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Bird flu virus kills Chinese man | World news | guardian.co.uk Bus driver from Guangdong dies after testing positive for H5N1 strain, despite having had no apparent contact with poultry ... The strain has a high mortality rate, killing up to 60% of infected humans. (airborne despite Obama)

Power struggle could further destabilize Pakistan | McClatchy
Syrian opposition groups unite to chart roadmap to democracy | World news | guardian.co.uk Dissident groups sign draft agreement on how to ensure stability once aim of toppling President Bashar al-Assad is achieved
Ukraine Sends Yulia Tymoshenko to Remote Prison Camp - NYTimes.com abruptly transferred the jailed opposition leader Yulia V. Tymoshenko to a prison camp about 300 miles east of the capital
Israel accused over 'provocative' new homes in Jerusalem - UK Politics - UK - The Independent another "provocative and deeply counter-productive" step after authorities approved construction in sensitive areas of Jerusalem (always in your face)
The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - They Shall Reap the Whirlwind How religious zealots in the Israeli government are supporting a new generation of extremist settlers who hate the Israeli government.
Nigeria News: State of emergency declared in 4 states President Goodluck Jonathan vows to crush Islamic extremists Boko Haram (good luck with that)
India economy: Is growth enough? | GlobalPost
China: Overdue for a people’s revolt? | GlobalPost Opinion: Freedom is too strong to be held in check forever. Even in China.

Global Markets Lost $6.3 Trillion in 2011 | ThinkProgress
Brad DeLong: The 70% Solution: Taxing the Rich Department
The Triumph of Keynesianism | FDL News Desk Spain’s new government announced an 8.9 billion euro austerity package today, split between tax increases and spending cuts. It’s part of a larger austerity plan that would cut 16.5 billion euros by the end of 2012. And yet this is what the austerity measures of the past year provided… (nyah, nyah, can't hear you +Spain dumps Science Dept from Government, of course)
My FDL | juliania | indictment of Obama | My FDL | juliania | ! I have a theory that the entire Bible is actually a promotion of women as equals
From Statistics to Graphs to People | Firedoglake

'Don't despair': Miliband's message to a sceptical public (and his party's doubters) - The Independent (useless fool)
More misery for Miliband as Cameron's EU veto gives Tories first lead in 14 months - UK Politics - UK - The Independent Poll shows strong Conservative gain as Labour reflects on year of wasted opportunities
Thatcher was urged to let Liverpool fall into decline - UK Politics - UK - The Independent after the Toxteth riots and spend regeneration money elsewhere,

Comment: Obama’s Climate Betrayal : The New Yorker - by trying to block others’ attempts to tackle the problem, the U.S. is behaving in a manner that seems best described as unforgivable (failing the major moral test of our time, in fact, all of them; Obama stands for nothing except himself)
Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill | ThinkProgress from the signing statement: “My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation.” (but if that's what Republicans want to do, it's ok with me)

Vagabond Scholar: Jon Swift Memorial Roundup 2011
Twitter / @ggreenwald: @drfarls I'm not performing any fucking role ... don't project your artifice on me

Courthouse News Service The Vietnam Veterans of America says the Pentagon has "systematically and wrongfully discharged" more than 22,000 veterans since 2001 "on the basis of so-called 'personality disorder'" - rather than post-traumatic stress disorder - to deny them medical care and save the Pentagon $12.5 billion in medical and disability payments (supporting our troops, once again)
The Pentagon and its Sock Puppets—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) (Pentagon: "we see no problem")
The Washington Monthly - Ten Miles Square - Time to Amend: No More Half Measures in Campaign Finance Reform

Super PACs Dominate Iowa Caucus, Helping Mitt Romney Run Ahead The ads were part of an unprecedented $3.3 million negative campaign of television spots and direct mail by Restore Our Future, an independent expenditure-only committee or super PAC, which blunted Gingrich's rise and may very well be the main ingredient in an Iowa victory for Romney next Tuesday.
Restore Our Future Attack Ads Harm Gingrich in Iowa - NYTimes.com
Hullabaloo - How do you like me now? - Live by Citizens United, die by Citizens United - If this continues, there really won't be much point in having primaries. It basically adds up to very rich rich people in very expensive smoke filled rooms buying the nomination (end of democracy in America)
In a switch, Ron Paul ignores the media - Keach Hagey and James Hohmann - politico.com Neglect by the mainstream media is so central to Ron Paul’s identity that his campaign uses it to raise money. But as his surging poll numbers in Iowa have drawn scrutiny to his incendiary newsletters, reporters are complaining that Paul is now the one ignoring the mainstream media (creepy old facist homophobe nutball ignores lamestream media)
With Over 500K Signatures Already Collected, Recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Appears Inevitable | ThinkProgress
Matt Romney on Dad's Tax Returns: Obama Should Release His Birth Certificate First | Video Cafe Matt Romney told a group of senior citizens that the multimillionaire candidate might not release his tax returns until President Barack Obama releases his birth certificate, a document that was made public long ago (meanwhile, on planet Republican)
SNL: GOP 2012 Undeclared Candidates Debate | Video Cafe (Tiny Fey's last SP impression: 4:03)

The Unraveling of MF Global - WSJ.com n September, MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s management sent a memo to the securities firm's 2,800 employees: Start printing on both sides of paper (that worked)

New synthetic molecules treat autoimmune disease in mice Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis,
Ayahuasca, an Amazonian trip | GlobalPost Ayahuasca's a hallucinogen in a cup. Bring good karma, and drink at your own risk.

The Politics of Planned Parenthood and Women’s Rights : The New Yorker (if a fertilized egg has equal rights, women are not equal to men; jihad in America)
Action aboard airplane creates a reluctant hero - KansasCity.com Jabir Hazziez Jr. has been showered with accolades, but he sees his role as reflecting his Muslim faith.
David Dean Smith, Michigan Man, Allegedly Spread HIV 'Possibly 100s Of People' To Kill Victims

Cronin's Restaurant - What's on the Menu? Help transcribe The New York Public Library's historical menu collection (1961) (Martini: 55 cents)

the beatles - let it be (live video) - YouTube | Let It Be Lyrics Paul Mccartney

Eschaton: Don't Piss On My Leg And Tell Me It's Raining: Smart companies stick in sneaky fees so you don't notice, dumb ones announce that they're going to charge you for the privilege of paying your bill.

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Hullabaloo The military has the money and guns in Egypt. When the people gathered en masse in Tahrir Square, the military eventually found it more convenient to dump Mubarak than to keep him.
A fitting end to a disastrous year in Indian politics | John Elliott | Independent Editor's choice Blogs It was a fitting end to a disastrous year for corruption-ridden India’s floundering government, destructive parliamentary opposition, and self-serving politicians (India can't survive without corruption)
The Ultra-Orthodox in Israel: A Clash of Cultures in the Holy Land - Spiegel Online - News - International Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel would like to see gender separation in public, and some have stooped to harassing women -- and even children -- to get their way. With thousands of Israelis protesting against the growing influence of the super-religious, the rift in Israeli society is getting deeper (reaping what you sowed)

Keynes Was Right - NYTimes.com Unfortunately, in late 2010 and early 2011, politicians and policy makers in much of the Western world believed that they knew better, that we should focus on deficits, not jobs, even though our economies had barely begun to recover from the slump that followed the financial crisis. And by acting on that anti-Keynesian belief, they ended up proving Keynes right all over again (facts never bothered them much in their rush to impose austerity on everyone but themselves)
Eurozone crisis: Spain announces tax rises after missing deficit target | Business | guardian.co.uk Spanish government plans "progressive" tax rises and public spending cuts ... "Extraordinary and unexpected" situation blamed (they've had a lot of those lately)
Spain sets out painful spending cuts - CNN.com (more austerity will help!)

Presenting the first-annual Wonky awards - The Washington Post (see Sweden for Keynsian validation)
How the Deficit Got This Big - NYTimes.com The answer is largely the Bush-era tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions.
Budget Infographic
Medical Infographics

"But no president has ever relied so extensively on the secret killing of individuals to advance the nation’s security goals" | Philly | 12/28/2011 The Nobel Peace Prize called. It wants its good name back (he sold the world on his illusion)
Exclusive: Interpol chief - close EU border loophole or risk attack - World Politics - World - The Independent Alarm raised over gap in European passport security that could 'lead to another September 11' (fear, fear!)


NBCU, Bain Capital Relationship: MSNBC Anchors Begin Disclosing Relationship (VIDEO) parent company NBC Universal's ties to Bain Capital, the private investment firm co-founded by GOP candidate Mitt Romney.
The Washington Narrative Goes A-Schmoozin' - Esquire Once upon a time, the last time there was a Democratic president with a psyche to be plumbed by foolish dilettantes, Sally Quinn, now d/b/a The Little Flower of Beltway Spirituality, wrote a memorable piece about how distressed everyone around her dinner table had become over the arrival in town of those shoeless hillbillies from Arkansas. (redux Obama by Helene Cooper at the ... NYT!)
Obama Gains Reputation as Distant in Washington - NYTimes.com (Boehner and Cantor want more face time)
Eschaton: Newt: Ron Paul: And much hand-wringing will ensue on the left, as they try to decide whether or not they like a racist anti-war isolationist who favors a society of bare-foot, pregnant women smoking dope in the kitchen.
Major Ron Paul Supporter Favors Death Penalty for Gays | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet Paul's endorsement from a pastor who wants the death penalty for gays exposes his links to radical Christian Reconstructionists. (the psychotic core)
With Mixed Results, Ron Paul Tries To Terrify Small Town Iowa | TPM2012 Even a fervent Paul supporter thought the riots in the streets thing was unlikely.
Strange libertarian argument of the day : Lawyers, Guns & Money Andrew Cohen attempts to make a libertarian case for requiring licences to raise children, is apparently not meant as a parody. This argument pairs nicely, I think, with Murray Rothbard’s argument that parents should be free to starve their children to death if they wish (but not to assault them! Because that’s a distinction with tremendous moral importance!) (libertarians hate and fear children)
Why the White South Is Still in Denial About Slavery | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet On a trip through the South, Civil War culture is presented as "authentic." They just leave out the slavery part (cleansed of ethnicity)

Balloon Juice » The lady’s not for spurning or the fact that Margaret Thatcher was an evil, rabid, vicious, mean-sprited, homophobic, Reagan-snuggling, Pinochet-loving old trout. (great writing)

Common Brain Mechanisms Underlie Supernatural Perceptions: Scientific American Belief in the paranormal arises from the same brain mechanisms that shape most human thought - three out of four Americans believe in the existence of paranormal phenomena. Other work has revealed that about one in three of us claim to have experienced the supernatural.

Chicago Cardinal Doubles Down, Says Gay Pride Parade 'Invited An Obvious Comparison' To KKK | ThinkProgress (world's largest pedophile ring wants to take tax payer money and discriminate)
Fox Apologizes To Jews For Jesus Facebook Poll The poll asked readers who they think is responsible for the death of Christ: Pontius Pilate, The Jewish People or the High Priests.
Forced Marriage: What about the men? | | Independent Editor's choice Blogs Over 70% of these cases involve families from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. These figures are only the tip of the iceberg, as the issue is under-reported for both sexes. Estimates suggest there are more than 2,000 incidents of forced marriage involving young male British nationals each year.

Texas teen leaves heartfelt message before Christmas death | ksl.com

Best Images of 2011 - Imgur

Now The Largest Game Companies In The World Have Dropped Support For A Bill The Internet Hates
Verizon Fee: Mobile Network Operator Scraps Convenience Fee After Customer Uproar
This Is The Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired As CEO Of HP

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U.S. Military Sales to Iraq Raise Concerns - NYTimes.com The Obama administration is moving ahead with the sale of nearly $11 billion worth of arms and training for the Iraqi military despite concerns that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is seeking to consolidate authority, create a one-party Shiite-dominated state and abandon the American-backed power-sharing government (10% of GDP; what could go wrong?)
US agrees sale of $30bn fighter jets to Saudi Arabia | World news | guardian.co.uk White House says delivery of 84 new jets will support 50,000 jobs and be worth $3.5bn a year to the US economy (your defense contractors and lobbyists running foreign policy)
Military Stimulus: US Selling Tens of Billions in Arms to Middle East Countries | FDL News Desk

Turkey says deadly air strike was an 'unfortunate accident' | World news | guardian.co.uk Turkish official confirms 35 people killed in Iraqi border air raids were civilians working as smugglers, not Kurdish rebels
Moscow protest for jailed activist passes off peacefully | World news | The Guardian Hundreds of protesters gather in Pushkin Square to demonstrate against detention of leftist opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov
Tony Blair: support liberals in Middle East or face Islamist regimes | Politics | guardian.co.uk Special envoy warns religious groups are focused and organised while progressives need support and unity
Stasi files row as Britain refuses to return documents to Germany | World news | guardian.co.uk The files, obtained by the CIA after the fall of the Berlin Wall, name Britons who spied for East Germany in cold war
US 'deeply concerned' after Egyptian forces raid NGO offices in Cairo | World news | The Guardian State Department urges government to 'resolve this immediately' as US-Egyptian relations threaten to sink to new low ... The orchestrated move by Egypt's generals, apparently keen to play up to anti-US and nationalist feelings in the country, will be seen as highly provocative in Washington, which underwrites military aid to Egypt to the sum of $1.3bn (£843m) annually (second after you-know-who)
Egypt raids on NGOs hint at wider crackdown | World news | The Guardian Even charitable work can be a sensitive matter in Arab regimes if it highlights the state's failure to provide basic services

Euro sinks as Italian bond auction misses target | Business | The Guardian European Central Bank reported to have helped prop up Italian bonds as auction fails to reach hoped-for figure of €8.5bn

Vote Obama – if you want a centrist Republican for US president | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | The Guardian Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs, the US opposition race is a shambles
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Obama officials love secret, targeted killing far more even than Bush officials did. They’re “always ready to step on the accelerator” (and, of course, they went further than Bush by even targeting U.S. citizens far from any battlefield). Only Admiral Blair raised objections, and was fired for them

TNR On The Most Overlooked Stories Of 2011 | The New Republic

A Snapshot of the Race for the Senate - NYTimes.com But if Republicans do win the Senate, they could do so in spectacular fashion (you can see where we're headed)
Third-Party Candidates Line Up -- Daily Intel The question isn’t whether a third-party candidate will impact the 2012 elections, but how many of them will (fuck everything up the rest of us - "Americans Elect")
Americans Elect: A wild card for the Internet age - The Washington Post (oh sure)

Anonymous hackers to publish U.S. security firm's 2.7m client emails... providing a 'smoking gun for number of crimes' | Mail Online Stratfor has been dubbed the 'Shadow CIA'
New York Muslims to snub Bloomberg breakfast in surveillance protest | World news | guardian.co.uk Several prominent figures refuse to attend multi-faith gathering with mayor after reports the NYPD spied on Muslim communities
» Mayor Gloomberg Opposes a Living Wage, Would Rather Pass the City’s Millions Out Unchecked

Scott Brown: Elizabeth Warren Media Coverage Is 'All Fluff' (where's her Cosmo centerfold, huh?)

Nuclear Power Play: Ambition, Betrayal And The 'Ugly Underbelly' Of Energy Regulation

Tea Party Book Conclusions - What a Tea Partier Won't Tell You - Esquire (NYT still trying to figure out the John Birch Society)
Poll: 'Progressive' Is The Most Positively Viewed Political Label in America | ThinkProgress

MF Global Scrutinized on Money Move - NYTimes.com
Eschaton: Regardless Of His Intentions, He Ran Off With My Wallet The new details bolster claims that MF Global was careless with customer money, regardless of the company’s intentions. (oopsie, no one to blame)

Chimpanzees seem to know what's on other chimps' minds | Science | guardian.co.uk Humans may not be alone in having insight into the minds of others, a chimpanzee study suggests
FDA draws criticism after U-turn on antibiotics in animal feed | World news | guardian.co.uk Environmental groups dismayed after agency drops long-held plan to regulate use of human antibiotics fed to healthy animals (Obama caves yet again)

Terry O'Neill: Obama Administration Failing Women on Birth Control (conservative Republican at work)
Leveson inquiry shown examples of 'sexist and offensive' reporting | Media | The Guardian Articles from the Telegraph, Sun and Sunday Sport criticised as sexualising women and misrepresenting rape research findings
It’s High Time for Conception: Studies Show Peak Times, Weather for Sex - The Daily Beast Studies show the holiday season is prime time for baby making. Anneli Rufus reports on which day, at what time, and in what weather you stand the best chance of having sex.
Christa Dias, Mother, Fired From Catholic Schools For Use Of Artificial Insemination
Kasey Kahne, NASCAR Driver, Tweets Against Breastfeeding In Public, Ignites Controversy Among Fans (asshole grossed out by breast feeding)

As Crime Falls, Central Park’s Night Use Grows - NYTimes.com (the Escape from New York scenario never happened)
In Washington area, African American students suspended and expelled two to five times as often as whites - The Washington Post


Secret Subpoena For Twitter User Account Info Allowed to Proceed | TPM Idea Lab and hand user account information over to the Boston Police Department (no privacy if you are "under investigation" - Boston cops got hacked, want revenge on your free speech)
Verizon Convenience Fee: Customers To Be Charged $2 For Paying Bill Online Via Credit Card (claim they will not charge for checks in the mail)
GoDaddy Boycott December 29: SOPA Controversy Prompts Site Owners To Pull Domains
DailyTech - Congress Plugs Anti-Piracy Legislation By Day, Pirates Porn by Night
Save Tom's, Stop SOPA

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U.S. Fifth Fleet says won't allow disruption in Hormuz | Reuters after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the strategic oil route.
Russia's Dubious Vote - WSJ.com Analysis of Parliamentary Results Points to Widespread Fraud (tsk, tsk)
Iran threatens to block oil exports through Hormuz strait in sanctions row | World news | guardian.co.uk Country reacts to threat of sanctions on its crude oil after UN watchdog's report into state's nuclear ambitions
Syria, Egypt and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Arab League observers resume mission in Homs • Regime releases prisoners but activists denounce 'whitewash'
Hosni Mubarak trial resumes after two-month delay | World news | guardian.co.uk Ousted Egyptian president faces charges including involvement in deaths of hundreds of anti-regime protesters (just a front for the military) x
Somalia Faces Alarming Rise in Rapes of Women and Girls - NYTimes.com
BBC News - Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals Five thousand Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to fight for the British against Hitler went on to suffer years of persecution.
Thousands of Israelis protest gender segregation in Beit Shemesh - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Rally was originally slated to take place in the courtyard of a girl's school, but the location was changed after Haredi extremists threatened organizers with violence.
Israeli female soldier accosted for rebuffing Haredi bus segregation - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Jerusalem resident Doron Matalon says ultra-Orthodox man, 45, chided her for not moving to back of bus, calling her 'gentile' and 'prostitute.'
Top Israeli rabbi: Gender segregated buses go against Jewish Law - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Rabbi Eliezer Melamed says gender segregation on public buses hurts the 'proper family order', notes gender segregation is appropriate only during when performing 'public acts'.

TEPCO says it 'no longer owns' Fukushima fallout - BlackListedNews.com 'TEPCO is saying the radiation doesn't belong to them', and they said 'I beg your pardon'."

JPMorgan’s Swaps Occupying Cassino Prove Curse Like World War II - Businessweek (JPMorgan criminal enterprise)
Greek economic crisis turns tragic for children abandoned by their families | World news | The Guardian Nation shocked by stories of parents forced to give up children because of poverty – but charities warn of more cases to come (more austerity!)
Notable Death of the Year: RIP Austerity Economics, 1921-2011 | Crooks and Liars
Euro hits 11-month low against the dollar as banks hoard ECB cash | Business | The Guardian Single currency also at 10-year low against yen, but Italy brings festive cheer to markets as borrowing costs tumble

Obama Nominates Carlyle Group Partner to The Federal Reserve - BlackListedNews.com The Carlyle Group is a massive private equity firm and one of the largest defense contractors in the world.
Wall Street Mulls Suicide by Tactical Allocation - BlackListedNews.com Wall Street is merely one arm of the massively tentacled Money Power that resides in the City of London with outposts in Washington, the Vatican and Tel Aviv. The factions may fight among each other but at the end of the day they have the same goals and use the same facility to realize their goal of world government – run by them.

Prosecutors say Manning and Assange collaborated in stealing secret documents - The Washington Post
New York Times Sues Department Of Justice in an attempt to obtain more information about the legal justification behind the killing of U.S.-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. He was killed by a U.S. drone strike in the mountains of Yemen in late September (Obama says it's all a secret)
Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing - The Washington Post
“Oddly Passive” in the World of Drone Killing | emptywheel So the article makes it clear that the Administration doesn’t consider non-operational American citizen propagandists “civilians.” (Obama hates free speech)

Did Nixon have a gay affair with a Mafia fixer? Forget Watergate. A new book claims America's most corrupt President hid a far more personal scandal... | Mail Online the 37th U.S. President had a serious drink problem, beat his wife and — by the time he was inaugurated in 1969 — had links going back two decades to the Mafia, including with New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello, then America's most powerful mobster (in other words, a Republican)

The Recall Elections Blog: The Year in Recalls -- 150 Recalls in 2011 (Americans dissatisfied with their Teahadists)
The new wave of US voter suppression | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Rightwing state legislatures are pushing laws that seek to restrict voter access. It's an alarming trend, and Democrats will lose out
Ruy Teixeira: Why Obama's Re-election Campaign Will Depend On The Youth Vote | The New Republic (which he has consistently alientated)
Youth to Lead Drop in U.S. Voter Turnout in 2012 - Study - NYTimes.com (they were'nt "independents," so fuck them)

Fox's Year Of Class Warfare | Media Matters for America
Iowa's million-dollar attack ads | World news | guardian.co.uk The millions of dollars being lavished on attack ads in Iowa is a bad taste of things to come in the 2012 presidential election
Ron Paul Holding Iowa Lead In New PPP Poll (Iowa loves insane racists)
Death Penalty For Gays: Ron Paul Courts The Religious Fringe In Iowa | TPM2012 Reached by phone, Kayser confirmed to TPM that he believed in reinstating Biblical punishments for homosexuals — including the death penalty
The New York Times on Ron Paul’s Newsletters
Rachel Maddow: 'Ron Paul Hated By Fox News' (video)
GOP Candidates Reveal How They Would Enact Pro-Life 'Personhood' Laws (and bring Sharia law to America)
Perry changes stance to oppose all abortions – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs (at least he's a consistent Christian asshole)
Perry: U.S. Should Buy More Canadian Oil So 'We Don't Have To Buy From A Foreign Source' | ThinkProgress adding that buying so much energy from foreign countries is “not good policy, it’s not good politics and frankly it‘s un-American.” (also consistently dumb-as-a-rock)

The Defeatism of Depression - NYTimes.com - . Our problem isn’t, ultimately, economic; it’s political, brought on by an elite that would rather cling to its prejudices than turn the nation around (Republicans killing America with Obama's help)
Economist's View: Un-Unpivoting what strikes me is just how wrong-headed the Obama administration’s “pivot” away from jobs and toward the deficit back in 2010 really was. It was bad economics; but it was also really bad politics, shifting the debate to exactly the ground where the right tends to have an (undeserved) advantage.
Making Work Pay Tax Credit Always Superior to Payroll Tax Cut | FDL News Desk
SEC, Citigroup stay granted by higher court at last minute « HousingWire (Obama intervenes to make sure no bankers suffer)
Whistleblower Records Shed Light On BNY Mellon Case
Report: Rich-poor gap growing - Mackenzie Weinger - politico.com The SSA said 50 percent of workers made less than $26,364 last year — and most Americans have fewer job opportunities available to them. But the wealthiest Americans are relatively unscathed, with those earning $1 million or more jumping 18 percent from 2009.
How The Housing Crisis Could Kill Any Progress On Jobs | ThinkProgress Some economists fear the continued slump in housing could short-circuit the recovery in jobs by making it harder for Americans to relocate to find work.
Eschaton: Skimmers An immense amount of free money has been given out in this crisis. Most of it has gone to the rich assholes who continue to create the problems.

New York Times Staffers Express 'Profound Dismay' With Management The letter also mentions that a member of "senior management" is now leaving with "a very generous severance and retirement package, including full pension benefits." Indeed, outgoing CEO Janet Robinson -- the unnamed executive-- will reportedly take home a $15 million exit package (they practice what they preach)
New York Times' Regional Papers Sold
Jill Abramson Promotes Tom Bodkin To Deputy Managing Editor
» FAQ for NYT Regional Media Group employees jimromenesko.COM
PolitiFact | Fact-checking in the Echo Chamber Nation (small Florida Republican newspaper whines; Bill Adair should apologize and go home for good)

Study finds unexplored link between airlines' profitability and their accident rates “Speaking generally, airlines are safest when their financial performance is either much better or must worse than it has been in the recent past.”
The Leading Cause of Breast Cancer? » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the exhaustive analysis found that medical radiation, particularly the large radiation dose delivered by CT scans, is the foremost identifiable cause of breast cancer ... CT Scans may cause 29,000 cancers and 15,000 cancer deaths every year

A death sentence for the death penalty? | World news | guardian.co.uk murderers sentenced to death will end up costing taxpayers three times more over the length of the case than if they were sentenced to life without parole (the rubber meets the road in death states)
ID errors put hundreds in L.A. County jails - Los Angeles Times Wrongful incarcerations totaled 1,480 in the last five years, a Times inquiry finds (no consequences for deleting the Fourth Amendment: the cops know who the bad guys are, right?)

SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers - Tim Mak - politico.com

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Syria: Protests in Homs as Arab League visits | World news | guardian.co.uk ens of thousands turn out to call for Assad to go • Regime withdraws tanks from Homs as observers arrive
Egypt Virginity Tests On Female Detainees Ordered Stopped - on female detainees in military prisons ("virginity test" = "rape")
Naama Margolese, Israeli Girl, Bullied By Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Extremists (VIDEO) The ultra-Orthodox are perennial king-makers in Israeli coalition politics – two such parties serve as key members of the ruling coalition. They receive generous government subsidies, and police have traditionally been reluctant to enter their communities ... 10 percent of Israel's population and are its fastest growing sector because of a high birth rate
Israel's treatment of women is hardly that of a democracy | Rachel Shabi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk A 'dignified' dress code and gender segregation show Israel is fast becoming bigoted about dissent and difference (just like you-know-who)
Bus Segregation of Jewish Women Prompts Review - NYTimes.com (oh, the Hasids in Brooklyn do it too; more state-supported discrimination)
Ethiopia jails Swedish journalists on terrorism charges | World news | The Guardian ohan Persson and Martin Schibbye were found with rebel group
Al-Qaida in Iraq claims responsibility for Baghdad blasts | World news | guardian.co.uk Co-ordinated attacks struck a dozen mostly Shia neighbourhoods, killing 69 people, on single day last week
Vladimir Putin's world is falling apart | Masha Gessen | Comment is free | The Guardian The Russian media has lost its fear of Putin's authoritarian regime. History tells us the end must be nigh

Greeks Reeling From Health Care Cutbacks - NYTimes.com Greece used to have an extensive public health care system that pretty much ensured that everybody was covered for everything. But in the last two years, the nation’s creditors have pushed hard for dramatic cost savings to cut back the deficit (bankers ruin their country, so the price is health care, sound familiar?)
Eschaton: The Suffering Of Other People Shorter Washington Post: We applaud what Monti is doing, even though it will make things worse, and what he really needs to do is stick it to workers and old people. I think I do have great business idea: poverty porn for our Galtian overlords. Footage of mass misery is just what they need to cheer them up enough to hire another yacht scrubber or two.
Italy Retailers in Worst Christmas in 10 Years - Bloomberg (solution: more austerity!)

Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents - The Washington Post Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled, according to the analysis of financial disclosures, from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home ­equity.
American Class System - We Are Not All Created Equal, by Stephen Marche - Esquire The truth about the American class system (the rich always win)
Top One Percent Income 2011 - Income Inequality Is a Symptom, Not the Disease, by Charles P. Pierce - Esquire

Elizabeth Warren, Scott Brown Targeted By Super PACs The groups spent more than $38 million to defeat Democrats in the 2010 midterms, raising money from large donors, including many whose identities remain unknown ("free" speech from behind the curtain)
Iowa GOP caucus 2012: Gingrich v Romney with seven days to go | World news | guardian.co.uk Buzzfeed's awesome Andrew Kaczynski has been on a roll so far in this election cycle, through using a little-known investigative technique known as "finding old stuff on the internet", and tracking down embarassing bits of Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich from years gone by.
GOP presidential race: Ask not for whom the poll tells | World news | guardian.co.uk With the 2012 nomination process soon to get under way, uncertainty stalks the Republican presidential candidates
Gingrich Puts a Price on His Family Values : He sheltered his $4-million book bonanza from his struggling, non-trophy ex-wife. - Los Angeles Times "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer."

Sen. Ben Nelson won’t run for re-election – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs The two-term Democrat had been considered a top target of Republicans heading into the 2012 elections (teapartied; good riddance to bad Dems)
Political Animal - Ben Nelson to retire Nelson waited until after Democratic and allied groups had invested quite a bit of money to strengthen his standing in Nebraska, and then decided to retire (self-serving asshole til the end; Obama will draft Bob Kerrey)
Ben Nelson Retirement: Cue the Lamentations for Bipartisanship |
Hullabaloo - Good riddance to Ben Nelson (and Bob Kerrey? "Mr. Kerrey says that without reform, entitlements will claim 100 percent of the Treasury in 2012." is a Repubican)

Ron Paul: Not So Much Denial Back in the 1990s (Plus: Newsletters 101)
Ron Paul, Racism, and War — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen (the last (g)libertarian supporters of RP vaporize in the face of his massive racisim and insanity; Andrew Sullivan finally gives up)
Re-Thinking The Paul Endorsement - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast (didn't think this one through, did you? but still self-spinning)
Ron Paul's Foul Old Newsletters Back in the News - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters? - Reason Magazine Libertarian movement veterans, and a Paul campaign staffer, say it was "paleolibertarian" strategist Lew Rockwell
Ron Paul's Shaggy Defense - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
Paul builds campaign on doomsday scenarios - Yahoo! News

Calculated Risk: WSJ: "Slowing Inflation Cheers Fed" (Fed wakes up two years later, realizes inflation fears were delusional, ok)
Sears to close 100-120 stores after poor holiday sales | World news | guardian.co.uk Struggling numbers and outdated stores cited as cause for closure of over a hundred Sears and Kmart stores in the US
America's Dirty Little Housing Secret Is Rocking The Suburbs Some families that once pulled down six-figure incomes and drove flashy cars are now turning to the pantry for help ... One in six people in the U.S. are poor, according to the latest census data, compared to one-in-ten Americans in 2004. (drug-test them and make them clean toilets for free)

The Mystery Behind Anesthesia - Technology Review Mapping how our neural circuits change under the influence of anesthesia could shed light on one of neuroscience's most perplexing riddles: consciousness.
Coffee Enemas, Aromatherapy, and Intercessory Prayer: Your Tax Dollars At Work | The Hillman Foundation a scathing report on The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), an ideologically motivated side project within the National Institutes of Health which has received over $1.4 billion in grants to study scientifically dubious alternative remedies ... prayer and "energy healing" don't work (your tax dollars at work for Christians)

Time to end the war on drugs - Richard's Blog - Virgin.com (Branson says US drug-policy is insane, but that won't stop Obama)

The Catholic Church’s Acceleration into Irrelevancy Continues : Lawyers, Guns & Money : Cardinal Francis George of Chicago: "You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism."
Victoria Jackson: Muslim Brotherhood Taking Over America, Six Hour FBI Meeting Claiming that it was strongly hinted that President Obama was a Muslim -- his policies all favor Muslims and are against Israel, she claims to have been told -- Jackson says in the video that the ultimatum pushed by terrorist groups in America is "You have to convert or be killed." (because Christians are a tiny minority in Amercia even though they all have assault rifles)

French implants firm was criticised by US inspectors in 2000 | World news | The Guardian Food and Drug Administration warned PIP its saline implants were substandard and accused it of failing to report complaints ... The warning letter was made public in 2000. But The French health authority AFSSAPS said it had not been informed of the FDA's warning letter (they didn't read the news)
Pink Stuff: Little Girl In Toy Store Rails Against Gender Stereotypes (video)
Seriously, Men Only Think They’re Funnier - Studied - NYTimes.com men are perceived to be only slightly funnier than women in a blind test, in which the sex of the joke teller was not disclosed.

H.R.3261: Stop Online Piracy Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act (they forgot the Boston Globe)
Researcher Karsten Nohl Finds GSM Phone Vulnerability Could Expose Billions Around The World To Scams "We can do it to hundreds of thousands of phones in a short timeframe,"

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Philippines Floods 2011: Bodies Found Far Away From Ravaged Villages, Coastline More bodies have washed ashore, pushing the death toll to more than 1,200, an official said Monday. While more than 60,000 homeless from hundreds of flood-ravaged villages
Syria Violence: Government Tanks Unleash Fire On Protesters, Killing At Least 20
Iraq car bomb hits interior ministry | World news | guardian.co.uk At least six people killed and 34 others wounded in suicide bomb attack in Baghdad following series of blasts on Thursday
Iraq Suicide Bombing Attacks Kill At Least 7 People (but definitly "worth it")
Japan Fukushima Disaster: Probe Finds Response Failed (you don't say, probe) The report criticized the use of the term "soteigai," meaning "outside our imagination," which it said implied authorities were shirking responsibility for what had happened.
Fukushima investigation reveals failings | World news | The Guardian Japanese government delayed giving information to the public, according to interim report into the disaster
China jails dissident Chen Xi for 10 years | World news | The Guardian Veteran dissident is the second to be convicted of inciting subversion through online essays within four days (ten years hard labor for "online essays")
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani could be hanged in Iran | World news | guardian.co.uk Judiciary officials exploring whether woman whose sentence to death by stoning was suspended can be hanged instead
Al-Qaida leadership almost wiped out in Pakistan, British officials believe | World news | guardian.co.uk Senior members of al-Qaida are feared to be moving to north Africa to open up a new front after being weakened in Pakistan
UN Chops Budget By $250M (austerity)

The Washington Monthly - Ten Miles Square - Growth More Than Debt Key to Euromess (they killed themselves with austerity!)

Bradley Manning pre-trial hearing: what we learned | World news | guardian.co.uk (Obama hates accountability and will lie at the drop of a hat)
Anonymous targets US security thinktank Stratfor | Technology | The Guardian Hacking movement boasts of stealing confidential client list and mining it for credit card numbers
Daily Kos: Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns against Senators Max Baucus and Jonathan Tester, who voted for the bill.

Political Animal - Playing the blame game poorly Republicans have to blame government whether the argument is ridiculous or not — their ideology demands it.
Joe Nocera Gets Mad - NYTimes.com (the delusional Republican lie-machine)
2011 – the year the policymakers misread everything about the economy | Business | The Guardian It's been a troubled year for the global economy and one likely to be followed by an equally difficult 2012 (still fighting inflation! turn our profits back on!)
Eschaton: Turn Those Machines Back On We left the same people in charge of the Great Casino, and they, unsurprisingly, want to keep playing the same games. Nothing significant has been changed.
The Washington Monthly - Ten Miles Square - Fundamentally Hilarious Examining Gingrich’s speeches since 2007, Amira found 418 unique uses of fundamental or fundamentally (as in fundamentally corrupt and insane)


Obama: The conservative in 2012 - The Washington Post (he was the conservative in 2008, dude)
Newly released court documents cast doubt on Gingrich version of first divorce – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs (lying mofo)
Whiskey Fire: Hurrah for the God-damned Idiots The fact that the GOP presidential field is only capable of coughing up a gang of clownish shysters and a laughably phony hack indicates that the GOP is not a political party, but Fox News by other means.

Study: More Than 90% of Patients Say They Want to Read Doctors' Notes, but Most Doctors Resist | Healthland | TIME.com A new study asks patients if they want to read what their doctor is writing in their chart. Overwhelmingly, the answer was yes. Not surprisingly, doctors resist.


Online Gambling Gets Boost From Obama Administration The Obama administration cleared the way for states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling (legalizing state gambling; Obama still an idiot)


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CIA has suspended drone attacks in Pakistan, U.S. officials say - latimes.com The undeclared halt in CIA attacks in Pakistan, now in its sixth week, aims at reversing a sharp erosion in trust after deadly incidents, including the mistaken attack on soldiers by U.S. gunships (they stopped the illegal attacks they said they were never doing)
Nothing To Envy | 'Nothing to Envy' by Barbara Demick - Los Angeles Times
korea_night1.jpg (satellite pic of night lights on Korean Peninsula tells the whole story)

Petition to protest ultra-Orthodox discrimination against 7-year-old Beit Shemesh girl - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Na'ama, who lives with her religiously observant family in Beit Shemesh, is afraid to walk the 300 meters between home and school because of the violence she has faced from Haredi men who say her clothes are too revealing (fundies love their burkas and spitting and throwing stones)

Trade Dispute Looms: EU Court Forces US Airlines to Pay for Emissions - Spiegel Online - News - International In a letter to EU officials this month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US "will be compelled to take appropriate action" if the EU goes ahead with the scheme (Obama loves global warming)
Christine Lagarde: World Economy In 'A Dangerous Situation'

'Anonymous' Stratfor Hack Reportedly Start Of Weeklong Assault Hackers on Sunday claimed to have stolen a raft of e-mails and credit card data from U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor, promising it was just the start of a weeklong Christmas-inspired assault on a long list of targets.
Pentagon Finds No Fault In Its Ties to TV Analysts - NYTimes.com (of course not)

Hullabaloo Ebenezer Scrooge, Conservative
Pope calls for worshipers to remember 'essence' of Christmas - CNN.com unveiling of a larger-than-life nativity scene in St. Peter's Square. The scene, at 23 feet high and 82 feet wide, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, according to the Vatican's news agency (covered in gold and diamonds, Pope decries "commercialization" of Xmas)

Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness when Americans with different income levels differ in their policy preferences, actual policy outcomes strongly reflect the preferences of the most affluent but bear virtually no relationship to the preferences of poor or middle-income Americans (policy always serves the rich to widen inequality)

Trade Dispute Looms: EU Court Forces US Airlines to Pay for Emissions - Spiegel Online - News - International In a letter to EU officials this month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US "will be compelled to take appropriate action" if the EU goes ahead with the scheme.

Joe Arpaio Faces New Setback Over Immigration "Sheriff Arpaio has made public statements that a fact-finder could interpret as endorsing racial profiling,"
Bill Conlin Scandal: 7th Person Alleges Abuse By Philly Columnist (more sports)

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Mass boycott leads to awkward silence at UN Kim tribute
Kim Jong-un hailed by North Korean media as next leader | World news | guardian.co.uk Son of Kim Jong-il urged to embrace 'people's call on him to become supreme commander' by Rodong Sinmun newspaper
Yemen Protests: Troops In Country's Capital Open Fire On Protesters With Guns, Tear Gas, Water Cannons
Russian anti-Putin protests draw thousands to Moscow again | World news | guardian.co.uk Opposition activists claim 80,000 attend Second demonstration over vote-rigging claims in a month

We all have a stake in China’s real estate bubble - The Washington Post
Italy May Have to Kick Its Cash Habit as Monti Cracks Down on Tax Evaders - Bloomberg Italian banks, which charge businesses up to 2 percent for credit-card transactions, could end up being the main beneficiaries of the new rules

The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics - Salon.com As Ellsberg clearly details in this Al Jazeera debate, he — Ellsberg — dumped 7,000 pages of Top Secret documents: the highest known level of classification; by contrast, not a single page of what Manning is alleged to have leaked was Top Secret, but rather all bore a much lower-level secrecy designation. In that sense, Obama was right: “Ellsberg’s material wasn’t classified in the same way” — the secrets Ellsberg leaked were classified as being far more sensitive (Obama is a fucking liar)

Political Animal - The omnibus gets a signing statement - The presidential practice that became rather scandalous during the Bush/Cheney era hasn’t gone away completely (your imperial Presidency is here to stay)
The Big Lie - NYTimes.com Thus has Peter Wallison, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a former member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, almost single-handedly created the myth that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac caused the financial crisis (someone call Polifucked)
A Christmas Message From America's Rich | | Rolling Stone t seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out.

msnbc video: Now We Know
How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much - Forbes

Paul Moves Into Lead in Iowa Forecast - NYTimes.com
Gingrich, Perry disqualified from Va. primary ballot - Virginia Politics - The Washington Post -Earlier Friday, the Republican Party of Virginia certified former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) to appear on the ballot (grifters)
Newt Gingrich Fails To Qualify For Virginia GOP Primary Despite Residency [UPDATED] The failure is a particularly tough blow to Gingrich, who is a Virginia resident, having lived in the Washington suburb of McLean, Va. for more than a decade.
Gingrich Will Run An 'Aggressive Write-In Campaign' In Virginia Primaries, Where Write-Ins Are Illegal | ThinkProgress
The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Dec. 23, 2011 When Gingrich lost his entire campaign staff to -- well, to his decision to constantly be on vacation -- he brushed it off, bragging about how his campaign was going to be a different model. But it seems that running a social media campaign in virtual reality isn't yet a good enough idea to supplant campaign traditions like having "campaign offices" with "telephones."
SC Baptist Convention President Says Christians Will Have an Easier Time Voting for a Serial Adulterer Than a Mormon | Right Wing Watch
Political Animal - Understanding ‘suicidal’ political episodes (let's go with #6: "They’re just nuts.")
Obama Birthplace Lawsuit Tossed By Appeals Court
Jules Manson, Failed Tea Party Candidate, Calls For Assassination Of Obama, First Daughters "Assassinate the f----- n----- and his monkey children," Manson commented on his own post

Joe Arpaio Punished By Judge For Document Destruction
Iowa senator calls for federal investigation of Haley - SC Politics Today - TheState.com “whether Gov. Nikki Haley exploited taxpayer dollars for political purposes” by allegedly dictating the findings of a nonpartisan health care panel
Amy Koch Affair Scandal: Minnesota's LGBT Community Apologizes To Resigned Senate Majority Leader "On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage,"
Come Saturday Morning: MNGOP’s Year of Scandals | Firedoglake
Know Your RPMs: A Field Guide To Minnesota Republican Factionalism « Mercury Rising ??
Alas, Poor Seamus, We Knew You Too, Too Well - New York Times columnist Gail Collins' bizarre obsession with Mitt Romney's dog.
Loveable Extremist Paul came off as callous, and eventually said that religious institutions would step in to fill the void and help sick people. "In the old days the churches did this," he said. "We've given up on that, we've given up on this idea that the church would fill in on that."

Sadly, No! » They Just Don’t Know How Lucky They Really - Liberals should just shut up about child labor and sweatshops and acknowledge that they are simply the way the beneficent and invisible hand of the free market makes sure that poor children don’t starve to death - Of course, by this measure you can argue for the benefits of child prostitution by noting that it still beats malaria in a rice paddy or starving to death. The only problem is that Erika doesn’t get cheap cocktail ensembles from child prostitution.
C&L's Top 50 Videos of 2011: #46 Oregon Tea Party Breaks Up MoveOn Picnic | Crooks and Liars For all the talk of how "peaceful" the tea party protests were in contrast to the Occupy Wall Street, videos like this one by Dave Neiwert really highlight what a big lie that is. Tea party thugs decided to bust up a MoveOn picnic in Roseburg, Oregon, and then brag about how they halted to slow march to Marxism.

Vagabond Scholar: Psychohistorians versus Pseudo-Intellectuals (Krugman is from Trantor)
Gingrich Gets An "A" From Niall Ferguson | The New Republic I get that self-avowed “neo-imperialist” historian Niall Ferguson relishes his gig as academia’s most celebrated colonial nostalgic/conservative reactionary. But this is too much (Gingrich's "brilliant" ideas; what a reactionary dork/prick)

A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory in which spacetime has 9 spatial directions and 1 temporal direction.
HIV Study Named 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by Science the HPTN 052 clinical trial,
Global Warming Hates A White Christmas | ThinkProgress “Most Canadians will not wake up to a white Christmas on December 25 for the first time since Canada’s weather office began recording snowfalls in 1955,”

French breast implant chief wanted by Interpol | World news | guardian.co.uk Jean-Claude Mas is the founder of PIP whose breast implants are at the centre of a global health scare - They are filled with an unapproved non-medical grade material – believed to be made for mattresses
UK plastic surgery statistics: breasts up, ears down | News | guardian.co.uk
'These are just ordinary women' – how breast surgery has soared in the UK | Society | The Guardian Around 25,000 British women a year have breast implants, and the numbers are rapidly rising

Time for Plan B on Plan B? New research proves progressives were right to be upset by restrictions on emergency contraceptives (Obama and his anti-choice policies promote teen pregnancy)
An All-American Misstep - NYTimes.com (Lowe's and Kayak are bigoted, boycott them)
Lowe's All-American Muslim Fiasco and the Politics of Normalcy | MyFDL
Girl Scouts' Inclusion Of Bobby Montoya, 7-Year-Old Transgender Child, Prompts Troops To Disband The Christian Post is reporting, all three of the troop leaders were affiliated with the Northlake Christian School in Covington, Louisiana.

Go Daddy Lost 21,054 Domains Yesterday
Just In Case, Here's SOPA For Dummies
Dutch Parliament: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal | TorrentFreak
Browse The Web More Safely With WOT » TechLogon (Web of Trust)

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Panetta: Iraq War was “worth it” - Salon.com (100,000+ dead Iraqis, 4,500 dead Americans, 30,000 injured, $1 trillion worth it)
Syria blames al-Qaida after two car bombs kill dozens in Damascus | World news | The Guardian Opposition activists dismiss official account, accusing Assad regime of plotting blasts that coincided with Arab League visit
Pakistan army rejects US findings on border attack | World news | The Guardian American investigation concludes mistakes on both sides led to US air strikes killing 24 Pakistani soldiers (it was obviously an Army PR job)
Turkey accuses France of genocide in Algeria | World news | The Guardian Turkish prime minister ramps up diplomatic spat, saying French killed 15% of Algeria's population during postwar occupation (will pass law to make crime denying French genocide)

Recession nears as UK services shrink | Business | The Guardian Fall in UK services output bigger than expected (oh, how did that happen?)


Jeff Connaughton: Obama and the Rule of Law Have there been no prosecutions because Wall Street acted legally (albeit unethically)? Or did Wall Street repeatedly violate major anti-fraud laws (and should thus find itself in the dock)? (Obama refuses to prosecute financial crimes)
Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style | | Rolling Stone - The notion that what Wall Street firms did was merely unethical and not illegal is not just mistaken but preposterous: most everyone who works in the financial services industry understands that fraud right now is not just pervasive but epidemic (captive failure)
Can the U.S. Government close social media accounts? - Salon.com (Obama hates your civil liberties)

Bachmann, Huntsman, Santorum not on Va. primary ballot | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Fox Celebrates Holidays With Outrageous Race-Based Attack On Obama | Media Matters for America Fox's attacks have taken an increasingly racially charged tone: Brent Bozell, who runs the factually challenged outfit of conservative misinformation known as the Media Research Center, likened Obama to "a skinny, ghetto crackhead." (given up all pretence +Chris Matthews saying that Newt Gingrich "looks like a car bomber," which he does)
Ron Paul Newsletters: Ad Urging Subscription Warned Of 'Race War' "coming race war in our big cities" and of a "federal-homosexual cover-up" to play down the impact of AIDS (racist, homophobic nutball)
10 Shocking Quotes From Ron Paul’s Newsletters | TPM2012
Balloon Juice » Yes, I do know that Sully is a waste of time, but… (Ron Paul and the 1001th reason why Andrew Sullivan is hopeless)
South Carolina Voter ID Law: Justice Department Blocks Controversial Legislation (just look at her)

The Post-Truth Campaign - NYTimes.com
PolitiFact | Fact-checking in the Echo Chamber Nation "PolitiFact is dangerous," he said (your elite keepers of the rightwing consensus get push-back, whine)
Political Animal - PolitiFact ought to be ashamed of itself
PolitiFact Weirdly Unable to Discuss Facts ... The issue as Adair sees it: "Shut up, critics of PolitiFact."
Balloon Juice » The Year of Lying Decadently
Politifact Is Bad for You What Politifact is, really, is just a blog written by some people at the St. Petersburg Times. But since it calls itself Politifact and assigns ratings that you can just glance over, it undeservedly becomes a irresistible cudgel to use against your political opponents. Politifact is dangerous. Stop reading it. Stop reading the "four Pinocchios" guy too. Stop using some huckster company's stupid little phrases or codes or number systems when it's convenient, and read the actual arguments instead. You're building a monster.

Video Shows Joe Arpaio’s Officer Used Taser On Latino Vet Who Later Died | TPMMuckraker

Scientists Engineer Mosquito Immune System to Block Malaria
The King William's College quiz 2011 | From the Guardian |

Teen Girls Having More Same-Sex Contact, Fewer Pregnancies: U.S. National Survey Of Family Growth - 11 percent of 17-year-old girls in the latter pool had engaged in contact with other girls, compared with just five percent in 2002

My favourite film: The Age of Innocence | Film | guardian.co.uk
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al - YouTube

Over 40 Internet Companies Come Out Publicly Against SOPA (Including Us) | TechCrunch
GoDaddy Pulls SOPA Support Following Customer Backlash (a Republican operation caves)
Reddit, if one wants to switch domains from GoDaddy, what are the best alternative domain hosting sites? : AskReddit

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2011 - the year in review | World news | guardian.co.uk

Baghdad car bomb attack rips through Iraq's already failing hopes | World news | The Guardian Soon after the pullout of US troops, an atrocity that has killed scores of people leaves an unravelling nation in deeper despair
Iraq: Explosions Rock Baghdad, Killing At Least 69 And Injuring Dozens (meanwhile, over there)
6,200 killed in Syrian crackdown, claims rights group | World news | The Guardian British-based Avaaz group says it has evidence of more than 6,237 deaths, with at least 400 of the victims children
Inquiry into US airstrike on Pakistan troops finds both sides to blame | World news | The Guardian Pentagon says incident which led to the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers due to poor co-ordination (or something)
Turkey freezes all political relations with France over genocide row | World news | The Guardian Recep Tayyip Erdogan recalls ambassador after Paris's decision to prosecute people who deny killing of Armenians was genocide

Nigeria on alert as Shell announces worst oil spill in a decade | Environment | guardian.co.uk The oil company says up to 40,000 barrels of crude oil was spilled 75 miles off the coast of the Niger delta

EURO GOVT-Spain, Italy yields rise; hope of ECB relief wanes | Reuters Huge ECB cash inflow shows no sign of boosting markets (well, that didn't work, so let's do it again!)
Italy Passes $40 Billion Austerity Plan - NYTimes.com “I think the government should have introduced a wealth tax. Why can’t those who have more give more, but for real?” (austerity is always demanded of the people who already have it; no "wealth tax" on rich Italians)
A Central Bank Doing What Central Banks Do - NYTimes.com There is no limit on what the banks can do with the money. But there is an obvious, virtually risk-free, option. A bank can buy short-term securities of its own government and pocket the difference — up to four or five percentage points — for the life of the securities. (more free money for banksters)

Investors call on News Corp to loosen Murdoch family's grip | Media | guardian.co.uk News Corp directors urged to abolish stock structure that leaves 'vast majority' of shareholders 'disenfranchised'

US jobless claims lowest since 2008 – but economic growth revised down | Business | guardian.co.uk Latest government figures suggest that the US jobs market is improving, but growth in third quarter slower than first thought
Payroll Tax Cut Fight: House GOP Agrees To Two-Month Extension ("I don't think that my constituents should have a tax increase because of Washington's dysfunction," said freshman Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., a former reality show star) (yo, Wisconsin)
Sherrod Brown's Ohio Senate Race Target Of Most Third-Party Spending By Republicans
Ron Paul Walks Out Of CNN Interview (video) Borger repeatedly asked the candidate about newsletters that were sent out in the 1980s and 1990s bearing his name. The newsletters included racist comments that made headlines in the Texas Congressman's previous campaigns for the House in 1996 and the presidency in 2008.
Ron Paul Touted His Controversial Newsletters In 1995 C-Span Interview
Judge Ousts Indiana Secretary of State (R's always cheat)
Scott Walker Recall: Little Progress With Job Creation Could Create Hurdle For Governor (how are those Republicans working out for you, Wisconsin?)
Jim Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin Congressman, Says Michelle Obama Has A 'Large Posterior' ((R-WI)

Bernanke Money Policy Seen Achieving Goal as Savers Become Consumers Again - Bloomberg The average age of cars and light trucks on the road today has risen to 10.6 years (that was -average- age)
Foreclosures May Push U.S. Housing Rebound to 2013 - Bloomberg Prices for resold homes are down 31 percent since the July 2006 peak ... more than a quarter of homeowners with a mortgage are “underwater,” or owe more than their property is worth.

cb(3P): New particle at the Large Hadron Collider discovered by ATLAS experiment Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Lancaster University, analysing data taken by the ATLAS experiment, have been at the centre of what is believed to be the first clear observation of a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider.

Hullabaloo ProPublica gets it wrong on California redistricting ... : “It’s complete bull…t, an absolute f…ing fabrication.”

Motrin Recall: Johnson & Johnson Recalls 12 Million Bottles From Stores "there may be a delay in experiencing relief," (they forgot to put the Motrin in)
Larry Craig Lobbies On Mine Safety As Reform Slowly Dies (like their miners)
Thai-Trip Column 'Nausea' | Philadelphia Daily News | 12/22/2011 It isn't OK in State College, Pa. It's equally sickening to crow about it in Thailand.
Euphemisms in America | Mother Jones (the Economist are idiotic)
Bill O'Reilly Covers The "War On Christmas" More Than Actual Wars | Media Matters for America (the stupidization of America)
New York City Parks Department Employee Finds Black Baby Doll Hanging From Noose(VIDEO) "That's bs, they waited for hours," an unidentified parks source told the blog. "They probably would have tried to sweep it under the rug if they could have."

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Syria Troops Attack Northwest Town, Killing At Least 100: Reports
Sunni leaders warn of sectarian chaos in Iraq | World news | The Guardian Duleimi sheikhs claim marginalised Sunnis now have little input into affairs of state in post-US Iraq
Eight US troops charged over soldier's apparent suicide in Afghanistan | World news | The Guardian Soldiers face charges including negligent homicide after Private Danny Chen is found dead with a gunshot wound
Two women kiss at US Navy ship return | World news | guardian.co.uk For the first time since the repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell,' a same sex couple takes part in a traditional public embrace
Egyptian women protest in Cairo against brutal treatment | World news | The Guardian Hundreds of women join rally against Egypt's military rule as Clinton denounces treatment of female protesters (another small band of malcontents)

ECB lends Europe’s banks a massive €489 billion over unprecedented 3-year period - The Washington Post (free money for the banksters to light on fire again)
Free Money For European Banks

First police officer arrested over alleged payments from journalists | Media | guardian.co.uk 52-year-old woman held at Essex police station after being arrested under Operation Elveden (about fucking time)
Piers Morgan repeatedly denies knowledge of phone hacking | Media | The Guardian At the Leveson inquiry, the former editor of the Daily Mirror said he 'had no reason or knowledge to know it was going on' (just like everyone else)
Leveson inquiry: James Hipwell gives evidence - live | Media | guardian.co.uk - Hipwell says hacking 'was bog standard journalistic tool'

Bradley Manning hearing – Wednesday 21 December as it happened | World news | guardian.co.uk
History will remember Bradley Manning better | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The person who may have sparked all this year's uprising and revolution is now sitting in a courtroom, facing life in jail

Backers Are Hopeful Obama Will Support Tax On Financial Transactions | Crooks and Liars Imagine that. They're starting to realize that handing everything to Wall Street isn't all that popular with the voters. Will wonders never cease? (but Timmy is in charge)
House Republicans under fire over payroll standoff | World news | guardian.co.uk Speaker John Boehner blamed for being 'obstructionist' by both parties as pressure mounts to pass tax cuts bill (Teaparty rules this country)
Newt Gingrich Iowa Capitol Protests: Occupy Des Moines Drives GOP Candidate Out Of Building (video)
Newt Gingrich: don't vote for me if you're gay | Ana Marie Cox | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The suggestion by Newt Gingrich that a gay Iowan should vote for Barack Obama reveals a deeper truth about the Republican frontrunner (great picture)
Rightbloggers Close Ranks Against Ron Paul, The Wrong Kind of Small-Government Conservative - New York News - Runnin' Scared Conservatives who normally are, let us say, unconcerned with racism were suddenly mortally offended by it in Paul's case.
2012 Election: Key Race In Dead Heat, Dems 'Deeply Disappointed' & Scott Brown Puts Foot In Mouth
Rick Santorum Talks About How He Would Appeal To Gay Voters He recently said that if same-sex marriage were legal, then "their sexual activity" would be seen as "equal" to heterosexual relationships. He said in October that he would "die on that hill" fighting against gay marriage.
Political Animal - The point at which Mitt Romney loses his mind Romney, allegedly the responsible one in the Republican field, has been reduced to lying uncontrollably.

Jeb Bush's 'Right to Rise' Falls Flat | Crooks and Liars conservatives are praising Jeb Bush's ahistorical and data-free endorsement of the call to arms Congressman Paul Ryan issued at the Heritage Foundation ... As Zakaria noted, according to the OECD, upward mobility from the bottom was "was significantly lower in the United States than in most major European countries, including Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark."

Friedman « VIrtually Speaking (accountability-free Tom Friedman tries to re-write history but suck.on.this.just.can't.be.forgotten)

Ratings agency Fitch warns US of possible credit downgrade | Business | guardian.co.uk Fitch issues warning that America could lose its AAA rating in two years if it cannot come up with plan to slash federal deficit (austerity! this is their dance on your grave)
Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk ‘Imbecile’ Attack on Top 1% - Bloomberg
Bank Of America Countrywide Settlement: Bank To Pay $335 Million To Settle Discriminatory Lending Claims

US government urges scientists to censor findings on new strain of bird flu | World news | guardian.co.uk Scientists warn that redacting information from new research on H5N1 virus could hinder the discovery of a vaccine (Obama loves his useless National Security)
French government 'to order women to remove defective breast implants' | World news | guardian.co.uk French paper says state will order removal of industrial silicone implants, but UK authority says no evidence of cancer link

I knew Christopher Hitchens better than you - Satire - Salon.com Every writer who had a drink with Hitch has now told his story. But even Rushdie and Amis didn't know him like this


Internet circumvents anti-piracy bill before it even passes | The Raw Story (routes around stupidity)

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Philippines flood deaths hit 650 | World news | guardian.co.uk 800 more missing as typhoon Washi sweeps houses into rivers and out to sea off southern island of Mindanao
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died - NYTimes.com
Egypt clashes continue into third day as army cracks down | World news | guardian.co.uk Outrage over abuse of women targeted in Tahrir Square as 10 people die and 441 are wounded in latest violence (no facade on the military dictatorship anymore) )
Outrage over woman's beating fuels new Egypt protests - CNN.com
Egypt clashes kill 10, undermine Army narrative of democratic transition - CSMonitor.com This weekend's renewed violence in Egypt, including the documented use of live ammunition against unarmed protesters, has further eroded confidence in the ruling military council.
Václav Havel: From the Prague Spring to the Velvet Revolution to the Year of the Protestor | emptywheel

Nazi-Themed Stag Party: British Lawmaker Aidan Burley Fired

Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit's intelligence security chaos | World news | guardian.co.uk Head of unit describes loose controls around databases from which Manning is alleged to have downloaded military secrets
WikiLeaks investigators 'feared Bradley Manning had links to foreign agents' | World news | guardian.co.uk Army computer specialist tells military court investigators were suspicious about soldier's background in Britain
Cables on Bradley Manning's computer 'exactly matched' WikiLeaks documents | World news | guardian.co.uk Forensic investigator's testimony to pre-trial hearing likely to prove central to any court-martial that might ensue

For Youngest Veterans, the Bleakest of Job Prospects - NYTimes.com ("support our troops" until they need something)

Occupy the Progressive Movement | Robert Cruickshank

Political Animal - Quote of the Day Just so we’re clear, this week, a leading presidential candidate articulated his belief that, if elected, he might (1) eliminate courts he doesn’t like; (2) ignore court rulings he doesn’t like; and (3) take judges into custody if he disapproves of their legal analyses ... Newt Gingrich believes Barack Obama is a wild-eyed fanatic, guided by an extremist ideology, hell bent on overseeing a radical overhaul of the American system of government.
House Republicans Oppose Senate Deal on Payroll Tax Cut, Boehner Says - NYTimes.com (whoops, moved the football affter Obama caved)
Health Care Law to Allow States to Pick Benefits - NYTimes.com the Obama administration sought to deflect one of the most powerful arguments made by Republican critics of President Obama’s health care overhaul (that it might save money for consumers; the wimp-in-chief wimps out again)
Gingrich Deflation Puts Iowa Conservatives Back At Square One - "It's Bachmann, Santorum and Perry who are fighting for the rock-ribbed social conservative voter" (the bottom of the clown-barrel)
Romney Challenges Gingrich On Medicare, Opposes Tax Cuts For The Rich "Cutting welfare spending dramatically, I don't think will hurt the poor," Romney said.
Tea Party Express Turns Eyes to Senate : Roll Call Politics (Rove)

MF Global Collapse Reveals Systemic Risk | The Big Picture the details of this debacle are found in the regulatory changes lobbied for — and recieved — by Corzine and the MF Global legal crew (permission to break the law and steal your money)
Wal-Mart’s Billions and the Art Museum of Cruelty: A Christmas Carol The six heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune have about $93 billion between them, more money and financial assets than the combined 100,000,000 Americans at the bottom of our crushing economic system.

Ron Wyden, Useful Idiot - NYTimes.com
Ron Wyden Will Have His Revenge So what explains the Democrat from Utopia decideding to get on board with this? (voucher-boy; idiot is too kind)
The Ryan-Wyden Medicare proposal: If Obama loses, this will be the future of seniors’ health care. - Slate Magazine

Barney Frank, George Will Debate Pot Legalization (Video) "I need to know more about whether it's a gateway drug to other drugs, I need to know how you're going to regulate it" Will answered. "Anything is a gateway to anything," the congressman said, calling the conservative columnist's remark "a slippery slope argument."
Eschaton: Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit Like a silent epidemic, the number of homeless children in Michigan schools is growing. (drug-test them and give them jobs cleaning toilets)
Whiskey Fire: No Need for Further Questioning school districts across the country are imposing strict new guidelines that ban private conversations between teachers and their students on cellphones and online platforms like Facebook and Twitter ("misusing social media = "sex with students")

‘Rudy’ Charged in Stock Scam by SEC - ABC News

The Politics of Planned Parenthood and Women’s Rights : The New Yorker What’s next for Planned Parenthood?
Why young couples aren't getting married -- they fear the ravages of divorce (the family-values crowd has fucked up marriage for everyone except rich people with pre-nups)
TRENDING: Bachmann pauses in Iowa tour to talk ‘myth’ of Kinsey Report – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs (your facts are their myths)


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Libyan scramble for £100bn in assets fractures the peace at Tripoli airport | World news | The Observer Militias and army clash over control of runways after UN decides to fly newly printed currency into the capital
William Hague questioned over British role in drone strikes | World news | guardian.co.uk Lawyers for Noor Khan, whose father died in Pakistan strike, want clarification of British intelligence's role in CIA campaign
Protest couple targets of persecution campaign by Vladimir Putin | World news | The Observer Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov has gone on hunger strike in a Moscow prison as his wife Anastasiya carries on organising the pro-democracy campaign

French credit downgrade could come 'within days' | World news | The Observer Standard & Poor's expected downgrade could create panic in the financial markets and make eurozone crisis even worse
Euro will not survive without urgent action, says Lord Lamont | Business | guardian.co.uk Former Tory chancellor tells Radio 4's Today programme that time is running out for eurozone countries with bonds near to 7% (and banksters making money from the "risk premium")
French cabinet ministers tell Britain: our economy is bigger than yours | World news | The Guardian PM and finance minister say it is not fair that France's AAA credit rating is under threat when Britain has a larger deficit ... "The United Kingdom has more deficits, just as much debt, more inflation and less growth than we have"

Former lovers of undercover officers sue police over deceit | UK news | guardian.co.uk Women launch legal action claiming they suffered emotional trauma after being deceived into forming relationships (infiltrators)

Bradley Manning hearing: agents say gunship killing video found in room | World news | guardian.co.uk Court told that video later released by WikiLeaks as 'Collateral Murder' found in box in Manning's quarters in Iraq, ready to post
WikiLeaks lawyers protest at denial of full access to Manning hearing | World news | guardian.co.uk Assange's lawyer relegated to public benches at alleged leaker's pre-trial hearing after army appeals court rejects motion
Bradley Manning hearing – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk

Hullabaloo First branch #fail - it's about enshrining the principle --- the codification of irrational reactions made during the fog of war. Our political culture (including the congress the pundits and even the public) is constructing a police state. We've watched it happen before our eyes.

MN GOPer Resigns Leadership Post Over Alleged ‘Inappropriate Relationship’ | TPMDC (females can have sex-scandals too)

S.E.C. Accuses Fannie and Freddie Ex-Chiefs of Deception - NYTimes.com (by this time, Reagan had jailed over 800 banksters in the S&L scandal; Obama's score is zero)

Christopher Hitchens' Unforgivable Mistake
Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths - Salon.com (Reagan's funeral changed everything; the canonization of bloody-handed Conservatives who were cruely, disasterously wrong; Hitchens loved other people dying in endless war)

Balloon Juice » And Then They Came For My Neti Pot (deadly brain-eating amoebas)

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Russia offers tougher draft resolution on Syria to UN security council | World news | guardian.co.uk Unexpected draft resolution from Russia lifts western hopes of UN action on Syria after earlier threat of sanctions was vetoed
Russia seizes Iran-bound radioactive material | Reuters Russia's customs service said Friday it had seized radioactive sodium-22, an isotope that is used in medical equipment but has no weapons use, from the luggage of a passenger planning to fly from Moscow to Tehran.

Did The ECB Just End The Euro Crisis? it's making investing in peripheral sovereign debt a huge profit opportunity for banks (more money for banksters! that will solve everything)
The trouble with Ed: Labour MPs' gripes over leader - UK Politics - UK - The Independent Backbench discontent with Miliband is brewing again after his Commons performance this week against Cameron (a joke)
No. The Irish Economy Is Not Recovering (no, and austerity was disaster, so, more austerity!)
Rpt-Update: 1-Irish growth stalls with sharp Q3 GDP fall | Reuters
Talk of 'nuclear default' sums up Left's anger at EU dictates - Telegraph Tempers are fraying in austerity-racked Portugal. A top socialist politician was taped at a party dinner calling for diplomatic warfare against the EU's northern powers and issuing threats of debt default (the natives are restless)
Greeks fearing collapse of eurozone bailout pulled record sums from bank | Business | The Guardian Bank of Greece reveals that investors fearful of political instability and economic collapse pulled €12.3bn from local banks as Papandreou referendum threatened debt deal

Bradley Manning hearing: defence lawyer turns fire on military accusers | World news | The Guardian On first day of preliminary hearing, investigating officer rejects defence's demand that he recuse himself
Seven judges to hear Julian Assange extradition appeal | Media | The Guardian Supreme court says size of panel reflects 'great public importance' of issues raised by WikiLeaks founder's hearing

Desmond Tutu urges Trinity Church to allow Occupy protester camp | World news | guardian.co.uk South African archbishop enters row over Wall Street church's refusal to allow a winter encampment on its property

White House Backs Away From Critical Veto Threat Republicans in Congress served noticed they will extend expiring Social Security payroll tax cuts only if President Barack Obama swiftly decides the fate of a proposed oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs (the whimp whimps out again)
Why (Very White) Iowa and New Hampshire Mean So Much in Politics - COLORLINES “You’re hard pressed to find two whiter states,” ... “The prominence and first-in-nation position of Iowa and New Hampshire do elevate white primary voters over non-white ones, and in both parties,”
Eschaton: Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit Nothing new here, just the usual. Every "serious" solution to our problems involves shoving free money down the gullets of the people who caused all the problems. We screech about family values and our awesome values as numerous kids live in poverty. And, no, having a teevee doesn't make them not poor.
Cartoon Regularly Featured On Big Journalism Connected To Nazi-Era Magazine | Media Matters for America (sort of like Romney's KKK slogan)
Scott Walker's Next Target: Cancer Screenings for Women | Mother Jones In Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood foes go after a program to provide women with free cancer screenings.

CME Says MF Told Exchange of Using Customer Money Before Failure - Businessweek
Nevada Sues Lender Processing Services, Mortgage Giant, For Foreclosure Fraud

Salon Hack List 2011 - Salon.com (the winner: Mark Halperin! Jennifer Rubin runner-up!)

Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011: A thank you, of sorts | Oliver Duggan | Independent Editor's choice Blogs


SOPA Vote Delayed, Allowing For More Corporate Fundraising From Censorship Bill (will Obama throw the internets under the bus too?)
Why SOPA Could Kill the Open Education Resource Movement - Education - GOOD

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US exit from Iraq: 'this is not a withdrawal, this is an act on a stage' | World news | The Guardian Iraqi people greet pullout ceremony with ambivalence mixed with concern over an uncertain future
Tom Matzzie: You Ended the War in Iraq

War in Iraq: the cost in American lives and dollars | News | guardian.co.uk
Syrian rebels 'kill 27 secret policemen and soldiers' | World news | The Guardian The claimed killings near the Jordanian border suggest the country is sliding into a state of permanent armed insurgency
Iran hijacked US drone, engineer claims - World news - Christian Science Monitor - msnbc.com Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to cut off communications links of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel (ha-ha)

Jacques Chirac found guilty of corruption | World news | The Guardian Former French president given two-year suspended sentence for embezzling public funds while he was mayor of Paris
Piers Morgan to appear before Leveson inquiry next week | Media | guardian.co.uk Former Daily Mirror and News of the World editor expected to be quizzed about his statements on celebrities and phone hacking

Italian court explains ruling clearing Knox - Yahoo! News (prosecutors made shit up, but we knew that already)

Military given go-ahead to detain US terrorist suspects without trial | World news | The Guardian Civil rights groups dismayed as Barack Obama abandons commitment to veto new security law contained in defence bill (like he was ever telling the truth; end of American Bill of Rights)
Hullabaloo "An astonishing attack on our civil liberties"
Happy Birthday, Bill [of Rights]: Obama Breaks Promise To Veto Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans « Jonathan Turley (he broke a lot of promises ...)
How to Indefinitely Detain Jamie Dimon | emptywheel (brilliant idea)
Police include Occupy movement on ‘terror’ list - Yahoo! (Obama can indefinitely detain them and you'll never know)
Hacker who betrayed Bradley Manning expresses regret over possible jail term | World news | The Guardian Adrian Lamo says jail for WikiLeaks suspect would be a 'lasting regret' but stands by decision to give information to authorities

Mark Schmitt for Democracy Journal: The Myth of the Middle (3rd Way, No Labels, Unity0whatever, Republican scams)
Conversations with History: Glenn Greenwald - YouTube
Titans of social networking and left politics unite to form media start-up | Media | guardian.co.uk Facebook co-founder joins MoveOn president and former Onion editor to create viral network devoted to progressive causes

Pew Research Poll: Anti-Incumbent Fever Could Hurt Republicans two-thirds (67 percent) of registered voters nationwide say "most members of Congress" should be voted out of office in 2012, while only 20 percent want most members reelected. This desire to fire all incumbents marks a record level of discontent since the Pew Center started asking the question 18 years ago, far exceeding previous highs of 57 percent in 2010 and 56 percent in 1994 (throw out the teaparty?)
A nation of populists and class warriors - The Plum Line - The Washington Post Pew Research has just released the most detailed polling I’ve seen yet on Occupy Wall Street, economic fairness, rising inequality, and the lack of Wall Street accountability - Roughly three-quarters of the public (77%) say that they think there is too much power in the hands of a few rich people and large corporations in the United States (just a few malcontents)
American public to Congress: Get out. All of you. - The Washington Post
Section 2: Occupy Wall Street and Inequality | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Views of the Occupy movement split along party lines. About six-in-ten Democrats (62%) agree with the concerns it has raised, compared with 50% of independents and 31% of Republicans. (Boston Globe readers hate OWS, so ...)

Political Animal - Newt in Free Fall The Newt implosion is here — at least, the rapid shift in conventional wisdom against the mistaken idea that he had an excellent chance to win the nomination.
Why Republicans are better at negotiating than Dems - The Plum Line - The Washington Post I appreciate the fact that they gave up on their millionaires’ surtax, but they didn’t give anything up because they never had it.” (Obama compromising with a vacuum)
MSNBC Apologizes To Romney Over KKK Comparison, Says It Was 'Appalling' (Video) Romney's slogan "Keep America American" was one that happened to be used by the KKK in the 1920s (apologizes for telling the truth, it was an accident)
Newt Gingrich Gets A Last Go-Around In Final Pre-Caucus Debate forced to fire a campaign staffer in Iowa who called Mormonism a "cult" (though some might argue that might be a dog whistle for some very conservative evangelicals).
Newt Gingrich's Poverty Code - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 12/13/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central Larry Wilmore analyzes Newt Gingrich's janitorial solution to America's poverty problem.
Election 2012 Polling and News, Republican Presidential Candidates, Obama, Interactive Polling Data (here comes the clown-fall)
British Paper: Romney Lived In A ‘Mansion’ During French ‘Hardship’ Period | TPM2012 for about 8 months out of his 30-month stay in France, Romney lived in a mansion in Paris, living a comfortable, upper-class lifestyle. The building, someone familiar with it said, could be described as a “palace”

Wyden-Ryan Medicare Proposal Has White House 'Concerned' Wyden's work with Ryan is giving Republicans cover on an issue that seemed destined to hurt their congressional reelection chances (asshole Dems at work)
Wyden And Paul Introduce Medicare Reform Scheme. It's Better Than Ryan's Old Plan. It's Not Better Than Medicare. | The New Republic (no compromise sellout)

Fox Graphics Department's Failure Hat Trick (Obamney Edition) | Media Matters for America ("looks kind of like a Kenyan socialist")
Wis. GOP Files Lawsuit Against Election Officials Over Recall Process | TPMDC (whine)
Salon Hack List 2011 - Salon.com The former Times editor isn't sorry enough about his warmongering to stop writing his awful column (elites always reward failure)
New York Times CEO Janet Robinson Is Stepping Down - During Robinson's tenure, the stock price dropped from $35.23 to $7.54, according to the Times report. Robinson isn't leaving the Times fold completely. She'll be paid $4.5 million for consulting over the next year (elites always reward failure)

U.S. News - 'Dismal' prospects: 1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income (great job, Republicans)
Study: People Receiving Unemployment Insurance Work Harder To Find Jobs | ThinkProgress (don't bother us with the facts, just drug-test them)
Unemployment Benefits: Democratic Governors Call On Congress To Keep Benefits Now is not the time to turn our backs on hard-working Americans," the governors wrote. "Individuals who are laid off through no fault of their own rely on these funds to support their families." (Republicans demand drug testing for lazy slackers and tax cuts for themselves)
Wage Protection Planned for Home Care Workers - NYTimes.com

Global Water Footprint - National Geographic

Joe Arpaio, Arizona Sheriff, Violated Civil Rights According To Justice Department Report Arpaio's office has committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination and carrying out heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged citizen complaints. ("America's toughest sherrif" - but no consquences, of course)
Karl Rominger, Sandusky Lawyer, Claims Accused Penn State Coach Was Teaching Hygiene Habits
Utah Middle School Defends Outing Gay Student To Parents As Bullying Prevention Effort (sure, assholes)
Warren Glover Lawsuit: Ex NBA Employee Claims He Was Fired For Relaying Women's Complaints (the usual)
2 Vegas children shoot themselves at their homes - Yahoo! News (guns everywhere! toys for tots!)


Having to think about the unthinkable - latimes.com Most people don't like to plan for dying, but in our state of denial, we leave ourselves vulnerable to conditions we would never want. Arrangements for the end of life are essential.

Tea Party Member Brings Gun to NYC Airport, Gets Arrested - ABC News
Woman Stabbed by Anger Management Classmate Files Lawsuit - ABC News The complaint alleges that the instructor “remained seated and did nothing to intervene or deescalate the hostile confrontation between the two anger management class students.”

Sopa battle hots up as US Congress debates piracy bill | Technology | The Guardian Hollywood executives spend $91m lobbying for approval of Stop Online Piracy Act, which tech industry says will stifle creativity (Obama kisses Bigcontent's ass)

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Barack Obama declares Iraq war a success | World news | The Guardian President told an audience of soldiers at Fort Bragg that the final pullout after nearly nine years of conflict is an 'historic' moment (in monumentally tragic blunders with no accountability except for the US taxpayer)
US withdrawal from Iraq is a beginning, not an ending | Simon Tisdall | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Unfinished business in the Middle East will be brought sharply into focus as the sound of American boots fades away
Syrian rebels gun down eight soldiers in retaliation after civilian deaths | World news | The Guardian Men described as defectors from the armed forces ambush a convoy of four jeeps on the outskirts of Hama
Afghan woman jailed after being raped is freed after two years in Kabul prison | World news | The Guardian Woman sentenced to 12 years in prison for 'adultery' after reporting rape to police is finally released (Karzai reluctantly let her go; freedom fries)
World News: Police shave mohawks off punks at Indonesia concert - thestar.com perceived threat to Islamic values (jihad on punk)
Vladimir Putin expected to face questions over protests on live TV show | World news | The Guardian Russian PM hosts televised call-in show as he faces unprecedented challenge to his domination of Russian politics

Angela Merkel: Britain is still an important EU member | World news | The Guardian German chancellor calls UK a 'reliable partner' despite David Cameron's refusal to back new treaty to combat eurozone crisis (oh yes, you are very important to us)
Stock markets slump as euro hits 11-month low against the dollar | Business | The Guardian Italy's crucial 10-year bond rate rises to 7.17% amid fears it will be forced to seek bailout
BBC News - UK unemployment increases to 2.64m UK unemployment rose by 128,000 in the three months to October to 2.64 million, the highest level since 1994. (austerity declared a success!)
Analysis: Europe's austerity zeal risks killing the patient | Reuters Europe's "no pain no gain" attitude to solving its sovereign crisis risks exacerbating the bloc's problems, choking off the very growth needed to raise the money to pay down the debt. (Europe, soon to be followed by America, succeeding its way to catastropic failure)
What Will Happen if the Euro Collapses? A Few Scenarios | Global Spin | TIME.com
Important Election News from Across the Pond A reminder that what happens in Europe will mean more for the presidential election than almost anything the GOP does ... austerity has pushed Europe to the edge of another recession ... But even Gingrich stands a shot at winning the White House if conditions deteriorate over the next year

Leveson calls NoW emails to women in Max Mosley story 'frankly outrageous' | Media | guardian.co.uk Judge challenges News of the World's former editor, Colin Myler, over paper's ethos
Milly Dowler and the tabloid: trail that led to phone-hacking story | Media | The Guardian Senior NoW executive wrote to Surrey police specifically admitting Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked (in 2002; Brit cops covered up for 11 years)

The Indefinite Detention Bill DOES Apply to American Citizens on U.S. Soil - Washington's Blog “Don’t Be Fooled”:
Marines’ Haditha Interviews Found in Iraqi Junkyard - NYTimes.com (a lot of people sucked on it; all charges were dropped; Obama wanted immunity from atrocities like this)

Hullabaloo - Elite Insensitives (NYT Bill Keller, of course, and "illegals") - It's the modern pejorative for a very old one: "wetback." (but he would never use the word "torture")
NYT: Immigration dragnet snares Americans - US news - The New York Times - msnbc.com Just because I made one mistake ... I don't think they should have done all those things to me,' says U.S. citizen who was detained by mistake (you too, can be an "illegal")

Tom Friedman: Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir - NYTimes.com I sure hope that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby (the mustache of wisdom is anti-semitic)
Exploiting the anti-Semitism smear now backfiring - Salon.com (AIPAC smear merchant Josh Block and the CAP attack)

Payroll Tax Cut Fight Prompts Government Shutdown Threat (Rethugs love their blackmail)
Karl Rove 'Issue Ads' Attacking Elizabeth Warren Help Hide His Group's Donors
Plan B Backlash: Women's Groups Sour On Obama (when will they finally get the message?)

Balanced Budget Amendments Fail In the Senate (clown Congress)

Exclusive: Regulators know where MF Global funds went | Reuters but must sort out which transactions were legitimate before more money can be released to customers, a top official told Reuters on Wednesday.
Revealed: huge increase in executive pay for America's top bosses | Business | guardian.co.uk Exclusive survey shows America's CEOs enjoyed pay hikes of up to 40% last year – with one chief executive earning $145m (the 1% at work, despite the claims of the NYT about how poor they are)
Barack Obama defied by House on payroll tax bill | World news | guardian.co.uk Democrats oppose Republican efforts to link payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans with Keystone XL pipeline

Supernova explosion gives a glimpse of how ingredients for life are created | Science | The Guardian Scientists capture SN2011fe supernova in Pinwheel galaxy as it spews heavy elements necessary for life into space
Life On Mars: Scientists Believe Large Regions Underground The Red Planet Are Habitable (so Total Recall was right)
Postpartum mental illness linked to later bipolar disorder - latimes.com

Columbia Pike streetcar is a bargain versus new highways - Greater Greater Washington (but all the roads in DC added together carry more than that trolley!)

Ann Curry Asks Joe Amendola, Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer, 'Are You Competent?' (zing)

Study: 1 in 5 U.S. Women Has Been Raped, Even More Have Been Abused | AlterNet (new CDC report confirms earlier "feminist" studies)
How to prevent rape without blaming victims - Violence Against Women - Salon.com News of assaults often inspires tips on prevention -- but sometimes well-meaning advice becomes dangerous
The crime against women that no one understands: Health: Self.com This man has been charged with rape 10 times but never convicted of that crime. This story is a warning to all women
pandagon.net - Victim-blaming and social control

Carlson School of Management Flash Mob, Deck the Halls - YouTube

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Belgium attack: grenades thrown at bus-stop in Liège - Tuesday 13 December 2011 | News | guardian.co.uk Amrani was not known to have any mental health problems and had no links to terrorism (lone "gun freak" - Belgium apparently full of grenades and assault rifles)
Liège gunman in bloody assault on shoppers and commuters | World news | guardian.co.uk The lone attacker threw hand grenades and shot into crowds in the Belgian city, leaving three dead
Florence gunman shoots Senegalese street vendors dead | World news | guardian.co.uk Far-right sympathiser Gianluca Casseri, 50, kills African migrants before shooting himself dead
Zardari treated for stroke as son Bilawal is groomed for power in Pakistan | World news | The Guardian Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari – son of Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir Bhutto – stays in Pakistan while his father is treated in Dubai ... , Asif Ali Zardari, have said that he will remain out of Pakistan for up to two weeks following a "small stroke" eight days ago (oh, he had a stroke after all, huh? +23 yr-old babyface dictator will take over)
US military drone monitoring piracy crashes in Seychelles | World news | guardian.co.uk Drone meant to monitor East African coast crashes a day after US pleads with Iran to return another downed device (pleads? sure they will ... "President Barack Obama said Monday the US wants the top-secret aircraft back and has delivered a formal request for the return of the surveillance drone, though it isn't likely that Iran will comply.")
Israeli military base attacked by Jewish extremists in West Bank | World news | guardian.co.uk Attack came hours after settlers stormed monument as some say 'homegrown terrorism' is now greatest threat to security ... A gang of 50 Jewish settlers and rightwing activists have broken into an army base near the Israeli settlement of Kedumim in the West bank, setting fire to tyres and hurling rocks at both Israeli soldiers and Palestinians. (well, they kind of created that, didn't they)
Kabul 'agreed deal with Taliban' to end attacks on schools, report reveals | World news | guardian.co.uk Rights groups fear that Afghan education ministry's deal with insurgents could reverse gains of the past 10 years (they still want your tax dollars unti 2030)
Burqa wearing banned in Canada for those taking citizenship oath | World news | The Guardian Ban on face and full body veils during immigration ceremony is 'matter of deep principle', says citizenship minister ... it was difficult to ensure that individuals whose faces were covered were actually reciting the oath (or who they were)

Eurozone crisis live: Barroso attacks Cameron as UK inflation dips | Business | guardian.co.uk Spanish parliament meets for first time since election • UK inflation is 4.8% (Cameroon at work)
European Nations, Banks Caught in “Death Spiral” | FDL News Desk
Why the eurozone deal will fail - FT.com The eurozone deal reached last week won’t work.
Europe Crisis Drags On, Raising Concerns About U.S. Banks Though most U.S. banks said that they have limited exposure to Europe's troubles, economists and analysts counter that financial institutions are substantially vulnerable

James Murdoch: I didn't read crucial phone-hacking email | Media | guardian.co.uk News Corp boss says he failed to review note forwarded by Colin Myler warning hacking went beyond one 'rogue reporter' (Son of Satan's pants are on fire)

Rocky Anderson's radical third way | Gary Younge | World news | guardian.co.uk "There are lots of good individuals in the Democratic party, [but] without Democrats voting the way they did in Congress, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq. We wouldn't have suffered as a nation because of these Bush tax cuts.
2012 Ad War: The Case Against Newt
Were the Debates a Mistake? Conservative elites are beginning to question the party's commitment to endless debates - it’s clear that Republican elites are re-evaluating their decision to move away from Perry following his poor debate performances. (the endless clown show)

Wisconsin faces lawsuit as civil rights groups cry foul over new voting rules | World news | guardian.co.uk ACLU accuses state of trying to disenfranchise black people, the poor and elderly by requiring photo ID before they can vote (Republicans dismantling your democracy)
Balloon Juice » “If I Were a Poor Black Kid…” Look, if you’re a middle-aged white guy writing for Forbes Magazine, and you find yourself writing an article entitled “If I Were a Poor Black Kid,” just stop (Gene Marks displays his white priviledge for all to see)
Alabama immigration law on mobile homes blocked by judge | World news | guardian.co.uk Rule that requires proof of citizenship when registering mobile homes 'leaves immigrants between a rock and a hard place' (racist fucks at work)
Michael Mermel, a Prosecutor Who Challenged DNA Tests, Will Resign - NYTimes.com - Some DNA tests have shown that sperm found inside several rape and murder victims did not come from men he prosecuted (Michael Mermel should go to prison)
No Country for Innocent Men | Mother Jones How a rapist's confession forced Rick Perry, champion of Texas justice, to pardon a dead man.
Political Animal - The ‘evidence’ bolstering voter-fraud allegations (311 cases in a "decade" that Repubicans defined as 14 years)

Political Animal - Quote of the Day . “We don’t demand drug testing for people getting farm subsidies.”
Recession Crimped Incomes of the Richest Americans - NYTimes.com The share of income received by the top 1 percent — that potent symbol of inequality — dropped to 17 percent in 2009 from 23 percent in 2007, according to federal tax data. Within the group, average income fell to $957,000 in 2009 from $1.4 million in 2007 (NYT writes yet another poor rich people article)
Mets, Struggling for Cash, Receive $40 Million Bank Loan - NYTimes.com The owners of the Mets, needing cash and unable to turn to Major League Baseball for more financial help, received a $40 million loan from a major bank in the past six weeks (always reward shitty management)
MF Global Cash at JPMorgan Presumed Its Own, Freeh Says - Businessweek (America's worst ex-law enforcement offical at work screwing people)
Joseph Stiglitz: “A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around” | Politics | Vanity Fair Forget monetary policy. Re-examining the cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work—the author argues that the U.S. is now facing and must manage a similar shift in the “real” economy, from industry to service, or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago. - Joseph E. Stiglitz

Who will deliver the US postal service from destruction? | Philip Rubio | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The US Postal Service faces drastic closures, thanks to a bogus financial crisis – cuts that threaten America's very way of life (which was their goal in creating the "crisis")
'Us vs. Them' in Pa. Gaslands | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/13/2011 In what is shaping up as a key victory for the shale-gas industry, Gov. Corbett and the legislature appear close to stripping municipalities of the power to impose tough local restrictions on wells and pipelines. Under a pending measure, wells and pipelines would be permitted in every zoning district - even residential ones - statewide (should have thought twice before electing Republicans)


Higgs Bosons Everyone
The "everything you need to know about the Higgs boson" thread. : askscience
Diagnostic accuracy of canine scent detec... [Integr Cancer Ther. 2006] - PubMed - NCBI Training was efficient and cancer identification was accurate; in a matter of weeks, ordinary household dogs with only basic behavioral "puppy training" were trained to accurately distinguish breath samples of lung and breast cancer patients from those of controls (comeing soon: doggie-grams)

The Most Expensive Private High Schools In America
Denying OTC Access to Plan B Disproportionately Affects Latina Teens | RH Reality Check (Obama will throw anyone under the bus)
San Francisco finds performance parking less responsive than expected - Greater Greater Washington Each time San Francisco has adjusted the rates, the spread between the least expensive and the most expensive blocks has increased.

Tallafornia - Making The Rest Of Us Feel Better? - YouTube (Irish Jersey Shore)

FBI rejects FOIA request for Carrier IQ info - Computerworld Agency says release of data would 'interfere with law enforcement proceedings' (that sort of confirms your worst fears)

Anti-SOPA Movement Picks Up Steam, With Assist from Laurence Tribe | FDL News Desk (Obama, who never used a computer in his life, still trying to kill the internets)
Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox | TorrentFreak
Wikipedia Blackout Over SOPA? Founder Weighs Protesting Anti-Piracy Bill (Obama hates Jimmy Wales also)

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Syrian troops battle opposition fighters in south of country | World news | guardian.co.uk Activists report clashes in Deraa and areas near Jordan border as army defectors take on government soldiers
US politics live blog: Obama meets Iraqi PM; GOP rivals trade blows | World news | guardian.co.uk (vows to keep US in Iraq for 137 more years)
Huge numbers of Iraqis still adrift within the country | McClatchy As many as 2 million Iraqis — about 6 percent of the country's estimated population of more than 31 million — are thought to have been forced from the cities and towns where they once lived and are housed in circumstances that feel temporary and makeshift.
Eschaton: And Over There - We'll never really acknowledge the hell we unleashed (Very Serious People at work)
US cuts put British-backed Afghan hydropower project in doubt | World news | The Guardian Kajaki dam turbine, hauled 100 miles across Helmand by British forces, may be deemed not cost-effective to install (down the drain)
Blackwater Name Change: Private Security Firm Switches Name Again To Academi From Xe (considered "Necromonger Inc")

Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia's third richest man, to challenge Putin | World news | The Guardian Nickel magnate appeals to angry middle class for presidency – but some claim he is merely a Kremlin stooge
South Korean coastguard killed by Chinese fisherman | Reuters A South Korean coastguard was stabbed to death by a Chinese fisherman on Monday in an operation to apprehend a Chinese vessel operating illegally near South Korean waters, a South Korean official said (China outraged)
Saudi Arabia: Woman Convicted Of 'Sorcery' Executed

Banker blows £70,000 on 'big night out' | News A banker has defied the economic gloom by spending more than £70,000 in one night at a London nightclub ... The banker, who lives in London, bought six bottles of Dom Pérignon rosé champagne at £1,200 each for his table and six-litre bottles of Ciroc Vodka for the other tables. The source added: "When the Ciroc Vodka came out, he began throwing £50 notes around. Dozens of girls began scrambling to pick them up off the floor." (Camaroon's buddies)
EU warns Britain: financial rules apply to you too | Business | The Guardian Commissioner Olli Rehn says City of London will still be subject to regulation from Brussels
Banks sit in a tangled web Dozens of banks across Europe have sold large quantities of insurance to other banks and investors that protects against the risk of ailing countries defaulting on their debts, the latest illustration of the extensive financial entanglements among the continent's banks and governments (banks, governments, what's the diff?)

Leveson launches spin-off inquiry into hacking of Milly Dowler's voicemail | Media | guardian.co.uk Judge signals that fresh statements will be taken from police about latest developments

Depression and Democracy - NYTimes.com It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it’s not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that’s cold comfort. Unemployment in both America and Europe remains disastrously high. Leaders and institutions are increasingly discredited. And democratic values are under siege.

Immigrant Detention Centers In Illinois Cited In New Report For Human Rights Violations (Obama hates immigrants)
Arizona immigration: supreme court to rule on controversial law | World news | guardian.co.uk Court agrees to hear case amid Obama administration's fight against state-imposed immigration laws

Occupy aims to shut down West Coast ports - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Occupy is bidding to shut down America's west coast ports in support of an ongoing International Longshore Workers Union battle. Picket lines are expected in Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland and more
'Occupy' Protestors To Attempt West Coast Port Blockades
Moyers: Why 'We The People' Must Triumph Over Corporate Power | | AlterNet Bill Moyers reminds us that repairing American democracy begins with reasserting that corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as citizens.
Hullabaloo: Populism Mash Up - According to Fox News a German sent a German banker a letter bomb which means that Occupy Wall Street has turned violent and President Obama is a domestic terrorist. Or something

Obama insists on indefinite detention of Americans — RT (nice little democracy you used to have)
Inside the CIA’s Black Site in Bucharest—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
The growing menace of domestic drones - Salon.com (NPR loves drones; if you haven't done anything wrong, what have you to fear?)
Newburgh Four: poor, black, and jailed under FBI 'entrapment' tactics | World news | guardian.co.uk n June, four men were jailed for 25 years over a US terror plot. The FBI painted them as dedicated fanatics, but were they lured by the promise of cash from a fake informant? (Obama's DOJ at work creating fake terrorists to scare you)
10 Most Terrifying Torture Devices of the 20th Century | Environmental Graffiti

Hullabaloo More evidence that "independents" don't "swing" (could the crack team who got the economy so wrong, have blown it on their search for the "independent" voter?)
Obama insists on indefinite detention of Americans — RT (Ben Wittes/WaPo burying the truth)

Newt Gingrich Spokesman Outs Candidate As Anonymous Source But should the Union Leader grant a candidate anonymity to defend himself? Union Leader publisher Joe McQuaid wouldn't say or even confirm the source
News Networks Regularly Promote Anti-Gay Family Research Council On Air | Equality Matters (they love their racists and bigots; see Pat Buchanan)
Rick Perry's 'Country Solynda' Gaffe: GOP Candidate Mispronounces Solar Company's Name, Calls It A Country . "I want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country Solynda." (Rethugs found someone even stupider than Bush)
Bill Johnson, Former Alabama Governor Candidate, Caught In Lesbian Sperm Donation Scandal (what?)

The Latest Stupid Gimmick To Fund The Payroll Tax Cut The deep thinkers in D.C. are trying to offset the cost of the one-year 2% reduction ($115B) in payroll taxes by levying an incremental cost onto Fannie and Freddie and therefore those with mortgages. This is the worst kind of whack-a-mole thinking ... 1952 corporate tax as a % of GDP = 32.1% 2010 corporate tax as a % of GDP = 1.3% (A 95% drop) ... 1952 Payroll taxes (Social security) as a % of total federal revenue = 9.7% 2010 Payroll taxes (Social security) as a % of total federal revenue = 40.0% (A 400% increase in the burden on workers) (the 1% will never have enough of your money)

A Romance With Risk That Brought On a Panic - NYTimes.com (it was Corzine in the basement with his Crackberry)
MF Global's US And UK Customers Got Screwed By A Little Thing Called Regulation T (re-hypothecatin')

Multi-purpose photonic chip paves the way to programmable quantum processors
Sir Isaac Newton's own annotated Principia Mathematica goes online | Science | The Guardian
Professor Einstein, you can relax. E still equals mc2. Probably … | Science | The Observer Renowned physicist Frank Close urges caution before we abandon the theory of relativity and prepare for time travel
Chemically scrubbing CO2 from the air too expensive Technology exists today for removing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants and is much cheaper than removal from the atmosphere (but regulation will kill jobs!)

New York Tax Plan: Subway Riders Get the Shaft - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com Governor Cuomo and the State Legislature have forged a new tax structure that is being hailed as good for everyone except those making more than $2 million. Not quite. Apparently forgotten are the millions of low-income New Yorkers who, in addition to getting zero in tax cuts, must now rely on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority that lost $250 million in tax revenue in exchange for a pledge that the funds will be made up, but for how long and in what form, no one knows (Cuomo is an Obama Repubican)
Domestic Violence: Rulings Could Stem Epidemic On American Indian Reservations (just another little patriarchy)


Google chairman says online piracy bill would 'criminalize' the Internet - The Hill's Hillicon Valley (Obama hates the internets)
A History of Online Patent Search
Urlies 2011: The Best Memes Of The Year
Adblock Plus and (a little) more: Allowing acceptable ads in Adblock Plus

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World News - Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down
U.S. arming Egyptian military crackdown - Salon.com (Obama backs military, of course)
Israeli soldiers clash with mourners at funeral of Palestinian protester | World news | guardian.co.uk Teargas used to quell stone-throwing youths at funeral procession of Mustafa Tamimi, who was killed by Israeli soldier
Newt Gingrich condemned for calling Palestinians 'terrorists' | World news | guardian.co.uk Palestinian officials say Republican frontrunner's claim children are taught to kill in textbooks is based on Israeli propaganda (so?)
Mystery of father's murder may soon be over for Biba's Barbara Hulanicki | World news | The Observer (killed by the Stern gang, the same terrorists who have been running Israel since Menachem "crush their heads like insects" Begin)
Putin and Medvedev try to calm Russian election outcry | World news | guardian.co.uk Prime minister's spokesman says Kremlin will listen to protesters, while president promises investigation into disputed election resul

Lessons From Europe - NYTimes.com - Krugman - O'Rourke: "One lesson that the world has learned since the financial crisis of 2008 is that a contractionary fiscal policy means what it says: contraction. Since 2010, a Europe-wide experiment has conclusively falsified the idea that fiscal contractions are expansionary." (Europe, especially Ireland, ran the experienment: anti-Keynsian economics killed their economies; but rightwing economists will never accept the facts +unemployed just don't want to work)

Earthquake rattles Mexico City | World news | guardian.co.uk Magnitude 6.5 quake kills at least three people and causes panic from Mexican capital to resort of Acapulco
Italian girl's rape claim sparks arson attack on Gypsy camp | World news | guardian.co.uk Sixteen-year-old confesses she made up story that prompted mob to torch camp in Turin district

The real definition of Terrorism - Salon.com (anything Obama wants it to be)
Obama's Foreign Policy Successes | ThinkProgress - Killed Osama Bin Laden, Ramped Up Campaign Against Al Qaeda (destroyed civil rights)
Hillary Clinton and Internet Freedom - Salon.com The Obama DOJ has insisted that it has the right to read opened emails with no warrants from a court (Hillary Clinton is a big fat hypocrite)
Beyond Guantánamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates - NYTimes.com (but Republians are scared little cry-babies)

Watch the Best Moments from Saturday’s Debate (Video) - The Daily Beast
10K Bet
After $10,000 Offer, Some Bet Against Romney - NYTimes.com
The Real G.O.P. Dark Horse: None of the Above - NYTimes.com
Newt Gingrich Threat To Mitt Romney Rises After Iowa Debate
Lindsey Graham: Consumer Protection Bureau 'Is Something Out Of The Stalinist Era' (but TSA rapes and illegal detention is just good American values)

Powerful Pipes, Weak Oversight | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/10/2011 (the pipeline will regulate itself!)

BBC News - Reaction to UN climate deal reached by negotiators at UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, that for the first time would bring all major emitters into international efforts to limit global warming, but which environmentalists say did not go far enough (US pushed for deal to do nothing for ten years; Republicans don't believe in it anyway; the world is already doomed)
Global climate change treaty in sight after Durban breakthrough | Environment | The Guardian Climate conference ends in agreement after two weeks of talks

'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into U.S. Speech - ScienceNOW - College-age women end sentences in the lowest vocal register, a creaky vibration called vocal fry, possibly to broadcast themselves as part of a social group.

Up-Inspired Floating House (14 photos) - My Modern Metropolis

LightSquared and Skype Co-Founder's FreedomPop Partner to Offer Free Broadband... -- REston, Va. and Los Angeles, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ (telco monopolies threatened; Chuck Grassley vows to keep America at the bottom)
Balloon Juice » How to Lose Your RIM Job how drunk or stoned do you need to be to chew through your ziptie handcuffs? (hard-charging road warriors)

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Palestinians are an invented people, says Newt Gingrich | World news | guardian.co.uk Republican frontrunner says Israelis have a right to their modern-day homeland but implies Palestinians do not (the Jews were always there and those other guys came from somewhere else, but hey, he's an "historian")
Palestinians tell Gingrich to learn history after 'invented people' claim | World news | guardian.co.uk Officials in West Bank and Gaza say Republican presidential hopeful is cheaply trying to win the pro-Israel vote in US
Inside Syria: lightly armed townsfolk take on tanks as army closes in | World news | The Guardian As Assad's forces near a town that has lost 11 fighters, the resistance, although afraid, prepares to fight again
Taliban announce peace talks with Pakistan | World news | guardian.co.uk Tahrik-e-Taliban says it is in discussions with government • News likely to inflame Islamabad's strained relations with US
Russians come out in force to protest against alleged electoral fraud | World news | The Observer Tens of thousands defy bitter cold and fear of crackdown in challenge to victorious party of Vladimir Putin - 50,000 people braved the cold and snow on Saturday to turn out for the largest ever protest against the rule of prime minister KBG) (just a few malcontents, no Arab Spring here, says media)
Congo election sparks violent protests | World news | The Guardian President Joseph Kabila declared winner, triggering unrest and rival claim from opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi (another rigged election by a despot)

David Cameron blocks EU treaty with veto, casting Britain adrift in Europe | World news | The Guardian EU leaders poised to line up 26-1 in support of Franco-German blueprint, but PM had apparent blessing of Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg turns fire on David Cameron over Europe veto | Politics | The Observer Liberal Democrat leader 'furious at prime minister's tactics' as Paddy Ashdown voices fears over isolation (make up your mind, Nick)
Angela Merkel: 'I don't believe David Cameron was ever with us at the table' | World news | The Guardian The Germans and French were ready to accommodate Britain's difficulties but were not prepared to write them into a new treaty

Phone-hacking victims to number 800 | Media | guardian.co.uk Police announce likely figure of victims of News of the World scandal, from nearly 6,000 potential targets of the tabloid

Indefinite military detention for U.S. citizens now in the hands of a secretive conference committee - Blog - OpenCongress (made up people who hate freedom)

Hullabaloo - Kicking the girls - the administration's Plan B decision: it “alienates the base, causes conflict with women in the base, [is] bad for key groups of women like younger women and unmarried women, and doesn’t win the swing independent women.” (Obama still chasing his rejecting father in the form on "independent" Republican voters, and screwing everybody else)
Charts and Graphs | The State of Young America: The Poll | Demos (Obama hates young people)

Treasury’s promise, one year on | Felix Salmon Treasury said that we would have seen real progress by now; we haven’t. And there’s very little chance of getting anything substantive done between now and the election — in fact, things seem to be moving in exactly the wrong direction. Which makes me think that in the battle of Treasury vs the banks, the banks — predictably — have won (Obama has always been their boy)

Police evict Occupy Boston protesters | World news | guardian.co.uk Arrests for trespassing and disorderly conduct after deadline to leave Dewey Square expires

UN climate change summit struggles to secure agreement | Environment | The Observer Six days of ministerial talks, including three all-night sessions, end in last-ditch effort to find deal that will satisfy 194 countries

Dear Abby: Am I Paranoid Enough? « FreeRangeKids (Dear Abby says never leave your kids alone, even if they are 20 years old)

Penn State Hires Evil Dictator-Loving Monster Lawyer Penn State's new president has hired notorious Washington taint sucker Lanny Davis (Ari Fleischer next)
Rising Hegemon: Well why not? Lanny Davis has spent the last few years being an asshole on FoxNews and lobbying for LITERALLY the world's worst people. Naturally he joins Louis Freeh, and the former Cover-Up Chief at Merck in giving Penn State the a-hole trifecta to try to spin Penn State out of its current legal predicament at "barebacker U for Minors".

Why Calorie Counts Are Wrong: Cooked Food Provides a Lot More Energy | The Crux | Discover Magazine - the increase in net calorie gain from cooking will prove to be in the region of 25­­–50%. That is only a guess, but I am confident it will be much higher than 10% - The USA uses the Atwater Convention for assessing calories in food, a century-old system that treats food as being composed of a certain number of components, each of which has a fixed calorie value (of course the FDA would use a century-old system)

Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War? - Magazine - The Atlantic the work of warlocks who would extinguish all hope for our race. The stratagem of these shadow forces was said to be amnesia: they would have us see no past greatness in ourselves, and thus no future glory

Chuck Grassley Helping Big Telecom Choke Off Broadband Access & Innovation - The US is #15 in Broadband penetration and a pathetic 26th in Broadband speed -- behind Romania, that noted hotbed of innovation (Rove funded)
The 10 Biggest Security Stories Of 2011

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EU Leaders Drop Demands for Investor Write-Offs - Bloomberg “Or, to put it more bluntly, our first approach to PSI, which had a very negative effect on debt markets is now officially over.” ("private-sector involvment" = "the crooks who caused this disaster")
New Statesman - The EU treaty is a disaster for the left Stop crowing about Cameron - this is just the latest attack on European democracy ... the eurozone has outlawed expansionary fiscal policy (but Cameron is right for the wrong reasons)


RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - 2012 Republican Presidential Nomination (Gingrich at 34%)
Balloon Juice » Planet earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do Gingrich has just about hit that peak when the GOP base starts to feel a little queasy about their latest hero, and historically Newt tends to flame out as fiercely as he flames in. Unless I’m crazy Callista will get her man back just in time for some last-minute holiday deals at Tiffany’s.
Rick Perry Forgets Sonia Sotomayor's Name During 'Des Moines Register' Interview
Santorum: ‘Science Should Get Out Of Politics’ | TPM2012 (facts are anti-Cristian)
Elizabeth Warren Blasts Karl Rove-Linked Crossroads GPS Ad As 'Factually Wrong And Morally Wrong' (and incoherent)
Hullabaloo Next step in our Randian dystopia: stimgatize the unemployed ("they're all on drugs" another brilliant idea from our racist south)
Meet Josh Block: Lobbyist For Foreign Human Rights Abuser | ThinkProgress (former AIPACer, natch)
Celebrity Disgrace is Not an Actual, You Know, Thing - First Draft Once and for all, people making jokes about you on TV is not actual punishment. It may seem so, for those whose livelihood is invested in the importance of celebrity, but it's not actual punishment, not the way going to prison is.
Alabama Immigration Law Might Change After Governor's Review The goal of the law is to drive undocumented immigrants out of the state, lawmakers said (that worked really well)

Court Cases Revealing Massive Fraud in Mortgage Business | FDL News Desk
The Punk Patriot: Man Bulldozes his own home rather than face forclosure (banks refuse to modify loans, then sell houses for far less than the modification would have cost, so homeowner says here's some dirt for you)

Lunar Eclipse 2011: How to Watch Moon Disappear Saturday - Yahoo! News
Meteor Crater Helps Unlock Planetary History - Yahoo! News
Woolly Mammoth to Be Cloned : Discovery News (could Reagan be next?)

Balloon Juice » No One Could Have Predicted, Hoocoodanode, Dog Bites Man, There Were No Warning Signs, How Could This Have Happened, We Had No Idea, We Need to Look Forward Not Backwards fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution (Obama allows EPA to publish an actual scientific fact)
Jobless extension tied to oil pipeline | pipeline, oil, project - The Orange County Register (latest Republican move to stick it to the Dems, link it to Keystone)
How the EPA linked "fracking" to contaminated well water

Jerry Sandusky's Wife Denies She Ignored Rapes - Yahoo! (what basement?)

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Egypt's military will have final say on country's new constitution | World news | The Guardian Scaf generals say they will have final approval over new political system, whatever the outcome of the election (what election?)
Russia's anti-Putin protests grow | World news | The Guardian Tens of thousands say they are prepared to take to the streets in the biggest challenge yet to the country's government
Gorbachev calls for Russian elections to be declared void | World news | guardian.co.uk Former Soviet president says Kremlin must send people to the polls again or face long-term unrest over alleged voting fraud
Medvedev 'tweet' sends the Russian blogosphere into a frenzy | World news | The Guardian Retweet of insult aimed at jailed activist Alexey Navalny causes red faces at the Kremlin ... "cocksucking sheep"?
Bashar al-Assad insists killings and torture in Syria are beyond his control | World news | guardian.co.uk Syria's president rebuffs UN claims of bloody repression, telling US TV host 'we don't kill our own people' (except for the four thousand who shot themselves)
Pakistan president Zardari in Dubai for treatment as coup rumours intensify | World news | guardian.co.uk Asif Ali Zardari's office says he is undergoing a routine checkup, dismissing reports he is set to quit after suffering a heart attack
Plot to smuggle Muammar Gaddafi's son into Mexico 'foiled' | World news | The Guardian Authorities say plan to bring Saadi Gaddafi and family into country involved Canadian, Danish and Mexican suspects

BBC News - UK manufacturing output down 0.7% in October The UK's industrial output fell 0.7% in October, its fastest fall for six months, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) (austerity is working!)
Eurozone crisis live: EU debates fiscal union plan | Business | guardian.co.uk The idea is to provide dollars to European banks, who have been struggling to get hold of them. The market has seized up given fears over European banks' future (free "liquidity" for banksters! austerity for the rest of us)
Tim Geithner backs Merkel-Sarkozy eurozone rescue plan | Business | guardian.co.uk Treasury secretary endorses Franco-German rescue plan as US remains anxious about European debt crisis spreading

Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire understood to have been arrested | Media | guardian.co.uk Former private investigator said to be held in connection with voicemail interception and perverting course of justice
The law on murder is most foul. Kenneth Clarke should reform it | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian e British law on murder is shockingly out of date. It requires a "mandatory" life sentence of at least 15 years for a crime that lumps together premeditated killing, mercy killing, killing under extreme provocation and gang violence that results in death.

Pearl Harbor attack, 1941: first pictures - British Pathé video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Leon Panetta is Full of Shit | MyFDL Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wants you to be scared.
NPR’s domestic drone commercial - Salon.com On its All Things Considered program yesterday, NPR broadcast a five-minute report (audio below) from Brian Naylor that purported to be a news story on the domestic use of drones but was, in fact, much more akin to a commercial for the drone industry. (your liberal media at work)

Obama can't fight class war too soon | Ana Marie Cox | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The American middle class hardly needs telling it's struggling: Obama needs to name the enemy, not emote empathy
Michael Moore: Barack Obama Is Wall Street's Candidate (that was obvious a long time ago)
Presidential Pardons Heavily Favor Whites - ProPublica
A Club of Liars, Demagogues, and Fools—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) Spiegel ties the disintegration of the Republican Party to the Tea Party, “a ‘popular movement’ that was sponsored by Fox News and never showed any interest in the business of government — neither in information nor intellect, which are its requisites, but rather in a self-marketing exercise driven by commissions and millions.”

In the Matter of Representative Newt Gingrich | House Committee on Ethics (thud)
Rachel Maddow Hammers Newt Gingrich Over Ethics Violations
The Page by Mark Halperin | Gingrich Wants John Bolton for Secretary of State Gingrich to Republican Jewish Coalition crowd: "I will ask John Bolton to be the Secretary of State." (says a lot about all three parties)
The Impolitic: Send in the clowns Among Republican voters in Iowa, nearly 40 percent say they get most of their news from the (Fox) network and its many conservative hosts, according to the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll. And among those viewers, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, is trouncing Mr. Romney ... bolsters so many previous studies showing Fox viewers are the most uninformed or perhaps we can more kindly say misinformed, people in the civilized world. (Republicans have always hated reality)
Rick Perry Goes After Obama Over Don't Ask Don't Tell "I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a Christian," says Perry. "But you don't need to be in the pews every Sunday to know that there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." (that will get the gay vote)
Jon Stewart On Donald Trump Debate: 'Thank You Jesus!'
Chris Christie Cuts Down Town Hall Questioner (fat fuck gets engraged when called on rigging the game)
Conflict Of Interest In Politico 's Policymaker Awards? | Media Matters for America (would Politico be spawn of Drudgico? +SOPA/PIPA)
alicublog: Esprit D'Estoppel - when you talk to liberals as she advises: "Let the liberal experience the panic attack," "expect a temper tantrum," "The liberal will become irate, perspire profusely, then shout," etc. ("libruls" are too stupid to compete with Limbaugh)
Blagojevich Sentence: 14 Years In Prison For Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (they all did it, but he got caught)
Balloon Juice » Things That Upset Wingnuts, Pearl Harbor Edition

Thomas Friedman’s Confusions « LRB blog In his most recent book, Thomas Friedman – New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner, presidential adviser – says of the Iraq War that he has ‘nothing but regret for the excessive price that America and Iraq have had to pay in lives and treasure’. The body count seems to be less cause for concern, however, than the fact that China, which has not been distracted from domestic infrastructure projects by pricey wars abroad, can now build a convention centre in approximately the same time it takes for the Washington Metro crew to repair two escalators in Friedman’s local subway station

Bank Tellers and ATMs The BLS continues to project long-term growth in the number of bank tellers presumably because banks like to open branches to attract deposits.

Vitals - Too promiscuous to donate an organ? Maybe, CDC says deceased and living donors who were not monogamous in the previous 12 months would be considered at increased risk of transmitting HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C -- even if they had no other risk factors

US keeps restrictions on morning-after pill sales - Yahoo! News US regulators on Wednesday rejected a drug company's request to make emergency contraception available over the counter to consumers of all ages instead of by prescription ... However, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius disagreed with the FDA decision, and had invoked her authority to block the supplement for non-prescription use for females under 17 (Obama at work increasing abortions and unwanted teen pregnancies; there is no one he won't throw under the bus to get re-elected)
Plan B: When You Don’t Fight, You Get Walked on Later | FDL Action Today Obama did it again. Obama’s Secretary of HHS, in a blatant, politically motivated move, took the almost unheard of step of going against FDA recommendations regarding Plan B. Science, common sense and women’s reproductive rights were all disregarded in what clearly appears to be an attempt to appease conservatives.
BYU-Idaho Dress Code Prohibits Skinny Jeans: Report (no tight tops, either; back to the 19th century)
Jerry Sandusky Arrested: Ex-Penn State Coach Arrested On New Abuse Charges ... two new accusers, including one who claims Sandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom .. bring the number of Sandusky's alleged victims to 10 and he now faces more than 50 charges (Penn State continues to be opaque)

Annie Stensrud Drunk? Local Anchor Is Worse For Wear During Broadcast
The Body Odd - Watching 'Jersey Shore' might make you dumber, study suggests
Fire dept. watches home burn because family didn’t pay fee | The Raw Story exactly as instructed to by the City of South Fulton’s “pay for spray” policy.

MythBusters Cannonball Experiment Gone Wrong... Hits Houses and Car in Dublin, CA - YouTube

Netflix’s CEO Sees ‘Arms Race’ to Dominate Video Streaming - Bloomberg (fools - big content will always dominate streaming)

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Al-Qaida linked group claims Kabul suicide attack on Shia pilgrims | World news | The Guardian Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi, an obscure Pakistani extremist group claims responsibility for attack that killed at least 55 people
For millions of Russians, this was simply a vote against | Yevgenia Albats | Comment is free | The Guardian This new protest wave is not limited to opposition parties – it has drawn in young people previously uninterested in politics
Russian election: police, troops and youth groups stifle anti-Putin protests | World news | The Guardian Pro-Kremlin activists outnumber pro-democracy demonstrators in Moscow after disputed election result

The brutal logic of climate change | Grist (Obama has flunked the greatest moral challenge of our time)

The euro zone’s terrible mistake | Felix Salmon . If the Europeans didn’t learn from Ireland, couldn’t they at least learn from the Fed’s much-criticized decision to pay off all AIG creditors at 100 cents on the dollar? Blanket guarantees at par are pretty much always a really bad idea — and this one, if it comes to pass, will be the biggest one yet. It won’t end well.
Radical eurozone shakeup could see Brussels get austerity powers | Business | The Guardian Confidential paper from council president Herman Van Rompuy proposes empowering the commission to impose austerity

BP accuses Halliburton over Gulf of Mexico oil spill | Environment | guardian.co.uk US contractor destroyed evidence about possible problems with cementing of Macondo well before disaster, allege court papers

Tales of the Freewayblogger: Scrapitalism
Jesse's Café Américain: Categorizing Those Unemployed by the Recession Caused by the Financial Crisis (7% have "made it back," 21% are "devastated" and 15% are "totally wrecked" and fully deserving of the scorn of writers to the Boston Globe)
Alan Moore v Frank Miller: comics legends clash | Books | guardian.co.uk Moore criticises 'unpleasant sensibility' of 'completely misguided' Miller after Sin City author's tirade against the Occupy movement

Obama Administration To Consider Gay Rights When Allocating Foreign Aid (but still won't fund contraception)
Obama administration targeting food stamp fraud as program reaches record highs - The Federal Eye - The Washington Post (yeah, it's a huge problem created by those leeches)
Texas Welfare Office Shooting: Mom Denied Food Stamps For Months, Shoots Own Kids
The Libertarian Intelligentsia Is Freaking Out Over Newt | TPM2012 “If Newt Gingrich becomes president, we all deserve to die in a purifying fire.” (+Chris Christie is a libertarian, apparently)
Rick Santorum: Gay Sex Is Not 'Equal' To Hetero Sex (everyone would be gay if they knew about "gay sex" +would outlaw contraception because "It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.")
Conservatives for Jon Huntsman? | The Nation (they are looking for someone with a shred of sanity)
Jon Huntsman: Climate Change Science 'Not Enough' For US Action (renounces last shred of sanity)
Scott Walker Recall Campaign Gets Ugly As Allegations Fly (Republicans bully and cheat, as usual)
Florida Governor Rick Scott's Popularity Plunges To Record Low the Florida Governor's approval ratings have hit a new low at 26 percent, a 7 percent slide from a previous personal worst this past June. (another Republican Gov success)
The Truth About Pundit Crap: Could Jon Meacham Be the Most Insufferable Human in Washington? - Esquire (Pierce)
Hullabaloo Very Serious Zombie Awards - Health Care Policymaker of the Year: Rep. Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee (a club of idiots)
Hullabaloo Political Indecency (anti-abortion jihadists running for office so they can put grisly campaign videos on tv)

The Knowledge Effect | US Average Duration of Unemployment (no jobs, anywhere)
A New Grand Bargain? : Lawyers, Guns & Money - Is Boeing really going to use Chinese labor to make American military aircraft? (hey, why not?)
Montco Commissioner Lied About Stake in Company: DA | NBC Philadelphia Brother of “Hardball” host Chris Matthews arrested on perjury charges, DA says

Is the Higgs boson real? | Ian Sample | Science | guardian.co.uk Rumours abound that Cern scientists have finally glimpsed the long-sought Higgs boson. We asked physicists to share their thoughts on the elusive entity

Penn State University shows no sign of lifting veil of secrecy | PennLive.com The university contracted former FBI Director Louis Freeh to do an internal investigation, but won’t say how much it’s paying the firm. The university is also keeping secret how how much it is paying public relations firm Ketchum, which it hired in the wake of the scandal that ousted President Graham Spanier, head football coach Joe Paterno and two top university official (that would be the PA "we don't have to tell you shit" law they lobbied for +fake investigation by America's worst law enforement ex-official)

Late Night: Get Off My Internet Lawn! | Firedoglake (kids should just listen to the radio!)
China cracks down on microblogging rumours that are 'worse than cocaine' | World news | The Guardian Official Chinese media say that rumours spread on popular microblogging sites are damaging to society

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Getting Re-elected After Solving Economic Problems Is Easy We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get reelected once we have done it (so we're going to get re-elected and you're going to die)
Italy PM unveils sweeping austerity package | Reuters * 30 billion euros in tax hikes, spending cuts (austerizizing their way to ruin)
U.S. Fed May Give Loans to IMF to Help Euro Zone-Report - NYTimes.com (but not to American non-banksters)

English riots were 'a sort of revenge' against the police | UK news | The Guardian Rioters interviewed for our study say they sought retribution for what they saw as police abuse of power in their communities
Rioter profile: 'this is some next-level revolution coming' | UK news | guardian.co.uk A young man from Liverpool recalls the riots and his part in them, which he says cost him his job


Justice Kennedy Dissents: What Campaign Finance And The Sixth Amendment Have In Common Kennedy -- after 20 years of dissenting -- finally turned the tide in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the landmark 2010 ruling on corporate First Amendment rights (swing-vote asshole who killed democracy killed the right to question forensic evidence because it would "cost too much")

Hullabaloo Why are young people so upset and disenchanted? (Obama has turned off an entire generation of young voters, as planned)
FAA head Randy Babbitt placed on leave after drunk driving arrest in Fairfax - Crime Scene - The Washington Post The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is on administrative leave after being charged with drunk driving Saturday night by Fairfax City police, according to the Department of Transportation.
PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise - Salon.com - ". We should all have ID’s. You betcha. What do you have to hide? Some friends of mine on the left side think I’m crazy. . . . I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel." (in a nutshell)
Newt Gingrich vs. Nancy Pelosi: GOP Candidate Fires Back Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich fired back on Monday to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's suggestion that she could reveal information about him "when the time is right" because she once served on a committee that investigated him for ethics violations.
Mitt Romney Runs From Another Reporter At Fox News Forum
Time's Joe Klein Blasts Romney Campaign's 'Idiotic' Media Strategy
Mitt Romney's media blowback - Dylan Byers - politico.com
Gates Foundation Grants ALEC A Hefty Sum For 'Education Reform' | Crooks and Liars (in bed with the Kochtopus to set up Christian charter schools and kill teachers' unions)

A New York spider gave me an insight into US private healthcare | Laurie Penny | Comment is free | The Guardian Occupy Wall Street is right – a rash of bites showed me how private healthcare keeps Americans cowed and compliant
Radley Balko: SWAT Raids, Stun Guns, And Pepper Spray: Why The Government Is Ramping Up The Use Of Force
Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop John Pike on a wall, 11th and Ridge, Philadelphia | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Prosecuting Wall Street, pt. 1 - 60 Minutes - CBS News wo high-ranking financial whistleblowers say they tried to warn their superiors about defective and even fraudulent mortgages. So why haven't the companies or their executives been prosecuted? (bankers always walk)
Pennsylvania Hires Greenhill to Weigh Sale of State Assets - Bloomberg (Republicans selling off your infrastructure to pay for their disasterous mistakes)

Could dark matter not matter? An Italian mathematician has come up with some complex formulae that can, with remarkable similarity, mimic the rotation curves of spiral galaxies without the need for dark matter.

femonomics: Involuntary Sterilization, Cowboy Doctors, and the West in Africa
Dr. Erik Fleischman and Involuntary Sterilization — Feministe ("slicing and dicing and sterilizing his way through the dark continent" )

Racial gap found in traffic stops in Milwaukee - JSOnline A black Milwaukee driver is seven times as likely to be stopped by city police as a white resident driver, a Journal Sentinel analysis of nearly 46,000 traffic stops has found.

The Truth About Teen 'Sexting' - Yahoo! News
Kaspersky Dumps Anti-Piracy Group in SOPA Protest | TorrentFreak announced it will withdraw its membership of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) over the group’s support of SOPA

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Syria given 24 hours to sign Arab League deal or face sanctions | World news | guardian.co.uk Officials given ultimatum after missing deadline to let in international monitors amid rising death toll
Top British commander says west must see the job through in Afghanistan | World news | The Guardian General James Bucknall calls on UK not to betray its 'investment in blood' and stresses Taliban cannot assassinate its way to power
Russian parliamentary elections: rousing from a long slumber | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian f Vladimir Putin's popularity is on the wane, that of the party he created, United Russia, is in a nosedive
Vladimir Putin set to lose majority amid complaints of electoral violations | World news | The Guardian Opposition leader condemns 'theft of votes' after reports of pre-filled ballots, invisible ink and multiple visits to polling booths
Iran: U.S. Spy Plane Shot Down By Iran Armed Forces (spy drone bagged)
X-37B: Mission Of Mysterious Boeing Space Plane Extended

Initiative would give Callifornia illegal immigrants safe harbor - California Politics | Sacramento Bee (half of Alabama will move there)

Senate Votes Not To Vote On Indefinite Detention On Americans | Mother Jones - Several Democrats joined Republicans in blocking the latter amendment with Republican Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) Rand Paul (R-Ky) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill) joining most Democrats in voting for Feinstein's amendment.
striking the indefinite military detention provision - Senate Roll Call #210 Details - OpenCongress (16 Dems are Republicans)

David Brooks Hearts Germany - Since When Do Conservative Pundits Love Northern European Social Democracies? (when they are driving everyone else into austerity!)
Merkel and Sarkozy to unveil eurozone rescue package - Telegraph She made it clear that eurozone states would be called upon to relinquish economic sovereignty and be subjected to close central supervision – a pre-requisite for the eurozone to secure vital extra financial help. (Central Bank Uber Alles)

GOP Can't Erase Dems From Political Map | News & Politics | AlterNet the GOP may gain a dozen House seats or more by redrawing lines, prompting Democratic stalwarts like Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., not to seek reelection. ("GOP" = Mass Dems)
As Many As 5 Million Voters Disenfranchised By Voter ID Laws | Crooks and Liars
Hullabaloo: Chris Hayes FTW (contrast with belthead Young Russert)

The Washington Monthly - When Politifact Becomes Politifalse (WaPo at work lying about lies; they are as "fair and balanced" as you know who)
Incarceration Rates and Jim Crow Analogies : Lawyers, Guns & Money (see Polifucked)

With Gingrich Surging, Coburn Still 'Will Have Difficulty Supporting Him As President Of The United States' | ThinkProgress Coburn reiterated his anti-Gingrich sentiment, saying, “We need somebody that’s…stable.” (heh)
Newt Gingrich's Rise Continues, Ron Paul Second, Romney Third In Iowa: Des Moines Register Poll (clown show continues without Clown Cain)
Michele Bachmann And Ron Paul Say They'll Pick Up Herman Cain Supporters (something to be pround of)
John McCain: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico Could Be 'Up For Grabs' In 2012
Ron Paul: Reactionary Racist Leprechaun | VICE

SEC deal with Citigroup a sweetheart deal | NJ.com
US Debt - Money Managers' Least Favorite Investment - NYTimes.com It seems nobody likes Treasurys, yet everybody keeps buying them anyway.
Lawrence Mishel: Stop Digging Us Into an Ever Deeper Hole! Or, How Not to Argue for the Payroll Tax Holiday First, if the measure is presented as anti-tax we could never end the payroll tax reduction since any advocate would then be accused of favoring taxing the middle class! And if we do not end this measure it eventually will lead to scaling back Social Security, which would deliver a long-sought conservative goal and further exacerbate our already growing retirement insecurity (Obama throws SS under the bus, again, to save his reelection)
Payroll Tax Cut Plan Will Be Unveiled Monday, Democratic Senator Says (anything Kent Conrad likes is a disaster)

Occupy DC Arrests: Structure In McPherson Square Prompts Police Action (photos)
Balloon Juice » Naomi Wolf’s “Rebuttal” is Pure Nonsense The sound of journalistic credibility gasping its last breath.

Katie Roiphe discovers the Internet can be mean - Salon.com What a peculiar, delightfully retro bubble Katie Roiphe inhabits. In her world, sexual harassment is just a little joshing around the office. Last month, she realized that gentrified neighborhoods are still sometimes kind of edgy. Now, in her latest column for Slate, Roiphe has discovered “a new species” on the Internet, “a new breed” of individual — the angry commenter. Whoa, whoa, whoa, there Katie – who else knows about this? In other breaking news from 1994, people like expensive coffee and lesbians can be chic (Roiphe discovers internet trolls and flamers, who hurt her strong independent woman fee-fees +“the hamster dance of American thinkers,” /google it/)

Provisional statement of the status of the Global Climate 2011: world’s 10th warmest year, warmest year with La Niña on record, second-lowest Arctic sea ice extent

Robert Hughes, Jr.: Will Divorce Increase Your Chances of Dying? (yes, 23%)
Even on the 11th Floor, There’s Parking Right Out Front - NYTimes.com (the view from the 1%)

ProPublica review of pardons in past decade shows process heavily favored whites - The Washington Post (your corrupt, racist "justice" system)
U.S. Postal Service Faces Bankruptcy, Plans Cuts To Slow Delivery Of First Class Mail

Benny Hinn - Dark Lord of the Sith - YouTube
Katzenjammer performs live "A Bar in Amsterdam" HD - YouTube

Think Carrier IQ is bad? Wikileaks founder says all smartphones can be hacked with ease
Looks like Obama's new online petition service is really changing things - Imgur
Apple's Preliminary Injunction Request Against Samsung Devices Denied By U.S. Judge A U.S. judge has denied Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against several Samsung Electronics products
Guess What? iPhone Users Make Up Only 10% Of Mobile Subscribers (but they are so hip)
trws6.png (Captain Anomaly: Zappo's customer service)

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Baghdad bomb was an attempt to kill me, says Iraq's prime minister | World news | guardian.co.uk But Nouri al-Maliki denies that explosion signals a deterioration in Green Zone security ahead of US forces' planned pullout
Syrian security forces clash with military defectors | World news | guardian.co.uk More Syrians have been killed a day after the UN human rights chief called on the international community to protect civilians
Netanyahu spokesman: Palestinians to blame for deadlock | World news | guardian.co.uk Comment comes day after US defence secretary says Israel could do more to reverse growing isolation (they made us do it)
Saudi Arabia: Women Driving Will Have Sex, Report Says (one thing leads to another)
Veena Malik, Pakistan Model, Poses Nude, Causes Fury A Pakistani actress who posed in the nude for an Indian magazine with the initials of Pakistan's feared and powerful intelligence agency on her arm has triggered fury across this conservative nation (there you go)

Bleeding Britain - NYTimes.com Now it turns out that contractionary policy is contractionary after all. As a result, despite all the austerity, deficits remain high. So what is to be done? More austerity! ... It really is just like a medieval doctor bleeding his patient, observing that the patient is getting sicker, not better, and deciding that this calls for even more bleeding.
British Austerity: The Past Weighs Like a Nightmare on the Brains of Cameron and Osborne Blogging Why are Cameron and Osborne incapable of admitting that they made a bad mistake, firing their advisors, and changing their course? I think that it's the fact that they have been raised on the myth of Margaret Thatcher, who Stayed the Course. But this time there are no crazy Argentinian generals who throw people out of helicopters into the South Atlantic to start a war and serve as defeatable villains...

Sir Paul McCartney calls for privacy law after learning his phone was hacked | Music | guardian.co.uk The singer believes journalists listened to phone calls and messages at the time of his divorce from Heather Mills

White House Threatens Veto Of Indefinite Detention Bill The National Defense Authorization Act passed Thursday by the Senate contains a section that spells out the military's power to detain Americans indefinitely without trial and mandates military detention for some terrorism suspects. ("threatens")
Balloon Juice » We’re not at the end of the beginning, but perhaps the beginning of the end Today is the day that a significant part of the Affordable Care Act took effect

Occupy LA Raid: Los Angeles Police Reportedly Went Undercover At Encampment Prior To Raid To Gather Information [and rape and pillage and murder a few people]

Herman Cain suspends campaign for Republican presidential nomination | World news | guardian.co.uk Former pizza magnate tells supporters he made the decision because of the hurt caused by false allegations against him
House Republicans Stepping Up Anti-Regulation Effort (child labor, poison in your food, appliances that explode)
Herman Cain Affair Allegation: GOP Hopeful Meeting With Wife Gloria Amid Uncertain Candidacy (give him the hook)

The 70% Solution: Taxing the Rich Department
SEC targets Marlins' shady business - MLB - Yahoo! Sports They want to understand how, exactly, a group of county commissioners agreed to fund 80 percent of the Marlins new stadium, which cost more than $600 million, without ever seeing the team’s financial records – and whether bribes had anything to do with it (free money for rich Repubicans!)

Scientists Discover Huge Martian Water Deposit—Could Be Used By Human Explorers
Engineering News, Date Scientists decided to use infrared, heat sensing technology for the survey, but found that curiously, the polar bears became invisible. Scientists could see the eyes, nose and breath, but not the bear ... polar bear hair has the same radiative properties as snow.

Is Child Sexual Abuse on the Rise? - Yahoo! News According to the nation's top experts, children are actually safer from physical and sexual abuse than they have been for decades ... In fact, incidence of sexual abuse of children began to drop two decades ago
Ohio State's Urban Meyer and the Cult of Coach - Time
Lenore Zimmerman: TSA 'Strip-Searched' Me
Vietnam police use fishing nets to capture motorbike street racers - Telegraph Cops and private security guards cast the fine fishing nets into the rear wheels of the speeding motorcycles, clogging the machinery and bringing the bike slowly to a halt.
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Saatchi's scathing portrait of the art world: 'Vulgar, Eurotrashy, masturbatory' | Art and design | The Guardian Leading British collector launches surprise attack saying buyers and dealers 'can't tell good artists from bad'

Swiss Government Declares Downloading for Personal Use Legal | WebProNews Government research says piracy not as harmful as industry claims (Obama considers drones on Switzerland to protect Bigcontent)
Student Bay Admin Prosecuted in Sweden | TorrentFreak for his role in the operations of Student Bay, a site dedicated to the sharing of textbooks (which now cost 12,000 Euros)
DutchNews.nl - ‘Corrupt’ performing rights society board member to face the music Rietveldt wrote a piece of music for an anti-piracy ad which was widely distributed without his knowledge. In spite of numerous requests he was never paid for the reproduction of his music.
AT&T, Sprint Sued by Customers Over Tracking - Bloomberg mobile phone customers who claim that Carrier IQ Inc. tracking software installed on their phones violates U.S. wiretapping and computer fraud laws.
Nokia: none of our devices have ever used Carrier IQ | The Verge

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Nato plans push in eastern Afghanistan to quell Pakistan-based insurgents | World news | The Guardian Isaf aims to reduce threat to Kabul by insurgent groups and has not ruled out cross-border raids into Pakistan
Egyptian Islamists put sharia law on agenda after election gains | World news | The Guardian Radical Salafists take majority of seats in Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak
Clinton and Aung San Suu Kyi pledge to work together for Burma democracy | World news | The Guardian US secretary of state reiterates call for Burmese regime to end repression during historic meeting with opposition leader

Angela Merkel takes action to stop euro collapse | Business | The Guardian German chancellor demands tougher budget controls in decisive week for currency, leading to optimism on stock markets
Irish Tax Revenues Fall Further Behind Target in Nov - NYTimes.com (austerity at work)

Congress endorsing military detention, a new AUMF - Salon.com (and then they came for you)

U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn't Protecting Occupy Protesters' Rights

Payroll Tax Cut Extension Rejected In Senate Vote Just one Senate Republican, Maine's Susan Collins, voted for the middle class break, which died 51 to 49 in an unsuccessful effort to end a Republican filibuster. Three Democrats opposed the bill.
House Republicans Stepping Up Anti-Regulation Effort
Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich Dissect Fox News, 'Murdoch Primary' (Satan's Primary)
Progressives don’t hate ourselves - The Washington Post (Jonathan Chait at work making you depressed)
Newt Gingrich Rose to Wealth Through Congress : Roll Call News In 1979, an impoverished Georgia college professor named Newt Gingrich became a Member of Congress and proceeded to make himself a very rich man (we don't think that word "impoverished" means what you think it means)
Newt Gingrich’s disgusting remarks about ‘really poor children’ - PostPartisan - The Washington Post
Balloon Juice » Nip this one in the bud (no limits on the lies of Satan's minions)
Herman & Gloria Cain's Problems Go Way Back: Report
Ginger White Alleges Sex With Herman Cain, Apologizes To Gloria Cain ... becoming the fifth woman to accuse the Republican presidential candidate of inappropriate behavior.
U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn't Protecting Occupy Protesters' Rights
Alabama red-faced as second foreign car boss held under immigration law | World news | guardian.co.uk To arrest one foreign car-making executive under Alabama's new tough immigration laws may be regarded as a misfortune; to arrest a second looks like carelessness (and also that they are checking a lot of people)

EmployRecessAlignedNov2011.jpg (here's your Bush/Republican debt and anti-regulation-fueled recession)
Jared Bernstein: The November Jobs Report (Updates) Employment was up 120,000 last month and the unemployment rate dropped significantly, to 8.6% in November down from 9% in October. Job growth in October and September was revised up by 72,000.
Jobs Mirage: 315,000 Drop Out Of Workforce, Driving Unemployment Rate To Three-Year Low

Changing climate of Republican opinion doesn't agree with Tea Party | Environment | guardian.co.uk Nearly two-thirds of moderate or liberal Republicans believe there is solid evidence for global warming, Pew poll finds (all four of them)



Carrier IQ 'has questions to answer' over possible data breach – Franken | Technology | guardian.co.uk US senator asks software maker to respond to claims its products collect and transmit users' potentially sensitive data

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Ehud Barak, Israel Defense Minister, Says Iran Strike May Become Only Option
Afghan woman to be freed from jail after agreeing to marry rapist | World news | The Guardian President intervenes in case of 19-year-old woman who has spent two years in jail after reporting rape by a relative
Iran British Embassy Stormed: Students Released
UK breaks with Iran, but can anything sway the regime? | World news | guardian.co.uk The damage to the UK embassy seems to have left little choice but shutting down the mission, but Iran's deepening isolation may only strengthen the radicals
Europe Tightens Sanctions on Iran - NYTimes.com
AFP: Japan nuclear meltdown ?maybe worse than thought? (TEPCO lied?)
A 1.8-Ton Problem: Half of City to Evacuate for Bomb Disposal - Spiegel Online - a large section of the German city of Koblenz will come to a standstill as bomb experts gingerly defuse a massive World War II bomb that recently emerged from the Rhine River due to low water levels

Obama’s morbid fear of EU meltdown - FT.com “The thing that matters the most in determining the health of the US economy and job creation is what happens in Europe,” says a senior administration official (idiots)
The big squeeze: warning over incomes as Britain goes on strike | UK news | The Guardian Families with children will be worse off in 2016 than 14 years earlier, analysis of George Osborne's autumn statement finds (eliminate the middle-class, starve the poor, wonder why there are riots)
Sarkozy calls for new European treaty as euro enters make-or-break week | Business | The Guardian French president uses speech to set out initiative that appears at odds with Berlin's plan for more rigorous monetary union
Manufacturing shrinks at fastest rate in 2 years | Reuters Britain's manufacturing sector shrank for a second successive month in November and at its fastest pace since June 2009 as output and orders fell on weak global demand, a survey showed on Thursday, fuelling fears Britain faces another recession (austerity fail; solution: more austerity for non-bankers)
Mass. Sues JPMorgan, BofA Over Foreclosures - Bloomberg Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed the lawsuit today against the three banks, as well as Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and Ally Financial Inc., in state court in Boston. The banks are accused of engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices in violation of state law, according to the attorney general (these are the lawsuits Obama desperately tried to squash)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: New Book Claims New York City Hotel Maid Propositioned Him

Illinois House Votes Against Supporting 'Occupy,' Suburban Rep Calls Protests 'Un-American' Rep. Ed Sullivan Jr. (R-Mundelein) called the Occupy protesters "un-American" and said he had read reports of demonstrators involved with the movement "raping and pillaging and beating people up and murdering," (Fox News watcher)
A Banker Speaks, With Regret - NYTimes.com . That’s why the Occupy movement resonates so deeply: When the federal government goes all-out to rescue errant bankers, and stiffs homeowners, that’s not just bad economics. It’s also wrong.
Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer - Bloomberg
George Lakoff: Occupy Elections, With a Simple Message (how about: #1 tax the rich; #2 end the wars; #3 rebuild America)
UC Davis Pepper Spray Investigation Lead By Group That Works For Wall Street Firms (LIVE UPDATES) But in an open letter, Robert Meister, head of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, called for University of California president Mark Yudof to swap out Kroll Security Group and its chairman William Bratton as the ones in charge of the investigation. (Kroll and Bratton, great)
VIDEO: LAPD Riot Squad Tackles Occupy L.A. Photographer - Los Angeles News - The Informer

Senate Kills Effort To Ban Indefinite Military Detentions Of U.S. Citizens (your democracy is history)
Political Animal - The strange GOP embrace of Simpson-Bowles Part of me is left to assume that Republicans have decided they like Simpson-Bowles as some kind of bizarre knee-jerk reaction — Obama hasn’t embraced it, so it must be good.
Gingrich Tells ABC News: ‘I’m Going to Be The Nominee’ - ABC News (Obama is giggling)
MA-Sen: Warren Takes Lead Over Brown in New Poll | FDL News Desk
Herman Cain Affair Allegation: Meeting With Wife Gloria May Hold Key To Candidacy's Future Gloria, who he has not seen since the charge surfaced (egg on her face)
Greta Van Susteren Draws Scrutiny Over Husband's Herman Cain Ties (your media is so corrupt)
Voter ID Laws 'Assault' On Minority Voters, Says DNC Chair

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: After the Deficit Committee, A New Propaganda Push From the War Profiteers
Claire McCaskill: Spend Money On U.S. Infrastructure, Not Troubled Afghanistan Programs
Hank Paulson's 'astonishing' insider tip to Wall Street - The Week Bloomberg reports that as Treasury secretary, Paulson gave a potentially lucrative heads-up to hedge fund managers. Should we be outraged?
Greenberg’s ‘Audacious’ AIG Bailout Suits Stretching U.S. Legal Precedents - Bloomberg Both complaints were filed by attorney David Boies, who represented the U.S. in its Microsoft Inc. 1999 antitrust trial and Al Gore in the Florida presidential recount litigation in 2000.

APOD: 2011 December 1 - Young Moon Meets Evening Star

The Semiotics of Emma Sullivan | Mother Jones (and the fascist authoritarianism of Brownback and Ruth Marcus +those aren't "bad" words)
Do Christians believe in atheists? UBC study finds believers distrust atheists as much as rapists | Vancouver Sun
FBI ran background checks on Muslims at community outreach events | World news | guardian.co.uk Documents show the FBI recorded personal information at events designed to improve the bureau's relations with Muslims - The blacked-out parts make it difficult to understand what the reports represent.
Muslim Officials Want Answers From FBI Over Data Collection During Outreach Efforts | TPMMuckraker
Tons of Marijuana Found In San Diego Via Mexico Drug Tunnels
New York Teacher Tells Students Santa Claus Isn't Real News 12 reports a second grade teacher in Nanuet, New York was giving a geography lesson when students noted that Santa Claus lives in the North Pole. The teacher promptly told the kids Jolly Old Saint Nick doesn't exist and that it's their parents who leave presents underneath the tree every year (oh, nooooes)
Post-tofu cooking blast a mystery - UPI.com He said the woman told investigators she had been cooking tofu and the explosion, which blasted a 4-foot by 6-foot window out of the building, occurred as she was rinsing off the pan.

75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police - YouTube
Judge Rejects Eavesdropping Charges for Recording Police - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
'It Should Look Good on YouTube': The Anti-Harless - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine - "Jeremy, thanks for your cooperation, and remember: My name is Officer Lyons with the Oceanside Police Department. My badge number is 1093. God bless America."

Stanley Kubrick’s Photos of 1940s New York - mashKULTURE

US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Att Gen asks Americans to report IP violations on their neighbors but not 1 prosecution of Wall Street Not a single prosecution against Wall Street for the collapse of 2008 but he wants people to give a damn about IP violations for Hollywood and the recording industry? Instead of boot-licking for the 1%, maybe he could find some time to prosecute the real trouble makers. Wake me up when there's a Democrat who is significantly different from a Republican so I can vote for real change (Obama, a far-right Republican by Nixonian standards, love his big content)
Chrome Overtakes Firefox Globally for First Time | StatCounter Global Stats Free web analytics company reports that Internet Explorer still leads despite falling market share
Will Yahoo turn out to be an egg on its buyer’s face? — Tech News and Analysis
The 'Bandwidth Hog' is a Myth - And Caps Don't Really Address Truly Disruptive Users | DSLReports.com, ISP Information The researchers themselves note that blunt caps simply may not work, and they punish those that aren't really causing any network problems:
Livewire | TPM - Google: No Affiliation With Carrier IQ
Google Is Richer Than the 28 Poorest Countries Combined

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Egypt election results put Muslim Brotherhood ahead | World news | The Guardian Analysts says preliminary results suggest Freedom and Justice party could win as many 40% of seats in new legislature
Britain expels Iranian diplomats and closes Tehran embassy | World news | guardian.co.uk William Hague says diplomats must leave UK within 48 hours, saying storming of British embassy in Iran had backing of regime
Israel unfreezes Palestinian Authority tax millions | World news | guardian.co.uk West warned against punitive measure for Unesco vote to admit Palestinian Territories as a member

Markets surge as Fed and central banks step in to try to prevent credit crunch | Business | guardian.co.uk US cheered by better-than-expected jobs figures as Timothy Geithner welcomes co-ordinated action taken by central banks
Central Banks Take Joint Action to Ease Debt Crisis - NYTimes.com ("action" = free money for bankster crooks; more austerity for everyone else)
Dow Jones Industrial Average Jumps 490 Points; Biggest Gain Since March 2009 A move by the world's central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 490 points and easing fears of a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Strikes hit services as millions heed unions' call to fight pension cuts | Society | guardian.co.uk No delays at major airports despite walkout by border staff • More than half of state schools closed in England (Brits wake up to austerity)
More Greeks homeless as crisis takes its toll | AP | 11/30/2011 (Reaganism comes to Greece)

Leveson inquiry: Alastair Campbell, the sultan of spin, gets a few soft deliveries | Politics | The Guardian Ex-Mirror man, Tony Blair spin doctor and tabloid victim rails against the news machine at the Leveson inquiry

Barack Obama urged to change US stance at UN climate summit | Environment | guardian.co.uk Environmental groups and officials warn US will derail progress at Durban by blocking moves toward climate change fund (anything to get reelected, even the fucking planet)

Hullabaloo What's the matter with Mitt? why so many commentators are unwilling to admit that this is part of Mitt Romney's problem: More than four in 10 American voters say they are uncomfortable with the idea of a Mormon in the White House ... Has there ever been a more fascinating GOP primary? I don't ever want it to end. (if he were Muslim or even Jewish, let alone atheist, they would be all over it)

Ruth Marcus reveals another journalistic value - Salon.com - — extreme deference to those in political power — with a column denouncing Emma Sullivan, the 18-year-old high school student in Kansas who committed the crime of saying something disrespectful about the Hon. Sam Brownback, her state’s Governor ... Marcus — who is married to an actual censor, Jon Leibowitz, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission — is driven more by drooling authoritarianism or gross hypocrisy. The Washington Post Op-Ed page is truly the belly of the beast of America’s rotted media discourse. (truer words ...)
Emma Sullivan Twitter - Here's to Potty-Mouthing, and the Real Lesson for All of Us - Esquire (Pierce AND Glennzilla)

Balloon Juice » Absence of malice I wish that more people would understand that most of the journamlism we see from establishment pundits is baseless musing that only reflects their own world views and life circumstances, and that their world views and life circumstances are very different from those of most middle-class Americans.
Balloon Juice » Oh, for Fuck’s Sake, Millbank Pretending that Frank’s inability to suffer fools gladly has been worse for public civility than Rove’s long campaign against honesty in politics, or embracing our major media’s craven pretense that calling someone a liar in front of a recording device is worse than being a liar, is gutless, dishonest, and behavior unworthy of a well-paid, well-educated individual with the distribution and readership of one of the national papers of record, Mr. Millbank. (record of evil)

The End of Retail Politics? It has been five decades since television began to transform presidential races, but never before have the effects of cable television been so apparent in the early stages of a campaign."
Gingrich Holds Clear Lead Nationally A new Economist/YouGov poll finds Newt Gingrich leading the GOP presidential race nationally with 25%, followed by Mitt Romney at 17%, Herman Cain at 15%, Ron Paul at 9%, Michele Bachmann at 5%, Jon Huntsman at 5%, Rick Perry at 5% and Rick Santorum at 3%

pandagon.net - The GOP wants to take your money and give it to rich people, full stop
Erik Prince, Former Blackwater CEO, Threatens Jan Schakowsky Over Her 'Defamatory Statements' ... Prince's counsel Victoria Toensing (deep in the heart of evil)
Michele Bachmann: U.S. Embassy In Iran (Which Doesn't Exist) Would Be Closed Under My Watch (dumb and dumber)
Scott Walker Recall Effort: Brett Hulsey Releases Ad Featuring Prank Call From David Koch Impersonator
Billy Graham Hospitalized: Pastor Being Evaluated For Lung Treatment at 93 (where's his death panel?)

Duncan Calls for Urgency in Lowering College Costs - NYTimes.com (the whole higher-education system is self-destructing, out of greed, of course)
Charles P. Pierce on the motivations behind the NBA lockout - Grantland Lockouts never are — they're about control (down on the plantation)

Istanbul shows that the Mall can be a vibrant urban space - Greater Greater Washington (doesn't have to be heavily guarded sterile space)

New Hampshire Republicans Fail To Override Governor's Veto On Anti-Union Measure The Republican-controlled New Hampshire House of Representatives failed to overturn the Democratic governor's veto of an anti-union bill on Wednesday. The failed vote is a victory for labor forces who fought a year-long battle against GOP state legislators who sought to make New Hampshire a "right to work" state.
Interracial Couple Banned From Kentucky Church
GOP Sheriff Busted for Trading Drugs for Sex "Patrick Sullivan was the kind of lawman Coloradoans loved: a straight-shooting Republican sheriff ... (wait for it) ... police arrested Sullivan "on charges that he had been trying to exchange methamphetamines for sex with a man.

World's First Sex School Opens But far from being a cheap thrill, one term at the "hands on" International Sex School in Vienna will cost pupils £1,400. Swedish-born "headmistress" Ylva-Maria Thompson says anyone over the age of 16 can enrol at what she describes as "the world's first college of applied sexuality". Students live in a mixed sex dormitory block where they're expected to practise their homework.


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Egypt elections - day two: Tuesday 29 November 2011 | World news | guardian.co.uk Polls reopen after record turnout on opening day
Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequences' over embassy attack | World news | guardian.co.uk Foreign secretary says Tehran breached Vienna convention in failing to protect diplomatic mission
Storming of British embassy in Tehran worsens bilateral relations | Politics | The Guardian ran warned over attack as David Cameron chairs emergency meeting after mob ransacks offices and diplomatic residences
NATO Airstrike In Pakistan: U.S. Suspects Forces Were Lured Into Deadly Raid (changed their story again)
Anders Behring Breivik may avoid jail after psychiatrists declare him insane | World news | The Guardian Norwegian killer of 77 people 'lives in his own delusional universe', say prosecutors
Ecuador: Tungurahua Volcano Active, Government Urges Evacuations
Wadah Khanfar, Former Al Jazeera Director: I Was 'Under Pressure' From Middle Eastern Governments many Middle Eastern governments pressured his network to alter its coverage.

Euro crisis: Italy at risk of insolvency, European finance ministers warned | Business | The Guardian Mario Monti must tackle Italian tax evasion to avoid other eurozone economies being damaged, says report

Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are 'scum of journalism', Leveson told | Media | guardian.co.uk Former News of the World features editor hits out at former bosses, accusing Coulson of introducing phone hacking at paper - "For 21 years you have a culture of illegality of phone hacking and fiddling your expenses and so on. What you have is a future prime minister cosying up and being moulded by the arch-criminal, Rebekah Brooks, the criminal-in-chief." (zing)

US To Pay $2.5M In Photo Editor Robert Stevens' Anthrax Death claiming its negligence caused her husband's death by failing to adequately safeguard anthrax at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md. The FBI probe concluded that Fort Detrick was the source of the spores used in the attacks in New York, Washington and Florida.

Scott Olsen: recovery process has been 'very frustrating' | World news | guardian.co.uk (OWS)

Herman Cain 'reassessing' future of increasingly troubled 2012 campaign | World news | guardian.co.uk Cain tells senior staff he will look at options over next few days in wake of allegations of a 13-year affair with Ginger White
Herman Cain Addresses Affair Allegations On CNN Before Atlanta TV Station's Report "This individual is going to accuse me of an affair for a specified period of time," Cain said after the commercial break, adding that the woman was someone he considered a friend. Cain said there was no sex involved, but added that he would not go into specifics
Ann Coulter On 'Morning Joe': Bleeped Out, Calls Ted Kennedy 'Pestilence' (VIDEO) Ann Coulter was bleeped out several times during a Tuesday appearance on "Morning Joe," after seeming to call John McCain a "douchebag."
Whoopi Goldberg Bleeped Out For Sexual Herman Cain Comment 'The View' (VIDEO) , "as long as you're not boning the country."
Herman Cain 'Reassessing' 2012 Candidacy (another clown falls on his face)
In Stunning Turnaround, Fox Declares Itself "Winning The War On Christmas" | Media Matters for America
Brownback apologizes for tweet flap | CJOnline.com Shawnee Mission East principal Karl Krawitz told Sullivan on Nov. 22 her actions were an embarrassment and recommended talking points for her letter of apology to Brownback.

Mission Not Accomplished - NYTimes.com the real scandal isn’t so much that those banks got rescued as that the rest of the population didn’t. (Obama never gave a shit about anyone else)
How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word - Bloomberg (profit!)
Citi's Mortgage Settlement With SEC Rejected by Judge - US Business News - CNBC "An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous," Rakoff wrote in an opinion dated Monday (Obama wanted it all over)
American Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection | Business | guardian.co.uk World's fourth largest airline says it will honour tickets and reservations as it restructures its debts and costs - the world's fourth largest airline

The Race-IQ 'Blackout' - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic (Andrew Sullivan's favorite dead horse)
Is Non-racial IQ Research Being Strangled? (Andrew Sullivan and "p.c. egalitarianism")
Sullivan: Research Is Not About Helping People
A Reader's Guide to Andrew Sullivan's Defense of Race Science (great writing)
Hadley Freeman: Single women: an American obsession | Comment is free | The Guardian In certain parts of the US, or even just New York, there remains a weirdly monetised and loveless view of marriage. Enough!
Kate Bolick: why marriage is a declining option for women | Life and style | The Observer Approaching 40, Kate Bolick has come to a profound insight: that she – and many women like her – might never marry. But revealing that realisation in an article in an American magazine caused frenzied comment. Here's what she had to say (Oh, I love attention! And I only date men richer than me!)

US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Wisconsin DA charges 6 y.o. boy with felony for playing doctor with 5 y.o. girl (must register as a "sexual offender; Wisconsin Repubicans at work)
The schoolboy blogger who took on a US clinic | World news | The Guardian Rhys Morgan, a 17-year-old Welsh schoolboy, faced down a Texan medical clinic and won after blogging about its unproven treatments


Daily Kos: Congress is close to destroying the internet (no hyperbole)
YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine • The Register pronounced "ya see" - by giving away an open source search engine that can be used both online and within an intranet (intra-net?)
iTunes Match vs. Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive
Groupon Stock Tumbles Below IPO Price (another big-valuation flop; pump and dump by the v.c.s) )
Feds Seize 150 Domain Names In Mass Piracy Crackdown (illegal action by Obama's big-content-owned DoJ)
Facebook, FTC Reach Settlement Over Alleged Privacy Violations regarding the social network's policy on changing privacy controls and informing users of those changes.

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Egypt election: voters defy fears of violence with record turnout | World news | The Guardian Fears of violence and chaos unfounded with no major violations or security incidents reported in first free ballot for over 80 years
China supports Pakistan in row over Nato border attack | World news | The Guardian China says it is 'deeply shocked' by Pakistani soldiers' deaths, as Afghan and Nato officials again say they came under fire first
Iran: explosion in Isfahan reported | World news | guardian.co.uk Widely conflicting reports emerge of apparent explosion in the north-east of Isfahan near where nuclear facilities are located
Syria troops have killed more than 250 children, UN report finds | World news | The Guardian Report to UN human rights council accuses Damascus of crimes against humanity and operating shoot-to-kill policy

OECD: euro collapse would have 'highly devastating outcomes' worldwide | Business | guardian.co.uk Chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan scolds hesitancy of European leaders in grave warning on global economic health (hello?)
OECD chief says European recession can be avoided - report | Reuters An economic recession can be avoided in Europe but resources are needed to calm financial markets ("calm markets" = free money to rich people)
George Osborne's £5bn gamble to stave off recession | UK news | The Guardian Extra £5bn of capital investment to form centrepiece of national infrastructure programme in chancellor's autumn statement
Eschaton: Not Working There isn't even any kind of coherent theory about why shrinking our way to prosperity is supposed to work. But The Very Serious People know what must be done. I'm not sure if it's better or worse that they've decided to spend their time destroying their own countries instead of everybody else's.
OECD: Euro Debt Crisis May Cause Global Economy To 'Face The Worst'
Andreas Georgiou, Greek Statistics Chief, Accused Of Falsifying Data To Make Crisis Look Worse

Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Education Will 'Drive Us Into Class Warfare' former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told CBS's Bob Schieffer that the U.S. public school system is the nation's largest problem (that's an effect, you idiot)

Occupy LA Deadline Passes, Protesters Remain At City Hall Encampment
What DIgby Said: Dehumanization - YouTube
One Percent Supporter Doubts That 'Anyone Great' Ever Came Out Of The 99 Percent (video) (the "filthy rabble")

Barney Frank Will Not Seek Reelection In 2012 (throwing in the sponge; great, now we get the mayor of Newton or something)
Jay Carney On Triggered Cuts To Defense Spending: 'There Is No Wiggle Room' "To suggest that they should undo what they did just a few months ago, to declare to the world as they did when they held this vote on the Budget Control Act -– 'We are going to hold ourselves responsible' -- and then a few months later say 'never mind,' that's not acceptable."
Medicare 'Doc Fix': Congress Faces Decision Before Steep Cuts Take Effect Jan. 1 Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, doctors face a 27 percent cut in their fees for treating Medicare patients. That could undermine health care for millions of elderly and disabled beneficiaries.
Ginger White: Herman Cain And I Were 'Involved In A Very Inappropriate' Relationship - the alleged affair, which she said went on for thirteen years (typical Republican)
Scott Walker Opponents Collect More Than 300,000 Signatures In 12 Days For Recall Election - Walker's opponents -- coordinated by the group United Wisconsin -- need to collect 540,208 valid signatures by Jan. 17
Emma Sullivan Apology: Kansas High School Student Not Sorry About Sam Brownback Tweet (asshole facist Republican tries to suppress free speech)

Things to Tax - NYTimes.com The I.R.S. reports that in 2007, that is, before the economic crisis, the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers — roughly speaking, people with annual incomes over $2 million — had a combined income of more than a trillion dollars. That’s a lot of money, and it wouldn’t be hard to devise taxes that would raise a significant amount of revenue from those super-high-income individuals.
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B - Bloomberg
Days of Decision for Europe | FDL News Desk It’s that they stopped following through when the crisis turned to human beings and not financial institutions, and that they were so generous (to the point of giving free money to banks), that was the big problem (free money for rich people, austerity for you)
Eschaton: What About The Rest Of Us Extraordinary action by the Fed might have been desirable and necessary, but I'm not sure why "moral hazard" is not a concern when it comes to the rich assholes who have the power to destroy the world, but a 10 grand principal reduction on your Uncle Jim's Riverside tract home might destroy the foundation of the market economy.
The Price of Intolerance - NYTimes.com It’s early yet for a full accounting of the economic damage Alabama has done to itself with its radical new immigration law ... Alabama is already at the low end of states in employment and economic vitality. It has long struggled to lure good jobs and shed a history of racial intolerance. (back to slavery; more Southern states scrambling to follow)
Eschaton: But The Law Was Only Supposed To Apply To Brown People You see, you aren't business friendly when you're locking up the people who run the business, only when you're locking up the people who work for it.
Fitch Lowers Outlook On U.S. AAA Credit Rating To Negative
Solyndra Investigator Gary Andres Worked Both Sides Of Loan
Citigroup Settlement Tossed: Judge Tells SEC To Get It Together In a potentially precedent setting ruling on Monday, a federal judge in New York tossed out a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup, effectively telling the SEC -- which is responsible for protecting investors and maintaining fair, orderly markets -- that it isn't not going far enough in holding financial institutions accountable for their wrongdoings.(Obama's patty-cake with banks, while he throws immigrants out of the country)
Larry Summers Denounces Inequality -- But Why? Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, agreed: "My guess is he’s being political here -- he’s trying to go with the tide." (asshole)


Laurie Fine, Bernie Fine's Wife, Also Had Sexual Relationship With Alleged Victim: Report
Castaways Found On Pacific Atoll After 33 Days At Sea

Jill Di Donato: 'Comfort Sex': Is It A Bad Thing?


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Arab League: Syria Sanctions Approved
Syria defiant as Arab League votes for financial sanctions | World news | The Guardian Tanks head to Homs as crackdown continues despite league's landmark agreement that aims to protect ordinary Syrians
Four Farc hostages killed during apparent rescue attempt | World news | guardian.co.uk Colombian government condemns 'crime against humanity' after bodies of men held for up to 13 years are found (imagine waiting 13 years to be rescued and then getting shot)

Egypt's elections are a dangerous crossroads, warns military junta | World news | The Guardian Head of armed forces warns polls must be successfully implemented and issues warning to 'meddling troublemakers' (you know we're in trouble when they use that phrase)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood goes into election full of confidence | World news | The Guardian The Muslim Brotherhood has deliberately steered clear of the latest unrest and may well make big gains in the election

Pakistan orders US to leave airbase in row over deadly Nato assault | World news | guardian.co.uk slamabad says US must leave Shamsi base in 15 days after deaths of at least 24 Pakistani soldiers in mistaken attack
Pakistan may boycott Afghan summit | World news | guardian.co.uk Funerals held for soldiers killed in Nato attack at border post as Pakistan considers staying away from Bonn conference
Nato air attack on Pakistani troops was self-defence, says senior western official | World news | The Observer US-Pakistan relations strained further after attack allegedly kills up to 28 and prompts ban on Nato trucks crossing Afghan border

Looming Congo election sparks deadly violence | World news | guardian.co.uk Rallies are cancelled in Kinshasa and opposition frontrunner is blocked from meeting supporters, with at least two dead
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer accuses the ANC of apartheid-style censorship | World news | The Observer Gordimer said freedom of expression had been "struck out as a danger to the state", under the harsh Protection of State Information Bill
Niall Ferguson threatens to sue over accusation of racism | Books | The Observer Historian claims writer Pankaj Mishra accused him of racism and must apologise or face court action

AFP: IMF readying '?600 bn rescue plan' for Italy (you can see where this is going)

New questions raised over Dominique-Strauss Kahn case | World news | The Observer Journalist's detailed study has unearthed fresh doubts over alleged assault in New York by ex-IMF chief - Records kept by BlackBerry show the device was disabled at 12.51pm, stopping it from sending out signals showing its location. The phone, which does not appear to have left the Sofitel, has never been found. (Sarkozy in the pantry with his wiretap)

US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The Military To Arrest Americans On American Soil And Hold Them Indefinitely | Addicting Info (and take away their clothes)

Occupy Los Angeles Plans To Stay At City Hall, Ignore City Deadline To Vacate
Occupy Wall Street And Homelessness: Millions Spent To Evict Camps, While Cutting Shelter Funds (they are all, in the words of WaPo's Jennnifer Rubin, "filthy rabble")
Emo Prog Turns OWS Into Obama Derangement Syndrome - Noami Wolf is at it again (not to be confused with Naomi Klein of the Shock Doctrine)

Eschaton: Can't Pay Wont Pay When Village elders like David Brooks or similar write their various tributes to the joys of other people suffering in order to purge the nation of its sins, and by sins they mean the Lewinsky affair and not banksters stealing all the money, I think their idea of personal austerity is like cutting HBO from the cable bill or something. They have no understanding of what it might be like to be without a job for years after spending your life living mostly paycheck to paycheck. It isn't about one fewer trip per month to the Outback.

FreakOutNation » Bachmann Says NBC’s Apology for ‘Lyin’ Ass Bitch’ Song is not Good Enough (keep calling attention to that phrase, Michelle)
Newt Gingrich wins New Hampshire Union Leader endorsement | World news | guardian.co.uk Newspaper snubs Mitt Romney six weeks ahead of Republican primary and backs former Speaker of House of Representatives (suck.on.this.Mormons)

The Wipeout Gene: Scientific American A new breed of genetically modified mosquitoes carries a gene that cripples its own offspring. They could crush native mosquito populations and block the spread of disease. And they are already in the air—though that's been a secret
APOD: 2011 November 27 - Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to the Moon

On Contraceptive Coverage, It's Not Up to Obama to Decide What is More "Catholic" | RH Reality Check The President seems unaware of the fact that Catholic disagreement with the ban on birth control goes far beyond the average Catholic layperson. (he acutually seems unaware of a lot of stuff)
Echidne of the snakes - Sure, tell your flocks that women's bodies belong to the church. Don't tell women not in your flocks that their bodies belong to your church.

AT&T withdraws FCC application for T-Mobile merger
Microsoft's Cold Feet Over SOPA Behind BSA's 'Rethinking' Its Views | Techdirt

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Pakistan halts Nato supplies after attack leaves soldiers dead | World news | guardian.co.uk Islamabad issues rebuke to western forces after helicopter attack on checkpoint kills 28 troops
Pakistan NATO Helicopter Attack: 24 Troops Reportedly Dead Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country's northwest and killing 24 soldiers. Islamabad retaliated by closing the border crossings used by the international coalition to supply its troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
Pakistan demands US vacate suspected drone base - Yahoo! News (Obama loves his drones)
Egypt: protests continue in runup to elections – Saturday 26 November 2011 | World news | guardian.co.uk Egyptian activist killed in Cairo
msnbc video: Egypt Update
Syrian military vows to 'cut every evil hand' of attackers | World news | The Guardian Military says it will 'hit back against anything that threatens us' after attacks on elite security forces amid uprising
Iraqi Widows’ Numbers Have Grown, but Aid Lags - NYTimes.com The Iraqi Ministry of Planning estimates that about 9 percent of the country’s women, or about 900,000, are widows. A separate government agency, the Ministry of Women, issued a statement in June putting the figure at one million ... This figure corresponds with conservative estimates of 103,000 to 113,000 Iraqi deaths in the war (Bush/Obama bloody hands)

Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack - Salon.com and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack (how long will it take?)
Wes Clark and the neocon dream - Salon.com we’re going to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years – we’re going to start with Iraq, and then we’re going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.” (when you put insane idiots in charge )
Britain unites with smaller countries to block US bid to legalise cluster bombs | World news | The Guardian Israel, Russia and China along with America wanted to approve use of 'bomblets' that often unintentionally maim and kill civilians (nice company, Obama)
Mona al-Gharib, Wife Of Syrian Dissident, Released After Abduction In Egypt An Egypt-based Syrian dissident said Saturday that his 25-year-old pregnant wife was abducted by Syrian intelligence agents in Cairo, then released and left unconscious on a street elsewhere in the Egyptian capital.
Activists accuse Mexican president of war crimes in drug crackdown | World news | guardian.co.uk International criminal court asked to investigate Felipe Caldéron over killing, torture and kidnap of civilians by army and police (next up: Obama)
How cycling set deprived Indian girls on a life-long journey | guardian.co.uk The number of girls dropping out of school has fallen and the number of girls enrolling has risen from 160,000 in 2006-2007 to 490,000 now (girls riding their bikes to school)

Eurozone May Drop Private Sector From Permanent Bailout Fund Commercial banks and insurance companies are expected to take a hit on their holdings of Greek sovereign bonds as part of the second bailout package being finalized for Athens.
Euro Zone May Free Banks From Taking Bond Losses - EU Business News - CNBC (of course)
Moody's Downgrades Hungary To 'Junk' Status; Government Calls Move A 'Financial Attack'

James Murdoch and BSkyB face shareholder protest vote | Business | The Guardian US-based investors vote against BSkyB's chairman, James Murdoch, remaining in his role ahead of annual meeting

Are Federal Officials Pushing a Nationwide Crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street Movement? | Media | AlterNet There's a lot of speculation, but very little substance to the tale of the "nationwide" crackdown on the Occupy movement.
How Bullshit Magically Turns Into Fact Naomi Wolf wrote a nonsensical piece today that’s being spammed all over Twitter. It asserts that there is a deliberate plot afoot via collusion by the United States Congress, the Department of Homeland Security and our oligarchical overlords to undermine the very populist, leaderless Occupy Wall Street movement
City tells Occupy Philadelphia: Leave Dilworth Plaza by 5 p.m. Sunday | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/26/2011
#OccupySeattle Protester Who Claimed Miscarriage Has Dubious History With The Truth | Crooks and Liars

When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? Some of my Republican friends ask if I’ve gone crazy. I say: Look in the mirror - David Frum (analysis of the recent history of the Insane Party)
Political Animal - Pick a wet blanket Let’s make this plain, shall we? The laws of supply and demand are not subject to a Republican filibuster. The economy is struggling because businesses don’t have enough customers. We have high unemployment and depressed wages, which lead to less demand, slower growth, and fewer new jobs. It’s really not that complicated (they wet their own blanket/GOP meme of the day)

Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan Asked To Sit Out Supreme Court Health Care Case
Virginia’s GOP targets government spending, a key driver of state’s economy - The Washington Post (Republicans at work, killing your economy)
Bob Schieffer, Ron Paul and journalistic “objectivity” - Salon.com CBS News‘s Bob Schieffer is the classic American establishment TV journalist: unfailingly deferential to the politically powerful personalities who parade before him, and religiously devoted to what he considers his own “objectivity,” which ostensibly requires that he never let his personal opinions affect or be revealed by his journalism (bomb, bomb Iran +complicit media)
7 Things Fox Viewers Are Wildly Misinformed About | Media | AlterNet (#1: reality)

Ex-FBI chief named trustee in MF Global bankruptcy | AP | 11/25/2011 (vows not to get to the bottom of scandal)
Eschaton: Convergence: America's Worst Law Enforcement official is in charge of the Penn State investigation and is the trustee for the MF Global bankruptcy. He's found his niche: sometimes people value deliberate incompetence.

Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies - ScienceInsider - The virus is an H5N1 avian influenza strain that has been genetically altered and is now easily transmissible between ferrets, the animals that most closely mimic the human response to flu. Scientists believe it's likely that the pathogen, if it emerged in nature or were released, would trigger an influenza pandemic, quite possibly with many millions of deaths.
The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine Sarcasm seems to exercise the brain more than sincere statements do
The Memory Map: Is it Possible to Chart All the Territory in the World? - Cities - GOOD
Angels: Friend or Foe? | The KoldCast TV Blog 55 percent of Americans – non-religious included – believe that a guardian angel has protected them during their life.

Sandusky lawyer decries media's chilling effect on his witnesses | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/26/2011 - State prosecutors allege that Sandusky, 67, molested at least eight boys he met through the Second Mile, the charity he founded for at-risk youth.

Kan. teen rethinking apology letter to Brownback she has received so much support from around the country that now she's leaning toward rejecting her high school principal's demand that she apologize to the governor in writing. (and then I'm going to sue the shit out of them)
Pathetic blowback from Brownback, school on student's tweet | Midwest Voices - the governor’s staff showed it can use its considerable reach to punish a high school student for speaking her mind. They must feel so good about it.
Clamor erupts over Kan. teen's tweet about gov. - Houston Chronicle
progressive involvement: Free Emma Sullivan! Have these guys ever heard of the Constitution of the United States?

'Choosing to Die': A Sick Sir Terry Pratchett Explores Assisted Suicide - Maria Popova - Life - The Atlantic

Passions Stay High in Kansas Planned Parenthood Case - NYTimes.com - the first such criminal case in the nation, has been treated locally as something of a proxy in the battle over abortion rights (when Republicans run the legal system)
Respect Mah Forced Pregnancy Dickishness | TBogg - Wombless fetus-humper Steve Ertelt is very outraged that Planned Parenthood is providing guidance on how to deal with God-bothering douchebags like Steve Ertelt who like nothing better than to interrupt a perfectly pleasant Thanksgiving dinner conversation ...
Woman given 3-year prison term for lie | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.com A Rankin County mother will serve more time in federal prison for lying on her food stamp application than a group of people recently sentenced in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme (tough on crime asshole judge)

Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown | TorrentFreak With just a few days to go until “Cyber Monday” more than 100 domain names have been taken over by the feds to protect the commercial interests of US companies. The seizures are disputable, as the SOPA bill which aims to specifically legitimize such actions is still pending in Congress (a little law-breaking never stopped Obama from protecting bigcorps)
Give Up, Facebook: You're Not a Mall

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Tahrir Square stands united after week of bloodshed and betrayal | World news | The Guardian Deaths and injuries over past week have served only to harden Egyptian demonstrators' resolve
White House calls for Egyptian military to hand power to civilian regime | World news | guardian.co.uk Washington increases pressure on ruling generals to cede power to civilian government as protests continue in Cairo
Egyptian military defector: 'I saw people dying and the army gave the orders for us to stand and watch' - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Egypt Protests: Thousands Fill Tahrir Square In Cairo For Anti-Military Demonstration
Egypt Elections: Turmoil In Tahrir Square Casts Pall Over Ruling Military Regime, An American Ally (America always supports bloody military dictators in the interests of "stability")
Syrian army shells rebels as Bashar al-Assad given 24-hour ultimatum | World news | The Guardian More than 20 activists reported dead in clashes with security forces as Arab League faces criticism for extending deadline
Photographs from inside the besieged Syrian city of Homs - audio slideshow | World news | guardian.co.uk Photojournalist Mani talks about his experiences documenting the beleaguered city of Homs, which is the focal point of the Syrian uprising
Mexico: 26 Bodies Found In Abandoned Vehicles, Official Says

Cliff Diving in Europe | Mother Jones (proof that the elites have killed their economies with austerity)
Early Warning: European Industrial Orders Cliff Dive in Sep
Krugman: Death By Accounting Identity - NYTimes.com - Martin Wolf has a somewhat despairing-sounding column this morning, in effect pleading with the Cameron government to admit that the laws of arithmetic must apply. Good luck with that ... But even as the intellectual foundations, such as they were, for the austerity plan have been demolished, the plan itself remains unchanged.
Why cutting fiscal deficits is an assault on profits - FT.com
Eurozone looks to IMF as contagion spreads | Business | The Guardian Italian and Spanish bond yields reach new highs • Belgium downgraded by S&P credit-rating agency
European Banks Frantically Trying To Dump $7 Trillion Of Crap Assets -- But No One Will Buy Them
Left, right, left: the changing face of EU politics - interactive | World news | guardian.co.uk (Europe has never been this right wing +Ireland only rightwing forever country)

Is Linda Katehi the right person to be running UC Davis? | 89.3 KPCC - Katehi is Greek and Greece is currently going through a major economics and political crisis. The country has gone so far as to abolish "asylum" on college campuses. Why? (Kathehi wants tanks on college campuses, for "health and safety reasons")
Mark Ames: How UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi Brought Oppression Back To Greece’s Universities « naked capitalism She basically helped undo the very heart and soul of Greece’s pro-democracy uprising against the junta. And perfect timing too, now that one of Greece’s most notorious pro-junta fascists is a member of the new austerity government. (+she lies out of both sides of her mouth)
Daily Kos: Katehi, w/history of scandal, is challenged for independent probe of UCDavis Just before she came to UCDavis, she was at the epicenter of a big scandal at her previous job, called the "University of Illinois clout scandal." Although not formally charged, there are still many questions left unanswered about 'what she knew' and 'when she knew it.'
Linda Katehi - Davis Wiki Regardless of how one might feel about the pepper spraying, I must say that Ms Katehi did a truly inspired job of throwing Chief Spicuzza under the bus for the incident. —JimStewart
Documents Cast Doubt on Chancellor Katehi's Denial in Illinois Scandal
Pepper Spraying Cop (Lt John Pike, UC Davis, famous on the internets for all eternity)

Occupy Wall Street: how protesters made the Zuccotti Park eviction inevitable | World news | guardian.co.uk how it happened and what the protesters might do next
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality
Occupy LA Shut Down: 72-Hour Warning Given To Pack Up City Hall Encampment
Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood | Culture | The Guardian he was just voicing Hollywood's unspoken values

Mitt Romney and Rick Perry accused of blatant untruths about Barack Obama | World news | The Guardian Republican candidates criticised for TV ads that step over line ("blatent untruths" = "baldfaced lies")
Balloon Juice » Bloomberg-Bayh bitches ("3rd Way" "Centrists")
Brownback Complaint About Student Tweet Lands Kansas Teenager In Principal’s Office | TPMMuckraker (no free speech for you, kiddie)
Tatyana Limanova, Russian Newscaster, Fired After Giving Barack Obama The Finger On Live TV Tatyana Limanova, one of Russia's most popular and respected newscasters, has been fired from her job at REN TV, after a video of her appearing to give President Barack Obama the middle finger on live TV went viral on the internet.
Hullabaloo Your Daily Grayson marathon - the 1%. Last time they poured more money into his campaign than they deployed against any other Democrat running for the House anywhere! (dangerous voice must be silenced)

NYT Claims Increasing Bipartisan Support for Plans that Could Raise the Cost of Medicare Policies by Trillion | Beat the Press (vouchers, muhahaha)

Prosecutor: Reagan, Bush not criminally liable - Yahoo! News

Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime
Bernie Fine Investigation: Syracuse Basketball Coach Has Home Searched By Police In Sex Case
Black Friday sales start with pepper spray stampede | Business | guardian.co.uk At least 20 people, including several children, were injured as the woman deployed her weapon (+wtf is it with "deploy" anyway)

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Egypt's generals defy Tahrir protests over elections | World news | The Guardian Military junta have defied their critics and declared that national elections will begin as planned in three days' time
Egypt: American Tear Gas, Policy Loom Over Tahrir Square
Jehane Nojaim, American-Egyptian Film Maker, Arrested In Cairo
Mona Eltahawy Reportedly Detained, Sexually Assaulted In Egypt
Egypt Protests: Court Orders Release Of 3 U.S. Students, Say Egyptian Officials
Iran 'arrests 12 CIA agents' | World news | The Guardian Influential politician says US spies had been gathering intelligence on military units and nuclear activities

France, Germany and Italy squash market hopes of ECB intervention | Business | guardian.co.uk Merkel rules out expanded role for European Central Bank
BBC News - War of words over claim strikes 'could cost jobs' Ministers have clashed with union chiefs over claims next week's public sector strikes could cost the UK £500m and lead to job losses (you know what leads to job losses? austerity, you fucking idiots)
JK Rowling 'felt invaded' at note put by press in daughter's schoolbag | Media | guardian.co.uk Harry Potter author describes press intrusion to Leveson inquiry and says she felt 'under siege' from paparazzi
Murdoch's News Corp accused of trying to bribe Australian senator | Media | guardian.co.uk Federal police investigate Bill O'Chee's claim he was offered favourable coverage if he voted against digital TV laws

Mitt Romney's Immigration Stance Now Clear: Pressure Undocumented To Leave The Country
New Hampshire 'Birther' Hearing: State Attorney General Michael Delaney Calls For Investigation Republican state House Speaker Bill O'Brien cancelled a planned Tuesday meeting between himself and nine Republican representatives who doubt Obama's citizenship because of the pending investigations. He also asked State House security to investigate the incident.
Pro-Recall Group Outs Facebook Page That Boasts About Destroying Signatures - Caledonia, WI Patch One Wisconsin Now calls on all recall supporters to be vigilant, but only one instance of actual recall destruction found (ReThugs at work destroying democracy)
The Umbrella Man - Video Library - The New York Times
Jon Kyl’s search-and-destroy mission - The Washington Post n the days following Hurricane Katrina, the nation was reeling over the death and destruction in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. But Kyl, now the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, saw opportunity: According to a voice-mail recording left at the time by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Kyl and Sessions were hoping to find a business owner killed in the storm so they could use that in their campaign to repeal the estate tax.
TMW2011-08-10colorlowres.jpg (This Modern World: Pres Bi-Partisan Man)
We Will All Be Muslims Before The Niners & Ravens Kick Off | TBogg Insane yenta Pam Geller does not want to wake up Black Friday morning only to find out that everyone in line at Best Buy is now a Jew-hating Muslim looking for an early bird special on a flatscreen TV. How might this happen, you might ask, because you are a reasonable non-insane person?

Occupy Y'all Street: OWS Movement Takes Shape In Gainesville
Militarized to Its Bones – Politics – Utne Reader Though much of the time they are just a few feet apart, the armed state backing that famed 1%, or Wall Street, and the unarmed protesters claiming the other 99% might as well be in two different times in two different universes connected by a Star-Trekkian wormhole and meeting only where pepper spray hits eyes.
These are the Sounds of our Injustice | Politics & Media | splicetoday.com
Editorial: Take this job and ... be glad you have it | StarTribune.com So please, protesting retail workers, stop whining about having to work holiday hours. Be grateful to have a job (die, rightwing Star-Tribune, die)

APOD: 2011 November 24 - Caught in the Afterglow

The Umbrella Man - Video Library - The New York Times - Errol Morris (NTY is telling you not to think of "sinister explanations")

BBC NEWS | Health | Women 'underestimate their sleep' Research suggests older women believe they sleep worse than men - but the reverse is actually true
Meditation Can 'Turn Off' Regions of the Brain - Yahoo! News - f areas of the brain associated with daydreaming and psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia ... This suggests that skilled meditators constantly monitor and suppress the emergence of "me" thoughts and mind wandering

Pluto's hidden ocean the planet-wide ocean would have an average depth of approximately 100 miles (165 km), beneath a crust of ice of the same thickness.

Belgacom ISP Can’t Be Told to Block File Sharing, EU Court Says - Businessweek
In the Open Source Community, the Platform Rarely Matters Anymore | Techi.com (makes no sense; "other" category largest; people downloading huge source to their cellphones?)
AT&T, T-Mobile Deal Faces Collapse (job destroying)
Nokia N9 becomes the best selling phone in Finland for October : Nokia Innovation

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UK incomes fall 3.5% in real terms, ONS reveals | Money | guardian.co.uk Big fall in salaries for average workers and sizeable rises for senior managers, says annual households earning survey (more austerity!)

James Murdoch quits UK newspaper boards - Telegraph James Murdoch has quit as a director of the companies that publish The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Sun.
Leveson Inquiry: live - Telegraph

Katehi: Campus police were told not to use force against students -| Sacramento Bee - Katehi said Spicuzza indicated Saturday that it was Lt. John Pike who decided to use the pepper spray. (just spray them with condiments, she said; the buck always stops at the bottom)

Wonkbook: The GOP's dual-trigger nightmare - The Washington Post
GOP Debate: Romney Aide Struggles To Answer Immigration Question While Attacking Gingrich
Newt Gingrich Falls Into The Immigrant Compassion Trap (VIDEO) | TPM2012 The party that says it’s the party of the family is not going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families who have been here a quarter century.
Romney Ad Exposes Media's Chronic Inability To Use The Word 'Lie' (when it comes to Republicans, anyway)
News Desk: Why Didn’t Reporters Call Romney a Liar? : The New Yorker

Congressional Panel Seeks to Question Corzine - NYTimes.com A Congressional panel has asked Jon S. Corzine to testify about the downfall of MF Global, and the hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money that went missing in the brokerage firm’s final days (yeah, it "went missing" when it "walked out the door")
MF Global Brokerage Judge Backs Giddens’s Caution With Funds - Businessweek (rich people fighting each other)

BBC Nature - 'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic

Penn State Scandal: Mother Of Alleged Jerry Sandusky Victim Claims Mistreatment By Son's School - She also claims that the school's principal tried to convince her and her son not to report their allegations against Sandusky to the police, and that as recently as this month, refused to treat threats of violence against her son by other students as credible. (Central Mountain HS protects pedophiles, lies repeatedly; encourages bullying; whole town should be razed)

Cambridge flouts public records law by denying settlement release - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge Chronicle - The city of Cambridge has violated state public records law by denying Wicked Local Cambridge’s request to release how much the city paid out to settle discrimination complaints by a current and former city employee, according to a guide to public records from the secretary of state’s office and a private attorney who advises on such cases - “The settlement amount constitutes personnel information as to the current and former city employees referenced in the settlement agreement.” (says Healy's lawyer) (hey, Boston Globe, send someone over the river; you thought McLaughlin was bad news)
Details exposed in Cambridge discrimination case - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge Chronicle While the city of Cambridge remains silent on how much it paid out to settle two discrimination cases filed against the city by former city workers, Wicked Local Cambridge has examined the original complaint ... It paints a picture of a city that systematically discriminated against minorities in the city’s upper levels of employment
Cambridge won't release records related to civil rights settlement - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge Chronicle (transparency)
City of Cambridge settles discrimination case with two city workers - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge Chronicle - “It’s up to the citizens of Cambridge and the city government to decide what lessons the city will learn, if any, from this episode.” (Dictator Bob Healy will learn nothing from "this episode")

Texas court suspends judge taped beating daughter - CNN.com (that would be Judge William Adams, child abuser and judge at child-abuse cases)
FBI arrests 7 in Amish haircut attacks in Ohio | AP | 11/23/2011 - Among those arrested were the group's leader, Sam Mullet, and three of his sons
Pa. governor signs 2 more death warrants | AP | 11/23/2011 (Republicans love killing people)

100 Greatest Guitarists: Jimi Hendrix | Rolling Stone

Google+ is now coming to Google News | VentureBeat
Surprise! Microsoft quietly opposes SOPA copyright bill | Privacy Inc. - CNET News

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Tahrir Square crowd rejoins revolution as protesters turn out en masse | World news | The Guardian Egypt is thrown into fresh turmoil as hundreds of thousands of protesters reject the military rulers' promises of reform
Israel preparing for day when it has no relations with Egypt | McClatchy The surreptitious departure of Israel's ambassador from Egypt on Tuesday symbolized to many Israeli officials the new state of affairs between the neighboring countries.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi could be tried in Libya, says ICC prosecutor | World news | guardian.co.uk José Luis Moreno Ocampo says son of Muammar Gaddafi could be tried in Libya as long as trial meets court's standards

Spain Pays More Than Greece to Borrow in First T-Bill Sale Since Election - Bloomberg (kicking out the "socialists" really helped)

Bradley Manning's defence plans to call 50 witnesses | World news | guardian.co.uk Major legal battle pending ahead of next month's pre-trial hearing as aprepare to fight prosecution of WikiLeaks suspect

Leveson inquiry: Coogan claims Andy Coulson set him up in 'sting' | Media | guardian.co.uk Actor says former News of the World editor published details about affair despite assurances from showbiz columnist
Hugh Grant's phone-hacking role is his greatest yet | Film | The Guardian Hugh Grant's appearance at the Leveson inquiry into tabloid intrusion was a bravura performance. Perhaps that is because it came straight from the heart

UC Davis chancellor sorry for pepper spray incident | World news | guardian.co.uk UC Davis chancellor Linda Katehi told the rally: 'I'm here to apologise. I really feel horrible for what happened on Friday' - Katehi left the stage after about a minute, looking shaken, and was hustled by security personnel to a waiting car, followed by the media and a cluster of students yelling: "Don't come back!" (time to look forward, not backward)
Chancellor Katehi’s impressive learning skills - Salon.com - “We need to move on.” So apparently — yet again — the only way everyone can begin to “heal” and “move forward” is if everyone agrees that those in power with the greatest responsibility be fully shielded from any consequences and that their bad acts be simply forgotten (just following Obama's example)
Amazon Users Post Rave ‘Reviews’ Of UC Davis Pepper Spray | TPMDC Fox News has declared pepper spray a “food product, essentially,”
Occupy Seattle protester claims police caused her miscarriage | World news | guardian.co.uk Jennifer Fox, who was pepper sprayed during the march last Tuesday, alleges that police officers hit her twice in the stomach

Why Republicans like Simpson-Bowles - The Washington Post a traditional accounting suggests that the White House’s deficit-reduction offers have been well to the right of the Simpson-Bowles plan (his strategy in a nutshell)
Eschaton: Leeeave Our Poor Military Contractors Alooooooooooone - The issue is, of course, that "defense hawks" and "deficit hawks" are often the same people, and completely full of shit. There is a consistency, however, as both versions of hawkery involve the suffering of others.
Defense hawks insist on sparing military from cuts - Boston.com
Obama Didn't Call Americans Lazy -- But Right-Wing Media Routinely Do | Media Matters for America
Romney Camp Defends Distorted Obama Quote | TPM2012 The ad in question draws from a clip of Obama in 2008 quoting a McCain aide as saying “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” The Romney ad lops off the president’s explanation of the source, presenting it as Obama’s own words.
Pennsylvania GOPers Put Electoral Vote-Grab Plan Back On The Shelf | TPM2012 Republican leaders are backing away from a proposal to split the state’s electoral votes by Congressional districts, rather than the winner-take-all system used almost everywhere else
Newt Gingrich's Cavalier View Of Janitorial Work Challenged By Facts

Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study (which is the whole point)
Personhood 2.0: Georgia Revives Failed Mississippi Measure
Rocrast Mack Murder At Alabama Prison Followed Trail Of Violence By Guards
Corruption in Mexico casinos takes a toll in the U.S., too | McClatchy
McClatchy blog: Suits & Sentences Schuelke recommended against pursuing criminal contempt proceedings because the trial judge had not directly told the prosecutors they needed to follow the law (that makes perfect sense)

Economy grew at modest 2 percent rate in July-September quarter, lower than first estimated - The Washington Post
MF Global trustee says $1.2B or more missing - Boston.com The court-appointed trustee overseeing MF Global's bankruptcy says up to $1.2 billion is missing from customer accounts, double what the firm had reported to regulators last month (into thin air)
$1.7 Billion Customers' Money Missing From MF Global - Forbes (the NYT assured us that it wouldn't be anywhere near 1.2Bn)
Mortgage insurer's cash reserves low – USATODAY.com The government's mortgage insurer is coming dangerously close to holding no excess cash reserves for loan losses (the next big bailout of rich people)
Foreclosure Mill Law Firm Whose Employees Dressed Up as Homeless Will Close | FDL News Desk
Bank Of America Warned By U.S. Regulators It Must Get Stronger


Jerry Sandusky Scandal: Frankie Probst Says Ex-Penn State Coach 'Took A Liking To Me'

The Hachiko Coalition | The Legend of Hachiko - "Japan's most faithful dog"
Loyal Dog In China Refuses To Leave Owner's Grave, Goes Week Without Food


Lieberman Wants Google To Let Users Flag ‘Terrorist Content’ On Blogging Platform | TPMMuckraker

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Egypt Security Forces Beating Video: Tahrir Square Protesters Hit, Dragged By Hair (we thought they were going to say OWS)
CIA Spies Outed In Lebanon: Hezbollah Identifies And Captures U.S. Agents

Bundesbank slashes 2012 German growth outlook - MarketWatch the Bundesbank warned that a "pronounced weak phase" can't be ruled out if Europe's sovereign debt crisis worsens significantly, the report said. The German economy is likely to see rough sailing in coming months as foreign demand weakens, aggravated by turmoil in financial markets, the report said.
Eschaton: This Is How The World Ended I suppose we'll ("we" broadly speaking) hit another crisis point in the not too distant future, when the world is about to collapse and all of the free marketers will inform us that, once again, free money for rich assholes is the only solution.
Expect A Global Recession No Matters What Happens In The Eurozone - Seeking Alpha (austerity is succeeding!)
Fairy Tales - NYTimes.com But how many readers will get that? The way it’s presented reinforces the false notion that the deficit is the problem (Bloomberg at work)

Dean Baker: The Super Committee Should Go Really Big and Turn Against the One Percent

The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying - Salon.com The now-viral video of police officers in their Robocop costumes sadistically pepper-spraying peaceful, sitting protesters at UC-Davis (details here) shows a police state in its pure form (bought with your tax dollars) it really reveals who the actual threats are to public safety — not the protesters but rather those using force against them
The Moral Power of an Image: UC Davis Reactions - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic - "And by the way, when did we accept the idea that local police forces would always dress up in riot gear that used to be associated with storm troopers and dystopian sci-fi movies?"
The Cops We Deserve - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic Those of who've followed police brutality cases over the years will see the pattern at work. When accused of police brutality cops often claim to be endangered, regardless of the facts of the situation.
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade
Balloon Juice » Today’s Fallout Firebreak UC Davis Chancellor Katehi hastily constructs another bullshit moat to help protect herself and her dwindling palace guard:
Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike - Alexis Madrigal - National - The Atlantic Our police forces have enshrined a paradigm of protest policing that turns local cops into paramilitary forces ... 9/11 put the final nail in the coffin of the previous protest-control regime. By the time of the Free Trade of the Americas anti-globalization protests in Miami broke out eight years ago this week, an entirely new model of taking on protests had emerged. People called it the Miami model. It was heavily militarized and very forceful. The police had armored personnel carriers.
xpostfactoid: I record, therefore we are Almost every single sideline spectator captured in the photograph is photographing it (cops still haven't heard of smart-phones)

Balloon Juice » That’s why you will not survive In other words, accurately describing what is going on, that’s opinion writing. Just stating what each believes, that’s journalism (WaPo/Kaplan Test Prep must die)
Balloon Juice » Herman Cain Might Not Accept Medical Treatment from Muslims On Friday, Herman Cain made a campaign stop Cain The Holy Land Experience, a Christian-theme amusement park in central Florida where he intimated that he wouldn’t want a dirty Muslim furriner to treat him for his cancer. You know—because there are Muslim “sleeper doctors” out there trying to kill dumb fucks like Herman Cain:
Newt Gingrich: Child Labor Laws Are 'Stupid' Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called child labor laws "stupid" Friday in an appearance at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Paul Krugman, George Will Bash Newt Gingrich On 'This Week' (KThug: "The Republican base does not want Romney, and they keep on looking for an alternative," he said. "And Newt, although somebody said he's a stupid man's idea of what a smart man sounds like, but he is more plausible than the other guys that they've been pushing up.")
Grover Norquist Addresses Wealthy Progressives For A Know-Thine-Enemy Briefing (impeach the fucker)
Super Committee Member Sen. Kerry: Grover Norquist Is 'The 13th Member Of This Committee' | ThinkProgress
No More Mister Nice Blog The point of the op-ed isn't to express an opinion -- it's to trip Obama and the Democrats up. It's carefully timed to rule the morning political chatter so it can do that. It's not a contribution to the national dialogue; it's a leg extended in the aisle as the bullied kid gets up to walk to the front of the classroom (Hillary for Pres: Murdoch at work)

Brewer Prepares To Reimpeach Election Official Who Was Illegally Fired For Making Arizona Elections Too ‘Competitive’ | ThinkProgress Every single one of the state senate’s 21 GOP senators voted with Brewer to illegally remove Mathis from the commission the first time around.
Scott Walker Recall Activists Become Targets Of Threats, Thefts "They said, 'If you don't stop circulating recall petitions, we will kill you'" (ReThugs at work)

The Richest 0.1 Percent Of Americans Make Half Of All Capital Gains | ThinkProgress

Study rejects faster than light particle finding | Reuters * Scientists say colleagues' findings in error

Balloon Juice » Jerry Sandusky Victim Bullied Out of High School for Snitching Just when you thought people couldn’t be any worse… - Officials at Central Mountain High School in Clinton County weren’t providing guidance for fellow students, who were reacting badly about Joe Paterno’s firing and blaming the 17-year-old - This fealty to the almighty Paterno is more than I can stand. What is wrong with people? (they were all football fans) w
John Baer: Penn State's version of the grassy knoll | Philadelphia Daily News | 11/21/2011 The far-out? Joe Paterno's football "family" whacked a district attorney familiar with allegations against Jerry Sandusky.
Report of 2000 assault at Penn State pool | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/20/2011
Penn State investigator is ex-exec at firm with PSU ties | PhillyDeals | 11/21/2011 ("independent investigation" by deeply compromised Freeh; PsU selects the right guy for the job)
Eschaton: America's Worst Law Enforcement Official Oh, yes, put Louis Freeh in charge
Experts see familiar patterns in Sandusky case | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/21/2011

NJ officer indicted in alleged immigrant shakedown | AP | 11/21/2011 A New Jersey police officer has been indicted on 58 counts for what prosecutors say was a scheme to shakedown Hispanic drivers by threatening to turn them over to immigration authorities.



