups and downs (eMeg was crappy CEO)

Unemployment Extension Standoff, Day 35: 'Harsh Reality Has Now Set In' (and they'll blame it on Obama)
Confidence Fairies Have Infiltrated The White House - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - some people in the WH — I’m guessing a political person, but who knows — have bought the right-wing line hook, line, and sinker (like we said, they're basically Repubicans anyway)
National Mortgage Delinquency Rate Swells to 9.2% in May: LPS « HousingWire
New lows make for unreal estate | Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/04/2010 With huge price and rate drops, the bust in housing is about more than dollars and sense. People aren't buying talk of recovery.
If a Social Security Annual Report Vanishes into the Forest-- | Angry Bear (Obama suspends information)
We Are Live at the Week: "A (Keynesian) Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Saying..." - Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Obama and the progress fairies)

David Brooks Swings at Paul Krugman, Knocks Himself Out | The Seminal (this is the guy Rahm/Obama calls every week to find out what he's "thinking" +dishonest coward)
The Arrogant David Brooks Tells Readers That Stimulus Will Risk National Insolvency | Beat the Press
Arguments From Authority - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com And you just have to wonder how it’s possible to have lived through the last ten years and still imagine that because a lot of Serious People believe something, you should believe it too. Iraq? Housing bubble? Inflation? ... The moral I’ve taken from recent years isn’t Be Humble — it’s Question Authority. And you should too. (why David Brooks should set himself on fire)

Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate and Irvine Homes - Strategic Default: The $10,000,000,000 Monthly Economic Stimulus
Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate and Irvine Homes - The Unceremonious Fall from Entitlement
Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate and Irvine Homes - HELOC abuse Hollywood Style ($120K in, total mortgage equity withdrawal is $3,367,500 - the infinite piggy-bank)

BBC News - What the Higgs 'harmonic signatures' may sound like

Dissension Over Ending Saturday Mail Delivery - NYTimes.com
Wrongly citing New York law, NBC’s Today rejects same-sex couples from wedding contest | Media Matters for America (any excuse will do)
Politicians' salaries: Leaders of the fee world | The Economist How much a country's leader is paid compared to GDP per person
Hays County Texas deputies accused of excessive force against 80yr-old man and his son « Injustice Everywhere
Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the numbers don't add up' | Technology | The Guardian on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity (good luck, NYT)

The Curse of the Little Rascals
YouTube - Surfin´ USA

Whose Data Is It? Facebook's Business Is Your Information - Hartford Courant

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Israel Eases Gaza Blockade Restrictions, Releasing List Of Allowed Items
No intention of apologizing, Israel tells Turkey (they never have and never will)
BBC News - Turkey threatens diplomatic break with Israel over raid
Death by Gadget in Congo - NYTimes.com “Blood diamonds” have faded away, but we may now be carrying “blood phones.”

BP Oil Spill Relief Well Scenarios: What Happens If It Doesn't Stop Gusher? ("If?")
Tar Balls Hit Texas, BP Oil Spill Now Reaches All Gulf States

Arianna Huffington: PolitiFact Embraces Equivocation, the Truth Gets Squeezed
FOXNews.com - Arizona Candidate: Cut Off Power to Illegal Immigrants (yeah, and their water, food and air too)
Matthew Yglesias » Confusion at The Washington Post (Ezra writes facts; Post gets confused about their role)
How New York ‘Times’ Political Columnist David Brooks Manages to Be Both Irrelevant and Absolutely Essential -- New York Magazine Every Monday and Thursday, as his deadline approaches, Brooks gets a call from someone in the White House—“I’m not going to say who,” he says, which means Rahm—asking if tomorrow is going to be a good day (wtf? +David Brooks has thoughts?)
The Media Equation - For Blogger, ‘Outspoken’ Was a Selling Point, Till It Wasn’t - NYTimes.com
Tea party gatherings on the Fourth mix the educational and the patriotic (because it wouldn't be a story if they just said "Republicans")
Sean Hannity Utah | KSL Radio | Salt Lake | Mediaite