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Egyptian elections in doubt after violent clashes in central Cairo | World news | The Guardian Several candidates suspend campaigns after army attack on protesters leaves five dead and almost a thousand injured (what revolution?)
Egypt: violent clashes in Cairo leave two dead and hundreds injured | World news | The Observer Egyptian security forces open fire on thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square, leaving two dead and more than 600 injured
Egypt: Cairo protest violence continues – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk Egyptian protesters challenging the country's military rulers clash with police for a second day around Tahrir Square, which was the main site for the demonstrations that eventually toppled Hosni Mubarak
Gaddafi's intelligence chief captured in southern desert | World news | The Guardian Abdullah al-Senussi caught two days after Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's arrest by militia fighters
Abdullah Senussi: Libyan 'executioner' blamed for repression of Benghazi | World news | The Guardian
Syrian rebels attack Ba'ath party offices in Damascus | World news | The Guardian All-out civil war more likely after Free Syrian Army claims responsibility for grenade strike on ruling party's building
Palestinian president to seek unity government deal with Hamas | World news | The Guardian Israel warns Mahmoud Abbas against striking agreement with his factional rival Khaled Mashal at meeting this week in Cairo
Cambodian trial of three Khmer Rouge leaders set to begin | World news | The Guardian UN-backed tribunal into alleged crimes of Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan faces allegations of interference and misconduct

Eschaton: They Aren't "Technocrats" Whatever the word is supposed to mean, "technocrat" is just this year's "Very Serious Person." In another words, just more assholes who like to destroy the world while patting themselves on the back for how brave and smart they are (the "technocrats" are running Europe's austerity program)
BBC News - Spain election: Rajoy's Popular Party predicted to win Counting is under way following Spanish parliamentary elections held in the shadow of a deep debt crisis (meet your new "technocrats")
Spain election: Conservatives set to win landslide victory, exit polls show. - Telegraph Spain’s conservative party were set to win an overwhelming victory as the nation went to the polls to choose a government to steer the country through a looming debt crisis.

Political Animal - Competing, incompatible conversations Democrats have been willing to do just about anything to succeed. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) admitted this morning that super-committee Dems “put every single sacred cow on the table” in order to help reach an agreement, suggesting major entitlement reforms were very much a part of the mix (every Democratic principle sacrificed for Obama's re-election) - Rather, Republicans are desperate to reduce the size of government, and are using a massive deficit — which the GOP is largely responsible for creating — as an excuse to do what they want to do anyway.

US Occupy: officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave | World news | guardian.co.uk YouTube footage from University of California, Davis protest sparks investigation as Occupy protests spread across state (Youtube and Twitter remarkably equalizing forces in the war on fascism)
Too Much Violence and Pepper Spray at the OWS Protests: The Videos and Pictures - Garance Franke-Ruta - Politics - The Atlantic The dousing of seated, non-violent students with a chemical agent at U.C. Davis should provoke a call for restraint. These images show their experience is not unique.
Eschaton: The Worst Person In The World : UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (one of the faces of elite evil)
Eschaton: To State The Obvious If it's ok for police to torture people with pepper spray given the circumstances at UC Davis, it's basically always ok for police to torture people with pepper spray.
26 Arrested Reporters and What They Do | The Awl - Only seven of the 25 arrested are full-time employed traditional news-gathering employees (+NYT elitest hypocrisy)
Occupy the Agenda - NYTimes.com The Occupy protests might have died in infancy if a senior police official had not pepper-sprayed young women on video. Harsh police measures in other cities, including a clash in Oakland that put a veteran in intensive care and the pepper-spraying of an 84-year-old woman in Seattle, built popular support (Bloomberg and his thugs made OWS look good)
The Occupy movement now has its iconic image of martyrdom | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The photograph of pepper-sprayed pensioner Dorli Rainey recreates the image of a humiliated Christ in a modern context
One day after pepper-spraying, UC Davis students silently, peacefully confront Chancellor Katehi - Boing Boing - Chancellor Linda Katehi's walk of shame
U.C. Davis Calls for Investigation After Pepper Spraying - NYTimes.com - “The fact is: the administration of U.C. campuses systematically uses police brutality to terrorize students and faculty, to crush political dissent on our campuses, and to suppress free speech and peaceful assembly. Many people know this,” Mr. Brown wrote. “Many more people are learning it very quickly.”
Armed Occupy Police Scared of Old Lady, Judge and Pregnant Teenager (whoah, Jennifer Rubin actually called them "filthy rabble")

Ann Coulter Kent State - Ann Coulter Needs to Stop - Esquire In case you missed it, disgrace-to-boozy-bar-room-skanks everywhere Annie Coulter has a new book out. Apparently, she was plugging it on some San Francisco radio embarrassment yesterday: "Remember the lesson from my book: It just took a few shootings at Kent State to shut that down for good." This is a vicious evil woman who would sell her grayhaired granny to the Somali pirates for 15 minutes worth of airtime. This is someone who should be shunned, permanently, by anybody with a sense of human decency. What the hell. Even with that, she could still go on Fox.

Daily Kos: Fiscal inequality: Godzilla vs. Ants
New York Times Total Fail Department Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? (Chunky Bobo - Pope Ross Douthat loves his "techocrats" +good comments: "economics now is not even a discipline, much less a science.")

Birth of famous black hole: Longstanding mysteries about object called Cygnus X-1 unraveled - the black hole in Cygnus X-1 is nearly 15 times more massive than our Sun and is spinning more than 800 times per second.

Lily Shreds trailside. Video - Pinkbike.com

Tumblr users fight SOPA with 87,834 calls to Congress | The Digital Home - CNET News (yeah, them too)
How Facebook is ruining sharing | Molly Rants - CNET News

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Free Syria Army gathers on Lebanese border | World news | The Guardian Rebels say conflict is now inevitable – and government forces are hedging their bets
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi Reportedly Captured
Two British terror suspects killed in US drone strikes in Pakistan | World news | The Guardian Pair, both Muslims from east London, believed to have been killed in separate incidents in the South Waziristan region (Obama's drone wars)

Testimony of Torture: Chinese Dissident Exposes Prison Brutality - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Chinese poet Liao Yiwu recently moved to Germany, where his books are best-sellers. His self-imposed exile has allowed him to finally publish his memoir, which reveals the abuses and torture he suffered during his years in prison. The book is a shocking indictment of the Chinese justice system.

What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe - Business Analysis & Features - Business - The Independent While ordinary people fret about austerity and jobs, the eurozone's corridors of power have been undergoing a remarkable transformation (Europe: a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldman-Sachs)
Incredible Europeans - NYTimes.com Unbelievable. Right now, the ECB has too much credibility on the inflation front; the spread between German nominal and real interest rates, which is an implicit forecast of the inflation rate, is pointing to disastrously low medium-term inflation (double-down on stupidity)
Eschaton: Mass Unemployment Is A Small Price To Pay For, uh.. something Basically, the idea is that central banks need to prove the aren't crazy inflation lovers. They do this by proving that they're crazy inflation haters, that they'd kill their mothers, or at least YOUR mother, in order to keep inflation low. This means keeping inflation low even when it's "crazy" to do so. Even if it impoverishes a lot of mothers of people who don't run central banks.

Phone hacking: Steve Coogan compares NI to a 'protection racket' | Media | guardian.co.uk Actor, who will give evidence to the Leveson inquiry next week, says News International uses negative coverage as a weapon

Nevada declares state of emergency as wildfires spread | World news | guardian.co.uk One dead and thousands evacuated overnight as fears mount that flames will spread to heavily populated areas

Elusive Justice: A Nazi Story That Still Surprises | Television Review by Dorothy Rabinowitz - WSJ.com a PBS documentary extraordinary in its detail and revelatory power. It's title, "Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals" (when will this happen in America?)

Supercommittee failure could trigger US credit downgrade, economists warn | World news | guardian.co.uk Economists predict dire consequences if committee fails to reach agreement on how to reduce America's massive debt (which would be cut in half if Obama can bring himself to let Bush tax cuts for the rich expire)
Balanced Budget Amendment Fails In House Vote The latest Republican push for a balanced budget amendment that would force massive spending cuts to the country's social safety net died in the House of Representatives Friday (Republican war on you)
Dems Mock Latest GOP Super Committee Offer | TPMDC Only $3 billion of the total package comes from new tax revenues — ending a tax preferences for owners of corporate jets.
Herman Cain suggests Taliban are playing a role in Libyan government | World news | guardian.co.uk Republican presidential candidate makes mistake while attempting to explain earlier confusion over Libya - Cain's critics seized on Monday's incoherent answer as the latest evidence that he is unprepared to be the party's nominee. (dimmest of the dim, except for La Bachman and Perry)
Herman Cain: Taliban May Be Infiltrating Libya | TPM2012 (across the Libya-Pakistan border )
Newt Gingrich's Business Network Getting Second Look Newt Gingrich calls it giving advice. Most people would call it cashing in on his prominent name.
Rep. Deutch Introduces OCCUPIED Constitutional Amendment To Ban Corporate Money In Politics | ThinkProgress

C-SPAN The Contenders (Michelle Bachman is no Eugene Debs)


Up with Chris Hayes - Exclusive: Lobbying Firm's Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street (video)
Balloon Juice » Occupy’s Friends in High Places Linda P.B. Katehi figured clearing out that peaceful little encampment was important enough to send in armed riot police instead of cutting a deal. For that, she should be fired.
Balloon Juice » Police Pepper Spray #OWS Student Protestors Directly in their Faces at Occupy Davis - The officer who pulled out the pepper spray was Lieutenant John Pike. 530-752-3989 japikeiii@ucdavis.edu (Obama's DHS-coordinated goon-squads)
Arrests Made During Occupy Protest At UC Davis - Sacramento News Story - KCRA Sacramento Demonstrators Told They Cannot Camp In Quad
Police Attack Peaceful UC Davis Students With Pepper Spray | ThinkProgress ani on Nov 19, 2011 at 1:08 pm Bob Ostertag: Militarization of Campus Police Yesterday, police at UC Davis attacked seated students with a chemical gas.
UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute - UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses torture on peaceful students ... . In these budget times, we shouldn't use resources that should be going to our core academic mission going to a tent city." (video) (updates) (torturous assholes)
Hullabaloo Yes of course pepper spray is a torture device (cops knew about court case, ignored ruling +Obama loves torture)
Pepper Spray, Pain and Justice

FDA rules that Avastin should no longer be used to treat breast cancer | World news | guardian.co.uk No evidence patients lived longer or had better quality of life than if they had undergone standard chemotherapy, research shows
'Macho' Guys More Accepting of Safe Sex | Testosterone, Sex Hormones & Behavior | Masculinity, Condom Use & Protected Sex | LiveScience Thus, she said, the "social risk" of insisting on using a condom might require more boldness and confidence than having unprotected sex
Excellent News From Mizzou Researchers: Teenage Girls Do Not Want to Marry Vampires - St. Louis News - Daily RFT The researchers found that early in the series, the predominately female audience was drawn to the traditional, idealized romantic relationship that stresses the importance of abstinence. Breaking Dawn progresses the story into pregnancy and marriage, and many of the fans of the story did not agree with the choices of the main character, Bella.

Marijuana Prosecution Memo From Feds Indicates 999 Plants is Okay, 1,000 is Not - Los Angeles News - The Informer
'Smash and Grab': Property Seized During Dispensary Raids Boosts Law Enforcement Budgets - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly

Conservative Groups Pressure Administration To Restrict Access To Contraception | ThinkProgress (you knew this was coming: the Talibanization of America; Mississippi will declare an un-fertilized egg a "person")
‘Near Poor’ - Not Quite in Poverty, but Still Struggling - NYTimes.com All told, that places 100 million people — one in three Americans — either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it (Republican not finished yet)

Privacy and Security Fanatic: Hacker takes aim at Homeland, posts 'proof' of hacking SCADA for Houston's water supply
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Fourth Amendment's Future if Gov't Uses Virtual Force and Trojan Horse Warrants? Can the government legally deploy malware for eavesdropping and remote searches, in order to investigate and control potential criminal activity? (answer: Obama can do whatever the fuck he wants with the Constitution)

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Egypt and Syria protests - Friday 18 November 2011 | World news | guardian.co.uk Arab League observers "to be allowed into Syria"
Egyptians return to Tahrir Square to protest against military junta | World news | The Guardian Thousands gather for one of the largest demonstrations since Hosni Mubarak was ousted and new rulers took over (military is the same as the old boss)
Egyptian protesters return to Tahrir Square - in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk More than 50,000 people have crowded into Tahrir Square to protest against army rule
Somalia famine eases but situation is still 'fragile' | Global development | guardian.co.uk Food security agencies warn that conflict now threatens relief efforts that have led to decline in malnutrition and deaths

Economists Say Europe Facing 'Lost Decade' - CNBC The austerity measures being rolled out in countries across Europe will have a devastating effect on the living standards of its population, an economist told CNBC Friday (the solution to that is more austerity! +who could have predicted?)
Mario Monti prepares Italy for more pain as violence flares in Milan | World news | The Guardian New prime minister warns that Italians can expect further measures to tackle debt crisis after protesters clash with police
Cameron warned his eurozone stance risks forcing two-speed Europe | Business | The Guardian Angela Merkel wants quick revision of Lisbon treaty to underpin euro and will advise Cameron to table only modest proposals

Phone hacking: Alan McGee says detail in NoW PI's notes is 'frightening' | Media | guardian.co.uk Creation Records founder says police told him that he may have been targeted in 2005 – but believes he was hacked earlier - They had too much information. How the fuck did they get that? It's frightening." (you'll -never- read that in the NYT)

Congress and the Administration Agree: the Government Can Indefinitely Detain US Citizens | emptywheel Dianne Feinstein made this clear in her comments yesterday in the Senate (in which she was reading from a letter SJC and SSCI Democrats wrote) (America now officially a military police-state)
Why We Can't Comment on Bradley Manning | The White House (what Bradley Manning?)

Hullabaloo - Centrist Nuggets - frustrated Americans will eventually say, “Just give us single-payer and be done with it.” I can’t say whether that tipping point comes at 60 million uninsured or 70 million" - Digby: And needless to say conservatives don't want the mandate or single payer and they'll be happy to wait until there are 70 million people uninsured to have the fight again. They want people to barter with their doctors with chickens and shop around for cut-rate angioplasties. Basically, they think that people who can't afford expensive health care don't deserve health care.
Paul Krugman Sends Wonderful Secret Message To 'Centrist Pundits'
Failure Is Good - NYTimes.com You see, admitting that one side is willing to make concessions, while the other isn’t, would tarnish one’s centrist credentials. And the result is that the G.O.P. pays no price for refusing to give an inch.
Thomas Friedman Needs Someone To Help Him Access Widely Available Facts About Politics
David Brooks Is Sad That Obama Didn't Buy Him A Pony
Post Hoc Fallacy Wednesday’s Washington Post deserves some kind of perverse award for advocacy journalism—in this case, for advocating the proposition that dire economic consequences will ensue if the congressional Super Committee fails to cut a deal for drastic deficit reduction. This is, of course, one side of an argument. (the austerity side, of course)
Plan From Toomey, Other Republicans Not a First Step Toward Balanced Deficit Reduction — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Clarence Thomas Assailed For Alleged Ethical Lapses By More House Dems (impeach the lying fuck)
Fox Falsely Dubs Alleged White House Attacker As "'Occupy' Shooter" | Media Matters for America (they "tie" shooter to OWS, report "ties," "respectable" media repeats "ties")
Fox News Calls Would-Be Obama Assassin 'Occupy Shooter' A Day After Authorities Found 'No Connection' To Protests | ThinkProgress
Arizona Supreme Court Overturns Gov. Jan Brewer's Removal Of Redistricting Chair (oh, snap: "gross misconduct" was not agreeing with the crazy lady) )
The Center for Public Integrity: 15 Tea Party Caucus freshmen rake in $3.5 million in first 9 months in Washington
Scott Brown Held Bank Of America Stock While Advocating For Big Banks

Hullabaloo - 99%
Occupy Oakland: footage shows police beating 'peaceful' Iraq war veteran | World news | guardian.co.uk Oakland police investigating after ex-marine Kayvan Sabehgi suffered a ruptured spleen in apparently unprovoked incident - it took hours for him to be taken to hospital, despite complaining of severe pain.
Wall Street Disconnected From Protests It Views As Misguided, Misdirected
FreakOutNation » Police Slam Supreme Court Judge Against a Wall at #OWS New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith (ret) as reported here is the newest notable American whose presence at Occupy Wall Street’s demonstration resulted in police force.

MF Global Is Said to Have Used Customer Cash Improperly - NYTimes.com MF Global improperly diverted customers’ cash for its own use in the days before its bankruptcy, an act that regulators believe may help explain why $600 million of customer funds remains missing, people briefed on the investigation say (the 1% at work stealing your money)
Bernard Madoff fraud 'began 20 years earlier than admitted' | Business | guardian.co.uk Former colleague David Kugel to admit conspiring in Madoff's fraud scheme as far back as the early 1970s

IPCC expected to confirm link between climate change and extreme weather | Environment | guardian.co.uk Report likely to conclude that man-made emissions are increasing the frequency of storms, floods and droughts
Extreme weather will strike as climate change takes hold, IPCC warns | Environment | guardian.co.uk Heavier rainfall, storms and droughts could wipe billions off economies and destroy lives, says report by 220 scientists ("socialist science" say Republicans, who recommend more austerity!)
Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment | Science | guardian.co.uk Finding that contradicts Einstein's theory of special relativity is repeated with fine-tuned procedures and equipment
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spies Sand Dunes Shifting On Mars
Active formation of /`chaos terrain/' over shallow subsurface water on Europa : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Training in 'concrete thinking' can be self-help treatment for depression, study suggests ... Concreteness training can be delivered with minimal face-to-face contact with a therapist and training could be accessed online, through CDs or through smartphone apps.

Bernie Fine Scandal: Jim Boeheim, Syracuse Basketball Coach, Issues Statement Of Support On Thursday evening, ESPN reported on an active investigation into accusations of child molestation against assistant Syracuse basketball coach Bernie Fine

Is pizza a vegetable? Well, Congress says so | Lizz Winstead | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk What does childhood nutrition matter next to the frozen food industry's wishes? Just don't ask what the pepperoni's made of (Republicans pass law declaring pizza a vegetable)
Inmates In Private Georgia Prison Charged Five Dollars Per Minute For Phone Calls (privatization is the solution for everything!)
Joe Scarborough: Mika Brzezinski Is Pro-Life (staunch Republican is pro-life and Morning Joe is a liberal show)

Calif. Teacher With Porn Sites Gets Put On Leave after school officials said she was maintaining a pornographic website from her school-issued laptop computer.
Natalie Wood Case Reopened By LA Detectives (PHOTOS)

Burning Man's New Ticket Policy Draws Ire From Festival Regulars For the first time in its 25-year history, Burning Man -- the all-inclusive music and arts fairyland that pops up in Nevada for a week each August -- ran out of tickets.
Calif. Teacher With Porn Sites Gets Put On Leave after school officials said she was maintaining a pornographic website from her school-issued laptop computer.

Norway Cyberattack: Country Hit By Major Data Theft Data from Norway's oil and defense industries may have been stolen in what is feared to be one of the most extensive data espionage cases in the country's history, security officials said Thursday (China)
Google Music vs. iTunes Match: First Round Knockout For ... Google Music - What seemed like a bargain a week ago, iTunes Match at $24.99, now seems like an outrage. Such is the fast-moving world of competitive tech. Simply put, iTunes Match either has to drop its price to free or offer an all-you-can-eat option like Spotify to justify its price and make it seem attractive next to Google.
Google Graveyard Spooks Customers - Why Microsoft - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Galaxy Nexus Ad Shows Off Android's Most Exciting New Features (video) CNET called the design "sharp" and the 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED Screen "gorgeous".
Kindle Fire Price: IHS Report Finds Amazon Selling Tablets At A Loss costs $201.70 to make, a research firm said Friday. That's $2.70 more than Amazon charges for it.
The web's worst passwords – are you forever changing yours? | Money | guardian.co.uk Thinking of a new password can be a nuisance, and all too many people end up with the same one – as a new survey found

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Syria crisis: Assad given three days to end bloodshed - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Arab League offers surprise reprieve to Bashar al-Assad
Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's US ambassador, offers to resign | World news | The Guardian Ambassador made the offer over a letter supposedly sent to the US military requesting help after the killing of Osama bin Laden

Spain's prime minister pleads for help from EU and ECB as yields climb | Business | The Guardian Zapatero: 'This is why power has been transferred to them'
Osborne to miss deficit target as UK economy stalls and unemployment rises | Business | The Guardian Eurozone crisis hits home as Bank of England cuts growth forecasts and makes grim predictions of a weak recovery (austerity killed their economy, so ... more austerity!)
Pain. But no gain. - Home News - UK - The Independent Unemployment hits 2.6 million, Bank of England slashes growth forecast – and Osborne will have to raise borrowing to even higher levels than Labour planned - figures slipped out by the Treasury revealed how the Chancellor's deficit reduction plan has been blown off course by anaemic growth levels and high jobless figures. Labour claimed the pain of £40bn of cuts and tax rises had not been worth it (ya think?)

Phone hacking: Sun's former head of features sues News Corp execs | Media | guardian.co.uk Matt Nixson seeks £100,000 in damages after being abruptly fired from his job on 21 July
Leveson inquiry: tabloids accused of blackmail and bullying | Media | The Guardian Popular press hound victims to satisfy an insatiable public appetite for salacious gossip in the pursuit of profit, hearing told
Phone hacking: NI asks judge to strike out exemplary damages claims | Media | guardian.co.uk Publisher's lawyer seeks to avoid punitive fines in civil actions brought by Steve Coogan, Sky Andrew and other victims

Janus Forum - Should the US Legalize Drugs? on Vimeo

Political Animal - Don’t just do something, sit there It may seem unsatisfying, but if policymakers simply leave the status quo in place, and let nature take its course, taxes will return to Clinton-era rates, the Affordable Care Act will save us a lot of money, and the deficit will shrink considerably ... “a surefire way to cut $7.1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade.” The GOP voted for this. The party has nothing to whine about now (whine they will)
Obama never secretly killed the public option. It’s a myth. - The Plum Line - The Washington Post . If you want to blame someone for killing the public option, blame marginal Democrats, who opposed it, and marginal Republicans (especially Olympia Snowe), who initially backed a version of the bill with the public option before deciding that pretty much all of Obamacare was unconstitutional (Queen Olympia at work)
Still Not Done Arguing Yet | The New Republic d since it's my last couple of days at TNR, I may as well go out in a blaze of hippie-punching. Democratic message consultant Drew Westen, whose New York Times cri de coeur of liberal frustration gained wide acclaim despite, or perhaps because of, its massive factual and historical errors, has another piece responding to your truly.
A plain blog about politics: The NYT Should Be Ashamed of Itself (Again) I have no idea why the Times thinks it's a good idea to harm its reputation by giving this guy a regular slot, but it's just awful (Bill Keller still at work)

Pelosi To Hensarling On Medicare: You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me! | TPMDC Republican Super Committee co-chair Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) who on Wednesday said Democrats would have to agree to dramatic steps — such as partially privatizing Medicare — before Republicans would agree to substantial new tax revenues.
Bachmann: It ‘Would Be Absurd’ To Get Waterboarded To Prove It’s Not Torture | TPM2012 (it's not torture, it's just "uncomfortable" and she won't tolerate that)
Herman Cain Cancels Interview After Making Unusual Requests [UPDATE] Union Leader publisher Joe McQuaid told The Huffington Post that "no reason was given" for the no-camera request and he "was a bit surprised" by it. So far, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum have all met with the Union Leader and allowed C-SPAN to tape the newspaper interviews for broadcast (runnin' scared)
Cain: ‘We Need A Leader, Not A Reader’ | TPM2012 Herman Cain has a new response to the media fallout over his bungled answer about his Libya policy (less reading! so you won't know how dumb I am)
Political Animal - Quote of the Day “We need a leader, not a reader.” (turns out it's a line from the Simpsons Movie) Of course, Herman Cain makes George W. Bush look like Stephen Hawking (that's not a bad quote either)
Herman Cain’s unconventional approach (and why it’s not working) - The Washington Post
Michele Bachmann: revenge of the also-ran | Paul Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The Minnesota congresswoman's online ad attempts to cast her GOP rivals as crazy losers. Does that remind you of anyone?
Newt Gingrich And His Many Loves (slideshow)
Perry Lashes Out at Banks in New Hampshire Stop - NYTimes.com "A high IQ does not necessarily make a good president. I'll take a C student from Texas A&M whose done a bang-up job in his state," Murch said. (well, Heather, he did, by selling off the whole thing +NYT deluding you)
Livewire | TPM “Monday, I’m going to be in Portland in the morning, visiting some of our labs in California in the afternoon, that’s two…I can’t remember what the third thing is.”
Livewire | TPM As a result, current governor Deval Patrick has no electronic record of any Romney administration emails, and has been unable to satisfy requests for records from the four year period from 2002-2006 that Romney served as governor (illegally wiped)
US politics live: Prop 8, GOP nomination and the supercommittee | World news | guardian.co.uk California's supreme court advises that supporters of the Prop 8 ban on gay marriage can continue courtroom battle

OWS-inspired activism - Salon.com The reason the U.S. has para-militarized its police forces is precisely to control this type of domestic unrest, and it’s simply impossible to imagine its not being deployed in full against a growing protest movement aimed at grossly and corruptly unequal resource distribution.
Hullabaloo - LRAD - Ear Splitting Pain Compliance Device" Police departments should not be using weapons built for the military on civilian protesters," said Witold Walczak, legal director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania "As this case shows, the LRAD cannot be controlled to prevent serious harm to innocent bystanders. Collateral harm to innocents may be justifiable in wartime, but not to quell protesters who overturned a couple of trash dumpsters." (dissent is terrorism)
Occupy Wall Street Violence - This Cannot Be the Way Occupy Ends - Esquire There is no excuse for the militarized assaults on the various encampments around the country earlier in the week. Hell, there's not excuse for the kind of militarized police forces we have in this country, period.
Occupy Wall Street Plans Largest Protest Ever; Can the Movement Last? - ABC News
This Is What Revolution Looks Like | Common Dreams
Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns
Occupy Cal Draws Thousands: Supporters Crowd Sproul Plaza For Robert Reich Speech (photos)
Occupy Wall Street Two Month Anniversary: Protesters March To NYC Financial District, Plan Day Of Events
Occupy Wall Street Divided - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/16/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central Samantha Bee visits Zuccotti Park to report on class division within the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Why the supercommittee is deadlocked, in two sentences - The Plum Line - The Washington Post 1) Republicans believe that the better policy outcome would be for the wealthy to pay less in taxes towards deficit reduction. 2) Democrats believe that the better policy outcome would be for the wealthy to pay more in taxes towards deficit reduction.
With MF Global Money Still Missing, Suspicions Grow - NYTimes.com Judge Martin Glenn asked a lawyer for the trustee if he knew whether customer money had been mingled with company cash, a major violation of Wall Street rules and a potential explanation for the shortfall. The trustee’s lawyer, James Kobak of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, replied: “I don’t think anybody knows the answer.” (the money just walked out the door on its own, apparently)
John Stoehr: Occupy Wall Street Evicted by $174.5 Million Subsidized Firm
Newt Gingrich Long Advocated Home Ownership Push Prior To A Reported Freddie Mac $1 Million Payday ("advise" = do nothing)
Government Closes Internet Anti-Foreclosure Scams Tied To Google Internet scam artists who had been paying Google to run ads making bogus promises to help desperate homeowners scrambling to avoid foreclosures (just the free market operating in the opportunity Obama left for them, hey, job creation!)
Nevada Attorney General Robo-Signing Indictments | The Big Picture The indictment alleges that these crimes were done in secret in order to avoid detection. The fraudulent NODs were allegedly forged locally to allow them to be filed at the Clark County Recorder’s office on the same day they were prepared.
As Graduates Move Back Home, Economy Feels the Pain - NYTimes.com - It’s a phenomenon that John Maynard Keynes referred to as the “paradox of thrift”: Saving is good for the individual, but en masse can hurt the economy by reducing demand (Obama loves "deficit reduction" and hates jobs for anyone except bankers and lobbyists)

Unraveling how a mutation can lead to psychiatric illness - MIT News Office MIT neuroscientists show that a gene linked with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder impairs early brain development.
Women And Prescription Drugs: One In Four Takes Mental Health Meds - slightly more women use ADHD medications as adults than men (also, anti-psychotics)

Mike McQueary Police Report: Penn State, Local Police Have No Record Of Sandusky Report From McQueary

Roy Egan, Former O'Hare TSA Agent, Fired Over Repeated Anti-Muslim, Racist Facebook Remarks (video)
Julio Artuz, 15-Year-Old Special Needs Student, Records Teacher Verbally Abusing Him (video)

Avaaz - Save the Internet
SOPA, The Internet Censorship Bill, Was Lauded By Both Parties In Key House Hearing , the legislation looks certain to pass by a landslide.

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Syria crisis: Arab call to work with the west for diplomatic solution | World news | The Guardian Britain and France preferred partners in a Libya-style 'contact group' to co-ordinate policy, but no question of military action
China uneasy over US troop deal in Australia | World news | The Guardian Beijing fears a policy of encirclement as Barack Obama announces plans to station 250 troops in northern Australia from next year (why Obama won't give up his Japanese bases)
Hamid Karzai tells loya jirga: no US military pact until night raids cease | World news | The Guardian Afghanistan president outlines conditions for continued presence of US troops, saying Kabul wants national sovereignty (indeedy)

Eurozone crisis: New Italian government announced - 16 November 2011 | Business | guardian.co.uk The Bank of England is blaming the eurozone crisis for much of the UK's economic woes (having just cut its 2012 UK growth forecast to 1%) (couldn't have been their own fucking austerity)
Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits | Society | The Guardian People taking up work experience places – providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour – face losing benefits if they quit (young people new slave class)

Leveson inquiry: lawyer claims mother of Hugh Grant's baby was threatened | Media | guardian.co.uk Lawyer claims mother received menacing phone call when actor appeared on Question Time discussing phone hacking

Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned | World news | guardian.co.uk Critics say bureau is running a sting operation across America, targeting vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots (see all the fake terrorists we've caught; more perversion of justice by the Obama DOJ)
White House bullet: shooting suspect arrested in Pennsylvania | World news | guardian.co.uk

Harry Reid: Grover Norquist Is Thwarting Super Committee Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blasted anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist for meddling with the panel's progress and suggested that the American public "impeach" him (good line, Harry)
Congress’ approval problem in one chart - The Washington Post (Congress less popular than Communism)

Rick Perry's New Ad: 'Obama's Socialist Policies Are Bankrupting America' (video)
Newt Gingrich, Intelligent But Unelectable? Power Outsiders Ponder (they are all fucking unelectable)
Pat Buchanan Somehow Connects Sandusky Case To "Homosexual Marriage" | Media Matters for America (making sense was never a requirement)
Howard Kurtz Takes His Whistleblowers at Their Word - Esquire one of creepy-peepy James O'Keefe's operatives is spilling the beans to Howard Kurtz that Andrew Breitbart's personal Bill Sykes is a fraud and a bit more creepy than even I'd imagined,

America's 'Brain Drain': Best And Brightest College Grads Head For Wall Street
Fewer Americans Living In Middle-Class Areas As Country Divides Between Rich, Poor: Study

Eschaton: Reasons to Cheer - It's been almost two years since the "deficit pivot." Please, somebody, tell the people in charge that nobody cares about the damn deficit. They will say they do in correctly worded polls, but they don't care. They care about jobs and having money in their pockets. If the economy sucks they imagine the "deficit" is somehow to blame, because that's what NPR tells them every day.

Daily Kos: Bam! Manhattan Borough President to Mayor Bloomberg: "Zuccotti Park is not Tiananmen Square" | #OWS (Bloomberg: "where are my fucking tanks?)
Occupy Wall Street live: protesters regroup after eviction | World news | guardian.co.uk Some protesters are gathering at Zuccotti Park this morning as planning continues for a 'day of action' on Thursday. Occupy Wall Street has said it will shut down Wall Street and occupy the subway.
99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement | Animation | World news | guardian.co.uk (good infographics)
Hullabaloo Oh. Homeland security AND the FBI (Obama ordered crack-down on OWS via "Homeland Security" and the FumblingBumblingIncompetents)
Update: 'Occupy' crackdowns coordinated with federal law enforcement officials - Minneapolis Top News | Examiner.com
Bloomberg Lied: Thousands Of OWS Library Books Missing, Feared Destroyed

Cohan: Tiny Rule Change at Heart of MF Global Failure - Bloomberg (just a little favor to our financial buddies that let them use customer money in the casino)
NY Fed to Raise Margin Requirements on Mortgage Securities - CNBC A dealer may need to put up $25 million in cash collateral for an MBS transaction of $1 billion, according to the paper (and that would be ... 2 whole fucking precent)
JPMorgan Joins Goldman Keeping Italy Derivatives Risk in Dark - Bloomberg
Auditor Says F.H.A. Could Need Bailout - NYTimes.com (instread of making AIG and the bankers pay and giving homeowners relief, Obama bought all the shitty debt that Greenspan and the Republicans created and now we have to bail out Fannie, who could have predicted?)

Scott Walker's New Jobs Plan: Abstinence-Only Education | Mother Jones Previous attempts at teaching Wisconsin students "the skills necessary to remain abstinent" have failed spectacularly (sex-obsessed Repubicans double-down on failed policies)
Sabotage? Caledonia Man Claims He, and Others, Plan to Shred Signed Walker Recall Petitions - Caledonia, WI Patch Facebook and Twitter are abuzz about plans to undermine efforts to collect 540,000 signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker. One Caledonia resident says those efforts are real (they always cheat)

Jon Stewart Rips Jerry Sandusky On 'The Daily Show' (VIDEO) "You can't even bring yourself to lie emphatically," Stewart said. "'Good God no! Sexually attracted? I'm not!.' It's like in that phone conversation, your actually fighting the urge to come clean."
Bob Costas On Jerry Sandusky Interview: 'Very Strange' (VIDEO) He also said that former coach Joe Paterno's inaction surrounding Sandusky could not be "explained satisfactorily."
Corbett approved $3 million grant for Sandusky charity | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/16/2011 Gov. Tom Corbett this summer approved a $3 million state grant to The Second Mile, the charity founded by suspected child molester Jerry Sandusky, despite knowing about the sex abuse investigation that later resulted in charges against Mr. Sandusky (you don't say and that would be Republican Gov Corbett)
Newjudg New judge assigned to Sandusky case | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/16/2011 The case previously had been assigned to District Judge Leslie Dutchcot, who donated to The Second Mile in 2009. Dutchcot released Sandusky on $100,000 unsecured bail (the whole system protects child rapists)
Paterno, up for $500K pension, sells house to wife for $1 | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/16/2011
Corbett defends handling of Sandusky investigation | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/16/2011 - The investigation - which began in 2008 while Corbett was serving as Attorney General ... Why did it take so long for investigators to make an arrest?
McQueary: 'I did stop it' | Philadelphia Daily News | 11/16/2011 "I did stop it, not physically . . . but made sure it was stopped when I left that locker room," (didn't call the cops and then they started the coverup)

Major storms could submerge New York City in next decade | Environment | guardian.co.uk Sea-level rise due to climate change could cripple the city in Irene-like storm scenarios, new climate report claims (Bloomberg will escape by helicopter)
Scientists find evidence for 'great lake' on Jupiter's moon Europa, potential new habitat for life discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Insane Guitar Skills "Passionflower". - YouTube
Female Musicians Never Get Laid | Nerve.com

Sopa condemned by web giants as 'internet blacklist bill' | Technology | guardian.co.uk Google, Twitter and eBay say controversial Stop Online Piracy Act would give US authorities too much power over websites
Stop Sopa now | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The Stop Online Piracy Act will kill online innovation and serve the interests not of ordinary web users but a corporate cartel (computer-illiterate, Obama has always hated the internets)

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Syria's 'bloodiest day' leaves scores dead - Middle East - Al Jazeera English At least 70 people reportedly killed over past 24 hours, as Turkey's prime minister says Syria on a 'knife edge'
Thai Hackers Adapt Vehicles and Buildings to the Flood - Steve Daniels - Technology - The Atlantic
Palestinians protest 'racist' bus policy | World news | The Guardian Israeli authorities accused of operating a policy of racial segregation similar to that in the American south in the 1960s

Eurozone crisis: Italian bond yields hit 7% again on 'most worrying day' - 15 November 2011 | Business | guardian.co.uk
Merkel Urges Political Integration to Stabilize Euro - NYTimes.com (Smerkle at work)

UK border checks were waived for travellers in private jets, emails reveal | UK news | The Guardian Leaked documents show extent that checks on European visitors were relaxed under 'pilot scheme' authorised by Theresa May (laws for you, and laws for them)
Prince Harry warned over 'fornicating' in Christian US town - Telegraph The mayor of a US town where Prince Harry is staying during helicopter training has warned him to be on his best behaviour with its young women

Leveson inquiry: NoW owner disputes 28 staff commissioned phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk News International's barrister asks inquiry to check counsel's statement and admits hacking could have continued after 2007
Phone hacking: Will the Queen drop scandal solictors Farrer & Co? - Telegraph Buckingham Palace declines to comment on whether it will retain Farrer & Co, which acted for the News of the World.

NYC Judge Says Occupy Protesters Can Come Back And Bring Their Tents (tells Bloomberg to go fuck himself)
NYPD defy supreme court over clearance of Occupy Wall Street | World news | The Guardian Protesters accuse New York police of inciting violence by disobeying restraining order preventing further evictions
Michael Bloomberg's health and safety arguments weak, say lawyers | World news | guardian.co.uk New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to break up the Zuccotti Park camp on health and safety grounds draws criticism
Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park eviction - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk ore than 200 arrested mayor Bloomberg defends action
Police Oust Occupy Wall Street Protesters at Zuccotti Park - NYTimes.com Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday defended his decision to clear the park in Lower Manhattan that was the birthplace of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, saying “health and safety conditions became intolerable” in the park where the protesters had camped out for nearly two months.
Occupy Wall Street: New York Police Department Evicts Protesters, Clears Zuccotti Park
Bloomberg On Occupy Wall Street Eviction: 'The Final Decision To Act Was Mine' (Michael Assad Bloomberg)
Occupy Wall Street 'Media Blackout': Journalists Arrested, Roughed Up, Blocked From Covering Clearing
Zuccotti Park Eviction: Court Order Against City Says Protesters Can Return With Tents In Tow the injunction prevents the city from enforcing park rules on Occupy Wall Street protesters.
Eschaton: Alternative Reality It's almost needless to say, but if a bunch of TeaBaggers settled into a park somewhere to protest Kenyan Muslim Socialism then things would be playing out a bit differently. Brooks and Gerson would be writing regular tributes to these heroic Americans who represent the best of us. Nightly on the NewsHour they'd remind us that it had been "X days since President Obama refused to give in to their demands" no matter how kooky or nonexistent those demands were. And, no, the cops would not have gone in and started bashing heads.
Inequality and Occupy Wall Street 4: daddy put you in the top 1% ! « milescorak

Wonkbook: What to watch in the ‘supercommittee’ - The Washington Post So this is the final countdown. And as of now, the supercommittee isn’t even close (Obama and his idiot advisors at work)
What the Defense Department Wants For Christmas | Popular Science Military dreamers unleash their latest wishlist
Obama golfs with friend who was arrested in prostitution sting - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Political Animal - When Scott Brown gets nervous - Brown has been a key Wall Street ally in the Senate, forcing the chamber to weaken several provisions of last year’s reform package, and being rewarded with generous campaign contributions from the financial industry
Republican 2012 candidates debate and Barack Obama just smiles - Roger Simon - politico.com
Obama calls waterboarding 'torture' - disputing Republican presidential candidates who say they would reinstate the practice
Flashback of the Day (Ali G and Newtie)
Gingrich Scrutinized "If the press decides to pursue the angles, there could be six Newt enterprise/investigative pieces a day. If the Romney campaign decides it wants to take Gingrich down, there could be eight."

Krugman vs Summers: The debate | Felix Salmon - Krugman, by contrast, sees political gridlock as far as the eye can see, and says that it doesn’t matter how innovative or philanthropic or demographically attractive the U.S. is — if you don’t fix the magneto, the car won’t start, and America’s magneto ain’t gonna get fixed any time soon.
Timing questions emerge on MF Global customer cash shortfall | Reuters MF Global executives told regulators they believed a shortfall had somehow occurred (we wish $600M would "somehow" fall into our bank account)
Federal Housing Administration running low on cash: report | Reuters The Federal Housing Administration's cash reserves have dropped so low that there is a close to a 50 percent chance it could run out of funds and may require a taxpayer bailout next year

Jerry Sandusky Interview: I 'Horsed Around,' Touched Kids (video) (and raped them in the butt)
Jerry Sandusky lawyer: alleged rape victim denied grand jury testimony | World news | guardian.co.uk Asked if he is a paedophile, Sandusky said: "No."
Balloon Juice » Don’t Let the Healing Begin Almost 10 more victims have come forward in the last few days. As more victims look for justice, we will have months of discovery and years of lawsuits. We’re going to learn how two institutions took an eyewitness account of child rape, which is incredibly rare in child abuse cases, and used weasel words and willful ignorance to bury it.
Charles P. Pierce on the brutal truth about the crimes at Penn State - Grantland The problem can't be solved by prayer or piety — and it's far more widespread than we think By Charles P. Pierce

1 in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030 - Boston.com
Mind Reading: What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex – TIME Healthland
2011 Global Gender Gap Report: The Best (And Worst) Countries For Women

US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America | the agile panda
Facebook Porn and Gore Exploit Spiraling Out Of Control | ZDNet For the past few days an exploit has been hijacking Facebook users accounts and posting explicit gore and pornography to users’ timelines.
Don't Censor Censorship Opponents: Let Us Testify! | Demand Progress The House is holding hearings on sweeping Internet censorship legislation this week -- and it's censoring the opposition! The bill is backed by Hollywood, Big Pharma, and the Chamber of Commerce, and all of them are going to get to testify at the hearing ... But the bill's opponents -- tech companies, free speech and human rights activists, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users -- won't have a voice.

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US officials worried about security at London 2012 Olympics | Sport | The Guardian US plans to send 500 FBI agents to protect its athletes as organisers admit underestimating number of security guards needed ... American officials have expressed deep unease that the UK has had to restrict the scope of anti-terrorism "stop and search" powers (not enough of a police-state for Obama)
Syria's Assad should step down, says King Abdullah of Jordan | World news | The Guardian Jordanian monarch is first Arab leader to call for Bashar al-Assad to give up power after bloody protest crackdown
Israeli secret service the Mossad linked to Iran military blast | World news | The Guardian Israeli media report claims the Mossad was behind 'huge blast' at Bid Ganeh base that killed leading Iranian missile researcher
President Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Military Option in Iran - Fox News (the only things he's ruled out are your civil rights and any penalties for criminal bankers)
China: Google Earth spots huge, unidentified structures in Gobi desert - Telegraph Vast, unidentified, structures have been spotted by satellites in the barren Gobi desert, raising questions about what China might be building in a region it uses for its military, space and nuclear programmes.

Italy's borrowing costs at highest level in euro history | Business | guardian.co.uk Despite raising €3bn of debt at auction, Italy agrees to pay five-year bonds at 6.29%, up from 5.32% in a month
Eurozone crisis: Merkel says Europe faces toughest hour since WW2 - live | Business | guardian.co.uk
Banks Outline Exposure to Euro Zone - WSJ.com Questions About Hedges Fester as Firms Detail Exposure

Phone hacking: Tom Watson seeks legal advice over alleged surveillance of MPs | Media | guardian.co.uk Labour MP pulls out of editors' conference over claims that News International investigators targeted select committee members
Phone hacking: 'nearly 30 NI staff named in Glenn Mulcaire notes' | Media | guardian.co.uk Leveson inquiry hears details of investigator's work for News of the World, and suggestion he may have worked for Daily Mirror

Tom Coburn: $30 Billion In Millionaires Aid Is 'Sheer Washington Stupidity' Millionaires are receiving billions in taxpayer-funded support every year that helps them pay for everything from child care to bad debts to boats and vacation homes, according to a report released Monday by Sen. Tom Coburn.

Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student? (Berkeley cop brutality and historical context including Reagan)
Militarising the police from Oakland to NYC - Opinion - Al Jazeera English If the infrastructure of a police state is created, it's only a matter of time before those aggressive powers are used.
Occupy’s Asshole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old Hippie | Nicole Sandler - Radio Or Not
Occupy Oakland: demonstrators prepare for police action – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Protesters in Oakland brace themselves for police action following the eviction of Occupy demonstrators at the Portland. Follow live updates here
Violent fringe threatens to fray Occupy cause – usatoday.com (you know, the cops)

Obama Health Care Law Reaches Supreme Court, With Over Five Hours Of Oral Argument Planned
'60 Minutes' Hit On Boehner, Pelosi Falls Short
Political Animal - If it’s Sunday, it’s ‘Meet the GOP Talking Points’ for the media establishment, polls trump facts every time ... I expect this on Fox News. “Meet the Press” is supposed to have higher standards. (your media is Republican and shitty)
Herman Cain Stumbles On Libya Questions (video)
Gingrich Tells Workers at West Des Moines Insurer He Can Take the Heat - Marion, IA Patch (the last one out of the clown car)
GOP Debate: Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman Cemented As Foreign Policy Outliers "Yes, torture is illegal," Paul responded. "Waterboarding is torture. And it's illegal under international law and under our law. It's also immoral."
Doonesbury Strip on voter suppression
The Maddow Blog - Atlas shrugged it off (File under "whoops.") Describing it as a tale of "self-sacrifice" is something akin to describing Sicko as a clarion call about the dangers of the social safety net.
McCain chides Republican candidates on 'torture' - Yahoo! News (torturing means your troops get tortured, duh)
Balloon Juice » Our Awesome Meritocracy - Chelsea Clinton: Maybe she can do a roundtable debate show with Luke Russert and Meghan McCain as the other panelists. All I have to say is I hope I am dead before the Trig Palin Power Hour Comes to Fox News.
America’s meritocratic, watchdog news media - Salon.com
Balloon Juice » Deep thought Republicans want a champion and not some good-enough milquetoast. The Republican base has cornered the market on stupid people who are easy to manipulate, so loopy carnival acts who dial the batshit up to eleven have a built-in advantage. The problem, of course, is that a circus has to keep moving. It is now more or less mathematically proven that someone who gets the base hot and bothered cannot survive more than a month in the spotlight.

Victor Zuckerman, Sharon Bialek Ex-Boyfriend, Talks Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Herman Cain (big surprise, Cain lied)
Herman Cain Stumbles On Libya Questions (flop-flop)

Not-So-Super Committee Seriously Considers Becoming A Circular Firing Squad | Capital Gains and Games And the most inane, stupid, absurd, remarkable thing about this is that the definitely-not-super committee will claim that this make-someone-else-do-the-hard-work-later process complies with the legal requirement to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion (all this so Obama can keep the Bush tax cuts from expiring and fixing the deficit)
Crunch Time On Super Committee As GOP Goes Silent, Even On Tax Increases | TPMDC
Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes - NYTimes.com (like, to never)
MF Global clients cry foul over JPMorgan tactics in bankruptcy recovery - NYPOST.com
THE CONGRESS INSIDER TRADING SCANDAL IS OUTRAGEOUS: Rep. Spencer Bachus Should Resign In Disgrace Rep. Bachus made more than 40 trades in his personal account in the summer and fall of 2008, in the early months of the financial crisis.
Congress slashes financial watchdog - David Rogers - politico.com In a blow to Wall Street reforms, President Barack Obama’s budget request for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be cut by more than a third under a House-Senate conference report which the Appropriations leadership expects to file Monday night

Researchers solve a protein complex's molecular structure to explain its role in gene silencing a super-compressed form of DNA called heterochromatin
Stroke at 22: Honoring the lessons 20 years later - CNN.com
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS on Vimeo
'True 3D' Display Using Laser Plasma Technology #DigInfo - YouTube

Cannabis crackdown threatens legal trade in medical drugs | World news | guardian.co.uk Federal prosecutors target legal marijuana trade despite Obama's liberal stance on medical use of cannabis (what liberal stance? you mean when he was running for office? Obama hates all drugz, even if you're dying)

Penn State sex abuse scandal could very well widen | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/14/2011 It is difficult to believe Paterno knew nothing of Sandusky's alleged sick proclivities before 2002. It is simply not credible that the Penn State defensive coordinator was the subject of a lengthy police investigation in 1998 and Paterno never got a whiff of it (was Second Mile Sandusky's private pedophile farm?)
Second Mile chief resigns; charity hires Lynne Abraham | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/14/2011
Taxpayers cutting Sandusky a big check | Philadelphia Daily News | 11/14/2011 continues to draw a $58,898 annual pension from the State Employees Retirement System. What's more, the paper said that Sandusky received a $148,271 lump-sum payment from the system when he abruptly retired in 1999, not long after an early botched probe into alleged sexual abuse by the onetime heir apparent to football legend Joe Paterno.
Penn State scandal will prompt bills on reporting child sex abuse, lawmakers say | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/14/2011 legislation requiring any adult with knowledge of a sexual assault on a child to immediately report it to police
Penn State scandal: head of charity founded by Sandusky resigns | World news | guardian.co.uk The group's chief executive for 28 years resigns just over a week after the arrest of the former Penn State assistant coach (pedophile ring will be sued out of existence)
A Patriot-News Special Report: Who knew what about Jerry Sandusky? There were many missed chances to investigate as early as 1995 | PennLive.com
Penn State Scandal: Leslie Dutchcot, Judge Who Granted Jerry Sandusky Bail, Is Second Mile Volunteer (the whole state is complicit)
Eschaton: Powerfully Stupid Shit - What happened here was that David Brooks sat down and thought to himself, "how can I blame liberals for what happened at Penn State, but in a subtle way" Even Pastor Chunky BoBo didn't really go there.

As Small Towns Wither on Plains, Hispanics Come to the Rescue - NYTimes.com (oh, the irony)

Wikipedia Language Maps Created By Oxford Internet Institute's Mark Graham
Zero Geography: Mapping Wikipedia's augmentations of our planet
xkcd: Map Projections

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Syria calls for emergency Arab League meeting over suspension | World news | The Guardian Bashar al-Assad's regime demands talks after 22-state regional body announces that it will suspend country amid growing violence
Israeli ministers accused of trying to muzzle critics with funding curbs | World news | The Guardian Senior cabinet members have approved a bill limiting foreign donations to political not-for-profit organisations ... The bill was drafted after groups funded by foreign sources gave critical testimony on the conflict to a UN commission (Israel hates the truth)
Brazil troops and police raid Rio shantytown in clean-up drive | World news | The Guardian Special forces launch pre-dawn assault on Rio's Rocinha favela as part of drive to clean up 2016 Olympic city

Mario Monti heralds new era for Italy as Berlusconi bows out | World news | The Guardian President urges country to unite behind new leader as outgoing prime minister says he will continue to be a force (they love their morons)
China threatens US with new debt downgrade | Business | The Guardian Head of ratings agency issues warning in TV interview
Standard & Poor's shoots France in the head, then says it's sorry. Time for a duel. | MyFDL In the U.S. we’ve already seen the damage wrought by the three Stooges, Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch’s.

Bachmann: Obama Ending Iraq War Is Desecration Of American Dead | TPM 2012
GOP Candidates Split Over Torture | TPM 2012
Political Animal - Republicans return to the torture ‘debate’ - There’s a deep strain of ugliness in Republican politics in 2011, and it appears to be getting worse.
Republican Debate South Carolina - S.C. Debate: The Ultimate Waterboarding Championship - Esquire - Perry: He was clear, precise, and totally batshit: "Waterboarding is not torture... and I'll be for it until the day I die." This is precisely, and in every respect, the position taken by several Japanese military officers in 1945. They felt exactly the same way, which is why we fucking executed them. (Pierce is one of America's great writers)

| God Knows How to Pick 'Em This year, we have no less than four God-called GOP candidates for president, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), (Mrs. Perry agrees) and now Herman Cain. So far (so is God stacking the deck, or what?)
After Mitt Romney Deal, Company Showed Profits and Then Layoffs - NYTimes.com
The Fake "War On Christmas" Campaign Begins | Media Matters for America (wingnuts at work)
Challenges Rouse Defenders Of Marriage Act : NPR : When the law passed 15 years ago, not one state recognized same-sex marriage. Six do so now, as well as the District of Columbia (haters fight back)

Oligarchy Is the Politics of Wealth Defense by the Richest | Firedoglake Of particular note in this crowd is Adam Davidson, of NPR’s Planet Money. He claims that taxing corporations is a bad idea (NPR flacking for the rich)

Could graphene be the new silicon? | Science | The Observer
BBC News - 'Smog-eating' material breaking into the big time titanium dioxide

Families say Sandusky had free rein | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/13/2011"> "I didn't even know he was leaving the school with my child," the mother said. "I didn't know he was taking him out of classes. They never told me that." ... Between January 2008 and July 2009, Sandusky called Victim One 118 times, the report said ... officials at Central Mountain High School urged her to think twice about how she wanted to handle the situation, "how that would impact my son," she said (it would be worse than being raped 118 times, apparently; the school was completely complicit as well as the cops and everybody else)
The Jerry Sandusky Rape Case: The History of the PSU Cover-up, Part III | Angry Black Lady Chronicles

A Small Town, Almost Waterless, Takes a Big Gamble - NYTimes.com (Texas dries up)

Biting, Groping Vampire Woman Terrorizes Convenience Store "We have no pattern of vampires in the area," Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson told News 9. "This is highly unusual, highly bizarre."

Mother Accused Of Forcing Her Young Daughter To Pose Nude On Skype | Radar Online Ann Lussier, 41, from Attleboro, Massachusetts is accused of making her child strip in the hopes of winning a $20,000 mother-daughter bikini photo shoot.
Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On | TorrentFreak (Obama hates open internets)
Has the spam problem been solved? - Computerworld Don't look now, but spam and telemarketing calls have been reduced to the point of irrelevance. What happened?
RIAA: Google Refuses to Remove “Pirate App” from Android Market | TorrentFreak

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Syria suspended from Arab League | World news | guardian.co.uk Member states agree to exclude Syria and impose sanctions over its failure to end government crackdown on protests
Japan Fukushima Reactor: Eight Months After Nuclear Disaster, Plant Remains In Shambles
North Korea’s Other Weapons Threat | The Diplomat International attention is usually focused on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. But Pyongyang’s growing chemical and biological weapons capabilities are worrying Seoul.

The human toll of the U.S. drone campaign - Salon.com
The drone mentality - Salon.com (Obama loves killing children)
U.S. takes the lead on behalf of cluster bombs - Salon.com Slightly more than two months after he was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama secretly ordered a cruise missile attack on Yemen, using cluster bombs, which killed 44 innocent civilians, including 14 women and 21 children, as well as 14 people alleged to be “militants.”
When war kills at home - Iraq war - Salon.com

Roy Greenslade Tells Media Matters Radio : "Every Single Member Of The Parliamentary Committee Investigating [Phone Hacking] Were Followed By Private Eyes And/Or Members Of [ News of the World ] Staff" | Media Matters for America

Silvio Berlusconi to bow out after Italian MPs vote for savage cuts | World news | The Observer Parliament approves stimulus measures demanded by EU as president prepares to nominate Mario Monti as next PM
Eurozone crisis will hit UK hard, warns Cameron | Business | The Guardian Markets settle after good news from Greece and Italy, but Osborne describes situation in Europe as 'dangerous'
European Turmoil Could Slow U.S. Recovery - NYTimes.com
China threatens US with new debt downgrade | Business | The Guardian Head of ratings agency issues warning in TV interview • Fears of renewed budget deadlock in Washington

1% Is A State Of Mind | Firedoglake Republican MI-SEN candidate Clark Durant. In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should “go find a job.” In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, “I think it should be wider.”
Youtube Video Exposes Dallas Cop To Be A Liar | Pixiq Officer Jimmy Hollis claimed that activist Stephen Benavides had assaulted him, starting a mini-riot in which eight people were arrested, including some who were pepper sprayed (Youtube catches another out-of-control copster)
Occupy St. Louis Evicted & Raided by Police | The Dissenter
Occupy movement plans spring offensive as momentum stalls | World news | guardian.co.uk After eight weeks of dramatic growth, organisers consider how to sustain the protest movement through winter
Hullabaloo - Asymmetrical Violence (OWS linking arms is "waging war" on America)

Obama Warns Super Committee Co-Chairs Not To Change Triggers In Deal a lot of chatter on the Hill about changing the parameters of the trigger currently in place so that the cuts to the defense budget -- that would be made a year after the committee fails to reach a deal, should it fail to reach a deal -- would be softened.
Mitt Romney forges ahead weakened campaign field | World news | guardian.co.uk As Rick Perry and Herman Cain continue their public turmoil, Romney tries see momentum through to a nomination
Perry vs Perry: Rick’s Ultimate Reel | TPM 2012 (Republicans love dumb)
Herman Cain: Politico Tried To 'Bait Us Into Saying Something'
Rachel Maddow: Herman Cain Lawyer's Comment 'Shocked' Me (Video) Lin Wood, Cain's defense attorney, said that any new women who are thinking of coming forward with allegations against the candidate should "think twice" before they do ... a recent statement by Cain that, "for every one person" accusing him of sexual harassment, there were thousands of people not accusing him of sexual harassment. It was, she noted, "not a great defense."
Indecision 2012 - Mercy Rule Edition - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/10/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Recall Organizers Plan Rally at Walker's Wauwatosa Home - Wauwatosa, WI Patch
Scott Walker, Wisconsin Governor, Cancels GOP Fundraiser Appearance Amidst Protest, Recall Plans (runnin' scared bully-boy?)
Ad By Crossroads, Karl Rove's Outfit, Yanked Off Air For Being False (UPDATE) Nate Hodson of Crossroads said in defense of the pulled ad, "It was a very small cable system. The four largest broadcast stations in Montana reviewed the facts supporting the ad and will continue airing it." (Satan lies; most don't care)
An Iowan robocall provides insight into the skewed worldview of anti-gay activism. Do the people behind this call know you don't have to be married to have sex? Not even in Iowa. Not even in the butt. The number of "homosexual sex acts" prevented by banning gay marriage probably hovers around zero
Ed Schultz Talks to USPS Letter Carrier Who Was Screamed at By Rep. Joe Walsh | Video Cafe the Republican Party "thinks public jobs are disposable and not worth anything." (creepy little bully)

The 421a Tax Exemption - Don’t Say You Didn’t Know - NYTimes.com (rich New Yorkers might have to pay real estate taxes: waaaaahhhhh)
Wells Fargo takes heat over investments in private prison industry | The Raw Story Wells Fargo is one of the largest investors in Geo Group, Inc. — the second largest private prison company in the world contracted by state and federal government agencies. The group spends millions lobbying for stricter immigration enforcement.

The States Doing The Most (And Least) To Spread The Wealth: 24/7 Wall St.
Texas History Education Standards Receive Dismal Reviews In Recent Report

Letter: Amtrak is Right! Kids are Unsafe on Trains « FreeRangeKids (people allowed to "get on and off" trains!)
Eschaton: I Guess We'd Better Put Metal Detectors In The Malls It's always interesting (and other things) to see where people imagine there must be TSA-style security and where they don't. For some the presence of strangers seems to be enough, I guess. I really don't understand. And trains are foreign and scary, or something.
ACLU Raises Privacy Concerns Over Confiscated Student Cellphones - Orange County News - Navel Gazing
Texas judge has visits with daughter limited - Yahoo! News Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams is forbidden from visiting his 10-year-old daughter without getting permission from the girl's mother, his ex-wife. The order also says Adams can't disparage the woman or drink alcohol within 24 hours of seeing his child.
Swapping chicken pox-infected lollipops illegal - Yahoo! News a multi-state ring of parents, wary of vaccinations that prevent the disease, who were swapping lollipops licked by a sick child in a modern day incarnation of a chicken pox party (Jenny McCarthy at work)

British and American English: Americanisation survey: the results | The Economist
Babies Don'T Feel Pain: A Century Of Denial In Medicine
Obese monkeys lose weight on drug that attacks blood supply of fat cells

Football is NOT an Absolute Monarchy | Crooks and Liars When universities become so dependent on athletic departments for their very existence, to the point where nothing – nothing – seems vile or heinous or repugnant enough to shake that iron grip, then there is something desperately wrong with American universities
Ray Gricar, Missing Pennsylvania DA, Opted Not To Prosecute Jerry Sandusky (then "disappeared without a trace" ... buried under the goal posts?)

Hollywood's New War on Software Freedom and Internet Innovation | Electronic Frontier Foundation No longer content to just blacklist entries in the Domain Name System, this version targets software developers and distributors as well. It allows the Attorney General (doing Hollywood or trademark holders' bidding) to go after more or less anyone who provides or offers a product or service that could be used to get around DNS blacklisting orders.
Facebook and Privacy Don't Mix Well | PCWorld

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UN vote on Palestinian state put off amid lack of support | World news | guardian.co.uk Palestinians to decide whether to press statehood issue after mustering only eight of nine votes needed to win approval
Syria faces suspension from Arab League | World news | guardian.co.uk Member states to discuss further action against Damascus at Egypt summit after failure of earlier deal to end bloodshed
Malaysian states to punish homosexuality | World news | guardian.co.uk Gay Muslims could be punished under both federal and state laws as a result of planned changes
Dominique Strauss-Kahn linked to French prostitution scandal | World news | The Guardian Former IMF chief implicated in investigation into alleged pimping at luxury hotels in northern France
China cracks down on media use of the internet for stories | World news | guardian.co.uk Journalists banned from reporting any information taken from web or mobile phones without being verified first (by the "authorities")

US court verdict 'huge blow' to privacy, says former WikiLeaks aide | World news | guardian.co.uk Decision made to open Twitter account of Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, who is taking the case to the Council of Europe - Birgitta Jonsdottir: How the US Justice Department legally hacked my Twitter account (as we know, Obama hates your privacy)

News of the World lawyer Tom Crone expected to face censure | Media | The Guardian Parliamentary committee likely to characterise James Murdoch as ill-informed rather than mendacious (see, he didn't lie at all)
What James Murdoch said … and what he really meant | Media | The Guardian Decoding the key phrases used by the chief executive of News Corporation as he was questioned by MPs

WaPo Ombud In Alleged E-Mail: If Jen Rubin Retweeted Post About Killing Israelis, 'It's Quite Possible' She'd Be Fired | ThinkProgress
WaPo Approved! : Lawyers, Guns & Money (with links for context)
Hope You Like My Genocide | TBogg For the record this is the blog post Rubin approvingly retweeted, written by Rachel Abrams (wife of murder/rape-loving Elliott Abrams, daughter of Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz, and step-sister to John Podhoretz. Yeah. They’re like a kosher Manson family):
Patrick Pexton Wants To Hang On To His Fake Job | TBogg
Why the Washington Post won’t fire Jennifer Rubin - Salon.com

Eurozone crisis: markets rally as Papademos is sworn in and Berlusconi's departure nears | Business | guardian.co.uk Austerity measures passed in Italian senate
Italy May Need to Exit Euro: Roubini - CNBC Roubini argued that with yields on its sovereign debt hovering around the 7 percent mark, market access may become limited for Italy.
George Osborne urged to scrap top rate of income tax | Politics | guardian.co.uk City figures say move would help protect Britain's economy from fallout of eurozone crisis (more tax cuts for the rich who caused the problem! more austerity for their victims!)
AFP: Spain's feeble recovery falls flat before election Spain's feeble economic recovery petered out in the third quarter of 2011, official figures showed on Friday, stoking recession fears just nine days before a general election (austerity causing recession; the solution is more austerity!)

To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan - NYTimes.com
Taiwan Animators Freak Out Over NYT Proposal For US To Abandon Taiwan - It is kind of funny/terribly depressing that America’s total disdain for democracy is now so blatant that the Paper of Record can propose that Washington trade “the only democracy in the Chinese-speaking world” for a 10% reduction in America’s outstanding Treasury bonds.

Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community So, it costs 32 times as much to house an inmate at Guantanamo Bay ($800,000/year) than it does to house them in a federal prison ($25,000). So, why don't we double Guantanamo like Mitt Romney once suggested? Or, more seriously, why don't we close the goddamned disgraceful facility and have the collective courage to act like we believe in our system of justice? The administration is still trying to talk reason to Congress, but it's hopeless.

Over The Top Blackadder Goes Fourth Final Scene - YouTube

Five Reasons Why Veterans Are Part Of The 99 Percent | ThinkProgress
Eschaton: No, Tax Expenditures Will Never Go Away If we agree to scrap some stuff that benefit middle class people in exchange for scrapping some stuff that benefits rich assholes and corporations, next year the lobbyists will be back. And who has the better lobbyists?
Super Committee Democrats Propose Scrapping Bush Tax Cut Debate In Exchange For Billions In Revenue (the sham game: Obama always planned to keep the Bush radical wealth distribution cuts)

Herman Cain’s Junk Is Now A “Stimulus Package” | TBogg After silver-tongued legal minx Gloria Allred called Cain’s actions a “stimulus package” (whoa, snap)
Romney Spit-Balls His Way To Privatizing Veteran’s Benefits | TPM 2012 (that worked so well for Italy)
Rick Perry's Brain Freeze - NYTimes.com ("liberals" come out to defend Perry's lack of a brain)
Even The Yelp App Is Mocking Rick Perry | TPM 2012

Herman Cain’s accusers agree to joint news conference - The Washington Post (snip, snip)
video: Herman Cain -- Ready To Be Commander-In-Chief? | ThinkProgress

Conservative Investors Sue Over Sham Tea Party TV Network | TPMMuckraker (the frauds defrauded each other)

UC cops' use of batons on Occupy camp questioned "The individuals who linked arms and actively resisted, that in itself is an act of violence," UC police Capt. Margo Bennett said. "
Colin Powell: Occupy Wall Street Demonstrations Are 'As American As Apple Pie'

Why Americans won't do dirty jobs - Business - US business - Bloomberg Businessweek - msnbc.com Crackdown on immigrants leaves business owners struggling with shortages (they're taking away jobs Americans don't want! who could have predicted that?)
In MF Global's Wake, Regulators to Audit All Futures Firms - NYTimes.com
update 4-MF Global fires brokerage staff en masse | Reuters 1,066 brokerage workers terminated - after bad bets on European debt under former CEO Jon Corzine's leadership.
Corporations Hate Regulation, Until They Love It | Mother Jones

The defeat of personhood in Mississippi shows how empty a term "pro-life" really is. the polls were evenly divided on the issue, but then the pro-choicers won handily, 57-43 percent. The numbers lead to the unavoidable conclusion that not only did all the undecided voters break for the pro-choicers, but at least some people who said they were voting for the bill lied to pollsters, or changed their minds at the last moment (anti-choice culture enforces agreement)
Three Generations, Two Comfy Homes a Few Steps Apart - NYTimes.com “It’s much better than being alone, with a cat,” Ms. Whittaker said. “As nice as cats are.” (local McMansion laws make it difficult to care for your grandmother)
Ohio Sheriff: Latest Amish Haircutting Victim Attacked By His Son | TPMMuckraker

Pa. troopers interview two new accusers in Penn State sex scandal | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/11/2011
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community - On Unhappy Valley
Mike McQueary Not Coaching Penn State-Nebraska Game After Receiving 'Multiple Threats'
Anti-gay filth beyond belief: Public radio host Warren Olney uses Penn State scandal to debate whether gays are fit to raise kids | Pam's House Blend (the worms crawl out; PRI spewing this stuff)

Pristine Big Bang gas found › News in Science (ABC Science)
The Fading Line Between Robots and Humans | GlobalPost
Here's what made those brown eyes blue - Health - Health care - More health news - msnbc.com A team of scientists has tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. The mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, so before then, there were no blue eyes.

Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's officially dead (Obama has always hated the internets)
8 Year Old Girl Prank Calls Demolition Company | EgoTV ("do you want it blown up, or knocked down?)

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Thailand’s floods: Rising damp | The Economist Waters threaten the capital, the economy and the new government - Over 400 people have died and about 1.6m hectares (4m acres) are now under water. South-East Asia’s second-largest economy has been battered
Rescuers search for survivors in Turkish earthquake rubble | World news | The Guardian Dozens may be trapped in wreckage of 5.6-magnitude quake in Van that has killed at least seven
Russia rejects further sanctions of Iran over nuclear programme | World news | The Guardian Moscow wary of moves towards 'regime change' after IEAA report, effectively guaranteeing a muted international response (as neo-cons try to ramp up bombing talk because Israel wants it)
Hamas support on the wane amid crackdowns on political dissent | World news | guardian.co.uk Prisoner swap boosted popularity but disillusionment grows over corruption and focus on conflict with Israel rather than jobs
Palestinians may push for UN vote they expect to lose | World news | guardian.co.uk Palestinians may demand vote on UN membership to force other countries to publicly justify their refusal of support
US 'kill team' trial: jury considers Calvin Gibbs verdict | World news | guardian.co.uk Staff sergeant, 26, alleged to have recruited other US soldiers to murder Afghan civilians after he took command of army platoon
Criminal charges filed over New Zealand mine disaster | World news | guardian.co.uk The charges relate to safety and health violations at the Pike River mine where an explosion killed 29 miners last year
Failed Afghan road project shows pitfalls of U.S. efforts | McClatchy (down the drain)

Eurozone Crisis Deepens Amid Fears Italy May Need A Bailout That Europe Can Not Afford
Heard on the Street: Don't Bank on ECB Rescuing Italy - WSJ.com

Phone hacking: James Murdoch questioned by MPs - as it happened | Media | guardian.co.uk James Murdoch says wider evidence of phone hacking at News of the World was not given to him by Colin Myler and Tom Crone in May 2008 • Murdoch stated he has never seen the 'for Neville' email • He described Myler and Crone's testimony as 'misleading' • Crone has issued a statement describing Murdoch's evidence as 'disingenuous at best', while Myler has said he stands by his account
James Murdoch claims truth about phone-hacking was hidden from him | Media | The Guardian War of words erupts as two ex-News of the World executives, Colin Myler and Tom Crone, refuse to take the blame (Satan's spawn digs in)
News International 'fully admitted' liability for email hacking | Media | The Guardian NoW accepted liability over allegations from Sienna Miller which included that her private emails had been opened
Phone hacking: James Murdoch accuses Myler and Crone | Media | guardian.co.uk Murdoch claims former News of the World editor and senior lawyer did not tell him phone hacking went beyond single reporter in 2008
Can you really believe James Murdoch's hacking story? | Media | guardian.co.uk - What kind of company boss is that fails to show any curiosity about a massive payment in controversial circumstances? A deceitful one or an incompetent one?
Explosive Tom Crone statement « National News Blog “It is regrettable, but I can perfectly understand why James Murdoch felt the need to discredit Colin Myler and myself. “The simple truth is that he was told by us in 2008 about the damning email and what it meant in terms of wider News of the World involvement.

We Party Patriots » Blog Archive » Get a What? A Job? 70% of Occupy Wall Streeters are Employed, Compared to 56% of Tea Partiers (44% of Teapartiers probably on welfare or other big gov support)
Occupy World: Chileans take to the streets | GlobalPost When OWS began in Chile, a homegrown movement had already taken off.

Health Law Probably Safe As (Another) Conservative Jurist Affirms | National Memo | Breaking News, Smart Politics "After Bush v. Gore, the most overtly political decision in Court's history, the Court suffered zero dip in the public's mind," Feldman said. "If Kennedy wants to strike down the health care law, he's not going to worry the Supreme Court's legitimacy is in question."
Border Patrol Searches Faulted in New Report - NYTimes.com “The data paints a disturbing picture of an agency resorting to mission creep in order to increase arrest rates, without regard for the costs and consequences of its practices, including to its own mission to protect the border,” the report concludes.

Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Two Pieces Of President Obama’s Jobs Bill | TPMDC (those would be "modest" pieces)
Watch Jim Cramer’s Craziest Debate Moments | TPM 2012
Herman Cain incorrectly suggests China doesn't have nuclear capability - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Herman Cain 'Princess Nancy' Pelosi Remark Draws Laughs At GOP Debate (video)
Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Allegations Brought Up At GOP Debate (Republicans love sexual harrassment)
Rick Perry Jeopardizes Campaign With 'The Stumble' . "So Commerce, Education, and, uh, the uh, um, um."
The Morning After: Rick Perry Tries To Put A Bright Face On A Walk Of Shame Through TV Land | TPM 2012
Richard Nixon: D.C. Socialite Wasn’t Made Ambassador Just Because She Had ‘Big Bosoms’ | TPMMuckraker (Perle Mesta)

Keystone XL pipeline: US government set to pursue new oil sands route | Environment | guardian.co.uk Obama administration expected to bow to public pressure and look to move pipeline away from environmentally sensitive areas

Occupy U.C. Berkeley Protesters Face Violent Confrontation With Campus Police (video)
Big Banks Plead with Customers Not to Move Their Money | The Big Picture
Judge in Citigroup Mortgage Settlement Criticizes S.E.C.'s Enforcement - NYTimes.com the judge homed in on the issue of banks who settle with the S.E.C. and pledge to not violate the securities laws, yet repeatedly do so. Why then, Judge Rakoff asked, had the commission not brought any contempt charges against large financial firms in the past 10 years? (because their dick is up Obama's ass)

Heavy Meth Use Linked to Schizophrenia - Yahoo! News It also confirmed previous research showing a possible link between marijuana dependence and schizophrenia.
EEG shows awareness in some vegetative patients - Health - CBC News Study using EEG opens new opportunities for communicating, researchers say

My Parents Were Home Schooling Anarchists - NYTimes.com
Sherman's Demons - NYTimes.com Yet, as few Americans know, during the first year of the war, on Nov. 9, 1861, General Sherman, paralyzed by depression, was relieved of his command in Kentucky at his own request. Five weeks later, the wire services proclaimed to the nation: GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN INSANE. Just after his participation in the Civil War had begun, Sherman’s service was nearly destroyed.

Balloon Juice » Big Pimping, Spending Cheese Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors ... I think they’ll find out that Jerry Sandusky was told that he had to retire in exchange for a cover-up,” Madden said. “ JC: I think we’re about to learn that this was not only an open secret at Penn State, but across the ranks in the upper echelon of college football ... This is just getting started.
Penn State President Ousted Amid Sex Abuse Scandal
Penn State Riot: TV Van Tipped As Rally For Joe Paterno Gets Violent (Penn frat boys love child rapists)
Revolting : Lawyers, Guns & Money Penn State University undergraduates like to riot in favor of child rape.
Maureen Dowd: Paterno worried more about reputation than justice
Jerry Sandusky, former Penn State football staffer, subject of grand jury investigation | PennLive.com March 31, 2011 (initial article)
Michael Smerconish: The Remaining Penn State Question
Nike has no plans to change name of Joe Paterno Child Development Center, spokeswoman says | OregonLive.com (The Joe Paterno child anal-rape center was considered)
Penn State community wonders: What's next? | McClatchy

OQOUe.jpg (is the Bible metaphorical?)
Warner Bros. Admits Sending HotFile False Takedown Requests | TorrentFreak Hollywood movie studio Warner Bros. has admitted to a federal court that it removed files from the file-hosting site Hotfile without owning the copyrights. Some of the false takedowns were the result of failing filtering software but Warner also admitted that one of its employees deleted Open Source software that could speed up downloads.

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Earthquake hits eastern Turkey | World news | The Guardian Earthquake of 5.7-magnitude causes six-storey hotel to collapse in province of Van leaving unknown numbers trapped inside

European debt crisis spiralling out of control | Business | The Guardian Reports that Germany and France have begun talks to break up the eurozone amid fears that Italy will be too big to rescue

Phone hacking: police have told fewer than one in eight potential victims | Media | guardian.co.uk Some 638 of 5,800 possible victims have been contacted by Met, highlighting how far the investigation has still to run
Neville Thurlbeck rejects request to help phone-hacking investigation | Media | guardian.co.uk


Jonathan Chait on Obama's Year-Three Missteps The effort failed because Daley’s analysis — which is also the analysis of David Brooks and Michael Bloomberg — was fatally incorrect. Americans were not itching for Obama to make peace with corporate America. Americans are in an angry, populist mood (Obama and his crack team of Republican advisors and Chicago idiots)
GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Melts Down, Screams At Constituents: 'Dont Blame Banks!...I Am Tired Of Hearing That Crap!' | ThinkProgress (big bully stupid teapartier yelling at constituents)
US Politics | AMERICAblog News: GOP demands SuperCommittee put govt in more debt in order to cut taxes yet again (no, Virginia, rich people don't care about the deficit they created)
Latino Voters: Obama Leads Going Into 2012, GOP Faces Backlash On Immigration
Republicans Say Democrats Are Making Too Much Of Election Day, But Admit Tough Landscape In 2012

Obama's 2012 hopes boosted as Democrats celebrate election victories | World news | guardian.co.uk Successes in Ohio, New Jersey, Arizona and Mississippi signal a return to the American left, lifting Obama's hopes for re-election
Ohio Issue 2: Controversial Anti-Union Law Defeated By Voters Issue 2 failed by a vote of 61 to 39 percent.
Personhood amendment campaigners vow to fight on after Mississippi defeat | World news | guardian.co.uk Mississippi voters reject measure to define fertilised eggs as people that would have banned abortions and restricted IVF - 58% of voters rejected the measure after apparently being persuaded by critics who portrayed it as draconian because it made no exceptions for women who are raped, or in cases of incest.
Hispanic leaders set sights on 2012 after stunning Arizona victory | World news | guardian.co.uk Russell Pearce, architect of controversial immigration law, toppled as voters swing towards a more moderate stance (rightwing extremist, "most powerful politician in AZ" kicked out of office)
Keystone: pipeline to Obama's re-election | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Big Oil has lobbied hard for approval of the tar sands oil project. Now environmentalists are demanding the president's ear, too

Scott Walker Recall Effort Officially Begins As Supporter Files Petition, Launches Fundraising Period
Bully: Limbaugh Repeatedly Attacks Cain Accuser's 13-Year-Old Son | Media Matters for America Limbaugh even likened the young teenager to a Nazi storm trooper (Satan has his own radio show)
Artificial War On Christmas Campaign Launches Fake Obama "Christmas Tree Tax" | Media Matters for America (wingers make stupid shit up)
Herman Cain defence 'goofy', says sexual harassment lawyer | World news | guardian.co.uk Joel Bennett says his client would never have filed a complaint if Herman Cain had simply compared her height to his wife's (lying sleazebag)

Grover Norquist Anti-Tax Pledge Signers Want Their Names Removed (oops, too late)

McCain, Rockefeller Want To Ban Bonuses At Fannie And Freddie

The many lies of Joe Paterno : Lawyers, Guns & Money - Paterno has known for at least nine years (realistically, at least 13 years, and probably longer) that the PSU administration — which for all practical purposes meant Joe Paterno — was covering up the crimes of a serial child rapist (Penn admin covered up for nine years)


Google+ had a chance to compete with Facebook. Not anymore. - Slate Magazine The search behemoth might not realize it yet, but its chance to compete with Facebook has come and gone.
Adobe Halts Flash Plug-In Development For Mobile Platforms

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Obama's Netanyahu mic slip draws ire from Republicans | World news | guardian.co.uk Republicans claim comments caught on microphone about the Israeli prime minister exacerbate already-strained relations (it was Obama's fault, Repubicans say)
Sarkozy: Netanyahu Is A 'Liar,' Journalists Reportedly Overhear French President Tell Obama (you don't say; must be anti-semitic)

The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That's why we're nearly bankrupt
UN watchdog reveals 'serious concerns' about Iranian nuclear weapons research | World news | guardian.co.uk IAEA believes Iran tried to develop a secret source of uranium enrichment that would not be subject to checks
Eurozone debt crisis: Berlusconi to resign after austerity budget passed | Business | guardian.co.uk 10-year bond yields had hit 6.794% after PM loses majority
Anglican newspaper defends 'Gaystapo' article | World news | The Guardian A column in the independent Church of England Newspaper compares gay rights campaigners to Nazis - 'Gay-rights stormtroopers take no prisoners as they annex our wider culture.' (it's a "pretinent" view)
Britain’s stagnant industry, weak retail sales point to grim fourth quarter - The Globe and Mail (well, more austerity should fix that +Bloomberg's prescription for America)

Police have right to fire rubber bullets at Wednesday's student protests in London | Mail Online Never been used on mainland but have been linked to deaths in Northern Ireland
News of the World paid me to follow 90 people, claims private detective | Media | guardian.co.uk Former policeman says he surveilled figures including Prince William and the parents of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe

The 2012 Election Field Is an Embarrassment to Democracy - Esquire Republicans have produced a field of candidates so utterly comical, so completely devoid of conventional political merit, that the field itself is a strong evidence for the elimination of the Republican party ... This isn't a primary campaign field. It's a condo-board election at the Hell Country Estates (go Pierce!)
Balloon Juice » Ask Me, I Won’t Say No, How Could I? (Obama's fake petition program catching on)
Hullabaloo: Chain of fools (Obama's stealth attack on Social Securty: chained consumer price index - will sacrifice anything of yours for his relection)

Daily Kos: Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll: President Obama leads Mitt Romney
Bill Daley, White House Chief Of Staff, Reportedly Asks Senior Obama Aide Pete Rouse To Take On New Role
More On Today’s Court Ruling On ACA | Talking Points Memo
Obama Health Care Reform Ruling: Appeals Court Upholds Law A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a split opinion upholding the lower court's ruling that found Congress did not overstep its authority in requiring people to have insurance or pay a penalty on their taxes, beginning in 2014.
Ron Paul On Elizabeth Warren: 'She's A Socialist'
Herman Cain: ‘I Don’t Even Know Who This Lady Is!’ | Election 2012 (creepy Republican asshole digs in)
Balloon Juice » Cain Victim Sharon Bialek on Good Morning America: “I am not a liar.”
Playing The Race Card From Both Sides Of The Deck | Media Matters for America
Rep. Steve King Says Asking Hospital Patients Their Immigration Status Would Not Be Going 'Too Far' | ThinkProgress (nothing is too far for Republican assholes)
The Eternal Sunshine of Erick Erickson’s Mind | Firedoglake - > Wingnuts: gleefully rejecting facts and empirical evidence since 1342. (what an idiot)
Balloon Juice » Election Day Shenanigans are Afoot in Ohio: Robocall Tells Voters to Head to Polls TOMORROW (Rethugs at work, cheating)

What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral - The Washington Post - The previous Big Lie — the discredited belief that free markets require no adult supervision — is the reason people have created a new false narrative ... Now it’s time for the Big Truth. (Ritholtz +way too complicated for your Village media)
Global income inequality: Where the U.S. ranks - Nov. 8, 2011 America ranks in the bottom third of the list of 90 countries (Repubicans promise to make that even worse)
Zuccotti Park Protesters Setting Up Military Tents For Winter, Safety

Steven Pearlstein: You bet it’s another bubble - The Washington Post The latest example is the market for commodities: corn, wheat, cotton, silver, copper, oil, natural gas. In the past decade, hundreds of billions of dollars have flooded into the market, largely through swaps contracts and commodities index funds, ETFs and mutual funds.
MF Signs Death Warrant for Short-Term Funding: William D. Cohan - Businessweek
In S.E.C. Fraud Cases, Banks Make Promises Again and Again - NYTimes.com (citigroup promised not to destroy the whole economy and need a big free bailout, again)
Wal-Mart Benefits From Anger Over Banking Fees - NYTimes.com

Sandusky Scandal: Mike McQueary, Penn State Receivers Coach, Reported Sexual Abuse To Joe Paterno (who did nothing, of course)
Penn State Scandal: Joe Paterno Didn't Do Enough To Stop Abuse Says State Police Commissioner a growing furor involving former defensive coordinator and one-time heir apparent Jerry Sandusky, who was indicted on charges of sexually abusing eight boys over 15 years.

Black, Asian teens less likely than whites to abuse drugs, Duke study concludes | McClatchy (sterotypes broken)

Solar is getting cheaper, but how far can it go? - The Washington Post (oil and gas obsolete by 2017; drill, baby, drill!)

Shockingly, White House Declines to Reveal Relationship With Aliens -- Daily Intel (sorry, classified, National Security)
Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV | Threat Level | Wired.com (Obama subjecting countless US citizens to illegal surveillance)

Here's Why The Internet Crashed For 10 Seconds Yesterday A bug in a Juniper router firmware update caused a huge crash that took the Time Warner Cable customers across the country off the internet for a little while on Monday
Researcher Charlie Miller Discovers iPhone App Security Bug

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In Greece, Economic Crisis Brings Rage and Paralysis - NYTimes.com
Inflation, debt crisis hurt euro zone retail sales | Reuters - Retail sales in the 17 countries sharing the euro fell more than expected in September despite some resilience in powerhouse Germany, the EU's statistics office said on Monday, reinforcing concern that the bloc's economy may be heading for a recession (more austerity obviously needed)
French PM Unveils Austerity Measures To Save Extra EUR7B In 2012 - WSJ.com (for perspective, UBS trader Kweku Adoboli lost 2Bn all by himself this year)
Berlusconi denies quit claims and stakes future on economic reform vote | World news | The Guardian taly PM's defiance over government's handling of Italian debt crisis sparks wild fluctuations in stock and bond markets

Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead | World news | The Guardian IAEA findings could pave way to sanctions or military strike although no 'smoking gun' expected to be revealed in report
The CIA's unaccountable drone war claims another casualty | Pratap Chatterjee | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk If Tariq Aziz, the 16-year-old soccer fan I met last week in Pakistan, was a dangerous Taliban terrorist, let the CIA prove it (he was "known to associate" with someone who "advocated" violence against US who happened to be his father; how many children and innocents have to die to get Obama re-elected?)

News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers | Media | The Guardian Investigators followed and filmed lawyers of hacking victims in apparent attempt to gather material on private lives

Sharon Bialek goes public over Herman Cain sexual assault allegations | World news | guardian.co.uk Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain hit by explosive accusations that he forced himself on woman seeking advice
Sharon Bialek, Herman Cain Accuser, Speaks Alongside Attorney Gloria Allred At Press Conference (video) he suddenly reached over and put his hand on my leg, up my skirt, and towards my genitals." She recalled that when she protested the advances, Cain said, "You want a job, right?" Bialek alleged that Cain also "grabbed [her] head and brought it towards his crotch." She said that she was "shocked" by the behavior.
Face the Nation's GOP-Fest Allowed Attacks On Liberals, Obama To Go Unanswered | Media Matters for America The only non-Republican Face the Nation guest? Non-partisan journalist John Dickerson who was addressed just once during the program (someone had to do it)

Anti-Abortion Violence Missing In Government's Main Terrorism Database
Mississippi voters evenly split over controversial abortion ballot | World news | guardian.co.uk 'Personhood amendment' would redefine 'person' to begin at the point of conception and would outlaw abortion at a stroke
Mississippi 'Personhood' Law Could Cause Legal Mayhem, Experts Warn
Huntsman: 'Personhood' Amendment That Romney, GOP Field Back 'Goes Too Far'
Jan Brewer, Arizona Governor, Stops Paying Redistricting Chair's Attorney (little fascist)

US poverty and the census bureau: why count the poor in a new way? | News | guardian.co.uk New research from the US Census Bureau changes the way the US measures poverty. Why does it matter - and what does it show?
US poverty: where are the super poor? | News | guardian.co.uk The numbers of the poorest poor are rising in across America, according to a new analysis. See what the data says about each

Alarming state report predicts $294 billion shortfall for transportation over next decade - San Jose Mercury News - In 1953, as California began its freeway building boom, drivers paid 6 cents a gallon in state gasoline taxes. Adjusted for inflation, that figure would be 51 cents today. The state gas tax is currently 35 cents (and everything is crumbling because Republicans killed the California Dream)

Living a lie : Lawyers, Guns & Money - Joe Paterno - He’s a crazy old man who isn’t going to quit until either someone fires him or he dies with his boots on. He’s been living a lie for years now, and in the end it’s led to him trying to weasel-word his way out of his complete failure to do what he could to make sure that Jerry Sandusky didn’t continue to rape little boys.
Rock Center with Brian Williams - Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that immediately after giving birth, she should be sterilized. Doctors cut and tied off her fallopian tubes.


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At least 65 die in Nigerian terrorist attacks | World news | guardian.co.uk Churches, mosques and police stations in Damaturu were attacked after earlier bomb blasts in Maiduguri

Chaos in Greece amid battle to form a 'government of national salvation' | World news | The Observer European leaders watch nervously as embattled premier tries to find allies and avoid being thrown out of the eurozone (the end of the pretence of democracy)

Murdoch gave loyal lieutenant Rebekah Brooks £1.7m pay-off, car and office | Media | The Observer News International chairman may face questions in Commons over generous severance deal despite phone-hacking scandal

Treasonous Republicans Kill Jobs And Betray The American People
About Inequality | The Weekly Standard

650K Americans Have Closed Their Bank Accounts and Moved To Credit Unions - So Far | Crooks and Liars (no teapartiers)
Keep Wall Street Occupied (Part 1) - YouTube
The Hand That Feeds You: A Truly Inspired Explanation Of The Occupation
Dean Baker Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd 11/03 by Jay Ackroyd | Blog Talk Radio

MF Global and the rubber check | Unstructured Finance Those checks cut by the folks at MF Global began arriving in customer mailboxes this week, several days after the firm filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 31 in New York federal court. And by the time customers started depositing those checks, they were rejected as having insufficient funds.
Did a Harvard Economics Class Cause the Financial Crisis? - Education - GOOD According to their open letter to Mankiw—who advised President George W. Bush and now Mitt Romney—the free market, laissez faire capitalism he teaches to nearly 700 students every semester deprives students of "an analytic understanding of economics as part of a quality liberal arts education.

Fracking Firm Admits It Caused Earthquakes in England : TreeHugger
Two Penn State officials charged in connection with sex-abuse investigation | Philadelphia Inquirer | 11/06/2011

Suicidal lesbian Marine Corps vet seeks help, gets Jesus instead | Rock Beyond Belief
Video of pot bust spotlights lapses by police - Philly.com

Belgium to switch off nuclear, operator sees blackout ahead As Belgium becomes the latest European nation to agree to switch off nuclear power, operator Electrabel warned Monday of high costs, environmental fallout and increased dependency on foreign suppliers.
In India Cooking Biryani for 200 guests. - YouTube

‘Anonymous’ Releases IP Info for 190 Alleged Pedophiles - Techland - time.com
Emergency Alert System to Interrupt All Television Wednesday, Cause Mass Hysteria - New York News - Runnin' Scared
BT block isn't working, says Newzbin | CNET UK

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UP cop calls Mayawati govt corrupt, dumped in mental asylum - The Times of India A senior police officer was on Friday night allegedly manhandled and forcibly dumped into a mental asylum after he took on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati by alleging massive corruption in the state.

Hullabaloo From Thomas Frank's "Wrecking Crew", about the rise of the conservative movement:
White House protest planned against oil pipeline from Canada | McClatchy

News from The Associated Press The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America's unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits (problem solved!)
WAPO Ombudsman Defends Hit Job on Social Security | Beat the Press If there were ever any doubts that "Fox on 15th Street" was a fitting label for the Washington Post, Patrick Pexton, the paper's ombudsman removed them with his defense of the Post's front page piece on Social Security last Sunday. ("experts say" +3rd Way wanking, as WaPo consults a Republican "English major" for his centrist opinion)
The Washington Post Goes "Thuggish" on Social Security | Beat the Press
Hullabaloo Goldilocks gets a bad case of salmonella - The Washington Post vomits up an editorial this week-end calling AARP "thuggish" for defending its memebrship from this wrecking crew
Daily Kos: Rick Santorum explains God's role in American law (Sharia law for christians)
Florida Tea Party Convention Snubbed By Leading Republicans (video) and raised questions about the controversial positions advanced by some of the event's participants.
Gloria Cain's Silence Presents Challenges For Husband's Campaign

More Small Businesses Are Pulling Their Accounts Out Of Big Banks
Why Bank Transfer Day (Today) Is Only the Beginning of Something Huge | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet The movement to make sure our money serves our own values rather than the bottom line of huge banks will only gain energy as small victories accumulate.
Giuliani: OWS Is Millstone Around Obama's Neck That Will Take Presidency Down | RealClearPolitics "How about you occupy a job. How about working? Working. I know that's tough," Giuliani also said (he always was an entitled asshole)
A Slogan For Occupy Wall Street | Prose Before Hos
I saw a different side of Occupy Oakland - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com Before the late night violence, I went to a friendly protest that peacefully closed banks and the city's port

Greg Lippmann Calls for Mortgage Forgiveness After Winning Subprime Wagers - Bloomberg “Principal reductions are necessary to help ameliorate the housing crisis,” (what Obama wouldn't do)
Corzine Out as Search for MF Global Funds Continues - NYTimes.com The missing customer money at MF Global is still missing.

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard) - NYTimes.com

Historian Taylor Branch Delivers a Critical View of the N.C.A.A. - NYTimes.com The October issue of The Atlantic magazine featured a 14,000-word cover story by Branch titled “The Shame of College Sports.”
Prosecution: Penn State execs hid child sex claims against football coach | McClatchy

Loophole Let Steve Jobs Drive Without A License Plate California law made it easy for the Apple CEO to drive incognito.

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Greenhouse gases rise by record amount | Environment | guardian.co.uk Levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago (Republicans are the only people in the world still in denial)

Peter Fuller Fired: Senior U.S. Officer In Afghanistan Relieved From Duty from his job as the No. 2 general in charge of training for making inappropriate public remarks about Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government - Fuller said the Afghans have at times made unreasonable requests for U.S. assistance (that got him fired)
Libyans try to get back property seized by Gaddafi | World news | The Guardian Spray paint messages highlight minefield for new rulers, as original owners demand restitution for buildings worth billions
Iran warns US to avoid clash over nuclear programme | World news | The Guardian Iranian foreign minister says America has 'lost its wisdom and prudence' as tensions mount over Tehran's enrichment efforts
When the government decided I was a terrorist - War on Terror - Salon.com While I was living in Norway, a shadowy branch of the U.S. Treasury Department put a block on my bank account (Obama conficating the funds of anyone who dissents from Republican policies)
Drug Cartel Releases 'Anonymous' Hostage, But Battle Continues | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

G20 summit fails to allay world recession fears | World news | guardian.co.uk Summit ends in disarray as world leaders fail to agree increase to IMF and concerns mount over prospects for Italian economy (the next domino)
No more tax havens, says Sarkozy as G20 wraps up | RFI
German Factory Orders Unexpectedly Fall 4.3% - Bloomberg (maybe imposing all that austerity on their trading partners wasn't such a good idea?)
Euro-Area Manufacturing, Services Shrink - Bloomberg (let's hear it for austerity!)
Economy sheds 54,000 jobs, unemployment rate jumps - CTV News (spreading to Canada)

Man arrested over alleged police payments named as Sun journalist | Media | guardian.co.uk Reporter arrested over alleged payments to police officers believed to be paper's district editor, Jamie Pyatt
James Murdoch fails to win Jeremy Hunt's full backing | Media | guardian.co.uk Culture secretary dodges issue of whether Murdoch is 'fit and proper' person to run BSkyB in wake of phone-hacking scandal


Obama's rating improves: Reuters/Ipsos poll | Reuters President Barack Obama's fortunes are improving slightly, although he would face a tough struggle for re-election next year if Mitt Romney were the Republican nominee - Forty-nine percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, up from 47 percent in an October poll (50% hate him)
Lawmakers Aim to Stop Pentagon Cuts if Deficit Panel Fails - NYTimes.com (defense dept: too big to cut)
Opinion: Opinion: GOP's voter suppression - Herman Schwartz - politico.com A massive Republican campaign likely to suppress minority and low-income voting is under way. If it works, the GOP may be able to prevent many millions of Americans, largely Democrats, from voting — potentially affecting 171 electoral votes.

House Republicans: No Infrastructure Funding Without Drill, Baby, Drill | ThinkProgress
John Boehner: Debt Deal Will Include New Tax Revenues (accepts Obama's "grand bargain" to end Social Security)
Elizabeth Warren Heckler Video - Welcome to American Politics, Professor Warren - Esquire For the record, the Tea Party was not "protesting Wall Street." It was protesting, in order 5) The president, who was a blackity-black-black Democrat, and also a Muslim Socialist Hitler who was born in Kenya (but your media assures us they were protesting banker bailouts)
Herman Cain Campaigns As Sexual Harassment Allegations Build
Herman Cain ignores the PR rulebook in race for White House | World news | The Guardian The Memphis-born Republican is a frontrunner for his party's nomination, but is shaping up as the most baffling of candidates
Things That Don’t Affect Whether Herman Cain Sexually Harassed Two Women In the 1990s | Election 2012 “They ought to be asking questions to President Obama about his relationship with Bill Ayers, not asking me.”
Martin Bashir, Apostle Claver Argue Over Herman Cain's Qualifications (video) "the kingdom needs to be taken by force." (Repubicans will invade Heaven with tanks and loot God's throne, or something)
Cain Accuser ‘Stands By The Complaint She Made,’ NRA Confirms Settlement | Election 2012
Did ABC, CBS And NBC Really "Ignore" The Paula Jones Story? | Media Matters for America (Fox lies by using 3-day window in seven years; you have already forgotten the Clenis)
Rick Perry Apologizes For Calling Opponents Of In-State Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants Heartless (you know who's heartless?)
Men Not at Work - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/03/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes | World news | guardian.co.uk Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. He says police beat him with batons
Michigan Bullying Law - A Dangerous Law and the New Formula of Conservatism - Esquire In a very real way, this one passage in one piece of really bad legislation is the entire raison d'etre of American "conservatism," and of the political party that it has turned into its mindless vehicle over the past four decades. Every element of the "movement" is in there. There's religious paranoia and cultural sociopathy combining to produce a completely irrational sense of victimhood.

Oligarchy, American Style - NYTimes.com Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It’s time to roll out the obfuscators! (rich Republican liars +media)
Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say - NYTimes.com In a recent study, he cited government data showing many poor families had game systems like Xbox ... . “Most of the people that are defined as poor by the government are not poor in that sense.” (they might even have a refrigerator)
US unemployment rate edges down in October | Business | guardian.co.uk US jobs data gives President Obama welcome boost in fight against high employment, though rise falls short of forecasts (9% "good news" for Obama)
Thirty Of America's Most Profitable Companies Paid 'Less Than Zero' In Income Taxes In Last 3 Years: Report
Chart: Super Committee Dems, GOP Differ On Jobs | TPMDC (Republicans: party of the big, fat, zero)
Corzine Is Said to Hire Criminal Lawyer - NYTimes.com
What Would a Good Jobs Report Have Looked Like? » New Deal 2.0
Bill Moyers: People "Are Occupying Wall Street Because Wall Street Has Occupied the Country" (well, actually, they bought it)
Today From the Iron Triangle : Lawyers, Guns & Money Whew, I was worried that job-killing Washington bureaucrats were going to stifle the ability of executives to loot their companies by taking shareholder money to the roulette table innovation for a minute there (Corzine lobbied for no regulation on his casino operation)
BofA Threatens Foreclosure Over Missing $1 From Already-Sold Home
More People Joined Credit Unions Since BofA's Debit Fee Controversy Than In All Of 2010: Survey At least 650,000 customers opened new accounts at credit unions since September 29, the day Bank of America announced it would charge customers a $5 per month fee to use their debit card for purchases
California Budget Gap Could Be $8 Billion, More Than Double Jerry Brown's Projections (here's your Reagan legacy)
Keystone XL Oil Pipeline: A Symbolic Struggle Steeped In Fuzzy Math (making shit up, as usual)
DC is better off without Redskins stadium or practice fields - Greater Greater Washington (want taxpayer money to build city-destroying stadium will millions of spaces of free parking which will be empty 350 days a year)
EmployREcalignOct2011.jpg (scariest chart that Obama and Summers and Geitner ignored)

Hubble directly observes the disc around a black hole

Texas death row, Werner Herzog and the man who maintained his innocence | World news | guardian.co.uk Michael Perry, the man at the centre of Herzog's new film on the death penalty, was executed in Texas for a crime he says he didn't commit.
Texas judge won't face charges for beating daughter | World news | guardian.co.uk Police say it is too late to prosecute after YouTube footage shows William Adams thrashing daughter, 16, with a belt ... will not face police charges but has stopped presiding over child abuse cases (he's an expert in child abuse)
Hullabaloo Generational violence (Americans, especially Southerners, love family violence and child abuse)
Houston Chronicle Blogger Mom Says Gay Teens Should Stay in Closet to Avoid Suicide - Kathleen McKinley (Jesus-freak, homophobe and idiot has bad advice)
Michigan GOP Gives Anti-Bullying Bill A Loophole | TPMMuckraker - he Republican Senate gutted an anti-bullying bill when they added a clause that allows bullying based on “moral convictions. (Christian moral convictions, of course)
KY GOPer: I’m Not Criticizing Hindus — I’m Inviting Them To ‘Love And Know Jesus’ | TPMMuckraker (after we close down all their temples)
It happens only in India !!! - YouTube

TPM Browser Usage (Geeks Only!) | Talking Points Memo (23% use Macs vs 4% internationally)

Google Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely - NYTimes.com (guaranteeing 35 pages of Facebook crap first)
Google mulls divorcing Chamber of Commerce - Jennifer Martinez - politico.com - “would put the U.S. government in the very position we criticize repressive regimes for doing — all in the name of copyright.” (Republican wet-dream)

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Syria protests across the country aim to test regime's pledge to end crackdown | World news | The Guardian Opposition groups call for rallies to see if government backing for the Arab League's blueprint to bring end to violence is genuine
Israeli PM orders investigation into Iran leak | World news | guardian.co.uk Kuwaiti paper says Binyamin Netanyahu believes the heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet may have leaked plans for attack
Iran warns US to avoid clash over nuclear programme | World news | The Guardian ranian foreign minister says America has 'lost its wisdom and prudence' as tensions mount over Tehran's enrichment efforts (Israel is America's boss)
Mugshot: Manssor Arbabsiar, Arrested In Plot To Kill Saudi Ambassador | TPMMuckraker (the used-car salesmen behind the plot)
Iran claims to have proof of US-led terror plots The Iranian government will release documents that it claims are proof that the US planned terrorist attacks against Iran, according to reports Thursday.

Greek crisis: Referendum cancelled amid chaos - November 4 2011 | Business | guardian.co.uk Public vote on bailout now off the table
Greek Prime Minister Scraps Referendum, Rejects Pressure To Resign
EU, IMF Aid to Greece on Hold Until After Referendum - US Business News - CNBC

Phone hacking: number of possible victims is almost 5,800, police confirm | Media | guardian.co.uk News of the World private investigator Glenn Mulcaire may have targeted 2,000 more people than previously acknowledged - 11,000 pages of notes seized from Mulcaire's home (that's a lot of pages)
Murdoch writes off $91m for shutting News of the World in hacking scandal | Media | The Guardian News Corp also lost anything up to $130m over failed bid to get 100% of BSkyB satellite broadcaster, in quarter's 'other charges'
News Corp HR chief quits | Media | guardian.co.uk Beryl Cook, who has been with the firm for 22 years, says she wants to return to Asia to be closer to her family
James Murdoch fails to win Jeremy Hunt's full backing | Media | guardian.co.uk Culture secretary dodges issue of whether Murdoch is 'fit and proper' person to run BSkyB in wake of phone-hacking scandal
Drop your parking changes before it's too late, Boris tells Westminster | Mayor ("free" parking for rich people)

Feds Shift Defense of Cellphone Tracking - WSJ.com Prosecutors in Arizona Case Drop Position That 'Stingray' Use Didn't Require Warrant (no steenking warrents)

Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11 | Mother Jones A new study suggests that defense hawks are crying crocodile tears over planned cuts to Pentagon spending
Senate GOP blocks Obama infrastructure plan (Republicans hate, infrastructure and jobs)

Elizabeth Warren Heckled By Tea Party Supporter - the Tea Party has been protesting Wall Street excess for longer than the nascent global movement ... "you're a socialist whore." (birther and a liar with an IQ of a rock)
Balloon Juice » And I will be satisfied not to read in between the lines today’s conservatism is the opposite of what liberals want today: updated daily.
Herman Cain Settlement: Woman Who Made Sexual Harassment Allegations Reportedly Received $45,000 (the sexinator)
INfographic: This Is What Sexual Harassment In The Workplace Looks Like
MUGSHOT: Manssor Arbabsiar, Arrested In Plot To Kill Saudi Ambassador | TPMMuckraker
2pxJA.jpg Barry Goldwater on Christianists

Will voters buy the idea that GOP is sabotaging economy? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (answer: no, they don't care)
Regulator: MF Global shifted millions last week - About $600 million of client cash is still missing
Thirty Of America's Most Profitable Companies Paid 'Less Than Zero' In Income Taxes In Last 3 Years: Report
Increase In Extreme Poverty Leaves Millions Stranded

An Abortion Law Even Conservatives Balk At | Mother Jones - about a Mississippi ballot measure that would define human life as beginning at the moment of fertilization (will require a large corps of heavily armed male "period police")
Radley Balko: Hank Skinner, Texas Death Row Inmate, One Week From Execution Despite Untested Evidence
Court knocks down FCC’s fine for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” - The Washington Post ackson’s right breast was exposed for nine-sixteenths of a second, the court noted. But advocates of greater indecency enforcement said the court’s decision ignored the multitude of protests by families.
Media Reacts To Conan's Same-Sex Wedding News - YouTube

French Scientists Restored The Youth Of 100 Years Old Cells
Asteroid 2005 YU55 to Approach Earth on November 8, 2011
What A Woman's Face And Walk Reveal About Her Sex Life And Family Plans "A woman's experience of vaginal orgasm may be discerned from a gait that comprises fluidity, energy, sensuality, freedom, and absence of both flaccid and locked muscles," conclude the two professors of sexology in Belgium (post-modern studies)

New Gmail Problems: The 5 Biggest Issues With Google's Update To Its Email Service
House puts 5-year freeze on new mobile taxes with Wireless Tax Fairness Act

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Israeli army test-fires missile capable of reaching Iran | World news | The Guardian Defence official says military tested rocket propulsion system as reports suggest country's leaders in favour of attacking Tehran
UK military steps up plans for Iran attack amid fresh nuclear fears | World news | The Guardian British officials consider contingency options to back up a possible US action as fears mount over Tehran's capability
The human toll of the U.S. drone campaign - Salon.com (bottom line: Obama is a murderer)

Anonymous Cancels Operation Cartel as Los Zetas Track Hacktivists | TPM Idea Lab
BBC News - Wikileaks' Julian Assange loses extradition appeal has failed in his appeal against extradition from the UK to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault.
UK court rules WikiLeaks’ Assange should be extradited | The Raw Story

Greek military leadership changes spark opposition outcry - Telegraph As Greek politics grew ever more chaotic strong political protests erupted as the government moved to replace military chiefs with officers seen as more supportive of George Papandreou, the prime minister.
Creditors can huff but they need debtors - FT.com
Euro-Area Manufacturing Production Contracts for Third Month - Businessweek (austerity kills the economy; solution: more austerity!)
Bravo Papandreou! The Greek prime minister takes the country's fate out of the hands of the bankers (Democracy is just an illusion)
Eschaton: Um, Fail? All of that technocratic management has achieved wonders and now messy politics is daring to intrude. Technocrats are doing their best to destroy the world. Intervene, politics, intervene!
Austerity Faces Political Test in Greek Turmoil - NYTimes.com (yeah, wtf?)
Obama on Banking: The Worst Deal They Could Cut | Crooks and Liars
Hullabaloo - Greece

Feds: Four Members Of Georgia ‘Fringe Militia Group’ Plotted Biological Attack On Citizens, Government Officials | TPMMuckraker
Chinese Government and Norwegian Satellite Station Rebut U.S. Satellite Hacking Claims | TPM Idea Lab

Murdochs 'discussed News Corp succession with family therapist' | Media | guardian.co.uk James Murdoch was to be groomed for top job before phone-hacking scandal broke, Vanity Fair report to claim

Condi Rice: I Wouldn't Call The Iraq War Preemptive | ThinkProgress (next: what war?)
Citizens United Going Down? Democrats Introduce Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Ruling
Hullabaloo - Sacrifice Scam (Dems propose huge cuts to social safety net and call it "shared sacrifice")

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day "What did I say? Excuse me. Excuse me! What part of no don't some people understand?" -- Herman Cain, in a NBC News video, brushing off reporters who wanted to ask about the sexual harassment allegations made against him.
Oklahoma Consultant Claims He Witnessed Cain Harassment | KTOK-local - NEWSRADIO 1000 KTOK-AM "It was only a matter of time because so many people were aware of what took place, so many people were aware of her situation, the fact she left---everybody knew with the campaign that this would eventually come up.
Iowa radio host accuses Herman Cain of 'inappropriate' remarks - Jonathan Martin - politico.com
Another Woman Says Cain Harassed Her
Dowd and Friedman « Marion in Savannah (Modo get off some good ones, while the Moustache of Wisdom is just a fucker )
Balloon Juice » Donald Trump the Orange Supremacist calls Jon Stewart Racist; Has a Pot-Kettle Problem Donald Trump the Orange Supremacist calls Jon Stewart Racist; Has a Pot-Kettle Problem
a Balloon Juice » Taint necessarily so Bobo thinks the real villains in CainGate are the women he harassed (David Brooks, elite corporate reptile)

Mitt Romney Defending the American Dream Summit Speech - Mitt Romney's Koch Brothers Speech Preview! (Also: Ponzi.) - Esquire
Daily Kos: Democratic senators threaten to block another jobs bill (Liberman, Nelson, Tester, etc)
Rick Perry Drunk At New Hampshire Speech? No Way, Says Event Host
The Men Behind The War On Women - The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (women's bodies are a central preoccupation)
Senate Women Face High Stakes In 2012

Occupy Oakland General Strike: City Prepares To Be Movement's Epicenter
The Rude Pundit Let's Actually Do Something: Blanket the Occupiers:
Occupy Oakland Attempts to Shut Down City with America's First General Strike in 65 Years | Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet
Oakland police criticise city's mayor | World news | The Guardian Police officers' association have criticised the city's administration in an open letter to Oakland's citizens
What The Media Won't Show You: Former and Current Republicans Occupying America (the country belongs to Republicans; the 99% just pays rent to them)
Balloon Juice » Megan McArdle is Always Wrong™: Occupy Wall St./Income Inequality division - "in the late 1990s, income inequality was almost certainly worse than it is right now." (McAddled makes shit up, cant bother her tiny pretty mind to google)
Robert Borosage on Tavis Smiley: Conservative "Reverse Robin Hood" Tax Plans | OurFuture.org (and they want more)

Balloon Juice » Bloomberg Lies Through His Teeth; Says Banks Did Not Cause Mortgage Crisis
Mayor Bloomberg: 'It Was Not The Banks That Created The Mortgage Crisis' | ThinkProgress (Congress made them do it; asshole's pants on fire)
Calculated Risk: Bernanke Press Briefing 2:15 PM ET GDP growth was revised down to around 1.7% this year.
MF Global accounts shock leaves clients scrambling | Reuters failed to protect customer accounts by keeping them separate from its own funds (will Corzine go to jail? no)
Mr. Corzine’s Big Bet on MF Global - NYTimes.com Europe - is trying to bail out Greece, in part, to protect its big banks.
Federal Inquiry of MF Global Escalates - NYTimes.com the search continues for roughly $600 million in missing customer money.
Regulator concerns about MF Global began months ago | Reuters
Goldline Execs Charged With Fraud - ABC News - Goldline, a company that used endorsements from Glenn Beck and other conservative icons to sell hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers, has been charged with theft and fraud in a 19-count criminal complaint filed Tuesday by local officials in California. (Glenn Beck's gold scam)

Dismal Tale of Arrest for Tiniest of Crimes - NYTimes.com (female college student jailed for 36 hours by Bloomberg's thugs for not showing ID; ticket dismissed in less than a minute)
Southern Manners on Decline, Some Say - NYTimes.com - “Manners are often a way of distancing and maintaining space,” (couldn't have been because they were black or anything)
Judge Videotaped Beating Daughter | Corpus Christi, TX | KRISTV.com |

BBC News - Signs of ageing halted in the lab The onset of wrinkles, muscle wasting and cataracts has been delayed and even eliminated in mice, say researchers in the US.
Climate change scientist Michael Mann fends off sceptic group's raid on emails | Environment | The Guardian Judge revokes permission of sceptic thinktank American Tradition Institute to look at private University of Virginia emails
Fukushima suffers setback as officials detect signs of nuclear fission | World news | The Guardian Traces of radioactive gas are detected at Fukushima's No 2 reactor – one of three that suffered core meltdown

Aleksa Lundberg, Swedish Transgender Actress, Mourns Forced Sterilization "Compulsory sterilization" has been quietly practiced for decades in countries typically cast as progressive on LGBT rights: France, the Netherlands, Australia, and a number of U.S. states still require it.


Judge: “Real Prospect of Success” For Digital Economy Act Challenge | TorrentFreak (otherwise known as the UK spy law)
Facebook Privacy Undermined: Google Now Sees Your Embarrassing Comments
Internet Explorer Falls Below 50% Market Share Mark

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Condi Rice Credits Bush For Arab Spring: 'We Had A Role In That' | ThinkProgress (yes you did, didn't you)
FtMuq.jpg (miss me yet?)
China 'targeted 48 chemical and military companies in hacking attack' | Technology | guardian.co.uk Attacks are latest in a long line of internet hacks aimed at industrial and military targets traced back to China

BBC News - Greek PM Papandreou faces party revolt over bailout Six leading members of Greece's governing Pasok party have called on Prime Minister George Papandreou to resign, the day after he called a referendum on the proposed EU bailout (because your citizens should have say in very unpopular policy decisions)
Greece throws euro bailout into fresh crisis | Business | The Guardian Prime minister stuns fellow leaders with proposal that his country should hold referendum on landmark debt deal
Greek government on brink as referendum call triggers market slump | Business | guardian.co.uk Greece in political turmoil as Merkel and Sarkozy urge Greek PM to implement bailout agreement 'in quickest timeframe'
Factory sector contracts at fastest pace in 2 years | Reuters The manufacturing sector contracted at its fastest pace in more than two years in October as new orders plummeted, adding to signs that the country is teetering on the brink of recession, a survey showed on Tuesday (austerity screwed the pooch, so, more austerity!)
Israel to shift tax burden to the rich and corporations | GlobalPost Israel's protest movement celebrates its first tangible success.

Phone hacking: QC warned of 'culture of illegal information access' at NoW | Media | guardian.co.uk QC told NI 'there is a powerful case that there is ... a culture of illegal information access' (but Brit cops covered up)
Liam Fox's Atlantic Bridge linked top Tories and Tea Party activists | Politics | The Observer Officially it was a charity; in fact, Fox's thinktank was a meeting place for the movers and shakers of the right wing
Liam Fox - Guardian Story on Liam Fox and ALEC - Esquire - A Wingnut from Across the Pond (wingnut welfare complex goes international)

Members Of Congress Grow Wealthier Despite Recession
Herman Cain Raised $250,000 Online After Harassment Report Broke, Campaign Says (they clapped for him)
Jon Stewart Mocks Herman Cain's Sexual Harassment Scandal (video)
Herman Cain changes his story - Herman Cain - Salon.com Now he remembers the women who made sexual harassment charges against him, and key details
More Details On Cain’s Behavior Emerge As Story Keeps Growing | Election 2012

VA GOP Condemns Picture of Obama As Zombie Shot In The Head | TPMMuckraker
Hullabaloo Taking the cake - I can hardly believe that gazillionaire Mayor Bloomberg would have the nerve to host an exclusive dinner for the financial, corporate and political elite to persuade them to slash the social safety net. It's almost beyond belief. But he did (it's what they do, actually)

Hullabaloo Continuing on with the justice theme, even the normally execrable Richard Cohen steps up to the plate with a surprisingly vitriolic anti-Wall Street column that hits on the same ideas as Taibbi and Friedman:
St Paul's Cathedral suspends legal action to evict Occupy protesters | UK news | guardian.co.uk Cathedral authorities opt for engaging with protesters instead, risking confrontation with City of London Corporation
OWS has transformed public opinion - Salon.com For the first time since the Great Depression, the majority of Americans favor wealth redistribution
Are big banks feeling pressure from Occupy Wall Street? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
New Bottom Line Announces National Divestment Campaign | FDL News Desk
Peter Dreier: Occupy Wall Street: Changing the Topic Number of articles with the word 'inequality' in U.S. newspapers - October 2010 through October 2011

Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme | ThinkProgress
MF Global Bankruptcy Leaves Star Bankers Adrift - Bloomberg
Wow, Jon Corzine — Way To Fly Your Company Into A Mountain ... part of becoming a real investment bank, apparently, is betting the company.
Regulators Investigating MF Global for Missing Money - NYTimes.com hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the brokerage firm, which is run by Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor,
Banks Extract Fees On Unemployment Benefits
Chick-Fil-A Donated Nearly $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2009 | Equality Matters (fundie Christian wingnuts)

Brooklyn Detective Convicted of Planting Drugs on Innocent People - NYTimes.com “Anything goes in the never-ending war on drugs, and a refusal to go along with questionable practices raise the specter of blacklisting and isolation”

How does birth month affect your child's future? find the results here | News | guardian.co.uk Children born in August are more likely to under perform in school compared to the children born in September. How does birth month affect academic results and well-being?
Anthrax vaccine needs further testing | MNN - Mother Nature Network The National Biodefense Science Board recommends that the government sponsor a controversial study to test the anthrax vaccine in children.
Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation? | Magazine

Pete Townshend brands iTunes a 'digital vampire' - Yahoo! News

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US pulls Unesco funding after Palestine is granted full membership | World news | The Guardian Controversial move endorsed in UN cultural agency vote despite US threat of withholding £50m in funds (Israel is our boss)
Greece throws euro bailout into fresh crisis | Business | The Guardian - Prime minister stuns fellow leaders with proposal that his country should hold referendum on landmark debt deal European debt crisis: MF Global files for bankruptcy protection | Business | guardian.co.uk
Jobs crisis threatens global wave of social unrest, warns ILO | Business | The Guardian Coming months 'crucial', says World of Work report
Fast cars and loose fiscal morals: there are more Porsches in Greece than taxpayers declaring 50,000 euro incomes – Telegraph Blogs

FBI releases videos of Russian spy Anna Chapman at work | World news | guardian.co.uk Previously unseen material shows how Chapman and her fellow 'illegals' operated in US spy ring that was busted in 2010
Hackers Threaten Zetas Drug Cartel with exposure of its allies in the local police and news media this week unless the gang frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as "Anonymous." (getting complicated)

Jonathan Meador, Reporter, Films Own Occupy Nashville Arrest (video)

Herman Cain Denies Sexual Harassment Allegations, Attempts To Sing His Way Out Of Trouble
Herman Cain Campaign: Sexual Harassment Claims Are 'Baseless Allegations'
Cain details gesture that led to sex accusation | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner (oh, that sexual harrassment suit)

Letters Reveal Eric Cantor Begged For Obama Stimulus Money To Create Jobs
Perry's tax plan would be a boon for the wealthy, study says | McClatchy
Animated, giddy Perry draws "drunk" descriptions - PoliTex (jumped the shark?)
Long-time Bachmann Ally Jumps Ship: "Lady, You Stink" | Mother Jones - Bradlee Dean, an anti-gay hair-metal evangelist
Joe Curl Is Very Angry, Silly | Media Matters for America "Michelle's back, and she's madder than ever," writes Joe Curl, columnist for the Washington Times, offering the latest in an ongoing series of right-wing broadsides against first lady Michelle Obama (they really, really, hate her)

Riot Squad Standing Off With Occupy Denver | occupydenver.org
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral resigns over Occupy London protest row | UK news | guardian.co.uk Graeme Knowles, the dean of St Paul's, stands down with immediate effect, saying his position has become 'untenable'

Social Security Bait And Switch, A Continuing Series - NYTimes.com Dean Baker is angry at the Washington Post for spreading disinformation about Social Security. He’s right, of course — and it’s shocking that a well-known fallacy is the subject of a “news analysis” that purports to inform readers - This is what you call negative journalistic value added. (your elite media at work spreading lies and propaganda)
Eschaton: The Con The only solution is to Logans Run everybody at age 65 after collecting a lifetime of payroll taxes from them. Except Pete Peterson (aged 85) and certain other special people (Obama compromising with liars)
Fed Panel Is Divided on Direction - NYTimes.com “If this drift in inflation risk tolerance were to persist, or were expected to persist, it could give rise to a damaging increase in inflationary expectations,” one of the dissidents, Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said earlier this month (the inflation fairies never materialized, so they've moved on to managing "risk tolerance" and "expectations" instead of reality)
No time for a corporate tax ‘holiday’ - The Washington Post (+1 for WaPo)
Airlines Are Trying to Cut Boarding Times on Planes - NYTimes.com ("experts are puzzled")

Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion : NPR
7 Billion People: Should World Adopt 'One-Child' Policy? | Should China's 'One-Child' policy go global? | LiveScience
Alone as a crowd: the latest example of the weirdness of quantum mechanics
Sexism and gender inequality Individual beliefs don't stay confined to the person who has them; they can affect how a society functions - Brandt found that sexism was directly associated with increases in gender inequality over time.

White House Rejects Petition To Legalize Marijuana - Any petition garnering 5,000 signatures within 30 days of submission is guaranteed a response from the White House; Franklin's petition received more than 17,000 (Obama is a big drugz warrior, so no)
Hart Island Cemetery: City Council Reviews Operations Of New York's Potter's Field (video) "New York City is the only municipality to require people to acquire a death certificate prior to visiting their public cemetery," she said at the hearing, adding that there is no law in New York State that requires proof of a legal relationship in order to visit a potter's field.
Real-Life Vigilantes That Got the Job Done | The KoldCast TV Blog

Hysteria bass line (muse) - YouTube

Courthouse News Service Class Claims AT&T Rigs Bills for iPhones - bills customers for data transactions even if they disable their phones and leave them untouched
Humble Bundle Tech support at its best. - Imgur

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U.S. Plans Post-Iraq Troop Increase in Persian Gulf - NYTimes.com - could include new combat forces in Kuwait able to respond to a collapse of security in Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran. (there's change you can believe in)

Fact Check: GOP lawmakers spin funding tall tales - Yahoo! News (otherwise known as "lying")

Solving America's teen sex problem - Sex - Salon.com The Dutch have dramatically reduced adolescent pregnancies, abortions and STDs. What do they know that we don't? (they aren't terrified Evangelical Christians?)

For drunk drivers, a habit of judicial leniency - The Boston Globe When state judges hear OUI cases without a jury, they acquit the vast majority of defendants, no matter how blatant the alleged offense. It is one more way Massachusetts stands out nationally — for all the wrong reasons — on this crime.
Residents dig out, thousands without power after ‘unbelievable’ snow - Metro Desk - The Boston Globe

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Afghanistan Suicide Bombing Kills 13 U.S. Troops - A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans on a busy street in Kabul in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months (endless pointless war)
Essam Atta Death Underlines Torture, Human Rights Abuses By Security Forces, Activists Say (same as the old torture boss)
Thailand Floods 2011: Bangkok Defenses Hold Back The Water the waters began to recede after killing almost 400 people

Europe Seeks Chinese Investment in Euro Rescue - NYTimes.com (offers to sell them Greece)

The two-tiered justice system - Salon.com (With Liberty and Justice for Some +Ashbrook's interview: radio from another dimension)
Glenn Greenwald On “America’s Lawless Elite” | On Point

Eschaton: Centrists The stupid/evil/12 dimensional chess/we're TRYING thing has bothered me for a long time ... The president, and the Democrat's Senate leadership, reject movement liberalism. The ideology they follow is grounded in the impact of globalization on world capital and labor markets. They believe the US has to reduce labor costs to be competitive
DOJ Inspector General Retracts $16-Muffin Claim | Media Matters for America the media's irresponsible coverage of "muffin-gate" reinforced the common conservative narrative of wasteful government spending. We'll be watching to see whether news outlets that pushed the IG's initial allegation inform their audiences that the $16-muffin claim has now been officially debunked (of course not)
Iowa Caucuses Are Up For Grabs
The story behind the Marco Rubio story - The Washington Post Rubio said he based his story on family lore and that he didn’t have all the documents in his possession (oh sure; WaPo Ombud clutches his pearls when Conservative complain about the truth)

Why does Bill Daley still have a job? - bill daley - Salon.com Just as the president gets his political footing, his arrogant chief of staff trips him up (Obama can't give up his Chicago gang of idiots +Daley calls Rahmbo the administration’s “leaker in chief.”)

Occupy Wall Street Has Raised $450,000, Spent Just Over $50,000
Out of touch! The cluelessness of the 1 percent - Out of Touch - Salon.com These big spenders and luxury dealers just don't get it. Help us call out their crazy-spending ways
Hullabaloo - The dark side - And remember: Rick Santelli's famous rant, which prompted the Tea Party, was a rant against the government "bailing out" homeowners (which never happened, of course, but you know who did get the bailouts ...)
Reward Offered for the Identity of the Police Officer Who Shot Marine Vet Scott Olsen

Americans’ Savings Rate Drops Again, Puzzling Experts - NYTimes.com ("experts" are stupid)

News | Weill Cornell Medical College | Cornell University
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - Scientists measure dream content for the first time Dreams activate the brain in a similar way to real actions ... shows that dream content can be measured (not)
[1110.5019] Mass of the universe in a black hole ... the interior of every black hole becomes a new universe that expands from a nonsingular bounce.
The mystery of left-handedness - Books - Salon.com he basic probability of its manifestation is an unchanging 10 percent or thereabouts. We also know that left-handedness in a parent doubles the likelihood that a child will be left-handed.

High School Math Teacher Leaves Homophobic Comments on Former Student’s Page - Failbook - Funny Facebook Status Messages ( Failbooking )
Joplin, MO Teacher Who Said More Gay Kids Need to Die is Cleared, Claims Account Was Hacked |Gay News|Gay Blog Towleroad If you thought your account was hacked, wouldn't you say so right from the start? (Joplin school board finds nothing wrong)
US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Bugs for a snack, anyone? (Wall St: "Let them eat bugs")


Google Refused Law Enforcement Request To Pull Police Brutality Video A U.S. law enforcement agency petitioned Google to take down a YouTube video showing police brutality, the web giant revealed in a new report (it might undermine confidence in the cops if you see their illegal behavior)
ARM CTO: We’re changing server economics — Cloud Computing News

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Egyptian anger grows after latest case of death by torture | World news | guardian.co.uk Critics say Essam Ali Atta's death shows junta is failing to dismantle Mubarak's brutal security apparatus
US soldier goes on trial for Afghan civilian murders | Law | guardian.co.uk Staff sergeant Calvin Gibbs is accused of murdering unarmed civilians in Afghanistan and taking body parts for trophies
International criminal court confirms that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has made contact | World news | The Guardian The court has established an indirect link with Gaddafi's son, who is believed to be attempting to reach Niger or Mali

The Path Not Taken - NYTimes.com the larger picture, namely the abject failure of an economic doctrine — a doctrine that has inflicted huge damage both in Europe and in the United States - in the aftermath of a financial crisis, banks must be bailed out but the general public must pay the price (they all had a perfectly good alternative, but bankers and their politicians decided someone else had to pay for their crimes)
Eschaton: Choice As Krgthulu says, that the peasants should suffer for the sins of their feudal lords was not inevitable. It was a choice made by those lords.
Business as usual: top directors get 49 per cent pay rise - Business News, Business - The Independent (paid for with your austerity)
Criminal Proceeds Amounted To Over $2 Trillion In 2009: UN Report (and that's not even counting the banks)

Horror of South Africa's 'corrective rape' - CNN.com (because being sexual assaulted by a guy makes you attracted to guys)

Hullabaloo Why Talk to Third Way? - the useless concern trolling of Third Way. The organization is essentially a mouthpiece for conservative corporate pseudo-Democrats. Third Way's motivations are simple: they provide a mechanism by which the Joe Liebermans of the world can try to pull the Democratic Party to the right, under the guise of appealing to "moderates."
Hullabaloo - The New Reasonable (why don't Dems stake out far-left positions to move the center like the Repubs do? Because they already staked out far-right ones)
Indecision 2012 - Scared Mittless - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 10/27/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
The Origins Of Rick Perry’s Call To Release Obama’s Grades | TPMMuckraker “is a key component of a less-than-subtle birther conspiracy that Obama got into Harvard for reasons, you know, other than his intelligence.”
The E-Mails The Feds Say Show Texas Lawmakers Trying To Limit Voting Power Of Hispanics | TPMMuckraker
Beyond 2012 Field, Nuanced G.O.P. Views on Immigrants - NYTimes.com (Republicans realize they might have alienated a few Latino voters with their insane immigration policies)
FBI Report Labels Insane Clown Posse Fans Potential Gang Threat | TPMMuckraker the Juggalos, are “a loosely-organized hybrid gang” with subsets that “exhibit gang-like behavior and engage in criminal activity and violence.” (FBI are idiots)
Hullabaloo - Out 'o Touch Clown Posse (ironically, the FBI were the clowns)
Mitt Is Not It! (for conservatives) - Digg

Occupy Wall Street protests around the world - Google Maps
Scott Olsen 'cannot talk' after injury at Occupy Oakland protest | World news | guardian.co.uk raq war veteran is believed to have sustained damage to speech centre of his brain in injury at Occupy protest on Tuesday
Despite Iraq Vet’s Cracked Skull, DoJ Sees No Evil in Occupy Crackdown | Threat Level | Wired.com When Egypt teargassed and beat protestors in Tahrir Square, the world, including the Obama administration, howled in outrage (Obama hates dissent in America)
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Says She Will Minimize Police Presence And That She Supports The Movement | ThinkProgress
The study that shows why Occupy Wall Street struck a nerve - The Washington Post The hard-right conservatives who dominate the Republican Party claim to despise the redistribution of wealth, but secretly they love it — as long as the process involves depriving the poor and middle class to benefit the rich, not the other way around (up is always down)
NYPD Sergeants Union Blasts Protesters In Oakland For Violence (copsters blaming their victims, as usual)
Republicans Cry Uncle On Spending … When Cuts Hit Home | TPMDC Call them Defense Keynesians — GOP members who represent defense interests,
Protesters, some in costumes, march in NYC - WSJ.com
Scumbag Obama - condemns police brutality to peaceful protestors in Middle Eastern nations ...
How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job
#OccupyWallSt sign of the day: "It's Wrong." - Boing Boing

Republicans Cry Uncle On Spending … When Cuts Hit Home | TPMDC Call them Defense Keynesians — GOP members who represent defense interests,
Mortgage Registry MERS Sued by Delaware Attorney General - Businessweek (Obama wanted to sweep this under the rug)
Drilling For Oil Doesn't Reduce America's Dependence On Foreign Oil
The Paycheck Deduction Racket Every American Should Know About | MoveOn.Org (States cut out middle-man, let corps collect taxes for themselves)
Chart Of The Day: How The Recession Turned Us Into A Nation Of Teetotaling Canned-Veggie Fiends | TPMDC
Americans’ Migration Patterns Shifting - NYTimes.com (sunbelt not so sunny)

New clues to the origin of creation - CBS News complex organics are easily formed by stars, they are everywhere in our own galaxy and in other galaxies," Kwok told SPACE.com in an email interview. "Nature is much more clever than we had imagined."
BBC News - Faster-than-light neutrino experiment to be run again
Could this quantum computer be the real deal? a two-qubit register made from SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference devices), two additional SQUIDs that can be used to zero the register (and act as readout), and microwave resonator striplines, which act as memory. The most significant part, however, is a bus that couples the two register qubits together
Americans' Beliefs in Paranormal Phenomena (Infographic) | Ghosts, Hauntings, Psychics & Telepathy | Why We Believe | Unexplained Phenomena | LiveScience

Justice Scalia speaks for himself on death penalty, not the Catholic Church - The Washington Post - “If I thought that Catholic doctrine held the death penalty to be immoral, I would resign,” (a question of "doctrine")

In a commitment to honesty, Twitter tries to bury the hatchet with third-party developers | VentureBeat
Apple's Form 10-K Reveals Over $80 Billion In Cash

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Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Nato operation in Libya to end on October 31
Gaddafi's driver on the endgame: 'He didn't seem to know what to do' | World news | The Guardian Huneish Nasr, who served Gaddafi for 30 years, tells how denial and confusion marked the final days of a crumbling regime (Ka-Daffy delusional)
Deadly attack on bus near Kenya's border with Somalia | World news | The Guardian Eight people, including police and education officials, said to have been killed in attack on bus carrying exam papers
Yemeni women set veils ablaze in protest at Saleh crackdown | World news | The Guardian Women's protest in Sana'a comes after overnight clashes in the capital and in Taiz leave as many as 25 people dead

Eurozone crisis: banks agree 50% reduction on Greece's debt | Business | guardian.co.uk Private investors take 'haircut' on Greek bonds in €100bn bailout that also strengthens European rescue fund
EconoMonitor : The Wilder View » The Euro Area Precedent for Policy Failure Portugal was doing all right – better than France, even – until they ran into 2010 financial stability problems that forced the government to start ‘cutting’. Portugal started to contract in Q4 2010, applied for funding in April 2011, and contracted thereafter - The EA policy plan for fiscal austerity is setting a precedent, all right, a precedent for policy failure (yes, the elites are destroying the world with their arrogance and stupidity)

Bangkok residents flee floods as river threatens to burst banks | World news | The Guardian Thai capital reaches 'critical moment' as breach in Chao Phraya river defences likely this weekend
Italy Flash Floods: Search For Survivors Starts

Testimony to begin in 'material support' terrorism case | World news | guardian.co.uk Some experts say the trial will test the limits of post-9/11 laws that aim to prosecute would-be terrorists - he US government's war against terror – prosecuting would-be terrorists, or those who "materially support" terrorists, to prevent future terror acts (Obama's war on even thinking about free speech)

Top Romney Adviser Tied to Militia That Massacred | Mother Jones How Walid Phares went from advising Lebanese warlords to counseling the GOP front-runner.
Paul Ryan Heritage Foundation Speech - Paul Ryan Is Living in a Fantasy Land Older Than Ayn Rand - Esquire Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you today's worst paragraph in political rhetoric, courtesy of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Dickens), in an appearance at the Heritage Foundation, which must be like seeing The Beatles at The Cavern in Liverpool, back in the day. Take it away, big guy.
Rubin dismisses Erickson's 'anti-Semitic screed' - Ben Smith - politico.com (Jennifer Rubin is apparently a "journalist" at WaPo, and you better not question her loyalty to America)

Scott Olsen injuries prompt review as Occupy Oakland protests continue | World news | guardian.co.uk Oakland's police review body looks into clashes between officers and protesters after Iraq war veteran suffered fractured skull - The controversial projectile, a small fabric pillow filled with around 40 grammes of lead shot, is one of the most commonly used projectiles in US policing, though it was withdrawn for 18 years after a fatal incident in 1971.
Oakland police and mayor face fresh protest over wounding of veteran | World news | guardian.co.uk Occupy movement returns to streets demanding answers after teargas canister hit Iraq serviceman Scott Olsen in the head
Occupy Oakland - police under scrutiny live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Oakland's police review body to "look into" Olsen injuries
Occupy Oakland Police Action Unnerves Wall Street Protestors

US economy grew at modest rate over summer | Business | guardian.co.uk Growth of 2.5% in third quarter boosts markets but unemployment still high and confidence in short supply
GDP Q3 2011: U.S. Economy Grows At Annualized Rate Of 2.5 Percent, Meeting Expectations
GDP grows. But how long until full employment? - The Washington Post “There’s just nothing to say about 2.5 percent growth, beyond: The recovery has been postponed another quarter.”
Eschaton: This Is What Our Leaders Have Given Us Basically, the country is going to be a lot poorer than it should be because the people in charge are incompetent and/or evil. Some of that is going to be spread relatively evenly through the population, with most of us having a bit smaller raises then we might have hoped for. Some of that is going to be concentrated misery for people who can't find jobs. And, of course, some people have their mouths on the spigot of free cash that is being forced down the gullets of the privileged few, the ones we "forced" take all that TARP and fed discount window money.
Income Inequality Reaches Gilded Age Levels, Congressional Report Finds

$20 Million Gift to High Line Park - NYTimes.com


Sony Buys Out Sony Ericsson For $1.46 Billion

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Bangkok Underwater - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Libya: NATO Delays End To Bombing Campaign
Kenya: Pub Grenade Blast Wounds Dozen
Yemen Protests: Women Burn Veils To Protest Government Crackdown
NPR celebrates crazy forum troll's decision to practice unlicensed medicine in Libya - NPR - Salon.com A young man with a history of paranoid writings and no combat or medical experience gets an uncritical interview
Saddam Hussein ordered execution of journalist Farzad Bazoft, records reveal | World news | guardian.co.uk to punish Margaret Thatcher and humiliate Britain, secret recordings released in Washington reveal.

WikiLeaks cables and the Iraq War - Salon.com The negotiations were strained following WikiLeaks’ release of a diplomatic cable that alleged Iraqi civilians, including children, were killed in a 2006 raid by American troops rather than in an airstrike as the U.S. military initially reported.
The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son - Salon.com - he was born only 16 years ago in Denver ... along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people (the worst of the worst; no limits on Obama's illegal killing of American children; total secrecy: America doesn't even have a drone program)

UN: World will miss economic benefit of 1.8 billion young people | Environment | guardian.co.uk Population report says lack of education, infrastructure and jobs will mean a generation's potential will be wasted

EU summit: live coverage of debt crisis talks | Business | guardian.co.uk Write-down expected on Greek bonds • Reports that Italian PM has agreed to step down in January
European leaders head for financial summit with no solution in sight - The Washington Post (dysfunctional robber-baron elites)

Andy Coulson Legal Fees Were To Be Paid By News International

How the Patriot Act stripped me of my free-speech rights - The Washington Post -- Nine years under FBI gag order: a desire to insulate the FBI from public criticism and oversight (Obama's bullshit "national security")
Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal | TPM LiveWire (authorization to lie: Obama's sooper-secrit spy state)
Ten Years Ago, Anthrax Attacks–and Judy Miller–Had Huge Effect on Passage of Patriot Act | emptywheel

Ending The War In Iraq: How Obama's Own Rhetoric -- And George Bush's Pact -- Boxed In The President The Barack Obama of 2011 and the Barack Obama of 2008 don't always see eye to eye (you mean the guy we voted for was lying)
Democrats on Super Committee Offer to Cut Medicare Benefits | FDL Action (Obama's "grand bargain" is back in play)
Hullabaloo - Republicans just won a round of jousting over President Obama’s jobs bill (capitulator-in-chief: "We'll pass the Republican agenda so they don't have to")
Obama Campaign Drops The George W. Bush Talking Point
Valerie Jarrett’s latest role: Shoring up Obama’s support base - The Washington Post (by meeting with lobbyists and fatcats, his "base")
Balloon Juice » Jenny, I got your number - The Washington Post’s official conservative blogger, Jennifer Rubin, has written 60 columns on the would-be conservative favorite, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, eight of them Tuesday (needs prozac)
Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas | Politics News | Rolling Stone The Texas governor has one driving passion: selling off government to the highest bidder
Color Of Change Urges MSNBC To Fire Pat Buchanan (NPR/MSNBC's favorite racist commentator)
Who's Calling Who Extremist?
Steve Jobs: Fox News 'A Destructive Force In Our Society' "The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive, and you've cast your lot with the destructive people. Fox has become an incredibly destructive force in our society
Schaeffer Cox-Linked ‘Sovereign Citizens’ In WA Accused Of Threatening To Abduct Officials | TPMMuckraker
The Truth Has A Well-Known, Well, You Know - NYTimes.com So Ryan is outraged,outraged, that Obama is offering a wholly accurate description of his party’s platform.

The Dylan Ratigan Show: Is the Occupy movement just preoccupying the media?
As Wall Street Protest Grows, Occupiers Attempt To Change Movement's Structure
The Stunning Victory That Occupy Wall Street Has Already Achieved | | AlterNet In just one month, the protesters have shifted the national dialogue from a relentless focus on the deficit to a discussion of the real issues facing Main Street.
Occupy Oakland Protest: Police Fire Tear Gas And Beanbag Rounds, Clear Out Encampment (photos, video)
Oakland Police Critically Injure Iraq War Vet During Occupy March (cops fire into crowd; deny using "projectiles")
Occupy Oakland clashes – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk
Police Censor The Media As They Unleash Devastating Force On Occupy Oakland - the media has been told to turn off their cameras and depart the scene and they reportedly acquiesced.
LAPD Seeks To Shut Down "Occupy LAPD" Twitter Account - Los Angeles News - The Informer
From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Asmaa Mahfouz's message to US protesters proves the links between OWS and the Arab Spring are meaningful, not fanciful
Joe The Plumber: Fan Of Herman Cain, Not Of 'Anarchists' And 'Communists' In Occupy Movement (teahadists always were bankers' pawns: quick, look over there at that Muslim socialist! and not our world-destroying financial crimes)

BofA’s $55T wager: Shift of dodgy derivatives pits FDIC vs. Fed - NYPOST.com At issue is BofA’s decision to shift what sources say is some $55 trillion in derivatives at Merrill Lynch to the retail bank unit, which houses trillions in deposits insured by the FDIC (getting ready to seize all your money)
Banks Flooded With Cash They Can’t Profitably Use - NYTimes.com
Bank Of America CEO 'Incensed' That So Many People Keep Pointing Out How Awful His Bank Is Brian T. Moynihan
Venture Capitalists Join Push to Ease F.D.A. Rules for Medical Device Industry - NYTimes.com (that's worked out so well +they just make up numbers)
Stormy Forecast: First Solar CEO Fired, Stocks Tumble | TPM Idea Lab

Your DNA may carry a ‘memory’ of your living conditions in childhood | ScienceBlog.com
US-Style Emissions a ‘Disaster’ | China Power Allowing China’s per capita carbon dioxide emissions to reach the levels of the United States would be a ‘disaster for the world,’ the country’s minister responsible for climate policy has said.

Former Detective: NYPD Planted Drugs on People to Meet Drug Arrest Quotas | Drugs | AlterNet New York City police regularly planted drugs on innocent people to meet quotas.

Apple Granted “Slide to Unlock” Patent in U.S. “The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture [or path] for unlocking the device.” (Apple patents the light switch)
Why Did Amazon Profits Take A Hit? It Is Investing In The Future (Content And Web Services) | TechCrunch
Nokia N9 review -- Engadget

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Gaddafi Buried: Burial Of Gaddafi, Muatassim And Abu Bakr Younis In Secret Location
‘Obama doctrine’ begins to take shape - FT.com
Syrian state hospitals are torturing demonstrators, says rights group | World news | guardian.co.uk Amnesty International report says wounded protesters are being assaulted by medical staff and security personnel
Tunisia elections: An-Nahda party on course to win | World news | The Guardian Moderate Islamist party An-Nahda tipped for victory in Tunisia's first free elections nine months after people's revolution

The bankers' blockade of WikiLeaks must end | James Ball | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Whether you support WikiLeaks or not, the blockade by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and others is a sinister attack on free speech (Obama hates free speech unless it's by a corporation)
Sex Abuse Claims: Vatican Investigates Ealing Abbey In London a Benedictine abbey in London, whose former head monk has disappeared while facing allegations of sexual assault (serial pedophiles; goes on and on and on)

Grand plan to solve euro crisis in doubt - Europe, World - The Independent
Occupy Wall Street: live coverage of protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Arrests at Occupy Oakland as police launch crackdown
Hard line adopted on Greek debt loss - FT.com European negotiators have asked Greek debt holders to accept a 60 per cent cut in the face value of their bonds, a hardline stance that far exceeds losses agreed in a deal between private investors and eurozone authorities three months ago.


Voters With Housing Woes Giving Up On Politicians (Obama hates homeowners)
Say Anything - NYTimes.com movement conservatism has become a closed, inward-looking universe in which you get points not by sounding reasonable to uncommitted outsiders — although there are a few designated pundits who play that role professionally — but by outdoing your fellow movement members in zeal. It’s sort of reminiscent of Stalinists going after Trotskyites in the old days:
Political Animal - ‘Beyond redemption’ “If Dick Lugar,” Danforth said, “having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person in the Senate and the leading authority on foreign policy, is seriously challenged by anybody in the Republican Party, we have gone so far overboard that we are beyond redemption.” That was 11 months ago ... (way beyond redemption)
Rick Perry: Obama Birth Certificate 'A Good Issue To Keep Alive' (video)
The Birther Issue: Where The Republican Presidential Candidates Stand
Haley Barbour To GOP Field: Drop The Birther Talk
The Washington Monthly she’s become a shell of her former self, leading to this op-ed — written with a right-wing Alabama senator, no less — demanding that the dysfunctional Senate adopt new ideas that make it more difficult to pass necessary legislation (Queen Olympia shows her true colors)
Ohio Voters Likely to Repeal Anti-Union Law | Elections
Scott Walker's Recall Plan: Rake in Unlimited Cash | Mother Jones
Keith Olbermann: Fox News Is A 'Political Whorehouse' (this is a "controversial" statement)
Judd Gregg The Hill Column - No, Judd, We Are Not Marching Toward a Social Welfare State - Esquire Judd Gregg — whose involvement in the death of the crucial CLASS health-care program we have admonished here and here — was once offered a job by the Obama Administration (remember that?)
‘I Refuse To Be Intimidated’: Birther OathKeeper’s Trial Heads To Jury | TPMMuckraker birther OathKeeper Darren Huff, who allegedly attempted to take over a Tennessee courthouse and conduct citizens arrests on local judges and officers.
Carrying a Gun Across States Isn't the Same as Driving a Car - Esquire - there are two compelling federal interests that conservatives believe override the principles of states rights and limited federal government. The one is being able to carry a gun down your pants, and the other is keeping gay people from marrying each other.

A 53% Surge in Poverty Rate Is Reshaping Suburbs - NYTimes.com “The whole political class is just getting the memo that Ozzie and Harriet don’t live here anymore,” said Edward Hill, dean of the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. ("whole political class" = Republicans)

No More Mister Nice Blog Everyone Hates Banksters -- Except The Teabaggers (exception is Southern Teabaggers +NPR lies to you all the time)
It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
Oakland Police Use Rubber Bullets, Flash Grenades, And Smoke Bombs To Evict Occupy Oakland | ThinkProgress
Occupy Wall Street: live coverage of protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Arrests at Occupy Oakland as police launch crackdown
No More Mister Nice Blog - Murdoch Media Cherry-Picks Crime Stats For Political Reasons? I'm So Shocked - Southern criminals, anticipating the deployment of (mostly non-Southern) cops to Occupy protests nationwide, took advantage of the expected thinning of available ranks to mount their attacks. Am I close, Rupert?
Naomi Wolf: true radical or ultra egoist? | Profile | From the Observer | The Observer The feminist beauty who has plundered her own life to produce bestsellers has been arrested over the Wall Street protests. Is this a new departure into genuine activism or yet more self-publicity?
Class Warfare Breaks Out Within The 'Occupy' Movement
How lack of transparency enables police brutality | David Packman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk We know police brutality is a serious problem in the US, but law enforcement agencies are able to suppress the key information - 45 states now place restrictions on the release of information about police misconduct; 22 of those prohibit the release of any disciplinary information whatsoever.
Have Glock, Will Travel - NYTimes.com (Republicans and Dems bow to NRA)

Eschaton: Euphemisms Just a reminder that "recapitalization" is the new preferred term for "bank bailout" otherwise known as "giving free money to rich overpaid assholes who keep trying to destroy the world."
Income Distribution: Poor, Rich, And Richest [graphic]
A 53% Surge in Poverty Rate Is Reshaping Suburbs - NYTimes.com

How 18th-Century Copiale Cipher Was Cracked - NYTimes.com
On the menu, but not on your plate - The Boston Globe
Gas pump handles top study of filthy surfaces | Reuters


Congress asked to investigate internet “supercookies” | Oregon Business News
Did Android copy iOS? We asked Google's product manager... | Technology | guardian.co.uk (psycho-Jobs)
NFLX: Netflix Stock Plummets On Weak Outlooks, Downgrades
Netflix’s Nightmare Continues: Loses 800,000 Subscribers in Third Quarter

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Gaddafi Death Questioned
As Libya Takes Stock, Muammar Gaddafi's Hidden Riches Astound $200 billion in bank accounts, real estate and corporate investments around the world before he was killed, about $30,000 for every Libyan citizen
Libya: Apparent Execution of 53 Gaddafi Supporters | Human Rights Watch
Gaddafi sodomized: Video shows abuse frame by frame
Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran by Ray McGovern -- Antiwar.com America’s neocons apparently hoped that Israel would be the beneficiary, with a U.S.-occupied Iraq serving as a land-based aircraft carrier for applying military pressure on neighboring Iran and Syria. But you don’t start a war on hope.
poorrichards blog: Muslim Solidarity in the Middle East and the end of Jewish Serial Wars–The Real “Iranian Bomb” Israel Fears More Than Anything Else
Why is the oil price still so high? - Telegraph Libyan oil has returned to the market. But the price has remained above $100 a barrel (well, you see ...)

Eurozone debt crisis live: Eurozone lurches closer to recession | Business | guardian.co.uk Worse-than-expected eurozone data reignite recession fears (more austerity needed)
The Hole in Europe’s Bucket - NYTimes.com as one rescue plan after another falls flat, Europe’s Very Serious People — who are, if such a thing is possible, even more pompous and self-regarding than their American counterparts — just keep looking more and more ridiculous (our very serious people are insane, literally)
Open Europe blog: Doom, Gloom and a dash of slapstick: Commentariat responds to EU summit

Les Hinton: I was right to say phone hacking was not rife | Media | guardian.co.uk Former News International executive stands by his statement to parliament in 2009 despite having seen Clive Goodman letter ("I stand by my previous lies")

WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade | Media | guardian.co.uk Julian Assange says banking bans have destroyed 95% of whistleblowing site's revenues (with Obama's support)
Anonymous Vows to Shut Down Fox News

US pulls ambassador Robert Ford out of Syria over security concerns | World news | guardian.co.uk Officials say Ford – who angered Syrian regime over his support for anti-Assad protesters – had been threatened with his life
Program To Train Iraqi Troops Could Become 'Bottomless Pit' Of U.S. Money, Report Warns (depends on how you define "out")
The Frame: Japan marks 6 months since earthquake, tsunami

Political Animal - The incentive behind GOP obstructionism This private citizen agrees with Obama, but is inclined to vote for Romney anyway — even though Romney would move the country in the other direction — because the president hasn’t been able to “rally the political forces” to act sensibly in Washington (media never covers Republican obstructionism)
Political Animal - What to expect from a Romney budget In other words, one of Romney’s key ideas on how best to make the deficit smaller would actually make the deficit much bigger. Anyone who thinks this guy has credibility on these issues just isn’t paying close enough attention.
Michele Bachmann Denies Abortion Comment: 'I Don't Think I Ever Said That' "I think that's referring to late-term abortion, and I think that's something that most people find anathema, and they would prefer to see it outlawed,"
Pat Buchanan Appears On "Pro-White" Radio Show | Media Matters for America (NPR/MSNBC's favorite racist commentator)

Hullabaloo Picking the right target (link to CNN poll on WS bankers - 50% of Teapartiers believe Wall St is honest, much higher than neutral/oppose TP +diagnostic for delusionality)
Occupy Wall Street puts spotlight on police stop-and-frisk tactics | World news | guardian.co.uk Protests over targeting of black and Hispanic men amid claims that NYPD commissioner says policy is used to 'instil fear'
'Chemical Bomb' Thrown at Occupy Maine Encampment - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Occupy Wall Street Demonstration - Kalispell Montana - 10/22/11 - YouTube - "OWS is just a communist big government hippie mob."
Shakesville: Occupy Everywhere & Economic News Round-Up
Doonesbury Strip - The rich have won

Obama’s efforts to aid homeowners, boost housing market fall far short of goals - The Washington Post (Obama's biggest obstruction was always himself)
DownWithTyranny!: The Age-Old Conservative Crusade To Guarantee The Rich Pay Less - The flat tax is a fraud. It raises taxes on the poor and lowers them on the rich.
Hullabaloo - Radical Conservatives - At its core, conservatism has been since the 18th century a slow, grinding fight against the Enlightenment.
Lack of jobs leaves more suburban, middle class sliding into poverty - Chicago Sun-Times (they are all experiencing David Brooks' "moral reawakening")
Obama’s efforts to aid homeowners, boost housing market fall far short of goals - The Washington Post Generally, the Treasury secretary did not regard direct homeowner aid as the best use of taxpayer dollars. He favored expanding the economy by spending money on construction projects or programs to keep teachers and other workers employed, which would help the housing market. In meetings, Geithner would tell the president that if he suddenly had $100 billion more to spend, he would never advise spending it on housing (Obama's Republican policies failed, who could have predicted?)
poorrichards blog: What Would Happen if Goldman Sachs Disappeared?
New Obama Foreclosure Plan Helps Banks At Taxpayers' Expense (there you go)
Local News | Seattle's street plan is 'recipe for disaster' | Seattle Times Newspaper One out of every four major roads in the city is in serious disrepair. One out of every 10 is in such bad shape that it'll have to be reconstructed, according to the city's transportation department. In all, 400 miles of major streets need fixing, at an estimated cost of about $578 million (infrastructure crumbling; for the price of Iraq, America could have rebuilt itself; Republicans hate roads)

Wheelchair Bound Woman Shouted Down At New Jersey Health Care Town Hall - YouTube (the 99% is eating itself) and a quote from Al Franken in comments   -->   "In her book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise Valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then, after ten or twelve peasants violated the lady, with his children watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her husband and then killed her. "That is class warfare.   "Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not."

Crowded planet: Global population hits 7 billion | Environment | The Guardian
Focus on HIV-Aids cost family planning a decade, says UN population chief | Environment | The Guardian Babatunde Osotimehin says it was hard to talk about cutting birth rate as families lost their children
Physicists unveil a theory for a new kind of superconductivity
BBC One - Frozen Planet

ICE Sued For Alleged Warrantless Raid In TN: ‘We’re ICE…The Warrant Is Coming Out Of My Balls’ | TPMMuckraker
Republican New Jersey Mayor Caught Up In ‘Rentboy’ Scandal | TPMMuckraker A Republican mayor in New Jersey denies that he agreed to pay a California man for sex through the website Rentboy.com, and says he doesn’t even know if the pictures posted of him in bright blue underwear are real (eeewwww)

No, Christian Louboutin, wearing high heels does not lead to orgasm! | Life and style | The Guardian
AmgezaGautengSavingCalf_Short - YouTube

Paging James Bond: Researchers Develop System That Wipes Data Based On Location | TPM Idea Lab
Reddit teaches Amazon the power of over-the-top customer service | Techi.com

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Turkey earthquake leaves as many as 1,000 people feared dead | World news | The Guardian Towns of Ercis and Van in mountainous region of eastern Turkey appear to be worst affected by 7.2 magnitude quake
Turkey earthquake: 7.2 quake in Turkey kills 85, collapses buildings - latimes.com
Magnitude 7.2 - Eastern Turkey

Libya's transitional leader declares liberation - Yahoo! News
Reduced To One | Talking Points Memo
Gaddafi's last words as he begged for mercy: 'What did I do to you?' | World news | The Observer As National Transitional Council fighters fought their way into Sirte, radio intercepts spoke of 'an asset' in the besieged city. But no one knew until the final moments that the deposed dictator was within their grasp
Gaddafi's corpse continues to attract impatient Misrata hordes | World news | The Guardian Queues continue at the meat cooler that houses the body of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi - "Did anyone complain when the Americans shot Osama [bin Laden] in the head?" asked a rebel leader (race to the bottom in moral equivalences led by Amercia)
Boundaries are crossed as grim images of Gaddafi flood the media | Peter Preston | Comment is free | The Observer Publishing graphic pictures of the dead and dying has become less taboo over the years; but the tone of vengeance Fleet Street adopted for this death was new

Tunisians flock to voting stations for first taste of democracy in 50 years | World news | The Guardian People queue to vote as candidates from 110 political parties and scores of independents bid to join new 217-seat government
Hamid Karzai claims on TV his country 'will side with Pakistan if US attacks' | World news | The Guardian Afghan president accused of hypocrisy and ingratitude over remarks made soon after Hillary Clinton's visit to the region (a trillion dollars for this)
Iran's assassination plot compels a tough response | John Bolton | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (comments 100% negative on Bolton's neocon lies)
'Die Welt': Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela - JPost - International - . Die Welt cited information from “Western security insiders.” ("insiders" - John Bolton - Israel cranks up ridiculous propaganda)
The Excavator: Israel And America Declare Total War on Persia The state terrorist regimes in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Washington are madly pushing for world war three in the Middle East.
The new U.S. Zionist: Israel-bashing, made kosher | BobTuskin.com The deal to release Gilad Shalit has changed the way American Zionists relate to the Israeli government – and the freedom with which they criticize its policies.

285 Indian girls shed 'unwanted' names – usatoday.com a 15-year-old girl who had been named Nakusa by a grandfather disappointed by her birth. She chose the new name "Ashmita," which means "very tough" or "rock hard" in Hindi.

Meanwhile, Greece - NYTimes.com

Republican Polls' Roller Coaster Powered By News Coverage
Lindsey Graham: Obama ‘Failed’ In Iraq | TPMDC (but Bush was a huge success)
Jim Webb's Criminal Justice Overhaul Commission Blocked Again In Senate Sen. Jim Webb's effort to reform criminal justice in the United States has once again been blocked in the Senate.
Meet the Patch: Assemblyman Jones Backs State Prisons in Other Nations - La Mesa, CA Patch
State loan program that Perry touted had to be bailed out
Picking on Gregg Easterbrook « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Over A Third Of Americans Support Occupy Wall Street Protests: Poll [LIVE UPDATES] More than one-third of the country supports the Wall Street protests, and even more – 58 percent – say they are furious about America's politics.
Videos - Occupy America Social Network
Occupy: protesters in their own words | World news | The Observer London became part of the global Occupy movement when protesters set up camp at St Paul's. From Frankfurt to Madrid, Wall Street to Athens, people are taking to the streets to rage against greed and inequality. Who are the demonstrators and what do they hope to achieve?
Knife-wielding man attacks Occupy Albuquerque protest The man, Miguel Aguirre, 48, later told police that their presence was disrespectful to a state university,
occupy amsterdam - 22-10-2011 - YouTube
Occupy Wall Street - Chris Hedges shuts down CBC Kevin O'Leary - YouTube.flv - YouTube

Robert Waldmann: Questions About Nominal GDP Targeting - RJW still cannot spell "targeting" - And if that doesn't work, you lend JPMorganChase $30 billion on the security of Jamie Dimon's dog.

Major ALS Breakthrough – Common Cause of All Forms of ALS Discovered | Neuroscience News The basis of the disorder is a broken down protein recycling system in the neurons of the spinal cord and the brain.

Time Warner Customer Service Rep Told to Stop Giving CPR to Dying Co-Worker and Get Back to Work | Video Cafe
Black people blatantly excluded from Alabama juries, lawsuit claims | World news | guardian.co.uk Discriminatory practices outlawed in 1875 still rife across the US south, lawyers allege in new class action (the South rose and that was that)
Police brutality charges sweep across the US | World news | The Observer From Naomi Wolf's arrest in New York to shootings in Tucson and Florida, forces face allegations of abuse of power (10 years of training cops to fight "terrorism")
Chicago police officer investigated for three shootings, two of them fatal - chicagotribune.com
Mountain Jesus statue could lose its lease - dailytribune.com amid an argument over the separation of church and state.
Church Of Scientology Investigated 'South Park' Creators Matt Stone, Trey Parker: Report

Watch Out MAFIAA, Antibiotics Don’t Work On Viral Pirates | TorrentFreak
Add Nyan Cat To Your Progress Bars, Because It’s Awesome
Technolog - Malware can cripple your Mac's built-in security tools

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Libya prepares for liberation ceremony | World news | guardian.co.uk Governing National Transitional Council plans declaration as Nato announces it will end military operation on 31 October

Iraq By The Numbers: The World's Costliest Cakewalk | ThinkProgress - $3 – $5 trillion in total economic cost to the United States of the Iraq war (0 "weapons of mass destruction" - where were the Republican deficit hawks for 8 years? ... oh wait)
WhoWhatWhy’s Libya Primer: The (Still) Untold Back Story to Qaddafi’s Demise - WhoWhatWhy | WhoWhatWhy
U.S. departure will leave Iraq on its own in a sea of conflict | McClatchy
Iraq casualties and deaths by US state: mapped | Datablog | News | guardian.co.uk
Iraq Troop Withdrawal: Immunity Issue Scuttled Deal, Says Iraq PM (military wanted immunity for their criminal actions)
Fox's Iraq War Cheerleaders Are Crestfallen Over Withdrawal | Media Matters for America (giant worldwide penis!)
Blasts in Baghdad's Sadr City kill at least 18, wound 40 | McClatchy

German Pirate Party Riding the Wave of Success | TorrentFreak This week the German Pirate Party reached an impressive milestone as it hit double digits in the polls for the national elections. With one in ten Germans embracing the ideas of the young party, the Pirates are on course to gain serious influence in one of the world’s major political arenas.
Thailand Floods 2011: Water May Stay For Six More Weeks, PM Says
Tunisia Elections 2011: First Free And Multiparty Polls
U.S.-Pakistan talks won't lead to military action against Haqqani | McClatchy

21st-Century China - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
Without credit card donations, WikiLeaks facing funding crisis | McClatchy Visa, MasterCard and PayPal have refused for more than 10 months to process donations made on its behalf.

Jens Weidmann, German Central Bank Governor, Says Expanding Euro Bailout Fund Won't Solve Crisis
Europe on the breadline: 'Chaos is a Greek word' | World news | guardian.co.uk (destroying the middle class to save criminal banksters)

Party of Pollution - NYTimes.com So what is the G.O.P. jobs plan? The answer, in large part, is to allow more pollution.
Obama's Foreign Policy Successes May Help Little In 2012 Ninety-three percent of those questioned said the economy was an extremely or very important issue. By comparison, 73 percent put the same emphasis on terrorism.

Gallup: Obama's approval rating hits another low | McClatchy new low of 41 percent in the 11th financial quarter of his term,
Why Did the White House Cancel the Rose Garden Bill Signing Ceremony for the Free Trade Agreements? - ABC News White House officials say the president’s schedule is too busy. (Though, it should be noted, he made time to greet labor leaders and workers in the Rose Garden who had planned to attend the signing ceremony.
Which States Are Most Enthusiastic About Obama’s Reelection? -- Daily Intel
Hullabaloo - Reverse Robin Hoods - Republicans are actually arguing that the biggest problem in this country is that the rich are being asked to pay too much in federal taxes while the poor --- mostly single mothers with children -- are not paying their fair share. And it is a national disgrace that 47% of Americans are that poor. (Anderson Cooper apologizes for repeating Republican lie during debate; show you how informed our elite press is)
Herman Cain Stumbling Under Glare Of National Spotlight (clown of the week)
Veterans Benefits: Lawmakers Open To Changes In Military Benefits The government's promise of lifetime health care for the military's men and women is suddenly a little less sacrosanct as Congress looks to slash trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
California Republican: State Should Imprison Undocumented Immigrants Abroad (rendite them to Bagram)
Corbett: Transportation not at top of list | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/22/2011 vouchers and the Marcellus Shale were priorities (Republican Gov: drill, baby, drill)
Past Her Freshness Date | TBogg This is how the leader of the lost becomes a loss leader… (Sarah Palin and the dustbin of Republican idiocy)
Federal Judge: Republicans Only Cooperated With FBI In Alabama Bingo Bribery Case Because They’re Racists | TPMMuckraker
Sorry, Texas Prisoners! No Lunch For You On Weekends | Crooks and Liars (starvation as a cost-cutting measure)
Fla. state Senator's call to check Hispanic voters' citizenship draws fire | McClatchy voters should be screened for citizenship before legislators draw a congressional district to favor Hispanics.
Commentary: What happens when illegal immigrants go away? | McClatchy Here’s what you get when you get the Mexicans to leave: Rotting crops, businesses closing, concerned police, children missing school. And, of course, families torn apart (go Republicans!)
Hullabaloo more proof that the Bible-thumping nuts are no longer are the driving core of the GOP base. They've been replaced by the cult of Objectivism that has taken center stage in the GOP. It's a new Randian day in the GOP, and the Bachmann/Santorum crowd are just being used and taken along for the ride.

David Brooks Does Not Get the Moral Norm of Being Broke - Esquire - Charles Pierce (at his best +elitist idiots)

Bernie Sanders: America's No1 socialist makes his move into the mainstream | World news | guardian.co.uk Vermont senator, for years a political exile, insists his left-wing beliefs chime with Americans far more than people think
Allen West: Occupy Movement Is a Commie "Gang" Full of "the Bad People" - Broward/Palm Beach News - The Daily Pulp
Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie Occupy Wall Street, Perform (video)
Cornel West Arrested: Activist Allegedly Arrested Taking Part In Occupy Wall Street Protest In New York
Teacher Fired For Anti-Semitic Comments At 'Occupy' Rally - Careers Articles , "I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government, they need to be run out of this country." (no free speech for teachers, either)
Public Parks Should Be Occupied | ThinkProgress (parks are not for people)
Hullabaloo The real whiners in our society are the insufferable masters of the Universe who behave as if they've been literally crucufied for being called on their selfishness and greed and act like psychopathic frat boys when confronted with their disgusting behavior.

Climate Change Deniers Abandon ‘Befuddled Warmist’ Physicist Who Came Around On Global Warming | TPMDC
Pathogen Genomics Has Become Dirt Cheap: Scientific American Podcast a pathogen's genome has dropped in 10 years from $500,000 to as low as $10. Steve Mirsky reports
Global Village Construction Set by Marcin Jakubowski — Kickstarter
Study: Many college students not learning to think critically | McClatchy

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - YouTube

Google Said To Consider Possible Yahoo Bid (eMeg's mission?)
Facebook's Privacy Policy Under Scrutiny In Europe, Partly Because Students Complained (they are saving everything you do)
Anonymous exposes pedophile ring - hacks Lolita City - National Anonymous | Examiner.com
Anonymous Attacks Child Porn Websites and Publish User Names | ZDNet
Opdarknet's Pastebin - Pastebin.com

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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi obituary | World news | The Guardian Narcissistic leader of Libya since 1969 who backed terrorism round the world and became US public enemy number one
Libya after Gaddafi - Friday 21 October | World news | guardian.co.uk Confusion over exactly how Gaddafi died
Muammar Gaddafi, the 'king of kings', dies in his hometown | World news | The Guardian Libya's former leader killed by rebels in Sirte in wake of French air strike, although precise details of his death remain unclear
Muammar Gaddafi's 'trophy' body on show in Misrata meat store | World news | The Guardian Libyans queue to see dictator's body as wounds appear to confirm he was killed in cold blood
Some Vindication for Obama’s Approach to War - NYTimes.com “The whole thing cost $1 billion,” said Micah Zenko, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s a rounding error.”
Gaddafi dead: Hillary Clinton reacts to news of his capture on BlackBerry | Mail Online

Iraq rejects US request to maintain bases after troop withdrawal | World news | guardian.co.uk Obama announces the full withdrawal of troops from Iraq but fails to persuade Nouri al-Maliki to allow US to keep bases there
Obama Announces Iraq Troops Will Be Withdrawn By End Of 2011 ("contractors" not included)
The Iraq War Ain’t Over, No Matter What Obama Says | Danger Room | Wired.com President Obama announced on Friday that all 41,000 U.S. troops currently in Iraq will return home by December 31. “That is how America’s military efforts in Iraq will end,” he said. Don’t believe him ("On January 1, 2012, the State Department will command a hired army of about 5,500 security contractors, all to protect the largest U.S. diplomatic presence anywhere overseas.")
Syrian protesters vow to bring down Assad regime | World news | The Guardian Death of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya brings new momentum to uprising as demonstrators call for international military intervention

US and China call for action on eurozone debt crisis | Business | The Guardian Wen Jiabao lectures EU leaders on the need for structural reform but they will make no decision until summit next week

Rupert Murdoch speaks of 'unfair attack' in face of shareholder revolt | Media | The Guardian News Corp chairman and chief executive makes defiant address at annual shareholder's meeting in Los Angeles
Murdoch Faces Angry News Corp. Shareholders (recap)

Hullabaloo - "Something must be done. That something? Nothing" (Colbert)
Okkupy teh LOL Streetz! - Teh Banksters foreclosed on mah Cheezburger

Cantor Cancels Income Inequality Speech After Learning It Will Be Open To The Public. | ThinkProgress (chicken-shit Republicans)
Jon Stewart Rips GOP, Fox News Reaction To Gaddafi's Death: 'WTF Is Wrong With You People?' (video) Three in particular, Arizona Senator John McCain, Florida Senator Marco Runio and Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, gave credit to Great Britain and France instead of the U.S. or President Obama
Herman Cain Compares Social Security To Slavery | ThinkProgress (debasing the capacity for thought)
Mark Sanford To Fox News: Ex-South Carolina Governor Joins Network (welfare for failed Republicans)

Rich People Create Jobs! | Mother Jones And five other myths that must die for our economy to live (the lies they tell you)
Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street a Counter to White-Collar Fraud
ABC Uncovers Scandal: Electric-Car Companies Using Federal Money To Create American Jobs | Media Matters for America (shocking Republican revelation)
Galileo Satellite Navigation System: EU Launches Its First Satellite Navigation System

Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit | Mother Jones - Muller said, "Our biggest surprise was that the new results agreed so closely with the warming values published previously by other teams in the US and the UK." In other words, climate scientists know what they're doing after all. (Koch-funded study: "hockey-stick" turns out to be true; 98% of Republicans unfazed by facts)

How Symphonies Grew Strong Audiences By Killing The Myth Of The Average Consumer | Fast Company It turns out the quality of the orchestra, magnificence of the hall, and virtuosity of the conductor were not particularly important attributes. What was? Drum roll! The most powerful "driver of revisitation" was parking!
Joe. My. God.: Dominionism & The Mayor Of Vallejo CA
Dems' New Faith Outreach Director "Pro-Life" and Against Marriage Equality (Updated) | Religion Dispatches


Steve Jobs Said He'd 'Go Thermonuclear War' On Google Over iPhone 'Theft' Jobs also slammed Google's work, telling Isaacson that "outside of Search, Google's products--Android, Google Docs--are shit." (psycho-Jobs)

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Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Libyan PM confirms death of former dictator
Gaddafi removed from truck apparently alive - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Lindsey Graham: 'Let's Get In On The Ground. There's A Lot Of Money To Be Made In The Future Of Libya' | ThinkProgress
In Egypt, corruption cases had an American root - The Washington Post (your State Dept at work)

Man killed in Greek austerity protests - live | Business | guardian.co.uk - t least 74 people were taken to hospital today after being injured during the protests.

The Volokh Conspiracy » French Court Orders ISPs to Block Access to Site That “Allow[s] Civilians to Post Videos of Alleged Police Misconduct”
Tristane Banon: 'I feel total relief at Dominique Strauss-Kahn ruling' | World news | The Guardian French writer speaks out after prosecutor says there was evidence that former IMF chief sexually assaulted her

States Warn That Tax Revenues Aren’t Rebounding - NYTimes.com - “We are in the fragile aftermath of the Great Recession, where a return to normalcy seems like a mirage in the desert — the closer we get to it, the further it moves away.” (well, do more austerity and kick out more immigrants)
Flashback: In His Book, Romney Attacked Obama's Foreign Policy For Appeasing Qaddafi | ThinkProgress
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Is Very Regressive | ThinkProgress (tax the poor! free the rich!)
Herman Cain: Jesus Was Killed By A 'Liberal Court'
Herman Cain Blames The Unemployed, GOP Debate Audience Cheers (video)
Oklahoma Abortion Law Blocked By District Judge
Steve Israel Furious At Republican Charge That He Embraces Anti-Semitism In Occupy Wall Street "They are questioning my commitment to my own religion."
How The NRA Plans To Force Nearly Every State To Follow The Nation's Worst Gun Laws | ThinkProgress 246 lawmakers signed onto the bill in the House, all but ensuring that it will pass that chamber, and more than half of the Senate Republican caucus
Pat Buchanan Attacks Army For Celebrating Diversity | Media Matters for America
Pat Buchanan: Blacks Have Lost The American Identity They Had During Segregation | Media Matters for America

Tea Partiers: The self-hating 99 per cent - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Although the Tea Party and Occupy movement share surface similarities, they represent opposite world views.
Lisa Simeone Under Fire From National Public Radio For Part In D.C. Protests, Remains 'World of Opera' Host - Simeone, as it happens, is not an NPR employee, so what appears to be happening is that they are putting pressure on her employers to get rid of her. Wednesday night, she was fired from "Soundprint," despite the fact that the show isn't produced by NPR - Simeone had to await word on whether she'd continue to be allowed to fully exercise her rights while simultaneously continuing to appreciate opera on the radio. (not-so-nice Republican radio controlling your thoughts)
Occupy Wall Street And Anonymous: Turning A Fledgling Movement Into A Meme
Update: Citibank Protester Talks About Undercover Infiltration In Occupy Wall Street | The New York Observer
U.S. Median Income Falls To $26,364 As Pessimism Reaches 10-Year High The number of workers making $1 million or more actually rose to nearly 94,000 last year from 78,000 in 2009
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist

Global warming study finds no grounds for climate sceptics' concerns | Environment | The Guardian Independent investigation of the key issues sceptics claim can skew global warming figures reports that they have no real effect (2% of Republicans believe in global warming)

Neutrino watch: Speed claim baffles CERN theoryfest - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist
Scientists Study Jill Abramson's Speech, Find it Unusual - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Language Log » Jill Abramson’s voice

Study: More Than Half Of Women Are Attracted To... Other Women 0 per cent of heterosexual women find other women sexually attractive.
Wife wants an open relationship OR a divorce. Wat do? : AskReddit

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As Assassination Plot Becomes a Sideshow, U.S.-Iran Tensions Hinge on the Nuclear Issue - Global Spin - TIME.com

Sarkozy flies in for emergency euro talks to cement rescue deal | Business | The Guardian In Athens protesters hurl marble and petrol bombs at police

Phone hacking: NI lawyer says he knew its 'rogue reporter' defence was wrong | Media | guardian.co.uk Farrer & Co partner tells MPs he was aware company had misled parliament but did not act because of client confidentiality

Super Committee Keeps Negotiations Under Wraps On Wednesday, the Gang of Six, which also conducted much of its deliberation behind closed doors, met privately with the super committee members (double sooper-secrit)
Obama Takes Aim At Republican Jobs Plan : NPR (they have a jobs plan?)
Verbal Sparring Between Romney and Perry Highlight GOP Debate, But Three Bachmann Quotes Prove She Needs to Go Home - Dallas News - Unfair Park every time she opened her mouth, something crazy came out, but three of her comments stand out in particular as ones that make you want to jab an ice-pick in your eye and beg for mercy.
Mitt Romney Bushifies Rick Perry: Too Slow To Win? | Election 2012 (is a rock too dumb?)
Poll: Ohio Ready To Repeal Union Busting Bill | Election 2012 The buyer’s remorse over Kasich is not new in Ohio. The Governor seemed to have rankled his state almost immediately by proposing SB 5, the union-busting bill (how's that Teaparty thing working out for you?)
FBI was investigating Rep. John Murtha for possible corruption, new records show - The Washington Post
GOP Rep. Asked Paper To Keep Town Hall Secret, Selected Residents Who Were Invited | ThinkProgress (they might act like teapartiers)

Occupy Wall St: Naomi Wolf condemns 'Stalinist' erosion of protest rights | World news | guardian.co.uk Author was arrested alongside Occupy Wall Street protesters after she disputed police claims that they had to clear sidewalk (wearing her arrest outfit)
Federal judge tells police not to ticket Occupy protesters | Cincinnati.com - saying they want City Manager Milton Dohoney to stop allowing the Occupy Cincinnati protesters to stay in the park – or they’ll take a no-confidence vote in the manager.
Allen West: Occupy Wall Street Has Ties To Communists, Nazis, MLK Would Not Have Supported It

GAO Finds Serious Conflicts at the Fed - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont
The Financialization of the American Economy Finance and Insurance go from 3.8% of GDP in 1960 to 6% of GDP in 1990 to 8.7% of GDP today. Real Estate (rentals, sales commissions, and imputed rent on owner-occupied housing) goes from 10.7% of GDP in 1960 to 12% of GDP in 1990 to 13.7% of GDP today (empty GDP)
Morgan Stanley Nets $2.15 Billion Profit On Accounting Gain

GOP Rep. Asked Paper To Keep Town Hall Secret, Selected Residents Who Were Invited | ThinkProgress
Teens' IQs Can Fluctuate, Study Suggests | Intelligence Quotient, IQ Test & Adolescents | LiveScience

'Faces' sign torn down and crushed - Boston.com

China Becomes Apple’s Second-Largest Market as ‘Sky’s the Limit,’ CEO Says - Bloomberg (a match made in hell)

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Yemeni unarmed protesters killed by loyalist gunmen | World news | guardian.co.uk Seven killed and over 50 wounded as government forces open fire on mass demonstration against Ali Abdullah Saleh
Middle East witnesses day of euphoria and tears both sides of the divide | World news | The Guardian Israeli relief tinged with anxiety over Gilad Shalit's physical and mental state as Palestinians welcome back hundreds

Athens braced for 'mother of all strikes' | Business | The Guardian Thousands of riot police are being rushed to Athens ahead of what one Greek daily has dubbed 'the mother of all strikes' – a 48-hour stoppage with a pledge by unions to flood the capital with protesters
France and Germany ready to agree €2tn euro rescue fund | Business | The Guardian Leaders of France and Germany aim to calm market fears before G20 (more banker bailouts on the back of your austerity)
Surprise Anti-Austerians - NYTimes.com the two most prominent institutions calling for an end to the disastrous turn to short-run austerity are … Goldman Sachs and the International Monetary Fund (giant fuck-up, the hippies were right, but its too late: more austerity on the way!)

BBC News - Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie (the world's largest pedophile ring is also the world's largest baby-stealing organization)

Who Mailed the Anthrax Letters? - NYTimes.com (was it Cheney in the lab with a beaker? "some say" he had both means and motive)
McClatchy | The search for the anthrax killer (huge Gov coverup)

Balloon Juice » Real Americans Suffer In Silence The salt of the Earth, rock-ribbed masses are embracing austerity and reaffirming their role as doormats for the wealthy, apparently (David Brooks outdoing Bill Keller; Brooks still champ)
Hillary Clinton Receiving Donations Of $20.12 From Voters Who Want Her To Challenge President Obama
Deportation Figures: ICE Says It Has Removed A Record 400,000 Immigrants From U.S. In 2011 (Obama's global war on brown people)
Hannity: Obama "Grew Up In Kenya" | Media Matters for America (facts are not the issue)

Obama administration 'bailed out' GM salmon firm | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Occupy Wall Street’s Marxists--Charles Gasparino - NYPOST.com (how Murdoch spins OWS)
Wall Street lobbyists rage at Dems for supporting Occupy Wall Street - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (their feeling are hurt)
OSCOTUS: What OWS protesters should focus on at the Supreme Court. - Slate Magazine As Occupy Wall Street protesters look to the Supreme Court, they’ll find more to be outraged about than the Citizens United case.
DNC Slams Romney’s ‘Appalling’ Foreclosure Comments | Election 2012 (why? it's the same as Obama's)
Refi's in Big Bank Foreclosure Settlement: Not Worth It (another Obama program designed to fail the 99%)
Goldman Sachs reports third quarter loss of $393m | Business | The Guardian Goldman third-quarter revenues down 60% to $3.59bn - 'Compensation expense' equivalent to $292,836 for each worker (with the janitors averaged in)
Investor’s Business Daily Doesn’t Understand Fiscal Impulse | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy (oh, dear)

Malaria vaccine could save millions of children's lives | Society | The Guardian Researchers 'on the cusp' of a vaccine after widescale African trial shows the risk of malaria cut in half
'Stimulated' stem cells stop donor organ rejection
When did the giant impact that formed the Moon take place?
A molecule worth its weight in gold to fight cancer EPFL scientists have shown that inorganic, metal-containing molecules can be used to fight cancer. The discovery has opened up a whole new area of research.
ADHD in toddlers: How can you tell? - Slate Magazine Don’t all little kids have short attention spans?
Effectiveness Of Statins Could Be Determined By Our Gut Bugs, Study Finds
Obama administration 'bailed out' GM salmon firm | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Cellphones and radiation: Is exposure underestimated? | McClatchy

Alabama Immigration Law: Experiment To Replace Workers With Unemployed Coming Up Short Recruit unemployed U.S. citizens to do the work, give them free transportation and pay them to pick the fruit and clean the fields - "You can't get the (American) workers out here to do the work that the Hispanics were doing. They're just not capable." (total fail; go Alabama!)
philebrity.com » Blog Archive » Inky Sheepishly Admits It’s Thinking Of Moving To Fucking New Jersey Moving to New Jersey is like Beetlejuice: Say it three times, and you’re already there.
Gay Sex Study Conducted By George Mason University Reveals Surprising Results 49.1% of respondents said they had had their last "sexual event" in their home and 28.6% had sex in their partner's home. 7.2% had sex in a hotel or motel, 3.7% in a public space, and 1.6% in a vehicle.
Breast cancer and 'the pinking of America': By the numbers - The Week From football uniforms to yogurt containers, everything is turning pink for breast cancer awareness this month, but some think all the color is overshadowing the cause (the Susan G Komen corp)

Number of Cambridge House, Senate districts reduced in redistricting proposal - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge Chronicle there will be five state reps instead of six serving Cambridge, unifying one of the most gerrymandered cities in the Commonwealth.

Public Opinion [pic] - Digg - Jobs vs Gates
Mass Infringement Lawyer Complains About Too Many People Challenging His Lawsuits | Techdirt
Twitter chief: We will protect our users from Government - Telegraph Dick Costolo, Twitter's chief, has stood by the company’s decision not to suspend the service during the UK riots or disclose user identities to authorities.

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Argentina Suffering From Default: Not on This Planet | Beat the Press (on the NPR, NYT and austerity planets; yes, NPR lies to you)
Bankers Balk at EU Push for Higher Greek Losses, Capital - Bloomberg (bankers demand more free bail-outs)
French debt rating at risk as Germany warns there is no quick fix for crisis | Business | The Guardian Stock markets and oil prices fell in response to German finance minister's comments, while Moody's issues warning to France (tick ... tick ... tick ...)

US troop withdrawal leaves Pakistan vulnerable to attack by insurgents | World news | The Guardian Taliban exploiting a security vacuum in the wake of American forces departing from eastern Afghanistan

Only 9% Of President Obama’s News Coverage Positive | Election 2012
Livewire | TPM with former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney at 32.6 percent and businessman Herman Cain at 30.2. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is third with 11.2 percent (he shoved himself off a cliff)
Parts Of Obama's 2011 Jobs Bill The GOP Supported (Obama's jobs plan a hodge-podge of failed Republican ideas)

Balloon Juice » Wrongopedia At what point in time should journalists, bloggers, etc … hold those who made wildly inaccurate predications on the lifting of the ban accountable? All the retired generals and officers (LTG Mixon, Merrill A. McPeak and Col. Dave Bedey for example) who predicted that soldiers would leave the military by the thousands, or John McCain and other politicians describing how it would affect us as a fighting force? At some point I feel that the public should be reminded of their predictions so the next time they make predictions that are way off the mark, fewer people will give them credence (our culture of unaccountability)

New York City (NYC) Poll * October 17, 2011 * New Yorkers Back Wall St. Prot - Quinnipiac University – Hamden, Connecticut - New Yorkers Back Wall St. Protesters 3 - 1 Stay As Long As You Want, Even Republicans Say
Occupy Wall Street Spreads Worldwide - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
What are those OWS people so angry about? - Salon.com
Good News! No, Really! - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com (universally negative comments on Bill Keller's geographically-challenged wankerific anti-OWS screed; no wonder the Times sucks)
Why our children’s future no longer looks so bright - The Washington Post - “A decade of health care cost growth has wiped out real income gains for an average U.S. family,” (bankers have destroyed us all)
Over 1,000 Americans Have Been Arrested Protesting Wall Street, While Bankers Have Dodged Major Prosecutions | ThinkProgress
While Corporate Profits Are At 60-Year High, Main Street Businesses Continue To Struggle | ThinkProgress
Neo-Cannibals, Deadbeats, Dopers and Democrats Occupy Denver « Looking at the Left returned to the streets with a vengeance Saturday after being expelled, having their camp forcibly removed from Veterans’ Park by police at 4 a.m. Friday morning. October 15 was declared International Day of Action, which saw radical socialist/anarchist protests and violence in European and American cities.
U.S. Marine Sergeant defends Occupy Wall Street protestors | Demotix.com
Occupy Wall Street: second senior NYPD officers faces investigation | World news | guardian.co.uk Deputy inspector Johnny Cardona faces inquiry over alleged assault amid questions over NYPD's policing of protests - was filmed on Friday grabbing the protester from behind, spinning him round and appearing to punch him in the face so hard that he fell to the ground (well, that worked; it's like they've never heard of an iPhone +Tony Baloney)
israel today | Israelis worried by anti-Semitic flavor of 'Occupy Wall St.' protests - israel today (wonder how that happened?)

General Mills Sued For Marketing Fruit Roll-Ups As Health Food
Giant comet almost obliterated all human life in 1883 | DVICE

Record-High 50% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use
UPDATE: Former State Sen. Randy Hopper declined breathalyzer test | Fond du Lac Reporter | fdlreporter.com There was one passenger in the car, Valerie Cass, 26, of Fond du Lac, according to dispatch logs (recalled Wisconsin State Senator caught drunk driving with 26 yo)

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Israel begins prisoner transfer as part of deal to free Gilad Shalit | World news | guardian.co.uk Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners including militants serving multiple life sentences moved to two jails in first phase of exchange for captured Israeli soldier

Occupy protests against capitalism spread around world | World news | The Observer Thousands march in Rome, Sydney and Madrid as Occupy Wall Street protests go global
Rome Protests Erupt: Cars Torched, Windows Smashed (PHOTOS) Anti-greed protesters rallied globally on Saturday, denouncing bankers and politicians over the international economic crisis, with violence rocking Rome where cars were torched and bank windows smashed.
EU considering massive cuts to food aid for poor - Yahoo! News - The European Union is considering a roughly 75 percent cut in funding for a program that helps feed 18 million of its poorest citizens. (while shoveling tons of money to bankers)
Calculated Risk: Europe Update: Eight Days to Save Europe
Hullabaloo the underlying threats from the Masters of the Universe to pack up their riches and leave Wall Street if they weren't given the deference they demanded. After today you have to wonder where it is they think they are going to go?

The grim reality of life under Alabama's brutal immigration law | World news | The Guardian Fear of detention, families torn apart – Hispanics in Alabama are trapped in a unique half-life under punishing new immigrant laws (ReThugs at work)
Appeals court: Alabama police can detain suspected illegal immigrants | World news | guardian.co.uk Court temporarily rejects provision that would allow schools to check migrant status of students – but final decision to come
Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid crackdown | World news | guardian.co.uk The day before harsh new laws came into effect, Brian Cash had 65 Hispanic men picking tomatoes. Now he has none (how's that racism working out for you?)
Herman Cain: 'I'm Not Familiar With The Neoconservative Movement' GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain raised more questions about his knowledge of foreign policy on Sunday, saying he doesn't know anything about the "neoconservative movement," which dominated the eight years of the Bush administration.
Pizza Magnate Herman Cain Has Extensive Ties To Powerful Koch Group

John B. Judis Reviews Ron Suskind's "Confidence Men" | The New Republic - Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President - “what was required to save the economy might not always match up with what would make for a good story.” ("stories" over reality; and how did that work out for you?)
Legends Of The Fall (Of 2009) - NYTimes.com Even then, this seemed awesomely wrong-headed: policy makers were being scared off dealing with a real economic disaster by threats that existed only in their imagination. Now, of course, it looks even worse.
Was This Time Different On the Economy? | Rortybomb - Obama is much more of a fiscal conservative than I had imagined. Or more specifically he’s someone who generally takes Rubinonomics for granted but couldn’t shift gears when it came to the largest downturn since the Great Depression.
E. J. Dionne Jr. - Audacity Without Ideology (January 2009: "sacrifice, Grand Bargains and sustainability" - where Obama was coming from BEFORE his inauguration; failure well played)
interfluidity » The lump of unfairness fallacy

The Keys to Victory for Obama in the 2012 Election - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com (Red-Blue vs. Education - explains the popular expression, "Dumb as a Republican")

Homeopathic economist suggests injecting ‘up to £1’ into economy | NewsBiscuit “I know £1 sounds a lot but if it’s introduced in 10p doses throughout the year, the economy will soon return to a balanced state. I’ve already written a series of post-dated prescriptions from my chakra book.” Doctor Harliton denied that his treatment was a licence to print money.

No Jobs Bill, and No Ideas - NYTimes.com The bill the Republicans shot down is not a panacea, but independent economists say it would have a significant and swift effect on the current stagnation (Terrorists hold Senate hostage to destroy economy before the election)
LiveImagePhoto.com: Herman Cains 999 Problem a family of 4 earning 50k/yr will go from $3850 in fed taxes a year to $6250!

Occupy the Board Room
Daily Kos: On the front lines in Times Square, NYPD in full fight mode
Occupy Wall Street: Protesters Arrested In Multiple U.S. Cities
Endless Stagnation Is Bad For Banks | ThinkProgress like saying you shouldn’t step on the gas when the traffic light turns green because you might forget to slow down seven blocks later when the light turns red. But people have what they think of as tried-and-true non-context-dependent ideas for economic betterment and they’re much more comfortable pushing those eternal verities.
Middle-class homeownership dream may be slipping away
Bank Of America Branch In California Reportedly Refuses To Allow Protesters To Close Accounts (your money always belonged to them)
Bo Diddley's son arrested in Bo Diddley Plaza 'occupation' | World news | guardian.co.uk arrested in the park named after his father during an 'occupy' protest in Florida
Action: Suspend Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona of the #NYPD - Cardona's Punch was Not the First #OccupyWallStreet - 12160

Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace | Science | The Observer t far from being the bloodiest era in human history, ours is a time when violence has been in steep decline. Here, he explains how mankind turned its back on brutality (ignores institutionalized violence)
The Better Angels of Our Nature — By Steven Pinker — Book Review - NYTimes.com
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker - review | Books | The Guardian We are less violent than we used to be, argues Steven Pinker's new book
Delusions of peace | Prospect Magazine Stephen Pinker argues that we are becoming less violent. Nonsense, says John Gray - America’s experiment in mass incarceration is, apparently, an integral part of the recivilising process.
Why do men and women talk differently? - Love and Sex - Salon.com Men, he argues, use antagonistic speech, or “duels,” to show off their strength and prove themselves to women. Women, meanwhile, use quieter speech patterns to bond with each other — and help protect themselves against aggressive men.

Foodies, Get Thee to Occupy Wall Street | Mother Jones
Illinois Catholic Charities Adoption Battle: New Bill Would Allow Church To Not Serve Same-Sex Couples


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BBC News - Deadly protests erupt in Yemen capital Sanaa Violent protests against Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh have again erupted in the capital Sanaa, with at least nine demonstrators killed and dozens hurt, doctors and officials say.
A Palestinian mayor explains how Israeli army starves his village of water
Syria is heading for full-blown civil war, top UN official warns | World news | The Guardian Ten people have died in the latest clashes as protesters urge more people to defect from the Syrian security forces
Al-Qaida's Yemen media chief dies in US drone attack | World news | guardian.co.uk Egyptian-born Ibrahim al-Bana and six others killed in second airstrike to target group in as many weeks (Obama targeting foreign press with drones)
Yemen: Abdul-Rahman Al-Awlaki, Anwar Al-Awlaki's Son, Among Al Qaeda Militants Killed In U.S. Drone Strike At least 13 people also were wounded, including six civilians (they won't mention his age)
On location in Afghanistan for Hell and Back Again - in pictures | Film | guardian.co.uk
Rabin memorial defaced to protest Israel-Hamas prisoner swap | McClatchy

Spain credit rating downgraded ahead of G20 meeting: live | Business | guardian.co.uk Standard & Poor's has downgraded the eurozone's fourth largest economy by one notch
Spain and Portugal: 'the worst will be next year. Then it will really hit' | World news | The Guardian as bad as things are, they're not yet as awful as they will become (things will get really austere)
Brazil Takes Hard Line On Corruption - Salon.com

News from The Associated Press The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war
Obama sends troops to Africa to track Lord's Resistance Army leader | McClatchy
Lord's Resistance Army: Who Are They? | TPM Media

McClatchy | The search for the anthrax killer (Obama's DOJ hopelessly corrupt; coverup continues ... was it Cheny in the lab?)

Want an apple this year? Washington state governor to Congress: Help | McClatchy While much of the talk on Capitol Hill is tough, with opponents of illegal immigration vowing to seal the borders, Gregoire said Congress should instead focus on a way to get more foreign workers to help with harvesting in her state, the nation's top producer of apples (white people (teapartiers) refuse to harvest crops; agribusiness can't find enough abused brown people)
‘Gargantuan large’ investment in infrastructure needed, experts say - The Washington Post

Obama Administration Nixes the CLASS Act | FDL News Desk a voluntary long-term care insurance program that was a key priority of the late Ted Kennedy, and which was instituted as part of the Affordable Care Act - the law to help Americans cover the cost of aid for daily-living needs such as bathing and using the toilet if they became unable to care for themselves - Budget bean-counters decided that the outlook of the CLASS Act 20 and 30 years down the road was more important than this crisis, so they decided not to work toward fixing it ($86Bn lost; can't fix problems today, but worried about 20-30 years later; Obama: let them rot)
Emails: Bush-Era Embassy, Prosecutor's Office Approved ATF 'Gun Walking' Tactic | TPMMuckraker (well, we're not looking backwards either)
Defense Budget Hawks To Super Committee: Not In My Backyard | TPMDC to spare the Pentagon when it's looking for places to slash spending ("jobs will be lost" as if they ever cared about jobs)
Ohio Great-Grandma Fires Back In New Ad: 'They Must Be Desperate' (video) | TPMDC
Huckabee jokes: Stop Issue 2 opponents from voting | MasonBuzz.com you just make sure that they don’t go vote. Let the air out of their tires on election day. Tell them the election has been moved to a different date. That’s up to you how you creatively get the job done.” (there are no limits to their thugishness +Warren County, Ohio are Republican 2-1 and really, really stupid)

Occupy the London Stock Exchange - live coverage | UK news | guardian.co.uk More than 950 protests held in over 80 countries • Police bar occupation of London Stock Exchange • Julian Assange addresses protest at St Paul's cathedral
OWS Occupy Wall Street News | Plutocracy Files
OWS Occupy Wall Street News | Plutocracy Files
Agresión Policial a Chica Griega en el Banco Dexia Bruselas - YouTube
Lech Walesa Occupy Wall Street Visit - Occupy Wall Street Is About to Get Some More Spine - Esquire (bankers will call him "communist")
Balloon Juice » OccupyWS/Together: More Links & News
FreakOutNation » OWS Protester gets Run over by a Cop on Video – Right Wing Spins it as Fake
Police Punch Woman Protester In the Face - Washington's Blog (white shirts at work)
Congrats Occupy Wall St! You've started something huge. Places being Occupied in Europe tomorrow - Digg
Tax Cuts For Wealthy Americans Cost Treasury $11.6 Million Every Hour: Report

News Corp faces revolt by quarter of shareholders | Media | The Guardian Advisory bodies and campaigners urge investors to oppose up to 13 of media firm's 15 directors amid phone-hacking allegations

Rick Perry officials spark revolt after doctoring environment report | Environment | guardian.co.uk Scientists ask for names to be removed after mentions of climate change and sea-level rise taken out by Texas officials - scientists said they were disowning the report on the state of Galveston Bay because of political interference and censorship from Perry appointees at the state's environmental agency (we're in your science fixin' it for you)
Amtrak Ridership Hits Record High, As GOP Proposes Cutting Its Funding By 60 Percent | ThinkProgress ("let them buy their own helipcopters")
'Guns & Patriots' Editor Creates Fake Solar Scandal About SunPower, Murdoch's Fox News Misinformers Run With It | ThinkProgress (it really is about the constant lying)

US bishop charged with failing to report abuse | World news | guardian.co.uk The case of Robert Finn, a Catholic bishop who has been charged with covering up suspected child abuse, is the first of its kind in America (world's largest pedophile ring accused of coverup)
Unprecedented | Talking Points Memo I’ve covered the sex abuse scandal in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church for a long time, but I can’t say I ever expected to see a bishop actually indicted for covering up abuse, let alone a diocese (the above-your-laws coverup machine falls apart)

DARPA Looks To The Crowd To Build Miniature Drones | TPM Idea Lab (coming soon: Drone Wars!)
U.K. Rejects Official Advice: Decriminalize All Drug Use - Toke of the Town

Some old photos that you guys might find interesting. : pics

High Court “Reserves Judgment” at Newzbin2 Blocking Hearing | TorrentFreak Usenet indexing site ("indexing" = "infringement")
Google Buzz Gets The Ax, As Do Others In 'Fall Sweep'

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Evelyn Leopold: Why Is the U.S. Taking the Iran Plot Case to the United Nations? - A growing chorus of hawks in the U.S. Congress clamored for the kind of action that could mess up U.S. foreign policy for years (which is, of course, already totally messed up)

Police don’t want to bear arms : Views and News from Norway Many foreign journalists covering the July terrorist attacks in Norway were surprised to learn that Norwegian police are generally unarmed. A new survey indicates they want to stay that way (what? they didn't use it as an excuse to convert to a police-state?)
Bulgarian Journalist Sasho Dikov's Life Threatened, Car Blown Up a popular Bulgarian journalist who has been a fierce critic of the center-right government

Business cycles: Things could actually get a lot worse | The Economist

Eschaton: Thanks, Yelling At Clouds Man - If something is passed, we can reverse it,” McCain responded." Now that the Very Serious John McCain has admitted that it's bullshit perhaps everyone else can too, and the SuperWankers can go home.
Don't Count On Senate Procedure To Save The Affordable Care Act | ThinkProgress
Whiskey Fire: Just to Be Clear... (the right wants women to die rather than have an abortion)

Reuters' Occupy Wall Street Story Draws Fire For George Soros Connection ... The article then quotes Rush Limbaugh stating flatly that Soros was behind Occupy Wall Street (well, there you are)
UPDATE: Order to Clear the Park Rescinded! -- #OccupyWallStreet LiveStreams from Zuccotti Park | MyFDL
Reuters: George Soros is secretly behind Occupy Wall Street! - Salon.com Updated: A laughably bad attempt at linking the protest movement to a liberal boogeyman
Reuters Serves Up Today's Drudge Bait Trying To Prove That Soros Bankrolled Occupy Wall Street | Media Matters for America (bad Reuters!)
/> On George Soros, Occupy Wall Street, and Reuters | Felix Salmon

Occupy Wall Street protests reveal liberal tensions - The Washington Post ("liberals" = center-right Democratic party +WaPoFrame)
Narayana Kocherlakota: If At First You Fail, Then Fail Fail Again | ThinkProgress Kocherlakota’s view is that given the initial failure that led to mass unemployment, it’s not permitted to ever correct the failure. We just pretend it never happened.
Plates Shifting | Talking Points Memo And remember the deficit super-committee? We're going to hear about it again next month as it moves toward what will apparently be deadlock and failure (Obama's specialty)


Solar is getting cheap fast—pay attention, Very Serious People | Grist (panels on roofs = jobs, energy indepence and jobs for less that the cost of one Wall St bailout)

With Goldman's Foray Into Higher Education, A Predatory Pursuit Of Students And Revenues
Robert Finn, Kansas City Bishop, Charged For Not Telling Police About Child Pornography Images


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Iran Assassination Plot: Skeptics Question Motive And Method Of An 'Amateur Hour' Scheme ... a "fusion-cuisine salad bar of U.S. security anxieties."
Used-car salesman as Iran proxy? Why assassination plot doesn't add up for experts. - CSMonitor.com The US has blamed the specialist Qods Force in an Iran assassination plot. But those who track the group say the plot doesn't reflect the careful planning, efficiency, and strategy the Qods Force is known for.
Why Obama Needs to Come Clean about the "Iranian Plot" | Stephen M. Walt Unless the Obama administration (and in particular, Attorney General Eric Holder), has more smoking gun evidence than they've revealed so far, they are in danger of a diplomatic gaffe on a par with Colin Powell's famous U.N. Security Council briefing about Iraq's supposed WMD programs, a briefing now known to have been a series of fabrications and fairy tales.
Gaps in the Iran Plot Docket to Go Along with the Gaps in the Story | emptywheel
Officials concede gaps in U.S. knowledge of Iran plot | Reuters Iran's supreme leader and the shadowy Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of an alleged plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, but hard evidence of that is scant, U.S. officials said on Wednesday (pretty sketchy)
Twitter / @JoshuaHol: When not even Jeff Goldber ... g buys your Iranian conspiracy theory, it's time to go back to the drawing board.
The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot - Salon.com The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto sacred American soil to commit Terrorism — against Saudi Arabia and possibly Israel — is what Bill Kristol and John Bolton would feverishly dream up while dropping acid and madly cackling at the possibility that they could get someone to believe it.
The LA Times notices the “double standard” on Iran - Salon.com If the U.S. believes it has the right to assassinate enemies like Anwar Awlaki anywhere in the world in the name of a “war on terror” that has no geographical limitation, how can it then argue that other nations don’t have a similar right to track down their enemies and kill them wherever they’re found? As the United States continues down the path of state-sponsored assassination far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan ... The world is unlikely to accept that the United States has a right to behave as it wishes without accountability all around the globe and that other nations do not. (Obama's double-standard exceptional chickens come home to roost)

The Awlaki memo and Marty Lederman - Salon.com
The real danger from classified leaks - Salon.com As Marcy Wheeler noted, “What was leaked to Savage is MORE classified than anything Bradley Manning is alleged to have leaked.”
How Can Samir Khan Be “Collateral Damage” If OLC Memo Restricted Civilian Death? | emptywheel

Double-Dip Recession in Britain Watch: Duncan Black Is Wrong Department Right now record-low interest rates are not a tool for improving the economy. They are a consequence of the fact that the British economy is 100% scr---d and about to become 150% scr---d.
Taxpayer nursing huge losses on RBS and Lloyds | Business | guardian.co.uk Three years on from the bailouts and – instead of the profits expected – market meltdown and bank regulation mean the taxpayer is sitting on a £32bn paper loss (see below)
RBS's top nine executives handed £28m in shares | Business | The Guardian Union brands share awards by loss-making bank a 'disgrace' (kill the economy, get bailed out, impose austerity on everyone else, get big bonuses!)

BBC News - Ai Weiwei is named ArtReview's 'most powerful artist' China criticised the selection saying it was based on "political bias".
Radiation spikes in Tokyo neighborhood, officials say - CNN.com
'Food insecurity' comes to London - Telegraph

Can OWS be turned into a Democratic Party movement? - Salon.com (who's in the tank of the financial industry: Barry, Junior, Maverick, Hillary, Chuckie for the top five)

Hullabaloo Your Daily Grayson
Is Rick Perry 'finished'? - The Week Yet another weak debate performance may spell curtains for the Texas governor's struggling presidential campaign
Rep. Bachmann Hits Cain On Taxes: "I Want To Adopt The Reagan Tax Plan" | Political Correction Reagan acknowledged that many wealthy Americans do not "pay their fair share," calling the system that allowed a millionaire to pay lower rates than a bus driver "crazy." Today's Republicans dismiss comments like Reagan's as "class warfare" and a threat to American freedom.
Attack Ads Ready To Dominate 2012 Election Cycle
Scott Brown Accused Of Plagiarism: Elizabeth Dole Remarks 'Lifted Verbatim'

CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
The Morning Plum - The Plum Line - The Washington Post 54 percent view the Wall Street protests favorably, versus only 23 percent who think the opposite - the poll found that only 27 percent have a favorable view of the Tea Party (and 23% are living under the rock of Fox News)
Who's behind the Wall St. protests? | Reuters Disclosure documents also show Tides, which declined comment, gave Adbusters grants of $185,000 from 2001-2010, including nearly $26,000 between 2007-2009 (proof that Soros is funding OWS; Reuters wanks hard)
Legends Of The Fall (Of 2009) - NYTimes.com there were reports in Fall 2009 that the administration was afraid of the invisible bond vigilantes ... Even then, this seemed awesomely wrong-headed: policy makers were being scared off dealing with a real economic disaster by threats that existed only in their imagination. Now, of course, it looks even worse (Obama and his crack team of idiots)
I Am Not Your Mirror Image - NYTimes.com (Russ Robert is an idiot; thinks "liberals" want "big government" - they always project)
Why Believe In Keynesian Models? - NYTimes.com
If Banks Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Banks - NYTimes.com the Paulist camp: they have an oddly antiquated notion of what money and finance are about, one that misses the “virtualness” of the modern world. They still think of money as being pieces of green paper, rather than what it mostly is now, zeroes and ones in some server somewhere.
Analysis: Return of the pink slip? Risk of layoffs rising | Reuters Analysts have lowered their growth forecasts for the companies of the S&P 500 and now look for overall profit for the group to rise 12.5 percent in the third quarter, less than the 17 percent they expected at the start of July (unless corps are guaranteed 17% profit and huge bonuses for their execs, they will lay people off)
Banking Has Become an Oligopoly Instead of a Competitive Business -- And That's Really Bad News for Us 99% | Economy | AlterNet High banking fees are just the tip of the iceberg. Here's what went wrong with the banking industry and what we can do about it.
Political Animal - An unintentionally amusing take from Wall Street David Moore is the CEO of Wall Street holdings company, and he has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today reflecting on a recent run-in with a panhandler. As best as I can tell, the op-ed is not a parody (they've lost their Reagan roots)
Exclusive: Ten high-risk U.S. companies named by governance firm | Reuters News Corp (NWSA.O) and Discovery Communications (DISCA.O) have been flagged as two of the top 10 riskiest American companies based on a new gauge that looks at weak corporate governance, accounting red flags and high leverage.

Penn State Live - Virus kills breast cancer cells in laboratory A nondisease-causing virus kills human breast cancer cells in the laboratory, creating opportunities for potential new cancer therapies (AAV2)
Steve Jobs: Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer? - Quora

Cambridge, two women settle discrimination claims dating back to 1990s - Metro Desk - Local news updates from The Boston Globe a long-running battle that already has cost the city millions of dollars in a related case ... While the statement included the names of the women, it did not include the name of City Manager Robert W. Healy, who was in the same post in the late 1990s when Stamper, Wong, and a third woman, Malvina Monteiro, alleged racial discrimination in the workplace and accused city officials -- including Healy -- of retaliating against them for speaking out about it ... Through an aide, Healy declined to comment.
Mummery 'shocked' | Philadelphia Daily News | 10/13/2011 all of 2nd Street was atwitter yesterday with the news that police had arrested two executive officers of the Downtowners Fancy Brigade in connection with a whorehouse at their Snyder Avenue clubhouse

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Nato success against Taliban in Afghanistan 'may be exaggerated' | World news | The Guardian Report says kill-or-capture raids are not a surgical tactic as claimed and use of the word 'leader' is suspect (your military would lie to you? Impossible!)
Libyan forces gain momentum in Sirte assault | World news | guardian.co.uk Big advances in centre of city, as Nato official says continued resistance by pro-Gaddafi fighters is 'surprising'
Egypt's rulers deny security forces caused Cairo bloodshed | World news | The Guardian Videos and witnesses contradict account by generals regarding attacks on Christian protest that led to 26 deaths (who you gonna believe? Us or your lying Youtube videos)
Could 'Iran's assassination plot' be an opportunity for Saudi Arabia? | PJ Crowley | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The details sound far-fetched, but Iran has used terror proxies before. If true, the Saudis have been gifted a golden opportunity
Alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi ambassador to US – timeline | World news | guardian.co.uk Key dates in alleged plot to kill Adel al-Jubeir, as described in court papers filed by the US justice department
Unanswered questions over the alleged Iranian assassination plot | World news | The Guardian The alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US does not fit with what is known about the supposed perpetrators
US steps up pressure on Iran over alleged plot to kill Saudi envoy | World news | guardian.co.uk Secretary of state Hillary Clinton vows to isolate Tehran as Iran dismisses claims of 'murder-for-hire' plot as fabrication

Slovakia rejects European bailout plan - The Washington Post (not just that, but tiny party in Slovakia)
BBC News - UK unemployment total reaches 17-year high (time for more austerity!)
Greek Debt Crisis Leads To Dexia Bank Failure : NPR (banks at work)
New Statesman - Preview: Dear Mr Osborne, Here's your Plan B World leading economists present the Chancellor with alternatives to austerity.
David Cameron vows to get economy moving after 'horrific' jobless figures - Home News, UK - The Independent "I accept we have got to do more to get our economy moving, to get jobs for our people, but we mustn't abandon the plan that has given us record low interest rates." ("low interest rates" now a policy goal, since Goverments are owned by bankers)
Goldman Sachs let off paying £10m interest on failed tax avoidance scheme | Business | The Guardian Leaked documents show top tax official shook hands last year on secret settlement described by sources as a 'cock-up'

Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive | Media | The Guardian Andrew Langhoff resigns as European publishing chief after exposure of secret channels of cash to help boost sales figures - he Journal had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading readers and advertisers about the Journal's true circulation ... Murdoch's right-hand man, Les Hinton ... alerted to the problems last year by an internal whistleblower and apparently chose to take no action ... The whistleblower was then made redundant. ("redundant" = "fired" jail for Hinton?)

"There Is Almost No Voter Fraud in America." » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union (the truth never stopped Republican facists)

Perry: 'We Fought the American Revolution in the 16th Century'
Political Animal - A conspiracy only Bachmann could create the unhinged Minnesotan wants the public to believe President Obama is secretly trying to eliminate Medicare, forcing seniors into the Affordable Care Act. Is there any evidence at all to support this? Of course not, but that’s not important right now (rise of the machines)
Republicans Stretch Truth in Debate Salvos - Bloomberg ("stretch truth" = "lie freely")
Turning the Senate into the House? Top 50% of Senate represents 83.65% of the population of the states. Bottom 50% of Senate represents 16.35% of the population of the states.

My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters | Politics News | Rolling Stone Hit bankers where it hurts
#OccupySF - Police Violence - 2011-10-05 - YouTube
Corporate Citizenship: How Public Dissent In Paris Sparked Creation Of The Corporate Person
Wall Street Sees ‘No Exit’ From Woes - Bloomberg a trader who made $500,000 last year at one of the six largest U.S. banks. The trader, a 27-year-old Ivy League graduate, complained that he has worked harder this year and will be paid less. The headhunter told him to stay put and collect his bonus. “This is very demoralizing to people,” Karp said. “Especially young guys who have gone to college and wanted to come onto the Street, having dreams of becoming millionaires.”

Women on Pill less satisfied in bedroom › News in Science (ABC Science) Women who take the contraceptive pill tend to choose as partners men who are less attractive and worse in bed, but a sounder bet for a long-term relationship, according to an unusual study.

Death Penalty: Countries With The Most Executions In 2010 (USA! USA! We're number five!)
Topeka, Kansas Repeals Domestic Violence Law | ThinkProgress (free wife-beating zone; Republicans love violence)
Amish Mob Broke Into Homes And Cut Off Hair And Beards | TPMMuckraker

BlackBerry outage spreads to US and Canada as crisis deepens | Technology | guardian.co.uk Problems show no sign of lessening as disruption to service spreads to RIM's home territories

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Cairo witnesses blame security forces for bloodshed at Coptic march | World news | guardian.co.uk Four witnesses give their accounts of the violence that left 26 people dead and 500 injured after a march by Coptic Christians (same as the old boss)
BBC News - German police find explosive devices on Berlin railway German police have discovered another explosive device designed to derail trains in Berlin - the third in two days.
'Underwear bomber', accused over Christmas Day terror plot, goes on trial | World news | guardian.co.uk Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, said to have planned a failed suicide mission that could have killed everyone on board plane

U.S. Accuses Iranians of Plotting to Kill Saudi Envoy - NYTimes.com - and to bomb a Saudi embassy ... dizzying international plot involving Mexican drug cartels, murder-for-hire and large sums of money being transferred from unknown locations.
Just Blow The Whole Thing Up | Talking Points Memo Needless to say, the claim that Iran would try to mount a violent attack in the US capital and trying to assassinate allied foreign ambassadors would have vast and dramatic international implications, to put it mildly.

It's in all our interests to understand how to stop another Great Depression | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian When a man like Steve Keen says the trillions spent on refinancing the banks has truly stuffed us, we really should listen - the crippling sums spent on both sides of the Atlantic on refinancing the banks are a complete waste of money (well, not for the super-rich who got the free trillions)
Stock markets on knife-edge ahead of Slovakia vote: live | Business | guardian.co.uk Slovakia debates the euro bailout fund - watch it live here • Roubini: We need a bazooka
Greece’s austerity measures collide with reform hopes - The Washington Post (the solution: more austerity for non-rich people)
BBC News - UK seeing a big rise in poverty, says IFS (the elite agrees, more austerity for you needed)
New Statesman - 98 of FTSE 100 companies use tax havens (taxes for you, but not for them)

Phone hacking: Les Hinton to give evidence to MPs for third time | Media | guardian.co.uk Rupert Murdoch's former right-hand man to be interviewed over News of the World phone hacking on 24 October
Les Hinton, Ex-Wall Street Journal Publisher, To Testify To Parliament Over Phone Hacking
Campaign grows to oust Murdoch | Media | The Guardian Shareholder service advises ousting Rupert Murdoch, two sons and 10 other directors from NewsCorp board

American Jobs Act to Be Filibustered Later Today | FDL News Desk
Will Dems fall short of majority for jobs bill? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (Blue-Dog Dems will kill jobs)
Political Animal - The not-so-super committee n news that should surprise absolutely no one, it appears the Murray/Hensarling super-committee isn’t even close to reaching any kind of deal (Obama's crack bi-partisan team of super-wankers is failing?)
Plouffe: Wall Street protests sign people are 'frustrated' with economy - The Hill (Plouffe at work; it's not that Obama fucked the country with his "you don't need no steenking jobs" policy, it's just that people are "frustrated" +idiots)
Erie college poll shows impact of hard times on Pa. residents | Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/11/2011 - one in four Pennsylvania residents has had someone living in his or her household lose a job or be laid off in the last 12 months - and two out of three had close friends or family members who were put out of work in that time.
Republican Presidential Candidates Divert Focus From Economy (with their insanity)
The Woman Who Knew Too Much | Politics | Vanity Fair Millions of Americans hoped President Obama would nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the consumer financial watchdog agency she had created. Instead, she was pushed aside ("pushed aside?" Obama hated her with a white-hot passion)
Obama health-care law modeled on Romney plan - politics - Decision 2012 - msnbc.com Three advisers to GOP candidate met a dozen times with senior Obama officials, records show (Obama was a Republican from the start)
Political Animal - What prompted Harry Reid to act how much longer policymakers will tolerate an untenable status quo. The Senate wasn’t designed to work this way; it didn’t use to work this way; and it simply can’t work this way.
Daily Kos: We're kicking ass! Limbaugh and the talkers are running scared! (how to fuck up rightwing facist racist talk radio)
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters - The Washington Post the same American values are really the way out of it,” Trevino says. He adds: “On a more visceral level, there’s always the reaction against the hippies.” (the 53%'ers)
Whiskey Fire: Tick Tac: In the Belly of Love the mighty cartoon superhero Tacitus, whose humble alter ego is called Josh Trevino. Please decide which superhero is more Profounder
Topeka, Kansas City Council Considers Decriminalizing Domestic Violence To Save Money | ThinkProgress (Republican austerity at work)
Republican voters, too, want to tax the rich | Ana Marie Cox | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk GOP voters are all in favor of raising taxes on the wealthy. But you're not going to hear that from a candidate in the debate
Balloon Juice » Super-Sized Nothingburger The Teabirchers really are the old paranoid anti-Communist anti-fluoride screamers.
Balloon Juice » About That Liberal Media Thing NPR ignored Occupy Wall Street for two weeks. A couple hours after Erick Erickson created a tumblr (which now has only about 20 pictures) for the 53%, Suzy Khimm was giving it wide coverage in the Washington Post.

Occupy Wall Street: live coverage of today's protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Scores of Occupy Boston protesters were arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning after gathering in downtown Boston. Meanwhile Occupy Wall Street is planning a 'millionaire's march' to wealthy New Yorkers' homes.
Naomi Klein On Occupy Wall Street: 'The Sky's The Limit' (video)
Rachel Maddow: Glenn Beck, Conservatives Having 'Freakout' Over Occupy Wall Street (video)
We Need a New System | Media Matters for America As the New York Times astutely pointed out: "It is not the job of the protesters to draft legislation. That's the job of the nation's leaders, and if they had been doing it all along there might not be a need for these marches and rallies." (+Larry Summers has always been an elite idiot)
Who Really Owns The NYPD? Turns Out It's Not Such A Rhetorical Question | Crooks and Liars the multi-million dollar contribution to the NYPD from JPChase, but it turns out the corporate influence goes much deeper than that ... the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York’s finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.

Oil spill is New Zealand's 'worst maritime disaster' | Environment | guardian.co.uk Oil leaking into the sea has increased by as much as ten-fold, with the government calling it New Zealand's worst ever maritime environmental disaster

If Only There Was Still Money In Newspapers - First Draft The company's stock was worth $72 a share when Dubow became CEO. But it plunged alongside other newspaper stocks, trading as low as $1.85 in March 2009 amid fears the company was headed for bankruptcy. It closed today at $10.45, down a penny - The board said Dubow, 56, had resigned "due to disability," a circumstance that paves the way for him to collect as much as $37.1 million in retirement and disability benefits (rich fucks destroy newpapers, blame the internets)
Gannett Blog: Bulletin: Dubow steps down as CEO after six years; Martore his successor, signaling no strategic shift; board also elects director Magner as its chairman Craig A. Dubow has resigned as Gannett's chairman and chief executive because of chronic health problems (in the head)

Hackers Claim That German Officials Have A Backdoor Trojan For Spying On Skype... Which Is A Huge Security Risk | Techdirt
Facebook, Walmart Partner Up To Create Pages For Individual Stores
Biggest four UK ISPs switching to 'opt-in' system for pornography | Technology | The Guardian David Cameron unveils deal with big four providers based on report's proposals to protect children from sexual content (opt-in, so the cops know)

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Afghanistan officials 'systematically tortured' detainees, says UN report | World news | The Guardian nterviews with 379 people held by police or intelligence services describe beatings, removing toenails and electric shocks (Obama, torturer-in-chief)
Egypt violence - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk At least 25 people were killed in Cairo overnight, as Coptic Christians clashed with security forces.
Somali troops battle al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu | World news | The Guardian Troops take on al-Qaida-linked group in capital after militant attacks leave more than 100 dead
Islamist protesters attack Tunisian TV station over animated film Persepolis | Film | guardian.co.uk Islamists try to set fire to TV station that broadcast Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated story about a girl growing up during the Iranian revolution

Germany and France Near Deal to Recapitalize Banks - NYTimes.com (more free money for the rich elites who destroyed the world paid for with your austerity!)
Belgium nationalises Dexia retail bank in rescue deal - Telegraph Dexia, the Franco-Belgian bank, agreed early on Monday to nationalise its Belgian banking division and secure state guarantees in a rescue that could pressure other eurozone governments to strengthen their banking sectors (that would be the banking sector that destroyed the world)
European debt crisis: live | Business | guardian.co.uk

NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act | Techdirt (Obama: we have our own super-duper secret interpretation of that "law" and we're not telling you, either)
The Government Has Issued Secret Court Orders Targeting WikiLeaks Email orders requiring Google and Sonic.net Inc. to hand over information on the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum.

Obama's jobs advisors include job-cutting executives - latimes.com On the president's team of business and labor advisors are the heads of several companies that have reduced workforces while posting record profits (more of Obama's "stakeholder" bullshit)
In Washington, a Season of Political In-Fighting - NYTimes.com Mr. Daley has reason to be mad. He thought he was returning to Washington after a decade’s absence to soothe business leaders and strike confidence-building deals with Republicans (hopelessly naive, these political geniuses)
Eschaton: Horrors Maybe there really is some ritual involving Jamie Dimon, aromatherapy, tax cuts, and the sacrifice of 100 impoverished virgins, that will make the confidence fairy appear. Or, you know, not.
Obama Jobs Plan Pitch: President Disconnects Rhetoric, Reality
Deficit Super Committee Struggles To Make Progress As Clock Ticks A familiar deadlock over taxes and cuts to major programs like Medicare and the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled.
Homeland Security Bill Targets Homegrown Islamist Extremism would give protection against civil lawsuits to those who report suspicious activity (racial profiling would be legal)

Mike Mokrzycki: "Haven't Heard of Warren" - Which Way Might They Go in Mass. Senate Race? 37% said they had never heard of Warren (that would be the 37% who watch Fox and live under a rock)
Elizabeth Warren Raises $3.15 Million In Challenge To Scott Brown ... received 96 percent of her contributions from donors giving less than $100. More than 11,000 citizens of Massachusetts donated to her campaign. The number of donors from out-of-state was not listed in the campaign e-mail (do the math, dudes, looks like 2/3's from out of state)

Political Animal - Where there’s a Will there’s a wrong Americans rarely hear and probably never consider: success is predicated on an underlying social contract. It’s an argument that apparently drove George Will batty (guardian of the elite village rightwing consensus)
Congressional Dysfunction Begins To Spook Old Pros | TPMDC "I do believe that we are now in uncharted waters when it comes to the dysfunction in our political system--and it is no longer a joking matter," former Defense Secretary Robert Gates told an audience
'Joe The Plumber' To Run For Congress (under the Dumb Fuck Party)

Panic of the Plutocrats - NYTimes.com the extremists threatening American values are what F.D.R. called “economic royalists,” not the people camping in Zuccotti Park (class warfare)
Hullabaloo - Your Daily Grayson - If anyone asks you what the Occupy protests are about, send them this (PJ O'Rourke is an odious asshole)
Hullabaloo - OWS in the media - "Consider this: taking a bus is not a political act until someone makes it one."
Hullabaloo More good OWS media (+Jeffrey Immelt whines while he ships jobs out of the country)
Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party - NYTimes.com - The Left Declares Its Independence
The Changing Story | ThinkProgress Having succumbed to the exact political dilemma that they once swore not to succumb to, they now cite the dilemma as nigh-unfixable (perverse)
Sign Of The Times - NYTimes.com
Do 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests Represent Your Views Of The Economy? | Fox News (Fox runs a poll, gets unexpected results)
Washington protest: American Spectator condemned over article | World news | guardian.co.uk Patrick Howley claim ed he infiltrated Saturday's DC protest in order to discredit it – but account has since been altered (liars)
Geraldo flees ‘Occupy Wall St.’ as protesters chant, ‘Fox News lies!’ | The Raw Story

How to reduce reliance on cash | Felix Salmon (banks don't want you to use cash; your money is their money)

How Many People Can Earth Hold? Well...: Scientific American Podcast
Sugar-free drinks and chewing gum may cause damage to teeth | Society | The Guardian British Dental Journal paper finds products contain acidic additives that can lead to the erosion of tooth enamel
Lancet Report Cites Rate of Late-in-Life Surgery - NYTimes.com

Muslim Woman: Airline Booted Me After Flight Attendant Falsely Thought I Said 'It's A Go' On The Phone | TPMMuckraker (Muslims can't say "I've got to go" if they want to fly on Southwest Racist Airlines)
BBC News - Row over photo in shopping centre A Facebook campaign is calling for people to boycott a shopping centre after claims a man was questioned by police for taking photographs of his own four-year-old daughter.
YHwIw.jpg (greatest invention of 21st century defeated by safety regulations)

5 Reasons The Amazon Kindle Beats The IPad | Fox News
Netflix Abandons Plan to Rent DVDs on Qwikster - NYTimes.com

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Libya: resistance weakens as troops advance into Gaddafi's hometown | World news | The Observer Defenders firing few rockets and avoiding firefights may be running low on ammunition in Sirte
Afghanistan civil war a significant risk, 'cold-eyed' British review to warn | World news | The Guardian On 10th anniversary of start of war, patchy progress brings fears civil war or Taliban takeover could follow Nato's 2014 withdrawal (Freedom Fries)
Iraq, siding with Iran, sends “lifeline to Assad” - The Washington Post (bringing democracy to the Middle East; authoritarian regimes supporting each other)
Muslim and Christian graves desecrated in Israeli city of Jaffa | World news | The Guardian Militant Jewish settlers smash tombs and spray stones with graffiti on Yom Kippur and firebomb is thrown at synagogue (Jewish terrorism)

World Blog - Occupy Wall Street-style protests spread to Britain
Live Blog for #OWS: Day 23, London Activists Block Westminster Bridge | The Dissenter

China bus crash kills dozens | World news | guardian.co.uk Car and bus collision among multiple fatal crashes as students head back to school at end of one-week national holiday
After 100 years, corruption still a major problem in China | McClatchy

Computer virus infects drone plane command centre in US | Technology | guardian.co.uk 'Keylogger' virus disrupts computers at Creech air force base in Nevada where planes are piloted remotely in Afghanistan (surfing porno sites when they should have been killing brown people)
New Zealand oil spill: grounded ship threatens environmental disaster | World news | guardian.co.uk Penguins rescued from slick amid fears Rena could break up and dump 1,700 tonnes of oil into prized Bay of Plenty
Amanda Knox: What's in a face? | World news | The Guardian Italian police found no physical evidence linking Amanda Knox to the murder. But then, they didn't need it: they could tell Knox was guilty just by looking at her ... Egdardo Giobbi ... when he watched Knox execute a provocative swivel of her hips as she put on a pair of shoe covers (perverted Italian justice)

Police Clashes Spur Coverage of Wall Street Protests - NYTimes.com the Occupy Wall Street protests have been covered in an average of 144 articles per day in the three weeks of their existence. In the aggregate, this is about two-thirds as much coverage as the Tea Party protests received (media loves their Teatards)
Bill McKibben at #OccupyWallStreet: We Need to Circle the White House and Liberate Obama from that Stunt Double | MyFDL
American Spectator Editor Admits to Being Agent Provocateur at D.C. Museum | MyFDL (another Brooks Brothers riot)
Chávez condemns Wall Street protest 'crackdown' | World news | guardian.co.uk Venezuelan president attacks US 'repression' of activists and calls Republican hopeful Mitt Romney crazy

Fox News' first 15 years of 'balanced' journalism | Matthew Butler | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The prospectus was utterly false: America's leading cable news network has become a megaphone for rightwing propaganda
Most dangerous cities in America? Detroit's No. 1, but the others may surprise | McClatchy (El Paso doesn't make the list in spite of all those border killings Rick Perry keeps talking about)

Elizabeth Warren attacks Obama in debte - YouTube
Nancy Pelosi: Scott Brown Is 'Clueless'
Romney’s Mormonism Becomes A Major Issue At Conservative Conference | Election 2012 (cults at war with each other)
Mitt Romney Takes An Indirect Shot At Jeffress, Perry At VVS | Election 2012
Conservative Shock Jock Reels Off Islamophobia's Greatest Hits | TPMMuckraker
Bobby Jindal's Values Voter Summit Joke: Anthony Weiner Is Kinda Like A Pedophile! | TPMDC
Is Sarah Palin's political career over? - The Week With her poll numbers sinking, Mama Grizzly passes on the 2012 presidential race. Will she ever run again?
Pelosi on This Week: I Didn't Hear Cantor Say Anything When Tea Party Was Spitting On Congress Members | Crooks and Liars
War On The EPA: Republican Bills Would Erase Decades Of Protection (back to the 1890's)

New York City Lays Off 672 School Employees - NYTimes.com

Single dose of hallucinogen may create lasting personality change

Harvard Is No Longer the World’s Best School — On One List, at Least - TIME NewsFeed
Binge drinking: Why do intelligent women drink to oblivion every night? | Mail Online
AudyQ.jpg (greatest invention of the 21st century)


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Ten Years in Afghanistan: German General Says NATO Mission Has 'Failed' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International the intervention has failed and the Taliban will regain power within months of withdrawal. Ten years after the invasion, he is far from alone with his critique (the tragic BushBama war; sorry all you dead people and American taxpayers)
BBC News - Protest in London marks 10 years of war in Afghanistan

McClatchy blog: Planet Washington - POTUS signs an executive order tightening release of info, post Wikileaks
WikiLeaks shakes security of Iraq's tiny Jewish community | McClatchy - An Anglican priest here says he's working with the U.S. Embassy to persuade the handful of Jews who still live in Baghdad to leave because their names have appeared in cables published last month by WikiLeaks.

Italy and Spain downgraded by Fitch over eurozone crisis | Business | guardian.co.uk Move by ratings agency Fitch ends three-day rally on Wall Street and raises fears about the health of Europe's banks

Stolen Libyan weapons arrive in Gaza | GlobalPost sraeli intelligence is increasingly concerned about the quantity of Libyan arms flowing into Gaza.
State Department readies Iraq operation, its biggest since Marshall Plan - The Washington Post (handoff to civilian "contractors;" meet the new boss)
Syria Funeral Shooting: Forces Open Fire On Mashaal Tammo Mourners
U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out (Obama will send drones to enforce his illegal oppression)
Dutch Decide To Treat 'Strong Marijuana' As A Hard Drug - Toke of the Town
Paramilitaries may have entered Mexico's drug wars | McClatchy (run-up to the invasion)

Leaking oil points to catastrophe - National - NZ Herald News New Zealand is facing one of its largest ecological disasters as authorities forecast a "significant" oil spill from a huge container ship grounded off Tauranga Harbour.
Greek police beat 8-year old girl: | Reflections on a Revolution - “dad, why did they hit me?” (you weren't austere enough, honey)


Bryan Fischer, Radical Christian, Follows Mitt Romney At Values Voters Summit who used his time to take veiled shots at the Mormon former governor and insist that only a true Christian can serve in the White House (Christian Nation, not a Mormon Cult Nation)
Mitt Romney hits back at Rick Perry in Mormonism row | World news | guardian.co.uk Republican presidential frontrunner takes sideswipe at rival after Robert Jeffress, a friend of Perry's, calls religion a 'cult'
Senate Jobs Bill Filibuster - Harry Reid's Game and the Impossible Future of Congress - Esquire Mitch McConnell, minority leader of your U.S. Senate and onetime nuclear safety pitchman, finally jumped on Harry Reid's last nerve, forcing Harry to get all parliamentary on Mitch's withered hindquarters.
Congressman From Koch Uninterested In Investigating Koch Industries’ Business Deals With Iran | ThinkProgress
Political Animal - McConnell takes chutzpah to new levels said this week that White House’s “explicit strategy” is to “make people believe that Congress can’t get anything done.” Seriously, that’s what he said. As McConnell sees it, President Obama doesn’t want Congress to function (up is always down)
Political Animal - Gingrich weighs in on the federal judiciary Gingrich is also apparently interested in defunding the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, generally considered the most progressive bench in the country.
Lawrence O'Donnell Defends Herman Cain Interview (video) O'Donnell asked Cain if he regretted "sitting on the sidelines" while other black Americans were protesting in the movement -- a notion that Cain heatedly rejected (that was an "offensive" question")
Scott Brown Says He Was 'Joking' With Controversial Remarks About Elizabeth Warren Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts says he was "joking" when he said "Thank God" Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren didn't take her clothes off to pay for college (Cosmo-Boy)
Conservative group slams Ros-Lehtinen on gay marriage | McClatchy A Christian group has chastised U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, as “an arrogant, anti-family, homosexualist extremist” for becoming the first Republican in Congress to co-sponsor legislation to repeal the federal ban on gay marriage.
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | The Map of Shame is now interactive! (slave states and voter suppression)

Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street 'Trying To Destroy Jobs' | Crooks and Liars
99 Percenter Rebukes Corporate Fronts Like FreedomWorks, But Welcomes Regular Tea Party People | ThinkProgress
Turn The TV Off | ThinkProgress [William] Daley keeps his television tuned to CNBC to keep track of how the fiscal battles are playing in the financial markets (we're doomed)
2000s: The Decade from Hell for Almost All Americans But The Richest | | AlterNet In recent months, a blizzard of new data has laid bare the dilapidated condition of the American economy, and particularly of the once-mighty American middle class (and they still voted Republican)

Space Observatory Links Early Oceans to Icy Comets "Our results with Herschel suggest that comets could have played a major role in bringing vast amounts of water to an early Earth,"

Steve Jobs, the Secular Prophet - WSJ.com A convert to Zen Buddhism, he was convinced as anyone could be that this life is all there is (convert? what religion are we talking about here? and what about that vow of poverty?)

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Execution by secret WH committee - Salon.com
Secret panel can put Americans on kill list' | Reuters American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials ("cynically amoral" Obama - time for War Crimes Trials)
Afghanistan civil war a significant risk, 'cold-eyed' British review to warn | World news | The Guardian On 10th anniversary of start of war, patchy progress brings fears civil war or Taliban takeover could follow Nato's 2014 withdrawal (right back where we started - a trillion dollars and thousands of dead people later)
Anti-Gaddafi troops meet fierce resistance in major assault on Sirte | World news | The Guardian Intense sniper fire by Gaddafi's men defending his home city exacts a bloody price on NTC troops
Jalaluddin Haqqani, Once CIA's 'Blue-Eyed Boy,' Now Top Scourge For U.S. In Afghanistan (on the payrool)
Berlusconi causes outrage with suggestion to rename party Go Pussy | World news | The Guardian Silvio Berlusconi joked he was thinking of renaming his political party Forza Gnocca, which translates as Go Pussy.
Mexico drug war: 32 bodies found in Veracruz | World news | guardian.co.uk Security forces discover bodies in Atlantic port after President Felipe Calderon launches fresh crackdown on drug barons (Obama's fruitless war on non-pharma drugs)
Allison Owens, 23, U.S. Citizen, Killed In Hit-And-Run Accident In Italy; Driver Turns Himself In ("asleep" = "drunk")
Insider: Iran Will Be 'Next Chernobyl'

UK government fears new RBS bail-out - FT.com (more free money for banks! austerity for you!)
Euro fear as Spain and Italy's debt ratings are downgraded | Business | The Guardian British banks and building societies lose rating while pressure mounts on EU to restore faith in single currency
BBC News - UK financial firms downgraded by Moody's rating agency "It does not represent any change in financial strength and it is business as usual across the sector," the BSA said (now being rated on the likelyhood to get infinite free money from austere taxpayers)


White House Backs Reid's 'Nuclear' Approach | TPMDC and change a Senate rule in order to allow passage of the widely popular China currency manipulation bill... and prevent a potentially embarrassing vote on the President's jobs bill.
Daily Kos: Romney vows to reverse Obama's 'massive defense cuts' ... that never happened (well, in the Republican universe of lies and distortions ...)

Alabama immigration threat: prove your legal status or lose water supply | World news | guardian.co.uk Poster put up in town hall illustrates potential impact of new laws which are now subject of appeal by federal government
Group asks judge in Alabama immigration law case to consider California ruling | al.com (Republicans at work: "show your papers")
Hullabaloo Suffer the little children (Republicans: "unpleasant consequences")
Sen. Sessions: It’s Not Sad That Immigrant Children Are Too Scared To Go To School, It’s Sad They’re Even Here | ThinkProgress (racist job creation!)

Dick Cheney interviewed by Liz Cheney at “Ideas Forum” - Salon.com The Atlantic Magazine's celebration of Washington's power elite culminates in a pleasant father-daughter chat (Atlantic: your source for propaganda)
Lawrence O'Donnell, Herman Cain Argue About The Civil Rights Movement (video) He refused to back down from his assertion that many black voters have been brainwashed by the Democratic Party, and also told O'Donnell he thinks that the 81 percent of Americans who support a surtax on the rich have been brainwashed as well (should have been watching Fox)
Elizabeth Warren: 'I'll Survive' Scott Brown's 'Jabs' Warren answered a question in a Democratic debate Tuesday on how she paid for college. "I didn't take my clothes off," quipped the Harvard Law Professor, referring to the fact that Brown posed nude for Cosmopolitan in 1982 to make money.
Michele Bachmann Proposes Mandatory Ultrasounds For Women Seeking Abortions The "Heartbeat Informed Consent Act" requires doctors to make the fetal heartbeat visible and audible to the woman prior to the abortion procedure and to describe the ultrasound image to her in detail, even if she prefers not to hear about it (no, you can't wear ear-plugs, either)
Jan Brewer Defends Health Care Exchange Request she's seeking money from the federal government to implement a key part of the health care overhaul she opposes in order to prepare her state in case the law is upheld (but won't give it back if it isn't)
Bev Perdue Says She'll Oppose Passage Of Proposed Constitutional Amendment Banning Gay Marriage (still fighting the gay wars)
Pastor Calling Mormonism A Cult Says Perry Welcomed His Endorsement | Election 2012 (glass houses edition)
Sarah Palin's worst week ever | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has had a terrible week. What can we do to help her get over it?
Jon Stewart: Palin swindle of donor money in ‘Nigerian prince territory’ | The Raw Story (grifters will grift)

Feds order medical marijuana shops to close within 45 days | abc7news.com (Obama shuts down all medical marijuana in CA)

US adds 103,000 new jobs as unemployment rate unchanged | Business | guardian.co.uk Better-than-expected figures provide some relief for Barack Obama and boost markets, although unemployment still at 9.1%
FT Alphaville » Mild upside surprise with payrolls at 103,000 Sighs of relief all round as the non-farm payrolls report for September steps lightly over an expectations bar that was just inches above ground.
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s assignment editor - Salon.com How interesting that when a CEO “of a major bank” wants to know how threatening these protests are, he doesn’t seek out corporate advisers or dispatch the bank’s investigators, but instead gets the NYT‘s notoriously banker-friendly Wall Street reporter on the phone and assigns him to report back (took his life in his hands and went to the war zone +NYT corrupt)
Erin Burnett: Voice of the People - Salon.com This is far from the first time Burnett has served as spokesperson for Wall Street; it’s basically what her “journalistic” career is.
Erin Burnett | Video Cafe

10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America | | AlterNet But now Americans are fighting back and there's no telling where Occupy Wall Street can lead (here are your talking-points)
Hullabaloo Live by the mob, die by the mob - Jay Carney: "I think I remember how Mr. Cantor described protests of the tea party--I can't understand how one man's mob is another man's democracy."
99% vs. 1% -- The Latest on Occupy Wall St. Movement: 853 Cities, Occupy Philly Inspires, Media Coverage Improves | AlterNet
Confronting the Malefactors - NYTimes.com What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Fed Up With Both Parties "At this point I don't see any difference between George Bush and Obama. The middle class is a lot worse than when Obama was elected,"
Erin Burnett Should Just Apologize | Media Matters for America And yes, the fact that Burnett was mocking Occupy Wall Street activists while her bosses at CNN had just taken the unusual step of co-sponsoring a GOP presidential debate with a splinter (conservative) political group, the Tea Party, only opened her up to obvious charges of a political double standard being used at CNN.
Eric Cantor: 'Increasingly Concerned' About Occupy Wall Street 'Mobs' | TPMDC
Livewire | TPM = Bloomberg On OWS: They're 'Trying To Destroy The Jobs Of Working People' (multibillionaires like him)
Occupy Wall Street: tea party leaders admit similarities - but not too many | World news | guardian.co.uk Right-wing activists say they share same frustration over the treatment of big banks. But that's where the comparisons end (true colors dept)
GOP congressman: Wall Street protests are ‘attack upon freedom’ - The Hill's Video
Photo Booth: Occupying Wall Street in 1967 : The New Yorker (in case you forgot)
Survive a Mace Attack - Wired How-To Wiki
For Fox, Raising Taxes On Rich Is Class Warfare, Raising Them On The Poor Is Good Sense | Media Matters for America
CNBC Talking Heads: Wall Street Protesters Are ‘Freaks,’ ‘Anti-American,’ ‘Bizarre’ | ThinkProgress (idiots at work, no wonder they destroyed the economy)

Small Fixes - Folding Saris to Filter Cholera-Contaminated Water - NYTimes.com

Steve Jobs Designed Amazing Products, But Life Has Been Hard for Some of the Workers Who Made Them - Ecocentric - TIME.com

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Afghanistan War: Ex-Commander Stanley McChrystal Says U.S. Started War With 'Frighteningly Simplistic' View Of Country ... and even 10 years later lacks knowledge that could help bring the conflict to a successful end (admits he had no knowledge of Afgan history)
Gaddafi's last stronghold, the city of Sirte, becomes Libya's final battle | World news | The Guardian Libya's revolution now rests on this one key city but its besieged residents are paying a high price for liberation
Chile Student Protests: Police Crackdown On Demonstrators
Montreal Congregation Of Holy Cross To Pay Sexual Abuse Victims A Roman Catholic organization has agreed to pay up $18 million in compensation for sexual abuse committed over several decades in Quebec.
Amanda Knox judge says she may have 'been responsible' after all | World news | guardian.co.uk Judge says acquittal of US student and Rafaelle Sollecito was based on 'truth created in the proceedings'
Too many people were willing to believe lurid slurs about Amanda Knox | Deborah Orr | Comment is free | The Guardian She has become the victim of the tabloid media's desire for damaging sensation
The importance of a free press | Alan Rusbridger | Media | guardian.co.uk

BBC News - Bank of England injects further £75bn into economy (more free money for rich bankers which won't help)
New Statesman - Sir Mervyn can't be pleased. The MPC is in a hole. There were a lot of very embarrassed members of the economics staff at the Bank of England, this morning. They messed up and it is certain that Sir Mervyn was not pleased, as now the MPC is in a hole (fake projections from always wrong people of how austerity will solve all the problems)
Greece loses €15bn a year to tax evasion - Telegraph (mainly rich Greeks, of course)

Alabama Immigration Enforcement Law Has A 'Chilling Effect' In Classrooms, Critics Say
Alabama Workers Leave State As Immigration Law Takes Effect

Rick Perry's Texas Media Strategy Falls Flat On National Stage
Michele Bachmann: 'I Would Reinstate The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy' (would send all teh gays to get cured by her husband)
Balloon Juice » Easy Marks Peter Singleton and Michelle McCormick left their jobs, homes, and families to move to Iowa to campaign for Sarah Palin. Wednesday evening they found out they didn’t have a candidate (grifter will always find their marks +how dumb can you get?)
ESPN Will "Part Ways" With Hank Williams Jr. After Comments About Obama And Hitler | Media Matters for America

Occupy Wall Street Demands - What They've Come to Find at Occupy Wall Street Is America - Esquire
Occupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Pepper Spray, Batons
Balloon Juice » The More This Happens If you want to kill the Wall Street protests, ur doin’ it rong (Bloomberg's Storm Troopers beating up protesters)
Tearing down the myth that the Tea Party is based on anger over Wall Street bailouts | Philly | 10/05/2011 So why does the Tea Party deplore the government rescuing GM -- which actually makes things and employs thousands of middle-class Americans -- and yet make no reference of the massive corporate bailout of AIG, which makes nothing but profits (or risky losing bets). This is what hypocrisy looks like (this is what the Koch bros funded "populist" movement looks like)
FreedomWorks Orchestrates ‘Grassroots’ Movements To Serve Dick Armey’s Corporate Clients | ThinkProgress

Geithner Dodges On Sympathy For Occupy Wall St, Expresses Shock At Wall Street Antipathy To Obama | TPMDC
pandagon: The Poors Have Taken This From Us, Too (old iPhones now free; poor people shouldn't have phones, or anything else)
CBO to Super Committee: Full Employment Would Reduce Deficit By A Third | TPMDC (Conservative Super Committee to CBO: stfu about jobs)
Congress super committee members receive donations from big industry and unions | World news | guardian.co.uk Sunlight Foundation reveals 10 committee members were given $83,000 in contributions in 20 days after their appointment (bought and paid for)



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Syria sanctions: 'outraged' US seeks fresh resolution after double veto blow | World news | guardian.co.uk US envoy says America will not rest until UN security council meets its responsibilities after Russia and China veto draft
Hague accuses Russia and China of 'siding with brutal regime' in Syria | Politics | guardian.co.uk Foreign secretary says countries' decision to veto UN resolution calling on Bashar al-Assad's regime to stop violence is 'deeply mistaken'
Grave containing up to 60 people found at Zimbabwe school | World news | The Guardian Remains thought to belong to victims of 1980s Gukurahundi massacre discovered after football pitch caves in
Germany reopens investigations into Nazi death camp guards | World news | The Guardian John Demjanjuk's conviction set a precedent under which hundreds of suspects could be charged, say prosecutors
Deportees: CIA behind torture interrogations - The Local (will Obama/Bush ever be held accountable?)
Amanda Knox arrives home after Meredith Kercher murder acquittal | World news | guardian.co.uk American freed by Italian court gives brief but emotional press statement in Seattle thanking 'everyone who believed in me' (Times spins this as a PR effort; ignores Italian courts)

Eurozone debt crisis: Germany backs bank recapitalisation - Live | Business | guardian.co.uk Angela Merkel: we stand ready to boost bank capital reserves ("we stand ready to give free money to rich people")
Dexia Moves Bank Crisis From Europe’s Periphery to Its Core - Bloomberg
Italy downgrade deepens fears over euro debt crisis | Business | guardian.co.uk Ratings agency Moody's slashes Italy debt rating by three points, increasing pressure on European governments trying to contain financial crisis ("we stand ready to give free money to rich people)

Phone hacking: News International faces more than 60 claims | Media | guardian.co.uk Father of Josie Russell, who survived murder attempt, Sara Payne and 7/7 hero Paul Dadge among 13 new writs this week

Hullabaloo - Still waiting for a hero (Petraeus is a failure; Americans love their Army Men and killing brown peple)
The Petraeus projection: The CIA director's record since the surge - Salon.com Hero worship hides the military failures of the CIA director's "global killing machine"
The dangerous allure of Washington hero worship - Salon.com Projecting our wish to be safe on the general is making us less safe

Opposition to Obama grows — strongly - The Washington Post Four in 10 Americans “strongly” disapprove of how President Obama is handling the job of president in the new Washington Post-ABC News poll, the highest that number has risen during his time in office and a sign of the hardening opposition to him as he seeks a second term (fail at the whole Pres thing)
Elizabeth Warren Blasts Wall Street, Scott Brown In First Massachusetts Senate Debate
Darrell Issa Pressed To Add Bush Administration Program To Fast And Furious Investigation
ThinkProgress . Is Gohmert concerned that the institution of marriage will unravel if there’s no longer a government kickback for walking down the aisle?
Mohamed Ali Muflahi Arrest: First Person Detained Under Alabama Immigration Law Was In U.S. Legally - Yemen is "a growing hotbed of Islamic radicalism and an operating base for the al-Qaeda terrorist network," state senator Bryan Taylor's office said. (whoops +show your papers)
Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline | Environment | guardian.co.uk Document filed with Canada's Energy Board appears to cast doubt on claims by Koch Industries that it has no interest in the controversial pipeline (you mean they lied?)
New Voting Laws 2012 - Charles P. Pierce on Brennan Report - Esquire not a single Democratic senator was willing to stand up with John Lewis and contest the election, and if you won't stand up with John Lewis on an issue of voting rights, then you'd have rolled dice for the robe on Golgotha (phony state-sanctioned voter suppression)

Hullabaloo: Occupy: Brave New Films has produced a great video. Pass it on Occupy Together Meetups Everywhere - Meetup
We Are the 99 Percent
Occupy Wall Street Is A "Populist" Movement (The Tea Party Is Not) | Media Matters for America
The policing of Occupy Wall Street: we are watching | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk DemocracyNow! successfully sued over police harassment. But how does NYPD conduct on Occupy Wall Street measure up?
Beck Fearmongers About "An Attack On Wall Street Next Week," Tells Listeners To Have Cash And Food Ready* | Media Matters for America (Tahir Square coming; Obama will send in tanks; stock up on ammunition)
Occupy Wall Street: The Left's Tea Party? - The Week
Hullabaloo Why Harvard should claim 1/5th of the blame for the mess we're in (inside story of the Harvard living wage protests in 2001: accomplished very little +Summers and Rubin)
Is protest in America at a turning point? (media attitude has been to mock and sneer)

Michael Lewis, How The Financial Crisis Created A 'New Third World' : NPR
Fiscal Worries Cloud Vikings’ Push for Publicly Financed Stadium - NYTimes.com (football collides with Teatards; Americans confused)

IBM Projects It Will Have World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer in Two Years, Artificial Human Brain in 10 | TPM Idea Lab
Giant Asteroid Vesta Has Mountain Taller Than Anything on Earth | Asteroid Vesta & Vesta Images | NASA's Dawn Spacecraft | Space.com

Samsung may hit Apple with iPhone 4S ban | Technology | guardian.co.uk Apple could face court injunctions to halt sale of new iPhone 4S as Samsung says it breaches patents it owns (sauce for the goose)

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So much evidence, there’s no need to show it - Salon.com ("we've got evidence, but it's classified" : Obama's extra-judical killing of American citizens)
Mogadishu truck bomb kills dozens | World news | guardian.co.uk Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for deadly explosion outside government buildings in Somalian capital
Jewish extremists suspected of attack on mosque | McClatchy
U.S., Mexico officials scoff at Perry's comments on sending troops across the border | McClatchy (Mexico says it is not "Afganistan")

Amanda Knox: victim of Italian code which puts saving face before justice | World news | The Guardian the rush to judgment over Meredith Kercher was to save prosecutor Guiliano Mignini, the police and the judiciary from public humiliation (Italian justice is a joke; sue this, assholes)
Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher and the media | Nina Burleigh | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The Italian media, cowed, lazy and compliant, allowed a bullying prosecutor to frame Knox and Sollecito for the Kercher murder - Giuliano Mignini, the Perugia prosecutor (should be thrown in jail for life)

George Osborne promises credit lifeline for UK firms | Politics | The Guardian Chancellor to announce novel 'credit easing' plan to help struggling businesses and avoid the risk of a second credit crunch (infinite money for banks, austerity for the rest of us)

The Poll Result that Should Scare the Obama Campaign the Most | Elections Sixty-nine percent say the president has not made real progress on the economy (how's that Republican pivot working out for you?)
DOMA Defense: Taxpayers On The Hook For $1.5 Million To Defend Law Barring Same-Sex Marriage - "At a time when Americans are hurting and job creation should be the top priority, it just shows how out of touch House Republicans have become that they would spend up to $1.5 million dollars to defend discrimination in our country."
With Obama jobs bill near dead, White House plans fall push for passage | McClatchy
Bachmann's campaign sputtering in Iowa | McClatchy
PPP Shocker: Herman Cain Ahead In North Carolina, West Virginia and Nebraska? | Election 2012 (muhahaha)
Pam Geller Group Board Member Calls For Mass Murder Of Congressmen, Muslims, Liberals And Journalists | ThinkProgress (Atlas Juggs and her team of genociders)

Occupy Wall Street protests - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Protests continue on Wall Street as the Occupy movement continues to spread. Follow the latest developments here
Mayor Bloomberg backs mass arrests of Wall Street protesters Bloomberg, whose net worth of some $19.5 billion is derived from Wall Street, voiced unqualified support for the police repression on the Brooklyn Bridge.
How Killer Student Debt and Unemployment Made Young People the Leaders at Occupy Wall Street | AlterNet "That we're young only means we have the most to lose by standing idle," say the young protesters mocked by mainstream media.
Another day, another protest? | Anya Schiffrin Things have come to a pretty pass when the right to assembly is respected more in Egypt and Spain than it is in the US of A.
From Troy Davis to Occupy Wall Street: How the Prison System Destroys the American Dream | Civil Liberties | AlterNet The people of Occupy Wall Street are protesting our country's growing inequality--and nowhere is this inequality more acutely felt than the makeup of our prison population.
Showdown on the Brooklyn Bridge - Julie Dermansky - National - The Atlantic A photojournalist's lens captures some of the 700 arrests that took place over the weekend

U.S. Economy Tipping into Recession | All Reports | Reports and Indexes | ECRI Why should ECRI’s recession call be heeded? Perhaps because, as The Economist has noted, we’ve correctly called three recessions without any false alarms in-between.
Bernanke says US economy is 'close to faltering' | Business | guardian.co.uk Fed chairman blames euro crisis, uncertainty over jobs market and political battles in Washington for gloomy economic outlook
County Fair | Media Matters for America Continuing their desperate campaign to paint President Obama as anti-capitalist
On TARP’s Three-Year Anniversary, Economists Call For ‘Massive Debt Relief’ For The Middle-Class | ThinkProgress (zero chance of Republicans agreeing)
Blaming unemployment on “unemployees” « The Reality-Based Community - "building a personal brand as an unemployee" (Tim Cavanaugh is part of the problem)
Secret Docs Show Foreclosure Watchdog Doesn’t Bark or Bite - ProPublica - the company operated with almost no oversight for the program’s first eight months. When auditors did finally conduct a major review more than a year into the program, they found that GMAC had seriously mishandled many loan modifications — miscalculating homeowner income in more than 80 percent of audited cases, for example. Yet, GMAC suffered no penalty. GMAC itself said it hasn’t reversed a single foreclosure as a result of a government audit.
Helicopter Drops: Does the Treasury Have Authority to Lend $10,000 Interest-Free to Every 2011 Taxpayer? (thinking outside the apparently tiny box of Obama'a mind)


Tom Ehrich asks if we really live like Christians - Springfield, IL - The State Journal-Register If America became a Christian nation, doing what Jesus did, you would be aghast (nah, Obama would use a drone to eliminate him)

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Unrest Continues to Shake Yemen, Especially in South - NYTimes.com (one down, 3 billion to go)
Israel Accepts New Peace Talks, but Impasse Remains on Terms - NYTimes.com (which will be Israel's)
Haqqani network denies involvement in assassination of Afghan envoy | World news | guardian.co.uk
Iraq police station standoff ends after security forces storm building | World news | The Guardian Four killed after insurgents disguised as police officers took dozens hostage including mayor
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales - Bloomberg (no laws for the rich; Obama will triangulate)

European debt crisis Live | Business | guardian.co.uk UK manufacturing shows surprise growth. Ditto America, but Eurozone growth stalls

Amanda Knox Verdict: Murder Conviction Overturned

New State Laws Are Limiting Access for Voters - NYTimes.com (in the print edition: "Republicans prevent voter fraud; Democrats object")
Restrictions Could Keep Five Million Traditionally Democratic Voters From The Polls In 2012 | TPMMuckraker - Restrictive voting laws in states across the country could affect up to five million voters from traditionally Democratic demographics in 2012, according to a new report by the Brennan Center. That's a number larger than the margin of victory in two of the last three presidential elections.
If You're Not Careful... - Imgur - Malcom X
For Politics in South, Race Divide Is Defining - NYTimes.com Democrats ponder the prospect of becoming, definitively, the minority party — in both senses of the word (the South rose again and ate America)

ABC/WaPo: Only 37 Percent Of Americans Think Obama Will Be Re-Elected in 2012 | Election 2012 (how low can he go? +way to energize your base, dude)
The Cost Of A Demobilized Left | ThinkProgress - it’s hard not to be reminded of the lost opportunity to mobilize a left-wing popular movement back in the winter of 2008-2009 and the spring of 2009.(when Obama told his base to shut the fuck up and go home)
Chris Christie for President: NJ Governor’s Best Reason to Run in 2012 - The Daily Beast The average consumer confidence index when a president running for reelection wins is 95. When they lose, it’s 76. Today the number is 55.
Elizabeth Warren's Senate Run Could Help Massachusetts Democrats Close The Attention Gap
Ed Goeas, Andy Parrish Leave Michele Bachmann 2012 Campaign (rats +sinking ship)
Stewart J. Lawrence: Chris Christie: Destined to Disappoint? Christie has publicly supported the Barack Obama-George W. Bush plan for comprehensive immigration reform, which places him squarely in the dreaded "amnesty" camp.
Scott Brown Stumbles When Small Business Owner Confronts Him Over Filibustering Tax Credits For Small Businesses | ThinkProgress (couldn't remember how he voted)
Scarborough: Rick Perry’s Racist Camp Name Is A ‘Disqualifying’ Offense | ThinkProgress (the rock between his ears is ok, though)
pandagon.net - Redstate's commenters decide to not just attack Cain but, yes, to defend Niggerhead, because we're apparently entering into a white supremacist fantasy novel. From "izoneguy" (America's racist right)

Occupy Wall Street: A U.S. version of the Arab Spring? - The Week (let's call it "the American Fall")
Hullabaloo An excellent beginning - The official list of grievances of the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street protests - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk He accused the police of allowing a situation to develop on Saturday's march where provocateurs led hundreds to engage in illegal protest on the road (Tony Baloney at work)
Occupy Wall Street protest: NYPD accused of heavy-handed tactics | World news | The Guardian Force criticised by protesters, who claim they were deliberately led on to road before being penned in and arrested ("provacateurs" = "cops"
"They're Arresting Us One by One": 700 Thrown in Jail as Wall St. Protest Grows -- Labor Declares Support | AlterNet 700 reported arrests and still Liberty Plaza remains occupied by protesters declaring, "We Are the 99%."

Risk-averse America - The Washington Post (idiotic WaPo column from Samuelson: Americans just aren't "confident" enough to spend mony they don't have from jobs they can't get)
Holding China to Account - NYTimes.com - Respectable opinion is aghast. But respectable opinion has been consistently wrong lately, and the currency issue is no exception. (Republicans will act because Obama was clueless)
Foreclosures Are Killing Us - NYTimes.com the rate of homes entering foreclosure is rising again. First-time default notices were served on 78,000 homes in August, a 33 percent increase from July. A $1 billion federal program to help jobless and underemployed homeowners ended Friday. Foreclosure notices were filed against a record 2.9 million properties last year, and an additional 1.2 million in the first half of this year (millions of homes in foreclosure; Obama did nothing)
How Unequal We Are: The Top 5 Facts You Should Know About The Wealthiest One Percent Of Americans | ThinkProgress (Washington Post: "the rich aren't really rich")
How Obama’s tax hikes would really impact the rich, in three easy charts - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (not much, if at all)

Arnold Schwarzenegger, bike salmon | Felix Salmon n other words, it’s exactly the same kind of person who will merrily cut you up on the highway while driving his brand-new Maserati. It’s not cyclists who salmon aggressively. It’s assholes (asshole will be assholes)
Rising Hegemon: That's good Administerin' - Who's bright idea was this one? - Atlantic, Iowa (AP) - The Atlantic school district has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed over student strip searches (local school boards have police powers the police don't have)

Occupy Wall Street protests - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk More than 700 protesters were arrested on Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, as protests also spread to other cities in the US. Follow live updates on the movement here
Nobel prize officials face dilemma after unwittingly honouring dead scientist | Science | The Guardian Nobel prize for medicine given to three biologists for work on immune system, but one of them died just days ago
Ozone layer hole over Arctic in sudden expansion | Environment | guardian.co.uk Arctic and Antarctic holes of similar size for first time, say scientists, due to combination of wind patterns and intense cold
Review - The Philosophical Breakfast Club - Philosophy Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World by Laura J. Snyder (the term "scientist" was invented in 1833)

azODl.jpg (Bill: "Miss me yet?")
NmKf7.jpg (Pope Vader)
The Fall trailer - YouTube
Taking Pictures of Dead Kids' Bedrooms | VICE

Internet governance: In praise of chaos | The Economist Governments’ attempts to control the internet should be resisted (Obama wants new control powers)
How Yelp is killing chain restaurants - The Washington Post - “that online consumer reviews substitute for more traditional forms of reputation.” (teh internets leveling the playing field with communications +HBS case +jobs don't have anything to do with it, right?)
The Platform Wars: Will Music Bring Harmony or Discord? | TechCrunch “The elephants are increasingly angry at each other.”

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Pro-Taliban leader captured in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk Senior commander of the Haqqani network, which has pledged allegiance to the Taliban, is seized in Paktia province (CIA funded terror network)
Palestinian leaders renew attack on Tony Blair over Israel | Politics | The Observer Middle East envoy accused of 'parroting' Israeli demands during negotiations (now Netanyahu's poodle)
Yemen warplane strikes own troops by mistake | World news | The Guardian At least 30 soldiers killed in evening bombing on abandoned school used as shelter by army's 119th Brigade
Bomb maker believed to be third victim of al-Awlaki drone strike in Yemen | World news | The Observer As details emerge of drone strike that killed al-Qaida preacher and others, controversy grows over American operation - The killing of two American citizens abroad without even a token effort at judicial process is a potential moral and legal morass for both the White House and anti-terrorism officials alike (Obama: "don't need no steenking Constitution")
U.S. officials warn of possible retaliation over al-Awlaki killing - CNN.com (be afraid; report your neighbors to the FBI)
Was Obama's order to kill al Qaida cleric an assassination? | McClatchy "There are circumstances in which the (president's) unilateral decision to kill a U.S. citizen overseas is constitutionally committed to the political branches and judicially unreviewable," U.S. District Judge John Bates concluded last year (Obama can kill whoever the fuck he wants, Judge says)
Assassination was planned in Pakistan, Afghanistan charges | McClatchy Afghan officials said Saturday that they have provided Pakistan with evidence that the assassination of the top Afghan peace negotiator was plotted in Quetta, Pakistan.

Home Secretary: scrap the Human Rights Act - Telegraph Theresa May, the Home Secretary, risks an explosive rift inside the Coalition with an explicit call for the scrapping of the Human Rights Act (Conservatives in UK go full totalitarian: no steening rights for you)
Invasion of the body scanners | Victoria Coren | Comment is free | The Observer We'd all better get used to it – privacy could soon be a thing of the past, even at station (no steeking privacy, either, you might be a terrorist) s
BBC News - Tory conference: Cameron in jobs and homes vow Mr Cameron dismissed calls for "a few billions" of extra spending - suggesting it would be a dangerous gamble to "deviate" from the government's tight deficit-reduction plans (no "deviations" from our disasterous failure)
Greece Expected To Unveil Plan To Lay Off State Workers

Our advice to the debt supercommittee: Go big, be bold, be smart - The Washington Post Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles (the idiotic twins prescribe austerity for you)
As Obama presses passage of his jobs bill, Congress shrugs | McClatchy Congress is highly unlikely to approve the massive jobs package that President Barack Obama has been pushing relentlessly from coast to coast, day after day, for almost a month (no Muslim socialism in America, punks)
Chris Christie: bully, punk, or populist genius? Meet the GOP's latest hope | World news | The Observer he controversial record of the man many believe could challenge Barack Obama
Dick, Liz Cheney Praise Anwar Al-Awlaki Killing, Say Obama Owes Bush Administration An Apology (how's that "never look back" thingy working our for you)
Cheney Says Obama’s Anti-Terror Strategy Is Successful But Demands An Apology For Not Calling It A ‘War On Terror’ | ThinkProgress
Denny Rehberg: Class Act : Lawyers, Guns & Money The next frontier in Republicans’ long-term goal of sending us back to the Gilded Age–making sure our children are hungry! Now, if we could only keep them home making artificial flowers at miniscule piecework wages for 14 hours a day! No doubt, Republicans will be openly advocating this by 2013 (kids not "entitled" to food, should be working in a factory - Montana Republican)
Herman Cain Says He Plans To "Update" "Hail To The Chief"; Fox's Wallace Asks If That Means "Hip Hop" | Media Matters for America (Chris Wallace is a racist, but you knew that)
Cain Calls Perry ‘Insensitive’ To Black People For Not Changing Racist Name Of Family’s Hunting Camp | ThinkProgress the West Texas hunting camp where Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) hosted friends and lawmakers bore the offensive name “Niggerhead.”
How Americans Ranks Their Financial Concerns: Pew (gas prices biggest concern? +hate both parties and Obama)

Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Brooklyn bridge – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk Demonstrators were arrested by the NYPD as they tried to cross the Brooklyn bridge
Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Arrests 700 Protesters On Brooklyn Bridge (Obama considers tanks)
Occupy Wall Street Arrests: An Eyewitness View (Tony Baloney)
Detailed List Of Demands & Overview Of Tactics For DC Protest (compiled from suggestions made in this forum) -- Please suggest additions or edits so I can propose this list to those keeping the official one. | OccupyWallSt.org Forum
New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin Sneers At Wall Street Protesters, Estimates Only 80 There | ThinkProgress (elites at work +Times doesn't like their clothes)

The War on Us | Firedoglake New York Times columnist David Brooks has long been engaged in a stealth campaign against the discoveries of science – especially neuroscience – that validate a more egalitarian and humanistic political order.
"I've Got Your Back": Scientific American New evidence shows that chimpanzees aren't as selfish as many scientists thought
Neo-liberal Genetics: The Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary Psychology, McKinnon (Pinker: "the pseudo-scientific heart of darkness" - FDL)

Defeatism - NYTimes.com The austerians have brought us to the brink of a vast disaster - it seems obvious, is the intense desire to see economics as a morality play of sin and punishment, where the sinners are, of course, workers and governments, not the bankers. Pain is not an unfortunate consequence of policies, it’s what is supposed to happen ... And this cruelty rules our world. (they play, you pay)
Hullabaloo - Pain and Punishment - all these elites believe they are wealthy and secure due to their superior morality and work ethic. Therefore, it's important to make sure the plebes feel some pain for their excesses so they'll adopt the higher standards of their betters (Michael Kinsley is an idiot)
Baubles, Bangles, and Tweets: Reactions to The Reactionary Mind « Corey Robin
Edmund Burke and American Conservatism « The Baseline Scenario - Corey Robin has a different take: conservatism, all the way back to Edmund Burke, has always been about counterrevolution, motivated by the success of left-wing radicals and consciously copying their tactics in an attempt to seize power back from them.
Meet the new culture warrior, same as the old culture warrior
Bobo’s Reactionary Mind : Lawyers, Guns & Money - Brooks is defending a system of rank exploitation and illegitimate privilege
Corey Robin: Endgame Conservatives after the Cold War
Many Government Retirees Simultaneously Collect Paychecks And Pensions: Report

FBI seeks to expand definition of rape | McClatchy Since 1927, rape has been defined as forcible male penile penetration of a female - which excludes cases involving oral and anal penetration, where the victims were drugged or under the influence of alcohol, and male victims.
'Slutwalk' women march on New York after NYPD tell them to 'cover up' to avoid rape | Mail Online

Martial Arts - Karate and Aikido - Nuns learn them as self-defense - YouTube
Watch Corpse Princess: Shikabane Hime - Watch Anime & Live Action Streaming Episodes & Video Online
Forest Boy: Police doubts - Telegraph Police have cast doubts over the truth of the story given by "Forest Boy" after his refusal to co-operate in the investigation to discover his identity.

Rising atheism in America puts 'religious right on the defensive' | World news | The Observer High profile of faith-based politicians such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry masks a steady growth in secularism (Christian Nation going to Hell)
Raymond Davis, CIA Contractor, Charged After Fight Over Parking Spot (he could have shot everybody)
Despite changing rules, medical marijuana field has exploded statewide | Tacoma - The News Tribune Two years ago, before Washington’s medical marijuana industry went completely nuts, Scott Havsy was without question Tacoma’s top pot doc.

Internet firms co-opted for surveillance: experts | Reuters Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week.

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In Greece, Austerity Measures Weaken the Economy, What Did the Post Expect? | Beat the Press (austerity not working, duh)
Sarkozy pledges to fast-track eurozone rescue as slump fears grow | Business | The Guardian French leader praises Papandreou's commitment to austerity (idiot elites at work)
Spain nationalizes 3 banks after cash injections - Boston.com (so austere)

Bahrain doctors await the call that will send them to prison | World news | The Guardian Global outcry as 20 medics prepare to go to jail for helping protesters during the Arab spring's forgotten uprising
Anwar Al-Awlaki Dead: U.S.-Born Al Qaeda Cleric Killed In Yemen U.S. airstrikes in Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric who became a prominent figure in the terror network's most dangerous branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits for attacks in the United States (illegal extra-judical killing of American citizen)
Anwar al-Awlaki, al-Qaida cleric and top US target, killed in Yemen | World news | The Guardian Obama welcomes news of Awlaki's death in US air strike, and says dual US-Yemeni citizen advanced 'murderous agenda' (no free speech for people with brown skins)
The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Taking down Anwar al-Awlaki shows the US is winning against al-Qaida | Wesley Clark | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Our active defence against terror is now highly effective. But the US must move past Awlaki's death to champion American values (like killing thousands of innocent civilians)
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the FBI's war on America)

What media coverage omits about U.S. hikers released by Iran - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com In prison, every time we complained about our conditions, the guards would remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay; they'd remind us of CIA prisons in other parts of the world; and conditions that Iranians and others experience in prisons in the U.S. (there's your moral authority, Obama)
The second Chechen war: a Grozny teenager's diary | World news | The Guardian Author Polina Zherebtsova – who was 14 when conflict began – publishes journal on taboo subject despite death threats

Phone hacking: Neville Thurlbeck says 'truth will out' | Media | The Guardian Former News of the World senior reporter breaks silence, saying he 'took no part in the matter which led to my dismissal'

Democrats Dispirited About Voting in 2012 (way to fire up your base; oh, what base?)
Rick Perry Faced Federal Scrutiny For Insider Trading, Criticism For Land Deals
Rick Perry Heckled: GOP Presidential Candidate Faces Hecklers, Protesters During Campaign Stops (Teapartied!)
Clarence Thomas Should Be Investigated For Nondisclosure, Democratic Lawmakers Say
Joe Walsh Vows To Fight For Gun Rights, Says Obama Administration Should Be Investigated Walsh (R-Ill.) said Illinois was an "embarrassment" for failing to have a concealed carry law on the books, and vowed to become a “cheerleader” for gun rights in Congress
Democracy on the Lurch - Wall Street Pepper Spray Incident - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 09/29/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Florida Primary Election 2012: Date Of Contest Set For Jan. 31
Keith Gilkes, Scott Walker's Chief Of Staff, Resigns Gilkes will run Walker's campaign as the governor faces a mounting recall effort in the Badger State.
After immigration ruling at Foley school with Hispanic population, students cry, withdraw, no-show | al.com after a federal judge upheld much of Alabama’s strict new immigration law, which authorizes law enforcement to detain people suspected of not being U.S. citizens and requires schools to ask new enrollees for a copy of their birth certificate.
Bicycles Are Cheap | ThinkProgress bicyclists are a diverse lot, including immigrants who lack the documentation to get a driver’s license and people who are too poor to own a car. These are disproportionately minorities (make them show their birth certificates to buy an old bike)
Donald Rumsfeld Tells Al Jazeera 'I Am Delighted You Are Doing What You Are Doing' “Its audience has grown and it can be an important means of communication in the world,” he said of the channel (Comcast still won't carry it, too many people with brown skins)

What's behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - many of the most scornful criticisms have come from Democratic partisans who -- like the politicians to whom they devote their fealty -- feign populist opposition to Wall Street for political gain.
Getting A Boost From Unions And Online Tools, Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global | TPM Idea Lab
BofA, Wells Fargo, Citigroup Left TARP Early To Avoid Restrictions On Executive Pay: Report [how's that FinReg working out for you?]
Bank of America debit card fee plan met with resistance and anger | Business | guardian.co.uk Wells Fargo and Chase also considering $5-per-month fee, which US senator Richard Durbin calls 'overt and unfair'

Martin Wolf Says: Fly the Helicopters!
PhillyInc: Philly Fed chief: Taming inflation is key to economy | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/30/2011 (the bond fairies! +you don't need no steening jobs +interest rates the lowest in 8,000 years)
Bank of America to charge debit card use fee | Reuters (charging you for them to use your money)

Can Appalachia survive when the coal runs out? - The Washington Post (maybe chopping down all your mountains wasn't such a great idea after all)
Bubble car self-service scheme launches in Paris | Environment | The Guardian More than half of Parisians do not own a car

Some Doctors Refuse To Treat Kids Who Have Not Been Immunized - Kaiser Health News In Washington state, for example, the rate of nonmedical exemptions from school vaccination requirements was 6 percent in 2007, with one county recording a 27 percent refusal rate (go Jenny McCarthy!)

Facebook to be investigated over privacy concerns | Technology | guardian.co.uk Irish privacy regulator to audit how social network handles users' data in Europe as the US Federal Trade Commission also considers probe

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Germany backs revamped euro bailout fund | Business | guardian.co.uk Merkel pushes through rescue package in step towards tackling the eurozone's sprawling debt crisis
European Debt Crisis FAQ | ThinkProgress
Farrell: “The fundamental problem here is a profoundly political problem.” #Euromess - The Washington Post
Lachmann: ‘What’s really at stake here is the European banking system.’ #Euromess - The Washington Post
Eichengreen: ‘This is first and foremost a banking crisis’ #Euromess - The Washington Post

Fears for civilians trapped in besieged Libyan city of Sirte | World news | The Guardian Indiscriminate fire continues after National Transitional Council forces retake airport
AFP: Iranian pastor's death sentence deplorable: Hague t Iran was about to execute a pastor after he refused to give up Christianity and return to Islam.
Israeli occupation hitting Palestinian economy, claims report | World news | The Guardian Economy minister Hasan Abu Libdeh says that Palestinians are prevented from achieving their potential
Turkey to press ahead with sanctions against Syria | World news | The Guardian Despite Europe's failure at UN, Ankara expected to go it alone in sanctioning Assad regime over crackdown on protesters

Trial tests whether 'ecocide' could join genocide as global crime | Environment | guardian.co.uk which is being considered by the UN (Obama to go on trial?)

How Much Damage Could A C-4 Loaded Model Airplane Really Do? | TPM Idea Lab (not much, unless it flew into a window)
FBI faces entrapment questions over Rezwan Ferdaus bomb plot arrest | World news | guardian.co.uk Sting operation to arrest physics graduate, 26, raises concerns that US Muslims might be targeted using entrapment techniques (keeping America afraid of people with brown skins and their funding up)
Pentagon launches war court website | McClatchy
The Onion Roils Capitol With Fictional Congress-Perpetrated Hostage Situation | TPMDC Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) "suddenly burst into the National Statuary Hall with a pair of black panty hose over his head and began firing a Beretta 9 mm handgun into the air, shouting, 'Everybody down! Everybody get the fuck down !'" "If the money is not delivered by this evening, members of Congress say they will shoot a new child every hour on the hour."

Frank Rich: What Good Did Bipartisanship Ever Do Anybody? -- New York Magazine What good did bipartisanship ever do anybody? (No Labels, etc. and our clueless, strangely ahistorical President)
GAO Cuts: Tom Coburn Hammers Senate For Money-Losing Proposal for slashing the Government Accountability Office's budget. They're demanding to know why the top federal government watchdog has been "singled out" even as it saves the taxpayers billions (why? what part of "Republicans" don't you understand?)
Commentary: Tea party is throwing more than a temper tantrum | McClatchy These are folks who don’t just support the death penalty; they cheer for executions. They don’t just oppose health care reform, they shout “Let him die” to the uninsured individual who faces life-threatening illness. They are the true believers: virulently anti-government, anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-science, anti-tax, anti-facts and, most of all, anti the coming demographic changes represented by a dark-skinned president with an African name. They are the people who want “their” country back ... t a man blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City out of anti-government sentiment not so different from that espoused by the tea party.
Still Not True: Fox's Gasparino Ignores Reality To Claim Obama Wants To "Raise Everybody's Taxes" | Media Matters for America
Just The Facts: Republicans Falsely Claim Obama Seeks Biggest Tax Hike In History | TPMDC (just satifying Americans' bottomless appetite for lies)
Rick Perry’s ‘Texas Miracle’ Turns Out To Be A Texas Mirage | Election 2012
Why No GOP Candidate Can Soothe The Angry Elephant | Election 2012 As the latest round of fervent speculation around Chris Christie demonstrates, there appear to be an awful lot of Republicans wishing they had more choices in the Republican primary.
Balloon Juice » Great Scott! Scott Walker Blames His Failure to Create Jobs in Wisconsin on the Unemployed You see, it’s the fault of the unemployed that they don’t have jobs because, goshdarnit, they’re just not trying hard enough: "Gov. Scott Walker says he’s looking at whether people on unemployment compensation are trying hard enough to make a quick return to the workplace." - They drum up hate among citizens through lies and propaganda, and then they turn around and spit in your face—all the while attempting to pass draconian voter suppression laws so the people of Wisconsin can’t rectify their mistake and kick these Randian bootlickers out of power
Scott Walker's Job Creators Cost Wisconsin 2300 Jobs In a Single Month (Republicans at work destroying your country)
Romney’s “Core Constituency” — Jonathan Last Online t Romney is a non-starter as a political commodity—it’s precisely because he has no core supporters. Which is why he is not very good at winning elections ... Romney would have been a career politician too, if only voters would have let him.
Pat Buchanan's Researcher Karate Chopped A Woman And Called Her The N-Word | Media Matters for America
State Department Letting Keystone XL Contractor Manage Its Environmental Review | MyFDL (natch)

Occupy Wall Street vs Tea Party - Video of Occupy Wall Street Arrest - Esquire there is nothing that proves the essential fraudulence of the trope that the Tea Party "Movement" is some sort of spontaneous uprising, and not simply the well-funded re-branding of right-wing Republicanism aimed at a new crop of rubes, than the fact that there is little or no Tea Party presence on Wall Street
A Massive Union Just Voted To Side With The Wall Street Protesters
Growing anger over police attack on Wall Street protesters

Killing the Recovery - NYTimes.com Economic policy makers have made similar mistakes before. That is what caused the Great Depression. There is not a lot of time left to get this right (NYT notices were doomed after supporting austerity and deficit reduction for two years)
Bernanke Says High U.S. Unemployment Poses ‘National Crisis’ - Bloomberg (elites wake up to the problem they called)
World Economy: Goldman Sachs Sees 40% Risk of ‘Great Stagnation’ - CNBC (financial elites destroying the world and getting rich from it)
Mortgage modifications are still messed up, 4 years later | McClatchy lenders' relentless pursuit of foreclosure proceedings four years after the housing-market bust.
Bank Of America Plans To Charge Monthly $5 Debit Card Usage Fee (I'm in your debit card debiting your debits)

Kepler Analysis Projects One-Third of Sun-Like Stars Have an Earth-Like Planet Orbiting | Popular Science
Earthlike Planets May Be Less Common than We Think - Time
How normal cells become brain cancers oligodendroglioma, a common type of brain tumor
HIV MVA-B Vaccine May Reduce Virus To 'Minor Chronic Infection'
What was the little ice age? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
NASA: WISE Spacecraft Located Most Massive Near-Earth Asteroids, But 10 Percent Still Unaccounted For (Republicans will defund the search)
Denmark taxes fatty products - Telegraph Denmark is to impose the world's first "fat tax" in a drive to slim its population and cut heart disease.

House GOP Unveils Plan To Cut NPR, Job Training And Education Programs (NPR reaps what they have sowed)
Kansas Abortion Insurance Law: Judge Refuses To Block Controversial Law Women seeking abortions in Kansas will have to pay for the procedure or get extra insurance after a judge refused to block a new law that restricts insurance coverage for abortions.
Age Discrimination Harder To Fight Amid Record Unemployment For Older Workers
Mitchell Wilson Suicide: Disabled Boy's Death Raises Bullying Concerns


How long does your mobile phone provider store data for law enforcement access? - Computerworld Blogs AT&T indefinitely keeps data about which cell towers were used by your phone. Verizon stores your cell-site data for "1 rolling year." Sprint and Nextel keep it for 18 - 24 months. Virgin Mobile's is 'not retained' but can be obtained through Sprint (no warrents except for Virgin/Sprint)

092811
10 myths about Afghanistan | World news | The Guardian

Gaddafi may be hiding on border with Algeria, say rebels | World news | The Guardian The man most Libyans now call 'the tyrant' or 'the fugitive' may be sheltered by Tuareg tribesmen near the town of Ghadamis
Al Qaeda Calls On Mahmoud Ahmadinejad To End 'Ridiculous' 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Aid agency withdrew Pakistan staff after CIA fake vaccination scheme | World news | The Guardian Save the Children, which was not linked to the scheme, flew workers out of the country after US warnings about their safety (CIA compromises vaccination program in whole country)
Refusing to Kill Daughter, Pakistani Family Defies Tradition, Draws Anger - Habiba Nosheen & Hilke Schellmann - International - The Atlantic A Pakistani girl who says she was kidnapped and gang-raped faces a new threat: honor killings, a tradition here, but one that her family refuses to carry out (threatening the whole social order)

Acapulco: Severed Heads Found In Mexican Resort (Obama's war on drugz)

For a top Obama adviser, a new strategy and old doubts - The Washington Post (Obama's crack team of idiots)
Rezwan Ferdaus Terror Plot: 26-Year-Old U.S. Citizen, Charged With Plotting Attack On Pentagon, U.S. Capitol: Report A 26-year-old Massachusetts man has reportedly been arrested in connection with a plot to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol using an aircraft filled with C-4 explosives.
Democrats Hope Tea Party Candidates Win GOP Primaries, Help Keep The Senate Blue
Observations of a Jailed Journalist | MetroFocus | THIRTEEN (WNET journalist held nine hours by NYPD for trying to interview pepper-spray victim)

Two Cheers for Luddism : Lawyers, Guns & Money The violent smashing of machines version of luddism has little value in the modern world, but the basic idea behind it is sound and necessary (robocheckers)
On Self-Checkout at Supermarkets : Lawyers, Guns & Money As Atrios points out, these things are nothing more than a calculated plan by grocery stores to employ less people
Patton Oswalt - Grocery Store Robots - YouTube

Paul Krugman: U.S. Economy Needs 'The Financial Equivalent Of War'
The Eurovenn - NYTimes.com
Occupy Boston: smart, savvy, and aiming to emulate Wall Street protests | World news | guardian.co.uk About 200 people in Boston express their outrage at America's economic woes – and promise to take up the protest baton

Two Moons in Earth's Past? : Discovery News
Here's a Map That Shows Where the People Who Google "Zombies" Are From the biggest areas of zombie-interest are in the US, Europe, Japan with a bit of Aussie land. I guess it makes sense, when you have less to worry about you invent shit to worry about.

Rights Clash as Town Clerk Rejects Her Role in Gay Marriages - NYTimes.com Rose Marie Belforti is a 57-year-old cheese maker, the elected town clerk in this sprawling Finger Lakes farming community and a self-described Bible-believing Christian (who missed that whole chuch-state separation thingy)
NJ Building Fences to Fight Terrorists | NBC Philadelphia New fences designed to keep terrorists away from bridges are going up along the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State parkway. The 8-foot fence posts are topped with an inverted Y to discourage someone from scaling it. The fencing is part of a $7 million project funded by the federal Homeland Security Department (because terrorists can't climb 8-foot fences and aren't smart enough to bring a step-ladder)
Florida execution: lawyers scramble to stop death penalty for Cuban | World news | guardian.co.uk Manuel Valle, 61, has just hours left to live after spending 33 years on death row for the murder of a police officer

Nokia N9: last of the line | Technology | guardian.co.uk Latest model expected to be phone maker's final non-Windows smartphone but won't be available in UK or US
Amazon Kindle Fire: New Tablet To Sell For $199 (Video) (Photos)

092711
European debt crisis: Greece vows to 'fight back to prosperity' - as it happened | Business | guardian.co.uk World markets rally
Vladimir Putin: return of the king | World news | The Guardian It is virtually inevitable that Putin will next year become Russia's president again. What will that mean for Russia, the world, and indeed the man who just can't seem to give up power?
Erdogan: UN sanctions on Israel could aid Mideast peace process - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Turkish Prime Minister says sanctions are promoted when dealing with Iran and Sudan, but taboo with regards to Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu: 'No Settlement Freeze' Israel's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that it had given the final approval for the new homes to be built in Gilo, a sprawling Israeli enclave in southeast Jerusalem (see below)
Israel Announces Massive Expansion of East Jerusalem Settlement -- News from Antiwar.com (here's how we reward your veto a week later +can "never look back" learn from experience?)
20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing "U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner. But now that calculation is out the window, with officials at a recent secret White House meeting reporting that thousands of them have gone missing in Libya."

Pakistan Scrambles for New Allies as Split With US Seems Likely -- News from Antiwar.com Army Commanders Dismiss US Allegations of Terrorism
China will stand by Pakistan in hour of need: Chinese vice PM - War with Pakistan will mean war with China. Was Israel worth it?

Super Committee's Cuts Anything But Automatic

Rick Perry's Administration's HPV Emails Solicit 'Under The Table' Input an awkward turn of phrase given the charges of corruption that surround the mandated vaccination.
Biden: GOP Crowd Members Booing Gay Soldier Was 'Reprehensible' (it's what they are)
Heckler Screamed 'Anti-Christ' At Obama Before Being Whisked Away | TPMDC "Christian God is the one and only true living God, the creator of Heaven and the Universe,"
Bachmann’s Newest Conspiracy Theory: Hezbollah Could Build Missile Sites In Cuba! | Election 2012 (doubling down on the super-crazy)
Bachmann's in a tailspin, but the GOP race is volatile | McClatchy
Jon Stewart To GOP Voters: Take A Long, Hard Look In The Mirror | TPM LiveWire "Republican base ... have you ever considered the possibility that maybe your candidates aren't the problem?" Stewart added. "Maybe it's you?"
CNN Poll: Tea Party Unfavorability Up 27 Points Since January 2010 | Election 2012 (media still loves their creation)
O'Reilly Happy To Let "Totalitarian" NPR Promote His New Book | Media Matters for America (NPR, Steve Inskeep, wankers)
d r i f t g l a s s: Gríma Wormtongue* Then, without so much as a hint of irony, America's Greatest Conservative Intellectual concludes his 1,000,000th robotic repetition of this same repeatedly and massively-debunked concatenation of cultural, political, historical and economic lies as follows (Bobotron)
'When Will They Take a Stand Against Their Own Crazies?' - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic why it took Dwight Eisenhower so long to condemn Joe McCarthy and his destructive, bullying "investigations" during the Red Scare years. I can't now be sure just where I read it, but I remember the mounting sense among Eisenhower's admirers that he was shaming himself by not taking a stand (and indeed for campaigning with McCarthy during the 1952 election). Ike finally turned on McCarthy late in 1953, after McCarthy began attacking the patriotism of Army officers and challenged Ike's own Secretary of the Army.
Florida Straw Poll - Charles P Pierce at Florida Straw Poll 2011 - Esquire Kristol, of course, is the yeast behind the intellectual ferment that has produced, in order, Dan Quayle, George W. Bush, and Sarah Palin ... To borrow a line from that noted Republican, Bobby Knight, this party couldn't lead a whore to bed.
Eric Cantor Pressed FEMA About Aid For His District As Agency Struggled For Funding (what Republicans do)

Wall Street protests reveal slice of America's barely tamed brutality | Comment is free | The Guardian Pepper spray, Swat teams and judicial torture. This barbarity is ever present – but rarely so visible – in American life (cop-state Amercia)
Police crack down on 'Occupy Wall Street' protests | World news | guardian.co.uk New York police accused of heavy-handed tactics as 80 anti-capitalist protesters on 'Occupy Wall Street' march are arrested
Occupy Wall Street: 'Pepper-spray' officer named in Bush protest claim | World news | guardian.co.uk the officer, named by activists as deputy inspector Anthony Bologna, stands accused of false arrest and civil rights violations in a claim brought by a protester involved in the 2004 demonstrations at the Republican national convention (they never change)
Pepper Spray Cop Already Had Civil-Rights Complaint
Lobby group objects to new regulation banning gifts to all federal employees - TheHill.com The American League of Lobbyists (wants to legalize bribery)
Billionaire Owner of Washington Wizards Wants Obama to Stop Calling Him Rich | Firedoglake (oh, whine)
U.S. economy on ‘knife edge’ of contraction: Fed economist | The Raw Story
SilverDoctors: CFTC Provided Temporary "Reporting Relief" for Commodities 4 Days Prior to Beginning of Cartel Silver Raid for what appears to be the purpose of "solving" JP Morgan's 120 Million ounce naked short silver problem (corrupt gov collusion with banks, oh wait))

The gun crime map of America: interactive | News | guardian.co.uk
Jesus or jail? Alabama town offers options for serving time – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs (no church-state problem here)

wr37d.jpg (Albert Einstein - Gran Neutrino)
The Legendary Dr Fox Lecture - Footage Found! - weirdexperiments.com
...And why? - YouTube (meme Wars)


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U.S. To Hand Over Iraq Bases, Equipment Worth Billions
Few details known about fatal shooting inside Kabul CIA offices | McClatchy

BBC News - Can eurozone banks be strengthened? (always the first question)
Greece needs to default on its debt and exit the eurozone | Stergios Skaperdas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk If the current Greek government can't take the necessary steps to do this, it should give way to other political forces than can

Egyptian women, long allowed to vote, see little progress from revolt | McClatchy

The bogus `third party’ dodge - The Plum Line - The Washington Post At bottom, the calls for a third party are founded on a dodge — a refusal to acknowledge that the Democratic Party is far closer than the GOP to occupying the fabled ideological middle that they themselves have defined as the space that only a third party can claim.
Maxine Waters: Obama's Speech To Congressional Black Caucus Was 'A Bit Curious'
Roger Ailes: Fox News Is On A 'Course Correction' Away From Far Right (straight from one of the mouths of Satan, so you can believe it)
Roger's Confession | Media Matters for America "Ailes keeps a wary eye on anchor Shepard Smith, who occasionally backs aspects of the Obama record: 'Every once in a while Shep Smith gets out there where the buses don't run and we have a friendly talk.' "
Drudge Seizes On Yet Another Opportunity For Race-Baiting Attack | Media Matters for America
When I Grow Up, I’m Going to Non-Sequitur University : Lawyers, Guns & Money Shorter Ross Douthat: “Executing the occasional innocent person is a price worth paying to stimulate a prison reform movement that shows no sign of happening despite the fact that we execute innocent people.”
Transit cuts put jobs out of reach of workers with out cars - JSOnline Report says 13,000 more in Milwaukee area will be inaccessible (Republicans: kill mass transit so poor people can't get to jobs if there were any)
James Gwartney: Economic Freedom of the World: Lessons for the U.S. In 2000, the U.S. was ranked 3rd in the world behind only Hong Kong and Singapore, but in the most recent report, the U.S. is ranked 10th behind countries like Canada, Chile, Australia, and the United Kingdom (Bush and the Republicans fixed that problem)
Newt Gingrich Florida Straw Poll - Video of Newt Gingrich CPAC Speech 2011 - Esquire it's still comforting to know that, in the annals of completely unwarranted self-regard, and as a purveyor of pure, unalloyed horse-hockey, there is Newt Gingrich and there is everybody else (+he wants to bring back slavery in America)
Michigan Legislature Passes 'Partial-Birth' Abortion Ban Michigan lawmakers passed legislation last week that will ban "partial-birth" abortions, which have been federally outlawed since 2007 and have not occurred on record since then (Republicans at work)

Robert Samuelson is Half Right: China Could Save the World | Beat the Press We know how to get out of this mess, we have known how for 70 years. We just need the government to generate demand. That means spending money. Ideally it would spend money on useful things like education, health care, and infrastructure, but even if it spent money in wasteful ways it would still create jobs and put people to work.
Suburban Guerrilla » Blog Archive » Poor worried bankers when you’re not sure whether Washington is going to do what’s right to keep job creation going in America? That’s the–in the end, it is confidence, confidence, confidence. (Bloomberg really is an idiot)
6 Ways the Rich Are Waging a Class War Against the American People | Economy | AlterNet Denying the very existence of an entire class of citizens? That's waging some very real warfare against them (Republicans play up is down)
Texas Oil Refineries May Be Refunded $135 Million Out Of Public School, Community Funds

Kids' Sugar Cravings Might Be Biological : The Salt : NPR
Sexist stereotypes: Statistics prove women are worse at parking | Mail Online Some women blame the problem on the fact their breasts make it more difficult to turn around while parking.
Marijuana Legalization Issue on Obama's Desk Thanks to White House's Online Petition Program - Los Angeles News - The Informer It looks like President Obama will have to officially respond to requests to legalize it nationwide.

Women Use Social Media More Than Men: Study (well, duh)
Harvard University Website Hacked, Pro-Syrian Regime Message Posted Harvard University's homepage was hacked on Monday morning, and visitors to the site were greeted with the garbled message "SyRiAn ELeCTronic ArMy WeRe HeRE,
Facebook Logout Tracking: Privacy Concerns Arise Over Alleged Cookie Snooping Essentially, Facebook is indeed tracking where its users go after they log-out, but it is claiming to do so for benign reasons (delete your FB cookies)

092511
Freed hikers: Iran held us because we're American - Boston.com
Libyan government seeks Algerian answers over cross-border attack | World news | The Guardian Eight NTC fighters killed in attack by pro-Gaddafi forces near Ghadames, while siege of Sirte continues
Question about America's enemies - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The Featured American Enemy of the Week is the Haqqani network in the Pakistan/Afghanistan border region. The New York Times warns in a headline today: "Brutal Haqqani Crime Clan Bedevils U.S. in Afghanistan," and reports that military officials want "the group [put] on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations." ... Needless to say, the villain mastermind who heads this network, Jalaluddin Haqqani, has, as the NYT put it, "allied himself over the years with the C.I.A." (around and around we go)
BBC News - Women in Saudi Arabia to vote and run in elections Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced (as long as they wear burkas)
BBC News - Farc's drug submarine seized in Colombia Police in Colombia have seized a submarine belonging to Farc rebels which had the capacity to carry at least seven tonnes of drugs.

EU given six weeks to protect itself against 'inevitable Greek default' | Business | The Observer IMF tells eurozone EFSF may need to be boosted five-fold to £1.7tn to convince markets that default could be contained (more free "confidence" money for banksters paid for with your austerity)
Catastrophic Stability - NYTimes.com But if Germany is going to have only 1 percent inflation, we’re talking about massive deflation in the periphery, which is both hard (probably impossible) as a macroeconomic proposition, and would greatly magnify the debt burden. This is a recipe for failure, and collapse (elite economic geniuses behind the Euro project insure its failure)
Greek police fire teargas at protesters in Athens | Reuters Greek riot police fired teargas at anti-austerity protesters pelting them with bottles outside parliament on Sunday in the first such unrest after a summer lull.

Phone-hacking claims mount up at News International | Media | The Guardian Former deputy editor 'was paid by NoW' while at Yard • Goody among alleged phone hacking victims • Coulson sues News Group for breach of contract

Political Animal - The 1983 example
FLASHBACK: When Dems Delivered Bipartisan Votes For Reagan | Media Matters for America (before the Republicans became the party of destruction and terror)
David Plouffe: House Republicans Putting Needs Of 30 Tea Party Members Over Needs Of Americans (how 30 rightwing idiots took over the country and destroyed it +why couldn't Nancy have done this?)
Hullabaloo Protesting in Real America (NYT makes snide remarks about Wall Street protesters' clothes, but loved the teaparty outfits and sucked Army's Dick.)
Wall Street protesters cuffed, pepper-sprayed during 'inequality' march
Little Green Footballs - Breitbart.com Commenters Respond to Obama Speech with Deluge of Overt Racism (the overt face of racial hatred at the core of the Republican party)
ComPost - Gov. Rick Perry blocks journalists on Twitter -- really? It's like telling your mother she can't read your diary and then posting it online.

Police crack down on 'Occupy Wall Street' protests | World news | guardian.co.uk New York police accused of heavy-handed tactics as 80 anti-capitalist protesters on 'Occupy Wall Street' march are arrested

Early success in cancer drug trial gives patients 'promising' future - Telegraph A London hospital’s trial of a prostate cancer drug has been stopped early because it was so successful doctors felt it would be "unethical" to deny the treatment to other patients.
Scientists Disarm AIDS Virus’ Attack on Immune System | Health | English
Climate change may leave Mount Everest ascent ice-free, say climbers | Environment | The Observer Mission launched to measure change in Himalayas as anecdotal evidence grows of melting ice on mountain's southern approach
World’s First Anti-Magnet To Serve As 'Magnetic Shield' | Fox News

Dominant Women Have Less Sex, Study Says The findings showed more dominant and assertive women had approximately 100 times less sex. +countries with a higher gender equality had more casual sex and more sexual partners. In nations with less equality between the sexes, the opposite was true.

Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology | Epicenter | Wired.com It’s a punishment for repeated and deceptive editing of articles related to the controversial religion. The landmark ruling comes from the inner circle of a site that prides itself on being open and inclusive.
Top 15 Countries With The Fastest Internet: Pando Network's Global Internet Speed Study, August 2011 (fucking Moldava has faster internets than Comcast - go free market!)

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Multi-trillion plan to save the eurozone being prepared - Telegraph grand plan to restore confidence in the single currency area that would involve a massive bank recapitalisation, giving the bail-out fund several trillion euros of firepower, and a possible Greek default (trillions for the rich banksters who got us into this mess to "restore confidence" in them, nothing for jobs)
Warning of a stock market rout on Monday unless a eurozone rescue package is found | Business | The Guardian George Osborne claims Britain is 'ahead of the curve' (rescue the banks some more! austerity!)
The world prays for an economic miracle - Business News, Business - The Independent - Christine Lagarde, warned of a looming "collapse in global demand" (well, the banksters demanded bailouts)
Vladimir Putin Russia Presidential Run: Prime Minister Announces Bid For 2012 Election

Abbas defies US with formal call for Palestinian recognition by UN | World news | The Guardian Palestinian leader appeals to conscience of world as Netanyahu rejects claim problem lies with Israel
President Obama Secretly Approved Transfer of Bunker-Buster Bombs to Israel - The Daily Beast While Obama publicly pressured Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians over settlements, he secretly sold Jerusalem deep-penetrating bombs it had long sought (to use on Iran)
A hospital's turmoil shows Libya's struggle with regime change | McClatchy

Will Perry's halting debate style produce a faltering campaign? | McClatchy "It was Mitt Romney's best performance so far and Rick Perry's worst performance so far," said Republican researcher Frank Luntz (not tough enough on hating immigrants)
Keith Olbermann Gives Us Rick Perry's Florida Campaign Co-Chair Raising the Dead Among the Dominionists currently making news for the Republican Party we have Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin.
Romney And Perry Speak In Michigan, Epicenter Of The Auto Industry They Wanted To Let Fail | ThinkProgress
Walker Spokesman Given Immunity In Investigation -- Has No Comment | TPMMuckraker
Palin: Pay Me and Then Maybe I'll Make a Decision stories - Gawker
The Power of Flat Out Lies | Mother Jones (Republicans lie, Americans believe them)
Ari Rabin-Havt On Current TV's Countdown: News Corp. Is "A News Company That Exists To Lie To Its Viewers" | Media Matters for America (satifying your appetite for lies)

Five myths about millionaires - The Washington Post - By John Steele Gordon : 1. Millionaires are rich (you can see where they're going with this)
UBS chief Oswald Grübel resigns over alleged rogue trader affair | Business | guardian.co.uk CEO quits Swiss bank over £1.5bn losses allegedly due to unauthorised trading by Kweku Adoboli in London
It Takes a Village - NYTimes.com (Republican war on kids)

Faster than light? CERN findings bewilder scientists | McClatchy
Faster-Than-Light Discovery Raises Prospect of Time Travel | CERN Neutrino Experiment | Time Travel Potential & Barriers | LiveScience

New Net Neutrality Rules Become Official (except for wireless which is having a hissy-fit)

092311
David Cameron: world on brink of new economic crisis - Telegraph The world stands on the brink of a new economic crisis that would leave countries like Britain “staring down the barrel”, David Cameron has warned (solution: more austerity)
Europe and Banks: EU Set to Speed Up Recapitalization of 16 Banks - CNBC (more free money for the banks who made the bad investments paid for with your austerity)
U.S. Pressures Europe to Act With Force on Debt Crisis - Yahoo! Finance (more austerity!)
One Point Seven Seven - NYTimes.com That’s the current interest rate on 10-year US bonds (the WSJ - as usual - and Niall Ferguson were wrong about the bond vigilantes but we'e stuck with their austerity program +Obama didn't know shit about economics)
The Hunting of the Snark: Always Wrong, Never In Doubt (McMegan McAddled)

Abbas defies US with formal call for Palestinian recognition by UN | World news | The Guardian
Pakistan and US trade accusations as peace envoy is buried in Kabul | World news | The Guardian Army chief tells America to stop playing the 'blame game' as he hit back against claims his country is secretly supporting Taliban
Russian spy agency targeting western diplomats | World news | The Guardian FSB using psychological techniques developed by KGB to intimidate and demoralise diplomatic staff, activists and journalists
BBC News - Syria unrest: 'First woman dies in detention' According to the London-based human rights group, the 18-year-old's body had been decapitated, the arms cut off and the skin removed.

News International 'continued to pay Neil Wallis after he joined Met' | UK news | guardian.co.uk Former deputy editor received £25,000 from News of the World publisher after starting work as consultant with police force

Republican Crowd Boos Soldier During Debate - YouTube
Republican Debate Audience Boos Gay Soldier Stephen Hill After DADT Repeal Question (video)
Rick Perry Blindsided Again In Debate On Immigration, Rick Santorum Has Big Night
Democracy Corps » The Explosive Republican-Obama Battleground 2012 will be an explosive year.[1] These Republicans swept into Washington on the tide of a change wave but are now facing what could be a change election with an even higher wave, and these seats are anything but secure. The difference from the last three elections is that this wave seems to be threatening everything in its path.
Rush: Elizabeth Warren Is A "Parasite Who Hates Her Host, Willing To Destroy The Host While She Sucks The Life Out Of It" | Media Matters for America (project much?)

Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The last decade has spawned a massive expansion of the domestic Surveillance State (illegal state spying has no limits)
During Court Hearing, Conservative Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Shouts Down Progressive Colleague, Telling Him To ‘Shut Up’ | ThinkProgress (how Republicans roll)
Whiskey Fire: Deep in the Heart of Blow Me Michael Barone says that because Keynesian policies have succeeded in Brazil, we should reject such policies, because of Europe, which is in trouble for moving away from such policies, and also SOCIALISM. Presumably this is all to do somehow with gay climate change.
Conservatives Sites Attack Michelle Obama For Wearing Borrowed Jewelry | Media Matters for America is the latest in a long line of deranged attacks on her.
DOJ: Rick Perry's Texas Redistricting Plan Purposefully Discriminated Against Minorities | TPMMuckraker
Debunking the Myth that Regulations on Big Business are "Job-Killers" | | AlterNet Experts say that no, regulations do not in fact destroy jobs--they shift jobs within the economy. So why do even Democrats repeat the Republican talking point?
Marijuana question sky-rockets to top of new White House petition site | The Raw Story

The Social Contract - NYTimes.com a demand that a small number of very lucky people be exempted from the social contract that applies to everyone else. And that, in case you’re wondering, is what real class warfare looks like.
Most States Experience Significant Rise In Levels Of 'Deep Poverty' (except the states without any people in them +LA which couldn't get any poorer)
Mortgage industry tanks, fraud continues at Countrywide | iWatch News
The Great Debt Scare - Robert J. Shiller - Project Syndicate (optimism deficit +power of myth)
Unemployment: Older Jobless Twice As Likely To Become 99ers (screwed)
is-market-replaying-decade-1930s-marketwatch: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance (this time with Hoover as Pres)
The theft of the American pension - Economics - Salon.com In the last decade, the country's biggest companies have raided worker benefits for profit. An expert explains how

Michael Faherty, Irish Pensioner, Dies Of Spontaneous Combustion
Ketchup killing proves sauce of fun for Brazilian town | World news | The Guardian

HP shares down after Whitman CEO appointment - Yahoo! Finance HP shares down after Whitman appointed to replace Apotheker as CEO (this won't end well)

092211
Debt crisis: as it happened - September 22, 2011 - Telegraph Markets tumble after the Fed warns of downside risks, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick says he is losing confidence in recovery and European central bank report questions whether euro can survive (Euro = French/German bank protection racket)

Palestinians ready to put statehood on backburner in favour of peace talks | World news | guardian.co.uk Obama causes anger with veto pledge and staunch backing of Israel but Abbas continues to hold out olive branch
Libyan rebels discover Gaddafi's chemical weapons | World news | guardian.co.uk Stockpile of mustard gas found in southern desert
Niqab women fined by French court | World news | guardian.co.uk Lawyer acting for Hind Ahmas says full-face veil pair will appeal to France's supreme court after fines by Meaux court

Exclusive: Murdoch execs told of hacking evidence in 2006 - Crime, UK - The Independent Police warned Rebekah Brooks practice likely to be in wider use ... Information was disclosed about the nature of that evidence. (corrupt UK cops warned the criminals there might be evidence of crimes, giving Murdoch 5 years to delete stuff)
Murdoch paper hacked minister’s voice mail: sources | The Raw Story News of the World hacked extensively into the voice mail of a minister in Britain's former Labour government, according to three people familiar with the matter (Murdoch running espionage ring, should be tried under "offical secrets act" huh?)

Julian Assange autobiography – live reaction | News | guardian.co.uk

Poll: Majority of Americans blame Obama for economy – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs (how's that complete messaging failure working out for you? +where you gonna pivot now?)
Proof that the GOP wants to 'sabotage' the economy? - The Week Liberals cry foul after top Republican leaders urge Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke not to use monetary policy to help juice the sputtering economy
Why You Should Listen to Warren, Not Buffett - TheStreet The reason for Warren's newfound Internet stardom is simple. She was able to articulate -- in a few words -- what the Democratic Party has been unable to communicate for years: "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody (Obama and his crack team of Republican advisors couldn't come up with this message)
Government Shutdown Looms: House Rejects Short-Term Budget Bill (Republican terrorists attack America again)

Stock markets tumble after Operation Twist … and doubt | Business | guardian.co.uk US Federal Reserve strategy to calm financial markets causes investor fright as markets from London to Asia plunge

News from The Associated Press Scientists at the world's largest physics lab said Thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light - "It's going to cause us problems, no doubt about that - if it's true."

Dan Fanelli Ad - YouTube (most racist political ad ever +civil liberties are bad +the guy who got Grayson's seat)


092111
Benjamin Netanyahu: President Obama deserves 'badge of honor' - Josh Gerstein and Jennifer Epstein - politico.com (good boy)
Obama: Palestinian statehood must be achieved through talks with Israel | World news | guardian.co.uk US president tells UN general assembly Palestinians deserve their own state – but defends threat to veto any bid on Friday (flop-flip)
Iran frees US hikers held as spies | World news | The Guardian Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are believed to be inside a convoy of cars seen leaving Evin prison in Tehran
US drone bases in Africa to focus on al-Qaida targets and Somalia | World news | The Guardian American unmanned vehicles based in Ethiopia, Seychelles and Arabian peninsula to target piracy and terrorism
Yemen's fragile ceasefire breaks as protesters mourn their dead | World news | The Guardian Doctors bemoan lack of medicine for peace camp protesters as explosions herald return to violence
Typhoon Roke heads towards Japan's tsunami-hit areas | World news | The Guardian Storm leaves four dead in central region as 130mph winds threaten to cause damage at Fukushima nuclear plant

Rash of bank downgrades as IMF demands rapid action over debt | Business | The Guardian time is running out to solve financial crisis
UK Treasury says govt spending still on track | Reuters Britain's finance ministry said on Wednesday that its spending plans this year remained on track after official data showed government borrowing rose to a record high in August (the solution is more austerity for everyone but the rich who caused the problem in the first place)

MPs summon Met police to explain bid to force Guardian to reveal sources | UK news | guardian.co.uk Deputy assistant commissioner to be called before Commons committee that investigated phone hacking - "This was a regrettable incident, but let's hope it's over."

Baylor Religion Survey reveals many see God steering economy – USATODAY.com About one in five Americans combine a view of God as actively engaged in daily workings of the world with an economic conservative view that opposes government regulation and champions the free market as a matter of faith - "They say the invisible hand of the free market is really God at work" (Big Baby DougJ: Glibertarianism and Christianism are now as one) (God is the Big Regulator)

House Democrats push legislation to overturn Citizens United ruling - TheHill.com (that will go over big)
AP "Fact Check[s]" Claim Obama Isn't Making | Media Matters for America (make up lies, "fact check them")
The GOP is trying to rig the electoral college - The Washington Post (why not? They've rigged everything else)
Elizabeth Warren On ‘Class Warfare’: There Is Nobody Who Got Rich On His Own (video) | Election 2012
Romney calls for a tax policy that will help "us" in the middle class - Political Hotsheet - CBS News - the former Massachusetts governor's net worth at between $190 million and $250 million (the 90% of Americans worth over $200 million)
Michele Bachmann Can't Win, HuffPost-Patch GOP Power Outsiders Say Unlike with the two frontrunners, nearly half the words (48 percent) to describe Bachmann were negative, including "inexperienced," "crazy," "lightweight" and "scary."
Barbara Walters Talks About Miscarriages In Tense Chat With Joe McGinniss, Author Of Palin Book (video) Walters was clearly not a big fan of the book. She brought up what she considered to be "the worst thing" about it: the suggestion, which McGinniss discusses, that Palin's youngest son may not actually be hers.
Todd Palin 'will file for divorce and advisers tell Sarah White House dream is over' | Mail Online Todd plans to file for divorce, fed up with wife's scandals McGinniss says Palin is a 'fraud', 'hypocrite' and a 'tenth-grade mean girl'
Joe Scarborough Denounces Rick Perry, Mitt Romney's Criticism Of Obama's Israel Policy (video)
Lawrence O'Donnell: Bill O'Reilly's Threat To Quit Is A Lie (video) scoffed on his Tuesday show at Bill O'Reilly's threat to end his cable news program if his taxes are raised (whine, whine)
Texas' redistricting plan disenfranchises minorities, Justice Dept. says | McClatchy
Fox News Largely Ignores Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal | ThinkProgress (Fox is so gay)

Report: Economists Shut Out Of Debt-Ceiling Debate | Media Matters for America (don't bother us with the facts)
Fed launches $400bn 'Operation Twist' to boost US growth | Business | guardian.co.uk Federal Reserve moves to push down long-term interest rates and kickstart housing market
Flashback: When Democrats opposed the Fed - The Washington Post
Getting ready for a ‘twist’ by the Federal Reserve - The Fed - MarketWatch Novel or not, central bank may go back to 1960s era policy
Federal Reserve To GOP: Take A Hike! | TPMDC
Moody's Downgrades BofA, Well Fargo, Citigroup On Fears U.S. Wouldn't Aid Banks [update]
U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood announces high speed rail money for New England — Greater City: Providence $82.7 million to improve high-speed and intercity passenger rail in Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut and Vermont (pennies)
Georgia Works: Obama Plan To Let Jobless Work For Free Gets Key Backing From Paul Ryan (back to the plantations!)

And if the state kills an innocent man today ... - War Room - Salon.com Troy Davis is set to be executed. Could it jolt America's death penalty politics? (not in the South, for sure)
A Grievous Wrong on Georgia’s Death Row - NYTimes.com

Troy Davis polygraph test refused by Georgia prison officials | World news | guardian.co.uk Death row inmate's lawyers had hoped test would convince pardons board to reconsider a decision against clemency (Georgia not interested in evidence)
College clout: Some admissions officials report outside pressure - chicagotribune.com "You don't want (administrators, trustees and donors) lobbying on behalf of individual candidates. That is a recipe for unfairness, inappropriate decisions,"
Pa. school pulls musical 'Kismet' after complaints | AP | 09/20/2011 A western Pennsylvania school district has decided not to stage a Tony Award-winning musical about a Muslim street poet after members of the community complained about the play on the heels of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks ... Miller says the play has no inappropriate content but he and other members of the performing arts committee decided to switch to "Oklahoma!" after hearing complaints (no Muslims allowed in America +911911911911)



092011
Palestinians: we are already recognised as a state by two-thirds of the globe | World news | guardian.co.uk UN delegation claims member countries comprising 75% of the world's population are in favour of its bid for full statehood (actually it's a lot more; 100% of Americans do not support the failed racist state of Israel)
The Washington Monthly - Ten Miles Square - The Palestine Vote: Who Will Vote How?
Obama should support Palestinian statehood at United Nations Granting the Palestinians statehood will put the US on the right side of history

Al-Jazeera chief's surprise resignation raises fears for channel's independence | Media | The Guardian Wadah Khanfar stood down after eight years that consolidated the satellite network's reputation and his own position
Al-Jazeera boss Wadah Khanfar steps down to be replaced by Qatari royal | Media | The Guardian TV channel head quits after revolutionising Middle East broadcasting for past eight years, especially during Arab Spring (can't have that)
Burhanuddin Rabbani killing plunges Afghanistan peace effort into crisis | World news | guardian.co.uk Bomb rips through Kabul home of former president appointed by Karzai to begin negotiations with Taliban
Chevron loses latest stage of Amazon pollution battle | Business | guardian.co.uk New York appeals judge unfreezes $18bn damages award over contamination of indigenous tribe's land in Ecuador
Calderón Hints at Drug Legalization Again | Cato @ Liberty ”If [the Americans] are determined and resigned to consuming drugs, they should look for market alternatives that annul the stratospheric profits of the criminals, or establish clear points of access that are not the border with Mexico.” (42,000 dead later)

Met police drop action against the Guardian over hacking sources | Media | The Guardian Scotland Yard has dropped bid to force the Guardian to reveal confidential sources behind phone hacking stories - The Met's attempt to identify potential police leaks was widely condemned. (corrupt UK cops give up on twisted logic)
Phone hacking: Ted Turner says Rupert Murdoch will have to step down | Media | guardian.co.uk CNN founder and rival media mogul says News Corp head should take responsibility for crisis (sorry, Ted, that's not going to happen)

A future for drones: automated killing - The Washington Post scientific advances that would allow drones to search for a human target and then make an identification based on facial-recognition or other software (never heard of masks, we suppose)

Defense.gov News Article: Obama: Americans No Longer Have to Lie to Serve
Don't ask, don't tell: freedom to serve is not freedom to love | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Only 15 percent of service members are women, yet by 2007 women accounted for nearly half of all dismissals.

Jose Padilla and how American justice functions - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com As usual, the Obama DOJ cited national security imperatives and sweeping theories of presidential power to demand that Executive Branch officials be fully shielded from judicial scrutiny (i.e., shielded from the rule of law) for their illegal acts (the Obama DOJ: "Here, where Padilla's damage claims directly relate, inter alia, to the President’s war powers, including whether and when a person captured in this country during an armed conflict can be held in military detention under the laws of war, it would be particularly inappropriate for this Court to unnecessarily reach the merits of the constitutional claims"

Elizabeth Warren Takes Lead Over Scott Brown | Crooks and Liars (Cosmo-Boy is toast)

The Geithner mystery solved - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Mr. Obama turned away from the advisers who had seen him through the campaign (including more progressive thinkers like Mr. Stiglitz, Robert Reich and Austan Goolsbee), and relied instead on two men associated with the deregulatory policies of the past, Mr. Geithner, the Treasury secretary, and Mr. Summers, the chief economic adviser. Both men had served in the Clinton administration (with Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, who would later join Citigroup as a senior adviser and board member); their actions, Mr. Suskind contends, "had contributed to the very financial disaster they were hired to solve."
Do I Have To Read Ron Suskind's Book? - NYTimes.com (Obama's crack team of advisors totally disfunctional; Obama was pathetically unfit for the job; "Clinton would never have made these mistakes")
Women staffers felt frozen out in early Obama WH - CBS News several senior female aides complained directly to the president that men enjoyed greater access to him and often muscled them out of key policy discussions.

Whiskey Fire: Flings of the Waistcoat Crowd Bill Keller has a column at the NYT because he can have a column at the NYT, not because anybody is clamoring to hear what he has to say ... Nobody who has a use for things like "a job" or "not having their child shot at in a stupid war" cares about "unity of purpose." ... What is batshit here is that Keller is utterly oblivious to his own role in this nonsensical disaster. Obama is a creature of the Sensible Consensus. He is the Bill Keller President.
Hullabaloo - Watching the detectives (Posner hates civil rights, cops should never be held accountable)
Perry says Obama Mideast policy i... JPost - Diplomacy & Politics GOP presidential candidate says Obama's moral equivalency towards Palestinians, Israelis, encouraged Palestinian to petition UN for state; Perry rival Romney calls on US to cut aid to Palestinians.
Perry’s Theocratic Foreign Policy: ‘As A Christian I Have A Clear Directive To Support Israel’ | ThinkProgress
Experts: Bachmann’s False HPV Comments Could Do Real Damage To Public Health | ThinkProgress
Troy Davis execution: Georgia pardons board denies plea for clemency | World news | guardian.co.uk Georgia man who insists he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989 set to be executed on Wednesday (Georgia loves killing innocent black people)
O'Reilly Says He May "Pack It In" If Obama Raises Taxes On Him Too Much | Media Matters for America (that's one big reason to raise taxes on rich idiots)
Kansas Gov. under fire for rejecting health care grant | McClatchy Gov. Sam Brownback has come under fire from Democrats and some Republicans ever since his administration rejected a $31.5 million federal "early innovator" grant for health care reform that it had earlier voiced support for.
Texas tea party wants 'sanctuary cities' bill revived by Perry | McClatchy The sanctuary cities bill would freeze state funding for local governments that prohibit officers from asking detainees about their immigration status.
Reid: I'm Not Confident A Government Shutdown Can Be Avoided | TPMDC insisted Tuesday that Democrats will not back down in their disagreement with Republicans over how much disaster relief money to provide FEMA and therefore that the threat of a government shutdown is very real.
Nikki Haley: Jobless On Drugs Claim From Bad Information

California won't slip back into recession, UCLA study finds - latimes.com The state's jobless rate is expected to remain around 12% through next year (nope, no "recession" here)
Chris Whalen - 'It's Time For Bankruptcy, Bank Of America Is Doomed' - Home - The Daily Bail
Obama Wants the Rich to Pay Higher Taxes—It'll Never Happen - Business - GOOD

Bill Clinton Slams GOP Climate Deniers During Global Initiative Conference I mean, it makes us – we look like a joke, right? You can’t win the nomination of one of the major parties in the country if you admit that the scientists are right?"
Global Energy Use To Jump 53 Percent By 2035, Driven Largely By Growth In China And India | TPM Idea Lab
Times Atlas publishers apologise for 'incorrect' Greenland ice statement | Environment | The Guardian The humiliating climbdown for HarperCollins – part of Rupert Murdoch's publishing empire – came after key sources of data on the Greenland ice denied that their research, cited by the Times Atlas, warranted the claims
Italian scientists on trial for failing to predict earthquake | Science | The Guardian (only in Italy dept.)

The Most Overly Dramatic Break Up Ever | Cracked.com
Parents Fight Over Pledging Allegiance In Schools : NPR Courts have ruled that public schools cannot compel students to recite the pledge, so in Brookline, as elsewhere, the pledge is voluntary.

Official Google Blog: Google+: 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99... 100.
Google+ Adds 9 New Features, Opens to the World | Webmonkey | Wired.com
Italy Proposes Law That Will Ban People From The Internet Based On Single Accusation Of Infringement From Anyone | Techdirt

091911
Israel urged to reconsider punishing Palestinians over UN campaign | World news | guardian.co.uk US and EU try to pacify Israel as ministers threaten to withhold customs revenue from Palestinian Authority over UN status bid (big baby needs pacifying)
Palestinian Statehood: U.S. Tries To Avert Crisis Over Vote At UN (Obama considering tanks)

Yemen's bloodiest day yet leaves more than 22 dead | World news | The Guardian Hospitals in Sana'a unable to cope with the number of casualties as security forces clashed with anti-government groups
Libya: Gaddafi son spotted in Bani Walid as heavy fighting continues | World news | The Guardian Libyan forces takes key parts of Sabha but NTC claims sighting in city where Gaddafi loyalists hold fast
Afghan government minister accused of hampering fight against insurgents | World news | The Guardian Bismillah Khan Muhammadi's intervention in Kabul siege may have led to British and Afghan casualties, say Isaf officials
Himalayan earthquake kills dozens as rescue operation continues | World news | The Guardian Heavy rain and thick cloud hamper relief effort after more than 100,000 homes in India, Nepal and Tibet were damaged

Greek minister reaffirms commitment to resolving country's debt crisis | Business | guardian.co.uk Evangelos Venizelos promises fresh austerity measures, but rules out new taxes, as he faces emergency conference call with EU, ECB and IMF

Obama sets out 'balanced' deficit plan and asks top earners to pay fair share | World news | The Guardian Obama says half of $3tn deficit reduction will come from tax increases, but stresses: 'It's not class warfare – it's math' (while the Republicans wage class warfare all around him; idiot)
Why the White House changed course - The Washington Post the major compromise it makes is with political reality — a reality that the White House would prefer not to have had to acknowledge (the reality that Democrats thought they were electing a Democratic President)
If Frank Bruni Knew Arithmetic He Wouldn't Write Columns Like This One | Beat the Press This is one of those columns which could have been so easily prevented if the NYT just required a remedial 3rd grade arithmetic course for columnists that intend to write on economic issues (Times loves their food writers)
Obama Debt Reduction Plan a Sharp Pullback from Grand Bargain Territory | FDL News Desk (yeah, those cuts to Social Security and Medicaid went over really well; idiots)
When Ronald Reagan Was President, There Was A Soviet Union And A Cold War | ThinkProgress Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) acting like a complete fool who thinks the GOP congressional staffers are tiny children - The method here for internal deliberation about public policy is something like a mix between a kindergarten class and a cult (buffoons)
Multi-Millionaire Rep. Says He Can’t Afford A Tax Hike Because He Only Has $400K A Year After Feeding Family | ThinkProgress (they eat a lot)
GOP-Led States Move To Change Voting Rules Ahead Of 2012

Doom! Our Economic Nightmare Is Just Beginning | The New Republic Our economic nightmare is just beginning (Conservatives always make the wrong decision, because everyone else should suffer for their mistakes)
Daily Kos: Occupy Wall Street Protest - The "Phalanx Formation"

Video: Around the world in 60 seconds: rare view of Earth from the International Space Station - Telegraph

In the Hollywood “Woman’s Picture,” Abortion Is Never An Option : Lawyers, Guns & Money
Man With Down Syndrome in Clash With Cops | NBC Miami Even worse, Gold claims Powell's colostomy bag was "ripped right off his body."
Key witness in Tulsa police trial arrested on traffic misdemeanors | Tulsa World (cops at work)


AT&T’s LTE network in the real world — Mobile Technology News a bill for a similar experiment to a whopping $900 for three days of data. That’s something I don’t recommend trying at home (very fast at running up enormous bills)
Meet Qwikster: Netflix Spins Off Discs-By-Mail from Streaming Video | Epicenter | Wired.com - As last week showed, when customers leave a company, investors are quick to follow. The hasty rebranding — Netflix didn’t even own the @qwikster Twitter account — underscores the fact that Netflix’s myth of inevitability is simply gone.
Qwikster Plan by Netflix Angers Devoted Customers - NYTimes.com

091811
Palestinians to submit statehood bid next Friday | McClatchy

New 'super PAC' aims to raise $55 million for Rick Perry | McClatchy "It's a new day in campaign finance. They're going to play an incredible role." - The Make Us Great Again PAC (he means the Confederacy)
Death penalty: How can Republicans like Rick Perry be so skeptical of government yet so committed to capital punishment? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine Republicans like Rick Perry are skeptical of everything the government does—except when it executes people (Republicans love murdering people)
Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Have ‘Any Particular Reaction’ To Tea Party Audience Cheering For Death | ThinkProgress (how far America has fallen)
Paul Ryan Calls For Increasing Taxes On Middle Class But Dismisses Millionaires Tax As ‘Class Warfare’ | ThinkProgress

BBC News - UBS 'rogue trader': Loss estimate raised to $2.3bn "I'm responsible for everything that happens at the bank," Mr Gruebel told Swiss Sunday newspaper, der Sonntag. "if you ask me whether I feel guilty, then I would say no." (of course not)
Hacktivists Begin Operation Occupy Wall Street | TPM Idea Lab
a Why There Are Protests On Wall Street: Their Actions Impoverished More Than 60 Million People | ThinkProgress (but not themselves, for sure)

The Cell Episode 3 Spark Of Life (BBC) - YouTube
Iceland Review Online: Daily News from Iceland, Current Affairs, Business, Politics, Sports, Culture Only 13 percent of participants in the study said it is impossible that elves exist, 19 percent found it unlikely, 37 percent said elves possibly exist, 17 percent found their existence likely and eight percent definite. Five percent did not have an opinion on the existence of elves.

Commentary: Colin Powell was wrong. Americans walk around afraid | McClatchy
Justice Department survey confirms downward trend in violent crime - CNN.com (ignore these statistics and be afraid)
Criminally Confident in Our Kids « FreeRangeKids when a cop comes knocking on your door or calling you from the train platform, you realize that until we abolish “Worst-First” thinking, kids can’t be kids — and the police get to parent (because kids are more likely to get abducted from a crowded commuter train than die in an SUV crash - culture of cops and fear)

FREEwilliamsburg » Brooklyn Spaces: Chronicaling Weird Shit Before it Gets Condemed/Gentrified
brooklyn spaces | a compendium of brooklyn culture & creativity

Welcome to Your Hungarian Internet | Common Dreams the U.S. has sunk to 25th in a global ranking of Internet speeds, just behind Romania. Why? Because our nation's regulators abandoned an earlier commitment to foster competition in the marketplace for Internet access providers (free market for everyone except monopolies; American sinks in every category)

091711
Libya Counts Its Martyrs, but the Bodies Don’t Add Up - NYTimes.com
Reports: Nine Civilians Slain in US Drone Strike Against Somalia :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: Terrified Residents Report Missile Strikes in Key Southern Port (Obama's war on innocent civilians)

Spain raises taxes on the rich | Business | The Guardian Prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero reinstates the sort of wealth tax that he abolished just before the recession
Europe's debt crisis prompts central banks to provide dollar liquidity | Business | guardian.co.uk European and US stocks surge on news that world banks will flood markets – but Lagarde warns of 'dangerous' new phase (in search of the confidence fairy)
Eurozone debt crisis 'in dangerous new phase' warns IMF chief | Business | The Guardian Central banks to pump cheap dollars to European banks • Lagarde says 'political dysfunction' could wreck recovery (lookin' at you, Repubicans)
Osborne and US clash with EU leaders over financial transaction tax | World news | guardian.co.uk Fractious meeting of finance ministers sees Europeans vow to push on with tax to bolster rescue funds despite UK objections
Iceland Rejected the Fraudulent Idea that Debts Perpetrated by Capitalist Leaders Should be Borne by the People; Arrested & Convicted the Capitalist Leaders Who Committed Political And Economic Crimes Against Her. Why Didn't We Think of That? | Before It's News

Phone hacking: secrecy sledgehammer | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian If the Met succeeds in its use of the Official Secrets Act it would be a very bleak day for freedom and democracy (they couldn't investigate their way out of a paper bag; so hey need to kill freedom of the press)

Palestinian anger at US fuels diplomatic crisis over statehood | World news | The Observer President Abbas takes case for UN recognition to the security council after negotiators say US response was 'final straw' (is this an example of Obama's 11-dimensional chess?)
James Zogby: On a Collision Course With Arab Opinion
Is the end of Israel as we know it? | GlobalPost Israel now finds itself isolated like no other time in the past 35 years (they've been working really hard at it)
Our New Allies, the Jihadists | News Junkie Post
Palestinians left homeless as Israel demolishes West Bank houses :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente (you won't read this in America)
London Philharmonic Suspends Musicians for anti-Israel Remarks « Pyramidion “According to The Guardian, musicians sanctioned after they signed a letter condemning the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as an instrument of Israeli propaganda.” (no criticism of failed racist state allowed)

Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires - NYTimes.com
Lawmakers Seek Transparency From Supercommittee : NPR (and will get total opaqueness)
Panetta Fearmongers on Defense Budget Cuts | FDL News Desk
Jimmy Carter Talks 2012 Elections, Calls Supreme Court 'Citizens United' Decision One Of The 'Stupidest' Ever
President Obama Reportedly Considering -- Again -- Whether To Raise The Medicare Eligibility Age From 65 To 67. Bad Idea. | The New Republic (any changes except lowerering it will make things worse but Obama is powerless to tell the truth)
Perry Says Supreme Court ‘Taking The Appropriate Path’ In Stopping Execution, Even Though He Was Set To Allow It | ThinkProgress (wants to be executioner in chief)
Bachmann Claims Wall Street Reform Is ‘Killing The Banking Industry’ As Banks Post Record Profits | ThinkProgress (don't let reality get in the way of your lies)
10 Ways Michele Bachmann is Like Satan | Business Pundit Satan’s rule of the earth: keeping people ignorant, distracted, unhappy, and evil.
A dose of reality for the HPV debate - The Washington Post Try to imagine a parent-daughter conversation about sexual restraint and maturity that includes the words: “Honey, I’m going to deny you a vaccine that prevents a horrible, bleeding cancer, just as a little reminder of the religious values I’ve been trying to teach you.”
Rick Perry: Nuclear Waste Pay-To-Play Scam - YouTube
How Perry Pushed Donor's Nuclear Waste Dump | Mother Jones
‘Ponzi’ Is Back! Perry Doubles Down On Social Security Attacks In Iowa | Election 2012
Hullabaloo Bad investments - Republicans scaring up the Solyndra "scandal" while supporting the Iraq War, Vice President Cheney, and no-bid Halliburton contracts are pretty much tied for history's biggest hyopcrites (look over here, not over there)
Sinners In The Hand Of An Angry Columnist | ThinkProgress (David Brooks is hurting America +if you get laid off because your job was outsourced to China, you're a sinner and should be stoned)

Forget the Senate. Elizabeth Warren should go work on Wall Street. - The Washington Post
States Struggle For Money, Political Will To Fix America's Failing Roads (Repubicans hate infrastructure and the idea of America)

RCFP: Strict eavesdropping law ruled unconstitutional in Illinois case An Illinois judge ruled the state’s eavesdropping law unconstitutional as applied to a man who faced up to to 75 years in prison for secretly recording his encounters with police officers and a judge (they should never be subject to public scrutiny +Posner is an enemy of America: recording cops and judges = "evesdropping")

Appellate Court Sends Tenenbaum Case Back For Another Round | Electronic Frontier Foundation (victory for Big Content and Obama)

091611
Palestinian Statehood Bid: How Countries Will Likely Vote At The U.N. General Assembly (US, Canada and Italy only countries supporting failed racist state)
Palestinian leader ignores US warnings on UN statehood bid | World news | guardian.co.uk Mahmoud Abbas says he will go ahead with request to UN security council to recognise independence despite US warnings (rest of the world support him)
Abbas Says He Will Go to Security Council - NYTimes.com
Balloon Juice » The Next Middle East Disaster Despite the fact that we continue to do Israel’s bidding to the detriment of our own international standing, Dan Senor will pen more commentary about the grievous insults Obama has made towards Israel, and Ed Koch will continue to campaign for wingnuts because Obama hates Jews. Why aren’t we allowed to treat Israel like every other nation in the world and do what is in our best interest, not theirs? (it's not even in their best interest)

Libya rebels launch assaults on Gaddafi's last strongholds | World news | The Guardian Bani Walid and Sirte centres of fierce fighting as rebels and regime loyalists engage in last-ditch battle for supremacy
U.S. expands its drug watch list to include all Central America | McClatchy (Obama's global war on drugz)
Ukraine Reporter's Widow Blames Former President For His Death Former President Leonid Kuchma is slated to go on trial on charges of abuse of office in connection with the killing of Heorhiy Gongadze in the coming months. Prosecutors contend Kuchma gave illegal orders to his subordinates that eventually led to Gongadze's death (hope for America?)

Phone hacking: Met use Official Secrets Act to demand Guardian reveals sources | Media | The Guardian Unprecedented move sees Scotland Yard use the Official Secrets Act to demand the paper hands over information (non-Murdoch newpapers are terrorists)
UK's Met Police Try To Force Guardian To Reveal Phone Hacking Sources Now, in a bitter bit of irony, Scotland Yard is using the Official Secrets Act -- a law barring the publication of sensitive information that is more commonly used in matters of national security or espionage -- to try to force the Guardian to reveal how it got the information for what is undoubtedly the most important phone hacking story it has published so far: that of Milly Dowler.
Threat to press freedom | Media | The Guardian Police officers investigating the crimes of News of the World journalists have misguidedly looked to the Official Secrets Act for help (using Obama tactics on press)

Eschaton: 2005: Treason Rice: But in an interview with CNN, she said, "I suspect that the American forces are not going to be needed in the numbers that they are there for all that much longer because Iraqis are continuing to make progress in function, not just in numbers but in their capabilities to do certain functions like, for instance, holding a highway between the airport and the center of the city, something that our forces were doing just a short time ago, they're now doing." (very serious people are always right except when they are disasterously wrong and then they are still right)
White House Weighs Limits of Terror Fight - NYTimes.com The Obama administration’s legal team is split over how much latitude the United States has to kill Islamist militants in Yemen and Somalia, a question that could define the limits of the war against Al Qaeda and its allies, according to administration and Congressional officials.
'We're pinned down:' 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush | McClatchy
Major discovery: a purpose of the war in Afghanistan - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Once there are no more Afghans left who want us gone, then we can leave. At least we can now see the very important purpose of the war in Afghanistan: we stay until there's nobody left who hates us and wants us gone, then we triumphantly depart.

You Don’t Make Social Security More Solvent By Eliminating Its Funding Base | ThinkProgress (unless you are Republians +private accounts invested in the Great Casino!)
Eschaton: Super Duper Wankers I somehow missed that in addition to the SuperWanker committee we know have the self-appointed Grand Royal Poobahs Of The Duchy Of SuperDuperWanker who want to 'GO BIG!!!' Don't blame them, really. No one will blame them when the economy is destroyed, until perhaps the lights are finally turned off at Kaplan Test Prep.
Obama talks about lower taxes than Reagan; GOP members roll their eyes - TheHill.com Obama talks about lower taxes than Reagan; GOP members roll their eyes
In The Face Of Historically Low Taxes, O'Reilly Claims Taxation Is "Strangling The U.S. Economy" | Media Matters for America
Rachel Maddow Mocks Sen. Bob Casey's Opposition To Obama Jobs Plan (video)
Super Committee Targeted By Lobbyists The special "super committee" tackling U.S. deficit reduction was meant to operate independently and free from outside influence -- but Washington's corps of high-paid lobbyists has found a way in (how did that happen?)
House Republicans Seek Auto Industry Cuts To Cover For Disaster Relief Funds (Repubicans at work destroying jobs and then blaming Obama)
Michele Bachmann's Goof On HPV Won't Shield Rick Perry From Tough Questions In Iowa As one Tea Party activist, Kathy Carley of Des Moines, put it recently: "He's not what he appears." (to be)
Anderson Cooper: Michele Bachmann Spreading 'Dangerous Falsehood' On HPV Vaccine (video)
Not Letting Up | Talking Points Memo Michele Bachmann is still going after Rick Perry over the HPV vaccine, in a campaign email a short time ago: It almost reads like Perry was proposing to inject young girls with sexually transmitted diseases -- personally.
Perry’s Problem: Move To The Right On Social Security, Move To The Bottom In The General Election | Election 2012 the latest numbers show that these voters are much less forgiving on the Social Security issue, which is already dragging him down in a matchup with President Obama (or, he managed to push Obama into finally taking a Democratic position)
Scott Walker, Wisconsin Governor, Eyed In Corruption Probe After FBI Raid On Cynthia Archer's Home (corrupt? who, me?)
Scott Walker's Job Creators Cost Wisconsin 2300 Jobs In a Single Month (creation=destruction)
How to Talk About Solyndra | Mother Jones (the latest big scandal made up by Republicans to distract everyone from their corruption)

The Associated Press: Book: Treasury Secretary ignored Obama directive A new book offering an insider's account of the White House's response to the financial crisis says that U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama calling for reconstruction of major banks (O should have rendited him)
Bush to blame for U.S. debt crisis, S.C. Rep. Clyburn says | McClatchy (o rly)
Greece under pressure as finance ministers put brakes on bailout payment | Business | The Guardian Decision on €8bn Greek bailout delayed till October, while US secretary of state Geithner urges eurozone leaders to do more
Calculated Risk: Update on EU Finance Ministers Meeting Timothy Geithner told EU finance ministers on Friday they should end loose talk about a euro zone break-up and work more closely with the European Central Bank to tackle the debt crisis (i.e. the elites)
BBC News - UBS trader told bank of error, the BBC learns The UBS trader being questioned on suspicion of unauthorised trading which lost the bank $2bn (£1.3bn) alerted his employers himself, the BBC has learnt
Amazon pollution victims to ask judge to award $8bn Chevron money | Environment | guardian.co.uk Ecuador's Secoya people, whose health was allegedly damaged by polluted water dumped by oil giant, take fight to courts

Research shows crows comparable to humans when it comes to waiting crows and raven birds show the same ability to complete delayed exchange tasks as monkeys and humans do.

Flying While Half-Arab (and Half-Jewish): This One Is Shocking - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic (TSA is a racist gestapo)
ACLU files lawsuit over Missouri college's mandatory drug test rule | McClatchy
Obama Bumper Sticker Led Massachusetts Cops To Accused Shooter “It struck me as odd,” Devlin told the Suffolk Superior Court, knowing that Corliss lived in a generally conservative community. “He’s a guy from Somerville, so I was surprised he was supporting Obama,” Devlin said. “I made a joke about it. He said 'It was on the car when I bought it'.”

Reuters Raises Profile With Marquee Hires, Editor Aims To Become 'Best In The World'
Facebook and Twitter user boom may not mean big profits, says ad boss | Media | guardian.co.uk Sorrell warns of dangers of 'over-monetising' social networks
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Cybersecurity Solution for Anonymous: Hire Hackers vs. 20 Years Jail Time?
JPEGmini | Process your photo

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Gaddafi's birthplace 'captured by rebels' in battle for last Libya coast stronghold | World news | The Guardian Rebels claim control of centre of Sirte after three-pronged attack with Gaddafi's son Khamis said to be barricaded in at sea front
Al-Qaida chief in Pakistan killed by CIA drone | World news | The Guardian Abu Hafs al-Shahri was recently involved in training al-Qaida militants inside Afghanistan (for the 17th time)

Europe's leaders battle to keep faith with euro as Greek bailout flounders | Business | The Guardian Amid fresh setbacks in struggle to rescue Greece, US treasury secretary prepares to join euro crisis meetings in Poland
Understanding Trichet and Conpany: A Note what Trichet and Company are now saying: they are reputationally-bankrupt zombies gambling for resurrection (stupid old men were tragically wrong; have nothing to lose by being more wrong)

Catholic priests and child abuse: Time to prosecute the Pope? - The Week Victims' advocates charge that the Vatican is guilty of crimes against humanity. Is there any chance the International Criminal Court will get involved? (take down the whole criminal organization)
The Russians Put Up a Beautiful 150-Ton "Tear Drop" Memorial in New Jersey to Those Who Died in the 9/11 Tragedy In 2006. It's Beautiful. Everyone Should be Aware of it. This is the First I've Heard of it. | Before It's News
The Queen Has Lost Her Royal Marbles « Desertpeace Red Carpet treatment for Israeli war criminals visiting Britain…
Silvio Berlusconi faces fresh claims over parties, prostitutes and pay-outs | World news | The Guardian Wiretap transcripts, including alleged blackmail risk, could further damage standing of Italy's prime minister (is that possible?)
Wikileaks-named Ethiopian reporter in unredacted cable flees country in fear | Media | The Guardian Journalist identified when US cables were republished in full 'forced to leave after government harassment and intimidation'

Latest US news, sport and comment from the Guardian | guardiannews.com | US Network front | guardian.co.uk
Unveiling the Guardian's new US homepage | Help | guardian.co.uk

FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ | Danger Room | Wired.com and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.” (it's always been a racist organization)
Guy Who Created The TSA Says It's Failed, And It's Time To Dismantle It | Techdirt “It mushroomed into an army,” Mica said. “It’s gone from a couple-billion-dollar enterprise to close to $9 billion.” As for keeping the American public safe, Mica says, “They’ve failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.”
Fight of the Living Dead Like zombie banks that made bad loans, supporters of the Iraq War have dug in their heels on past mistakes ("reputationally-bankrupt zombies gambling for resurrection" - stupid old men justifying their crimes +Michael O’Hanlon)

Obama Won't Include Social Security Reform In Recommendations To Super Committee (he's already destroyed himself; complete psychologically unfit for the job)
Carville Advises Obama To 'Panic,' Fire People And Make A Bunch Of Politically Motivated Indictments To Win In 2012 Hey, America. Are you ready for a political "advice" column that has the sentence, "There were enough deaths at Stalingrad to make the entire tea party collectively orgasm" in its fifth paragraph?
Bill Daley Leaves Some Democrats Longing For Rahm Emanuel Ask a congressional Democrat about the job Bill Daley is doing as President Barack Obama's chief of staff, and chances are you'll be met with a blank stare (another disasterous Chicago idiot)
Hullabaloo - Unpopular Bill- From Toobin: "This Saturday had begun with Bush and Gore locked in a closer contest than earlier in the week.Indeed, the Vice President had made gains over the past three days. But the day ended with James Baker leading the attack --- and Bill Daley and Warren Christopher making the case for surrender." Who ever could have guessed that he'd be the wrong man for the job? (whoa, down the memory hole)
The perils of partisan punditry in the Obama age - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Democratic strategist and CNN pundit James Carville has written an article declaring Obama's political and policy approaches to be abject failures (pretends Obama isn't really a Republican)
But Black People Govern Like This ... - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic Michael Moore and Bill Maher think this is a great line: I went into the polls voting for the black guy, and what I got was the white guy... But it really isn't. In fact, it's racist, and Michael Moore would do well to stop repeating it
Texas poverty figures challenge Rick Perry jobs record | World news | guardian.co.uk Report published by non-partisan CPPP says poverty in Texas is higher than the rest of America – and growing faster (on the backs of the poor, what a miracle +Southern states in general)
Texas death row prisoners – interactive | World news | guardian.co.uk
Duane Buck Texas execution halted by supreme court | World news | guardian.co.uk Duane Buck's execution was halted after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial
NLRB Boeing Case: Bill To Weaken Labor Board Passed By House Republicans
Government Aid Keeps Millions Of Americans Out Of Poverty Last year, 46.2 million, or 15.1 percent of the entire country, lived below the poverty line, according to a Census report released this week. If it wasn't for Social Security, though, an additional 20.3 million people would be added to that total, the majority of them elderly (death panels all run by Republicans
America's 10 Poorest States: 24/7 Wall St (all Southern states except for Montana, mooching off big Gov)
Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin Book, 'The Rogue,' Makes Controversial Claims About Former Alaska Governor also alleges that Palin had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner, Brad Hanson, in the mid-1990s, and snorted cocaine off a 55-gallon oil drum while snowboarding. "An utter fraud. An absolute and utter fraud,"
Troy Davis Execution: Former FBI Chief William S. Sessions Calls On Georgia To Stay Order ("Texas has never executed an innocent person")
Michele Bachmann's Former Campaign Manager Calls 'Retardation' Comment A Mistake "When she's elected president, she'll be commander in chief and she'll do a good job," Rollins replied.
Michele Bachmann HPV row prompts fears for vaccine programme in US | World news | guardian.co.uk Doctors and scientists say Bachmann's comments risk further reducing already low take-up rates for vaccine in US (Republicans hate sex, love cancer, are generally retarded)
pandagon.net: Even married monogamous women are dirty sluts who deserve cancer now (Conservatives wishing death on everyone)
Judge Orders Joe Walsh To Prove He Doesn't Owe Back Child-Support Cook County Circuit Judge Raul Vega expressed frustration when the Illinois Republican and Tea Party favorite did not appear in court (throw him in jail)
ThinkProgress Walsh, who frequently appears on television to upbraid the president for putting too much “debt upon the backs of my kids,” apparently considers himself above the law and too important to show up for child support hearings. Obviously, the court thinks otherwise.
Blue Dogs Cool To Obama Jobs Vision | TPMDC
Why Is One House Office Building Ditching Energy-Efficient Bulbs? | TPMDC the Architect of the Capitol is replacing modern energy-efficient 150-watt lightbulbs (photo to left) with traditional 250-watt lightbulbs because an unknown member of Congress complained.

UBS $2 billion rogue trade suspect held in London | Reuters The loss effectively cancels out the $2 billion that the bank had hoped to save in a cost-cutting program announced last month in which it will axe 3,500 jobs (oh, the casino lost money again; it's always "unauthorized")
The 2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone - This is the reason why the Glass-Steagall Act, which kept investment banks and commercial banks separate, was originally passed back in 1933: it just defies common sense to have professional gamblers in charge of stewarding commercial bank accounts (+Obama missed chance for real reform, of course)
BofA Ordered to Pay $930,000 to Fired Whistleblower - Bloomberg an employee who uncovered fraud at Countrywide Financial Corp. and was fired in violation of whistleblower protections, the U.S. Department of Labor said (SOP for the banksters)
The TRUTH About Who Really Owns All Of America's Debt - Social Security Trust Fund Social Security Trust Fund - Total Holdings of US Treasuries: $2.67 trillion (Americans own most of US debt)

Synthetic DNA added to yeast cells, paving way for 'evolution' on demand | Science | The Guardian Scientists' feat could lead to better biofuels and vaccines, and is a significant step towards completely synthetic organisms
The Next Generation of Night-Vision Goggles | Popular Science

Same-sex couple threatens legal action against Cayuga County town whose clerk refused to issue marriage license | syracuse.com Town Clerk Rose Marie Belforti (is a fundamentalist Christian theocrat)
N.J. taxpayers picking up $420K to cover 'Jersey Shore' production costs | NJ.com "The Governor’s opinions about Jersey Shore and its New Yorker cast are well-known," said Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak. "They are phonies and the show is a false portrayal of New Jersey and our shore communities. He has also been clear about his belief that film tax credit programs are not the most effective way to spur economic growth throughout the State."
Celebrated Plantation artist Jose Alvarez accused of ID theft - Sun Sentinel Alvarez is now in federal custody, accused of stealing the identity of a New York man and misusing it for more than 20 years. Goateed and scholarly looking in hip eyeglasses, Alvarez — if that indeed is his name — had his first appearance Friday morning in federal court in Fort Lauderdale - The two men, who live together in Randi's Plantation home, met when Alvarez was a teen, and they put on the "Carlos" performances for 15 years. (a fraud the Amazing Randi missed)

Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix | The Tor Blog
Netflix Price Increase Causes Bigger Subscriber Loss Than Expected
Downloads Are Slowest in Idaho, Study Finds - NYTimes.com (Republicans hate infrastructure, free market solutions, America sucks at almost everything except killing people with drones)

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Palestinian anger rising against U.S. over U.N. resolution | McClatchy remarks by President Barack Obama that called the Palestinian bid a "distraction" to peace negotiations are engendering hostility among Palestinians, many of whom previously had seen the U.S. as the only possible mediator between Israel and them. Now they say the United States has allied itself with Israel.

Euro debt crisis: Italy passes first austerity vote - LIVE | Business | guardian.co.uk "Un nouveau moment fédérateur" (banks will have no problems as long as the world gives them all their money)
To solve unemployment, work must pay | Liam Byrne | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (stunning new concept; sounds like socialism)
David Cameron under pressure to soften hardline deficit strategy | Politics | The Guardian (oh dear, austerity isn't working, let's do more austerity)

Kabul attacks 'not a big deal' says US ambassador | World news | The Guardian Ryan Crocker says attacks were a statement of militants' weakness, after security forces kill last insurgents (and up is down)
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Liverpool to investigate striker Nathan Eccleston over 9/11 tweet | Football | guardian.co.uk (free speech unheard of in UK; only official line tolerated)
Church sex-abuse victims urge ICC prosecution - Europe - Al Jazeera English - Complaint filed against Pope Benedict and three Vatican officials by US-based group, alleging crimes against humanity.

New Met police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe promises 'war on crime' | UK news | The Guardian Rank and file officers told that when fighting crime, 'no tactic – if it works – will be considered out of bounds' (that didn't work out so well last time)
Magistrates were told to send rioters to crown court, emails show | UK news | The Guardian Emails sent to justices' clerks after August riots raise questions about judicial independence and the use of blanket guidance (no independent judiciary in UK, but that was obvious)
Leveson phone-hacking inquiry: JK Rowling among 'core participants' | Media | guardian.co.uk Judge names figures who will be able to give evidence to investigation into phone hacking and media ethics and practices
Issa: We Won’t Investigate News Corp’s Alleged Hacking Of 9/11 Victims Because We Don’t Want To Pick On The Media | ThinkProgress (crazy Darrell has Rupert's back)
French Socialist party election overshadowed by love triangle | World news | The Guardian Presidential primary saga of 'ordinary guy' Hollande, his ex-turned-rival Royal, and new love Valérie

New York Special Election Results: Republican Bob Turner Beats Democrat David Weprin In 9th District (heavily Jewish district with 3-1 Dem majority votes for Teaparty non-Jew to "send a message to Obama" at urging of Zionist Ed Koch, who hates America)
Peter King in the Hot Seat -- in London - NYTimes.com ” Mr. King was asked about his own past support for the Irish Republican Army (domestic terrorism by white guys not an issue in America)
CNN's Erick Erickson Objects To Government Playing A Role In Preventing HPV | Media Matters for America (Republicans: you should kill your daughter before she has sex; who does that sound like?)
Deep Thought | Slog So how do you think Republicans would react to the prospect of an uninsured, unborn fetus, gestating inside the uterus of a death-row inmate?
Ron Paul's Ex-Campaign Manager's Death Backdrop For Health Insurance Position Paul's 2008 campaign manager, Kent Snyder, went through a strikingly similar experience to Blitzer's hypothetical one, dying of complications from viral pneumonia just two weeks after Paul ended his presidential bid. (nothing gets in the way of their killing people)
Alan Grayson Blasts Tea Party Debate Audience's Reaction To Health Care Question: 'It's Sadism'
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community It's a recipe for civil war, but I guess that's where we're headed anyway, right?
The GOP's Genius Plan to Beat Obama in 2012 | Mother Jones If Pennsylvania Republicans and their buddies in other states execute a plan to change election rules, Obama has a one-way ticket to Losertown (just one of many he has bought himself)
Political Animal - We know how to reduce poverty among seniors We know poverty was well past crisis levels for older Americans not too long ago, and we know exactly what worked to bring those rates down. And yet, as the GOP has become radicalized, the threats to Medicare and Social Security have never been so severe (yet Americans over 50 vote Republican to off themselves)

The Great Recession in five charts - The Washington Post Americans are earning even less than they did 13 years ago. That’s according to new Census data released Tuesday, which found that real median income fell to $49,445 in 2010, the lowest number since 1997, and the largest decline in income in a single year of any recession since at least 1967. Poverty rates also rose to a record level: 15.1 percent of Americans are now in poverty, the highest level since 1993 (vote Republican)
Surprise! Census Data Contains Good News... For The Rich | Political Correction (the rich got richer, again, while the idiots who voted for them got poorer: kill the top quintile)
RICHARD KOO: Even Talking About Long-Term Deficit Reduction Is Indecent And Irresponsible Richard Koo gives decent marks to Obama's jobs plan, but says it's ultimately kind of small, and that when the Tea Party is done hacking it up, it will only be left with fairly ineffective tax cuts.
The "Mancession" Will End. Will the "Woman-cession"?
Obama Approval Plummets on Jobs Plan - Bloomberg The president’s job approval rating also stands at the lowest of his presidency -- 45 percent. That rating is driven down in part by a majority of independents, 53 percent, who disapprove of his performance (all 12 of them)

Have Planet Hunters Discovered a Habitable World? - TIME
Worldwide diabetes cases reach 366 million | McClatchy

AOL crunches TechCrunch’s Arrington - Jon Friedman's Media Web - MarketWatch Commentary: AOL doesn’t look like a mensch

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AFP: US risks being 'toxic' over Palestinian veto: Saudi prince (Obama still chasing his Republican neo-con daddies; totally psychologically programmed to be a wimp)
UN recognition of a Palestinian state receives public approval in Europe | World news | The Guardian Polls in France, UK and Germany show the majority of people back recognition of a Palestinian state by the UN
How a normal, healthy government behaves - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com That reaction stands in very stark contrast to the response to that Israeli attack from the Obama administration, which not only isolated itself from the rest of the world to defend Israel (as usual), but actually took this repellent position even in the face of the Israelis' killing of 19-year-old American Furkan Dogan - Biden: "So what's the big deal here?" - "Spreading democracy" is but the pretext for the wars they crave in that region; the last thing they want is for public opinion to have any relevance at all.

IMF: Austerity boosts unemployment, lowers paychecks - The Washington Post (big surprise)
The Death of the Confidence Fairy - NYTimes.com In the first half of last year a strange delusion swept much of the policy elite on both sides of the Atlantic — the belief that cutting spending in the face of high unemployment would actually create jobs

Afghan insurgents attack U.S. Embassy - latimes.com The high-profile, sophisticated strikes with rockets and guns are aimed at the 'green zone,' the fortified area of the capital containing the U.S. Embassy and the headquarters of NATO forces. The Taliban claims responsibility for the assault, which killed at least six Afghans; no Western personnel are injured (all those years and lives for nothing)
Kabul US embassy attack: live - Telegraph Live coverage of the Taliban's coordinated attack across the Afghanistan capital Kabul, in which Nato's headquarters and the US embassy are among those targeted.
US embassy in Kabul attacked - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Iran president: US hikers to be freed ‘in days’ - today.com Iran had set bail of $500,000 for the two men. He said the court would free Bauer and Fattal after the money was paid.

Phone hacking: how James Murdoch's evidence differs from his ex-colleagues - video | Media | guardian.co.uk
Phone hacking: News International finds 'large caches' of documents | Media | guardian.co.uk "many tens of thousands" of new documents and emails that could contain evidence about the scale of phone hacking at the paper
Lib Dems to propose big fines for newspapers who break conduct codes | Politics | The Guardian Party to debate media regulation at conference after demands for change in wake of phone-hacking scandal
Hullabaloo Today's - Census report shows that in 2010, the share of all Americans and the share of children living in poverty, the number and share of people living in "deep poverty," and the number without health insurance all reached their highest level in many years — in some cases, in several decades — while median household income fell significantly after adjusting for inflation (deeply impoverished America, go Republicans!)
Best Politics Blog: Digby - LAWeekly

The meaning of political rituals like 9/11 Day - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com what is one of the most self-evidently inane posts the Internet has ever produced: this must-be-read-to-be-believed sermon from Mother Jones' Rick Ungar condemning Krugman and demanding that other progressives join with him and the Right in these denunciations (Ungar angry at Krugman for "politicizing" the anniversary of 9/11 - too stupid for words)
Vladimir Putin, Action Man - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic (you know who would stand up to the Republicans?)
Individual Mandate Ruling: Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Health Care Law Provision The power to regulate interstate commerce, Conner wrote, does not include the power to dictate a lifetime of buying health insurance. Left standing, such a requirement would effectively sanction Congress's exercise of police power, he wrote.
Elizabeth Warren To Announce Senate Run Wednesday
GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Patient Die - members of the crowd who enthusiastically cheered the prospect of letting a man die rather than picking up the tab for his coverage (good Christians would pull the trigger themselves)
North Carolina Puts Gay Marriage Ban On May 2012 Ballot after the state Senate approved legislation placing the measure on the ballot on Tuesday.
Feinstein says her campaign fund may have been 'wiped out' | McClatchy (richest congress person boo hoo)

Pregnant 9/11 survivors transmitted trauma to their children | Science | guardian.co.uk The emerging field of epigenetics shows how traumatic experiences can be transmitted from one generation to the next
B-vitamins may slow onset of Alzheimer's, study finds | Science | guardian.co.uk Large doses of vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid reduced shrinkage of brain by 30% over course of two-year study
Too much folic acid linked to cancer - Health - Diet and nutrition - msnbc.com
Folic Acid
Archeologists uncover mysterious disks in Alaska | McClatchy The four small pieces, formed from clay, are round and adorned with markings. Two have neatly centered holes. They may be 1,000 years old and, at the moment, what they were used for is anyone's guess.

Courthouse News Service Mom Says Much-Reprimanded School Cop Killed Her Son (unarmed 14 yr-old hiding in shed killed by psycho-cop in the name national security)

Will copyright extensions ever end? - Telegraph just the latest step in a campaign that is set to continue until copyright never expires (and Obama is totally behind infinite copyright for bigcontent; we don't need no steenking public domain)

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The Years of Shame - NYTimes.com How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity? The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
Opinion: Post-September 11, NSA ‘enemies’ include us - James Bamford - POLITICO.com Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today, the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide.
Fortress America | Mother Jones
Hullabaloo Keller's Mea Culpa (Krugman was talking about this asshole)
9/11 threats: Discovery of suspicious item forces closure of part of Kansas City International Airport | Mail Online
Public opinion surprises - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com To this day, if you criticize President Obama for shielding Bush officials from investigations, you'll be met with the claim that doing so was politically necessary, even though poll after poll found in the wake of Obama's inauguration that large majorities wanted those inquiries (Pres Never-look-backwards: the coverup was in place from day 1)
AP review finds no WikiLeaks sources threatened - Houston Chronicle (contradicts two years of Obama's lies)

Why we can never escape our siblings - Children - Salon.com

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In Shanksville, Pa., a memorial to heroism 'that will live forever' | McClatchy
Apocalyptic GOP Is Dragging Us Into a Civil War | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi - t the GOP party mainstream had sunk to the level of terrorism – holding our economic system hostage in exchange for political concessions.
9/11 Attacks Led To Half-Trillion-Dollar Homeland Security Spending Binge (building the national security/surveillance/fear state)
With TSA, Are We Safer Or Sorry? : NPR
Al-Qaida will keep trying to attack us, Barack Obama tells Americans | World news | The Observer Terror threat still remains and citizens should remain vigilant, president says in 9/11 anniversary message
Al-Qaida: a spent force or the spark for future generations of Islamic militants? | World news | The Guardian Security experts say al-Qaida's power and influence is waning, but 10 years on from 9/11 complacency could be dangerous
9/11 anniversary: photographers recall day of horror - interactive slideshow | World news | guardian.co.uk
Was 9/11 really the day that changed the world for ever? | World news | The Guardian Many believe that many of the geopolitical events seen as consequences of the attack may have happened regardless (Bush would have invaded Iraq anyway)
Terrorism Expert: Since 9/11, Only 33 Deaths From Muslim Terrorism Vs. 150,000 Deaths From Murders | ThinkProgress
Bush Credits ‘The Work That Was Done’ During ‘My Presidency’ For Osama Bin Laden’s Death | ThinkProgress
Cheney Won’t Take Anything Back, Laughs At War Crimes Accusation | ThinkProgress
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British Report Details Army Abuse of Baha Mousa in Iraq - NYTimes.com (don't look backwards)
Gaddafi's diehard secret police dig in as Nato jets blast desert stronghold | World news | The Observer Fierce resistance from fighters loyal to the dictator have stopped rebels in their tracks in the hills leading to Bani Walid
Israel faces worst crisis with Egypt for 30 years as diplomats flee | World news | The Observer Attack on embassy is latest storm to engulf Jewish state as relations with Turkey also deteriorate - Israel is also facing a "diplomatic tsunami" at the UN later this month when a majority of countries are expected to back recognition of a Palestinian state (the world has had enough, despite Obama and the US)
Israel facing 'diplomatic tsunami' with Arab neighbors | McClatchy (all their control systems are breaking down, internally and externally, due to usual intransigence)
Egypt vows to try those who targeted Israel mission | Reuters Egypt's army rulers vowed on Saturday to try those behind the violence that pushed Israel to evacuate its ambassador from Cairo, as they struggled to contain public fury against the Jewish state while fending off U.S. criticism ... Washington, which has poured billions of dollars in military aid into Egypt since it made peace with Israel in 1979, urged Cairo to protect the mission after protesters hurled embassy documents from the windows of the building and removed and burned the Israeli flag. (propping up Israel)
Egypt: Retry or Free 12,000 After Unfair Military Trials | Human Rights Watch Civilians Tried Since February Exceed Total Under Mubarak (same as the old boss)
EU countries propose military headquarters - UPI.com
Dozens drown as Zanzibar ferry sinks | World news | guardian.co.uk At least 192 people killed – and 600 rescued – as ship capsizes near Tanzanian island

Work longer: new pension bombshell for under 50s | Money | The Observer
Health Expectancies at birth and age 65 in the United Kingdom, 2006-08 - he healthy life expectancy and the disability free life expectancy at birth for UK males is around 62-63 years old and for UK females 64 years old. In view of these statistics it is clearly irresponsible to expect people to work beyond 62-64 years of age. (completely contradicts the Conservative propaganda)
Greece on verge of default as doubt grows over €8bn bailout | World news | The Observer Greek prime minister George Papandreou under fire amid rumours that creditors are about to pull the plug

Hullabaloo - This is how it works - What matters is the mere fact that we're having a "debate" on whether social security, the most successful government program in history, a program that is nowhere close to going belly up in the near future, a program that even if payroll taxes fell short of covering it could easily be funded directly just as our overseas military adventures are, is somehow a "ponzi scheme." (NYT mainstreaming the idea that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme: "room for debate")
Balloon Juice » Eric Cantor Commemorates 9/11 by Insisting on 40% Cuts to Funds Used to Train and Equip First Responders (great pic of Cantor the Clown)
Officials investigate missing ammo at Fort Bragg - Yahoo! News The missing ammunition can be used in an M-4 or M-16 assault rifle.

The Enlightened Rich Want to Be Taxed - NYTimes.com
Postal Service Struggles: What Would The U.S. Do Without Mail? (deliver it yourself, socialist)
Why 'Infrastructure' Should Be Sexy: Lessons from Uganda, Russia, and China - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic the kinds of investments Obama was talking about constitute real wealth for a country, and their lack means real squalor, even though they are "public" wealth rather than belonging to anyone in particular. An obvious point but one now often unmentioned or overlooked (as we've said, Republicans hate infrastructure because they don't own it)
My Jobs Plan: A Trillion Dollars For Infrastructure | Mother Jones
Case Shiller 100 Year Chart (2011 Update) | The Big Picture

Birth control pills affect memory, study finds Their ability to remember the gist of an emotional event improves, while women not using the contraceptives better retain details ... the medications did not damage memory. "It's a change in the type of information they remember, not a deficit." (+ptsd and sex differences)

6lpph.jpg : What is the best way to stop your child becoming an athiest? - I don't want any of my children to be punished by God

FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones | Electronic Frontier Foundation The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday (pdf) that the government must turn over information from criminal prosecutions in which federal law enforcement agencies obtained cell-site location information without a warrant. T

FBI Investigates Hacking of NBC News Twitter Account - Ethan Klapper - NationalJournal.com A group calling themselves the Script Kiddies broke into the account on Friday. Multiple false tweets were sent stating that hijacked planes had crashed into Ground Zero, just two days before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Judge Sanctions Copyright Troll Attorney for "Staggering Chutzpah" | Electronic Frontier Foundation against Evan Stone, attorney for Mick Haig Productions, who improperly issued subpoenas to ISPs without court permission in order to obtain the identities of alleged file sharers.
Team Diana - Attackerman - Great Satan's Girlfriend.

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Homeland security spending: We'd have to foil 1,667 Times Square-style attacks every year to justify current spending on homeland security. - By John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart - Slate Magazine That's how many terrorism plots we would have to foil to justify our current spending on homeland security (it was never about "protecting" us)
Eschaton: I Was Against The War In My Blogs I'm just thinking about Bill Keller and the latest round of nobodycouldhavepredicted and Iwaswrongfortherightreasonswhiletheywererightforthewrongreasons. So many years later, and all I can think is...face it, you got conned by really stupid people. What does that say about you?
9/11 Commission Recommendations On First Responder Network, Civil Liberties Unmet 10 Years After Attacks
For 9/11 Cancer Sufferers, The Struggle For Help Is Just Beginning (Republicans don't believe in the "environment")
Joe Biden: 9/11 Terrorism Threats Credible, U.S. Officials Most Worried About 'Lone Ranger'
top 10 reasons you shouldn’t be afraid of the terrorists — Tremble the Devil After the bungled Glasgow International Airport attack, one of the terrorists was apprehended by a Scottish cabby who kicked a burning terrorist in the balls so hard he tore a tendon in his foot.
The (Now Sacred) Visual Icons Created in the Wake of 9/11 - Steven Heller - Life - The Atlantic
Sept. 11 has made an indelible impact on the American psyche | McClatchy
F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11 - The Washington Post The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft - “We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.” (Cheney scrambled planes with no bullets)
Christopher Hitchens: from 9/11 to the Arab spring | Books | The Guardian Over the past decade Hitchens has taken a combative stance on world events. He reflects on these writings
Dick Cheney defends use of torture on al-Qaida leaders | World news | guardian.co.uk Former US vice-president says Bin Laden would not have been found without information gathered by waterboarding (you know who needs waterboarding?)

George Osborne defends deficit reduction plan as UK's 'rock of stability' | Business | guardian.co.uk Chancellor again refuses to change direction • IMF boss Christine Lagarde says UK must remain 'nimble' - The chancellor again refused to change direction in the face of poor economic news at home and abroad, in a speech in which he reiterated that Britain's deficit must be vigorously tackled - George Osborne mounted a strong defence of his deficit reduction plan on Friday, hailing it as the "rock of stability" that will prevent Britain being wrecked by the global financial crisis (they never change course)
Eschaton: Rock Of Stupidity - Atrios: Domestically, if I were the Republicans (not that I expect them to take my advice) I'd offer up enough votes to pass Obama's plan and then wrap it around his neck. Essentially the too little, too late gamble that the economy will still suck in November and make Obama totally own it (the austerity delusion that Obama is pushing)
View: Gambling Bankers Need a Capital Intervention - Bloomberg Would you give money to a compulsive gambler who refused to kick the habit? In essence, that’s what the world’s biggest banks are asking taxpayers to do (time has run out)

Mark Duggan's funeral cortege joined by 1,000 mourners | UK news | The Guardian Community leaders call for unity and peace at the funeral service of man whose fatal shooting by police sparked August's riots (assasination by cops +gun drop)

The Libya papers: a glimpse into the world of 21st-century espionage | World news | The Guardian Hundreds of documents found in Tripoli offer insights into the way the CIA and MI6 operated in late 2003 and early 2004
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi 'protected from assassination plot in 2004' by UK police | World news | guardian.co.uk Metropolitan police and special branch placed Gaddafi's son on 'at risk' register in 2004 after plot to kill him was uncovered
How MI6 deal sent family to Gaddafi's jail | World news | The Guardian Libyan Islamist reveals how wife and children were 'rendered' before Tony Blair visit (will they ever pay for their crimes?)

Turkey-Egypt talks stoke Israeli fears of political isolation | World news | The Guardian Speculation grows in Jerusalem over Turkey prime minister's trip to Cairo amid concerns it could deepen regional tension (who is raising "regional tensions?")

Who Would Win Under Obama's Jobs Plan - Yahoo! Finance
A Closer Look At NY-9 | Talking Points Memo The district is a better bellwether than I realized, and a loss here would paint a very bleak picture for Democrats going into 2012 ... There's a 3:1 Democratic to Republican voter registration there (hello, Pres Romney; we're all doomed by Obama; his whole Presidency has been a quest to be rejected by his Republican daddies and he will succeed)
Texas healthcare system withering under Gov. Rick Perry - latimes.com The governor and presidential hopeful has said the state can manage on its own, without President Obama's overhaul. But more than a quarter of Texans lack insurance, the highest rate in the nation (because of "regulation" apparently)
Michele Bachmann 2012 Campaign Looking To Get Back On Track Bachmann has faced criticism from voters and activists for appearing too scripted.
Haley: No Jobless Benefits for Drug Users - Lexington, SC Patch Governor will seek drug screens as a requirement for unemployment assistance
Republican Voters Support Social Security, But Question Future Benefits (they want their Ponzi scheme)
Michele Bachmann: Obama ‘Insulted’ Congress By Calling It A Political Circus | Election 2012 (one of the chief clowns says never tell the truth)
How Out There Is Rick Perry On Social Security? | Election 2012 On MSNBC Thursday, RNC chair Reince Priebus dismissed talk that attacking Social Security would leave the Republican nominee weaker against Obama next year.
Anti-Immigrant New Mexico Governor Reveals Her Grandparents Were Undocumented Immigrants | ThinkProgress (Dem)
Ron Paul deserves a proper graph « Clear Presentation Design: Clearly Presentable Blog So the media now have a new way to ignore Ron Paul’s success, graphically (lying with graphs)
Kinde Durkee 'Nearly Wiped Out' Loretta Sanchez's Campaign Fund | TPMMuckraker - The feds said she used campaign funds for her own personal purposes, including paying her mortgage; her mother's nursing home costs; and credit card charges for cosmetics and ice cream (that's a lot of ice cream)
Linda McMahon Plans Another Senate Campaign Ahead Of 2012 McMahon, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment spent more than $50 million of her own money in an unsuccessful campaign against Democrat Richard Blumenthal in 2010 (worked out so well last time)
Wis. Employee Fired For E-Mail Defying Voter-ID Policy | TPMMuckraker He was subsequently fired for misuse of e-mail (for telling fellow employees about free voter registration card that Republicans want to change $28 for - they love their poll tax)
Poll: Republican Leads By Six Points For NY-09 Weiner House Seat | Election 2012 (inept Dems going down again)
Nikki Haley's Jobless Drug Test Claim Exaggerated "I so want drug testing. I so want it," Haley said (Republicans torturing the unemployed)

Dow Jones Industrial Average: INDEXDJX:.DJI quotes & news - Google Finance 10,992.13 -303.68 (-2.69%)
Geithner: ‘Substantial’ Impact From Jobs Plan - Bloomberg “I think we’ve got a good chance of continuing a moderate pace of growth coming out of this crisis,” Geithner said today in an interview
BEA : Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Graph (here's your moderate pace, fool)
In Jobs Speech, Obama Scores Points With Both Parties On Capitol Hill
Discouraged CEOs Set Bar Low for Obama's Job Speech - CNBC Lack of confidence is a result of the government's inability "to delvelop a plan to fix these problems," he added. "Demand is not going to come back in the U.S. because everybody is holding back because of this concern." (jobless Americans just need to be more "confident")

The statistical error that just keeps on coming | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian The same statistical errors – namely, ignoring the "difference in differences" – are appearing throughout the most prestigious journals in neuroscience
Erroneous analyses of interactions in neuroscience: a problem of significance : Nature Neuroscience : Nature Publishing Group

Conservatives Worried That The Rise of Dominionism Is "A Strange Turn Of Events" For The Religious Right | Right Wing Watch (mainstreaming of theocracy (how ironic) for political ends; even the Christian Right is scared by these guys)
Real Shared Sacrifice: It's Time For Churches To Pay Taxes - Churches and the clergy have had enough welfare from taxpayers and it is time to cease the obscene non-profit, tax-exempt status. (freeloaders and welfare queens; time to drug-test them all)

Anonymous Unmasked: Mugshots of the Faces the Feds Say Are Part Of The 'Hactivist' Group | TPM Media

Mexico politicians declare war on what they see as abuse of Twitter | McClatchy , a law is expected to go into effect next week that mandates a jail term of up to two years for those who "provoke chaos or social insecurity" through telephone calls or online postings.
Internet of Yesterday & Today: 1996 vs. 2011 [infographic]
AOL and Yahoo reported to be in merger talks | Technology | The Guardian AOL chief sounds out Yahoo's advisers over combination of internet companies

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9/11 anniversary: The rise and fall of al-Qaida - interactive | World news | guardian.co.uk
FBI probe into Sarasota home's link to 9/11 hijackers wasn't reported to Congress, commission | McClatchy - Just two weeks before the 9/11 hijackers slammed into the Pentagon and World Trade Center, members of a Saudi family abruptly vacated their luxury home near Sarasota, Fla., leaving a brand new car in the driveway, a refrigerator full of food, fruit on the counter — and an open safe in a master bedroom (no conspiracy or coverup here, no sir, move right along)
The Whole Truth and Nothing But - NYTimes.com Gasoline in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, averaged $1.66 a gallon. But rather than use 9/11 to summon us to nation-building at home, Bush used it as an excuse to party — to double down on a radical tax-cutting agenda for the rich that not only did not spur rising living standards for most Americans but has now left us with a huge ball and chain around our ankle. And later, rather than asking each of us to contribute something to the war, he outsourced it to one-half of one-percent of the American people. Everyone else — y’all have fun.
'Credible' Terrorist Threat Reported By U.S. Officials - We continue to ask the American people to remain vigilant as we head into the weekend.”