CHART OF THE DAY: Reminder, The Deficit You're Freaking Out About Is Bush's Fault
Is the Recovery Act helping the economy? - Jul. 2, 2010 The job market and economy need a serious jumpstart, but the stimulus program likely won't be able to do it.
Krugman - Punishing the Unemployed - NYTimes.com we’re facing a coalition of the heartless, the clueless and the confused (and the really stupid)
Plan XVII For Europe - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (confidence fairies!)
Warning signals of a double-dip recession flash brightly across the world - Telegraph Global bond markets are flashing warning signals of a sharp slowdown in growth across the world and a possible slide toward a double-dip recession and outright deflation.
With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel like 1932 - Telegraph The US workforce shrank by 652,000 in June, one of the sharpest contractions ever. The rate of hourly earnings fell 0.1pc. Wages are flirting with deflation
The Washington Monthly - White House Economists Vs. The White House Political Team (which is, you know, mostly Republican at heart)
Alan Krueger is Wrong, Robust Recoveries Do Move In Straight Lines | Beat the Press (we need a new Fed)
Econopocalypse: the Marxist animated whiteboard explanation - Boing Boing
How Goldman Sachs gambled on starving the world's poor - and won : Johann Hari

The science of lying: Why the truth really can hurt - Science, News - The Independent Lying causes humans emotional stress – yet psychologists say we are primed to deceive. Studies show there are clear biological benefits to dishonesty
The Way We Live Now - Why Is It So Hard to Apologize Well? - NYTimes.com
New Dates for Egypt's Pharaohs - ScienceNOW Now a radiocarbon study concludes that much of the assumed chronology was right, though it corrects some controversial dates and may overturn a few pet theories.
New Dates for Egyptian and Bronze Age History: What About Santorini?
Egyptian kingdoms dated : Nature News Radioactive isotopes nail the timeline of Egyptian dynasties.
RESET Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions
RESET WP-1 Neanderthals and modern humans in Europe, 60 to 25 ka BP
CERN | ATLAS pop-up book - LHc
ESA Portal - Planck unveils the Universe – now and then
BBC News - Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light
It's too late to worry that the aliens will find us - opinion - 05 July 2010 - New Scientist
British Medical Association labels gay conversion therapy harmful, discredited

The Changing Demographics of America | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine The United States population will expand by 100 million over the next 40 years. Is this a reason to worry?
The Sexual Revolution and Children: How the Left Took Things Too Far - Spiegel Online
The 6 Most Gigantic Everything in the History of War | Cracked.com
Sci-fi illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki ::: Pink Tentacle
YouTube - BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU
Bookworm - KCRW

Michael Geist - ACTA Consensus on Transparency Breaks Down (more of Obama's super-secrit backroom deals)
The 7 Best Windows 7 Gadgets
xkcd: Analogies

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Where ‘America’ really came from - The Boston Globe (Matthias Ringmann and Amerigen/Amerigo)
Waldseemuller Map, 1507 (Geography and Map Reading Room, Library of Congress)
The Declaration of Independence in American
YouTube - Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10

Jacob Leicht, 1,000th Serviceman Killed In Afghanistan, Born On Independence Day
Michael Breen: A Democracy Cannot Fight a Seven Years War
Petraeus Touts “One Team With One Mission” but Fails to State Mission in Afghanistan | The Seminal
Jon Fleischman Is Latest GOP Official To Criticize Afghan War
Fareed Zakaria Criticizes 'Disproportionate' Afghanistan War On CNN (video)
Videos Posted by Rethink Afghanistan: July 4: Declare Your Independence from War [HD] | Facebook