Gaddafi issues defiant message from hiding | World news | guardian.co.uk Deposed former Libyan leader vows never to leave the country and denies claims he is in neighbouring Niger (that's not what the State Dept. two days ago)
Libyan leaders fear Gaddafi may flee south across the border into Niger | World news | The Guardian Niger's foreign minister warns that the country does not have the means to close the border
Gaddafi's 'Amazonian' bodyguards' barracks quashes myth of glamour | World news | The Guardian Tripoli living quarters belonging to Libya dictator's elite cadre reveals a picture of ruthless control and shattered lives (press-ganged and raped)
Palestinians pressured by US and Quartet to drop bid for UN status | World news | The Guardian As general assembly looks set to pass Palestinian vote, Clinton and Blair among those urging talks with a panicked Israel (and, of course, Obama)
Theresa May warns of gang disruption to London Olympics | Politics | The Guardian Senior police and home secretary acknowledge that gangs in London's East End may use Games as crime opportunity (crack-down!)
To analyse the riots we need evidence, not anecdotes | Julia Unwin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk It is dangerous to connect poverty, bad housing or weak parenting with these events before carefully examining the links

Baha Mousa's death casts a shadow over British army, says top general | World news | guardian.co.uk Sir Peter Wall, head of the British army, reacts to the Gage report by saying the 'shameful' incident must never be repeated (at least the Brits occasionally look backwards and learn from their atrocities, unlike you-know-who)
Timeline: Baha Mousa case | World news | guardian.co.uk Key events since the killing of the Iraqi hotel clerk while in the custody of British soldiers
Baha Mousa inquiry makes 73 recommendations | World news | guardian.co.uk Chairman Sir William Gage issues instructions for improving the handling of detainees after damning report

BBC journalist was killed by Nato troops in Afghanistan | Media | guardian.co.uk Commanders say Omaid Khpalwak was 'mistakenly' shot dead as suicide bombers attacked a police station - Khpalwak, who was hiding in fear during the attack and spoke good English, was shot 11 times. (fog of war, un-huh)
John Galliano found guilty of racist and antisemitic abuse | World news | The Guardian Fashion designer given suspended fine of €6,000 by Paris court

UK: Ban on gay men giving blood to be lifted | guardian.co.uk The ban on blood donation by gay men was put in place in the 1980s as a response to the spread of Aids and HIV
FSS closure may jeopardise serious crime trials, warn Met chiefs | Science | The Guardian Senior police tell the CPS that crucial expert witnesses from the Forensic Science Service could be lost to the courts (austerity! we don't need no steening evidence)
Phone hacking: NI asked tech firm to delete emails '13 times' | Media | guardian.co.uk HCL Technologies makes claim about News of the World publisher in a written submission to select committee (dump the evidence)
Culture secretary criticises police questioning of Guardian reporter | Media | guardian.co.uk Jeremy Hunt stresses difference between off-the-record briefings and payments to police revealed by phone-hacking investigation

Obama Pushes Medicare Cuts In Jobs Speech Obama pushed to cut Medicare during the debate over raising the federal debt ceiling, urging lawmakers from both parties to accept a "grand bargain" that involved cutting both Social Security and Medicare - , Obama is planning a separate deficit reduction package that liberal groups expect to include raising the eligibility age. Making this change for both Medicare and Social Security hits poorer participants in the programs hardest, since they are more likely to die at a younger age (there's change you can believe in)
The American Jobs Act, Summarized | FDL News Desk
Obama Jobs Plan: $447 Billion, More Than Half In Tax Cuts, To Be Paid For By Super Committee
Obama's 2008 Economists: 'If You Aren't Going To Do Something Real, Don't Do It' (go big or go home; when has Obama ever gone big?)
Obama Aims Economic Plans at Elusive Independents - NYTimes.com (your crack team of advisors came up with this strategy? go after the the 3 people left in America who think the Republicans will ever compromise? we're doomed)

Obama Health Care Challenges Dismissed By Federal Court A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited technicalities in both decisions and did not rule on the constitutional issues raised by the lawsuits.
Jon Kyl Threatens To Quit Super Committee Over Defense Cuts (now they're off the table too)
Lindsey Graham Backs Federal Voter ID Law, Calls Restrictions 'The Future Of The Country' | TPMMuckraker (bring back the poll tax because "voter fraud" is such a big issue and Republicans hate America anyway)
Susana Martinez, New Mexico Governor, Admits Paternal Grandparents Were Undocumented Immigrants New Mexico is one of only three states – the others are Washington and Utah – where an undocumented immigrant can get a driver's license because no proof of citizenship is required.
What The Heck Was That ‘Population Stabilization’ Ad In Last Night’s Debate All About? (video) | Election 2012 (now its a war on legal immigrants)

Rick Perry, Mitt Romney Locked In Cage Match On Social Security Following California Debate "You've got millions of Americans who depend on Social Security," Chan added. "He's going to have a really tough time explaining why he wants to kill Social Security." (takes killing Social Security off the table for Dems because Obama can't run to the right of Romney?)
Chris Wallace: Social Security "Isn't A Ponzi Scheme" | Media Matters for America (how Fox promotes lies)

Rick Perry On Death Penalty And 'Ultimate Justice' In Texas: 'I've Never Struggled With That'
Cheering death: A pathetic new low in American politics | Philly | 09/08/2011 The mere mention that Perry had made what was once considered a solemn decision to sign off on the state-sanction deaths of 234 human beings caused the audience to break into sustained applause. Just watch the video below. It was utterly sickening to watch.
ThinkProgress 9:44: Audience beaks out in applause after host Brian Williams notes that Perry has executed more than 234 people on death row. Apparently he’s “never struggled at all” at night worrying that he’s executed an innocent man. That’s reassuring. (they clapped for all those deaths, some undoubtably innocent - savages)
Cheering for state-imposed death - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Does anyone doubt that many of the same Democrats expressing disgust this morning at the Republican cheerleading for Rick Perry's executions (of people convicted of crimes after at least a pretext of due process) will be the first in line raucously celebrating the Democratic President when he finally succeeds in assassinating U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki with no due process at all?
Death Row Applause - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic - It's worth remembering that no Democratic nominee for the presidency in some twenty years, has been against the death penalty.
Twitter / @Dahlialithwick: @ggreenwald . . . or just a reminder that public hangings, whippings, and drownings were chiefly seen as great sport in this country
Scrutinizing Perry’s Extensive Execution Record - NYTimes.com (and pround of it)
As Rick Perry Takes Center Stage At GOP Debate, Questions About Electability Grow Louder (Christian Nation?)
Perrypedia | The Texas Tribune

Jon Bruning Explains Why He Compared Poor To Racoons | Election 2012 comparisons he made between poor people on welfare and raccoons scavenging for insects. But he went on to blame “the liberal intelligentsia” for the controversy and defend the basic point (hypersentive "liberals with brains" are the problem)
Dear Paul Ryan, I’d Like To Ask You A Question But I Don’t Want To Be Arrested | MoveOn.Org (how they roll)

Economic growth perspectives weakening as recovery slows, OECD says
The Golden Laws of Prosperity | Ian Welsh (this is way too complicated for Obama's tiny mind, let alone Republians who have no mind at all)
Thomas Friedman Wants YOU to Sacrifice | Beat the Press (billionaires always want you to "sacrifice" for them)

FBI Raids Solyndra Headquarters | TPM Idea Lab The raid comes a day after the company participated in a bankruptcy proceeding Wednesday in a Wilmington, Del. court. During those proceedings, a lawyer representing the federal government told a judge that Solyndra should have declared bankruptcy long-ago.

APOD: 2011 September 8 - Apollo 17 Site: A Sharper View
Supernova explosion will be visible from UK | Science | The Guardian Astronomers say light from supernova of dying star 21m light years away can be seen with binoculars or telescope
Black holes turn into fuzzballs and destroy a thousand sci-fi plots | Jon Butterworth | Science | guardian.co.uk black holes don't have a singularity in the middle, but instead are covered in quantum hair - the dot and shell picture is wrong

Sears: Police/Law Enforcement Anti-Riot Protective Shield- $84.99

After the CEO, Yahoo needs to fire its board — Tech News and Analysis There is one place Yahoo can easily finish first: the company with the worst and most ineffectual board with the spine of a centipede.
Turbocharged Cell Phone Reception Coming Soon, Researchers Hope | TPM Idea Lab The results of their new "full-duplex" technology, first demonstrated this summer, were submitted in a paper to the Cornell University Library and just announced on Monday by the university.

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9/11 and its great transformations - Opinion - Al Jazeera English After 9/11 we lost our way, but buried beneath many wrong turns is a character that has been redeemed in the past.
Noam Chomsky: 9/11 - was there an alternative response? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Suppression of one's own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated. On another 9/11 - September 11, 1973 - the CIA launched a coup that overthrew democratically-elected Chilean president Salvador Allende and replaced him with a military dictatorship
Michael Vlahos: Did We Lose the War?

Libyan army convoys flee across Sahara carrying looted cash and gold | World news | The Guardian Muammar Gaddafi's location still unknown despite rumours of asylum in Burkina Faso
Moammar Gaddafi Surrounded By Libyan Rebels: Report

In Euro Zone, Banking Fear Feeds on Itself - NYTimes.com Remember the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Europeans certainly do (which is why their leaders and bankers have made sure it would happen again)
Italy and Spain pass austerity measures - Europe - Al Jazeera English Italy introduces measures to cut deficit by some $70bn, while Spain's Senate introduces constitutional budget limits.

43 dead as Russian jet carrying ice hockey team crashes | World news | guardian.co.uk Yak-42 plane carrying Lokomotiv ice hockey team crashed immediately after takeoff from airport near Yaroslavl
Pakistan suicide bombers target top security official | World news | guardian.co.uk Deputy chief's wife and two children among those killed in twin attacks in western city of Quetta
Terrorist bombing at Delhi high court leaves 11 dead | World news | The Guardian At least 90 people injured when device hidden inside briefcase explodes at main entrance
Shafilea Ahmed parents charged over suspected 'honour killing' | UK news | The Guardian Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed will appear in court on Friday, charged with the murder of their daughter

Andy Coulson refuses to reappear at MPs' phone-hacking inquiry | Lisa O'Carroll | Media | guardian.co.uk Former News of the World editor cites concern about 'parallel inquiries' and 'publicity'
Guardian journalist questioned over alleged phone-hacking leaks | Media | guardian.co.uk Case raises concerns about attempts to criminalise contact between journalists and off-the-record sources - "Any threat to the protection of sources is a direct threat to citizen's right to know and absolutely not in the public interest."
Phone Hacking Arrest: 35-Year-Old Man Arrested By UK Police

Mark Duggan family accuse police of operating a 'shoot to kill' policy | UK news | The Guardian Relatives of Tottenham man whose death during arrest sparked London riots say questions remain over why he was fatally shot - "The police were clearly operating a shoot to kill policy that day. They are supposed to disable, not kill, suspects. If they hadn't shot and killed Mark there would have been no riots."
Nadine Dorries's abortion proposals heavily defeated in Commons | World news | guardian.co.uk Abortion amendment that aims to strip termination providers of their counselling role loses by 250 votes - This amendment is a shoddy, ill-conceived attempt to promote non-facts to make a non-case
Reality check: Is abortion counselling independent? | Politics | guardian.co.uk (if you call anti-abortion Christian fundamentalists "independent")
FactCheck: Cutting through the rhetoric on abortion | The FactCheck Blog
David Cameron used Bullingdon tactics to humiliate Nadine Dorries – Tory MP | Politics | guardian.co.uk Tory MPs furious with prime minister after he joked that pro-life MP was 'frustrated'
Nadine Dorries storms out of PMQs after David Cameron quip | Politics | guardian.co.uk Backbench Tory MP leaves chamber amid schoolboy laughter after quizzing PM over Lib Dem influence on policy

I Wonder If President Obama Really Believes This - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic I still believe both parties can work together to solve our problems." (who is he talking to? is the question)
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar | Mother Jones "We have Saddam Hussein," declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his brother host twice a year. The 2012 elections, he warned, will be "the mother of all wars."
The Upside of Being a Lunatic | Mother Jones Republicans are expected to hold lunatic views and reporters simply give them a pass on it - Sen. Richard Shelby (R–Fuhgeddaboutit)
Many in U.S. slip from middle class, study finds - The Washington Post (Romney: anyone earning over $200K is middle class)
Obama's Biggest Challenge Thursday, One Of His Own Making | TPMDC Yes, Obama's vision for American austerity is less regressive (or more "balanced") than the GOP's. But nobody made him pitch for austerity in the first place
Jon Stewart Blasts The Media's 'Manufactured Conflict' Of Obama's Jobs Speech | TPM LiveWire
Like Fox News, Washington Post , USA Today  And CNN All Run Hoffa Comments Out Of Context | Media Matters for America - all those news outlets used the doctored, Foxified quote, leaving out the part where Hoffa was clearing referring to voting Republicans out of office.
Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham Trash Sarah Palin "She's become sort of the Obama of the Tea Party," Coulter said
Hullabaloo Trouble in Sarahdice - Erick Erickson: "moving on from Sarah Palin is like leaving Scientology." digby: "They created this monster. And now it's turned on them." (subcults of the apocalyptic master cult)

In Wake Of Fraud Arrest, Biggest County Party In U.S. Doesn't Know How Much Money It Has | TPMMuckraker
Wis. Official To DMV Employees: Don't Offer People Free Voter-ID Cards Unless They Ask | TPMMuckraker
Daily Kos: Rick Perry slashed Texas volunteer fire dept funding by 75%, forest service funding by a third
Watch How Fast Texas Wildfires Can Move - YouTube
A Really Strict Drug Policy by Daniel Luzer | Washington Monthly One public college in Central Missouri will now conduct drugs tests on its students, all of them. Linn State Technical College, a community college in Linn, Mo., began its new, incredibly far-reaching drug policy this semester.

Whiskey Fire: Back to the Big School what's intersting is that the students who seem the most familiar with the current National Discourse are more likely to identify the Deficit as the danger. Students less familiar with the ND are more likely to cite unemployment (if you read the NYT, you think that deficits are the problem)
The Rules Have Changed: Excerpt: "A People's History Of The Great Recession" By Arthur Delaney
Is the post office too big to fail? Maybe not | McClatchy If the Postal Service is forced to make its required $5.5 billion annual payment to the federal health care benefit plan (as close as McClatchy comes to telling you the truth)

How the Tea Party changed the climate debate - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post Even though their views are at odds with the vast majority of climate scientists, Tea Partiers are also by far the most confident in their beliefs — more likely to say they are “very well informed” and that they “do not need any more information about global warming.” Note that this dovetails with earlier research finding that when you give those dismissive of global warming more information, it only serves to harden their doubts.

We’re Going To Molest You. And Then We’re Going To Make You Pay for It. | The Agitator That TSA agent is now demanding 500,000 for the distress she claims to have suffered from Alkon’s words.
Janet Napolitano: Shoes-on flight in sight - Josh Gerstein - politico.com . “I think one of the first things you will see over time is the ability to keep your shoes on.
Firefighters balk at new digital radios, as failures risk lives | McClatchy have limited use of the glitzy gadgets acquired in a post-Sept. 11 emergency-communications spending splurge ... priced as high as $6,000 each (Halliburton Radios? oh, Motorola)

Judith Miller's New Job: Theater Critic for Tablet magazine. The Jewish magazine (now it all makes sense)
Slate’s Jack Shafer Is Headed to Reuters [Updated] -- Daily Intel
Alix Freedman Leaves Wall Street Journal For Reuters

Carol Bartz Out As Yahoo CEO, AllThingsD "I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward." - her performance has been decidedly bumpy and mostly downhill.
For Yahoo, It Looks The Beginning Of The End - Forbes
And Now Yahoo Has Put Itself Up For Sale...

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Turkey suspends Israel defence and trade ties - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Erdogan halts trade, military and defence ties after Israel's refusal to apologise over Gaza flotilla attack (Israel say sorry? never)
Gaddafi 'last tracked in southern Libya' - Africa - Al Jazeera English Former leader has probably left Bani Walid as NTC fighters prepare for an imminent attack on town as truce talks fail.

US Extradition - Sweden vs. Assange - Julian Assange has now been detained without charge for 272 days

U.N. Study: Austerity Measures Pushing World Economy Toward Disaster - "The message here is very pragmatic: we need to reverse our course quickly," ... The current policies were a disaster (turning their own failure into an excuse to destroy democracy and degrade the lives of their citizens)

Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com the fact is that both the origins of this crisis and its perpetuation overwhelmingly reflect the errors of the very people now lamenting the annoyances of democracy that keep them from imposing their preferred policies ... by blaming democracy, the people who have gotten everything wrong are letting themselves off the hook. The elites on both sides of the Atlantic have messed up catastrophically, and need to face that fact (the U.N. agrees with Krugman)

George Osborne to stick to austerity plans despite double-dip fears | Politics | The Guardian Chancellor admits damage caused by credit crunch is forcing him to revise down already weak estimates for growth
George Osborne cuts growth forecast but sticks to plan A for economy | Business | guardian.co.uk Following a run of downbeat economic data, the chancellor acknowledged that he would have to cut his forecast of UK growth (so double-down on austerity, of course!)
London Riots 2011: Most Rioters Had Criminal Records - Three-fourths of those arrested in Britain's riots last month had criminal records, London's mayor said Tuesday, blaming the U.K.'s criminal justice system to failing to turn offenders away from crime.
Welfare post-riots: 'How could you make it any tougher?' - video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk n the aftermath of the English riots, David Cameron has said the welfare reform bill doesn't go far enough in tightening up rules for claimants. Those in the system talk about life in an already strict world of benefit 'sanctions' and 'voluntary' work placements
Phone hacking: James Murdoch faces second grilling by MPs | Media | The Guardian Murdoch to be asked to clarify whether he knew of key email that indicated phone hacking went beyond a 'rogue reporter' - , Colin Myler, who became editor of News of the World after Andy Coulson resigned over phone hacking at the paper, said it was "inconceivable" that Murdoch was unaware that the email indicated hacking went beyond a single rogue reporter at the Sunday newspaper.
James Murdoch recall more likely | Media | guardian.co.uk Colin Myler and Tom Crone's evidence leave News Corp heir apparent with the same questions to answer about that phone hacking email
Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks to give evidence to Leveson inquiry | Media | guardian.co.uk Publishers and more than 100 alleged phone-hacking victims, including Sienna Miller and Steve Coogan, also offer to testify
Phone hacking and Leveson inquiry - live | Media | guardian.co.uk Crone told James Murdoch more than one reporter involved • Rupert Murdoch 'wrong' to blame law firm Harbottle & Lewis
Nick Clegg to vote against abortion counselling law | World news | The Guardian The latest Dorries amendment would strip non-statutory abortion providers such as Marie Stopes and Bpas from offering counselling to women. This is designed to provide greater opportunities for independent counsellors, some of whom are influenced by pro-life groups, to provide counselling (letting the Christian fundies INTO the clinic)

FBI Wiretapped Israeli Embassy, Blogger Tells New York Times Silverstein said Leibowitz leaked the documents because he was concerned about Israeli efforts to influence U.S. lawmakers (what Jewish lobby?)
Endless War and the culture of unrestrained power - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - the Post notes that in contrast to prior decades -- when "the military and the American public viewed war as an aberration and peace as the norm" (a dubious perception) -- it is now clear, pursuant to official doctrine, that "America's wars are unending and any talk of peace is quixotic or naive," all as part of "America’s embrace of endless war in the 10 years since Sept. 11, 2001." (military and national security is our only industry)
9/11 conspiracism: How the Iraq war contributed to its rise. - By Jeremy Stahl - Slate Magazine (see, trooferism is exactly the same as Bush lied, people died)
Noam Chomsky: Was There an Alternative? Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later
Leon Panetta Tours September 11 Memorial Park, Says Threat Of Another Terrorist Attack 'Remains Very Real' (translation: be afraid, and you ain't never getting your civil liberties back)
Daily Kos: AP poll: Scan my body, not my email Americans don’t want the government snooping on their phone calls and emails, but a majority support full-body scans at airports to keep the U.S. safe, a new poll found on Tuesday.

Obama Jobs Plan: President Said To Be Looking At $300 Billion Package Obama is considering a plan totaling about $300 billion in tax cuts and spending for 2012.
New Polls Find All-Time Lows For Obama, Congress - Obama's ratings are now lower than those for Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton at the same time in their presidencies. (Obama's crack team of advisors fail Pres Stand-for-Nothing again)
34% Think Two-Party System is Seriously Broken | Firedoglake
The Morning Plum - The Plum Line - The Washington Post The poll also suggests that the preoccupation with the deficit has, if anything, given Republicans an assist with their argument against government spending. It finds that a majority, 56 percent, say they favor a smaller government with fewer services, suggesting voters may be internalizing the GOP claim that spending cuts and austerity are good for the economy (fools and idiots)
Hullabaloo - Goldilocks hailed from Chicago - the mind-boggling notion that compromising with these wingnuts and industrial polluters on a few discreet issues like the Clean Air rules is going to buy you another term. Talk about not having a place in a serious discussion ... (Cass Sunstein, false equivalences and the Chicago School of arrogant reality-disconnect)
Daily Kos: White House backs away from Hoffa comments, getting Hoffa's affiliation wrong in the process (the White House doesn't know that Hoffa leads the Teamsters, not the AFL-CIO, demonstrating what they know about working people)
War Gives Way To Financial Strife For Returning Veterans
Balloon Juice » Not a Hard Call at All - Bill Keller, NYT: "Whether it was wrong to support the invasion at the time is a harder call" - What a bunch of mealy-mouthed bullshit ... The war has been a complete and total disaster, and you don’t just get to grant yourself absolution by claiming it was a tough call (Keller absolves himself of complete stupidity and tragic wrongness; your elite press at work)
At Strategy Seminar, Koch Refers To Obama As ‘Saddam Hussein’ To Be Defeated In ‘Mother Of All Wars’ | ThinkProgress

Daily Kos: A 'culture of accountability' aimed only at poor people "At the bottom of the pyramid," he said, "America is a ruthlessly punitive and accountability-obsessed society. At the top of the pyramid, it is endlessly forgiving. Before trust can be restored, accountability has to be established."
Right-wing hack says helping poor people vote is criminal - War Room - Salon.com Matthew Vadum attacks those who help "nonproductive segments of the population" participate in democracy (attacking the very idea of America)

Iraq Troop Withdrawal: Obama Administration Supports Reducing U.S. Forces To 3,000 By End Of 2011 - Lindsey Graham quickly tweeted his disapproval Tuesday afternoon, saying, "Reducing our troop presence down to 3,000 would put at risk all the United States has fought for in Iraq." (which was?)
A New Poll About Americans’ Hatred Of Muslims, Just In Time For 9/11 Approximately two-thirds of Republicans, Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement, and Americans who most trust Fox News agree that the values of Islam are at odds with American values.
Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English The US media has been downplaying a radical Christian theology that is increasingly influential in the Republican Party - The more loudly such people proclaim themselves patriots, the more loudly they cheer for US collapse. It's not just Obama they want to fail. It's the very idea of America (rooting for democracy to fail +theocracies have a bloody history, good article)
Brown Leads All Challengers in Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) leading possible challenger Elizabeth Warren (D) by nine points, 44% to 35%.
Ron Paul Would Sign Planned Parenthood Funding Ban | LifeNews.com
Michele Bachmann Suggests Axing The Department Of Education (everyone can go to Christian Law School and work for the government for the rest of their lives ... oh wait!)
Storm Clouds Gather Around Michele Bachmann As Campaign Manager Abruptly Quits
Commentary: In Eric Cantor's world, disaster victims should wait | McClatchy
Texas Lawmakers Notice Wildfires, Slash Funding To Firefighters they heard something about firefighters apparently trying to fight these catastrophic fires, which is communistic, so the Texas Forest Service will have its current low budget slashed by another third — $34 million — to teach everybody a lesson about “relying on socialist fire departments when JESUS wants your shitty tract house to burn down.”

Economies in Peril Proving Voters Aren’t Careful About What Is Wished For - Bloomberg - The world economy is paying a price for democracy (please, they never listened to the voters anyway, see Krugman)
On the Inadequacy of the Stimulus - NYTimes.com (our verysmart Pres can't understand basic economics)
Hullabaloo - Gipper logic and deficit fever - Does anyone know why in the world everyone was so confident at that point? It seemed to me at the time to be wholly faith-based, as if recessions were on a schedule ordained by God. It led to the catastrophic political error of taking a sharp turn to deficit reduction (morning in America was dawning; Obama and his crack team was full of shit)
Political Animal - August job totals: Zero For the first time in six decades, the U.S. simply broke even — no jobs were lost in the overall economy, and no jobs were gained. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.1%. Just to keep up with population growth, the economy should be adding over 150,000 jobs a month. (how's that deficit pivot working out for you?)
Calculated Risk Chart Gallery: The Chart of Doom and Stupidity
Fed's zero interest rate policy burns savers | McClatchy
New York Times Blames Workers for Postal Service Woes, Glosses Over Real Cause of Problems | Crooks and Liars - the entire problem could be based on a unparalleled requirement that the USPS fund retirement benefits 75 years in advance. Without this cost, the Postal Service is profitable and none of the other explanations offered by the Times is relevant. (the elites hate job security for anyone but themselves)
Swiss To Estimate Total Amount Held By U.S. Residents In Secret Accounts assets held by U.S. residents in secret accounts at Swiss banks, possibly up to $30 billion

Archaeologists in Illinois dig to find civilization that vanished | McClatchy where did the Mississippians go? And why? - "Staying in one place too long almost sets you up to fail," Koldehoff said.
One Sperm Donor, 150 Sons and Daughters - NYTimes.com

Streetsblog Capitol Hill » Tennessee Mom Threatened With Arrest For Letting Daughter Bike to School - Her mother maintains that the bus isn’t necessarily much safer. “She could take the bus and be bullied, punched, hit, kicked, stabbed,” Tryon wrote. “On the way to the bus she could be hit by a car, attacked by a vicious dog, the victim of a drive by shooting. Realistically the school bus COULD crash and kill her.”
Swedish Wildlife Photographer of the Year Admits to Faking Photos
Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex - Telegraph A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife £8,500 in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their marriage.

Jill Abramson Shakes Up New York Times Masthead On Day One
Carol Bartz fired as CEO of Yahoo - Boston.com (who could have predicted?)
Russian Minister: YouTube and Google Should Be Shut Down For Copyright Infringement | TorrentFreak (that's pretty funny)
Steve Jobs' 'curious' lack of public philanthropy - The Week Jobs is worth more than $8 billion, says Adam Doree at The Huffington Post, yet he has "steadfastly" refused to donate money to worthy causes, and even stopped all of Apple's philanthropy programs (assholes will be assholes)
Sprint Files Lawsuit To Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger | TechCrunch
blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Independence - Today reddit, a division of Condé Nast, becomes reddit Inc. - reddit Inc. is now owned by Advance Publications (which also owns Condé Nast)

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Obama's Labor Day Speech (video)
Daily Kos: This Labor Day, combat the anti-union divide and conquer By a 56-34 margin, people say they believe that unions mostly hurt rather than mostly help workers who are not members of unions. That's a belief we have to take seriously; it's also, of course, empirically false (Americans don't believe in facts)
Report: As Union Membership Rates Decrease, Middle Class Incomes Shrink | ThinkProgress
The fallacy of post-industrial prosperity - The Washington Post Yes, we were counseled, there will be major dislocations, as there were during the transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy, but the America that will emerge from this transformation, like the America that emerged 100 years ago, will be one whose citizens are ultimately more prosperous and secure than their industrial-era forebears. What a crock ... Post-industrial America turned out to be a bust. The time for neo-industrial America has arrived (the worst President for the worst of times)
This Labor Day, America's losing patience with jobless | McClatchy and even a certain level of demonization (our post-industrial dog-eat-dog society: its their fault we eliminated their jobs and outsourced everything to China)
Amid fuss over illegal immigrants, they're already going home | McClatchy (pick your own fucking vegetables)
The last Labor Day? - The Washington Post Let’s get it over with and rename the holiday “Capital Day.” We may still celebrate Labor Day, but our culture has given up on honoring workers as the real creators of wealth and their honest toil — the phrase itself seems antique — as worthy of genuine respect.
Balloon Juice » One Percent is High - Schieffer: But let me ask you this, does that mean that Social Security recipients are now going to have to pay taxes on their income? Will veterans have to pay taxes on their disability checks and their benefits? Huntsman: (yes, but tax-cuts for the rich! +polling 1%, always on teevee)
Achenblog - Joel Achenbach on whatever strikes his fancy. - The Washington Post Last week’s monthly jobs report — no net job growth, unemployment stuck at 9.1 percent — was the proverbial fire bell in the night and speaks to us of worse times to com (the fire bell went off two years ago, Obama ignored it)

U.N.: 750,000 people in Somalia face 'imminent starvation' - CNN.com
Al-Qaida 'foreign minister' captured by Pakistani forces | World news | guardian.co.uk Younis al-Mauritani detained in western city of Quetta with two other members of terror group
Iceland says it was bullied over bank debt | Reuters Iceland's president accused European countries on Sunday of having bullied it into agreeing to guarantee repayment of the debts of a failed bank, reviving a dispute with Britain and the Netherlands whose citizens are owed billions (the bankers always get bailed out and given bonuses)
Israel Protests: 450,000 Hit The Streets In Country's Largest Demonstrations (photos)
Why the press is ignoring Israel's protests - GlobalPost - Salon.com When news doesn't concern the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, foreign papers have little interest in the Jewish state ... For good and for bad, Israelis are accustomed to being in the news. Similarly, the 800 to 1,000-strong foreign press corps stationed in Jerusalem (it is second in size only to that in Washington, DC) is accustomed to hoarding the headlines (now, that tells you something)
Israel news: Netanyahu promises reforms in Israel - GlobalPost Israel's prime minister promised reform after unprecedented protests. Will he deliver?
The disaster known as Netanyahu - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Rather than apologising for Israel's killing of nine Turkish activists, the prime minister dug in his heels.
Israeli Likud Gov't Buffeted by Turkish Suit, Massive Protests | Informed Comment Turkey has decided to take Israel to the International Court of Justice in the Hague over the wrongful killing of 9 Turks (one of them an American citizen) by Israeli commandos in May of 2010 (nothing Israel does is ever wrong; Obama and Republicans agree)
Mugabe has cancer, claims leaked cable -- GlobalPost The famous whistle-blower site Wikileaks published the cable.
Ten years of war, but Afghans know little of peace - The Boston Globe US intervention in 2001 was cheered in the north, and the Taliban swiftly beaten. But a returning reporter finds the Islamic extremists filtering back, and hope flickering (all for nothing, like Iraq)

WikiLeaks' obvious truth - Opinion - Al Jazeera English People must seek to protect not only WikiLeaks, but also the mechanism by which the information enters into our purview (Obama hates your information)
The Intelligence War - Programmes - Al Jazeera English - We expose the secret war behind the 'war on terror'.

Fighters mass outside Gaddafi stronghold - Africa - Al Jazeera English As Bani Walid braces for attack, reports emerge of a large convoy of Libyan armoured vehicles crossing into Niger.
MI6 knew I was tortured, says Libyan rebel | World news | The Guardian Abdul Hakim Belhaj says MI6 helped CIA arrest him and send him to Libya for torture
Torture inquiry to investigate UK-Libya rendition claims | World news | guardian.co.uk PM says Gibson inquiry will examine extent of intelligence-sharing by British secret services with the Gaddafi regime
What did ministers know about the Libyan rendition link? | Richard Norton-Taylor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Whether MI5 and MI6 collusion with Gaddafi's secret police was sanctioned by Straw, Miliband or Blair is the key question - The Libyan disclosures, revealing as they do British requests for Libyan help in providing evidence against "dissidents" here, should also make MPs have second thoughts about the government's terrorism prevention and investigation measures bill (always colluding with bloody, authoritarian dictators)
Chinese arms companies 'offered to sell weapons to Gaddafi regime' | World news | The Guardian Documents found in Libyan capital show firms breached UN embargo by offering weaponry, but Beijing says no deliveries were made
Libyan commander demands apology over MI6 and CIA plot | World news | The Guardian Episode led to capture and torture of Abdul Hakim Belhaj and raises damaging questions about UK's knowledge of rendition (torture chickens coming home)
Libyan Spy Files Detail Muammar Gaddafi Regime's Fall "In the crucial last moments, get rid of the contents of the administration and its secret documents by burning or destroying them," it said.

How Tony Blair was taken into the Murdoch family fold | Politics | The Guardian Wendi Deng reveals link in a magazine interview where she describes the ex-PM as one of her husband's 'closest friends' (looks like Blair was really Murdoch's poodle)
News International to sell Wapping site | Media | guardian.co.uk Sun, Times and former News of the World publisher decides not to redevelop site that was scene of bitter 1986 union dispute - 'Fortress Wapping'
Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook | Media | The Guardian Comedian whose phone was hacked says he was motivated to sue NoW by seeing Andy Coulson 'at the heart of power'

Kenneth Clarke blames English riots on a 'broken penal system' | UK news | The Guardian The justice secretary, writing in the Guardian, says there is an urgent need to stop reoffending among a 'feral underclass' (just "animals")
Riot jail sentences in crown courts up to three times longer than average | UK news | The Guardian Typical sentence for theft or handling stolen goods in riots is 13.6 months, compared with 4.1 months for same offence last year (four years for using Facebook)
Whitehall reconsiders tougher benefits rules | Politics | The Guardian PM talks about putting more pressure on the unemployed to look for work and stricter penalties for those that refuse jobs (look for those jobs we got rid of with our banker-saving austerity bullshit)
Double-dip recession fears see £49bn wiped off shares | Business | The Guardian City prepares for second round of quantitative easing after sharpest slowdown in UK's services sector in a decade (who could have predicted?)

Obama criticised for continuing civil rights 'violations' introduced by Bush | World news | The Guardian Campaigners say US president became weak-kneed over closure of Guantánamo bay and that spying restrictions are gone (more Bush than Bush, how did that happen?)
The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com What is the "material support" he allegedly gave? He produced and uploaded a 5-minute video to YouTube featuring photographs of U.S. abuses in Abu Ghraib, video of armored trucks exploding after being hit by IEDs, prayer messages about "jihad" from LeT's leader, and -- according to the FBI's Affidavit -- "a number of terrorist logos." (remind people of Abu Gharib? you're a terrorist; Obama is a fucking disaster for Civil Rights, among other things)

In E-Mail Age, Postal Service Struggles to Avoid a Default - NYTimes.com (you don't need no steenking postal service; get your own helicopter)

What Democrats can do about Obama - War Room - Salon.com A liberal argues that the 2012 Democratic nomination should be debated -- with all options open - George W. Bush's approval rating didn't drop this low until Katrina hit - Obama has ruined the Democratic Party. The 2010 wipeout was an electoral catastrophe so bad you'd have to go back to 1894 to find comparable losses (well, he actually is a Republican)
Wrong, Jonathan Chait: Not “Everybody” Thought the Stimulus Was “Mind-Bogglingly Large” | Firedoglake (only in Chait's tiny boggled mind was it large +Krugman and Baker are "nobody")
'This Week' Transcript: Sen. Jim DeMint - ABC News The White House is -- the Republicans have been very effective at tagging the president as being very pro-regulation. This was clearly a move -- business welcomed it. The Republicans welcomed it. And if you talk to people in the White House, they say there's more of these to come (EPA cave; Obama is always playing on his Republican daddies field)
Daily Kos: Michele Bachmann blames God for bad weather, claims she 'was speaking metaphorically' When she said God sent an earthquake and a hurricane to get the attention of the politicians—except for Michele, of course, who apparently has regular phone dates with God on his private line and doesn't need major geological events in order to receive his messages—she was speaking metaphorically. Duh.
Super PACs undermine democracy, key fundraiser says — NewsWorks - President Obama's supporters have created a Super-PAC called Priorities USA. Cohen says he and other Comcast executives don't contribute to Super-PACs or so called 527 groups that shield donors (transparency you can't see through)

The Fatal Distraction - NYTimes.com Friday brought two numbers that should have everyone in Washington saying, “My God, what have we done?” (Americans can't deal with facts, they get in the way of their opinions, Obama will give a speech to please his Republican daddies)
Jobs Will Follow a Strengthening of the Middle Class - NYTimes.com THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases
Paul Krugman Calls For Economic Sanity In A Politically Insane World
USA Today Is Too Dumb for Words When It Comes to Taxes | Beat the Press The tax system brackets give marginal rates. This means that if the raise bumps you into a higher bracket then you pay more taxes only on the income in the higher bracket (elite reporters are either really stupid or lying on purpose)
Long-Term Unemployment: States Search For Strategies To Counter Joblessness (destroy all unions; reduce wages to slave-labor levels; eliminate "entitlements;" tax-cuts for the rich)
One Way to Fix the SEC | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy In the past five years, there have been more than 400 cases of SEC enforcement employees going right to work for outside companies that had business before the SEC. Jacob Frenkel, is there a problem with that?

Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science | David Colquhoun | Science | guardian.co.uk "Acupuncture for 'frequent attenders' with medically unexplained symptoms: a randomised controlled trial (CACTUS study)".
Death tolls spur pro-war stance, study finds Less a cognitive thought than an emotional one, this effect is the feeling that they are being wasteful if they terminate a prior commitment. Thus, they pondered: Stay the course and “waste not, want not; or “cut and run.” (Americans think in Republican talking-points)
CDC: Why Are U.S. Circumcision Rates Declining? – TIME Healthland in-hospital circumcisions dropped from 62.5% in 1999 to 56.9% in 2008.

Welcome to Texas! Unless you're Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera Blogs (they don't want no A-rabs in their state; same as Comcast)
You have a right to record the police | Campaign 2012

Scenes from the Boston Tattoo Convention - Boston.com

Wikileaks: ICE / IFPI Infiltrate Pirate Topsites | TorrentFreak A diplomatic cable leaked by Wikileaks reveals that entertainment industry groups and law enforcement combined their efforts to infiltrate Warez Scene topsites.
Google Explores Re-Ranking Search Results Using +1 Button Data | Epicenter | Wired.com

090411
Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests | World news | guardian.co.uk (updated)
Libyan papers show UK worked with Gaddafi in rendition operation | World news | The Guardian A secret CIA document shows that British and Libyans worked together to arrange the removal of a terror suspect to Tripoli - the CIA and the Gaddafi regime as they pursued a counter-terrorism policy which included "enhanced interrogation techniques", the exchange of information and the secret transfers of dissidents and terror suspects, including individuals who had sought refuge in Britain. (US, UK outsourced torture to KaDaffy)
Sir Mark Allen: the secret link between MI6, the CIA and Gaddafi | World news | The Guardian Former counter-terrorism chief is the only British intelligence officer named so far named in the Tripoli files
Global Terrorism: 35,000 Worldwide Convicted For Terror Offenses Since September 11 Attacks
War and corruption are responsible for famines, not droughts - The Globe and Mail
Charity president says aid groups are misleading the public on Somalia | Global development | The Observer Médecins Sans Frontières executive says charities must admit that much of the country can't be helped
Japan hit by powerful typhoon | World news | The Guardian Heavy rains and landslides leave 20 dead and many missing as flooded rivers and collapsed bridges hamper rescue operations
WikiLeaks: China wanted to invest in U.S. banks during '08 crisis | McClatchy but expected a backlash from regulators and the American public,

New website substitutes 'Jew' in headlines about Gypsies and Travellers | Media | guardian.co.uk (racism in the UK is alive and well)

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe ... The United States has nearly the lowest voter participation among Western democracies ... You know that Social Security and Medicare are in jeopardy when even Democrats refer to them as entitlements (instead of) earned benefits (triangulating with evil; our hopelessly naive, capitulator-in-chief and his psychotic Republican daddies)
US Awash in Oil and Lies, Report Charges | Truthout
Grassley asks Justice to explain contradictory acts on anthrax | McClatchy (so many coverups)

Olbermann Excoriates Obama's Reversal On Smog Regulation (video) ... "So, if you're having trouble breathing, or if you just occasionally do breathe, kindly help the president out and hold your breath until the year 2013 or later,"
Robert Redford: Is the Obama Administration Putting Corporate Profits Above Public Health?
Obama, Democrats Losing Labor Union Support (who ya gonna vote for, Rick Perry? muhahaha)
Tea Party Forces Influence In GOP 2012 Race
Fox Rewards Matthew Vadum's Vicious Diatribe Against Poor People With Airtime | Media Matters for America (Murdoch/Satan/Fox at work)
Why Do Conservatives Get a Pass? | Mother Jones In modern America, conservatives are largely given a pass for saying crazy things.
Daily Kos: The National Weather Service as socialist plot (Republicans: let them buy their own thermometers)
Cheney Won’t Take Anything Back, Laughs At War Crimes Accusation | ThinkProgress

American tale: Workers side against their economic interests | NJ.com
Conservative Media Declare That Solar Power "Doesn't Work" | Media Matters for America
Tying Health Problems to Rise in Home Foreclosures - WSJ.com - an increase of 100 foreclosures corresponded to a 7.2% rise in emergency room visits and hospitalizations for hypertension, and an 8.1% increase for diabetes, among people aged 20 to 49.

World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule

Courthouse News Service A man who was eating a taco at a Raleigh bus stop says a cop swept-kicked him to the ground, broke his leg and arrested him, then hauled him before a judge who sentenced him to 30 days in jail for contempt, because he could not stand on his broken leg (Southern "justice")
Elizabeth Abbott: Why Mistresses Have Everything to do with Marriage
Sex Survey: 43 Percent of New Times Readers Have Had Threesomes, or Are Liars - Miami News - Riptide 2.0
Porn, Piracy, & BitTorrent - Page 1 - News - Seattle - Seattle Weekly

While Teachers Take Pay Cuts, Their Boss Rakes In $1.5 Million - Education - GOOD John Covington, the incoming superintendent of Michigan's Education Achievement Authority, a new district comprised entirely of schools that have performed poorly on state tests. Covington's just-signed contract has him set to earn more than $1.5 million in salary and bonuses
Soderbergh's virus thriller 'Contagion' sweeps Venice - Yahoo! News
George Harrison and his women – Martin Scorsese's new documentary reveals the candid truth | Music | The Observer
100 Years of Fashion in 100 Seconds | how to be a retronaut

Amazon vs. sales tax - CSMonitor.com Despite Amazon's best efforts for a delay, California governor Jerry Brown holds firm on a new state law requiring online retailers to collect sales tax

090311
Markets slide as US jobs stagnate | Business | The Guardian Shares slip on both sides of Atlantic
Libya: Gaddafi sons and loyalist convoys 'have fled strongholds' | World news | The Observer Rebel leaders in town of Tahouna say convoys seen leaving military bases ahead of assault on town expected in days
Libya: Gaddafi's army of mercenaries face backlash | World news | The Guardian Many black Africans have been arrested and accused of fighting for dictator, but claim they were press-ganged
Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit - NYTimes.com that the Americans sent terrorism suspects at least eight times for questioning in Libya despite that country’s reputation for torture (America outsourcing torture to countries that specialize in it)
Moussa Koussa’s Security File | emptywheel it all does seem to be a carefully orchestrated release.
Why Is the Military Spending Millions on Christian Contractors Bent on Evangelizing US Soldiers? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet Why do Christian contractors play such a prominent role in our military? (jihad)
A Colombia scandal, a possible U.S. connection - latimes.com The U.S. provided nearly $6 billion as part of Plan Colombia, an anti-narcotics and counterinsurgency program. But did the money also pay for human rights abuses? (will America ever face justice? +Obama's criminal war on everyone brown)
EU bans imports of Syrian oil | World news | guardian.co.uk In joint statement, European Union countries agree to embargo on oil industry over violence against pro-democracy protesters
Bromine Spill Leaves Cheylabinsk, Russia Covered In Gas Cloud (video)
Millions Are Starving in the Horn of Africa, but Nobody's Talking About It | Mother Jones In Somalia, at least 29,000 children died of starvation in 90 days. Some 2 million children are malnourished, and another 500,000 children are at great risk of starving to death. Some 12 million people in the region need emergency assistance.

Vatican denies claims of abuse cover-up in Ireland | World news | guardian.co.uk Officials issue rebuttal of report priests were told to keep quiet about abuse and hits back at criticism by Irish PM (who you gonna believe - your lyin' facts or the coverup popester?)

Murdoch family divided as News Corporation crisis comes to a head | Media | The Guardian Row over handling of phone-hacking scandal has led to rift, with James Murdoch no longer seen by all as heir to Rupert's empire
Phone hacking: police given 'dossier' on victims' lawyers | Media | guardian.co.uk Milly Dowler family solicitor claims private detectives compiled file on lawyers dealing with claims against News of the World

Conspiracy Theories | ThinkProgress Eric Trager asks “Why is the Middle East Still in Thrall to 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?” It’s a very good question. After all, sitting here in the United States where nobody would ever do something crazy like respond to 9/11 by invading Iraq it’s extremely difficult to understand how the mass public might come to be in possession of bad information.
Capitulation on Ozone Much Worse When You Learn the Context | FDL News Desk the EPA estimated that ozone pollution can trigger all kinds of health problems and lead to the deaths of up to 12,000 Americans annually (more blood on Obama's very bloody hands)
U.S. Natural Disasters: 2011 An Extreme And Exhausting Year (spending cuts! get rid of the Weather Bureau! fix it yourself, suckas!)
South Dakota Can Require Doctors To Tell Women Seeking Abortions That They Have 'Existing Relationship' With Fetus, Court Rules (oks compulsory Christian propaganda)

Obama yanks plan to tighten dirty air rule, saying cost too high | McClatchy
Did the White House double-cross its supporters on the smog rule? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Obama to Breathers: Sorry, Wait Until 2013 | Mother Jones (more cynical amorality and hippie-punching)
Endless Disappointment : Lawyers, Guns & Money Obama’s decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president ... now we see Obama opposing the rules on clean air developed by his own EPA, apparently because he buys into the idea that environmental regulations hurt the economy and cause unemployment, an assertion commonly repeated but without empirical evidence (Repubican talking-points rule Obama's mind)

Could Rick Perry mobilize the left? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (yeah, the dirty hippies will save the day after giving up on the capitulator-in-chief)
Mitt Romney facing fund-raising challenge from Jewish donors who mistakenly think Bachmann is Jewish - NYPOST.com (who wants to establish a Christian Nation)
Congressmen Skip Out On Town Halls After Facing Voter Opposition (Teaparty chicken-shits +some Dems)
Bats Left/Throws Right: Ask The Man Who Owned One LET'S have a quick look back at the newly-ended career of former New York City Deputy Mayor and Chief Morals Officer of Indianapolis Stephen Goldsmythe. Not because of schadenfreude; just because I've always wanted to say "newly-ended career of Stephen Goldsmythe" ... Steve Goldsmythe will always be a sort of link between the Nixon Crime Family and the Reagan Snake Oil factory, a guy who never really sounded like he believed what he said, but who sounded like he believed he needed to say it to enrich himself (what a little creep)

Solyndra and the stimulus - latimes.com The bankruptcy filing of Solyndra, a solar panel firm, calls into question the Obama administration's clean-energy program (Obama's hopelessly naive green program, like everything else he's tried to do to get campaign contributions)

Artificial light-harvesting method achieves 100% energy transfer efficiency In an attempt to mimic the photosynthetic systems found in plants and some bacteria, scientists have taken a step toward developing an artificial light-harvesting system (LHS) that meets one of the crucial requirements for such systems: an approximately 100% energy transfer efficiency
Dinosaur Revolution: Dinosaurs Like You've Never Seen Them Before (And Some You've Never Seen at All) - News - TV.com
UCLA Study Shows Second-Graders Are Racist - Los Angeles News - The Informer
Epic Frog - YouTube

'F*** that guy, sounds like good police work to me': Embarrassment for Texas police after emails hacked and dumped online | Mail Online Hacking collective Anonymous 'inspired by WikiLeaks'
Police Officer Goes Crazy When Hes Told He Needs a Warrant to Search Car - YouTube (I don't need no steenking warrent)
Police Say Cal State Professor Leads Devils Diciples Gang - NYTimes.com
Without Insurance, 24-year-old Dies of Toothache - ABC News A 24-year-old Cincinnati father died from a tooth infection this week because he couldn't afford his medication, offering a sobering reminder of the importance of oral health and the number of people without access to dental or health care.

Mormons using the Web to control their own image - The Washington Post Type “church,” “Old Testament” or even “friend” into Google, and the Web site of the LDS church, the Mormons, pops up near the top of the list.
Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve : NPR - Mohler and others say if other Protestants want to accommodate science, fine. But they shouldn't be surprised if their faith unravels (faith and facts incompatible; therefore choose faith to save your soul because God prefers ignorance)
Articles of Faith: What Journalists Should Be Asking Politicians About Religion | Swampland (and Bill Keller proves himself an even bigger idiot every day)

SFPD: We Stood Outside When Apple's Investigators Tossed Man's Home | TPM Idea Lab - more troublingly, it raises the question of whether SFPD has assisted Apple before, off-the-books, how many times, and in what capacities (no report filed; SFPD an arm of Apple)
Google To Ax Desktop, Notebook, Fast Flip, Aardvark And More (buy 'em and kill 'em, with usual no notice)

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Is austerity killing Europe’s recovery? - The Washington Post After more than a year of aggressive budget cutting by European governments, an economic slowdown on the continent is confronting policymakers from Madrid to Frankfurt with an uncomfortable question: Have they been addressing the wrong problem? (ya think? +the world is ruled by fools and idiots)
Fatal Distraction - NYTimes.com Zero job growth, with unemployment still at nosebleed levels. Meanwhile, the interest rate on 10-year US bonds is down to 2.04%, and it’s negative on inflation-protected securities. Aren’t you glad we pivoted from jobs to deficits a year and a half ago? ... Too bad there weren’t any prominent economists warning that the obsession with short-term deficits was a terrible mistake, that austerity would undermine hopes of recovery. Oh, wait. (+"yah think?")

Libya: Gaddafi says he will fight to the end – live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Cameron: World will be better off without Gaddafi
Libya warned smugglers are looting Gaddafi's guns | World news | The Guardian West fears heatseeking surface-to-air missiles will fall into terrorists' hands
Libyan rebels round up black Africans - Yahoo! News (not our problem, apparently)
Fourteen fault lines found near Japanese nuclear plants | McClatchy The 14 faults discovered to be potentially active were previously considered unlikely to cause earthquakes (do over)
Turkey expels Israel's ambassador over Gaza flotilla row | World news | guardian.co.uk The Turkish foreign minister says all military agreements are suspended after Israel refused to apologise for its flotilla raid (they've never apologised for anything)
MI5 former chief decries 'war on terror' | UK news | The Guardian Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller uses BBC lecture to criticise 'unhelpful' term, attack Iraq invasion and suggest al-Qaida talks (Bush lied, people died, media covered up, Obama wouldn't look "backwards")

Anti-abortion bid in disarray as critics rally | World news | The Guardian MPs back compromise amendment as Nadine Dorries comes under pressure to reveal allies - questions emerged about links to Christian counselling services that might benefit from the proposed reform - One of the most vocal public supporters of the Right to Know campaign backing the Dorries amendment to the healthcare bill is the lobby group Christian Concern, which is linked to a wealthy US evangelical organisation, the Alliance Defence Fund. (law would have required 600,000 women a year in UK to have Christian fundamentalist anti-abortion "counseling")

News of the World Scandal: Murderer Robert Thompson’s Phone May Have Been Hacked - The Daily Beast Scotland Yard has a list of 3,870 people whose phones were tapped. From the "schoolboy killer" to Prince William, Brian Cathcart reports on the scandal's huge scope - It was a professional, targeted intelligence-gathering operation, though the national-security and business implications have barely been addressed. (this is what the Brit cops covered up for years)
Phone hacking: 34-year-old man arrested | Media | guardian.co.uk Suspect questioned over phone hacking at the News of the World and attempting to pervert the course of justice
Rupert Murdoch receives $12.5m bonus | Media | The Guardian News Corp chief's total pay package soars 47% to $33m, though his son James has declined $6m bonus

Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Leak at WikiLeaks: A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts - spiegel online - News - International A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts
Guardian Investigative Editor David Leigh publishes top secret Cablegate password revealing names of U.S. collaborators and informants... in his book - Nigel Parry (yeah, the Guardian lied too)
Julian Assange faces arrest in Australia over unredacted WikiLeaks cables | Media | guardian.co.uk Government says at least one intelligence official identified after complete cache of cables was published
WikiLeaks publishes full cache of unredacted cables | Media | guardian.co.uk Former media partners condemn WikiLeaks' decision to make public documents identifying activists and whistleblowers (the Guardian's side of the story)

ThinkProgress Elizabeth Varet, a director at American Securities Management and a granddaughter of Sears Roebuck founder Julius Rosenwald, David Steinmann and Nina Rosenwald — are identified in the Center for American Progress’ new report Fear Inc., as one of the top donors to the U.S. Islamophobia network (if the shoe fits ...)

CIA rendition flights exposed in mundane billing lawsuit | The Envoy - Yahoo! News
Obama Halts EPA Regulation On Smog Standards (caves to Republicans, yet again)
Obama Calls For Smog Death To Please GOP (They Still Aren’t Pleased)
Columnist: Registering Poor To Vote 'Like Handing Out Burglary Tools To Criminals' | TPMMuckraker - Matthew Vadum of the American Spectator (what a little creep +it was never about "voter fraud")
Why Do Poors Get To Vote If They Keep Insisting On Being Poor? a weird, confusing little shovel’s worth of right-wing hater dirt from some oppressed American Spectator columnist tired of the scavenging poor eating up all his garden tomatoes or whatever:
Katia looming, lawmakers fight for 'hurricane hunter' funds | McClatchy (Republicans cut funds for hurricane/tornado detection, then eliminate disaster relief; homeowners should fund their own flights)

The Conservative Hot Tub Time Machine - NYTimes.com - So I had sort of assumed that 1986-type rhetoric about social decay had gone out of fashion. Never mind. Trends since 1986 don’t matter for those who always have a hot tub time machine in their minds.
Frank Rich: Obama Looked 'Weak,' Amateurish In Speech Flap (they gang that couldn't do anything right)
Ed Schultz EXPLODES At Marco Rubio: 'Phony,' 'Coward,' 'Stupid' (video) - "You're nothing but a damn political phony, Senator," he summed up. "I don't know how the hell you got into office."
Florida Republicans Fight To Keep ‘Cohabitation’ Of Unmarried Couples Illegal | ThinkProgress
Santorum: I Stand By My 'Man on Dog' Comment | Video Cafe No, this has profound consequence, to the entire moral ecology of America!" (Republicans have mainstreamed racisim and bigotry)
News Corpse » Fed Up? Rick Perry Sucks Up To AT&T And Vice Versa:
Rick Perry’s Execution Record Includes The Deaths Of Juveniles And The Mentally Disabled | ThinkProgress - Texas has held 234 executions on Perry’s watch, more than the next two states combined have executed since the death penalty was restored 35 years ago.
Tennessee Muslims Can Keep Practicing Religion, For Now Brandon said. “There’s no proof in this case that Islam is a religion. There is no case law or code that Islam is a religion.”
Annals of Stephen Goldsmith | Talking Points Memo "I should have put a bullet through you years ago," Goldsmith's wife Margaret allegedly told Goldsmith just before he shoved her, according to the police report (the guy who botched NYC's blizzard)

Calculated Risk: Employment Summary, Part Time Workers, and Unemployed over 26 Weeks But overall this was a very weak report. There were no jobs added in August (0 total and 17,000 private sector).
US unemployment figures shock with no job growth in August | Business | guardian.co.uk Analysts expected at least 75,000 new jobs to have been created in the US last month (they made shit up, got big fat zero)
U.S. Adds Zero New Jobs In August As Jobless Rate Stuck At 9.1 Percent (great economic policy you got there, Barry, how's that austerity pivot working out for you?)
White House: Unemployment Will Average 9 Percent In Election Year | TPMDC (it was never a priority for Obama)
Is The Great Recession Forcing Graduates Of Elite Colleges Into A Desperate Life Of Rockstardom? | ThinkProgress (NYT does their usual focus on the not-quite-rich-enough: suck it up, jobless kids, you can become rockstars!)
U.S. Said to Be Ready to Sue Banks Over Mortgages - NYTimes.com
Regulations, taxes aren't killing small business, owners say | McClatchy
Experts Question Ratings After S&P Gives Subprime Bonds Higher Rating Than U.S. Debt | TPMDC (you can't make shit like this up)
Political Animal - A recipe for failure They can’t count on major media outlets to help sort things out — reality has a well known liberal bias — and they’ll hear a lot of reporting about how “both sides” are always to blame for everything. But for those who are sincere in wanting to know who’s responsible for the economic mess, the truth is painfully obvious.

Dark Matter Is an Illusion, New Antigravity Theory Says "what is observed in the Bullet cluster and more recently at the Pandora cluster may be understood in the framework of the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum."
Medical Mystery: People Who Hear Their Eyeballs Move | Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome | Medical Oddities | LiveScience
Are Finns White? : Lawyers, Guns & Money (racisim in America has a long history: the "whiteness" test)
'Shaman' jailed for hallucinogenic drug potion at 'healing' ceremony | UK news | The Guardian Followers told jungle drink ayahuasca cured serious illnesses including cancer
Climate Science Once Again Twisted Beyond Recognition By Conservative Media | Media Matters for America (how your conservative media echo-chamber attacks reality)

Florida sued for ticketing motorists who warn others of speed traps Since 2005, over 10,429 drivers have been cited for flashing their high beams, and if Campbell wins his case, Florida could be facing over $1 million in ticket refunds. But that's nothing compared to the $156.4 million the state could have to pay out if each driver is awarded $15,000 each

Oprah seeks help to boost Web site traffic - NYPOST.com Oprah.com, whose traffic has plummeted since her daytime talk show ended in May, The Post has learned (you are so over, Oprah)
Coffee Jerks - YouTube

Apple Investigators Reportedly Impersonated SF Police in iPhone 5 Search (Developing)
Microsoft's top female manager fled 'debauchery' - Telegraph One of Microsoft’s top female managers was forced to seek “protection” and flee a debauched staff party after a married senior executive of the company stumbled into the ladies’ lavatories and later made unwanted advances towards her, it has been claimed.
Amazon offers Calif. 7,000 jobs if it drops tax - Business - US business - msnbc.com Democrats that control legislature unlikely to accept company's offer
8 Best HTML5 Tools Every Web Designer Should Have | WebTabLab.com

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How US firms profited from torture flights | World news | The Guardian Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies (kidnapping outsourced to US corps: profit!)
The CIA rendition flight network | World news | guardian.co.uk The extent to which US intelligence was able to pick up and transport suspects with ease and send them to 'black sites' where many of them faced torture (Bush/Obama kidnapping and torture program)
US court documents reveal inner workings of CIA renditions | Clare Algar | Comment is free | The Guardian Paper trail casts light not only on destinations and planes, but on the finance and logistics of the renditions programme
Extraordinary rendition: a backstory | World news | The Guardian Used since the Reagan era, extraordinary rendition was stepped up after 9/11 to extract intelligence from suspected terrorists

WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says | McClatchy the residents of the house had been handcuffed and shot in the head, including children under the age of 5 (your war on terra at work, time for war crimes trials)
WikiLeaks prepares to release unredacted US cables | Media | guardian.co.uk Twitter poll on release comes after site publishes 120,000 of its cache of diplomatic cables with almost no redactions - WikiLeaks appeared likely to use the Twitter responses, which it said favoured disclosure at a ratio of 100 to one, to pave the way for imminent disclosure of the remaining material from its cable archive.
WikiLeaks: Breach Has Exposed Unredacted U.S. Cables
WikiLeaks Accuses The Guardian Of Leaking Passwords To Unredacted Cables; Guardian Denies
Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually nothing" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - while candidate Obama "promised a sweeping overhaul of the Bush administration’s war on terror" and "a top to bottom review of the threats we face and our abilities to confront them," Rizzo explains that, in fact, Obama officials during the transition made clear to the CIA that they intended almost complete continuity ... this was all planned even before the inauguration (he lied +change that makes you throw-up)
10 Years Later, 9/11 Commission Says President Is Failing to Protect Civil Liberties | emptywheel (big surprise)

Muammar Gaddafi urges followers to turn Libya 'into a hell' | World news | The Guardian A defiant Gaddafi denounced rebels as 'traitors', and said tribes loyal to him would never surrender to 'collaborators' - promising to turn Libya "into a hell" (you already did that, dude)
Libya: Muammar Gaddafi vows to fight on - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Muammar Gaddafi says he won't surrender • Sirte given another week to surrender
How Cameron's secret unit choked off oil supplies to Gaddafi's frontline forces | Politics | The Guardian 'Libyan oil cell' was run by international development minister Alan Duncan and helped to strengthen sanctions against country (private corps getting ready to plunder Libya)
Libya - Aug 31, 2011 - 20:29 | Al Jazeera Blogs Al Jazeera has uncovered evidence that influential Americans have been trying to help Gaddafi cling to power.
Docs: Bush Official, Kucinich Offered To Help Qaddafi Regime On Ending U.S. Involvement In Libya | TPMMuckraker
Syrian city's attorney general resigns in protest at government crackdown | World news | The Guardian Adnan Muhammad al-Bakkour says he was asked to report that 'armed gangs' killed hundreds buried in mass graves in Hama
Syria Nuclear Investigation Stalled, Diplomats Report (where are Cheney and Israel?)
Forced relocations for terror suspects allowed under emergency powers | UK news | guardian.co.uk Home secretary to specify tighter restrictions under terrorism prevention and investigation measures (learning from Arab dictators and Obama)
Sarkozy under pressure after Le Monde claims secret service spied on journalist | World news | The Guardian Phone records of reporter covering Bettencourt affair were intercepted, judge tells paper ... Le Monde said the tracking of journalists had become "an affair of state" which lent credence to the suspicion that a cabinet noir, or office of shady operations, existed at the highest reaches of French power, namely the Elysée (sort of like Obama's NSA domestic spying operation)
Alleged Berlusconi blackmailers arrested in Rome | World news | The Guardian Man who supplied women for prime minister's parties said to have been paid to do a deal with prosecutors to avoid trial
Ed Miliband calls for 'global plan B' to kick-start economic recovery | Politics | guardian.co.uk Labour leader says November's scheduled G20 meeting should be brought forward so leaders can agree internationally co-ordinated response to economic slowdown
Ed Balls: I did not want Alistair Darling's job | Politics | guardian.co.uk Balls responds to extracts from former chancellor's forthcoming memoir alleging that Gordon Brown wanted to sack Darling in 2009 - Darling's attack on the "arrogant and stupid" bankers involved in the financial crash of 2008 (those guys whose asses Obama likes to kiss)
Euro-zone manufacturing PMI drops to two-year low - MarketWatch

The GOP War on Voting | Rolling Stone Politics In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year (Republicans dismantling democracy)
Guard choppers from Illinois to assist Vermont recovery effort | Burlington Free Press | burlingtonfreepress.com Outside assistance from other state's National Guard units is needed because the Vermont National Guard's helicopter fleet is deployed on a mission in Iraq (leaving our homeland defensless)
Obama Is Not Telling You How To Observe 9-11 | Media Matters for America Execrable Los Angeles Times blogger Andrew Malcolm makes a bizarre allegation this morning (liars at work)
Choi Trial Put on Hold After Judge Allows "Vindictive Prosecution" Defense - Poliglot - "It is impermissible," he told the courtroom, "for the U.S. Government to prosecute differently on the basis of the content of First Amendment speech." (Obama's vindictive prosecution of dissent and whistleblowing +judge-shopping)

Martin Wolf Gets It - NYTimes.com Mr Obama wishes to be president of a country that does not exist. In his fantasy US, politicians bury differences in bipartisan harmony. In fact, he faces an opposition that would prefer their country to fail than their president to succeed. Ms Merkel, similarly, seeks a non-existent middle way between the German desire for its partners to abide by its disciplines and their inability to do any such thing (Obama looked in the mirror and saw America)
White House Report: Unemployment Rate Above 6 Percent Until 2016
Speechgate: How Obama's Jobs Address Got Postponed | TPMDC (wimp-in-chief folds again before his Republican daddies)
Obama Jobs Speech Thursday Night: President Gives In To Boehner Over Congress Joint Session Address (the wimp doing what he does best)
Cenk Uygur: Is Obama Playing Rope-a-Dope? (or just "dope?")
GOP Freshman Under Fire For Demanding Offsets For Disaster Relief In Her Own District | TPMDC Only days after a record-setting storm destroyed her district, Rep. Nan Hayworth and her House colleagues threatened to withhold disaster money if lawmakers don't cut additional spending from the federal budget."
Teacher Exodus In Wake Of Anti-Union Law In Wisconsin | TPMDC ouble the number of Wisconsin public school teachers have retired this year when compared to the past two years, before Scott Walker's anti-union law (Republicans destroying education systems across the country; they love ignorance)

White House: Unemployment Will Average 9 Percent In Election Year | TPMDC (rosy forecast falls apart, spending cuts will make the nightmare worse, so Republicans are all in)
If the OMB Is Right About Unemployment Obama Campaign Is DOA | Elections If the OMB alternative forecast turns out to be correct and unemployment remains at roughly 9 percent going into November 2012, the Obama re-election campaign is doomed (the smiley-face fell off the gas gauge; how's that deficit pivot working out for you?)
Rachel Maddow: Can Krueger end U.S. economic nightmare? (no)
One in 25 business leaders may be a psychopath, study finds | Science | guardian.co.uk Psychopaths use charm and manipulation to achieve success in the workplace, according to a US study (it's a lot higher than that in America)
Howard Dean: Right On Foreign Medical Students | ThinkProgress the United States of America spends a lot of money on health care services each year. There are various reasons for that, but one reason is that our doctors earn the highest wages in the world.

Laugh at the Libertarian | Pharyngula (PZ reads Reason so you don't have to: liberals have fallen for the junk science of global warming and want to destroy civilization)
Stonehenge mystery offered clue by Welsh burial chamber | Culture | guardian.co.uk Archaeologists believe key figure involved in construction of Wiltshire ancient monument is buried at Preseli mountains site

Keith Olbermann Delights In Bill O'Reilly's Marriage Scandal (video) | TPM LiveWire
J.C. Penney's 'Too Pretty To Do Homework' T-Shirt Is Too Stupid for Words - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Nude York City: Bodypainted model Zoe West hauled to jail after Times Square spectacle | Mail Online

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Libya: Gaddafi loyalists refuse to surrender - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Syria crackdown horror catalogued in Amnesty deaths in detention report | World news | The Guardian Majority of 88 detainees who have died since start of uprising against regime said to have been tortured

Youngest London rioter – boy aged 11 – given youth rehabilitation order | UK news | guardian.co.uk Romford boy looted bin from smashed Debenhams storefront days after being convicted of damaging bus
Regret the Error» Murdoch’s The Australian retracts op-ed about Aussie PM
Murdoch Launches Wide Review Of UK Papers
Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change.” | ThinkProgress (billions of dollars and millions of lives)

August: Deadliest month for U.S. in Afghanistan - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times (all so Obama could play strong military guy - how's that surgey thing working out for you? +cynical immorality)
Under Obama, U.S. Casualty Rate in Afghanistan Increased 5-Fold | CNSnews.com (Obama solely responsible for Americans dying for nothing)
Omitted facts from the 9/11 commemoration - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com +Left unsaid was that many of the deposed leaders were close American allies and partners in counterterrorism operations (the coverup commission +Obama continues the tradition)
Former Bush official promises to testify if someone will ‘Pinochet’ Cheney | Raw Replay (Obama continues coverup with his never look at the past idiocy; is a war criminal himself)

Hurricane Cost Seen as Ranking Among Top Ten - NYTimes.com (Republicans: what hurricane?)
Melissa Harris-Perry: U.S. Has Yet To Learn Lessons Of Hurricane Katrina
Andy Horowitz: A Natural Disasters History Lesson for Ron Paul Louisiana Governor John McKeithen testified before a Congressional subcommittee that his state had seriously weighed its chances with seceding a second time after civil rights legislation passed, opting not to only because the federal government had the atomic bomb (a real missed opportunity)

Torture Decriminalized: How the State Department Provides Space for the Culpables’ Book Tours | The Dissenter There’s only one problem: Al-Marri was tortured.
Obama Losing Support from His Base | Elections - The big drop in support among young people should be one of the most concerning new developments for Obama. Since left-leaning 20 somethings are unlikely to vote for the Republican because they are disappointed with Obama, there is a good chance they simply won’t show up to vote at all
White House: Debate Organizers Can Always Reschedule Away From Our Jobs Speech | TPMDC
The New Yorker Revisits 'Leading From Behind': Evolution Of A Blind Quote (well, it is true)
"Socialist Day": Right-Wing Media Again Attack Obama Over 9-11 Day Of Service | Media Matters for America (charity used to be a virtue before Republicans decided it's socialism so they didn't have to do it)
Meet the Shady Dallas Mega-Billionaire Industrialist Pouring Money into Rick Perry's Coffers | | AlterNet Most Americans have never heard of Harold Simmons, despite his fantastic wealth, because he wisely keeps his head low.
Ed Schultz In New Orleans: US Is 'Sick' When It Comes To Health Care (VIDEO) "The only conversation that's going on right now in America is how we're going to repeal what has already been passed to someday help these folks who are out here."
John Merrow: Two Town Halls, And a Peek Into the Future (Harvard has a racism conference on Martha's Vineyard; nobody comes and it isn't reported)
Lawrence O'Donnell Condemns Rudy Giuliani: 'Incompetent,' 'Fraud' (VIDEO) "Know this: there is no more fraudulent public image in our politics." (and that's a very crowded field)
Balloon Juice » More Friedman than Friedman (more idiocy from Kaplan Test Prep)
Federal Judge Restores Kansas Planned Parenthood Funds | ThinkProgress (Kansas sucks)
How Bill O'Reilly Tried to Get His Wife's Boyfriend Investigated By the Cops ... When confronted with a potentially disloyal spouse, O'Reilly reacted by—not unlike his boss Roger Ailes—treating his local police department like a private security force and trying to damage one cop's career for the sin of crossing Bill O'Reilly.

Nevada AG Catherine Cortez Masto Destroys BofA in New Lawsuit | FDL News Desk this complaint is a stick of dynamite to the foreclosure fraud settlement, exposing it as a useless whitewash that won’t deter banks from their criminal practices ... This is a portrait of a criminal enterprise (Obama's plan to force states into a phony settlement hits a snag; now, what will Martha do?)
Calculated Risk: LPS: Average Loan in Foreclosure Is Delinquent for Record 599 Days
The New Resentment of the Poor - NYTimes.com In a decade of frenzied tax-cutting for the rich, the Republican Party just happened to lower tax rates for the poor, as well. Now several of the party’s most prominent presidential candidates and lawmakers want to correct that oversight and raise taxes on the poor and the working class, while protecting the rich, of course.
Highest-Paid CEOs Often Earn More Than Company Pays In Income Taxes, Study Finds
Automobile-Focused Industrial Policy | ThinkProgress Yet sprawl-promotion is integral to the interests of the auto industry.
U.S. Files to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger - Bloomberg
Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi To Merge LCD Display Businesses


Unmarried? Living together? You're breaking the law in Florida | McClatchy

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Libya: rebels demand return of Gaddafi's family - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Gaddafi 'heading south towards Sabha'
Desperately seeking Qaddafi's brigade of beautiful bodyguards
US has wasted $30bn on Iraq and Afghanistan contracts, report finds | World news | The Guardian Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan says change needed to avoid similar waste in future

Catholic clergy 'abused children for decades in County Donegal' | World news | The Guardian Report is expected to claim police were complicit in cover-up of sexual abuse by priests and lay members of the church
Longtime U.S. residents, deported, brave Mexico's 'trains of death' to get home | McClatchy (Obama's anti-immigrant policy at work)
Shocking new details of US STD experiments in Guatemala | World news | guardian.co.uk Fresh revelations about 1940s medical tests come to light, including deliberately exposing people to sexually transmitted diseases (sounds like you-know-who)
83 Died in U.S.-Guatemala Syphilis Experiments: “We’re talking about intentional deception.” | The Dissenter

News Corp. Hunkers Down: Murdochs to Testify Under Oath - Global - The Atlantic Wire

Hurricane Irene leaves US trail of destruction 1,100 miles long | World news | The Guardian Storm's death toll continues to rise as widespread flooding and power cuts affect states across the US north-east
Hurricane Irene Blows A Hole Through East Coast Communications | TPM Idea Lab
Republicans Complain About Cuts to FEMA Hurricane Relief...You Know the Cuts They Wanted | Crooks and Liars
Hurricane Irene 2011: Federal Aid Sought By Local Republicans In Disaster's Wake Bramnick stressed that he believes emergency management, along with public safety and the military, to be a top priority for government, particularly at the federal level (fucking hypocrites are all of a sudden BIG government conservatives)
Missouri Senators angry that FEMA cutbacks affect Joplin tornado repairs | McClatchy (deficit hounds, blue-dogs and Republicans all of a sudden want free handouts from big government which they refuse to fund)
Eric Cantor Won’t Support Any Hurricane Disaster Funding Without Massive Cuts To First Responders | ThinkProgress - Cantor supported the Bush tax cuts, the Iraq war, and raising the debt limit (five times) without a penny in spending cuts. (cops and firefighters vote Republican)

Cheney: I Don't Think Iraq Damaged Our Reputation Around The World | TPMDC ("our" = "mine")
Dick Cheney's Ultimate Sadism | Stop The Spirit of Zossen 2.0
Who Doomed Sarah Palin's Presidential Dream? | TPMDC
Ron Paul: I don't accept the theory of evolution - CBS News

Dept. of Interior Recommended Federal Charges vs. DADT Protesters – 3 Hours Before They Demonstrated | FDL Action (Obama hates protestors; playing to your base)

A Venn Diagram for Rick Perry: Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme | Mother Jones (Social Security for dimbulb Republican)
Lagarde leads from the front on Europe | Felix Salmon (just a little "liquidity" problem, banks aren't really insolvent)
Bruce Bartlett: The Case Against a Payroll Tax Cut - NYTimes.com there is no evidence that the lower payroll tax has done much of anything to stimulate either spending or hiring: First, the tax cut only helps those with jobs (another Obama program designed to do nothing)

Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear | MNN - Mother Nature Network A surprising aerodynamic innovation in wind turbine design called the 'wind lens' could triple the output of a typical wind turbine, making it less costly than nuclear power.
Bill Nye on Fox: "There's A Lot More Science Behind" Idea Of Global Warming Creating Extreme Weather "Than Saying It's Not" | Media Matters for America (too confusing for Fox viewers )

The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The End of College Admissions As We Know It
Murdoch Loses $27 Million Contract With N.Y. Schools - Truthdig The Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal has prompted the state to kill a controversial $27 million contract with one of the media mogul’s subsidiary companies.
NRA asks Supreme Court to revisit Second Amendment's scope | McClatchy (want to carry RPGs into bars and schools)

A very muscular brand of Christianity | World news | The Guardian


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Libya Rebels Free 10,000 From Gaddafi Prisons
Lockerbie bomber found dying in Libya | World news | The Guardian Calls for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to face extradition appear redundant after footage emerges showing him close to death
Wife of Gaddafi and three children flee Libya for Algeria | World news | guardian.co.uk Algerian foreign ministry confirms wife Safia, daughter Aisha, and sons Mohammed and Hannibal have arrived in country
Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound - CNN.com the Gadhafi boys enjoyed a decadent lifestyle that his people could only dream about, while perpetrating unspeakable horrors on the staff that served their every whim.
China's plan for secret detentions alarms rights activists - latimes.com China proposes a change in the law that would allow the detention of suspects for up to six months in a secret location. The move would increase the risk of torture, activists say.
BBC News - The mystery of Sri Lanka's 'grease devils'
Yoshihiko Noda set to become Japanese PM | World news | guardian.co.uk Finance minister faces tough policy decisions after winning race to succeed Naoto Kan as leader of governing party
Disney factory faces probe into sweatshop suicide claims | World news | The Observer Human rights campaigners say Chinese factories using children as young as 14 and that workers forced to do overtime (coming soon to Republican America in the name of competitiveness)
The Associated Press: Afghans scuttle US-Taliban talks

After the riots: rights and wrong'uns | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian Tory rhetoric after the riots shows the party regards shelter and social security as privileges to be withdrawn, rather than rights
Magistrates deny riots 'sentencing frenzy' | Society | guardian.co.uk Prisons chief claims sentencing norms are being ignored by courts in favour of 'naked popularism'
Abortion rules shakeup could set system back 25 years, says GPs' chief | World news | The Guardian Controversy surrounds government plans over independent counselling of women considering terminations (all women would have to be brain-washed by Christian fundamentalists - conservatives at work)

30 new revelations from #wlfind
Leak at WikiLeaks: Accidental Release of US Cables Endangers Sources - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
WikiLeaks cables possibly released by accident - The Washington Post

Has Homeland Security spending paid off since Sept. 11? - latimes.com A Decade After The Sept. 11 Attacks, Federal And State Governments Are Doling Out About $75 Billion A Year On Domestic Security. Whether The Spending Spree Has Been Worth It Is The Subject Of Increasing Debate ... In the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, where police fear militants might be eyeing DreamWorks Animation or the Disney creative campus, a $205,000 Homeland Security grant bought a 9-ton BearCat armored vehicle, complete with turret (well, if the object was to create a police-state, it was a success +protecting the rich) )
The decade's biggest scam - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com "undoubtedly more American citizens died overseas from traffic accidents or intestinal illnesses than from terrorism." "Number of American civilians who died worldwide in terrorist attacks last year: 8 -- Minimum number who died after being struck by lightning: 29." That's the threat in the name of which a vast domestic Security State is constructed, wars and other attacks are and continue to be launched, and trillions of dollars are transferred to the private security and defense contracting industry at exactly the time that Americans -- even as they face massive wealth inequality -- are told that they must sacrifice basic economic security because of budgetary constraints (same Republican M.O. as the bankers: cause the crisis, profit enormously, dismantle democracy)

Submit your photos and videos of Hurricane Irene - Boston.com
Irene's toll jumps to 37; Vt. towns battle floods - Yahoo! News (because DC wasn't affected, it didn't happen +just buckle up and fix it yourself)
Videos show upstate New York, Vermont Irene flooding | The Lookout - Yahoo! News (why, everyone could just pitch in and fix it themselves, who need government to help?)
Hurricane Irene Could Be Among Costliest U.S. Storms | Breakout - Yahoo! Finance
Flooding conditions 'awful' in Vermont due to Irene's rains - CNN.com
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Wanted Hurricane Irene To Be A 'Disaster' (AUDIO) the storm was blown out of proportion to "push the leftist agenda," and tied it to what he said was Obama's desire to have a huge disaster.
Why Republicans Might Demand Hurricane Relief Be Paid For With More Program Cuts | TPMDC
Michele Bachmann Says Hurricane Irene And Earthquake Are Divine Warnings To Washington messages from God to warn "politicians" to start heeding divine guidance, which she suggested is being channeled through small government conservatives.
How Irene Lived Up to the Hype - NYTimes.com
Katrina and Irene : Lawyers, Guns & Money Adam Gopnik is upset that his Cape Cod vacation got interrupted by a storm that didn’t live up to the worst case scenario
Apparently There Are Libertarians In The Eye Of A Hurricane | ThinkProgress Cato Institute’s Jim Harper said, “I’m embarrassed to think that bad weather is something the government prepares for and responds to. Pull up your pants, Americans (they really are this insane)

Texas Gov. Perry became a millionaire while serving in office | McClatchy
Rick Perry: Social Security Is, In Fact, A Ponzi Scheme | TPMDC
Keystone Pipeline Approval Likely, Says Former State Department Official (done deal from the start)

Republicans Against Science - NYTimes.com (they've declared war on reality)
Joe Scarborough: 'Dick Cheney Has Won The Day' On Foreign Policy (VIDEO) Obama's policy seemed to be, "We can unilaterally drop bombs on any country that we wanna drop bombs on, whenever we wanna drop bombs on 'em, whether we've declared war or not." "They can say whatever they want to say, but at the end of the day, their policies seem to be Bush-Cheney policies," Scarborough said.

How the Surveillance State Protects the Interests Of the Ultra-Rich | | AlterNet As a global protest movement rises and spreads within the US, expect surveillance tactics honed in the "war on terror" to be used in the defense of wealth.
New York Times Ombudsman, Business Editor Argue About Paper's Financial Coverage
Thomas Freidman Spews Nonsense with Hurricane Force | Beat the Press

Chocolate 'may cut stroke risk' | UK news | guardian.co.uk People who ate the most chocolate had a 37% reduced risk of heart disease and a 29% reduction in stroke compared with those eating the least. One of the studies also found a 31% lower risk of diabetes for chocolate-lovers. No significant reduction was found in relation to heart failure.
New theory suggests Mars was once cold and wet cold and wet with a large northern hemispheric ocean whose edges were lined with glaciers.
EcoAlert: Realtime Tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids & Comets --It Could Save the Planet (Republicans demand deep cuts or they will let the planet explode)
Study: Medieval plague may be extinct | World news | guardian.co.uk

College Costs Rising. Well, Mostly by Daniel Luzer | Washington Monthly The average private college now costs $27,293 a year in tuition alone. College prices increase at about double the rate of inflation ... college costs might actually be falling for America’s rich (of course, and you know what else grows at double inflation?)
Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools nobody can deny that public money is going to be taken from public schools, and they're going to end up in private, mostly religious schools (huge subsidy for the Vatican, forget that church-and-state thingy)
Takeover Of Four Indiana Schools Faces Criticism, Lawsuit Indiana’s Board of Education is expected to rubber-stamp a contentious plan for the state to take over three high schools and one middle school in Indianapolis, paving the way for the Hoosier state’s first experience running local classrooms (Indiana is on a roll)

Hullabaloo - Bugging Panchito - Bush knew a good thing when he saw it. As a candidate, he put his arms around Bruni, whom he nicknamed “Panchito” Bruni (food writer has too much to drink before writing his column)
15 Add-Ons to Become a Gmail Power User | PCWorld Many users live their lives in Gmail, all without ever recognizing its full potential. These widgets can help.

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Flooding in Manhattan streets as Irene arrives - Boston.com
Damage and Flooding Scar Atlantic Seaboard - NYTimes.com
Hurricane Irene, Chris Christie, Eric Cantor: There's nothing like a hurricane to turn fiscal conservatives into beggar bears for federal dollars - OrlandoSentinel.com

Calculated Risk: IMF's Lagarde: European banks need "urgent recapitalization" (bailout the banks! never "recapitalize" the people)
Sweden to contribute SEK 40 million to the Palestinian Authority (Obama will send drones to bomb the shit out of them; Israel considers attacking their nukes)
Moderates signal break with Church of Sweden - The Local Until 2000 the church was considered a state church but on January 1st of that year this relationship was changed with a formal separation of church and state.
Baghdad suicide attack leaves at least 29 dead | World news | guardian.co.uk Khalid al-Fahdawi, a member of the Iraqi parliament, reported to have been killed in blast at capital's largest Sunni mosque
Arab spring has created 'intelligence disaster', warns former CIA boss | World news | The Guardian "The rendition programme must come back – the people we have in custody now are pretty long in the tooth, in terms of the information they can provide in interrogations (time to illegally kidnap some more brown people and torture them)
Karachi gang war prompts intervention by Pakistan Rangers | World news | The Guardian "This is a battle between maniacs. They have no moral values," said a senior Karachi police officer, Naeem Ahmed Shaikh. "We have received tortured bodies from many areas of Karachi." (the political parties have their own gangs)

Corporate homicide law extended to prisons and police cells | UK news | The Guardian Legal change could make authorities liable for large fines over deaths in custody
Labour seeks law change to stop News Corp renewing BSkyB bid | Media | The Guardian Fears that Rupert Murdoch could reopen bid prompts 'public interest test' motion by shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis
Ministers back anti-abortion lobby's counselling reforms | World news | The Guardian Charities warn of 'distress and delay' as they are stripped of responsibility to counsel women seeking a termination (American anti-abortion movement gets traction in Conservative UK)

Many death sentences in U.S. military overturned | McClatchy Critics say the military botched the cases because its judicial system lags behind civilian courts and isn't equipped to handle the complex legal and moral questions that capital cases raise.
Commentary: GOP's attack on EPA ignores air, water safety | McClatchy
Darth Vader Vents - NYTimes.com W. had belatedly realized that Cheney was a crank whose bad advice and disdainful rants against “the diplomatic path” and “multilateral action” had pretty much ruined his presidency ... When Vice’s hundred-pound yellow Lab, Dave, went after W.’s beloved Scottish terrier, Barney, at Camp David’s Laurel Lodge, that was a bridge too far. (go Modo)
All Together Now - NYTimes.com the European Union is cracking up. The Arab world is cracking up. China’s growth model is under pressure and America’s credit-driven capitalist model has suffered a warning heart attack and needs a total rethink.

10 Questions: Warrantless Wiretaps - YouTube (Obama lying through his teeth about what he will do if elected)
Ron Paul: I don't believe in evolution - YouTube (living proof)
Ron Paul - Wikiquote - "Abortion is Murder" (and in my new theocratic state, we will kill them)
Ron Paul Calls for Spending Cuts Before Hurricane Relief | Video Cafe (Republicans hate relief for anyone but themselves)
Ron Paul: FEMA Signals Too Much 'Dependency' On The Federal Government In Disasters (Video) (the great dismantling)
Tea Partiers Favor Rick Perry to Michele Bachmann by More Than Double | TheBlaze.com (teaparty=theocracy)
Virgin Teen Pregnancies in Texas? No, Rick Perry's Taxpayer-funded Abstinence Education is a Bust. | BuzzFlash.org "Teen pregnancy rates declined in the US, while more teens in Texas are getting pregnant.... Texas is in the top ten states for having the most pregnant teens, rising seven percent to more than 44,000."
Will No One Rid Me Of This Meddlesome Candidate? | The New Republic Hey -- I've got it. Brooks surely knows Ross Douthat. Maybe he can ask him to write that column!
Commentary: Did Molly Ivins say that about Rick Perry? | McClatchy
A Poll Tax by Another Name - NYTimes.com this year’s Republican-backed wave of voting restrictions has demonstrated that the fundamental right to vote is still subject to partisan manipulation.
Martin Luther King Memorial: The Story Behind the Monument After 15 painstaking years and some heated controversies, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington makes its debut.
FreakOutNation » GOPers Using McCarthy-esque Watch Lists with Facebook Profile Pics at Town Hall Events
Beck Wildly Inflates Attendance At His Israel Rally | Media Matters for America - 4,700 people attended the rally (more like "couple of hundred" no "column of fire" - pathetic failure lied anyway)
Why Did Fox News Ignore Glenn Beck's "Planet Course-Altering" Israel Rally? | Media Matters for America

Did We Drop the Ball on Unemployment? - NYTimes.com (rich, pampered, NYT columnist wakes up three years later and discovers some people don't have jobs)
The Birth of Everything Corporatist and Conservative - YouTube (the rich are being abused, whine)
Americans Support Higher Taxes. Really. | Capital Gains and Games 61 percent of people believe higher taxes will be necessary to reduce the deficit (traitors to capitalism, ignored by rich media, anyway)

Evolution threatens Christianity - On Faith - The Washington Post Evolution is a simple fact. We can choose to remain ignorant of it, we can stick our fingers in our ears and refuse to think about it, we can even rail against it and shout and scream that it is not allowed to be true. But facts are facts, and will not go away just because we don't like them
Bryan Fischer and the dogmatic incantations | Pharyngula (wingers coming out to defend Perry's idiocy)
Ediacaran: 3.4 Billion Year Old Microfossils? . . . Umm Yes (Probably)
Prone to flu? Just blame it on your genes... scientists discover that some of us can resist the bug | Mail Online
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder: In the Office and on 'The Street' (Wall Street is bi-polar)

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How to Turn a Continent into A Subprime CDO » TripleCrisis The European sovereign debt crisis is little more than a huge ‘bait and switch’ perpetrated on the publics of Europe, by their governments, on behalf of their banks ... Europe has reached a point where its collective bank exposures are bigger than its collective bailout capacity. Like the CDO of legend, the income streams are running dry and correlation is rising to one. You can blame the state all you like, but its banking crisis at its core. The cover that the banks got from their bait and switch on the public is a one-time deal, and it is about to be rudely exposed

Libyan rebel council takes charge as Gaddafi rumours fly | World news | The Observer Unconfirmed reports of six armoured Mercedes sedans crossing the border into Algeria as search for dicatator continues
BBC News - Libyan capital Tripoli faces water, power crisis Living conditions in Tripoli are becoming increasingly desperate, with most of Libya's capital without water, electricity or proper sanitation.
Yvonne Fletcher murder suspect will be pursued once Gaddafi falls | World news | guardian.co.uk No one has ever been charged over the death of Fletcher, 25, who died when Libyan officials opened fire on a demonstration outside the building in central London in 1984. Those involved were later allowed to flee the UK (Thatcher let them go, though the Guardian won't say that)
Obama: 'leading from behind' on Libya | Michael Boyle | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The White House is spinning the US role in Nato's support for Libyan rebels a foreign policy triumph. That hardly stacks up (behind is the usual position he head from)
Free at last: US writer who thought he would die in Gaddafi's prison - Africa, World - The Independent For Matthew VanDyke, held in solitary confinement since March, the rebels' arrival in Tripoli marked the end of a grotesque nightmare
Robert Fisk: Prosecuting war crimes? Be sure to read the small print - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
Fall of Tripoli Echoes Loudly in Damascus | Informed Comment

BBC journalist killed during Taliban attack 'may have been shot by US forces' | World news | guardian.co.uk Investigation finds Taliban attackers may not have been to blame for death of 25-year-old Ahmed Omed Khpulwak in July (they lied for months)
U.S. drug thirst, gun sales must share blame for fire tragedy, Mexico says | McClatchy (Obama's hemisphere-destroying war on drugz, and no, we won't take any responsibility for anything, ever)
Humberto Millan Salazar, Mexican Journalist, Found Dead After Kidnapping (more collateral damage)
US official: Al-Qaida's No. 2 killed in Pakistan - Boston.com (for the 27th time)
Months after disaster, Japan's prime minister resigns | McClatchy the long-anticipated resignation on Friday of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who fulfilled a promise to critics of his largely ineffective response to the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Andy Coulson's Legal Fees Reportedly Being Paid By News International

2011 Hurricane Season - Google tracking tool
State hunkers down, waiting for Irene from Metro Desk In Eastern Massachusetts, only 1 to 3 inches of rain are expected, but it is likely to be more whipped by the wind.
Cambridge, MA Weather / Stormpulse / Hurricanes, severe weather, tracking, mapping
Hurricane Irene strikes North Carolina, targets Northeast | McClatchy
Hurricane Irene Threatens Nuclear Power Plants Along Northeast Coast | TPM Idea Lab - 12 nukes in path
A New York Hurricane Could Be a Multibillion-Dollar Catastrophe - NYTimes.com
The Great New England Hurricane of '38 - Boston.com

Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America (well-funded, Fox-supported Rightwing operation)
Anti-Muslim Blogger Pamela Geller Lashes Out At Islamophobia Report: ‘Pile Of Dung Masquerading As Research’ | ThinkProgress

Chris Hayes, Glenn Greenwald Rip Dick Cheney, President Obama (VIDEO) the Obama administration's firm policy of "looking forward" when it came to the Bush administration had contributed to Cheney's current ease. Greenwald said he thought it was "easily the biggest factor," and that Obama "has continued this evisceration of the rule of law for political elites at the same time that ordinary Americans are imprisoned by the same government...at rates greater than any country in the entire world."
Why Political Coverage is Broken » Pressthink August 26th, 2011 by Jay Rosen: 1. Politics as an inside game. 2. The cult of savviness. 3. The production of innocence (oh, we thought you said ignorance)
Bachmann says she'd consider minimum wage changes - Yahoo! News as a way to lower the cost of doing business and lure corporations back to the United States (comes out in favor of slavery so we can compete with the Chinese)
5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution -- 'Cuddly' Libertarian Has Some Very Dark Politics | | AlterNet He's anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-senior-citizen, anti-equality and anti-education, and that's just the start.
Ron Paul: Abortion Is ‘The Most Important Issue of Our Age’ | ThinkProgress (Satan has many hands)
Ron Paul Addresses Hurricane Irene, Says 'There's No Magic About' FEMA (VIDEO) he doesn't see the need for a federal response to Hurricane Irene as the powerful storm makes its way up the east cost ... "We should be like 1900, we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960,"
Perry's promise to duplicate Texas' job record resonates in South Carolina | McClatchy (because SC has tons of oil/gas wells that can support them while their Gov makes disasterous decisions)
Religious Right Millionaire Backed Rick Perry's Career, Paved Texas Conservative Politics With Money
Another Rick Perry Staffer Ensnared In Teacher Death Bond Scheme
Prosser To Investigators: Contact With Bradley's Neck Was A 'Total Reflex' | TPMMuckraker (she attacked my hands with her neck)
Glenn Beck: Jewish People 'Drive Me Out Of My Mind' With Their Constant Talking (audio)

The I-word - The Boston Globe (Inflation, an idea whose time has come)
Analyst casts doubts on economic benefit from downtown L.A. stadium - latimes.com warned that studies commissioned by developer Anschutz Entertainment Group “likely overstated” the financial boost it would deliver (have they ever, ever, understated it?)
Gambling projections for Massachusetts far from sure bet - The Boston Globe Casino estimates based on old study (more lies, smoke and mirrors from the developers)

Federal Work Suspension of Leading Arctic Scientist Ended as Investigation of His Investigators Deepens | MyFDL
UFO Sightings Increase 67 Percent In 3 Years, History Channel Investigates Unexplained Aerial Phenomena

First Circuit Panel Says There’s a Clear Constitutional Right To Openly Record Cops. | The Agitator (Boston cops lose: our warriors in the front line on the war on terror are being abused)
Court says state law used to ban recording of police officers in public is unconstitutional | Universal Hub

By Ken Levine: My response to Roseanne (character files: Roseanne Barr turns out to be a sexist, paranoid, asshole)
College rankings: Most Celebrified | Her Campus (Harvard wins)
New York Tradition Ends as Bars Shut Doors to Dogs - NYTimes.com

Google chief lambasts the UK for its technophobic 'luvvie' culture - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent The executive chairman of Google has lambasted Britain as a society that favours "luvvies" over "boffins (whut?)

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Libya: rebels move government to Tripoli - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk British warplanes strike bunker in Sirte • Scattered fighting continues in Tripoli
Libyans fight on, but rebuilding could be bigger challenge | McClatchy
Deadly bombing at UN building in Nigeria's capital | World news | guardian.co.uk Suicide car bomb rips through Abuja headquarters
Anna Hazare hunger strike undermines democracy, says Rahul Gandhi | World news | guardian.co.uk Indian MP from top political family joins government scramble to placate anti-corruption campaigner with reforms (it should be illegal to starve yourself and corruption is the Indian way)
Chilean teenager shot dead during protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Boy 16, dies in hospital after sustaining gunshot wound during mass protests against Chile's president, Sebastián Piñera
Saudi beheading fuels backlash in Indonesia - The Washington Post
Berlin's burning cars a hot topic in forthcoming elections | World news | The Guardian More than 370 cars set alight so far this year with police saying some crimes are 'politically motivated' against gentrification
US envoy 'threatens to slash aid to PA' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English US consul in Jerusalem says Palestinian Authority could lose funding after statehood vote at United Nations (Obama taking orders from his Israeli masters, may bomb the UN))

BBC journalist killed during Taliban attack 'may have been shot by US forces' | World news | guardian.co.uk Investigation finds Taliban attackers may not have been to blame for death of 25-year-old Ahmed Omed Khpulwak in July
Gunmen Light Casino On Fire In Northern Mexico and killed at least 53 gamblers and employees (collateral damage in Obama's hemisphere-destroying war on drugz)
report: $42 Million From Seven Foundations Helped Fuel The Rise Of Islamophobia In America | ThinkProgress

Glenn Mulcaire names News of the World staff behind phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk Private investigator passes names on to Steve Coogan's lawyers, in accordance with court order
Nick Clegg: I will refuse to let human rights laws be weakened | Politics | The Guardian Deputy prime minister says Liberal Democrats will not let Tories water down human rights laws

Secrecy, leaks, and the real criminals - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com the government's censorship effort "amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath," particularly given the imminent publication of a book by CIA agent Jose Rodriguez -- who destroyed the videotapes of CIA interrogations in violation of multiple court orders and subpoenas only to be protected by the Obama DOJ ... ."Just because something is in the public domain doesn't mean it's been officially released or declassified by the U.S. government." (Obama, the new torturer-in-chief, always had Bush's back)

Boston Archdiocese publishes list of priests accused of abuse - The Boston Globe AG, victim groups say list has gaps - Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley yesterday released a long-awaited list of 159 archdiocesan clerics who have been accused of sexually abusing children. But critics quickly called the tally incomplete.

Section 1: Views of Obama | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Continued Dissatisfaction with Republican Field - A 37% plurality now contends that Obama should challenge the Republicans in Congress more often; 25% say Obama should go along with GOP leaders more frequently ... In April, fewer (27%) said Obama should challenge GOP congressional leaders more often.
Independents WANT Obama to fight GOP harder - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (Axlefuck was wrong, he's losing independents by pandering to his Republican daddies)
Pew: Majority Find GOP Unfavorable, But Obama's Leadership Ratings Also Drop | TPMDC very high unfavorability ratings for the Republican Party, and lower ratings on President Obama's ability to lead. (what ability?)
Obama Leadership Image Takes a Hit, GOP Ratings Decline | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press As many Americans (47%) place a higher priority on spending to help the economy recover as on reducing the budget deficit (46%). In June, 52% said reducing the deficit was the higher priority while 42% said spending to help the economy recover was the higher priority (this with overwhelming media support for reduction; when you don't lead, you find yourself following)
Tackling the Wrong Problem | FDL News Desk The President spent a large portion of his first term tackling a problem that was irrelevant to the major crisis that has been evident in the country since the first day he landed in office (instead, we got two years of Blue-dogs and President Olympia)
Despite Media Efforts, Tea Party Losing Steam | Crooks and Liars
Ron Paul pulling past Michele Bachmann in polls, Americans taking notice - Winnipeg Free Press
Political Animal - When bad governors try bad ideas - What did Scott base this on? Nothing in particular — he seemed to just make it up — but Scott was quite fond of the argument. Ninety-six percent proved to be drug free — leaving the state on the hook to reimburse the cost of their tests. +high-speed rail failure: Florida’s unemployment rate is only 10.7%. It’s not like the state needed the boost.
Arizona Lawsuit Takes Aim At Voting Rights Act | ThinkProgress
How Rick Perry Created His State's $27 Billion Budget Crisis | | AlterNet it’s important to understand his 2006 decision that wreaked havoc on his state.

FRB: Summary of Economic Projections, January 26-27, 2010 Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (the financial elites got it wrong again; where the fuck did they think the "growth" was going to come from?)
At Jackson Hole, Bernanke Tells The Nation He’ll Deliver High Unemployment For Years | ThinkProgress (the new trickle up, post-jobs future: win!)
Calculated Risk: Q2 real GDP growth revised down to 1.0% annualized rate
GDP: U.S. Economy Grows Only 1 Percent In Spring, Increasing Recession Fears
Academic Debate, Real Consequences (Wonkish) - NYTimes.com - all the fears about QE have been misplaced. The danger isn’t that it’s wildly inflationary; it is that it’s symbolic rather than real, at a time when we desperately need substance (and Obama is way short on that)
Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Poverty as 'depravity' the poor are poor because they lack virtue. If they were virtuous, after all, they would not be poor: QED.
Fox's Stuart Varney On The Poor: "Many Of Them Have Things, What They Lack Is The Richness Of Spirit" | Media Matters for America (they have a used refrigerator! no class war here)
GE’s Immelt Advises President on Jobs and Competiveness, Exports Jobs and Technology to China | Common Dreams Under Immelt, GE Cuts one-fifth of U.S. Work Force; Sells China Advanced Aerospace Tech NASA Originated (just the man Obama wanted for our new post-jobs economic future)
Wall Street firm says casinos in Bay State are not a sure bet to earn cash for state, investors from Metro Desk (only a limited number of gambling addicts; doomed from the start)

Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km beneath the Amazon | Environment | guardian.co.uk Scientists estimate the subterranean river may be 6,000km long and hundreds of times wider than the Amazon
Impact of Gulf Spill's Underwater Dispersants Is Examined - NYTimes.com
Black hole caught in act of swallowing a star - Technology & science - Space - Space.com - msnbc.com
Thousands of Nurofen Plus packets could contain anti-psychosis drugs - mirror.co.uk

The Baader-Meinhof gang lives on in Children of the Revolution | Film | guardian.co.uk Shane O'Sullivan's new film revisits the story of Germany's infamous terror group, but brings in the Japanese Red Army to offer a fresh comparison and insight into the terrorist psyche

Teens on Facebook more likely to smoke, drink, use drugs from Daily Dose
Why Mobile Phones Didn't Work After Virginia Earthquake - eWeek.com (cell phones never intended to be used during disaster)
HubPages CEO on Google's Panda algorithm: SEO doesn't work!!! | ZDNet Is Google’s Panda algorithm the end of SEO as we know it? Something is different about its latest search algorithm. And Google is minting money…

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Hurricane Irene : Tracking Map : Weather Underground

Rebels fight for control of Tripoli district - Africa - Al Jazeera English Intense fighting rages in Abu Salim neighbourhood as the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi continues.
Libya: hunt for Gaddafi - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Pro-Gaddafi forces still fighting in east, south and Tripoli • Gaddafi 'was nearly caught yesterday'
Berlusconi's Gaddafi About-Face: Italian Prime Minister Shifts Libya Stance Almost exactly a year ago, Silvio Berlusconi was throwing a party for his "friend" Moammar Gadhafi replete with Bedouin riders and a lavish dinner.

Mexico’s Drug War Refugees Rarely Secure Asylum In United States (another great Obama policy)
WikiLeaks cables reveal fears over China's nuclear safety | Environment | guardian.co.uk Cables highlight regulation weaknesses that permitted cheap, out-of-date technology, 'vastly increasing' risk of nuclear accident
US Sought “Talking Points” to Combat Impact of French Documentary on Monsanto | The Dissenter
Japanese TV host Shinsuke Shimada resigns over yakuza links | World news | The Guardian One of the country's best-known celebrities announces his retirement after admitting ties to Japan's equivalent of the mafia
Austrian father 'locked daughters in room for 41 years' | World news | The Guardian Police investigate mentally ill daughters' claims that 80-year-old father sexually abused them during decades of captivity

Government backs down on plan to shut Twitter and Facebook in crises | Media | guardian.co.uk Home Office and police reject proposals including banning suspected rioters from using social networking sites during civil unrest
Metropolitan police apply for ban on EDL march | UK news | The Guardian Home secretary asked to prohibit far-right group from marching through five London boroughs for 30 days
Riots policy warning from Lib Dem Home Office minister | UK news | guardian.co.uk Lynne Featherstone writes in her local newspaper that government must not 'jump to conclusions' in riots postmortem

Daily Kos: Hospitals seek profits in ERs, while Medicaid fights to cut use (free market at work)
Why markets can't cure healthcare - NYTimes.com
California Group Looking to Put Public Option on the Ballot | FDL Action

Elizabeth Warren Receives Major Union Endorsement Before Launching Senate Candidacy
“Does anyone here agree with the vice president?” : Lawyers, Guns & Money (Cheney loves to bomb shit)
Cheney ‘Strongly Supports’ Continued Use of Waterboarding | Video Cafe (and rack and pinion)
The fruits of elite immunity - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (pardoned by Obama's "never look backwards" at the horrible mistakes/crimes we've made/done)
News Corp Set To Air 9/11 Documentary Glorifying Bush; Producer Says He’s Not Interested In ‘Facts’ | ThinkProgress
Time to take Ron Paul seriously? - The Week Though often dismissed, the Texas libertarian polls third in a new national poll — ahead of Michele Bachmann — and is raking in money like a top-tier candidate
Cantor Says No Earthquake Disaster Relief For His Home State Unless Spending Is Cut Elsewhere | ThinkProgress (Government should not be doing disaster relief)
Rick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher Life Insurance Scheme Perry's budget men suggested they could be persuaded for the cost of a pair of shoes, according to the meeting notes ... "Precious little for what they were giving up," said the meeting attendee.
Wingnut Alert: ALIPAC Calling For a (Possibly Violent) Coup | Crooks and Liars And I didn’t say just impeachment. I said remove him from office because some people are also leaning to the words ‘treason’ and talking about the military coming in or somebody just coming in taking this guy into some form of arrest if we’re doing this
Rep. Steve Chabot Criticized By Tea Party Activists For Seizing Cameras From Democrats At Town Halls
New Hampshire Senator, Congressmen Support Removing State GOP Chairman Jack Kimball put their names behind a vote on the removal of the state party's chairman, even as the Tea Party-affiliated leader continued to defend himself ... the Chairman continues to refuse to reach out except to a very narrow group of what I consider to be radical fringe element of the Party who have overestimated their value and importance in the last election, and currently he continues to blame his predecessors and find coup[s] and conspiracies wherever he looks." (teh tea-crazies)
IN GOPer: I Just Talked About Baseball With The Young Man I Solicited On Craigslist | TPMMuckraker When asked why he arranged the encounter to begin with -- and why he used his public e-mail address -- Hinkle said. "I don't know. I'm telling you, I don't know."
Prosser: Bradley 'Made The Decision To Sensationalize' Wis. Supreme Court Chokehold Accusation | TPMMuckraker
GOP Congressman: You Think We Make A Lot? Have I Mentioned We're Getting Shot At? | TPMDC (not paid enough and his Congressional health care plan isn't that hot either)

Paul Krugman: Music For The Zero Lower Bound - NYTimes.com (Dire Straits: Money For Nothing)
Fed's $1.2 Trillion In Financial Sector Loans 'A Classic Case Of Moral Hazard' The scope of the Fed's private lending had previously only been guessed at, but figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Bloomberg News show that the nation's central banker issued loans to more than 300 institutions between August 2007 and April 2010, including over 100 loans of $1 billion or more (moral hazard=reward the law-breakers)
Obama administration takes tough stance on banks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
AP-GfK poll: Views on economy, Obama role sour - Yahoo! News (how's that minimal expectations thing working out for you?)
Banks in U.S. Face Main Street Squeeze as Sputtering Economy Saps Earnings - Bloomberg “The political class is fixated on how the banking system caused the problem in the first place and therefore how it will have to cure it in the future -- that if you get the banks working again the economy works,” said Robert B. Albertson, chief strategist at Sandler O’Neill & Partners LP in New York. “It drives me into silly laughter. It’s the other way around.” (our totally clueless, naive, bankers' boy Pres)
Eschaton: Hey A Bit Of Sense - Fix the banks, fix the world was the belief. But they never thought through (or didn't care to) the true implications of what happened, that our banking system completely failed in its supposed purpose, that the people in charge therefore have no idea what the fuck they're doing. Fix the banks, destroy the world is a more likely outcome.
U.S. May Back Mortgage Refinancing for Millions - NYTimes.com
Liberty, Equality, Austerity - NYTimes.com Sigh. France cuts growth targets, unveils austerity plan. We’re told that it is doing so because it expects slower growth — which the austerity will make even slower.
Just Plane False: NY Times Columnist Attacks NLRB For Taking Action Over Boeing's Alleged Union Busting | Media Matters for America Joe Nocera pushed a series of falsehoods about the National Labor Relations Board case against Boeing to baselessly attack Democrats' commitment to job creation (yeah, the ethically-compromised Joe Nocera)
Jobless claims in U.S. rise to 417,000 - Economic Report - MarketWatch Verizon strike inflates applications for unemployment compensation
Billions Meant for Struggling Homeowners May Pay Down Deficit Instead - ProPublica (Obama's homeowner relief was always a lie)

The downside of sex with Neanderthals | Science | guardian.co.uk Some modern humans carry immune genes that originated in Neanderthals and a related species. But these genes may have come at a price - The Neanderthals contributed up to 4% of modern Eurasian genomes, while the Denisovans contributed roughly 4-6% of modern Melanesian genomes. That doesn't happen by holding hands.
Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medical expertise report - Autism - Salon.com

Summer's almost over, and still no solar panels on White House roof | McClatchy (Obama dragging his feet)
Streetsblog Los Angeles » Interview with Donald Shoup: Los Angeles Making Strides with ExpressPark ” This is the Goldilocks Principle of parking prices.

Dog of Fallen Navy SEAL, Officer Jon Tumilson, Refuses To Leave Casket (video)

Real Wedding Album: Barbie & Ken!! (No, Really! It's Phenomenal!): Save the Date: Weddings: glamour.com

Amy Winehouse - You're Wondering Now - Lyrics - You're wondering now, what to do, now you know this is the end

Slate magazine lays off Jack Shafer, Timothy Noah - The Washington Post - Slate is owned by The Washington Post Co

082411
Libya: the fall of Tripoli - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Fighting continues, but Tripoli mostly in rebel hands • Reward and amnesty offered to find Gaddafi
Leaked Cable: McCain Promised Qaddafi To Help Secure Military Equipment From U.S. | ThinkProgress - exactly two years ago, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ), Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were in Tripoli meeting with the erratic leader and giving him assurances that relations between the nations were on the mend.
Spanish doctors told to prescribe cheaper generic drugs | World news | The Guardian Zapatero government expects £2bn yearly saving in law change limiting use of costly branded medicines
Brazilian wind power cheaper than natural gas - 24 Aug 2011 - News from BusinessGreen Cost competitiveness of renewables underlined as wind energy projects win 78 of 92 energy auctions (see, the wind belongs to everybody so this is socialism)

Tories on defensive over Coulson's income while working for party | Media | The Guardian Conservative party sources say staggered severance payments 'different from salary' (it was just a little present)
Police carry out dawn raids ahead of Notting Hill carnival | Culture | guardian.co.uk Forty arrests across London as Met adopts 'robust' strategy to avoid trouble at bank holiday event in the capital (new "pre-cog" arrests)
UK riots: the questions social media giants need to answer | Media | guardian.co.uk Social networks are to face questions from ministers over their role in the UK riots – could they do more to stop unrest? (TV stations exempted)
Man dies after Taser arrest near Bolton | World news | guardian.co.uk IPCC to investigate police use of Taser to subdue man, 53 – the third fatal arrest using stun gun or pepper spray in a week

WikiLeaks: 35,000 Diplomatic Cables To Be Released
NYPD CIA Anti-Terror Operations Conducted In Secret For Years
Terrorists for the FBI Exclusive | Mother Jones - Inside the bureau's secret network that surveils and entraps Americans (the Bush/Obama war on civil rights)

How The East Coast Earthquake Rattled Cell Service Across The Board | TPM Idea Lab (AT&T: don't expect to be able to use your phone during an emergency)
Next Generation 911 Will Support Text, Photos, Video, And Data | TechCrunch (in 5 or 10 years, meanwhile, don't try to use your phone)

The GOP will raise taxes — on the middle class and working poor - The Washington Post (of course, but never the rich; they want to RAISE the payroll tax)
Turns Out Cheney Was Never Really Vice President After All | emptywheel
The New Apostolic Reformation: The Evangelicals Engaged In Spiritual Warfare : NPR (they believe in witchcraft; this is not news)
Corporate Power Decried By Former Lawmaker "Because [corporations] have become so international and global in nature, it's highly questionable whether governments can actually control corporations to a sufficient degree to prevent them from controlling governments,"
Wall Street executives turn back on Obama, start donating to Romney - TheHill.com
Obama's Books | Mother Jones
Obama's Book Club - The Daily Beast (big fan of Tom Friedman)
The President and Fiction | ThinkProgress
'The Daily Show' Correspondents Explain The Two-Party System (video)
Michigan GOP Lawmakers Move To Limit Health Care Coverage For Public Employees (they never give up)
Perry campaign distances him from book’s call for repeal of 16th Amendment - The Plum Line - The Washington Post He called the 16th Amendment “the great milestone on the road to serfdom” because it represented “the birth of wealth redistribution in the United States.” (Republicans should never have to pay taxes)

Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy - has all gotten together, put their heads together, and cooked up a deal that would allow the banks to walk away with just a seriously discounted fine from a generation of fraud that led to millions of people losing their homes (bankers' shoe-shine boy at work: buying campaign contributions; it was always all about him)
Eschaton: The Fed Could Buy All The Debt And Then Burn It roughly speaking what happened is that the Fed gave all the Banksters a giant do-over on all of their bad bets. But the rest of us didn't get any such do-over. If they gave us a do-over, by, say, giving everyone a 30% haircut on their debts, then people would have more money to spend. But only giant mega banksters, the smartest guys in the room, the ones who destroyed the economy, get a do over. The rest of us have to suffer so that they economy can continue to be in recession. (Obama is so clueless, or stupid, or ... you decide)
It’s the household debt, stupid - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Alan Greenspan Insists That He Knows Nothing About the Economy | Beat the Press A serious news service should not be passing along such ill-informed nonsense to its readers uncorrected, except if its purpose is to point out that the person who chaired the Fed for almost two decades doesn't have a clue about the economy (and never did)
New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group Leading Foreclosure Probe Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday was kicked off the committee leading the 50-state task force charged with probing foreclosure abuses and negotiating a possible settlement agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage firms (Obama wants it all behind him so he won't have to look at it)
Florida's High-Speed Rail Money Officially Sent To Northeast Corridor
Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein Hired a Defense Lawyer -- Daily Intel - "Nervous? What would I be nervous about?" (turns out he said this after he had already hired a lawyer, heh)
Report: Raising Medicare Age Will Increase Health Costs | ThinkProgress (so lowering it would save money but that would be "socialism" and Obama, as usual, is totally on-board with stupid ideas that benefit the rich)
Zombie Idea Watch: Raising the Retirement Age | Mother Jones ("everyone is living longer" is a myth; only the rich have increased life expectancy, duh, so everyone else should work longer and die faster; another lie Obama is totally on-board with)
A Critique of Pure Gold | The National Interest

Blood pressure test changes expected to cut misdiagnoses | Society | The Guardian Roll-out of scheme that monitors patients for 24 hours could cut hypertension rates and save the NHS £10m a year
Abraham debunks Lord Monckton climate denialist 1of6 - YouTube
David Williams says Ark Encounter won’t be built, campaign still strong – FatLip
Even Non-Religious People Think Dead People Are Sort of Alive | Motherboard
University of Westminster shuts down naturopathy, nutritional therapy, but keeps Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine.
The true nature of Steiner (Waldorf) education. Mystical barmpottery at taxpayers’ expense. Part 1
Steiner Waldorf Schools Part 3. The problem of racism

For-Profit College Enrollment Plummets | ThinkProgress the empty promise of these “subprime schools” comes to light to potential students ... The Washington Post Co.’s Kaplan reports enrollment down 47 percent while large for-profit operator Corinthian Colleges Inc.’s stocks sank to an 11-year low ... The schools receive millions in taxpayer subsidies via student loans, but often deliver a sub-standard education.
The War on Drugs Is Senseless by Laurence M. Vance


Google+: The Best Thing That Could Have Happened To Facebook (And Its Users) - Something Social - HotHardware Forums

082311
Magnitude 5.8 - Virginia - 2011 August 23 17:51:04 UTC

Libya: battle for Tripoli – live blog | World news | guardian.co.uk Hundreds of rebels storming Gaddafi's compound • Fighting continues in areas of Tripoli
For Libyan rebels, forgiving Gadhafi backers could be toughest task | McClatchy

Call for inquiry into News International payments to Andy Coulson | Media | guardian.co.uk Labour MP Tom Watson wants Electoral Commission to investigate whether payments and benefits to former No 10 communications director amounted to political donations
Cameron's blind spot over Andy Coulson shows he has no eye for detail | Chris Bryant | Comment is free | The Guardian Whatever the outcome of the Coulson saga, Cameron's serial gullibility raises the question, is he fit to lead Britain? (oh please, he was just following Murdoch's orders)
Andy Coulson reportedly paid by News International when hired by Tories | Media | The Guardian Fresh questions for PM after reports Coulson received cash payments from NoW publisher until end of 2007 - it was reported that his former communications director received several hundred thousand pounds from his former employer News International after he was hired by the Conservative party (no conflict of interest there)

Riots: Metropolitan police planned to hold all suspects in custody | UK news | The Guardian leaked strategy amounts to a blanket policy of mass imprisonments and could lead to legal challenge, say lawyers (they cause the riots with austerity, use them as an excuse to get rid of rights)

Washington, D.C., is shaken by 5.9 magnitude earthquake | McClatchy
Conservatives Can't Decide If Obama Was Too Busy Golfing Or Biking To Stop The Earthquake | Media Matters for America Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft put up a post announcing, "Earthquake Rattles Washington DC - Obama Goes Biking," Matt Drudge's above-the-fold coverage of the earthquake featured a series of links about the story and a link telling readers that "Obama was on golf course..."
Hurricane Irene projected to make Carolinas landfall | McClatchy

The real grand bargain, coming undone - The Washington Post Despite all the recent talk of “grand bargains,” little attention has been paid to the unraveling of a truly grand bargain that has been at the center of public policy in the United States for more than a century (Obama's cynical amorality)
It’s a Flawed Settlement - NYTimes.com - The Obama administration has turned up the heat on Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, to go along with a proposed settlement with the nation’s largest banks over dubious foreclosure practices (same as he always was)
US-Approval - Obama | TPM PollTracker (hits 38% - how low can he go?)
KBR Wants Former Employee Who Sued Over Rape To Pay Them $2M | TPMMuckraker

Out of Control: The Destructive Power of the Financial Markets - spiegel - Three years after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the financial industry has become a threat to the global economy again. Governments missed the chance to regulate the industry, and another crash is just a matter of time.
Goldman Sachs boss hires top defence lawyer Reid Weingarten | Business | guardian.co.uk Lloyd Blankfein enlists help from Weingarten over claims that bank misled clients and Congress over financial crisis (but was he using steriods?)

National Science Foundation: No misconduct by climate scientist, case closed | McClatchy found no evidence of wrongdoing or misconduct by Penn State climate-change researcher Michael Mann (too late, already a winger talking point)
Less educated Americans turning their backs on religion While religious service attendance has decreased for all white Americans since the early 1970s, the rate of decline has been more than twice as high for those without college degrees compared to those who graduated from college ... "Our study suggests that the less educated are dropping out of the American religious sector, similarly to the way in which they have dropped out of the American labor market ... modern religious institutions tend to promote a family-centered morality that valorizes marriage and parenthood, and they embrace traditional middle-class virtues such as self-control, delayed gratification, and a focus on education.
N.C.'s Zinfandel Pharmaceuticals to lead Alzheimer's clinical trials | McClatchy Zinfandel is gearing up for clinical trials designed to demonstrate that Takeda's drug Actos - a prescription medicine for diabetes - can delay the onset of Alzheimer's.
Today's Feature: Is Earth's DNA Unique or a Universal Constant? "the twenty-one chosen by known life do not constitute a unique set; other choices could have been made, and maybe were made if life started elsewhere many times."
Coming Soon: Superman’s Memory Crystals | GeekDad | Wired.com scientists are trying to unlock the data storage capabilities of glass. The process has resulted in a storage capacity of 50 GB (the equivalent of a Blu-ray Disc) on a slice of glass about the size of a mobile phone screen.
Cancer research in 'golden era', says charity chief | Science | The Guardian Harpal Kumar believes 'explosion' in understanding of the disease could revolutionise treatment and reduce cost of drugs

Privacy and Security Fanatic: Future TSA: Track All 'Daily Travels To Work, Grocery Stores & Social Events' (Obama ramping up his Totle Security Administration)
DHS Announces Racial Profiling Free-For-All This Sept. 11 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source , Napolitano called on Americans to take note of anyone who looked different from themselves and either report such persons to authorities or "just take them down yourself."

FCC officially kills Fairness Doctrine, wiping it from rules - The Hill's Hillicon Valley (obsoleted by Fair and Balanced Fox News)
The darkness at the heart of Anonymous | Technology | guardian.co.uk Since LulzSec grabbed the media spotlight, the broader Anonymous collective has no clear idea of what it wants

Digital music locker providers do not infringe copyright, US court rules | Technology | guardian.co.uk Google and Amazon boosted by ruling that MP3Tunes.com is not responsible for potential infringements by its users

082211
/ US Military Intervention in Libya Cost At Least $896 Million - Political Punch
Who can unite Libya if Gaddafi falls? | Reuters Libyan rebel Husam Najjair seems more concerned about the possibility of rebels turning on each other when they try to take control of the capital Tripoli than the threat posed by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya: rebel forces reach heart of Tripoli - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Vast majority of Tripoli under rebel control • Fierce fighting continues in Libyan capital
Defiant Assad addresses Syria on TV as UN arrives in Damascus | World news | The Guardian President dismisses calls for resignation in fourth televised address since revolt began and says forces making gains
What passes as sage advice in Washington - Blog - The Arabist The mind-boggling stupidity of neo-cons is on display again in this recent piece by Michael Rubin, arguing that the US should impose the kind of electoral system Egypt should use ... this argument is really not about Egypt. It's about finding a new angle from which to bash the Obama administration
Fukushima disaster: residents may never return to radiation-hit homes | World news | The Guardian Japanese government will admit for first time that radiation levels will be too high to allow many evacuees to return home
Human rights group condemns jailing of US hikers in Iran | World news | The Guardian Amnesty International says eight-year jail sentences for Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal make a 'mockery of justice'
Hurricane Irene heads toward Hispaniola and US Hurricane Irene cut power to more than a million people in Puerto Rico, downing trees and flooding streets on Monday, and forecasters warned it could be a major storm as it threatens Florida and South Carolina by the end of the week.

Wiki war: 3500 unpublished leaks destroyed forever as Assange hits out Along with the thousands of files, Domscheit-Berg also took the entire Wikileaks encrypted submission system with him on his way out to start a rival site, OpenLeaks. It has resulted in WikiLeaks being unable to receive leaked documents online for a year - n addition to the US no-fly list, neo-Nazi material and Bank of America data, which was tipped to reveal serious corrupt practices at the bank, Domscheit-Berg also destroyed information on US intercept arrangements for over 100 internet companies, WikiLeaks said (that's what happened to the BoA files: shredded)

UK riots were product of consumerism and will hit economy, says City broker | Business | The Guardian Analyst's report points to 'deeply flawed social ethos' and calls for a shift of emphasis 'from material to non-material values' (let them eat air)
Louise Mensch claims Anonymous and LulzSec threatened her children | Politics | guardian.co.uk Corby MP alleges hacking groups have warned her off using Twitter via email and says she has reported incident to the police
CNN's Kurtz: "I Think It's Now Fair To Accuse Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Of A Cover-Up" | Media Matters for America (Howie states the obvious)

DSK Case Likely To Be Dropped By NY DA: Report

Locked Up Abroad—for the FBI | Mother Jones Inside the feds' secret program to have American citizens detained and interrogated by foreign governments (Obama secret torture program for American citizens)
U.S. aid implicated in abuses of power in Colombia - The Washington Post have implicated American aid, and possibly U.S. officials, in egregious abuses of power and illegal actions by the Colombian government under the guise of fighting terrorism and drug smuggling (those are always the excuses)

GOP Presidential Candidates Respond To Fall Of Qaddafi By Refusing To Credit Obama | ThinkProgress “[Obama] is an abject failure in his constitutional duty” to protect America. “His foreign policy seems to be based on the alienation of traditional allies,” Perry added. Of course, it was the traditional American allies of the U.K. and France with whom U.S. primarily conducted the Libya intervention.
The Thomases vs. Obama’s Health-Care Plan : The New Yorker: Partners: Will Clarence and Virginia Thomas succeed in killing Obama’s health-care plan? (no conflict of interest here)
GOP: No tax hikes -- except for the poor - How the World Works - Salon.com The new Republican line: Workers should pay more, while the rich pay less
Scott Brown Targeted In 'Bobble Head' Attack Ad (VIDEO) "Scott Brown promised to be an independent voice for Massachusetts," says a narrator in the spot from MassUniting. "But instead, we got 'Bobble Head Brown,'
Kansas farmers wary as Congress eyes farm subsidies cuts | McClatchy federal farm subsidies, which totaled more than $15 billion nationally and nearly $1 billion in Kansas in 2010 (they got what they voted for)

how-much-stock-should-older-investors-hold-reuters: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance - 40 to 60 percent of their portfolios in equities.
Spending Cuts Preferred Over Tax Increases By Economists: Survey - nearly 49 percent of those responding said the country's fiscal policy should be more restrictive, while nearly 37 percent said they believe the government should do more to stimulate the economy.
Schneiderman Is Said to Face Pressure to Back Bank Deal - NYTimes.com embroiled in a contentious conversation with Kathryn S. Wylde, a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who represents the public. Ms. Wylde, who has criticized Mr. Schneiderman for bringing the lawsuit ("the public" = Mellon Bank; Obama wants to put it all behind him)
Ratings agencies suffer 'conflict of interest', says former Moody's boss | Business | The Guardian William Harrington attacks agencies for being paid by banks and companies they are supposed to rate objectively
Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Fed Loans - Bloomberg (your transparent Pres and his secret bankers' welfare program)
Bloomberg FOIA Request Reveals $1.2 Trillion in Secret Fed Loans | FDL News Desk

Breakthrough could lead to effective treatment for ALS | McClatchy Researchers say they found a common cause behind the mysterious and deadly affliction of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, that could lead to an effective treatment.

As Farmers’ Markets Boom, Some See a Glut in the Making - NYTimes.com (Massachusetts farmers' market bubble)
Store Bread at Room Temperature, Not in the Fridge, for Six Times the Freshness

No Surprise for Bisexual Men - Report Indicates They Exist - NYTimes.com
Small-town America — the myth and the reality | McClatchy "Rural America remains the cradle of our national creation myth," wrote "Methland" author Nick Reding. "But it has become something else, too — something more sinister and difficult to define."
Obama Shakes Hands - Fresh Prince Style - YouTube

Know Your Network, Lesson 5: Bonus Features and Further Resources (guest network)
Shortcut Of The Day stories - Lifehacker
Google+ Gets a “+1? for Browser Security | The Barracuda Labs Internet Security Blog
[Infographic] Google Wages War on Spam | SEO.com

082111
Syrian forces storm Homs as Assad defies international calls to step down | World news | guardian.co.uk Residents of Syria's third city report gunfire in a prison and hospital, and fear a full-scale assault as tanks mass outside
Egyptian protesters reject Israel's "regrets" over deadly border clash | McClatchy Fifty-four percent of Egyptians favor annulling the longstanding peace treaty with Israel
Beck Lies About His Attack On Israeli Protesters | Media Matters for America
Glenn Beck's Caliphate Comes To Israel | Media Matters for America . According to Beck, the massive throng of protesters was "a leftist group" with "leftist global financing," and it is entirely likely that an "Islamist movement" had joined them
Libya, Syria and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Tripoli calm as Gaddafi says 'rats' have been repelled • Rebels claim it is 'zero hour' for Gaddafi as they tighten noose
Kashmir unmarked graves hold thousands of bodies | World news | The Guardian Three-year inquiry says remains of 2,156 people found along Indian side of disputed border - One frequent accusation is that Indian security forces in Kashmir have killed innocent civilians in staged gun battles and passed them off as separatist militants to earn rewards and promotions

Media Matters ' Eric Boehlert On CNN International: News Corp. "Is Now Synonymous With Lawbreaking" | Media Matters for America
Arrested  NOTW  Editor Says He's A "Victim" | Media Matters for America
Phone Hacks: A Guide To The News Corp. Scandal | Media Matters for America a list of arrests, convictions, firings, suspensions, and resignations that have occurred during the scandal.

David Cameron and Tony Blair clash over cause of riots | UK news | The Guardian PM's claim of moral decline is 'highfalutin wail', says ex-Labour leader who blames riots on minority of alienated young
UK riots: nearly 2,000 arrested so far, say police | UK news | guardian.co.uk Scotland Yard confirms over 1,000 people charged with offences in connection with rioting while 3,000 offences recorded overall
Teenager cleared of setting fire to Miss Selfridge during Manchester riots | UK news | guardian.co.uk Dane Williamson now suffering panic attacks after his flat was burned and he was subjected to abuse while on remand (no consequences for cop abuse)

Huntsman: 'The Minute The Republican Party Becomes The Anti-Science Party, We Have A Huge Problem' | Crooks and Liars I can't remember a time in our history where we actually were willing to shun science and become a - a party that - that was antithetical to science. I'm not sure that's good for our future and it's not a winning formula (Republicans: the Contrafactual Party)
The Problem with American Politics, in Two Parts | Firedoglake Meanwhile, the legacy media continue to cast the Blue Dog Obama as the “liberal” and these Teabirchers as “conservative” — and lament the fact that “extremists on both sides” are making it impossible for the parties to find a way to “compromise.” Is it any wonder we are where we are?
Obama Jobs Plan Meets Early Resistance From Republicans ... many fired-up Republicans are already preparing to reject whatever the President puts on the table. (Obama's conservative programs not the right kind of conservative programs)
Elijah Cummings: Obama Needs To 'Fight Harder,' African-Americans 'Totally Frustrated' (not the only ones)
Why 'Constitutional Conservatives' Like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry Have No Respect for the Constitution | Civil Liberties | AlterNet t's ironic that those claiming fealty to the constitution habitually thumb their noses at its most sacred principle - the separation of powers (Christian state! Christian law!)
Rick Perry: Outflanking George W. Bush on the Far Right - The Daily Beast Liberals called George W. Bush a simpleton, but as Michael Tomasky argues, he was deeply informed compared with Rick Perry, who seems to delight in demonstrating his ignorance (idiocracy)
Rick Perry’s Donors Reap Benefits From Texas State Aid - NYTimes.com “Texas politics does have this amazing pay-to-play culture,” said Harold Cook, a Democratic political consultant ... Perry has raised at least $17 million from more than 900 appointees or their spouses, roughly one dollar out of every five that he has raised as governor. (corrupt)
Conservatives, Nostalgia, And Racism | The New Republic how racially insensitive does one have to be to prefer an America with segregation because he or she saw other advantages to 1950s society? What possibly could outweigh the disgusting racial status quo of the 1950s (racist teaparty bigots and their enablers and apologists)
How Dinesh D’Souza Is Shaping an Army of Christian Intellectuals at King’s College -- New York Magazine Dinesh D’Souza, the new president of the city’s only Evangelical college, wants to build a “Christian A-team.” But can the man who says Obama supports radical Muslims persuade students to follow him? (Dinesh D'Stupid)

Maxine Waters On Jobs, Unemployment: 'The Tea Party Can Go Straight To Hell' With California's jobless rate now 12 percent, the second-highest rate of unemployment in the nation after Nevada
Social Security Disability Program Pushed To Brink Of Insolvency The trustees who oversee Social Security are urging Congress to shore up the disability system by reallocating money from the retirement program, just as lawmakers did in 1994. That would provide only short-term relief at the expense of weakening the retirement program.
Long-term unemployment wreaks mental toll on jobless | McClatchy
For young 'Millennials,' an American Dream deferred | McClatchy (forever)

Vietnam's rice bowl threatened by rising seas | Environment | The Guardian Climate change is turning rivers of Mekong Delta salty, spelling disaster for millions of poor farmers
BBC News - Species flee warming faster than previously thought ("just a theory")
Monsanto and the mortal danger to traditional agriculture | Featured |Axisoflogic.com
Feinstein: “Service members continue to receive drug linked to permanent brain damage” | The Dissenter - Mefloquine - all in-coming prisoners at Guantanamo were administered large doses of this drug, beginning in January 2002.

America's serious crime rate is plunging, but why? | World news | The Guardian Sociologists have offered explanations including abortion laws, a fall in crack use and – most contentiously – longer sentences - "We now incarcerate four times as many people as we did 20 years ago"

082011
Libyan rebels close in amid reports of fierce fighting in Tripoli | World news | guardian.co.uk Explosions and gunfire shake Libyan capital as residents say anti-Gaddafi protesters have taken to the streets
Qaddafi Rule Collapsing as Rebels Take Brega, Zlitan | Informed Comment
Abdel-Salam Jalloud defection increases pressure on Gaddafi | World news | guardian.co.uk Libyan rebels claim regime is crumbling following flight of third senior official
Suicide bomber kills at least 47 in Pakistan | Reuters A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers offering Friday prayers at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 70, a top government official said.
Ehud Barak says Israel regrets Egypt deaths | World news | guardian.co.uk Israeli defence minister forced to apologise following last Thursday's cross-border attack in which the soldiers died
German Pirate Party On Course to Election Win | TorrentFreak

England's riots shouldn't be blamed on 'moral decline', says Tony Blair | UK news | The Observer Former prime minister gives verdict on unrest and says that politicians are 'missing the point' talking about a broken society
Looting with the lights on | Naomi Klein | Comment is free | The Guardian We keep hearing England's riots weren't political – but looters know that their elites have been committing daylight robbery (all the bankers walked in UK, just like US)
Riots: fears over violence as prison population swells to record level | UK news | guardian.co.uk Email from 'gold commander' warns governors to take steps to ensure safety of rioters remanded in custody for first time
Riot footage shows shots fired at police and helicopter | UK news | guardian.co.uk Attempted murder investigation launched after CCTV footage of Birmingham riot shows unarmed officers and a police helicopter being shot at

Phone hacking: media face 'blackout' on any hacking trials as detective is held - Telegraph ... any trials are likely to be delayed until the spring of 2013 as detectives sift through thousands of documents (but it takes 10 seconds to send a rioter to jail)
Milly Dowler phone hackers 'used more than one voicemail' | Media | The Observer Report suggests News of the World had details of more messages left on murdered schoolgirl's phone than first thought

Krugman and the Firebaggers: Hippie Punching Department Obama is guilty of sheer cynical amorality in utterly abandoning both policy and the political future of the Democratic Party,
American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth | Solutions (Republicans happily destroying America since Reagan)
Our Politics Are Sick - NYTimes.com Yet the most troubling thing about Perry (and Michele Bachmann and so many more), what’s new and strange and epidemic in mainstream politics, is the degree to which people inhabit their own Manichaean make-believe worlds. They totally believe their vivid fictions ... It’s now considered reasonable to regard organs and limbs of the federal government — the E.P.A., the education department, the Federal Reserve — as tumors that must be removed. Taxation itself is now considered a parasitic pathogen rather than a crucial part of our social organism. (what used to be called "delusional")
Of the Tea Party, by the Tea Party, for the Tea Party | The Great Debate
Political Animal - GOP condemns Obama immigration breakthrough (Obama wakes up and realizes he's lost the Latino vote)
Tensions rise as Latinos feel under siege in America's deep south | World news | The Observer As illegal workers flee the threat of police checks, southerners are uniting to fight the laws dividing communities and killing economies which rely on immigrants to thrive
Immigration Attorney Calls Out Fox's Repeated Use Of Loaded "Illegals" Slur | Media Matters for America

Tampa 2012: How likely is a brokered convention for Republicans? - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine It's never too early to hope for a brokered convention!
A Paul Ryan Campaign? Are Republicans Out Of Their Minds? | The New Republic
Huntsman: "I Wouldn't Necessarily Trust Any Of My Opponents Right Now" On The Economy | TPMDC Last week Huntsman tweeted his take, "To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy."
Rick Perry Knocks Evolution Again: 'God Is How We Got Here'
GOP Presidential Candidates At Odds Even With Tea Party On EPA Hatred "They are catering to a small segment of Republican electorate,”
Let The Games Begin!: Republican Presidential Hopefuls Descend On Iowa For Ames Straw Poll | TPM Media A Ron Paul supporter holds a sign, saying "Ron Paul is the Constitution."
Mitt Romney Thinks This Is a Great Talking Point | Firedoglake Just because businesses are made of people, doesn’t mean they are people.
World of Class Warfare - Warren Buffett vs. Wealthy Conservatives - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/18/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Tony Fratto’s Post Office Field Trip | emptywheel (Republicans want to destroy Postal Service because -they- use email and helicopters)
Great Moments in PR Comedy, Starring Rick Perry and the B of A - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic "Bank of America. We'll help you out." Act Two, the beauty part. Lawrence Di Rita, formerly known as head spokesman for Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, is now the spokesman for Bank of America (in case you wondered what happened to that lying hack)
Fla. Gov. Scott's transition email accounts deleted, state says | McClatchy erasing public records that state law requires be kept ... deleted the records as early as mid-January, about the time the Herald/Times first sought transition emails (just a coincidence, and someone forgot to do backups)
Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Think We Should Prepare For Alien Invasion Before Fighting Climate Change | ThinkProgress

Nervous investors go for gold as panic grips stock markets | Business | The Guardian Jittery traders focus on 'safe haven' investments as collapsing shares fuel panic at the exchanges
How about a `super committee’ that focuses on jobs? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post By Greg Sargent (Obama hates all jobs but his own)
Austerity Is the Wrong Idea - NYTimes.com Yet, even at this hour, leaders on both sides of the Atlantic seem determined to handcuff fiscal policies — the main tools that can increase jobs, consumer demand and economic growth — with an unquestioning devotion to rigid austerity (faith-based failure)
The Kudlow Report - Fed's Richard Fisher: Washington Must Do More For Economy - CNBC
After a two-year rebound, recession risks rise - latimes.com (the "mythical" double-dip zombie is coming to eat the economy)
SEC may have destroyed documents, senator says - MarketWatch Grassley: Agency may have got rid of Goldman, Madoff documents
Moody's Analyst Breaks Silence: Says Ratings Agency Rotten To Core With Conflicts
Whistleblower Pulls Away Moody’s Mask of Objective Analysis | Firedoglake

Chronic fatigue syndrome researchers face death threats from militants | Society | The Observer Scientists are subjected to a campaign of abuse and violence

Bill McKibben and the Largest Act of Civil Disobedience in American History | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion Tar Sands: A Modern Eco-Disaster
New evidence emerges that oil is being produced at former Deepwater Horizon site - Tallahassee Environmental News | Examiner.com BP has denied any knowledge of such a leak and has instead focused media attention on two previously capped wells
US judges rule for teacher who called creationism 'superstitious nonsense' - CSMonitor.com Did hostile classroom remarks about creationism violate the mandate that the government remain neutral on religion? An appeals court says the teacher has immunity from being sued.
John Baer: Maybe Hershey foreign workers are all-day suckers | Philadelphia Daily News | 08/20/2011 (boycott Hershey)

Missouri Teachers Sue State Over Facebook Ban - St. Louis News - Daily RFT - "The social media aspect comes in because we're finding that it's an early pathway to sexual misconduct." (always the excuse)
Apple's Worth Equals that of all Euro Zone Banks | AllThatIsApple (no bubble here)
The Five Most Gonzo Stories About Hunter S. Thompson | Nerve.com Terrorizing Jack Nicholson, nearly blowing up Johnny Depp, and more.

Revenge Of The Killer Script Kiddies! | TechCrunch (BART stored plain-text passwords, hacked by bored teenage French girls with a bone to pick)
Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Vanguard Defense Industries Hacked By 'Anonymous' Texas-based defense and aerospace firm says one of its top officials has had his email account broken into by the hacking group Anonymous ... messages have been stolen from the private Gmail account of Richard T. Garcia, a former FBI agent who now works as the company's senior vice president (idiot never heard of phishing)
Facebook 'Like' Button Declared Illegal In Germany ... "Whoever visits facebook.com or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years," Weichert said. "Facebook builds a broad individual and for members even a personalized profile."
Numbered: The Week's Must-See Tech Stats
Google+ Rolls Out Verified Profiles, Still Struggles With Real-Name Policy | TechCrunch

081911
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024 - Telegraph (infinity war)
Kabul attack: Taliban in six-hour gun battle at British compound | World news | The Guardian
Turkish PM visits famine-hit Somalia and calls on west to do more | World news | guardian.co.uk Recep Tayyip Erdogan describes the crisis as a 'litmus test' for humanity as he visits a refugee camp in Mogadishu with his wife
Syria continues crackdown despite Assad's assurances to UN | World news | The Guardian Activists say that at least 13 people have been killed by Syrian security forces as thousands protest in the streets
Tripoli facing three-sided advance by Libyan rebels | World news | The Guardian Capital faces onslaught from south, east and west as rebel commanders say they are within grasp of taking control
Corruption in India: 'All your life you pay for things that should be free' | World news | The Guardian As Anna Hazare leaves prison to continue his protest, residents in Delhi explain how bribery forms part of everyday life
Shell stops North Sea leak after 10 days | Environment | guardian.co.uk Scottish government launches investigation into safety procedures after worst oil spill in UK waters for a decade

Windfarms prevent detection of secret nuclear weapon tests, says MoD | Environment | guardian.co.uk Plans for hundreds of wind turbines have been blocked over claims that vibrations will interfere with recording station (listening for nuke test comes first)
Shell stops North Sea leak after 10 days | Environment | guardian.co.uk Scottish government launches investigation into safety procedures after worst oil spill in UK waters for a decade

Phone hacking: Met police detective arrested | Media | guardian.co.uk "The MPS [Met] takes the unauthorised disclosure of information extremely seriously and has acted swiftly in making these arrests."
Riot sentencing: courting trouble | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian Nothing so alarms the British legal imagination as the spectre of disorder, as our courts seem to be demonstrating
Riots: Mother jailed for handling looted shorts freed on appeal | UK news | guardian.co.uk Ursula Nevin slept through riots in Manchester but was jailed after accepting a pair of shorts looted by a friend
Glenn Mulcaire ordered to reveal who told him to hack phones | Media | The Guardian Steve Coogan leads battle to reveal whether News of the World ordered hacking of Elle MacPherson and five other public figures
UK Uncut activists plead not guilty to Fortnum & Mason charges | UK news | The Guardian Seventeen anti-tax avoidance activists singled out by CPS for prosecution deny aggravated trespass during March protest
The right has chosen its scapegoat – the single mum. And she will bleed | Comment is free | The Guardian The danger of the single woman and the threat she poses to civilisation is an ancient narrative ... This is the language of sadism; in fact, they all sound like Grand Inquisitors or Witchfinder Generals from Clapham

A prime aim of the growing Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old copyright reform advocate who was arrested in July (Obama's security state doing real evil, shows you where he's coming from)
Tomgram: David Bromwich, George W. Obama? | TomDispatch
Report: ICE Took Action Against Illegal Immigrants After Traffic Violations, Loitering | TPMMuckraker (Obama is a liar, as usual)
Countdown Names Critic of "Krugman and the Firebaggers" a Worst Person in the World | MyFDL
Americans' Satisfaction With National Conditions Dips to 11%

Do we need another dumb Texan for president? : Pharyngula - D in economics. F in organic chemistry. C in AMERICAN HISTORY. C in GYM (intelligence is not a quality Republicans want)
Former Reagan Official: 'Rick Perry's An Idiot' | TPMDC
Karl Rove: He Created Rick Perry -- Now Can He Stop Him? The Perry-Rove story is shaping up as the ultimate tale of dangerously unintended consequences, with Rove in the role of Dr. Frankenstein and Perry as his living, rampaging political creation.
Did Rick Perry Turn Texas Public Schools Into Creationism Indoctrination Centers? | TPMDC
Texas Tax System Heavily Burdens Poor Residents
Bachmann Charity Work: Christian And Controversial The winner of the Iowa Republican Straw Poll has never released her income tax returns, nor has she been known to have acknowledged making a single charitable contribution.

Get Ready for 2012 Social Security, Medicare Changes - Yahoo! Finance
social-security-annual-report-marketwatch: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance Social Security is a major source of income for older Americans
Jon Stewart Highlights Conservative Hypocrisy On 'Class Warfare' (video) | TPM LiveWire

A Second Great Depression, or Worse? - Yahoo! Finance Simon Johnson,
Stock markets are walloped by another sell-off as fears of recession build - The Washington Post
Wall Street opens lower on recession concerns - Yahoo! Finance

Rutherford Mansfield - Police pontificate as Montrealer threatens to murder science journalists
Wait, what if idiocy is blood-borne? : Pharyngula anthropologists believe that type AB blood did not originate until 900-1000 years ago and came into existence when eastern Mongolian invaders overran the last of European civilization
Blood Type Diet FAQ | Owen Foundation Website
The Crazy Evolution of a Universal Blood Type : NPR

Chicago police must pay 330k for killing dog in home raid | The Lookout - Yahoo! News (finally)
Did Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Break Up Over Scientology? - AOL Music Blog Now, a source tells the Daily Mail that the duo split due to Jennifer Lopez's alleged commitment to Scientology.

Crank who targeted science writers lured into threatening police

081811
Missing Money | Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - Los Angeles Times U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war (Cheney's Swiss Bank account?)
Israel launches Gaza air strikes in retaliation for Eilat attacks | World news | guardian.co.uk Up to six Palestinians killed during assault on Rafah hours after attack in southern Israel leaves at least seven dead
Obama: Syrian President Assad Must Step Down (getting tough)
Norway Attacks: Anders Behring Breivik Called Authorities Twice And Hung Up During Shooting, Police Say calling to surrender during the shooting at a youth camp on Utoya island, police said Thursday.
Libya rebels jubilant as they secure grip on Tripoli's oil line | World news | The Guardian Rebels in Zawiyah celebrate milestone of control over crucial oil refinery and coastal highway
Storm at Belgium's Pukkelpop music festival kills three after stage collapses | World news | guardian.co.uk Pukkelpop music festival in Belgium hit by storm. Three die when stage collapses and more than 70 are injured across site
Police say Japanese have returned $78 million in missing cash after quake | The Lookout - Yahoo! News ... Thousands of missing wallets contained $48 million in cash (average Japanese wallet contained 25-50 grand)

England's rioters: did many 'pillars of the community' take part? | UK news | The Guardian While cases involving professionals hit the front pages, only 8.9% of defendants either had jobs or were studying
England rioters: young, poor and unemployed | UK news | The Guardian Guardian data project reveals link between economic hardship and those taking part in last week's riots ("criminal gangs")

John Major wanted two-party alliance to take on Rupert Murdoch | Politics | guardian.co.uk Chris Mullin's diaries reveal that former prime minister wanted Labour and Tories to unite to bring down tycoon's empire ... Major disliked Murdoch ever since receiving Kelvin MacKenzie's "bucket of shit" threat after Black Wednesday in 1992 and, when he was prime minister, at one stage considered banning foreigners from owning British newspapers.
Britain is in last chance saloon, says Iain Duncan Smith | Politics | guardian.co.uk Former Conservative leader says riots were not crisis, but warns that 'crisis is coming'
News International 'did not order redaction of phone-hacking letter' | Media | guardian.co.uk Law firm writes to select committee chairman saying sections were removed not to cover up the truth, but on police advice
Phone hacking: News of the World Hollywood reporter is arrested | Media | guardian.co.uk James Desborough arrested by police investigating UK hacking allegations, while Glenn Mulcaire sues News International ... If Desborough was involved in hacking while in Britain, it raises the question of whether he practised those techniques in the US – and if so, whether he was the first and only News of the World journalist in the US to do so.
Phone hacking: Leslie Ash settles with NoW but may sue other papers | Media | guardian.co.uk Actor and her husband, Lee Chapman, understood to have accepted 'healthy six-figure sum' over alleged phone hacking ... we will be instructing our lawyer, Charlotte Harris of Mishcon De Reya, to take action against other newspapers in due course."
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire sues News of the World publisher | Media | guardian.co.uk Private investigator takes legal action against News International to force firm to pay his legal bills
A life unravelled … whistleblower who incurred wrath of the Murdoch empire | Media | The Guardian Relentless legal pursuit of ex-News Corp employee likened to 'Rambo tactics'

As Defense Industry Lobbies Against Cuts, Rhetoric Overshoots Reality "American leadership in aerospace and defense is being threatened by forces in Congress and the administration."
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: Pentagon's Scare Campaign Based on Budget Spin, Not Facts
Obama v. Bush on power over Congress - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the myth of the "weak Presidency" as an explanation of Obama's powerlessness and complete lack of leadership)

Obama to issue new proposals on job creation, debt reduction - The Washington Post (pivoting so fast he's spinning in circles)
Does Obama camp see upside in pissing off the left? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post Obama advisers get angry when they think liberal critics are refusing to accept the limits placed on him by current political realities, and when lefties presume at the outset that Obama will inevitably sell out (because that never happened)
'Unleash Us' - WSJ.com If Obama has lost Maxine Waters, he's lost Middle America.
Score one for the professional left - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post Paul Krugman is one op-ed columnist. Firedog Lake is one Web site. They have readers. But they are not the state of Ohio
BREAKING: Obama Administration To Conduct Case-By-Case Review Of Active Deportations | ThinkProgress - a new process to review all 300,000 active deportation cases to ensure that they are consistent with the nation’s enforcement priorities (300K brown terrorists in America will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis; Obama says they don't vote anyway)
Hartmann: Ron Paul...He Who Shall Not Be Named - YouTube (you can't be anti-Zionist in America)
Rick Perry: Evolution is 'theory' with 'gaps' (you know who else has some gaps?)
Rick Perry: Evolution A Theory That's Out There (video)
Rick Perry: Evolution Is A Myth And Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Illegal | The New Civil Rights Movement (too extreme for America?)
Perry's skepticism over global warming strikes a nerve | McClatchy - He also described former Vice President Al Gore as a "false prophet of a secular carbon cult" and Gore's work on climate change as a "contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight."
Rick Perry: Climate Scientists 'Manipulated Data' (VIDEO) telling a New Hampshire business crowd that scientists have cooked up the data on global warming for the cash.
Perry Points to ‘Idiotic’ U.S. Rule That Doesn’t Exist - Washington Wire - WSJ
Elizabeth Warren Launches Exploratory Committee For Possible Senate Run Against Scott Brown
The Buckeye State Gives the Koch Agenda A Big Black Eye
Michele Bachmann Is Not a Doctor | Mother Jones …But she played one on TV. The story behind the Minnesota congresswoman's bogus "Dr." claim.
Tom Coburn Blasts Congress Over Debt Ceiling Deal, Makes Controversial Remarks About Obama "It's just a good thing I can't pack a gun on the Senate floor," Coburn said ... "as an African-American male," received "tremendous advantage" from government programs (all blacks receive "tremendous advantages")
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs VP Changed His Name, Now Advances Goldman Lobbying Interests As Top Staffer To Darrell Issa | ThinkProgress
Piers Morgan: Christine O'Donnell Walkout Was 'Extraordinary' "It's interesting how politicians these days...feel like they should only be asked about what they want to talk about," Cooper said.
Opinion: California moves national popular vote closer - Rob Richie and Joe Sroka and Neal Suidan - POLITICO.com
w Rush Limbaugh's "Or-Bam-eo" Slur | Media Matters for America (Satan's minion doing what he does best)

AFP: US bond yields hit record low on recession fears (Atrios: zombie unicorns ate the invisible bond vigilantes)
Wall Street Sell-Off: Stocks Plunge As More Signs Of Economic Weakness Emerge The Dow Jones industrial average fell 419 points – a return to the wild swings that gripped the stock market last week.
Inflation Expectations Falling, Will Narayana Kocherlakota Admit He Was Wrong? | ThinkProgress The hawks on the Fed appear to have decided that the unofficial target of 2 percent that the Fed used in the 1990s and 2000s was too high and that they want to push inflation down to maybe 1.5 percent.
The Domino Effect of Europe Bank Woes - Yahoo! Finance
Is This Lehman Again? No, But It Sure Feels Like It - Yahoo! Finance . On trading floors, though, the Lehman denials carried less weight, sending the major averages down as much as 4 percent just as a relief rally inspired hopes that perhaps the worst of the two-month slide was over.
Economist: Debt Is Good (audio) James Galbraith tells NPR that government debt and federal deficits are good things that create jobs and help the economy recover.
Los Angeles Downgraded By Standard & Poor's, City Drops Credit Rating Agency
Recession pushes more in D.C. area to live with relatives - The Washington Post
S.E.C. Illegally Destroyed Documents, Whistle-Blower Alleges - NYTimes.com The document disposal, which was first reported by Rolling Stone magazine on Wednesday


Woman sues camp where Scott Brown says he was abused from Metro Desk is claiming in a lawsuit that she was repeatedly raped by a janitor at the camp, and that camp officials did nothing to protect her.
Parents’ Minor Marijuana Arrests Lead to Child Neglect Cases - NYTimes.com The police had reported her arrest to the state’s child welfare hot line, and city caseworkers quickly arrived and took the children away (for 10 grams of pot)
Foreign Students in Work Visa Program Stage Walkout at Plant - NYTimes.com that packs Hershey’s chocolates, saying a summer program that was supposed to be a cultural exchange had instead turned them into underpaid labor ... many of them were not earning nearly enough to recover what they had spent in their home countries to obtain their visas (Hershey's new summer intern slave-labor program)
Texas Drought 2011: Town Teeters On Drying Up the nearly 500 water systems statewide now under some mandatory restrictions appear unprecedented.
Pastor Zachery Tims, Found Dead In Times Square Hotel, Allegedly Had Drugs "After Dr. Tims was miraculously saved, instantly delivered from drug addiction, and called into ministry, he determined to make his young life count by simultaneously earning two Bachelor’s degrees." ... There was an envelope filled with white powder allegedly inside his shorts
Jury Sees Video Of Jessica Beagley, Alaska Mother, Forcing Hot Sauce Into 7-Year-Old Boy's Mouth (spare the sauce, spoil the child; Christians at work)

HP Discontinues webOS Handsets, Touchpad, and Entire Ecosystem - SlashGear

081711
UK development secretary warns 400,000 children could die in Somalia | Mark Tran | Global development | guardian.co.uk On a visit to Somalia, Andrew Mitchell announces £25m extra UK aid and issues grim warning on impact of famine and conflict
Anna Hazare protests grow as Indian officials seek compromise | World news | guardian.co.uk Anti-corruption campaigner refuses to leave prison despite release warrant
Gaddafi troops fight to maintain positions in strategic city of Zawiyah | World news | The Guardian Tripoli under threat as regime forces struggle to hold on and rebels claim they have cut oil supply to capital
Terror suspect claims abuse by British officer | Law | The Guardian Man claims he was kidnapped in Kenya and driven across border to Uganda where he was abused by British and US interrogators
Merkel and Sarkozy Endorse Coordination and Balanced Budgets - NYTimes.com
Scandals tarnish Citibank’s image in Indonesia - The Washington Post The 50-year-old businessman,?invited to a Citibank office in Jakarta in late March, collapsed in a tiny room set aside by the U.S. bank for questioning of deadbeat debtors. He died shortly afterward — a casualty of a “harsh interrogation,”
Argentina: Judge orders all ISPs to block the sites LeakyMails.com and Leakymails.blogspot.com - Global Voices Advocacy

London riots: police confirm over 1,000 charged | UK news | guardian.co.uk Met police chief Tim Godwin hails 'significant milestone' though target of 3,000 convictions leaves operation far from over
England riots: will harsher sentences act as a deterrent? | Alan Travis | UK news | The Guardian Strong social ties are a more effective deterrent than the prospect of severe punishment (four years for leaving message on Facebook to incite riots that never happened; their bankers walked, of course)
England riots: ministers wrong to 'steer' courts, says Lord Carlile | UK news | guardian.co.uk Coalition tensions rise as former anti-terror adviser accuses ministers of trying to influence more stringent sentences
Facebook ban for teenager who encouraged rioters | UK news | guardian.co.uk Youth barred from social networking sites for 12 months after posting 'come on rioters' rallying call
UK unemployment jumps as economy falters | Business | guardian.co.uk Nearly 2.5m people unemployed • Benefit claimants rise to 1.56m • Number of women out of work highest since 1988 (more austerity!)

Heather Brooke: Data Dealing Is A Bigger Scandal Than Phone Hacking why data dealing is even bigger than phone hacking and the reasons she lost faith in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
John Yates faces inquiry into links with former News of the World executive | Media | guardian.co.uk IPCC to scrutinise claims former Met police assistant commissioner secured job for Neil Wallis's daughter

Obama Campaign Staffer Sends Out Email Bashing Paul Krugman And The 'Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere' (more hippie-punching and base-destroying and fact-ignoring from our dimbulb admininstation)
OFA Director Attacks “Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere,” says “Paul Krugman is a Political Rookie” | FDL Action What exactly does OFA think they stand to gain by ridiculing Krugman as a “political rookie,” a hysterical “fanatic” and an “idealogue”? Do they think they hold so much sway with liberals that they can discredit Krugman and thus neutralize his criticism? This smacks more of narcissism and personal vendetta than any sound political “strategy.”
Crashing the Tea Party - NYTimes.com Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 percent - the Tea Party ranks lower than any of the 23 other groups we asked about — lower than both Republicans and Democrats. It is even less popular than much maligned groups like “atheists” and “Muslims.” Interestingly, one group that approaches it in unpopularity is the Christian Right ... They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do. (creation of the media)
Gov. Scott 'overstepped constitutional authority,' Fla. Supreme Court rules | McClatchy
Shake-up in Texas execution probe draws criticism, questions - Page 2 - CNN "Rather than let this important hearing go forward and the report be heard, the governor fires the independent chairman and two other members of this commission," Scheck said. "It's like Nixon firing Archibald Cox to avoid turning over the Watergate tapes." (Texas, more executions by far than any other state, has never killed an innocent person)
alicublog "A bunch of Libertarians living in the middle of the ocean on a rig constructed without building codes? " asks Big Bad Bald Bastard. "Where do I donate?" ("Freedonia," "seasteading," "Galt's Gulf," "Sea-malia")
BART Shutdown of Cell Phone Services Part of Wider Crackdown on Protest | The Dissenter

Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? | Rolling Stone Politics A whistleblower claims that over the past two decades, the agency has destroyed records of thousands of investigations, whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals.
Robert Reich: How Austerity Is Ushering in a Global Recession (who could have predicted?)
Texas and the Gov’t: Better Friends Than You’d Think | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy
Federal Reserve Risks Being Seen As Constantly Bailing Out Traders, Fed Official Says
U.S. Students' Low Math Test Proficiency Could Have Consequences For GDP U.S. students rank poorly in proficiency on both domestic and international math exams, a problem that could cost the country $75 trillion over 80 years, according to a new study (no child left educated in the Republican war on intelligence)
Gov. Scott 'overstepped constitutional authority,' Fla. Supreme Court rules | McClatchy

Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains - Technology - GOOD
Black Death study lets rats off the hook | World news | The Guardian Plague of 1348-49 spread so fast in London the carriers had to be humans not black rats, says archaeologist
Memory contaminates perception | Mo Costandi | Science | guardian.co.uk magery retained in the mind's eye can influence visual perception, according to a new study

Federal Judge Upholds High School Girls' Right To Upload Lewd Pictures Online Even high school girls have the right to freedom of speech, no matter how lewd their message might be.
Redefining pedophilia with pedophiles' help - Sexual abuse - Salon.com "Minor-attracted persons" say we need to rethink how the mental illness is defined -- and some experts agree


Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | Android vs. iPhone: Battle of the Mobile Operating Systems (iPhone is a girl thing)

081611
True cost of Afghan, Iraq wars is anyone's guess | McClatchy According to a recent Brown University study, the wars and their ripple effects have cost the United States $3.7 trillion, or more than $12,000 per American (Bush's lies, Obama's Republican folly)
81 House Members Head to Israel on Break More than 80 U.S. House members, or about 20 percent of the House, will visit Israel during the next three weeks during the summer congressional recess, with the first group of 26 Democrats scheduled to arrive today. The Democratic delegation will be followed by two Republican ones, bringing a total of 55 Republicans - sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, a charitable organization affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC at work buying US congresscrooks)
A Recess Destination With Bipartisan Support - Israel and the West Bank - NYTimes.com The numbers reflect both the size of the freshman Congressional class, which accounts for 47 of the visitors, and the enduring efforts of Israel to court its most friendly ally, the United States Congress ... Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland
More Bay of Pigs documents declassified by CIA | McClatchy The documents also underscore the extremes the United States went to maintain “plausible denial’’ of Washington’s role in the April 1961 invasion by CIA-trained Cuban exiles.

Merkel-Sarkozy debt summit: George Soros tells Portugal and Greece to pull out of euro | Mail Online
Libya shows signs of slipping from Muammar Gaddafi's grasp | World news | The Guardian Supply lines to capital in peril as coastal cities fall amid US reports that regime has fired Scud missile near Brega
Police detain Indian hunger striker - Asia, World - The Independent A prominent anti-corruption activist has been detained by police just hours before he was set to embark on a public hunger strike which was certain to embarrass India's scandal-plagued government (starving now a crime in India)
German economic slowdown raises fresh eurozone fears | Business | guardian.co.uk German growth at 0.1% for last quarter
Growth in Euro Zone Stalls, Slowing Debt Crisis Solution - NYTimes.com
Shell locates secondary oil leak - Home News, UK - The Independent About 216 tonnes of oil - equal to 1,300 barrels - were estimated to have spilled from the Gannet Alpha platform, 112 miles east of Aberdeen, by yesterday.
UK banks fund deadly cluster-bomb industry - Home News, UK - The Independent
US 'homemaker' Martha Stewart is banned from entering Britain - Home News, UK - The Independent The American lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has joined the radical Islamic preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi and US rap star Snoop Dogg on the list of high-profile figures to be denied entry to the UK by the Home Office.
Defence chiefs must be called to account | News | guardian.co.uk Cameron stifles much-needed debate on UK military as generals accused of failed operations and 'Yes Minister' attitude (in America, its "Yes General")

Tories' reaction to riots 'bonkers', say Liberal Democrat MPs | Politics | The Guardian Comments from Lib Dems reveal deep concerns over David Cameron's uncompromising law and order agenda (what austerity?)
For a progressive, Cameron is sounding very Thatcherite | John Harris | Comment is free | The Guardian The prime minister's fightback speech failed to display the consistency or understanding needed after last week's riots
Police accessed BlackBerry messages to thwart planned riots | UK news | guardian.co.uk Detectives made breakthrough hours ahead of planned attacks in capital after scouring mobile phones of people who had been arrested during riots (sounds fishy)
Cameron uses riots to target 'feckless' poor people | Society | The Guardian To convince voters that Britain is broken, the prime minister is pushing social policy based on ideology rather than evidence
Why didn't the riots reach Scotland? | Marianne Taylor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk I expected chaos in Glasgow but different policing, urban planning and gang culture may explain why it never happened
Evicting rioters' families from their homes? There's a horrible logic to it | Owen Hatherley | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk This kind of collective punishment fits into a wider housing agenda of pushing the poor out of profitable inner cities
England riots: was poverty a factor? | News | guardian.co.uk The majority of areas where suspect live are deprived - and 66% of them got poorer between 2007 and 2010, when the last survey was published • 41% of suspects live in the 10% most deprived places in England (Cameron lied)
Curfews possible in future rioting - Crime, UK - The Independent

Phone hacking: all in this together | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian Clive Goodman's explosive letter poses fundamental questions for the whole phone-hacking controversy
Can James Murdoch argue himself out of this corner? | Brian Cathcart | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk After the release of shocking new phone-hacking documents, the News Corporation chairman is surely too compromised to stay - , documents released by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee are at least as damaging to News International management as the revelation last month that Milly Dowler's voicemail had been hacked ... Assuming that these documents hold up to scrutiny, a whole raft of executives – not journalists or editors, but well above that level – are surely likely to be questioned by police investigating the possibility of a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice ... Rarely can the old line about the cover-up being worse than the original crime have been so spectacularly borne out ... Meanwhile a number of people accustomed to executive limos and seven-figure salariesare beginning to wonder what it might be like in jail.
James Murdoch likely to be recalled by MPs over phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk Evidence received by select committee contains 'devastating revelations' about phone hacking, says Labour MP Tom Watson - "There seems to be a question as to whether James Murdoch himself misled the committee." (two weeks ago, Watson said there was more to come)
Phone-hacking scandal: live | Media | guardian.co.uk Key developments in the phone-hacking scandal as they happen, as James Murdoch's evidence to MPs is questioned and Tom Watson MP says new evidence will be 'dynamite'
Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up | Media | guardian.co.uk Disgraced royal correspondent Clive Goodman's letter says phone hacking was 'widely discussed' at NoW meetings
Clive Goodman's letter to News International | Media | guardian.co.uk Letter from former royal correspondent convicted of phone hacking said practice was 'widely discussed' in daily meetings and approved by senior editors
Phone-hacking denials: what Murdoch executives said | Media | guardian.co.uk NI executives continued to insist phone hacking was confined to a rogue reporter after Clive Goodman's explosive letter
Hacking 'discussed' under Andy Coulson - Crime, UK - The Independent
MPs split over disclosure of 'dynamite' hacking evidence - Crime, UK - The Independent divided over whether to make the documents public this week.
Top Tabloid Editors Endorsed Hacking, Letter Says - NYTimes.com

Undocumented immigrants face checks on Amtrak, Greyhound - Immigration - MiamiHerald.com Federal agents appear to have stepped up checks for undocumented immigrants on public transportation, including Greyhound buses and Amtrak. The feds say they have the authority to check any public area (Obama's new facist regime: show your papers)
Immigrants Plead For End To Fingerprint Sharing
Obama Clarifies Position On Immigration Reform Ahead Of 'National Day Of Action' Protests - the President maintained that his Administration remains focused on "targeting criminals" when it comes to upholding immigration law (Obama allergic to the truth of his anti-immigrant policies)

The Obama Stimulus Created More Jobs In 2010 Than Bush Did in 8 Years
Obama Not Obsessed With Keeping Job: Robert Gibbs (which is why he started running for a second term as a Republican before his inauguration; Gibbs is a fucking liar)
The Rush Limbaugh School Of Economics: Sean Hannity Further Improves Unemployment Rate Inherited From Bush | Media Matters for America Hannity did Limbaugh one better, claiming that Obama "inherited unemployment at 5.6 percent." (lies and the lying Fox liars)
Who's Really Responsible For U.S. Debt Downgrade | TPMDC (list of terrorist Republicans who tried to push America into default, then denied they had anything to do with downgrade)
Note to pundits: The problem isn’t the GOP field. It’s the GOP. - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (party of teh crazy)
Bachmann's 'Don't Ask' Position a Legal Possibility - NYTimes.com If elected president, Michele Bachmann said over the weekend, she would favor reinstating the ban on openly gay or lesbian people serving in the military, a policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” (unless they take her husband's anti-gay conversion brain-washing)
Jon Stewart: Why Is the Media Ignoring Ron Paul? (yeah, right)
Ron Paul exposes media bias | Paul Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk As usual, Paul was mostly ignored. The Washington Times declared him a "loser" even as it said Santorum, with 3,014 fewer votes than Paul, was a "winner".
$1.1M Secret Service Bus Makes Debut On Obama's Midwest Tour | TPMDC (armed with sharks and lasers)
Five Ways Rick Perry Changes The Primaries | TPMDC
Perry Calls Bernanke Policies "Almost Treasonous" | TPMDC (you know who else is "almost treasonous?")
Hullabaloo For a perfect example of Cokie's Law, go to about 3:55 on this video and watch Charlie Cook explain that Michele Bachmann trafficking in lies is perfectly normal and no cause for concern:
Kansas wants federal funds to promote marriage | McClatchy No, thanks: $31.5 million for implementing the new federal health care law. Please remit: $6.6 million to promote marriage (they will take your tax dollars for their religious war)

President Obama Still Likes Big Government: When it Helps the Banks | CEPR Blog
The Clear Case for the Gas Tax - NYTimes.com Unless Congress extends it, the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal gas tax will expire on Sept. 30. Allowing that to happen would be tremendously destructive. It would bankrupt the already stressed Highway Trust Fund, with devastating effects on the country’s highways, bridges, mass transit systems and the economy as a whole (Republicans hate infrastructure; they will all use helicopters)

Human precursors went to sea, team says | McClatchy Early manlike creatures may have been smarter than we think. Recent archaeological finds from the Mediterranean show that human ancestors traveled the high seas (apes on pirate ships)
Beyond the Genome, Cancer’s Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus - NYTimes.com
Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there [Book Review] | Science | guardian.co.uk This interesting and well-written book uses reports of the paranormal to investigate the psychology of the human mind - between 40 and 50 percent of people in the U.K. claim to have had a paranormal experience. In the U.S., it's between 80 and 90 percent. (teaparty is 100%)

Goodbye Religion? How Godlessness Is Increasing With Each New Generation | Belief | AlterNet - only 11 percent of SBC churches are healthy and growing... And we are doing worse with young people, with 39 percent of Southern Baptist churches in 2005 reporting baptizing no teens.
Secularism and Its Discontents :

BBC News | AMERICAS | Smoking is cost-effective, says report The premature deaths of smokers has economic benefits, according to a controversial report commissioned by a leading US cigarette manufacturer.



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U.S. military: Wave of attacks in Iraq 'eerily similar' to last year - CNN.com (but another surge will fix everything)
Iraq bomb blasts kill more than 50 | World news | guardian.co.uk Series of deadly explosions rip through cities across the country, ending period of relative calm during holy month of Ramadan (surging right along)
Twitpic - conflict zones in Libya
Israel Settlements: Ariel Receives 277 New Apartments (always expanding into illegal occupied territory)
North sea oil spill 'worst for a decade' | Environment | The Guardian The government estimates oil leak could involve more than 1,300 barrels but claims it has been greatly reduced
Syria Protests: Troops Reportedly Fire At Fleeing Families In Latakia
New Zealand snow heaviest in 30 years | World news | guardian.co.uk Wellington residents enjoy 'once in a lifetime' weather
The Horrors of the US Drone War in Pakistan | The Dissenter he report, according to BIJ editor Iain Overton, “lays bare the reality of the drone war” and shows the extent to which CIA drone strikes kill children. And, the report suggests the deaths of children in attacks are on the rise (Barry works to discredit the truth)
Pakistani belief about drones: perceptive or paranoid? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The Re-Scoop that Pakistan Showed China Our Stealth Chopper | emptywheel Are we really supposed to believe it took the NSA 3 months to translate intercepts of top Paksitani officials “inviting” the Chinese to see the helicopter? (NSA/CIA/Military/Barry routinely lies)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Pentagon's Fake Jihadists | TomDispatch Could the Pentagon Be Responsible for Your Death? The Military’s Marching Orders to the Jihadist World (creating the next generation of terrorist so they have a global war on terrorists to fight so you can't have any civil liberties)

London Riots 2011: David Cameron Wants Reverse In UK's 'Slow-Motion Moral Collapse' (you know who else morally collapsed?)
England riots: where they happened and where suspects lived | Mapped | News | guardian.co.uk
David Cameron on riots: broken society is top of my political agenda | UK news | guardian.co.uk Prime minister delivers a speech describing last week's rioting a 'wake-up call' for the country and says ministers will ensure policies address the causes of 'broken Britain' (you know who else is broken?)
What policies lie behind Cameron's 'all-out war on gangs'? | Politics | guardian.co.uk We examine how much policy flesh there is on the prime minister's promises of tough action in the wake of the riots (crazy Conservative racist ideas?)
Miliband accuses Cameron of 'shallow and simplistic' response to riots | Politics | guardian.co.uk Labour leader repeats call for national inquiry into causes of violence and accuses prime minister of responding with 'gimmickry'
Neighbourhood policing will be hit hardest by spending cuts | UK news | The Guardian Theresa May to rule out any delay in 20% budget reduction, as expert fears loss of 16,000 uniformed officers (they are going to crack down with no cops)
Cameron and Miliband's speeches: a political power struggle over the riots | Anne Perkins | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Ed Miliband is sounding the right note, while Cameron's speech seems to herald the return of the nasty party
These riots were political. They were looting, not shoplifting | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian The riots cannot be explained by criminality or deprivation alone. But they were unwise and failed to advance any cause
London riots: cash tills found as police raids continue | UK news | guardian.co.uk "This is an amazing result. Several knives which could have been used as lethal weapons have been taken off the streets, clearly making it safer for everyone (because it's illegal in the UK to have a knife in the kitchen)
UK Riots and Cuts to Public Universities: Any Connection? | Care2 Causes
We're Next: Why America's Riots May Not Be Far Behind London's - Politics - GOOD
David Starkey's Newsnight race remarks: hundreds complain to BBC | Media | The Guardian Ed Miliband joins those criticising historian's claim that 'whites have become black', saying it is 'disgusting and outrageous' (racist old white guy)
Essex police charge man over water fight planned on BlackBerry Messenger | Media | The Guardian A 20-year-old is due in court after police discover alleged plans for a Colchester water fight circulating on BBM and Facebook (Cameron cracks down on water-terrorists)

News Corp: Phone Hacking Scandal Might Be Bad For Our Rep | TPMMuckraker

Gallup Poll: Obama Approval Hits New Low | TPMDC Obama registered 39% approval in the daily Gallup tracking poll from Sunday (how's that bi-partisan thing working out for you?)
It Really Is the Economy, Stupid: Obama Job Approval vs Economic Perception | Elections
Hullabaloo Power and persuasion ("Balanced Barry" works to maintain gridlock)
David Plouffe and Bill Daley Double Down on Rhetoric over Action | emptywheel (still chasing his rejecting Independent Repubican daddy, what a psychological disaster)

Number of uninsured Americans rises to 50.7 million - usatoday.com
New Health Care Regulations Close Exchanges to Many Offered Unaffordable Employer Coverage | FDL News Desk (who could have predicted Obama's closed-door meetings with lobbyists would work out this way?)

Obama Bus Tour Takes President To Midwest To Talk Jobs, Economy (Barry goes ballistic on Republicans Dems: "You need to take a balanced approach," he said)
Dominionism: Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry’s Dangerous Religious Bond - The Daily Beast Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry aren't just devout—both have deep ties to a fringe fundamentalist movement known as Dominionism, which says Christians should rule the world.
Calif. Redistricting Likely To Have National Impact : NPR
The Ten Weirdest Ideas In Rick Perry’s Fed Up | ThinkProgress (he's even weirder than Bachmann)
Rick Perry: A Candidate Who Will Do Anything to Beat Romney and Obama - The Daily Beast Rick Perry has called Social Security unconstitutional and presided over the execution of a man who was probably innocent. But as Paul Begala argues, that’s just the beginning
Rick Perry Is Now Sorry He Banned Parental Honor Killings | TBogg Texas dick adjuster Rick Perry is apologizing for mandating that all girls in Texas become whores at age eleven or, I don’t know, move to Utah and get married or something
Bill Clinton Scoffs At Rick Perry's Platform: 'I Mean, This Is Crazy' (video) | TPMDC
Issa Upset New York Times Figured Out His Conflicts of Interest | FDL News Desk
Issa Disputes NYT Report Alleging Ties Between Business Interests And Congressional Record | TPMMuckraker ("I am not a pawn of big money")
Darrell Issa Makes Life Difficult for Obama : The New Yorker Darrell Issa, the congressman about to make life more difficult for President Obama, has had some troubles of his own.
Prosser Raised Big Money For Spring Recount | TPMMuckraker (The largest donations were $50,000 each from Pennisylvania conservative activist John Templeton Jr., and his wife.)
Jailing Undocumented Immigrants Is Big Business (Safe Communities suport private prisons) /a>
Pam Bondi: Accusations of impropriety rock Pam Bondi's office - Orlando Sentinel
If Americans Really Paid Attention, Republicans Would Never Win Elections (who needs attention when they have Fox?)

Paul Krugman: Fake Alien Invasion Would End Economic Slump (Krugs is thinking outside of Obama's tiny box)
The Real U.S. Crisis Is Not the Debt Downgrade: Simon Johnson - Bloomberg (it's idiotic policy)
Steven Pearlstein: Blame for financial mess starts with the corporate lobby - The Washington Post - J’accuse, dude. J’accuse.
Economy: N.Y. Fed Manufacturing Contracts for Third Month in August - CNBC
Florida roads: Rick Scott wants to rely on tolls to build new roads - OrlandoSentinel.com (Americans would rather pay massive road tolls than a small gas tax)

Autism risks for siblings are higher than thought - Yahoo! News 19 percent ended up with an autism diagnosis, too, by their third birthdays.
A Glimpse Into What Life Will Be Like Once The Coming Republican Administration Kills EPA : TreeHugger
Stanford researchers are redefining how the brain plans movement how the brain prepares to instruct the body to make a motion and why sometimes we react more quickly than others.
New study blames human beings for half of Arctic ice melt | McClatchy
20 year study concludes fewer women go to church | McClatchy •Church attendance among women dropped by 11 percentage points to 44 percent of the U.S. population. This means a majority of women no longer attend church services during a typical week ... Bible-reading among women (other than during services) has declined from 50 percent in 1991 to 40 percent today

Undocumented immigrants may face ID checks on Amtrak, Greyhound | McClatchy (Obama's racial-profiling, show-your-papers anti-immigrant program)
Thank God That Childbirth Was Impossible Before The Invention Of The Internal Combustion Engine | ThinkProgress
How our fear of infant abduction could be causing real harm. - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine Our irrational fear of infant abduction could be causing real harm.

Huge rise in intensely sexualised pictures of women... but not men | Mail Online

Patents Are Driving Google's Purchase Of Motorola Mobility--But Will The Deal Hurt Competition? | TPM Idea Lab At $12.5 billion, the acquisition is Google's biggest in its corporate history, and gets it Motorola's 17,000 patents.
Google Buys Motorola Mobility For $12.5B, Says “Android Will Stay Open” | TechCrunch
Official Google Blog: Supercharging Android: Google to Acquire Motorola Mobility
A Eulogy for Google Plus - Forbes

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World Bank chief warns economy in 'more dangerous' phase | McClatchy
Syrian gunboats fire on coastal city, 25 killed - The Globe and Mail
Taliban kill 22 in attack in province considered peaceful | McClatchy (surge for reelection gains nothing)
Facing Ninth Deployment, Army Ranger Kills Himself. 'No Way' That God Would Forgive Him For What He'd Seen, Done, He Told Wife | Crooks and Liars
Pakistan let China see crashed U.S. stealth copter | Reuters despite explicit requests from the CIA not to
Palestinians to present statehood bid to UN general assembly | World news | The Guardian Palestinians to push ahead with bid next month despite US opposition and warnings move will endanger future peace talks (Obama takes orders from Israel; what "future peace talks?")
Mark Adomanis: The conservative press and Israel's "miracle" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (backstory: when rightwingers killed socialism in Israel, they sold off state assets at fire-sale prices; the insider buyers now control Israel's economy and most of its wealth and are called in Hebrew, "Tycoons")

Austerity and Social Protest — Crooked Timber Expenditure cuts carry a significant risk of increasing the frequency of riots, anti-government demonstrations, general strikes, political assassinations, and attempts at revolutionary overthrow of the established order. While these are low- probability events in normal years, they become much more common as austerity measures are implemented.

Riots put U.K. rights at risk, says WikiLeaks’ Assange - thestar.com “Great Britain has turned itself into an Orwellian 1984 during the last decade, yet all those cameras and anti-terror laws could not prevent this recent chaos,”
Britain’s Riots: A Grim Portent of the Consequences of Europe’s Economic Crisis? - Global Spin - TIME.com
Striking parallels between UK riots and France 2005 unrest | UK news | The Guardian Violence by predominantly young people spread quickly from the capital and prompted a clampdown by a centre-right government
London Riots: How Some Residents Burned Their Own Community - TIME It took 140 years to build up the House of Reeves furniture store, but only a few hours to destroy it.

Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate? Yes, It's Called 'Medicare for All' | Common Dreams

Calculated Risk: White House Debates Doing Little or Nothing Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Plouffe, and his chief of staff, William M. Daley, want him to maintain a pragmatic strategy of appealing to independent voters by advocating ideas that can pass Congress, even if they may not have much economic impact ... But others, including Gene Sperling, Mr. Obama’s chief economic adviser [argue] for bigger ideas like tax incentives (what passes for a "big idea" in these times +Plouffe is an idiot, pursuing the 2% of Repubican voters who call themselves "independent" - we're doomed)
White House Trying to Win Independents with Economic Policies That Do Nothing | Firedoglake These people are absolutely pathetic.

Daily Kos: Debtpocalypse deferred!
This Modern World » Blog Archive » The public option (failure at 1-dimensional chess)
Obama Proposes Tax Increase On Meanest 2% Of Population | The Onion

Michele Bachmann's big win in Iowa | Stewart J Lawrence | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Ron Paul ran her close in this early contest, but Republicans now face a three-way choice: Romney, Perry – and Bachmann
Bachmann Takes $1.1 M From Taxpayers But Claims Unemployment Benefits Are Unaffordable (sucking off the government teat)
Pawlenty Quits After Third-Place Straw Poll Finish | FDL News Desk With Pawlenty’s exit and Rick Perry’s entrance, we can now see the Republican Presidential race come into focus. Basically, it’s a three-way fight between Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Perry. Romney finished in seventh place in the straw poll, behind Bachmann, Paul, Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain and Perry, who wasn’t even an official contestant (Ron Paul for Theocrat-in-Chief)
Fictional ‘Tim Pawlenty’ GOP Candidate Quits Presidential Race As his announcement came on a Sunday morning when news editors were at their orgy mansions in the Hamptons and regular GOP voters were sleeping off their oxycontin in church, the move did little to combat the reality that Tim Pawlenty doesn’t even exist.

America's Truth Deficit - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com By contrast, Washington defines ''national interest'' primarily in terms of advancing the global reach of our multinational enterprises ... . In recent years, much of the trade deficit has reflected the value-added production and jobs that companies moved elsewhere.
Hullabaloo The Big Washington Consensus Lie (#3 Tom Friedman is not an idiot)

Yves Smith: Income inequality is bad for rich people too - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com f their 25 per cent, or the great bulk of it, is off-limits, then it’s impossible to see any good resolution of the current US crisis.

Weekend Feature: The Supernova Closest to Earth --A Glowing Ring 6 Trillion Miles in Diameter 1 billion supernovae per year, or 30 supernovae per second in the observable Universe!
Alaskan Volcano Could Be Gearing Up For Big Explosion | Care2 Causes the Cleveland Volcano, a 5,676-foot peak located about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage has been seeping magma for several days. But this activity could only be a precursor to an explosive event powerful enough to send ash into the atmosphere
New discovery may eliminate potentially lethal side effect of stem cell therapy remaining embryonic stem cells - those that haven't differentiated into the desired tissue - can go on to become dangerous tumors called teratomas when transplanted into patients.
The armored child - The Boston Globe

The sex ed hall of shame - Sex News, Sex Talk - Salon.com (killing their children with STDs)
Atheists Win Right To Molest Christian Eyes With Godless Bus Ads First Amendment Jesus is alive or dead depending on which of these two groups you ask, atheists or wingnuts, because Jesus wants people to be free to speak their minds/ wants people to be able to walk freely through the streets without a steaming pile of cheeky godlessness oppressing the good Christian vibe.
Japan's Booming Sex Niche: Elder Porn - TIME

Free Communal Broadband? Boston Firm Says Share and Share Alike and Get Service for Free | Stop the Cap!
Kelly Thomas Beating Death Prompts Hacker Group Anonymous to Target Fullerton Police Website - Los Angeles News - The Informer The beating death has prompted outrage in the Orange County city, with some in the community calling for the police chief and some on the City Council to resign. The chief has taken a leave of absence.
Suspected Chinese spear-phishing attacks continue to hit Gmail users - Computerworld Researcher details more bids to hijack high-value email accounts

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Commentary: Ignoring the past doesn't erase our responsibility for it | McClatchy - Two years ago the British government set up the Chilcot Inquiry, a commission charged with investigating how that country became involved in the invasion of Iraq, what went wrong - Unlike Britain, in the United States there has been no serious effort to examine the war in depth (not from our dismally bad, never-look-back Obama)
US censures report on drone casualties - Americas - Al Jazeera English Officials reject independent UK study's finding that up to 168 children have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan.
Study: CIA drones strikes have killed 168 children - War Room - Salon.com The Obama administration says a year of drone strikes in Pakistan killed zero civilians; outside experts disagree (Obama lied, big time)
C.I.A. Claim of No Civilian Deaths From Drones Is Disputed - NYTimes.com
Syria violence spreads to commercial capital Aleppo | World news | The Guardian Two people killed as government forces launch raid on country's second-largest city
DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security
Shell confirms oil leak in North Sea | Business | The Guardian Company confirms spill from flow line serving Gannet Alpha platform and takes further measures to isolate it

England riots: coalition row grows over 'kneejerk' response | Politics | The Observer Senior Liberal Democrats attack 'hasty' measures as housing charities condemn the threat of eviction
Profits must no longer go to the few at the top | Simon Hughes | Comment is free | The Observer Activity, training and employment has to be on offer in every region of the country
Police revolt against David Cameron's reform agenda | UK news | The Guardian Prime minister forced to retreat after calling riot tactics timid as ICM poll shows public side with police
Ed Miliband: we need to give people a stake in this society | UK news | The Observer On a walkabout in Tottenham, the Labour leader reflects on a week of violence, fear and recriminations
David Starkey claims 'the whites have become black' | UK news | The Guardian ones told the Guardian he believed Starkey's comments were "a career-ending moment". He said: "He tapped into racial prejudice at a time of national crisis. At other times, those comments would be inflammatory but they are downright dangerous in the current climate.
UK to tackle social problems after riots | Reuters Britain needs to tackle deep-seated social problems following riots and looting in English cities this week, the center-right government said on Saturday, and a U.S. street crime expert it has brought in said arrests alone would not solve the problem (why, there couldn't be any underlying causes, could there?)
UK riots: Love affair with gangster-chic turns sour for top fashion brands | UK news | The Guardian Looters sought out famous labels – and the industry is furious about what the riots have done to its image
British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship | Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF urges Facebook, Blackberry, and Twitter to fight for the rights of their users. In large part, this means refusing to censor speech, protecting users' data unless compelled to do so by law, and informing users if their data is sought by the government. But the companies' hands may be tied if Cameron takes advantage of hysteria over the riots to pass shortsighted legislation meant to protect Britons from the so-called “misuse” of social media (shut down the tweeter)
Letter from the U.K.: If We’re Turning Off Social Media, I Want News Channels Shut Down, Too | Epicenter | Wired.com - ne commentator in China’s official Communist Party mouthpiece — People’s Daily — going even further. The commentator says “The West have been talking about supporting internet freedom, and oppose other countries’ government to control this kind of websites, now we can say they are tasting the bitter fruit [of their complacency] and they can’t complain about it.”

“Rumsfeld should be going to jail” — RT According to Harbury, the only outcome in the civil case is that Rumsfeld will be ordered to pay money damages to the plaintiffs, both of whom are US citizens. However, this will not mean that a non-US citizen who faced torture can also file a lawsuit. Under US laws, conspiring to commit torture outside the United States is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison, Harbury insists.

Michele Bachmann wins the Ames Straw Poll - The Fix - The Washington Post Bachmann took 4,823 votes, narrowly escaping a major upset at the hands of Texas Rep. Ron Paul who won 4,671 votes (serious Republican candidates)
Rick Perry makes it official with broad attack on Obama | McClatchy
If Rick Perry is seriously a presidential front-runner there's something wrong with all of us - War Room - Salon.com Flirting with secession and neo-Confederate sympathies should probably be a bigger deal to the rest of the press
Governor Perry Arrives: II. The Continuing Collapse of the Republican Establishment « The Reality-Based Community Never in my lifetime has the Republican Party nomination process involved so many divisive figures, second-rate figures and genuine loons, nor evoked such a lack of broadly shared enthusiasm for any one candidate. In short, the Republican Party today is reminiscent of the Democratic Party of the early 1970s, and that’s a huge edge for President Obama no matter which Republican nominee he faces in 2012.
Rick Perry's Unanswered Prayers - NYTimes.com In the four months since Perry’s request for divine intervention, his state has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Nearly all of Texas is now in “extreme or exceptional” drought, as classified by federal meteorologists, the worst in Texas history (+"By many measures, it is the nation’s most polluted state.")
Chris Matthews: Rick Perry A 'Clown' Full Of 'Texas B.S.'
No more phony outrage over Obama camp’s `attack’ on Romney - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
12 unions tell Dems they'll boycott convention in N. Carolina | McClatchy more than a dozen trade unions affiliated with the national AFL-CIO have told the Democratic National Committee that they will sit out the 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C. (Obama's "Southern Strategy")

Voices Faulting G.O.P. Economic Policies Growing Louder - NYTimes.com
The Chicago White Sox Sunday Defeat Sent Stock Market Tumbling: It Wasn't the Debt Downgrade | Beat the Press it was incredibly irresponsible for NPR to tell listeners in its top of the hour news segment that the market plunged because Standard and Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt. NPR does not know this to be true and it certainly is not obviously the case ... many political actors, including National Public Radio, are trying to use the debt downgrade as an argument for cutting Social Security and Medicare (NPR, being deeply Republican, hates Social Security and Medicare) (how did that happen?)
Lemkin - Cokie's Law vs. Social Security The facts do not matter. Cokie’s Law, the ironclad rule that anything, any information be it merely incorrect or proven to be an outright lie or pure fabrication, once “out there” must be reported as though it is fact. Period.
Matt Bai’s Mystical Powers | ThinkProgress Matt Bai has political super-powers and just knows the answers to questions that he hasn’t even asked (they are all "political actors")
U.S. credit downgrade is really about politics, analyses show | McClatchy Standard & Poor's, in its Aug. 2 report downgrading its assessment of the United States' ability to pay its debts, said that the wide gap between Republicans and Democrats on issues of tax policy and spending made it worry that little will be done to confront the country's burgeoning indebtedness (above all, they can't mention taxes)

Pain and Prejudice - NYTimes.com this isn’t fact-based policy. The Fed dissenters are obviously looking for excuses to pursue tight policies; they’re looking at the facts only in search of support for their prejudices. As the old line goes, they’re using evidence the way a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination (they are all ideologues pursuing their Galtian dream)
Rhode Island City Tests Vow to Pensioners - NYTimes.com - Bond lawyers have known for decades that it is possible, at least in theory, to put bondholders ahead of pensioners, but no one wanted to try it and risk a backlash on Election Day. Now the poor, taxed-out city of Central Falls is mounting a test case, which other struggling governments may follow if it succeeds.
Ordinary investors leave stocks, stay in 401(k) plans | McClatchy

Researchers don't mean to exaggerate, but lots of things can distort findings | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian It's possible people are not bothering to report a negative result alongside positive ones they found

How to write faster. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

Leaked AT&T Filing Fuels Critics' Claims That T-Mobile Acquisition Is Anticompetitive | TPM Idea Lab

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On an Israeli kibbutz, praise for country's protesters | McClatchy . "We want a return to social welfare, to some type of socialist values, instead of the capitalist king who rules now," meaning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who worked as an international businessman before he turned to political life.
Violent Mexican drug gang, Zetas, taking control of migrant smuggling | McClatchy (US out of Mexico Now!)

The Excessive Calls for Curbing Freedom of Expression & Civil Liberties in the Aftermath of the London Riots | The Dissenter (first reaction of authoritarian regimes everywhere)
Mark Duggan death: IPCC says it inadvertently misled media | UK news | guardian.co.uk Police watchdog says it led media to believe shots were exchanged but Duggan was carrying gun that was never used (they lied to coverup)
Cameron's law: PM planning crackdown on rioters - Crime, UK - The Independent Police to have power to shut down social networks, remove hoodies and facial coverings, while looters could lose homes and benefits (Cameron goes full Assad on UK protestors)
UK riots aftermath: live updates | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Trouble isn't over yet, says teenager who predicted riots | UK news | The Guardian Riots not condoned by Chavez Campbell but says youths with no jobs, no money and no future were ripe for causing mayhem
London riots: Wandsworth council moves to evict mother of charged boy | UK news | The Guardian Local authority is first to issue eviction notice to a tenant in wake of the riots despite accused not having been convicted
Riots poll reveals public back police more than politicians | UK news | guardian.co.uk Only 30% think David Cameron responded well while 54% think police are under resourced
Tory MP Louise Mensch backs social network blackouts during civil unrest | UK news | The Guardian Mensch backs David Cameron's call for temporary shutdowns as police praise value of Twitter as vital communication channel (that'll work)
Reading the riot acts: why wasn't Waterstone's looted? | Books | guardian.co.uk Are books just for the middle class? As society puzzles over its divisions, perhaps the publishing industry should follow suit
Is six months in prison fair punishment for stealing bottled water? | Poll | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk a 23-year-old student with no previous convictions was jailed for the maximum permitted six months after pleading guilty to stealing bottles of water worth £3.50 from Lidl in Brixton. Do you think the punishment is fair?

News of the World: police watchdog investigates Milly Dowler leak | Media | guardian.co.uk Surrey police officer alleged to have given information to tabloid about investigation into teenager's murder

New 'Super Congress', same old special interests | Bill Buzenberg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk With the committee members owned by corporate donors and special interest lobbyists, reform is the last thing we can expect
Has Obama found a new voice on the economy? | McClatchy "Time and again we've seen partisan brinkmanship get in the way," Obama said. "As if winning the next election is more important than fulfilling our responsibilities to you and to our country." (look in the mirror, dude)
Who's Really Responsible For U.S. Debt Downgrade | TPMDC Now that Standard & Poors has confirmed that the chorus of default doubters in the GOP was part of what spooked them into downgrading the U.S. credit rating, Republicans will do all they can to pretend that they never questioned the risk of missing payment obligations, or allowing borrowing authority to lapse. But they sure did! (who, us?)
U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Battles Anti-Bribery Statute More than three decades after the United States Congress passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act -- striking a major blow against international corruption by criminalizing bribes to foreign officials -- the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is trying to carve out some major exceptions in the law to prevent prosecutors from enforcing it too aggressively (that would be the law Murdoch gave them $1Mil to undermine)

Appeals Court Finds Individual Mandate Unconstitutional | ThinkProgress
The Eleventh Circuit’s Affordable Care Act Decision Cannot Be Squared With The Constitution | ThinkProgress

Hullabaloo: Stephen Colbert: Corporations are family (Romney: Dr. Martin Luther Inc.)
Group that Heckled Romney “Puts Principle Before Party,” Questions Both Parties on Social Safety Net, Making Corporations Pay | FDL News Desk
Daily Kos: Colbert is the Most Relevant Person on TV
The Last Word - Colbert Super PAC's 'Parry' ads

GOP Fight Night: The Top Five Moments | TPMDC
No More Mister Nice Blog - Romney: We want to make sure people do pay their fair share. Half the people in this country pay no income tax at all (Mittens says that America's big problem is that the poor and middle class are too well off +corps are "jes' folks that need to be treated with the utmost courtesy and respect, even if they're wallowing in cash while the rest of us are struggling")
The Next Labor Vs. GOP Fight: Ohio | TPMDC
VIDEO: Sarah Palin Tells ThinkProgress ‘Mitt Romney Was Right’ That Corporations Are People | ThinkProgress
Texas Rep. Burgess tries to clarify impeach Obama remarks | McClatchy
Michele Bachmann's Iowa circus | Amanda Marcotte | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The controversy over the 'sexist' Newsweek cover photo won't worry Bachmann: her campaign is about publicity, not politics
Rick Perry's chances spurred by underwhelming Republican debate | World news | guardian.co.uk No clear winner from debate which was enlivened only by Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty's personal attacks
GOP Pres Candidates Unanimously Reject Massive Spending Cuts If Paired With Trivial Tax Increases (VIDEO) | TPMDC
Rachel Maddow: Rick Perry May Be The Face Of A Christian Movement Seeking Political Domination (VIDEO) Rachel Maddow raised concerns on her Wednesday show that Texas Gov. Rick Perry may be the face of a shadowy group of bizarre Christian conservatives seeking to infiltrate the government.
Joe Scarborough Goes Off On Michele Bachmann: 'She Is A Joke!' (VIDEO) .they are out of their mind and they are too stupid not only to prognosticate, they are too stupid to run Slurpee machines in Des Moines...Michele Bachmann is a joke. She is a joke. Her answer is a joke. Her candidacy is a joke...Iowa, if you let her win, you prove your irrelevance once again."
Jon Stewart: Is Fox's Megyn Kelly Suffering From 'Postpartum Compassion'? | TPM LiveWire (hates "entitlements" loves her maternity leave)
Missouri Lt. Gov. Kinder says ex-Penthouse Pet's story is 'bizarre' | McClatchy “Peter Kinder is obviously in a pretty sad and desperate place right now,” Legacki said. “Unfortunately, Kinder would rather blame others for his own unusual and inappropriate behavior than take responsibility and offer a real explanation.”
Anti-Gay Marriage State Rep. Accused Of Offering Young Male Money 'For A Really Good Time' | TPMMuckraker An Indiana state Representative, who recently voted for a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, has been accused of using Craigslist to offer an 18-year old male $80 for "a couple hours of your time tonight" plus a tip "for a really good time." - Rep. Phillip Hinkle (R) (old man, living his life in the closet, making other people miserable)
Santa Barbara News-Press Found Guilty of Multiple Labor Violations - FishbowlLA owned by Wendy McCaw, has become notorious for their poor treatment of journalists and lawsuit-happy ways. We’ll probably get sued just for blogging about it, but the news is too good to ignore.

The Hijacked Crisis - NYTimes.com For more than a year and a half — ever since President Obama chose to make deficits, not jobs, the central focus of the 2010 State of the Union address — we’ve had a public conversation that has been dominated by budget concerns, while almost ignoring unemployment ... What made this so bizarre was the fact that markets were signaling, as clearly as anyone could ask, that unemployment rather than deficits is our biggest problem. (clueless Obama playing Republican)
Consumer Sentiment Drops to Lowest Level in 3 Decades - CNBC
French Economy Stalls - WSJ.com the French economy failed to grow in the second quarter from the first as consumers sharply cut spending, complicating government plans to reduce its deficit as financial markets question France's prized triple-A credit rating.
French economy stagnates as consumers cut spending | Business | guardian.co.uk Eurostat data shows French GDP was flat in the second quarter
CEOs and tea partiers: Shut up and pay taxes - John Shinal's Tech Investor - MarketWatch Commentary: Starving the government is not patriotic
Postal Service proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of health-care plan - The Washington Post
More on the Postal Service | Talking Points Memo the USPS is apparently subject to a regulation that requires it to pre-pay pension and health care obligations 75 years in advance, something that is required of no other government agency. And a substantial amount of their budget shortfall is tied to that regulation ... the Postal Service has overfunded their pension system by about $75 billion dollars in recent years. Thus, there is money in a separate account that could more than handle the current shortfall in postal revenue ($0 of which comes from tax dollars) (Republicans will use personal mail-deliverers)

The Pentagon's 'blistering' fast new plane: Crash and burn? - The Week

All the men in my life have cheated on me. Does that make me a doormat? | Life and style | The Guardian All my relationships with men have ended because I found out they were cheating on me. Now a man I love has asked me to marry him, but I'm sure he's been seeing other women

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Bomb kills five U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan - Yahoo! News (another day, more dead)
Eurozone debt crisis: George Osborne addresses MPs - live | Business | guardian.co.uk The UK chancellor updates Parliament on the state of the British economy this afternoon, as Italy and France fight to avoid being dragged deeper into Europe's debt crisis
Burying The Beast: The Giant “Shield” Being Built Over Radioactive Chernobyl Reactor - Worldcrunch - All News is Global

David Cameron announces moves to tackle gang culture | Politics | guardian.co.uk Cameron says riots were planned by gangs as he calls for US expertise (typical Conservative delusion that they weren't "planned" by banks)
UK riots: girl, 11, and former grammar school student among those in court | UK news | guardian.co.uk At Nottingham magistrates court an 11-year-old girl from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to criminal damage and attempted criminal damage during Tuesday night's riots (obviously a "gang member")
David Cameron's Dalek-esque speech was below par | John Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Beneath the notes of hardened Tory orthodoxy, David Cameron's wooden delivery during his riots speech is a concern for his party
David Cameron's Dalek-esque speech was below par | John Harris | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Beneath the notes of hardened Tory orthodoxy, David Cameron's wooden delivery during his riots speech is a concern for his party
UK riots: David Cameron defends police cuts in Commons sitting | UK news | guardian.co.uk PM says cuts programme will free up frontline police officers as he unveils post-riot security measures in emergency sitting
The UK riots: the psychology of looting | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian The shocking acts of looting may not be political, but they nevertheless say something about the beaten-down lives of the rioters
David Cameron considers banning suspected rioters from social media | Media | guardian.co.uk PM says sites such as Twitter and Facebook 'can be used for ill' and that broadcasters should hand footage of riots to police ... PM said the government will review whether it is possible to stop suspected rioters spreading online messages (sounding more like an Arab country every day)
UK riots: the key facts and figures | News | guardian.co.uk
UK riots: political classes see what they want to see | UK news | The Guardian Aditya Chakrabortty on how the political classes, from both left and right, have attempted to explain this week's mayhem
Darcus Howe Cites Racial Profiling As Key Factor In London Riots
London police raiding houses over UK riots - Yahoo! News
U.K. riots give big boost to local media | The Cutline - Yahoo! News

Simon Hughes to sue over News of the World phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk News International faces civil action by Lib Dem MP whose voicemail messages Glenn Mulcaire admitted intercepting in earlier criminal case
Sins of the father & son - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Murdoch and Mubarak trials are proving that the apple may not fall too far from the tree.

Elizabeth Warren Gearing Up For Senate Run, Announcement To Come Post Labor Day

Tea Party terminators - Opinion - Al Jazeera English According to author, Democrats need to realise you can't use reason to fight insanity ... The Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, or even Reagan - the GOP in its current form is nothing more than the party of Ted Nugent
Public Policy Polling: Boehner as unpopular as Pelosi ohn Boehner is now just as unpopular as Nancy Pelosi. His net approval is -24 at a 28/52 spread and her net approval is -24 as well
Tavis Smiley: Obama Is The First President Who Hasn't Invited Me To White House (blacks don't like him either)
Sen. McCaskill is Not For Extending Unemployment Benefits Because Republicans Are Against It | Crooks and Liars (ConservaDem)
Hey Sarah, How’s That Abstinence-Only Thingy Working Out For Your Kids? (Updated) « Lynnrockets' Blast-Off
The Social Safety Net Was Constructed As A Result Of Corporate Greed
How the Head of Fox News Is Making Americans More Right-Wing, More Ignorant and Ever More Terrified | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Hendrik Hertzberg: Respecting Rick Perry : The New Yorker
Romney: 'Corporations Are People, My Friend' | TPMDC
tumblr: Superman says: "Hop on the Welfare Wagon!" (1952)
Americans’ Economic Confidence Plummets | FDL Action The scariest part of the poll is that in only one month there has been a 14 percent increase in the number of people who think the American economy is getting worse and a 10 point increase in the number who rate the economy as poor. Currently, an overwhelming 77 percent feel economic conditions are worsening (time for the confidence fairies)
Tea Party Rep: Bank Should Have Known I Wouldn't Be Able To Repay $2.2 Million Loan | TPMMuckraker (microcosm of GOTP)
The American People Lose Faith In The American System, But Still Insist It’s The Best In The World | ThinkProgress (as long as its not socialism)
Looking Ahead, Latino Voters See A Choice Between Disappointment And Menace (which one is more anti-immigrant?)
Pa. judge gets 28 years in 'kids for cash' case  | ajc.com "I blame no one but myself for what happened," he said, and then denied he had ever incarcerated any juveniles in exchange for money ... He also criticized U.S. Assistant Attorney Gordon Zubrod for referring to the case as "kids for cash," and said it sank his reputation. "He backdoored me, and I never saw it coming. Those three words made me the personification of evil," Ciavarella said. "They made me toxic and caused a public uproar the likes of which this community has never seen." (repentent Republican)
Fox's Red Eye Panelists Attack Kids In Progressive Campaign Video As "Little Bastards" And "A Bunch Of Dorks" | Media Matters for America

The Obama Administration's Weird Home Rental Plan | Mother Jones - This plan would presumably require F&F to offer their foreclosed homes at fire sale prices. But if we're willing to do that, why not just offer them at fire sale prices and be done with it? Why waste time with the rental plan? What am I missing here? (there's always a bank in the middle raking it in)
Unemployment Discrimination: Who's Afraid To Hire The Jobless?

The illusion of attention | Mo Costandi | Science | guardian.co.uk Focused attention can make you oblivious to sights and sounds that would otherwise be glaringly obvious
The “Berlin Patient” May Not Be The Answer As HIV Research Progresses Toward A Cure | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
Can't add up? We are either born with a mathematical brain or not | Mail Online
NASA - NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface
Rinku Devi, Indian Woman With Two Wombs, Gives Birth To Twins


Why 193,000 people stopped paying for TV last quarter — Online Video News
Mobile phone eavesdropping made easy: Hackers crack GPRS encryption - Computerworld Blogs

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The continued embarrassment that is European monetary policy … economists? | Kantoos Economics Meanwhile, European policy makers and central bankers are wrecking one of the most fascinating projects in human history, the unity and friendship among the countries of Europe. This is beyond depressing. Way beyond (economic insanity grips the western World)
U.K.’s CBI Cuts Growth Forecast, Sees BOE Hold - Bloomberg

‘Playing With Fire,’ Pamela Constable on Pakistan - Review - NYTimes.com the vast majority of the population trapped, she notes, at the bottom of a deeply hierarchical society (Pakistan, not US)
Art Curator Beaten By Pakistani Police For 'Indecent' Behavior The offending behavior included wearing sleeveless clothing and interacting with men.
Afghanistan Helicopter Attackers Killed: NATO (oh, sure)
Syria protests: Troops renew attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators | World news | The Guardian Crackdown comes as President Bashar al-Assad rejects Turkish appeals to change tack or face fate of Muammar Gaddafi
Obama to toughen stance on Syria with call for Assad's departure | World news | The Guardian Syrian opposition and western diplomats say unconditional call for Assad to go would have far-reaching implications
China's first aircraft carrier launches with pride amid regional tensions | World news | The Guardian Sea trials of former Soviet craft underline China's naval ambitions and fuel concerns about growing military strength
German rightwing rock fans tricked in anti-extremist T-shirt stunt | World news | The Guardian Nationalist message on T-shirt changes to call for tolerance when taken home and washed

No 10 rejects Boris Johnson call for police cuts to be scrapped | UK news | guardian.co.uk London mayor urges David Cameron to abandon plans to cut police budgets across the country after four nights of riots
Riots Spotlight London’s Troubled Youths - NYTimes.com
UK riots: Sharing of police between cities 'reviewed hourly' | UK news | guardian.co.uk Theresa May orders police chiefs to cancel all police leave as forces are stretched across the UK
Birmingham riots: intense anger after deaths of three young men | UK news | guardian.co.uk Community leaders appeal for calm after three British Asians rammed by carload of suspected looters in Winson Green
Man critically ill after being attacked during Ealing riots | UK news | The Guardian Detectives investigate assault of man in west London who intervened to extinguish fire started in a bin
Croydon woman pictured jumping from burning building too shaken to talk | UK news | The Guardian Polish woman Monika Konczyk leaped into the arms of rescuers as fire engulfed her flat
London riots: victim in YouTube video is Malaysian student | UK news | guardian.co.uk Asyraf Haziq, who was robbed by looters as he sat injured and needing help, is recuperating in hospital
John Derbyshire Wants To ‘Let Britain Burn’ | ThinkProgress
Tariq Jahan Urges Community To Stay Calm And Safe

James Murdoch expected to provide evidence he did not mislead MPs | Media | guardian.co.uk Former News of the World editor and lawyer claim that statement to select committee on phone hacking was 'mistaken'
James Murdoch Has Until Thursday To Respond To Allegations He Misled Parliament | TPMMuckraker
Phone hacking: 61-year-old man arrested | Media | guardian.co.uk Man arrested by Scotland Yard reported to be former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw
Met PR man Dick Fedorcio put on leave | Media | guardian.co.uk Metropolitan police's director of public affairs put on extended leave until IPCC investigation into his conduct is over
Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News | Media | The Guardian Even Rupert Murdoch is afraid of Roger Ailes, the paranoid boss of Fox News. But 'the Chairman' is using his power to make Americans more rightwing, more ignorant and ever more terrified (fear and lies from the Mouth of Satan)

The Pitfalls of 'Splitting the Middle' in the Middle East - Shadi Hamid - International - The Atlantic At a time when clarity and resolve would seem more important than ever, the Obama administration has acted as if incoherence were a virtue ... This is an old story, and increasingly one that defines the Obama administration's missteps: By trying to please everyone, it ends up pleasing no one (our omni-directional placator at work making everyone dissatisfied)
Fmr. Classification Czar: Sanction Those Who Improperly Classify Information | The Dissenter (Obama's out-of-control war on the truth)

New GOP Strategy Involves Reelecting Obama, Making His Life Even More Miserable | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Obama Surges To Lead Against Generic Republican | TPMDC (most electable Republican)
Before declaring, Perry in 2nd place among GOP contenders | McClatchy
Early Morning Swim: Barbara Ehrenreich Discusses Obama’s Neglect of Unions with Rachel Maddow [VID] | Firedoglake We have not heard that man for a long, long time (complete failure as a Democrat, success as a Republican)
Time for another stimulus, Mr. President - The Washington Post
Political Animal - Economic exceptionalism is a choice The world instead sees a dysfunctional mess, led by a rabid group of right-wing officials who appear to lack the knowledge, and some days even desire, to keep America on top.

The Real Problem with the Congressional 'Super-Committee' | The Nation The super-committee itself is a profoundly conservative and anti-Democratic entity, immune from public pressure and tasked with deciding between two bad choices—a so-called grand bargain that would significantly reduce the social safety net vs. deep across the board cuts at a time of economic peril ... All six (Republicans) have signed Grover Norquist’s “no new taxes” pledge. (while Obama packs it with conservaDems - Catfood II: another stupid idea from our profoundly Conservative and unable-to-lead Pres)
Senate Dems on Catfood Commission Like a Rorschach Test | FDL News Desk (stuffed with the same Blue-Dogs who killed healthcare)
Dismal Thoughts - NYTimes.com I’m still trying to make sense of this global intellectual failure. But the results are not in question: we are making a total mess of a solvable problem, with consequences that will haunt us for decades to come (Obama was a generational mistake)
Robert Reich (Why the President Doesn't Present a Bold Plan to Create Jobs and Jumpstart the Economy) White House political operatives are against a bold jobs plan. They believe the only jobs plan that could get through Congress would be so watered down as to have almost no impact by Election Day (running on cutting "the deficit" created by Republicans and losing the future)
New CNN Poll: Majority want tax increase for wealthy and deep spending cuts – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs (Obama takes taxing the rich off the table with CFC II)
McConnell, Boehner Make Deficit Committee Appointments (formula for nothing disaster)
Daily Kos: Boehner: If Ryan's Medicare-ending budget had passed Congress, there wouldn't have been a downgrade
Biased Media Covers Credit Downgrade Instead Of Mike Ditka Complimenting Palin | Media Matters for America
Alec Baldwin considers running for New York mayor | Film | The Guardian 30 Rock actor says he may enter mayoral race after 2013 and plans to take master's in politics and government
DownWithTyranny!: Wisconsin Dems Need 3 Seats To Take Back State Senate. They Have 2... But Vote Thief Kathy Nickolaus Is Holding Back 10 Precincts In Waukesha Co (the same Republican crook who stole the Supreme court election)
Wis. Dems: The Recalls Were A Win For Us! | TPMDC n which they were unable to pick up the needed three seats to gain control of the chamber, instead picking up two seats
Wisconsin - Democrats Come Up Short, but Don't Score it as a Flat Loss | MyFDL
Time to Stand Up to a Government That Does Not Represent Our Views | MichaelMoore.com The occupation begins on October 6, 2011 when thousands of Americans enter Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC and refuse to leave. We are calling the occupation Stop the Machine: Create a New World.
How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots - The Washington Post That the Legal Services Corporation Act is repealed.” - a transparent attempt by the young lawmaker to defend a company in his district that discriminates against U.S. citizens in favor of Mexican migrant workers.

Daily Kos: Standard & Poor's CEO Gives $$ to Romney, Bush, GOP Party
How Companies Are Bypassing The U.S. High Income-Tax Rate
Wall Street drops on French bank worry day after rally - Yahoo! Finance
Daily Kos: McCaskill: No jobs bill this year (D-Mo.) said Monday (another Blue-Dog wrecking the economy for you)
The (Real) Rent Is Too Damn High | ThinkProgress

Explorer Marco Polo 'never actually went to China' - Telegraph Marco Polo's journeys to China and the Far East established him as one of history’s greatest explorers but archeologists now believe he never actually went there.
A Fox News Science Lesson | Media Matters for America "Why CO2 Can't Cause Warming" (Roger Ailes, Chief Scientist)
Bonobo beats chimpanzee in intelligence test - video | World news | guardian.co.uk The bonobos, chimp-like apes who live in matriarchal family groups and frequently use sex to resolve social conflicts, defied expectations by beating the group of chimpanzees in intelligence tests, because the chimps were too busy fighting among themselves for dominance
US military to launch fastest-ever plane | World news | The Guardian Unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 can travel from London to Sydney in less than an hour ... part of a US military research project to build a plane that could reach (and potentially deliver bombs to) any part of the world in less than an hour.

Kansas Gov. Brownback rejects federal health care grant | McClatchy Gov. Sam Brownback said Tuesday he will return a $31.5 million federal grant intended to help implement the new federal health care law.
Kansas' Planned Parenthood defunding faces federal scrutiny | McClatchy If Kansas can’t satisfy the government’s concerns, it will be at risk of losing all or part of nearly $3 million in family planning funds (which they were planning to use for abstinence education)
Courthouse News Service New York City police shot 46 times into a Harlem crowd to break up a fight between two men, wounding an innocent college student, and when an officer saw him bleeding from the gunshot wound, the cop told him to "Get the f-k out of here," the student says in a $7 million federal complaint.

Pay TV Faces ‘Toxic Mix’ as Subscribers Exit - Bloomberg The six largest publicly traded U.S. cable and satellite-TV providers combined to lose about 580,000 customers in the second quarter, the biggest such decline in history (if they weren't bundling internet at outrageous prices, they would be dead)

Kind of Screwed - Waxy.org (fair use is dead unless you have a lot of money for lawyers)

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Syrian death toll rises as Arab states protest | World news | The Guardian Total killed during Syrian uprising passes 2,000 as President Bashar al-Assad defies international pressure
Spanish priests join opposition to costly papal visit | World news | guardian.co.uk Madrid group says €60m fee cannot be justified at time of state cuts, neither can choice of sponsors for World Youth Day ... nterest in the Catholic church is on the wane among young people in Spain. A recent survey by the national statistics office showed that the number of believers aged 18 to 24 has fallen by 56% in the past 10 years.

David Cameron to convene second Cobra meeting on London riots | UK news | The Guardian Scotland Yard to consider the impact of heavier police presence as tensions within the coalition begin to emerge (sounding more like Assad)
Last Year, British Official Insisted Austerity Cuts Wouldn't Affect Ability To Contain Civil Unrest - Now London Is Burning | Crooks and Liars - In September of last year, the British Home Secretary Theresa May refused to accept claims by the British police that austerity cuts would affect their ability to contain civil unrest
UK riots could cost taxpayer £100m | UK news | The Guardian Insurance bill for riot damage to shops and homes to be paid for by police authorities under 1886 act
Lockdown in London, while trouble flares in Manchester and Midlands | UK news | guardian.co.uk Two cars set on fire in West Bromwich, shops attacked in Wolverhampton and police vans pelted with stones in Salford

Rupert Murdoch to face Wall Street analysts' questions | Media | guardian.co.uk News Corp boss likely to be quizzed on plans for succession – but queries on phone hacking ruled out on legal advice
Official - Rebekah Brooks is still a News International director | Media | guardian.co.uk
Piers Morgan and phone hacking - what his record really reveals | Media | guardian.co.uk It's all about the fact that his past remarks on the subject show that he didn't believe it was ethically wrong to engage in the practice ... Now at CNN, he is in his element, having joined a branch of the entertainment industry that masquerades as a form of journalism. It suits him perfectly.

Mark Duggan did not shoot at police, says IPCC | UK news | guardian.co.uk PCC releases initial findings of ballistics tests in police shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked London riots (cops murdered him; coverup falls apart)
Past Time for a New Agenda - NYTimes.com Where, though, is the broader vision? Mr. Obama said nothing about direct job creation. He did not mention that unemployment among high school graduates under 25 is averaging 21.5 percent. He said nothing about more help for homeowners who are under water, though easier refinancing rules would help many borrowers at little cost to taxpayers (he basically hasn't said anything the whole time)
Obama says credit downgrade means 'renewed sense of urgency' - usatoday.com
Washington to nation: What economic crisis? | McClatchy (+Heritage, Concord Foundations, blah-blah)
London riots: 'People are fighting back. It's their neighbourhoods at stake' | UK news | The Guardian Shopkeepers who have turned out to defend their streets and property from rioters criticise lack of police action
London riots: police run out of cells as prisons and courts near 'crunch point' | UK news | The Guardian Amid public pressure for hardline response, Metropolitan police send riot detainees to neighbouring forces
Tottenham riots: 'Do you expect people not to see an opportunity?' | UK news | The Guardian Youths in Tottenham complain of few jobs and disrespect from the police after peaceful protest leads to disorder across London
What next to tackle the riots? Curfew? Water cannon? The army? | Duncan Campbell | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Much advice is flying around on how to deal with the riots across the UK. Here's a guide to the main suggestions
London Riots. (The BBC will never replay this. Send it out) - YouTube
The West Londoner - London and UK Riots Live

Poll: Americans see debt deal as bad for nation | McClatchy By 69-28, voters support raising taxes on people with annual incomes of more than $250,000. By 62-32 they support eliminating subsidies to oil and gas companies. By 73-23 they oppose cutting Medicaid and entitlements. (but they are confused about a lot of things)

Apple briefly passes Exxon as largest U.S. company - Yahoo! Finance - even though the oil major's annual revenue is four times that of Apple's (let them eat iPhones)

Pulsations reveal which embryos have the best chance of success in IVF | Science | The Guardian Movements inside fertilised eggs created in IVF could provide a quick, non-invasive way to identify which to implant

How Hard Is It to Close a Nuclear Plant? - Environment - GOOD
Scotch Tape Lets You See Through Frosted Glass | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Hacker group vows to 'kill Facebook' - CNN.com
EFF Calls on Cisco to Do the Right Thing | Electronic Frontier Foundation Cisco’s plans to help the Chinese government build a massive camera surveillance network in the city of Chongqing. This is the same company that sold equipment to China to build the Great Firewall, which prevents Chinese Internet users from accessing much of the Internet, including online references to the Tiananmen Square protests, information on China’s human rights abuses, and social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
iOnApple: Raid on Russian firm ChronoPay explains the demise of Mac Defender malware Mac Defender was a piece of malware that came in with a bang and curiously disappeared just as quickly

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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah demands an end to violence in Syria - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Syrian Ministry Of Defense Website Hacked By 'Anonymous'
In valley where SEALs died, U.S. raids boost Taliban support | McClatchy Navy SEALs, who died Saturday in the U.S. military's single biggest loss of the Afghan war, were operating in a Taliban-controlled valley where frequent U.S.-led night raids have won the insurgents popular support, area residents said Sunday (your Commander-in-Chief sucks)
Israelis stage mass demonstrations protesting cost of living | McClatchy
Mujahedin El-Khalq: Former U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating For Terrorist Organization
9/11 remembered at Edinburgh festival fringe as 10th anniversary approaches | Culture | The Guardian
McCain Says Afghanistan War Only Really Got Started In 2009 | ThinkProgress But maybe McCain didn’t realize there has been a war going on there since 2001 seeing that he tended to skip his Senate committee hearings on the war, or that as early as 2004, thought the U.S. had already won and continued to call it a “success” for years after.
Torture Lawsuit Against Donald Rumsfeld Upheld By Court A court says two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm can move forward with a lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of being responsible for U.S. forces allegedly torturing them (how long before they are all in prison?)

New Area Struck in 3d Night of London Violence - NYTimes.com The rioting and looting that convulsed poorer sections of London over the weekend spread Monday to at least six new parts of the metropolitan area and broke out for the first time in another big city, in what appeared to be the worst outbreak of social unrest in Britain in 25 years (how's that austerity thing working out for you?)
London riots: the third night – live coverage | UK news | guardian.co.uk
London riots escalate as police battle for control | UK news | The Guardian Full-scale alert as violence spreads across capital
London riots: how did the Metropolitan police lose control of the capital? | UK news | The Guardian The Met's public order unit CO11 left bruised, exhausted and, for second night running, out-manoeuvred by rioters and looting
London Riots Rage On For Third Day
London riots - live blog | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Doubts emerge over Duggan shooting as London burns | UK news | The Guardian Initial ballistics tests suggest bullet lodged in officer's radio during incident in Tottenham was police issue (coverup exposed)
Things I believe about the London riots | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Further outbreaks of violence and looting in London - in pictures | UK news | guardian.co.uk Unrest spreads beyond Tottenham to Enfield and Brixton as capital experiences second night of rioting following fatal shooting of Mark Duggan
London riots: how BlackBerry Messenger played a key role | Media | guardian.co.uk Police looking on Facebook and Twitter for signs of unrest spreading will have missed out – they should have watched BBM ... For many teens armed with a BlackBerry, BBM has replaced text messaging because it is free, instant and more part of a much larger community than regular SMS.

The Rise of Secret Wars | FDL News Desk it’s pretty clear that warmaking capabilities are being moved out of the Defense Department and into covert ops.
How many secret wars are we fighting? - War Room - Salon.com U.S. special ops forces are being deployed in more and more nations -- and the public has no idea (time to dump Obama)

Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes Down More Than 630 Points, Sixth-Worst Point Loss Ever
A Second Recession Could Be Much Worse Than the First - NYTimes.com as many economists are now warning, the bloodletting could be a lot more painful than the last time around (WH: What double-dip?)
Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance U.S. stocks, emerging markets, bonds, gold all need attitude adjustment
Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance More bad news for 'America's Worst Decade' ... James Taub, warns of what the "debt-ceiling deal tells us about the Tea Party's grim vision of American power." ... "All Guns, No Butter ... the debt deal just concluded is likely to preserve the country's hypertrophied defense budget, at least if congressional Republicans get their way." (the Great Unraveling)
S&P’s History of Relentless Political Advocacy | FDL News Desk S&P, while claiming to be agnostic about where the $4 trillion in deficit reduction must come from, said that cutting entitlement spending is “key to long-term fiscal sustainability.” (your anti-tax rulers at work)
Why S.&P.'s Ratings Are Substandard and Porous - NYTimes.com
America's economy: Downgraded | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian It is possible for a bad witness suffering a severe conflict of interest to make the occasional pertinent observation ... This follows on from the debt-ceiling talks, when Ms Bachmann and her fellow Republicans talked about a possible government default as if it were no more troubling than a trip to the spa. In short, this is the Tea Party's downgrade.
S&P to review ratings for gov'ts linked to US debt - Yahoo! Finance Standard & Poor's say they plan to indicate how local and state governments, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and insurers will be affected by the rating agency's downgrade of long-term U.S. debt.
Standard & Poor’s Downgrade Seen as Adding Urgency to Debt Panel - NYTimes.com (doubling down on their complete failure)
Eschaton: Destroying Ourselves Always knew empires destroyed themselves, just never knew they did it so deliberately or quickly ... Interest on five-year Treasuries is now 1.25%. Let me just submit that this is all 100% bullshit.
Barney Frank: Credit Rating Downgrade Due To U.S. Military Spending (authoritarian dictatorships never cut military spending)
GOP Presidential Candidates Ignore S&P’s ‘Blast At Republicans,’ Pin Downgrade Blame on Obama | ThinkProgress (with a little help from Fox)
Credibility, Chutzpah and Debt - NYTimes.com The first is that America is indeed no longer the stable, reliable country it once was. The second is that S.& P. itself has even lower credibility; it’s the last place anyone should turn for judgments about our nation’s prospects.
Mitt Romney: Obama Is 'Out Of His Depth,' The Nation's Security Is At Risk (and don't read page 4 of that report)
Jeff Madrick: S&P Downgrade Brought On by Republican Obstructionism
US debt downgrade could mean rate hikes for all - Yahoo! Finance Downgrade on US debt could translate into higher interest rates on credit cards and mortgages
Forget the Downgrade, Panic About Everything Else - Yahoo! Finance Partisanship has already cost us our AAA-rating. The politics of stalemate can still cost us so much more (very non-partisan)
Robert Reich: Slouching Toward a Double-Dip, for No Good Reason But there's no question that the United States has enough money to pay what it owes. We're the richest nation in the world and we print the money the world relies on. The only question on this side of the pond is whether tea-party Republicans will allow America to pay its bills when the debt-ceiling fight resumes at the end of 2012.
Hullabaloo You can believe me or you can believe your lying eyes --- Democrat style - I'll bet the Republicans are so grateful that the President didn't blame them for the debt ceiling debacle that they will happily cooperate in future legislative initiatives. Like passing free trade deals. And cutting spending, regulations and taxes. (another Obama refusal to tell the truth and lay blame where it belongs; the guy is hopeless)
How Should Obama Answer the Stock Market's Wake-Up Call? We-Need-Different-Cossacks Department
A Quick Theory About That Disastrous Obama Speech The verdict is in: That Obama speech (to which he arrived 53 minutes late) was a disaster, that totally failed to reassure anyone that the economy isn't imploding all over again (he just doesn't get it)

The Secret Of O’s Failccess | Firedoglake this is the week for posts about Obama being a strong Republican rather than a weak Democrat. I certainly can’t imagine what might have brought this on ... Remember back in 2009, when Obama’s supporters tried to explain away his apparent cluelessness and tone-deafness by claiming it was all part of some grand plan to outmaneuver the Republicans? That he was playing eleventy-dimensional chess and we just couldn’t follow his strategy? Turns out they were right all along, they just didn’t notice he was sitting on the other side of the table.
Rick Perry's call to prayer draws crowd of 30,000 | World news | The Guardian Secular America watches nervously as the Christian evangelical Texas governor moves closer to presidential bid (onward, Satan's Soldiers)
The Response: We Watch So You Don't Have To | Right Wing Watch - Rick Perry
IRS Buckled To GOP Pressure On Secret Donations, Lawyer Says The Internal Revenue Service succumbed to pressure from Republican members of Congress last month when it suddenly shut down its examinations into whether five large donors had violated the law
Wisconsin GOP official resigns after drunken crash with kids in car | The Raw Story Columbia County Republican Party chair Amber Hahn resigned on Friday after drunkenly crashing a car carrying herself and her three children ... Ms. Hahn is also the GOP official who appeared on Fox News last February masquerading as an "upset Wisconsin parent" weighing in on the issue of public school teachers teaching union history in the classroom. Neither Ms. Hahn nor the hosts and producers of "Fox and Friends" felt the need to disclose that Hahn was a Republican activist and local GOP chair (another drunk teapartier)
This Week: The Moment Of Truth For The Wisconsin State Senate Recalls | TPMDC
Veto Players and Governance

The Depression And Our Recession | ThinkProgress FDR took the helm of a country in an incredibly deep ditch and presided over rapid growth. Obama took the helm of a country whose economy was declining at a terrifying pace and turned that around into slow growth.
The Downgrade Doom Loop - NYTimes.com - Behold the power of a stupid narrative, which seems impervious to evidence.
Timothy Geithner Informs Obama He Will Stay As Treasury Secretary (chief destroyer deigns to keep on destroying)
Central Falls bankruptcy means a grim present for the 'city with a bright future' | Business | The Guardian Tiny city is first in Rhode Island to go bankrupt as debt-ridden municipalities face higher interest rates
Oil Falls to Eight-Month Low in New York as Investors Buy Treasuries, Gold - Yahoo! Finance Oil for September delivery fell $3.47, or 4 percent, to $83.41 a barrel
Poor People Own Appliances Because They’re Cheap | ThinkProgress (they shouldn't have anything)

AUDIO: Pissed-Off Al Gore Calls ‘Bullshit’ On ‘Crap’ Peddled By Climate Denial Machine | ThinkProgress

Schools Caught Cheating In Atlanta, Around The Country Roughly 30 states have begun or are about to shift their teacher evaluation systems to rely, by various degrees, on standardized test scores (the Bush/Obama subsidized cheating program to leave everyone behind)
Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? | Education | AlterNet Converting schools and universities into facilities that produce commodities for the job market, privatizing them, slashing their budgets — do we really want this future?
Payoff Problems by Daniel Luzer | Washington Monthly College cost escalate at about double the rate of inflation and middle class wages are essentially stagnant
National Women's History Museum Placates Conservatives To Get Bill Passed In Congress A former executive director of the Eagle Forum, which led the fight to defeat an Equal Rights Amendment for women, is among several conservative women who have been added to the museum's board (anti-women museum; there are never any consequences)

Israeli family can freeze eggs of daughter killed in road accident | World news | The Guardian Court ruling sets legal precedent in Israel and is possibly first of its kind in world
Everette Howard, University Of Cincinnati Student, Dies After Being Tasered

Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb - YouTube
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Best Version Ever - YouTube - Nara (Japan) in May 1994.

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NHS among developed world's most efficient health systems, says study | Society | The Guardian he NHS saw health spending rise to a record 9.3% of GDP, this was less than Germany with 10.7% or the US with 15% (America's system least efficient, maximizes profits for corps)

Syrian government forces attack Houleh and Deir Ezzor | World news | guardian.co.uk Syrian activists say at least four killed in military raids on town in Homs province and eastern city
Academic claims Israeli school textbooks contain bias | World news | The Observer Nurit Peled-Elhanan of Hebrew University says textbooks depict Palestinians as 'terrorists, refugees and primitive farmers' (racist state)
The New Yorker’s account of the bin Laden raid is amazing–perhaps too amazing | The Cutline - Yahoo! News
WikiLeaks: Coast Guard officer is key U.S. man in Havana | McClatchy
?TV: KJ Terror chief Moses Witriol with NYSP violates visitors peoples rights?? - YouTube - Kiryas Joel (NY State Police enforce Hasidic Law, so there)

Piers Morgan under pressure as phone-hacking scandal widens | Media | The Observer it is not Scotland Yard that has been responsible for turning up the heat on Morgan. Rather, in what his enemies might suggest is proof that there is such a thing as divine retribution, it is Morgan's unchecked vanity.
Phone Hacking Suits Against Trinity Mirror, Piers Morgan's Former Employer, Looming
Phone hacking: 'Rupert Murdoch tells Rebekah Brooks to travel the world’ - Telegraph Rebekah Brooks will not comment on claims she is still drawing a News International salary ... and then he will find a job for her when the scandal has died down
Michael Mansfield condemns police brutality at student demo | UK news | The Observer Leading human rights lawyer claims riot squad tactics were aimed at halting political protest
Tottenham riots - live reaction | UK news | guardian.co.uk
48 Arrested After Shops and Cars Burned in London - NYTimes.com
Tottenham Riot: The Police Seemed Helpless, Witnesses Say

Anonymous attacks US sheriffs' websites | Technology | The Guardian Hacking collective says it stole data including emails and credit card numbers in retaliation for arrests of its sympathisers - The emails were mainly from sheriffs' offices in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Mississippi (they let a "marketing company" run their websites)

What Happened to Obama’s Passion? - NYTimes.com (the passion was for himself +he was never there in the first place)
Hullabaloo: Chinese Menu Governance (Drew Westen +Garry Wills' fascinating characterization of the problem as "omnidirectional placation." ... "Yet success at winning acceptance may not be what is called for in a leader moving through a time of peril." +he drank his own kook-aid)

Highly Salient | Talking Points Memo We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act (unprintable in the Lame-Stream-Media)
OpEdNews - Article: S&P Blames Republicans, MSM Fails to Report It (that would be a too-partisan fact)
Political parties trade blame for downgrade in U.S. credit rating - The Washington Post (here's your MSM media ignoring S&P and pretending it was "both sides")
Kerry Slams 'Tea Party Downgrade' | TPMDC
David Axelrod: This Is A 'Tea Party Downgrade'
Origins of the debt showdown - The Washington Post (teaparty bought and paid for)
What the U.S. Credit Rating Actually Means—And How to Fix It - Politics - GOOD whether the country will continue in the path of other developed nations around the world, raising taxes and reforming systems to preserve a social safety net and a hybrid economy, or if we’ll shift toward austerity and shed many of the things our government does to provide security to its citizens, letting corporations and markets sort things out (you know how this will work out)
Downgraded US Credit Rating: What comes of Coddling the Super-Rich | Informed Comment

Rick Perry: In Less Than Three Years, America Has Forgotten God, Needs to Repent | Firedoglake
Rachel Maddow Takes Last Of The Birthers To The Cleaners In Hilarious Segment - brought on by declining revenue from the company's Kaplan Higher Education Unit, and advertising sales.
Cable News Ratings: Top 30 Programs For July 2011 (17 of top 20 are Fox)
Tea Party Nation: The left's killed "a billion people" - David Catanese - POLITICO.com The founder of Tea Party Nation claimed liberal ideology is responsible for "a billion" deaths over the past century during a raucous rally here Saturday in support of one of the six Republican state senators facing a recall election Tuesday.

The Nine States Slashing Unemployment Benefits - 24/7 Wall St. States with the highest unemployment also tend to have the most financial trouble themselves. This is due to low tax receipts caused in large part by the high unemployment level.
Washington Post's Second Quarter Profits Fall 50%

Christian Right Calls Al Franken a Liberal Bully for Exposing Their Big Lie (NPR will do a "fair-n-balanced" story)
The Furor Over Gay Conversion Therapy : NPR Ombudsman : NPR The overwhelming criticism from listeners was that Spiegel was guilty of creating a false balance. "There is no debate in psychological circles regarding reparative therapy," The presentation this morning was nothing but false equivalence, 'he said she said' nonsense...Heinous journalism, just heinous." (NPR/Fox at work)
Research linking autism to internet use is criticised | Society | The Observer

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Helicopter Taliban downed was carrying Navy SEALs | McClatchy Thirty-one U.S. troops, including more than 20 Navy SEALs, and seven Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter was shot down during an overnight operation against Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan,
U.S. Troops Killed as Copter Shot Down in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com killing at least 37 people on board, a coalition military official said on Saturday. It was believed to be the deadliest helicopter crash in the nearly decade-long war, punctuating a surge of violence across the country even as American and NATO forces begin a modest drawdown of troops (Obama's big surge for his reelection)
Guantanamo prisoners face Ramadan fasting | McClatchy With the vast majority of the prisoners at Guantánamo now marking their 10th Ramadan in a row behind the razor wire (the worst of the worst of the completely innocent)
Judge finds military conviction with faulty evidence 'injustice' | McClatchy
McClatchy blog: Suits & Sentences U.S. citizen and Army vet claims U.S. tortured him in Iraq

S.&P. Downgrades Debt Rating of U.S. For the First Time - NYTimes.com
S & P Downgrades U.S. Credit For First Time In History, Repeatedly Cites GOP Intransigence On Taxes | ThinkProgress
S&P Downgrades U.S. AAA Bond Rating To AA+, Outlook Negative | TPMDC
China Tells US 'Good Old Days' of Borrowing Are Over - NYTimes.com - China -- the United States' biggest creditor -- said Washington only had itself to blame for its plight and called for a new stable global reserve currency ... "The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," ... China scorned the United States for its "debt addiction" and "short sighted" political wrangling.
US credit rating downgrade prompts warning from China | Business | guardian.co.uk China says it has 'every right to demand' US tackles debt
Global leaders race to stem panic over US credit rating downgrade | Business | The Observer Finance ministers from G7 countries hold urgent talks to try to prevent loss of confidence in world's biggest economy
Bachmann Slams Obama Birthday Party: I'll Cancel My Barbecue If Stocks Crash | TPMDC ("we had nothing, nothing, to do with crashing everyone's economy)
New Republican Logo - Imgur
The Best Summary of the S&P Downgrade - NYTimes.com

Hackers strike at 70 US law enforcement websites - Yahoo! News The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked some 70 law enforcement websites across the southern and central United States in retaliation for the arrests of its sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain.

Wikileaks Haiti: The Aristide Files | The Nation US officials led a far-reaching international campaign aimed at keeping former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide exiled in South Africa, rendering him a virtual prisoner there for the last seven years, according to secret US State Department cables (America loves corrupt dictators everywhere)
Philippines’ Untouchable Soldiers | Human Rights Watch The US should hold Aquino's government accountable for soldier abuses (they won't)
Jerusalem Post apologises to Norway for editorial on Oslo attacks | Media | The Guardian Newspaper publishes full-length editorial to say sorry for using massacre to criticise multiculturalism after 'avalanche' of protest (neo-con Zionist paper caught with its pants down)
Greece's healthcare system is on the brink of catastrophe | World news | The Guardian Patients who cannot afford treatment and hospitals without critical supplies are among victims of the financial meltdown
Somali famine refugees draw hope from Islamists' Mogadishu withdrawal | World news | The Observer Prime minister says al-Shabaab fighters have now left 90% of the capital, raising prospect of faster delivery of humanitarian aid

FBI widens News Corp inquiry after alleged computer hacking by subsidiary | Media | The Guardian US authorities reportedly looking into 'larger pattern of behaviour' by Murdoch companies following claims of strong-arm tactics
Elisabeth Murdoch opts not to join board of News Corporation | Media | The Guardian Statement from conglomerate says she suggested it would be 'inappropriate' for her to join board of father's company

End the Debt Limit - NYTimes.com None of that, however, has stopped Republican leaders, who announced this week that they intend to repeat this explosive episode over and over, in perpetuity. With the bad memory still fresh, President Obama should quickly seize the opportunity to make clear that he will not allow it even once more, never mind permanently. (Pres Never-Say-No-Except-to-Liberals? not likely)
The Tea Party, Take Two - NYTimes.com if major spending cuts take place in 2013, as is currently envisioned, they will cost the country 1.5 percent of G.D.P. The debt ceiling deal, it seems to me, practically guarantees another recession (if that isn't terrorism, what is?)
Dems Take On Panetta For Pushing Medicare, Social Security Cuts Over Defense Cuts | TPMDC
Political Animal - A timeline of events (Republicans spending US into debt, forgetting they did it)
Political Animal - What hath the GOP wrought Americans elected lunatics to help run Congress; they launched a reckless scheme; and now they appear to have sabotaged our fiscal credibility and standing. The 2010 midterms are proving to be one of the most dramatic national mistakes in generations (Teatards destroying America with their sheer stupdity)
Politicalprof - A Thought On The Bush Tax Cuts … they were scheduled to expire in ten years in the cynical hope that they would keep being extended afterwards.
The $100 Billion TeaBagger Tax | emptywheel A better way of thinking of it is how much every American will have to pay. That $100 billion among 310 million Americans works out to be $322 for every man, woman, and child to pay for the TeaBagger’s little temper tantrum.
Why the S&P downgrade was delayed | Felix Salmon there’s a serious constituency of powerful people in Congress who are perfectly willing and even eager to drive the US into default. The Tea Party is fully cognizant that it has been given a bazooka, and it’s just itching to pull the trigger. There’s no good reason to believe that won’t happen at some point.
Mohamed el-Erian: U.S. Downgrade Heralds a New Financial Era America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.
Tea Party Remains A Driving Force As GOP Leaders Risk Backlash From Movement

Facing Backlash For Disenfranchising Voters, Gov. Walker Reverses Course On Plan To Close Several DMV Offices | ThinkProgress
Gov. Christie ‘Disgusted’ By Criticism Of Muslim Judge: ‘This Sharia Law Business Is Crap’ | ThinkProgress
The Infinite Loop Of Megan McArdle Wrongness | TBogg
Family Research Council | Southern Poverty Law Center
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Perry's prayer event will put Christianity's worst on display
Pam's House Blend:: 10 Things Senator Gillibrand Has Done For The LGBT Community

U.S. Posts Stronger Job Gains - NYTimes.com employers added 117,000 jobs last month, slightly more than expected.
The Washington Monthly - Ten Miles Square - Balanced-Budget Bill Fails Fiscal Test (Republicans fail everything)
Prattle and Prejudice - NYTimes.com David Glasner marvels at an utterly incoherent op-ed by David Malpass in the WSJ. The fact that the Journal even invites Malpass to write says volumes: this is, after all, the guy who insisted that American savings were plenty high because of all those capital gains on housing ... The point is that at this point we’re not having a debate between opposing models; we’re having a conflict in which one side has a model that has been working, while the other side has prejudices, and makes stuff up to justify those prejudices. (Conservative thought is incoherent)

Power companies prepare as solar storms set to hit Earth - Yahoo! News
Japan scientists coax sperm from stem cells - Yahoo! News

More People Are Using Smartphones To Secretly Record Office Conversations In 38 states there are “single-party” consent laws, where anyone with an iPhone can push a button and record without another’s consent.
Defcon Lockpickers Open Card-And-Code Government Locks In Seconds - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes ($1300 super-secure government-mandated lock completely useless)

This is Google's first self-driving car crash
Malware For Android Users Increases In Frequency And Sophistication - HotHardware

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S&P downgrades US credit rating from AAA - Yahoo! Finance S&P issues unprecedented downgrade of US credit rating, saying debt package falls short ... the Obama administration feels the S&P's analysis contained "deep and fundamental flaws." (you know who else's analysis has deep and fundamental flaws? +teatards at work)
GOP Tries To Shift Blame For S&P Downgrade Of U.S. Creditworthiness | TPMDC (who, us?)

BBC News - Syria violence: 'At least 2,000 killed', says US
'People are being slaughtered like sheep'
Syrian Protests: Hama Shelled By Tanks
Police raid Milan offices of Moody's and Standard & Poor's | World news | The Guardian Chief prosecutor of Trani conducts investigation into whether the two rating agencies abide by regulations ("regulations" mean no criticism of Itay's economy)
Chile hit by violent anti-government protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Police and demonstrators clash in Santiago as students lead unrest against policies of President Sebastián Pinera
Mexico town's entire police force quits after officers gunned down | World news | guardian.co.uk Drug gangs blamed as 20-strong squad resigns in Ascension after series of targeted attacks on new force
BBC News - Newsnight - Ethiopia 'using aid as weapon of oppression' the Ethiopian government is using billions of dollars of development aid as a tool for political oppression.
U.N. aid convoy looted in Mogadishu; casualties reported | McClatchy

China paper scoffs at suggestion Beijing is hacking villain | Reuters China's top official newspaper on Friday dismissed as irresponsible suggestions Beijing was the "state actor" behind massive Internet hacking of governments and companies that security company McAfee this week said it had discovered.
Settlers a familiar source of conflict in Israel's summer of discontent | McClatchy

How the US Hid Shocking Hiroshima Footage For Decades | World | AlterNet In a new book, Greg Mitchell explains how the United States' coverup of nuclear footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki affects us to this day.

Danziger Bridge Trial Verdict: Jury Convicts 5 New Orleans Police Officers In Post-Katrina Shootings

How the Debt Ceiling Deal Affects Social Security | Strengthen Social Security

The administration's stated budget priorities - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Republicans (at least its Tea Party faction) don't seem bothered at all by the prospects of military cuts, while Democrats -- specifically the Obama administration -- are acting as if such cuts, literally, would be nation-threatening ... Just think about that for a minute. We have a Democratic administration installed in power after millions of liberals donated large amounts of their time and money to help elect them. Yet here we have a top official in the President's cabinet demanding cuts to Medicare and Social Security in order to protect the military budget from further reductions. That's the position of the Democratic administration. (Obama is a real Republican)

Daily Kos: Lieberman: We have to cut Social Security to pay for fighting 'the Islamist extremists' since the Super Congress has been created specifically to pit defense and safety net programs against each other, don't be surprised if you see this one getting traction.
Balloon Juice » No Money for Butter, But Always Money for More Bigger Guns Defense spending represents about half of the federal government’s discretionary spending, and the military’s budget has increased by more than 70 percent since 2001. Although the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost the Pentagon upward of $1 trillion, nearly half of the growth in defense spending in the past decade has been unrelated to the wars ... Our ten Nimitz-class supercarriers represent a $450 billion collection of holes in the ocean in construction costs alone (defense spending now non-discretionary)
Fancy Fighter Jets Costing Nation Zillions of Dollars Do Not Work We are not military strategists, but if buying one less fancy fighter jet program can put the high school graduating classes of 27 states through college 216 times over and build an emissions-free subway line that goes from Boston to San Diego and back again via Peru, then THAT IS WORTH ONE LESS FIGHTER JET.

U.S. Adds 117,000 Jobs In July As Jobless Rate Falls, Beating Expectations (9.1% - oh, please)
Wall Street Suddenly Facing Reality? | Mother Jones So which is it? Has Wall Street really been sitting idly by during the whole debt ceiling debacle and has only now realized what it really means? Can they really be so steeped in the Fox News fantasyland that it never occurred to them until now that cutting federal spending during an economic downturn wasn't really a great idea? Seriously?
Obama's 'Pivot' To Jobs: The Deja Vu Reel (spin, baby, spin))
Balloon Juice » Mudfight Update: Some Got Dirtier Than Others The Tea Party is viewed favorably by a mere 20% of the population, with 43% saying that the Tea Party has too much influence on the Republican party. Obama’s handling of the hostage negotiation is about evenly split (47% approved, 46% disapproved).
How Republicans Screwed the Pooch - Print View - The Daily Beast Republicans say they want to save the country from Obama’s reckless spending. But as Paul Begala argues, it’s the GOP’s policies that have driven the nation into the ground (and then blamed the Dems, the poor, immigrants, Krugman and dirty hippies)
Public Views Congress as Top Culprit in Debt Debate, Poll Finds - NYTimes.com The Republicans compromised too little, a majority of those polled said. All told, 72 percent disapproved of the way Republicans in Congress handled the negotiations, while 66 percent disapproved of the way Democrats in Congress handled negotiations ... The public was more evenly divided about how Mr. Obama handled the debt ceiling negotiations: 47 percent disapproved and 46 percent approved (differences without a distinction)
Any 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Is Electable Anybody who wins the nod will have a real chance of winning, and Democrats who are hoping that Republican primary voters follow their worst instincts should be very careful what they wish for.
Rick Perry Is Electable Enough | ThinkProgress
Rick Perry's College Transcript: A Lot Of Cs And Ds (like Bush)
Cantor Opposes Extending Unemployment Benefits: We Need To Stop ‘Pumping Up’ Jobless Americans | ThinkProgress ("let them fucking starve")
Fox Nation Reports On Obama’s Birthday: ‘Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs’ | ThinkProgress As blogger Oliver Willis notes, future Fox Nation headlines may include “Obama, While Black, Remarks On Unemployment” or “Obama Blackly Delivers The State Of The Union.”
Fox Nation shocker: Obama invited black guys to his birthday party - Fox News - Salon.com The Marine Band is my favorite hip-hop group.
Hannity Blasts Insurance Coverage For Birth Control, Defends Viagra: ‘That Is A Medical Problem!’ | ThinkProgress (Sean's "medical problem" is his lack of a brain, too bad it isn't covered)
Late Night: Pouting Baby Asks “Aren’t You Glad Your Social Security Isn’t in a Private Account?” | Firedoglake Remember when Little Georgie B wanted to get rid of Social Security and replace it with private stock investments? That would have been a really bad idea today.
White House’s Scooby Doo Villain Perspective on Politics | FDL Action
Early Morning Swim: Chris Matthews – “It’s Time to Pass Out the Shovels and Get People to Work” [VID] | Firedoglake If he’s [Obama's] counting on corporate America to…come to the rescue, he’s been staring at his “Hope” poster too long.
Coming soon, the Two-Percent solution | Firedoglake (Boehnet: "I got 98 percent of what I wanted" and Obama got his usual 2 percent)
Warren Jeffs, Polygamist Leader, Convicted In Child Sexual Assault Case
Balloon Juice » Under pressure t’s time for James Fallows, TNC, and every other self-respecting employee of the Atlantic (there are others, right?) to say the words “I am ashamed to work with Megan McArdle.” The truth will set you free (McMegan McAddled)

Krugman: The Wrong Worries - NYTimes.com - It’s not just that the threat of a double-dip recession has become very real. It’s now impossible to deny the obvious, which is that we are not now and have never been on the road to recovery (smoke and mirrors from the Obama austerity team)
BBC News - Wall Street and global markets tumble on debt fears
CNBC Guest Blog — El-Erian: Making Sense of Thursday's Violent Market Selloff - CNBC
New York Attorney General Accuses Bank Of New York Mellon Of Fraud, Moves To Block Bank Of America's Mortgage Deal
American Millionaires: 1,400 Paid No U.S. Income Taxes In 2009

Bush speechwriter: Krugman was right - Paul Krugman - Salon.com Frum suggests that the entire conservative movement has fundamentally misunderstood how to manage the economy, and he compares it to how the "Left" failed to understand the true nature of Soviet Communism.
Pulling Rank - NYTimes.com - Williamson tries to settle the argument by pulling rank, portraying Quiggin as some kind of obscure and unqualified guy. It’s funny in this case, because Quiggin is in fact a prominent economist, Williamson not so much (Stephen Williamson, obcsure, blundering "freshwater" economnist - they always think they are better than anyone)
Noahpinion: In which John Quiggin intellectually pulpifies Stephen Williamson ... Stephen Williamson, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University, apparently does not meet Wikipedia's cutoff for significance (bonk)
“Not even wrong” is not praise — Crooked Timber - Stephen Williamson of Washington University at St Louis should have kept his mouth shut)
Obama's Economic Team: What Did We Expect? - Seeking Alpha September 22, 2010 (Obama and his ship of Republican fools)

Does Philosophy Matter? - NYTimes.com (Fishy)

Warren Jeffs, Polygamist Leader, Convicted In Child Sexual Assault Case
BBC News - Dutch rethink Christianity for a doubtful world The Rev Klaas Hendrikse can offer his congregation little hope of life after death, and he's not the sort of man to sugar the pill.

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Stock markets tumble amid eurozone fears over Italy and Spain | Business | guardian.co.uk FTSE falls below the 5500 mark after European commission president's crisis warning and fears of new US recession (how's that double-dippy austerity thing working out for you?)
Somalia famine relief effort hit harder by food aid delays than by rebels | World news | The Guardian Relief organisations are operating across zones controlled by al-Shabab, despite rebel group's ban on humanitarian agencies
Syrian protesters reject Assad gesture amid fresh bloodshed | World news | The Guardian Democracy movement spurns move to allow formation of opposing parties as dozens more civilians reported killed
Niger delta oil spills clean-up will take 30 years, says UN | Environment | The Guardian A succession of oil spills by Shell and other companies over half a century will cost $1bn to clean up, according to a major report
Christine Lagarde faces inquiry over €285m payout for Sarkozy ally | World news | guardian.co.uk Judge orders investigation into controversial decision made by new IMF chief in 2007 when she was French finance minister

US contractor can sue Donald Rumsfeld for alleged Iraq torture, judge rules | World news | The Guardian Ex-US defence secretary faces personal damages claim for approving interrogation methods of US army at Camp Cropper (Bush, Cheney, Blair, Obama)
UK's secret policy on torture revealed | Politics | The Guardian Document shows intelligence officers instructed to weigh importance of information sought against pain inflicted
British government's secret interrogation policy | Law | guardian.co.uk This document, obtained by the Guardian, details instructions to MI6 agents in the field when dealing with evidence which may have been obtained using torture
The secret interrogation policy that could never be made public | Politics | The Guardian Tony Blair evaded questions over his role in document, and ministers have refused to say if they were aware of details
Torture inquiry boycotted by human rights groups over lack of openness | Law | The Guardian Guantánamo detainees' lawyers and NGOs including Liberty and Amnesty criticise lack of victim participation in process - accusing the government of reneging on promises that it would be open and independent.
Why Reprieve is quitting the torture inquiry | Clare Algar | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Reprieve and other charities have found that the investigation set up by the government has serious shortcomings ... toothlessness, secrecy and a lack of independence.

Alex Salmond accused of pandering to Rupert Murdoch | Politics | The Guardian Labour says Scottish first minister has met with media mogul or his News International executives 25 times since taking office (it's looking like Murdoch does nothing but meet with World Leaders, even more than Hilliary)
Phone hacking: Piers Morgan has questions to answer, says Harman | Media | guardian.co.uk Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman says former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan needs to answer the phone-hacking allegations by Heather Mills
Government's e-petition website crashes on first day | Politics | The Guardian - hopes petitions with more than 100,000 signatures will get the chance to be debated and voted on in the Commons.

Fear on the Street: Inside the Stock Sell-Off | Breakout - Yahoo! Finance There's a growing realization among even the most optimistic investors that the United States is entering a new recession -- a dreaded "double-dip." (Republican dream come true)
Dow Jones Plunges 513 Points, Suffering Worst Single-Day Drop Since October 2008 (Teaparty Republicans destroy US, World economies)
Jobs Report Could Crush Markets - Yahoo! Finance A lackluster reading on the government's monthly jobs report Friday could deal another blow to already weakening global markets.

Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition | The Onion
White House Declines to Name Agencies Hit by 'Shady RAT' Attacks | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

3rd party challenge in 2012? Not likely, experts say | McClatchy (no shit)
White House Has Several Unused Options When It Comes to Jobs | FDL News Desk the Obama Administration put themselves in a box on jobs that will be difficult to emerge from. While the spending cuts in the near term are not all that large, the very real shift to austerity on practical and rhetorical terms means that legitimate job creation programs are right out
Politico's Pool Boys Still the Dumbest Reporters in D.C. | MyFDL Politico’s editors, Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen, have gathered all of the GOP’s most disingenuous talking points and turned them into a set of campaign slogans for Republicans, which they then publish as news analysis.
Balloon Juice » For the Record: An Alternate View Barney Frank has written a clear, detailed and carefully reasoned explanation of why he voted against the debt ceiling bill
For lesson in shared sacrifice, send Congress to boot camp - CNN.com it's time to load our elected officials on troop planes and send them to Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Put them in tents with no air conditioning, have Army drill sergeants teach them teamwork and physical sacrifice. When they recognize their responsibility to the people of America, they can return to D.C., their upscale restaurants, and military plane trips, as though they were royalty.
Firm gives $1 million to pro-Romney group, dissolves - politics - Decision 2012 - msnbc.com Records offer no clues who was behind mystery company that donated to 'super PAC' (Mormon Ghost Brigade)
Watchdogs Demand Investigation Into 'Brazen' $1 Million Pro-Romney Donation | TPMDC Watchdog groups are demanding that state and federal officials investigate a $1 million donation from a mysterious firm to an independent political group backing Mitt Romney's campaign in order to determine whether it violates federal campaign laws.
Whiskey Fire: SpongeBob HitlerPants (they really are that crazy)
Limbaugh Says Obama's Economic "Role Model" Is Robert Mugabe, Who "Took The White People's Farms" | Media Matters for America (Limbigot watch)
NM Mayor: I Was Quite Drunk When I Signed Those $1 Million Contracts | TPMMuckraker

A Failure of Technocracy: Macroeconomic Policy Watch Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Wall Street Journal editorial page between 2000 and 2011, and someone in the same period who read only the collected columns of Paul Krugman. Which reader would have been better informed about the realities of the current economic crisis? The answer, I think, should give us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?
Debt debate: What comes next - Yahoo! Finance Of course, short-term spending bills are nothing new. Congress has enacted at least one every year for all but three of the past 30. But seven in one year was unprecedented, and indicative of partisan gridlock.
Gender gap persists in science, technology jobs, report says | McClatchy

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WikiLeaks: Bush, Obama passed on sanctioning Syrian insiders | McClatchy (probably vetoed by their boss, Israel)
Daily Kos: White House pressuring Iraq to allow troops to stay past deadline - Looks like that Dec. 31 deadline is being quietly kicked to the curb
Analysis: World poorly placed to meet new economic crisis - Yahoo! News the world may once again be forced to cooperate to try to head off a crisis, as they did successfully in 2008-2009. But this time, they have fewer good options ("world"=rich bankers and elites)
Mubarak in the dock: historic trial of former Egyptian president begins | World news | The Guardian Millions tune in to see former leader face charges as confusion reigns in Cairo courtroom and violence continues outside
Cyber-hacking: prolonged series of attacks by one country uncovered | Technology | The Guardian Hackers infiltrated 72 world organisations including United Nations and IOC, security company McAfee discovers
Report on ‘Operation Shady RAT’ identifies widespread cyber-spying - The Washington Post experts familiar with the analysis say the snooping probably originated in China (targeted, among others, AP offices in Taiwan reporting on you know who)
Silvio Berlusconi fails to stem rising panic in financial markets | Business | The Guardian No word on much needed reform of Italy's economy • Fall in US factory orders adds to mounting fears (Republicans drag down the world)
Shell accepts liability for two oil spills in Nigeria | Environment | The Guardian Oil giant faces a bill of hundreds of millions of dollars following class action suit brought on behalf of communities in Bodo, Ogoniland
NRA Will Sue To Stop Effort To Curb Illegal Gun Flow From U.S. To Mexican Drug Cartels | ThinkProgress
Feds Charge 72 In 'Dreamboard' International Online Child Sexual Abuse Network

Norway Progress Party: Country's Right-Wing Political Party On Defensive After Attacks Warning voters about the danger of increasing Muslim influence in Norway, the Progress Party rode a wave of anti-immigrant feeling and took nearly a quarter of the seats in parliament in the country's last election.
Tom Watson: 'Phone hacking is only the start. There's a lot more to come out' | Politics | The Guardian The Labour MP has won the admiration of fellow politicians for doggedly investigating the phone-hacking scandal. What has the experience taught him, how has it changed his life – and what revelations are still to come?
Heather Mills Alleges Mirror Group Hacked Her Phone During Piers Morgan's Daily Mirror Editorship
Phone-hacking allegations spread to Mirror Group - live updates | News | guardian.co.uk Newsnight expected to cover allegation by Heather Mills that her phone was the target of a Mirror Group reporter ... Piers Morgan "is affecting to miss the point about his link to phone hacking".

Is the Democratic Party Dead? - Phoenix Republican | Examiner.com The Democrats lost on every front in this Deficit Crisis but Social Security. Republicans expect to get SS in the next round (Obama already put in "on the table" ... how to destroy a party in 3 years)
White House 'Violent Extremism' Strategy To Combat Al Qaeda, Other Radical Groups ("other ... groups," um, unmentioned rightwing domestic terrorists)
A surprising war on leaks under Obama - Philly.com (not that surprising)
Expert Consensus: Obama Mimics Bush On State Secrets | TPMMuckraker
Various matters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Iraq To Pay $400 Million To Saddam's US Victims (one-way street)
Despite Attempts By Wyden and Udall, Secret Patriot Act Remains A Secret | Crooks and Liars
Senate Panel Keeps ‘Secret Patriot Act’ Under Wraps | Danger Room | Wired.com (same old Di-Fi)

Obama And McConnell: Debt Ceiling Gives GOP's Great Dismantler His Moment ("dismantling" granny)
Daily Kos: 25 Things We Learned During the Debt Crisis
Schumer: GOP is 'Holding A Gun To Our Heads' In FAA Fight | TPMDC (now that they know that Obama will always surrender to them)
Touting “Innate” GOP Advantage, Wash. Post Ignores Wash. Post | Media Matters for America - Chris Cillizza - There’s “an innate sense” out there that Republicans are the ones to trust on key issues - According to the Washington Post poll, 48 percent trust Obama, compared to 39 percent who trust Republicans.
The Republic After Obama | TPMCafe The only justifiable answer to them would have been a body politic mobilized by the organizational follow-through that Obama so conspicuously failed to sustain after his election (when he told his base to shut up and go home, creating the space for his teaparty)
AMERICAblog News: The peril of pivoting to jobs The GOP just learned that President Obama is an enthusiastic partner in this hysteria, and the Democrats on the Hill are equally willing to go along with "deficit panic."
DownWithTyranny!: Some Hope-y Change-y Stuff Amid the Debt Ceiling Ripoff Looking for the silver lining in the passage of the Boehner debt ceiling bill? There is none.
Cantor: Dear Young People, We're Going To Slash Your Medicare | TPMDC (get off my lawn and shoot yourself)
They Thought They Could Control It - First Draft
Steve King: Covering Birth Control Could Make Us A 'Dying Civilization' (yes, they are that insane)
FAA Shutdown Means Workers Must Pay To Work "They were clearly prepared to let America default for the first time in history on its debts unless they got their way," Hoyer said. And now, "They were prepared to leave Washington ... with almost 4,000 federal employees out on the street."
RNC Chair: Pay No Attention To The Wisconsin Recalls, National Reporters | TPMDC "I feel confident we're going to do well next week," Priebus said.
Obama Nominates Top Advisor To Tea Party Senator As U.S. Attorney | ThinkProgress (he loves the teaparty)
"It takes balls to execute an innocent man" - Rick Perry - Salon.com Perry went on to cruise to a 20-point victory in the primary and an easy win in the general election.

Balloon Juice » Tired of the Crazies (Chris Christie says what no Democrat could: "I'm tired of dealing with the crazies.")

Planned Layoffs At U.S. Firms Surges To Sixteen-Month High In July (how's that jobs thing working out, Pres O?)

Second moon may have collided with our moon, say scientists | Science | The Guardian A collision with a smaller moon may explain why the terrains on the far and near sides of the moon are so different
Heavenly discoveries, earthly inventions - CNN.com

There’s A Hole In Daddy’s Head Where All The Money Goes | TBogg So God blew up his duodenum, then stepped in to recommend a surgeon and a hospital, and now refuses to help him pay the tab? ... Sounds like the big guy is working all sides of our crappy medical system better than Rick Scott.

Al Jazeera English Reports Overwhelmingly Positive Response In New York City | TPM LiveWire launched in New York City on Time Warner Cable and is also available on Verizon FiOS in the city (Sharia law comes to NYC)
The New York Times paywall: the faint scent of success | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Last month, the paper announced it had more than doubled the number of paid digital subscribers to about 250,000, and that, overall, it had more than 1 million digital subscribers (including those paying for other editions, such as Kindle and print, who also get access to the website).

The Legislation That Could Kill Internet Privacy for Good - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic An overzealous bill that claims to be about stopping child pornography turns every Web user into a person to monitor (it's always either kiddie-porn or terrorists)
How the new ‘Protecting Children’ bill puts you at risk | ZDNet

?Mariachi Connecticut Serenades a Beluga Whale?? - YouTube

Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far
Facebook facial recognition software violates privacy laws, says Germany | Technology | The Guardian Social network must stop programme and delete data already collected on users – or face fines up to €300,000, says official
How to remove your private info from all background check sites

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Putin says U.S. is parasite on global economy | Reuters and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.
Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Syrian troops continue to attack Hama • Russia will not oppose UN resolution on Syria
Britain must resist Tea Party thinking | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian As unreason triumphs in the US, a similar paranoia and refusal to accept scientific fact threaten to invade British politics (as America descends into insanity, led by Obama)
Turkey's military has at last stood aside | Ergun Babahan | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The early retirement of key top brass is welcome news – the new guard must learn that interference in politics is unacceptable - The military's mentality is still based on the idea that political actors should be controlled and manipulated, while the commanders make fundamental decisions themselves.
“I saw many people get killed under torture in Kandahar” | The Dissenter It has long been believed that there were many more deaths under torture, or other circumstances the U.S. would rather not reveal, than has been admitted (Bush/cheney and Obama will face their maker)
Fukushima radiation reaches lethal levels | World news | guardian.co.uk Discovery at crippled plant a fresh reminder of risks faced by workers battling to contain nuclear accident

Right Wing Christian Extremists Turn Truth Into Pornography Only right-wing Christian totalitarianism can save Western Civilization. That’s their story, and that’s what this is all about on both sides of the Atlantic.
Norway gunman making 'unrealistic demands', says lawyer | World news | The Guardian Anders Behring Breivik wants government to resign and Japanese specialists to assess him, his lawyer reveals (teaparty thinking)

Phone-hacking scandal: Stuart Kuttner is latest NoW exec to be arrested | Media | The Guardian Former managing editor and one-time public face of the News of the World taken into custody
The message that the deletion of News International emails sends out | Charles Arthur | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk News International ordered the mass deletion of emails from its servers several times. Is there anything odd about this?
Church child protection chief caught with 4,000 child porn pictures - mirror.co.uk

Obama signs debt hike into law, with hours to spare | McClatchy
Debt Ceiling Deal: The Democrats Take a Dive | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi - for the second time in three years, a gang of financial terrorists has successfully extorted the congress and the White House, threatening to blow up the planet if they didn't get what they wanted. (led by the diver-in-chief)
The Next Hostage Crises: 2012 Appropriations, Federal Gas Tax | FDL News Desk The debt limit deal set a precedent, if it wasn’t there already, that conservatives can bring the economy to the brink of a meltdown, secure in the knowledge that the opposition will surrender and take a dive (Obama will always dive)
The Tea Party’s War on America - NYTimes.com You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them ,,, These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people.
Tea Party's tough tactics on debt alienating moderate voters, polls show | World news | The Guardian Pollsters expect backlash against Tea Party movement following unwillingness to compromise on US debt ceiling talks (Obama: there are no moderates in America)
US debt deal: 'a scoreless tie in a cynical game' | The panel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk A panel of regular commenters and grassroots American political activists give their verdict on the debt ceiling deal

Reid Could Accept GOP Terms On FAA Shutdown | TPMDC (a year of dominoes)
Who gains from debt deal? The Pentagon, for one | McClatchy
Keith Olbermann's Debt Ceiling Special Comment: 'Our Government Has Now Given Up The Concept Of Right And Wrong' ... "having stood for almost nothing here, he gave away almost nothing for which he stood." (Belafonte said it better: "no moral truth")
Debt Ceiling Deal Paves Way For Medicare, Medicaid Budget Fight (on to Obama's next step in the Great Dismantling)
Labor's Discontent With Obama Surfaces Yet Again "We have now had at least three or more experiences of the president explaining to people that he has a plan and it is under control but the results don't match," said Andy Stern
Despite Pulling Debt Ceiling Debate Rightward, Tea Party Activists Slam House-Passed Deal (they won't be satisfied until the country is a smoldering ruin)
House Passes Debt Limit Deal "We ceded the whole moral ground on billionaires paying their fair share," said Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) ... questioned why any Democrats should vote for a deal that could ultimately "decimate Medicare" and that hands big wins to Republicans while "taking for granted" Democratic votes.
Jon Stewart Rips President Obama For Debt Ceiling 'Dealageddon' (VIDEO) "Let me just stop you right there -- you're not pinning this turd on us. Last time I checked, the buck stops with you, not the Twitterverse." ... 'You're not pinning this turd on us'
FAA Shutdown Cost Could Exceed $1 Billion (they care about the "dept" until they don't)
Doug Lamborn Apologizes To Obama For 'Tar Baby' Comments ... "a term some find insensitive" (they forget their script is racist)
The New Debt Ceiling Deal Media Narrative In Two Minutes (VIDEO) "Like the rest of you, I also wonder what topic reporters will turn to now to keep from reporting on the massive unemployment crisis." (look over there!)
Liberty And Justice For Some: State Budget Cuts Imperil Americans' Access To Courts (justice was never a big priority for either Obama or the Republicans)
Joe Lieberman Says U.S. Should Cut Social Security To Pay For Fighting ‘The Islamist Extremists’ | ThinkProgress (why not just surrender?)
Koch Group Mails Suspicious Absentee Ballot Letters In Wisconsin | TPMDC
Fox ‘Expert’ Blasts Expanding Access To Birth Control: ‘Are We Going To Do Pedicures And Manicures As Well?’ | ThinkProgress “Why in the world would you encourage your daughters, and your granddaughters, and whoever else comes behind you to have unrestricted, unlimited sex anytime, anywhere and that, somehow if you prevent pregnancy, that somehow you’ve helped them (+"You present science and facts just to present your viewpoint" - stunning)
Wisconsin Democratic voters targeted with Koch-funded absentee ballot notices advising them to vote 2 days after the recall election – Boing Boing Wisconsin Democratic voters targeted with Koch-funded absentee ballot notices advising them to vote 2 days after the recall election

n+1: Origins of the Crisis
Tycoons Laughing All the Way to the Bank | Common Dreams
U.S. dependence on foreign oil has dropped | McClatchy “It’s a silent revolution,” said Lehi German, publisher of the newsletter Fundamental Petroleum Trends. “This is a big deal.”

A toss of the dice reveals the truth

Burning Man's Just for Rich People Now
pandagon.net The technology changes, but the complaints remain the same: 1) Someone, somewhere is using this technology to gain pleasures you yourself are not experiencing and that's alarming and 2) Women are frightening creatures whose awe-inspiring powers to destroy are only being restrained by the lack of this new technology in their lives.
Colombia's 'crossed legs' protest is redefining women's activism | Euclides Montes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk A sex strike by women demanding a paved road to the small town of Barbacoas has deservedly grabbed the media's attention

Child anorexia: is 'size-zero culture' really to blame? | Laurie Penny | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Some 600 children under the age of 13 have been treated in hospital in England for eating disorders in the past three years

It's a scam! : The Word of Notch (voxel infinite rendering +Voxelstein 3d
App for Google Android smartphones secretly records calls | Technology | guardian.co.uk Security researchers say app is part of trend targeting phones using Android software

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Hama: Syrian troops massacre scores on eve of Ramadan - video | World news | guardian.co.uk Amoured units ended a month-long siege, smashing through makeshift barricades around the city at daybreak on the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan
Syria teeters on the brink | Chris Doyle | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The regime's campaign of brutality in Hama could push Syria towards civil war. But how will the international community react?
Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk 'Four killed' today as attack on Hama continues • UN holding closed-door consultations on Syria • Egyptian army violently retakes Tahrir Square from protesters
Greece debt crisis: The 'we won't pay' anti-austerity revolt | World news | The Guardian With Greece in financial meltdown and rocked by protests we look at the growing civil disobedience movement (Americans, though, love their banker-imposed austerity)
British couple released after Afghan 'terror plot' arrest | World news | The Guardian Man and woman captured in UK-led counter-terror operation in Herat are freed after lawyers threatened to take case to court
China Imposes Blackout on Coverage of High-Speed Train Wreck - NYTimes.com (what wreck?)
Mexico 'drug enforcer admits 1,500 killings' - Americas - Al Jazeera English Officials say detained ex-police officer has confessed to ordering deaths while working for Ciudad Juarez drug cartel (Obama's big war on drugz)
Alleged LulzSec hacker released on bail | Technology | The Guardian Jake Davis, allegedly known online as 'Topiary', released on bail after being charged with five offences

Murdoch Hacked Us Too The News Corp. scandal already exposed just how thoroughly the company had corrupted Britain. Now it’s time to look on this side of the pond. By Frank Rich
Phone hacking: News International mass-deleted emails, tech firm says | Media | guardian.co.uk HCL reveals News International's various requests for deletion but tells MPs it knew of nothing untoward ... hundreds of thousands of emails at the request of News International between April 2010 and July 2011 (oh, no, they do this all the time)
Balloon Juice » Murdoch’s Media, National Security & “The Innocent Have Nothing to Hide”

Planning & Executing the Mission to Get Bin Laden : The New Yorker What happened that night in Abbottabad.
U.S. Political Ideology Stable With Conservatives Leading Americans' political ideology at the midyear point of 2011 looks similar to 2009 and 2010, with 41% self-identifying as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 21% as liberal (77% of Americans to the right of Ben Nelson)

Miles Mogulescu: NY Times Reporter Confirms Obama Made Deal to Kill Public Option (how Obama lies about his positions so he can "negotiate")
Statement: Robert Greenstein, President, on House Speaker Boehner’s New Budget Proposal — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The plan is, thus, tantamount to a form of “class warfare.” If enacted, it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history (Obama destroys the country for his own selfish reelection)
What we wish Obama had said - Debt ceiling - Salon.com (all the things our feckless, Centrist-right Pres can never bring himself to say)

The myth of Obama's "blunders" and "weakness" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (its exactly what he wanted)
This Is Not Leadership - The Debt Ceiling Deal Is Less Awful Than Advertised, But Still Awful - And Obama Surely Deserves Some Blame | The New Republic (Obama has never led anything in his life)
The Nauseating Debt-Ceiling 'Solution' - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic
Why the Debt Ceiling Deal Sucks | Mother Jones
The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.com the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for President Obama and his party. It will damage an already depressed economy; it will probably make America’s long-run deficit problem worse, not better; and most important, by demonstrating that raw extortion works and carries no political cost, it will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status (if you call leading the charge, "surrender")
US debt deal: how Washington lost the plot | Dean Baker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Politicians and the media are obsessing on debt, deficit and cuts, but the real story is a stalled economy and rising unemployment
US debt deal agreed but may not save AAA credit rating | World news | guardian.co.uk Markets experience volatile trading after news of a deal yet to be approved by Congress
US debt ceiling deal: is this the compromise you were hoping for? | Poll | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
IT'S A DEAL! Obama, Congressional Leaders Announce Deal To Avoid Default | TPMDC "Is this the deal I would have preferred? No," Obama said. "But this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need." (they didn't let me dump Social Security)
Grover Norquist Backs The New Debt Deal | TPMDC (the people who count)
From Big Spending to Big Cuts, as Economy Stalls - NYTimes.com The nation’s political leaders agreed on Sunday to spend and invest less money in the American economy, a step that economists said risks the reversal of a faltering recovery, in the hope of improving the nation’s long-term prosperity (wreck the economy to blame it on Obama; thanks for telling us now, NYT
Daily Kos: The Real Cost of Social Security Surplus Raiding
No Guarantee Debt Limit Deal Gets Through the House | FDL News Desk
Memo to Congress: With deficit deal done, time for that pivot to jobs - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (not.going.to.happen)
Insurers must cover birth control with no copays | Detroit Free Press | freep.com in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores (oh, those "social mores" that don't want women to have birth control)
Free Birth Control Religious Exemption Coverage Sparks Controversy the mandate makes an exception for religious organizations that morally oppose contraception
Kansas Law Ending Planned Parenthood Funding Blocked By Federal Judge he believes the law is unconstitutional and was intended to punish Planned Parenthood for advocating for abortion rights (free speech only for bigcorps and Republican haters)

Credit ratings: how Fitch, Moody's and S&P rate each country . Visualised - with a spreadsheet | News | guardian.co.uk
Unemployed Ignored In Debt Ceiling Deal Anyone laid off after July 1 is ineligible for extra weeks of benefits under current law (Obama and Republicans say they should just find a job)
Central Falls, Rhode Island Files For Chapter 9 Bankruptcy (and so it begins)

BBC Nature - Giant fungus discovered in China weighs half a tonne.

'Naked' body scanners a failure, police union says - The Local

Balloon Juice » All Your ISP Are Belong to U.S.
Phone companies present rural broadband plan - Yahoo! News AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and four other telecom companies are offering a proposal to overhaul the $8 billion federal phone subsidy program to pay for high-speed Internet connections in rural and other underserved areas (because they need "subsidies" to make sure the 12 people on ND have metered internet)

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Syrian tanks kill protesters in Hama | World news | guardian.co.uk Syrian troops' assault on opposition stronghold appears to be part of nationwide offensive ahead of start of Ramadan
African Nation Eritrea Refuses To Acknowledge Drought; People Suffer In Silence
Hundreds of thousands join ‘social justice rallies ... JPost - National News emonstrators nationwide call to reduce cost of housing, food and education; protesters take to streets in TA, J'lem, Haifa, Beersheba.

Chilcot to 'heavily criticise' Tony Blair over Iraq war | Politics | guardian.co.uk Official inquiry into Iraq war expected to focus on former PM's failure to consult cabinet fully in run-up to invasion - "The tapestry of deceit woven by Tony Blair over the past decade has finally unravelled. Despite his best attempts to fudge the issue when he was called to give evidence, the Chilcot inquiry have recognised the former prime minister's central role in leading the UK into worst foreign policy disaster in recent history (turns out Blair was Murdoch's poodle)

Sure Cure for Debt Problems Is Economic Growth - NYTimes.com (Obama's path not taken)
BREAKING: Dems Delay Debt Limit Test Vote | TPMDC Republicans would happily block a balanced spending cut/tax increase package in favor of an automatic Social Security cut.
TPM Livewire Plouffe Reaches Out To Progressives With Debt Deal Close (Plouffe is a lying idiot)

Hullabaloo Needless to say, this is a truly horrible deal. $2.8 trillion in cuts to discretionary spending. An unaccountable "super committee" that will probably recommend cuts and "adjustments" to Medicare and Social Security. No new tax revenue of any kind.
Compromise In The Works | ThinkProgress Obama has successfully transformed massive debt ceiling hostage taking from an act of breathtakingly irresponsible brinksmanship into a proven effective negotiating tactic. Suppose he gets re-elected in 2012. What’s he going to do when this issue recurs in 2013? Every time the president’s party has fewer than 60 votes in the Senate, we may face a recurrence of this crisis (it's all about him)
Daily Kos: Greg Sargent: GOP on verge of huge, unprecedented political victory Republicans may succeed in using the threat of a potential outcome that they themselves acknowledged would lead to national catastrophe as leverage to extract enormous concessions from Democrats, without giving up anything of any significance in return (Obama can't "negotiate" for shit)
Democrats will lose now. But they can win later. - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post - The only way they can succeed in keeping taxes from rising is if the Obama administration and the Democrats stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them to extend the Bush tax cutS (which, of course, they will)
The Debt Ceiling and the Imperial Presidency
Super Congress Getting Even More Super Powers In Debt Deal (step 87 in Obama's plan to dismantle American democracy)
CNN's Don Lemon And Rand Paul Clash Over Debt Ceiling
Lawrence O'Donnell Bans Joe Walsh From His Show Over Child Support Scandal

The root of inequality? It's down to whether you ploughed or hoed... | Society | The Observer The invention of the plough allowed humanity to plant crops on hard and stony soil. But it has also helped enslave generations of women, a group of US economists has claimed.

Taser Death Lawsuit Results in $10M Award - AboutLawsuits.com The officer used the Taser to stun Turner for 37 seconds, after which he ceased moving. The officer stunned the unresponsive Turner again for five more seconds for refusing to put his hands behind his back.


Bill Would Force Intel Chief to Renounce ‘Secret Patriot Act’ | Danger Room | Wired.com “It is critical that officials of the United States not secretly reinterpret public laws in a manner that is inconsistent with the public’s understanding of such laws,” Wyden and Udall’s proposal reads, “and not describe the execution of such laws in a way that misinforms or misleads the public.” (comletely corrupt)
House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill | Privacy Inc. - CNET News The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative after last fall's elections, and the Justice Department officials who have quietly lobbied for the sweeping new requirements, a development first reported by CNET - sponsored by none other than Debbie Wasserman Schultz (ALL your data are belong to Obama and the teaparty)

Could Quantum Computing Kill Copyright? | TorrentFreak
13 Gmail Plugins You Should Try Right Now - TNW Apps

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Libyan rebel soldiers killed Younis | World news | The Observer General Abdel Fattah Younis shot dead by Islamist-linked militia within the anti-Gaddafi forces, says senior opposition minister
Iraq War Review: U.S. Finds Country Is Deadlier Now Than A Year Ago (Obama's big Republican Surge a complete failure)
James Zogby: Iran's Freefall

Letter Clearing The News of the World Comes Under Scrutiny - NYTimes.com When a Parliamentary committee first confronted The News of the World with charges of phone hacking in 2007, the paper’s owners produced a reassuring, one-paragraph letter from a prominent London law firm named Harbottle & Lewis.
Rupert Murdoch’s Tabloid Culture : The New Yorker Hack Work A tabloid culture runs amok. by Anthony Lane
New York Post Employees Told To 'Preserve' Documents Related To Phone Hacking | TPMMuckraker (little late for that)

Anders Behring Breivik, Mystery Man by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Who Funded Breivik? (+bonus Pam Geller)
Norway PM: 'We're going to answer hatred with love' - World news - Europe - msnbc.com Country honors its dead one week after bombing and shooting massacre
'Al Qaeda in Norway' Reaction: Toadyism and Hypocrisy - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic (wingers spin +more neocon Jennifer Rubin)
EDL leader demanded debate on killing David Cameron and archbishop | UK news | The Observer Alan Lake ran a far-right website where he discussed execution of political and religious leaders and predicted Islamic enclaves ('Nazis in England')
David Cameron warned over 'inflaming far-right sentiment' by Nobel chairman | Politics | The Observer Thorbjørn Jagland says Europe's leaders are 'playing with fire' if they use right-wing rhetoric when discussing multiculturalism

Obama's whistleblower war suffers two defeats - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Obama DOJ's broader war on whistleblowers: namely, an attempt to send a "message" of intimidation to future would-be whistleblowers (Judge says "Unconscionable" which pretty much describes our no-moral-center Pres +"transparent" meant "opaque")
38 Minutes With Elizabeth Warren -- New York Magazine Waxing diplomatic as she makes a premature exit from Washington, the consumer advocate still can’t manage to entirely hold her fire
Harry Belafonte: "Such a void in moral truth" | MyFDL “He (Obama) has only listened to the voices that shout the loudest, and it’s all those reckless right-wing forces. It’s almost criminal.” ("almost criminal" of our no-moral-center Pres)
Harry Belafonte Explodes the Presidential "Make Me Do It" Myth | Black Agenda Report Harry Belafonte has done a great public service in helping us distinguish the imaginary Barack Obama of “make me do it” from the real Barack Obama, who demands our support, but expects us to “cut him some slack.”

Bloomberg/Yahoo: Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think (50 intransigent teapartiers hold world economy hostage)
Economists: Now is wrong time for Congress to cut spending | McClatchy (and let ideology destroy the country)
US economy is in a deep hole - but can the debt crisis be averted? | Business | guardian.co.uk Whether there will now be an outbreak of bipartisan harmony in the face of looming economic disaster remains to be seen
Boehner wins a round, but Tea Party could still deny him debt-ceiling victory - The Globe and Mail Voters were angry when they threw out scores of Democrats last fall. They’re now inconsolable. Their hate-on for Congress makes Wall Street look popular. Someone, if not everyone, in Washington will pay for this in 2012.
Republican bill passes, opening path to debt deal | Reuters America's largest foreign creditor, China, has repeatedly urged Washington to protect its dollar investments and its state-run news agency on Friday said the United States had been "kidnapped" by "dangerously irresponsible" politics (go GOTP)
KAL's cartoon | The Economist
Even After Proposed Hike, Reagan Increased Debt Ceiling Twice As Fast As Obama | ThinkProgress (St. Ronnie of the totally confused)
Progressives Go Up With Massive Health Care Attack In Wisconsin Recall Fight | TPMDC

U.S. Stock Market Ends Its Worst Week In A Year (Republicans at work)
Jared Bernstein: The Shape of Inequality And Its Impact on Growth (the return of slavery)
This Is Not a Country That Is in Danger of Losing Its Credit-Worthiness
The U.S. Is Not Drowning In Debt | Moneyland | TIME.com 1.6% of American output, which is lower than at any point since the 1970s – except for 2003 through 2005, when it was closer to 1.4%. Under Ronald Reagan, the first George Bush, and Bill Clinton, payments on federal debt often got above 3% of GDP. Under Bush the second, payments were about where they are now. Yet suddenly, we are in a near collective hysteria (the great Obama "pivot" into insanity)
The Truth About Federal Spending - NYTimes.com (facts too complicated for the third-grade mind of the teaparty Republicans)

The Racial Wealth Gap Grew Significantly in the New Recession - Politics - GOOD

Atheists Object to '9/11 Cross' - National - The Atlantic Wire "The WTC cross has become a Christian icon," said Silverman in a CNN report. "It has been blessed by so-called holy men and presented as a reminder that their god, who couldn't be bothered to stop the Muslim terrorists or prevent 3,000 people from being killed in his name, cared only enough to bestow upon us some rubble that resembles a cross. It's a truly ridiculous assertion."
All charges dropped against Julie Bass, the Michigan gardener threatened with jail time for growing vegetables in her own yard


Undeterred By Arrests, Anonymous Spills Data From FBI Contractor ManTech - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes Anonymous published 390 megabytes of seemingly random files from the Washington-based government contractor ManTech in bittorrent form,
Here’s How U.S. Spies Will Find You Through Your Pics
Al-Qaeda Claims U.S. Mass Transportation Infrastructure Must Drastically Improve Before Any Terrorist Attacks | The Onion

AT&T To Throttle Data Speeds For 'Unlimited' Hogs AT&T won't count data use over Wi-Fi, just usage over the cellular network (how nice of them to not charge for something they don't provide)

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Abdel Fatah Younis assassination creates division among Libya rebels | World news | The Guardian Mourners descend on Benghazi for funeral parade following revelation ex-Gaddafi aide had been called back to city
Turkey's top military chiefs 'resign' over divisions with government | World news | guardian.co.uk News agency reports that the most senior officers in army, navy and air force step down over rift with ruling administration

Phone-hacking scandal – live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk
David Cameron faces growing pressure over Andy Coulson hiring | Media | The Guardian Labour leadership demands answers about Andy Coulson's access to national security documents inside No 10
Glenn Mulcaire 'acted under instructions' over voicemails | Media | The Guardian Private investigator denies acting on his own as Sara Payne admits phone hacking link left her 'very distressed and upset'
James Murdoch likely to be recalled to face MPs after challenges to his evidence | Media | The Guardian Commons committee 'very likely' to recall BSkyB chairman following phone-hacking statement from News International's former director of legal affairs and two other ex-executives
Phone hacking inquiry: unanswered questions | editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian The PCC is not a 'regulator' and has no effective ability to investigate or to apply meaningful sanctions
What now for Rupert Murdoch? | Comment is free | The Guardian What does the future hold for News Corp and the Murdochs? Rupert's biographer Michael Wolff and commentator Roy Greenslade discuss the damage done
Louise Mensch hires City PR firm to answer questions about colourful past | Politics | guardian.co.uk Mystery surrounds journalist who asked Tory MP about drug-taking shortly after she spoke out on phone hacking
Joanna Yeates murder: Daily Mirror and the Sun fined for contempt of court | UK news | The Guardian Articles on victim's landlord a 'risk to justice', judges rule as eight national newspapers pay libel damages

US disarray hits global stock markets | Business | The Guardian President Obama pins hopes on Senate leaders • Spain calls snap general election • Italian bond yields hit 5.89%
China Blasts US on Debt Ceiling | China Power

Whom will the public blame for debtageddon? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
The Centrist Cop-Out - NYTimes.com News reports portray the parties as equally intransigent; pundits fantasize about some kind of “centrist” uprising, as if the problem was too much partisanship on both sides.

Stagnation Nation - NYTimes.com So given a stagnant economy suffering from falling government spending, what is all our political debate about? Spending cuts! After all, we have to appease those invisible bond vigilantes, who are suckering us in by cutting long-term rates to 2.87% as of right now (we are ruled by idiots, and Obama has completely bought in)
Economic Grows at Sluggish 1.3%; Consumers Pull Back - CNBC

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Famine in East Africa - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
Ahmad Omid Khpolwak, BBC Reporter, Killed In Afghanistan Suicide Attack that killed at least 17 people (send in the drones)
Why is Vatican so miffed at reaction to Cloyne report? - The Irish Times - Thu, Jul 28, 2011 None of this would have been necessary had the Catholic Church here and in Rome co-operated fully in establishing the truth. Instead, those that could be were dragged, kicking and screaming, into disclosing what they desperately wanted to keep hidden ... they were reminded by a Vatican official they were “bishops first, not policemen” when it came to reporting clerical child sex abuse (another corrupt dictator falls)
BBC News - China train crash: Signal design flaw blamed
Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuser not a 'scheming opportunist', lawyer insists | World news | The Guardian Nafissatou Diallo has lengthy meeting with prosecutors over taped conversations with 'friend' one day after alleged sex attack
US soldier sentenced to life in prison for Afghan civilian murder | World news | The Guardian Derrick Miller shot man after stopping him for questioning when he walked through defensive perimeter in Afghanistan
U.S. special ops chief warns of al Qaeda 2.0 - CBS News (and they're doing their best to make sure)
Ultimate hack: LulzSec may have duped British authorities into arresting innocent man

An un-American response to the Oslo attack - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Norway police end Utøya search as further 24 victims named | World news | The Guardian Officers call off search after finding body of final victim, while more anti-Muslim internet postings by Breivik discovered
Ralph Peters: Norway Terror Suspect Is "Such A Godsend To The Liberal Media" Because He Calls Himself A Christian | Media Matters for America (whut?)

The Coulson affair: Guardian questions to Downing Street | Media | guardian.co.uk Fourteen questions submitted by the Guardian to No 10 regarding Andy Coulson's vetting, and the answers we received - updated Thursday 7pm
A mere state can't restrain a corporation like Murdoch's | Felicity Lawrence | Comment is free | The Guardian Whether News Corp, banks or food giants, transnationals are not so much a state within a state as a power beyond it
News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne's mother | Media | guardian.co.uk Evidence found in private detective's notes believed to relate to phone Rebekah Brooks gave to Sara Payne (lowest of the low)
Sara Payne: the people at News of the World became my trusted friends | Media | guardian.co.uk Sara Payne's friendship with NoW editor Rebekah Brooks came about during paper's campaign against paedophiles
Phone-hacking scandal has tarnished Met, says acting chief | Media | The Guardian Acting commissioner Tim Godwin says force faces challenging times while top officer labels PM's plans for reform 'simply stupid'
BSkyB could come to regret its backing of James Murdoch | Jane Martinson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk News Sara Payne may have had her phone hacked casts yet more doubt on James Murdoch's reputation for good governance
Phone Hacking Scandal: Leveson Judicial Inquiry Begins In UK Justice Brian Leveson said he has the legal power to demand evidence from witnesses – and plans to use it "as soon as possible."
Former News of the World staff offered jobs in Siberia and Finland | Media | guardian.co.uk
Guardian Focus Podcast: Examining the British far right | World news | guardian.co.uk With the far right making political gains in France, Denmark and the Netherlands, and now the terrorist atrocity in Norway, what's the state of the far right in the UK?
Murdoch Alert :: Add-ons for Firefox (when you have ventured into Satan's realm)
Murdoch Block - Chrome Web Store

Barack Obama: The Democrats’ Richard Nixon? - Eisenhower not only refused to repeal the New Deal, he wouldn’t even let Republicans in Congress cut taxes even though the high World War II and Korean War rates were in effect
Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again—By Kevin Baker (Harper's Magazine) The best and the brightest blow it again (2009: prediction fulfilled)

Twitter / @AJentleson: The Senate stands ready to ... defeat the Boehner plan whenever House Republicans can get their act together.
Whatever The Outcome Of The Debt Vote, The Age Of Austerity Is Here | Talking Points Memo
Fox Senior VP Of Business News Cavuto: "I Would Welcome A Downgrade. ... I Think It Would Be The Pain From Which We Have A Gain" | Media Matters for America (Fox tries to crash the world)
BREAKING: Boehner postpones vote | ThinkProgress
Reid: Senate Dems Will Defeat Boehner Plan Tonight | TPMDC
Political Animal - Please stop waiting for the ‘old’ McCain “Has McCain the straight-talking maverick been reborn?” All he did was defend a far-right budget plan against criticism from even-further-to-the-right Republicans.
Boehner Sees Passage of Debt Plan - Reid Vows to Kill It - NYTimes.com
ThinkProgress Vote Count: 26 House Republicans Publicly Oppose Boehner Plan (Update) | ThinkProgress
Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh sued for $100,000 in child support - Chicago Sun-Times who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case in December (oh, the hypocrisy) - Walsh starts the video by saying, “President Obama, quit lying. Have you no shame, sir? In three short years, you’ve bankrupted this country.” (oh, the lying stupidity)
US Debt Ceiling: If US Defaults, Stocks Fall 30%, GDP 5%: Credit Suisse - CNBC (worse than 9/11)
WHIP LIST: House vote on Boehner debt-ceiling plan will go down to the wire - TheHill.com
John McCain derides 'tea party hobbits' in debt ceiling fight - latimes.com The Arizona senator says conservatives would end up helping reelect President Obama if they reject the House Republican plan to raise the debt ceiling.
Dem leaders: House GOP is on its own - TheHill.com "I just talked to [Rep.] Heath Shuler [D-N.C.], he said not a single Blue Dog is voting for it."
Review & Outlook: The GOP's Reality Test - WSJ.com Republicans who oppose Boehner's debt deal are playing into Obama's hands - and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor. This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell into GOP Senate nominees (oooh, WSJ harshing on the GOTP)
A Conservative Revolt in Full : Roll Call News What for months had been a quiet campaign to pressure the GOP into a more conservative footing has, over the course of the debt limit negotiations, blossomed into a full-blown insurrection
Still True Today: Frequently Forgotten Facts of the Debt Debate | Swampland This is a real problem for journalism in an era where—now this is an opinion—one of the major parties has abandoned its grip on reality. I understand why objective reporters aren’t encouraged to contradict political lies with historical truths, but this hostage drama is one of the prices of our era of amnesia.
Did S&P flip flop on US debt target? | Reuters Just when the rating agencies were starting to win some kudos for standing firm in the face of increased regulatory pressure and posturing by politicians, one of their number goes and ruins it.
Moody's Blues, Poor Standards, and the Debt - NYTimes.com they hold public-sector borrowers to vastly higher standards than they hold private borrowers.
S&P Finds Merit in Some Debt Plans - NYTimes.com There had been reports that Standard & Poor’s would automatically downgrade the nation’s AAA bond rating unless President Obama and the Congress reached a deal that cut at least $4 trillion — the so-called “grand bargain” that has been talked about for weeks. But Mr. Sharma said that report was inaccurate (not "false" but "inaccurate")
Robert Reich (The Biggest Driver in the Deficit Battle: Standard & Poor's)
Debt ceiling is probably not what you think Congress has already spent (or promised) to spend that money by passing a budget earlier this year. Now, if it fails to raise the debt ceiling, the government will not be able to make the payments that Congress has already taken on. It would be as if I took delivery of new furniture, promising to pay in six months, but then decided that I didn’t want to raise my debt ceiling, and so I didn’t pay for it (Republican whelshers)
America's debt ceiling: Maybe a downgrade doesn't matter | The Economist America would obviously prefer not to spend $100 billion more a year on borrowing costs than it does now, but it's worth remembering that that amounts to less than 1% of GDP (or a war or two)

Rachel Maddow Sued By Christian Rocker Bradlee Dean He said Maddow's airing of his statement caused "serious" harm to him and the ministry he runs (you can't quote my bigoted, homophobic statements)

Astronomers find Earth's first trojan asteroid

Own your own town for $800k | The Upshot - Yahoo! News
Stinger - James O’Keefe’s Greatest Hits - NYTimes.com
The Staxx British Chimney Sweeps: Five Centuries Of Chimney Sweeping (Republican plan for jobs after they destroy education)

Los Angeles Times Layoffs Announced The Los Angeles Times laid off another round of employees Wednesday as its parent company, Tribune Co., wades through bankruptcy protection.

OkCupid | angryjanedoe / 39 / F / Eugene, Oregon
Serial Butt Slasher on the Loose in Virginia; Has Attacked 5 Women at Malls - True Crime Report



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Ghulam Haider Hamidi Assassinated: Mayor Of Kandahar Killed By Suicide Bomber, Say Afghan Officials
US to oppose Palestinian UN bid - Middle East - Al Jazeera English US envoy terms Palestine's approaching of UN as "unilateral action", despite backing of over 120 countries (if Israel doesn't like it, it's "unilateral")
Britain recognises Libyan rebels and expels Gaddafi's London embassy staff | World news | guardian.co.uk Foreign secretary William Hague declares Libya's national transitional council the country's 'sole governmental authority'
NHK Special - Japan's Nuclear Crisis, Part 1 | Nippon Sekai - Japan via Videos, Photos, Webcams (TEPCO blocked it on Youtube)
Torture still rampant in post-revolution Egypt, activists say | McClatchy

Norway attacks: Anders Behring Breivik will join history's human monsters | Henning Mankell | Comment is free | The Guardian This a ghastly return of Übermensch mentality that was the mark of Hitler's Nazism. An idyllic country is once again exposed to the banality of evil
Norway will not be intimidated by terror attacks, vows prime minister | World news | guardian.co.uk Jens Stoltenberg condemned Anders Behring Breivik's brutal assault and said country 'would stand firm in defending values'
Before Death, Acclaimed "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Author Stieg Larsson Lamented Right-Wing Extremism
What will happen to all the roses? - Norway - NRK News
Ex-Berlusconi minister defends Anders Behring Breivik | World news | The Guardian Northern League member says Norwegian killer's ideas are in defence of western civilisation
Norwegian police detonate explosives at Anders Behring Breivik's farm | World news | The Guardian Detectives investigating the terror attacks carry out controlled explosion at rented property about 100 miles from Oslo
Anders Breivik's chilling anti-feminism | Jane Clare Jones | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk To Anders Breivik, the 'feminisation' of the European male corresponds to the 'feminisation' of Europe itself
Teen's texts offer window into Norway terror - World news - Europe - msnbc.com
Her står trikken rosefast - nyheter - Dagbladet.no

Times accused of deflecting phone-hacking row with 'repugnant' cartoon | Media | guardian.co.uk 'Cynical' cartoon by Peter Brookes showing emaciated African children used 'racist caricatures', say academics in letter
Times editor agrees NI's handling of phone hacking was 'catastrophic' | Media | guardian.co.uk James Harding says some readers cancelled subscriptions in wake of revelations about News of the World's alleged activities

McCain erupts: Conservatives are lying to America - The Plum Line - The Washington Post is now openly accusing conservatives of actively misleading America with their completely unrealistic demands, which he labeled “deceiving” and “bizarro.”
The Cult That Is Destroying America - NYTimes.com So what do most news reports say? They portray it as a situation in which both sides are equally partisan, equally intransigent — because news reports always do that. And we have influential pundits calling out for a new centrist party, a new centrist president, to get us away from the evils of partisanship ... I think this is a moral issue. The “both sides are at fault” people have to know better; if they refuse to say it, it’s out of some combination of fear and ego, of being unwilling to sacrifice their treasured pose of being above the fray.
Hullabaloo - They're Not All Wall St. Tools - These folks aren't in the business of doing Wall Street's bidding. They're in the business of bringing the system down to create their own new order, no different from a Maoist or Leninist revolutionary on the other side of the aisle.
Ed Henry Accused Of 'Creating A Thing For Fox' By Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary (VIDEO)
Debt-ceiling crisis: The U.S. won't "default" after Aug. 2. Something much weirder will happen. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine The U.S. will not default after Aug. 2. Something much weirder and more chaotic will happen.
Donald Trump recommends default to prevent Obama's re-election | McClatchy (terrorists)
Franken's SNL moment on the Senate floor | StarTribune.com Franken unveiled a large poster in the chamber that said, “Welcome Terrorists.”
Boehner: ‘A Lot’ Of Republicans Want To Force Default, Create ‘Enough Chaos’ To Pass Balanced Budget Amendment | ThinkProgress
The Debt Showdown: The GOP's "Blank Check" Lie | Mother Jones What happens when a political party taints a critical national debate with a falsehood? Not much.
How Default Threatens National Security | Mother Jones
Hope For Boehner? Some House Conservatives Closing Ranks On Debt Limit Bill | TPMDC
CBO: Boehner Debt Plan Saves $850 Billion Over Ten Years, Just $1 Billion In 2012
Harry Reid Debt Ceiling Plan Would Save $2.2 Trillion: CBO
Boehner to GOP on debt ceiling plan: 'Get your ass in line' - Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan - politico.com
House Republicans Psyche Themselves Up By Watching Ben Affleck Prepare To Beat Some Guys Up | ThinkProgress (psychopaths)
Jon Stewart Takes On Obama's Debt Ceiling Address: 'Did The President Just Quit?' (VIDEO) Stewart focused on Obama's Monday night address and how it's starting to seem like the President is giving up.
Obama's Call to Contact Congress Takes Down Capitol Websites

What's AAA Worth To Uncle Sam? $100 Billion A Year, Says JPM - MarketBeat - WSJ
Can The Treasury Department Really Run Out of Money? - CNBC
The U.S. Government Cannot Ever Run Out of Money - John Carney - Business - The Atlantic The Treasury could print money to pay its bills, and the Fed could soak up the excess liquidity by selling its Treasury holdings, according to some economists
PolitiFact | John Cornyn says 51 percent of American households pay no income tax "We estimate they total more than a trillion dollars a year in reduced taxes, and in fact the bulk of those go to the top end of the income distribution."
Commentary: Texas is vulnerable to D.C. spending cuts | McClatchy
Economist's View: Why the Wealthy Need the Welfare State

Is This Wisconsin Republican Running From Her 'Nazi' Name-Calling Past? | TPMDC If you're Wisconsin state Senate candidate Kim Simac, the answer may be liberally apply the delete key to your online past.
Michele Bachmann’s Marcus Bachmann Problem | Mother Jones
General Information - Depression and Suicide Prevention Resources (Michelle Bachmann's district high school on suicide watch)
Question for MSNBC’s Progressive Hosts re. The Network’s In-House Bigot: Pat Buchanan | Crooks and Liars - "on this one, Breivik may be right" (Tom Ashbrook's favorite bigot also)

SIPP Overview (white people get rich, everyone else is screwed)
Internal Doc Reveals GMAC Filed False Document in Bid to Foreclose - ProPublica

Prosecutors Say Florida AG Fired Them For Going After Mortgage Lenders | TPMMuckraker
Town of Quartzsite puts more than half of its police department on leave retaliation for speaking out against their boss.
Cops Kill Homeless Man for Resisting Arrest | The Stir
When Worlds Collide | Fullerton Stories - Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old mentally ill homeless man killed by Fullerton cops
Cops Kill Homeless Man for Resisting Arrest | The Stir
WARNING: Graphic Photo of FPD Beating Victim

'Oldest bird' Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch in controversial new study | Science | The Guardian The fossil Archaeopteryx may not have been one of the earliest birds but just another feathered dinosaur, claim scientists
'Last dinosaur' fossil adds weight to theory asteroid wiped out creatures | Science | The Guardian Horn thought to be of a triceratops found in sedimentary rock was deposited shortly before mass extinction 65.5m years ago
Cern scientists suspect glimpse of Higgs boson | Science | The Guardian Unusual data bumps detected by two teams at Large Hadron Collider thought to be glimpse of elusive source of particle mass
People at darker, higher latitudes evolved bigger eyes and brains | Science | guardian.co.uk Humans living at higher latitudes may have evolved bigger eyes and brains to cope with poorer lighting conditions
New York - Empire of Evolution - NYTimes.com - Evolution Right Under Our Noses (wildlife adapts to urban life)
24-Hour Human Urine and Serum Profiles of Bisphenol A During High Dietary Exposure

Activist Timothy DeChristopher sentenced to 2 years in prison | Deseret News Police arrest 26 protesters as emotions run high - "This is not a case of Rosa Parks," Benson said, adding that it is a "myth" that DeChristopher acted because he had no other choice when he deliberately derailed a federal oil and gas lease auction in 2008.
The Volokh Conspiracy » No First Amendment Right to Bark at a Police Dog
Why is the US so afraid of me? | Raquel Gutiérrez | Comment is free | The Guardian (tortured in Bolivia, blacklisted by TSA, not allow to fly OVER the US)

Ladies, We Have a Problem - NYTimes.com
We’re Sluts, Not Feminists. Wherein my relationship with Slutwalk gets rocky. | The F Word

Punchfork | The best new recipes from top food sites
Beach Bonanza -- Best beaches in Massachusetts -- readers vote - Boston.com

Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online 'Has To Go Away'

072611
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, Faces Growing Housing Protests (American and European Jews who visit once a year)
Vatican hits out at 'excessive reactions' after Cloyne Report | BreakingNews.ie (it was just centuries of sexual abuse, what's the problem?)
Parents will be targeted by proposed child abuse law | The Post Parents who are informed by their own children that they have been sexually abused will face prosecution if they fail to pass on the information to the Garda Síochána< (oh, the rationalizations)/a>
Alan Shatter speech on Cloyne Report - RTÉ News The diocese failed to report all complaints to the Gardaí - out of 15 complaints in the period that should have been reported, nine were not.
U.S. Guns From ATF 'Operation Fast And Furious' Found At Mexico Crime Scenes, Report Says

Norway: Victims Of Anders Breivik's Utoya Shooting Attack Identified | World News | Sky News
My Take: Christians should denounce Norway's Christian terrorist – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
OA Norway attacks: Anders Behring Breivik appears insane, says his lawyer | World news | guardian.co.uk Lawyer of man who confessed to Norway killings says client claims he is part of international network and may be insane
Norway's 21-Year Maximum Penalty Sparks Outcry After Terror Attacks That Killed 76 - FoxNews.com
After Killings, Unease in Norway, Where Few Police Carry Guns - NYTimes.com (NYT says if the kids were packing ...)
WorldNetDaily: Oslo Attacks Were a Left-Wing Conspiracy | Mother Jones
The Campers of Utvika: A Tale of Heroism During the Norwegian Massacre - Spiegel Online
How Norwegians decided to deal with their sorrow : pics
Conservative Media: Norway Shooter Is Muslim-ish | Media Matters for America (Christian wingers flip over backwards)
Bill O'Reilly: Media Labeling Norway Killer Breivik 'Christian' Because 'They Don't Like Christians' (from the Fox insanosphere)
Europe's far right | Gallery | guardian.co.uk
Loonwatch Has Been Warning about an Anders Behring Breivik for Years | loonwatch.com In his own words he was inspired by Andrew Bostom, Robert Spencer, Bat Ye’or, Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders, Ibn Warraq, Serge Trifkovic, the so-called “Vienna School” and a plethora of other Islamophobes and anti-Muslims.
The Rise of Europe's Far Right (Again) | The Mark Europeans' fear of 'the other' never went away – it was simply hidden by years of prosperity.
Oslo Killer Posted On My Site | FrumForum (Conservatives)
Norway Shooter Anders Breivik’s Zionism in Line With Pro-Israel European Right - The Daily Beast Anders Breivik’s embrace of Israel is the latest sign of a shift among reactionaries in Europe—with fascism and Zionism going hand in hand, fueled by Islamophobia, says Michelle Goldberg.
Macdonald triad - Wikipedia

Osborne met News International chiefs 16 times since election | Politics | guardian.co.uk Chancellor's meetings – including five with Rebekah Brooks – show full extent of government's links to News International (hand meet glove)
Murdochs in line for multimillion dollar bonuses despite phone-hacking crisis | Media | guardian.co.uk James Murdoch could earn performance-related bonus of up to $12m and Rupert $25m, but would either be content to take it?

US cyber security chief quits after hacker attacks | Technology | guardian.co.uk Randy Vickers's resignation follows string of online assaults on Senate, CIA, FBI and other government agencies
Oklahoma Wants To Reserve Airspace For Drones | TPM Idea Lab could turn Oklahoma into the prime drone development region of the United States.

The Republican Wreckage - NYTimes.com Mr. Boehner will not accept this as the last-ditch surrender that it is.
Dems plot the endgame in debt limit fight - The Plum Line - The Washington Post Reid’s proposal — having passed the Senate — would then get kicked back to the House. Having proved that Boehner’s plan can’t pass the Senate, Democrats would in effect be giving House Republicans a choice: Either pass the Reid proposal, or take the blame for default and the economic calamity that ensues.
Is The GOP Deliberately Triggering A Recession? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
With Default Seven Days Away, House GOP Fixates On Repealing Environmental Regulations | ThinkProgress
Republican Leaders Voted for Debt They Blame on Obama - Bloomberg (stuff Obama can't say)
GOP Demand Obama Protect Social Security, Cut Something Or Other | TPMDC
'We Get The Sacrifice, They Get The Wealth': A Fired-Up Pelosi Tears Into GOP Deficit Plan | TPMDC
Not Leveling with Viewers | Talking Points Memo It is not partisan or spin to say that the Democrats have repeatedly offered compromises. The real driver of the debate is that the fact that Republican majority in the House can't agree to win - But to really get what's really going on you've got to understand one key point: one of the two cars doesn't have a driver in it. Which changes everything. (CNN: "no one is compromising" ho ho)
Debt-ceiling crisis: How the GOP keeps outfoxing President Obama in negotiations. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine How does the GOP keeping outfoxing President Obama in the negotiating room? (dude can't play zero-dimensional chess, or else this is his plan to fuck with America)
Obama Keeps Mum On A Word Dirtier Than 'Compromise' - Major Garrett - NationalJournal.com - Veto (the whimp-in-chief)
John Boehner Debt Ceiling Speech: House Speaker Addresses Deficit Talks (video)
Pelosi: ‘It Is Clear We Must Enter An Era Of Austerity’ | ThinkProgress “We’re about to go over a cliff here,” Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said Monday afternoon.
Boehner Two-Step: Brief Boss Limbaugh First, Then Caucus | Crooks and Liars

Obama and the Left: a problem for the WH? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - "roughly one in four Americans who disapprove of the president say they feel that way because he's not been liberal enough." (Obama: "just a few dirty hippies from HuffPo")
Hullabaloo There will come a point (Obama wants liberals to hate him so "Independent" Republicans will turn out in droves)
How Washington's favorite pundits explain why we're doomed - War Room - Salon.com The guys our legislators listen to -- and answer to -- show why there's no hope for sensible debt ceiling policy (they love little Tommy Friedman)
Jeffrey Sachs: Budgetary Deceit and America's Decline America needs a third-party movement to break the hammerlock of the financial elites. Until that happens, the political class and the media conglomerates will continue to spew lies, American militarism will continue to destabilize a growing swath of the world, and the country will continue its economic decline.
Kilmeade Falsely Claims "51% Of The Country [Aren't] Paying Any Taxes At All" | Media Matters for America (Fox propaganda)
Hullabaloo - Render Unto Caesar - Yesterday famed "Christian" pastor Rick Warren, wealthy author and megachurch leader, tweeted the following: HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes (What lie would Jesus tell? +he deleted his tweeter)
Wis. DMV says closure decisions aren't final - BusinessWeek he department targeting offices for closure in Democratic areas and expanding hours for those in Republican districts.
After Signing Law Disenfranchising ID-less Voters, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Closes 10 DMV Offices | ThinkProgress
Wisc. union protester claims Capitol staffer attacked her balloon | The Raw Story a trail of blood and a popped balloon - “We’re treating this as a crime scene,” Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs said.
David Wu Resigns: Oregon Congressman Resigning Amid Sex Scandal Allegations
Balloon Juice » Give me all your liberal policies or I will kill you We’ve seen this before from Chunky Bobo. When George Tiller was murdered, Douthat said that conservatives would keep killing abortion doctors liberals agreed to overturn Roe v. Wade. Now he’s saying that madmen will continue to gun down school children until immigration policies are changed.

British Economy, After Austerity, at Zero Growth in the Past Nine Months | FDL News Desk (Conservatives killed the Brit economy, it will also work in America)
Help-Wanted Ads Exclude the Long-Term Jobless - NYTimes.com (new rule: you can't get a job if you don't have one)
The Great Recession: Is It Time For A Name Change?
Wealth Gap Between Whites, Minorities Widens To Greatest Level In A Quarter Century

[1102.3931] Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a small fraction p of randomly distributed committed agents who consistently proselytize the opposing opinion and are immune to influence (when a vocal minority reaches about 10% it becomes extremely effective at swaying public opinion - the Teaparty virus)
RPI: News & Events - Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance | Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Politicians should not use the Norway attacks to drag the idea of multicultural failure into mainstream acceptability

Physics - Single photons obey the speed limits
Time Travel Impossible, Say Scientists : Discovery News By showing a single photon cannot travel faster than the speed of light, scientists prove time travel is impossible.
One gene keeps Mickey from turning into Minnie | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine - Ovaries can transform into testes and vice versa, even in adults.

God's Own Warden | Mother Jones Cain is revered for delivering hundreds of incarcerated sinners to the Lord—running the nation's largest maximum-security prison, as one evangelical publication put it, "with an iron fist and an even stronger love for Jesus."
Could this be Ray Gricar? Utah authorities trying to identify John Doe mystery prisoner | PennLive.com
Darrin Ring: FBI Investigates Taped Beating By Tennessee Police
The Most Hilariously Effective Signs Supporting Gay Marriage | Happy Place

Jason Padgett: The Fractal Maker | Neurobonkers.com
The Man Who Draws Pi - Powered by Google Docs - A Case of Acquired Savant Syndrome Following a Brutal Assault
The Shining (1979) analysis by Rob Ager
The GE Show Episode 6: Future Flight

Porcelain Unicorn - YouTube
Table of Contents - Magazine - The Atlantic - Fiction 2011
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2011 Results
Shiro the Cat's Blog

Online commenting: the age of rage | Technology | The Observer The worldwide web has made critics of us all. But with commenters able to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, the blog and chatroom have become forums for hatred and bile
She Bop - A Female Friendly Sex Toy Boutique in Portland, Oregon
Subliminal Sex Messages and Pornography in Advertising and Cartoons - YouTube

Aurora critics can remain anonymous, judge rules the three anonymous defendants, who chose to make comments on the site using pseudonyms, had "a reasonable expectation of anonymity."
Share Links, Become Extradited To the US - Slashdot .' The case is unique because the site, which the accused Englishman ran, was not located in the US in any way. Does this set a new precedent of things to come? (Obama out of control with his big content masters)
Toolness » Blog Archive » Collusion | Collusion
TrackerBlock :: Add-ons for Firefox
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Wham Bam Google Ban: No Pseudonyms on Google Plus Profiles
Jay Freeman - Google+ Google has taken to quite actively enforcing its "real name" rule, banning or suspending accounts (with many reports of users getting locked out of all of Google, as opposed to just +) with names that "look funny" (such as including symbols, "including period"), as well as actively suspending accounts of users who use non-real names.
How a Security Researcher Discovered the Apple Battery ‘Hack’ | Threat Level | Wired.com

072511
Greek default almost certain, warns Moody's | Business | guardian.co.uk Rating cut by three notches to Ca, one notch above default • Warning bailout sets a negative precedent for investors (in race with US)
Somali children abandoned on 'roads of death' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Somalia famine: Minister warns of starvation in rebel controlled areas | Global development | guardian.co.uk Somalia's deputy prime minister tells FAO meeting that people in areas controlled by Al-Shabaab may starve to death if aid does not reach them in the next few weeks (Obama promises Freedom Bombs)
Taliban to Bail-Out Obama From Debt Crisis - Kabul Press | Afghanistan Press | ???? ??? | ????????? ??? During the secret debt relief talks Mullah Omar reportedly lectured President Obama on: “How to wage war and still make a profit.” The Taliban have no debt and do not need any debt limit increases as they are flush with millions in opium revenues and “acquired” U.S./NATO aid funds. The massive diversion of Afghan aid funds to the Taliban is detailed in the Kabul Press’ April 17, 2011, investigative report: “Petraeus Fired Admiral Who Tried To Stop Taliban Funding.”
British Apache helicopter injures children in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk Aircraft gunfire responsible for 'regrettable' injuries in Helmand during attack on insurgents, Ministry of Defence says (they "regret" shooting children)
Vatican Recalls Ireland Envoy Amid Abuse Uproar (HuffPo goes with Satanic picture)
Chinese anger over alleged cover-up of high-speed rail crash | World news | The Guardian Authorities accused of muzzling media coverage after crash in Zhejiang province kills at least 38 people and injures 192

Tragedy in Norway - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic (heart-rending)
Norway attack aftermath: Monday 25 July | News | guardian.co.uk
Blomsterhav i Oslo: - Dette viser at vi står sammen
BBC News - As it happened: Norway attacker in court
Anders Behring Breivik: Tunnel vision in an online world | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Norway's extremists don't tend to gather in visible 'rightwing groups'. But online, they settle into a subculture of resentment
Norway attacks: Norway's tragedy must shake Europe into acting on extremism | Aslak Sira Myhre | Comment is free | The Guardian I share the fear and pain of my country – but in Norway this kind of insane act has always had its origins in the far right
Anders Behring Breivik claims two more terror cells remain at large | World news | guardian.co.uk Norway gunman pleads not guilty to mass killing and tells Oslo hearing he acted to 'save Europe' from Islam
Norway shooting: German tourist hailed a hero after saving 30 lives - Telegraph A German tourist has been hailed a hero after sailing straight into the line of gunfire to save up to 30 lives during Norway's brutal massacre.
This Mind Intentionally Left Blank : Utøya: English version
The Political Ideas of Anders Behring Breivik - Richard Spencer (the counter-jihad industry guy the NYT roasted on their front page)
Anders Behring Breivik, a perfect product of the Axis of Islamophobia
Anders Breivik's Christian Terrorism in Norway: Are Pamela Geller and other anti-Islamist bloggers responsible? - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine If Muslims are responsible for Islamic terrorism, are Muslim-bashers responsible for the massacre in Norway? (Saletan goes after Geller, without mentioning that he thought it was Muslim jihad himself)
The Norway killings: Breivik's Balkan obsession | The Economist
Breivik: A Living Definition Of Christianism - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast (good Christian warrior)
Sadly, No! » Atlas Rationalizes Sadly, no. - In the anti-Muslim screed posted by the shooter, I counted thirteen links to Atlas Shrugged (Pam "no Mosque at Ground Zero" Geller lies again)
Neo-Con Zionist John Podheretz: Evil in Norway « Commentary Magazine - the days after 9/11, when my apartment in Brooklyn Heights looked out directly on the violent purple gash in the sky that hovered over the wreckage like a demonic counterimage of the holy cloud that followed the Jews through the desert in the aftermath of the Exodus (June 22 - it's all about the Jews)
Re: Evil in Norway « Commentary Magazine - should come as horrible relief to all of us who assumed in the immediate aftermath that this was an act of Islamist terrorism (June 23 - spins on a dime, is "relieved")
Beck: Youth Camp Attacked In Norway "Sounds A Little Like The Hitler Youth" | Media Matters for America
Norway Terrorist Is A Global Warming Denier | ThinkProgress
In response to Norway attacks, right-wing bloggers suddenly demand nuance - The Plum Line - The Washington Post American anti-Islam bloggers aren’t to blame for the Norway Massacre. But their response to the attacks is nonetheless revealing, in that they are now demanding the kind of nuanced analysis of the Norway shootings that they’ve always failed to offer when implicating jihadism or all Muslims for terror attacks.
Anonymous lashes out at Norway massacre suspect | Security - CNET News (one of their dumber ideas)

Now it's the lawyers' turn to be sucked into the phone-hacking scandal | Owen Bowcott | Law | guardian.co.uk Leading lawyers feel client information may have been intercepted after their names were found in Glenn Mulcaire's file

Fact Sheet: 100% of Spending Cuts in Reid Debt Reduction Plan Were Supported by GOP | Senate Democrats
Hypocrisy reigns on all sides in debt ceiling showdown | McClatchy
Tea Party Coalition Rejects Boehner's Debt Proposal (UPDATE)
Super Congress Moves Forward Despite Tea Party Opposition
Opinion: How Obama can end the agony - Elizabeth Drew - POLITICO.com The president needs to get his dignity back. He’s appeared to let the Republicans lead him around by the nose. Once more, he’s let them set the terms of the debate. His comment in the press room Friday, “I’ve been left at the altar twice,” was pathetic and embarrassing. You wanted to avert your eyes.
Slate Magazine - Does the federal government ever bounce a check?
The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic (the chart Obama refuses to admit exists)
CHART: Bush Policies Dominant Cause Of National Debt | TPMDC (another chart Obama will never use because the facts are too "partisan") )
Why It's So Hard For Republicans To Accept A Deal With Obama | The New Republic Republicans simply may not have the emotional capacity to accept a bargain that they don't see as a humiliation for Obama. Obama seems to have figured this out, and is trying to let Democrats in Congress make the deal for him
Congressional Progressive Caucus : FY2012 Progressive Budget The People’s Budget eliminates the deficit in 10 years, puts Americans back to work and restores our economic competitiveness. The People’s Budget recognizes that in order to compete, our nation needs every American to be productive, and in order to be productive we need to raise our skills to meet modern needs.
James Pethokoukis | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com - The fantastic assumptions of the “The People’s Budget” by House Democrats
Obama to Address the Nation on Debt Limit Tonight | C-SPAN
U.S. Debt Battle - Washington Wire - WSJ
Eric Cantor Is Short Treasurys (Sort Of) - MarketBeat - WSJ (Republicans betting on default; conflict of interest much?)
US debt crisis: AAA-rating in danger, warns bond chief | Business | guardian.co.uk Pimco chief executive blasts Washington politicians • Stalemate is damaging US reputation says Mohamed El-Erian
Obama Should Raise the Debt Ceiling on His Own - NYTimes.com By Eric A. Posner And Adrian Vermeule
Bomb scare at Norquist's office - Reid J. Epstein - politico.com
Obama Should Give Up On Revenue And Sign An All-Cuts Deal | The New Republic (advises Obama to re-capitulate)
Republican 'Terrorism': Debt Ceiling Debate Tactics Are Perilous
Republicans Float Short-Term Debt Ceiling Deal As Democrats Insist On Long-Term Plan "I understand why they're saying they won't sign a short-term [deal], but I think they won't have any choice, and I think that's the only answer right now," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said on NBC's "Meet the Press." ("He will cave; he always has")

Nieman Watchdog > Commentary > At least 1,400 arrests for antiwar dissent, but who’s counting? Not the press (no dissent in America, just like China)
Cenk Uygur: Al Sharpton Is Replacing Me Because He's Friendlier To Obama (Cenk replaced with the Clown Show)

GASPARINO: The White House Is Privately Telling Bankers That We Won't Default If Debt Deadline Missed
Rep. King Says Obama Will Be Impeached If Government Defaults | ThinkProgress - During President Bush’s tenure, GOP leaders voted to raise the debt ceiling 19 times — by a total of $4 trillion — without demanding draconian cuts to the social safety net in return, and 130 current House and Senate Republicans have voted to raise the debt ceiling under Bush. In fact, the entire debate right now ignores the fact that Bush’s policies added over three times the amount of debt than have Obama’s policies (don't talk to us about facts)
America's Cold Civil War, Ctd - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast - Recall that the map of the 2008 presidential election was almost identical to the map of the states in the Civil War
The Federal Debt: What’s the Source of the Increase in Spending? The government increased payments to individuals without reducing spending elsewhere in the budget.
Debt Ceiling: In Points & Pictures - macrofugue (economy screwed by the health insurance industry)
BBC News - IMF calls for US to raise debt ceiling and cut spending called on US politicians to act urgently to raise the country's debt ceiling.
How the Debt Ceiling Issue Will Hit Ordinary Americans in the Wallet - DailyFinance - writes whole article without ever mentioning the word "Republicans")
WSJ: China Has Repeatedly Expressed Concern Over Possible US Debt Default - State Dept Official "They've basically made clear they've made substantial investment in the U.S. and they expect, not hope, that the U.S. will abide by its various financial and international commitments," the State Department official said.
Confidence Fairy Speaks: Says “It’s Demand!” | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy Getting rid of “Obamacare” wouldn’t help them a whit. Generating some demand could help them a lot.
Could The Government Debt Ceiling Affect Military Families? - The Paycheck Chronicles (why, yes, Military, the Republicans have screwed you too)

So, how do you measure wellbeing and happiness? | News | guardian.co.uk The Office for National Statistics has published plans to measure how content we are. But how would they work?
Prince Charles branded a 'snake oil salesman' by scientist | Science | The Guardian Edzard Ernst, who was Britain's first professor of complementary medicine, said the prince's support for homeopathy and other alternative medicines earned him the title

Thomas Sawyer, Cancer Survivor, Gets Soaked By His Own Urine Again By TSA - AOL Travel News

072411

Rørende minnegudstjeneste i Oslo Domkirke (Memorial Service, King and Queen in grief)
Norway terror death toll rises to 93 - Europe, World - The Independent
A Nation Mourns: Norway Reels After a Horrific Shooting and Bombing - Time
Leading crime writer blames 'complacent' security forces - Europe, World - The Independent Anne Holt, a former government minister and prominent journalist before turning her hand to crime writing, believes too much attention had been given to addressing a perceived Islamic threat over the past 10 years, while home-grown extremism has largely been ignored.
Hunt for Britons linked to Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik - Telegraph A hunt for possible British accomplices of the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is under way after it emerged that he began his deadly “crusade” after meeting other Right-wing extremists in London.
Suspect: Norway attacks 'marketing' for manifesto - seattlepi.com - the 1,500-page manifesto alone — though a reading shows that parts were lifted from the writings of U.S. mail bomber Ted Kaczynski
The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian Let's be absolutely clear, it wasn't experts speculating, it was guessers guessing – and they were terrible - John Bolton on Fox
Jonathan Kay: Already, the Norway conspiracy theories have begun | Full Comment | National Post
Norway terror suspect attacked Islam, multiculturalism online - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Anders Behring Breivik, 32, has been charged for the attacks in Norway in which at least 91 people were killed.
Norway’s challenge - JPost - Opinion - Editorials Oslo’s devastating tragedy should not be allowed to be manipulated by those who would cover up the abject failure of multiculturalism (Jerusalem Post makes it all about Israel)
(24) Twitter / Search - #N2083
Jonas Gahr Støre og AUFs ledelse på Utøya | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
| Updated: Norway Shooting Suspect is Islamophobe Using Antisemitic "Cultural Marxism" Model Breivik thought Cultural Marxists=multiculturalists=Islamization of Europe. This racist right-wing conspiracy theory is tied to the Islamophobic "Demographic Winter" thesis ... Paul Weyrich of the DC-based Free Congress Foundation commissioned a study, Cultural Conservatism: Toward A New National Agenda, which argued that cultural issues provided antiliberalism with a more unifying concept than economic conservatism
Norway terrorist Breivik was an ardent subscriber to theories of 'Cultural Marxism' | Crooks and Liars ... But the chief promoter of the concept of "Cultural Marxism" on Fox News was none other than Andrew Breitbart
A glimpse into the deranged mind of a mass murderer : Pharyngula . He identifies three main enemies of Western civilization: Islam, Marxism, and feminism. But don't you worry about feminism! He has a plan to cure it! (same old far-right Republican/Teaparty agenda)
What is it with the year 2083? - Page 3
Anders Behring Breivik (32) about killings: - Gruesome but necessary - VG Nett om Terrorangrepet 22. juli
Excerpt from manifesto of Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik
Norway attacks: the unanswered questions | World news | The Guardian Norwegians know who committed the attacks in Oslo and Utøya but not why – or whether he could have been stopped
Norway attacks: We can no longer ignore the far-right threat | Matthew Goodwin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Breivik is not a Norwegian oddity, but symptomatic of a growing culture of politically motivated violence across Europe
Kopierte Una-bomberens manifest - VG Nett om Terrorangrepet 22. juli Deler av Anders Behring Breiviks manifest er direkte kopi av den amerikanske terroristen Ted Kaczynskis manifest.
Norway Attacks Put Spotlight on Rise of Right-Wing Sentiment in Europe - NYTimes.com
Global Politician - Book Review: Radical State: How Jihad is Winning over Democracy in the West Radical State: How Jihad is Winning over Democracy in the West By: Abigail R. Esman (Esman has been getting a lot of attention from the clash-of-civilisationers)
Charles Pierce: - The Bomb That Didn't Go Off - Esquire (rightwing terrorism in US)
Grappling with Extremism: All Blends - Steve Clemons - National - The Atlantic The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin jumped to the conclusion that radical Islamists and/or al Qaeda had a hand in Norway's double tragedy yesterday. This is not a crime; what was out of line was that she exploited the incident before we knew more to pound legislators for flipping the gravity switch on the Pentagon's budget.

How phone hacking scandal took the shine off the Prime Minister | Media | The Observer David Cameron's Tory backbenchers cheer him in Parliament. But in private MPs complain of U-turns and being marginalised by an elite that lavished attention on News International
Phone hacking: prevent others having News Corp's influence, Cable says | Media | guardian.co.uk Business secretary says other big media companies must not be allowed to acquire Murdoch's degree of UK influence

What Were They Thinking? by Elizabeth Drew | The New York Review of Books Someday people will look back and wonder, What were they thinking? Why, in the midst of a stalled recovery, with the economy fragile and job creation slowing to a trickle, did the nation’s leaders decide that the thing to do—in order to raise the debt limit, normally a routine matter—was to spend less money, making job creation all the more difficult?
President Pushover - NYTimes.com past concessions have established in both Democrats’ and Republicans’ minds the thought that Obama was a weak negotiator—a “pushover.” He was more widely seen among Democrats and other close observers as having a strategy of starting near where he thinks the Republicans are—at the fifty-yard line—and then moving closer
Republicans, Zealots and Our Security - NYTimes.com IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage - Republican zeal to lower debts could result in increased interest expenses and higher debts. Their mania to save taxpayers could cost taxpayers. That suggests not governance so much as fanaticism. (Republican domestic terrorists)
Right Dominates Debt Ceiling Ad War | Politico
'Super Congress': Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body (the wheels come off American Democracy)
GOP Foreign Affairs Cuts Leave House Democrats Irate
Debt ceiling impasse imperils safety net programs - Jul. 23, 2011
Daily Kos: Short and Succinct on MY Social Security Congressional benefits -- free premium federal health care, enormous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, 3 weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days -- now THAT is welfare! And they have the nerve to call my retirement "entitlement"?
'Right Wing Nutters' are Destroying the Global Economy
The Great Evil - NYTimes.com


Court: Dad OK to put daughter's face on porn pix - seattlepi.com U.S. Supreme Court established in 2002 when it struck down a federal law banning "virtual child pornography," sexually explicit images that were entirely computer-generated, the appellate panel said.

Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers | ZDNet

072311
At least 91 killed in shootings and bomb blast in Norway - VG Nett om Terrorangrepet 22. juli
Politiet: Minst 84 drepte på Utøya - Norge - NRK Nyheter
At Least 80 Dead in Norway Shooting - NYTimes.com
Norway attack: Right-wing extremism emerging? - World news - Europe - msnbc.com European governments facing possibility of new threat — 'equivalent of Oklahoma City' - the Norwegian man detained after the attacks had links to right-wing extremism (like the American Teaparty)
Norway attacks: Anders Behring Breivik profile - Channel 4 News Breivik supports far-right idealogies and has called for the formation of a "cultural Euro-Tea Party" referring to the grass-roots right-wing organisation in the US supported by Sarah Palin.
Norway suspect 'fundamentalist Christian' He reportedly bought six tonnes of fertiliser in May, an agriculture cooperative said.
The Washington Post Owes the World an Apology for this Item - James Fallows - International - The Atlantic Jennifer Rubin first quotes the Weekly Standard, in a rushed item about the Norway horror (WaPo spews their hatred of Muslims)
How a clueless "terrorism expert" set media suspicion on Muslims after Oslo horror | The Electronic Intifada (NYT digs up fake "terroristm expert" to back its jihad story)
U.S. Wingnuts Ready To Pretend-Attack Norway Bombers/Shooters
Norway attacks: Utøya gunman boasted of links to UK far right | World news | The Observer Anders Brehing Breivik took part in online discussions with members of the EDL and other anti-Islamic groups
Øystein Runde The tragedy on Utøya - an attempt to understand
Fant tre tonn kunstgjødsel på gården - Hedmark og Oppland - NRK Nyheter
Moldejazz i sørgemoll - kultur - Dagbladet.no
Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Norwegian Killer Linked to Tea Party and EDL Anders Behring Breivik posted links to the Atlas Shrugs website of the Tea Party’s Pamela Geller (time to classify Teaparty as a terrorist organization)
Anders Behring Breivik's comments with Document.no
Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims...Except the 99.6% that Aren't | loonwatch.com 99.6% of terrorist attacks in Europe were by non-Muslim groups; a good 84.8% of attacks were from separatist groups completely unrelated to Islam. Leftist groups accounted for over sixteen times as much terrorism as radical Islamic groups. Only a measly 0.4% of terrorist attacks from 2007 to 2009 could be attributed to extremist Muslims.
Super-Economy: Islamists caused overwhelming majority of terrorist deaths in Europe during last decade even if we exclude the September 11 attacks, the share of casualties due to Muslim terror is 91%.
Terrorist attack on Oslo, Norway - July 22, 2011 - YouTube
The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of "Terrorism" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Al Qaeda is always to blame, even when it isn't, even when it's allegedly the work of a Nordic, Muslim-hating, right-wing European nationalist
Watch Videos Online | Knights Templar 2083 - Movie Trailer | Veoh.com
What did the Oslo killer want? | FP Passport

Andy Coulson vetting saga: damp squib, or dynamite? | Ian Katz | Comment is free | The Guardian No 10 insists the issue of Andy Coulson's security vetting is a red herring. They protest too much
Phone hacking also rife under Piers Morgan at Mirror, claims ex-reporter | Media | guardian.co.uk Former City Slicker reporter offers evidence for public inquiry, alleging phone hacking was widespread at Mirror and People
Phone hacking: 7/7 victims fear police passed numbers to News of the World | Media | The Observer Survivors of London bombings call in lawyers to investigate allegations that officers may have passed on addresses
News International 'bullied Liberal Democrats over BSkyB bid' | Media | The Observer Party claims it was told it would be 'done over' by Murdoch papers if deal did not go through as company wanted
Murdoch Papers Set To Lose 2012 Olympics Deal
Murdoch Australia Television Bid Faces Resistance From Regulators
MoveOn Targets News Corp. In New Ad
Olbermann Mocks O'Reilly's Defense Of News Corp
Phone Hacking Investigation May Widen To The Sun, Other British Tabloids

Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran: report | Reuters An Iranian physicist was shot dead by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Saturday and Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted an unnamed police official as saying he was a nuclear scientist (Mossad)
BBC News - China: Dozens die as bullet trains collide in Zhejiang local television later said the first train had been forced to stop after losing power due to a lightning strike, and was then rear-ended by another train, causing two of its carriages to fall off the bridge.
China denies safety lax on high-speed rail link

Commentary: Keeping some voters from the polls is part of the game plan | McClatchy It should be clear to all but the most steadfast of reality deniers that the strategy of the Republican Party for the presidential election next year is to cause another recession and hope the voters blame President Obama (Republican terrorists willing the bring down the economy)
Debt ceiling talks between Obama and Republicans collapse | World news | guardian.co.uk US on brink of economic crisis after negotiations over outline of $3tn cuts package and tax rises break down (they finally pissed him off, couldn't see it coming)
Boehner Set To Call Obama's Bluff In Push For Short-Term Debt Ceiling Deal (they want to do this every 2 months)
Debt Talks Break Up After 50 Minutes Obama wanted assurances that Congress would not let the nation become delinquent.
What Obama Was Willing to Give Away - NYTimes.com Jonathan Cohn summarizes what seems to have been in the deal that Boehner walked away from; it’s horrifying. Above all, the proposed rise in the age of Medicare eligibility was a real betrayal of both Democratic principles and good government (your grand bargainer at work screwing you because he has no principles except himself)
Debt Ceiling Negotiations: The Democrats Have Compromised. The Republicans Have Not. It's About Time People Noticed. | The New Republic Obama has invoked that false storyline as much as any leader in recent times; if it's taken hold, he is partly to blame. But on Friday, he called it like it really is (he actually called himself a "Democrat")
Political Animal - Tire rims and anthrax - The difference today between the two major parties hasn’t been quite this dramatic since the American Civil War (no coincidence)
White House: We Thought We Were Down To The Details | TPMDC Obama rejected a last minute demand from the GOP that the deal include a repeal of the individual mandate in healthcare reform
Unfavorable Ratings for Both Major Parties Near Record Highs - NYTimes.com
Cenk Uygur Talks MSNBC Departure To Keith Olbermann (video)
Sources: Young woman accuses Oregon Rep. David Wu of aggressive, unwanted sexual encounter | OregonLive.com

Forget Anonymous: Evidence Suggests GOP Hacked, Stole 2004 Election | Benzinga.com (another thing we're not looking backwards at)

Chapman: 'There Is No Question Now That the Game Is Over' Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Italy, Spain and the UK are broke. The US government is broke. The American people are broke.
The Shadow Gold Price: $10,000 An Ounce

Invasion of the Viking women unearthed - Science Fair - usatoday.com
Warriors and women: the sex ratio of Norse migrants to eastern England up to 900 ad - MCLEOD - 2011 - Early Medieval Europe - Wiley Online Library
Space Shuttle: The complete missions -- by Nature Video - YouTube

State Issues New Birth Certificates to Three Transgender ACLU Clients « American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois In court last week, the Illinois Attorney General’s office assured Judge Michael Heyman that the new rule would result in no one being required to have genital surgery in order to correct their birth certificate in the future

Ohio Cop to Concealed Permit Holder: "I should have... put 10 bullets in your ass and let you drop" Canton, Ohio PD has reportedly received thousands of calls regarding the incident.
Newark Cop: "I Can Do Whatever the Hell I Want" - YouTube (Brian Sharif, infamous for all eternity)
ACLU lawsuit accuses 2 Newark police officers of illegally detaining, threatening honors student | NJ.com

An Academic Author’s Unintentional Masterpiece - NYTimes.com


072211
As Many As 30 Feared Dead In Norway Camp Shooting After Bomb Attack In Capital Oslo Kills At Least 7 | World News | Sky News Police said they do not think the attacks were linked to Islamic terrorism (anti-Muslim, neo-nazi, most media jump to opposite conclusion, Obama says world must defend against terrorists, assuming they are Muslim)
Named: The blond Norwegian, 32, arrested over 'holiday island massacre' and linked to Oslo bomb blasts | Mail Online Suspect named by Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik - More than 30 are believed to have been killed - seven in Oslo and between 25 to 30 on Utoya Island, 50 miles north of the capital.
The Oslo attacks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (NYT framed attack as "jihad" and Denmark as "a peaceful nation" the Sun said Al-Qaeda)
Twitter / @saletan: Oslo Peace Process. Nobel Peace Prize. Today's attacks show how little terrorists respect countries that pursue peace (put his foot in his twitter: they hate us for our freedoms and peaceful ways)
Anders B. Breivik (AndersBBreivik) on Twitter
Norway attacks - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Seven killed by bomb in Oslo • "Several" killed by gunman at youth conference in Utoya
Oslo explosion: 'It was complete chaos. I could hear screams and see corpses' | World news | The Guardian Terrorist attack on government offices leaves bodies lying among shattered and burning buildings in centre of Norway's capital
Oslo bombing, shooting (big photo gallery, news updates) - Boing Boing

Mass Syrian protest against Assad regime adds to death toll | World news | The Guardian Hundreds of thousands demonstrate as security forces kill at least 11 people with president rumoured to call elections
Bailout rescue: euphoria wanes as doubts emerge | Business | The Guardian Strategist says new deal has not addressed underlying problems with Greek economy as markets see small gains
How Are ‘Weak’ European Countries Supposed To Experience Growth? | ThinkProgress This is a plan that only works with higher growth, but it has no path to create the growth or even create the conditions under which the growth is plausible (austerity! spend less! screw the workers!)
Somalia famine: UN to hold emergency meeting | Global development | The Guardian The summit in Rome on Monday will look at humanitarian responses to the Horn of Africa drought
Pakistan IJT influence: Pakistan Islamist student group IJT said to terrorize campuses - latimes.com In Pakistan's Punjab province, the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, the student wing of a powerful hard-line religious party, seeks to enforce its fundamentalist agenda, intimidating and sometimes attacking students and teachers alike.

News Corp boss 'linked' to leak of Vince Cable's Rupert Murdoch comments | Media | guardian.co.uk Detectives hired by Telegraph to discover source of leaks have 'strong suspicion' Will Lewis was involved, according to reports (another hacking case, then pulled Cameron's strings to smash opposition)
James Murdoch's position under scrutiny | Media | The Guardian James Murdoch's future as chairman of BSkyB in doubt after former News of the World executives say he gave 'mistaken' evidence
Andy Coulson investigated for perjury while working at No 10 | Media | The Guardian Sources say police will examine Coulson's denial of any knowledge of phone hacking at Tommy Sheridan trial
Phone-hacking scandal: live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk James Murdoch could be jailed if he lied to committee
James Murdoch: groomed for the top but now looking down the barrel | Media | The Guardian He will be unable to avoid another round of allegations and recriminations guaranteed to keep him in headlines
News Corp and phone hacking: Wilful blindness at the very top | Comment is free | The Guardian
Justice Department Prepares Subpoenas In News Corp. Inquiry
LulzSec claims to have News International emails | Technology | guardian.co.uk Member of hacking group LulzSec says it will make public 4GB of emails it claims were taken from attack on servers at the Sun
Justice Department investigates News Corp ad arm: report - CNBC
New Firefox Add-on Warns You About The Dangers Of The Murdoch Propaganda Machine | NEWS JUNKIE POST

Obama, Pentagon certify repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' - CNN.com

The Great Unraveling: Congressional Democrats Question Obama’s Core Values, Don’t Trust Him | Firedoglake Among Senate Democrats, there is still bitterness about the deal Vice President Biden negotiated in secret in December with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that extended all of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthy (for which he got ... nothing)
CNN: Obama Losing Liberals Over Bedrock Democratic Programs | MyFDL When a Democratic President continues to shove Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid back onto the negotiating table after being offered a clean debt ceiling deal by the Senate GOP, CNN polling shows liberals are taken aback (he's running as a Republican anyway)
Hullabaloo Shared sacrifice, Village style - Raising the eligibility age or changing the COLA are humongous changes that shouldn't even be contemplated in this context since Social Security's shortfall isn't even projected to happen for another 35 years and it contributes nothing to the deficit. And the idea that this would be "balanced" by ending some perks for corporate jets is so bizarre that I'd think it was part of a Stephen Colbert satire if I didn't know better (you sacrifice, they profit; Obama stands for nothing)
As Senate Kills 'Cut, Cap, And Balance,' Boehner Says: Amend It, Send It Back | TPMDC
Democrats Set Drop-Dead Date For Debt Ceiling Backup Plan | TPMDC President Obama's quest to reach a historic budget agreement with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) fell into deep doubt Thursday, after a noisy rebellion by Senate Democrats over reports that Obama might hand Republicans the farm on discretionary and entitlement spending, with few or no guarantees that the GOP will accept any new tax revenues (Obama will totally capitulate to 87 farthest-right House Rethugs)
Obama Presses Skeptical Dem Leaders On Big Deal With Boehner | TPMDC (look, dudes, Imma teaparty Republican)
Is this the 'worst Congress ever'? - The Week The debt ceiling showdown has revealed Washington's deepening divisions, and aversion to compromise of any sort (is Obama the worst Pres ever?)
Why the Norquist tax pledge furor matters - PostPartisan - The Washington Post
Michele Bachmann: Hearing The Voice Of God As Mental Illness Symptom

Initial Fed Audit Shows Web of Conflict of Interest | FDL News Desk (why they really, really didn't want an audit)
1937! 1937! 1937! - NYTimes.com The Serious People are determined to destroy all the advanced economies in the name of prudence.
Heads of Europe Back Broad Plan to Rescue Greece - NYTimes.com (austerity for all you peons!)

Perry launches on Obama for cutting NASA | Trail Blazers Blog | dallasnews.com Actually, it was the Bush Administration that decided to end shuttle missions, and the Obama Administration extended the life of the shuttle program by adding two additional flights (oh, don't bother us with details)
Sizing Up Space: A Visual History : NPR
'Earth Burp' May Have Caused Mass Extinction, Not Volcanic Activity a huge quantity of methane being released into the atmosphere.
Telling science stories…wait, what’s a “story”? | A Blog Around The Clock, Scientific American Blog Network
The Tech and Science Behind Little Red Riding Hood - YouTube
Howard Markel on Cocaine in ‘Anatomy of Addiction’ - NYTimes.com “Freud’s [concept of the] libido is merely a mask and a symbol for cocaine; the drug, or rather its invisible ghost, haunts the whole of Freud’s writing to the very end.”

Advisory panel halts audit of state toxicology lab | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com Move stops the process before independent review of alcohol tests (Republifucks: justice is too expensive, look over there)
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Rick Perry Asked Why More Kids Are Getting Pregnant in Texas - "Things to Look for in a Mate: A. Is Jesus their first love?" (abstinence education FAIL)
Kudzu and the Marriage Amendment recent legislation restricting marriage to "a man and a woman" — regardless of whether you consider that effort good, bad, or indifferent — is going to produce harmful, unintended side effects (maybe even for you, your family, your friends, and so on), exactly the opposite of what proponents intend.

'To protect and serve'? Not in Canton, Ohio--or in many other places - St. Louis gun rights | Examiner.com Canton, Ohio police officer Daniel Harless flying into a rage when he discovered that the motorist he was bullying was legally carrying a concealed firearm.
Cop threatens to execute driver over concealed weapon permit
21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor | World | AlterNet In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit.
Stranger moves into foreclosed home, citing little-knownTexas law | khou.com Houston

Stephen Colbert - It Gets Better - YouTube
Impressionist Does Shakespeare in Celebrity Voices - YouTube

Google And The Technocratic Conscience. | The New Republic - Don't Be Evil
Feds Charge Activist as Hacker for Downloading Millions of Academic Articles | Threat Level | Wired.com

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Pakistani PM: US promises not to repeat Bin Laden raid | World news | The Guardian Yousuf Raza Gilani says Hillary Clinton has assured him there will be no more unilateral raids, contradicting US officials' claims (Obama: "we'll blow the shit out of anyone, anywhere, we want")
Pakistan's Middle Class Extremists | Foreign Affairs - Why Development Aid Won't Solve Radicalism
Syrian Forces Conduct Raids, Arrests Amid Intense Shooting In Central City
Gaza Flotilla: Israel 'Not Ready To Apologize' For 2010 Turkish Deaths (they never apologize for anything)
Exclusive: Inside Darpa’s Secret Afghan Spy Machine | Danger Room | Wired.com

Rupert Murdoch's Fox News ran 'black ops' department, former executive claims - Telegraph Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a “black ops” department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged (drip, drip)
Former NOTW executive to return from Florida - Crime, UK - The Independent Greg Miskiw, the former News of the World executive named in Parliament as one of several "gatekeepers" on the paper authorised to order phone hacking, said yesterday he will return to Britain from Florida and face questioning by police (drip)
Phone hacking: Tom Crone and Colin Myler raise the stakes | Media | The Guardian Colin Myler and Tom Crone are, in effect, accusing James Murdoch of being part of the phone-hacking cover-up - In a scandal where it had seemed that the stakes could scarcely be raised any higher, Crone and Myler's statement has now raised them to new heights. James Murdoch's future has been put into play in the most dramatic fashion.
James Murdoch 'mistaken' in select committee evidence, say Myler and Crone | Media | guardian.co.uk Paper's ex-editor and head of legal challenge News Corp executive's statement to MPs at phone-hacking hearing
Phone-hacking scandal: live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk
Police seek computer passwords of Rebekah Brooks's husband | Media | The Guardian Computer and iPad belonging to Charlie Brooks were found in carpark near couple's London residence - Shortly after its discovery Brooks's husband, a former racehorse trainer and close friend of David Cameron, arrived on the scene and tried to reclaim it.
Andy Coulson's limited security clearance at No 10 'breathtaking' | Media | The Guardian Tony Blair's deputy political spokesman says it would have been extremely difficult to operate with Coulson's clearance level
Murdoch: This scandal has exposed the scale of elite corruption | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian Cameron wants to bury the collusion uncovered in the hacking revelations but it's part of a growing crisis of official Britain
Phone hacking investigation widens to sale of private details | Media | The Guardian Police handed files from Operation Motorman, which found 3,522 suspected cases of media having illegal access to records
Phone hacking: Met police to investigate mobile tracking claims | Media | The Guardian Whistleblower Sean Hoare claimed the News of the World would pay officers to illegally procure phone-tracking data
News International dropped by Olympic partner after hacking scandal | Sport | guardian.co.uk Murdoch's British newspapers lose Team GB deal
US senator invokes website-hacking trial in call for Murdoch inquiry | Media | The Guardian Attorney general asked to consider evidence of hacking into site of small firm, which News Corporation later bought outright - "If there were individuals concerned about doing the right thing – bed-wetting liberals in particular – then he could arrange for them to be out-placed from the company." (Floorgraphics)
News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation | ThinkProgress
Corruption, a baffling death and feminine wiles | Alexander Chancellor | Comment is free | The Guardian Even while on holiday in Tuscany, the phone-hacking revelations translate perfectly

Anonymous & Lulz Security Statement - Pastebin.com - Hello thar FBI and international law authorities ...

Tom Coburn: President Obama Will Back Down On Budget Bill Veto Threat (of course he will, he always has)
Reid Presses Obama Not To Agree To Debt Plan With No Revenue | TPMDC
Gallup Pollster: Obama's Ratings Higher Than You'd Expect | TPMDC "So far, despite similarly bad economic perceptions, Obama has not fallen into the 30% range,"
Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Deal: Where's the Uproar? | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy (another huge Obama/Republican giveaway)
Hostage negotiations - Congress
Political Animal - House GOP Suicide Squad gets bigger Some eighty House Republicans have now signed a letter calling on GOP leaders not to even let the McConnell plan get to the floor for a vote (terrorist teahadists holding America hostage to their regressive ideology)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community Kamikaze Republicans - It used to be that you could count on a south Florida politician to do two things: protect entitlements and support the embargo of Cuba. Now we have a Tea Party Republican who doesn't have the slightest sense of self-preservation (Allen West, R, Teacrazy, hands FL seniors a $6k tax bill, says Debbie is "heinous" for mentioning it)
Nancy Altman: Disentangling Social Security From the Debt Ceiling (not something Obama wants to do)
Cenk Uygur On Leaving MSNBC: Network Told Me To 'Tone It Down,' Didn't Want To 'Challenge Power' - "'Outsiders are cool, but we're the establishment,'" Griffin said, according to Uygur, who said he was also told to book more Republicans on the show. ("power" = teaparty)
The Great Right Hype : CJR Tucker Carlson and his Daily Caller (mouthpiece for Rove)
Denying Existence Of Record Heat Wave, Limbaugh Suggests The Heat Index Is A Government Conspiracy | Media Matters for America (who you gonna believe, Limbaugh or your lyin' libral thermometer?)
Referendum Officially Triggered In Ohio To Ax Kasich's Anti-Public Employee Union Bill | TPMDC A Quinnipiac poll released this week showed that repealing the bill had a lead of either slightly under or over 20 points, depending on the wording of the question.
Water-Regulation-As-Federalism Bill Passes House, Looks A Lot Like ALEC | TPMMuckraker
Ohio Abortion Ban Challenges Terms Of Roe V. Wade
Tucker Carlson's Funding Model for The Daily Caller Combines Religious Right Sugar Daddy With Corporate Lobbyists' Ad Revenue | BuzzFlash.org

Federal Reserve Actively Preparing For The Possibility Of U.S. Default
Major American Brands Silent on Alleged Rights Abuses At Overseas Factories
New Consumer Protection Agency Faces Opposition : NPR (the hacks at NPR give a platform to the financial industry to sabotage Consumer Protection)
Grand Central Terminal Retail Success Hurts Old Tenants - NYTimes.com ("When Apple proposed opening a store on the balcony overlooking the main hall, it submitted its bid in linen-lined boxes, as if it were a wedding present to transit officials") (out with the old, in with the rich)

How Finland became an education leader - David Sirota - Salon.com Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains how the nation achieved extraordinary successes by deemphasizing testing (and good pay/status for teachers)

Marriage in America: The frayed knot | The Economist As the divorce rate plummets at the top of American society and rises at the bottom, the widening “marriage gap” is breeding inequality
U.S. Census data show California families changing - latimes.com The proportion of nontraditional households in California is growing, according to U.S. Census data.
Comparing changes in households - latimes.com (family patterns in CA)
Letters from Working Girls

When design kills: The criminalization of walking | Grist
Police accountability activists and their supporters celebrate court victory | masslive.com It took a Greenfield District Court jury about two hours on Tuesday to acquit a pair of New Hampshire men accused of illegally filming at the Franklin County Jail last summer.

Crappy Pictures
Jesse Eisenberg Wants You to Talk Through His Movies : Blog : Austin : Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault - Anil Dash
Fragmenting the Internet Is Not a Security Solution | Electronic Frontier Foundation parts of the US government are advocating for a separate, “secure” internet (separate from the one Obama has a kill-switch for)

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World's Most Dangerous Countries for Women - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Iran Hits U.S. Spy Plane: Report an unmanned U.S. spy plane that was trying to gather information on an underground uranium enrichment site
UN declares famine in Somalia | Mark Tran | Global development | guardian.co.uk Famine now exists in the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions • Aid agency accuses European governments of 'wilful neglect' (Obama responds with humanitarian freedom bombs in the new front in the war on people who hate us for bombing them)
UN declares famine in parts of Somalia - Africa - Al Jazeera English United Nations says 3.7 million people 'now in crisis' and more than 10 million affected by worst drought in decades
Israeli spy claims over Christchurch earthquake | World news | guardian.co.uk New Zealand prime minister confirms, but then plays down, investigation over Israeli victim said to have held five passports (just "backpackers")
UN security council to consider climate change peacekeeping | Environment | guardian.co.uk Special meeting to discuss 'green helmets' force to intervene in conflicts caused by rising seas levels and shrinking resources (considering invading Texas)

Rupert Murdoch and his robot sidekick steal the show as Cameron sweats it out | Marina Hyde | Comment is free | The Guardian Yet perhaps the most telling vignette came shortly after Rupert had confused Alastair Campbell with David Cameron - possible confirmation that the change of prime ministers is to Murdoch Snr the mere shuffling of junior personnel - when he revealed insouciantly that he always went in the back door of Downing Street because Cameron and others insisted on it. As Rupert put it with a studiedly powerless smile: "I just did what I was told." (when I went to tell them what to do)

Phone hacking: The judgment thing | Comment is free | The Guardian In a carefully parsed remark that echoed Bill Clinton's denials of sex with Monica Lewinsky, Cameron said that he "never had any inappropriate conversations" with Murdoch or his minions
News of the World phone hacking – interactive timeline | Media | guardian.co.uk
Andy Coulson was never given top security clearance in government | Media | The Guardian Andy Coulson was granted only mid-level clearance, so avoiding the most rigorous security checks into his background (rigged)
David Cameron widens inquiry on media regulation to include the BBC | Politics | The Guardian PM also wants takeover rulings taken out of politicians' hands and Ofcom given power to act at earlier stage
Phone-hacking scandal through the lens of the US media | Michael White | Media | guardian.co.uk Fox TV's GCSE lesson in the affair to the New York Times' extensive coverage competes with Obama's budget showdown and his support for gay marriage rights
James Murdoch: hack victim's payout sparks queries over hush-money denial | Media | The Guardian Despite telling parliamentary committee that astronomical sums were not paid, total cost of Gordon Taylor case to NI was £1m (just one case)
News International 'deliberately' blocked investigation | Media | The Guardian All-party home affairs committee report into phone hacking to be published in time for David Cameron's statement
Did David Cameron discuss News Corp's Sky bid with Rebekah Brooks? | Media | The Guardian The PM should come clean about what he may have discussed with executives from Rupert Murdoch's News International - the prime minister cracked, indicating that he may well have had one or more conversations with individuals at Murdoch's News International who he did not get close to naming (nothing "inappropriate" during those 150 meetings)
The Murdochs must stop spinning and resign over the phone-hacking scandal | Robert Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The NewsCorp PR machine has put corporate survival above the truth, but it's time both Murdochs stopped shifting the blame
Phone hacking: Mandarin targeted 'while Coulson was in Downing Street' | Media | The Guardian David Cameron promises investigation after Labour MP Nick Raynsford raises claim in parliament about senior official - a senior government official was subjected to "disgraceful and illegal" phone hacking and hostile media briefing while Andy Coulson was the Downing Street director of communications.
News International crisis: New questions and little contrition | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian A good moment in British public life: the assertion, through parliament, of accountability for one family and one company
Behind Rupert and James Murdoch's gloss, an intensely serious defence | Media | The Guardian Rupert Murdoch and son James let some moral blame through but had to repel anything resembling criminal responsibility

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Jonnie Marbles: Why I foam-pied Rupert Murdoch | Jonnie Marbles | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Some people might think my action played into Murdoch's hands, but I did it for all the people who couldn't

News Corp Tried To 'Deliberately Thwart' Investigations Into Phone Hacking: Parliament - "if at any time News International had offered some meaningful cooperation instead of lies, we would not be here today." (covering up the coverup)
Bill O'Reilly: News Corp Being Attacked By 'Vicious' Opponents Exploiting Hacking Scandal
Murdoch Scandal Stirs U.S. Debate on Big Media - NYTimes.com - The Federal Communications Commission signaled last week that it regarded the hacking scandal as isolated to Britain (just a British problem)

Environmental Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline | Common Dreams (oil company taking America by emminent domain)
TSA Making Airport Body Scanners More Private - AOL Travel News The new software, known as Automated Target Recognition (ATR), displays possible security threats on the same generic image of a person that is used for all passengers (generic naked person, not you)
Arizona Border Fence Website Launches To Raise Cash Donations Arizona launched a website Wednesday to accept donations to pay for fencing along the Mexico border, and a supporter says the $3.8 million people donated to defend the state's 2010 immigration enforcement law could be just a taste of what to expect (tax yourselves, idiots)
Franken Destroys Focus On The Family Witness, Exposes Misuse Of HHS Study | ThinkProgress

Congress Continues Debate Over Whether Or Not Nation Should Be Economically Ruined | The Onion
Why the Wealthiest Americans Are the Real 'Job-Killers' | Economy | AlterNet The top 1 percent takes in more than twice the share of national income today than they did 30 years ago, and that's a big reason why consumers are tapped out.
Walter Bagdasarian Conviction Overturned By Federal Appeals Court A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who posted Internet messages threatening Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
John Boehner Seeks Votes For Debt Ceiling Deal As Republicans Balk The House has 240 Republicans. But 38 have signed a pledge to oppose any debt ceiling increase unless it is accompanied by a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, which is politically unachievable (America held hostage by insane Republinuts)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Reacts To Allen West Email
Chris Matthews, GOP Rep. Joe Walsh Have Blistering Exchange Over Debt Bill
Minnesota Shutdown Over: Government Budget Dispute Resolved (LATEST UPDATES) The end to the shutdown began when Dayton moved last week to accept a borrowing plan offered by the GOP shortly before the stoppage began (capitulation)
GOP Presidential Field More Secretive Than Bush On Top Donors
Democratic State Sen. Dave Hansen Wins First Wisconsin Recall Election
Alabama Tax Supports Confederate Memorial Park While Other Sites Suffer Despite fire-and-brimstone opposition to taxes among many in a state that still has "Heart of Dixie" on its license plates, officials never stopped collecting a property tax that once funded the Alabama Confederate Soldiers' Home, which closed 72 years ago.
ABC's Brian Ross Talks Bachmann Staff Shoving On 'The View' (VIDEO) The ABC News investigative correspondent was pushed by Bachmann's security guards on Tuesday after asking if she had missed any Congressional votes because of her migraines (ReThugs)

U.S. to Close 800 Computer Data Centers - NYTimes.com (10's of thousands of jobs eliminated: Obama's austerity program at work)

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment • The Register What do these results mean? Not allowed to tell you (it might upset Christians, Republicans, and the Koch bros)
PLoS Medicine: Evidence-Based African First Aid Guidelines and Training Materials
Texas Evolution Education Debate To Rekindle In State Board Meeting (let them devolve)
New Pluto Moon Discovered By Hubble Space Telescope (Pluto's revenge for being called a moon)

Stanford lowers standard of proof for sexual assault | Stanford Daily
In Making Campuses Safe for Women, a Travesty of Justice for Men - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education (presumed guilty)
Letter to the Editor: Burden of Proof | Stanford Daily
In Making Campuses Safe for Women, a Travesty of Justice for Men - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education ("martial law for men")
Stanford Trains Student Jurors That 'Acting Persuasive and Logical' is Sign of Guilt; Story of Student Judicial Nightmare in Today's 'New York Post' - FIRE
Email from Dean of Student Life Chris Griffith to FIRE, July 9, 2011 - FIRE

Dressing down for GQ - BostonHerald.com (GQ says Boston is worst-dressed city)
Mock my pants, not my sister

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review

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New study proves falsity of John Brennan's drone claims - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (he lied, Obama lied +Scahill on Obama's black-bad torture sites)
John Rizzo, Ex-CIA Legal Chief, Targeted By Pakistanis For Arrest for approving drone missile strikes that killed hundreds of people (Obama next?)
Dignity al-Karama, Gaza-Bound French Ship, Seized By Israeli Navy in international waters (Israeli piracy on the high seas)

Rupert Murdoch: I knew nothing about phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk News Corp chief gives hesitant performance in front of MPs, but son admits firm contributed to private investigator's legal fees ("I knew nothing")
Rupert Murdoch Denies Responsibility For Phone Hacking Scandal | TPMMuckraker and instead blamed "the people I trusted to run it and the people they trusted."
Rebekah Brooks: phone-hacking payments were not my responsibility | Media | guardian.co.uk Former News International chief says News of the World's managing editor approved payments to private detectives ("I knew nothing, nothing, nothing")
Phone-hacking: Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - live | Politics | guardian.co.uk News Corp chair was 'asked to enter No 10 by back door' • Rupert 'had no knowledge at all of Taylor settlement' • James admits NI paid some of Mulcaire's legal fees
Phone-hacking select committee hearing: panel verdict | The panel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk As the key figures in the phone-hacking scandal face MPs' questions, our writers comment on their performance
Paul Stephenson: No 10 aide warned me not to tell Cameron | Media | guardian.co.uk Downing Street chief of staff Ed Llewellyn named as aide who told Met chief not to compromise PM over phone hacking
10 things we learned from the Met police at the phone-hacking hearing | Media | guardian.co.uk Sir Paul Stephenson, John Yates and Dick Fedorcio provided some illuminating moments in front of the select committee
Phone hacking: emails show Cameron aide 'stopped' briefing | UK news | guardian.co.uk John Yates names Downing Street chief of staff as official who told Met 'not to compromise' PM by raising phone hacking (hear no evil)
Neil Wallis advised Andy Coulson before election | Media | guardian.co.uk Conservative party sources say advice had nothing to do with phone-hacking inquiry
Phone-hacking: John Yates faces MPs - live | Politics | guardian.co.uk Paul Stephenson: 'I never spoke to Wallis about hacking' • 'Senior figure' said do not tell PM about ex-NI man's job at Met
Sir Paul Stephenson's strange definition of 'restraint' | Nina Power | Comment is free | The Guardian As the reputation of the Metropolitan police crumbles, questions will be asked about its role in stifling student protests
Nearly One Quarter Of Met Police Press Officers Worked For News International, Police Chief Says
Sir Paul Stephenson Stands Before Select Committee Over Phone Hacking
Murdoch Aides Long Tried to Blunt Scandal Over Hacking - NYTimes.com
Wall Street Journal's Defiant Defense Of News Corp (oh, the librals are persecuting us)
Rebekah Brooks Arrested: Inside The Toxic Environment Of Her News Of The World
News Corp Phone Hacking Scandal May Spread To Australia
The Murdochs Head To Parliament As Scandal Shakes News Corp. Empire (video)
The Center for Public Integrity: Murdoch's News Corp Lobbied on Privacy Issues as Hacking Controversy Bubbled
Open Thread | Crooks and Liars

Justice Department Filing Casts Doubt on Guilt of Bruce Ivins, Accused in Anthrax Case - ProPublica
DOJ casts serious doubt on its own claims about the anthrax attack - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Obama did everything he could do block independent inquiry because it would "undermine confidence" in him)
FBI Raids Homes Of Suspected 'Anonymous' Hackers | TPMMuckraker (Obama attacks whistleblowers, looks the other way on NewsCorp)
How the US ‘War on Terror’ Impacts Women and Sexual Minorities | The Dissenter
Catfood Commission II: A Cowardly Attempt to Dodge Democratic Accountability | FDL Action
Reddit Co-Founder Charged with Data Theft - NYTimes.com
Federal Government Indicts Former Demand Progress Executive Director For Downloading Too Many Journal Articles — Demand Progress

Document: Gang of Six Deficit Plan Executive Summary - Tim Fernholz - NationalJournal.com (Obama catering to the lowest common denominator: teh crazy Rethugs +this doesn't make any sense) )
Hullabaloo Nobody was ever "worried" that it would be passed without big spending cuts until the Republicans decided to use it as leverage --- and the President signed on to this formulation. The national consensus on the necessity for huge spending cuts couldn't have happened without him (our profoundly Conservative, a-historical sellout Pres always only thought of himself)
Michele Bachmann's Headaches | Mother Jones "When she gets ‘em, frankly, she can’t function at all (that might be a good thing)
Heritage Foundation: Widespread Xbox Ownership Debunks Myth of American Poverty | Firedoglake Census officials continue to grossly exaggerate the numbers of the poor, creating a false picture in the public mind of widespread material deprivation, writes Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Robert Rector in a new paper (there aren't any "poor" and they aren't "poor" because they have a stove)
Only 19 Percent of Republicans Think Obama Would Be Raptured (but Palin scores 51%)

Bank of America has 8.8 billion loss for the quarter | McClatchy as more than $20 billion in previously disclosed mortgage-related charges walloped its bottom line
President Obama Spurns Elizabeth Warren, But Confirming Richard Cordray Will Likely Be No Easier (stood for nothing, fought for nothing)

Non-Africans are part Neanderthal, genetic research shows - "This confirms recent findings suggesting that the two populations interbred,"
How to be in two places at the same time - physics-math - 19 July 2011 - New Scientist

Choosing God Over Science (Republicans deal with global warming with prayer)
North Dakota Law Banning All Drug-Induced Abortions Is Challenged In Court

FormFiftyFive – Design inspiration from around the world » Blog Archive » Stephan Zirwes
F & P Daguerreotype, The Cincinnati Panorama of 1848
Jed Perl Reviews "Thomas Kinkade: The Artist In The Mall" | The New Republic - Bullshit Heaven
8 Year Old Jonny Mizzone - Flint Hill Special - Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - YouTube

Psycho Ex Wife Fights for Freedom of Speech | She Posts

The “Graduated Response” Deal: What if Users Had Been At the Table? | Electronic Frontier Foundation (Obama's idea of "stakeholders" are the corps, not the people who actually buy their product)

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US drone strikes in Pakistan claiming many civilian victims, says campaigner | World news | guardian.co.uk (Obama busy creating the next generation of terrorists; will he face UN tribunal?)
Eurozone default could trigger Lehmans-style crisis, says Trichet | Business | guardian.co.uk Crunch week for euro begins with market reaction to European bank stress tests
Inside Al Qaeda’s hard drives - The Boston Globe A stash of data yields up insights about the business of terrorism
McClatchy | WikiLeaks

News International: If Ed Miliband doesn't flinch, he could well seize the day | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian Cameron has admitted meeting Murdoch executives 26 times in 15 months – but it emerges there were more occasions, many other walks and rides (so he was in constant touch with Murdoch or his top crooks)
How the phone-hacking scandal unmasked the British power elite | Media | The Guardian The close ties between politicians and the media mean that if Murdoch's empire falls, the political establishment will suffer
News Corp faces global investigation into bribery | Media | The Guardian Pressure mounting in US for a full-scale inquiry into News Corporation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Police examine bag found in bin near Rebekah Brooks's home | Media | The Guardian Former NI chief executive's husband denies bag – containing computer, paperwork and phone – belonged to his wife (this is not how it is done +completely implausible story)
Phone-hacking scandal: John Yates resigns – live coverage | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Sir Paul Stephenson turns on David Cameron | UK news | The Guardian Britain's top police officer resigns and turns on prime minister in dramatic escalation of the phone-hacking scandal (rats start biting each other)
Phone hacking: Nick Clegg must lead the Lib Dems against David Cameron | Roy Greenslade | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The prime minister is damaged goods – by ousting him from power the Lib Dems could win back their credibility and support (met with Murdoch 26 times in 14 months; what do you think they talked about?) (get out of town strategy=fail)
How Paul Stephenson and PM fell out over hacking scandal | Media | The Guardian Met chief's resignation statement casts further doubt on David Cameron's judgment ahead of Africa trade trip ... facing the thinly-disguised wrath of a Met commissioner angry that he is being accused of an improperly contractual relationship with Neil Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor, when the prime minister arguably insisted on an even less appropriate relationship with Coulson - His meetings with News International executives in a year exceed those with all other news organisations put together. Not a single figure from the BBC was granted an audience
John Yates resigns from Met police over phone-hacking scandal | UK news | The Guardian Scotland Yard's top counter-terrorism officer quits the day after his boss Sir Paul Stephenson - suggested that the News of the World "failed to co-operate" with police until the start of this year (that was all it took?)
John Yates: 'pretty crap' decision ends 30 years at Met | UK news | The Guardian Failure to take phone hacking seriously ends in resignation of Met assistant commissioner who handled string of big cases (corrupt from the top)
Phone-hacking scandal: Why John Yates resigned from the Met police | UK news | guardian.co.uk Failure to tell political bosses about Neil Wallis appointment meant counter-terrorism chief's days were numbered
David Cameron dismisses Paul Stephenson's Coulson comments | Politics | guardian.co.uk Prime minister insists his appointment of Andy Coulson cannot be compared to Met commissioner's decision to hire Neil Wallis (no, it was worse)
BBC News - John Yates quits Met Police amid phone-hacking scandal Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has quit after growing pressure amid the phone-hacking scandal.
BBC News - Phone-hacking scandal: Commons recess set to be delayed David Cameron has said the Commons will be recalled on Wednesday to debate the latest developments in the phone-hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch's Control Of News Corp Under Threat (how about jail?)
News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead | Media | The Guardian Death of Sean Hoare – who was first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson knew of hacking – not being treated as suspicious (it never is)
BBC News - News Corp shares fall as pressure grows - The US Department of Justice has spoken to the UK's Serious Fraud Office about how to investigate claims the News of the World paid police for information
On Fox, Wash. Post 's Lane Asks For Its Emails About Obama -- We Deliver | Media Matters for America Internal emails obtained by Media Matters have shown attempts by Fox News executive Bill Sammon to slant news coverage against President Obama and his policies.
Fox News Knocks Down Brain Room Claim - Mixed Media - Portfolio.com Has Roger Ailes been keeping tabs on your phone calls? A disgrunted former Fox News producer claims he has the capability thanks to a secret "brain room" that the network uses for "counterintelligence and black ops." (2008, when Bush was Prez, this could get good)
Fox News Sugarcoats News Corp Phone Hacking, Condemns Media For 'Piling On' | TPMMuckraker (nothing to see here, we're the victims, move along, up is down)
Phone hacking not changing attitudes to politicians, poll shows | Politics | The Guardian Guardian/ICM poll shows Conservatives ahead and small rise in Ed Miliband's personal rating – but slight slump for Labour
CPS in crisis as allegations of suppressed evidence wreck trials | Environment | The Guardian Claims Crown's lawyers failed to disclose evidence in several cases, including the Mark Kennedy environmental activism affair (rots from the head down)
Suffragette Surveillance, 1913 | How To Be A Retronaut ‘In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera, to covertly photograph suffragettes. The pictures were compiled into ID sheets for officers on the ground.’ (they've been doing this for a very long time)

NOVA | The New Thought Police
Justice Department lawyers contradict FBI findings in anthrax case | McClatchy (the long coverup +they persecuted an innocent man)
McClatchy special report | Military Injustice

It's A Trap! The Hidden Pitfalls Of GOP's 'Cut, Cap, And Balance' Plan | TPMDC
GOPer Haridopolos Suddenly Drops Out Of Florida Senate Race | TPMDC
Commentary: Texas' fast-growing debt tops that of U.S. government's | McClatchy
State Rep Who Got A DUI With Stripper In The Car Calls It Quits | TPMMuckraker

Tea Party Debt Plan Takes Center Stage, Vote Expected This Week (teh crazy takes over, Obama gives them more than they wanted)
Why I will never pursue cheating again - A Computer Scientist in a Business School (all B-School students cheat, of course)

Robert Samuelson Wants Us to Follow the Example of a Country With 7 Years of Double-Digit Unemployment | Beat the Press Samuelson holds up Latvia as the model for the United States to follow. The unemployment rate in Latvia is currently close to 20 percent (our overlords need slave-labor and Obama agrees)
Mystery Mortgage Economics - NYTimes.com another issue is coming to a head: whether prosecutors will rush to let banks off the hook for mortgage abuses in return for a modest settlement, without having done anything like a complete investigation (Obama has never investigated anything)
DeLong Smackdown Watch: "The Economy Won't Be Fixed Until the Housing Market Is Fixed" Is Backwards the housing market won't be fixed until the general economy is fixed enough to stop the decline in household formation and produce a significant increase (clueless Obama following his Galtian overlords)

It’s Obscenely Hot: June 2011 Heat Records Crush Cold Records by Nearly 11 to 1 | ThinkProgress
Must see Naomi Oreskes talk on Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscure the Truth about Climate Change. | ThinkProgress
Texas drought costing billions in losses « Live Insurance News (Texas frying in its own denial, will scream for Federal money to deal with a problem caused by something they do't believe in)
6_week.gif U.S. Drought Monitor 7/12/11 (a good Christian would ask: is God saying "Deny this, assholes"?)

Dawn Mission: News & Events > Dawn Spacecraft enters Vesta orbit
After almost 20 years, math problem falls in many cases, a property that can be determined efficiently, known as sum-of-squares convexity, is a viable substitute for convexity. Moreover, they provide an algorithm for determining whether an arbitrary function has that property
Proofs without words - MathOverflow

The Relentless Christian Crusade to Prevent Kids from Learning Science | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet Religious Right strategies to introduce fundamentalist Christianity into public school science classes have (ironically) evolved over the years.
Jeffrey Small: The Bible: History or Myth? (religion mired in superstition)
Both sides on Texas Governor, Rick Perry, prayer lawsuit | Oregon Faith Report

The Pervocracy: "Why does she stay with that jerk?"
Issendai's Superhero Training Journal - How to keep someone with you forever
The Abuser Pages|Dr. Irene's Verbal Abuse (Site)!