Lebanon's Shia Muslim leader dies - Middle East - Al Jazeera English A 200kg car bomb exploded near Fadlallah's Beirut home in 1985. He was unharmed, but dozens of people were killed in a nearby apartment building, which was demolished by the blast (CIA: connect the dots)
Ecuador authorities seize drug-smuggling sub - CNN.com - The vessel utilized twin screws and was diesel electric-powered, the agency said. It was about 30 meters (98 feet) long and nearly 3 meters (nine feet) high from the deck plates to the ceiling.
Finland enshrines 'legal right' to broadband - Telegraph - the plan means it will be difficult for the authorities to cut off people suspected of illegal file-sharing. Instead of restricting internet access, the Finnish government plans to send letters to anyone breaking piracy laws.
Maude Barlow: "The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History"

BP Oil Spill: Mississippi Coast Polluted, Gov. Haley Barbour Asks for Help - ABC News Just weeks ago, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour claimed that oil was not a big threat to the people of the Gulf Coast. Now, with oil hitting his state's beaches for the first time since the start of the BP spill, the Republican governor says his state isn't prepared for the spill and needs more help ... it's not poisonous," though he said it probably wasn't a good idea to brush one's teeth with it (apparently being an idiot is a political strategy)
Millions Of Migrating Birds Headed Toward Gulf Oil Spill Mess

Democrats Resist GOP Efforts To Frame Midterm Elections As Referendum On Obama
The Washington Monthly - The Wrong Answer To The Wrong Question (Republicans: after running up $5 trillion in reckless debt, suddenly don't want you to have a job)
eridani's Journal - Excerpts from the Republican Party platform of 1956 - By these standards, modern Democrats have become Republicans, and modern Republicans have become batshit crazy.
Howard Kurtz Takes On Politico's Patrick Gavin (video)

Strategies - Robert Prechter’s Market Forecast Says ‘Take Cover’ - NYTimes.com Mr. Prechter is convinced that we have entered a market decline of staggering proportions — perhaps the biggest of the last 300 years - The Dow, which now stands at 9,686.48, is likely to fall well below 1,000 over perhaps five or six years as a grand market cycle comes to an end. ("The Great Decline" or "The Long Slide")
Can These Men Fix the Deficit | Parade.com We’re not going to cut Social Security—we’re going to stabilize it. None of the ideas that have been presented will affect anyone over age 58. But we’re going to make the system work. As it is, it can’t sustain itself (more lies from rich Repubicans: the catfood commission at work)
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Deflation - Daniel Gross: “The combination of slow growth or stagnation and deflation is the thing that’s scary,” (that word doesn't mean what you think it does)
Funds prepare for inflation's eventual resurrection - Baltimore Sun
Krugman - Myths of Austerity - NYTimes.com - Much of what Serious People believe rests on prejudices, not analysis. And these prejudices are subject to fads and fashions.
Hullabaloo: digby: Bleeding he Patient ("invisible bond vigilantes and confidence fairies")

Disease and intelligence: Mens sana in corpore sano | The Economist Parasites and pathogens may explain why people in some parts of the world are cleverer than those in others
Shocking extent of man's impact on world's water | Mail Online

What happened to studying? - The Boston Globe college students are cracking the books less and less - the number one reason, agreed upon by 33 percent of students, who said they struggled with one particular problem “frequently” or “all the time”: They simply did not know how to sit down and study.
APOD: 2010 July 4 - Companion of a Young, Sun-like Star Confirmed The first direct image of an extrasolar planet orbiting a star similar to our Sun has been confirmed
Ovary transplants could extend women's lifespan, mice study suggests | Science | The Guardian
What Big Eyes You Have, Dear, but Are Those Contacts Risky? - NYTimes.com
Haitian Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto | World | AlterNet Monsanto is only the latest perpetrator in a series of foreign aid exploitations committed against Haiti.
Hydroelectric power's dirty secret revealed - environment - 24 February 2005 - New Scientist
Reservoir vs Streaming (Run of River) Hydro

The Willpower Paradox: Scientific American Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question
Stephen Fry: What I Wish I'd Known When I Was 18 on Vimeo
Elizaphanian: Radical Orthodoxy: the official Twenty-Four Theses

Presentation for ‘Minority Report Interface’ That Blew People’s Minds at TED (video) | Singularity Hub
Video comments hidden by some sort of script? - YouTube Help
iTunes accounts hacking more widespread than initially thought. The facts, and what you should do.
(94) wikipedia down - Twitter Search
Wikipedia Is Down [ALERT]

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Robert Gates Tightens Rules For Military And The Media Following Rolling Stone's McChrystal Profile
G20/Toronto cops - ‘I will not forget what they have done to me’ - thestar.com “I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again.”
Another 21 die in deadly drug war that has claimed 23,000 Mexican lives in just FOUR years | Mail Online
U.S. Rushes to Complete Only Some Iraq Projects - NYTimes.com
Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (disgusting and demented)
Clinton: Activists Being Crushed By 'Steel Vise' Around The World

Nightmares Continue for Pope Benedict | Firedoglake


Filibuster Making Speaker’s Job a Joke; Pelosi Finally Calls for End to “60-Vote Stranglehold on the Future” | FDL Action
The Biggest Michael Steele Gaffe of All - Politics - The Atlantic - Michael Steele suggested to Republicans at a small gathering that President Obama started the war in Afghanistan and that Republican candidates should campaign against his decision to send more troops there. Literally.
GOP chairman: Afghan 'war of Obama's choosing'  | ajc.com
Hullabaloo: digby: Shocker! - There is significant overlap between Americans who identify as supporters of the Tea Party movement and those who identify as conservative Republicans. Their similar ideological makeup and views suggest that the Tea Party movement is more a rebranding of core Republicanism than a new or distinct entity on the American political scene

No work, and now no safety net - KansasCity.com n just one week and in just one state — last week in Missouri — more than 8,300 people fell through the unemployment insurance safety net. Actually, their nets were removed (vote Republican!)
SSRN-Insider Trading Inside the Beltway by Stephen Bainbridge A 2004 study of the results of stock trading by United States Senators during the 1990s found that that Senators on average beat the market by 12% a year. In sharp contrast, U.S. households on average underperformed the market by 1.4% a year and even corporate insiders on average beat the market by only about 6% a year during that period
Census Bureau reports fall in median household income - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com The median household income in 2008 was $50,303. The median household income in 1999, expressed in 2008 dollars, was $52,748 (so vote Republican!)
Ezra Klein - Are Democrats setting themselves up for failure in 2011 by not passing a budget?
Payback Time - Budget in the Red, Illinois Has Stopped Paying Bills - NYTimes.com - “Their pension is the most underfunded in the nation,”
California State Workers Brace For Minimum Wage

When the scientific evidence is unwelcome, people try to reason it away | Comment is free | The Guardian Research results not consistent with your world view? Then you're likely to believe science can't supply all the answers
David Freedman, 'Wrong' Author, on Why to Not Trust Experts - time
Two billion year-old fossils may rewrite natural history books

Watching Trends in Dating - NYTimes.com

Detroit police probe own gang unit | detnews.com | The Detroit News

YouTube - GUI interface using visual basic to track the killers IP address CSI
YouTube - Numb3rs' description of IRC

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The administration defends its assassination program - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Obama officials are now apparently going around the country and, with chest-beating rhetoric, overtly defending their right to target Americans for assassination with no due process of any kind:
YouTube - Amnesty International - "Death to the death penalty"

Australian priest jailed for 'sadistic' child abuse - Yahoo! News

Deepwater Horizon: Statistical Modeling | Recent and Historical Incidents | Emergency Response | NOAA's National Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration
Oil spill confirmed to be in seabed off Alabama coast | al.com (o rly)
Is BP rejecting skimmers to save money on Gulf oil cleanup? | McClatchy