Timewatch – The Last Duel | Documentary Heaven
FBI: NJ couple kidnapped Israeli to force divorce - Yahoo! News A New Jersey rabbi and his wife surrendered to the FBI Monday on charges they abducted an Israeli man, beat him and threatened to bury him alive if he didn't give his wife a religious divorce

The rape of men | Global development | The Observer Sexual violence is one of the most horrific weapons of war, an instrument of terror used against women. Yet huge numbers of men are also victims. In this harrowing report, Will Storr travels to Uganda to meet traumatised survivors, and reveals how male rape is endemic in many of the world's conflicts
Here's the Outrageous Suicide Attempt Scene from ABC Family's Cyberbully
A Day At A Time: iPad Giveaway - Update

Design View / Andy Rutledge - News Redux - Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken. Almost all news organizations have abandoned reporting in favor of editorial

071711
Key Karzai adviser killed by suicide attackers in Kabul | McClatchy (in Surgistan)
UN mission accuses Sudan of shelling and torturing civilians in Nuba war | World news | The Observer Khartoum is keeping UN peacekeepers in the dark as it wages a violent campaign against its African border people, say confidential reports to security council
Tel Aviv tent city erected in protest against high house prices | World news | The Guardian Israelis complain they are being forced to move to the suburbs as the prime minister promises to look into the rent crisis ... The shortage of property is exacerbated by a large number of homes owned by American and European Jews who visit Israel two or three times a year ... Ultra-orthodox families are large; having eight or nine children is not uncommon.
Northern Ireland police ombudsman in call for clerical child abuse investigation | UK news | The Guardian Lady O'Loan calls for an independent investigation across Ireland following the Cloyne report into abuse by priests ... abuse allegations against priests in Cloyne had not been properly handled by the former bishop John Magee, who was a confidante to three popes when he worked for the Vatican in Rome. (put the Popester on trial)
Radiation concerns for Japan's beef supply - Asia, World - The Independent
Powerful eruption at Indonesian volcano - Asia, World - The Independent
Julia Neuberger: 'A nudge in the right direction won't run the big society' | Society | The Observer The problem, as Neuberger saw it, was that there was "precious little" evidence to show that nudge worked beyond a purely individual basis (from the Chicago School Economic Flim-Flammery and Cass Sunstein)
Rumor and Recriminations in Rome - By James Walston | Foreign Policy talians' unhappiness about such greed from their politicians is growing; it hasn't reached the point where violence of the sort we've seen in Greece is likely, but as the cuts sink in, there is bound to be some reaction.
Rare Photos Inside a Ukrainian Interrogation Room - Newsweek Convictions in Ukraine are often based on confessions. A photographer captures the moment of truth.
Inside the Ukrainian Interrogation Room - Newsweek

Rebekah Brooks arrested over phone-hacking allegations | Media | guardian.co.uk Met police say 43-year-old woman, believed to be Rebekah Brooks, was arrested by appointment at a London police station (how have the mighty ...)
Sir Paul Stephenson resigns over phone hacking scandal | Mail Online Metropolitan Police Commissioner resigns over links to Neil Wallis Admitted his links to journalist could hamper police inquiry into hacking Emerges he received £12,000 luxury spa stay free of charge (Scotland Yard corrupt from top to bottom)
Met chief quits over phone hacking | UK news | The Guardian Sir Paul Stephenson says row over links to News International overshadowed his work
BBC News - Rebekah Brooks' arrest is huge blow for Murdochs
Rebekah Brooks's arrest intensifies phone-hacking crisis | Media | The Guardian Former News International chief executive identified as a criminal suspect and held throughout the day by Scotland Yard
British Police Arrest Rebekah Brooks in Phone Hacking - NYTimes.com The British police on Sunday arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media operations in Britain
News of the World phone hacking: Why did Prince William's lawyers hide evidence? | Mail Online - The firm was hired to defend News International against claims of widespread hacking of the Royals – at the same time as its lawyers were working for Buckingham Palace (they didn't see a problem with that)
Ten days in which we saw Ed Miliband throw off his L-plates | Andrew Rawnsley | Comment is free | The Observer Having bested David Cameron, the Labour leader has won the opportunity to be heard with enhanced respect
The questions the select committee must ask Rebekah Brooks, James and Rupert Murdoch | Observer editorial | Comment is free | The Observer Those figures at News International behind the phone-hacking scandal must now come clean
The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic To the incredible/bad: they present their (now closed) UK sister publication News of the World as a victim of the hacking problem, rather than as a perpetrator (usual Fox tactic +look over here at Casey Anthony)
Letter from the Guardian to Dick Fedorcio | Media | guardian.co.uk (well done, sir)
Charlie Brooker | Rupert Murdoch: what will MPs do without someone to fear? | Comment is free | The Guardian Britain's politicians have reacted to Murdoch's troubles like medieval villagers realising that God may not exist
Revealed: Senior MP's secret links to Murdoch - UK Politics, UK - The Independent Culture chairman, who will this week quiz media moguls, is friends with Les Hinton and Elisabeth Murdoch (oh, that will work)
Has the old boy finally lost the plot? - Press, Media - The Independent At last, he says sorry, and loses his key lieutenants. But is it all too late for an ageing Rupert Murdoch
Three Things You Should Know About NOTW's Hollywood Operation | Media Matters for America ... Kidman reportedly became godmother to Rupert Murdoch's two youngest daughters in 2010, when the girls were baptized beside the River Jordan (how deep the tangled web)
?Hackgate: The Movie?? - YouTube
Phone hacking: Murdoch paid US anti-bribery law lobbyists | Media | guardian.co.uk $1m donation to US Chamber of Commerce in spotlight amid calls for prosecution of News Corp in America, where it is based (already corrupt CoC bought by Murdoch - you can see they were planning for this)
News Corp.'s Tangled Web - Businessweek
Phone Hacking Scandal: A Timeline Of Events

Why Would Any Soldier Miss War? - NYTimes.com (all the lives Obama has ruined in his quest for re-election as a far-right Republican)
Gun trafficking: Mexican gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants - latimes.com Probe reveals that the U.S. agency running the 'Fast and Furious' anti-gun-trafficking operation didn't know about the alleged FBI informants. Congressional investigators are looking into the matter.
Isolation, Indeterminate Sentences Used to Extract Confessions at California Supermax Prisons | The Dissenter

Robert Kuttner: The End Game: Saving Obama From Himself (Pres Stand-For-Nothing blowing up the Democratic Party)
Cut, Cap And Balance Bill: Latest Republican Plan Could Lead To Debt Ceiling Compromise (the most far-right plan, worse than Ryan, Obama loves it)
House GOP splits into 2 camps: One flexible, one not | McClatchy
Texas spending kept rising for years with Perry as governor | McClatchy (oooh, just like Bush)
Scott Walker Concedes Mistakes, Defends Policies ("yes, I'm a big bully")
Obama’s Last Lecture | FDL News Desk “if you read the Huffington Post, you’d think that I was some right-wing tool of Wall Street (Obama: marrying undefined "principles" to "political process" and "compromise": never stood for anything in his life)

A Tale Of Two Countries: The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America | TechCrunch

HealthNewsReview.org | Independent Expert Reviews of News Stories | Holding Health and Medical Journalism Accountable

The stolen Turners, the Serbian underworld, and a £24m insurance job - News, Art - The Independent
artinfo: Could the Cindy Sherman of Monkeys Accidentally Revolutionize Copyright Law for Artists?
Is This Cat a Great Photographer?: Meet Cooper, the Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon - artinfo.com
photographercat's Channel - YouTube

- Prius mori quam fidem fallere. Die rather than betray trust. In short orthodox Judaism is a destructive mind bending morality destroying cult that has nothing to do with traditional Judaism. Maybe it started out high minded but it has deteriorated into and destructive evil cult with each rabbi buiding up his own personal fiefdom with his own slaves and serfs.

Japanese Ministry Of Self-Defense Shows Off Flying Sphere Robot - YouTube
Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan - YouTube
Sending them off with a smile - Taipei Times Anthropologist Marc L. Moskowitz’s documentary ‘Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan’ presents a fascinating account of this folk practice within the context of religious practices

Righthaven Ordered to Pay $5,000 in Sanctions for Its Misrepresentations to Court | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Where The Fuck Is This?

071611
Libyan rebels win official recognition as their forces close in on Brega | World news | The Observer Gaddafi's soldiers come under pressure at oil town but rebels elsewhere say their efforts are hampered by lack of weapons
Mumbai Explosions: Death Toll Rises To 19
Europe Debt Crisis: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou Says It Is Time For Europe To Wake Up
Foreign Hackers Stole 24,000 Military Files, Pentagon Says (military can't keep themselves secure, blames "hackers")
The Criminalization of Palestinian Solidarity Activism by the US, Israel | The Dissenter

'Rupert Murdoch's only the start, the psyche of British politics has changed' | Politics | The Observer Two weeks is a very long time in politics, as Ed Miliband has discovered. After a faltering start, he is now leading the attack over phone-hacking scandal and questioning PM's judgment
Rupert Murdoch's empire must be dismantled – Ed Miliband | Politics | guardian.co.uk Labour leader urges for new media ownership rules saying News Corporation chief has too much power in the UK
Met chiefs on drinking terms with former NoW deputy editor | UK news | The Observer Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police commissioner, faces a parliamentary grilling this week
Scotland Yard's finest called to account over 'culture of collusion' with the press | Media | guardian.co.uk Friendship between John Yates and Neil Wallis, once treasured by both men, is at the centre of the hacking firestorm
News Corp scandal divides US along party lines | Media | The Observer Claims of illegal attempt to gain 9/11 victims' numbers bring outrage from Democrats and caution from Republicans (McCain: "it's a British issue")
Revealed: Cameron's 26 meetings in 15 months with Murdoch chiefs - UK Politics, UK - The Independent (Murdoch owned UK gov)
Les Hinton: the rise and fall of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted lieutenant | Media | The Guardian A model of discretion, dedication and loyalty for over 50 years finally parts company with the media mogul and his empire (Satan's right-hand demon)
Vote James Murdoch out, Lord Myners tells BSkyB shareholders | Media | guardian.co.uk Phone hacking fallout continues as former City minister urges end to 'hereditary principle' that keeps Murdochs at helm
Rupert Murdoch's bloody Friday as Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton quit | Media | The Guardian Scandal claims first US News Corp casualty, while former News of the World editor also resigns
Lawyers and PR experts drill Rupert Murdoch before parliamentary grilling | Media | guardian.co.uk NewsCorp chief is spending the weekend preparing for his grilling from a parliamentary select committee on Tuesday
Murdochs 'in family fallout' over crisis | Media | The Observer Biographer Michael Wolff claims Elisabeth Murdoch's outburst was directed not just at Rebekah Brooks but also her brother James - "She said: 'James and Rebekah fucked the company.'"
Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson took £10k spa break where NOTW man was a PR - mirror.co.uk
News Corp. Reports $125K In 2011 Political Donations

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' To Remain In Place, 9th Circuit Court Rules

Tea Party: Polls Show Importance To GOP Base 25 and 30 percent of respondents fall into that category, with no consistent trend over the last year (teaparty=Repubicans)
Pawlenty Draws Attention With Debt Ceiling Rhetoric, But Sends Mixed Signals On Action
cab drollery: Tiresome - Bachmann: one of the tenets of this particular denomination is that that the Pope is the Antichrist. Initially, Bachman denied that her church held any such stand, but she soon discovered that it did, and that meant her political career just might be jeopardized if enough people realized that. So she split. So much for brand loyalty ... What her church and what she herself believes is actually none of my business, but it becomes my business when she and other candidates continually shove it in my face with smug superiority. It also becomes my business when candidates make it clear that those religious beliefs will become national policy. Jane Fonda: QVC Canceled My Appearance Because Of Vietnam Protest Boycott By Conservatives he network feared blowback promised by rightwing groups still unhappy with her outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War (they never give up)
Waukesha County Clerk's Latest Snafu Nearly a $1 Million Mistake - Waukesha, WI Patch Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus – already under investigation for a snafu in reporting votes in the state Supreme Court election – is coming under fire from county leaders again after an error made by her staff nearly cost the county $1 million (lost votes, lost letters)
Rep. Pete Sessions, Wife Separating | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (another "family values" Repug)
AMERICAblog News: But it was a very tasteful strip joint where conservative family-values Republican Pete Sessions held his fundraisers

Obama to Eliminate Warren as Consumer Head - Bloomberg (another one under Obama's re-election bus)
Obama bypassing Warren for consumer bureau, officials say - The Boston Globe Harvard professor faced opposition from the GOP (and Obama always gives them what they want; bankers win, people lose)
Hullabaloo - Bizarroworld economics - a wide refocusing of the mechanisms of our society towards the crucial obsession of oligarchs: wealth and income defense (Obama didn't have to drink the kook-aid, he was already one of them)
The Political Economy of the Lesser Depression - NYTimes.com Goldman Sachs (no link) was pretty optimistic a few months ago; now they’ve grown quite pessimistic (recovery summer! Obama abysmally wrong on his economics)
Debt Ceiling Crisis Looms: Economic Outlook Grim If No Deficit Deal Reached (Republican terrorists holding American hostage with the debt they created)
The Unemployed Worker's New Friend: Outsourcers - WSJ.com
More Money Monday: Corporate America's $2 Trillion Pile of Cash - Seeking Alpha
What U.S. Economic Recovery? Five Destructive Myths (Time leaves out the biggest myth: tax cuts stimulate the economy) /a>

Neighborhood fast food availability related to an individual's fast food consumption
Obesity: Access to supermarkets doesn't improve diets, study finds - latimes.com The results run counter to the idea that more supermarkets can curb obesity in low-income neighborhoods.
Surviving survival - 2011 SUMMER - Stanford Medicine Magazine - Stanford University School of Medicine
Why Fighting Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs Is So Stupid - Ecocentric - time.com (when you pry my incandescent from my cold, dead, hands)

Atlanta Schools Created Culture Of Cheating, Fear, Intimidation
Patt Morrison Asks: Donald Heller - latimes.com Donald Heller is partly responsible for turning California's death row into the most populous and expensive in the nation. So why'd the lawyer known as "Mad Dog" change his mind?
Man says blood center rejected him because he appeared gay - Post-Tribune “I was humiliated and embarrassed,” said Pace, 22. of Gary. “It’s not right that homeless people can give blood but homosexuals can’t. And I’m not even a homosexual.”
The AIDS fight: 30 years later (infographic) - BlogPost - The Washington Post

Yukari Miyamae Gropes TSA Agent At Phoenix Airport (video) - AOL Travel News (it had to happen)

Slide Show: Mark Twain’s ‘Advice to Little Girls’ by Vladimir Radunsky | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Study: Women bigger sexters than men | Technically Incorrect - CNET News two-thirds of the women surveyed said that they sexted. Only half of the men did. And women were more likely to send nude pictures of themselves out across the Internets (at least the ones on Ashley Madison)

Pointing out the obvious: Google+'s "No-Pseudonyms" Policy is Homophobic, Not Just Anti-Social
Why Google should allow anonymous/pseudonymous names on Google+
The Google+ Controversy & Virtual Worlds – A Question Of Identity - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)

Study: Google Changes The Way We Remember Things (Video) Researchers say we remember how to find the information online better than we remember the actual facts.
Google Blocking Us On Searches, Belgian Newspapers Claim (they sue Google for linking to them, cry when they don't get any hits)
iPhone Security Hole Plugged By Apple's Anti-Hacker iOS Software Update
Lady Gaga's YouTube Account Suspended, Restored
Google Plus vs. Facebook: 6 Things Google+ Has That Facebook Doesn't
How to Set Up a File-Syncing Dropbox Clone You Control
View ZIP and RAR Files in Google Docs with this Handy Extension

071511
Julian Assange a great dissident, says his father | Media | The Guardian WikiLeaks founder's biological father, attending extradition hearing, tells of son's 'immense desire for justice in the world'
Campaigners seek arrest of former CIA legal chief over Pakistan drone attacks | World news | The Guardian UK human rights lawyer leads bid to have John Rizzo arrested over claims he approved attacks that killed hundreds of people (you know who else killed hundreds of people with drones?)
The fight to rescue the Arab spring | World news | The Guardian Across the Arab world, protesters show fury at the resistance to change shown by interim authorities as well as old regimes
Middle East Protests: Syria, Jordan Demonstrations Turn Violent

Les Hinton resigns from News Corp | Media | guardian.co.uk Hinton, who has worked for Rupert Murdoch for over 50 years told staff at the Wall Street Journal he had no option but to resign
Rupert Murdoch says sorry as crisis forces Rebekah Brooks out | Media | The Guardian Chief executive resigns after intense criticism from parliament and public as Rupert Murdoch apologises to Dowler family
Phone hacking fallout: ten days that shook Britain | Media | The Guardian A very British revolution has reined in Rupert Murdoch's mighty media empire and given politicians the courage to stand up to him – but will it last?
News of the World phone hacking – interactive timeline | Media | guardian.co.uk
Phone hacking: Met police put pressure on Guardian over coverage | Media | The Guardian Top officers told the Guardian its stories were exaggerated without revealing they had hired former NoW deputy editor (Murdoch running bent coppers and all of Scotland Yard)
David Cameron under fire over Andy Coulson's visit to Chequers | Media | The Guardian PM showed 'extraordinary lack of judgement' by hosting Coulson two months after he resigned as Downing Street press chief
Rebekah Brooks's belated resignation intensifies spotlight on James Murdoch | Media | The Guardian James Murdoch could be still fighting for his survival as News Corp's heir apparent after Rebekah Brooks leaves Murdoch empire
Rebekah Brooks Resigns As Chief Executive Of News International Brooks said the furore over phone hacking and criticisms levelled at her decision to remain at the newspaper company were "detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past" (the "furore" was "distracting" from her "honesty")
Eric Holder Confirms Investigation Into News Corp Over 9/11 Hacking
Rupert Murdoch's US papers face closer scrutiny | Media | The Guardian Media turns attention to News Corp empire but experts say American tabloids are less powerful and better self-regulated (the words you are looking for are "Fox News")
'Fox And Friends' Defends News Corp. In Phone Hacking Scandal (there we are)
Daily Mail owner planning Sunday tabloid | Media | guardian.co.uk Daily Mail & General Trust could launch title next weekend to cash in on News of the World's demise
Martin Bashir: Rupert Murdoch A Combination Of Jack Abramoff And Whitey Bulger (oh, harsh)
Bancroft Family Members Express Regrets At Selling Wall Street Journal To Murdoch (like they didn't know what they were doing)


IT'S OFFICIAL: The Whole World Thinks Republicans Are Dangerous Maniacs Threatening Everyone
Ted Strickland: Dems' Concessions On Debt Debate Are 'Very Troubling' President Obama and many Democrats have pursued has effectively diminished the party's brand. Democrats, he argued, have "allowed the center of the political debate to be shifted so far to the right that we find ourselves debating on their territory and using Republican language." (after wiping out the Democratic gains of the last 80 yrs, Obama campaigning as a far-right Republican - biggest sellout in the history of the world)
Getting to Crazy - NYTimes.com President Obama has made it clear that he’s willing to sign on to a deficit-reduction deal that consists overwhelmingly of spending cuts, and includes draconian cuts in key social programs, up to and including a rise in the age of Medicare eligibility. These are extraordinary concessions. As The Times’s Nate Silver points out, the president has offered deals that are far to the right of what the average American voter prefers — in fact, if anything, they’re a bit to the right of what the average Republican voter prefers! ... . If you’re surprised, that means that you were part of the problem.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee Threatens To Pull Obama Support Ahead Of 2012 (Obama says that's ok, I'm a Republican)
Obama Publicly Backs Means-Testing Medicare (no Republican talking-point too far)
Obama: 'We Aren't Greece' “Our problem is we cut taxes without paying for them for the last decade. We ended up instituting programs like the prescription drug program for seniors that was not paid for. We fought two wars, we didn’t pay for them. We had a bad recession that required a recovery act and stimulus spending and helping states. All that accumulated and there’s interest on top of that. “To unwind that, what’s required is to roll back those tax cuts on the wealthiest individuals.”
Obama’s “Deficit Now, Jobs Later” Strategy Doesn’t Seem Sound | FDL News Desk ("my job now, your country later")
Obama makes his case to the left - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (after destroying it)
"Have You Forgotten?" Conservatives Erase 9/11 From Bush Record | Media Matters for America Eric Bolling gave a decidedly skewed version of history when he said, "America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time." (echos Perino, Matalin and even Rudy "9-11" Giuliani "no domestic attacks under Bush)
Fox News' Eric Bolling: 'I Don't Remember' Any Terrorist Attacks On America During President Bush's Term "we had no domestic attacks under Bush."
Florida League Of Women Voters Drops Registration Plan Over Restrictive Laws | TPMMuckraker
Doctored Marcus Bachmann Tape? Nope, Says Blogger Who Posted It | TPMDC
Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
Rick Perry's Army of God - The Texas Observer A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man ... certain Christians—are destined to not just take “dominion” over government, but stealthily climb to the commanding heights of what they term the “Seven Mountains” of society, including the media and the arts and entertainment world. They believe they’re intended to lord over it all. As a first step, they’re leading an “army of God” to commandeer civilian government.

It Was Debt What Did It - NYTimes.com at this point we’re much too solicitous of the banks. They are not where the problem lies; it’s households we want to worry about (if Obama had given the money to household to pay down debt, instead of rich bankers to sit on, we wouldn't be in this mess)
Fewer foreclosures not good news - Philly.com The delayed filings buys more time for many borrowers behind in payments. But it also means that any eventual foreclosures will happen next year, extending the shadow of distressed properties that hovers over the market.

The Brain on Trial - Magazine - The Atlantic Advances in brain science are calling into question the volition behind many criminal acts. A leading neuroscientist describes how the foundations of our criminal-justice system are beginning to crumble, and proposes a new way forward for law and order.
Rethinking Addiction’s Roots, and Its Treatment - NYTimes.com
Setting the record straight almost impossible › News in Science (ABC Science) - "Despite best efforts to correct misinformation it can't be completely eliminated, (see Fox News and the Maw of Satan)
ALEC Exposed - Alec Exposed Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue
RealClimate: How Soon is now? Willie Soon
Willie Soon - SourceWatch

Tom Vander Ark’s New York-Area Charter Schools Falter - NYTimes.com (another Charter scam)
Fantasy Island: The Strange Tale of Alleged Fraudster Pearlasia Gamboa - Page 1 - News - San Francisco - SF Weekly

Marian Paterson, 94-Year-Old Woman, Gets TSA Patdown - AOL Travel News
Clark Retirement Community LipDub *OFFICIAL*- YouTube

Robots of Brixton by Kibwe Tavares
TrilloteamMaggio09 - YouTube
A(n)nals of Online Dating - Page 1 of 30

Paris Review – The Secret Bookstore, Thessaly La Force

The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll
Is Internet access a human right? – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs (Comcast denies running corrupt dictatorship)

071411
America's creditor identifies its budget problem - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The chief of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army, Chen Bingde, told reporters he thought the U.S. should cut back on defense spending for the sake of its taxpayers
The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia | The Nation the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held. Some of the prisoners have been snatched off the streets of Kenya and rendered by plane to Mogadishu (another of Obama's black-bag secret prison torture sites revealed)
US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Obama creates a whole new generation of terrorists to save his job)
Wired publishes the full Manning-Lamo chat logs - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Wired's Kevin Poulsen lied, but we knew that)
Iraq War veteran on Manning, the media and the military - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Navy violated own policy over WikiLeaks suspect | TG Daily A special investigation has determined that the Navy violated its own policy by keeping WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning on extended suicide watch (yeah, they tortured him)
BBC News - Bradley Manning visit limits 'break UN probe rules' The US is violating UN rules by refusing unmonitored access to the Army private who is accused of passing secret documents to WikiLeaks, the UN's chief torture investigator has said.
Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperger’s | Threat Level | Wired.com (May 2010 - Lamo involuntarily hospitalized by DOJ handles two weeks before chat log dates

Mumbai blasts prompt further questions over Indian intelligence | World news | guardian.co.uk Government tries to fight accusations it is clueless over terrorism after co-ordinated explosions in city leave 18 dead
Mumbai Explosions: Intelligence Agencies Received No Warnings Or Clues In Market Attacks
BBC News - Colombian colonel sentenced for faking civilian murders A Colombian army colonel has admitted his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat ... under the two administrations of President Alvaro Uribe

Russian TV Report: Drug Gangs Kidnap Cyber Pros to Hack Into Banks | Motherboard
Irish Government Releases 'Damning' Abuse Report
With Power Shortage Looming, Japan Hustles to Prove Nuclear Reactors Are Safe - Ecocentric - TIME.com

US politicians demand phone-hacking investigation after 9/11 claims | World news | The Guardian Politicians call for felony charges if report that News of the World hacked voicemails of victims is found to be true
FBI to investigate News Corporation over 9/11 hacking allegations | World news | guardian.co.uk Bureau to investigate claims News of the World journalists sought to hack into phone of victims of 9/11, reports say
Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch summonsed to appear before MPs | Media | guardian.co.uk Rupert and James Murdoch have been summonsed to attend next week's select committee session on phone hacking (Satan and Beelzeebub)
Phone hacking scandal – live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk
Arrested News of the World executive was employed as Met adviser | Media | guardian.co.uk Neil Wallis, who has been questioned over phone hacking, advised commissioner on communications, Scotland Yard says (corrupt coppers employed the crooks who corrupted them)
Murdochs Now Say They Will Appear Before Parliament - NYTimes.com In an abrupt about-face, News Corporation said Tuesday afternoon that Rupert Murdoch and his son James would testify next week before a British parliamentary panel looking into phone hacking. They will appear along with Rebekah Brooks ... coincided with an announcement by Scotland Yard that officers had arrested Neil Wallis, 60, a former editor of The News of the World
Phone hacking: former NoW executive editor Neil Wallis arrested in London | Media | guardian.co.uk Neil Wallis taken for questioning at local police station, the ninth person to be arrested over phone hacking at News of the World
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire had Menezes cousin's number | Media | The Guardian Relatives and campaigners in the case of Brazilian shot dead at Stockwell after 7/7 bombings fear they have been targeted
Ulrika Jonsson: News of the World executive warned me of phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk TV star says she was also told by police they had evidence including pin codes that suggested she was being monitored
Rupert Murdoch’s Other Tabloid Scandal at the New York Post - The Daily Beast The media mogul is under fire over the London phone-hacking scandal, but here in America his New York Post has struggled with allegations that it rewarded friends and punished enemies. Howard Kurtz reports.
How should the British press be regulated? | Media | guardian.co.uk Nick Clegg has called for a big shakeup of 'ludicrous' press regulation in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, but what's the best way for newspapers to be policed?
US Blow For Murdoch As Old Lags Spill Beans On Newscorp’S Cynical News Manipulation | The Slog | Guardian-free America wakes up to Murdoch tactics (heh, "Guardian-free")

Obama Warns Cantor 'Don't Call My Bluff' As Debt Talks Stall (i.e. he's just bluffing?)
Eric Cantor On White House Debt Ceiling Meeting: I Meant No Disrespect To Obama ("I was just being my usual asshole Republican self)
Tim Geithner Warns On Debt: 'We Are Running Out of Time' (ticking time-bomb; Obama needs to torture a bunch of Tim Geithner Warns On Debt: 'We Are Running Out of Time (ticking time-bomb, Obama should waterboard a few Repubicans)
Graham: GOP has no one 'to blame but ourselves' - On Congress - POLITICO.com indsey Graham conceded Wednesday that he and his fellow Republicans are now eating their own words as they try to convince the country they are working to stave off a federal default ... “We shouldn’t have said that if we didn’t mean it.” (gasp)
Debt Ceiling Debate: Obama, Congress Seek Deal As Deficit Crisis Looms (America held hostage, Day 735)
Debt Ceiling Talks: Republicans Their Own Worst Enemy Republican leaders in the House of Representatives must keep an eye on a back bench that has shown a marked distaste for any sort of compromise.
U.S. Put On Review For Possible Credit Rating Downgrade By Moody's
Bachmann, Gohmert, King: Obama's Advisers Lied About Debt Limit (Rethugs: don't listen to Wall St, Moody's, the IMF or the rest of the world because they are all lying)
For Rick Scott, a Tough Road to Reform | Sunshine State News "This means Scott is down 22 points compared to his re-election margin, while Corbett is down 20," Lee said.
Scott Walker Approval Rating Not So Hot: Poll 59 percent of residents disapprove of the performance of Walker
Scott Walker Critics Say Effort To Recall Wisconsin Governor Likely To Prevail In 2012
James O'Keefe: I've Got Evidence Public Employees Helped Fake Terrorists, Drug Smugglers | TPMMuckraker
Missouri Abortion Bill To Become Law

Italy's Crisis: The ECB Could Just Print the Money | Beat the Press

Daily pill can prevent HIV infection | World news | The Guardian Groundbreaking studies suggest tablets could help partners of people with HIV protect themselves – secretly, if necessary

Mass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English How Big Pharma got Americans hooked on anti-psychotic drugs - Bottom line:Stop Big Pharma and the parasitic shrink community from wantonly pushing these pills across the population.
The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials | Mother Jones When you risk life and limb to help test a drug, are you helping science—or Big Pharma? One patient's tragic, and telling, story.
The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books A large survey of randomly selected adults, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and conducted between 2001 and 2003, found that an astonishing 46 percent met criteria established by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for having had at least one mental illness (SSRIs cause mental illness)
Does the medical profession need to wean itself from its “pervasive dependence” on Big Pharma money? | The Ethical Nag
Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors
Pharmaceutical Sales 2010 - Top U.S. Drugs by Sales | Drugs.com

Mom Arrested For Yelling At TSA Over Daughter's Patdown - AOL Travel News (TSA: she had an "attitude" when we molested her daughter)

kitten vs TWO scary things - YouTube
How to deactivate a cat - YouTube
Carp Attack - YouTube (holy shit)

When the King Saved God | Culture | Vanity Fair An unbeliever argues that our language and culture are incomplete without a 400-year-old book—the King James translation of the Bible. Spurned by the Establishment, it really represents a triumph for rebellion and dissent. Accept no substitutes!
BBC News - Austrian driver allowed 'pastafarian' headgear photo An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear".

22 Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin | The Art of Manliness
An Ex-Pixar Designer Creates Astounding Kids' Book On iPad | Co.Design

The social-networked world... Twitter and Flickr use in London, New York and other cities mapped in lights | Mail Online
Rebecca MacKinnon: Let's take back the Internet! | Video on TED.com (too late, Obama has it locked in a box)
6 Mind-Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth | Cracked.com
3 Best Free Online Music Library Storage Sites

Comcast Bans Seattle Man From Internet for His Cloudy Ways | Epicenter | Wired.com (actually use your Comcast internet access, get banned for a year; they want a monopoly on movies; dereg at work)
[Edit] The Day Comcast’s Data Cap Policy Killed my Internet for 1 Year | Ozymandias
Frequently Asked Questions about Excessive Use Will all customers who exceed 250 GB of data usage in a month be identified as excessive users? (why, yes)
New rules for the new internet bubble | VentureBeat
Google+ Gets a Leg Up on Facebook - NYTimes.com
1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo - YouTube

071311
Deadly triple explosions in Mumbai - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English At least 21 dead and scores wounded after Indian city targeted in what home secretary said was a terrorist attack.
BBC News - Mumbai: Explosions shake India's financial hub
Three blasts in Mumbai, 21 dead, over 140 injured
Mumbai Explosions Hit Markets During Rush Hour Three near-simultaneous explosions rocked India's busy financial capital at rush-hour Wednesday, killing at least 17 people in what the government said appeared to be another terrorist strike in the city hit by a major attack nearly three years ago (ISI strikes again)
London Transit Attacks Were Bin Laden's Last Successful Operation: U.S. Officials
UK Authorities Brace For 'Cyber Jihad' By Al Qaeda After Bin Laden Death
Steve Stormoen, Former CIA Officer, Under Scrunity In Abu Ghraib Prisoner Death
Giant Spy Blimp Battle Could Decide Surveillance’s Future | Danger Room | Wired.com

TAKE ACTION: Tell The Department of Justice To Investigate Rupert Murdoch | ThinkProgress
News Corp pulls out of BSkyB bid | Media | guardian.co.uk BSkyB bid dropped by Rupert Murdoch's media group after pressure from the public and parliament
Rockefeller ‘concerned’ hackings may have affected Americans - On Media - Politico.com
Rupert Murdoch’s News. Corp tax profits: Investigation shows company made $4.8 profit off of income taxes over past four years. Investigation shows the media company made $4.8B over four years with aggressive accounting practices - Instead of paying $3.6 billion in corporate income taxes over the past four years, the company actually received refunds worth $4.8 billion, a total worth nearly half of News Corp.'s pre-tax profits over the same period (or, "cheating")
Key senator urges federal investigation of Murdoch media company - CNN.com
Hands Off News Corp. Stock as Scandal Widens - TheStreet
Fox News UK: Fair & Balanced - This site shits unicorns that weep rainbows (view source)

Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed | Threat Level | Wired.com

The Big Blink? McConnell Proposes Giving Obama Authority To Raise Debt Limit Alone | TPMDC
A modest proposal: Congress should get retirement benefits at same age as the rest of us - The Plum Line - The Washington Post A modest proposal: Congress should get retirement benefits at same age as the rest of us - Sherrod Brown has an idea. (it's a good one, too)
Romney Campaign Slams 'Undignified And Inappropriate' Marriage Pledge From Iowa Group | TPMDC
Feds: Louisiana Not Providing Voter Registration Forms At Public Assistance Offices | TPMMuckraker (Jindalistan)
Real Dems Beat Fake 'Dems' In Wisconsin Recall Primaries | TPMDC - all six official Democrats have been projected as the winners (ReCheaters lose)
One by one, bars get tapped out | StarTribune.com - The state also would stand to lose millions of dollars in taxes that come through alcohol and cigarette sales, further diminishing already anemic revenues. (Rethugs in MN shut down all the bars, cut off tobacco, lose millions in tax money)
Shutdown forces MillerCoors to pull beer from shelves | StarTribune.com
Democrat Janice Hahn Wins California House Race ... Huey, 61, is a conservative who wanted to slash spending, taxes and debt and roll back government regulation
Bachmann pledges to ban pornography | ThinkProgress

This Morning In Peevishness - NYTimes.com - William Galston (of TNR - of course - making shit up again)

The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books

PR Industry Fills Vacuum Left by Shrinking Newsrooms - ProPublica (plus ca change)
162: Number Of Anti-Abortion Laws Passed By The States In 2011 | ThinkProgress
Southern California politician has a not-so-new secession proposal - The Washington Post
California Secession Proposal Endorsed By Riverside County Officials (VIDEO) he wants 13 mostly conservative California counties to break away to create a 51st state (they're going to call it Reaganistan)

Death in the Pot - Lapham’s Quarterly
BBC News - Why do some Americanisms irritate people?
CanLII - 2010 ONSC 6568 (CanLII) (ftw)
What's a Metaphor For? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Leiby Kletzky, Missing Brooklyn Boy, Found Dead the suspect currently being questioned is Levi Aron.
Catherine Kieu Becker Accused Of Cutting Off Her Estranged Husband's Penis ... and threw it into the garbage disposal, turning it on as she did so (that's gotta hurt)

Don't Let Chiropractors Fool You

Is Yoga Hindu? | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches Yes, but it’s been influenced by Buddhism, Jainism, Sufism, television, military calisthenics, Swedish gymnastics, and the YMCA—as well as radical Hindu nationalism
Natural Selection - One Cosmos Under God: The Unification of Matter, Life, Mind and Spirit by Robert W. Godwin (“antievolutionary mind parasites”)
The Market as God - Harvey Cox - The Atlantic (March 1999)


071211
100 Firefights, Three Weeks: Inside Afghanistan’s Most Insane Fight | Danger Room | Wired.com (Obama loves playing with his army men)
Ahmed Wali Karzai, Afghan President's Brother, Assassinated Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated by a bodyguard at his home in Kandahar.
Why the US won't leave Afghanistan - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Surge, bribe and run? Or surge, bribe and stay? How US military bases and the energy war play out in Afghanistan.
Israel Boycott Ban Passes House Israel's parliament on Monday approved a contentious law against boycotts targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, dismissing charges that the measure is anti-democratic and could harm Israel's image (you have to buy their shit)
Julian Assange's lawyer tells extradition appeal arrest warrant is invalid | Media | guardian.co.uk WikiLeaks founder's counsel claims in high court that Swedish judges were misled about sexual assault and rape allegations
Julian Assange Back In Court To Fight Extradition Online, there were hints from a high-profile member of Anonymous – an amorphous, loosely organized group of hackers sympathetic to WikiLeaks – that confidential U.S. data might be leaked online to coincide with the hearing.
Libyan rebels make gains against Gaddafi forces in western mountains | World news | The Guardian Weeks of fierce fighting sees troops consolidate positions less than 100 miles from the capital, Tripoli
Gaddafi Is 'Ready To Go,' Says French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe

Rupert Murdoch facing BSkyB defeat as parties unite in call to drop bid | Media | The Guardian David Cameron backs Labour motion urging Murdoch to withdraw £8bn takeover bid in wake of phone-hacking scandal
Phone-hacking scandal: live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk With the row about News International phone-hacking and 'blagging' intensifying, follow all the latest developments as they happen
Phone Hacking: Rupert Murdoch Summoned By UK Parliament As BSkyB Bid Implodes (LIVE UPDATES)
Family ties bring Murdoch more US legal worries
YouTube - Andy Hayman Loses His Temper At Bung Question - NOTW Phone Hacking
YouTube - ?John Yates - My Phone Was Hacked - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*??
Twitter / @GuidoFawkes: Stand by folks, story comi ... ng detailing @PiersMorgan's complicity in phone hacking. We're naming names and places. #CircularFiringSquad
Daily Mail takes a closer peak at Robert Peston | Media | guardian.co.uk Full marks to the Daily Mail for raising the question few dare to ask in today's paper: "Is the BBC's Robert Peston too close to Rupert Murdoch's man Will Lewis?" (why the BBC has been Murdoch's lapdog)
Piers Morgan Knew Award Winning Scoop Was Hacked - Guy Fawkes' blog
New Murdoch furore - World News | IOL News | IOL.co.za Gordon Brown’s sick son, the Queen and Prince Charles were sensationally identified on Monday night as targets of “institutional criminality” at Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
Jonathan Rees: private investigator who ran empire of tabloid corruption | Media | The Guardian News of the World paid £150,000 a year to man who obtained information from corrupt police and illegal sources
British Tabloid Targeted Investigators’ Phone Messages - NYTimes.com News of the World reporters had passed more than £100,000 in bribes (about $160,000 at current exchange rates) to police officers in exchange for inside information.
Have No Fear, England's Here - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 07/11/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Gordon Brown Says Newspaper Hired ‘Known Criminals’ - NYTimes.com But the former Scotland Yard official who discussed the matter said that any officer who agreed to use the technique to assist a newspaper would be crossing a red line (and that would never happen)
Politicians will forget the phone hacking and cringe again | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian A newspaper faced up to Murdoch, not parliament. Instead of regulation, leaders need the courage to call the media's bluff
Hugh Grant: expand phone-hacking inquiry to cover 'grotesque' press power | Media | The Guardian Comments echo call made by lawyer for family of Milly Dowler for politicians not to 'let themselves off the hook'
British tabloid tactics are rampant in American journalism, too - The Washington Post

The great generational threat - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com the U.S. is doing everything possible to ensure that Terrorism remains as large as a threat as possible:
UN torture official accuses US of rule violations - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com In response to the growing controversy over the inhumane detention conditions of Bradley Manning, the U.N.'s top official on torture, Juan Mendez, announced last December that his office would formally investigate whether those conditions amounted to torture.

Debt Crisis Deepens as Eric Cantor, GOP Propose New Cuts - The Daily Beast Obama said. “I’m not going to take money from old people and screw students,” not without some compromise on the tax-increase side.
Debt Ceiling Showdown: Culture, Hard Lessons Drive Republican Anti-Tax Stand
Mitch McConnell Debt Ceiling Plan: Senate GOP Leader Offers Alternative To Obama's 'Grand Bargain' [UPDATED] "It gives the president 100 percent of the responsibility for increasing the debt limit," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) told reporters after the press conference.
Obama ups the ante against GOP on taxes - The Plum Line - The Washington Post Obama laid down a firm line for the first time: There will be no deal unless the GOP gives ground on revenues
The Future Deficit Inherently Exists In The Future; Kicking The Can Is Unavoidable | ThinkProgress
Keith Olbermann Issues Blistering Warning To Obama Over Potential Cuts To Social Security And Medicare - the rest of us, battered by your compromises here and your 'it's a start's' there, will bother any longer to defend you (as Obama "bargains" away the gains of the past 50 years in search of his lost, authoritarian, philandering daddy)
Alan Grayson 2012: Former Congressman Announces He's Running Again (replace the Weiner)
Orrin Hatch Rips 'Perverse' Tax System That Spares Lower Middle Class called it "perverse" that people on the bottom half of the income ladder pay little or no federal income tax.
Lori Klein, Arizona State Senator, Pointed Loaded Gun At Reporter Richard Ruelas's Chest - "Whoever would do something like that needs to have a better grounding in gun safety before ever laying a hand on a firearm," (Republicans at work)
Gary Johnson Outraged By 'Marriage Vow' Pledge Johnson calls the pledge "offensive and unrepublican," an "[attempt] to prevent and eliminate personal freedom," and finally, the "type of rhetoric" that "gives Republicans a bad name" (the pledge to bring back slavery)
The FOX Cycle In Action | Media Matters for America (Fox waging war on the facts)

Interest rates unlikely to rise until 2012, say City analysts | Business | The Guardian Analysts said the deep discounts on offer in the high street last month reflected the squeeze on real incomes
Cisco Could Eliminate As Many As 10,000 Jobs To Revive Profit Growth

BBC Nature - A rare he-she butterfly is born in London's NHM

Kody Brown of ‘Sister Wives’ Plans Polygamy Lawsuit - NYTimes.com (what next, Mormons marrying box turtles?)

14 States Suffering Under Drought - NYTimes.com (will scream for Federal help while voting teaparty)

The Divorce Generation - WSJ.com Having survived their own family splits, Generation X parents are determined to keep their marriages together. It doesn't always work (home equity loans and buying lots of shit didn't work)
Louisiana decriminalizes oral and anal sex — RT In a strong blow to conservative lawmakers,
YouTube - Arrest Jennifer Jade Jones June 28 Quartzsite Arizona Council Meeting Viral
Quartzsite in disarray; mayor alleges corruption
'Nazi' police 'kidnap' woman at town hall Outraged mayor: 'I'm not going to quit until I see them in jail'
Parker Pioneer - ParkerPioneer.net - News Officers' allegations aired during raucous meeting One person arrested as crowd gets unrul
Are Cats Bad for the Environment? | Mother Jones

Woman Invokes 5th Amendment To Avoid Disclosing Laptop Password : NPR (5th Amendment follows the rest down the drain, excpet for the gun one; Obama hates your privacy with a passion)
DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop | Privacy Inc. - CNET News - They say they want only the decrypted data and are not demanding "the password to the drive, either orally or in written form." (distinction without a difference; Obama will waterboard you to get your passord)
How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History | Threat Level | Wired.com (it's ok for Obama to hack your computers)
A Declaration of Cyber-War | Culture | Vanity Fair Stuxnet is the new face of 21st-century warfare: invisible, anonymous, and devastating
YouTube - ?DEFCON 17: Search And Seizure Explained - They Took My Laptop!??

Orda Cave Awareness Project » gallery

ISPs, Academics and Citizens Oppose EU Anti-Piracy Legislation | TorrentFreak
Google+ already at 10 million users, could reach 20m by this weekend – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com

071111
Panetta echoes Bush comments, linking Iraq invasion to war on al-Qaeda - The Washington Post - “The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” Panetta told the troops. “And 3,000 Americans — 3,000 not just Americans, 3,000 human beings, innocent human beings — got killed because of al-Qaeda. And we’ve been fighting as a result of that.” (put Panetta on the war-crimes list; ten years later, still spouting the same lies)
US suspends Pakistan military aid as diplomatic relations worsen | World news | The Guardian Decision to withhold $800m taken as relations become increasingly fraught following the killing of Osama bin Laden
100 Dead, Many Children, in Boat Sinking in Russia - NYTimes.com
Iran's Arming Of Iraqi Insurgents A 'Challenge' For U.S.: Panetta (more "insurgents" insurging from their own country; surging US Army not insurgent)
Indonesia's Mount Lokon Volcano Alert Level Raised To Highest After Weekend Eruptions
Moshe Katsav, Former Israeli President, Now Suspected Of Harassing Rape Case Witness (no limits)
Rachel Corrie's family claim Israeli military withheld vital video evidence | World news | The Guardian American activist's father says incomplete footage was given to court hearing into his daughter's death in Gaza (they've always lied and covered up)
MI5 and police reduce UK terror threat from 'severe' to 'substantial' | UK news | The Guardian Killing of Osama bin Laden and other encouraging world events make Mumbai-style attack less likely, say officials

Anonymous threatens police over phone hacking and Julian Assange cases | Technology | guardian.co.uk Senior source inside hacker collective seeks to embarrass Metropolitan police and judges with 'explosive' revelations - "ATTN Intelligence community: Your contractors have failed you. Tomorrow is the beginning."(the network strikes back)

News Corp's BSkyB bid referred to Competition Commission | Media | guardian.co.uk Jeremy Hunt makes a statement to parliament moments after News Corp withdraws plan to spin off Sky News
News International undermining phone-hacking inquiry, say police | Media | The Guardian News of the World publisher accused of leaking details to the media to sabotage investigation into alleged police corruption (cops can't investigate themselves because cops give all their into to Murdoch)
News Corp in crisis, but Rupert Murdoch determined to protect son | Media | The Guardian Risky strategy pits executive against executive, while speculation rife that Rebekah Brooks is acting as 'firebreak'
News of the World executives – who knew what and when? | Media | The Guardian Internal Clive Goodman inquiry commissioned by News International in 2007 never saw light of day
CREW Calls for Congressional Investigation into News Corp. | CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Shareholders sue News Corp over News of the World scandal – Telegraph Blogs alleging “rampant nepotism and failed corporate governance” at the beleaguered owner of the News of the World.
Another twist, thanks to Gordon Brown | Roy Greenslade | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk With revelations that Gordon Brown's children were targeted, the News International scandal is spiralling out of Murdoch's control
List of assets owned by News Corporation - Wikipedia
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp could face $100m bill for US investigation into 'police payments' - Telegraph Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire could face a bill of more than $100m (£62m) if US authorities launch an investigation into corruption following allegations that the News of the World routinely made payments to police officers totalling more than £100,000 - FCPA experts told The Telegraph it would be "very surprising" if the DOJ didn't take action against News Corp, and would be likely to do so this week. (spreading to Murdoch's US empire)
News of the World phone hacking: live - Telegraph Live coverage of the phone-hacking scandal as the allegations surrounding the News of the World spread to News International sister titles The Sun and The Sunday Times.
Phone-hacking: police chiefs to tell MPs that it was a cock-up not a conspiracy | UK news | The Guardian Four senior officers will appear before Commons committee to salvage tarnished reputation of the Metropolitan police (just a few bad apples)
I was targeted too, Gordon Brown to say - Crime, UK - The Independent In a dramatic intervention in the deepening scandal, the Labour former Prime Minister is understood to be about to claim that private investigators working for the UK's largest newspaper group are believed to have accessed details relating to his personal bank account.
News International papers targeted Gordon Brown | Media | guardian.co.uk Newspapers obtained details from the former prime minister's bank account and legal file and his family's medical records (more infamy for Scotland Yard)
Gordon Brown's wife Sarah holds slumber party at Chequers - Telegraph Guests include Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi and his daughter Elisabeth, the television presenter Claudia Winkleman and newspaper editor Rebekah Wade (2008: Sarah was all, like, friends with Satan's entourage)
The Dark Arts | Business | Vanity Fair t started when the News of the World hacked into the voice mails of the British royal household, in 2005, touching off a scandal that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.—and, apparently, the British authorities—tried to contain. After a score of lawsuits and new arrests, the cover-up is falling apart.
Scotland Yard Admits to “Operational Shortcomings” in Phone-Hacking Scandal Investigation | VF Daily | Vanity Fair (May 2011: coppers corrupt, lied repeatedly)
Newspapers that used illegal information listed | Media | The Guardian Tabloids drive black market, says privacy tsar · Daily Mail tops league for use of private detectives (2006, buried by Scotland Yard and Tony Blair)
James Murdoch hits out at BBC and regulators at Edinburgh TV festival | Media | The Guardian (2009: Satanic history)
Murdoch guilty in `Times' price war - News - The Independent May 1999 (more Satanic history)
Former NoW journalist reignites Harry Potter row | Media | MediaGuardian horrified when he was ordered to put on his costume less than 90 minutes after the collapse of the second World Trade Centre tower (2002)
Twitter / @girlonetrack: So, it looks like Sunday T ... imes possibly attempted to hack both my & @belledejour_uk's email via trojans; am *definitely* contacting the Met.
Girl with a one-track mind
Phone hacking: 9/11 victims 'may have had mobiles tapped by News of the World reporters' - mirror.co.uk
Hacking exclusive: Queen's police sold her details to News of the World | News (off with their heads)
Twitter Get out of Dodge strategy being discussed at News Corp: Sell all of News Int.
YouTube - Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World phone-hacking scandal - "What an obsequious whimp of an interviewer allowing this evil purveyor of conservative propaganda to have his way unchallenged in anything he says no matter how flekless,? reckless or irresponsible!
Phone Hacking: Top Politicians Call For Murdoch To Drop BSkyB Bid, Sordid New Details Emerge
"By 2003, such was Murdoch's access to Blair, that he was even able to put a call through to the prime minister on the eve of the Iraq war and advise Blair to join George Bush's invasion." : worldnews
News of the World Crossword Takes Aim At Rebekah Brooks
'Extreme Dishonesty’ – The Guardian, Noam Chomsky and Venezuela this was a highly partial and misleading account of Chomsky’s full remarks, leading him to declare afterwards that the newspaper had displayed ‘extreme dishonesty’ and that Carroll’s article was ‘quite deceptive’ (Guardian lies too)
YouTube - John Finnemore destroys News International and News of the World. From BBC Radio 4's Now Show.
Their master's voice | Media | The Guardian Rupert Murdoch argued strongly for a war with Iraq in an interview this week. Which might explain why his 175 editors around the world are backing it too (2003) - "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy...would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country." (that worked out really, really well)
BBC News - BSkyB shares drop on Jeremy Hunt letter
News of the World: Rupert Murdoch and his minions really did lower the tone of Britain's tabloid press. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine In Britain, the Guardian takes on Rupert Murdoch's cynical view of what newspaper readers want to read ... a lot hangs on the outcome of the battle between the Murdochian and Guardian worldviews.
Rupert Murdoch: a real-life Mr Burns? | Art and design | guardian.co.uk As a portrait of power unfettered, The Simpsons' Monty Burns is as much cartoon villain as Rupert Murdoch, the show's owner
The News of the World closes as media's tectonic plates shift | Will Self | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk We are in a strange interregnum of titillation between cultural hegemonies, before familiar hierarchies appear online - the transition from a print/broadcast era in which information, opinion and entertainment is transmitted down a pyramidal social structure, to a pro forma egalitarian web culture in which there is no longer the mediation of a class of editors and opinion-formers, but instead everyone swims about in a protoplasmic gloop of titillating supposition

Sheila Bair’s Exit Interview - NYTimes.com ‘They should have let Bear Stearns fail,” Sheila Bair said (Obama, bought and paid for, ignored all advice except the bankers)
Geithner Seeks to Push FDIC’s Bair Out After Clashes (Update1) - Bloomberg December 4, 2008 (because she wasn't a "team player" ... Geitner, of course, was on the bankers' team)
How the bubble destroyed the middle class Rex Nutting - MarketWatch Commentary: Sluggish growth is no mystery: No one has any money (it was all planned from the start)
Republicans Cite Reagan, Thatcher -- Who Raised Taxes -- In Anti-Tax Jihad (charts) | TPMDC
As Government Nears Accord With Banks, Questions Swirl Over Scope Of Investigation pressing to complete a proposed settlement with the nation's five largest home loan companies over alleged mortgage abuses, even though they've only initiated a limited investigation that hasn't examined the full extent of the alleged wrongdoing (Obama sweeping it all under the WH rug)
Paul Ryan's $700-Wine-Sipping Buddies: Hedge Fund Manager And University Of Chicago Economist | TPMMuckraker

No, We Can’t? Or Won’t? - NYTimes.com f you were shocked by Friday’s job report, if you thought we were doing well and were taken aback by the bad news, you haven’t been paying attention. The fact is, the United States economy has been stuck in a rut for a year and a half - Our failure to create jobs is a choice, not a necessity — a choice rationalized by an ever-shifting set of excuses. (Obama turns out to be either stupid or evil, you choose)
As Government Aid Fades, So May the Recovery - NYTimes.com $37 billion will be drained from the nation’s pocketbooks this year (Obama and his gang of teahadists at work )
Monetary Rage - NYTimes.com when you point out that it doesn’t work that way, that money is a social convention meant to deal with an imperfect world, and that dealing with that imperfect world sometimes means that central banks need to take exceptional action, they fly into a rage.

APOD: 2011 July 11 - A Total Lunar Eclipse Over Tajikistan
YouTube - A Dramatic Demonstration of the Power of Mental Frames
YouTube - Bill Hicks on Rock n Roll
Backmasking
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year this first year, the treatment group had substantively and statistically significantly higher health care utilization (including primary and preventive care as well as hospitalizations), lower out-of-pocket medical expenditures and medical debt (including fewer bills sent to collection), and better self-reported physical and mental health than the control group.

Guess Which Gay-Voiced Therapist Is Hunting For Oral On SilverDaddies.com… / Queerty
In His Own Words: How I Went Undercover at Bachmann's Clinic | Commentary | The Advocate Truth Wins Out activist John Becker took a hidden camera with him to five therapy sessions at a Christian counseling center run by Marcus Bachmann.

Radicals, Imbeciles & FBI Stooges: From Jerry Rubin To Rich Fink, We’ve Reached Rock-Bottom, Baby! - By Mark Ames - The eXiled

In West, Accusations of Abuse by Priest Dating to 1940s - NYTimes.com Father Hageman sexually abused them as boys when he worked in local parishes from the early 1940s until his death in 1975.
Drivers Stopping Means Red-Light Cameras Don’t Yield Cash Goals - Bloomberg Miami, which counted on $10 million in fines from motorists caught on camera running red lights, is planning to furlough some workers in part because penalties didn’t come close to forecasts as drivers began obeying the law.
Why 'Caylee's Law' Is A Bad Idea Laws named after crime victims and dead people are usually a bad idea
YouTube - A Kids Reaction To Gay Couple

The Age of Mechanical Reproduction - The Morning News
The Author of ‘Fear of Flying’ Detects a Backlash Against Sex. - NYTimes.com (the has-been zipless fuck lady says get of her lawn)
Another "Sex is Over" Trend Piece Rears Its Ugly Head - New York News - Runnin' Scared - "Nicely written piece of old news. Next time look to your grand daughters for the next big trend and not your middle aged daughter."
Erica Jong in the NYT: Blame the Internet! | violet blue ® :: open source sex
New York Times: No, sex is not passe - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post - Jong, says Hess, has powerful motives for saying what she says. Among them is making “sex writing relevant again (and declaring that it had somehow disappeared, and in the process, imbuing “Fear of Flying” with renewed relevance)” not to mention “creating a narrative around her book that situates older, raunchy ladies against younger, prudish ones
Antibiotic resistant gonorrhea and the future of oral sex - Boing Boing (there goes that option)

Jerry Joseph High School Basketball Scandal: Profiles: GQ Jerry Joseph was a basketball dream: six feet five and built like LeBron. Then the rumors started—and suddenly the 16-year-old golden boy was more illusion than dream
YouTube - dirt spineology
YouTube - How ships are launched - Very cool

WolframAlpha knows... - Digg
Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 | ExtremeTech

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Federal Government Rules Marijuana Has No Accepted Medical Purpose (Obama ignores science, doubles down on his drugz war)
Chart: Rate Of U.S. Troops Killed In Iraq Is At ’03 And ’04 Levels | ThinkProgress (the whole surgey thing was a complete failure)
BP wants to stop paying Gulf oil spill victims - CBS News

Somalia Drought Is 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis': U.N.
US suspends Pakistan military aid as diplomatic relations worsen | World news | The Guardian Decision to withhold $800m taken as relations become increasingly fraught following the killing of Osama bin Laden
India Train Accident Leaves At Least 31 Dead, 100 Injured
Heartache for India's new rich as brutal kidnappers target their children | World news | The Observer Gangs of ransom-seekers are preying on well-off families. They know the police are ineffective and desperate parents will pay up, but even so snatched children often die
Martine Aubry hits back over alcoholism rumours | World news | The Guardian has threatened legal action over allegations that her husband is an Islamist and denounced rumours that she has suffered from alcoholism.
Australia Veil Law Targets Muslim Women Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia's most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive ... "the world's toughest burqa laws.
Sins of the Flesh: Church Shaken by Sexual Abuse Allegations in Africa - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Following a series of abuse cases in Europe and North America, revelations have emerged of sexual abuse by priests in a number of African countries. The case of Father Renato Kizito, who is accused of raping young men in Kenya, shows how local power structures work in favor of the clerics (now they have their "African problem")

America's 'detainee 001' – the persecution of John Walker Lindh | World news | The Observer Frank Lindh, father of 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh, explains why his son is an innocent victim of America's 'war on terror (Obama: whatever Bush did was fine and we're not looking back because that would paralyze his initiatives, oh wait)

Twitter / @SkyNews: MIRROR: The Wapping Cowboy: Murdoch Rides Into Town As Its Revealed 9/11 Victims Targeted (just when you thought ...)
Phone hacking: 9/11 victims 'may have had mobiles tapped by News of the World reporters' - mirror.co.uk
THE TIMES: Police to interview Brooks as Murdoch takes contr... on Twitpic
News of the World: Rupert Murdoch's tabloid tactics were nothing new. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine There's nothing new in Rupert Murdoch's tabloid tactics.
BBC News - Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy The Murdoch empire fractured, a Conservative prime minister attracting bets on his resignation, the Metropolitan Police on the edge of yet another existential crisis and the political establishment in disarray. (the British Arab Spring -- Murdoch is ageing, corrupt, despot +"the manufacturing of consent" +Chomsky)
Critical Legal Thinking › The pillars of ignorance This event, however, is not as one might believe the subterranean tremors that have struck the Murdoch empire, but the tectonic shifts that brought the ‘Dirty Digger’ to the UK. It is what Murdoch expresses that goes all the way down – his is but one of the pillars of ignorance on which rests the British state ... Murdoch annually spent Christmas with the ‘Iron Lady’ at Chequers – a fact Thatcher failed to remember in her memoirs.
News of the World: Was Anti-terror boss Andy Hayman compromised by these pictures? | Mail Online
News International phone hacking memos passed to police | Media | guardian.co.uk 2007 memos appear to show phone hacking more widespread than previously thought and that NoW paid police for information (coppers completely corrupt)
News of the World phone-hacking scandal – latest developments | Media | guardian.co.uk
Murdoch's malign influence must die with the News of the World | Observer editorial | Comment is free | The Observer The scandal over phone hacking has exposed a rotten empire and the urgent need for stronger press regulation ... Freedom of information requests reveal that he spoke to prime minister Tony Blair three times in the 10 days that led up to the Iraq invasion in 2003. This was a perversion of our politics, orchestrated by a man whose power the establishment failed to check. Then they had to live with the demeaning consequences.
Over more than three decades, no one dared question the perversion of politics by and for Rupert Murdoch | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer After last week's events, things can never be the same again for the corrosive Murdoch media empire ... What we should take from these events is a determination never to let a man like Rupert Murdoch hold such sway in our country again.
BSkyB takeover: Lib Dems hint at backing Labour motion to delay deal | Media | guardian.co.uk Chris Huhne and Simon Hughes indicate Lib Dems could back motion over phone hacking if it is not seen as too 'partisan'
Jolyon Rubinstein: Could the Phone-Hacking Scandal Just be the Beginning? . Do we really think that NOTW is a one off, acting alone amongst its competition? Hugh Grant, on BBC's Question Time, raised the spectre of the phenomenon being far broader than anyone has previously wanted to admit.
The Battle of Wapping, Mk II - Press, Media - The Independent The fallout from the phone-hacking scandal turns toxic with the Prime Minister and his former press chief turning on News International's bosses as 168 years of history are brought suddenly to an end - David Cameron was given a personal guarantee by Rupert Murdoch that Andy Coulson was safe to take on as his Downing Street press chief (Satan lied, and the idiot Cameron believed him, oh what a surprise)
Barbed wire and Downing Street parties: my double vision of Rupert Murdoch | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk By 2003, such was Murdoch's access to Blair, that he was even able to put a call through to the prime minister on the eve of the Iraq war and advise Blair to join George Bush's invasion (Blair was really Murdoch's poodle)
Charlie Brooker | The last News of the World was downright odd | Comment is free | The Guardian The final edition of the paper was so rose-tinted that you could almost smell the petals
Murdoch exits London home with arm around Brooks | Reuters "This one," gesturing at Brooks, when asked what his first priority was.
Rebekah Brooks Secretly Recorded During Town Hall With NotW Staffers
Rupert Murdoch Heads To London Offices As Phone Hacking Scandal Continues
James Murdoch Could Face Criminal Charges In Phone Hacking Scandal
YouTube - NOTWPhoneHacking's Channel
YouTube - Billy Bragg at Garforth Festival Playground Party - Never Buy the Sun
Steve Coogan Rips News Of The World, Former Editor Paul McMullan (VIDEO)
Phone Hacking Scandal: Britain's Media Likely To Face New Rules
Will Bunch: Murdoch's American Sins: Less Sensational, But More Dangerous
Let the law save whistleblowers, not silence them | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer Spill the beans on your company's criminal activities and you'll not just lose your job, you could lose your career (UK hates them too)
Rebekah Brooks' Sun and News of the World would run fictional stories, insider claims | Mail Online

Mitch McConnell: Grand Bargain On Debt Limit Unlikely
Christine Lagarde, IMF Chief, Asks U.S. To Raise Borrowing Limit (Republicans don't care about the rest of the world, either)
Boehner Scales Back on Deficit Talks, Citing Tax Increases - NYTimes.com (even Obama's giving everything away isn't enough for them)
John Boehner Wants To Scale Down Debt Talks | ThinkProgress very little has changed in practice from the Bush years, when the GOP agenda consisted of aggressive tax cutting made palatable by refusing to pair the cuts with spending reductions. Now, ostensibly, cutting spending is the order of the day. But the bargaining strategy is entirely built around a tax-focused goal rather than a spending-focused one (Hilary would have acted like a Democrat)
Matt Bai: The GOP’s Refusal to Raise Debt Ceiling Just Like the Democrats Passing Health Insurance Reform | Firedoglake (one reason why the NYT sucks)
The Rethinking Man’s Candidate | The Weekly Standard there was the handsome candidate and his excellent hair, tossed Kennedily by a gentle wind off the river. There was the lovely wife wreathed in smiles, accompanied by a raft of offspring who looked as if Madame Tussaud’s “Brady Bunch” exhibit had sprung wondrously to life.
The Daily Show: 14th Amendment - Equal Protection and Due Process - Digg
The Golden Days Of Slavery A good rule of thumb for empathizing with black Americans is avoiding suggestions that we were better off as property.
Rick Santorum Says He Was 'Taken Aback' By 'The Marriage Vow' (VIDEO) "This 'pledge' is nothing short of a promise to discriminate against everyone who makes a personal choice that doesn't fit into a particular definition of 'virtue'." (Republicans in your bedrooms and womb)
Balloon Juice » GOP War on Women: New Hampshire Planned Parenthood Forced to Stop Dispensing Contraceptives
Busted! Bachmann Clinic Caught Doing "Ungaying" They Said They Didn't Do | MyFDL
Cuomo's no liberal lion - Democratic Party - Salon.com The N.Y. governor may have legalized gay marriage, but he's actually a deep-seated economic conservative

The Cost of Austerity - NYTimes.com In round numbers, state and local governments have cut about a half million jobs over the last two years. If they had continued to hire at their previous pace — expanding as the population expanded — they would have added about a half million jobs.
Austerity USA - NYTimes.com (inceasingly clear what a disasterous economic policy Obama has pursued)
Obama: Budget agreement needed in 10 days - politics - White House - msnbc.com Geithner gave a somber assessment of the economy, saying that "it's going to take a long time still" before many Americans feel that a recovery is under way. "This is still a very tough economy. For a lot of people, it's going to feel very hard — harder than anything they've experienced in a lifetime now — for some time to come." (how's that recovery thing working out?)
Bloomberg Businessweek (Accidentally?) Makes It Clear That Elizabeth Warren Critics Are Primarily Animated By Sexism If the raw power of the smugness contained in a single Robert Rubin smirk were unleashed, it would collapse our entire galaxy
Chase Bank Is Finally Very Sorry for Having Man Thrown in Jail for No Reason - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly

Ocean's carbon dioxide uptake reduced by climate change
Shuttle Diplomacy: Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Explain How the Space Shuttle Was Never Really About Science | Motherboard the Shuttle program was the product of politics.
The Scale of Nature: Mississippi River Basin Model: Places: Design Observer

Atlanta Cheating Scandal Unveiled By Reporters a state-commissioned investigation found rampant, systemwide cheating in 44 Atlanta public schools, with 178 teachers and principals routinely erasing incorrect answers on standardized tests and replacing them with correct ones.

The Copyright Lobby Absolutely Loves Child Pornography | TorrentFreak “Child pornography is great,” the man said enthusiastically. “Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public. Once we get them to filter child pornography, we can get them to extend the block to file sharing.”

Anonymous hacks FBI contractor, AntiSec leaks secret IRC Federal security data - Computerworld Blogs Anonymous hacks FBI contractor, AntiSec leaks secret IRC Federal security data
Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran out of disk space” | VentureBeat

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Leon Panetta says al Qaeda's defeat within reach | Reuters the United States could kill or capture up to 20 remaining leaders of the core group and its affiliates (20 guys dismantled American rights)

Rebekah Brooks to be questioned by police over phone hacking - Telegraph Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, faces being questioned under police caution over her role in the phone hacking scandal which brought down the News of the World.
James Murdoch Could Be Prosecuted In Phone-Hacking Scandal -- News Corp Succession Plan Suddenly In Doubt
News Corp would do well not to keep it in the Murdoch family | Michael Wolff | Comment is free | The Guardian After the News of the World's closure, family feuds at the heart of the Murdoch empire do not bode well for News Corp
The amazing News of the World team on our last day in the off... on Twitpic
Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Like A Circle in A Circle, Like A Wheel Within A Wheel - Bluntly, there is no chance that a body of which the Chairman, Colette Bowe, is a Director of Morgan Stanley and of Electra Private Equity is going to pull the rug on News Corp.
Close Read: David Cameron’s Own Scandal : The New Yorker

Suburban Guerrilla - The rationale a meeting Obama had with some multinational type, who carefully explained to him that he had to break the back of the American economy, driving us down to a low-wage, low-benefits society — so we could compete with Third World countries for jobs. And you know, I really do think this is what is going on. The Harvard guy, easily impressed by the elites, dazzled by the fact that he’s one of them, and a man without clearly defined goals or vision, bought that version of reality.

America's debt: Shame on them | The Economist The Republicans are playing a cynical political game with hugely high economic stakes (things Obama can't bring himself to say)
Obama On Debt Ceiling Talks: Both Sides Must Make 'Political Sacrifices' (offers 5 trillion in cuts to social services for 12 cents in taxes from Rethugs)
Rep. Ryan Tastes The Grapes Of Wrath | TPMDC the $700 in wine the trio consumed over the course of 90 minutes amounted to more than the entire weekly income of a couple making minimum wage.
Huntsman gets a second dose of bad news from home state - The Fix - The Washington Post Huntsman gets a second dose of bad news from home state
Minnesota Government Shutdown 2011: State Sees Little Urgency To End Budget Dispute
GOP allies hatching sleazy dirty tricks in Wisconsin recall wars - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
Reduce The Debt By Selling Congressional Parking Lots | ThinkProgress
The 1950s Called, and They Want Their Transportation Bill Back – AltTransport: Your Guide to Smarter Ways of Getting Around (Republicans: back to the past!)

ZCommunications | Second Thoughts on the Chinese Model? by Walden Bello | ZNet Article - the key source of corporate profitability — Chinese labor — may no longer be docile and cheap for much longer

Ex-Astronaut Story Musgrave Blasts NASA, Washington, Over Space Shuttle Program Failures
NASA - First-Ever View of a Sungrazer Comet In Front of the Sun

BBC News - Over-fished tuna in 'hot water', study finds
s Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical secrets - Telegraph A first-aid kit found on a 2,000-year-old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to cure sailors of dysentery and other ailment
For $3 Billion, Could We End Traffic Deaths? Should We? (Republicans largest terrorist organization in existence)

Why I quit my job: « Kai Nagata
Julie Bass of Oak Park Faces Misdemeanor Charge for Vegetable Garden
Neighbor vs. neighbor as homeowner fights get ugly - Yahoo! Finance - "These are banana republics,"
Gay Restorationist: Testimony.
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A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties by Teller
Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties / Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956
YouTube - Teller Speaks!

Languages of the World (Wide Web) - Research Blog

YouTube - ?Shocking!! Man explains to WFTV News why he loves the Orlando Police Department - Hilarious!!??
I am the guy in the Master Troll vs. Orlando Police Dept. video AMA : IAmA
My Google+ Profile has been suspended because I'm using my Second Life avatar identity | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Technolog from msnbc.com - Apple Store spycam artist says that Secret Service busted him
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Store Sets Secret Service on Spy Camera Artist

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Pakistan Slams U.S. Allegation Over Slain Journalist
WN 38 IRA vs. Al Qaeda: I Was Wrong - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled

News Corp. Executive Jeered by Staff - NYTimes.com she did not think that she would be arrested for what had happened under her leadership. But, she warned, “this is only going to get worse.” One part of the criminal investigation, she said, would lead to “a very dark day for this company.” On that day, she said, News of the World staffers would finally understand why their newspaper had to be shut down. She declined to provide further details (imagine that)
News Of The World Journalist Tells Sky News Staff Seething With Anger And Cried At Announcement | UK News | Sky News
Rebekah Brooks: A ruthless, charming super-schmoozer | Media | The Guardian Can it really be the case, as Friday's Independent put it, that the News of the World has been "sacrificed to save one woman"? And if so, why?
Phone hacking: David Cameron is not out of the sewer yet - Telegraph Poor judgment lies at the heart of Prime Minister David Cameron's crisis over the Murdoch empire.
David Cameron defends decision to hire Andy Coulson | Politics | The Guardian Guardian passed information on NoW's links to detective facing murder charge to Cameron aide before general election
ExNOTWJournalist on Twitter
News of the World closed following phone hacking scandal: how Prince's knee led to fall of a giant - Telegraph Minor royal story, rather than a front page exposé, triggered chain of events that brought down 168-year-old paper, writes James Kirkup (great summary)
How Cameron cosied up to Murdoch & Son - UK Politics, UK - The Independent The Sun's decision to turn against Labour was the reward for years of shrewd politicking and social networking by the Tory leader and his team. Andy McSmith reports (October 2009, more history)
My encounter with the News of the World « Shropshire Star
The British press and the phone hacking scandal: The tabloid press turns on itself | The Economist
Newspapers: The end of the World as we know it | The Economist - the calculus for politicians has suddenly shifted—along with the ecology of British journalism, public perceptions of the police, and much besides.
Rebekah Brooks Rose to Top in Britain’s Male Tabloid Culture - NYTimes.com
Phone hacking: Police probe suspected deletion of emails by NI executive | Media | The Guardian Massive quantities' of archive allegedly deleted • Emails believed to be between News of the World editors
BBC News - Ofcom to rule on News Corp's 'fitness' to own BSkyB
News of the World phone-hacking scandal - live updates | Media | guardian.co.uk Andy Coulson has been arrested • Former NoW royal correspondent Clive Goodman arrested
The Daily Mash - More people are going to read the Mail on Sunday readership of the Mail on Sunday will increase, it is as simple as that, experts warned last night.
Moyerboard: An Unsympathetic Obituary for "News of the World" So, after 168 slimy years, News of the World has died, suddenly and unexpectedly. It has not so much suffered from a fall from grace as it suffered from slipping off the toilet seat onto the grimy floor of a public restroom. After feeding countless generations of the lowest common denominator, those sad, mindless fools will have to get their sadomasochistic fixings from some other bottom feeding publication, most likely The Sun ... Today, humanity has been liberated from one of the dumbing down forces that have perverted our society.
Ed Miliband: Prime Minister Must Respond to Nation's Disgust Over Phone Hacking
Martin Lewis: Andy Coulson's Moment of Truth Sing like a canary. An Essex-born, Tory-voting, shallow, callow canary.
YouTube - ?Murdoch pulls the plug on News of the World (NOTW)??
U.K. newspapers - Journawiki
History of British newspapers

Behind the Republican Resistance to Compromise - NYTimes.com (no moderates left in Rightwing party

Obama puts Social Security, Medicare cuts on the table | The Raw Story (sold down the river)
The Annotated Frank Rich - The President’s Failure to Demand a Reckoning From the Moneyed Interests Who Brought the Economy Down -- New York Magazine The president’s failure to demand a reckoning from the moneyed interests who brought the economy down has cursed his first term, and could prevent a second (biggest sell-out in the history of the world ... what a disaster this guy has been)
Hullabaloo - The Grand Bargain Arrives (Obama sells out American people to Republicans ... oh wait)
Obama Wants to Strike Broader Deal on Cutting Deficit - NYTimes.com
The Armageddon Caucus - NYTimes.com n short, what we now have is a political drive that will, in effect, undo all those institutional changes that prevented the Great Recession into turning into another Great Depression (led by our fearless sell-out non-leader)
The Obama-Keynes Mystery - NYTimes.com Obama has thrown his rhetorical weight behind anti-Keynesian economics ... The effect of his intellectual capitulation is that we now have only one side in the national argument (mumbling rightwing talking points)
What's In A Name? Dems Support Social Security Benefit Cut -- By Calling It Something Else | TPMDC the idea is to peg federal Cost of Living Adjustments to a new, stingier measure of inflation (slime-ball Obama at work)
Obama's Political, Economic Advisers Say Jobless Rate Won't Matter in 2012 | MyFDL (no pres ever relected with unemp over 8%)
AARP Not Happy With Latest Debt Ceiling Talk | TPMDC
Social Security Cuts Weighed by Lawmakers Under Change in Inflation Gauge - Bloomberg
Social Security COLA Cut | Strengthen Social Security (Obama could give a shit about your "poor")
Obama Ready to Go Big on Budget Deal? | Mother Jones
White House says it won’t turn to 14th Amendment, despite impending deadline - Yahoo! News (fearless leader)
Guest commentary: What History Teaches Us About the Welfare State | MLive.com In the wake of the economic crash, which has led to soaring budget deficits, Democrats and Republicans are negotiating “to move forward to trillions of spending cuts,”
Why is the Obama Team Embracing Hooverism? | Rortybomb what Sperling is saying is more or less indistinguishable from the latest round of right-winger talking points - When these are the smartest, most meritocratic guys in the room, it is perfectly designed for acceptance from Very Serious People, especially creations of the meritocracy like Obama (+"structural unemployment,' etc)
Section 2: Entitlements vs. Deficit Reduction | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%) (not what Obama and the Republicans say)
Richard (RJ) Eskow: How Much Would a White House/GOP Social Security Deal Cost You? - A COLA change would also raise taxes on everybody but the wealthy. Is that the kind of accomplishment the President and his party want to campaign on in 2012? (Obama throws everyone under 50 under the bus)
Hullabaloo - Supermarket Scanner Strategy ... just bizarrely out of touch. George-Bush-Sr-with-the-supermarket-scanner out of touch. (David Plouffe, brilliant strategist and ignorant asshole, says voters don't care about our the economy or jobs)
GOP Congressman: House Republicans Have Privately Discussed Impeaching Obama Over Debt Ceiling | ThinkProgress (the South will rise and impeach Obama)
What Alan Simpson doesn’t know about life expectancy and Social Security - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (May 2011: the man Obama appointed to responsibly deal with a non-existent problem)

U.S. Adds 18,000 Jobs In June As Jobless Rate Climbs To 9.2 Percent (pathetic; Obamas says jobs not necessary to American economny)
Frank Rich: Disappointments With Obama (VIDEO) he went from the stimulus to the year-long health care debate marathon, and then to the Republican-turf of deficit reduction without ever having that big jobs push in a time of bruising unemployment."
Study: US Seventh Most Innovative Country In The World | TPM Idea Lab behind Switzerland (first place,) Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Finland and Denmark (Obama further wrecks country)
North Miami's Condo Catastrophe - BusinessWeek Even by the standards of the housing bust, Biscayne Landing is a spectacular mess


Obesity is getting bigger in the United States – The Chart - CNN.com Blogs obesity increased in 16 states during the past year and rates soared to 30% or more in these 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia. Four years ago, only one state - Mississippi - had an adult obesity rate of more than 30% (the South + Michigan)

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Blog (2011) Against Eisenhower

Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan


Apple: We Don't Censor Political Communications | TPM Idea Lab (outgoing messages spam-filtered for political content)


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Pakistan Sanctioned Death Of Pakistan Journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, Mike Mullen Claims
WikiLeaks MasterCard, Visa Donations Accepted Again the move was a tacit admission of guilt on behalf of the credit card companies, but it may well have been accidental (oh sure, and that threat to sue wasn't a factor either)

Telegraph Front Page: Goodbye cruel World #skypapers on Twitpic (perfect)
Has Rebekah Brooks Been Sacked Yet?
Nick Davies on phone hacking, Murdoch and News of the World - video | Media | guardian.co.uk The investigative journalist Nick Davies on how the phone-hacking scandal has escalated, leading to News of the World's announced closure
Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking tomorrow | Media | The Guardian Second former senior News of the World journalist to also be arrested after leaks from NI force police to speed up plans
How Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Publisher Botched News Corp.’s Phone-Hacking Investigation | Media Matters for America How Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Publisher Botched News Corp.’s Phone-Hacking Investigation
Deciphered- News of the World closure announcement | Media | guardian.co.uk We go through James Murdoch's statement to staff announcing the closure of the 168-year-old Sunday paper, line by line
Newspaper websites: The British are coming | The Economist Two newspapers take aim at America
Phone hacking scandal timeline - The Irish Times - Thu, Jul 07, 2011 (what Murdoch's WSJ won't tell you)
News of the World closure: News International's full statement | Media | guardian.co.uk How NI announced that this Sunday will be the last issue of the News of the World
David Cameron is in the sewer because of his News International friends – Telegraph Blogs The Prime Minister cannot claim in defence that he was naively drawn in to this lethal circle. He was warned – many times ... So the Prime Minister is in a mess. To put the matter rather more graphically, he is in a sewer. The question is this: how does he crawl out and salvage at least some of his reputation for decency and good judgment? This is a potentially deadly moment (afraid Brooks/Murdoch will blackmail him)
Channel 4 News hacking exclusives continue with new Dispatches reports - Channel 4 - Info - Press
News of the World closes – live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk
Twitter / @bengoldacre: bbc say staff in NOTW shou ... ting in disbelief at losing jobs while Brooks keeps hers. feel like parable on modern britain
New Statesman - The bugger, bugged Paul McMullan, one of two ex-NoW hacks who had blown the whistle (in the Guardian and on Channel 4's Dispatches) on the full extent of phone-hacking at the paper, particularly under its former editor Andy Coulson (April story)
Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Above the Law Why have the police not been into all of News International’s offices, particularly its HQ, and removed all the hard drives, rather than waiting for News International voluntarily to sort through their own emails and hand over what they choose? This seems to me absolutely remarkable. The Met even raided Damian Green’s House of Commons office, but they treat News International precisely as though it were a foreign embassy with diplomatic immunity.
Letting Rebekah Brooks lead inquiry is 'extraordinary', says PCC chair | Media | guardian.co.uk Peta Buscombe, chair of the Press Complaints Commission, urges News International chiefs to 'look at their own conscience' and give the true facts about phone hacking
News of the World surveillance of detective: what Rebekah Brooks knew | Media | The Guardian Brooks summoned to meeting with Scotland Yard to be told her journalists had spied on behalf of murder suspects
News of the World investigator may have targeted families of dead soldiers | Media | The Guardian Scotland Yard investigating claims that contact details of soldiers' relatives appear in Glenn Mulcaire's notebooks
Phone hacking: Q&A with Alan Rusbridger | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The Guardian's editor debates with readers from 2.30pm about issues arising from the phone-hacking scandal
The Sheridan Trial: Andy Coulson's Testimony, Key Points (he lied)
Tommy Sheridan lawyer urges robust investigation - Crime, UK - The Independent into the evidence given by senior News of the World figures at the ex-MSP's perjury trial.
YouTube - Hugh Grant interview (McMullen is a slimy rat)
Phone Hacking - I told them - they wouldn't listen - Cover up ? - Phone Hacking - PHONE HACKING The Sun and The Daily Mirror knew how to hack voicemail in 1998-99
NYT: Murdoch’s business style scrutinized - Business - US business - The New York Times - msnbc.com U.K. voice-mail hacking scandal could stain media giant’s risk-taker image
Wapping executive changes herald move to seven-day operation | Media | guardian.co.uk
Twitter / @bengoldacre: RT @robmanuel: CONSP THEOR ... Y: Murdoch owns Myspace, with zillions of people on it, many using same passwords as private email. How tempting?
Fish refusing to be wrapped in the News Of The World Fish everywhere have withdrawn their support for being wrapped in the News of the World, it emerged last night.
BBC News - News of the World executive obtained hacked e-mails A senior News of the World executive obtained e-mails hacked in to by a private detective, Panorama has found.
Twitter / @bbcHIGNFY: According to the Guardian ... n the web domain thesunonsunday.co.uk was registered on 5 July, as cynicalrebrandingexercise.com was already taken.

Buffett: GOP Threatening To 'Blow Your Brains Out' Over Debt Ceiling (American held hostage by Republican terrorists)
Humberto Leal Execution In Texas Would Violate International Law, White House Warns (Texas says fuck you to international law; NATO considers air-strikes)

Minnesota shutdown costing millions - Reid J. Epstein - politico.com - losing tens millions of dollars of revenue due to a government shutdown headed into its second week,
Obama's Political, Economic Advisers Say Jobless Rate Won't Matter in 2012 | MyFDL (because Obama is running as a Republican anyway)
Los Angeles Review Of Books | Magicland (the Glenn Beck ouevre of insanity)
TSA warns of implant bombers, prepares fliers for swab tests - San Jose Mercury News If Pamela Anderson has to undergo an MRI to get on an airplane, have the terrorists won?
Typing Beats Scribbling: Indiana Schools Can Stop Teaching Cursive - time (writing no longer part of education thanks to Republicans)

In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts - The Washington Post (there is nothing he won't bargain away for nothing; biggest sell-out in the history of the world)
Treasury Officials Weighing Options To Avoid Default (day 425 of American held hostage by terrorist Republicans)
Senior GOP aide: New revenues would have to be accompanied by lower tax rates - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (see what they did there?)

House Panel Proposes Killing NASA's Webb Space Telescope - NYTimes.com
NASA Budget Bill Would Cancel Webb Telescope | SpaceNews.com (Republicans kill science for more tax breaks for the superrich)
BBC News - Tibetan singing bowls give up their chaotic secrets

Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Internships | Irishstu.com Blog
Charlotte Bacon - Lessons From a Year in Bali - NYTimes.com
My Summer at an Indian Call Center | Mother Jones Lessons learned: Americans are hotheads, Australians are drunks—and never say where you're calling from.

Casey Anthony, Death Row Innocents, And Media Priorities | Media Matters for America
My Father Is an African Immigrant and My Mother Is a White Girl from Kansas and I Am Not the President of the United States by Ahamefule J. Oluo - Seattle Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper Or, How to Disappoint Your Absent Father in 20 Words or Less
Gatsby without greatness - Roger Ebert's Journal

Born to Breed: An Interview With Quiverfull Walkaway Vyckie Garrison | RH Reality Check (girls brought up to be submissive sex-object baby-machines for patriachal taliFundies)
Free Jinger


Ravelry and knitting: Why Facebook can't match the social network for knitters. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine Why Facebook can't match Ravelry, the social network for knitters.

Google's browser tops 20 percent market share | Reuters Chrome Web browser has grabbed more than 20 percent of global market share, while Microsoft Corp's long-time leader Internet Explorer has slipped below 50 percent

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UPDATE 1-Powerful quake off New Zealand triggers tsunami | Reuters triggering a tsunami in the region, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Pacific Tsunami Center said on Wednesday.
Apocalyptic Time-Lapse Video of Massive Phoenix Dust Storm [VIDEO] - Digg

Pakistan Increasing Nuclear Weapons Production
Bin Laden Family Held By Pakistan Panel
Military Suicide Condolence Letters: White House Lifts Ban The White House says that families of service members who commit suicide while deployed abroad are now getting condolence letters from the president just like families of troops who die in other ways ("other ways;" Obama evolving and a glacial pace)
Supporting Dictators is Still Bad Foreign Policy | ThinkProgress From a strategic perspective focused solely on the war in Afghanistan that might be something U.S. policymakers are willing to tolerate, but it will look awfully foolish if the U.S. finds itself engaged in counterinsurgency warfare in Uzbekistan in 30 years (Obama's ever-expanding endless war)
U.S. Warns Terrorists Considering Surgically Implanting Bombs In Humans
Secure Communities Immigration Program A Gateway For Other FBI Data-Sharing the FBI was more involved than originally known in the decision to make Secure Communities effectively mandatory (Obama's war on privacy and civil rights)
Obama's Libya policy: Wrong, but not as wrong as Bush's torture policy. - By Dawn Johnsen - Slate Magazine The difference between Obama's Libya policy and Bush's torture policy.

BBC News - Hugh Grant: How I exposed hacking
Murdoch executives, police and PCC: Phone hacking denials | Media | The Guardian News International has not always been ready to acknowledge the existence of possible abuses by its staff
The Times ignores phone hacking, then blames 'journalism' for News International's shocking practices – Telegraph Blogs
BSkyB bid: can Jeremy Hunt reconsider News Corp's takover? | Media | guardian.co.uk Culture secretary argues he has no legal recourse to reassess News Corp's Sky bid in the light of the phone-hacking saga, but is there still room for manoeuvre?
What the papers won’t say | The Spectator The omertà of Britain’s press and politicians on phone-hacking amounts to complicity in crime (even BP couldn't have done it, how deeply corrupted Britain has become under Satan's influence)
BBC News - Dead soldiers' families 'hacked by newspaper' Phones owned by relatives of dead UK soldiers were allegedly hacked by the News of the World, a national newspaper reports (just when you thought it couldn't get worse)
BBC News - News International's Rebekah Brooks 'won't resign' she is deeply shocked by the allegations (yeah, "shocked")
News of the World phone hacking: Police review all child abduction cases | Media | The Guardian Detectives to examine every case involving attacks on children since 2001 in response to Milly Dowler phone hacking
BBC News - Phone-hacking: Piecing together the jigsaw News International executives believe that they have uncovered evidence of who at the News of the World commissioned and sanctioned the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone ... Rebekah Brooks ... has said it was "inconceivable" that she knew. The newly uncovered evidence is said not to contradict that. Her deputy was Andy Coulson who went on to be David Cameron's director of communications ("inconceivable" but not "false")
Matthew Norman: Now is the moment to stop Murdoch - Matthew Norman, Commentators - The Independent This is an amorality tale of systemic corruption as insidious, deep-rooted, all-embracing, diseased and destructive as any known to a modern Western democracy. To understand how it came to this – how prime ministers and our premier police force became the enablers of News Corporation's abundant wickedness – you must go back several decades (to Thatcher)
Miliband gets serious about phone hacking | The Spectator Andy Coulson put the black spot on him and Grieve was subsequently moved in the next reshuffle (Murdoch running UK gov for decades)
Miliband gets serious about phone hacking | The Spectator Andy Coulson put the black spot on him and Grieve was subsequently moved in the next reshuffle.
Families of 7/7 victims 'were targets of phone hacking' | Media | The Guardian New revelation deepens crisis at News of the World after it emerges that officers will review child murder cases
Financial Times Editorial: Murdoch Must Address Hacking Scandal | Media Matters for America called on News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch to "immediately appoint an independent figure" to investigate allegations that his News of the World tabloid hacked and deleted voicemails of murder victim Milly Dowler, impeding a police investigation and giving her family false hope that she was still alive.
From Crusading Guardian To Media Frenzy: Why Rupert Murdoch Should Be Worried (lame US converage)
News of the World phone hacking: live coverage | Politics | guardian.co.uk want to inform the House of further evidence that suggests Rebekah Brooks knew about the unlawful tactics of News of the World as early as 2002, despite all her denials ... We know now that News International had entered the criminal underworld ... James Murdoch should be suspended from office while the police now investigate what I believe is his personal authorisation of the cover-up of this scandal
NI to claim Rebekah Brooks was on holiday during Dowler phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk News of the World publisher seeks to defuse row by claiming editor was in Italy at time missing teenager's mobile phone was hacked
Behind Rupert's throne: The story of Rebekah Brooks - Press, Media - The Independent Despite the hacking scandal engulfing News international, the woman at its centre remains Rupert Murdoch's favoured lieutenant. But how long can Rebekah Brooks survive as the Queen of Wapping? Andy McSmith gets the story.
News Corp and BSkyB shares fall in wake of phone hacking revelations | Media | The Guardian Rupert Murdoch's bid to take full control of BSkyB under fresh scrutiny after News of the World revelations
Phone hacking finally makes front page of The Sun... but only just | Minority Thought

A Silk Road for the 21st century: Freight rail linking China and Germany officially begins operations - Shanghaiist
The Chinese art of elegant bribery | openDemocracy Art has become an “invisible cloak” that helps businessmen navigate Chinese corruption

The final nail in the supply side coffin - How the World Works - Salon.com Broken recovery: Taxes are low and corporate profits are high, but nothing is trickling down to the American worker (piss-down not working)
Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is 'Rather Pathetic'

In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts - The Washington Post (he's already offered $4 trillion in cuts to services for "several hundred million" in eliminating "incentives" as well putting Medicare/Medicaid on the block so he can run as a "moderate" Republican -- the biggest sell-out in the history of the world)
Barack Obama’s Dangerous Embrace Of Economic Fatalism | ThinkProgress (huge failure, or was this planned from the beginning? Brooks says he will run as a "moderate" which means center-right-right)
House GOP expected to ax transportation funds - The Washington Post (the rich will take their helicopters)
DADT Repeal: Court Orders Immediate Halt To Gay Military Ban

[PHOTO] Monkey Steals Camera, Takes Self-Portraits - Animal News: Animal Planet
VQR » India’s Vanishing Vultures Can the world’s fastest growing nation restore its prime scavenger before there are untold human consequences? ... The three species of Gyps vultures were dying from ingesting livestock carcasses treated with diclofenac, a mild painkiller akin to aspirin or ibuprofen.

The Blog : Drugs and the Meaning of Life : Sam Harris
Why Prescription Ecstasy or LSD Could Happen Much Sooner Than You Think | Drugs | AlterNet
New study finds no cognitive impairment among ecstasy users

The Connected States of America | Visuals shows the county to county social interactions given in total call minutes or total number of SMS from the anonymous, aggregated AT&T mobile phone data.

xugyK.jpg (optical illusion at Paris Town Hall)
ParisDailyPhoto (making of): Optical Illusion
Dailymotion - "Vous êtes ailleurs" ou à l'Hôtel de Ville ? - une vidéo Arts

Privacy and Security Fanatic: Microsoft: We're not vulnerable to DDoS attacks Microsoft security is stronger than Sony and RSA which were hacked due to "rookie mistakes."
Sophisticated Cyberattack Targets National Lab in Washington - FoxNews.com the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state
Anonymous Posts ISP Source Code to Retaliate Against Censorship

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Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue As Financial Crisis Looms - David Brooks says that Republicans have managed to extract huge concessions from Democrats in the debt ceiling negotiations, but the strict opposition to raising taxes has transformed the GOP from "a normal conservative party" into "an odd protest movement." (Republicans: Obama destroying the country by not giving in to their demands even though he offers to cut Medicare, Medicaid and everything else)
Financial Reform: Republicans Fight To Dilute Wall Street Regulations (license to destroy the world again)

Iraq Attack Kills 35 People North Of Baghdad: Officials (one of Obama's endless wars)

Chinese Local Debt Might Be $540B More Than Estimated: Moody's (yeah, they've been lying)
China oil spill to have long-term impact: report An oil spill off China's eastern coast kept hidden from the public for weeks has caused long-term environmental damage that will hurt the area's fishing industry, state media reported Tuesday (they covered up)
Europe May Curb Naked Sovereign Debt CDSs - Bloomberg
When It Comes to Argentina's Economy, the NYT Redefines "Stagnant" | Beat the Press (stagnant=9%)

Milly Dowler phone hacking: Speaker grants emergency Commons debate | UK news | guardian.co.uk Labour MP Chris Bryant successfully pushes for Wednesday debate on call for public inquiry into News International (Cameron tries to squash investigation, peas in a pod with Satan/Murdoch)
Phone hacking: latest updates | Media | guardian.co.uk New developments in the News of the World phone hacking scandal, following advertisers pulling out of the Sunday tabloid and calls for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks' resignation
Can it be that Rupert Murdoch really is above the law now? | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer Rupert Murdoch's influence is so strong that even in parliament the phone-hacking scandal has been barely talked about ... Newspapers still run the conversation in Britain. TV and radio can have an impact but rarely when Murdoch is concerned (BBC castrated by Murdoch)
Executive Under Pressure Over Hacking Allegations - NYTimes.com Political pressure is bearing down on Rebekah Brooks, a top executive of the News Corporation in Britain, following allegations that one of the company’s newspapers hacked the mobile phone of a teenage girl who was abducted and murdered in 2002, when Ms. Brooks was its editor.
Milly Dowler phone hacking: the full text of Rebekah Brooks's email | Media | guardian.co.uk News International chief's message to staff stating that it is 'inconceivable' that she knew about alleged phone hacking ("inconceivable" but not "no")
Rebekah Brooks: 'It's inconceivable I knew of Milly Dowler phone hacking' | Media | guardian.co.uk Press complaints boss says News of the World lied to inquiry • Miliband calls on Brooks to consider 'her position'
How the media covered the Milly Dowler hacking story | Media | guardian.co.uk How the media covered the Milly Dowler hacking story (they were afraid of being black-mailed)
News of the World targets Met Police detective - Channel 4 News When finally confronted, the News of the World apparently said they were interested in whether Dave Cook was having an affair with a Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames. They were in fact married at the time.
Npower reviews News of the World advertising amid phone-hacking row | Media | guardian.co.uk News International newspaper faces angry backlash amid growing campaign for advertising and reader boycott
Phone hacking: Soham families contacted by police | Media | guardian.co.uk Parents of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman contacted by detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World - Meanwhile, the chairwoman of the Press Complaints Commission, Baroness Peta Buscombe, which concluded in November 2009 there was "no new evidence" of widespread hacking at the News of the World following earlier Guardian revelations, admitted she had been "misled" by the News International paper
News of the World hacking - what you can do | Media | guardian.co.uk
Milly Dowler and the News of the World: if this is true, someone should be shot at dawn – Telegraph Blogs
Murdoch tabloid accused of hacking dead girl’s phone - FT.com
Milly Dowler's phone was 'hacked by News of The World' - Telegraph The parents of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler spoke of their anguish after learning that private investigators working for a tabloid newspaper allegedly hacked into their daughter’s mobile phone .. The deleting of the messages led family members to believe that the teenager could still be alive. It could also have erased evidence that would have assisted police.
Private Eye | Official Site how long can the wicked witch of Wapping, Rebekah Brooks, remain at the helm of News International?
Twitter / @Peston: News Int execs tell me the ... there may have been worse examples of NOTW hacking than that of Milly Dowler's phone. The mind reels
Twitter / @Peston: News Int passed emails to ... to police that seem to show Andy Coulson as editor of NOTW authorised payments to police. No comment from Coulson.
News of the World targets Met Police detective - Channel 4 News Channel 4 News learns that a Metropolitan Police detective was put under surveillance by News of the World journalists and his personal details targetted.

Chart Of The Day: 'Out Of Control Spending' Not Really Out Of Control At All | TPMDC (except for the untouchable military)
Ryan On 'MediScare' Attacks: 'Here's The Deal On Our Medicare Plan: ObamaCare Ends Medicare As We Know It' | TPMDC (no lie too big)
More Breitbart Woes For New York Times | Media Matters for America Wait a minute. Either Breitbart lied and told the newspaper that the NAACP audience “applauded” upon hearing Sherrod’s tale, as the Times first claimed, or Breitbart said the NAACP audience “nodded and murmured in approval.” (Times lied, and lied about their lies, gasp)

Down and Out on $250,000 a Year (another story of the trials of the rich)

Discovering my microbiome: “You, my friend, are a wonderland” | The Loom | Discover Magazine
How far should we trust health reporting? | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian If health-risk information in newspapers is routinely misleading, there are real-world consequences
Ben Goldacre's study of dietary news should be taken with a pinch of salt | James Randerson | Science | guardian.co.uk Research claiming that up to 72% of dietary health claims reported in UK newspapers are based on flimsy evidence is itself unreliable (James Randerson changes subject, defeats straw-man, loses credibility)

YouTube - Gay Scientists Isolate Christian Gene
The Decent Human Beings' Guide to Getting Laid at Atheist Conferences : Pharyngula

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S.&P. Warns Bank Plan Would Cause Greek Default - NYTimes.com Greece risks being judged in default on its debt obligations if banks are forced to bear part of the pain, Standard & Poor’s said Monday (bankers not allowed to lose anything, not even a penny)

Belarus Blocks Twitter, Facebook On Holiday (Europe's last dictatorship)
Tristane Banon To File Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn to countersue writer over attempted rape claim | World news | The Guardian Strauss-Kahn responds with defamation threat after Tristane Banon announces plan to sue over alleged assault in 2002

DSK Backlash Throws D.A.’s Office Off-Kilter -- Daily Intel (Vance, looking for mayoral platform, fucks everything up; loses top sex-crimes prosecutor)
Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World | UK news | The Guardian Deleted voicemails gave family false hope • Hacking interfered with police hunt • Family lawyer: actions 'heinous and despicable' (Murdoch/Satan at work +Rebekah Wade, Andy coulson)
Jack of Kent: The hacking of Milly Dowler's voicemails - Not only has the “Hackgate” gone onto a more sickeningly bad level; the seeming criminality is now also far more serious. (British justice/politics/media corrupt from top to bottom)
Evgeny Lebedev: Press complaints commission is not fit for purpose | Media | The Guardian Publisher critical of watchdog's handling of phone-hacking affair and says newspapers should work together to uphold standards (investigative body corrupt)
Ian Burrell: Brooks has some explaining to do now - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

The WikiLeaks You Missed - By Joshua E. Keating | Foreign Policy From blatant bribery in India to Hugo Chávez’s war on Domino’s pizza, here are the highlights from the last four months of the secret State Department cables.
Is Torture In America's Future As Well As In Our Country's Past (Obama closes investigation into US/Bush torture; not looking backwards, keeping his torture options open)
Torture crimes officially, permanently shielded - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - a total legal whitewash for the Bush torture regime (change you can take to hell)
The motives of Bradley Manning - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Bradley Manning’s Army of One How a lonely, five-foot-two, gender-questioning soldier became a WikiLeaks hero, a traitor to the U.S., and one of the most unusual revolutionaries in American history.
Our Incredible Shrinking Constitution | Truthout

The Annotated Frank Rich - The President’s Failure to Demand a Reckoning From the Moneyed Interests Who Brought the Economy Down -- New York Magazine The president’s failure to demand a reckoning from the moneyed interests who brought the economy down has cursed his first term, and could prevent a second (banker-boy won't get any money from the bankers, multiple sell-outs for nothing; no moral center; Rich goes long-form)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks Supreme Court Retirement Plans (Obama will have to appoint far-right Republican)
112th Congress is one of the least productive in years - chicagotribune.com Fervent partisanship and the standoff over the debt limit are partly to blame for lack of action in the Senate and House (despite a Republican president)
Republicans Open to 'Raising Revenue' - The Daily Beast Republicans said they may be open to new revenue-raising measures in an effort to end the ongoing clash over the national debt
Why a budget deal didn't get done | Minnesota Public Radio News Republicans were willing to increase the overall size of the two-year budget, but only if they could borrow against future tobacco payments and delay more payments to schools .. "When they finally came to the governor with an offer on revenue, they came with a proposal that proposed to borrow $750 million to solve the problem -- contingent upon sweeping policy reforms. A radical social agenda,"
Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky (drip, drip)
Sarah Palin Documentaries, Whether Pro or Con, Face a Tough Future -- Vulture
Vicky Hartzler's Gay Marriage Stance Questioned By Student (VIDEO) Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) likened allowing gay marriage to legalizing polygamy, incest and letting a 3-year-old get a driver's license (good Christian hate-filled idiot)

Cash Is Not the Problem - NYTimes.com lack of cash at major corporations, both financial and nonfinancial, is not the problem with our economy. And showering more cash on these players will do nothing except, well, shower cash on these players.

Environment Could Play Key Role In Autism Development: Studies more of an environmental component at play than previously thought - a twofold increased risk of ASD associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) when mothers took the drugs in the year before giving birth.
Hacking DNA: Scientists Generate New Organisms Not Found in Nature
Evidence increasingly against phone cancer risk | Reuters

YouTube - ?Insight Into Practicing Meditation with Sam Harris
Ask Sam « Why Evolution Is True Why should atheists take seriously the “transcendent” experiences reported by the faithful and others?
The Blog : What’s the Point of Transcendence? : Sam Harris
Review - The Psychophysiology of Self-Awareness - Psychology - The central tenet is that embodied self-awareness, that is, neuro-physiological processes that allow us to become aware, sense, attend or recognize bodily processes and states, is fundamental for biological regulation and adequate adaptation to the social and natural environment.
Headspace : Meditation and Mindfulness. Meditate, be mindful. Learn How To Meditate with Headspace.
YouTube - My Vipassana experience
YouTube - Vipassana Meditation Short Intro

Always name names! : Pharyngula (Richard Dawkins being a clueless dick)
Blag Hag: Richard Dawkins, your privilege is showing
Oh, no, not again…once more unto the breach : Pharyngula (PJ Myers FTW)
Will young men ever grow up? They're often called lost boys, the many young men who keep postponing adulthood. As Donna Nebenzahl writes, social scientists are trying to figure out why their numbers keep growing
'Billions worth' of treasure found in temple

Ann Coulter Calls Princess Diana 'Anorexic, Bulimic Narcissist' (no comment))

YouTube - Laura Nyro - Save the Country
YouTube - Kilian Martin: A Skate Escalation
YouTube - Dove Ruins Cat Nap_(360p).flv

DailyLit: Read books online by daily email and RSS feed

China Wants to Buy Facebook - Gordon G. Chang - New Asia - Forbes Business Insider reported that China is trying to buy “a huge chunk” of Facebook.
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 1 | PCWorld Business Center
GeekDesk Adjustable Height Desks - Products
Hackers Target Apple In Latest Security Attack
Fox News Politics Twitter Account Hacked, Disturbing Tweets Appear

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YouTube - ?Julian Assange and Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek -- Live From London July 2 - moderated by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange and renowned Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek explore the transparency-advocacy site's three major leaks: the Iraq War Logs, the Guantánamo Bay files and Cablegate (disclosures: 1) BoA is blackmailing him not to release their dirty laundry; 2) Ellsberg told him that the NYT withheld the Pentagon Papers for a month before he released them to other media - paper of record of of lies)

Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data | ZDNet (Obama extends his spy-net everywhere but China)
Microsoft: 'We can hand over Office 365 data without your permission' | ZDNet (you should see what they built into their operating systems)
Despite controversy, federal, state wiretaps on the rise Cell phones leading device to get Federal wiretap attention while California, New York, and New Jersey have most wiretaps

One Revelation After Another Undercut Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Credibility - NYTimes.com the call had been recorded and had it translated from a “unique dialect of Fulani,” a language from the woman’s native country, Guinea
Indignation, Anger and Confusion in France Over Strauss-Kahn Case - NYTimes.com
The Roots of Radicalism: Terrorists Proselytize and Plot in Indonesia's Prisons - Global Spin - TIME.com
AFP: Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal's decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked (Obama committed to an approach that doesn't work)

Grover Norquist's Anti-Tax Pledge Looms Large In Spending Showdown (Obama took the pledge to drown himself in his bathtub)
How Grover Norquist hypnotized the GOP - The Washington Post
Is Rand Paul as dumb as he sounds? - War Room - Salon.com (actually, dumber)
John Cornyn: Invoking The 14th Amendment On The Debt Limit Is 'Crazy Talk' (Obama never plays hardball, except on drugs, immigrants, whistleblowers and the jobless)
John McCain Claims Americans Prefer Government Default Over Tax Increases | Firedoglake ("American people" = "teaparty)
Fixing the Deficit By Doing Nothing | Mother Jones (anything except taxing the rich will make it worse)
What if You Held a Class War and No One Showed Up? | Mother Jones (the dreamscape of media/politics where the Republicans didn't destroy everything)
Politicians Lag U.S. Voters on Same-Sex Marriage: Albert Hunt - Bloomberg (you know who else is lagging?)
Calif. GOP claims win in holding out against taxes - the best of both worlds — cuts to government programs without having responsibility for them. (not one Rethug)
Jerry Brown is working without a net - latimes.com As the governor takes his tax message to voters, he will need an unusual coalition of business leaders and Democrats.
Thaddeus McCotter 2012 Presidential Campaign Launches With Michigan Announcement (who? scraping the bottom of the barrel)
Sweeney has strong words for Christie | NJ.com “You know who he reminds me of?” Sweeney says. “Mr. Potter from ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ the mean old bastard who screws everybody ... He’s just a rotten bastard to do what he did ... .He’s a rotten prick.” (Dems triangulate, get screwed, muhahah)
beck-infographic-02.jpg (glenn beck on fox timeline)

Executive Pay at Big Companies Rose 23% Last Year - NYTimes.com (Obama gives huge raises to corpAmerica)
Blogs - Fayobserver.com - American Greed: U.S. Income Gap Worse Than Egypt The income inequality gap in the United States now exceeds that of Egypt, which you’ll recall, just had a revolution (send Obama into exile)

Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds - NYTimes.com (his phone really was tapped; ECT got rid of his creativity but not the FBI)


Statistics | RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network
UKE - Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie - Metacognitive Training Metakognitive Therapy for Psychosis Schizophrenie Psychose Metacognition emotional training CBT for psychosis CBT for schizophrenia kognitive Verhaltenstherapie für Schizophrenie Metacognitive Therapy for Depression theory of mind
A World Without English Majors? Why Colleges Should Tell Students About Job Prospects Before They Commit - Education - GOOD

MIND F**K [GIF] - Digg
YouTube - ?Gameleste - the making of??
YouTube - ?Björk - Crystalline (Full New 2011) + Lyrics??
YouTube - ?BLACK SWAN Featurette: Visual Effects Reel??
BLACK SWAN Is Full Of CGI | Badass Digest
YouTube - ?La Jetée (English subtitles) [part 1/2] (Chris Marker, 1962)??
YouTube - ?The Secret of their Eyes - VFX Breakdown Huracan (Part1)??
YouTube - ?The Dark Knight: Truck Flip??

Upstate NY motorcyclist dies after hitting head on pavement during protest against helmet laws - The Washington Post
YouTube - ?How the KKK got beat by 1 black guy??

Online Dating: Sex, Love, and Loneliness : The New Yorker Sex, love, and loneliness on the Internet.

Texting Teens: Typing Replaces Talking [infographic]
Top 10 Awesome Things You Can Do With Text
Replace Text :: ecobyte :: software with a cause
Text Mining Tool - free converter of PDF, DOC, CHM, RTF, HTML files to text


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Barack Herbert Hoover Obama - NYTimes.com Yep, the false government-family equivalence, the myth of expansionary austerity, and the confidence fairy, all in just two sentences.
The Debt Limit Deal Is a Gift for Republicans | FDL News Desk The entire concept of trading an increase in the debt limit, a routine bill that usually passes with grumbling but little else, for a transformation of government, is Grover Norquist’s most long-hoped dream realized (your Pres at work, bargaining away your future)

European Finance Ministers Agree to Lend Greece Billions - NYTimes.com (they mean billions to big European banks, but they can't say that)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Out On Bail: Accuser's Lies Jeopardize DSK Case, Experts Say
2011-07-01 Wikileaks and Datacell to sue Visa & MasterCard for 'US influenced financial blockade' | WL Central
Revealed: British government's plan to play down Fukushima | Environment | The Guardian Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan - The government last week confirmed plans for eight new nuclear stations in England and Wales (always PR)
Palliative care: 100k terminally-ill patients denied proper end-of-life treatment | Mail Online Some terminal patients receive 30 times more funding than others

Google's Transparency Report 2011 Reveals Which Countries Request Most Information About Users (USA! USA! We're Number 1!)

Medical Marijuana Memo: DOJ Cracks Down On Pot Shops (Obama evolving backwards)
EFF Denounces Flawed E-Verify Proposal that Would Trample on Worker Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation a single, government-controlled database of highly sensitive, detailed information about every legal worker in the United States (Obama's war on immigrants expands to all workers)
Ailes, Nixon and the Plan for 'Putting the GOP on TV News' | Rolling Stone Politics | RS Politics Daily | Rolling Stone Writers and Editors on Political News
Minnesota Shutdown 2011: Budget Dispute Takes Toll On State Workers, Local Residents (Republicans at work destroying the country over deficits they created)
Minnesota Government Shutdown Begins, No End In Sight

Kansas Abortion Law Blocked By Federal Judge (Repubican war on women)
Daily Kos: The Supreme Court term in review (Republicans destoying Democracy)

U.S. Recovery's 2-Year Anniversary Arrives With Little To Celebrate (Obama's Great Recovery)
Berkshire's Charles Munger: Housing Bubble Caused By 'Megalomania, Insanity, And Evil' (doesn't mention Repubicans, Greenspan "smart man," blames Greek citizien for bankers' mess)
With Legislative Victories, Christie Maintains His Momentum - NYTimes.com (machine Denms collude)
Florida's debated welfare drug-screen measure kicks in - CNN.com (poor=criminal)

Dump Michele Bachmann: Dancing With Marcus and Michele Bachmann (Bachman's skeleton in her closet: her husband)

The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism: On the Matter of Empathy It’s an oft-repeated and erroneous stereotype that autistic people lack empathy.

Derek Powazek - How to Turn a Fan into an Enemy in Under 140 Characters (NPR, old media +Bob Garfield is comes across as arrogant, condescending which is what he was accused of; bobosphere! WNYC's GM makes $.5mil/yr)
Mascot fail: Amarillo’s stiff Sock sent back to wash - Big League Stew - MLB Blog - Yahoo! Sports
The magic button — Make Everything OK
U B U W E B - Film & Video: Joseph Cornell - Cotillion / The Midnight Party (made with Larry Jordan) (c. 1938)

Real Men Get Their Facts Straight - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice "It's between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today," Ashton Kutcher told CNN's Piers Morgan on April 18. That, says Kutcher, is how many kids are lost to prostitution in America every single year (NYT breathlessly agree!) - Law enforcement records show that there were only 8,263 arrests across America for child prostitution during the most recent decade. That's 827 arrests per year.
MediaPost Publications Village Voice Sued For Aiding And Abetting Sex Trafficking 09/21/2010
Live: Mayor McGinn and SPD on Seattle Weekly's Parent Company's Problem With Child Prostitution | Slog

Ever Wanted To Go Topless In Public? We Did. (NSFW) | TheGloss
YouTube - ?Cyberbully promo #2 - Premieres July 17 - New ABC Family Movie. HQ?? (white girl problems)
YouTube - ?Lampiony Poznan 21 czerwca 2011 Noc Kupaly??
this is not the six word novel: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops #6
Size does matter: study - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Female orgasms rely on penis size and mental focus, but not the duration of foreplay, according to a new study.
Tagata Jinja Hounen Matsuri - Japanese fertility festival

Google's Latest Social Network: Google Plus [PICS]
Google+ 1.0 - Jesse Thomas - JESS3 - Forbes

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Aisha Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi's Daughter: Libya Government In Talks With Rebels
WikiLeaks Spoofs Classic MasterCard Commercial (video)
Rafik Hariri Assassination Arrest Warrants Issued By U.N. Court
Congo Rapes: At Least 121 Women Assaulted By Troops Last Month, Says U.N.
Irish Boat Abandons Gaza Flotilla, Citing Israeli 'Sabatoge' An Irish ship on Thursday dropped out of the pro-Palestinian flotilla planning to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, citing sabotage, and a U.S. ship declared it may set sail from a Greek port for Gaza without permission, activists said (Israel does not respect international law)

Europe’s Bank Plays Make-Believe With Greece - NYTimes.com As negotiations proceeded in Europe this spring over Greek Bailout II, Mr. Trichet laid down a line in the sand: Nothing must be done to force banks to take losses on the bad loans they have made to Greece (fuckers)
Europe’s Bank Plays Make-Believe With Greece - NYTimes.com
Calculated Risk: Greece: Next Tranche of Aid expected to be approved tomorrow
Elaborate ruse behind vast Kabul Bank fraud - The Washington Post
Observations: France Becomes First Country to Ban Extraction of Natural Gas by Fracking

Strauss-Kahn Prosecution Said to Be Near Collapse - NYTimes.com a number of individuals who made multiple cash deposits, totaling around $100,000, into the woman’s bank account over the last two years
Strauss-Kahn case is 'close to collapse', say reports | World news | guardian.co.uk The case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in doubt following reports of major holes in the credibility of the woman who alleges the former head of the IMF attacked her in May
Letter From District Attorney to Defense in Strauss-Kahn Case - Document - NYTimes.com
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Release Agreed To By Prosecutors - without bail
Pam Martens Dershowitz Promotes Settlement for DSK, as Hotel Housekeeper Lawyers Up
Chief of Sex Crimes Unit Leaving Manhattan District Attorney’s Office - NYTimes.com Lisa Friel, the chief of the Manhattan district attorney’s sex crimes unit for nearly a decade, is leaving that post, according to a memorandum circulated in the office on Wednesday.
BBC News - Dominique Strauss-Kahn: 'Doubts' on maid's credibility
Dominique Strauss-Kahn bail hearing - Telegraph Live coverage as Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released without bail following revelations this morning that undermine the Manhattan maid's credibility
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: who said what and when about the maid's allegations - Telegraph
News Desk: D.S.K. and American Justice : The New Yorker
There Are No Perfect Accusers. — Feministe
YouTube - ?Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Kenneth Thompson Press Conference (full)??
Defense in Strauss-Kahn Case Means Recusal for Prosecutor - NYTimes.com (wheels of power?)

Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine (Obama still a hard-core drugz warrior, in fact, loves his wars in general)

During Bush Presidency, Current GOP Leaders Voted 19 Times To Increase Debt Limit By $4 Trillion | ThinkProgress (that was then, and Obama doesn't want to look backwards)
Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox News - according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the "prejudices of network news" and deliver "pro-administration" stories to heartland television viewers ... rom the papers of Nixon chief of staff and felon H.R. Haldeman and Bush chief of staff John Sununu (the Boston Globe's favorite op-ed) (that worked rather well)
Fareed Zakaria: What Does A 'Post-American World' Look Like? : NPR Fareed Zakaria

No Deportation for Immigrant in Same-Sex Marriage - NYTimes.com (Obama slowly evolving)
An unholy marriage of snobbery and snideyness | Frank Furedi | spiked The cultural elite’s support for gay marriage is more about distinguishing themselves from homophobic plebs than fighting for equal rights

Minnesota Shutdown 2011: State Government Shuts Down - The Democratic governor and state GOP lawmakers had been engaged in contentious talks to close the state's $5 billion budget gap -- much of it left behind by GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty (teahadists waging war on America)
MinnPost - Gov. Mark Dayton's shutdown announcement (good but doesn't mention T-Paw creating the "deficit")
Minnesota budget deficit one of the worst | Capitol Chatter
E-Mails Show WI Justices' Debate After 'Chokehold' -- Meet With Police Vs. Photo Session | TPMMuckraker
Maria Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger Divorcing: Shriver Files For Divorce From Former California Governor (Republican governors have so successful)
Everything's Obama's fault - Digg

Unemployment: No Extended Benefits For People Laid Off From Now On
In U.S. Monetary Policy, a Boon to Banks - NYTimes.com

Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain in Women and Men — NEJM

Americans Refuse to Buy Anything 'Eco-Friendly' Have fun with your refills, Europe. Here in the USA we squirt a bottle of Windex once, then blow up the Windex factory. That factory is used. We don't do used. We do new. America, motherfuckers
Copyright or Wrong? — TCG Circle - mashup of Little Shop of Horrors closed down by rightsfacists (strangling creativity - "I don’t believe I have ever had an original idea.")

Worn-out words | Books | guardian.co.uk he expressions that have become such cliches that they have lost all meaning. Here are their responses: please add your own
Mother-In-Law Email: Carolyn Bourne's Stern Etiquette Message To Heidi Withers Goes Viral | UK News | Sky News
LiveLeak.com - You got to see this: Salvia Freak Out!!!
Measuring Up: How Our Culture's Obsession With Porn-Sized Penises Hurts Men | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet


Maybe The Internet's Not The Most Addictive And Depressing Thing Ever | Motherboard (take the test yourself)

Dooce's Bangladesh trip leads to a Twitter fight | The Cricket | The Salt Lake Tribune
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Greek parliament passes bill enabling new package of austerity measures | Business | guardian.co.uk Narrow vote grants government authority to make cuts and tax rises approved in principle on Wednesday
UK Police Stop & Search Striking Citizens to Prevent Possible 'Hooliganism' | MyFDL

Energy: the new thirty years' war | Michael Klare for TomDispatch | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk We are heading for a global succeed-or-perish contest among the energy big hitters – but who will be the winners and losers?

Holder Hires Prosecutor to Look Into Alleged CIA Interrogation Abuses - Attorney General Parts With White House In Approving Preliminary Investigation (Obama into the full-blown coverup; Holder worried about being implicated in war-crimes)
Eric Holder Announces Full DOJ Investigation Into Deaths Of Two Individuals In CIA Custody | TPMMuckraker Holder made clear when he first announced the decision to open a preliminary investigation and in his latest statement that the Justice Department "would not prosecute anyone who acted in good faith and within the scope of the legal guidance given by the Office of Legal Counsel regarding the interrogation of detainees." (that would be Alberto Gonzales and Torture Yoo)
Statement of the Attorney General Regarding Investigation into the Interrogation of Certain Detainees
Woman Gang-Raped by 7 Halliburton Employees "Signed Away" Her Right to Sue? How Justice Has Become the Privilege of Corporations | | AlterNet
Congress vs. the president on war powers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Would this be an example of a President misleading the nation into an (illegal) war? Or did the goal of the war radically change oh-so-unexpectedly a mere few weeks after it began? Everyone can make up their own mind about which is more likely (another liar-in-chief)

NBC News: Hacker attack cripples al-Qaida on Web - US news - Security - msnbc.com Digital assault is similar to one last year linked to UK government
Phone hacking: NI asks legal firm to draw up code of practice | Media | guardian.co.uk News International chief Rebekah Brooks hopes move will prevent repeat of News of the World hacking affair (because they couldn't tell right from wrong)
Emergency law to overturn court ruling on police bail | UK news | The Guardian The ruling means that forces are only allowed to hold suspects for up to 96 hours continuously before they have to either charge or release them. Any time spent out on bail must now be counted towards the 96 hours (well, that was certainly a great system)

Google+ 'blocked in China' | Technology | guardian.co.uk Great Firewall of China website shows users are unable to access any location within google.com
How U.S. Budget Cuts Prolong Global Slavery - time (Republicans love slavery)

Confrontational Obama rebukes GOP on debt talks - Yahoo! News
Obama Open To Economic Stimulus As Part Of Debt Reduction Deal (yes, that makes no sense, but typical Obama dervishing)
'Slash And Burn': Chuck Schumer Accuses Republicans Of Sabotaging The Economy To Hurt Obama (oooh, way too partisan, "dangerous" politics from pussy-Dems)
Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue As Financial Crisis Looms (LATEST UPDATES) In addition to major spending cuts, the House GOP also has pushed for major changes to Medicare -- including those laid out in Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) 2012 budget proposal -- to be as part of a final debt ceiling deal.
Daily Kos: Lieberman/Coburn Medicare plan gets 'Very Serious Person' approval, panned by Dems (more "shared sacrifice")
Elizabeth Warren Appointment Dangles As Democrats Duck Recess Fight With Republicans (Obama never wanted her anyway)
Mark Halperin suspended For Obama 'D*ck' Comment (just so you know where WaPo/politico/drudgico stands)
No. 2: Mark Halperin - War Room - Salon.com The Drudge-loving political analyst who gets everything wrong
Beck Asks Audience to "Think Of Your Country As Your Daughter," Says Obama "Is Dating Our Country, And He's Abusing It" | Media Matters for America (meanwhile, in the racist insanosphere)
Birthers Sue Esquire Over Satirical Article (made them look like idiots and hurt their fee-fees)
Texas TSA Bill Targeting Airport Pat-Downs Dies - The Texas legislature only meets every two years (so much to do) (oooh, TSA messed with Texas)

How to Get the U.S. Recovery Back on Track - WSJ.com Although unemployment is at 9.1% and forecast to remain above 8% through next year, the Fed says it won't do more to help the economy (of course, it didn't have anything to do with the policies the WSJ have been pushing)
Shuler: End DUIs with in-car technology | BlueRidgeNow.com (breathalyzer before you can start you own car; that will really work; Shuler is a total idiot)
Philly Orchestra's legal fees mount in bankruptcy case | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/30/2011 the orchestra's bankruptcy ultimately will cost it $10 million in professional fees (all this to break the musicians' pension - Galtian overlords ruining a civic institution)

Breast cancer: New York charity sued - latimes.com
Science shows that crows are the biker gangs of the sky
Infancy of Universe Seen in Brightest Quasar Yet | Wired Science | Wired.com

Chris Hansen Caught Cheating On Wife By Hidden Camera: 'To Catch A Predator' Host Nailed: Report The National Enquirer is reporting that they've caught the "To Catch A Predator" host cheating on his wife with Kristyn Caddell, a Florida NBC affiliate news reporter twenty one years his junior, with a hidden camera. Hansen is married with two children and lives in Connecticut (they caught a predator)

Is it time to counter religious bullying? | Psychology Today
Dan Savage on the Virtues of Infidelity - NYTimes.com

Extreme Weather Events Map (1995-2011) | Pew Center on Global Climate Change
NCDC: * National Climatic Data Center * NOAA's 1981-2010 Climate Normals

Splitscreen: A Love Story on Vimeo
YouTube - ?Led Zeppelin - We're gonna groove (1970)??

Exclusive: Myspace to Be Sold to Specific Media for $35 Million - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD (Murfuck bought it for $580 million)
“Trolling the Stream” (Be Jailed for Streaming?) by UltraDavid « Shoryuken
The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle - Technology - GOOD
The Proteus Effect: How Our Avatar Changes Online Behavior | World of Psychology
Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him
Doing the math on News Corp.'s disastrous MySpace years

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Police search Kabul hotel after Taliban attack kills 9 | Reuters Afghan police sifted through one of Kabul's landmark hotels room by room on Wednesday for any more casualties, securing the building after an overnight assault by Taliban suicide bombers killed eight Afghan civilians and police and a foreigner (war-boys endless war)
Russia cuts off power to Belarus - usatoday.com Russia cut electricity to Belarus over unpaid bills on Wednesday, raising the pressure on its neighbor's faltering economy.
Israel passes draft law requiring Palestinians to pay for their own home demolitions - International Middle East Media Center (always in your face)
Bin Laden's Victory - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast

Iceland Shows Default Doesn’t Lead to a Deep Freeze - Yahoo! Finance (despite the dire warnings of the IMF and the NYT; hello Greece?)
TEPCO: Will Someone Turn Off the Lights? - Global - The Atlantic Wire
Austerity engulfs the high street | Business | The Guardian Thorntons joins growing list of casualties in a week of retail misery that could cost 10,000 jobs (how's that Conservative austerity thing working out for you?)
BBC News - Right to self-defence in homes to be 'much clearer'
Busted! Johann Hari is guilty of shoddy journalism – Telegraph Blogs

Anonymous Declares War on Orlando - Truthdig The city of Orlando, Fla., home to amusement parks, fancy houses and an underachieving basketball team, has been arresting people for feeding the homeless without a permit (you need a permit to feed a starving person)

How you know the negotiations have truly failed - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post the two parties are really doing is trying to position themselves politically to survive the consequences of their failure
Percentage of program beneficiaries who report that they "Have not used a Government program" (my entitlement is not an entitlement +Americans are idiots)
The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - 20,000 Leagues Under the State Beneath the surface of American government lurks a system of social programs for the wealthy that is consuming the federal budget. It’s time for progressives to do battle with tax expenditures (Obama not on board)

Obama Dodges On Personal View Of Gay Marriage: 'Not Going To Make News On That Today' | TPMDC (hasn't "evolved" that much)
Bush-Appointed Former Scalia Clerk Upholds Constitutionality Of Health Care Law On Appeal | TPMDC
The Jews Aren't Going Anywhere For what must be the hundredth time, the Politico warns that Jews are getting ready to abandon Barack Obama:
Republicans Find A Tax Cut They Don't Like -- One That Helps Obama | TPMDC
Report: Wis. Justice Bradley Told Justice Prosser To Seek Anger Management | TPMMuckraker (how about Thorazine?)
Alleged Wisconsin Supreme Court 'Chokehold' Incident Could Be Decided By...Wisconsin Supreme Court | TPMMuckraker
Ron Johnson Pledges To Bring The Senate To A Halt Over Debt Negotiations (wisconsin: the new Georgia)
Ethics Group Says Richardson Made Staffers Cross Line Into Political Work | TPMMuckraker "While the House Ethics Committee is already investigating - for all the good that ever does - the FBI should step in and conduct its own inquiry.
Taking Action Matters | ThinkProgress things like the huge “letter gap” over the Waxman-Markey energy reform bill had a huge psychological impact on the Hill (the negatives count more than the positives)
Christie Loses Support for Second Term - Bloomberg Teachers, whose union Christie has targeted on tenure, pay and benefits, received a far higher favorable rating, 76 percent, than the first-term Republican. His favorable rating was 43 percent (but the serious pundits think he would be a good President)
Poll: Perry Trails Obama In Texas | TPMDC
The History-Challenged 2012 Presidential Race - Anna Van Hollen, Kate Stonehill & Hana Rouse - Politics - The Atlantic
Conan O'Brien Presents: The Michele Bachmann History Channel | TPM LiveWire
Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics
Anthony Weiner To Undergo ‘Intensive’ Rehab To Try And Save Marriage | Radar Online

Obama needs to create jobs, not fight for them - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post ("fight" = "beg" the Republicans)
Absurd: Corporate-Backed Group Wants to Ensure That We Can't Compare CEO and Worker Pay | AlterNet The companies and their Republican allies in Congress call comparisons between the chief and everyone else in the company “useless.”
Housing and Finance: Bank of America Near $8.5 Billion Settlement Over Mortgages - CNBC to a group of private investors (home-owners not important)

Experts warn epic weather ravaging US could worsen | The Raw Story

The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox | Rolling Stone Culture

YouTube - "John Pistole Head Of TSA Needs To Be Fired & We Need To Get A HUMAN BEING To Do His Job!"
TSA 'ignored warnings' on cancer cluster | TG Daily
San Francisco: The city's latest silly notion is to ban sales of pets - latimes.com San Francisco adds to its nutty ideas a proposal to ban all sales of all pets.

The Front | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

America's Next Great Civil Rights Struggle | The New Republic What will it take for America to accept transgender people for who they really are?
Love Your Vagina - what do you call yours?
Everybody Calm Down: Nobody Wants to Have Sex With Your Fiancé Anyway | The Hairpin

Punctuation - University of Oxford As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.
Bible Algorithm Gives Hints To Who Wrote The Book - In other words, there's no reason why God could not write a book in different voices.

Sen. Toomey: Privacy Rules Might 'Break The Internet' | TPM Idea Lab (or at least the part that serves you ads)
Gannett Cyberattack Targets U.S. Soldiers Hackers broke into a Gannett Co database containing personal information about subscribers to publications read by U.S. government officials, military leaders and rank-and-file soldiers, the media company said on Tuesday (actually they "targeted" a newscorp with crappy security)
iOnApple: Apple begins offering refunds for unhappy Final Cut Pro X customers Highlighting the sheer volume of negative responses to FCP X, Apple recently began offering refunds to dissatisfied customers
Half of US twenty-somethings have no landline

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Greenwald & Ellsberg Virtually Speaking w/Jay Ackroyd 06/23 by Jay Ackroyd | Blog Talk Radio
Constitution Day Materials, US Constitution, Pocket Constitution Book, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights

New Report on Detainee Abuses | MyFDL “medical requests are ignored, detainee grievances are scoffed at, and immigrants are held in violation of their due-process rights for inhumane amounts of time.” (Obama really tough on "the worst of the worst")

Hackers are being radicalised by government policy | Loz Kaye | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk LulzSec is not an isolated phenomenon – official efforts to control the internet are increasing online radicalisation
Ryan Giggs super-injunction leaks drive over-50s to Twitter - Telegraph Twitter’s UK audience jumped by a third in May 2011 following the super-injunction leaks about Ryan Giggs, which drove a huge number of female pensioners to the site, according to new data.
BBC News - Google chairman warns of censorship after Arab Spring

Did Netanyahu's office distribute a fake video against Gaza flotilla? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News YouTube video features man who claims he is a gay and human rights activist who was denied joining Gaza flotilla because his group does not serve interest of organizers.
The Associated Press: Gaza activists say ship sabotaged in Greece (guess who?)
France to invest one billion euros in nuclear power - Telegraph while boosting research into security, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday.

SCOTUS Upholds ‘Violence OK’/’Porn Not OK’ Free Speech Rule For Kids (Republicans hate sex, love violence)
If baby boomers stay in suburbia, analysts predict cultural shift - The Washington Post (gonna be a lot of Personal Mobility Scooters)

61% Of Voters Blame Republicans Not Obama For The Recession (and 39% watch Fox)
Michele Bachmann Says John Quincy Adams Was 'One Of Our Founding Fathers,' Flubs Slavery Remarks (video) (don't know history ...)
Bachmann Compares Self to Gay Rapist Clown Serial Killer
fact check: Bachmann bomblets raising eyebrows - Yahoo! News (stupid or insane? you decide)
Allegations surface that Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to privatize camping in state parks | The Washington Independent
Under the radar attack on state parks - St. Petersburg Times (Lex Luthor privatising state parks by giving them to RV companies)
Inside Rick Santorum-Linked Universal Health Services Facility: Herpes, Porn and Drug Dealing

Fed’s Hoenig: If Government Has to Give Subsidies, Should Go to Factories Not Banks - Real Time Economics - WSJ he’s not sure subsidies are needed but if they are going to exist, “I would rather subsidize the manufacturing sector (contradicts banker-boy)
Obama and Wall Street: Still BFFs | Firedoglake
Wonkbook: The debt-ceiling deal so far - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
White House challenges GOP in deficit talks - usatoday.com ("challenge" = rolls over
Goldman Sachs Is Firing Employees In The US So It Can Hire 1,000 In Singapore (thanks for the bailout suckas)

Plankton species -- extinct for 8,000 years -- reappears | MNN - Mother Nature Network The return of a long-extinct alga to the North Atlantic may be a harbinger of other major shifts in marine environments brought on by climate change, according to European work.
Canada wins battle to keep asbestos off hazardous list - Montreal - CBC News - Canada won the fight, for at least another two years, to keep asbestos off an international list of hazardous chemicals as discussions wrapped up in Geneva on Friday (bigcorps will add it to childens cereal)

This Will Go Over Well, We’re Sure: Michael Bay Writes To Theater Projectionists > The Playlist
YouTube - Savant learns how to speak Icelandic in a week
Print - The Loading Dock Manifesto - Esquire Notes from one of the best writers in Cleveland on how he makes a living (the future of jobs in America)
The Hardest Cases: When Children Die, Justice Can Be Elusive - ProPublica (prosecutors and corrupt medical system putting innocent parents behind bars - see Martha Coakley)

Epic Discovery: Research on Radiation Inside Stars and Black Holes Triggers Breakthrough on Cancer Imaging
Colorado Cuts Costs By Banning Medicaid Coverage of Circumcisions
Can reusable grocery bags make you sick, or is that just baloney? The American Chemistry Council is the trade group that advocates on behalf of plastic-bag manufacturers. Now why would the folks who make plastic grocery bags want to cast doubts on the safety of reusable grocery bags? Oh, right.

Watch the Movie | What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire
YouTube - There's Only One Sun [Wong Kar-Wai]

Reykjavik Center Map (hand-drawn, interactive)
BBC - Domesday Reloaded: Explore, compare, update and share the Domesday Reloaded archive - snapshot of everyday life across the UK for future generations. A million volunteers took part…
The History Blog - Library of Congress gets unique flat earth map
Vatican to launch new multimedia portal - Site offers one-stop shop for Vatican news

Scott Adams takes on Salon - Scott Adams - Salon.com When we criticized a blog post, he challenged us to an email exchange. Here's how it ended (Scott "sockpuppet" Adams; dude is really insecure; "boys are designed to be rapists"; project much?)
Is Rape Natural? (+Scott Adam being his usual asshole self)
All Mixed Up: Linda Wells Would Be Horrified
Fake Japanese Pop Star Surprises Fans - ABC News
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily If I cared about the uninformed opinions of some ditsy beauty queen, I'd join the Tea Party." –Bill Maher
Lisa Bloom: How to Talk to Little Girls ABC news reported that nearly half of all three- to six-year-old girls worry about being fat.

Where Danger Lives: The Professor is dead. Long live Netflix!
Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part
Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy - NYTimes.com
Judge: Apple's "App Store" Suit Against Amazon Will Probably Fail - The Consumerist

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/ BBC News - Libya: Muammar Gaddafi subject to ICC arrest warrant (that'll work)
Twitter / @jstrevino: Dear IDF: (Josh Trevino, ReThug advocate for civility from Dems, wants IDF to shoot Americans)
James Risen’s Community of Interest | Emptywheel So to sum up, Risen asserts his phone records were collected around 2006 in retaliation for the warrantless wiretap story. And he says he first learned that definitively when he learned warrantless wiretap grand jury witnesses had been shown his phone records (Obama is worse than Bush)

Mandatory Evacuations Ordered in Los Alamos - The Santa Fe New Mexican
InciWeb the Incident Information System: Las Conchas
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant: Flood Seeps Into Turbine Building At Nebraska Nuke Station (nothing to see here, move along)

Biden's Power Grows As Obama's Foreign Policy Team Shuffles The many disapproving reactions from Democrats and Republicans and the military only further cemented the image of a president hopelessly trying to straddle the middle ground (what a failure)
Political Animal - Putting defense spending on the table One of the many problems with the debt-reduction talks is the narrow scope of what Republicans consider acceptable. They are, or at least claim to be, desperate to cut spending and reduce the deficit in a hurry, but they’re also quick to reject all kinds of credible ideas that would achieve this goal
Money Was The Key Ingredient In New York's Gay Marriage Bill
States That Cut The Most Funding Lost The Most Jobs: Analysis Republican governors have touted spending cuts as both fiscally responsible, and economically prudent. But a new analysis casts doubt on that narrative (yeah, they screwed their states)
Texas votes to defund Planned Parenthood - Sarah Kliff - politico.com

Justices Strike Down Arizona Campaign Finance Law - NYTimes.com (legalizes corruption)
Supreme Court Deals Another Devastating Blow to Campaign Finance Reform | Elections

Even Jim Sensenbrenner Distancing Himself From GOP Medicare Phase-Out | FDL News Desk highlight that key weakness for the GOP headed into 2012 – their vote for the Paul Ryan budget that ends Medicare (Obama will go all "bi" and Dems will take this campaign issue off the table)
In Response To Prosser Choking Allegations, Fox’s Van Susteren Calls On Female Chief Justice To Resign | ThinkProgress (because she attacked his hands with her neck)
Wisconsin: In Prosser Choking Allegation, Both Sides Digging In | FDL News Desk
Haley poised to act on state budget - S.C. Politics - TheState.com ‘Place where presidents are chosen’ may be left with only a caucus (teahadist Gov shoots state in foot)
Why Is The NY Times Helping Andrew Breitbart Lie? | Media Matters for America (it's what they do?)
Michele Bachmann: A Smart, Focused, More Dangerous Palin, Say Minnesota Democrats "She's no Sarah Palin -- she's much more dangerous than Sarah Palin."
Michele Bachmann Quotes & Unforgettable Moments
National Review Compares New York Gay Marriage Legalization to “Tyranny” of North Korea, Jim Crow | Firedoglake
Blagojevich GUILTY: Jury Convicts Rod Blagojevich On 17 Of 20 Counts

A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
The Urge to Purge - NYTimes.com Once again, Very Serious men at an international organization seem determined to find reasons to tighten monetary policy in the face of a continuing deep slump.
Calculated Risk: Texas Manufacturing survey shows slower expansion in June (Obama's big recovery)
Texas Miracle Seen as a Not-Miracle | FDL News Desk
Los Angeles Dodgers file for bankruptcy SportsWatch - MarketWatch Topping the list of creditors, according to the bankruptcy papers, is former outfielder Manny Ramirez, who is still owed $21 million.
Exchange-traded funds: Too much of a good thing | The Economist The risks created by complicating a simple idea

CONELRAD Adjacent: A Short Vision: Ed Sullivan’s Atomic Show Stopper
Metaphor is the new weapon in the 'war' on terror | Technology | The Observer A US intelligence agency is to pump millions of dollars into a project aimed at analysing metaphors in various languages
Having a hot bath dispels loneliness - Telegraph It's well known that a long soak in a hot bath is the perfect antidote to a difficult day.

Diabetes Doubles Worldwide In 30 Years jumping to an estimated 347 million
Elements of Happiness

95-Year-Old Woman Forced to Remove Adult Diaper by TSA Agents - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes
TSA Pats Down Cancer-Stricken 95-Year-Old Woman, Removes Adult Diaper (video) - AOL Travel News patted down a cancer-stricken, 95-year-old woman and forcibly removed her adult diaper during the search
How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD - Media - GOOD
YouTube - Vag Magazine Episode 1: "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy"
Feminist Options in Vag Magazine » Sociological Images

In Transit: From S.F. to L.A. via Public Transportation - SF Weekly
YouTube - Mouseland
Owls with Stupid Expressions on their Faces - a gallery on Flickr

Twitter for Newsrooms – Twitter Media
Hollywood Force ISP To Use Child Abuse Filter Against File-Sharing Site | TorrentFreak
Google starts hiding Wi-Fi device locations after exposé | Electronista

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UNHCR report says refugee numbers at 15-year high | World news | The Guardian UN refugee agency's report reveals majority of forcibly displaced people are in countries that cannot cope with the influx
Did General Petraeus change his position on torture? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post But Petraeus instead pivoted to the TV-ready “ticking time bomb” scenario, and said torture might be justified if you have a “special situation” where an “individual in your hands who you know has placed a nuclear device under the Empire State Building. It goes off in 30 minutes, he has the codes to turn it off.” Then he urged legislators to consider crafting such an exception into the law
Daily Kos: War Powers Resolution is not optional Barack Obama is following an ugly tradition (one of many he's following)
Congress vs. the president on war powers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com "The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops in Libya after Qaddafi falls" (to protect American "interests")
Hamid Karzai: Pakistan Firing Missiles Into Afghanistan
Among The Costs Of War: $20B In Air Conditioning : NPR (time to cut foods stamps)
Treasury urges British banks to take big losses to help Greece avoid meltdown | Business | The Observer Effort to persuade banks to take hit comes despite David Cameron's assurance that UK taxpayers will not foot the bill (bankers never pay for their collosal fuckups)
George Soros: Country Leaving Euro Currency 'Probably Inevitable' did not name any country he thought might exit the currency, but speculation is mounting about the fate of Greece - "Let's face it: we are on the verge of an economic collapse which starts, let's say, in Greece but could easily spread. The financial system remains extremely vulnerable ("verge of economic collapse")
Germany’s season of angst: why a prosperous nation is turning on itself - The Globe and Mail - , given Germany's history, you simply can't identify yourself with the far right,” (wait, we thought Hitler was a libral)
Joe Biden Warns Republicans On Debt Ceiling Talks - the Obama administration wouldn't let middle class Americans "carry the whole burden" to break a deadlock over the national debt limit (courageous, Joe-boy)

LulzSec Hackers Retire? Group Claims It's Finished After 50 Days Of 'Mayhem' Is this really the end of Lulzec?
YouTube - Vancouver riot kissing couple video shows what happened before photo (beaten and kicked by thug cops)

Haiti: Leaked Cables Expose U.S. Suppression of Min. Wage, Election Doubts and Elite's Private Army

Daily Kos: The president and Lilly Ledbetter (Obama throws women, immigrants, black people, gays, whistleblowers and the jobless under the bus)
Doyle McManus: President Obama is popular in Europe, where it doesn't count - latimes.com His fame there doesn't do him much good at home, where voters are no longer in thrall to the uniqueness of the half-Kenyan, half-Kansan politician ("thrall?" the only thrall was Obama's for his Repubican daddies)
Ann Bradley Accuses Fellow Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser Of Choking Her A Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has accused another justice of choking her during an argument in her office earlier this month - Justice David Prosser put her in a chokehold during the dispute - the argument occurred before the Supreme Court's decision earlier this month upholding Republican Gov. Scott Walker's bill eliminating most of public employees' collective bargaining rights. (then lied about it; Republicans at work)
Hullabaloo "The bitch made me do it" - Prosser admitted to using the word "bitch," but said it was justified. "I probably overreacted, but I think it was entirely warranted," he said in March ... masters at deliberately goading people into perhaps incautious statements. This is bullying and abuse of very, very long standing," Prosser claimed
Justices’ feud gets physical - JSOnline - "You can try to spin those facts and try to make it sound like I ran up to him and threw my neck into his hands " (Prosser claims self-defense, of course)
Prosser's History With Fellow Female Justices | Talking Points Memo
Wis. Justice Prosser: No Comment On Report That I Grabbed Female Justice By The Neck | TPMMuckraker (just look at his picture)
Rep. Michele Bachmann: She's had her share of government aid - latimes.com The fiscal conservative from Minnesota and 2012 presidential contender has benefited personally from federal funds and federal farm subsidies.

CHART OF THE DAY: If Congress Does Nothing, The Deficit Will Disappear | TPMDC (but Obama will make some kind of "bargain" with ReCrooks, just like he did already)
Wealth And Inequality In America The poor are getting poorer, wages are falling behind inflation, and social mobility is at an all-time low. If you're in that top 1%, life is grand (Republicans demand more, even when they have it all)
The Surprising Road To Equality | ThinkProgress
White Male Privilege and the Daughter Test - MOMocrats™ Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame (+Ross Douthat) - incredibly privileged white, upper class men, sitting around engaging in fanciful thought experiments about how laws should apply to people who are not them. (are elite white male assholes)

‘RomneyCare’ — a revolution that basically worked - The Boston Globe The former governor’s health plan is a policy piñata among his rivals. But a detailed Globe review finds the overhaul has achieved its main goals without devastating state finances. The remaining worry is future costs.

Political Animal - Is the answer to the ‘sabotage’ question ‘obvious’? Tomasky thinks it’s “obvious” Republicans support “sabotaging the economy.” It is, to be sure, an uncomfortable subject, but maybe it’s time for the political world to have the awkward conversation anyway (the truth is always "awkward" for Republicans and their Dem enablers like Obama)
Do tax cuts ever "pay for themselves"? Rarely. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine Three historical examples of tax cuts paying for themselves, and how they undercut the GOP claim that tax cuts always do that.
The Failure of Rational Choice Philosophy - NYTimes.com (Chicago School of Economics based on delusion, but we knew that already)
Illinois farmers who sold near peak are repurchasing land - Chicago Tribune Reinvestments, surging commodity prices yield tidy sums for dabbling in 'what you know' (the ethanol scam)

Whiskey Fire: Walter Russell Mead is a Fucking Asshole blathers some shit about how everybody should hate Al Gore because even though Gore is right about human-inflicted climate change, he has a big house (+he's fat, so don't listen to him)
Living on Earth: Ocean Extinction Trend - During Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which was about 55 million years ago ... just over two gigatons of carbon was being pumped into the atmosphere per year for several thousand years. Now we are pumping 30 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere per year. So that’s why what’s happening now is so extraordinary - it's simply the rate at which this is occurring - We’re talking about 10 years - 10 to 20 years (most Republicans who destroyed the earth will be alive to see their own destruction)
Supreme Court ruling is good, bad and ugly : Nature News Monday's key US legal decision on emissions regulation was influenced by the unjustified attacks on climate science, says Douglas Kysar - That the nation's highest court would repeat this misleading refrain, and seemingly endorse Dyson's views as equal to those of the IPCC and the EPA, simply takes the breath away.

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports ... measures of self-esteem are poor predictors of how content a person will be, especially if the self-esteem comes from constant accommodation and praise rather than earned accomplishment (o rly)
The Biology of Ethics - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education When it comes to morality, the philosopher Patricia Churchland refuses to stand on principle - the story she tells about morality is, as you'd expect, heavily biological, emphasizing the role of the peptide oxytocin, as well as related neurochemicals (it's all the mommy-chemical - master of oversimplification)
The New Inquiry - Love in the Age of Self-Consciousness (make that "writing")
The decline of marriage: For richer, for smarter | The Economist The traditional family is now the preserve of a minority
An insight into child porn - Wikileaks
Inside 'The Order,' One Mormon Cult's Secret Empire | Rolling Stone Culture America's most twisted crime family – and the boys who dared to defy it
How Jewish is Hollywood? - latimes.com A poll finds more Americans disagree with the statement that 'Jews control Hollywood.' But here's one Jew who doesn't - The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish (the truth is a stereotype)

Six Second ECG Simulator
Why Science Struggles to Correct Its Mistakes - NYTimes.com
Is Shyness an Evolutionary Tactic? - NYTimes.com ("Social Phobia" a construct of bigPharma and accident-prone extroverts)
YouTube - STS-124 Launch w/ Sound
Boston College Student Injured In Chemical Blast suffered minor injuries at a lab when a chemical used in making mustard gas exploded in her hand.

All Azure: The Monochromatic City of Chefchaoen, Morocco | WebUrbanist 0 founded in 1471, was once a refuge of Jews and converted Christians of Muslim heritage ... Israelites are commanded to use this dye to color one of the threads of their prayer shawl.
The Beer Archaeologist | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine By analyzing ancient pottery, Patrick McGovern is resurrecting the libations that fueled civilization
SolarSinter : markus kayser

History Cookbook - Cookit! Do you know what the Vikings ate for dinner?
Atop TV Sets, Cable Boxes and DVRs Drain Power - NYTimes.com some typical home entertainment configurations eating more power than a new refrigerator and even some central air-conditioning systems.

The New Inquiry
TrueReddit: Reddit as it is meant to be
How to Actually Make Text Look Interesting: Minimalist Web Design — Space

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The Maddow Blog - Chart: The Afghanistan drawdown (surge-boy a failure)
Afghanistan Corruption: Study Says Taliban Influence Will Outlast U.S. Military Presence (another defeat for Obombya)
Tea Party Splits On Libya Funding In House Vote Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, was among those who voted no.

Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong - By Leon Aron | Foreign Policy
Q&A: Germany and the Greek debt crisis - CSMonitor.com Albrecht Ritschl of the London School of Economics says Germans should remember their status as postwar debtors when offering advice to Greece, where memories of Nazi atrocities still sting.
‘We are lucky not to have seen a dirty bomb’ | OPEN Magazine One million Iraqi civilians lost their lives. A few more million were maimed. Somebody should be accountable, somebody in intelligence, somebody in the chain of command. How will people have trust in international law if it applies only to the poor and weak—the Milosevics and Kim Jong Ils or whoever—and not to the strong and powerful?

New York Allows Same-Sex Marriage, Becoming Largest State to Pass Law - NYTimes.com
Obama, At LGBT Fundraiser, Gets A Pass For Punting On Same-Sex Marriage But he did not personally endorse the pending New York bill -- which is nearing passage in the statehouse -- or same-sex marriage itself (spokesman said Obama has always supporting something vaguely resembling marriage without the marriage part)
Maddow On Gay Marriage Passage In New York: 'President Obama Is Against What Just Happened' (VIDEO) Maddow also pointedly noted later in her coverage that "President Obama is against what just happened." (you betcha)
Gay Marriage Bill Passes In New York; Governor Cuomo Signs Same Sex Marriage Bill Into Law
Gay Pride In New York City: 1970-1979: Pics, Videos, Links, News
Euphoria Around Stonewall Inn as Marriage Bill Passes - NYTimes.com
xs Justin Alexander Worldwide - Wedding Gowns, Dresses and Evening wear

RealClearPolitics - Another Texas Republican for President? The Republican presidential field looks less like an assemblage of candidates than a collection of fatal mistakes and irreparable flaws, with occasional embodiments of one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Cut, Cap And Balance Pledge: Jim DeMint Warns Republicans Over Debt Ceiling Vote If you vote to raise the debt ceiling without massive spending cuts, you'll be out of a job.
Planned Parenthood Win In Indiana: Judge Blocks Parts Of Tough New Abortion Law Indiana is not allowed to cut off Planned Parenthood's public funding for general health services solely because the organization also provides abortions, a federal judge said Friday in blocking parts of the state's tough new abortion law.
More Media Bias That Wasn't: First Lady's "Help From The Media" Comment Was About Her Kids' Privacy | Media Matters for America it's no surprise that the Drudge Report and Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism both jumped on Michelle Obama's statement during a CNN interview that "we have help from the media" to invent more supposed bias (Drudge has been replaced by the Twitter for newsies)
ARTINFO: Is Clarence Thomas's Humble Georgia Museum a Huge Ethics Issue?

Debt Ceiling Poll Shows Divide On Looming Deficit Crisis They're divided on whether the raised the limit, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that found 41 percent opposed to the idea and 38 percent in favor (they'll change their tune when the IMF sells their SUV)

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - NYTimes.com he Fed keeps expecting a vigorous recovery just around the corner, and it keeps not happening:

Potatoes bad, nuts good for staying slim, Harvard study finds - The Washington Post
The efficacy of duct tape vs cryotherapy in the tr... [Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002] - PubMed result
Serotonin Syndrome
The Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria: simple and... [QJM. 2003] - PubMed result
Serotonin syndrome - Wikipedia
Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Struggle - NYTimes.com (inventor of the cure for BPD - DBT)
Married To The Eiffel Tower | Documentary Heaven (object sex)

Half-Shabbos goes Viral for Real (Updated) | The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
For Many Orthodox Teens, ‘Half Shabbos’ Is A Way Of Life | The Jewish Week
Half Shabbos, Half Truths, Half Solutions
`Half Shabbos' Article Triggers Full Range Of Responses | The Jewish Week
Abercrombie & Fitch Sued Over Headscarf Firing - San Mateo, CA Patch her headscarf, though worn based on a religious mandate, was not in compliance with the company's ‘look policy,’”

YouTube - Seagull stole GoPro
YouTube - Kitty vs Raccoon
YouTube - Piano Extravaganza - Walkürenritt (Ride of the Valkyries) (for eight pianos)

The Gimlet Eye - Auction at Patricia Kluge Estate - NYTimes.com (former porn star)
Two Sentences
Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges | World news | The Guardian Women's rights campaigners see the creeping criminalisation of pregnant women as a new front in the culture wars over abortion

Afghanistan's Amazing DIY Internet | Fast Company FabFi is an ambitious project which is creating Internet networks for eastern Afghanistan whose main components can be built out of trash. It's low-tech, it's simple--and it works.
Should I Change My Password?
Should I Change My Password?
Hacker claims to reveal identity of LulzSec leader
8 Great Experimental Features to Enable in Google Calendar's Labs

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Libya Funding, Authorization Face House Votes In Obama War Powers Fight (the Dems never did this)
Plurality of Americans love Gadaffi - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Hillary Clinton, yesterday, when asked about those questioning the Libya War: But the bottom line is, whose side are you on? Are you on Qadhafi’s side or are you on the side of the aspirations of the Libyan people?

LulzSec leaks Arizona law enforcement papers (Updated with excerpts) - Boing Boing (war heating up)

Minot, North Dakota Flooding: Residents Wait And Worry As Flood Projections Drastically Rise a whopping 6 1/2 feet above the record set more than a century ago (no one in the whole state "believes" in global warming and they hate "big government" except when they need bail-outs)

The UN's world drug report: The cost of coke | The Economist

Medical News: Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Data-Mining - in Washington-Watch (your "privacy" is bigPharma's "free speech")

Richard Engel: Get Out Of Afghanistan, End War On Terror (VIDEO) On Sunday's "Meet The Press," he called the war on terrorism "a war of fear." (and Conservatives are always afraid of everything except tax-cuts)
G.I. Bill Cuts: Veterans Enrolled In College Face Uncertain Futures ("screw the troops")
Lamar Smith: Campaign Finance/Money - Industries - Representative 2010 | OpenSecrets (bribed by Pharma and Alcohol to shut down marijuana)
Eric Cantor, House G.O.P. Leader, Leaves Budget Talks - NYTimes.com (Dems refuse to "negotiate" by giving Rethugs everything they want)
Bombing the Moon | Mother Jones "We've known from the beginning that bombing the moon would be a poison pill to any debt-reduction proposal," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor.
Top Dems Provide Fresh Detail On High-Income Tax Proposal That Led GOP To Abandon Debt Talks | TPMDC Republicans chose to "protect taxpayer subsidies for big oil companies, tax breaks for corporate jets, and tax breaks for millionaires." (they are very serious about reducing the deficit)
Rush Limbaugh Compares Obama To Hitler (AUDIO) "Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, ruled by dictate." (that would be the dictates of the House Repubicans)

Forget economics, politics rules today’s markets Matthew Lynn's London Eye - MarketWatch Commentary: Expect more delay — that’s what politicians do
The Growth Ponzi Scheme, Part 1 - Strong Towns Blog - Suburban development has become equated with the American dream

Low-calorie diet offers hope of cure for type 2 diabetes | Society | The Guardian British study finds two-month extreme diet can cure type 2 diabetes and overturns assumptions about 'lifelong' condition
Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal? [J Abnorm Psychol. 1996] - PubMed result nly the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.
Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say by 1993 the herbicide industry, including Monsanto, knew that visceral anomalies such as dilation of the heart could occur in rabbits at low and medium-sized doses. The report further suggests that since 2002, regulators with the European Commission have known that glyphosate causes developmental malformations in lab animals (but bigcorp overruled the "regulators")
Another asteroid to give Earth a close shave June 27, 2011 (Repubicans defund warning system)
Tiny camera opens up early Mayan tomb in Mexico | World news | The Guardian Footage taken on 5cm camera lowered through pyramid shows painted murals in 1,500-year-old tomb that seems intact
Microcámara revela imágenes de tumba milenaria en Palenque (fotos)
Modular Robotics | Cubelets By combining sensor, logic and actuator blocks, young kids can create simple reconfigurable robots that exhibit surprisingly complex behavior.
D-Dalus - an entirely new genre of aircraft arrives

Rochester police use selective enforcement of parking laws to harass attendees at a meeting in support of Emily Good - Boing Boing (1/2 inch too far from curb; cops harrass citizens)

And that’s why you should learn to pick your battles. — TheBloggess.com
Everything is a Remix Part 3 on Vimeo
Root Hog Or Die The world’s mp3s
YouTube - Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool at P.S.1
Will We Still Have Sex After the Singularity? | Ray Kurzweil | Big Think (look up Ray Kurzweil's nose for 1:43)

quirky learn | index
The New Inquiry - The History of Dialogue: Other People's Papers
Why Would Anyone Collect Nazi? | Collectors Weekly

Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X - NYTimes.com (Apple screws pro video editors worldwide; Pogue totally clueless; why businesses should never depend on Apple products)
Daring Fireball: The Final Cut Pro X Backlash
YouTube - Conan O'Brien Slams Final Cut Pro X
Video post services – officially a dying industry « Digital Cinema Demystified

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Some Greeks Fear Government Is Selling Nation - NYTimes.com ("some" = "most")
Don't Cry For Argentina - NYTimes.com (let France and Germany bail out their bankers)
Mullen: Afghan drawdown 'more aggressive' than he'd proposed | McClatchy (the military loves its forever war)

Minot, North Dakota Flooding: Thousands Of Evacuees Struggle To Find Places To Stay (last year they wanted to drown big government, but that was then, before they started drowning)
Ga’s farm-labor crisis playing out as planned | Jay Bookman After enacting House Bill 87, a law designed to drive illegal immigrants out of Georgia, state officials appear shocked to discover that HB 87 is, well, driving a lot of illegal immigrants out of Georgia (another dumbfuck Republican Gov/State)
Agriculture and immigration policy: A hard row to hoe | The Economist Georgia’s immigration bill will hit farmers where it hurts - the state’s $1.1-billion fruit-and-vegetable industry could suffer a $300m loss (their crops are rotting, muhahaha +Gov wants prisoners to pick the crops, ooooh, back to slavery)
Georgia puts probationers to work harvesting crops  | ajc.com - Republican Gov. Nathan Deal started the experiment after farmers publicly complained they couldn't find enough workers to harvest labor-intensive crops such as cucumbers and berries because Latino workers — including many illegal immigrants — refused to show up (Georgia brings back slavery)
Anti-Slavery Campaign | CIW CIW's Anti-Slavery Campaign is a worker-based approach to eliminating modern-day slavery in the agricultural industry.
News From AP | TBO.com

North Carolina Dem Governor Vetoes GOP Voter-ID Bill | TPMMuckraker "This bill, as written, will unnecessarily and unfairly disenfranchise many eligible and legitimate voters," Perdue wrote in her veto announcement.
Renzi Court Decision Could Have Major Impact On Lawmakers' "Immunity" | TPMDC (oooh, they can't be crooks, unless the Supremes decide it's AOKIYAR)
Obama Heads To New York Under Pressure On Gay Marriage will inevitably spotlight the piece of Obama's record that causes greatest consternation for the gay community: his failure to endorse gay marriage ("marriage is between a rich man and a rich woman")
Right-Wing Media Strain To Portray Obama's Speech As A "Mission Accomplished" Moment | Media Matters for America (masters of false equivalences)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community They are going to blow up the global economy through their intransigence and unreasonableness (they always were the real terrorists)
Top Expert: Disputed McKinsey Health Care Study Akin To Push Poll | TPMDC
AARP’s Years of Support for Social Security Cuts | FDL Action - it was paid $652,000,000 in royalties from insurance companies that sold products referred by AARP. AARP also received an additional $120,000,000 for the ads placed in its publications.
AARP has Been Talking for Months About Being Open to Social Security Cuts | FDL Action
Wisconsin State Assembly Approves Measure Allowing Concealed Weapons In Public (North Texas)
Lawsuit Filed Against Michigan Financial-Manager Measures | TPMDC
Gingrich Had Second Line Of Credit From Tiffany Jewelers | TPMDC between $500,000 and $1 million.
Six Flee GLAAD Board | MyFDL (totally compromised)
Top Harry Reid Staffer Earned $1.2 Million From Comcast After Taking Senate Job | TPMDC
File-Hoster Returns With Guns Blazing After Police Raids | TorrentFreak
Wikipedia awash in 'frothy by-product' of US sexual politics • The Register

Oil prices plunge as U.S., Europe tap strategic reserves | McClatchy
Yet Another New York Times Fail - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
A Strange Time For A Deficit Panic | ThinkProgress - 10-year interest rates were never below 3 percent at any point during the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, or W. Bush administrations. So why is this on the agenda now? (because Obama is strangely unable to talk)

Kansas: The First Abortion-Free State? | Mother Jones (regulated, yes regulated, out of existence)
Right-wingers bash Gore for wanting women to have access to birth control | Grist
New Hampshire - Lawmakers Override Veto of Abortion Consent Bill - NYTimes.com - the 37th state with such a law

Birds' eye view is far more colorful than our own

Whitey Bulger Arrested: Infamous Mob Fugitive Caught In Santa Monica
Dr John Marks talks about the controversial Harm Reduction drug treatment programme in Widnes - Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News America’s Republican administration became aware of the little Widnes clinic, and – Dr Marks alleges – then put pressure on the British Government to close it down for ideological reasons.
Rochester IMC: Police Illegally Trespass and Arrest Woman in Her Front Lawn for Recording Traffic Stop: An Eyewitness Report
YouTube - Police Officer Arrest Woman in Her Front Yard for Filming the Cops - Joseph Cassilly (Republican). Tom Wiseman (Republican).
I-Team 10 update: Rochester woman arrested while videotaping police officers during traffic stop | www.WHEC.com - Emily Good was charged with obstructing governmental administration. Officers say she refused the police officer's order to leave her front yard and go inside (sue the fuckers out of a job and bankrupt the town)
"Police Officers Don't Check Their Civil Rights at the Station House Door" - Reason Magazine Three law enforcement officials defend the arrest of citizens who record on-duty cops
2 cops plead not guilty to sexual assault - chicagotribune.com
Key court case tests right to record the police with a cell phone (Martha "Loser" Coakley wants to criminalize cellphones)
The War on Cameras - Reason Magazine
YouTube - How To Invoke Your Rights With Police Officers While Video Taping
www. Michael Righi .com » Papers Please: Arrested At Circuit City
YouTube - Police Give Me Your Fucking I.D. Before I Beat The Shit Out of You Comrade
The Bravest Woman in Seattle by Eli Sanders - Seattle Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper For herself, for the woman she loved, and for justice, the survivor of the South Park attacks tells a courtroom what happened that night
The Mind of Kalebu by Eli Sanders - Seattle Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
While South Park Slept by Eli Sanders - Seattle Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper A Gruesome Murder, a Beloved Bar, and a Week on the Edge
Woman dies of heart attack caused by shock of waking up at her OWN funeral | Mail Online Started screaming as mourners gathered around coffin saying prayers for her soul

“Love Is Such an Old-Fashioned Word” by Blair Bourassa | The Walrus | July 2011 (+Sefer Yetzirah)
YouTube - Artist's Statement
Broken Doll « DIS Magazine
Superman #712 Not Changed Over Muslim Content. But Over Kitten Content. Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
The Welikia Project » Welikia Map Welcome to New York City, 1609

Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month | Latest Broadband and Wireless News | News.com.au (Oz worse than China)
Aaron Sorkin, Writer Of 'The Social Network,' Unfriends Facebook | TPM Idea Lab
Fired IT manager hacks into CEO’s presentation, replaces it with porn | Naked Security
Blogger jailed over critical restaurant review - Taipei Times The judge said the blogger should not have criticized the restaurant’s food as ‘too salty’ in general, because she had eaten dried noodles and two side dishes

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The true definition of "Terrorist" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com By contrast, any Iraqi who fights back in any way against the U.S. invasion -- even by fighting against exclusively military targets -- is not only a criminal, but a Terrorist: one who should be shipped to Guantanamo (anyone Obama says is a "terrorist")
Afghan Troop Withdrawal: Beginning Of The End For Petraeus Counterinsurgency Strategy (Obama's "surge" a complete failure costing thousands of lives)
Al Qaeda Prison Break In Yemen A 'Setback' For Broader U.S. Aims: Experts could have implications for American counterterrorism efforts there
Pakistan Army Officer's Suspected Militant Links Raise Fresh Fears a senior Pakistani army officer was detained on suspicion of ties to a radical Islamist group has raised fresh concerns about the reach and influence of an organization that has long vexed analysts and politicians.
Sudan Border Violence: 73,000 Flee, U.N. Says
The U.S. Military’s “Third-Country Nationals” : The New Yorker For foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, war can be hell (unintended side-effect/collateral damage: Obama involved in human trafficking)

China Warns U.S. To Stay Out Of Sea Dispute "The United States is not a claimant state to the dispute in the South China Sea and so it's better for the United States to leave the dispute to be sorted out between claimant states" (stay the fuck out of our territorial expansion)
Indonesian Maid's Beheading Prompts National Ban On Domestic Workers In Saudi Arabia (VIDEO) Ruyati had suffered abuse while working in Saudi Arabia, and that her own government in Jakarta did not provide sufficient legal counsel to ward off a death sentence.
Krokodil: The drug that eats junkies - Europe, World - The Independent A home-made heroin substitute is having a horrific effect on thousands of Russia's drug addicts

Media Types: Don’t Call Someone Who Works for Republicans a Disaffected Progressive | Rooted Cosmopolitan Yes, that’s right, CommonSense Media, a firm that does work for Republicans, is led by Jane Hamsher.
Balloon Juice » Jane Hamsher’s “Afro-American” Reeducation Program Rolls Through Washington, D.C. (and Other Ratfucking Tales) - She’s fleecing her readers and taking advantage of the Progressive movement in the same way that Arianna Huffington did.

FBI Raid Takes Down Mess of Websites
Pinboard (pinboard) on Twitter
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Project PM Leaks Dirt on Romas/COIN Classified Intelligence Mass Surveillance
5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad | | AlterNet

Tell Attorney General Holder: Keep Obama’s Promise and Respect State Medical Marijuana Laws | Just Say Now (Obama making sure no one can accuse him of being a Democrat)
Out of Power, Right-Wing Hawks Turn Dovish | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy Years ago, Douthat was just another flag-waver gleefully pumping up the lie about Saddam Hussein’s WMDs and berating anyone who advised any other action beyond invasion ... people like Douthat put us on "Kumbaya watch," questioned our allegiances, called us Muslim collaborators, etc., etc. Now they want to talk about prudence and the "long-term consequences" of war? Bite me.
Democrats Explicitly Call Out GOP For Sabotaging The Economic Recovery | TPMDC (two years later)
Obama Gay Rights Stance Unlikely To Change For Fear Of Alienating 2012 Voters (you know, the ones who would never vote for him in a million years)
Anderson Cooper Calls Out Obama's Gay Marriage Flip Flopping (for before against before for before against before let the states decide)
Mitch McConnell: GOP More Willing To Be Isolationist Because There's A Democratic President (once they win, they will be back to bombing Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits Bus Tour Halfway Through (never finishes anything)
Bachmann Gaining In Iowa, But Still Getting Outhustled By Pawlenty next month's fundraising report disclosures could hasten the talk of Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, going down and Bachmann taking his place as the chief alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.
Huh? Journalists Reportedly Outnumber Voters At Huntsman’s GOP Campaign Events | Media Matters for America (feel the excitement)
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant - NYTimes.com (millions of people can tell this story)
Alcee Hastings Sexual Harassment Allegation Investigated By Ethics Panel (another Dem scandal)

Democratic Senators Call For Job Creation As Part Of Deficit Reduction Negotiations ("call for")
The Real vs. Imagined Deficit - Economic Scene - NYTimes.com Democrats are reluctant to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid ("reluctant" but can be "bargained" with)
Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank sued by L.A. over slum conditions - latimes.com Officials charge world's fourth-largest bank with letting foreclosed properties lapse into disrepair. (bail them out!)
Wonkbook: What the Fed got wrong - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (they could give a shit)
News from The Associated Press
Eschaton: Big Shitpile The people who run the world agree that ordinary people need to suffer so that the banksters don't lose on their bets. The people who run the world are awful peopl
Small Business Lending Fund: No Money Spent in Nine Months | FDL News Desk (Obama told them not to spend any money)
CBO: We’ll only have giant deficits if Congress wants giant deficits - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Harrowing, Heartbreaking Tales of Overworked Americans | Mother Jones

Climate of Denial | Rolling Stone Politics Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison? by Al Gore
Al Gore Blasts Obama On Climate Change For Failing To Take 'Bold Action' (or any action at all)
Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions: Study: Scientific American

The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books (and corruption in the mass-marketing of "mental illness")

Slowing down stars
NASA Spacecraft Reveals Moon As Never Before - Yahoo! News
Study Says Games to Blame for Decrease in U.S. Crime - Joystick Division (why Australia is a violent country)
YouTube - Adobe (lightfield camera)

Police: Dunn was driving 130 mph when he crashed - dailylocal.com
'Jackass' star legally drunk at time of crash | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/22/2011 blood alcohol level of 0.196,

Pregnancy Simulation Dress Makes Moms Skeptical (video) It’s a dress that simulates the 9-month pregnancy process in two minutes flat, but New Scientist reports that the pregnancy dress can also be worn for longer periods to allow the user to experience the day-to-day "joys" of the experience.
Amish on Break | National Geographic Channel

Government Domain Name Seizures Violate First Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Challenges Flawed Anti-Infringement Campaign in Amicus Brief (Obama's illegal collusion with bigcontent)
Open Wi-Fi Is Not a Crime, BitTorrent Case Judge Hears | TorrentFreak an accused BitTorrent user has written to a court explaining that his actions do not constitute a crime. The Doe further highlighted how mass-BitTorrent lawsuits are used to harass Internet users based on shoddy evidence (Obama will outlaw open networks to prevent "terrorism")

“The Promise and Perils of Hook-Up Culture” » Sociological Images
Charges possible for alleged sex crime depicted in Big Bear yearbook - latimes.com (+yearbook=possession of child porno)
switcheroo : sincerely hana
What is this ad announcing? | AdWomen
The Official Gay Card

Apple iPhone Patent a Huge Blow to Rival Smartphone Makers | News & Opinion | PCMag.com Apple's newly awarded patent gives it ownership of the capacitive multitouch interface, spelling big trouble for rival smartphone makers, say patent experts - the patent seems broad enough in scope to cover virtually any mobile device with an interface that incorporates the finger movements (that's right, Apple just patented your fingers)
Plasma vs. LCD vs. LED: Which HDTV Type is Best? | PCMag.com
The New Generation Record Player @freepostia

062111
Obama Expected To Announce Major Afghanistan Troop Reduction (and by "major" we mean "minor")
Today in Endless War - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

LulzSec Hacking Group: Essex Teenager Suspected Of Being Mastermind Arrested | UK News | Sky News
Hacker News | LulzSec supposedly claims its biggest coup yet: The entire UK 2011 Census (payback time)
Lulzsec 2011 census released - Pastebin.com
Riots after Canucks' Stanley Cup defeat
YouTube - NAZI Style Checkpoints At Tampa Bus Station ("keeping you safe")
Articles: TSA Now Storming Public Places 8,000 Times a Year Americans must decide if, in the name of homeland security, they are willing to allow TSA operatives to storm public places in their communities with no warning, pat them down, and search their bags. And they better decide quickly (Obama and his stormtroopers)
Texas TSA 'Groping' Bill Would Criminalize 'Enhanced Pat-Downs'

AARP's Social Security Debt Ceiling Fears Now in damage control mode, AARP says it is completely against including cuts to Social Security benefits in the budget talks (so surprised)
Walmart Case: Supreme Court Aids The Powerful
Obama Believes Gay Marriage 'Best Addressed By The States': White House Official (first he was for it, then he was all "marriage is between a man and a woman" and now he's all let the states decide)
John McCain 'Puzzled' By Anger Over Arizona Wildfire Remarks (video) ("puzzled" why anyone would question his lying)
Roll Call: Bachmann Used House Funds To Pay For Tea Party Rally. Will We See A Media Feeding Frenzy? Of Course Not. | Crooks and Liars (it's always OKIYaR)
Gratiot County HeraldLetters To The Editor (May 12, 2011 issue) Dear Governor Snyder (Nathan Bootz: please turn my school into a prison, so we can get better funding +Michigan is full of assholes)
What happened to John McGee? - Idaho Press-Tribune: News (whatever it was, he won't be asked to resign)
For Press, Secession No Longer Campaign “Roadblock” For Gov. Rick Perry | Media Matters for America (media: treason ok if you are a Republican)
Newt Gingrich 2012 Campaign Finance Team Quits

Professor Bernanke Warning of Paralysis Meets Fed Facing Same - Bloomberg
Raise, Don’t Save, Social Security - NYTimes.com
Nearly One In Three U.S. Workers Considering Leaving Their Jobs: Report (good luck with that)
Obama Administration Fails On Promise To Put Solar Panels On White House Roof By June 21
Learning From The Mall Of American | ThinkProgress
PIMCO | Investment Outlook - School Daze, School Daze Good Old Golden Rule Days

Climate Change: Public Skeptical, Scientists Sure : NPR "Only 13 percent of Americans got the correct answer, which is that in fact about 97 percent of American scientists say that climate change is happening, and about a third of Americans just simply say they don't know," he said.
How dense is a cell? Researchers have devised a way to answer that question
Musings from an Archaeologist on the Civilization Tech Tree – Part I | Full Glass Empty Clip
A research on the relationship between ejaculation... [J Zhejiang Univ Sci. 2003 Mar-Apr] - PubMed result fluctuations of testosterone levels from the 2nd to 5th day of abstinence were minimal. On the 7th day of abstinence, however, a clear peak of serum testosterone appeared, reaching 145.7% of the baseline

Göbekli Tepe - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
The Big Business of Synthetic Highs - BusinessWeek Synthetic drugs that use legal compounds but mimic the highs of everything from marijuana to cocaine are proliferating among do-it-yourself pharma labs across the country. Bad trips—and fatal side effects—are increasing, too
Radioactive Tritium Has Leaked From Three-Quarters Of U.S. Nuclear Plants: AP Investigation

Philosophy Bro: Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra": A Summary
Mirror Fasting < PopMatters
Don't let these disasters happen to you: The top five engineering hints you'll rarely hear

Liebschers Familienbilder new works (we are all Martin Liebscher)
'The Killing' Season 1 Finale Recap
YouTube - Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin Harp Duet - Camille and Kennerly, Harp Twins

Byliner - iscover & discuss great reads by great writers
Anonymity has value, in comments and elsewhere — Tech News and Analysis

‘Reminder: Call Dad’ Is Another Notch In Google’s Belt Of Social Fail
How do I get rid of the "reminder" to call my "dad"? - Google Chat Help
Hacker News | Google reminds users to "Call Dad", makes users angry
The Web is taking too long (infographic) | Software, Interrupted - CNET News

062011
BBC News - Greece: Eurozone ministers delay decision on vital loan
Fears Of Greek Government Default Rise After Ultimatum From European Financial Ministers (screw the German and French bankers)
Greece prepares to sell off state assets to get loans - CNN.com

Muslim Woman Will Run for President of Egypt
Ban upheld on anti-abortion activists approaching pregnancy centre visitors - The Local A German court has told anti-abortion campaigners they must not speak to women near a pregnancy advice centre in Freiburg, in the conclusion of a months-long conflict.

1 million riot photos sent to police - British Columbia - CBC News
Church of England set to allow celibate gay bishops | World news | The Guardian Legal advice says gay candidates should be considered as long as they have not been sexually active while in the priesthood
After 50 years in the spotlight, BBC Television Centre is put up for sale | Media | The Guardian Blue Peter garden will be relocated to a Salford roof as corporation to sell prime London site to cut costs

Balkinization - George W. Obama and the OLC
Party Politics: How Conservatism Lost Touch with Reality - Time (and descended into insanity)

NationalJournal.com - INFOGRAPHIC: Breaking Down the Ages of Top Hill Aides - Monday, June 20, 2011
NationalJournal.com - Hill People: Who Are They and Where Did They Come From? - Monday, June 20, 2011

Maine Labor Mural: Paul LePage Received Thousands Of Angry Emails Over Removal Decision - people opposing the governor's action by a margin of more than 9-to-1 (another Republican dumb-fuck Gov)
Hendrik Hertzberg: The Sins of Anthony Weiner : The New Yorker (good points)
Rachel Maddow: Anthony Weiner Resignation Will Damage Democrats 'For A Generation' (VIDEO) "Democrats have not only refused to hold Republicans accountable for the double standard, but they have joined with Republicans in piling on with the demands that Anthony Weiner had to resign even as David Vitter stays in the Senate," Maddow said (Dems shoot themselves, again)
Bachmann Playing With House Money : Roll Call News Bachmann’s Congressional Spending Shows Close Links to Political Activity (fast and loose with taxpayer dollars)
New Jersey Union Bill Approved By State Senate - Democratic lawmakers on Monday began trying to remove a controversial provision of their employee benefits bill that would have limited public workers' access to out-of-state medical care (you got what you voted for, NJ)
California Death Penalty Costs State $184 Million A Year, Study Finds (another Reagan bankrupting move)
Joe Scarborough Goes Off On Newt Gingrich (video)
Bristol Palin Lost Virginity While Drunk On Camping Trip With Levi Johnston (idiots, she was drunk for most of high school)
Combating Fraud—or Suppressing the Vote? | Mother Jones Tea party leaders, supported by Republican officials, deployed legions of "poll watchers" to flag suspicious activity. But after Election Day came and went, there was little evidence of rampant fraud.
Your "Sassy Muslim Friend" Katie Couric is right that we need a Muslim version of the Cosby show (remember all the gay characters on the Cosby show?)

Justices Have Been Forced To Resign For Doing What Clarence Thomas Has Done | ThinkProgress (like Abe Fortas +the double-Weiner standard)
Supreme Court Sides With Wal-Mart In Sex Bias Case By a 5-4 vote along ideological lines, the court said there were too many women in too many jobs at Wal-Mart to wrap into one lawsuit (sorry girls, there were too many of you)
Supreme Court smashes Walmart lawsuit - UPI.com
Supreme Court Blocks Climate Change Lawsuit Filed By States
Court won't hear ACORN lawsuit over gov't funding - Yahoo! News y refused to review a federal court's decision to uphold Congress's ban on federal funds for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Calculated Risk: DOT: Vehicle Miles Driven decreased -2.4% in April compared to April 2010
Collapse of the Chicago School: Gary Becker Edition - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
Slump in construction industry creates a Sheetrock ghost town - Yahoo! News
Washington Post Company Family Nets $10 Million In Stock Sale After For-Profit Regulations Released Earlier This Month n the days after the Obama administration issued a set of watered-down regulations governing the for-profit college industry earlier this month, Washington Post Company Chairman and Chief Executive Donald Graham, one of the top executives in the for-profit college industry, sold off millions of dollars in stocks held in trusts benefiting family members.

Kon-Tiki explorer was partly right – Polynesians had South American roots - Telegraph It is probably the most epic journey ever undertaken just to prove a point.
The Anglo-Saxon Invasion: Britain Is More Germanic than It Thinks - It is now clear that the nation which most dislikes the Germans were once Krauts themselves
Scientists Get Closer To Cancer Vaccine a technique that uses a library of DNA taken from organs in which tumors can form and harnesses the body's immune response to create a vaccine designed to treat cancer.
Amazon's elite product reviewers 85 percent had received free products from publishers, agents, authors and manufacturers (bought)
BBC News - World's oceans in 'shocking' decline The oceans are in a worse state than previously suspected, according to an expert panel of scientists.
The brain on sonar – how blind people find their way around with echoes | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
PLoS ONE: Neural Correlates of Natural Human Echolocation in Early and Late Blind Echolocation Experts
Getting around by sound: Human echolocation | Neuroanthropology
Train! - The Boston Globe How psychological tricks can keep people from being killed on the tracks

Make: Online | “Tips My Dad Says” Downloadable Card
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The Sartorialtwist
YouTube - Miss USA 2011 - 51 Delegates Interview (Q2 - Evolution taught in school) (painful too watch)
Tip: Blender and Mason Jar | Simply Recipes

When WiFi doesn't work: a guide to home networking alternatives
Google Launches Tool for Online Reputation Management
Social networking sites and our lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project
Why Is The Justice Department Pretending US Copyright Laws Apply In The UK? | Techdirt (Obama shines the shoes of big content)
Hacker Crackdown: Lawmakers Weigh Harsher Penalties In Wake Of CIA, FBI Attacks (they couldn't secure their website against script-kiddies; Obama want to double the sentence for hacking that makes him look stupid)

061911
The $113 Billion Hole: Ten Things America Gave Up This Year To Pay For The War In Afghanistan | ThinkProgress (sacrifices Americans make so Obama can play with his army men)
Missing Iraq cash 'as high as $18bn' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Iraq's parliament speaker tells Al Jazeera unaccounted reconstruction money is three times the reported $6.6bn (meanwhile, in Iraq)

Courthouse News Service Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant (Repubican Oil Court)
Kicking the Eurocan - NYTimes.com In any case, what you have to ask now is what Europe is waiting for. Why will six months more of credit lines and suffering make the situation any better? (European leaders - Sark and Merk - discover the Friedman Unit)

Dog sentenced to death by stoning - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews Rabbinical court rules spirit of secular lawyer who insulted judges 20 years ago transferred into wandering dog's body
'Obedient Wives Club' Opens New Branch in Indonesia that encourages women to be totally obedient to their husbands and focus on keeping them sexually satisfied

President Obama's Views on Gay Marriage 'Evolving' - NYTimes.com (don't ask him, he won't tell)
McCain blames some Arizona wildfires on illegal immigrants - CNN.com "The degree of irresponsible political pandering by Sen. McCain has no limits," Falcon said in an email to CNN. "With the lack of evidence, he might as well also blame aliens from outer space for the fires."

Blind Eye In The Sky: Weather Satellites Lose Funding : NPR (Republicans say weather is liberal)
Don’t know much about history - The Boston Globe Not even a quarter of American students is proficient in US history, and the percentage declines as students grow older (Republicans: "we make up our own history")
The Technium: The Clock in the Mountain
Geeky Stats About Magic Mushrooms | Mother Jones
Study: Psilocybin, the Drug in 'Magic Mushrooms,' Lifts Mood and Increases Compassion Over the Long Term - - Time Healthland
Turns Out 'Sleeping On It' Makes Good Scientific Sense - Planet Green Study proves this isn't an old wives' tale at all.

OSHA - Fatal Facts Accident Reports

Internet braces for '.Vegas' and other not-coms
New gTLDs : Top-Level Domains Alert
New Top-Level Domains

061811
Obama expected to unveil Afghan drawdown plan next week | McClatchy
U.S. In Peace Talks With Taliban, Karzai Confirms (negotiating with terrorists; Obama will keep the "worst of the worst" in Gitmo forever)
Guantanamo captives ‘weaponize’ bodily fluids | McClatchy (Obama will invade some country)
Morocco's king bows to pressure and allows reform | World news | The Guardian Mohamed VI rewrites constitution and gives elected politicians greater power after biggest protests in decades

Greek Debt Restructuring Off the Table: EU Official - CNBC (default, dudes, screw the German and French bankers)
Bilderberg 2011: The tipping point | World news | guardian.co.uk What we have learned from this year's Bilderberg conference
WikiLeaks: Few Cubans can name U.S.-backed dissidents | McClatchy

2 Top Lawyers Lost to Obama in Libya War Policy Debate - NYTimes.com (Obama will prosecute Charlie Savage for writing about this)
Obama rejects top lawyers' legal views on Libya - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com In response, Ashcroft, Comey, Goldsmith, and FBI Director Robert Mueller all threatened to resign en masse if Bush continued with this illegal spying, and Bush -- wanting to avoid that kind of scandal in an election year -- agreed to "re-fashion" the program into something those DOJ lawyers could approve (the "re-fashioned" program was the still-illegal NSA program revealed in 2005 by The New York Times; to date, we still do not know what Bush was doing before that that was so illegal as to prompt resignation threats from these right-wing lawyers).
Leak Case Shows Resolve of U.S. Crackdown - NYTimes.com
'Son of star wars' base in Yorkshire finally ready to open | Science | The Observer already known to provide a home for Echelon, the US eavesdropping system that intercepts communications from around the world.
Photographer Enrique Metinides artfully captured five decades of mayhem in Mexico City - latimes.com
Commentary: Time for 'War on Drugs' to end | McClatchy (Obama loves wars)

United Airlines Computer Glitch Strands Thousands - AOL Travel News
N.H. closing in on a repeal of union dues rule - The Boston Globe
North Carolina Lawmakers Nearly Repeal 'Racial Justice Act' | TPMDC a law that allows death row inmates to challenge their sentences on the basis that race had played a role in determining their punishment. However, the move fell short by a single vote in the Republican-dominated Senate (Republicans at work) OA
Lesbian Couple at Twins Game Told Kiss Violates Ten Commandments ‘Well here in the stadium, we adhere to the 10 Commandments,’ (Shraria/Mosaic law in MN)
Circumcision ban ballot measure called anti-Semitic | McClatchy Circumcision, removing the male foreskin, has biblical roots, and many believe it is commanded by God explicitly in a covenant with Abraham.
Chris Christie: "It's None of Your Business" | Video Cafe More of the same from Governor Belligerent.
Gov. Rick Perry and the Secessionists | Crooks and Liars

Arizona’s Jobless Lose Checks for Want of a Word - NYTimes.com That last extension of unemployment benefits — typically received in weeks 80 through 99 of unemployment — is paid for entirely with federal money and does not affect state budgets. But because of ideological opposition and other legislative priorities, Arizona and a handful of other states, like Wisconsin and Alaska, have not made the one-word change necessary to keep the program going.

Life expectancy in most US counties falls behind world's healthiest nations
Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Memory Implant Gives Rats Sharper Recollection - NYTimes.com
'The Poor Have the Right to Be Beautiful': Cosmetic Surgery In Neoliberal Brazil (Alexander (Alex) Edmonds) - Academia.edu
McClatchy special report: Chimps

YCT Graduation Speech-Where is the Promised Land? | The Book of Doctrines and Opinions:
Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton’s Alternate Intellectual Universe | Politics | Religion Dispatches - Gomer Pyle charisma in service of a Christian Nation
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Harvey Weighs In on David Barton at Religion Dispatches
American Scripture: How David Barton Won the Christian Right - Yoni Appelbaum - Politics - The Atlantic

ISP Wrongfully Sent 300 “First Strike” Letters To Innocents | TorrentFreak wrongfully accusing innocent subscribers of Internet piracy. ISP Eircom implemented the scheme in partnership with the recording industry and is now being investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out « News
Apple and a web-free cloud - O'Reilly Radar Apple's approach to the cloud is business as usual, and that's what makes it interesting.
British Student Faces Extradition to the US for Linking to Copyrighted Material

061711
Greece: Still in crisis - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Jihad: The end of an era | The Economist
BBC News - S Korea rejects North's demands for return of defectors - nine people who apparently defected.
British Council Voices USA | New Data Debunk Myths about Muslims “Egyptians are the most likely people of any country in the world to say the targeting and killing of civilians is never justified (97%).” (Americans, meanwhile ...)
Saudi Arabian Women Defy Driving Ban, But Skeptics Question Impact
Ban on 'gang culture' haircuts in school is 'indirect racial discrimination', judge rules - Telegraph A London school's decision to ban hairstyles it says have become associated with gang culture has resulted in "unlawful, indirect racial discrimination which is not justified," a court has ruled (meanwhile, in America ...)

Scott Jones And Alex Thomas: Kissing Couple At Vancouver Riot Identified
Identify the Vancouver rioters
publicshamingeternus
Have we reached the era of the post-ironic riot? | HIPSTER RUNOFF
Zoot Suit Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed (build yer nuke next to a big river that floods a lot)
Nebraska Nuclear Plant Lost Cooling System After Fire - WSJ.com
Midwest Floods: Both Nebraska Nuke Stations Threatened
Nebraska Nuclear Power Plants Missouri River Flood Conditions
Flood Rumor Control - Omaha Public Power District
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think - Features - Al Jazeera English Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public.
Fukushima Risks Chernobyl ‘Dead Zone’ as Radiation Soars - Businessweek

‘Historic’ U.N. gay rights vote: which countries backed it and which didn’t - By Robert Zeliger | FP Passport
Jimmmy Carter: Call Off the Global Drug War - NYTimes.com - “Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.” (Obama's drugz war on the poor and black and Mexican)
TV's Montel Williams comes to Sacramento to open marijuana dispensary - Sacramento City News - sacbee.com

Republican New York Senator Comes Out For Gay Marriage With Awesome Quote - Featured on BuzzFeed "You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing. "I'm tired of Republican-Democrat politics. They can take the job and shove it. I come from a blue-collar background. I'm trying to do the right thing, and that's where I'm going with this."

As AARP Abandons Social Security, It’s Time to Step Up Our Efforts | FDL Action In a direct affront to their membership, one of the largest and most well-known advocacy groups in the country has thrown in its lot with the likes of Alan Simpson ... he board of directors approved this change of stance in order to secure a seat at the bargaining table (ho-ho, you can see where the "bargaining" starts)
AARP Changes Course on Social Security | Mother Jones
AARP Willing To Negotiate On Social Security Retirement Age (we're doomed)
The Associated Press: AARP slammed for not fighting Social Security cuts
Well, good for you, AARP! - CSMonitor.com AARP won't oppose cutting Social Security benefits anymore, which shows that the organization understands what it means to make tough choices (showing their true Repubican colors)
Seniors’ Groups Slam AARP for Shift on Social Security - Washington Wire - WSJ
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Social Security Benefit Cuts “Off the Table” | FDL News Desk

In a “Mostly Symbolic” Move, Senate Vote to Kill Some Ethanol Subsidies | ThinkProgress in a world of blatantly increasing food insecurity — driven by population, dietary trends, rising oil prices, and growing climate instability — America’s policy of burning one third of our corn crop in our engines (soon to be 37% or more) is becoming increasingly untenable, if not unconscionable
Poll: Only 9% of Texas Republicans Favor Rick Perry for President | Firedoglake - That’s gotta hurt.
Americans Turning Against Neo-Conservatism | Elections - The number of Americans that think the United States should be active in world affairs has drop 11 points from 2004.
Incoming: Dems dropping bombs on McKinsey - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
Scumbag Chris Christie - Imgur

Hullabaloo - The "outside the deficit" scam
Eschaton: We Are Doomed Rebecca Blank - A poverty economist, a Clinton-era CEA member (says Amercia doesn't need jobs for a recovery)
IMF Cuts U.S. Growth Forecast, Warns Against 'Playing With Fire' (austerity! no jobs!)
Arabian 'unicorn' no longer extinct | Environment | guardian.co.uk The IUCN says the antelope's reintroduction to the wild is the most successful effort for any species once classified as extinct (bond vigilantes and confidence unicorns found in Africa)

Last One Turn Out The Lights | Talking Points Memo
Rachel Maddow: The post-Bill Clinton modern American political sex-scandal consequence-o-meter
State-Level Assaults On Abortion Rights (photos)
Sarah's Inbox | A Project of the Sunlight Foundation

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Extermination of the American Bison, by William T. Hornaday (enraging)

Metaskim News Aggregator - popular links, local news aggregator

In Magazine Journalism, It’s Nowhere Near ‘The End of Men’ – The Sisterhood – Forward.com
That Chris Evans Profile In GQ, Or Why I Want Mac McClelland To Hang Out With Sean Bean | ThinkProgress
The Men’s Magazine Problem Is a Women’s Magazine Problem | ThinkProgress
Meet The Female Stars Of Long-form Journalism
Should Women Be Doctors? - NYTimes.com
Chuck Klosterman: How spoilers are changing screenwriting - Grantland - Why screenwriters might be untwisting their endings

BBC News - Dalai Lama pizza joke backfires on TV host
Creepy, Crusty, Crumbling: Illegal Tour of Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans [75 Pics]
YouTube - Toronto: Edge Walk at the CN Tower
Animals Being Dicks

Therapists Who Help People Stay In the Closet - NYTimes.com
My Ex-Gay Friend - NYTimes.com
My Ex-Gay Friend - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com
Religion Dispatches

Federal government to delete half its websites - latimes.com (and save $125/year; both Republicans and Obama happy)
Are social networking site users more trusting of others? | Pew Internet & American Life Project
Spam clogging Amazon's Kindle self-publishing | Reuters
Commit a047be85247755cdbe0acce6f1dafc8beb84f2ac to MrMEEE/bumblebee - GitHub
Hacker News | Ooops.
Flick and Share - Share your Flickr sets with your friends!

061611
Pakistan: Detention of suspected Pakistani CIA informants raises tensions - latimes.com Pakistanis believed to have aided the CIA in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden are in custody. The detentions are seen as a reaction by security officials who were embarrassed by the U.S. raid, and a reflection of the widening rift between the nations.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri Chosen By Al Qaeda To Succeed Bin Laden
White House to Congress: We Don't Need Your Authorization On Libya (that would be "steenking" authorization +live by the Bush, die by the Bush +fuck you, Republicans)
DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
General Kayani Is Said to Cling to Job in Pakistan - NYTimes.com such intense discontent over what is seen as his cozy relationship with the United States that a colonels’ coup, while unlikely, was not out of the question
Nigeria Explosion Hits Police Headquarters In Abuja
Black Ops and Blood Money | Men’s Journal When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage.
Middle East Institute seminar: Experts, journalists attempt to understand ISI – The Express Tribune
Rodrigo Medina's Bodyguards Found Mutilated In Mexico (more casualties of Obama's drugz war)
Hayden, Chertoff Buck Republican Call To Bring Troops Home From Afghanistan (neo-cons want to give war a chance +Chertoff is an Israeli)

Western Wildfires Rage In Multiple States As High Winds Threaten Containment Efforts (want the Feds to bail them out)

Bruins win first Stanley Cup in 39 years - The Boston Globe Bruins shut the door in Game 7 to take first title in 39 years
Vancouver Riots 2011: Fires Rage As Canucks Lose Stanley Cup (video)
Vancouver reels in riot aftermath - British Columbia - CBC News
Brian Hutchinson: Blood on the streets after Vancouver loss | Full Comment | National Post
YouTube - Brave Vancouverite Stands up for his City during 2011 Riot Vancouver Stanley Cup

As Predicted, Medicaid On Chopping Block in Debt Limit Deal | FDL News Desk (Obama can't help himself)
Romney: 'I'm Also Unemployed' - NYTimes.com (in the sense that a billionaire running for Pres is "unemployed")
In CA-36, Democrat Calls For Blanket Condemnation Of Stunning New Web Ad (video) | TPMDC
CA-36 GOPer's Camp On Shocking Web Video: If We Could Wave A Magic Wand And Take It Down, We Would | TPMDC
Michele Bachmann Isn't Stupid, She's Dangerous - 35% of those who support Michele Bachmann thought the rapture was coming on May 21 (and didn't change their minds, either)
Political Animal - CIA vet: Bush White House targeted blogging critic It’s sometimes easy to forget, but for eight years, the Bush White House offered a remarkable combination of corruption, incompetence, mismanagement, and moral “flexibility.” = the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war ... If Carle’s revelations are true, using the CIA to spy on Americans for partisan gain is a felony. (oh, the Bush years; good times!)
Ret'd. CIA Official Alleges Bush White House Used Agency to "Get" Cole | Informed Comment (+why Obama hates James Risen)
Anthony Weiner Resigns: Congressman Announces Resignation At Press Conference
Anthony Weiner Heckled At Press Conference: Hecklers Shout Obscenities (video)
AARP Launches Second Ad To Fight GOP Medicare Plan Maybe the government should cut funding for treadmills for shrimp and poetry in zoos before hacking away at Medicare or Social Security, the influential lobby for older Americans, AARP, is arguing in a new national TV ad released Thursday (Obama refuses to differentiate himself from Republicans)
Michelle Bachman's plan to eliminate unemployment completely: slavery!)


YouTube - Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"
NASA discovers 122 sets of twin stars | MNN - Mother Nature Network Paired stars are discovered when the brightness of one star is lessened as its counterpart passes in front of it.
Spectacular Hubble View of Centaurus A

Improved Conditions for Florida Tomato-Harvest Workers - NYTimes.com
Is Sex Too Strenuous For Men's Hearts? men who had sex less than once a month were 45 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than counterparts who had sex twice a week or more. And a study out of the UK found that men who had three or more orgasms per week had a 50 percent lower death rate.
Obesity and driving: Road hogs | The Economist A striking relationship between obesity and driving (SUVs make you fat)

Carl Sorabella, Massachusetts Man, Fired After Disclosing Wife's Cancer by Haynes Management, a real estate company in Wellesley Hills, Mass. (boycott these assholes)
Guns in bars bill passes Ohio House, Senate concurs, Gov. John Kasich to sign it | cleveland.com (this will not end well)

Now I Know: Television Dreams
Arrested Development, "Good Grief" | TV | A Very Special Episode | The A.V. Club
YouTube - Video- Norm Mcdonald tells the moth joke on Conan

Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the Internet Auction? | Magazine

A risky currency? Alleged $500,000 Bitcoin heist raises questions
Mt Gox - Bitcoin Exchange
Internet Trolls Get Analyzed By a New Study, Though They’ll Probably Say It’s Wrong - TIME NewsFeed

061511
Greek Leader Reshuffles Cabinet, Asks for Vote - NYTimes.com (on edge of default)
Japan: three months after the quake - The Big Picture - Boston.com
“The Biggest Losers” by Warren Kinsella | The Walrus | July 2011 A long-time Liberal strategist explains the defeat of the once-mighty Grits
From road to rail in Beijing: traffic jams, subway expansion and car restriction in the Chinese capital | chinadialogue China’s capital is restricting car numbers and pumping money into trains. Is it headed for a less congested future – or already a city beyond help? Liu Xuan reports.

Pakistan arrests five men for helping CIA spy on Bin Laden house | World news | The Guardian Group helped run CIA hideout in Abbottabad and watched comings and goings at fugitive's compound, officials say
Eschaton: One Last Shot (Biden has been saying "one last shot" for six years)

WikiLeaks auctions off lunch with Assange - Checkpoint Washington - The Washington Post (Warren Buffet went for $2.3 million this year)
The 8 Most Bizarre, Intriguing, and Otherwise Cool Documents the NSA Just Declassified - Gizmodo

Chomsky: Wealthiest 1% Rule Our Politics -- But There's Hope in the Fight Against Global Capital | Economy | AlterNet In the past thirty years there has been enormous concentration of wealth in a very tiny part of the population.
Infographic: One Day’s Worth of Millionaire Tax Cuts Would Feed Needy Families for a Year
Failed War On Drugs' 40th Anniversary: Cops Call Out Drug Czar - Toke of the Town Hand-Deliver Report To Drug Czar's Office While Czar Refuses To Meet

Top Barack Obama donors net government jobs - Fred Schulte, John Aloysius Farrell and Jeremy Borden -- iWatch News - POLITICO.com More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts (corruptocracy)
MAYBE! Dems, Republicans Non-Committal On Stimulus In Debt Limit Deal | TPMDC (Obama helpless, as usual)
Political Animal - Obama stresses ‘need to accelerate the recovery’ the discussion with GOP leaders “gives us a little bit of room to continue to do some smart things like the payroll tax cut that we initiated in December while still keeping our eye on the ball in terms of the long term.” (and if it isn't the Republicans "giving him room" its the Blue Dog Dems)
Fox's Bolling Issues Brief, Dishonest Apology For "Hoodlum[s]" In "The Hizzouse" Segment | Media Matters for America
Balloon Juice » A world of information in one sentence… Justice Anthony Kennedy loves Hemingway, Shakespeare, Solzhenitsyn, Dickens and Trollope. Justice Thomas says a good legal brief reminds him of the TV show 24. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says one of the great influences on her writing was her European literature professor at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov (catch that?)
Politico : "Conservative Groups Pay For Talk-Radio Plugs" | Media Matters for America (talk radio listeners don't give a shit where their shit comes from)
Balloon Juice » How About You Give Us the Silent Treatment? - "the two parties contesting this election are unusually pathetic" (yeah, the "two parties" and David Brooks is a slave at the NYT)
Cagle Post » Rick Santorum: When the Anti-Choice Choose “Abortion in any form is wrong,” said Santorum in 2000, three years after the tragedy. He should have added, “Except for my wife. If your wife’s life was at stake and the only thing that could save her was an abortion, well, too bad. Your wife will have to die. It was different with my wife. You see, I love her. I don’t even know your wife’s name.”
CENSORSHIP! Dems Cry Foul Over GOP Interference With Medicare Mailers | TPMDC The language Republicans on the commission now reject is identical to language they approved earlier this year, before their Medicare plan cost them a seat in a conservative district in upstate New York.
Tea party group offers summer camp - St. Petersburg Times (teaching the "free market")
Urban Design Hipsters Are Evil - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Hiring Slowdown Seen for Small Business - NYTimes.com more small businesses say that they are planning to shrink their payrolls than say they want to expand them (Benchmark Treasury Yield Back Below 3.0%)
What Larry Summers Can't Bring Himself to Say And so the charade goes on, in which the fiscal hawks preach the end of civilization of we don’t slash and burn federal spending, and serious, moderately liberal economists of the sort who advise Obama are all wind-up and no pitch.
House ready to slash funding for key oil-market regulator | McClatchy The Republican-led House of Representatives is poised to pass, as early as Wednesday, a sweeping spending bill that would slash funding for the regulatory agency responsible for policing against excessive speculation and price manipulation in oil markets (go ahead, screw yourselves, Red Voters)
Hiring Slowdown Seen for Small Business - NYTimes.com more small businesses say that they are planning to shrink their payrolls than say they want to expand them.

Global Warming and Religion in 2012 - The New Religion of Global Warming - Esquire But for most self-identified "conservatives," it will never matter how high the water rises or how convincingly the evidence mounts, because from the start the debate about global warming has never been a debate in which rules of evidence apply ... no sooner had Romney dared say that global warming was a problem that had to be dealt with than Rush Limbaugh accused him of falling for a hoax, and it became clear that although we might not know who the Republican candidate for the presidency in 2012 is going to be, we know for certain that he — or she — will not "believe" in global warming any more than he or she "believes" that the great operative force in all biological creation is evolution.
Far out: Magic mushrooms could have medical benefits, researchers say - Yahoo! News Looking back more than a year later, 94 percent of participants rated it as one of the top five most spiritually significant experiences of their lifetimes (let's bet that not one of them say Jesus)
Fear boosts activation of immature brain cells: Adult neural stem cells play role in creating emotional context of memory (why Republicans are big aggressive entitled babies)
NASA/Marshall Solar Physics - Solar Cycle Prediction
One Year of the Moon in 2.5 Minutes
Cassini Mission on Vimeo

Zócalo Public Square :: Full Video
Asian gang 'ran two-year child prostitution ring with girls as young as 13' | Mail Online ("Asian" = "Muslim")
Disabled Gay Couple Kicked Out of Kentucky Public Pool, Because It's In The Bible Hazard, Kentucky (hometown of the Dukes)
One Year Car Free | Car Free Baltimore

In Third Circuit, Landmark Victories for Student Speech Limit Schools' Ability To Censor Students Online - FIRE
The Failure of American Schools - Magazine - The Atlantic By Joel Klein
The Triumph of New-Age Medicine - Magazine - The Atlantic
The Social Psychological Narrative — Or — What Is Social Psychology, Anyway? | Conversation | Edge

E3 Booth Babes Sexier Than Ever “Who Needs The Games!” | Sankaku Complex
YouTube - Bob Munden Fastest Gunslinger ever Unbelievable ("faster than the speed of light")

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Tripoli bides time as Gaddafi support ebbs away | World news | The Guardian Libya's intransigent leader appears increasingly isolated as capital's wary residents wait for rebellion to break through
$6.6bn in US cash for Iraq rebuilding 'stolen' - Middle East, World News - Independent.ie (yeah, "stolen")
Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - latimes.com U.S. Defense officials still cannot say what happened to $6.6 billion, sent by the planeload in cash and intended for Iraq's reconstruction after the start of the war.
Secret US and Afghanistan talks could see troops stay for decades | World news | The Guardian Russia, China and India concerned about 'strategic partnership' in which Americans would remain after 2014 (Obama's infinite war)
gulfnews : Trial of Emirati bloggers starts in Abu Dhabi In a closed-door trial, Emirati bloggers facing jail on charges of endangering UAE security plead not guilty (Obama studying precedent)
Mexico Drug War: 70 Percent Of Guns Seized Originate In U.S.
Palestinian State Vote Could Be 'Dangerous': EU A unilateral Palestinian move toward statehood could be "dangerous," the president of the EU parliament said Tuesday during a visit to the West Bank ("dangerous" to whom, dude?)

It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century Obama have recently upped the stakes with regard to hacking (Obama-Llama!)
Sony hackers target NHS computers | Society | The Guardian "Greetings… we're a somewhat known band of pirate-ninjas that go by LulzSec. Some time ago, we were traversing the internet for signs of enemy fleets. While you aren't considered an enemy – your work is of course brilliant – we did stumble upon several of your admin passwords. We mean you no harm and only want to help you fix your tech issues."
Gamasutra - News - Anonymous Attacks Spanish Police Site In Response To Sony Arrests

Giving aid to poor countries is hardly a great act of generosity | Global development | guardian.co.uk Rich countries might be going through some tough times but that doesn't change the fact that they owe the rest of the world

Fact-checking the GOP debate in New Hampshire - The Fact Checker - The Washington Post
Three Most Common Mistakes Made By So-Called Fact Checkers When Assessing GOP's Medicare Plan | TPMDC
Feds Calling Witnesses Before Secret Grand Jury Probing CIA Abuses | TPMMuckraker

Budget Deal to Get Complex as Cuts Are Decided - NYTimes.com
wcSxA.jpg (yes, Ron Paul is an insane liar)

Forget About Hoover Dam and Other Job-Growth Lessons: Ron Klain - Bloomberg (ex-Obama WH official spouts Republican line: payroll-tax cuts! no infrastructure! no multiplier effects!)

People Argue Just to Win, Scholars Assert - NYTimes.com
The Backfire Effect « You Are Not So Smart When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger (well, if you have a Republican brain, anyway)
What happens when a brain loses consciousness? 3-D images reveal answer | MNN - Mother Nature Network change in electrical activity deep within the brain, changing the activity of certain groups of brain cells and slowing communication between different parts of the brain
Debating the Value of College in America : The New Yorker - “American higher education is characterized by limited or no learning for a large proportion of students.”

Nuclear Power Safety Expert Sees the Light, Goes Solar - Miller-McCune
BBC News - Sterilisation: North Carolina grapples with legacy More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children.

Quantified Self Guide Welcome to the Complete QS Guide to Self-Tracking!
Two Spirits | A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures | Independent Lens | PBS
YouTube - Supakitch & Koralie Art

The Tweet Smell of Celebrity Success - Webuse.org Publications Explaining Variation in Twitter Adoption among a Diverse Group of Young Adults
Facebook juror and defendant guilty of contempt | UK news | guardian.co.uk Juror contacted acquitted defendant online during multimillion-pound drugs trial, causing it to collapse
All About Skimmers — Krebs on Security


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Maher Arar: My Rendition & Torture in Syrian Prison Highlights U.S. Reliance on Syria As An Ally
Syrian troops target villagers near Turkish border | World news | The Guardian Assad's forces use scorched earth policy to round up hundreds they claim to be in armed gangs in area north of Jisr al-Shughour (same tactics as Saddam)
Prolonged Libya effort unsustainable, warns Navy chief | UK news | The Guardian First Sea Lord says that if crisis continues beyond 90-day extension, government will have to examine priorities (running out of money)
Turkish arrests intensify global war between hacker activists and police | Technology | The Guardian Operation follows arrest of three alleged leaders of internet activist group Anonymous in Spain on Friday
Berlusconi's nuclear power plans crushed | World news | The Guardian Referendums see huge votes against PM's plans - a second setback in under two weeks
Drugs barons accused of destroying Guatemala's rainforest | World news | The Guardian (Obama's war on drugz)
Mexican crook: Gangsters arrange fights to death for entertainment | Top Story | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle Cartels have taken cruelty up a notch, says one drug trafficker: kidnapping bus passengers for gladiatorlike fights to the death (no limits to America's drugz war)

Second major 6.0 aftershock hits Christchurch - National - NZ Herald News
Missouri River Flooding: Towns Scramble For Protection As Peak Flows Near

BBC News - Lulz attacks: US orders review as Senate site hacked - The US recently said it would consider cyber attacks an "act of war", and reserved the right to respond to attacks with conventional means if they were found to have been orchestrated by a nation state
LulzSec versus Bethesda & Senate.gov - Pastebin.com
LulzSec hacks senate.gov
Why we secretly love LulzSec | Risky Business
IMF Blames State Actor for Hack | Emptywheel (and who do you suppose that could be?)
F.B.I. Giving Agents New Powers in Revised Manual - NYTimes.com significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention ... especially if they lacked a firm reason to suspect someone of wrongdoing (everyone is now a suspect)

Bankruptcy Court: DOMA Unconstitutionally Limits Same-Sex Married Couples From Joint Bankruptcy Filing - Poliglot
Bankruptcy Court rules Section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional (our so-called Constitutional lawyer has been defending an unConstitutional law)

Obama-Allied Groups Run Ads Seeking To Make Medicare Part Of GOP Presidential Debate
Open, and Revolting, Anti-Obama Racism at Fox - Jeffrey Goldberg - Politics - The Atlantic
Fox's Eric Bolling's Race Problem | Media Matters for America (Fox goes full KKK)

YouTube - Bump in the Road (Mittens attacks Obama with scary jobs ad)
Deficit Reduction Trap Sprung -- Republicans Campaigning On Jobs | OurFuture.org
Hullabaloo Pietism in the face - The sad fact is that the President has not conveyed a sense that he cares passionately about the problem of unemployment and very, very foolishly bought into the finance boys' advice that the key to economic success was in the hands of the bond vigilantes and confidence fairies (he can't even play one-dimensional chess)

Medicare Saves Money - NYTimes.com Every once in a while a politician comes up with an idea that’s so bad, so wrongheaded, that you’re almost grateful. For really bad ideas can help illustrate the extent to which policy discourse has gone off the rails (Liebercare!)
The Campaign to Cut Government Waste: Efficiency Theater
Balloon Juice » Republican Governor Demands Science Farmers have complained in recent weeks that their crops are rotting in the fields and orchards because migrant workers afraid of deportation are bypassing Georgia in droves, even though the law doesn’t take effect until July 1. Deal, who signed the legislation last month and has been a strong supporter of immigration reform, said he wants to get beyond anecdotal evidence and look at actual numbers (facts! we want facts!)
Direct Job Creation: Why? Why Not?? | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy There are over 20 million gov’t jobs, about 17% of the total right now.
Biden campaign contributions on dates in Tigani charges | The News Journal | delawareonline.com (the whole state is corrupt, just like RI)
Guilty plea in Del. campaign donation scheme - BusinessWeek The scheme may have involved Vice President Joe Biden's 2008 presidential campaign,
Obama Campaign Advised White House Staff To Give Top Donor Sense Of Access The donor, Ed Haddock, the CEO of Full Sail University, a for-profit technical college in Orlando (all you need to know)
Gary Hart: Should the President Be a Moral Voice? Many thought his race, together with his record of social activism, might cause him to be a voice of conscience (having neither a conscience or a moral center, probably not)

How Educated Is Your Legislature? - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education Where America's 7,000 lawmakers went (or didn't go) to college—and whether it matters

I Ruined the Economy and All I Got Were These Lousy Tax Cuts Will the GOP’s budget plan spark a double-dip recession?
How to avoid a lost decade - The Washington Post We averted Depression by acting decisively in 2008 and 2009. Now we can avert a lost decade by recognizing current economic reality (Rethugs won't; Wapo prints op-ed; cant bring themselves to mention who wrote it by name)
Larry Summers: The American Economy is Sick Safely removed from the Obama White House, where he was a prime architect of economic policy, Larry Summers now tells us what most regular people have known for too long: The economy is ailing and in grave need of help.
Obama Reaches Out to Wall Street Donors - NYTimes.com (he shined their shoes, wants big tip)
Larry Summers: More Stimulus Needed For Jobs Crisis (Obama will continue to listen to the deficit hawks)
Research Links Financial Crisis To Revolving-Door Lobbyists
Bank Of America Faces New Probe; New York Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Mortgage Securitization

Ranking 37th — Measuring the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System | Health Policy and Reform (USA! USA! We're number 1! at killing people and locking up mostly black drug users)
Fox's Carlson Falsely Claims 35% Of CA Students Paying In-State Tuition "Were Illegals" | Media Matters for America In fact, only 0.34 percent of undergraduates in the University of California system in the fall of 2008 were "potentially undocumented" students who received the in-state tuition rate. (Fox aims their bullshit firehose of lies at you)
Sticker Shock at Vegas’s Glitziest Mall - NYTimes.com Crystals is also the dark heart of CityCenter, the $8.5 billion, 67-acre resort and entertainment complex that has become a legendary symbol of prerecession hubris ... Who buys this stuff? She looks at me as though I am an alien, an idiot, and says nothing. “Celebrities?” I venture. “Anyone,” she replies, grimacing with disdain. Never mind that I haven’t seen anyone make a single purchase all evening (a superhighend mall attached to a casino)

A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System - NASA Science "The Voyager probes appear to have entered a strange realm of frothy magnetic bubbles," says astronomer Merav Opher of Boston University. "This is very surprising."

YouTube - Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address
Graduation banquet speech raising questions | Edmonton | News | Edmonton Sun - ‘velluvial matrix,’
Medical dean’s convocation speech angers U of A students “I just graduated with my PhD and if I did something like that, I would be expelled.”
Embattled UMass chancellor demands inquiry into leak - The Boston Globe Holub, whose three-year $375,000-a-year contract expires next month, asserts his career is being used as a “political football’’ (or maybe you just suck, Robert Holub)

There Are 10 Times As Many Atheists as Mormons: When Will Non-Believers Become a Political Force? | | AlterNet The rise of atheists as political players would have positive effects on American society and possibly even the world as a whole.
Choosing my religion | Science | guardian.co.uk One non-religious person contemplates and compares some of the costs and benefits associated with several of the world's major religions
Rabbi Riskin declares Christians have entered through revelation into a special relationship with the God of Israel | The Book of Doctrines and Opinions
As the Generational Winds Blow | eJewish Philanthropy: Your Jewish Philanthropy Resource t is anticipated that forty thousand senior management positions a year will open up in public service organizations if Baby Boomers choose to retire and follow the pattern of prior generations.

Has young adult fiction become too dark? - Teenagers - Salon.com A scorching Wall Street Journal editorial rips apart the genre -- and lights up the Internet (WSJ doing their let them only read Judy Blume thing)
Young Adult Fiction Is Not All Doom and Gloom « ShelfTalker
‘A Frightening Time in America’: An Interview With David Foster Wallace by Ostap Karmodi | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books the main character of much of modern cinema and pop-literature—all of pop-culture—is a black briefcase full of money
A history of modern music | Music | guardian.co.uk

How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
Hacker News | How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper

FBI Busts Man Duped In Facebook Ploy | The Smoking Gun
Charges Dropped In Facebook Spy Vs. Spy Case | The Smoking Gun

A lesson from Zappo's: The Like button is not a social media strategy - Social Media
'Gay Girl in Damascus' Blogger Admits to Writing Fiction Disguised as Fact - NYTimes.com ("Amina")
A Gay (Straight) Girl (Man) in Damascus (Edinburgh) | KABOBfest
Infovore » @towerbridge: a bit more clarity (UK steals twitter account)
Seeking Address: Why Cyber Attacks Are So Difficult to Trace Back to Hackers: Scientific American Sony, Google, RSA and now Citigroup are just some of the prominent victims of cyber attacks as defenses at large organizations prove porous and attackers elude detection
Groupon: The golden nugget | Technology | The Guardian
How to Rip a DVD to Your Computer - Lifehacker
What free software should everyone have? : AskReddit
Everything Search Engine
Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards
Copy your files faster with TeraCopy
Exact Audio Copy
Share Documents and Files Online | Microsoft Office Live
About Rainmeter | Rainmeter.net

061211
Explosions In Pakistan Kill At Least 34 As CIA Director Leon Panetta Visits Islamabad
U.N.: 368 civilians die in Afghanistan in May - CNN.com (Obama's useless war)

Bilderberg 2011: Lord Mandelson's nature walk | World news | guardian.co.uk From nowhere, like something from a dream, a distinguished lady, dressed from top to toe in white, whooshed serenely past security and swanned to the front of the power walkers.
Bilderberg 2011: The opposition steps up | World news | guardian.co.uk Charlie Skelton witnesses an uninvited Swiss MP attempting to gain access
Bilderberg Meetings - St. Moritz, Switzerland 9-12 June 2011

Courthouse News Service Torture Victims Say Cisco Systems Helped China Hound and Surveil

Daniel Ellsberg: All the crimes Richard Nixon committed against me are now legal – In the Arena - CNN.com Blogs (progress)
Tom Engelhardt: 100% Scared: How the National Security Complex Grows on Terrorism Fears (the military-industrial-media fear complex)
Bush V. Gore Decision Looks Even More Disgraceful 10 Years Later - The Daily Beast even if historians weren't debating whether George W. Bush was the worst president ever or just since Grant.

Arizona Wildfire Spews Throat-Burning Smoke Into New Mexico (New Mexico considers 1000 ft wall and a moat)
Weiner photo scandal: Congressman to take leave of absence to seek treatment - latimes.com The New York Democrat insists he won't resign amid his online sexual scandal, but says he will get professional help.
Political Animal - GOPers weigh in on candidate attributes Mitt Romney’s religion is far less of a concern to potential Republican voters than it once was, and a candidate’s race or sex are non-issues for vast majorities. But if a GOP contender supports gay civil unions — or has committed marital infidelity — all bets are off.

Ten Charts that Prove the United States Is a Low-Tax Country Our Citizens and Corporations Pay Much Less Than They Once Did and Much Less Than in Most Other Countries (and it shows)
Too Big to Fail, or Too Trifling for Oversight? - NYTimes.com
Mr. President, Why Haven’t There Been Criminal Investigations of Wall Street Elites? | Firedoglake

I.B.M. Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits - NYTimes.com
Context and variation: Iron-deficiency is not something you get just for being a lady
Starlite, the nuclear blast-defying plastic that could change the world - Telegraph Two decades ago amateur scientist Maurice Ward invented a material that could resist the force of 75 Hiroshimas. So why haven't we all heard about it?
Ritonic revitalizing Ritalin tonic brightens the second half of life (for grandmothers)

Sunday: Suburban Soccer Mom Values « The Confluence The suburban security frenzy is way out of control and ruining our children’s childhoods (parents move to suburbs, buy Lexus SUV, hire bodyguards for their precious kids because it's too dangerous out there)
Two Women Ticketed For Eating Doughnuts In A Brooklyn Playground: Gothamist (might have been predators)
"Doughnut" Tickets: NYPD Doesn't Track "Unaccompanied Adults In Playground" Summonses : Gothamist

FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: David Mamet Mamet’s book, with its dismissal of global warming, objections to state-supported spending programmes and scathing hostility to liberals, often reads like someone who is grappling with these well-worn topics for the first time (+"crazy about Sarah Palin" +Jewish neo-con +knows nothing about economics +rich asshole )
Southern Baptists Have Fewest Baptisms Since The 1950s And Are Losing Members - "These latest numbers should be received with a broken spirit and a God-given determination to reach people for Christ."
Longform.org's Guide to the porn industry: From the inspiration for Boogie Nights to the twisted psyche of a professional porn reviewer, five great reads about the business of smut. - By Max Linsky - Slate Magazine From the inspiration for Boogie Nights to the twisted psyche of a professional porn reviewer, five great reads about the business of smut.

Mary R's ADC 1023ADC (NDE)


Top 12 Firefox Add-ons for Photographers | Yanik's Photo School
SCOTUS forces AT&T to share lines needed for interconnection (dent in their monopoly)
Hackers And Clouds: How Secure Is The Web? : NPR

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Turkey says 4,000 flee Syria, thousands more at border | Reuters have fled to Turkey to escape a crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad and thousands more are sheltering near the border
Dana Rohrabacher, U.S. Congressman, Suggests That Iraq Pay Back U.S. For War Cost (or he'll foreclose on them and sell Iraq to the IMF)
Video captures shooting of unarmed man, sparks unprecedented anger - CNN.com

Abolish the Imperial Project | From Guatemala to Iraq, U.S. imperialism has harmed our subjects and our citizens (but like totally benefited bigcorps)

Voters have up to five times more influence in early primaries (see Iowa nutballs)

FreakOutNation » Study: GOP Plan Will Leave 44 Million Americans Without Medicaid (they should have been more enterprising)
Sarah Palin's Emails Confirm She Needs Teleprompter For Interviews (gotta love their hypocrisy)
On Ensigns, Vitters, and Weiners « The Rational Middle
Anthony Weiner Seeks Treatment, Requests Leave Of Absence As Top Democrats Call For Resignation (they always eat their own)
Daily Kos: Concern Over Republican Embrace Of The Ayn Rand Poison (Republican ideology is anti-Christian but that won't let that stop them from drinking the poison)
Arizona Wildfire Spreads, Health Conditions Worsen (Red State asks Big Gov to bail them out ... where's our handouts?)
Journalists Arrested, Charged With Disorderly Conduct for Filming In Wisconsin Capitol | Crooks and Liars

5 WikiLeaks Hits of 2011 That Are Turning the World on Its Head -- And That the Media Are Ignoring | World | AlterNet
Quote of the Day: June 11, 2011: "Richard Nixon, if he were alive today, might take bittersweet satisfaction to know that he was not the last smart president to prolong unjustifiably a senseless, unwinnable war, at great cost in human life... He would probably also feel vindicated (and envious) that ALL the crimes he committed against me -- which forced his resignation facing impeachment -- are now legal."-- Daniel Ellsberg (thanks, Obama)
BOP: Quick Facts Drug Offenses: 102,391 (50.8 %) (Bureau of Prisons: your prohibition at work)

Thoughts on Voodoo - NYTimes.com With Tim Pawlenty — who was supposed to be a sensible Republican — going all-in for high voodoo (T-Paw is a joke)

Exclusive: Swiss, U.S. in talks on tax probe settlement | Reuters that would let several Swiss and European banks join a common settlement and avoid potential U.S. prosecution for helping wealthy Americans dodge taxes, senior persons briefed on the matter said (bankers never go to jail)

Global Warming Brings Unusual Springtime Snowpack Decline in the West, New Study Finds | Climate Central (karma for voting Republican)
Nearly 1 In 7 People On Earth Is Disabled, Survey Finds : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

Evangelicals Wade Into Circumcision Debate "While evangelical denominations traditionally neither require nor forbid circumcision, we join Jews and Muslims in opposing this ban and standing together for religious freedom" (free to mutilate their babies)
Council quizzed over zombie invasion plans by resident - Telegraph Leicester City Council was asked to explain its emergency plans to tackle a zombie invasion, in a bizarre Freedom of Information request.
YouTube - 2Cellos (Sulic & Hauser) - Welcome To The Jungle
YouTube - One - Apocalyptica
Can there be peace in the Marvel Universe? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » Some thoughts on mutants and labour economics
YouTube - A Guide To Taking Better Pictures...
internet k-hole

Donkey Mountain: Jefferson On Inequality (too complicated and "nuanced" for politicians and media to understand)
YouTube - The Rascals People-Got to be Free (Original)

1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup (in one tiny city; bigcable will not let this happen in America)

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Syria Protest Crackdown Leaves 21 Dead During Assault On North

Robert Gates: Shaky Libya campaign shows NATO's weaknesses, Robert Gates says - latimes.com In a Brussels address, the outgoing U.S. defense chief says the alliance faces 'collective military irrelevance' after years of inadequate spending by most members (everyone needs to spend more money on their military)
Olympics 2012: FIFA bans headscarves for Iranian women’s soccer team - The Washington Post
India and Pakistan: The world's most dangerous border | The Economist To reduce the risk of terror, the West must help defuse tension between India and Pakistan
Pakistan and India: A rivalry that threatens the world | The Economist Pakistan’s dangerous fondness for jihadis, the Taliban and nuclear weapons is rooted in its fears of India
Why is Kashmir so hotly disputed? - By Brendan I. Koerner - Slate Magazine The conflict began with a gift of goats.
From Abbottabad to Worse | Politics | Vanity Fair Hating the United States—which funds Islamabad’s army and nuclear program to the humiliating tune of $3 billion a year—Pakistan takes its twisted, cowardly revenge by harboring the likes of the late Osama bin Laden. But the hypocrisy is mutual, and the shame should be shared.

Germany Says Bean Sprouts Likely E.Coli Source - NYTimes.com (they always blame the South for their own screw-ups)
'Anonymous' PlayStation Hackers Arrested

WikiLeaks Grand Jury investigation widens - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The attempt to criminalize WikiLeaks is clearly a leading prong in the Obama administration's truly odious and dangerous war on whistleblowers

Massachusetts Republican: Undocumented Immigrant Rape Victims ‘Should Be Afraid To Come Forward’ | ThinkProgress Massachusetts GOP state Rep. Ryan Fattman (wants a whole class of rape-able women; wants to deport American citizen children; you are an asshole, Fattman)
Racist Pro-Life Billboards Target Latina Women
Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing | World news | The Guardian Rush Limbaugh joins supporters accusing Thatcher's circle of disgracing former PM with 'Palin is nuts' comment
Sarah Palin Emails Released By Alaska Government
The Sarah Palin Email Saga | Mother Jones
Sarah Palin's Secret Emails | Mother Jones (2008)
Washington Post (palinemails) on Twitter
First Read - First Thoughts: Palin vs. the GOP establishment
Crivella West - Palin Email Collection
Sarah Palin emails: The Alaska archive - Los Angeles Times
Balloon Juice » From Beyond The Grave a devastating act of ultimate revenge, a dying Elizabeth Ed­wards recorded a bombshell secret videotape for prosecutors - Weiner, on the other hand was all “I’ll just send random chicks on the internet pictures of my cock for the lulz. ROFLCOPTER! What could go wrong?”
The Canadian Press: Romney in hot water for belief that climate change is real; at odds with GOP (Republicans have a "bias" against science and facts)
Kay Bailey Hutchison: Obama Has A 'Bias' Against Texas We didn't get the help in the wildfires that I think any other state would have gotten," said Hutchison (after you defunded everything, stupid asshole)
Callista Gingrich, Newt Gingrich's Wife, Under Scrutiny Amid Campaign Upheaval Gingrich's third wife also is being cited by people close to him as a key factor in the staff revolt that has left his presidential campaign on life support.
Key Question For Wis. Dems: To Run Fake Candidates, Or Not? | TPMDC Republicans have declared a strategy to plant fake candidates in the Democratic primaries
Why Crime Keeps Falling - WSJ.com The economic downturn has not led to more crime—contrary to the experts' predictions. So what explains the disconnect? Big changes in American culture, says James Q. Wilson
Should You Post a Photo of Your Penis on Twitter Flowchart | EgoTV

With Obama doing little on jobs, allies grow frustrated - Yahoo! News (if he pivots any more we'll all get dizzy)
10 Years Later, How Bush-Era Tax Cuts Changed America [charts]
U.S., Switzerland Talk Regularizing Secret Overseas U.S. Accounts
Sugar, or the Changing Nature of “Confidence” in the Administration’s Economic Policy | Rortybomb (Obama ignored Summers' and Romer's advice for jobs-creation; went with his profoundly conservative gut feelings and waited for the confidence fairies)
No More Fed Easing Unless Stocks Drop More: Tepper - CNBC
Pensionscare - NYTimes.com that crushing pension deficit, which everyone knew was going to bankrupt all state and local governments? Mainly a creation of right-wing propaganda. Are you surprised? (Republicans still bleeding the body-politic)
Foreclosed From Iraq: Father Seeks To Preserve Home As Son Fights Abroad
Goldman Sachs Pushes Back Against Senate Report This week, celebrity journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin and widely cited analyst Richard Bove each changed his mind about the firm after meeting with Goldman employees
Major Banks Likely to Get Reprieve on New Capital Rules - CNBC (their profits aren't high enough, you pay, again)
Universal Preschool: An Actually Smart Longterm Deficit Plan | FDL Action (but Republinuts hate education, so ...)
Joe Lieberman's Plan to Make Health Care Worse and More Expensive - NYTimes.com (our very seriously evil people)
Hullabaloo: Hope I get old before I get sick (Liebercare throws everyone but granny under the bus)

Are humans extinction-proof? Examining our evolutionary past suggests it might once have been the perfect catalyst for our extinction. But now?
Study finds why smokers gain weight when they quit - Boston.com It turns out that nicotine can rev up brain cells that normally signal people to stop eating when they're full,
News: 'Not Your Parents' Pot' - Inside Higher Ed the research cited in the conference presentation is "the same misinformation and propaganda that they've been spreading for years, and it's unfortunate that it's coming from institutions of higher education."
News: Red Grader, Blue Grader - Inside Higher Ed Democratic professors appear to be "more egalitarian" than their Republican counterparts when it comes to grading, meaning that more of the Democratic grades are in the middle. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to award very high grades and very low grades.Another key difference is that black students tend to fare better with Democrats than with Republicans - "Our results suggest that the allocation of grades is associated with the world view or ideology of professors," the authors write (Bell Curve)
PLoS Biology: The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias
A mismeasured Mismeasurement of Man | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine
Gould's "Unconscious Manipulation of Data" | john hawks weblog

What Can You Say About a "Conceived In Rape" Tour? | RH Reality Check But as the anti-abortion faction gets more power in the country, it's now turning into the rule, not the exception.
Santorum Calls Abortion Exceptions To Protect Health Of The Mother ‘Phony’ | ThinkProgress
Laws defining fertilized eggs as people make room for major legal abuses.
Truth Wins Out - Truth Wins Out Calls On Comedian Tracy Morgan to Respond to Allegations of Anti-Gay Tirade Onstage at Nashville Show
Tracy Morgan Has Some Unforgettable Quotes - Socialite Life
160 million missing girls - The Boston Globe Sex selection’ is creating a new endangered species: women. A journalist investigates the countries with too many men.
A gay teen describes her experience at a Utah brainwashing facility : troubledteens (kidnapped and brainwashed)
Interview: Abducted Queer Teen Xandir to Appear in San Francisco Today | violet blue ® :: open source sex
Video: 'Sissy' therapy still has influence – Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs
Commission a Sketch to Help Pay Legal Fees of Girl Who Refused to Cheer Her Attacker - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews Thanks to Silsbee High School and Superintendent Richard Bain Jr., for rewarding the young woman's bravery with the tacit message to shut up because winning sports games is more important than her assault, and for affirming yet again to girls and women around the world that seeking justice for a sexual assault is the fastest and easiest way to get victimized all over again, except in more public and expensive ways (Texas)
Rakheem Bolton : Ms Magazine Blog
Seriously? You HAVE to cheer for your rapist? | The Stay-at-Home Feminist Mom
Help the Cheerleader
Cheerleader's protest after assault was not 'frivolous' | SE Smith | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk When the US supreme court fails to support a cheerleader who took a stand against her attacker, a girl really has no way to win
The Grid TO | Dawn of a new gay Why you won’t find the younger generation partying in the Village or plastering rainbows on their bumpers (post-mos)
Post-Mos and the Dangers of Privilege - Torontoist - a vague alternative for the new queer lifestyle defined merely as not-Village.
The Grid TO | Why we published “Dawn of a new gay”

Sloshed: Maybe We Should Be Judging Wines by Their Labels -- Grub Street New York


Robert McIntosh wins $20,000 settlement after arrest for calling Boulder deputy a "f*cking ass" - Denver News - The Latest Word
LiveLeak.com - Holly Pietrzak - "More teens are having fuck"
YouTube - eHarmony Video Bio
YouTube - Jeremy Kyle - Sexual Contact (The Remix)

YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious from Yahoo
Google Earth Gallery
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060911
As Obama Mulls Afghan Drawdown, War Weariness Grows On Capitol Hill | TPMDC (10 yrs for nothing; military wants another surge)
Afghan Sitrep: A Grunt from the Front Sounds Off - Battleland - TIME.com Ask yourself who is better plugged into reality: The colonel and Seale or O'Hanlon and the Kagans? "It's sheer madness, and so far as I can tell, in the mainstream media and reputable publications, it is going almost entirely without challenge." (the war-cons +"hundreds" of maimed US soldiers in Obama's fantasy war)
U.S. Intensifying Covert War In Yemen, Reports The New York Times (Obama loves his wars)
Michael Leiter Resigns: Counterterrorism Chief Steps Down: AP Sources after nearly five years at his post
Leon Panetta Confirmation Hearings: Every Part Of Defense Budget 'On The Table'

WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election | The Nation (Obama supported election fraud; why he hates wikileaks)
China rejects U.N. claim on Tibetan monks' disapperance | Reuters (what monks?)

Thomas Drake, Alleged NSA Whistleblower, May Have Criminal Charges Dropped - The government will resist revealing too much about its mammoth electronic intelligence service by strictly limiting what is said and shown in open court, and has already withdrawn some classified evidence, saying it could disclose a sensitive target of NSA eavesdroppers (Obama's phony case falls apart)
U.S. Can't Justify Its Drug War Spending: New Reports - Toke of the Town (Obama doesn't need to steenking justification)

GOP Freshman Comes Full Circle On Whether Social Security Is A Pyramid Scheme | TPMDC the life expectancy for people who are of retirement age has barely increased at all. Actuaries project Social Security to remain solvent for more than 20 years under current revenue and benefit formulas (Obama agrees, SS in crisis, needs to be fixed - gotten rid of - now!)
Pre-Resignation, Louisiana Official Gave Trainwreck Testimony On Health Care Privatization (video) | TPMMuckraker (Jindal looting the health insurance fund)
Wis. Elections Board Certifies Recalls Against Three Dems -- After Long Debate About Republican Election Fraud | TPMDC affidavits from people alleging various dirty tricks, ranging from claims that they were misled into signing -- being told that it was to support the legislator in question, or to recall Walker, etc -- to claims from some individuals that they did not sign their names at all, but were forged as having done so (possibly by getting their names from the phonebook) (fraud ok if by Repubicans)
Cash Strapped NJ Transit Takes Bids For Naming Rights To Stations, Trains | TPMDC (Christie considering selling naming-rights to whole state)
Chris Christie Anti-Union Bill In New Jersey Would Restrict Collective Bargaining Rights (happy now, Republican-voting union members?)
Newt Gingrich 2012 Senior Campaign Aides Resign En Masse: AP Sources campaign manager, senior strategists and key aides in early delegate-selection states all resigned on Thursday, a mass exodus that leaves his hopes of winning the Republican nomination in tatters.
Balloon Juice » What will the children think? No one ever asks “what will the children think about genocide in the Sudan?” or “what will the children think about the government torturing people?” (America is Prudistan)
Balloon Juice » Hard questions Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said today, in oral arguments before the Eleventh Circuit, that the individual mandate provisions of the health-care law “may violate the constitution of Ayn Rand, but they do not violate the Constitution of the United States”.

The Pivot | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy (if Obama could message, which he has no apparent interest in doing, ever)
Simon Johnson: The Banking Emperor Has No Clothes - NYTimes.com Mr. Geithner’s speech contained three major mistakes: his history is completely wrong, his logic is deeply flawed, and his interpretation of the Dodd-Frank reforms does not mesh with the legal facts regarding how the failure of a global megabank could be handled. Together, these mistakes suggest that one of our most powerful policy makers is headed very much in the wrong direction.
Obama Team Eyes Employer Payroll Tax Break - Bloomberg - The unemployment rate in May rose to 9.1 percent, the highest level this year (always cuts for the rich, jobs not on his agenda, self-imposed "political constraints")
Citigroup Computer Breach: Hackers Gain Access To Customer Data At Citi Account Online, Company Confirms giving hackers access to the data of hundreds of thousands of bank card customers.
How Long Before The Unemployed Find Work Or Give Up? the average unemployed person had been looking for work for 39.7 weeks as of May (the median length of unemployment rose to 22 weeks).
Political Animal - It’s not just what gets cut, it’s when Yes, 103 House Republicans this week told the GOP leadership that they want at least $380 billion in spending cuts — just for 2012 — or they’ll try to block the debt-ceiling increase and cause a recession on purpose. The NYT noted that “analysts across the spectrum dismissed the conservatives’ plan,” with sane economists concluding that such cuts “would provoke a recession,” and thereby increase the deficit in the near term (Republican terrorist hold America hostage; Obama will negotiate)
The Penalty for Default, the Payoff to Austerity - NYTimes.com Why, it’s almost as if defaulting on debts run up by runaway bankers and letting your currency depreciate works better — even from the point of view of investors — than socializing private-sector losses and grimly sticking with a fixed exchange rate (Iceland was smart in defaulting instead of letting the IMF kill their country)

Pill to mend a broken heart 'developed by scientists' - Telegraph A pill that triggers the heart to repair itself after an attack is being developed by scientists in a major step towards one of the "holy grails" of medical research.
Summers Are Going To Get Hotter, Stanford Scientists Say (Republicans say, let them eat air-conditioning)
Guest Blog: The Renaissance Man: How to Become a Scientist Over and Over Again [Video]

Pill to mend a broken heart 'developed by scientists' - Telegraph A pill that triggers the heart to repair itself after an attack is being developed by scientists in a major step towards one of the "holy grails" of medical research
The GOP Takes Its War on Women to the States | People For the American Way

Freakonomics » The “Daughter Test” of Government Prohibitions (And Why I’m so Angry About the U.S. Internet Poker Crackdown)
The Daughter Test
Steven Levitt's Morality | Mother Jones
The Daughter Test - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast

In Search of the True Self - NYTimes.com
Ideology and the self: The politics of authenticity | The Economist
First Person Plural - Magazine - The Atlantic

In Historic Flooding On Mississippi River, A Missed Opportunity To Rebuild Louisiana
Streetsblog.net » Leapfrog Development Rears Its Ugly Head Outside of Fresno - The developer of “Millerton New Town” has selected a totally isolated location 12 miles from the city of Fresno for the site of a 2,800-home development (for retirees! they can use their PMS's)
Local Architects Not Impressed By Apple's iSpaceship | TPM Idea Lab (starchetects at work designing terrible buildings)

Chicago State's Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them
Roxanne Martino, Chicago Executive, Resigns From Notre Dame Board When Pro-Choice Support Exposed
Casey Neistat: New York Man Gets Ticket For Not Riding In Bike Lane (video)
Robert Hughes, Jr.: Are Custody Decisions Biased in Favor of Mothers? mothers receive primary custody 68-88% of the time, fathers receive primary custody 8-14%, and equal residential custody is awarded in only 2-6% of the cases.
Capital City Alternative School Sued For Allegedly Shackling Students To Poles For Hours
New Tennessee law makes "offensive" online pictures illegal | Nerve.com (whatever Christian Republicans think is offensive)

YouTube - Queen's "Somebody to Love" by Genghis Barbie
... and what will be left of them?: Rhythm Of Cruelty - There are few more relentlessly tragic and depressing stories in the history of showbusiness than that of Lena Zavaroni

He's texting another woman all day - Love Letters - Relationships questions, advice and more
Wi-Fi Sync and Wi-Fi Sync: An amazing coincidence? You decide | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Are you also exposing your private parts to strangers on Facebook? | Blogads
Now Citibank Hacked, Though Admits Breach One Month Late - Techland - TIME.com
Adult sexting tied to power, 'unlimited partners' - usatoday.com
Top Apps Put Personal Info At Risk, ViaForensics Study Finds
ASCII by Jason Scott / FaceFacts

060811
Afghan nation-building programs not sustainable, report says - The Washington Post the Performance-Based Governors Fund, which is authorized to distribute up to $100,000 a month in U.S. funds to individual provincial leaders for use on local expenses and development projects. In some provinces, it says, “this amount represents a tidal wave of funding” that local officials are incapable of “spending wisely.” (stimulus for Afganistan!)
Decline and fall of the American empire | Business | The Guardian The economic powerhouse of the 20th century emerged stronger from the Depression. But faced with cultural decay, structural weaknesses and reliance on finance, can the US do it again? (no, see China)

Atom watchdog chides bombing of Syrian site in '07 - Courant.com for "allegedly" bombing to rubble a suspected Syrian reactor site in 2007, saying the case should have been reported to his agency instead (unilateral Israel doing what Israel does)
Israeli left-wing leader: IDF used 'excessive force' in Naksa Day protests - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News soldiers are 'trigger-happy' when it comes to Palestinians yet soft on 'violent' Jewish settlers; Israeli Arab MK Jamal Zahalka, calls IDF killing of protesters a 'war crime.'
A Time of Retribution: Paying with Life and Limb for the Crimes of Nazi Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International millions of ethnic Germans in regions that are today part of Eastern Europe were expelled -- often under horrendous circumstances. It has been proven that at least 473,000 people died as they fled or were expelled. The Nazis' crimes had been far worse, but the suffering of ethnic Germans was immense.

German Intelligence Report: Increase in Left-Wing Extremism Sparks Concern - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International eft-wing extremism is on the rise in Germany
Wikileaks: Children under care of Irish government ended up in brothels | Irish News | IrishCentral Government agency admits they didn’t keep track of numbers (for pedophile priests; Vatican doing human trafficking)

The Top Incomes Database

The Worst Thing About Weinergate? The Total Obliteration of Sexual Privacy by Ideologues Like Andrew Breitbart | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet (it's what Conservatives do)
pandagon.net America has quietly become more prudish in the past few years, and this is a very bad thing (Weinergate and the ick-ification of private behavior)
vE6mW.jpg (now known as the "Weinerface")
ANALYSIS: Pawlenty’s Tax Plan Would Cost $7.8 Trillion Over Ten Years, Triple The Size Of Bush Tax Cuts | ThinkProgress (ReCrooks at work)
Whiskey Fire: Stop Prager If You've Heard This Before. You've Heard This Before. "Jews are generally considered intelligent" --
Daily Kos :: State of the Nation The vote was on a bill authored by Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) to delay a provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that caps the amount that banks can charge merchants for processing debit card transactions, the so-called swipe fee (way to go, Blue-Dog Dem)

FT.com / Comment / Opinion - The global fallout of a eurozone collapse
AMERICAblog News: Geithner is driving the economic agenda, which means Obama reelection strategy, too (we're doomed)
Treasury’s Timothy Geithner finds his footing - The Washington Post (and what does this say about Obama?)
Origins Of The Mistaken Pivot To Deficits | ThinkProgress (Geitner (and Orzag), not Summers, destoyed the economy and Obama can't judge people or ideas for shit or its blinded by his Republicanism)
Colbert or Goolsbee: Who’s the Clown? | Accuracy.Org
The Sideshow June 2011 Archive Time for the pitchforks and torches, already (Goolsbee: "we're going to be in a very happy place" +Colbert: "You're agreeing that the government has never created one job.")
New Statesman - The IMF has no credibility in forecasting the UK economy Sadly, the UK economy did not grow at all over the last six months. Consumer confidence has collapsed; business confidence is weakening; employment growth has slowed sharply; house prices are falling and the number of mortgage approvals is falling; business lending is down and there remain real risks of deflation, which I guess John Lipsky, acting head of the IMF, hasn't spotted (who could have predicted?)
Wow, Richard Koo UNLOADS On Paul Krugman: He Got It Wrong On QE2, And Now Obama Has An Awful Situation
Not All Businessmen Are Smart, You Know « The Baseline Scenario
The fallacy of financial regulation: neglect of the shadow banking system | Economists' Forum | Economics blog from the Financial Times – FT.com (and even Obama's non-reform was blocked by ReCrooks)
Overhaul of Financial Regulations Is Mired in Details and Dissent - NYTimes.com (it was designed to do as little as possible, guys)

Is Apparent US Conspiracy with Cisco about Wiretapping? | Emptywheel - the current US Attorney in NDCA, Melinda Haag,a came from a firm–Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe–that does a lot of work for Cisco.
» Know Your Enemy Better: the Top 10 Federal Contractors, all working for the Military - Irregular Times (and their network of lobbyists)
War on the internet: privacy, personal security and anonymisation | Crikey

Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds (and hid it for 10 years)
Drinking coffee may bring on hallucinations, warn scientists | Mail Online researchers described caffeine as ‘the most commonly used psychoactive drug’.
The first accurate map of how green the Earth really is - io9
Six in 10 Americans wouldn't vote for an atheist: Good news for New Atheists? : Thoughts from Kansas as in 2007, 61% of Americans say they'd be less likely to vote for someone who did not believe in God.
The Sun lets loose a HUGE explosion | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Geeked on Goddard » Spectacular prominence eruption on the sun! Don’t miss this!
Study finds new bee viruses, offers baseline to study colony collapse
NASA - Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Tornado Track near Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Larry Sanger Blog » Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?
Cryonics and Technological Inevitability | chronosphere
Alchemists, Astronomers, and Wild Men: A History of the Mad Scientist, Part One - io9
BBC News - New elements added to chemistry's periodic table

NASA - Portrait of Shuttle and Station
Earth from Above a collection of aerial photography... - justpaste.it

SWAT team launch dawn raid on family home to collect woman's unpaid student loans | Mail Online (Dept of Ed has its own SWAT teams)
SWAT team busts into house over student loan default | Raw Replay (Obama's thug-state)
Box Turtle Bulletin » What Are Little Boys Made Of?
Daily Kos: George Rekers’ First Victim
AC360 special report: "The Sissy Boy Experiment" – CNN Press Room - CNN.com Blogs (Christian facists try to "cure" "pre-homosexual" behavior, ruin lives)
Reporters find tragic story amid embarrassing scandal - CNN.com
Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says - CNN.com
Conservative group: Fake eviction notices were 'meant to startle people' | Detroit Free Press | freep.com (conservative assholes being assholes)
3-Way Street on Vimeo (four people killed or seriously injured on NYC streets every day)
The 5 Least Romantic Keys to a Happy Relationship | Cracked.com
Cosmo sex facts: Confessions from a fact-checker at Cosmopolitan magazine. - By Katherine Goldstein - Slate Magazine What I learned while freelancing at Cosmopolitan.
Our History: Letters to the Children of Troy, May 1971 | Troy Public Library

Terminator the Second by Husky Jackal Theater — Kickstarter
YouTube - Fembots, Advertising and Male Fantasy
YouTube - Time For A Bath
YouTube - Full version slow mo Carlton Draught ad
YouTube - [Korea's Got Talent] tvN Ep.1 Sung-bong Choi.avi
Extremities on Vimeo

Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey
Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA | Reporters' Roundtable Podcast - CNET Blogs
Troy Hunt: A brief Sony password analysis
How to get around Facebook's new face recognition | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au
Canadanian elections: Twitter used to breach ban on broadcasting results | Crikey
Vf7PK.png (LULZSec wins Blackberry security challenge; declines $10K prize; did it for the Lulz)

060711
Daytime NATO Airstrikes Hit Tripoli Near Gaddafi's Compound

Circle of 13: Anonymous Message to NATO t has come to our attention that a NATO draft report has classified Anonymous a potential „threat to member states’ security”, and that you seek retaliation against us.

Meagan Broussard Speaks Out About Anthony Weiner Photos, Twitter Scandal
The joys of repressed voyeuristic titillation - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com This is just pure mucking around in the private, consensual, unquestionably legal private sexual affairs of someone for partisan gain, voyeuristic fun and the soothing fulfillment of judgmental condemnation.
Snow Job: When “Conservative Journalism” Is Just Purposeful Propaganda | Media Matters for America conservative journalism is often nothing more than sloppy propaganda designed to deceive and to inflame partisan passions. It' a nasty brand of misinformation and operates outside any discernible ethical guidelines, which accounts for its fleeting interesting in truthful reporting, as well as its dedicated lack of accountability.
Evan "Revolving Door" Bayh Signs On With US Chamber | Mother Jones
GOP attacks Dems from the left, accuses them of shredding `social safety net’ - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (thanks to Barry "I can't message for shit" Obama)

Chronic unemployment worse than Great Depression - CBS Evening News - CBS News The unemployed have, on average, remained unemployed longer than in the 1930s; Employers wary of job gaps in resumes (Barry's blunder)
Austan Goolsbee Exit: Obama Adviser Leaves Behind Frustration, Political Dysfunction those inclined to accuse the administration of failing to marshal an adequate response to the strains of the Great Recession, setting aside plans to put Americans back to work via government-financed projects in favor of scrimping to shrink budget deficits.
The Fatal Pivot - NYTimes.com it wasn’t just the Republicans: a substantial faction within the administration was eager to “pivot” away from the jobs issue ... Future historians will look back at this, and marvel (hence, Obama's "deficit commission headed by ... Repubicans!)
Black Unemployment Crisis: Loss Of Government Jobs Hurts African Americans Hardest
The Rentier Regime - NYTimes.com everything we’re seeing makes sense if you think of the right as representing the interests of rentiers, of creditors who have claims from the past — bonds, loans, cash — as opposed to people actually trying to make a living through producing stuff. (+Americans were listening to Glenn "Hyperinflation" Beck instead of their own interests)
Minimum Wage Increase Would Help Sluggish Economy, Say Experts (not unless offset by taxcuts for the rich)


Eyewitness to Miami Beach shooting alleges police misconduct - CNN.com
YouTube - Miami Beach Memorial Day Shooting May 30th 2011, cellphone video (cops smash cellphone to coverup shooting)

Uncovering the Truth: Why Women 'Fake It' | Women, Orgasm & Sexual Health | LiveScience Approximately 60 percent of women have faked an orgasm during intercourse or oral sex,
Lisa Firestone: Relationship Infidelity and the Real Villain Behind It In the United States, 45 to 55 percent of married women and 50 to 60 percent of married men engage in extramarital sex at some time during their relationship


U.S. used 'unmitigated gall' and B.C. court to jail exec Judge's stinging rebuke aimed at Cisco and U.S. prosecutors
Is American law enforcement colluding with Cisco? - Department of Justice - Salon.com - s a massive collusion between computer giant Cisco and U.S. law enforcement -- a collusion that seems designed to use criminal prosecution to stop a whistle-blower's antitrust case against a powerful politically connected corporation (Obama will do anything to stop a whistleblower)
Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs
RSA finally comes clean: SecurID is compromised - RSA Security will replace virtually every one of the 40 million SecurID tokens currently in use (ooh, they lied)
iTunes hack widespread, and Apple appears to know about it (ya think?)

060611
5 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq, Officials Say (for absolutely fucking nothing)
Bahrain Doctors Face Trial Over Role In Protests

Natural Disasters Displaced 42 Million In 2010; Climate Change Could Be Factor, Experts Say (Republicans say no way)


Vouchercare Is Not Medicare - NYTimes.com (you heard it here first)
Rick Perry Stirs Texas Higher Education Turmoil Over Reform Proposals (lowering higher education; everyone must get business degrees, Shakespeare out)
Ratings: Glenn Beck Limps Off Fox News | Media Matters for America - hundreds of advertisers, put off by the host’s hateful name-calling and often bewildering conspiracy theories, have pledged not to do business with Beck
Anthony Weiner Press Conference: Admits Sending Racy Pictures, Refuses To Resign
Anthony Weiner Twitter Scandal: New Photos Emerge
Memo To Anthony Weiner: Never Resign! | ThinkProgress

Florida governor defends measure requiring drug tests for welfare - CNN.com (the indefensible)
Fox News shows Tina Fey in on-screen graphic for Sarah Palin | The Right Scoop (well, she is a cariacature of herself)
President George W Bush's phonetic teleprompter revealed | thetelegraph.com.au "There was an error made," Perino told reporters.

When a Nobel Prize Isn’t Enough - NYTimes.com By Peter A. Diamond
Peter Diamond Withdraws Fed Bid After Republican Opposition Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond said on Sunday he planned to withdraw as a nominee for Federal Reserve governor, after his nomination was repeatedly opposed by Republicans (they hate people who know something)
Eschaton: It's The Latest Hit The Crazy Kids Are All Dancing To - Doing the growth, everybody moving from side to side... Doing the growth... we're doomed (Goolsbee makes no sense)
Eschaton: That's Really Horrible If that's what they believe, Jeebus. When they passed the stimulus a year ago they projected that without the stimulus unemployment would drop below 6% by the end of 2012. This is bad.

Current Biology - Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults (Liberals think; Conservatives get angry)
Restricted diets can help children with ADHD, study suggests | Society | The Guardian Different foods trigger different behavioural problems and should be monitored, according to paper in the Lancet
Civil Eats » Blog Archive » ADHD: It’s The Food, Stupid ... After three years on Ritalin, children were about an inch shorter and 4.4 pounds lighter than their peers ... f how the powerful billion-dollar drug industry designs and interprets studies to suit their interests ... NPR interviewer, Guy Raz asked a question invoking this tone as well, “Now, you’re not saying that some children with ADHD should not be given medication, right?”
Study: Diet May Help ADHD Kids More Than Drugs : NPR (NPR, supported by corps, doesn't believe it)
The Role of Histamine Degradation Gene Polymorphisms in Moderating the Effects of Food Additives on Children's ADHD Symptoms -- Stevenson et al. 167 (9): 1108 -- Am J Psychiatry
The Widower Effect - Obit-Mag.com I can’t live if living is without you …
Circumcision Policy Statement -- Task Force on Circumcision 103 (3): 686 -- AAP Policy Circumcision Policy Statement (not recommended)
Top posts | BetterExplained Aha
News | ALPHA Experiment
YouTube - TheCalifornian's Channel (somebody's space-station on Mars)
Has David martines actually found life on Mars?… :: Jetsetting Magazine
Did an amateur spot secret Mars base? - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com

The Happiest Countries In The World - 24/7 Wall St (Denmark, other socialist countries, Oz and Canada and Israel)
Storming Juno
The Arctic Light on Vimeo

Why Can't More Poor People Escape Poverty? Psychologists Have A Radical New Explanation. | The New Republic A radical new explanation from psychologists - theory of depletable willpower
Boston Review — Junot Díaz: Apocalypse (Haiti, Japan, earthquake, tsunami) What Disasters Reveal
n+1: The Accidental Bricoleurs
LJ 2011 Job Satisfaction Survey | Rocked By Recession, Buoyed By Service 70 percent of library workers across all library types and at all levels stated they were satisfied or very satisfied, just two percent down from 2007.

Forty Beads on The TODAY Show! | Forty Beads
U.S. Circumcision Rates on the Decline - NYTimes.com
Why Paul Bergrin Was the Baddest Lawyer in the History of New Jersey -- New York Magazine And that’s saying something.

She texted. We kicked her out. : Blog : Austin : Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
YouTube - Videocracy - Bizarre Berlusconi Campaign
'Hejji': Dr. Seuss's Awesomely Surreal Comic Strip From 1935 - ComicsAlliance

Coding Horror: Suspension, Ban or Hellban?
Coding Horror: Who Needs a Sound Card, Anyway?

060511
Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Acting Yemen President, Offers To Withdraw Troops From Sanaa
Bahrain Police Open Fire At Protesters In Capital
Israeli troops battle protesters in Syria, 20 dead - Boston.com

German Sprouts Likely E. Coli Culprit In Europe t locally grown beansprouts are the likely cause for Germany's E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 people and sickened hundreds (after they banned Spanish cucumbers +their hospitals are shitholes)
AP: Germany: Sprouts likely cause of E. coli outbreak - "All of us had diarrhea and there was only one bathroom each for men and women - it was a complete mess," she said Saturday. "If I hadn't been sick with E. coli by then, I probably would have picked it up over there."
Why the Overhaul of the Nation's Food Safety System Has Stalled - Ecocentric - TIME.com (Republicans kill food safety)
Baba Ramdev, Indian Yoga Guru, Forcibly Removed From Hunger Strike Venue thousands of his supporters went on hunger strikes across India and in several cities in the United States, Europe and Africa on Saturday in a campaign to try to root out India's endemic corruption.

Inside Mexico's Drug Wars (PHOTOS): Exclusive Images From life.com (Republican drug wars destroy millions of lives; Joe Biden: "Marijuana is a gateway drug")
'Obedient Wives' Club: Malaysia Group Says Good Sex Is A Duty a throwback to Medieval times and an insult to modern women of Malaysia. But the group's activities, which previously included the setting up of a Polygamy Club

Empire or Republic. How the Empire Destroys its Own People ‘Homeland Security’ (HS) is an Orwellian misnomer. The agency is not concerned with domestic, civilian, American security. HS is part of a military-police response to imagined overseas threats, which have not materialized or at least have not produced deaths comparable to tornadoes and floods in the last 11 years.

Bill Keller Speaks Out On Judy Miller, Iraq War Coverage, And Fox News | Media Matters for America
Robert Gates On DADT: No Opt-Out For Opponents Of Gays In The Military (homophobia not an excuse)
Debt Ceiling Debate Hinges On Medicare: Can Democrats And Republicans Make A Deal? (Obama can always make a deal with Republican terrorists)
Our Fantasy Nation? - NYTimes.com - So what is this Republican Eden, this Utopia? Why, it’s Pakistan.
Conn. Senate votes for pot decriminalization bill - Boston.com
Daily Kos: The Philosophy of Mean (State Gov and Republican wars on women, kids and everyone except rich people)
Sarah Palin On Paul Revere Ride: I Didn't Get History Wrong (video) "Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that 'hey, you're not going to take American arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have.' (who you gonna believe? Me or your lyin' ears?)
The Palin Bus Tour And Fox News' Ethical Morass | Media Matters for America
Sarah Palin knows how to work a crowd - Imgur
Right Wingers Use Sharia Law Ban As A Christian Recruiting Tool The Christian-inspired crusade against Islam is another front in the war to establish a theocracy in America.
Would-be Democratic Senate nominees blast GOP's Brown - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com

Economic Indicator: Q1 GDP and the Rise of Corporate Profits | Economics and Statistics Administration (what's "recovered" is corporate profits, esp. financial sector, Obama's first priority)
House GOP Cuts To Nutrition Assistance Equal To One Week Of Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires | ThinkProgress the Bush tax cuts provide millionaires with about $860 million in tax breaks every week—more than enough to stave off the $833 million in proposed cuts to WIC (Obama's grand bargain with himself)
Yastrow: “We Are on the Verge of a Great, Great Depression” ? Washington's Blog The news that frequent CNBC guest Peter Yastrow of Yastrow Origer (and formerly with DT Trading) told CNBC that "We’re on the verge of a great, great depression. The [Federal Reserve] knows it" is going viral today.
U.S. bank chargeoff rate exceeds Depression: Moody's | Reuters - oans written off as uncollectable -- have reached $116 billion year to date, or 2.9 percent of outstanding loans on an annualized basis - while banks faced a liquidity crisis during the Great Depression, today they are wholly insolvent (+Obama's "liquidity crisis" +Republican will play chicken with the end of the world)
Bribes Work: How Peterson, the Enemy of Social Security, Bought the Roosevelt Name « naked capitalism (very serious people agree that Social Security must be gutted)
On Fauxgressive Rationalizations of Selling Out to Powerful, Moneyed Backers « naked capitalism , “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.” (what's left of the left clutch their pearls and take rightwing money to kill SS)
Alice Rivlin: Debt Ceiling Shouldn't Be Raised Without Long-Term Plan a strategy currently being pushed by congressional Republicans (but of course
The 'gruesome' 9.1 percent unemployment rate: Who’s to blame? - The Week The Labor Department delivers an economic "punch to the gut" of the nation — a disheartening jobs report that spurs a frenzied round of finger pointing (at Summers and Obama, mainly)
The GOP's Stupid Plan for Curing the Jobs Crisis: Lay Off More Government Employees | AlterNet (and Republicans, of course)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reaching Record Highs (Repubicans ignore facts)

In California, Efforts to Ban Circumcision Gain Momentum - NYTimes.com - The circumcision of males is an inviolable requirement of Jewish law that dates back to Abraham’s circumcision of himself in the Book of Genesis. (call Abe Foxman)
Was the Lubavitcher rebbe really the messiah? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Messianic anticpation has been central to Chabad since its late-18th-century origins - Wolfson apparently agrees with Schneerson that the messiah has come "and all that is necessary is for people to open their eyes in order to greet him" - but he also acknowledges that to grasp the meaning of this "involves cultivating a modification in consciousness."

Does religion belong at AA? Fight over 'God' splits Toronto AA groups - thestar.com “This is not the first we’ve gone up against bigotry,” says Larry of We Agnostics. “This has been an ongoing struggle in North America.”
Where Prisoners Can Do Anything, Except Leave - NYTimes.com
Creation process of the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman | Veerle's blog 3.0

Neil Hamburger's "AXE body spray and sexual offenders" art contest didn't go over so well with AXE | Comedy | Newswire | The A.V. Club “preferred deodorant for date-rapists,” in which he characterized it as both “a fetid, sugared-and-fermented-manure stench, which acts as a virtual mating call to the TV-addled, party-fried pig girls whom these dopes are trying to fill with their tainted seed,”
YouTube - Sexy Bikini Commercial [SpecSavers]
YouTube - Banned Sexy Jewish Commercial
YouTube - Kanye West - Monster ft. Jay Z, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross & Bon Iver (Official Video)

YouTube - Shalom Sesame - Les Matzarables
YouTube - Sachal Studios' Take Five Official Video
YouTube - Doctor Who anime - final
YouTube - Steve Mcqueen Intro

Police: Man stole nude photos from hacked e-mail accounts Florida man allegedly used Facebook, Web mail to target up to 500 women
New Mexico mom gets 25 years for starving daughter - FoxNews.com who withered away from malnutrition and dehydration while the mother spent hours chatting and playing World of Warcraft online.
Clouds Are Like Buses: Public Isn’t Always Better — Cloud Computing News
Hackers Attack Nintendo - WSJ.com a server for its U.S. unit's website had been hacked into but that no company or customer information was compromised, marking the first time the Japanese gaming giant has been targeted in widespread global hacking attacks.
Facebook Party Gets Out Of Control After German Girl Forgets Privacy Setting
Gmail hack: beware of this

060411
Ilyas Kashmiri Dead: Al Qaeda Commander Killed In Pakistan In U.S. Drone Strike, Official Says (he "commanded" five other guys; now we are targeting the Mumbai terrorists, or something)
Ali Abdullah Saleh Wounded By Rocket, Escalating Yemen Unrest
Marouf Al-Bakhit, Jordan's Prime Minister, Called To Resign By Activists

YouTube - Penny Wong 'meowed' at by Liberal Senator David Bushby in an estimates hearing

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap the Obama Administration fought to keep Haitian wages at 31 cents an hour - Haiti passed a law raising minimun to 61 cents - infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes - Thanks to U.S. intervention, the minimum was raised only to 31 cents. (Obama running his plantation and why he hates Julian)

WashPost: criminal law is not for political elites - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (this is what a corrupt newpaper looks like)
Dwight Holton, US Attorney: Oregon Pot Dispensaries "Will Not Be Tolerated" | MyFDL (Obama's big war on drugs is a failure)

NationalJournal.com - Obama’s Ratings - Friday, June 3, 2011 Obama’s approval ratings may have bounced back, but most people still say the country is on the wrong track, which could hurt his 2012 chances
Mitt Romney On Climate Change: 'The World Is Getting Warmer... Humans Have Contributed' (trying to position himself as the "sane" Republican; won't work)
Paul Revere redux - Ben Smith - politico.com (Palin: Paul Revere warned the British ... Lady Starburst at her best)
Confronting Ghosts of 2000 in South Carolina - New York Times A smear campaign during the primary in February 2000 here had many in South Carolina falsely believing that Mr. McCain’s wife, Cindy, was a drug addict and that the couple’s adopted daughter, Bridget, was the product of an illicit union. Mr. McCain’s patriotism, mental well-being and sexuality were also viciously called into question.
Statement from Gennette Cordova, student who was sent lewd Twitter photo from Rep. Weiner's account (rightwing clowns at work; media sucks their dicks)
Anthony Weiner Sees Media Strategy Backfire In Wake Of Twitter Photo Scandal
Democrats Break Down Impact Of GOP Medicare Plan District By District | TPMDC "The Republican's budget would end Medicare as we know it. It also slashes Medicaid programs that cover millions of seniors in nursing homes and provide basic coverage for tens of millions of children,"
Haley Barbour Breaks With Eric Cantor On Disaster Relief - Running a state that has been hit by flooding, hurricanes and oil spills
Wisconsin Dems to announce that they will try to recall Scott Walker - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
Florida governor signs historic Medicaid bill - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com placing the health care of nearly 3 million Florida residents into the hands of for-profit companies and hospital networks (convicted felon Repubifuck Gov killing his state)
Scott signs first abortion-restricting bill into law | Florida Independent
More Scott line-item vetoes: Tests and programs for Florida babies | Florida Independent reductions to health services for women and children. He also vetoed millions more in health service projects set aside specifically for women and children. Programs that aim to lower infant mortality and increase women’s health in the state have seen a major setback since Scott took office (throwing women and kids under the bus, great job FL)

The Economic Relapse Today's job numbers show the economy is struggling -- and there's only one solution (Repubicans destroy the economy; Obama cooperates)
Tables Turn: Deputies and movers show up at bank to seize property for homeowner
The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse - BusinessWeek Delivery of first-class mail is falling at a staggering rate. Facing insolvency, can the USPS reinvent itself like European services have—or will it implode? (you don't need mail; the rich will still get their helicopter-drops)

Top Ten Myths About the Brain | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine

YouTube - Jack Christie Addresses the Board - Donald A. Wilson Secondary School (is run by total idiots, now famous on teh internets)

Chicken of the Sea - New York Times (pregnancy and sushi ok ... if not from California)
MTV's 16 and Pregnant (Season 3) | Full Episodes, Photos, Episode Synopsis and Recaps | MTV

LeVin gets house arrest after undisclosed settlement - Chicago Breaking News Illinois man will pay undisclosed settlement, serve two years house arrest for deadly Porsche hit-and-run case - Court records show LeVin has more than 50 traffic violations and a long history of drug abuse (and a lot of money)
Teen's dad spends school year waving at bus, embarrassing son | Deseret News

What's your cell phone's maximum radiation level? Interactive database

Windows 8: What It Says About Microsoft's Take On Tablets
French Ban Words 'Twitter' And 'Facebook' From TV, Radio The reason for the ban goes back to a 1992 decree that says mentioning such services by name is an act of advertising (stupid, and it won't work)
Sony Pictures Confirms LulzSec Hack
LiberKey - Portable Applications

060311
Meir Dagan, Israeli Ex-Spymaster, Pans Netanyahu's Approach To Iran, Palestinians (someone tell the Israel lobby)
House Rebukes Obama Administration On Libya Intervention The House rebuked President Obama's decision to intervene in Libya in March without consent from Congress (no irony)
Marouf Al-Bakhit, Jordan's Prime Minister, Called To Resign By Activists
Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh Wounded During Rocket Strike

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to Post-Legal America | TomDispatch (anything the Government does is "legal")
The Terrorist Takedown (Infographic)

France After Strauss-Kahn: The Perils Of Politics, Sex And Rumors - Worldcrunch - All News is Global
British Spies Replace Terrorists' Online Bomb Instructions With Cupcake Recipe "We're increasingly using cybertools as part of our work," (a bombable offense)
Media complicity in rising xenophobia - Features - Al Jazeera English Amid economic turmoil, journalists are frequent accomplices to rising xenophobia directed at Europe's immigrants (learned from American media)

Global war on drugs a failure, high-level panel says | Reuters and urged governments to consider decriminalizing drugs in a bid to cut consumption and weaken the power of organized crime gangs.
Leading world politicians urge 'paradigm shift' on drugs policy | World news | The Observer
US attorney general Eric Holder calls for more episodes of The Wire - Telegraph "I've spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of The Wire if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition." He added that that the US government's war on drugs was "nothing more or less than a war on our underclass, succeeding only in transforming our democracy into the jailingest nation on the planet."
Narco-War Dispatch: Gulf Cartel Releases A Brutal Video Threat Against The Zetas… - By Pancho Montana - The eXiled

E. Coli Outbreak: Germany Steps Up Hunt For Source Of Deadly Strain Germany set up a national task force on Friday to hunt down the source of a highly toxic strain of E.coli that killed 17 people and sounded alarms around the world.

Republicans demand TV station yank ad claiming GOP plan would `end Medicare’ - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
Eschaton: When We Replace The Marines With A Pizza, We Will Call The Pizza The Marines
Bev Perdue Issues Executive Order To Restore Unemployment Benefits In North Carolina The benefits had stopped because of an impasse between Perdue and Republicans in the state legislature that has dragged on since April.
Eschaton: Fixed Last 20 email subject headers from Chris Cillizza's The Fix (WaPo is non-partisan)
So Glenn Beck Thinks He's A Prophet Now? | Media Matters for America (always wrong)
Fox News panel attacks Sesame Street for ‘liberal bias’ | Raw Replay

Employment Situation Summary Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+54,000) in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 9.1 percent (the Obama/Summers recovery)
Calculated Risk Chart Gallery - Job losses
Third Impression of the Jobs Report | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy –most importantly, smooth all you want, fact is that job growth is just too slow to provide working families with the job and income opportunities they need (Obama's new plan: "hope")
Krugman: 1937 in 2011? - NYTimes.com - We’ve learned a lot less these past 74 years than you might have imagined — or rather, we learned some stuff, but have spent the last few decades unlearning it (that would be Alan Greenspan)
FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Ignoring the core can keep inflation at bay (yes, we do intend to repeat those mistakes)
What A Drag - NYTimes.com - What you can see is that the unwinding of the stimulus is a growing drag on growth. The GS economists warn that depending on how the budget battle plays out, things could be even worse.
Shorter Krugman - First Draft - "There's no way like the Republican way" off the cliff)
Calculated Risk: HUD Secretary Donovan: Foreclosure Settlement in a "matter of weeks" The banks want to count "cash for keys" payments and possibly even principal reduction - in other words for costs they are already paying. Not much of a penalty (the Obama crack-down on mortgage fraud)
How Failed Obama Foreclosure Relief Plan Contributes To Jobs Crisis (Obama/Summers failure plan)
Groupon Economics | ThinkProgress Groupon seems to have achieved its impressive growth through a campaign of aggressive deficit spending
Report Says Government Will Lose $14 Billion On Auto Bailout The Administration said from the start they'd lose money on the deal, but they didn't know how much

The Habsburg Empire and the long half-life of economic institutions | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

YouTube - Nostalgia for the Light - Trailer [HD] (VLTA + Pinochet and the disappeared)
Plains Milky Way on Vimeo Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality - 20 Facts About U.S. Inequality that Everyone Should Know

The Last Mountain Movie - (how bigcorp corrupted democracy and leveled a whole state)
‘Top Line’ at the Movies: ‘The Last Mountain’ and the Politics of Big Coal - The Note They’ve blown up the 500 biggest mountains in West Virginia. They explode everyday 2,500 tons of dynamite, or ammonia nitrate explosives. It’s the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb once a week. And they take the rock and debris and rubble and dump it into the adjacent river valley.”
A new golden age for fossil fuels? Huh? - How the World Works - Salon.com
Fate of the World for PC Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic
It's our Future. Choose wisely. | Fate of the World The year is 2020. Climate change has been ignored, resources are running low and the world is faced with environmental and financial crisis. Can you solve the world's problems?

Center on Education and the Workforce - What's It Worth? - The report finds that different undergraduate majors result in very different earnings. At the low end, median earnings for Counseling Psychology majors are $29,000, while Petroleum Engineering majors see median earnings of $120,000.
USDA's MyPlate - new food pyramid is round

Observing the Average Trajectories of Single Photons in a Two-Slit Interferometer
A quantum take on certainty : Nature News

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: 30 and Pregnant.

Police shoot concrete alligator - UPI.com "The officer fired two rounds, and killed my concrete, ornamental alligator,"
Online video shows Fort Myers boy being bullied Three young girls from Dunbar Middle school videotaped themselves tackling an 11 year old boy and taking off his clothes. The group can be heard laughing at times and mocking the boy as he struggled to break free (if boys had done this to a girl ...) xs

V.S. Naipaul: No woman writer is my match - Writers and Writing - Salon.com Nobel laureate claims he can tell a woman's writing immediately -- and says even Jane Austen is not his equal
In Which We Consider The Macabre Unpleasantness Of Roald Dahl - Home - This Recording
Julia Dale, 10-Year-OId, Sings National Anthem At NBA Finals (video)
Well, What's the Matter? - The Complete definitive Catwoman origin.
Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion on Vimeo
YouTube - Dog, Cat, and Rat
YouTube - oração . a banda mais bonita da cidade (viral +one take)

Mind Reading: The Researchers Who Analyzed All the Porn on the Internet – TIME Healthland - A Billion Wicked Thoughts - The top five are youth, gays, [sexy mothers], breasts and cheating wives +rape fantasies are extremely prevalent in women +more access to porn is associated with less rape ... it satisfies the urge +Women prefer stories to visual porn by a long shot +Female desire requires multiple stimuli simultaneously or in quick succession +With women, physical arousal and mental arousal are separate +there isn't overwhelming evidence that porn addiction exists
Amazon.com: A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire (9780525952091): Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam: Books (see tags)
SurveyFail - Fanlore
The curious case of the game show neuroscientists, or how NOT to research an online community « The Human Element
Ethical Guidelines for Research Online

Welcome to HTML11 Labs
Telehack: May the command line live forever

060211
Afghan civilians killed in NATO attack - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English Deadly attack in volatile southwestern province followed small arms fire on US Marines.
Close Read: Asleep in Afghanistan : The New Yorker Four children have been killed in Afghanistan in the past few days—two of them where they were sleeping, one in a crowd on the street, and another while she was collecting firewood (Obama's war on innocent children)
Afghanistan, NATO: Karzai demands that NATO cease airstrikes on houses - latimes.com President Hamid Karzai's call, coming after an attack that killed several civilians, escalates his dispute with Western military commanders over such raids.
Special report: If Monterrey falls, Mexico falls | Reuters (killing children in Afganistan is more important)
Bryan Denton Has Distinguished Himself in Libya, C. J. Chivers Reports. And Denton Shares His Story With Lens. - NYTimes.com

The WH/Politico attack on Seymour Hersh - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Seymour Hersh has a new article in The New Yorker arguing that there is no credible evidence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons; to the contrary, he writes, "the U.S. could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein's Iraq eight years ago -- allowing anxieties about the policies of a tyrannical regime to distort our estimates of the state's military capacities and intentions." - two cowardly, slimy Obama officials ran to Politico to bash Hersh while hiding behind the protective womb of anonymity automatically and subserviently extended by that "news outlet"

Sex and Surveillance by Naomi Wolf - Project Syndicate
I Want My Al Jazeera by Naomi Wolf - Project Syndicate
Global Commission on Drug Policy
Former world leaders say decriminalizing marijuana worth trying | The Raw Story
Drug War Has Failed And Governments Should Explore Legalizing Marijuana, Says Report (drug-war crimes tribunal needed)

Massachusetts Tornadoes 2011: Twisters Rip Through State, Killing At Least 4 (video)

John Boehner Fights Foreclosure Relief As Housing Crisis Ravages His District (you got what you wanted, Ohio)
Poll: GOP Medicare-Ending Budget Bigger Political Fumble Than First Thought | TPMDC - Medicare would be turned into a voucher program.
The Mask of Concern Slips from the Anti-Choicers Face | RH Reality Check- women are literally too stupid to know what abortion is and too morally incompetent to be trusted with their own decisions - overt misogyny of rape apologist legislators and the vicious trolling of Jill Stanekovert (teahadists controlling your reproductive system)
Christie refuses to reimburse N.J. for traveling by helicopter to see son's baseball game | NJ.com (catches flak, flip-flops)
Me Lover's Pizza With Crazy Broad - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 06/01/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Anthony Weiner to Maddow: Lewd Twitter Photo 'Could Be' A Private Picture (VIDEO) | TPMMuckraker Weiner repeatedly evaded questions on whether the photo in question showed his lower torso.

Horror for US Economy as Data Falls off Cliff - CNBC
Poverty Analysis - Measuring Inequality
Gini_Coefficient_World_CIA_Report_2009.png Gini coeffficient by country
For One Whistle-Blower, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | TPM LiveWire (Obama's culture of revenge)
The Desperate Selling Off of America | Civil Liberties | AlterNet Rather than upset the moneyed interests who bought their seats in office, politicians prefer to cut pensions, close schools, and most importantly, privatize, privatize, privatize!

Improving Peptides | Cover Story | Chemical & Engineering News Small firms develop better peptide drug candidates to expand this pharmaceutical class and attract big pharma partners
New inorganic semiconductor layers hold promise for solar energy
WHO warns E-coli outbreak is new toxic strain - Europe - Al Jazeera English Experts studying bacteria that has caused 18 deaths in Europe say it has never been seen in an outbreak before.

Yale’s Safe Sex Criminals by Naomi Wolf - Project Syndicate thirty years ago, 30% of reported rapes in the US and the United Kingdom resulted in prosecutions; today, after three decades of confidential sex-crime reporting, the number is 12% in the US and 6% in the UK.
Transportation For America » Dangerous by Design 2011 Map of Fatalities
Streetsblog Capitol Hill » Dangerous By Design: How the U.S. Builds Roads That Kill Pedestrians (don't walk in FL, NV, AZ, TZ, CA)

Letters of Note
Letters of Note: May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?
James Bond is fictional. His weapons are not. Here is - 03.19.62 - SI Vault James Bond is fictional. His weapons are not. Here is the inside story of why he abandoned his favorite gun
YouTube - The Guns of James Bond
Everything Is Terrible!: GEEZ, MOM!
Unitarian Universalist Jokes Over 1432303 UU jokes served (forex: "It's easier to be born again that it is to grow up!"
YouTube - Thumbs Up for Rock and Roll!
Teenagers in Love
mwebi

100-tweet sentence in Malay defamation case - storyful
The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal
YouTube introduces Creative Commons option for uploaders, remixers - Boing Boing

Intel® The Museum of Me (some kind of Facebook thingy)
Privacy and Security Fanatic: FaceNiff Android App Allows the Clueless to Hack Facebook in Seconds Over Wi-Fi

060111
BBC News - Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad found dead A Pakistani journalist who was feared abducted after he went missing on Sunday has been found dead, his family has confirmed

Iran: Tehran announces new 'halal' Islamic internet - Adnkronos CultureAndMedia
Iran Cracking Down Online With "Halal Internet" | Fast Company Introducing a nationwide intranet that one high-ranking official calls a "Halal Internet." In: censorship and e-banking. Out: sex and profanity.

International Monetary Fund Braces For Possible Hack Attack From Anonymous
Facebook Malware Attack: Fake Strauss-Kahn Video Infects Mac And PC Users

Robert Lucas Argues That Barack Obama Is The Most Important Leader In American History | ThinkProgress
Civil union law for same-sex couples takes effect in Illinois - Chicago Sun-Times making Illinois the seventh state, along with the District of Columbia, to give same-sex couples significant legal protections
Donald Trump: Paul Ryan Budget Plan A 'Death Wish' For Republicans (video)
Poll: GOP Medicare-Ending Budget Bigger Political Fumble Than First Thought | TPMDC (Trump is correct, Ryan is an idiot)
House Rejects Debt Ceiling Increase With 97 Democrats Voting 'Yes' | TPMDC . Democrats split close to evenly on the 318-97 vote (Dems confused, as usual)
House Rejects Debt Ceiling Increase With 97 Democrats Voting 'Yes' | TPMDC "They ran up the debt and now they don't want to pay their bills." (Obama just can't bring himself to utter these two words" "Republican debt")
Balloon Juice » Al Gore is Fat Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son’s baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter ... Christie disembarked from the helicopter and got into a black car with tinted windows that drove him about a 100 yards to the baseball field (but he's a Republican, so WaPo isn't telling us about this +Presidential timber)
Christie Lands In Bergen County In State Police Helicopter For Son's Baseball Game - Ridgewood, NJ Patch (fiscal conservative)
Anthony Weiner, college student at center of latest Tweet controversy - BlogPost - The Washington Post She also quotes Oscar Wilde: “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.” (rimshot!) (+WaPo is corrupt: "karma" indeed)
One Year After Debunking Breitbart's "Slander," CNN Welcomes Him Back As Newsmaker | Media Matters for America (both are corrupt)
SHEP SMITH: I Didn't Cover Sarah Palin Bus Tour Because It's Not News
Alaska Finally Ready To Release Palin's Old Emails | TPMMuckraker The state of Alaska will soon release more than 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails from her time as governor, documents that media outlets first requested more than two years ago, when Palin was running for vice president.

U.S. Private Employers Only Added 38,000 Jobs Last Month, ADP Finds
The Employment Picture: Time to PANIC!! - Grasping Reality with Both Hands ADP: Private Employment increased by 38,000 in May
Home price double dip: Chicago housing prices continue downward - chicagotribune.com Glut of homes, including foreclosures, and uneven national recovery fuel decline to levels not seen since 2002
CNBC's Fast Money: Market Alert: Investors Crowd Into New ‘Can’t Miss’ Trade - CNBC Ben Bernanke won’t ever abandon us. (us is not we)
World Bank warns of 'failing' international carbon market | Environment | The Guardian Report shows collapse in market with just $1.5bn of credits traded internationally last year
Madison Ave. Declares 'Mass Affluence' Over he American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry’s top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. In a deeply unequal America, if you don’t make $200,000, you don’t matter (what middle class?)
Bullish Cross: Apple's Cash to Exceed $300 billion by 2015
xs A Venture Capitalist Makes The Case Against Software Patents | ThinkProgress “I can’t understand why our goverment allows this shit to go on,”

Divided by language, united by gut bacteria – people have three common gut types | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

Cuadrilla Resources Halts Fracking In U.K. Fearing Possible Earthquake Connection
What We've Done to the Mississippi River: An Explainer - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
The Mystery of the Canadian Whiskey Fungus | Magazine
Discovery opens the door to electricity from microbes
Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain: life-changing religious experiences, like being born again, with atrophy in the hippocampus ("religious experience" != psychotic delusion
The Slacktiverse: Baptizing Dead Quakers

The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable - Gawker
The Dirty Talk Of The Town: Profanity At "The New Yorker" | The Awl
Salon.com Politics | Janet Malcolm
Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised
Depixelizing Pixel Art

yog-blogsoth
YouTube - Outside Aperture
Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised
YouTube - Phallic Symbols at Denver International Airport
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends
A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago : Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964 : Internet Archive

Password Sharing Crackdown: Web Entertainment Theft Bill Passes In Tennessee make it a crime to use a friend's login – even with permission – (criminalize everything)
Google: Gmail Hack Likely From China Cyberattackers
Internet Researchers Decry DNS-Filtering Legislation | Threat Level | Wired.com Senate antipiracy legislation that would dramatically increase the government’s legal power to disrupt and shutter websites dedicated to infringing activity “raises serious technical and security concerns.” (why we can't have good things)
Google's YouTube policy for Android users is copyright extremism | Technology | guardian.co.uk Denying access to pay-per-view videos for those who modify their Android devices is the antithesis of openness
Anti-Piracy Groups Send 3.6 Million File-Sharing Cash Demands | TorrentFreak
Former Google CEO 'screwed up' on Facebook threat - Yahoo! News (screwed up Novell, also, who could have predicted?)
Anatomy of a Spam Viagra Purchase  - Technology Review
Study Says Spam Can Be Cut by Blocking Card Transactions - NYTimes.com

053111
Cost of war in Afghanistan will be major factor in troop-reduction talks - The Washington Post
Hamza Ali al-Khateeb Becomes a Symbol of Syrian Brutality - NYTimes.com
Missing Pakistan journalist Saleem Shahzad found dead near Islamabad | World news | The Guardian body was discovered less than two days after he was allegedly abducted by ISI, Pakistan's intelligence service

Child Brides - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine
Egypt: general confirms "virginity checks" forced on female protesters by military - Boing Boing (sometimes called "rape")

Pentagon: Online Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War - WSJ.com Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force (remember that whole stuxnet thingy?)
Washington moves to classify cyber-attacks as acts of war | World news | The Guardian Pentagon has concluded that the laws of armed conflict can be widened to embrace cyberwarfare
Scalia Invents a New Meaning for “Suspicion” while Letting Ashcroft Off the Hook | Emptywheel Scalia wants to broaden the Fourth Amendment to sanction searches (and arrests) of people suspected of knowing something or doing something (throwing a birthday party!), rather than just those suspected of doing something illegal.

WikiLeaks Is Not Happy with Its Frontline Treatment - Technology - The Atlantic Wire - WikiLeaks itself has said the program is "hostile and misrepresents WikiLeaks' views" and attempts to build an "espionage" case against founder Julian Assange.
WikiSecrets | FRONTLINE | PBS Video (blood on their hands, yadayada)
Group hacks TV website in WikiLeaks protest - chicagotribune.com
PBS, Sony, Fox Websites Hacked By LulzSec's Lulz Boat, AT&T Next? : Zennie Abraham : City Brights
PBS.org hacked and it was not done by SQL. Here are notes: - Movable Type 4 - Pastebin.com

Paul Ryan, Republicans, And Generational Politics | The New Republic The GOP’s brilliant generational weapon in the Medicare fight.
Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan To Offer Much Lower Premiums
FreedomWorks Gives Freshman Republicans Tips For Dealing With Medicare At Town Halls (teahadists double-down on the crazy)
Will Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself on Health Care Reform? | Mother Jones his wife, Virginia, who served as Liberty Central's president and CEO, received $150,000 in salary from the group and less than $15,000 in payments from an anti-health care lobbying firm (in a word, "no")
pandagon.net: I Wish I Was A Mysteriously Tweeted Weiner (Republicans being assholes, oh wait ...)
Rep. Weiner grilled over lewd pic; recipient says it was sent by 'stalker' - m.NYPOST.com
alicublog WANK SQUAD. In my previous Weiner/Twitter post, I referred to the brethren's morbid interest in Gennette Cordova as a Monica Lewinsky dream-object (inside the minds of crazy Republican perverts)
Hunch Blog | Blog Archive | You Vote What You Eat: How Liberals and Conservatives Eat Differently
Counterprotesters confront Westboro Baptist Church at Arlington - CNN.com

FT Alphaville » ‘Real’ US Treasury yields go back to zero (the bond vigilantes have yet to show up, despite Obama basing his whole economic policy on them)
Tumble in Housing Prices Was Even Worse Than Expected - CNBC (despite Larry "The Genius" Summers' best effort to re-bubble)
Latest Home Sale Prices Show Downward Spiral With 'No Relief In Sight'

Cell Phone Radiation 'Possibly Carcinogenic,' Experts Say
Chronic-Fatigue Paper Called Into Question - WSJ.com
Tunnel found under temple in Mexico Researchers found a tunnel under the Temple of the Snake in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, about 28 miles northeast of Mexico City.
Prospect of limiting the global increase in temperature to 2ºC is getting bleaker - CO2 emissions reach a record high in 2010; 80% of projected 2020 emissions from the power sector are already locked in (Republicans have already killed the planet)
Is 450 ppm (or less) politically possible? Part 2: The Solution | ThinkProgress
Drill, baby, drill fails: Oil prices soar in spite of sharp increase in U.S. production under Obama | ThinkProgress Yet Haley Barbour, right wing try to blame Obama for high prices, still push policies that EIA says will have no impact on price
The Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men | Magazine The procedure is known by the clunky acronym RISUG (for reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance)

Autocars And The Benefits Of Relative American Decline | ThinkProgress (it's called a "bus," dude)
Tea Party: Anti-Sprawl Plan Will Take Your Freedom - The Bay Citizen The East Bay Tea Party has taken aim at a wonky effort to encourage housing near transit hubs (guns and giant SUVs)
Tea Party reveals: ‘Sustainable Development’ is sinister attempt to destroy American Dream | Grist (truly insane, its the bankers, dumbshits)
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Need Therapy? A Good Man Is Hard to Find - NYTimes.com - the “feminization” of mental health care
Michael Blumenfield, M.D.: Choosing a Psychotherapist: Should Gender Matter?

Ed and Deb Shapiro: Meditation: Not What You Think - radiant emptiness (be careful what you wish for)
Love, Sex and Taboos

YouTube - Drunken Angel vs. Drunken Angel

Rhizome | RECOMMENDED READING: 4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community
Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
Hidden device distorts news on wireless networks, brews beer, is time machine - Hack a Day
Newstweek: fixing the facts on Vimeo

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Memorial Day: How America Screws Its Soldiers - The Daily Beast Andrew J Bacevich Everyone claims to “Support Our Troops.” But as Andrew J. Bacevich explains, telling the military it can do whatever it wants works for everyone—except for the soldiers themselves.

Al-Jazeera footage captures 'western troops on the ground' in Libya | World news | The Guardian Five of Gaddafi's generals are among latest defectors to rebels as South African president seeks to broker ceasefire
Civilians Are Killed In Airstrike By NATO - NYTimes.com (oh rly, NYT)
Afghanistan War IEDs Cause Surge In Double Amputees Among U.S. War Wounded (Obama's war, for nothing)
The Camera On The Revolution - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast

Minister: Germany to go nuke free by 2022 - CNN.com
El Salvador's Ex-Defense Minister Indicted In Killing Of Six Jesuit Priests A Spanish judge has indicted 20 Salvadoran military officials for the 1989 slaying of six Jesuit priests and two other people during the Central American country's civil war (there's still hope for Kissinger)

Deportation In America - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast a new Human Rights Watch report, Locked Up Far Away. The report focuses on ways to improve the US immigration and deportation system (unlikely, since Obama just spent three years declaring war on immigrants)

Eric Cantor On 'Face The Nation': Disaster Relief For Joplin Tornado Victims Must Be Offset (way to go, MO voters, you screwed yourself)
Republican 2012 Presidential Contenders Drift To The Right Many of them "take extremely conservative positions on nearly all issues," Pew reports. They largely "agree with the tea party," and "very strongly disapprove of Barack Obama's job performance" (and have IQ's below your fridge)
Rolling Thunder Vets: Sarah Palin Is A Real American (VIDEO) Her daughters, Bristol, 20, and Piper, 10, stood awkwardly nearby. Bristol refused to comment on whether she thinks her mother should run for president. Piper, behind oversized shades, hid behind her mother and therefore could not be reached for comment.
Political Animal - Pawlenty should rethink the ‘doofus’ line - Pawlenty’s apparent willingness to refer to the president as a “doofus
Rep. Weiner Retaining Counsel In Lewd Twitter Photo 'Hack' | TPMMuckraker
Rolling Stone: Roger Ailes' Bomb Proof Office Protects Him From 'Those Gays' | TPMMuckraker

Against Learned Helplessness - NYTimes.com policy makers are sinking into a condition of learned helplessness on the jobs issue: the more they fail to do anything about the problem, the more they convince themselves that there’s nothing they could do. And those of us who know better should be doing all we can to break that vicious circle (Obama: the jobs doofus)
There's a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Deal With a Jobs Crisis -- Why Is Germany Doing It So Well? | | AlterNet

Jared Bernstein Lets Slip Interesting Info About WH Economic Views | FDL News Desk the same artificial constraints of Tea Party rhetoric about deadbeat borrowers applies there as well (Obama, as the new Reagan, has found his own "welfare queens" +immigants and whistleblowers)
FT.com / Europe - Greece set for severe bail-out conditions (country sold at yard-sale)
22 charts on the economy, wealth, and spending - Digg (summary: you're screwed)
Rick Bookstaber: Commodity Prices and Paradigm Shifts The real paradigm shift, or more like a paradigm drift, because it is slowly enveloping us, is that we are moving toward preferences and lifestyle where we will simply consume less. A lot less (that would be un-American)
Inflation In Real-Time - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast he Billion Prices Project, which could act as the "first real-time inflation index": gathers price data not via survey but, rather, by continuously scouring the Web for prices of online goods around the world. (In the U.S., it collects more than half a million prices daily—five times the number that the government looks at.)

Sea levels set to rise by up to a metre: report Sea levels are set to rise by up to a metre within a century due to global warming, a new Australian report said Monday as it warned this could make "once-a-century" coastal flooding much more common (which Republicans will defund)
Mercury, PCBs, sport fish: Mercury, PCBs widespread in sport fish in California's urban coastal waters, survey finds - latimes.com Nineteen percent of the coastline sampled by the state water board harbored fish with mercury in such high concentrations that they shouldn't be eaten by young women and children.


Retired pastor knows why people don’t like Christians any more – The Religion World – Orlando Sentinel “Too many people are using religion as a sword to fight those with whom they disagree, instead of as a plowshare to help their fellow neighbors tend the land and form a community”
Is NYC the Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World? | AlterNet Michael Bloomberg has made New York City “The Marijuana Arrest Capitol of the World” through his support of illegal tactics which allow cops to stop and frisk anyone they see fit (little facist prick)
Seattle Pays $1.5M to Family of Victim of Police Shooting « JONATHAN TURLEY Williams, who was deaf in one ear, was shot in the side (and back, four times) not facing the officer - Officer Birk was not criminally charged in the shooting (murder by cop)
YouTube - The Chaser On Fox News

Is that what they mean by a sunseeker? World's largest solar-powered yacht stops in Brisbane during round-the-world voyage | Mail Online
YouTube - Hyperflesh Presents Sexy Superstar Babies
Rocking Chair: Jackal and Hen, A tale from Lesotho, Africa
Coop Coup | Toronto Standard | News, Media, Art, Business, Technology, Fashion, Events so if a hen that appreciates Wagner and Rachmaninov can make me breakfast, she sounds like a pretty good companion to have around

YouTube - Sixteen Tons of Work
YouTube - I'm Yours(ukulele)
YouTube - El Cumbanchero
YouTube - Sleepy Man Banjo Boys play a FAST Clinch Mountain Backstep
YouTube - The WHO - Squeeze Box
YouTube - ?TheManiaMusic's Channel??
Little Asian Boy Dreams
YouTube - Single Ladies Devastation

Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. - NYTimes.com
study: Social Media Is for Narcissists
Elgan: Does mobile tech breed narcissism? But enough about cultural trends. Let's talk about ME!

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Gaddafi to be told to stand down or face Apache attack | World news | The Observer If South African president Jacob Zuma's peace mission fails, Nato will deliver its heaviest blow to Libyan leader's forces (they are going to send in the Indians)
Hundreds of women report rapes by Qaddafi forces (terror by rape)
Afghan civilians reported dead after Helmand air strike | World news | The Guardian Claims of 14 killed in attack ordered after US marines patrolling with Afghan soldiers reportedly came under fire
Ratko Mladic denies ordering Srebrenica massacre, says his son | World news | guardian.co.uk Darko Mladic makes claim as his father fights extradition from Serbia to face UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague
Sudan Conflict Displaces 35,000 Children
Taliban Executes New Tactic: High-Profile Inside Jobs

French minister resigns after being accused of sexual assault | World news | The Guardian Georges Tron denies allegations made by two women who worked for him at town hall in Draveil, near Paris (France must reform)
Georges Tron Resigns In Wake Of Sexual Assault Allegations "Other women may be suffering what I suffered. I have to help them. We have to break this code of silence."

Fukushima's No. 5 Nuclear Reactor Cooling Facility Stops

WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning 'should never have been sent to Iraq' | World news | The Guardian Soldier held over US intelligence leak was known to be mentally fragile and unsuited to army life

Republican States Push Revisions to Voting Laws - NYTimes.com (only rich, white, men)
Mitch McConnell: Paul Ryan Medicare Plan 'On The Table' In Debt Ceiling Discussions
John McCain: Sarah Palin Can Beat Obama In 2012 (doubles down on the crazy snowbilly lady)
At Rolling Thunder, Waiting for Palin - NYTimes.com Doug Ludlow, 61, who rode with Mr. Oldham from Battle Creek, said other bikers would agree. “This lot is full of American patriots,” he said. “Palin is an American patriot.” (half-term quitter a true "patriot")


CfA Press Room - Astronomers Unveil Most Complete 3-D Map of Local Universe
The New Geopolitics of Food - By Lester R. Brown | Foreign Policy From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.
2011-3-1-cesur-sabia-tekin.pdf - The Psychological Cost of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
The longest cell in the history of life « Why Evolution Is True
Miracle Drug Poison or Placebo? - MSN Health - Depression Do antidepressants work? Effectiveness may vary from person to person.
Neuroskeptic: Do Antidepressants Work? The Internet Says...
Posts - Research Blogging

Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert | The Awl
Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia.

YouTube - Gay Parents Bashed
YouTube - Man Lures Drunken Girl: What would you do?
YouTube - What would you do? Drink Drugging: Part 1 Drogando a su cita 1
YouTube - Los Alguiens - El Internet
Unconsummated: Fury

YouTube - Adam Kokesh body slammed, choked, police brutality at Jefferson Memorial (only corps have rights in America)
YouTube - Fox News - Five People Arrested for Dancing
NYT: For anarchist, details of life as FBI target - US news - The New York Times - msnbc.com (no protesting in America or you're a terrorist)
YouTube - Ben E. King - Stand by me

Amy Poehler Gives Speech At Harvard Class Day
Can AMC Survive Its Own Success? --New York Magazine Can the Mad Men network survive its own success?
'Bridesmaids' Outtakes: More Kristin Wiig And Jon Hamm Having Weird Sex (NSFW video)

Pentagon IT supplier Lockheed Martin suffers cyber-attack | Technology | The Guardian Significant and tenacious' attempt made to breach information systems network
Lockheed Martin Hit By Cyber Attack, Department Of Homeland Security Confirms
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google - CNN.com (used NSA-mandated back-door, of course)
Stuxnet Attack: Did U.S. Play A Role In Cyber Virus On Iran's Nuclear Facilities? (ya think?)
Twitter unmasks anonymous British user in landmark legal battle | Technology | The Guardian - the first time Twitter has bowed to legal pressure to identify anonymous users and comes amid a huge row over privacy and free speech online (end of anonymity)
NYT Reporter Shows the Power of Twitter as Journalism
Facebook Blasts Paul Ceglia's Claim To Own Half Of Facebook blasting the plaintiff as an "inveterate scam artist" relying on "fabricated evidence" whose suit is a "brazen and outrageous fraud."

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Obama Administration Does Not Want Lawmakers to Debate National Security | MyFDL (debate would "jeopardize" "National" "Security")
Questions about Ratko Mladic - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (see the difference?)
Sen. Benjamin Cardin's impressive feat - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com So the Russians are heinous for punishing those "whose only crime was to bring to the public attention the problem of public corruption." ... This is the very same Sen. Benjamin Cardin who has also introduced legislation that, if enacted, would be the most severe legislative attack on whistleblowers in the United States in the last several decades (Obama eliminates whistleblowing completely)
AllGov - News - Iceland Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation, Somalia Worst; U.S. Improves to 82nd he United States placed 82nd in the ranking, behind Gabon and just ahead of Bangladesh (but #1 in hypocrisy)

Exclusive: Hackers breached U.S. defense contractors | Reuters
The Army’s “Sticky Note” SIPRNet Security | Emptywheel
Madrid Spain Protest | Demonstration | Economy | Unemployment Spanish youth, unemployed and living with their parents, want a political system that represents their interests.
South Africa gays: In South Africa's black townships, being gay can be fatal - latimes.com - a society that is deeply religious, traditional and highly patriarchal, lesbians and gay men contradict the dominant view of African manhood.

Third environmentalist killed in a week in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest region - People's Daily Online
Japan donates $120,000 in relief supplies to Alabama (while Republicans refuse to authorize aid unless Medicare is destroyed)
Chevron ordered to pay $8 billion by Ecuador court - Los Angeles Times
Egypt Gaza Border Reopened Permanently deepening a rift with Israel (yeah, they were the boss of Egypt, too, but their dictator is gone)
Facebook Group Calls For Men To Attack Saudi Women Drivers

Despite What Boehner Says, Republicans Have Voted To Cut Medicare, Repeatedly | TPMDC (Dems have always hated Medicare too)
Responding to Ryan - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (Republican lies)
Are Dems drawing hard line on Medicare after all? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post Mitch McConnell said today that Republicans will not agree to a debt ceiling hike without substantial cuts to Medicare, which would presumably require benefits cuts (Biden tries to undercut Dems, but Rethugs are too insane)
Political Animal - McConnell puts Medicare in the ransom note The Senate’s leading Republican is saying, publicly and on the record, that without Medicare cuts, he’ll try to create an economic calamity on purpose (America held ransom by terroristic Republicans)
GOP Rep. Joe Walsh: Obama Got Elected Because He’s Black | Oliver Willis they were in love with him because he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate, liberal, the whole white guilt, all of that.”
Hey, Stupid Seniors! The Post Says a 9 % Cut In Social Security Benefits Won't Hurt | MyFDL
Revolving Door Watch: Former Sen. Judd Gregg to Goldman Sachs | FDL News Desk Judd Gregg, you may remember, is the guy who said that an audit of the Federal Reserve represented “pandering to populism.” I guess he’s just pandering to profit. And it’s crazy. He has a net worth of between $2.5 million and $9.2 million (New Hampshire is proud)
Fact Check: Pat Boone On The Ryan Plan - Kaiser Health News (Pat "Lyin' for Money" Boone)
DOJ Access To Ensign Emails Could Determine His Legal Fate | TPMDC
Republican Presidential Contest Suddenly Heats Up (send in the clowns)
Operation Leper For those that will bear false and malicious witness against Sarah want nothing less than Conservatives to have no choice but to support another Establishment Republican whom They will prop up for us sheep to follow (failed idea)

Margie Omero: Buyers' Remorse Over New GOP Governors
As the Economy Wavers, Is Washington Paying Attention? - NYTimes.com (not Joe Nocera)
Ohioans don't like John Kasich for doing what he said he'd do - Cleveland Business News - Northeast Ohio and Cleveland - Crain's Cleveland Business Kasich's job approval rating at 33% and his favorability among Republicans at only 58%.
Poll: Rick Scott one of the nation's least popular governors - St. Petersburg Times 57 percent of Florida voters disapprove of his job performance.Only 29 percent favor the job Scott is doing,
Walker statewide approval rating falls slightly - JSOnline 43% voters approve, down from 46%

The Fed’s secret giveaway to European banks | Felix Salmon Not only did they refuse to give him the information he was asking for, but then, when they were ordered to, they dumped 29,000 pages of documents on him. Hidden in which we find charts like these (Fed bailed out Europe without telling anyone)
N.Y.U. Lands Top Economist for Cities Project - NYTimes.com

Banks' check-clearing policies could leave you with overdrafts - USATODAY.com banks are forcing some of us to overdraw more often by clearing the largest transactions first, instead of processing them in the order they come in (why Republicans are going insane over Elisabeth Warren)

Salman Khan: The Messiah of Math - BusinessWeek
On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
The Case Against B.F. Skinner, by Noam Chomsky The New York Review of Books, December 30, 1971
Neural_computation
GOP cut crucial weather satellites with fierce hurricane season looming « Climate Progress (Missouri defunds their survival, votes Republican)
Scientists face trial over earthquake deaths : Nature News Queasy blend of politics, media and scientific uncertainty under scutiny in court (Italian courts are a joke)
Could Semen Be an Antidepressant?
Circumcision Opponent, Rabbi Face Off Over Circumcision Ban (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire circumcisions would become a misdemeanor offense carrying a fine of up to $1,000 or up to one year in jail. Opponents slam the proposal as an attack on religious rights and customs

Abortion saved my life - Abortion - Salon.com I almost died in an emergency room because the doctor on call refused to perform a necessary procedure - t women should plan ahead in case of rape and not expect their regular insurance to cover an abortion after an assault.
Striking proof that lightning conductors work - Times Online The explosion levelled one sixth of the city and killed about 3,000 people, possibly the world’s worst recorded lightning disaster. The church authorities had turned down the chance of fitting the newly invented lightning conductor on the ground that it was heretical to interfere with divine will (like abortion)
“The Daily Rind”, a Better Way to Plan the Day — A. King in Society
Hardball: High school student takes on administration
Large Crowds Protest Rape Charge Acquittal Of NYPD Cops (original video)
Brandon Ross Charged With Murder After Police Fatally Shoot 15-Year-Old Companion

YouTube - The Grand Rapids LipDub (new world record) (superviral)
Rob Bliss' Urban Experiments
YouTube - We Built Sioux City
YouTube - Pedophile Disguised As A School
YouTube - Budgie Balancing Trick
YouTube - Swedish House Mafia - Save The World (Official Music Video)
YouTube - Black Sabbath - War Pigs (Live in Paris 1970)


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Ratko Mladic Arrested: Inside The Raid That Nabbed The Suspected War Criminal

Fukushima Nuclear Plant's Tsunami Plan A Single Page a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago.
Mystery Virus Kills 2 In South Korea An unidentified virus affecting pregnant or recently pregnant women in South Korea has claimed a second fatality in just a few weeks.

Prosecutors cry foul after DSK lawyers complain about leaks, threaten to discredit accuser - Yahoo! News
Manufactured Panic over Patriot Act | Cato @ Liberty This is not just wrong, it is rolling-on-the-floor-laughing ridiculous. A lapse of these provisions for a few days—or a few weeks—would have no significant effect. First, they’re all covered by a grandfather clause. And contrary to what the New York Times implies, that doesn’t just mean that orders or warrants already issued under these authorities remain in effect (Times and WaPo do their job)
Inside the Detainee Abuse Task Force | The Nation

Anti-abortion language approved as amendment to House healthcare bill - The Hill's Floor Action
Single-Payer Healthcare for Vermont: A Small State Takes a Giant Leap for the Nation | BuzzFlash.org
Corporate Donations Ban Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
Fred Wertheimer: Campaign Finance Ruling Inappropriately Attempts to Overrule Supreme Court Decision
Trump: Birther Jerome Corsi Got it Wrong | Mother Jones WND's article made it seem that Trump was getting back into the birther business. But Trump says Corsi's not telling the truth - "I am proud of the fact that I was able to get President Obama to release his birth certificate."
House Republicans Torn Over Paying For Storm Aid Package House Republicans are increasingly divided over whether to pay for a massive emergency aid package for those hit by the storms pummeling the Midwest -
Primary Election 2012: GOP Hopefuls Shift On Global Warming
Senate Republicans Block Obama Recess Appointments | TPMDC
Alabama Lawmaker Abandons GOP Over New Law Aimed At Teachers | TPMDC
Fox News keeping Sarah Palin on board despite bus tour - latimes.com Fox News, where Palin earns $1 million a year as a commentator

"Abnormal Returns Of U.S. House of Representatives" by Alan J. Ziobrowski, James W. Boyd et al. (Congress legalized insider-trading for itself)
Default By U.S. Government Seen As Possible, With Debt Ceiling Vote Delayed

YouTube - Page One: Inside The New York Times Trailer 2011 HD
'Page One' exclusive: Andrew Rossi helms inside look at 'The New York Times'

Habitable exoplanet confirmed? Warm and wet, scientists say | DVICE
Dogs do drink like cats after all | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
six scenes from the life of william james sidis, wonderful boy | The Memory Palace

FEMA Gets Its Groove Back - BusinessWeek Six years after Katrina, FEMA's reputation appears restored

Verdict in Rape Case Causes Disbelief - NYTimes.com
No consent in unconscious sex case: Supreme Court - Toronto - CBC News (Canadians: Scalia would have ruled differently)

Democracy’s darkest day–the May 1861 secession vote in Fredericksburg, part 2 « Fredericksburg Remembered The number is breathtaking: 1,323 – 0. (Republicans: the early days when they were called Democrats)
10 People’s Lives in Famous Photographs
"Literally Unbelievable"
YouTube - Cat mom hugs baby kitten
Chicken Vanishes, Heartbreak Ensues - NYTimes.com
Imperial Shuttle / Arrival of the Emperor: A LEGO® creation by Jay Hoff : MOCpages.com
YouTube - Lions pinch camera
Researchers track the secret lives of feral and free-roaming house cats
Living With Breasts That Can Be Seen From Orbit | The Hairpin

Almost entire EU now violating Brussels cookie privacy law • The Register
BBC News - Cookie law deferred for one year
Google Introduce the ‘Google Correlate’ Search Data Mining Tool | Webification

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7 U.S. Soldiers Dead In Taliban Bombing In Afghanistan
Pakistan Bombing Leaves Dozens Dead

Super typhoon churns through Pacific, threatens Okinawa – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs (Songda)
Yemen 'Civil War' Looming? Tribes Warn Of End To Peaceful Protests
Syria Gunmen Used To Crush Protests
Ratko Mladic Arrested: Key Serbian War Crimes Suspect Reportedly In Custody
UK banks 'held $680m of Libyan state funds' | Business | guardian.co.uk HSBC and RBS among global banks involved, according to leaked Libyan Investment Authority report obtained by Global Witness
Gaddafi's Regime Stored Over $5B In Western Investment Banks: Report (where else?)
Will Saudi women drivers spark a revolution? - The Week Saudi Arabia has dodged the Arab Spring so far. But women demanding the right to get behind the wheel are trying to change that

YouTube - Obama takes girls phone in Dublin
Unfortunately Placed Plant +Queen Mum
dominiquestrausskahnmichelleobamaandobamaG20Setpt242009pittsburgh.jpg (Obama looked deep into his soul)
Priest Sex-Abuse Case in Archdiocese of Benedict's Adviser - TIME . "I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family issues" ("it was just a game")

WikiLeaks Probe Ramps Up One Year After Bradley Manning's Arrest the government is shifting its probe of the whistle-blowing organization into higher gear (Obama's war on the truth)
Patriot Act Extension: Congress Faces Midnight Deadline Congress is rushing to extend the life of three anti-terror tools, including the use of roving wiretaps, before they expire at midnight Thursday (Obama's spy-state)
World War II internment: U.S. top lawyer admits misconduct in Japanese American internment cases - latimes.com Acting Solicitor Gen. Neal Katyal says one of his predecessors, Charles Fahy, deliberately hid from the Supreme Court a military report that Japanese Americans were not a threat in World War II.

Single-Payer in Vermont, A State of Healthy Firsts | Common Dreams Today, Vermont will boast another first: the first state in the nation to offer single-payer health care, which eliminates the costly insurance companies that many believe are the root cause of our spiraling health care costs "Everybody In, Nobody Out" (House Republicans consider Naval Blockade)
Why does Washington care so much about deficits? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (they don't, it's just an excuse not to deal with the serious problems)
Think Again: The Times’ Frank Bruni, or How to Succeed in Journalism Without Really Caring (About Issues) The selling point for Bruni, whose last job was as the paper’s restaurant critic, is that he is the paper’s first openly gay op-ed columnist. Otherwise, neither Rosenthal nor Bruni appears to be able to explain the rationale for the choice (his gay coverage of Bush, whose codpiece hypnotised him, got him the job))
Political Animal - Joe Walsh’s ongoing struggles with reality one of Congress’ more notable right-wing freshmen, has an angry column in the Daily Caller today on U.S. policy towards Israel - Walsh feels comfortable lecturing Jews about their need to support Israel the way he wants them to. Walsh, of course, is Catholic.

How to Respond When a Congressman Calls You a Liar - Gawker
John Edwards to Face Criminal Charges - NYTimes.com
Yes, Newt Gingrich Wanted Medicare To Wither On The Vine | Political Correction
Why Not Let the Dead Pay for Medicare? | Mother Jones why not reform Medicare by means testing it? Conservatives should love this idea (test if you are dead or alive)
Wonk Room » GOP Budget To Slash Federal Medicaid Budget By One Quarter - Medicaid pays for 40 percent of all births and that children comprise half its beneficiaries (that will be popular)
Hullabaloo Snappy Slogans - Thomas Friedman proves once again why he isn't looked to for advice by political movements around the world
Wisconsin Union Law Struck Down By County Circuit Judge Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi ruled Thursday that Republican legislators violated Wisconsin's open meetings law during the run up to passage. She says that renders the law void.
'Fire In The Belly' | Talking Points Memo
alicublog - Rod Dreher (says Oprah has been a "net negative" on American culture)
Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough Goes into a Tirade Comparing Medicare to Steak and Chocolate Cake | Video Cafe
Sarah Palin Is The Culmination Of All Human Endeavors and Wars And Probably Evolution | TBogg - Trailer Park Aimee Semple McSnowbilly
Raw video: Sheriff's Office interview on fatal SWAT raid - KGUN9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports But SWAT team members fired a total of at least 71 rounds, leaving the home riddled with holes.

NYSE Tries to Body Slam TPM! | Talking Points Memo (no reason but inate evil)
Apple | US Uncut Apple is Lobbying Congress for a “Tax Holiday” so they can Dodge $4 Billion in Taxes. Do we want Billion for Apple OR Salaries for 90,000 teachers?

What Are the Mysterious Markings Found In the Great Pyramid's Hidden Chamber of Secrets? - Gizmodo
First images from Great Pyramid's chamber of secrets - image 4 - life - 25 May 2011 - New Scientist
YouTube - VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage
Supernova Sonata on Vimeo
Impossible physics: Why My Little Pony can't really fly - Boing Boing

Coming Out: Audio, Photos, Stories of Gay Teens - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
The Secret Life of Storage Units in Honolulu - Honolulu Magazine - May 2011 - Hawaii They may look like static warehouses on the outside but inside, Honolulu's self-storage units are bustling with hidden lives.
Tiny People's Wonderful World of Food - My Modern Metropolis
D.I.Y. Cooking Handbook - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Have computers taken away our power? | Television & radio | The Guardian If you think machines have liberated us, think again, says film-maker Adam Curtis. Instead we have lost our vision
Internet of Things: how it will change the world | News | TechRadar UK Explained: Interconnected devices set to alter our perceptions of reality

Codemasters Hit By Hackers, News from GamePro
The Root of Knowledge | Ned Resnikoff

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Netanyahu Speaks To U.S. Congress In Rare Address (video) "painful compromises" (for you) - two dozen sustained standing ovations (from dual-loyalty Republicans)

How Long Before Greek People Demand Default? - CNBC “Greece and other Southern European states (at least Portugal) should opt for the default option,” (banks fuck up, everyone else pays but them)
Olive: America, the world’s sweatshop - thestar.com the U.S. South is becoming the world’s sweatshop of choice ('cause y'all hate regulation and loves yer slaves)

Violent Thunderstorms Kill At Least 13 In Oklahoma, Kansas And Arkansas (video)
Your view: Storm shelters needed » Opinion » The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO Why doesn’t a city the size of Joplin have tornado shelters throughout the city for all of us who can’t afford to build our own storm shelters? (April 12, prescient, read the comments)

The Osama bin Laden exception - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (to the rule of law and respect for the American ideal of justice))
Bradley Manning's Facebook Page | WikiSecrets | FRONTLINE | PBS

Most Americans Oppose GOP Plan To Cut Medicaid - Kaiser Health News About 60 percent of Americans want Congress to keep Medicaid in its current form with the federal government guaranteeing coverage and setting minimum benefits for states to follow (voucher-care is very popular, a winning issue for the Republicans)
Paul Ryan Budget Proposal Voted Down By Senate 57-40 against the bill (voucher-care dies in the Senate)
Paul Ryan Medicare Proposal Has Republicans On Defense ("voucher-care")
Weigel : NY-26: Open Thread and Liveblog [update: Hochul Wins] the Republican plan to end Medicare ... we will fight them anywhere in America when it comes to defending and strengthening Medicare ... rejected the Republican plan to end Medicare (Dems finally get on message)
New York Special Election: Medicare Will Be Issue Of 2012 Democrats have ranged from reluctant defenders of government spending to outright hawkish assailants of social funds (Dems love to lose)
Medicare: How Paul Ryan's budget would change it - CSMonitor.com Medicare would be transformed under Rep. Paul Ryan's 2012 budget released Tuesday. Future Medicare recipients would get fixed payments to purchase private insurance (voucher-care didn't turn out to be a big hit)
Poll: Rick Scott among the least-liked governors in nation - Political Currents - MiamiHerald.com Scott’s job-approval rating has gone from mediocre to bad (no one likes Lex Luthor)
IRS To Take On Karl Rove? Tax Laws Could Take A Bite Out Of Secret Political Spending
FreedomWorks' Goal: Stop Mitt Romney In 2012
American Thinker Blog: Shock and dismay on the left The poll shows that FNC is trusted by 28% of the public, followed by CNN at 18%, NBC at 10%, MSNBC at 7%, and the other two network news at 6% each.

Elizabeth Warren Called Liar At CFPB Hearing By Republicans Who Botched Facts On Agency (video) (Republicans are stupid and have no facts)
Al Franken To President Obama: Give Elizabeth Warren A Recess Appointment To Lead The CFPB (that would be too partisan)


NASA abandons Mars rover Spirit, chooses to remember the good times -- Engadget
Egypt | Lost Pyramids | Tourism A satellite survey used infra-red images to detect underground buildings.
U.S. Measles Cases Hit 15-Year High : Shots - Health Blog : NPR That "unusually large number of importations," as the CDC put it, is tied to an increase in measles cases in countries frequented by U.S. travelers. And the problem in those countries boils down to inadequate vaccination. The biggest sources of cases cited by the CDC were India (14) and France (11). France, if you didn't know it, has had a large measles outbreak this year, with nearly 5,000 cases reported through the end of March and about 10,000 by then end of April (French are anti-vax but pay for labiaplasty)
Measles --- United States, January--May 20, 2011 Unvaccinated persons accounted for 105 (89%) of the 118 cases

For Patients | Doctored Reviews
Doctors and dentists tell patients, "all your review are belong to us"

Archival photos of the Globe’s strangely webpage-like Newspaper Row storefront, 1912-1963 | Beta Boston
YouTube - Fawn Rescue.avi (with the Jaws of Life)

Salon’s TableTalk shutdown: What we can learn from the story of a pioneering online community — Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard (Salon TableTalk shutting down; 16 years of messages will be deleted)
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
Russian company releases commercial iOS decryption toolset

052411
Netanyahu AIPAC Speech: Israeli Prime Minister Says Country Cannot Return To 1967 Borders (you know, AIPAC, the Israel lobby that doesn't exist)

NASA - Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano
Pc to face trial over G20 death - Crime, UK - The Independent
Russia: Fifth Of Defense Budget Stolen A fifth of Russia's state defence spending is stolen every year by corrupt officials, dishonest generals and crooked contractors (sounds about right)
China detains 300 Tibetan monks after self-immolation incident | World news | guardian.co.uk Tibetan monks from a Sichuan monastery have been detained for 'legal education' after a monk set himself on fire

There is Much More to Say Noam Chomsky
Supreme Court Upholds Order to Reduce Calif. Prison Population - NYTimes.com (the usual crew of Republican dissenters who say no conditions are too bad)
Obama DOJ: We Only Subpoena Journalists If We Really, Really Have To | TPMMuckraker (James Risen will be waterboarded )

YouTube - Joplin, Missouri Tornado Video: Storm Chasers Capture Storm's Fury (05.23.11)
Joplin Tornado Survivors Describe Scenes Of Death And Horror
YouTube - Joplin, Mo., Dramatic Tornado Video: Twisters Rip Across Midwest; Levels City
Chilling Video Of Missouri Tornado
Daily Kos: Cantor: No emergency aid for tornado victims without spending cuts (you might want to rethink that whole Republican thing, MO)
Political Animal - Cantor demands spending-cut ransom for Missouri aid (encouraged by Blue-Dog Claire McCaskill)

Patriot Act Extension Moves Forward In Senate
Mubin Shaikh | US Terror Watch List | Toronto 18 Mubin Shaikh helped take down Canada’s biggest terrorist conspiracy since 9/11. So why was he on a US terror watch list? (terrorist-sounding name?)
2012 presidential race: Why are so many Republicans opting out? - The Week Big-name Republicans who won't run for the party's nomination — like Chris "Fat Fuck" Christie — far outnumber those who want to take on President Obama next year
Elections 2012: Republicans, Still Looking For Presidential Savior?

BBC News - UK public borrowing higher than expected in April The UK saw its worst April public sector net borrowing on record last month as tax receipts fell, the Office for National Statistics said (how's that austerity thing working out for you? UK bankrupting its way to prosperity!)
Partners, Not Adversaries: The Federal Reserve's Role In The Financial Collapse (and Obama's partnership with the Fed)

David Brooks' political dream - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (christ, what an elitist asshole)
David Brooks of the New York Times thinks he understands Great Britain. He doesn't – Telegraph Blogs (or much of anything else, either)
"A Functioning Political System"
Corwin Gets Pre-Emptive Legal Action In NY-26 | TPMDC
Rebecca Mansour | Sarah Palin | Palin Aide | The Daily Caller Erick Erickson is “a total douchebag,” wrote Palin speechwriter and domestic policy adviser Rebecca Mansour in a May 22, 2010, message. “Greasy dumb ass with a talent for self-promotion (but plays an elite pundit on CNN)
pandagon.net - Ur Freedomz, Dey Iz Comin For Dem - Don Surber (thinks he has a Constitutional right to cheap gas, but health care isn't a free so it isn't a right, or something)
Moving Home: When College Grads Face Uncertain Futures ("uncertain" = "no" unless they majored in investment banking and hedge funds)

The Destruction of Economic Facts - BusinessWeek Renowned Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto argues that the financial crisis wasn't just about finance—it was about a staggering lack of knowledge (but Larry Summers is a very smart guy)
Hernando de Soto on "Egypt's Economic Apartheid" - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'? - CNN.com If you like to take lots of vacation, the United States is not the place to work.

Back Up FAQ

Whites believe they are victims of racism more often than blacks, study suggests (Fox and Limbaugh told them that)
Jockeying for Stigma - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door | Politics | Vanity Fair
w The 'Christian' Dogma Pushed by Religious Schools That Are Supported by Your Tax Dollars | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet f you live in a state with a voucher or corporate tax credit program funding "school choice," your state's tax dollars are funding the teaching of religious supremacism.
Thousands rally behind ailing mom - Durham County - NewsObserver.com
playing it straight - A Month of Giving Up Everything Gay - Vice Magazine

Harold Camping says May 21, 2011 was ‘invisible judgment day,’ world will end October 21, 2011 - Under God - The Washington Post
YouTube - Playing with an Otter-1

Apple to Lodsys: 'App makers are protected by [our] license' | Mobile | iOS Central | Macworld
Stanford computer scientists find Internet security flaw a computer program that could listen to and correctly decipher commercial audio captchas

052311
Barack Obama's big Middle East gamble - Telegraph Barack Obama seems unrepentant over his comments on Israel's border and appears to think that his own personality will be enough to resolve a '100-year-old headache' (huge push-back from rich American Jews whose first loyalty is to Israel)

Apache helicopters to be sent into Libya by Britain | World news | guardian.co.uk Use of helicopters, which can attack small targets, represents significant escalation of conflict
Pakistani commandos regain control of Karachi military base | World news | The Guardian Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for 'revenge' raid • Ten military personnel killed in long gunfight
Hullabaloo - Coalition Tangle

Poll: Majority Of French See Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn As Victim Of Plot (next up: the anti-semitism card)
Britain's Banks Fail to Meet Lending Target - NYTimes.com
Zapatero's Socialists defeated by People's party in regional elections | World news | The Guardian Results seen as protest vote against Spain's José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's handling of economy since 2008
Phone hacking: Lord Prescott wins high court bid to challenge Met | Media | guardian.co.uk High court rules Prescott, Chris Bryant and Brian Paddick 'each has arguable case' for believing police breached human rights - the police deliberately misled them in 2006 over evidence their mobile phones had been hacked. (which was obvious from the beginning)
High court criticises newspapers in Sir Fred Goodwin injunction battle | Media | guardian.co.uk Judge critical of publishers of Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Mail for weak public interest arguments in their bid to lift gagging orde
Ryan Giggs named as footballer at the centre of privacy row | Politics | guardian.co.uk John Hemming MP unmasked Giggs as the married star whose injunction over an alleged affair caused a storm on Twitter - thousands of people posting details on Twitter of individuals involved in superinjunctions risked making the law "look an ass".
William and Kate 'Gypsy' spoof withdrawn from Tesco shelves | Books | guardian.co.uk Will & Kate's Big Fat Gypsy Wedding pulled following complaints from Romany Women's Union

Tornado kills at least 89 in Joplin, Missouri | Reuters a monster tornado that left a path of destruction nearly a mile wide through the heart of Joplin, Missouri, and directly hit the small Midwestern city's main hospital, local officials said on Monday.
KSMU - Joplin is Hit by Devastating Tornado - destroyed or severely damaged as much as 30 percent of the town.
Tornadoes Hit Midwest: Missouri Tornado Kills At Least 89

NSA Whistleblower: Government Wants To Send 'Chilling Message' On Leaks | TPMMuckraker The government is telling whistleblowers "do not tell truth to power, we'll hammer you," Drake told CBS.

Chris Hedges: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig “A black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.” (+shoeshine boy for the bankers and biggest disaster for civil rights since 1776)
Cornel West’s criticism of Obama sparks debate among African Americans - The Washington Post “I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men .?.?. It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation.” (no relatives on Social Security, either)
Chris Hedges: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig The capitulation of the liberal class to corporate capitalism, as Irving Howe once noted, has “bleached out all political tendencies.”
Cornel West's tragic meltdown - Joan Walsh - Salon.com A few fair complaints about Obama drown in a sea of personal racial attacks. Is this how identity politics ends?
To Be Black, And Also A "Mutt" Princeton Professor Cornel West thinks that Obama is afraid of free black men - President Obama has a "fear of free black men," says the celebrity professor from Princeton by way of Harvard, explaining why the president feels "at home" among people who are not black.
Cornel West v. Barack Obama | The Nation - It began, not with a puffed up President, but when Cornel West’s “dear brother” Tavis Smiley threw a public tantrum because Senator Obama refused to attend Smiley's annual State of Black America
Cornel West on Obama is no better than a birther - PostPartisan - The Washington Post the “Blacker than thou” crowd
Balloon Juice » Things Done Changed No one could have predicted that 4 trillion in tax cuts for the rich while gutting Medicare and doing nothing to balance the budget would have been unpopuar with the public. It’s a mystery!
Hullabaloo "The Tea Party Itch Has Not Been Scratched" - they'd just won their seats because they'd convinced a bunch of elderly people that Obama was trying to kill them by destroying Medicare?

Medicare Cuts Unpopular In Swing States, Polls Suggest (teaparty hysteria fails to convince old people)
Daniels Declines
'I Played By The Rules' -- 'The Rules Have Changed' (no jobs in America)
Lumpy Labor by Robert Skidelsky - Project Syndicate
Win Or Lose, NY-26 Is An Ominous Blow To GOP's Medicare Phaseout Plan | TPMDC
Newt Stands Alone: Why Gingrich's Greatest Political Liability May Be ... Himself | TPMDC
Losing the mullet, angling for veep - Republican Party - Salon.com Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has a shot at being John McCain's No. 2 -- and it's not just because of the snazzy new haircut.
Wis. Elections Board Certifies Win For Prosser In Supreme Court Race | TPMDC (another election stolen by RethugliCons)

USA Today Is Very Upset That the United States Doesn't Have Double Digit Unemployment | Beat the Press "Financial experts and credit-ratings agencies say the mess is a warning for Obama and Washington lawmakers: Get your fiscal house in order or risk the same fate. the "credit-ratings agencies" referred to in this piece are best known as the people who rated hundreds of billions of dollars of subprime mortgage backed securities as investment grade. The "financial experts" were people who could not see the largest asset bubble in the history of the world."
'Reckless Endangerment': An Exclusive Excerpt From Gretchen Morgenson And Joshua Rosner's New Book
Republicans and Their Debt-Happy Policies
Political Animal - Truth outweighs consistency On a health care mandate, for example, Huntsman not only appears to have flip-flopped, he also appears to have given misleading answers about his reversal.
Orchestra's bankruptcy risks forfeit of $50M gift - Philly.com That was a string attached in 2003 to Leonore Annenberg's donation (Galtian overlords always ruin a good thing)
Mortgage fraud: California forming mortgage fraud task force - latimes.com The team of 17 lawyers and eight special agents from the state Department of Justice will pursue corporate fraud, scams and fraudulent lending practices, Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris says

Saturn's Violent Storms Rage Across the Entire Planet
APOD: 2011 May 23 - An Unexpected Flare from the Crab Nebula (Nebula isn't so happy either)

Today in Bad Ideas: Casino Developer Wants to Bulldoze Part of Downtown Cleveland | Rust Wire (casinos in the middle of the city!)
Parents keep child's gender secret - Parentcentral.ca “If you really want to get to know someone, you don’t ask what’s between their legs,” says Stocker.
China Develops Automated Semen Collector…For Science! – RocketNews24 (will be used for "off-label" purposes)
The Labiaplasty You Never Knew You Wanted [NSFW] - Jezebel

The Gossip Machine, Churning Out Cash - NYTimes.com
An Open Letter to Writers of Open Letters by Teddy Wayne - The Morning News To those who feel compelled to address the world from Facebook, Twitter, and email chains, Teddy Wayne has a message: No one is listening, least of all Luther Vandross.
U B U W E B :: John Barton Wolgamot
Rare Library of Congress colour photographs of the Great Depression | Mail Online

YouTube - Ethan Law Roue Cyr wheel presentation
YouTube - Sister Irene O'Connor mass emmanuel

operationpaybackreddit.png (Anonymous targets the CoC's ProtectIP censorship law)
Charlie Brooker: Hollywood shuns intelligent entertainment. The games industry doesn't. Guess who's winning? | Comment is free | The Guardian LA Noire and Portal 2 are video games that challenge the mind instead of the thumbs

052211
Syria Death Toll From Violence Tops 900
Obama AIPAC Speech 2011: President Seeks To Smooth Out U.S.-Israel Tensions (Jewish Lobby slaps Obama around)
Obama and the Israel Lobby - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - The Right Wing Noise Machine all but accused Obama of trying to destroy Israel, with the GOP's leading presidential candidates condemning the President for the crime of "disrespecting" and "throwing Israel under the bus" ... But remember: it's so very heinous and hateful to suggest -- as Walt and Mearsheimer shamefully did -- that some Americans are driven by devotion to Israel as their primary political preoccupation and that, banded together, they exert substantial influence. Perish the thought. (dual-loyalty Americans whose first loyalty is to Israel)
Libya: Britain's £1bn war | World news | The Guardian Libya conflict could cost UK taxpayers £1bn over six months as Gaddafi clings on and cost of involvement soars
todayonline | Commentary | Of spies, special forces and drone strikes The US is engaged in increasingly sophisticated warfare, fusing intelligence services and military specialists

Icelandic volcano ash could enter UK airspace, forecasters warn | World news | The Guardian Britain may be at risk as early as Tuesday, although the impact is not expected to be as great as it was in April 2010
Iceland Volcano Erupts, White Plume Up To 18,000 Feet Seen: Report
Scottish newspaper's identification of injunction footballer: the legal view | Media | The Guardian
The stupidity of our copyright laws is finally laid bare | Technology | The Observer A fresh inquiry into the UK's intellectual property regime is surprisingly tough, intelligent and radical

Mitch Daniels' Decision Not To Run For President Leaves GOP Floundering (little bit of a wife problem, on to Christie!)
Mitch McConnell Avoids Endorsing Medicare Changes In Paul Ryan's Budget Plan (video) ("changes" = "end of Medicare")
Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Stupid': New York Magazine
Reducing Pennsylvania's Unemployment Insurance 'A Fairness Thing,' GOP Lawmaker Says (to the rich, of course)
CEO-turned-Gov. Rick Scott says he’s listening to the employees – Central Florida Political Pulse – Orlando Sentinel - f the citizens contacting his office in recent weeks appear diametrically opposed to the “business plan” he and conservative Republican lawmakers are implementing for the state (if they complain too much he will fire them all)

How Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes Failed at Setting Up a Strong Republican Candidate for 2012 -- New York Magazine The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election.
Birtherism, the debt ceiling, climate change, evolution: Are Republicans losing their grip on reality? - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine Are Republicans losing their grip on reality?
La Cage Aux Fools - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 05/19/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central (Bernard-Henri Levy and Ben Stein use airtight reasoning to defend Dominique Strauss-Kahn against sexual assault charges.

The Many Dangers of Natural Gas | Top Cultured

Yglesias » Harassment Incentives - Penelope Trunk: But God help the guy who harasses a women with nothing to lose - Waldman: "Ms Trunk suffers from elite self pity syndrome. Oh those lucky duckies who get to clean hotel rooms and have nothing to lose." (rape/harrassment only a problem for rich women)

Disappointment, despair and Harold Camping | slacktivist
'Judgment Day' Believers Face Tough Questions After Unfulfilled Doomsday - "I can't tell you what I feel right now," he said, surrounded by tourists. "Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here."
YouTube - fakeraptureprank
YouTube - HellRaiser - Church Scene

Book Review - The Anatomy of Influence - By Harold Bloom - NYTimes.com
Anis Shivani: The Insularity of American Literature: Philip Roth Didn't Deserve the Booker International Prize
Amazon: The Book Industry “In a Box”?: Tech News and Analysis « e-books now eclipse print books,

How to spot a psychopath | Jon Ronson | Books | The Guardian From Broadmoor to boardroom, they're everywhere, says Jon Ronson, in an exclusive extract from his new book (Hare checklist)
How I Deal With Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way | Tammy Camp This past week I was banned from one of my favorite conferences because I wouldn’t have sex with one of the organizers. Given that this is the third time a similar situation has happened in a year’s time, I’m learning how to swallow this pill of injustice without throwing up every time.
Book reveals lewd behavior and drug use at ESPN - NYPOST.com (sports guys and girls at "work")
Successful Alcoholics from TJ Miller, Lizzy Caplan & Jordan Vogt-Roberts from Jordan Vogt-Roberts, T.J. Miller, Matt Braunger, Lizzy Caplan, Whitney_Cummings, Nick Thune, and Nick Kroll A co-dependent couple drowning in booze and yet still clinging to well-paying jobs. After playing at Sundance,... more »
The worship of female pleasure - Sex News, Sex Talk - Salon.com

Tom West; engineer was the soul of Data General’s new machine - The Boston Globe - d his first wife, Liz (Cohon) West of Boxborough. She called him “literally the love of my life. “We couldn’t live together very well,’’ she said, “but that’s another story. (Jessamyn West's mother, Peter Coyote's sister +Data General)

Salon 21st | The Xy files- For The Rest Of The World, Xywrite Is History -- But To Its Devotees, The Antiquated Word Processor Still Rules.
XyWrite is dead (killed by IBM)
XyWrite.com - Home

Twitter and unnamed Twitterers sued by anonymous man • The Register 'CTB' in bid to muzzle microblog (England censoring the world)
Imogen Thomas claims reputation 'trashed' by gagging order | Media | guardian.co.uk Former Big Brother contestant and the Sun battle to overturn injunction taken out by Premier League footballer
Billy Jones (injunctionsuper) on Twitter Footballer Ryan Giggs had an extramarital affair with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas which lasted for 7 months (superinjunct this, assholes)
Apple Retail Employees May Unionize - HotHardware - finally, after 10 years of Apple retail stores, they may unionize?

052111
Iceland Volcano Erupts, White Plume Up To 18,000 Feet Seen: Report
Yemen Transition Deal Signed By Opposition
Spain reveals pain over cuts and unemployment | World news | guardian.co.uk Young protesters in Madrid and beyond have many different demands, but they are united in opposing the government
BBC News - Spain: Protesters defy ban with anti-government rallies Thousands of people have taken part in protests across Spain's main cities, defying a government ban on political protest ahead of local elections.
Spain Protests Rock Nation, Tens Of Thousands Fill The Cities Over Joblessness (more austerity to pay the banksters!)
Iran Arrests 30 People It Says Spied For U.S.
Turkey Sex Video Scandal Forces Politicians To Resign Six senior politicians in a Turkish opposition party resigned on Saturday amid a sex video scandal that could have far-reaching consequences in elections on June 12.
China: Shoe attack on Great Firewall's designer - Asia, World - The Independent The attack – if true – is a particularly bold one for China and underscores how strongly people feel about the country's strict internet censorship.
Ukraine weather forecaster taken off air for anti-government rant - Telegraph Ukraine's top weather forecaster has been forced off the air after she used a bulletin to rant against the government, saying that the recent sunny spell made up for the country's lawlessness and injustice
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Europe 'stealing Iran's rain' - Telegraph Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Western countries of plotting to "cause drought" in Iran by using high tech equipment to drain the clouds of raindrops

Dutch Catholic Priest Pedophilia Endorsement Shocks Church

CBC.ca | Ideas | The Malaise of Modernity, Part 1 - 5

The always-expanding bipartisan Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com "We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a national-surveillance state."
NSA Twice Chose to Forgo Privacy Protections in Domestic Data Mining Programs | Emptywheel
Daily Kos: Historian Challenges Bachmann to Debate
NY 26: Jack Davis and the Tea Party vs. Jane Corwin and the Republican Party. - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine Jack Davis personifies the Tea Party. Is that why Republicans are so afraid of him?
Tough week for Tea Party ends with fizzling rally - S.C. Politics - TheState.com (estimated crowd: 2 million)
Why Michele Bachmann should run for president - Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. - Salon.com I used to think she was at the GOP fringe, but the party's in a race to the bottom. She's no worse than Gingrich (race to the bottom and losing the future)
ThinkProgress » Rep. Webster Threatens To Kick Out Town Hall Constituent For Asking About Raising Corporate Taxes (the guy who defeated Grayson +he thought he was talking to his wife)
Cultish Christian Leader Teaches Women Should Submit to Husbands -- Victims of His "Submission Theology" Speak Out | | AlterNet
Jon Huntsman's Climate Problem | Mother Jones But Huntsman also has an additional problem. He doesn't think that gay people are the scourge of the earth and perhaps may even be entitled to some basic rights, which could turn out to be a bigger headache for him than that whole climate thing (turns out the Repugs don't want a "serious" candidate after all)

Bush-Era Tax Cuts Projected As Largest Contributor To Public Debt [chart] (off the table)

In Japan Reactor Failings, Danger Signs for the U.S. - NYTimes.com
Retracted climate critics' study panned by expert - usatoday.com - the federally-funded 2008 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis study headed by Edward Wegman of George Mason University. Echoing charges of plagiarism in a 2006 Congressional report by Wegman and colleagues that was critical of climate scientists, experts have noted apparently copied text -- including portions taken from a Wikipedia entry -- in the CSDA study. (Conservative fraud and plagierism)
Climate study gets pulled after charges of plagiarism - USATODAY.com Evidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming - The "Wegman Report" suggested climate scientists colluded in their studies and questioned whether global warming was real (projection is a Republican mental disorder)
Statistics in the news — but not in a good way « the paper was accepted five days after submission by an editor who was a personal friend of Wegman’s, an irony given that the study was about the nefarious influence of social networks.”

Tafoni
Scientific Illustration
7 Houseplants That Will Clean Your Air | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion

Support For Gay Marriage Tops 50 Percent For First Time In Gallup's Polling : The Two-Way : NPR
Tenn. Senate OKs Ban On Teaching Of Homosexuality : NPR
YouTube - Koch Bros - It's the evil thing.
Fourteen-Year-Old Can Get Life Sentence, Rules Wisconsin Supreme Court - the court found that neither the U.S. nor the Wisconsin Constitution prohibits life sentences without parole for 14-year-olds in homicide cases and no national consensus has formed against such sentences.
Tucson SWAT Team Defends Shooting Iraq Marine Veteran 60 Times - ABC News although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first (murder by cops)
City Secretly Plans School's For-Profit Takeover | New Haven Independent “When this process is complete, at that point we will be transparent,” Hoffman said.

More Than 40 Percent of Americans Believe the Rapture Is Coming - Culture - GOOD (uneducated white evangelicals living in the South: %59)
Apocalypse 2011: What happens to a doomsday cult when the world doesn't end? - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine
The Rapture Is Not Saturday -- It's Tonight - Tina Dupuy - Politics - The Atlantic Doomsday prophet Harold Camping tells The Atlantic what to expect when the end of the world begins
YouTube - The rapture had victims
CDC EPR | Social Media | Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse - Blog
YouTube - Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come (with Lyrics)

Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace - Official Website -
Patrimonium-mundi.org > Europe > France > Hauterives > The ideal palace by postman... : sphere
YouTube - Network - Mad as Hell Scene
English Peas Recipe : Review : Paula Deen : Food Network

Hashfic: Studio 60's Odd Second Life On Twitter | The Awl
Sound of sex could alert internet porn filter - tech - 20 May 2011 - New Scientist
Business and labor agree on one thing in the San Francisco Bay area and that is broadband | BroadbandExpert
Free Tool Maps the Health of the Web: Broadband News and Analysis «

052011
NATO: Libya Warships Sunk
Pakistani Taliban Detonate Car Bomb Next To U.S. Consulate Vehicles
Pakistan: China Providing 50 Fighter Jets
Syria Troops Fire During Protests, Killing More Protesters
CBC News web documentary: Exile Without End: Palestinians in Lebanon
Obama and Netanyahu Face a Turning Point - NYTimes.com (allies against who?)
Obama, Netanyahu White House Meeting: Disputes 'Between Friends' (Israel says fuck you)
Fool on the Hill | Talking Points Memo The man is a fool at so many levels. But there's no denying that he speaks for a very large chunk of the Israeli electorate (who are fools)
Hatch To Introduce Senate Resolution Opposing Obama On Israel-Palestine | TPMDC (more fools)

Japan Nuclear Crisis: President Of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Stepping Down

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Released From Jail, Will Be Held Under House Arrest
Spain's Icelandic revolt | Presseurop (English)
New democracy movement senses its moment · ELPAÍS.com in English Activists say they were influenced by Arab revolts and protests in Greece
Protest in the Med: rallies against cuts and corruption spread | World news | The Guardian Sit-ins planned at parks and squares across Madrid, Rome, Barcelona, Milan and Florence - A youth-led rebellion is spreading across southern Europe as a new generation of protesters takes possession of squares and parks in cities around Spain, united by a rejection of mainstream politicians and fury over spending cuts.(Arab Spring, European summer)
Norway Suspends $42 Million in EEA Greek Development Funds - Bloomberg
Norway Stops Aid Payments To Greece | zero hedge - And here comes the first domino
Political shifts mustn’t threaten Canada’s unity, vision - The Globe and Mail Ontario and the West now control almost two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons, 145 of those held by the Conservatives, allowing them to form a majority government despite losing all but five of their seats in Quebec.

Mississippi River flooding: Residents build homemade dams to saves houses | Mail Online
Mississippi Flooding: Homes Turned Into Islands To Resist Rising River (photos)

Can Dems make Medicare central to 2012 presidential race? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (only if forced to by insane Republicans)
Nancy Pelosi: `We have a plan. It’s called Medicare.’ - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (the only Dem who know how to play to game; can you imagine what would have happened with Pres Nancy?)
Richard Trumka Threatens To Abandon Democrats In 2012 Unless They Fight Harder For Labor "America’s real deficit is a moral deficit -- where political choices come down to forcing foster children to wear hand-me-downs while cutting taxes for profitable corporations,"
Tim Pawlenty 2012 Presidential Campaign Expected To Launch Next Week (charisma!)
Jon Huntsman Criticizes Heavy U.S. Presence In Afghanistan: It's Not 'How We Ought To Be Responding'
The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Newton Leroy Gingrich I don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.
John Lithgow Performs Dramatic Reading of Gingrich Spokesman's Epic Poem | TPM LiveWire (Ginglitch)
Mayor Is Criticized for Comments on Parents at Poor Schools - NYTimes.com “Unfortunately there are some parents who just come from — they never had a formal education, and they don’t understand the value of education,” Mr. Bloomberg said (the very model of a modern major rich asshole)
Walker seeks to stop defense of state's domestic partner registry - JSOnline (Taliban take over Wisconsin)
illusory tenant: Angry Wisconsin left should be jubilant
Scott Walker Recall Countdown
Texas Sonogram Abortion Law Signed By Rick Perry
Wisconsin, Tennessee Try To Pull Planned Parenthood Funding (Republican assault on women)
Teen who challenged Bachmann to debate receiving threats | kare11.com (your teahadists at work, threatening teen for telling the truth)
George W. Bush Reaps $15 Million Post-Presidency
Sadly, No! » You’re So Brave To Expose All Those Popsicle Woes Muslims are using the revenue from selling pee-sicles to Jewish kids to fund international jihad*
Anti-Gay Preacher Ignites Fury After Giving Prayer On MN House Floor | TPMMuckraker (gays and Muslims getting together to enact Sharia law, or something)
How Did Arnold Schwarzenegger Keep His Cheating Hidden For So Long? (pervy bully)

Likely IMF Chief Lagarde Makes Comments On Greece That Are The Definition Of Insane this has been their philosophy forever, with horrible results. Meanwhile, Europe is going busto today.
EUROPE IS GOING KA-BLAMO RIGHT NOW: Here's What You Need To Know
Made in America: small businesses buck the offshoring trend

Mammals' brains got bigger to handle sense of smell

Big Jumps In Health Premiums Will Soon Face Government Review : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Is Paying a Bus Driver ,000 a Year Generous? | Beat the Press "But the way they [the increased employee payments for health care] were passed shows what happens when a wealthy, liberal county is forced to confront years of political accommodation and generous spending." (doesn't apply to executive salaries at WaPo)
After Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Public Subsidies, Barely Used Yankees Parking Garages Face Financial Collapse | Transportation Nation (who could have predicted rich assholes would do this?)
Law Schools' Women Problem the number of women enrolled in law school has been declining steadily since 2002, a disparity that shows particularly at the top 10 law schools. At The Volokh Conspiracy, Kenneth Anderson rightly, I think, brings up the possibility that the increasing cost of law school might be at play here ... even the most successful female lawyers can expect to make 22 percent, or $66,000 per year, less than their male counterpart.
Man Told He Is Guilty Of Felony For Videotaping Whale | Pixiq - Robert G Lingenfelser Jr (seems to be a complete douchebag)

America reCycled
YouTube - Elapsed Time: Heavy Traffic at Logan

YouTube - "If mirrors could speak"
Woman Discusses Her Gender Reassignment - Transsexual Woman Janet Mock - Marie Claire

On Bookstore Compulsions | biblioklept

TubeCrush.net
OhDearism: Tube Crush | OhDearism
The dubious joys of perving over fellow passengers online | Sunny Hundal | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk A too-casual approach to the posting of pictures of men on TubeCrush seems a bit off, but it's true women put up with worse
TubeCrush – harmless or harassment? | HollabackLDN!
Set Sail, Michigan Band, Serenades Virgin Flight To Deaf Ears (video) - AOL Travel News

Apple-Loving Tech Columnist Allegedly Hit Wife With iPhone - FoxNews.com - the arrests arose from a brief confrontation between the couple, who are divorcing.
NYT tech columnist, wife arrested following fight she recorded on iPhone - BostonHerald.com
In Awkward Twist, Tech Columnist David Pogue’s Wife Recorded Alleged Domestic Violence Incident on iPhone -- Daily Intel
Comcast Gaffe Boosts Its Image As An Overbearing Media Conglomerate | TPM Idea Lab
How to Build Your Own Gaming PC Article - PC - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net
"I need a New PC!" 2011 Edition of SSD's for everyone! |OT| - NeoGAF
All hotkeys - Mozilla Firefox Hotkeys - Keyboard Shortcuts
Suburban woman is sued after vast hoax - Chicago Tribune - Janna St. James, who lives in Batavia, had allegedly used a voice-altering device to pose as Jesse James on the phone, coordinated numerous storylines with her characters that advanced in emails and instant messages, and sent and received mail — including children's drawings — from all over the world.

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Raid on bin Laden 'humiliated' Pakistan, Gates says - USATODAY.com

Egypt Human Rights Abuse Contiinues: Amnesty
Argentina Plane Crash: No Survivors In Wreckage Of Commercial Plane Carrying 22
The Middle East is running dry - and into the perfect storm? | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk The most water-stressed nations on Earth are all in the Middle East and North Africa. Add surging populations and food and energy costs, and trouble seems inevitable

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Resigns As Head Of International Monetary Fund
Pity for the Powerful - NYTimes.com - But it turns out that there’s a kind of class loyalty that trumps even politics: the powerful must be protected. Only the little people get charged with rape.
Ben Stein Watch, DSK edition | Felix Salmon
Answering Ben Stein’s Question « xkcd

Pensioners come forth for Fukushima | Asia | Deutsche Welle | 19.05.2011 a group of pensioners has decided to put their lives at risk to save younger people from radiation.

Mildred Patricia Baena And Arnold Schwarzenegger: Failed Cover Up We now know that Baena and Maria Shriver were pregnant at the same time, and the two children were born less than a week apart
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Arnold's Mistress Threatened To Go Public Four Weeks Ago | Radar Online
The Secret Financial Life of… Your Partner - FoxBusiness.com
GOP Donors Deserting Newt Gingrich - Gingrich's catastrophic first week as an official Republican primary candidate may knock him out of the race before it even gets started
Sarah Palin: David Gregory Asked Newt Gingrich 'Racist-Tinged' Question (video)
Political Animal - Republicans ‘depressed’ by 2012 options As a rule, political parties — especially ones that rely on a radical, hysterical base to win elections — do not get adrenaline boosts from bland wonks ... And that leaves Daniels — the former Bush official largely responsible for creating a fiscally irresponsible snowball — to play the role of the rescuing hero.
Hullabaloo Tom Coburn's departure from the Gang of Six. For all we know he's about to be indicted in the Ensign scandal. But the reports sound right to me. Basically, he's demanding that the Democrats agree to immediately slash Medicare spending in what I assume to be an exchange for some elimination of "tax expenditures." (Dems never, ever, stand their ground)
Sen. Tester Backpedals In Multi-Billion-Dollar Swipe Fee Fight (Dems acting like Rethugs dept.)
Company Issa founded underpaid tariffs - SignOnSanDiego.com The car-alarm maker remitted $2.5 million in back payments and interest this year
How Fox News Uses 'Big, Scary Hip-Hop' to Race-Bait its Viewers | Civil Liberties | AlterNet This week's outrage over Common and Jill Scott was ridiculous, but there was a more pervasive, nefarious issue at hand (reminding everyone Obama is black?)

YouTube - Cantor Promises Oil Speculators That GOP Will Block Financial Regulations
Bernie Sanders - We To Have To Pass A Constitutional Amendment To End Citizens United Ruling "In 2010 alone, GOP congress members received more than $58,797,874 in contribution from the financial industry. They are not your representatives. They are the representatives of the multinational corporations who buy them"
Republicans Question Debt Armageddon Warnings On Debt Ceiling
“Gang of Six” talks broke down amid yelling match over Medicare’s future - The Plum Line - The Washington Post a reminder of how much Republicans will insist on in Dem concessions as conditions for any deal (Dems try to look as much as possible like Rethugs, so you can't tell them apart)
Unemployment? What Unemployment? the media cares a lot more about deficits than it does unemployment
Can bankruptcy fix orchestra? No: It damages its reputation. - Philly.com
Treasury Mandates Single Point of Contact in HAMP | FDL News Desk It has taken over two years for Treasury to come up with this (and Pres Snowe)
A New Wall Street Investigation: Is the Hammer Finally Coming Down? | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy (probably not, and certainly not from Obama)
The Terror Of Food Stamps And Big Bird « The Rational Middle If we are to believe those beacons of fiscal responsibility and budget integrity, the real culprits are poor people, PBS, public school teachers, and food stamps.

Apple causes ‘religious’ reaction in brains of fans, say neuroscientists (cult of Steve)
For Apple Followers, It's a Matter of Faith, Academics Say - FoxNews.com
Red-Crested Tree Rat Reappears After 113 Years | Wired Science | Wired.com
Divorce and Fatherhood Statistics
Fighting the Mississippi River : The New Yorker The Control of Nature - Atchafalaya - by John McPhee February 23, 1987
Floods On The Lower Mississippi: An Historical Economic Overview
Mississippi River Flood History 1543-Present High Flows and Flood History on the Lower Mississippi River
Wunder Blog : Weather Underground - America's Achilles' heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure
The Mississippi Levee System and the Old River Control Structure
Twisted History: The Wily Mississippi Cuts New Paths : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Man Maps Meandering Mississippi River « cult and paste
Could flooding move the Mississippi? - Natural Disasters | Latest World Natural Disasters - Salon.com The Army Corps of Engineers have been preparing for it for years. But they may not be able to stop nature's course
Louisiana River Control
http://www.mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4/url/sites_google_com/site_gmap4files_p_news_mississippi_course_change.txt
Evolution of the Levee System Along the Mississippi.pdf (pdf)
Gambling with the planet - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Japan's disaster and the global recession provide stark lessons on societies' failure to manage risks, economist says - A system that socialises losses and privatises gains is doomed to mismanage risk

Brooke Gladstone's The Influencing Machine: A comic-book manifesto about the state of the American media. (1) - By Brooke Gladstone - Slate Magazine
The Millions : The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels
Contemporary art sales: The wizards of the Warhol market | The Economist

You can be an expert if you try - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post Obviously, Keller is not opposed to the invention of movable type, but he seems to think the Internet is taking us across some kind of tipping point where we start to remember less and less useful information ... Of all social maladies people want to pin on the Internet, "people not knowing enough things" is probably the least plausible I've heard floated (Bill Keller confuses the "internets" with his "interns")
Rogue tweet by Secret Service! | politico 44
Judgment Day The End Of The World Is Almost Here! Holy God Will Bring Judgment Day On May 21, 2011
The Skeptics Society Forum • View topic - Rapture on May the 21st 2011

YouTube - the Crazy Watering Can
YouTube - My Drunk Kitchen Ep. 6: Brunch?
Modernbook Gallery -
YouTube - Clemson Baseball vs. Davidson Rain Delay Antics

On TermKit | Steven Wittens - Acko.net
Energy Internet
An International Comparison of Cell Phone Plans and Prices | NewAmerica.net Across postpaid and prepaid voice plans, Canada, U.S., U.K. and Japan mostly fall in the high to middle price tiers while India, Hong Kong and Sweden fall in the low price tier (only American telco monopolies charge for incoming calls)
Copyright policy based largely on "lobbynomics," not data

051811

Afghanistan Bombing: Attack On Bus Bound For Police Academy Kills 10
In Turkey, The Double-Edged Sword Of Domestic Violence - Worldcrunch - All News is Global Murders of women, often at the hands of ex-lovers or husbands, appear to be on the rise in Turkey.

Dominique Strauss Kahn On Suicide Watch
Dominique Strauss Kahn: IMF Chief On Suicide Watch In New York Jail the New York Post reports that the alleged sex-assault victim lives in a Bronx apartment rented exclusively for adults with HIV or AIDS.
Anne Sinclair, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Wife, Thrust Into Spotlight By Scandal Throughout her 20-year marriage, Sinclair has time and again marshaled her wealth and clout to defend her husband through political, financial and sex scandals
Mildred Patricia Baena: Mother Of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Love Child She reportedly told friends that she and Schwarzenegger had unprotected sex during the day at his house, though she didn't tell him that he was the father of her child until the boy was a toddler.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Trashed By 'View' Ladies ("Who knew that the Sperminator was doing more than pumping iron?")
Top Democrat Calls For Investigation Into Arnold Schwarzenegger Baby Cover-Up | Radar Online

Yglesias » Catholic Church Investigation Says Hippies Made Catholic Priests Sexually Abuse Children
News from The Associated Press The president says he is ready to face excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church for advocating free access to condoms

Mississippi River Flooding: Two Towns, Divided By A River, With Drastically Different Fates

John Boehner Stuck Between Tea Party And A Hard Place And many Republican politicians promised to uphold the Tea Party's central tenets -- constitutionally limited government, lower taxes and the free markets.
Florida GOP Seeks Leadership as Scott Settles In : Roll Call Politics
Florida GOP Strays From Jobs Agenda To Limit Abortion Rights (Republican's Job #1)
Newt Gingrich Gets Asked to Show His Papers - Just imagine how humiliating that must have been for someone who sees himself as a world-historical figure.
Newt Gingrich Apologizes To Paul Ryan For Criticism Of Medicare Reform Proposal (ideological purity)

Paul Ryan Really Snookered Alice Rivlin (and a Lot of Others) - Brad DeLong - Krugman: Ryan turns out to be an empty suit, parroting the usual line. What’s remarkable is that for a year or so this empty suit was hailed — by self-proclaimed centrists as well as the right — as a brilliant, brave champion of fiscal responsibility.
The Great Recession's lost generation - May. 17, 2011 (no jobs, college doesn't help)

Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake  - Technology Review
That anxiety may be in your gut, not in your head McMaster research finds link between gut bacteria and behavior
Toxin from GM crops found in human blood: Study : North: India Today have detected the insecticidal protein, Cry1Ab, circulating in the blood of pregnant as well as non-pregnant women.
Anger, Politics and the Wisdom of Uncertainty | Miller-McCune Angry citizens, new research confirms, are motivated citizens. But they are not motivated to seek out new information. But anxious citizens do.
Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds | Wired Science | Wired.com (LCD spreads)
Papers | The Emotion and Decision Making Group | Harvard University
Free-Floating Planets May be More Common Than Stars - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Coffee may reduce risk of lethal prostate cancer in men

Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy, and Psychopathy (Hare checklist)
Erica Manfred: Why Marriage Counseling Doesn't Work "Surveys indicate that about eighty percent of therapists in private practice do couples therapy. Where they got their training is a mystery

Area 51 'Uncensored': Was It UFOs Or The USSR? : NPR
The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The Information Sage Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data
The Legacy of Malcolm X - Magazine - The Atlantic
Shocking photo created a hero, but not to his family - CNN.com

Peak-Season Map at Epicurious.com Use our interactive map to see what's fresh in your area, plus find ingredient descriptions, shopping guides, recipes, and tips
What It's Like to Get a Breast Reduction | The Hairpin
Weston Scarves by Richard Weston available now at Liberty

Trolling Tumblr (40 pics)
The Real Cost of Social Media (Infographic)
Heatmaps, Point Clouds and Big Data in Processing - :: JimBlackhurst.com ::
YouTube - Wiwi Kuan: Google Translate Song
Roll a D6 on Vimeo
Enter the Dragon on Vimeo
YouTube - Flashlight Brown - Ready to Roll
YouTube - Photron SA2 Camera - Eagle Owl in Flight
YouTube - rcsuperhero vertical take off (must see!)
Long Exposure Shots of Airline Takeoffs and Landings | Amusing Planet

Justin Halpern, A Conversation With My Dad
Norman N. (oldmansearch) on Twitter
Mpls. blogger ordered to pay $60K in defamation case | Minnesota Public Radio News y, a Hennepin County jury ruled that Hoff's statement was true, but (the jury was composed of idiots)
Why Doesn’t Amazon Collect Sales Tax? The Constitution, That’s Why - Techland - TIME.com

051711
24in60.com | The last 24 hours in 60-second, unbiased news bites.

Sources: Raiders knew mission a one-shot deal - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times
Did the Administration’s Own Propensity for Leaks Crash the SEAL’s Blackhawk? | Emptywheel
Pakistan homes in on Osama Bin Laden network with arrest of al-Qaida man | World news | The Guardian Yemeni Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Suhaib al-Makki, said to have worked directly under al-Qaida leadership

Gadhafi’s New Weapon: Floating Bombs Filled With Dummies | Danger Room | Wired.com
Libya Migrants Seemingly Encouraged To Flee: U.N.
AFP: Saudi woman defies driving ban A Saudi mother said Sunday she defied a ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom by getting behind the wheel for four days without being stopped.
Primer on China’s Leadership Transition « Patrick Chovanec
Interactive Map: Foreign Aid Analysis Made Easy Our Tool Lets Readers Set Priorities About Egypt and Other Recipients
The town on the wrong side of America's drugs war - Americas, World - The Independent A huge fence runs thousands of miles along the border with Mexico to keep migrants and narcotics out. Trouble is, it also cuts off half of Brownsville, Texas.
Fukushima reactors will be stable by January, operator insists | World news | The Guardian Tepco sticks to timetable for 'cold shutdown', despite revelations plant suffered greater damaged than previously thought
Exploding watermelons put spotlight on Chinese farming practices | Environment | The Guardian New food scandal as fields of watermelons are destroyed after farmers mistakenly apply growth accelerator
Inflation rebounds sharply in April as travel costs soar | Business | The Guardian Annual CPI inflation rate jumps to 4.5%, the highest since October 2008, with RPI at 5.2%

IMF chief faces calls to quit over rape allegations in New York | World news | guardian.co.uk Dominique Strauss-Kahn under pressure to resign to protect integrity of organisation before crucial European summit
Ben Stein Watch, DSK edition | Felix Salmon (remember when Stein wrote for the Times?)

Obama Administration: Sorry, 2013 Is Too Soon to Fix Gaping Holes in Our Network Security | Emptywheel In short, they don’t have the kind of security that is considered routine in the private sector.

Specifics in Debt Limit Deal Pretty Minor | FDL News Desk (behind closed doors)
Political Animal - WWRD (What Would Reagan Do) on the debt limit (St Reagan speaks to them in their dreams)
Newt Gingrich Says He's Sought God's Forgiveness For Personal Failings (God is a good 'ol boy)
Paul Ryan Senate Campaign Not Happening In 2012 Politico reports that former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, a Republican, is prepared to run for Kohl's seat in 2012.
Lawrence O'Donnell On Donald Trump's Campaign Ending: I Told You So (video) - "...Unfortunately, there is no entrance exam for political pundits, so the inability to understand what is happening right in front of them is common."
Scott Walker: Wisconsin Domestic Partner Law Unconstitutional
Could Newt Gingrich Pass Newt Gingrich's Poll Tests? | Political Correction
Yglesias » Newt Gingrich: Oil Subsidies Are Good Because Liberals Want “All Of Us To Live In Big Cities In High Rises, Taking Mass Transit.”
John Boehner Stuck Between Tea Party And A Hard Place (stupid white people fucking things up)
Rachel Maddow: 'What Could Be Worse' Than Beck's 'Restoring Courage' Rally In Israel? (video) There will be travel deals for you to get yourself physically to Israel to make it convenient for you to bring your subtle nuanced political understanding to a part of the world that really needs you."
Unexpected state revenue leaps to $6.6 billion | PolitiCal | Los Angeles Times
Obama's health care lawsuits: Should we reconsider judicial review? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine Should the legal arguments over Obama's health care law force us to reconsider the role of the courts?
YouTube - Part 1: Jon Stewart Goes Head-to-Head Bill O'Reilly
Schwarzenegger paternity: Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with longtime member of household staff - latimes.com His wife, Maria Shriver, moved out of their Brentwood mansion earlier this year after the former governor acknowledged the child was his. The staff member worked for the family for 20 years, retiring in January (remember the Gropinator?) - his behavior became an issue during his first campaign for governor, in the 2003 recall election, when more than a dozen women said he had groped them over a period of many years.
Eschaton: The Fix The last 20 email subject lines from Chris Cillizza (all you need to know)
Nancy Pelosi Is Being 'Thrown Under The Bus,' Says Company That Requested Health Care Waivers House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) played no role in the process by which health care waivers were granted to a number of businesses in her district, according to the company that actually requested the waivers on behalf of its clients.

US Debt Holders Willing to Miss Payments: Rep. Ryan - CNBC (off the insanity map)
Welcome – Jared Bernstein | On the Economy I left because I was frustrated. Not with what was going on inside the White House, but with what is going on outside (economic insanity from the Repubicans drowning everything out)
The Invisible Attack Intensifies - NYTimes.com Those wily invisible bond vigilantes are at it again: as part of their cunning plan, they have driven the 10-year bond rate down to 3.11 percent. As it happens, the Wall Street Journal has now been warning about the attack of the bond vigilantes for almost exactly three years.
N.Y. State Investigates Banks’ Role in Fiscal Crisis - NYTimes.com (Obama not consulted)
n+1: Bad Education Last August, student loans surpassed credit cards as the nation’s single largest source of debt, edging ever closer to $1 trillion.

zoomable milky way

How Drudge "Stays On Top"? Pandering On Race, Right-Wing Paranoia | Media Matters for America (all the "opinion makers" get their assignments from him) - the Drudge formula of recent years -- appealing heavily to one political class, a segment that is terrified about social change and race and the idea that in a generation or two whites will be an American minority,
Washington Post Disputes Study Touting Drudge's Influence (sounded pretty fishy)

Red Rosa - Magazine - The Atlantic The writings of the martyred socialist Rosa Luxemburg give a plaintive view of history’s paths not taken.

ABC Unveils 2011-12 Schedule: New Comedy Block On Tuesday With Tim Allen – Deadline.com Single father George only wants the best for his 16-year-old daughter, Tessa. So when he finds a box of condoms on her nightstand, he moves them out of their apartment in New York City to a house in the suburbs (how network TV sees America: because kids don't have sex in white Christian suburbs)
Ana Catarian Bezerra, Brazilian Woman, Legally Entitled To Masturbate At Work (VIDEO) Her doctor has also given her a medical cocktail of tranquilizers that has reduced her need to masturbate to about 18 times a day.
YouTube - Greatest Marriage Proposal EVER!!!
YouTube - Comic owns heckler, wins back crowd

News: CANNES 2011: Exclusive Jodorowsky'S DUNE Promo Video
Why Bridesmaids won’t save the “chick flick” (and shouldn’t have to) | Film | For Our Consideration | The A.V. Club
Bridesmaids :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
Movie Bridesmaids Saves Women From Extinction - By Eileen Jones - The eXiled
GreenCine | Women in Film
Hungry eagle inadvertently swoops toy poodle away to better life
YouTube - Blush Wim Vandekeybus

Amazon Used Deals Finder by Caitlyn Pascal
Designing a 19th-Century Kindle: An E-Reader for Dickens - Rebecca Greenfield - Life - The Atlantic
Javascript PC Emulator - Technical Notes
Javascript PC Emulator

051611
Gaddafis named as international criminal court suspects | World news | guardian.co.uk Chief prosecutor requests crimes against humanity arrest warrants for Libyan leader, son Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi
Saudi diplomat shot dead in Pakistan | World news | guardian.co.uk Shooting comes two days after grenade attack on consulate in Karachi as tensions rise between Sunni and Shia populations
Taliban tunnel jailbreak account reveals initial setbacks | World news | The Guardian Tunnellers veered off course before emerging in Kandahar prison cell and leading 500 prisoners to escape

Residents leave 2 more Fukushima towns : National : (The Daily Yomiuri)
Irish dissidents' arrests an attack on free speech, claim republicans | World news | guardian.co.uk Irish police criticised after arrest of London bomber Marian Price and other republicans ahead of Queen's visit
Big Brother star denies blackmail claims in injunction battle | Media | guardian.co.uk
Vatican sex abuse guidelines 'leave bishops behind cover-ups in control' | World news | The Guardian Church says new guidelines are 'very strong' but protest groups say moves fall a long way short of what is needed

Palestinians in Lebanon, at the lonely end of the Arab uprisings | Matthew Cassel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Never is a refugee's right to return brought into question – except when that refugee is a Palestinian
Israel's religious gays battle for acceptance - seattlepi.com - within Israel's insular Orthodox Jewish community: homosexuals demanding to be accepted and embraced, no matter what the Bible says.
Former Israeli soldiers break the silence on military violations | World news | guardian.co.uk Testimonies posted on YouTube by campaign group describe routine harassment and humiliation of Palestinian civilians

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: from $3,000-a-night suite to police cell | World news | The Guardian IMF chief arrested on plane at John F Kennedy airport • French left wing in shock at claims of attack on hotel maid
Strauss-Kahn arrest casts shadow over crucial debt talks | Business | guardian.co.uk Meeting of eurozone financial leaders to discuss mounting Greek crisis will proceed without head of IMF, who is being held in New York over alleged attempted rape
IMF chief Strauss-Kahn to undergo medical tests over sex charge | World news | guardian.co.uk Dominique Strauss-Kahn intends to 'vigorously' defend himself against charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid
Dominique Strauss-Kahn to face fresh sex assault complaint | World news | The Guardian French writer Tristane Banon claims the IMF chief acted like a 'rutting chimpanzee' in an attack on her nine years ago
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Faces Rape Charges As Another Woman Comes Forward In addition to the hotel maid, Koscuisko-Morizet said there is another "clear victim, which is France."
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Faces Rape Charges As Another Woman Comes Forward The New York allegations come amid French media reports about Strauss-Kahn's lifestyle, including luxury cars and suits, that some have dubbed a smear campaign. Some French raised suspicions about the sexual assault case as well
How Jewish is Dominique Strauss-Kahn? | The Jewish Chronicle
Sex Scandal - Strauss-Kahn Lawyers See Alibi in Sex Case: Report - CNBC (see what they did there?)
When economists run sexually amok - E-books - Salon.com How could Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a possible presidential candidate, so spectacularly betray his own self-interest?

Jane Mayer on the Obama war on whistle-blowers - Barack Obama News - Salon.com
Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake : The New Yorker Drake, a former senior executive at the National Security Agency, faces some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen (Obama pardoned Bush, Wall St, bankers and BP, but will crush whistle-blowers)

Trump officially ends fake presidential campaign - War Room - Salon.com (your elite media fooled for the third time)
Newt Gingrich will never be president - Newt Gingrich - Salon.com How many racially divisive images and issues can he throw at us in just one week? Keep watching
With Huckabee out, the GOP nomination is definitely Herman Cain's to lose - War Room - Salon.com The former pizza magnate is the rising star of the Republican race

What's In A Name? - NYTimes.com serious people are supposed to be shocked, shocked at the Democrats calling the Ryan plan a plan to dismantle Medicare — but that’s just what it is. If you replace a system that actually pays seniors’ medical bills with an entirely different system, one that gives seniors vouchers that won’t be enough to buy adequate insurance, you’ve ended Medicare. Calling the new program “Medicare” doesn’t change that fact.
What's In A Name? - NYTimes.com serious people are supposed to be shocked, shocked at the Democrats calling the Ryan plan a plan to dismantle Medicare — but that’s just what it is. If you replace a system that actually pays seniors’ medical bills with an entirely different system, one that gives seniors vouchers that won’t be enough to buy adequate insurance, you’ve ended Medicare. Calling the new program “Medicare” doesn't change that fact

Apparent Immunity Gene ‘Cures’ Bay Area Man Of AIDS « CBS San Francisco - Brown received stem cells from a donor who was immune to HIV. In fact, about one percent of Caucasians are immune to HIV. (Great Plague gene)
Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story' | Science | The Guardian n an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence
Employees don't always share well with others, says new paper exposing 'knowledge hiding' Why isn't knowledge transfer happening more often in companies spending money on it?
Hunting Antimatter: Space Shuttle Endeavour's Biggest Science Experiment - FoxNews.com

Universal health care in Vermont: Will it come to the rest of America? - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine The not-so-secret plan to bring Canadian-style health care into America via Vermont.
6 State Battlegrounds in the Right-Wing War Against Teachers, Firefighters, Caregivers and the Entire Middle Class | | AlterNet Our nation has devolved into a new and nasty civil war, with moneyed elites now charging into legislatures and courts to establish themselves as a de facto plutocracy.
Whiskey Fire: Double Standards Inc. Ann Althouse is, quite simply, a disgusting human being. She'll go into other peoples' comments, lie about what she finds there, and try to smear other people including people she knows and cares nothing about as sexists, in order to claim sexist victimhood.
g3k4X.jpg (Neanderthals are alive and well in Stevens Creek CA)

Roseanne Barr on the Lack of Change in the TV Industry -- New York Magazine Roseanne Barr was a sitcom star, a creator and a product, the agitator and the abused, a domestic goddess and a feminist pioneer. That was twenty years ago. But as far as she’s concerned, not much has changed.
Why libraries still matter - Laura Miller - Salon.com Critics say they're obsolete, but New York's main branch is a reminder of what the Internet can never do
Dekotora (“Decoration Trucks”) Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers

Doing Without - The Collagist - Dzanc Books (what you lose in e-editions)

My Rapist Friended Me on Facebook (and All I Got Was This Lousy Article) | xoJane
Our overblown paranoia about the Internet and teens - PopRX - Salon.com
Disney to Pay $3 Million Settlement for Violating Children's Online Privacy

051511
Israeli army in deadly confrontations with pro-Palestinian protesters | World news | The Guardian At least 13 people killed as troops clash with demonstrators in Gaza and on the borders with Syria and Lebanon

Mississippi floods threaten New Orleans | Environment | guardian.co.uk US army engineers open floodgate in attempt to save New Orleans from the river's worst flooding since 1927

Blackwater Founder Forms Secret Army for Arab State - NYTimes.com
IDEX 2011 - Reflex Responses Management Consultancy LLC

Mike Huckabee Not Running For President In 2012 (can make way more money as a commentator on Fox)
Newt Gingrich: Ryan Medicare Plan Is 'Too Big A Jump' (video)
Boehner To Obama: Let's Make A Deal On Debt Limit McConnell has said he will vote against any debt-limit deal if it does not include long-term cuts to entitlment programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
The Brad Blog : Clay County, KY, Election Officials Sentenced to 156 Years in Election Rigging Case; ALSO: Voting Machines Impounded in Perry County, KY One Republican election official pleaded guilty after the arrest two years ago, and the other eight were found guilty and convicted last year in federal court. They were sentenced this past March to a total of more than 1,871 months in federal prison (+Wisconsin vote hopelessly compromised, by Republicans, again)
Christie reaches deal on private ownership of horse tracks - Philly.com to transfer state ownership of the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park horse tracks to private owners (Repubicans giving away assets to private owners)
has a Minus 18 job approval today as speculation continues about whether Christie should run for President. 38% of NJ adults approve of the job Christie is doing, 56% disapprove (failure in his own state, but should run for Pres!)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn 'does not have diplomatic immunity' - Telegraph Dominique Strauss-Kahn was told he does not have diplomatic immunity from prosecution against charges including alleged rape, said Paul Browne, an NYPD spokesman.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: timeline of controversies - Telegraph President Nicolas Sarkozy as warning DSK before his Washington appointment, saying: "You know, over there they don't joke about this sort of thing. Your life will be passed under a magnifying glass. Avoid taking the lift alone with interns. France cannot permit a scandal."
French voters can separate scandal from politics | Melissa Bounoua | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sex life has moved into folklore – but it won't stop women voting for him in any presidential campaign
Greece fears Strauss-Kahn arrest will prolong ongoing debt crisis | World news | The Guardian Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been leading proponent of second IMF and EU bailout to stave off Greek economic collapse
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest puts debt talks in crisis | World news | The Guardian Charges of sexual assault and attempted rape threaten to create a leadership vacuum at the overseer of the global economy
Head of IMF Arrested for Alleged Sexual Assault - WSJ.com - allegedly forced a cleaning woman onto his bed at the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square and sexually assaulted her. Mr. Strauss-Kahn allegedly allowed the woman to leave and then departed for the airport, leaving personal belongings behind, including a mobile phone (there weren't any countries around to rape, so ... )
Arizona Tea Party Members Officially Reject Tea Party License Plates; New Plates are Counter to Principles - Phoenix News - Valley Fever

The NYT Doesn't Understand Marginal Tax Rates | Beat the Press - It told readers that the richest 2 percent of the population face money problems also, suggesting that those near this cutoff for tax increases by President Obama might be unfairly victimized. (actually, there is a lot the NYTimes doesn't understand)
Some 3,000 Millionaires Claim Jobless Benefits, IRS Data Show - Bloomberg (what?)
Big banks hit customers with higher fees, and more of them - usatoday.com

YouTube - Solvay Physics Conference 1927

Response to legal threat to coalcares.org from Peabody Energy | The Yes Men The following letter has been sent to lawyers for Peabody Energy in response to their threat (Repubicans hate being parodied, but its so easy ...)
EFF response to Peabody threat to sue coalcares.com - "Your client's position is without merit" (and ridiculous)
European Court: Freedom Of Expression About Darfur More Important Than Louis Vuitton's Trademark | Techdirt
Balloon Juice » I have blue eyes - Jane Elliot documentary on racism

Sexy Sex Offender List Causes Outrage : Discovery News
YouTube - Beauty - Victorian Era to 1930's
Can you teach creative writing? | Education | The Guardian Well-known writers give their verdicts

YouTube - 35 years Backwards thru Time with Sam Klemke (Time Lapse)
YouTube - The Beatles - "Please Please Me" - Live Washington 1964
YouTube - Take Back the Future - X-Jet
John Paul Jones goes Ballistic on Led Zeppelins 1977 Tour Led Zeppelin's 1977 Tour as told by Steven Rosen - rock journalist.
Flawed Typeface — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers
word Clock

Amazon.com Plans Whole Line of Android Tablets: Report - HotHardware
Samsung Developing New Tablet Displays | Geek with Laptop
Why Isn’t Wi-Fi Better?: Broadband News and Analysis «

051411
Pakistan Parliament Slams U.S. For Raid That Killed Osama Bin Laden
U.S. interviews 'hostile' bin Laden widows, with Pakistan officials - CNN.com

In Greece, austerity kindles deep discontent - The Washington Post Already struggling to avoid a debt default that could seal Greece’s fate as a financial pariah, this Mediterranean nation is also scrambling to contain another threat — a breakdown in the rule of law (how's that IMF/austerity thing working out for you?)
Lorca Earthquake: Pictures and Video Of Spain's Deadly Quake (video)
British Courts Try to Stop the Tide of Social Media: Tech News and Analysis « (good luck with that super-duper-galactic injunction)

Morganza Spillway Open, Army Engineers Unleash Mississippi Flood
Mississippi River Flooding Photos: Images Of 2011 Historic Floods

Maybe History Ended After All: Reconsidering Fukuyama
The Tragedy of Sarah Palin - Magazine - The Atlantic
John Ensign Chief Of Staff John Lopez Granted Immunity | TPMMuckraker (the case Obama didn't want to pursue)
Rick Santorum Caught Up In John Ensign Affair: Senate Ethics Report
Georgia Governor Signs Immigration Bill Into Law : NPR that cracks down on illegal immigration by increasing some enforcement powers and requiring many employers to check the immigration status of new hires (Republicans fucking people over)
Court: No right to resist unlawful police entry - chicagotribune.com People have no right to resist if police officers illegally enter their home, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in a decision that overturns centuries of common law.
Abortion debate stokes end-of-session tensions State Rep. Tishaura Jones, a St. Louis Democrat, offered an amendment to the bill that said "all male children shall have a vasectomy before the age of twelve."
Ex-New Orleans Official Testifies About Strippers, Gambling, Sex On Yacht | TPMMuckraker
Wis. Dem Chair: Russ Feingold, Tammy Baldwin Could Run For Senate Seat | TPMDC
Wasilla High School Principal Bans Bohemian Rhapsody Because Freddie Mercury Was Gay - Gawker
Shirley Sherrod Returns To USDA To Work On Civil Rights | TPMDC

Why America Had A 90% Income Tax | Michael Hudson (Republicans destroying America with selfish greed)
Deutsche Bank Sues Foreclosure Fraud Expert's Son With No Financial Interest In Her Case
Huge Profits for Health Insurers as Americans Put Off Care - NYTimes.com

Burson-Marsteller Deletes Critical Facebook Posts, Spares Google-Smear Flacks | Epicenter | Wired.com
Facebook’s Stealth Attack on Google Exposes Its Own Privacy Problem | Epicenter | Wired.com - Facebook was running a smear campaign against itself

YouTube - Cat and owl playing
A Typo Spells Romance For RP Salazars : NPR (do the listen thing)
The Burning House
Why Do Hippies Still Exist in America? | ChristWire wants to know
The Lazarus File - Magazine - The Atlantic

Science fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk
Survey Shows 35 Is Cutoff For Wearing A Miniskirt (video)
Bin Laden Burger Picture (at Bartley's)

Video: High fiber | Need to Know . Old-fashioned American values, right? Then why are we being left so far behind? (US internet providers are slow, expensive and spying on you; capitalism wins the future!)
Berkman_Center_Broadband_Final_Report_15Feb2010.pdf A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world

How Will Google's +1 Button Affect SEO?
slight paranoia: How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings
Dropbox - How secure is Dropbox? -
driverdan/dropship - GitHub Instantly transfer files between Dropbox accounts using only their hashes
HOWTO build your own open source Dropbox clone « Dropbox Forums
Tarsnap - Online backups for the truly paranoid
Free Windows, Mac and Linux Online Backup, Online Sync, Share & Storage from SpiderOak.com
Wuala - Secure Online Storage - Backup. Sync. Share. Access Everywhere.