A cycle of stupidity - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The Plum Line - Dems say Steele is "rooting for failure." Really, Dems? (same BS as the Republicans)
Keep Congress in session this August - The Week
Democrats shaping battle plan against Republicans for November "If we allow a Republican Party that took a $237 billion surplus and turned it into a $1.3 trillion deficit over eight years to masquerade as the party of fiscal responsibility, then shame on us," Axelrod said (well, Dave, you're doing pretty well so far)
Gohmert On Terrorist Babies Theory: 'It's Not Just A Theory' (video) | TPMDC (Republicans will defend us against the baby jihad)
Kristol misrepresents Phoenix crime levels to defend AZ law | Media Matters for America
Steve Clemons: Lindsey Graham: In Today's Republican Party, Reagan Wouldn't Make It as a Republican (no, he'd be ... Obama!)
Poll: 26% Of U.S. Clueless On Who We Declared Independence From | TPM LiveWire (the same "twenty-seven percenters" who love Sarah Palin)
U.S. Government Sued by ACLU Over No Fly List Terrorist Watch List Violates Constitutional Rights When Those Barred From Flying Are Not Told Why, Says ACLU (please donate to the ACLU)
Heritage spin-off targets ObamaCare in first grassroots campaign | The Daily Caller (people are so dumb)


Matthew Yglesias » Broadband Grants It’s a scandal that amidst an economic crisis of this enormity the Obama administration has allowed vacancies on the Fed Board to persist for so long.
Phantom debts, real anguish

Michael Mann exonerated yet yet again : Deltoid (but ... Climategate!)
Long Life Is in the Genes, Study Shows : Discovery News Diet and exercise can certainly help you to live a long, healthy life, but that might not be the whole story.
Tibetans May Be Fastest Evolutionary Adapters Ever : NPR

2010 Industrial Security Clearance Decisions
A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space : NPR (no, they don't mention the words "radioactive fallout raining down on everyone" see also: Telstar 1) )
Damn Interesting • Starfish Prime
Prose Before Hos 2: 'Electricty', Courtesy of Bob Jones University
Illinois Budget Crisis | Chicago Public Library Commissioner Reacts to FOX Chicago News' Story (which suggested closing all the libraries to save money for tax cuts)
YouTube - Beached Whale
Your Freedumb

How to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks (like McD's and starbucks)

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"Torture" study reveals appalling cowardice of America's newspapers | Philly | 06/30/2010 (un-American to print the truth)
New study documents media's servitude to government - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect When Is Torture Not Torture? (why, when Americans do it, of course!) As soon as Republicans started quibbling over the definition of torture, traditional media outlets felt compelled to treat the issue as a "controversial" matter
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public PolicyTorture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media
NYT: We Stopped Calling Waterboarding 'Torture' Because The Bush Administration Didn't Approve - the big takeaway here is that as long as you are able to frame immorality as an interesting point of view in a political dispute, the New York Times is ready to suspend decades of crystal-clear judgment, subserviently (NYT: torture is an "opinion" kept off news pages +rotten at the core)

Kroaky: How I Got Arrested and Abused at G20 in Toronto, Canada. By Tommy Taylor
McGuinty washes his hands of police mistreatment allegations - The Globe and Mail Ontario Liberals prepared to give police carte blanche
CBC News - Toronto - Police powers expanded for G20 New regulations give police right to search anyone near security fence (they lied, of course)
‘Weapons’ seized in G20 arrests not what they seem - The Globe and Mail Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair during a Tuesday press conference in the lobby of police headquarters at 40 College St. in Toronto. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail - Police display items confiscated in unrelated incidents (learning from Israel)
A black eye for democracy (well, Toronto cops, anyway)
BBC News - Baghdad diary: Searching for power (mission fucked up)
BBC News - Finland makes broadband a 'legal right'

Pope slams cardinal who exposed abuse cover-up (kinda says it all, doesn't it? +WLPR)
Pope launches mission to re-evangelise the West - Europe, World - The Independent (making the world safe for pedophilia)
Pope battles secularization, 'eclipse of the sense of God' - usatoday.com
Is it God or the Catholic Church facing 'eclipse' in the West? - Faith & Reason
Pope Shuffles Vatican Bureaucracy Before Vacation : NPR (back to the third century)
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russian Tradecraft Ain't What It Used To Be | TPMMuckraker so incompetent that the American government couldn't even charge the alleged spies with espionage (so why claim they are "spies?" what political calculus was worth upsetting Russia for their "unregistered foreign agents?")
Louisiana Governor Seals Oil-Spill Records - Green Blog - NYTimes.com - Louisiana has an open records law, but it does not apply to records in the custody of the governor’s office.
BP Oil Spill Nears Record As Largest In Gulf History
Italy Surpasses US in Solar PV | Renewable Energy World Installing More Every Two Months than California in an Entire Year (why bother when we can Drill, Baby, Drill?)
msnbc video: Oil spread leaves horror in its wake - Olbermann (what BP/your gov doesn't want you to know)
The Plum Line - To subpoena BP or not to subpoena BP? That is the question Senate Republicans take active steps to impede any investigation into BP. And that's what Senator Jim DeMint has now done.

Brewer Falsely Claimed Immigrants Beheaded People In Arizona (video) | TPMMuckraker (and eat their brains!)
Obama Mocked Commissions, Then Established Four - Political Hotsheet - CBS News (WSJ strains for objectivity)
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnists Call Obama A 'Female' With A 'Humanoid' Problem
acemoglu_institutions_aer2001.pdf (PDF) The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
the24typesoflibertarian_thumb.png (PNG) (what it says on the tin)

Weak economic data suggest recovery is fizzling - Yahoo! Finance Jobless claims rise and millions could lose benefits; home sales plunge, manufacturing slows
Unemployment Extension Fails: Senate Rejects Jobless Benefits 58-38 (let them pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or eat their bootstraps)
Weekly Claims Post Rise in Sign of More Job Weakness - CNBC The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance rose unexpectedly last week, a report showed on Thursday, heightening fears the labor market recovery was stalling.
Jim McDermott: Unemployment Standoff 'A Class Warfare Issue'
Hullabaloo: digby: The Little People Need To Adjust (Jonathan Alter: the "liberal orthodoxy" is responsible for 10% unemployment)
Final Financial Reform Bill Passes House
Fed Made Taxpayers Unwitting Junk-Bond Buyers - Bloomberg (Bernanke: "investment grade")
Media: News Releases > Fannie Mae Increases Penalties for Borrowers Who Walk Away Seven-Year Lockout Policy for Strategic Defaulters (not the way to restart the housing bubble)

Why Doctor's Data Is Trying to Shut Me Up
Giant Whale-Eating Whale Found : Discovery News
British scientist uncovers 'secret messages' hidden in Plato's ancient text | Mail Online
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: The Ultimate "Esoteric" Reading of Plato

Fox News advocates shutting down public libraries - Boing Boing
Al Gore Sex Allegation: Portland Police Re-Opening Investigation
Movie piracy crackdown: Feds shut down nine websites - latimes.com according to a statement from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which coordinated its investigation with the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies (because, obviously, this is an immigration and National Security issue)
`Training kicked in' for run at killers Game and Fish worker gets medal of valor, is credited with saving lives

Andy Kaufman Hosts Fridays
Why Team Jacob always has to lose in Twilight Eclipse is a movie about rejecting adulthood, not just as a person but also as a culture. It's about rejecting adult relationships between men and women, but also between people of different races and between people from the city (like Victoria's army) and people from Forks. It's about never crossing boundaries, never leaving home (Christian subtext)

Is Microsoft's U-Prove The Answer To Better Online Privacy? | NetworkWorld.com Community Microsoft's U-Prove identity framework aims for security and privacy.
Microsoft Kin DEAD: Microsoft Pulling The Plug On New Phone, Sources Say (yet another epic FAIL)
What killed the Kin? -- Engadget