051311
Osama Bin Laden Dead: The Plan To Kill The Al Qaeda Leader
SEAL helmet cams recorded entire bin Laden raid - CBS News
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden | MichaelMoore.com
Keith Olbermann Defends Michael Moore, Calls Out Ed Schultz (video)
Bin Laden's Fugitive Trail (video)
Tomato Nation » Bin Laden In Heaven
Celebrating Osama’s Death » Mixed Multitudes – My Jewish Learning
JOURNAL: Ding Dong Osama's Dead Redux - Global Guerrillas
Commandos told to kill Osama bin Laden because of fears he was wearing suicide vest - Telegraph and must be killed, unless he was naked when they found him, it has emerged (pyjamas=resistance)
The quaint and obsolete Nuremberg principles - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Muammar Gaddafi Most Likely Wounded: Italy

Judge imposes Twitter ban - Home News, UK - The Independent A High Court judge has issued an injunction which bans publication of information on Twitter and Facebook (super-duper injunction, or "galactic ban")
Italy’s Anniversary and Life with Berlusconi : The New Yorker - Booted - What really ails Italy? by Tim Parks

NHK WORLD English - Tokyo Electric Power Company says the No.1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is believed to be in a state of "meltdown".
Japanese Nuclear Reactor Damage Is Worse Than First Thought - NYTimes.com ("thought" = by them)

Slideshow: 'They're Tryin' To Wash Us Away' | Talking Points Memo The 1927 flood is the standard against which all Mississippi River floods, including this year's, are measured:
Two Arrested in Synagogue Bomb Plot -- Daily Intel "There's no way they could be terrorists. They are too stupid," said a neighbor. "Him and his brother are always out in the street smoking pot and fighting." The pair face a maximum sentence of life without parole if convicted (not just a "synagogue" but the whole Empire State building with three guns and a hand-grenade)

Political Animal - Ensign scandal referred to Justice Dept for prosecution
The "Al Gore Problem," Defined | The New Republic An Al Gore problem is what happens when the media forms an impression of your character and decides to cram every irrelevant detail of your appearance and behavior into that frame, regardless of whether or not it means anything ... After all, John McCain spent the years leading up to the 2008 campaign madly dissembling about and frantically reversing his record, but his mannerisms or appearance were never deemed to be a metaphor for a character flaw.
McConnell Admits Bipartisanship is About Subverting Accountability | FDL Action
It's 1:00 AM, Do You Know Where Newt Is? | Mother Jones (elite journalists covered up for Gingrich while having Monicagasms)
IOKIYAR : Lawyers, Guns & Money (elite journalist Matt Bai of the elite NY Times compares Gingrich to DeGaulle)
High schooler challenges Bachmann to debate on U.S. Constitution | Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. Amy Myers of Cherry Hill, N.J., said, “I have found quite a few of your statements regarding The Constitution of the United States, the quality of public school education and general U.S. civics matters to be factually incorrect, inaccurately applied or grossly distorted.”
The appeal of a Mitch Daniels’s presidential run - The Washington Post (Ruth Marcus gives Daniels hot sex)
Florida Bill Could Muzzle Doctors On Gun Safety : NPR (you got your NRA wingnuts in your doctors office)

CNBC's Jim Cramer Tries To Whitewash His Obama Bashing | Media Matters for America Featured in a sympathetic profile in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine (Times is giving out a lot of blow-jobs lately)
Feeling Deceived Over Homes That Were Trump in Name Only - NYTimes.com ("most valuable brand in America" or so says the Trumpster)
Mike Rowe Senate Testimony : Dirty Jobs : Discovery Channel (America is killing off its trades)
charles hugh smith-Phase Shift: The Next Leg Down in House Prices (will fall to below 1994 levels)
charles hugh smith-Housing Losses Are a Financial Disaster

An AIDS vaccine developed by Oregon scientists stops infections in an animal model | OregonLive.com
Unusual AIDS Vaccine Shows Promising Results in Monkeys - ScienceNOW
YouTube - Great Migrations, National Geographic Cameraman Bob Poole on an alien encounter with a "giant sand blaster"
TheSpec - There’s light at the end of the tunnel After five years of drilling through solid rock beneath Niagara Falls, Becky, the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, is expected to reach daylight late Friday morning - to boost the station’s annual output by 1.6 billion kilowatt hours
A new branch found in the fungal tree of life
Biologists Announce Discovery of an Entirely New Branch of Life | Popular Science
The Humanities, Done Digitally - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
NRM: Quacks pervert U of A doc's discovery Desperate cancer patients clamour for untested DCA "cure"

The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System | openDemocracy
The Exile Nation Project: a film by Charles Shaw by Exile Nation Media — Kickstarter
The Exile Nation Project | openDemocracy revealing the far-ranging consequences of the War on Drugs to the American Criminal Justice System.

Baby's First TSA Patdown - Jezebel
Texas House bans 'offensive' security pat-downs | abc13.com
LiveLeak.com - Evan Longoria saves reporter with bare hand catch (great reflexes)
Assailant suffers injuries from fall
YouTube - FortWorthExplosions

“There are some people who don’t wait.” Robert Krulwich on the future of journalism | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Why is it okay for one person to say no to sex in a marriage? And why is it not okay to cheat in this situation? :( : AskReddit

World’s Largest Model Airport Completed In Hamburg, Germany -150 Square Meters Costing $4.8 Million | Singularity Hub
Floyd in the Pink at reunion gig | The Sun |Showbiz|Music
WTF?! a WoW inspired side-scrolling Flash-based RPG.

Sean Power Recovers Laptop - storify.com
Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief - storify.com
Sean Power’s Laptop and the Girl in the Purple Sarong (Day 4 in NYC)

051211
Gaddafi Compound Bombed After Libya Leader Makes Appearance
U.S. Drone Strike Kills At Least 5 Along Afghanistan Border, Say Pakistani Officials
Whose side is Pakistan's ISI really on? | World news | The Guardian

Uganda Women Lead Nation's Political Rally On Food Prices And Police Brutality
Rape of women in DR Congo 'tops 1000 a day' - Africa - Al Jazeera English Average of 48 females aged 15-49 are raped every hour in DR Congo, 26 times more than previously thought, study reports.

Israel revokes residency of 140,000 Palestinians living in West Bank  - Arab News Israel has revoked the residency of 140,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank when they left to travel abroad in the years after the 1967 War, a report said on Wednesday (it was just a big piece of land with no one living on it, so we took it)

Mississippi River Flooding Reaching Historic Levels

Delaware Civil Unions Bill Signed Into Law By Governor Jack Markell - makes Delaware the eighth state to allow civil unions or domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.

John McCain to Bush apologists: Stop lying about Bin Laden and torture - The Plum Line - The Washington Post John McCain in an Op ed this morning skewered the claim that the killing of Bin Laden vindicates torture. But just now, on the Senate floor, he uncorked a new broadside that is quite remarkable, taking direct aim at Bush apologists who are reviving this debate in order to claim Bin Laden’s death as part of the Bush legacy.
ThinkProgress » Rand Paul: If You Believe In A Right To Health Care, ‘You Believe In Slavery’ Paul argued that if you believe people should have a right to health care, you believe in enslaving doctors, nurses, and hospital janitors (yes, he's that crazy)
YouTube - Sen. Bernie Sanders humiliates Rand Paul
Political Animal - House GOP freshmen conveniently forget 2010 Yesterday, they gathered to deliver a message to Democrats: Stop making us look bad by telling the public about our agenda - “calling on President Obama to end the ‘MediSCARE’ tactics,” (yeah, no irony, and basically, the media cooperates with their insane lying)
Hullabaloo - Simply The Best (James B Stewart, big fat liar, named by the Times to replaced ethically-compromised Joe Nocera in Business section; the nineties go down the memory hole)
Public Opinion and World War I | Mother Jones Tyler Cowen just read Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, by Michael Neiberg, and says he was "stunned" by the claims in the book (Americans project their war-lust on history)
Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich Defend Oil Companies Against Democrats

The Economic Bill of Rights - We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. "Necessitous men are not free men." People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made (FDR: 1944; Republicans love dictatorships)
Boehner’s Views on Economy Contradicted by Indicators, Studies - Bloomberg (Bloomberg slaps down the crying tan-man)
John Boehner, GOP Seek Leverage In Talks Over Raising Debt Ceiling
States Shortchange The Unemployed With Junk Debit Card Fees: Study Of the 40 states that have switched from paper checks to prepaid debit cards, 22 states' cards charge ATM fees, 24 charge balance inquiry fees, and 28 charge inactivity fees. The cards in Arkansas, Idaho, Nebraska, Ohio, and Oregon come with overdraft fees ranging from $10 to $20 (instead of mailing the check, the banks get a cut)
The People vs. Goldman Sachs | Rolling Stone Politics A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges

Early Drug Treatment For HIV Slashes Infection Risk : Shots - Health Blog : NPR Early treatment of the infected person with antiretroviral drugs cut the risk of HIV transmission to the uninfected partner by 96 percent.
How to control complex networks - controllability structures with driver nodes
Flipping hot Jupiters: Why some planets orbit the wrong way
Tornado Path (pic) - Digg
The power of lonely - Boston.com What we do better without other people around
FAO Media Centre: Cutting food waste to feed the world Over a billion tonnes squandered each year
Coal Cares (free inhalers for anyone living within 200 mi of a coal power plant and 10 bucks off asthma medicine - they care!)
Planetary Defense Conference
Alabama nuclear plant cited for safety lapses - CBS News
Renewable energy can power the world, says landmark IPCC study | Environment | guardian.co.uk UN's climate change science body says renewables supply, particularly solar power, can meet global demand
Oscillatory Thoughts: We are all inattentive superheroes

Good Without God: Why "Non-Religious" Is the Fastest-Growing Preference in America | | AlterNet a quarter of Americans now call themselves agnostic, atheist or nonreligious.
House Says No to Parental Consent for Spanking — 82nd Legislative Session | The Texas Tribune Texas lawmakers voted against parental approval for corporal punishment Wednesday, allowing schools to spank students with or without parents' say (this will end when the kids are packing in TX)
Florida Senate accidentally outlaws sex | The Political Carnival - s. 828.126: An act relating to sexual activities involving animals (being, you know, really stupid, they forget people are animals)
Video - Jon Stewart slams Fox News over their coverage of the "Common" controversy - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com
FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II) » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union the FBI’s concern isn’t just that you might sue, but that the companies might sue! Why? Because their comfortable relationship with the government’s surveillance apparatus would be exposed.

YouTube - White River Flood. DeVallsBluff Arkansas 5-8-11 The Moat (incredible)
Kenlie Tiggeman 'Too Fat To Fly' On Southwest - AOL Travel News
YouTube - Tan Hong Ming

In the Internet age, do we need a national postal service? | Smartplanet
Postal Vision 2020
Google execs, tech experts focus on future of Postal Service - The Federal Eye - The Washington Post

Why Does the FTC Mandate that Bloggers Disclose Freebies & Samples When Print Writers/Editors Don't: We Ask an FTC Lawyer - Intelligence - Racked National
Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google - The Daily Beast - Dan Lyons - The social network secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about the search giant, The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons reveals—a caper that is blowing up in their face, and escalating their war.
FCC commissioner Meredith Baker to join Comcast-NBC - Post Tech - The Washington Post (revolving door)
Facebook's Embarrassing Secret Campaign To Discredit Google Revealed How not to take on Google: hire a PR firm to spread a secret smear campaign about its privacy policies.
Privacy and Security Fanatic: How Google will Search & Destroy your privacy, interview with author Scott Cleland

051111
Bin Laden family condemns killing, while wife says one son escaped - Yahoo! News
Reassessing The Cost Of The Post-9/11 Era, Post Bin Laden
Jon Stewart Derides Bush Administration For Taking Credit For Killing Osama Bin Laden (video)
Martin Bashir To Tom Tancredo: Would You Rather Obama Have Died Than Bin Laden? (VIDEO)

The Center for Public Integrity: A More Likely Nuclear Nightmare

Iraq Withdrawal Date For U.S. Troops May Be Pushed Back Beyond 2011 (that didn't take long)
Uganda’s anti-gay bill delayed in debates amid outcry from US, international rights groups - The Washington Post (Christian fundie "Family" suffers temporary set back)
YouTube - Message from Portugal to Finland
YouTube - Finlandnomics - What Portuguese should know about Finland

Goodbye Forever! Also: No More War, Please (Wonkette intern Riley says goodbye, good column)

News from The Associated Press Max Baucus says he doesn't think Congress will address Social Security as part of an effort to reduce government borrowing (Blue-Dog must have caught some shit)
Eight facts and three thoughts about Social Security - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post 1) Over the next 75 years, Social Security’s shortfall is equal to about 0.7 percent of GDP (crisis! needs to be eliminated so we can have tax cuts for the rich!)
Yglesias » The House Republican Budget Privatizes Medicare, It Doesn’t Means-Test It

Suzuki's Quarterly Operating Profits Drop by 51% The fourth largest auto manufacturer in Japan was reportedly hit by a disruption in supply chain of auto parts ever since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.

Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies! by Helen Epstein | The New York Review of Books (the great Tamiflu bubble)
Dark Roasted Blend: Pre-Fractal Art

Washington Post Staffers Criticize Double Standard On Raises | Media Matters for America a union request for the same 16.4% raise that Publisher Katharine Weymouth recently received (that's not how it works)
Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions - St. Petersburg Times A foundation bankrolled by Libertarian businessman Charles G. Koch has pledged $1.5 million for positions in Florida State University's economics department. In return, his representatives get to screen and sign off on any hires for a new program promoting "political economy and free enterprise." (cheap)
Perelmans Give Penn Medical School $225 Million - NYTimes.com

A Little Break From The Style Dish To Discuss A Very Important Issue: Relationship Violence & GLAMOUR'S Tell Somebody Campaign: Slaves to Fashion: Fashion: glamour.com
Utah Court Strikes Blow for Free Speech, Dismisses Trademark and CFAA Claims Against Political Activists | Electronic Frontier Foundation The release was posted for a few hours on a website (www.koch-inc.com) that partially imitated Koch Industries' own website. The action received some media coverage, but no press organization thought the release was real. If Koch were sensible, that should have been the end of it.
SWAT team fired 71 shots in raid The Pima County Regional SWAT team fired 71 shots in seven seconds at a Tucson man they say pointed a gun at officers serving a search warrant at his home.
Report: Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner Was FBI Informant - TIME NewsFeed actually worked for them as an informant, including giving his assistance in a terrorism investigation, before he was given a pardon by President Ronald Reagan for illegal campaign contributions.

New York Times: The Final Edition
What Your American Girl Doll Says About the Rest of Your Life | The Hairpin
YouTube - ISPCC - I Can't Wait Until I Grow Up
YouTube - I'm A Climate Scientist (hungry beast)
Monogamous Privilege Checklist, by Cory Davis « East Portland Blog
biology - Do cats always land on their feet? - Skeptics - Stack Exchange
YouTube - ON???OFF?
The Voice TV Show: Tyler Robinson Gets Eliminated – Did he Deserve it? | Twirlit
Homemade joke guillotine (or not a joke)

Google To Announce Chrome OS/Notebooks Today! | Chrome OS Site
About Music Beta by Google
Google’s Music Beta first look: it’s miserable | VentureBeat
First Look at Google Music: Our Favorite Features in Google's Cloud Music Player - Gizmodo
Balloon Juice » A Confluence of Market Forces
Maisonneuve | Age of the Algorithm
The Pirate Bay: “The Battle of Internets is About to Begin” | TorrentFreak Talks on implementing a Europe-wide firewall to censor and block ‘illicit’ websites has caused concern among many Internet users in recent weeks, and today one of the targeted sites has joined the discussion.
It's Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms | | AlterNet Today's telecoms provide overpriced and inferior service, and are systematically overcharging the hapless American consumer.
Boom or Not, Internet Bandwidth Prices Still Falling: Tech News and Analysis «
Pogoplug, Your Personal Cloud: Free Software and Award-Winning Devices
Copyright Lawsuits Plummet in Aftermath of RIAA Campaign | Threat Level | Wired.com
A world of music - Spotify
Audiogalaxy - Your Music. Your Playlists. Hit Play from Anywhere.
Plex - A Complete Media Solution

051011
Osama bin Laden raid team was prepared to fight Pakistani forces | World news | The Guardian Barack Obama ordered assault team be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if necessary, newspaper reveals
U.S. Braced for Fights With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid - NYTimes.com
Hillary Clinton Erased From Situation Room Photo By De Voch, Another Hasidic Outlet (Sharia Law: "modesty" never to show a picture of a woman, not flaming patriarchy)

JKTS: A Japanese medical aid worker's diary

Gaddafi stays out of public view as Nato bombs Tripoli | World news | The Guardian Libyan leader not seen in public since bombing of son Saif al-Arab's home ten days ago
Don't abandon Afghanistan after 2014 handover, plead generals | World news | The Guardian : British commander voices fears that Taliban will exploit power vacuum in Afghanistan after west quits
Bob Corker: U.S. Military Leaders Frustrated With War In Afghanistan
Bangladeshi force trained by UK police 'allowed to kill and torture' | World news | The Guardian Human Rights Watch calls for Rapid Action Battalion to be disbanded and for UK and US to withdraw support

What do Jemima Khan, Helen Wood and 'SlutWalking' have in common? | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Max Mosley loses European privacy case | Media | guardian.co.uk Former Formula One boss fails in bid to force newspapers to warn people before publishing stories on their private lives
Arnold Schwarzenegger separates from wife | World news | The Guardian Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announces separation from wife Maria Shriver

Obama administration fights to save healthcare law - Yahoo! News
Alan Simpson, Social Security Illiterate | Mother Jones (Alan "The Finger to Seniors" Simpson is a stupid, greedy liar)
Yglesias » John Boehner’s Debt Demands
South Dakota Banning Abortion Without Banning Abortion? | RH Reality Check - it was clear that the 72-hour waiting period was an attempt to force the sole abortion provider in the state, a Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls, to drop the service (SD tries to become first Sharia-law state)
Company headed by Snowe's husband sued by federal government | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram (Repubicans are crooks)
Explaining Flip-Flops The cynical flip-flop on the elite's part is followed by the sincere flip-flop on the mass' part.
Breitbart's New Legal Strategy: Sherrod Really Is A Racist | Media Matters for America It appears that Andrew Breitbart and Larry O'Connor have settled on a bold new strategy for defending against Shirley Sherrod's defamation lawsuit. Sherrod, they argue in a recent court filing, really did admit to using her government job to carry out a campaign of racial discrimination.
US Chamber Freaks Out Over Modest Obama Proposal That Would Require Gov't Contractors To Disclose Campaign Spending | News & Politics | AlterNet If the Chamber is whipped up about something, there's probably good reason for the public to back whatever has sent them into fits.
Darrell Issa, Fighting Obama Disclosure Order, Accused Of Doing Donor's Bidding (just your usual crooked Republicans at work)
Hoyer Cautiously Backs Medicare Means Testing | TPMDC (asshole Blue-Dog)
For Jobless, Florida Set To Become Stingiest State In America (Lex Luthor at work)
Rand Paul Suggests Conspiracy In Labor Fight: 'Mr. President, Do You Have An Enemies List?' | TPMDC (Republicans break the law, complain when someone notices)

The One-Percenters - Roger Ebert's Journal "The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent.

The Ark In Space

Why American health-care costs so much in one (very long) graphic - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (doctors overpaid)
US prisoners refused all books except Bible | Books | guardian.co.uk American Civil Liberties Union says jail in South Carolina is banning books 'for no good reason'
After viral video fame, Rep. Simon slammed by religious right for pro-gay comments | Minnesota Independent: News Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide. In response to Simon’s remarks saying he believes God created gays and lesbians, Dean compared LGBT people to thieves, liars, adulterers and fornicators. He mocked the idea that homosexuality may be an innate quality. “‘Oh, I was born this way. I can’t help myself.’ Really? Then you belong in jail.” (Bradlee Dean is a homo)
Republicans in Texas Senate approve guns on campus
New York: Long Island murders work of four killers, detectives say | World news | The Guardian Bodies found on Gilgo beach indicate secluded shoreline has been used as a dumping ground for human remains
New York Man Puts 'Bomb Making Next Driveway' Sign In Mosque-Adjacent Yard | TPMMuckraker - Michael Heick (makes himself famous on the internets for being an asshole)

jonathan hobin: in the playroom
Story of the Tokelau Teenagers Lost in the Ocean for 51 Days: Newsmakers: GQ Three friends, on a drunken dare, set out in a dinghy for a nearby island. But when the gas ran out and they drifted into barren waters, their biggest threat wasn't the water or the ocean—it was each other
Chanel Croisiere Show: Kristen McMenamy Back In A Bathing Suit, Tons Of Would-Be Marlene Dietrichs

Facebook Filled with Underage, Unsupervised Users: Consumer Reports - Web Services Web 20 and SOA - News & Reviews - eWeek.com 7.5 million users under 13 years of age, according to Consumer Reports, with some 5 million under the age of 10.
Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion (VIDEO) it will marry Skype's functions to its Xbox game console, Outlook email program and Windows smartphones
Google Images With 'Sorting' Lets You Browse Pictures By Subject (VIDEO)
Billionaire Louis Bacon Wins Wikipedia Defamation Suit, Will Go After Names But according to legal experts, it may be a difficult proposition to get these US companies to agree with the UK court order.
The hackers hacked: main Anonymous IRC servers invaded
Fox.com Hacked By Group Lulz Security

050911
Government decides not to probe Abbottabad attack
Sen. Schumer proposes no-ride list for Amtrak trains | Reuters (another one of Chuckie's bright ideas)
Bin Laden's death doesn't end his fear-mongering value - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (see above)
U.S. tries to assassinate U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Yesterday, riding a wave of adulation and military-reverence, the Obama administration tried to end the life of this American citizen -- never charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime -- with a drone strike in Yemen, but missed and killed two other people instead (Obama's illegal assassination program)
Hillary Clinton Removed From Situation Room Photo By Der Tzitung, Hasidic Newspaper (not Frum enough)
Pakistan Media Out Alleged Name Of CIA Station Chief The Associated Press has learned that the name being reported is incorrect.
The Big Lie: Torture Got Bin Laden - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast (your media at work; good job Boston Globe)
Did the US Intend to Torture Bin Laden's Children? | MyFDL Did the US intend to torture these children with insects as they did Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s children, if the helicopter on which they would have flown had not been destroyed? (they planned rendite everyone not dead)
Osama bin Laden death: Pakistan PM orders inquiry | World news | The Guardian Yousaf Raza Gilani denies Pakistan helped al-Qaida, orders army to answer MPs' questions and warns US over future raids
Pakistan spy agency's alleged role in Mumbai terrorist attacks to be revealed | World news | The Guardian Witness in US trial expected to say ISI officers were complicit in the 2008 terrorist attacks that killed more than 160 people
Al-Qaida terrorist's widow to be hanged | World news | The Guardian Hasna Ali Yehye Hussein, whose husband Abu Ayyub al-Masri led al-Qaida in Iraq, claims she did not know about his actions
Osama Bin Ladens Death in Infographics – Gallery – VisualJournalism
Nieman Watchdog > Showcase > Editors, artists chafe at the errors and hype in bin Laden death story graphics
Visual journalists speak out for accuracy in infographics « Charles Apple « copydesk.org
He Won | The Agitator (how Bin Laden defeated America)
VWuwQ.jpg (why Bin Laden had no chance to escape)

Greece suffers another downgrade of its credit rating | Business | The Guardian Standard & Poor's gives country a B rating • Agency blames missed deficit target
Japan Earthquake Shifted Towns That Now Flood During Tides pulled the entire country out and down into the sea. The mostly devastated coastal communities now face regular flooding
Porschegate leaves Sarkozy rival with the headache of champagne socialism | World news | The Guardian Dominique Strauss-Kahn pictured in €100,000 car, undermining socialist credentials ahead of expected bid for presidency
Jemima Khan: Jeremy Clarkson injunction rumours are a 'nightmare' | Media | guardian.co.uk "This is discriminatory justice: not one single woman has sought or obtained a superinjunction."
Tony Blair used children's cash to set up office: Report - The Economic Times for allegedly using some 400,000 pounds received from a fund for disadvantaged children to set up an office in a five-star hotel in West Asia,
Ian Tomlinson death: IPCC rules Met officer 'reckless' in conduct | UK news | The Guardian Detective Inspector Eddie Hall falsely claimed Tomlinson fell down before encountering PC Simon Harwood
Ian Tomlinson: key evidence that police withheld from coroner, IPCC and family | UK news | The Guardian Met constables gave testimony to inspector within 48 hours of Tomlinson's death – but information was not passed to watchdog
Ian Tomlinson evidence was held back from IPCC | UK news | The Guardian Three constables reported seeing newspaper seller struck with baton and pushed to ground days before video emerged

Alberto Gonzales Explains Why Torture Didn’t Work Even While Defending It | Emptywheel
Syrian tanks move into city of Homs | World news | guardian.co.uk 12-year-old boy reported killed as residents describe hearing gunfire and shelling
Syria Government Detains Hundreds In New Crackdown
Mexico's failed war against the drug gangs | Luis Hernández Navarro | Comment is free | The Guardian Mexicans are calling for an end to the battle against organised crime that has cost 40,000 lives (America's country-destroying war on drugz)
Medical Marijuana Crackdown Is a Confusing Shift to Some States - NYTimes.com (Obama is big drugz warrior, fucking up peoples lives)

Falsehood? Or Mostly Accurate Prediction? - Republicans want to gut the medical safety net, and old people will die prematurely as a result. That's not a nice thing to say in polite company, but it's the truth. (WaPo "fact checking" dept get the vapors)
Amtrak, 15 states get $2 billion that Florida lost | AP | 05/09/2011 (go Lex Luthor! vote Republican!)
Wis. Supreme Court Recount Extended In Waukesha County | TPMDC (that's where the Republican vote-fraud lady ran the election)

John Boehner: 'Trillions' In Spending Cuts Loom On Debt Ceiling Vote (their grand opportunity to screw you for their mistakes)
Alan Simpson Attacks AARP, Says Social Security Is 'Not A Retirement Program' (VIDEO) Simpson delighted the finance industry audience members by aiming a rude gesture at the leading lobby for senior citizens (the elites give AARP the finger)
The Unwisdom of Elites - NYTimes.com (your elites are always wrong, never accountable)
Response to Volatility in Silver Takes Hold - NYTimes.com
Home Prices Fall Again In Biggest Drop Since 2008

Nearly Half Of Detroit's Adults Are Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds
Planet Fitness vs. the lunkheads: Why is a health club trying to alienate people who love to work out? - By Luke O'Neil - Slate Magazine Why is the Planet Fitness chain of health clubs trying to alienate people who love to work out?
YouTube - kitten vs a scary thing
Cats of War: The Pentagon's top-secret feline special-operations program, revealed. - By Holly Allen and Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
YouTube - Pallas Cat Kittens - 7 weeks old pt2
Buckingham Palace Flash Mob Celebrates Royal Wedding (video) - AOL Travel News
Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology Movie Bought By Weinstein Company
Paper Tigers

Battle Brews Over FBI’s Warrantless GPS Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com (Obama's spy-state_
How to Check Your Car for a GPS Tracker | Threat Level | Wired.com - the Barack Obama administration urging the Supreme Court to allow warrantless GPS tracking
FBI Vehicle-Tracking Device: The Teardown | Threat Level | Wired.com
Telephone Instrument Attacks

Morgellons: A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria? | Life and style | The Guardian It's a mysterious condition that affects tens of thousands worldwide. But what is it?

100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows: Pics

Climate change 'threatens UK wi-fi connections', says government report | Environment | The Guardian Study into impact of hotter, stormier weather on UK infrastructure finds threat to wi-fi range and signal strength
Sony Hack Speaks To Proliferating Threat Sony is run by a bunch of greedy morons who stupidly left their systems vulnerable to an attack by hacker (let's go with this)

050811
Hullabaloo: Chest Pounding: Andy Card: On Obama's Bin Laden triumph: "I think he has pounded his chest a little too much," Card said. "He can take pride in it, but he does not need to show it so much." (where was his aircraft carrier? mission accomplished flyboy Bush)
Obama's '60 Minutes' Interview Focused On Osama Bin Laden
Daily Kos: A tale of two presidents: Bush, Obama and Osama bin Laden (this is what the Republicans are trying to make us forget)

Muslims, Christians Clash In Cairo, Egypt After Mob Burns Church
Insurgents' Fight In Kandahar Halted By Afghan Security Forces
Your Secret Life? So why no mention of your wife, Hugh? ...other than the fact that she drives a Volvo! | Mail Online (superinjunction evasion)
Sitting MP 'granted a super-injunction' - Press, Media - The Independent

Primary Election 2012: Conservative Fears Of Permanent Welfare State May Create Wild Ride Republican lawmakers warned that a second term for President Obama would kill America's independent spirit and guarantee a permanent big government welfare state.

Study estimates that illegal immigrants paid $11.2B in taxes last year, unlike GE, which paid zero - New York Daily News (says it all, doesn't it?)

Antiabortion bills: Measures flood state legislatures - latimes.com (Republicans controlling your bodies)

Fourth marijuana conviction gets Slidell man life in prison | NOLA.com
Politician's Mom Makes Him Apologize To Neil Gaiman a “pencil-necked little weasel who stole $45,000 from the state of Minnesota.” Dean is currently trying to pass legislation which removes a huge number of Legacy earmarks for arts and culture organizations like the Minnesota Zoo - Minnesota House Majority Leader Matt Dean (is a Republican asshole)

Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education | The Nation
Japanese company introduces irresistibly cute mind-controlled 'cat ears' (w/ video)
Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com
When We Tested Nuclear Bombs - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

The Miscreants of Taliwood… « Ghosts of Alexander
YouTube - MISCREANTS OF TALIWOOD by George Gittoes (IDFA, MoMA Documentary Fortnight)

Google Earth Plug-in Driving Simulator
The Crossing - Abbey Road Studios

SONY, I AM DISAPPOINT Press Release May 7th, 2011 A 'HiveMind Effort' from Anonymous Holdings LLC (Bermuda)
Visualizing the Spread of bin Laden Death News on Twitter | Geekosystem

050711
Death of Osama bin Laden: Phone call pointed U.S. to compound — and to ‘the pacer’ - The Washington Post
Pakistan leaks Bin Laden death scene photos - Asia - Al Jazeera English Gruesome photos purported to show victims of bin Laden raid leaked to press.
Al-Qaida Vows To Remain 'A Curse' : NPR

Ahmadinejad allies charged with sorcery | World news | The Guardian Iranian power struggle between president and supreme leader sees arrests and claims of undue influence of chief of staff

Iraqi Child in Acclaimed War Photo Tries to Move On - NYTimes.com (traumatized Amercia will be paying for this for decades)



Hullabaloo Going all in with Ryan - A 54-year-old today will have to save an additional $182,000 in their IRA or 401(k) before he or she retires just to pay for the House Republican plan to eliminate Medicare (go seniors! vote Republican!)

Bloomberg Budget Will Seek Thousands of Teacher Layoffs - NYTimes.com (Bloomberg decides to dumb-down NYC, shrink his way to prosperity!)
Washington Post Union Wants Same Raise As Publisher | Media Matters for America Union leaders representing newsroom and other employees at The Washington Post want the same 16.4% pay raise that Publisher Katharine Weymouth received this year (our overlords get huge raises to lie to us)

Scientists and Spirituality “spiritual atheism,” those who see themselves as spiritual yet do not believe in God or a god.
Freedom From Religion Foundation approved to perform marriages | Tulsa World

Muslim group: two imams pulled from plane bound for North Carolina - CNN.com The two -- who hold high religious positions in the Muslim community -- were headed to North Carolina for a conference on prejudice against Muslims, or Islamaphobia (Muslims banned from flying in Islamophobic America)
CTV British Columbia - Mounties in Dziekanski death face perjury charges - CTV News Taser death of Robert Dziekanski in October 2007 will face criminal charges.
Frat Guys Gone Wild: What's the Solution? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com A lawsuit filed under the gender equity law Title IX followed an incident last fall in which fraternity pledges shouted a sexually derogatory slogan.
Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords: Just a word.

Doomsday approaches - The Washington Post
The Believer - The Immortal Horizon
YouTube - (Cat's crash test)
earlyups Sled fail May 7th 2011 sled early ups (La motoneige!)
YouTube - How to Make Guys Like You
All That Is Interesting - The First Zombie-Proof House
The Safe House «

Infographic: Security Fears Skyrocketing in the U.S.

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Al-Qaida statement should kill off Bin Laden conspiracy theories | World news | The Guardian Terror group's message reinforces conclusion that even without its leader, it is still capable of coherent action
Osama bin Laden death: Al-Qaida vows to carry out revenge attacks on US | World news | The Guardian White House says US is being 'extremely vigilant' after al-Qaida declares Bin Laden's death a curse on the US
Osama Bin Laden Dead, Al Qaeda Confirms
Info from Osama raid shows interest in US trains | 6abc.com (and buses and taxis and baby strollers)
Osama Bin Laden's Wife Spent Six Years In Pakistani House al-Qaida warned of retaliation in an Internet statement, saying Americans' "happiness will turn to sadness." (+dude had a lot of wives)
Sen. Carl Levin: Pakistan Had To Know Osama Bin Laden Was There | TPMDC
Daily Kos: A Democratic president kills bin Laden and the GOP world turns upside down
John Yoo: Obama Afraid To Capture Bin Laden (torture-Yoo) | TPMDC
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
Democrats hit Scott Brown on Bin Laden photo gaffe, greenhouse gas vote - latimes.com
George W. Bush Reportedly Feels Ignored In Obama 'Victory Lap' Following Osama Bin Laden's Death (they always want to both ways)
Bin Laden: Rundle ... it is US' enemies whose acts are full of simplicity | Crikey - Bin Laden was executed, that much is obvious

Norway Feels Sting Of China's Anger After Liu Xiaobo Nobel Prize Win since the Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Norwegian salmon exporters say their fish is being held up for days or even weeks by Chinese food safety inspectors – devastating its freshness (your feeesh stinks)
Brazil’s high court orders same-sex civil unions recognized, cheering gay rights supporters - The Washington Post
PCC seeks to regulate press Twitter feeds | Media | guardian.co.uk Watchdog to consult on how tweets can be brought under its remit, asking each newspaper to draw up a 'Twitter policy'
Silvio Berlusconi: Three may face trial over 'bunga bunga' parties | World news | The Guardian Prosecutors want Nicole Minetti, Emilio Fede and Lele Mora to be put on trial, charged with aiding and abetting prostitution (sex in the dentist's chair?)
10 reasons the AV referendum was lost | Tom Clark | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 6: the shockingly deep conservatism of much of the Labour party (+hated head boy Nick Clegg)
Kiev's Topless Protestors: 'The Entire Ukraine Is a Brothel' - Spiegel Online - News - International (NSFWIA)
What Happened to Air France Flight 447? - NYTimes.com

Daily Kos: Newscorp. WikiLeaks "Competitor" WSJ SafeHouse is Anything But (WSJ sets up their own wikileaks, to great laughter)

Drugs, War, Bells And The GOP: The South Carolina Debategasm last night's GOP presidential debate in South Carolina, between four people who have only a slim chance of ever being the party's nominee and a Tim Pawlenty-themed holographic screensaver? (+Fox News!)
First Republican Presidential Debate Pulled Off Course, But Pawlenty Emerges Relatively Unscathed
Jon Stewart Mocks Trump & Palin's Latest Political Gaffes (video)
Steve Simon's Pro-Gay Speech Racks Up YouTube Views (VIDEO) "How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God actually wants them around?"
Walker, Kasich Tributes To Public Workers Prompt Laughter, Derision
Texas Sonogram Abortion Bill Passed By State Lawmakers (Republicans spying on your uterus)

Vermont Passes Final Version of Single Payer Bill | FDL News Desk (encouraging investment in their state)
Wis. Dems Alleging GOP Fraud In Recalls | TPMDC vast levels of fraud will disqualify the Republican recall efforts against Democrats (Republicans="vast levels of fraud")
Welfare drug test bill heads to Fla. Gov. Scott - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com Applying for welfare benefits in Florida? Soon you’ll need to get drug tested - The measure provides no money for substance abuse treatment.
Olympia Snowe Braces For Tea Party Challenge In Maine Snowe also voted for a Republican House budget pact that included a ban on federal money for Planned Parenthood. Snowe, a supporter of abortion rights and women's health issues, criticized the cuts before voting for the bill.
Gov. Jan. Brewer's surprising vetoes of GOP bills keep everybody guessing

Unemployment Rate Rises In April, U.S. Economy Adds 244k Jobs though the jobless rate rose to 9.0 percent.
Fears and Failure - NYTimes.com D.C. economic discourse is saturated with fear: fear of a debt crisis, of runaway inflation, of a disastrous plunge in the dollar. Scare stories are very much on politicians’ minds. Yet none of these scare stories reflect anything that is actually happening, or is likely to happen. And while the threats are imaginary, fear of these imaginary threats has real consequences: an absence of any action to deal with the real crisis, the suffering now being experienced by millions of jobless Americans and their families (the elite could give a shit about your jobs)
Correcting the Picture on Jobs - NYTimes.com Job growth was unexpectedly strong last month. The unemployment rate rose to 9 percent, from 8.8 percent, its biggest one-month increase in more than a year-and-a-half.
Food Prices Will Have 'Grave' Consequences: Hillary Clinton
CEO Pay Now Exceeds Pre-Recession Levels: Equilar
The 10 Highest Paid CEOs Of 2010: Equilar (worth every penny)
More U.S. Oil Drilling Won't Lower Gas Prices, Experts Say (drill into your bank account)
The Sharing Economy

Conversation Agent: Can we Influence Outcomes Together?
YouTube - Calculus Rhapsody

YouTube - Autism: National Autistic Society - Part 1 (morning commute)
YouTube - Autism: National Autistic Society - Part 2 (Socially awkward)
YouTube - Autism: National Autistic Society - Part 3 (Crash)

The Long Con by Brendan Kiley - Features - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper Anatomy of a Two-Year Undercover Sting and What It Has to Do with Law Enforcement’s Habit of Wasting Large Amounts of Money on Investigating People for Their Social Habits and Political Beliefs
GOP targets Legacy funds for MPR, arts | StarTribune.com Republicans made an abrupt move with a new bill to end earmarks and require competition for money.
DHS Overrides State Law, Says Illinois Must Share Fingerprint Data For Deportations The Illinois case is the latest -- and farthest-reaching -- in a string of confusion and misstatements from DHS over whether Secure Communities participation is voluntary.
Sex Crimes In New Orleans, Separate And Unequal These women wear a scarlet letter -- rather, 11 letters -- spelled out on their driver’s licenses in bright orange text: SEX OFFENDER.They aren’t child molesters or pedophiles. Most are poor, hard-luck black women in New Orleans who agreed to exchange oral or anal sex for money. In doing so they violated the latest version of Louisiana’s 206-year-old Crime Against Nature law, which carries a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and registration as a sex offender.
What’s Behind The Obama Administration’s About Face Regarding Medical Marijuana? « SpeakEasy “The United States Attorneys Office … will vigorously prosecute individuals and organizations that participate in the unlawful manufacturing, distribution and marketing activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law.” (drug warrior)
Hemp History Week - Did You Know?

How to disappear completely Almost everyone has a digital footprint these days. Think you could remove your tracks? Former skip tracer Frank Ahearn helps folks drop off the face of the Earth.
Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, Australian Cyclone, New Zealand Earthquake: Swedish Honeymoon Couple Sees Them All - ABC News
Guys Who Like Fat Chicks - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice
YouTube - Very funny dog! Really determined too...

Sony PlayStation Network Hack Is Just The Beginning Of Giant Data Thefts: Experts - 100 million accounts, 12 million of them containing unencrypted credit card numbers. More than two weeks after the breach, millions of PlayStation customers are still waiting for the network to come back online, and the identity of the hackers remains unknown.
Anonymous to Sony: It wasn't us - Technology & science - Games - msnbc.com Internet vigilante group denies responsibility, calls Sony 'incompetent'
Homeland Security Request to Take Down MafiaaFire Add-on « hja’s blog (illegal request by Obama's big-copyright squad)
Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!

050511
Osama bin Laden death: Afghanistan 'had Abbottabad lead four years ago' | World news | guardian.co.uk Afghanistan's former intelligence chief says Pakistan's then president Pervez Musharraf angrily rejected Osama hideout tip
Osama bin Laden death: Pakistan says US may have breached sovereignty | World news | The Guardian Fresh doubts raised over the legality of killing al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden
Daily Kos: Top aide to Gates: No 'definitive evidence' on Pakistan's knowledge about bin Laden's hideout
Osama bin Laden death: Pakistan's army fights to restore credibility | World news | The Guardian Testimony of 12 survivors released by spy agency as US ordered to cut military presence in Pakistan to a minimum
Senior extremist linked to al-Qaida surrenders to Saudi authorities | World news | guardian.co.uk Khaled Hathal al-Qahtani figured high on the list of most wanted terrorists and was operating from Yemen
CBC.ca | The Current | Osama Bin Laden Conspiracies Some believe the Obama administration miscalculated how it handled the body of Osama Bin Laden and it has ignited unbridled conspiracy theories about the killing (Janet Jackson's nip-slip paralyzed the country, but un-bridled bloodlust just fine in America)
Osama bin Laden | The Economist Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted terrorist, died on May 2nd, aged 54
Pakistan Pays U.S. Lobbyists To Deny It Helped Osama Bin Laden
Afghan Taliban, Al Qaeda May Rethink Ties Now That Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, Say Analysts (what fucking ties?)
In bin Laden victory, echoes of the Bush years - The Washington Post (WaPo tries to rewrite history)
War Dog - An FP Photo Essay By Rebecca Frankel | Foreign Policy There's a reason they brought one to get Osama bin Laden.
Jon Stewart Makes Passionate Case For Releasing Bin Laden Death Photos (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire

Bank of England holds interest rates as UK economy suffers biggest drop in growth since Lehman collapse - Telegraph The Bank of England has held rates at their historic low of 0.5pc for the 27th consecutive month amid mounting evidence that the recovery is stalling (how's that conservative austerity thing working out for you?)

Pew Report And Osama Bin Laden: Why The Presidential Approval Rating Bump Won't Last because Americans have grown "more inward looking," as the report shows, with divisions over national security and assertiveness in foreign affairs growing less pronounced and less consequential then they were six years ago, the last time the survey was conducted.
Eric Cantor's Office Denies Report That GOP Is Dropping Medicare Reform (will still call the new no Medicare plan "Medicare")
States Urge U.S. Appeals Court To Overturn Health Care Reform (26 Republican Governors throw granny under the train)
Health Care Repeal Is 'Dead,' Says Top Republican, Sights Turned To Repealing Individual Mandate
Associated Press Won't Cover Fox News GOP Debate (Republicans ban "reporting")
'Birther' Population Plummets Following Release Of Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate | TPMDC The biggest change came among Republicans, as 14% now say Obama was born outside America, down 17 points from last April when 31% of GOPers said the same thing.
The Washington Monthly - The Cap Act Is Arguably Worse Than The Ryan Plan (reliable Blue-Dog Clair McCaskill co-sponsor)
The Washington Monthly - Backing Away From Medicare Privatization (turned out to be wildly popular with seniors)
Robert Watson Ousted From Top Job After Pot Bust, Arrest The top Republican in the Rhode Island House, who was arrested in Connecticut two weeks ago on charges of driving drunk and possessing marijuana, was voted out of his leadership position Tuesday (detained at a police "checkpoint" wtf?)
Jane Corwin, rich Republican was too cheap to register her .org - this is what happened)
Blue Virginia:: Virginia State Bar Reprimands Monica Goodling - "This wasn't an isolated incident, it was an ongoing pattern of behavior on Goodling's part involving several distinct unethical acts. She should have been disbarred, not reprimanded." (a little "reprimand")
Satire site targets GOP candidate Jane Corwin - Political Hotsheet - CBS News A search revealed that the site was registered to Ian Murphy, the Buffalo Beast editor who fooled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker earlier this year by posing as conservative financier David Koch during a phone call. Murphy then released a recording of the call to the public.
Arirang: barackobama.me

The Loving and Merciful Act of Foreclosure - Credit Slips JPMChase CEO Jamie Dimon stated that: "Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is." ("debt relief" = they keep your house)

Climate Scientists Told To 'Stop Speaking In Code' - use simple words and focus on the big picture when describing their research to a wider audience (words for dimbulb America: "It's getting hotter and you're going to DIE!)
"What Lies Beyond the Event Horizon of a Black Hole?" (Today's Most Popular)
The Reason We Reason | Wired Science | Wired.com (to win arguements and feel superior)

After 50 years of decline, household size is growing - USATODAY.com The percentage of young adults ages 19 to 29 who are living with their parents rose from 25% in 1980 to 34% in the late 2000s (1/3 of kids under 30 living with parentals - no jobs)
George Monbiot – Our Crushing Dilemmas How do environmentalists fight without losing what we’re fighting for?
Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism - Conor Friedersdorf - Entertainment - The Atlantic
Brooklyn Enclave Helps New York Top Los Angeles as U.S. Diversity Capital - Bloomberg
Project Neon! - a set on Flickr

Dorothy | Casualties of War
YouTube - High five for first kiss
The Top Baby Names of 2010 Are… - Parenting.com (Isabella and Jacob)
YouTube - VTS 01 1
Stats Geek Bill James Applies His Science to Serial Killers | Magazine
Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber | Crime Magazine

Feeding Your Cat: Know the Basics of Feline Nutrition :: healthy cat diet, making cat food, litter box, cat food, cat nutrition, cat urinary tract health

LastPass : The last password you'll have to remember: LastPass Security Notification
LastPass Update: They're Under Attack Too - James Fallows - Technology - The Atlantic
TwitLonger: Regarding LastPass's cautionary approach... Everyone should take a deep breath and not hyperventila
WhatWasThere - Put history in its place!

050411
Administration Grows Frustrated As Conversation Shifts From Bin Laden To Waterboarding (see, torture works! Obama can't say it didn't)
Osama Bin Laden Pictures Will Not Be Released, Obama Decides (updated)
Senate Intel Chair: Torture Did Not Lead To Bin Laden In Any Way | TPMDC (Boston Globe doesn't agree)
Key to tracing bin Laden may have come in harsh interrogations - The Boston Globe (the center-right position)
ThinkProgress » Rumsfeld Flip-Flops: Now Says Harsh Interrogation Of Detainees Was ‘Critically Important’ In Bin Laden’s Death
Osama bin Laden: how DNA identified his body - life - 03 May 2011 - New Scientist
Osama bin Laden's daughter watched special forces shoot him dead - Telegraph
Brown admits he was fooled by fake pictures of bin Laden body - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com (he saw them on the tweeter)
Fafblog! the whole world's only source for Fafblog.
Fighting for Bin Laden - Video | Frontline | PBS
Osama Bin Laden Was Unarmed During Navy SEAL Raid, Says White House
George W. Bush Declines Obama Invitation To Ground Zero
News Desk: Notes on the Death of Osama bin Laden : The New Yorker
Congress to Examine "Inappropriate" and "Devastating" Use of "Geronimo" Codename in bin Laden Mission - The Note
TX Teacher Suspended After Telling Muslim Student 'I Bet You're Grieving' | TPMDC
Photo Op: Inside the Situation Room - WWD.com
Top Secret Stealth Helicopter Program Revealed in Osama Bin Laden Raid: Experts - ABC News (Pakistan sold it to China, that was fast)
Mystery surrounds wounded bin Laden wife - World news - Death of bin Laden - msnbc.com Report: US request to interrogate her is rejected by Pakistan (the game continues)
Does Torture Work? | Mother Jones
Bomb Every Mansion: An Alternative Strategy to Prevent “Safe Havens” in Pakistan | FDL Action

Libyan leaders face arrest on war crimes charges | World news | guardian.co.uk Gaddafi regime systematically opened fire on peaceful protests, says International Criminal Court prosecutor
Mubarak faces possible execution, Egyptian official says - CNN.com

Bradley Manning's jail conditions improve dramatically after protest campaign | World news | The Guardian Switch of WikiLeaks whistleblower suspect from maximum security jail means more rights and liberties in runup to trial

CUNY Board Nixes Honorary Degree For Playwright Tony Kushner | The Jewish Week The action was taken presumably because of the author's critical comments concerning the State of Israel (Jewish right, silencing dissent, as usual)

Where Do You Fit? 2011 Pew Research Political Typology Quiz | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
About the Political Typology | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Expert Political Judgement – Phillip Tetlock
FORA.tv - Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs (long-term prediction)
NationStates | Create a Nation
Hamilton College - Pundit - Executive Summary (wingnuts and lawyers suck at prediction)

Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft | Danger Room | Wired.com (not the Onion)
What Is Jon Huntsman Thinking? I, for one, still can't figure out the logic behind Jon Huntsman's decision to run for president (c'mon Jamelle, the Republican elites are getting worried about all the loon-ball canditates)
Dems To Force Vote On Oil Subsidies
Oklahoma House Reprimands GOPer For Saying 'Blacks' Don't Work As Hard | TPMDC Rep. Sally Kern (R) (is a racist)
Wisconsin Republicans Threaten End Run Around Courts If They Block Union Busting Law | TPMDC (don't need no steenking courts in Wisconsin)

Yglesias » Needed: Plan B On The Economy the bad news is a merely a blip caused by bad weather (there goes your "recovery")
Sovereign Debt Crisis - Is a Liquidity Crisis Brewing in Europe? - CNBC - do we bailout the banks or do we throw more money at highly-indebted nations like Ireland, Portugal and more urgently, Greece? (they are the same, you idiots)
Christie and Developers Detail Plan for Xanadu Complex - NYTimes.com (won't take free money for a tunnel, but will pour billions into a hole in the Meadowlands for his developer buddies)

Yo! Douche bag! « LRB blog (David Brooks can't write for shit - 10 weirdest sentences)
Tennessee 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Advances In State Senate

NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment - NASA Science (vortex!)

Modern Love - Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us - NYTimes.com
The last post - Penmachine - Derek K. Miller
Dangerous Minds | Medical Marijuana Primer with Michael Backes

As PlayStation Network tries to get back online, Sony points to Anonymous | Technology | guardian.co.uk The company has written a letter to Congress saying the data theft came as it was defending itself against cyber-attacks (and it was just too much for them)
The Best Obnoxious Responses To Misspellings On Facebook | someecards.com
Never Give Up: Perfect 10 Sues Giganews Usenet Service | TorrentFreak

050311
Osama bin Laden: US changes account of al-Qaida leader's death | World news | guardian.co.uk US counter-terrorism officials correct earlier claims that al-Qaida chief fired a weapon and that his wife was killed
Clues Gradually Led to the Location of Osama bin Laden - NYTimes.com
US troops were yards from Osama bin Laden house in 2008 – WikiLeaks files | World news | The Guardian US embassy cables show soldiers were due to perform a routine posting 'training the trainers' of Pakistan's federal military unit
ThinkProgress » ANALYSIS: Bush’s Lackluster Hunt For Bin Laden
Justice, American Style: Was Bin Laden's Killing Legal? - Spiegel Online - News - International
Bin Laden Reading Guide: How to Cut Through the Coverage | TPM LiveWire
Panetta: Pakistan Would Have Short-Circuited the Mission to Take Out Bin Laden | FDL News Desk
Bin Laden's neighbors noticed unusual things - World news - Death of bin Laden - msnbc.com Questions persist about how authorities could not have known who was living in the compound

New York Times Stopped Presses for News of Bin Laden's Death - WWD.com it was only the third time in the last 43 years the paper literally stopped the presses.
WikiLeaks docs: Nuclear reprisals if bin Laden killed | Privacy Inc. - CNET News
Right-Wing Media Embrace Latest Anti-Obama Conspiracy Theory: Bin Laden Might Not Be Dead | Media Matters for America Right-Wing Media Figures Ask For "Proof," "More Evidence" Of Bin Laden's Death
The Lies They Tell Us - By Mosharraf Zaidi | Foreign Policy Can the Pakistani government's web of deceit survive the death of Osama bin Laden?
Pakistan did its part - The Washington Post - By Asif Ali Zardari (cranking out the PR)
Pakistan accused of bin Laden 'double game' - World news - Death of bin Laden - msnbc.com
» The great deceit | Dawn Blog | Pakistan, Politics, Terrorism, Satire, Cricket, Culture, Food, Vlogs and more As an after thought, also do ask why more than anyone else failing or insulting us, it is our own security establishment that takes the cake each time.
Salman Rushdie: Osama Bin Laden’s Death and Pakistan’s Deadly Game - The Daily Beast Are we really supposed to believe that Pakistan didn’t know Osama bin Laden was living there for five years? Salman Rushdie on why it’s time to declare the country a terrorist state.
Asia Times Online :: Osama a casualty of the Arab revolt By Spengler - What has changed? The simple answer is: everything has changed. Instability in the Muslim world has reached a level that makes Bin Laden redundant.
Why They Killed Osama bin Laden Now | Opinions - Yahoo! News - Keeping Osama bin Laden out of Washington's hands was vital in order to prevent having to publicly deal with revelations of how the Pakistani military-jihadi complex not only was connected with al-Qaeda, but might also have been involved in the conspiracy behind the 9/11 attacks ... US direct overt aid and military reimbursements to Pakistan amounted to $19.6 billion, of which $13.3 billion was for security-related heads. This is a bad outcome for Afghans, Pakistanis and Indians. The military-jihadi complex will gain in strength. Pakistan's civilian government will be more powerless. It will only be a facade with which to seek foreign assistance.
Bin Laden’s war against the U.S. economy - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post ‘continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy.’ ”
YouTube - A witness account of Bin Laden's death
Complete 911 Timeline
Complete 911 Timeline: Osama Bin Laden
The Navy SEALs' Booty Was Yesterday's Biggest Victory
News Desk: Bin Laden Dead, Torture Debate Lives On : The New Yorker by Jane Mayer
Bush-Era Interrogations Provided Key Details on Bin Laden's Location - FoxNews.com (Fox invokes the "pickle-jar" defense)
The two bullets that killed Osama bin Laden were not of Navy SEALS/Team 6 but His own men | News World Wide
Pakistan: We Have Osama’s Wife, Kids in Custody - They were left behind after a helicopter had mechanical issues
Inside the SEAL team that 'doesn't exist' - World news - Death of bin Laden - msnbc.com
Obama should use Osama Bin Laden's death to declare victory and end the legal war on terror. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine Obama should use Osama Bin Laden's death to declare victory and end the legal war on terror.
How Osama Bin Laden Was Caught Confessing To 9/11 Why the Release of the Tape was as Good as a De Facto Pardon
Out of Osama's Death, a Fake Quotation Is Born - Megan McArdle - National - The Atlantic
Jon Stewart on Osama bin Laden | Barack Obama | Video | Mediaite
Carefree Pre-9/11 World - The Colbert Report - 5/2/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central Before Osama bin Laden came along, it was possible to get on a plane with an adult-sized bottle of shampoo.
Teens Don’t Know Who Osama Bin Laden Is, According to Yahoo! Search Trends
Balloon Juice » You See, I Take These Glasses Off, She Looks Like a Regular Person, Doesn’t She? Put ‘Em Back On… Formaldahyde Face
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Read Longform Journalism About the Al Qaeda Terrorist - The Daily Beast
Olbermann: Osama Bin Laden Death Will Rearrange Political Landscape (video)
Bin Laden Death Story Shows Changing Media Habits
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URGENT: Seabed radiation 100-1,000 times normal level off Fukushima plant: TEPCO | Kyodo News

Canada Elections: Conservatives Win Coveted Majority
Heckuva Job Iggy! : Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Rees: Cormac Ignatieff's "The Road"
Ian Tomlinson inquest verdict – Tuesday 3 May 2011 | UK news | guardian.co.uk Newspaper seller 'unlawfully killed' at G20 protests • Jury: police officer used 'excessive and unreasonable force'

Yglesias » Everything Is a Reason To Invest More Money In Wasteful Homeland Security Endeavors
Study: Pundits Wrong Most Of The Time, Just Like You Always Imagined Paul Krugman, New York Times (highest scorer); Maureen Dowd, New York Times (Republicans tank)
Supreme Court: S.F. Politicians Free to Denounce Catholic Church - San Francisco News - The Snitch settling the question of whether the supervisors were out of line when they passed a resolution denouncing the Catholic church's stance on gay couples adopting.
The Failed Drug War Has Created a Human Rights Nightmare -- How Can This Happen in Our Country and Go Virtually Undiscussed? | Civil Liberties | AlterNet If we fail to commit ourselves to ending mass incarceration, future generations will judge us harshly.
Republicans Ignore Thomas Jefferson As They Treat Women Like Livestock

TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | No life is good

Serotonin, Our Utility Hormone, Still Surprises - NYTimes.com Researchers lately have learned that serotonin plays an impressive number of critical roles throughout the body, both below the neck and above it, and from the earliest days of prenatal pre-sentience.
New evidence details spread of amphibian-killing disease from Mexico through Central America
Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than Previously Thought: Report
All That Is Interesting - The Eruption and Collapse of Hawaii’s Volcanoes

| Newark's Prayer-Based Crime Fighting Effort Isn't Working The results are unsurprising. By mid 2011, reports CBS, murders were up 71%, shootings up 29%, and auto theft up 39%. The magical results of Pray For Newark's prayer-based crime fighting effort seemed to suddenly evaporate.
Sexist Activists Are Sexist Chait is right; alone, anti-abortion views aren't prima facie evidence of sexism. Anti-abortion and anti-contraception views, however, are clear evidence of hostility to the sexual autonomy of women. When you're opposed to the very tools of women's liberation, it's hard to read you as anything but a sexist.

YouTube - Stan Lee's Superhumans Super Samurai
YouTube - "Liquid Fire" to Metal Sword in minutes! - A History of Ancient Britain - Ep4 - Preview - BBC Two
English Russia » The Place That Stalkers Would Love To Visit

Kristen McMenamy Poses In A Bikini For Vogue Italia (photos)
Julian Assange: Facebook Is 'Appalling Spy Machine'

Sony refuses to testify to Congress over PSN debacle | Electronista
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P050111PS-0210 | Flickr - in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011.
All sizes | P050111PS-0782 | Flickr - Obama writing speech
Balloon Juice » OBL Round-Up For those of you who missed it last night, here are a few good links, starting with Obama’s speech.
One unwary phone call led US to bin Laden doorstep - Yahoo! News
Bin Laden hideout location 'raises questions' - World news - Death of bin Laden - msnbc.com
Robert Fisk: Was he betrayed? Of course. Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent

Obama Succeeded Where Bush Failed: Osama Bin Laden Rhetoric And Reality
National Counterterrorism Center: How A Little-Known Spy Agency Helped Track Down Osama Bin Laden James R. Clapper, the director of national intelligence who presides over all 16 of the country’s intelligence agencies, said that in his nearly 50-year career “never have I seen a more remarkable example of focused integration, seamless collaboration and sheer professional magnificence’’ as was evident in the final hunt for bin Laden.
The Maddow Blog - Osama bin Laden is dead After failing to catch bin Laden in Afghanistan, the U.S. expanded into what amounts to a third, undeclared war in Pakistan, run by the CIA. NBC reports that bin Laden was not killed by a drone strike, but rather a Special Ops action
Hullabaloo Ten Years On - the people who compared this to Hitler and proclaimed al Qaeda the greatest threat the world has ever known were a bunch of bedwetting panic artists who should never be listened to again ... To any sentient being, a motley group of terrorists with box cutters was never an existential threat to the United States of America ... the threat of a bunch of paranoid opportunists convincing an entire generation that a handful of suicidal religious fanatics are so dangerous that the most powerful nation on the planet must immediately jettison its fundamental values
From 9/11 To Osama Bin Laden's Death, Congress Spent $1.28 Trillion In War On Terror (and your civil liberties and your Social Security)
Osama Bin Laden Dead, Obama Announces
Levin: Pakistani Intel and Military Have 'A Lot Of Explaining To Do' For Sheltering Bin Laden | TPMDC
Bin Laden’s Death Likely to Deepen Suspicions of Pakistan - NYTimes.com
Rumsfeld Exclusive: There Was No Waterboarding of Courier Source
YouTube - local video of OBL compound/fort in Arabic

imgur: You got a wedding? I got a funeral (good example of how this is playing out)

Facebook Transcript: Live Chat on Bin Laden Death - NYTimes.com
Osama bin Laden: it took years to find him but just minutes to kill him | World news | guardian.co.uk Contrary to speculation that Osama bin Laden was in a remote tribal area, he was instead found in an affluent suburb near Islamabad
How Osama bin Laden perverted US justice | Karen Greenberg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Osama bin Laden's death is a moment to reflect on the damage he caused us to inflict on American justice in the 'war on terror
Osama bin Laden dead – but Clinton vows to continue war on al-Qaida | World news | guardian.co.uk Bin Laden dead after shoot-out in Abbottabad compound then buried at sea as US tells al-Qaida: 'You cannot defeat us'
Taliban commander vows to avenge Bin Laden's death | World news | guardian.co.uk Taliban commander known as Qudos says jihadis are planning to mount attacks in response to death of Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden death 'only the beginning', British Islamists warn | World news | The Guardian To a radical few, Osama bin Laden was a hero – but mainstream Muslims will remember him as a rebel who lost his way
Bin Laden's body buried at sea | World news | guardian.co.uk US officials say Osama bin Laden's swift burial complies with Islamic custom, although burial at sea is uncommon for Muslims
Killing of bin Laden: What are the consequences? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
"USA! USA!" is the wrong response - War Room - Salon.com Bin Laden's death is a great relief, but by cheering it we're mimicking our worst enemies

Fox Anchor's On-Air Gaffe: 'President Obama Dead' (video)
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Inside The Raid That Killed Him
Osama Bin Laden Dead: U.S. Team's Mission Was To Kill, Not Capture - "This was a kill operation," the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.
Osama Bin Laden Dead: A Look At The Abbottabad Mansion Where The Al Qaeda Leader Was Killed (video, photos) (he had a "mansion")
Osama Bin Laden Dead: New Yorkers React At Ground Zero
Obama Approval Rating Likely To Rise After Osama Bin Laden Killing
Fox Headline FAIL: 'Obama' Bin Laden Dead? (you really think they can't spell?)
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Muslim Scholars Call Al Qaeda Leader's Sea Burial 'Humiliating'
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Iran Says U.S. Should Now Leave Middle East
Is this what closure feels like? - Joan Walsh - Salon.com President Obama vanquished the terrorist who murdered innocent Americans in 2001. Can we have our country back now?
Karzai: Bin Laden Death In Pakistan Proves Attacks On Afghanistan Are Wrong | TPMDC
Daily Kos: Bush, March 2002: 'I really just don't spend that much time' on bin Laden

How Osama Bin Laden Was Found
Bush at Dallas restaurant when news broke about bin Laden - PoliTex
YouTube - Bin Laden Dead: Video animation of terrorist leader's final moments
Rightbloggers on the Death of Osama Bin Laden: Eh, No Big Whoop. Thanks, President Bush! - New York News - Runnin' Scared - Congratulations, President Obama, on finally being declared a U.S. citizen and killing Bin Laden all in the same week. (the insanosphere reacts to a great American victory)
Fox News congratulates Bush for bin Laden - War Room - Salon.com
How the Osama bin Laden Announcement Leaked Out - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Obama Reaction to Seth Meyers' Osama bin Laden Joke
Limbaugh Laughs At Media Who Report That He Lavished Praise On Obama Over Bin Laden Killing | Media Matters for America
ThinkProgress » Barney Frank On Cantor Crediting Bush For Killing Bin Laden: ‘That’s Just Sad’
Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden - Asia, World - The Independent (10/2001, down the memory hole)
BBC ON THIS DAY | 1 | 1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead 1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead (more of Obama's 11-dimensional chess)

Gaddafi family deaths reinforce doubts about Nato's UN mandate | World news | The Guardian Regime claims attack that killed son and three grandchildren was aimed at Libya's leader, as allies accused of overstepping UN security council resolution
Yglesias » Medellín as a Mass Transit Success Story t the incredible turnaround in Medellín, Colombia focusing on the mayor’s theory that improving the physical environment in the city’s poorest neighborhoods has made a huge difference (why it will never happen in Republican America)
More Than 425,000 Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Treated by VA - More Than 250 New Patients Every Day - Veterans For Common Sense (this is the reality they created)

Donald Trump Fires Back At David Letterman For Calling Him A Racist

Is New Jersey's Xanadu Megamall Worth Saving? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com Gov. Chris Christie has reached a deal with a private developer (the third, after the first two developers failed) to pour $1 billion into the project to revive and expand it (killed the tunnel, owes US $250 million, gives billion to private developer buddies, Republicans at work)
Missouri Levee Blast Likely: Supreme Court Rejects Attempts To Block Levee Breach

Make Wall St. Pay for the Catastrophe They Caused: New Bill Would Fine Banks $20,000 for Each Forclosure | Economy | AlterNet

Ivan Katz: The Philadelphia Orchestra's Unfortunate Bankruptcy Filing - We have completely betrayed the public trust that was unwisely placed in us, and you now need to give us the chance to violate that trust once again (management fucks up royally, sticks it to the workers)


YouTube - how to troll your dog

Bin Laden news causes “bigger traffic spike than royal wedding” | VentureBeat
Wireless Consolidation: How Did We Get Here?: Broadband News and Analysis «
AT&T To Begin Broadband Caps
ClickyKeyboards

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NASA - The Home Planet: NASA's View of Earth

BBC News - Nato strike 'kills Saif al-Arab Gaddafi', Libya says
Libya says Gadhafi survives NATO missile strike - Forbes.com
Making Things Up At USA Today (Gadhafi's "adopted" daughter)
YouTube - Stop land mines (censored on all networks)

YouTube - April 30, 2011: Running Cost of Afghanistan War Hits $400 Billion
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe: Turning in Circles in Afghanistan
Gardez-Khost Highway Sees More Corruption Than Progress - NYTimes.com
Fears in China as another human rights lawyer disappears | World news | The Guardian Li Fangping went missing on Friday, the day that Chinese authorities released fellow lawyer Teng Biao

YouTube - President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner
YouTube - White House Correspondent's Dinner - President Obama, Part 2 - Movie Trailer
YouTube - White House Correspondent's Dinner - Seth Meyers, Part 1
YouTube - White House Correspondent's Dinner - Seth Meyers, Part 2
Rove: Trump a 'Joke Candidate,' Part of the 'Nutty Right' - Donald Trump - Fox Nation
Johann Hari: Donald Trump's lunacy reveals core truth about the Republicans - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent - Trump is every trend in Republican politics over the past 35 years taken to its logical conclusion. He is the Republican id, finally entirely unleashed from all restraint and all reality.

FEMA's Ups and Downs | Mother Jones Shall we roll the tape? Under Bush Sr., FEMA sucked. Under Clinton, FEMA was rehabilitated and turned into a superstar agency. Under Bush Jr., FEMA sucked again. Under Obama, FEMA's doing great and responding quickly.
Gang Of Six Hones Deficit Reduction Plan A bipartisan group of six senators (who just happen to be conservative, rich, white men with deep corporate ties)

Warren Buffett's Mistake: How The Saint Of Capitalism Damaged His Reputation
Noahpinion: In a pinch, upgrade the humans or redistribute the robots
Servicers Rush to Pretend They’re Complying With Foreclosure Laws | FDL News Desk

Running in the red: How the U.S., on the road to surplus, detoured to massive debt - The Washington Post (Republicans)
Has Anyone at the Washington Post Heard of National Income Accounting? | Beat the Press

Why Is Damning New Evidence About Monsanto's Most Widely Used Herbicide Being Silenced? | Food | AlterNet
91-Year-Old Grandma Sells Suicide Kits To Help Terminally Ill Die With Dignity « CBS Los Angeles
City school's fast-rising test scores questioned | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/01/2011 (how to incentivize cheating)

Bostonography
YouTube - Lemmy - 49% Motherf*cker, 51% Son of a B*tch - The Movie 2011

Where Is the Public Cloud 2.0? : Cloud Computing News «
Major Media Companies Unite to Serve Cease-and-Desist Against iPad News Aggregator Zite
Andrew Norman Wilson - Workers Leaving the Googleplex
Hacker News | Workers Leaving the Googleplex

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FT - Remove the scourge of conflict - Martin Wolf - luiskatz's posterous
Gaddafi Says Libya Ready For Ceasefire Provided NATO 'Stop Its Planes'
Egypt's Mubarak Could Face Death Penalty, Minister Says
Germany foils al-Qaida bomb plot | Herald Sun
BBC News - Royal wedding: Spot yourself in our hi-def crowd picture

Daily Kos: updated: Anonymous Hits Chamber!
2011-04-29 Wikileaks on Canada in time for the election #Elxn41 #wlcan #Cdnpoli | WL Central

2011 Tornado Outbreak Death Toll Hits 337, Second-Deadliest Day From Twister In U.S. History (South looks to big government)
NWS: NE Mississippi tornado was highest-rated EF-5

Any Obama Will Do | Media Matters for America the personal failings of Barack Obama Sr. are transferable to his son. From the Daily Mail, via Fox Nation - Now that denial isn't much of an option, the anger stage has kicked in: Birtherism has given way to fear-of-a-virile-black-man-ism - what President Obama had already stated in his memoir: His dad wasn't the greatest of guys (which is why he is searching for him in the Repubican party)
Economic Thinker Paul Krugman’s Lonely Crusade for Liberalism -- New York Magazine
Poll: Trump's Support Implodes, Drops Him To Fifth In GOP Primary | TPMDC (next?)

Your Pain, Their Gain: How High Gas Prices Impoverish The Many While Enriching The Few

Report: The 10 Pathogen-Food Combinations That Most Hurt Public Health - Health Blog - WSJ

Reconsidering Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of American Planning: Places: Design Observer
Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official | TorrentFreak

Man Wins $5,000 Suing Debt Collectors, Thanks To Google Voice - The Consumerist

YouTube - Portal 2 - Insane Cube Tricks (Part One)

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Libya Live Blog - April 29 | Al Jazeera Blogs Al Jazeera has learned that Tunisia has summoned Libya's ambassador over the fighting in Dehiba
France Dropping Concrete Bombs In Libya | Defense Tech
Gaddafi Troops Raping, Issued Viagra: U.S. Envoys
The Lockerbie Deal | Politics | Vanity Fair Vanity Fair investigation reveals new details about the business interests and private dealings that lay behind the prisoner’s release. At the heart of the matter: the cozy and “profitable relationships” between the Blair government and Qaddafi’s Libya.

Royal Wedding Coverage

2011 Tornado Outbreak Death Toll Hits 318, Deadliest Since 1932
Obama Tours Tornado Wreckage: 'I've Never Seen Devastation Like This'
2011 Tornadoes: Is Climate Change To Blame For The Devastating Weather? [UPDATE] "This is something that happens every 10 or 20 years when everything comes together like this. This is just natural variability.”

BBC News - Bradley Manning cleared to leave isolation cell The US soldier at the centre of the Wikileaks scandal has been cleared to live alongside other inmates at Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas.
West Censoring East: The Use of Western Technologies by Middle East Censors, 2010-2011 | OpenNet Initiative

Priorities USA, Outside Fundraising Group, Launched By Democrats - financed in part by the kind of large, undisclosed contributions the president has criticized. (that was then)
Feingold blasts new pro-White House money group - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com "Democrats who mirror the right-wing tactics of Karl Rove and David Koch do our nation no favors. Our democracy is best served by rejecting the fundamentally corrupt strategy of embracing unlimited corporate influence," said Feingold
GOP lawmakers tout Medicare reform by stretching a comparison to the health benefits they receive - The Fact Checker - The Washington Post ("stretch" = blatent lie)
Stem Cell Research Ban Overturned By U.S. Appeals Court A divided federal appeals court has ruled that opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research are not likely to succeed in a lawsuit to stop it.
Ken Cuccinelli Drops Law Firm King & Spalding For Its 'Obsequious Act Of Weakness' On DOMA (you didn't fire us, we fired you)
Jan Brewer Signs Bill Making Colt State Gun Colt is based in Connecticut.
Rick Crawford Takes Heat At Town Hall For Opposing Debt Limit Increase (pushback)
Mitch Daniels To Sign Bill Defunding Planned Parenthood Into Law - will restrict abortions and make Indiana the first state to cut off all government funding for Planned Parenthood (Indiana)

Flim Flammed - NYTimes.com I don’t know when if ever the Beltway crowd will admit it, but they were, indeed, flim flammed; the man they decided was an upright, honest deficit hawk is in fact an evasive, dissembling guy who wants to use the deficit, not end it (why, he sounds like a ... Republican!)
Joe Stiglitz and Joe Gagnon Debate QEII | Rortybomb the administration’s program for getting underwater borrowers to borrow didn’t work and I think that’s a true disaster that has no excuse. I have nothing but incredible, there’s just, the blame the administration on not doing this is just incredible (Obama's program designed to fail and kill the economy so Republicans could get elected on "deficits" they created)
Inequality.org
America is bleeding competitiveness | VentureBeat anti-immigrant sentiment building across the nation, and clouds of nativism swirling around Washington, D.C., skilled immigrants are voting with their feet.
BBC News - Go figure: How to succeed in business by doing nothing
AppleInsider | Apple beats Microsoft in quarterly sales and profits

The Washington Post Has a Donald Trump Problem (that's the least of them +invited before Obama dropped the bomb, heh)
Speakeasy: Klein scolds Post for Trump invite | Nikki Schwab | Yeas & Nays | Washington Examiner He also called the New York Times' decision to sit out the White House Correspondents Association Dinner "smart."

Observations: Physics tricks could make for one-way soundproofing
BBC News - Status 'determines brain's reactions to others' Our brains react differently to others depending on how we view their social status, researchers say.
U.S. Nuclear Power Blackout Plans Doubted By NRC Chief
MRSA bug's resistance to antibiotics is cracked by scientists | Mail Online But some strains of MRSA carry a gene called Cfr, which stops antibiotics from attaching to the 'factory' – and also allows it to keep pumping out proteins.
Infographic: United States of the Environment | MNN - Mother Nature Network

What is the worst piece of design ever done? - Quora (good answers)
YouTube - Rolling a Reliant Robin - Top Gear - BBC
Streetsblog New York City » Developer: I’ve Walked Away From Projects Because of Parking Minimums Housing is harder to build, more expensive, and often lower-quality as a result of the city’s parking regulations, according to one New York City developer (lots of expensive, empty lots; get Bloomberg on the case ... oh wait)
Why airports' "liquid and gels" rules are absurd - Ask the Pilot - Salon.com Once again, I'm reminded how the TSA focuses on nitpicky rules at the expense of actual security (TSA goons with arbitrary, punitive "rules")
Philadelphia's Kimmel Center sets stage for major renovation | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/29/2011 A vast menu of improvements has been assembled into a major renovation of the Kimmel - shared this week with The Inquirer - just a decade after Philadelphia's $275 million answer to Lincoln Center opened its doors (architects designed a stupid, unusable expensive building that everyone hated and has to be "renovated" ten yrs later)
"Canal St. Cross-Section" (2009-2010)
The Monkees' Head: 'Our fans couldn't even see it' | Music | The Guardian
YouTube - Late Bloomer - Short Film - Sundance Film Festival
Almost Amis | The New York Observer

The Evangelical Adoption Crusade | The Nation
YouTube - Parkersburg, WV Wrongful Arrest.mp4 My brother was pulled over by Officer Board. When he came back to the car I asked him "can I ask you a question" he says "sure". Officer Board arrested me asking a question that he said I could (cops still don't realize their thug behavior is being recorded)
On a beach, brotherhood - Boston.com Chance meeting in Hawaii brings half siblings together

How Storify's content curation platform works
Researchers use disk frag to hide data - Computerworld Data is hidden in plain site as fragmented pieces
Hackers Claim Stolen PlayStation Data Is For Sale Stolen credit card information from the Sony PlayStation Network may be circulating the web
Amazon Apologizes For EC2 Cloud Service Downtime
TomTom to Users: Sorry We Sold Your Traffic Data to the Cops | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
The Technium: Would You Pay For Search?
Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy | Mercatus
Are we talking "cyber war" like the Bush admin talked WMDs?

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Bahrain Execution Scheduled For Shiite Protesters
Lara Logan Speaks Out About Assault In Egypt: 'They Raped Me With Their Hands' (VIDEO) Logan told the Times that the attack lasted for 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.

A more militarized CIA for a more militarized America - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - in 2006: Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein: "You can't have the military control most of the major aspects of intelligence. The CIA is a civilian agency and is meant to be a civilian agency ... f how militarized the U.S. has become under the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner (that was then)
FBI serves Grand Jury subpoena likely relating to WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com It also appears clear that the DOJ is strongly considering an indictment under the Espionage Act -- an act that would be radical indeed for non-government-employees doing nothing other than what American newspapers do on a daily basis (and have repeatedly done in partnership with WikiLeaks).

Severe Storms Rip Through South, Killing At Least 200 (video)

Obama Birth Certificate: Jon Stewart Mocks Trump, The Media's Reaction (video) - a few jabs about Obama, like his saying, "I've got better stuff to do" during his adress on the birth certificate before hopping on a jet to do an interview with Oprah
Obama On Oprah: Birth Certificate Issue Raised During Interview (dude went on Oprah righ away, remembers "being born," but can't remember campaign promises)
Lawrence O'Donnell And Birther Orly Taitz Have Wild Shoutfest About Obama (Taitz and Corsi blindsided)
Bob Schieffer: Trump Guilty Of 'Racism' (video)
Obama Hits Familiar Target In Debunking Birthers: The Media (little Chuckie Todd throws snit fit at having the ROYAL WEDDING news interrupted by some black guy with a birth certificate)
Whoopi Goldberg, 'The View' Trash 'Racist' Trump (video)
Why Obama Should Not Have Released His Full Birth Certificate…Yet (that's actually what the WH said)
Yglesias » Newt Gingrich’s Opponents Accused Him Of Wanting Medicare to “Wither On the Vine” Because That’s What He Said He Wanted (but the past is partisan so reporters ignore it, also "even back in 1996 it was considered unfair to quote Gingrich accurately because to the DC press corps wanting to dismantle Medicare is always courageous and pointing out that people want to dismantle Medicare is always demagoguery")
updated: Philly SD losing 3,820 jobs, full-day K | Philly | 04/27/2011 the district must lose about 16 percent of its workforce - 3,820 jobs. That includes a reduction of 1,260 teaching jobs, or about 12 percent of the teaching force. The district says there will be a loss of 650 noontime aides, nearly 400 custodians, more than 180 counselors and 51 nurses would also face job loss (education is an "entitlement" and must be eliminated)
Balloon Juice » The Free Market is a Cruel Mistress t appears that the director of Atlas Shrugged: The Debacle is mooning the invisible hand and will go Galt (John Cole is brilliant)
Exclusive - Bernie Sanders Extended Interview Pt. 1 - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/27/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central (the one honest man)

Bernanke Wimps Out - NYTimes.com So Bernanke did get asked why, given low inflation and high unemployment, the Fed isn’t doing more. And his answer was disheartening (will continue to fight non-existent inflation so bankers can have lots of free taxpayer money)
The Washington Monthly - The Question For Bernanke That Matters Most (jobs, and they didn't ask it)
Federal Reserve's Actions May Increase Unemployment, Fed Economist Says (not one of Obama's priorities, unlike no interest for bankers)
Wal Mart CEO: "Shoppers Are Running Out Of Money"; There Is "No Sign Of A Recovery" | zero hedge - "There's no doubt that rising fuel prices are having an impact."
Swiped: Banks, Merchants And Why Washington Doesn't Work For You
Silver hits record near $50 for first time since 1980 | Reuters (what happens when you feed the bankers low interest and the workers no jobs)


Louisiana Republican: Ban Abortion, Sterilize Poor Women and Pay the Wealthy to Procreate Louisiana Republican: Ban Abortion, Sterilize Poor Women and Pay the Wealthy to Procreate (hits all the right notes)
Adult picky eaters now recognized as having a disorder | MNN - Mother Nature Network Selective eaters feel they have very few food options.


YouTube - Three Headed Broadway Star - Timber (improv!)

EFF: We need an Open Wireless Movement - Computerworld Blogs (stick it to the man - free your wireless!)
PlayStation network hack: Who did it? - CNN.com
Apple To Offer Patch For "Accidental" Data Collection Woes - HotHardware
Facebook shoots first, ignores questions later; account lock-out attack works (Update VIII)
Verizon 4G LTE Network Suffers Major Outage (LTE crashes)

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Gaddafi arms Libyan 'home guard' – minimum age 17 | World news | guardian.co.uk Regime in Libya trains civilians in use of AK-47s in attempt to build resistance to Nato and eastern rebels
Afghan Military Officer Fires On NATO Troops, Killing 9: NATO Eight NATO troops and a contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire in a meeting – the deadliest episode to date of an Afghan turning against his own coalition partners, officials said.
Syrian regime sends tanks to Deraa in further toughening of crackdown | World news | The Guardian European governments apply diplomatic pressure in attempt to stem violence believed to have left at least 450 dead
Hamas and Fatah agree to form caretaker government | World news | guardian.co.uk Egyptian-brokered deal paves way towards resolution of four-year rift between West Bank and Gaza

Royal wedding fever hits US media but public interest remains low | UK news | The Guardian (only 6% of Americans interested while the media goes nuts because they think they are royalty)
A threat to our right to protest | Nina Power | Comment is free | The Guardian The Metropolitan police's crackdown on student protesters seems part of a wider attempt to suppress legitimate dissent
Labour fury as David Cameron tells Angela Eagle: 'Calm down, dear' | Politics | guardian.co.uk But Eagle said she had been "patronised by better people than the prime minister", adding that Cameron should instead be apologising for the economy, which had "effectively flatlined for six months" ... "I don't think any modern man would have expressed himself in that way.
BP expects to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico within months | Business | The Guardian BP takes additional $400m in charges from oil spill costs • UK budget changes cost BP £414m in extra taxes


General Petraeus, US commander in Afghanistan, set to be head of CIA | World news | guardian.co.uk David Petraeus, already an American national hero, is to replace Leon Panetta – in Barack Obama's first major reshuffle ("hero")
Leon Panetta To Pentagon, David Petraeus To CIA: AP
President Obama to Congress: "I Hope We Can All Agree That, Instead of Continuing to Subsidize Yesterday's Energy Sources, We Need to Invest in Tomorrow's" | The White House - Our outdated tax laws currently provide the oil and gas industry more than $4 billion per year in these subsidies, even though oil prices are high and the industry is projected to report outsized profits this quarter (yes, you subsidize oil/gas industries because they don't make enough money)
Yglesias » Reducing Health Costs With Voluntary Death Panels
The Washington Monthly Machin will formally endorse a Republican proposal for strict new spending caps, saying it would be "irresponsible" not to ("responsible" = destroying the economy)
Knowledge Counts Pt. 3 | Talking Points Memo One key factor is the establishment concept that cuts to entitlement programs (i.e., social insurance programs) are always the adult thing to do (ABC's Rick Klein inflicts his ignorance on the country)
Deportation of Illegal Immigrants Under Review - NYTimes.com (Obama's super-harsh immigration policy)
Obama Birth Certificate Released By White House (PHOTO)
Donald Trump: Obama Birth Certificate Should've Been Released Long Ago (video) (but then you wouldn't have looked like a complete moron)
Trump proud of self over Obama certificate release - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com
msnbc.com - Now that you've seen Obama's long-form birth certificate, are you convinced he's a US citizen? (38% - where have we seen that number before? - still think Obama is a Kenyan from Mars)
Obama Scolds Media For Focusing On Birthers: 'We Do Not Have Time For This Kind Of Silliness'
CNN's Gary Tuchman On Birthers: 'Not One Iota Of Evidence' (video)
Shep Smith: Obama Is 'Citizen Of The United States. Period' (video)
Will Release Of Obama's Purported Birth Certificate Give Rise To New "Certer" Movement? | The Smoking Gun
Top 20 Crazy Tea Party Reactions To Obama's Birth Certificate
Some People Never Change - Rick "serious Republican" Santorum - despicable piece of lying
Pennsylvania Fracking Spill Investigated By State Officials, EPA
High Radiation Levels At Ohio Nuclear Plant Prompt Special Inspection


SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes - San Jose Mercury News
The Future of Solar (infographic) - Jesse Thomas - - Forbes

In Defense of Flogging - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Why the Government Could Make it Nearly Impossible for You to Get a Passport | AlterNet
Sharon Chanon Velazquez Strikes Plea Deal In Phoebe Prince Bullying Case

Bringing past sex to life is complicated - CNN.com

Apple denies iPhone tracking claims | Technology | guardian.co.uk but admits a software fault means data is still sent to the company (just a small "software flaw" was sending all your data to iSteve)

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Strong anti-American sentiment in Egypt - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com with just 20 percent holding a favorable opinion of the United States this year, an increase of three percentage points from 2010, and 79 percent holding an unfavorable opinion (unlike Americans, Egyptians remember last year)
Habib el-Adly, Egypt's Ex-Interior Minister, On Trial For Murder
Syria Crackdown Continues As Death Toll Passes 400
Syrian regime's attacks on protesters escalate | World news | guardian.co.uk Bodies lying on the streets of Deraa as residents come under artillery and sniper fire, according to witnesses
Nigeria Election Goes Ahead With 500 Dead undreds perished in rioting across the country's predominantly Muslim north when tallies from the April 16 presidential poll showed President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian, had won. Mobs set fire to the hostels where young poll workers were staying, leaving at least 11 recent college graduates dead.
Al-Qaida's Watch of Choice: Wearing a Casio Enough to Become Terror Suspect - Spiegel Online - News - International According to secret documents obtained by SPIEGEL through the WikiLeaks whistleblower platform, US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay identified potential terrorists by the watch they wore on their wrist (notice the "whistleblower platform")

Taliban prison break inmates recaptured | World news | The Guardian Afghan officials say at least 65 of the 480 escaped prisoners caught as Nato claims air strike killed al-Qaida commander (the 27th second-in-command killed)
Palestinian Activists Preparing New 15-Boat Gaza Flotilla (Israel: you will provoke our violent response)
Sri Lanka unlikely to face war crimes investigation | World news | The Guardian UN chief says independent inquiry would only be launched with country's agreement, despite report finding 'credible allegations' (learning from you-know-who)
Calculated Risk: Greece Budget Deficit worse than forecast
Greece's 2010 Government Deficit Significantly Larger Than Predicted
Phone-hacking laws are 'very uneven and unclear' | Media | guardian.co.uk Information commissioner says legislation outlawing phone hacking should be clarified (that it applies to Murdoch also)

Russia Chernobyl: In the Chernobyl disaster zone, life — and death — is still bleak - latimes.com Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor spewed its deadly shower of radioactive isotopes, the Russian village of Stary Vyshkov, home to post-Soviet refugees, is still paying the price
Chernobyl 25th Anniversary Marked By Poignant Memorial Services And Anti-Nuclear Protests (photos) (Nuke industry: it couldn't happen here)

Guantánamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin 'worked for MI6' | World news | The Guardian Leaked Guantánamo papers link UK to Algerian militant • At least 123 prisoners incriminated by one informer
Guantánamo Bay files: Star informer freed after implicating 123 prisoners | World news | The Guardian Mohammed Basardah rewarded despite unsupported claims and interrogators' doubts about sheer number of names he gave up
Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (British vs American press: truth vs lies)
Guantánamo Files - In Dossier, Portrait of Push for Post-9/11 Attacks - NYTimes.com (see their focus?)
What in the World? The military's secret plan…to shrink – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs
Joint Chiefs Staffers Issue Paper Saying America Has Overreacted To Islamic Extremism | Crooks and Liars - imagine if we as a country defined national security as the health, well-being, education and gainful employment of our citizens, and not as the ability to deliver bombs on targets? (we wouldn't be true Reublican America)

Reince Priebus Says Some May Be 'Compelled' To Join 2012 Republican Field (hows that Trump thing working out for you?)
Paul Ryan's Budget Becomes Bogeyman Uniting Progressives, Democrats
Jan Brewer: Birther Issue Leading Country 'Down A Path Of Destruction' ("Country" = Republican Party ftfy)
The Washington Monthly - Define 'Peacetime' (Romney has mastered the unintelligible statement)
W@W » Blog Archive » Real couple: Barack & Michelle Obama

Top 10 States With The Worst Income Inequality: 24/7 Wall St. (new
The next financial crisis could be right around the corner - The Globe and Mail
IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end Brett Arends' ROI - MarketWatch Commentary: China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016
Inside The Mind of Madoff: NYT's Diana Henriques Discusses New Book 'Wizard Of Lies'
Noam Chomsky: Is the World Too Big to Fail? Privatizing the Planet

Enormous statue of powerful pharaoh unearthed - Yahoo! News The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III
Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum? | Paul Davies | Comment is free | The Guardian Rather than rogue cells gone berserk, cancers may be the foot soldiers of ages-old atavisms
YouTube - Superconductivity Dance Flash Mob (emergentuniverse.org)
How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution | World news | The Guardian Profound effects of eight-month eruption in 1783 caused chaos from US to Egypt, say experts
Reform the PhD system or close it down : Nature News There are too many doctoral programmes, producing too many PhDs for the job market. Shut some and change the rest, says Mark C. Taylor.
Omega 3: What is good for the heart may not be good for the prostate, study suggests
Changes in prostate gene expression in men undergo... [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008] - PubMed result
Prostate Problems & Cycling | livestrong.COM

On Hell (Chunky Bobo Ross Douthat forgets Jews don't believe in Hell, oh well, Times can't afford editors)

Dads: The Original Hipsters
Daily Mail-o-matic | qwghlm.co.uk
The $5,000 cross-country cab ride - The Week
YouTube - Cop Assaults Cameraman For Filming Him - Mitchell Crooks, Officer Derek Colling - April 2011 This filthy pig has already fatally shot two people, including a bipolar fifteen-old-boy, in separate controversial incidents. This officer has also been the recipient of dozens? of brutality complaints, all of which were deemed unfounded (Crooks and Colling are in for "a world of hurt")

Thousands queue to pay respects to Sai Baba | World news | guardian.co.uk Mile-long queue of mourners wait in heat to circle past guru's body, displayed in glass casket ahead of Indian state funeral
Sathya Sai Baba, Revered Hindu 'Living God,' Mourned In India After Death At 84 - The trust - estimated to be worth at least $8.9 billion and possibly much more - has no named successor, but a statement said there would be no leadership vacuum. (the word you are looking for is "pedophile")

YouTube - Strangers, again
Relationship Basics | Five Stages of Relationships | By Dr. Marty Tashman


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Syria Clashes Leave At Least 11 Dead: Witnesses

'Stars' Virus Detected By Iran In Second Cyber War Attempt
Russia's Crime of the Century - By Jamison Firestone | Foreign Policy How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed my partner when he tried to expose them.
Flying the Flag, Fleeing the State - NYTimes.com

State Dept. wants to make it harder to get a passport - The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history including employers’ and supervisors names, addresses, and telephone numbers; personal details of all siblings; mother’s address one year prior to your birth; any “religious ceremony” around the time of birth; and a variety of other information (it's un-American to travel outside the US)
Why more Americans don't travel abroad - CNN (and they don't want to anyway)

Poverty: Untying the knot | The Economist New ideas about an old problem
Homepage | Poor Economics
Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty | Video on TED.com
Esther Duflo

Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison | World news | The Guardian Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts • Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held • 172 prisoners remain, some with no prospect of trial or release (Obama covered this up for three years)
Guantánamo files: all 779 detainees | World news | guardian.co.uk Documents leaked to the Guardian give details of the capture and transfer to Guantánamo of 779 people, some of them 9/11 masterminds, many of them Afghan farmers. Find out who's who, how they were captured, and why, according to the files, they ended up in Cuba
The Guantanamo Files WikiLeaks Reveals Secret Files on All Guantánamo Prisoners (Obama is really disgusting)
Guantánamo Bay files - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk The cache of more than 700 leaked files on Guantánamo Bay detainees lift the lid on the realities of the camp and pile more pressure on Obama's failure to close it. Follow live coverage here
Guantánamo Bay files: Caught in the wrong place at the wrong time | World news | guardian.co.uk Almost half of 212 Afghan prisoners either innocent or forced to fight for Taliban, while foreigners were simply rounded up (American justice at work)
The secret Gitmo documents: 6 takeaways - The Week 4. At least 150 innocent people were sent to Gitmo
Guantanamo Files Reveal Details On Nearly 800 Detainees
WikiLeaks' Guantanamo Bay Documents: The Backstory On News Outlets' Race To Publish Them - "WikiLeaks is not our source," Times executive editor Bill Keller told The Huffington Post. "We got the material with no embargo." -- "NYT, Guardian, attempted Gitmo spoiler against our 8 group coalition. We had intel on them and published first."
Sami al-Hajj, Al Jazeera Journalist, Held At Guantanamo So He Could Be Questioned About Network (VIDEO) An Al Jazeera journalist was held at Guantanamo Bay for six years partially so he could be interrogated about the network, according to one of the files on the prison released by WikiLeaks and newspapers around the world (they could have just let them broadcast in US and watched the damned network)
WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11 - The Washington Post - On Sept. 11, 2001, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city: Karachi, Pakistan.
In Gitmo Opinion, Two Versions of Reality | TPM LiveWire the Obama administration censored one federal judge's Gitmo decision that had questioned the government's evidence against a detainee (and then they censored their censorship; they can do that now in America)
The Guantanamo Files - NYTimes.com
2011-04-25 Will WikiLeaks vs. NYT, The Guardian & Daniel Domscheit-Berg Drama Overshadow Contents of Gitmo Files? | WL Central
'Gitmo Files' Finally Released by WIkiLeaks—but 'NYT' Got Its Own Copy | The Nation
Guantanamo Bay: How the White House lost the fight to close it - The Washington Post (no, WaPo, it wasn't because Repubicans wouldn't let him)
Administration Hardens Stance Against Leaks to Press - NYTimes.com (last June, just so you remember )
Close Read: WikiLeaks: The Uses of Guantánamo : The New Yorker
Guantánamo Bay files: Pakistan's ISI spy service listed as terrorist group | World news | guardian.co.uk Anyone linked to Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate should be treated like al-Qaida or Taliban, interrogators told (Obama's psychotic foreign policy)
Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? (2009)
Seton Hall | Law - Guantánamo Reports (published five years ago, nothing happened then either )

Mini mystery: Where’s Hillary Clinton? - Yahoo! News
DCCC Video Says Republicans 'Lied' About Protecting Medicare (Polifact's pants are on fire)
Past House GOP Tactic Proving Useless For Democrats (because the Republicans could always find Dems to vote with them, but not vice-versa)
Tea party: Libertarian revolt or religious right in disguise? - CSMonitor.com In Texas and some other states, the tea party has focused on abortion as much as the state deficit. Five months after its successes in Election 2010, the tea party faces a reckoning: What does it stand for? (racisim and controlling womens' bodies?)
Balloon Juice » Republican voters discover bold and courageous cuts in school funding means less money is sent to their schools (yes, they didn't understand that part)
ABC's This Week Helps Franklin Graham Spread The Birther Message | Media Matters for America - He also cast doubt on Obama's religion and declared that "secularism is anti-Christ." (your elite media at work)
pandagon.net A bout of national stupidity isn't complete without Ross Douthat weighing in to support it, and so of course the recent "controversy" over whether or not hell exists* was like catnip to him. Unsurprisingly, he insists that it does, and the reason is, "Because I want it to." ("fantacists and moral children")
Walker: Too Many Recalls 'Makes It Very Hard' To Get Things Done | TPMDC (Republican bullies whining)
DOMA Law Firm Ditches Case, Top Lawyer Paul Clement To Defend Law With Another Firm [Update]

Housing: US Housing Showing Some Signs of Life - CNBC (which they've been saying every year for four years)

Overexcited Rumors of LHC Higgs Boson Discovery : Discovery News
Did Atlas Just See The Higgs ?
The Higgs may have been found at the LHC. - The Something Awful Forums
QCD Mass Versus Higgs Mass
60-Year Data: Tornadoes a Major Threat Beyond Tornado Alley
Michael Smerconish: Lazar Greenfield's 'Semengate' Stuns Scientific Community Dr. Greenfield was forced to resign based on politics, not evidence. His resignation is more a reflection of the feminist and anti-scientific attitudes of some self-righteous and indignant members of the American College of Surgeons. Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing.

New Statesman - No limits to the law in NoLa A federal justice report on policing in New Orleans since 2009 presents damning evidence of brutality, cop misconduct and systemic abuse of black citizens post-Katrina. The city’s jails are not far behind.
Texas' Wildfires - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic (burn, baby, burn)
Photo: Wildfires in Texas As Seen From Orbit | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
Alexis Dunbar, Florida Woman, Finds 7-Foot Alligator In Her Bathroom (video) - Dunbar believes the alligator used a doggie door on the back porch to get inside the house.
YouTube - Japanese Bullet Train commerical (Republicans stop us from having nice things in America)

Losing My Religion: Four New Movies That Could Tick Off The Faithful | Movieline
YouTube - An Old Person's Guide to "No Homo"
Get Drunk But Neither Broke Nor Fat

YouTube - Rabbit and kitty in love

YouTube - Adam Buxton Reads Out You Tube Comments For 'Apple Mac Music Video'
Warning: How Google Checkout Screwed Project Zomboid | Project Zomboid

042411
NASA Celebrates Earth Day With Stunning Photos Of, You Guessed It...Earth | TPM Photo Galleries

Libya Rebels Drive Gaddafi's Forces Out Of Misrata
Lindsey Graham: U.S. Should Ignore U.N. Mandate In Libya (unilateral bombing, because that worked out so well the last three times +Graham is a military genius, just like McCain)
First Predator Strike Carried Out In Libya

Japan To Launch Massive Search For Bodies Of Earthquake Victims

Obama shuns 'genocide' label for Armenian killings - Yahoo! News While denouncing the "horrific events" of 96 years ago, Obama stopped short of labeling the killings a "genocide," despite vowing to use that exact term during his 2008 run for the White House (another one down)
Yoshie Furuhashi, "Al Jazeera's Beirut Bureau Chief, Ghassan Ben Jeddo, Resigns" Ben Jeddo was particularly angered by Al Jazeera's scant coverage of the bloodshed in Bahrain, in sharp contrast to the intensive coverage that it has given to Libya, Yemen, and now Syria.
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen President, Accepts Deal To Step Down

President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule of law - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (he can't believe the stuff he is saying, so ...)

Detainee Project (Obama's sickening illegal detention of tens of thousands of Iraquis)
Art review: 'Bearing Witness: Daniel Heyman' at Laband Art Gallery, LMU | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
Geoffrey Macnab: Is Errol Morris's new film, Standard Operating Procedure, too soft on US army abuses? | Film | The Guardian Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), which Morris calls "a non-fiction horror movie", investigates just how the Abu Ghraib photographs came to be taken, what they revealed and how they were interpreted by the media
Interview with Daniel Heyman | FPIF On the other hand, I'm really upset about Errol Morris' film Standard Operating Procedure ... For Morris not to look at the Iraqi point of view, and to make a film about how difficult it was to be an unprepared U.S. soldier in Iraq seems to have missed an opportunity to tell a much more important story.

Welcome to Pure Michigan, the land of Dickens | MLive.com About 160,000 kids wouldn't receive their back-to-school clothing allowance under the Department of Human Services (DHS) budget passed by a House subcommittee. That saves $9.9 million (which will go a long way to pay for the $1.2 billion tax break we're handing businesses).
Save the Rich, Pay Your Taxes « Failed Empire
If Walmart Paid its 1.4 Million U.S. Workers a Living Wage, it Would Result in Almost No Pain for the Average Customer | Economy | AlterNet
DownWithTyranny!: The Inspiration For Paul Ryan's Profoundly And Explicitly Anti-Christian Budget

Dry Ice, Wetter Mars - Science News Newfound cache of frozen carbon dioxide could periodically thicken Red Planet’s atmosphere
Gulf Oil Spill Research Funding Coming Too Late, Scientists Warn (the plan all along)

Balloon Juice » The Flip Side of MBA Superintendents I can’t really blame these grifters for running their cons in Rochester, Chicago, Newark and DC, because those places were on a quest for Superintendent Chocolate Jesus. (they always fail upwards with no consequences except more money)
The Top Ten Greenest States In U.S. (are the ones with the smallest populations, duh)

Victim Says McDonald’s Beating Was A Hate Crime « Victim Says McDonald’s Beating Was A Hate Crime « CBS Baltimore Though one worker is seen trying to break up the fight, most are standing by, even heard laughing.
YouTube - Johnny Paycheck - You can take this job and shove it

Wanderlust: GOOD traces the most famous trips in history
From Me To You
I learned to program...
The Post Office Railway (Mail Rail) | Silent UK – Urban & Underground Photography

YouTube - Puss N Boots (1963) K Gordon Murray sample
YouTube - Inappropriate Babysitter?
YouTube - Puss N' Boots Trailer (Mexican Version)
YouTube - BrandG's Channel - Calls For Cthulhu Lists

The Usability of Passwords (by @baekdal) #tips
Usable Security - Reply to "Security Now" (by @baekdal) #tips
Password Generator
Password Strength Checker

042311
Libyan Army Ordered To Retreat From City Of Misrata, Says Wounded Government Soldier
The Washington Monthly - Mccain Returns To Libya -- Under Very Different Circumstances - It was just 18 months ago that McCain traveled to Libya and cozied up to Gadhafi, visiting with him at the dictator's home in Tripoli, shaking his hand, and even bowing a little to Gadhafi. The point of the meeting was for McCain to discuss delivery of American military equipment to the Libyan regime. I guess the rebels didn't hear about this? And that American media outlets simply forgot it happened? (the past is too complicated for the media to understand)
Syrian Forces Kill Dozens In Brutal Crackdown More than 300 people have been killed in the past five weeks – including more than 75 on Friday.
Yemen's Saleh Accepts Deal to Step Down - WSJ.com

BBC News - Israel intellectuals and artists back Palestinian state Dozens of Israeli intellectuals and artists have signed a petition calling for a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders and an end to the occupation.
Germany expels openly homophobic imam | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 21.04.2011 Authorities in Germany have ordered the expulsion of a visiting Islamic preacher who argues that homosexuals should be condemned to death.

St. Louis Tornado Causes Damage, Injuries At Lambert Airport
Koran-Burning Preacher Terry Jones Briefly Jailed In Michigan Jones was sent to jail after he refused to pay a $1 bond ordered by Judge Mark Somers, who also ordered him to stay away for three years from the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn

John Ensign Resignation Timing Raises Questions Ensign insisted Thursday he has done nothing wrong.
Sen. Kyl Erases His False Statement On Planned Parenthood From Congressional Record | TPMDC (Congressional Record "not intended to be a factual statement)
Minn. GOP House Speaker Backs Off Calling Voting A 'Privilege,' Not A Right | TPMDC (it's really how thhey think)
The Wis. Supreme Court Race: Part Hand, Part Machine, All Recount | TPMDC
Republican Obama Supporter Resigns As Ambassador, Says State Dept. Nixed Reagan Article | TPMMuckraker
9/11 First Responders To Be Run Through FBI Terrorism Watch List Before Getting Health Care Benefits | TPMMuckraker The provision was tacked on by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) during the contentious fight over the bill in December, which was blocked by Republicans at the time (maybe cops and firefighters will think twice about voting Republican next time?)
Foster children would be allowed to get clothing only from second hand stores | Michigan Messenger Under a new budget proposal from State Sen. Bruce Casswell, children in the state’s foster care system would be allowed to purchase clothing only in used clothing stores - is this where we’ve gone in this state? I think that there’s the whole issue of dignity. You’re saying to somebody, you don’t deserve to go in and buy a new pair of gym shoes (stay classy, Michigan)
Glenn Beck vs. Mike Huckabee Goes to Round 3 | TPMDC Beck stood by his rhetoric, saying that he believed the Nazis "used progressive tactics" (Liberals=Nazis)

The Public Overwhelmingly Wants It: Why Is Taxing the Rich So Hard? | Economy | AlterNet The obvious answer is that rich people have political clout—but can it really be so simple? (when money=speech, yes)
Are We Really Drowning In Red Ink? A Closer Look At Our Non-Exceptional Debt And Deficit Crisis | TPMDC (no, but this is too complicated for Obama to understand)

States Spend Almost Four Times More Per Capita on Incarcerating Prisoners Than Educating Students, Studies Say - FoxNews.com (America's true priorities)

PolitiFact Insists Republicans Don't Want To End Medicare (video) | TPMDC (Polifact can't be trusted for anything that requires thinking)
Testing the Truth-o-Meter : CJR (Medicare too complicated for journos to understand; polifact's pants are on fire)
Knowledge Counts | Talking Points Memo There's always a bit of a problem with self-appointed media fact-checkers: what if they come to a topic with very little knowledge of the subject and are easily duped? - Pushing those people into the private insurance market and calling it "Medicare" doesn't make it Medicare (Polifact: but, but, but ... the Republicans are still calling it "Medicare" so it must be the same!)


A New 'Doctor Who' Tries To Make Peace With Its Impatient Stateside Fans : Monkey See : NPR
Gaby Rodriguez, Toppenish High School, Fakes 6-Month Pregnancy For Senior Project Three years ago, Bristol Palin was a pregnant 17-year-old introduced to the world during her mother's run for vice president. And today, she has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars as a spokeswoman who works to prevent teen pregnancy.

But what do they do with their legs? | sex education | Life and style | The Guardian Julia Sweeney considered herself an enlightened, sex-is-no-big-deal kind of parent. But that was before an innocent question about tadpoles prompted The Conversation (great writing)
Julia Sweeney on letting go of God | Video on TED.com
Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco That Took 35 Years to Create « Thought Catalog
the Temper, Temper: My, How You've Changed: the Evolution of April O'Neil
A New 'Doctor Who' Tries To Make Peace With Its Impatient Stateside Fans : Monkey See : NPR

Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
YouTube Blog: An update on Google Video - Finding an easier way to migrate Google Video content to YouTube
Congressman, Senator Seeks Answers From Steve Jobs About iOS Tracking File - HotHardware
Gmail Security Tips: 5 Ways To Backup, Secure And Recover Your Account
How To Back Up Your Gmail Account: 5 Ways To Secure Your Data

Amazon cloud disruption hits some social websites | Reuters Amazon's "Elastic Compute Cloud," part of the online retail company's cloud-computing service that hosts websites for start-ups, experienced latency problems and other errors, according to Amazon's status page.
Amazon crash reveals 'cloud' computing actually based on data centers | ITworld
The Economics of Cloud Computing
Amazon's cloud nightmare - Fortune Tech The exact feature that was supposed to be Amazon EC2's strength -- reliability -- is what failed and brought the cloud low yesterday. Still, cloud computing isn't going anywhere.
Amazon EC2 troubles bring down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, Hootsuite and more - TNW Industry
On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store « Joyeur
5 Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS
Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues | Twilio Engineering Blog
On reddit's outage : announcements
Hackers deny involvement in PlayStation Network outage | VentureBeat
Where's My Cellphone?

042211
Syria Protests Spread As Forces Open Fire On Demonstrators
Vedero, Hungary Far Right Group, Causes Roma Mass Evacuation With Training Camp
Greek Prime Minister Papandreou: Ratings Agencies Trying To Run Our Lives
Kirti Monks Forcibly Removed
Pakistani court upholds gang-rape acquittals - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English All but one of six suspects freed in case of Mukhtaran Mai, who was gang-raped in the name of "honour".
Silvio Berlusconi filmed telling lewd joke about 'doing secretary on the table' | Mail Online
Mexico wants to sue U.S. gun makers - - CBS News
Iraq Vet Who Advocated For Others Kills Himself : NPR
Captured: A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon | Plog — World, National Photos, Photography and Reportage — The Denver Post

Gulf oil spill one year later - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Protestors interrupt Obama fundraiser to sing for Bradley Manning - Boing Boing
dgcRM.gif - Left vs Right infographic (why did they swap red and blue?)

Republicans Just Voted To End Medicare -- So Where's The Outrage? | TPMDC (Obama backs the "compromise")
Barack Obama Debt Reduction Plans Run Into Economic Reality (always playing on Republican ground)
News for Obama: Public Cares About Jobs, Not Deficit | The Nation (despite Obama being unable to pronounce the word "jobs" ... leading us into a "cul-de-sac")
The New York Times’ Disappearing Birther Scoop | Media Matters for America A plurality of Republican voters, 47 percent, said they believed Mr. Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was born in another country; 22 percent said they did not know where he was born, and 32 percent said they believed he was born in the United States (and then they sent it down the memory hole +Republicans: people of the lie)
The Anniversary — Crooked Timber Krauthammer Day, the day on which we all celebrate Charles Krauthammer’s confident assertion eight years ago that: Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We’ve had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven’t found any, we will have a credibility problem (did he ever have any credibility to have a problem with?)
Wonk Room » WaPo Warns Against Defense Spending Cuts: What If We Have To Go To War With Iran Or North Korea? (but not their children)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community As a whole, the proposals introduced this year are more hostile to abortion rights than in the past (Repubicans hate women a most Dems are men and pussies)
Anti-Abortion Movement Targets Black Women In Latest Efforts
Anti-Ryan Town Hall Rage Suffers From A Hype Deficit The Dem strategy of elevating the craziest Tea Partyers in order to paint the GOP as scary and extreme only succeeded in reinforcing a sense of widespread public discontent with Obama and Dem policies.
The Annoying Hypocrisy Trope | Mother Jones (someone is still paying this clown?)
A trio of self-proclaimed GOP heroes | Firedoglake Senator John Ensign (R-Nev) who proved that there’s no greater power in a Republican household than mom and dad’s money. This true Republican hero reportedly will resign his Senate seat as soon as this morning.
Trig Trutherism: The definitive debunker - War Room - Salon.com
Activist Stirs Palin Mystery in Iowa - WSJ.com
Law Firm Fighting For Defense Of Marriage Act Faces Backlash From Legal Groups, Colleges Members of the LGBT legal community are seriously considering breaking ties with the firm King & Spalding
Fareed Zakaria on Donald Trump and coded racism – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs (can a man with a bleached raccoon for hair be a serious Republican candidate? yes)
Donald Trump Admitted In Deposition That He Exaggerated His Net Worth, Stretched The Truth
Tennessee 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Advances In State Senate A bill that would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom before the ninth grade has advanced in Tennessee's Senate (most Republicans in TN are gay)
Political Irony › A Trap of Their Own Making

Instant view: Obama team to probe oil market manipulation | Reuters President Barack Obama said on Thursday the U.S. attorney general was assembling a team to root out any fraud and manipulation in the oil markets that might be contributing to higher U.S. gasoline prices.
Destroying our gulf shouldn't be a tax write-off. Tell BP to pay their fair share. t BP's tax break will be even bigger than was first reported - an outrageous $13 billion! (Obama pays them off for destroying the Gulf)

Environmental Performance Index 2010: Home

Climategate: What Really Happened? | Mother Jones How climate science became the target of "the best-funded, best-organized smear campaign by the wealthiest industry that the Earth has ever known (Republicans: people of the lie)

A City Built on Oil Discovers How Precious Its Water Can Be - NYTimes.com - Without significant rain, all three reservoirs may be dry by January 2013 (the desertication of Texas)
Municipal M&A: Budget Woes May Force Cities Like Detroit, Hamtramck To Combine

Working Best at Coffee Shops - Conor Friedersdorf - Business - The Atlantic
Porn: Young men watch 2 HOURS each week and have missed deadline because of it | Mail Online And one in four said viewing pornography made them less interested in sex with a partner, rising to three out of five heavy for users.
NJ Transit worker fired for burning Quran near Ground Zero will get his job back | NJ.com

An embarrassing, reckless, and irresponsible coda to Robert MacNeil’s career - No interviews with actual scientists or public health officials or epidemiologists or vaccine researchers or spokespeople from the American Medical Association or the American Academy of Pediatrics (we will always remember Robert NacNeil and PBS for this - the Jenny McCarthy of journalism)
Heroin and ad hominem attacks (PBS promotes anti-vax bullshit; gets nasty when called on it +Robert MacNeil is a real asshole +six hours of propaganda)
The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru - NYTimes.com
The anti-vaccine movement as a religion with Andrew Wakefield as its prophet? : Respectful Insolence
David Kirby: The Autism-Vaccine Debate: Why It Won't Go Away
Research that makes a difference: UC Davis MIND Institute The UC Davis MIND Institute supports critical research designed to understand the causes and to develop effective diagnoses, treatments, preventions, and ultimately, cures for autism, fragile X and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

Symmetry on Vimeo
Coupon fraud: Coupon Information Corporation - Chicago Shopping
Competitive disadvantage - Boston.com High-achieving Asian-American students are being shut out of top schools around the country. Is this what diversity looks like now (quotas are now ok if they discriminate against minorities)

Apple's iPhones and Google's Androids Send Cellphone Location - WSJ.com

042111
Obama White House, Pentagon At Odds Over Libya Policy
Documentary maker Tim Hetherington and photographer Chris Hondros killed | Media | The Guardian Hetherington, co-director of Sundance-winning film Restrepo, and Pulitzer finalist Hondros were killed in Misrata, Lib
Misrata mortar attacks kill at least 15 civilians | World news | guardian.co.uk
Tim Hetherington, 'Restrepo' Director, And Chris Hondros, Photojournalist, Killed In Libya
Libyan refugees flee to Tunisia as government tries to crush rebellion | World news | The Guardian UN agency says 11,000 have fled from western mountains region in a crisis so far overshadowed by siege of Misrata
“There is No Such Thing as the State: We Must Love One Another or Die” | news junkie post

Japan Nuclear Crisis: Government Declares 12-Mile Area Around Plant A No-Go Zone

Pakistan's Intelligence Agency Linked To Afghanistan Militants: U.S. (well that sure is news)
Ivory Coast Liberation Forces Turn On Each Other
Lambs to the slaughter: sheep sacrificed by Kyrgyzstan parliament | World news | The Guardian Turbulent central Asian state makes a traditional blood offering to drive evil spirits out of the parliament building (should try that in the Senate)
Ian Tomlinson inquest: defibrillator readings 'inconsistent' with heart attack | UK news | The Guardian On final day of inquest, cardiologist says readings taken after collapse at G20 protests appeared to rule out heart attack (death by cop")

Lobbying Push Targets New House GOP Lawmakers On Debt Ceiling Vote The fiscally conservative freshmen are under intense pressure to vote to raise the cap on U.S. borrowing so that the United States can continue to pay its bills after May 16 ("fiscally conservative" is bullshit +Wall Street is having serious "adult conversations" with these bozos)
2012 Election: Obama To Supporters: I Understand Your Frustration (and couldn't give a shit)
Dems needn’t negotiate - TheHill.com (but they just can't help themselves)
The Washington Monthly - Ignoring 'The American People' Either polls matter or they don't. Either Republicans believe policymakers should honor public wishes or they don't. (that was so last year when polls mattered to Republicans, now they could give a shit was the Amurican peeps think)
Enid Borden: Is America Failing Our Nation's Seniors? (no, granny just needs to leave her cushy nursing home and get a job)
JoAnne Kloppenburg To Seek Statewide Recount In Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
Wisconsin Recall Fight Heats Up As Democrats Complain Of 'Shots For Signatures' Deals (AUDIO) a Republican signature-gatherer offered alcoholic beverages to a group of women to get them to sign a recall petition against a Democratic state senator.
House panel taking up anti-strike bills Wednesday | Michigan Education Association The House Education Committee on Wednesday will take up bills to punish teachers and unions who engage in an illegal strike.
Obama’s Young Mother Abroad - NYTimes.com

People For the American Way: Tell Congress: Make Corporations Like GE Pay Their Fair Share Tell Congress enough is enough -- "shared sacrifice" means making corporations pay their fair share
Net Worth, | Personal Finance Disclosure | OpenSecrets (lawmakers net worth, why we're screwed)
Infographic: What Congress Would Look Like If It Really Represented America - Politics - GOOD (more why democracy is a joke)
The Management Myth - Magazine - The Atlantic Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead (gee, that's not what "certified genius" Scott Adams said)

1101.2186v1.pdf Making the Case for Conformal Gravity Philip D. Mannheim (end of dark anything?)
[0909.0212] Comprehensive Solution to the Cosmological Constant, Zero-Point Energy, and Quantum Gravity Problems
The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge on Vimeo - A new talk about open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School (Lawrence Lessig)
CERN Document Server: "The architecture of access to scientific knowledge: just how badly we have messed this up"
Gauss Facts

Pennsylvania: the 'ground zero' of the US shale gas drilling boom | Environment | The Guardian Sitting atop a vast deposit of natural gas, Pennsylvania knows how lucrative – and dangerous – this rapidly expanding industry is. But how can it prevent large-scale environmental damage?
Fossil fuel firms use 'biased' study in massive gas lobbying push | Environment | The Guardian (no steenking solar panels)
Report: Drilling fluid spilled at Pa. gas well | Philly | 04/20/2011 thousands of gallons of tainted water have spilled from a Chesapeake Energy Corp. well site near Canton since early Wednesday (drill, PA, drill!)
Measles Outbreak In Europe, Especially France vaccination rates across Europe have been patchy in recent years and have never fully recovered from a discredited 1998 British study linking the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella to autism. Parents abandoned the vaccine in droves and vaccination rates for parts of the U.K. dropped to about 50 percent (blood on Jenny McCarthy's hands)

Avoid_News_Part1_TEXT.pdf Avoid News - Towards a Healthy News Diet By Rolf Dobelli
Lester Bangs' Basement: What it means to have all music instantly available. - By Bill Wyman - Slate Magazine What it means to have all music instantly available.

Heroin.com: Selling Junk Online - Village Voice
What's Brewing: Texas A&M Senate backs anti-gay measure; pastors come out for Leppert - and divert the money to a “center for traditional and family values.”
Shocking affidavit: During man's trial, wife slept with his lawyer | The Columbus Dispatch
Video pokes fun at Terry Jones' protest | Detroit Free Press | freep.com local Arab-Americans are planning a “shawarma law” rally at the same time Jones will protest.
'Free house' couple's earlier foreclosures are questioned | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
D2ac2.png (how the world see the US)

GAGA UPDATE! « AL'S Blog - Gaga’s manager has now admitted that he never forwarded my parody to Gaga (good Gaga! good! bad manager! bad!)
Dr. Robert A. Kornfeld: Smelly Feet? What To Do About It (50 injections of Botox, or, you could just change your socks every day)
'Dead Alien' Hoax In Russia Goes Viral (video)
25 Weird Dresses That Are Amazingly Cool | WebTabLab.com
YouTube - Cats Try to Understand Treadmill
YouTube - Nyan Cat [original]
Honest logos by @Viktor | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork
walk (American children losing knowledge of walking)
YouTube - Old Time Religion
Does anyone want to be "well-read?" - Roger Ebert's Journal

MPAA: “Democratizing Culture Is Not In Our Interest” | TorrentFreak As it turns out, the MPAA’s definition of creativity and culture is a rather narrow one that is quite different from that of the general public (sounds familiar, doesn't it)
Massive Identity Theft With Help From The IRS - William P. Barrett - Informer - Forbes
s Parenting Tips From ‘The Most Hated Girl on the Internet’ - Kashmir Hill - The Not-So Private Parts - Forbes
Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire | Rolling Stone Culture It started online and quickly grew into the most intimate of betrayals. The rise, fall and stubborn survival of Kiki Kannibal, a teenage Internet celebrity who discovered that the real world can be a very scary place
Five Geek Social Fallacies
Nerds Ruin Everything
gamers are embarrassing
xkcd sucks

042011

Scotland Yard plans pre-emptive strike against royal wedding anarchists - Telegraph
s Royal wedding: Does Kate Middleton really want to marry into a family like this? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

DOJ to Supreme Court: Approve warrantless GPS surveillance - Computerworld Blogs (Obama's spy-state)
Law Enforcement Smartphone Forensics - American Civil Liberties Union - Popular Mechanics (Obama's spy-state)
iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go | Technology | guardian.co.uk Privacy fears raised as researchers reveal file on iPhone that stores location coordinates and timestamps of owner's movements (Obama's secret iPhone back-door to spy on you)
petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
iPhone Tracks Your Every Move, and There’s a Map for That | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
People v. Diaz: Is Your iPhone Constitutionally Protected? | Berkeley Technology Law Journal (no, of course not, what Constitution?)
Unknown data usage early morning: Apple Support Communities
Apple responds to Congress, swears location data is private
Hacker News | IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device
ACLU of Northern California : The Privacy of Your Laptop at International Borders
iPhone iOS4 GPS Data – Cellular.Sherlock
slight paranoia: 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight
Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times
slight paranoia: DOJ's "hotwatch" real-time surveillance of credit card transactions
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool - CNET News
Immigration officers target parents while dropping off their kids at Detroit school « Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

WSJ Writer Defends “Government Takeover Of Health Care” Lie; Wins Pulitzer Prize | Media Matters for America (the prize for lying)
Longform.org 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Renting a read from 'newspaper landlords' - CNN.com (new business model for NYT, they paid $50mil to devlope)

Letter to Sen. Durbin Over Social Security Comments on ABC News | Social Security Monitor (same old bullshit being treated as gospel by your stupid media and Dem Senators)
Booman Tribune ~ Still Raining Stupid (all the tropes your stupid media loves)
Democrats Target John Boehner With Mocking Medicare Ad (video)
Donald Trump Faces Republican Attacks In Mulling Presidential Run
Santorum Is Middle of the Road on GOP Recognition, Intensity (the pack of clowns)
2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Raised Taxes in Office - The Daily Beast oversaw dozens of tax hikes as governors facing deficits,
Economic anxiety threatens Obama in 2012, but in poll he edges GOP rivals - The Washington Post ("edges" complete insanity)
Nil, Baby, Nil: Congress Fails To Pass A Single Oil Spill Law (Obama had BP's back)
Top Republicans try to scotch birther theories - The Washington Post
Paul LePage Under Fire In New Ad For 'Roll Back' Of Child Labor Laws (video) (back to the 19th Century)
Jan Brewer Faces Conservative Backlash After Vetoing GOP-Backed Bills
White House announces plans to reduce prescription drug | Reuters (they left off "abuse")
The decade the GOP hopes you've forgotten - War Room - Salon.com It wasn't that long ago that America solved a debt crisis by (gasp) ... raising taxes on the rich
The Contradictions Never Change « The Rational Middle

Obama Officials Privately Asked S&P Not To Lower U.S. Credit Outlook: Report (China doesn't have this problem)
Financial System Riskier, Next Bailout Will Be Costlier, S&P Says - "Systemic risk is greater now," (hear that? "next bailout")
Yglesias » The Right Bailing The Left Out On Spending (very serious people having very serious conversations)
Federal "Debt" Means Absolutely Nothing to Most People Barack Obama's approval rating has more to do with joblessness and perceptions of economic improvement than it does with "the deficit," which to most Americans, is a complete abstraction (and "jobs" are a complete abstraction to Republicans and elite beltway pundits)

Cooling with heat - physicsworld.com A quantum system can be cooled with a blast of hot incoherent light.
Some alien planets may be like Saturn's moon Titan | MNN - Mother Nature Network Titan's liquid methane surface has scientists wondering if it couldn't support alien life, much like water supports life on Earth.

Just A Smack On The Ass: A Tale Of Sexual Assault, Vengeance And Nervous Swearing » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
"Where Do Babies Come From?" Interactive Map (adoption around the world)

THE GAGA SAGA « AL'S BLOG (Bad Gaga! Bad! +Weird Al is so cool)
YouTube - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Perform This Way (exercises his fair-use rights and releases bad gaga's vid +WA was going to donate -all- proceeds to the HRC)
YouTube - Zheng Lab - Bad Project (Lady Gaga parody)
YouTube - Lady Gaga: Bad Romance parody (feat. Lord Gaga) #6
YouTube - VenetianPrincess's Channel (what happens to fair use when you don't have lawyers)
YouTube - VenetianPrincess's Channel
YouTube - Weird Al's "Yoda" (live on The Tonight Show)
YouTube - "Weird A"l Yankovic - Evolution of the Yoda Chant - 1991-2010
YouTube - Kinks - Lola (Live)
YouTube - Lola-The Kinks #5.*Top Of The Pops-70s*
YouTube - Nothing More To Talk About
YouTube - Big Clown Pants (DJ Dark Intensity Remix) by Julie Brown
Pruned: Atomic Gardens (your government seriously did this)
ulkacurl (pinups and the photographs that inspired them)
Tornado Steals Guy's Hamburger Video


Kindle vs. Nook - CNET Prizefight - CNET.com
Amazon Media Room: News Release - Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books
In The Know: Should The Nation's Unemployed Be Buying New Apple Computers? | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | Onion News Network Panelists discuss how owning a top-of-the-line MacBook or an iPad 2 is actually essential to finding a new job.
Yahoo to keep personal search data for 18 months instead of three | Technology | Los Angeles Times
New Zealand passes 'three strikes' copyright law - Internet - News - ZDNet Asia Internet protests have started in New Zealand after its government passed a controversial "three strikes" filesharing bill under urgency.

041911
Syria Lifts Emergency Laws But Warns Protesters
Yemen Protesters Test Limits As Gunfire Erupts

Japan Radiation Too High For Workers Near Reactor

End Of An Era: Castro Resigns From Party Leadership And Calls For Liberalization
Iran: Dog Ownership to Be Outlawed Under Lawmakers' Plan - Yahoo! News

Obama v. Obama on signing statements - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (same as the old Bush)
Battered Soldiers, Broken Plan: Afghanistan in Video and Photos | Danger Room | Wired.com (Obama's war is a failure)

“How much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.” | TBogg (pathetic little dark soul)
Yglesias » Climate Denialism Promoter Fred Hiatt Hits American Conservatives For Embrace of Climate Denialism (speaking of dark little souls)

New Statesman - IMF head sounds alarm bells over fiscal austerity An ever-growing majority of economists, including many Nobel laureates, oppose Osborne's policies tooth and nail. (how's that austerity thing working out for you? +coming soon to America)
Avedon's other weblog The Difference Between Us and Them - "Utopia is coming; get the crap out of its way right now, you dirty fucking hippies and gun-toting tent-revivalists. Who's in charge, pilgrim? Not you." (written right before the crash; the Third Way is No Way)

Executive Pay Skyrockets 23 Percent In 2010, Top 299 CEOs Get $3.4 Billion
Factory Farms: What You Need to Know About Minnesota's Anti-Whistleblower Bill | TakePart - Inspiration to Action If a new Minnesota bill eventually becomes law, anyone caught going undercover to document animal abuses at a factory farm could be sentenced to 5 years in jail (Obama's "National Security State" spys on you, not vice-versa)

Supreme Court Casts Doubt On States' Global Warming Suit (States' Rights until they interfere with big oil/coal/gas/nukes)
Human language arose in southern Africa, first-of-its-kind analysis suggests - The Washington Post
The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science | Mother Jones How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link.
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: "Philosophy Referee Hand Signals"

Dilbert creator's ever-worsening PR crisis - Media Criticism - Salon.com When commenters on MetaFilter started ragging on a recent Wall Street Journal story by Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator and sexist jackass who last month opined that "women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently," one user, "plannedchaos," leapt to his defense.
Dilbert Creator Defends Himself Secretly, Publicly, and In Between - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire Players: Dilbert Comics Creator Scott Adams; 'Cortex', Metafilter's comment moderator, and a slew of commenters< (self-styled "certified genius")
Dilbert Creator: It's Your Fault I Pretended to Be My Own Fan on Message Boards

First Tornado Forecast Historical Events - Description Of Historical Events - Relating To Tornado Forecasting In The Late 1940s And Early 1950s.
Jim Breen's WWWJNAMES

YouTube - The KO Hip-Hop Cello-Beatbox Experience: Julie-O
YouTube - My Boyfriend Does My Makeup
YouTube - Team Ghost Riders: Monkeys Riding Dogs

Symbian was ditched – for good reason : My Nokia Blog

041811

The War In Afghanistan: How Much Are You Paying? The United States is spending more than $100 billion a year in Afghanistan, amounting to about $2 billion a week.
Howard Dean to President Obama: Get Our Troops Out of Afghanistan - The Daily Beast the Afghanistan war is not winnable, the Kabul government is corrupt, and Karzai is almost as bad on women’s rights as the Taliban.
Stanley McChrystal Cleared Of Wrongdoing In Pentagon Inquiry Into Rolling Stone Profile (they are always "cleared of wrongdoing")

Finnish election results could mean veto for Portugal’s bailout · TheJournal
On The Media: April 15, 2011
Andres Serrano's Piss Christ destroyed by Christian protesters | World news | The Guardian Intruders vandalise photo day after Christian protest • Exhibitor blames Sarkozy speech for inflaming issue

Reactor shutdowns nine months away | The Japan Times Online
Japan Raises Severity Level for Fukushima Nuclear Accident - NYTimes.com (the truth would have hurt "the public image" and panicked people)
Japan Finds Radiation in Fish - WSJ.com Japan Discovers High Radiation Levels in One Species, Stoking Environmental and Safety Concerns
Map of Evacuation Zones Around Japan Nuclear Plant - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Driving Through The Fukushima Exclusion Zone | Japan Probe
Nuclear opponents have a moral duty to get their facts straight | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk
JPquake Journalism Wall of Shame and More
News flash: I was wrong - Charlie's Diary If TEPCO can't get some of those 15 reactors back on stream by June, and if Tokyo experiences a heat wave this summer (as happens every few of years), then going by previous incidents (like the heat emergency in Paris in 2003 that killed 3000 people) the deaths from heat stroke, among the other-75s may rival the direct fatalities from the earthquake and tsunami combined.

The Washington Monthly - Gang Of Six 'Very Close' To An Agreement, Intends To 'Make Everybody Mad'
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes (for instance: Data from the Tax Foundation show that in 2008, the average income for the bottom half of taxpayers was $15,300 - they don't make enough to pay taxes, duh +good summary)
Cost Of Tax Cuts For America's Rich Exceeds Value Of Budget Cuts (call the teabaggers, oh wait)
ThinkProgress » REPORT: In 12 Years, Income For Richest 400 Americans Quadruples, Tax Rate Nearly Halved (the pillaging of America)
ThinkProgress » FLASHBACK: Ronald Reagan Raised Corporate Taxes To Force Tax Dodgers To ‘Pay Their Fair Share’
The Top 10 Tax Breaks -- And How They Help The Wealthy The Most
Douthat Makes It Up On Median Family Income | Beat the Press (Republican Chunky Bobo makes up his own facts, NYT could care less)
High-Speed Rail on PRI's The Takeaway - Translogic (Republicans hate trains and infrastructure in general)
Davis: IBM bullies the state of Vermont, again : VTDigger IBM is Vermont’s largest private sector employer.
Balloon Juice » Grifters will always find each other ... Word leaked out over the weekend that Donald Trump has interviewed Ralph Reed for the job as his campaign manager as the hair piece plans a run for the White House. It is a grifter match made in the bowels of hell—and almost perfect in its contempt for voters and America.
Arizona gov. vetoes presidential 'birther' bill - Yahoo! News Opponents had warned the bill would give another black eye to Arizona after last year's controversy over the state's illegal immigration enforcement law.

Standard & Poor’s Puts ‘Negative’ Outlook on U.S. AAA - Bloomberg

'We've all been taught that this doesn't happen' | Michigan Today A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells - he researchers found a way to make an "optical battery"
Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic (Today's Most Popular)

Judge blasts Govt opposition to Medical Marijuana (sadistic control-freaks)
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space: The USA as a gasoline monoculture

Dead alien found in UFO hotspot in Russia | ZuZu Top
Farewell Good Brothers | Robert Stone Productions

The New York Apartment - A History of Vertical Living -- New York Magazine
Dayton Boots Still Rugged | The Inspiration Room
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR
Gloom82's deviantART Gallery
YouTube - Cathy's House - Wonderful day
YouTube - Rostropovich Bach Cello Suite No.1 Prelude
iPhone 4 About To Be Flickr’s Top Camera. Point & Shoots? Pretty Much The Opposite.

Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project - The LibreOffice escape from Oracle is a powerful demonstration of how open source forking can be used to protect community autonomy and lock out exploitative stakeholders (that would be Larry)
PS3 hacker George Hotz donates $10,000 to EFF, mocks Sony The PS3 got OWNED," Hotz wrote. "'Once the code works they'll never be able to take it away from us.'"

041711
Libyan families flee Gaddafi forces in Ajdabiya as civilian death toll rises | World news | The Guardian Six more killed and dozens injured in Misrata, as rebels face renewed attacks from government troops

Japan Nuclear Crisis: Fukushima Plant Operator Announces Plan To End Crisis

Two teens from West Bank village arrested over Itamar massacre - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Five members of Fogel family - parents and three young children - were brutally stabbed to death in their home on the settlement of Itamar last month
New breed of gagging order could send journalists to jail, MP claims | Media | The Guardian Lib Dem MP John Hemmings fears reporters could face imprisonment simply for asking questions, creating a 'recipe for hiding miscarriages of justice' - superinjunctions and hyperinjunctions
Bahrain told to respect students' right to protest by UK government | World news | The Guardian Foreign Office issues call following Bahraini targetting of participants in peaceful protest outside BBC in Manchester

TIME: Fareed Zakaria Are America's Best Days Behind Us? (Republicans have killed America)
The constitution: Constitutionally rotten | The Economist
Constructing America: In defence of the constitution | The Economist
Sentenced to "Hell": Use of SAMs and Informants in the Case of Syed Fahad Hashmi | MyFDL (here's some rot for you, right at the top)

The Pirates of Capitol Hill - NYTimes.com - Charles Blow (the other only one picture you need to see: tax cuts kill GDP, go Republicans)

Let’s Not Be Civil - NYTimes.com (only Republicans allowed to be "partisan" +"lietanks")
The Market in Old People | Firedoglake The latest Republican PR creation, the Brilliant Seriousness of Paul Ryan, wants to abolish Medicare and replace it with markets for insurance for old people (including the ones with dementia who are really good shoppers)
Emergency Financial Manger Fires Entire Government of Benton Harbor, MI | AlterNet - The voters are now denied the ability to be governed by the people they elected in a democratic election ... Benton Harbor is 92.4% African American with an annual median household income of $17,471 with 42.6% of the population below the poverty line. (end of democracy for you)
Emergency manager law no mistake | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Gov. Scott Walker Reportedly Planning Financial Martial Law In Wisconsin - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes (may have to confiscate your paycheck)
Wisconsin Union Law Challenge Dismissed By Judge While Additional Lawsuits Remain Pending
Marilyn Davenport Allegedly Sent Email With Altered Photo Depicting Obama As An Ape - Davenport, a tea party activist, represents the 72nd Assembly District in Orange County on the central committee (racist Rethugs at work)
Arizona Plows Controversial Ground With Birther Bill ... and made it illegal to create "human-animal" hybrids by fertilizing human eggs with nonhuman sperm and vice versa.
Gov. Onorato | Philly | 04/14/2011 (more buyers regret on asshole teabagger state Govs)

BBC News - World Bank president: 'One shock away from crisis' (well, Obama killed finreg, so ...)
Tim Geithner Confident Congress Will Raise Debt Ceiling: Not Doing So Would Be 'Catastrophic' (video) ("Congress"=Republicans and don't count on the party of Catastrophe)
With shelters full, homeless family sent to woods instead | WPSD Local 6 - News, Sports, Weather - Paducah KY | Local the Salvation Army has had to send families, one with three kids and a baby on the way, to live in the woods (Republican death panels)

'Fracking' Report: Carcinogens Injected Into Wells, House Democrats Say (call Joe "Fracking" Nocera)
Millions of Gallons of Hazardous Chemicals Injected Into Wells, Report Says - NYTimes.com (someone call Joe ... oh wait)

Where does good come from? - The Boston Globe
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality - Powered by Google Docs
Inclusive Fitness: Return to the Wrestling Ring | The Loom | Discover Magazine
A misguided attack on kin selection - Jerry Coyne - WEIT - RichardDawkins.net
Lost in Transcription: Kin Selection: Nowak vs the world ("we are three important scientists who do important science")
Lost in Transcription: Important Harvard Scientists Attack Kin Selection: Context

Questions over Greg Mortenson's stories - 60 Minutes - CBS News He has written inspiring best sellers, including "Three Cups of Tea," but are the stories all true?
Watch NYPD Crackdown on Sidewalk Biker Lead to an Arrest -- Daily Intel (Bloomberg's StormTroopers)
A Verbal Exchange with an Officer Does Not Justify an Arrest, Says New York Civil Rights Violation Lawyer, David Perecman - U.S. Politics Today - News Media Monitoring

Madonna's Kabbalah Disaster in Malawi - Newsweek The star's much-lauded effort to help girls in the African nation of Malawi blew up. Is Kabbalah to blame? .. To understand what went wrong, one has to look at Madonna’s partner in the foundation, a mysterious and controversial organization called the Kabbalah Centre International, which is now a focus of federal investigators (scam; bad girl!)

'A chance . . . to save this great treasure' | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/17/2011 The orchestra figures it needs to raise about $160 million - a good portion of it quickly (cut managements' salaries instead of the workers)
Lady Gaga: 'Judas' Leaks (listen) The suggestive lyrics have angered some, including The Catholic League, though, it should be noted, the organization hadn't heard the song or seen the preview clip of the video before issuing a complaint.
YouTube - Opening Ceremony Blog - Spike Jonze Presents: Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma
Bad Romance Novels

Stuxnet Computer Worm: Iran Blames U.S., Israel (which everyone knew)
Google Video Prepares To Enter The Deadpool For Good

041611
NATO runs short on some munitions in Libya - The Washington Post (Republicans slashed their budget)
Libyan Rebels Reportedly Reach Brega, A Strategic Oil Town

Suicide Bomber Reportedly Kills 5 NATO Troops, 4 Afghan Soldiers
Howard Steven Friedman: 10 Largest Economies in the World

Southern Tornadoes Rip Through Region, At Least 16 Dead

Obama Job Approval at 41%, Tying His Low - here's the bounce - President Carebear's poll numbers have dropped to a new low, 41%, even after his speech. He's losing independents now.
Civility is the Last Refuge of Scoundrels - NYTimes.com President Obama did a bad thing by calling cruel nonsense cruel nonsense; he hurt Republican feelings, and how can we have a deal when the GOP is feeling insulted? What we need is personal outreach; let’s do lunch! (oooh, slams Brooks)
Colbert Agrees With Gretchen Carlson: Obama Needs Charts & Graphs (VIDEO)
YouTube - Speechless - Joe Crowley on Republicans trashing the country
Big PAC Money Flows To New Republican House Chairmen
NationalJournal.com - Another Poll Confirms Trump as Republican Frontrunner - Saturday, April 16, 2011 (we can hope)
alicublog - Unmitigated Galt. Whatever understandable prejudice you might have against Ayn Rand, you have to admit that the giant concrete block of her novel on which Atlas Shrugged: Part I is based could make a movie of some sort (but not this one)
Atlas Shrugged :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews And now I am faced with this movie, the most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone’s vault (Librals hatin' on American values)

EdCone.com: Fracking Nocera Nocera, fresh to the big stage of the oped page, responds to legitimate questions about a recent column by throwing a hissy fit (Joe "Frackin' Nocera: used to being their conflict-of-interest-ridden Business pages guy, can't take the heat)
At State Level, G.O.P. Seeks Big Environmental Cutbacks - NYTimes.com (frack, baby, frack, while Republicans kill your environment and poison your water)
Scott lawyer admits he misled high court on rail | Post on Politics (a teabagger Gov lied?)

Prof. Brad Scharlott - Palin, the Press, and the Fake Pregnancy Rumor (did our elite press shut the story down?)
Professor’s research ruffles former Palin spokesman | The Northerner (threatens violence, which is a sure sign of ... )
Professor: Former Palin flack illustrates birth hoax media theory | Alaska Dispatch (will Arizona require DNA?)

Borders Group Awards Executives Millions for Putting 6,000 Out of Work (incompetent CEO and execs ruin business, get huge bonuses for their performance)

Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa
What Africa's Click Tongues Tell of Our Origins | The Root Some southern Africans use 150 different sounds -- compared with 44 in English. Here's more proof that humanity originated in Africa

When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine Every generation brings a new definition of masculinity and femininity that manifests itself in children’s dress (around WWI and even then pink didn't start making boys gay until 1970)
A Mother’s Prayer for Its Child By Tina Fey | Write In Color
Miu Miu cleared of using ‘too skinny’ model in advertising campaign - Telegraph Model's 'underweight' appearance due to lighting, make-up and low-cut dress rules the Advertising Standards Authority.

Dilbert Creator Pretends to Be His Own Biggest Fan on Message Boards (seems to have Asbergers or is drunk)
Dilbert Creator Caught Defending Himself Anonymously on Popular Online Discussion Board - The Hollywood Reporter
overview for plannedchaos (and professional sock-puppet)
Twitter: Awesome links, excellently moderated discussion. My favorite community of balanced, reasoned debate is www.metafilter.com

T-Mobile's Royal Wedding Entrance Video Goes Viral (video)
Viddler.com - Kitteh vs. Water - Uploaded by cheezburger
YouTube - LEGO GBC 20 modules
YouTube - Crazy Chinese Poles INSANITY
YouTube - The Mountain
w67JK.jpg - Who Killed More in the Bible?

New arrest over Anonymous' pro-WikiLeaks attacks - Telegraph Police have made a sixth arrest in their investigation of Anonymous, the online activist collective that launched a series of cyber attacks on major firms it saw as anti-WikiLeaks.
Welcome to the missionary church of kopimism
Internet gambling sites owners charged with fraud | Reuters (Obama hates poker players too)
Facebook Brand Pages Struggle With XXX Posts

041511
Libya: Gaddafi forces 'using cluster bombs in Misrata' | World news | The Guardian Human Rights Watch say Gaddafi's army has fired the weapons, which cause massive damage and are banned in most states (sold to him by whom?)

Judge orders phone hacking test cases as victims press on with claims | UK news | The Guardian Fears of litigation tying up courts, with 20 lawsuits against News of the World under way and at least 20 more expected
91 victims and rising: Met police admit scale of phone hacking | Media | The Guardian High court proposes four test case hearings as Sienna Miller offered £100,000 to settle
Suits Against News Of The World Can Go Forward, Judge Rules (Murdoch)
Ian Tomlinson died of fall injuries from push by PC, says pathologist | UK news | The Guardian Nat Cary's statement at inquest into G20 protest death contradicts findings of another specialist

Indonesia Mosque Bomb Kills Dozens
Vittorio Arrigoni, Kidnapped Italian Activist, Found Dead In Gaza It was the first such kidnap-slaying of a foreigner in the Gaza Strip since the militant group Hamas took power in the tiny Mediterranean coastal territory in 2007.
Yemen Protests For And Against President Rock Nation
Syria Protests Draw Thousands Chanting For Freedom
Croatian generals jailed for war crimes against Serbs | Law | The Guardian Fury in Croatia as national hero Ante Gotovina is one of those convicted at The Hague for state-sponsored ethnic cleansing
Roger Vangheluwe, Child-Abusing Former Belgian Bishop, Reveals All In Shocking New Book the prime minister, senior clergy and a prosecutor expressing shock at the way the ex-prelate made light of his offenses (just a little light pedophilia, no "rough sex")

Top Marginal Income, Corporate Tax Rates: 1916-2010 [chart] (the whole story in one picture +the moronization of America)
Your 2010 Federal Taxpayer Receipt | The White House

Paul Ryan Budget Proposal Passes House Vote Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare for future beneficiaries
Polls Show Opposition To Medicare Cuts, Uncertainty About Ryan Budget (Republicans just threw 76% of the country under the bus)
DCCC chair Steve Israel: Vote today on Paul Ryan proposal will cost GOP the House - The Plum Line - The Washington Post House vote today that’s expected to pass Paul Ryan’s proposal to end Medicare as we know it will be looked back on as the day the GOP lost the House ... “The choice I hope our members talk about at home is a budget that gives you a $100,000 tax cut if you earn over $1 million a year, and a $12,000 cost increase if you’re a senior on Medicare. That contrast is very compelling.”
No-tax-hike pledge creates Republican rift, potential roadblock to deficit deal - The Washington Post
House Democrats Punk Republicans On Budget Vote (VIDEO) n the end, only 119 of the 176 RSC Members voted for their own budget proposal
Editorial: GOP's Medicare plan would hurt elderly, states - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee
Republicans Deny Their Vote for Ryan Budget Plan Has Political Risks
Fact-esque: Socialism - It's Not Just For Crackpots Any More (Obama needs a challenge from the left)
Brooks Bemoans the Lack of a Free Lunch for Representative Ryan | Beat the Press (Brooks is really an idiot; only cares about his social calendar)
Arizona Birther Bill Is Unconstitutional, Legal Scholars Say - “It wouldn’t hold up for a nanosecond,” said Laurence Tribe ... if the candidate failed to sway the secretary of state, his or her name could be barred ... the bill is just one more attempt to placate the state’s radical right-wing conservatives at the expense of serious legislative action.
Chris Matthews: Fox News Is A 'Roach Motel' For GOP Candidates

Jon Kyl Now Says He 'Misspoke' On Planned Parenthood So Everyone Should Please Stop Making Fun Of Him
Kirsten Gillibrand Takes Shot At Jon Kyl With 'Factual Statements'
Watch Stephen Colbert's Defense of Planned Parenthood
Stephen Colbert's 'not factual' hashtagging – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Not Intended To Be A Factual Statement | Know Your Meme
Daily Kos: Kyl revises Congressional Record to omit 'well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does' is abortion Taking advantage of the senate prerogative to "revise and extend their remarks," Kyl scrubbed the blatant lie he told about Planned Parenthood, leaving that much more benign quote to be enshrined forevermore in the Congressional Record. Sadly for Mr. Kyl, that senate privilege doesn't extend to YouTube:
#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement - Twitter Search

Scott Walker admits he didn’t campaign on rollback of bargaining rights - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (didn't intend his statements to be "factually true")
PolitiFact Wisconsin | Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he campaigned on his budget repair plan, including curtailing collective bargaining
David Prosser Projected Winner, JoAnne Kloppenburg Defeated In Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
Joe Arpaio's Office Accused Of Misspending Nearly $100 Million - inappropriately spent $99 million from two jail funds over the last eight years to pay for other law enforcement operations – including immigration patrols. (Republican crooks at work)
Woman who attempted suicide while pregnant is accused of murder | World news | The Guardian Prosecution would be a 'significant step' towards abortion being outlawed, says lawyer for pregnant women's group (Indiana)

Who’s Serious Now? - NYTimes.com - Krugman - the man who proposes using budget deficits as an excuse to cut taxes on the rich accused the president of being “partisan. (Ryan's "plan" a sick joke; quote from John Cole, too)
The second worst idea in Washington - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post Saying “America has a spending problem” is saying “I don’t understand the budget and don’t want to learn anything further about it.” We have a health-care costs problem, an aging problem and a taxing problem. But a spending cap has nothing to say about any of these problems.
Goldman Sachs Ripped Off And Misled Clients, Senate Report Says (pardoned by Obama)
YouTube - Max Keiser bravely fends off the financial trolls - Ten O'clock live ("hang them")
What Does It Take for a Female Tycoon to Get Noticed Around Here?
The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com
Don't bet on the joys of pokies - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Emails expose BP's attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill | Environment | guardian.co.uk Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials discussing how to influence the work of scientists

Staph Bacteria Found in Half of U.S. Meat - Slashfood
Scientists Unveil Atlas of the Brain - WSJ.com
New Scientist TV: How a magnet can turn off speech
Is Sugar Toxic? - NYTimes.com

Modern Love - Want to Be My Boyfriend? Please Define - NYTimes.com
Rent the country of Liechtenstein from Airbnb for only $70,000 a night | Geek.com
How Ayn Rand ruined my childhood - Real Families - Salon.com My dad saw objectivism as a logical philosophy to live by, but it tore my family apart
Conservative Media vs. J. CREW: The Battle of the Pink Toenails - She Negotiates - And changes everything... - Forbes
J.CREW Pushes Transgendered Child Propaganda Women's clothing company highlights pink nail-polish wearing boy in promotional email ("Women's clothing company" ...)
Gay Rights Petition: Thank J. Crew for its heartwarming "pink toenail polish" ad | Change.org
Toemageddon 2011 - This Little Piggy Went to Hell - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/13/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
My son is gay « Nerdy Apple Bottom
Progressive Parents Refuse To Tell Child Its Sex | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Carolyn Wonderland and Whitney Brown - Vows - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Carolyn singing her vows
Life Size Dinosaur Puppet Scares Children at Elementary School

YouTube - Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells live - Part 1
YouTube - Tubular Bells by the Brooklyn Organ Synth Orchestra
Songs of Songs - by Jody Rosen and Ari Y. Kelman > Tablet Magazine - A New Read on Jewish Life
YouTube - (Minecraft/C418) Sweden - Classical guitar - Salomon Jakobsson
YouTube - Look At Me Now - Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes (Cover by Karmin)
YouTube - Love Will Keep Us Together / Captain & Tennille

YouTube - Nyan Cat [original]
Encyclopedia Dramatica Becomes OhInternet | Geekosystem
Mediafire links (download and torrent) of Encyclopedia Dramatica backup! : 4chan


041411
US Admits It’s Still Flying Sorties Over Libya | FDL News Desk
Nato commander of Libya mission pleads for specialised fighter jets | World news | guardian.co.uk Admiral James Stavridis says precision ground-attack jets would help minimise civilian casualties

Federal Budget Ax Hits Homeless Veterans, Spares NASCAR? - TIME

WikiLeaks Reveals that China Already Knows What WikiLeaks Reveals | Emptywheel
Manning, Obama and U.S. moral leadership - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The two-tiered justice system: an illustration - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Health of Bahrain hunger striker slumps as regime comes under pressure | World news | The Guardian Mother of Zainab al-Khawaja – a 27-year-old protesting against treatment of father – says she is struggling to stand up
Syria: 'Don't kill more than 20 protesters in one day' Syrian intelligence document details strategy to counter rebel sentiment, create links between rebels, "Zionist regime."
British tourist Lee Bradley Brown 'beaten to death' in Dubai police cell | Mail Online 'The guards tried to hush it up and pretend nothing had happened’
Thousands may sue over police kettling at G20 protests | UK news | The Guardian High court rules way in which police kettled up to 5,000 demonstrators at G20 protests in April 2009 was illegal

Budget Deal Passes House Vote that would cut almost $40 billion from the budget for the rest of the fiscal year by a vote of 260 to 167.
Comparing Republican and Obama Budget Plans - Graphic - NYTimes.com (vouchers for everyone, tax-cuts for the rich)
Just the Simple Truth | Mother Jones (Obama looks backward for the first time, but it's too late)
The Budget Speech - NYTimes.com
John Boehner: 'I’ll get there' on budget - David Rogers - politico.com
At The Local Level, Tea Party Activists' Skepticism Turns To Anger On Budget Deal (the stupid party screwing themselves)
DC’s deficit frenzy - TheHill.com Nothing else matters at this point — not anemic economic growth, not sustained, shockingly high unemployment, not a Middle East uprising of world-changing consequence — not even an epic nuclear catastrophe.
Spending Bill Passes House Despite Mass Republican Defections From Boehner | TPMDC
Federal Budget Ax Hits Homeless Veterans, Spares NASCAR? - Time (cut $75mil from Veterans Aid, give $28mil to NASCAR!)
Senators Try To Bar Military Funeral Protests By Westboro Baptist Church Drawn up by Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the Sanctity of Eternal Rest for Veterans Act -- or SERVE Act (the SC already kiboshed this plan)
Rush: Obama's Base Are "Walking Human Debris" Who Get "Orgasm" From "Savag[ing] Us" Since They "Can't Find Willing Mates" | Media Matters for America (psycho hate-radio)
ThinkProgress » Texas GOP Rep. Introduces Sharia Ban Because He Heard Sharia Is A Threat On The Radio, Asks ‘Isn’t That True?’
GOP Rep. Broun: FDR Was A Communist (video) | TPMDC (no craziness too far)
Jon Stewart Impersonates Trump's Hawaii Birther Investigators (video) | TPM LiveWire
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: AZ Birther Law Requires Candidates "To Describe Penis" | Crooks and Liars (if you're circumcised, you're a patriotic American, or something +does Jan Brewer have a dick?)
ThinkProgress » Texas GOP Rep. Introduces Sharia Ban Because He Heard Sharia Is A Threat On The Radio, Asks ‘Isn’t That True?’ (wants to bomb Dearborn MI; they get paid for being stupid)

Financial Crisis With Few Prosecutions - NYTimes.com (all of Obama's bankster buddies not only walk, but collect billions in rewards for their crimes)
Report: 27 Million Adults in America Not Working | FDL News Desk (jobs are so 1990's)
The Y Article - By John Norris | Foreign Policy The Pentagon's secret plan to slash its own budget.
MacroMania: Out of thin air?
SEC Delays Corporate Anti-Corruption Measure

Radio New Zealand National : Lectures & Forums : The Galileo Lectures
Soviet Space Propaganda: Doctored Cosmonaut Photos | Wired Science | Wired.com

Shareable: The 13 Best U.S. Cities for Public Transit (Philly left off the list for some impenetrable rason)
The New American Dream: Denser, Smaller, Closer, But Still Private - Richard Florida - Business - The Atlantic (or else extended-range personal mobility scooters for the geezers)

The Truth About Race, Religion, And The Honor Code At BYU (minorities selectively enforced)
BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes | Religion Dispatches
RANT: VegNews is putting the MEAT into vegan issues | quarrygirl.com

San Francisco Man Catches Fire In Porn Shop "police said the man had been watching videos in a private booth when the blaze erupted." (hot videos)
Erica Manfred: Does Adultery Matter When the Kids Are Grown? A year ago, Cynthia Shackelford, a 62-year-old North Carolina wife won an "alienation of affection" case against her husband's mistress (she stole her "property")

New Zealand Government Puts Onus on File Sharers to Prove Their Innocence - Bloomberg

041311
Libya contact group discusses funds for opposition | World news | guardian.co.uk Doha summit considers international fund for rebels in eastern Libya, as William Hague repeats call for Muammar Gaddafi to go

Flawed earthquake predictions gave Fukushima a false sense of security | Science | guardian.co.uk Japanese put their faith in a system that has consistently failed to predict the risk of major earthquakes, says scientist
Japan Nuclear Plant Evacuees Slam Plant Operator
Japan's Other Nuclear Disaster - Forbes.com At the nuke dump in Rokkasho, a nation's hunger for power has spawned a financial catastrophe.

Ivory Coast settles into tentative peace following arrest of Laurent Gbagbo | World news | The Guardian Abidjan residents begin to return to normal life days after capture of rogue leader, amid reports of continued violence in Yopougon
Hosni Mubarak's sons detained as Egypt's search for justice begins | World news | The Guardian Ex-president also formally held in Sharm el-Sheikh hospital under suspicion of corruption
Yemen violence intensifies as military skirmish leaves six dead | World news | The Guardian Showdown looms in Sana'a after troops devoted to President Saleh clash with forces loyal to General Ali Mohsin
Silvio Berlusconi names justice minister Angelino Alfano as likely successor | World news | The Guardian Italian PM says he won't stand in 2013 and tips minister who steered through parliament a bill that could halt his bribery trial (new royal family)
News of the World phone hacking: John Whittingdale seeks public inquiry | Media | guardian.co.uk Press Complaints Commission not up to the job, says chairman of Commons culture, media and sport select committee - "some kind of commission or inquiry" into why a series of investigations by Scotland Yard failed to link any News International employees to phone hacking other than the News of the World's former royal editor, Clive Goodman (hello? it's obvious)
New Statesman - The bugger, bugged - Hugh Grant gets the scoop
France may make it illegal to pay for sex | World news | The Guardian MPs have recommended criminalising clients of sex workers, saying 80% of prostitutes are victims of slavery and trafficking
YouTube - President of Czech Republic steals pen (Václav Klaus krade pero v Chile)
Video: Klaus pen grab hits 1.5 million views | The Prague Post Blogs
shit harper did

Bradley Manning needs consular visit, mother tells William Hague | World news | The Guardian Susan Manning calls on British foreign secretary to check her son's physical and mental health in maximum security custody

Obama proposes $4tn spending cuts to tackle deficit | World news | The Guardian President's 12-year plan to reduce budget deficit includes curbs on defence spending and Medicare reforms (he knows the miliary is untouchable, so ...)
Key from the speech: What’s in Obama’s deficit reduction plan? - Yahoo! News
Obama Debt Reduction Plan To Be Outlined In Wednesday Speech (Simpson-Bowles now the far-left "bargaining" position)
Gridlock Could Eventually Shrink Deficit - NYTimes.com (let Bush tax cuts expire, cut the deficit! ... oh wait)
John Boehner, House Republicans Vehemently Opposing Tax Hikes (that's how serious they are about the deficit they created with tax cuts and wars )
YouTube - Rep. Weiner Calls Out Republicans For Hypocrisy On Medicare
YouTube - Rep. Gingrey promises GOP will make "covenant with Moses" signed in blood not to raise taxes on rich (you're doing it wrong, Christian dude)
Inhofe "Scared The Crap Out Of" Airport Workers | The Smoking Gun FAA tapes: Senator intentionally landed plane on closed runway (Senators are like God)
Poll: Plurality Of Voters Displeased With GOP House Majority, View Party As 'Extremist' | TPMDC (Republicans: too extreme for America?)
Labor Battles Heat Up In Florida Against Gov. Rick Scott Garrett Lamp is a lifelong Republican. As a firefighter with the Orlando Fire Department, he voted for Jeb Bush for governor and even worked on a few political campaigns (cops and firefighters realizing they've screwed themselves by voting racial/social issues/Republican for years)

Ryan Budget Plan Produces Far Less Real Deficit Cutting than Reported — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Plan’s $4.3 Trillion in Program Cuts, Offset by $4.2 Trillion in Tax Cuts, Yield Just $155 Billion in Deficit Reduction (it was never about any "deficit" but always about tax cuts for the rich)
G.D.P. Estimate for First Quarter Slides - NYTimes.com But economic reports coming in over the last few months have been increasingly disappointing (your "recovery" at work)

AP falls for hoax: General Electric is not donating $3.2 billion to the U.S. Treasury | The Raw Story (Yes Men strike again)
Jamie Dimon’s Shareholder Letter: Word Parsing Fun! - Deal Journal - WSJ Dimon’s letter is so long, 33 pages, that it requires its own table of contents. It’s almost as though Dimon just can’t help himself.
In Elaborate Prank, Oregon Lawmakers 'Rickroll' The State Legislature | TPMMuckraker

The Real Housewives of Wall Street | Rolling Stone Politics Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?
How Are Ordinary People Responding to Higher Gas Prices? The Post Asks Someone With An Au Pair from France | Beat the Press (the standard for being considered "ordinary" has been raised)
Balloon Juice » I Can’t Believe This Shit is Even Controversial As if any more proof was needed about how screwed up this nation is when it comes to guns, this will somehow be portrayed as controversial or hard-hitting:
Ronnie Polaneczky: If you think 11-year-olds in this city don't need condoms, think again | Philadelphia Daily News | 04/13/2011 (oh, the outrage that kids are actually having sex; take away their condoms to stop them!)
Hedge Fund Gamblers Earn the Same In One Hour As a Middle-Class Household Makes In Over 47 Years | | AlterNet
Trump: The Least Charitable Billionaire | The Smoking Gun The Donald is a miser, not an “ardent philanthropist.” (+he has a raccoon on his head)
The Story of One Man's Immigration Ordeal - Newsweek (war on terror is self-defeating)

Electric Yellowstone: Conductivity image hints supervolcano plume is bigger than thought (early warning)
Why Do Older People Sleep and Wake Earlier? The Answer Could Lie in their Blood | LiveScience Hormones that circulate in the blood could explain why older people have different sleep patterns than younger people, a new study suggests.
Row Over Carbon Tax | Climate Change The Australian public keeps changing its mind on climate change. No wonder our leaders don't know where to step.
The Associated Press: Iceland's penis museum finally gets human specimen

Catholic Bishops’ Attack on Book Concerns Scholars - NYTimes.com (patriachy forevar)
School's food is the only option for some kids - chicagotribune.com To encourage healthful eating, Chicago school doesn't allow kids to bring lunches or certain snacks from home — and some parents, and many students, aren't fans of the policy
How to Get a Real Education at College - WSJ.com Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says Scott Adams.
Walking Randomly » Are graphical calculators pointless?
SpaceTime - Scientific computing in the palm of your hand
xkcd: 1996

Manwich - Hair - (2011) :15 (Canada) commercials | adland.tv
YouTube - MHL - New Product
What’s Wrong With Being a “Man”? » Sociological Images

Huffington Post lawsuit: The bloggers' class action against Arianna's site is pure bunk. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
what is says on the tin
The Volokh Conspiracy » Commenters — Please Don’t Sue Us for Shamelessly Exploiting You
Sidney Harman Dead: Newsweek Owner Dies At 92 the entrepreneur and philanthropist who purchased Newsweek last year and recently merged it with The Daily Beast, died Tuesday night of complications from acute myeloid leukemia. He was 92.
Court Strikes Down Marijuana Laws, Gives Government 90 Days To Fix Charter Issues | Whyprohibition.ca
Crime Mapping - Building Safer Communities!

How To Get A Guy To Notice You While You're Having Sex With Him | The Onion
Watch: 700 kids in rural Chongqing dance to Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" - Shanghaiist
YouTube - Psicologia inversa en su estado mas puro
Cats in the Sea Services | U.S. Naval Institute

Law to fight internet piracy rushed through | Stuff.co.nz (NZ, using "emergency powers" to fight file-sharing)
Law enforcement agencies vacuum up data online, lack reporting procedures (Obama's spy-state)
15 Tools For Finding a Perfect Domain Name

041211
Lockerbie families attack UK over Moussa Koussa travel plans | UK news | guardian.co.uk British government accused of betrayal over decision to allow Libya's former foreign minister to attend Doha conference
William Hague says Nato must increase efforts to destroy Gaddafi weapons | World news | guardian.co.uk Any viable peaceful future for Libya means Gaddafi must go, says foreign secretary
Alassane Ouattara heralds 'dawn of new hope' | World news | guardian.co.uk vory Coast president-elect calls on fighters to lay down their arms and promises dignified treatment for Laurent Gbagbo

Japan upgrades nuclear crisis to same level as Chernobyl | World news | guardian.co.uk Nuclear and industrial safety agency raises severity rating to maximum on international nuclear and radiological event scale
Japan Nuclear Crisis: Officials Raise Crisis To Highest Severity Level, 7, On Par With Chernobyl
Japan Hit By Second Major Aftershock In A Day
Wie viele Menschen leben im direkten Umkreis von US-Atomkraftwerken? | Zeit Online (exclusion zones for US atomkraftwerken)

Predator Drone Mistakenly Kills 2 U.S. Servicemen: Report (collateral damage)
Egypt blogger 'jailed for criticising military' - Yahoo! News (back to the old boss)
Mexico Mass Grave Complex Reveals 88 Bodies (victims of American prohibition)
Police 'asked pathologist if Tomlinson's injuries were consistent with strike' | UK news | guardian.co.uk Dr Freddy Patel tells inquest he was asked by police at the postmortem to rule out any assault or crush injuries (Murdoch's cops at work)
YouTube - Niqab ban in France : she takes off her niqab live (sort of like hacking the Times paywall)

U.N. diplomat is denied private meeting with WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning - The Washington Post (china was right)
Bradley Manning - The 2011 TIME 100 Poll - TIME

Obama, Van Hollen Back Bowles-Simpson As Counterpoint To Right-Wing GOP Budget | TPMDC (appoint far-right "deficit commission," use it as a middle-ground with Rethugs)
Inside The Budget Deal: Vulnerable Populations Targeted, But Family Planning Saved
Moby "The Day" Video: MoveOn Teams With Artist To Bash Spending Cuts - a broadside against the Obama-GOP budget (as it's now known)
2011 budget cuts now on the table - Apr. 12, 2011 (bankers kill you and take your money with Obama's help)
Wonkbook: Obama to back Simpson-Bowles - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (Obama triangulating with himself, again, we're doomed)
Dennis Kucinich identifies next U.S. target for Democracy building (your fuckin wars, dude)
Economy Faces Test With End Of QE2, Rising Oil Prices, Debt Limit Fight
Inside The Budget Deal: Vulnerable Populations Targeted, But Family Planning Saved (Obama targets poor people)
Pelosi: Dems shouldn’t take GOP’s bait on Medicare - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
YouTube - The Real Romney?
Haley Barbour's 2012 Ambitions Could Be Complicated By Lobbying Past (all the Repubs have "complicated" pasts)
Trump's Polls: A Reality Check (yes, he's the front-runner)
Senate Control Hangs in the Balance : Roll Call Politics Democrats have 23 seats to defend this cycle as the party clings to a three-seat Senate majority (House, Senate and Obama will be controlled by GOP)
Mayor Gray, Councilmembers Arrested During Autonomy Protest: DCist
DC For Obama Furious Over Budget Deal (Obama throws more of his few remaining supporters under the bus)
Measure to Strip Corporations of Constitutional Rights Gains Steam in Wisconsin
Tammy Baldwin Asks Eric Holder To Investigate Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
William Schneider: Maine Mural Removal Is 'Government Speech' (everyone's doing it now)

15 Facts About U.S. Income Inequality That Everyone Should Know (charts)
Fox Still Pushing Falsehood That Half Of Americans Are "Not Paying Taxes" | Media Matters for America
The Washington Post's dependence on the government it covers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Inflammation and Its Discontents: The Role of Cytokines in the Pathophysiology of Major Depression
Can alcohol help the brain remember? Repeated ethanol exposure enhances synaptic plasticity in key brain area, study finds
Previous Ethanol Experience Enhances Synaptic Plasticity of NMDA Receptors in the Ventral Tegmental Area
Voodoo Wasps and Zombie Worms | Frank Swain | Science | guardian.co.uk Should we be concerned that around 40% of the human race is infected with T. gondii? - The evidence is that T. gondii can't exert the same level of control over humans that it has over rats. It has the right tools, but it doesn't quite know how this particular model works.

Case of U-Va. lacrosse player Love’s death advances to grand jury - The Washington Post Huguely responded that he did not believe the police and added: “There is nothing I did to her last night that could have killed her,” they said.
OSS Training Film - Derailment | War Movies, Military Videos, Rare Battle Footage | Real Military Videos
guest post: the yellow plague: asians and asian americans in post-apocalyptic and zombie fictions | angry asian man

YouTube - TSA still groping kids...and drug testing them (your war on terror at work molesting your child)

Bloggers take legal action over Huffington Post sale | Media | guardian.co.uk Arianna Huffington faces $105m lawsuit from unpaid contributors over her sale of the Huffington Post to AOL

041111
Libyan revolutionary council rejects African Union's peace initiative | World news | The Guardian Rebels say deal is unacceptable because it does not require Gaddafi to step down
Laurent Gbagbo detained by Ivory Coast opposition forces | World news | The Guardian Detention by fighters loyal to Ouattara comes after more than 30 French armoured vehicles join advance on Abidjan residence

Fire seen at Fukushima nuclear plant; flames no longer visible | Energy & Oil | Reuters
Japan mulls raising nuclear crisis to top level - Channel NewsAsia Japan may raise the severity of its nuclear accident to seven - the top level on an international scale - from five, the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday, as workers battled to contain the crisis ... revealed the battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had released up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour for several hours
Too Close to Fukushima: Inside the Exclusion Zone - Photo Essays - TIME
Japan Evacuation Zone: Government Expected To Extend Evacuations Over 18 Miles
Japan Crisis Intensifies Doubts on Turning Plutonium Into Mox Fuel - NYTimes.com
Despite Massive Leaks That Pollute Groundwater, Nuclear Agency Has Never Fined Violator
How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation | Helen Caldicott | Environment | guardian.co.uk George Monbiot and others at best misinform and at worst distort evidence of the dangers of atomic energy
Economist Debates: Nuclear power: Guest

Secretary Clinton Releases Annual Human Rights Report | U.S. Department of State Blog
Tragedy of errors - latimes.com
Media Diary Blog | The Australian
Israel warns Iron Dome still at experimental stage | World news | The Guardian Anti-missile system hailed as a 'technical revolution' has recently shot down nine rockets but failed to stop 11 others, says army (more of a tin dome; built with US taxpayer dollars)
Cuba denounces acquittal of former CIA agent Luis Posada as a farce | World news | The Guardian US accused of protecting a known terrorist after jury clears anti-communist agent of all 11 charges against him
France Burqa Ban Takes Effect; Two Women Detained
Sex trafficking victim wins substantial damages from Home Office | UK news | The Guardian Moldovan woman who was sent back home where she was at risk from her traffickers wins 'groundbreaking' settlement
Rebekah Brooks: I have no knowledge of actual payments to police | Media | guardian.co.uk News International chief clarifies 2003 statement that 'we have paid the police for information in the past'
Tories misinformed Parliament on G8 fund, may have broken law: auditor general - Winnipeg Free Press
List of projects approved for G8 funding - thestar.com

Obama Is Missing - NYTimes.com What have they done with President Obama? What happened to the inspirational figure his supporters thought they elected? Who is this bland, timid guy who doesn’t seem to stand for anything in particular? (Obama negotiating with himself to give Republicans more than they asked for)
The U-turn president: Barack Obama’s top ten flip-flops – Telegraph Blogs (that was then, when he was pretending to be a leader and a Democrat)
Obama to Call for Broad Plan to Reduce Debt - NYTimes.com
Daily Kos: From change agent to dealmaker
Trump: Obama's Presidency May Be The Greatest Scam In The History Of The United States (takes one to know one)
Budget Debate: Obama To Lay Out Spending Plan everything - from Medicare and Medicaid cuts to tax hikes for the wealthy - is on the table (and you know whre he will end up)
Mike Pence: Spending Deal 'Probably Not Good Enough' To Vote For (war on women continues)
Yglesias » A Debt Ceiling Hostage Rescue Strategy
Hullabaloo Where Hippie Punching Gets You
Is Wisconsin 'broke'? Answer is in the eye of the beholder, experts say "Wisconsin has a range of options other than cutting spending." (lying Rethugs at work)
Fervor Of Wisconsin Debate Shifts To Recall Elections
YouTube - The Maine Labor Mural Projection Bombing On The Capitol
Wis. Officials Still Examining Waukesha Procedures; Local Dem Canvasser Casts Doubt On Process | TPMDC (very fishy)

Survey: One in Three Workers Wants to Quit Job - Business News - ABC News Radio
Finally, We Know: How Mortgage Delinquencies Impact Your FICO® Scores | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice

Political views are reflected in brain structure ndividuals who call themselves liberal tend to have larger anterior cingulate cortexes, while those who call themselves conservative have larger amygdalas (Libs think, Rethugs kill)
Spaceflight Now | STS-133 Shuttle Report | Discovery heads into retirement
FBI destroyed thousands of UFO reports, 1949 memo reveals | World news | The Guardian Agents routinely destroyed reports containing 'nothing of FBI interest' due to lack of filing space (Hoover refused to buy more filing cabinets, or something)

Mission Improbable: A Concise and Precise Definition of P-Value - ScienceNOW - V.D.G.: You want to see a nice, healthy, strong p-value, at least less than 0.01. Then you really start talking about something you want to put your money on
Five criticisms of significance testing — The Endeavour
Toward Evidence-Based Medical Statistics. 2: The Bayes Factor
PLoS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Statistical significance for genomewide studies. [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003] - PubMed result (q-values_
An Open Letter to Editors of journals, Chairs of departments, Directors of funding programs, Directors of graduate training, Reviewers of grants and manuscripts, Researchers, Teachers, and Students
Feedback From the Real World – The fate of the p-value | Math Thoughts
Mexican lemons « My Name Is Legion
writing | ben fry » Pirates of Global Warming
xkcd: Significant

Luke Whyte: How a California Prison Became The Tear Gas Capital of America
Infographic: An Education in For-Profit Education - Campus Progress (Kaplan Test Prep funded by Federal Gov - welfare queens)
Growth Rings – Maps Of U.S. Population Change, 2000-2010

Beyond the caricatures of the child-free debate | Brittany Shoot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk I know from talking about my choice not to have children just how hard it is to get past the strong emotions the topic arouses
Rania Matar - Recent Projects - A Girl and her Room
YouTube - MichaelRogge's Channel = Old Hongkong/Macau/Japan
-somethings

How the police gain tactical advantage... - Imgur ("considerable hang time")

Why Photoshop for iPad Marks the End of the Desktop Computing Era
Copyright term extension will be voted this week « Christian Engström, Pirate MEP These neighbouring rights are now 50 years from the recording of a song. The proposal was to extend them to 95 years.
Cyberstalkers Take To Social Networks Over Dating Sites: STUDY
How Bandwidth Caps Force Us All to Become Network Cops: Tech News and Analysis «

041011
Libya: rebel defences 'failing' as Gaddafi forces move towards Benghazi | World news | The Guardian Soldiers loyal to Muammar Gaddafi reach heart of strategic town of Ajdabiya, 90 miles from city at centre of revolution
Ivory Coast: Gbagbo's forces attack hotel HQ of president-elect Ouattara | World news | guardian.co.uk US says incumbent president's attempt at negotiation was delaying tactic as his forces step up assault in Abidjan
Ivory Coast: Ouattara Forces Commit Abuses, Human Rights Watch Reports (pick your blood-drenched dictator)

Search for Japan tsunami victims continues | World news | The Guardian Thousands of troops conduct searches, with less than half those killed in disaster thought to have been found - fewer than 13,000 of the estimated 28,000 who died have been found.
World's Largest Concrete Boom Pumps En Route To Japan To Help Cool Nuclear Reactors - TheStreet - Putzmeister America, Inc.

Icelandic voters reject Icesave debt repayment plan | World news | guardian.co.uk prompting the prime minister to warn of economic and political chaos (that's what they always say)
Canada 2008: Résultats par section de vote / Results by polling division
Stolen MoD equipment enough for small coup, says MP | UK news | The Guardian Vast array of hardware stolen includes £50,000 worth of night-vision goggles and even an aircraft fuselage
Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch 'urged Gordon Brown' to halt Labour attacks | UK news | guardian.co.uk Former PM was asked to 'defuse' NoW row, says ex-minister • Ed Miliband calls for full details of 'criminal behaviour'
News of the World phone-hacking victims reject apology | UK news | guardian.co.uk George Galloway says apology is cynical attempt to protect Rebekah Brooks, as Danny Alexander predicts further arrests - Alexander repeated previous government statements that the affair would have no bearing on News Corp's attempt to take over BSkyB, an issue he said was "completely separate".
Rebekah Brooks in firing line as phone-hacking scandal refuses to go away | Media | The Observer Instead of drawing a line under the crisis, News International's dramatic apology has turned the spotlight on the chief executive - "Cameron is very much in debt to Rebekah … for helping him not quite win the election."

Bradley Manning: top US legal scholars voice outrage at 'torture' | World news | The Guardian Obama professor among 250 experts who have signed letter condemning humiliation of alleged WikiLeaks source (that was back then when he was studying to be a "Constitutional Law Professor;" this is now, when he loves to torture whistleblowers and spy on you)
China tells U.S. to quit as human rights judge | Reuters The United States is beset by violence, racism and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments' human rights problems, China said on Sunday, countering U.S. criticism of Beijing's crackdown (all true +our no moral center Pres)
BBC News - China tells US: Stop preaching on human rights "We advise the US side to reflect on its own human rights issues and not to position itself as a preacher of human rights,"
Welcome to America, home to 5% of the world's people and 25% of the world's prisoners
Obama’s Big Lie Meets Iraqi Resistance | Firedoglake Obama promised that US troops would be out of Iraq by the end of 2009

White House: Obama to lay out spending plan - Yahoo! News that would reveal plans to reduce the government's chief health programs for seniors and the poor (Obama just threw granny under the gravy train ... now Repubicans can claim to save her with vouchers, or something)
Twitter / New Canaan Democrats: RT @Spudlovr Remember when ... Planned Parenthood crashed the market, wiped out half our 401Ks and took TARP money? Me neither.
YouTube - john.he.is (serious John McCain)
Pentagon Having Second Thoughts On Iraq Withdrawal
Afghanistan Predator drones: Despite high-tech tools, a fatal error - latimes.com U.S. Predator teams and a special operations unit on the ground studying a suspicious convoy make a series of fateful missteps as they try to distinguish friend from foe.

Obama As Budget Referee: It's a No-Win Situation | TPMDC (see, he's "refereeing" between Reubicans and ... Repubicans!)
Our Cowardly Congress - NYTimes.com This isn’t government we’re watching; this is junior high.
Government Shutdown Avoided, 2012 Budget Fight Looms
Government Shutdown: Last-Minute Budget Deal Brings Relief, Disgust
Eric Cantor: Debt Ceiling Vote Will Be 'Leverage Moment' For GOP Spending-Cut Demands
Balloon Juice » The Salt Lake City Tribune is Shrill Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” runs through various fantasy lands, envisioning that large tax cuts, mostly for the rich, and huge spending cuts, mostly in programs that benefit the poor and middle class, will lead to unprecedented booms in hiring, homebuilding and other economic activities (our very serious beltway pundits are very bad people)
Balloon Juice » I’d Add a Couple of Things What I don’t know for sure is if Brooks, Klein, Sullivan, etc. are cowardly careerist sociopaths, just plain stupid, or both (both +worse)

Global Military Spending Hits High But Growth Slows "The United States has increased its military spending by 81 percent since 2001," SIPRI said. "At 4.8 percent of gross domestic product, U.S. military spending in 2010 represents the largest economic burden outside the Middle East"

The trials of Kaplan Higher Ed and the education of The Washington Post Co. - The Washington Post Along the way, The Post Co.’s reliance on federal student loan money grew. By the end of 2010, more than 90 percent of revenue at Kaplan’s biggest division and nearly a third of The Post Co.’s revenue overall came from the U.S. government (money-losing neo-con small-gov WaPo telling you taxes must be cut supported by ... you!)
Ikea: Workers' complaints surround Ikea's U.S. factory - latimes.com A union-organizing battle hangs over the Ikea plant in Virginia. Workers complain of eliminated raises, a frenzied pace, mandatory overtime and racial discrimination.

Arctic Warming Smashes NASA's Temperature Charts - Environment - GOOD (Republicans say they will defund NASA)
Harper knew the truth: that isotopes were hemorrhaging millions of dollars from the public coffers every month. It turns out that the lust to privatize federal assets some quarter century ago drove us to make a deal so bad that it put Canada’s future producing isotopes in jeopardy. A deal so bad that it made better economic sense to forfeit the whole industry than to pony up and fix it.
FNET Server Map Gradient Display
Schneier on Security: Detecting Cheaters
The Wason Selection Task 1
Corporal Punishment in Education

YouTube - Cat and Dolphins playing together
YouTube - deb4tlj's Channel
TWIN MEN HAVE A CONVERSATION -- official video from Michael Chiklis, Patton Oswalt, Owen Burke, ellhoof, and BoTown Sound
Police Officer Pepper Sprays Baby Squirrel In Texas - Talley said after several unsuccessful attempts to scare the squirrel away, the officer used his pepper spray on it to protect the welfare of the students. (video) (cop-brutality towards baby animals)
Teen suspended for outing porn star school secretary - thestar.com the 14-year-old alleged administrators at Etchemins Secondary School in Levis, Que., also threatened him with criminal charges (and then they lied)
Helen Mirren's Magical Bosom Stars In 'SNL' Digital Short (VIDEO)


040911
Red Cross ship arrives in Misrata in breakthrough for aid workers | World news | guardian.co.uk Ship carrying medical supplies docks in Libyan city a week after Red Cross starts negotiations with government on access
Libya rebels vent frustration on Nato and a silent leadership | World news | The Observer Benghazi rebels feel they are being denied the promised air power and kept in the dark by revolutionary council
Egyptian soldiers attack Tahrir Square protesters | World news | guardian.co.uk At least two people killed in pre-dawn raid on protesters calling for trial of Mubarak and removal of army chief
Syrian Protests Are Said to Be Largest and Bloodiest to Date - NYTimes.com “What happened is that after Friday Prayers, the marchers started to chant, ‘Freedom! Freedom!’ and security forces opened fire,” Mr. Monajed said in a phone interview. “When the protesters tried to collect the dead and wounded, the security forces opened fire again.”
Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo still defiant as forces break blockade | World news | The Observer From a bunker in the war torn city of Abidjan, the canny strategist has masterminded stiff resistance to rebel troops
New documents reveal cover-up of 1948 British 'massacre' of villagers in Malaya | World news | guardian.co.uk Foreign Office intervened to halt an investigation in the 1990s by Malaysian authorities into the deaths of 24 unarmed villagers
News of the World phone hacking victims get apology from Murdoch | Media | The Guardian Admission of liability over phone hacking likely to cost News International millions of pounds in compensation - "The NoW has now admitted mass criminality." (Murdoch finally caught but will not go to jail)
Gunman kills five and wounds 16 at Dutch shopping centre | World news | guardian.co.uk Attacker opened fire with automatic weapon before shooting himself in crowded mall in suburb of Alphen aan den Rijn near Amsterdam (shoppers should have been packing)
Sandstorm kills eight in German pile-up | World news | guardian.co.uk A total of 110 people in 80 cars and three trucks involved in crash on motorway near Baltic Sea after sandstorm (because sandstorms in Germany happen all the time)
End of communism hasn't helped Polish women – but there is no nostalgia | World news | The Guardian Workplace inequalities have proliferated since iron curtain came down but today's freedoms are preferred to restrictions of the past
City of Joy: New hope for Congo's brutalised women | Katharine Viner | World news | The Guardian Eastern Congo is the rape capital of the world and the worst place on earth to be a woman.
New Europe: what we've learned | World news | The Guardian From welfare to immigration to the arts, we round up what our correspondents – and readers – have made of New Europe

Portugal bailout terms must be strict, EU finance ministers warn | Business | guardian.co.uk Plans that caused government collapse will be starting point • Spain says bailout 'completely out of the question'
Calculated Risk: Europe Update: Austerity in Portugal, Bank Stress Test concerns in Germany
Business chiefs who backed coalition cuts raise fears for UK economy | Politics | The Guardian Entrepreneurs and executives who supported chancellor's aggressive measures now concerned about weak growth (but they followed the advice of all the best economists)


Budget Deal Reached to Avert Shutdown - NYTimes.com
Tea Party movement keeps up pressure despite lower profile | World news | The Guardian Republican presidential candidates will have to balance appeasing conservatives with appealing to moderate voters
Boehner the big winner in budget talks: Analyst - The Early Show - CBS News CBS News' John Dickerson says House Speaker scored more points, Tea Party fared well, Obama not so much (Obama's fabulous leadership qualities once more in evidence)
Federal Budget Deal Reached, Government Shutdown Averted At Least Temporarily (teabaggers declare victory)
Obama's Election Promises Tangled In Budget Negotiations (they got tangled up on Inauguration Day - change that makes you give up on change)
Planned Parenthood, Abortion & Federal Budget Fight
Health Disparities Addressed In New Government Report
Planned Parenthood at a Glance - Planned Parenthood provides nearly one million Pap tests and more than 830,000 breast exams each year, critical services in detecting cancer (Republicans lie)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community I have to rescind my assessment last night that John Boehner got nothing out of the late negotiations on the 2011 budget. Apparently, he won the restoration of a ban on the District of Columbia spending its own money to help poor women attain abortions. President Obama and the Democrats had lifted that ban earlier in his presidency, and now it is back. Boehner also won funding for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which spends federal money on private schools in the District (time to incorporate your uterus)
Wisconsin Election Bombshell: How Plausible?
Christie takes a cheap shot at Springsteen | NJ.com But it’s typical Christie: Oppose him on anything (however subtly) and, even if you’re asking the Demonizer to scrape together a few more bucks for those falling between the cracks, he’ll portray you as a villain.
Limbaugh: Obama Is Treating Troops Like Slaves And Is More Like Jefferson Davis Than President Lincoln | Media Matters for America (people of the lie)

Rachel Maddow Tears Into Beltway Media For Paul Ryan Budget Coverage (video)
Lawrence O'Donnell Tears Up While Emotionally Defending Planned Parenthood In Government Shutdown Fight (video)
Donald Trump Gets Weirder - NYTimes.com
Donald Trump Writes Blistering Letter To Gail Collins, New York Times Columnist
Donald Trump Strikes Back - NYTimes.com

charles hugh smith-archive The Devolution of the Consumer Economy, Part II: Rising Costs, Declining Wages - Once you enable students to borrow $36,000 a year, then magically the costs of a year in college (or for-profit school offering worthless "skills" that do no more for the hapless student than a high school diploma) rise to $36,000.

Cathie Black vows to come back: "I'm a warrior" - Postcards - Fortune on CNNMoney.com Few career falls are as swift and spectacular as Cathie Black's ... . "It was like having to learn Russian in a weekend -- and then give speeches in Russian and speak Russian in budget committee and City Council meetings." (might have thought of that before she became Queen of Russia +Ms. Black, who went to parochial schools, lives in Connecticut and sent her own daughters to boarding school, had never been in a a public school +Bloomerg, arrogant asshole)
We are spending too much money to lock people up for stupid shit! The Govt. spending on prisons have increased much more than the Govt. spending on education. We spend 3 times as much per person to incarcerate someone than we do to educate them.
I now support full marriage equality - Louis J. Marinelli Having spent the last five years putting all of my political will, interest and energy into fighting against the spread of same-sex marriage as if it were a contagious disease, I must admit that it is hard for me to put the following text into words let alone utter them with my own voice
G-A-Y Exclusive: National Organization For Marriage tour organizer/Facebook moderator does startling about-face; Exposure to NOM could lead to unintended side effects - Good As You:: Gay and Lesbian Activism With a Sense of Humor
NOM, in damage mode, misreps/reduces Louis Marinelli's role - Good As You:: Gay and Lesbian Activism With a Sense of Humor

Why We're Merging to Form a Climate Change Supergroup - Environment - GOOD
Print - Adventures in Extreme Science - Esquire - Eric Schadt.
Astronomers may have witnessed a star torn apart by a black hole | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Observations: New hope for preventing pre-term births he research, conducted by the National Institutes of Health in conjunction with a pharmaceutical company, shows that a progesterone gel can help women at risk of premature birth extend their pregnancies and boost the health of their newborns.
Science Friday Archives: Connecting Science and Art Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog’s new film on the earliest known cave paintings.
Sibling rivalry 'good for children' | Society | The Guardian Parents need have no concern if arguments get worse – as long as they also increase their verbal sophistication
Early findings from the first wave of the UK's household longitudinal study - Understanding Society
Gamers less likely to go to university | thinq_ A researcher at Oxford University has discovered that regularly playing computer games reduces the chances of going to university by a significant amount
Computer gamers less likely to go to university, research shows | Technology | The Guardian Report by Oxford University also reveals that reading enhances the likelihood that teenagers will go on to study for a degree
Are Cavities Really Contagious? – TIME Healthland Sugary candies are usually blamed for rotten teeth, but the real culprits are bacteria
Evolution of prejudice: Study reveals racism in Monkeys | Mail Online

YouTube - Beyond Duality Thinking - Pedagogy of Interiority HD Spiritual rEvolution [Reupload from Maddbluntz]

Ira Glass | NPR Bias | On the Media | Mediaite f NPR won’t fight back against charges of bias, Ira Glass will (NPR - Nice Pussy Republicans want your money but won't report on their own idiocy)
Namazu-e: Earthquake catfish prints ~ Pink Tentacle
Oh No They Didn't! - Less Pretentious & More Accurate Titles For Literary Masterworks
Classic Television Showbiz: Firing Line with William F. Buckley and guest Hugh Hefner (1966)
Get Thee to a Nonery | CAA As atheism loses its stigma, more students identify as nonbelievers.
The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay? - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice
Separating Chicken And State | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion we definitely don’t need to welcome a business that hides behind Christian values to fuel bigotry.
Autostraddle — It’s Not Britney, Bitch. But when Britney got healthy, Jamie’s lawyers actually pushed for greater authority and, on October 28th of 2008, Jamie secured a permanent conservatorship. PERMANENT! So HE OWNS HER FOREVER!
Romance Scam • Dating scam • Nigerian scammers • Russian scammers • Love scam • Scamlist Dedicated to fighting Nigerian and Russian romance scammers.

New York Times Paywall Cost: More Like $25 Million | paidContent (which was cracked by some guy on his lunch break)
House urges blockage of ‘net neutrality’ rules - The Boston Globe (Obama throws the internets which he was never that into under the bus)

040811
UNICEF: Snipers targeting children in Libya city - CBS News U.N. relief supplies, doctors arrive in besieged Misrata, where hundreds of people said killed or wounded by Qaddafi forces

'Unusual Event' Declared At Nuclear Plant In Washington

Afghanistan Secret Prisons Confirmed By U.S. (Obama's secret illegal torture system)
US Lawmakers Say Politics Played Role in Military Trial Decision | USA | English
NYC mayor: Military trial appropriate in 9/11 case - WSJ.com (Bloomberg can't even select someone run his schools, but he's a legal expert)
UN: Scores of bodies found in Cote d'Ivoire - Africa - Al Jazeera English UN reports that more than 100 bodies, some burned alive, have been found over the past 24 hours across the country.

Government Shutdown Threat Prompts Obama, GOP To Scramble To Strike Budget Deal Republicans on Friday of risking a government shutdown because they want to make it harder "for women to get cancer screenings."
Jim Jordan: Keeping Funding From Abortions Is Why We Were Elected (but no Federal funds go to abortion already/anyway)
Will Republicans shut down the government over Planned Parenthood? - The Week
Wisconsin Election Surprise: David Prosser Gains 7,500 Votes After 'Human Error' In Waukesha County (VIDEO) "Kathy Nickolaus worked for Assembly Republican Caucus when Prosser was Speaker. Caucus is controlled by speaker, so he is her former boss." (fails smell test)
State elections officials dispatched to examine Waukesha County count - JSOnline
Wisconsin Republican County Clerk Sent Out Pre Marked Ballots
The (Somewhat) Daily RAG: Updated: Grand Jury Necessary To Ensure Electoral Integrity
Past Coworker of Waukesha Clerk: “This is NOT an acceptable way of doing this stuff” | blue cheddar.
In The News : Milwaukee Area Labor Council AFL-CIO Chisholm has no doubts that if 7,500 votes for Kloppenburg suddenly popped up in his terrain, “There would be state police squads flying in immediately and every computer and ballot box would be confiscated and secured instantly.”
- Pruning Shears - Microsoft Access imports and Kathy Nickolaus (couldn't have happened the way she said it did)
State asks Supreme Court to step in, halt restraining order
What did Walker, Prosser know about those 7,500 votes -- and when? | Uppity Wisconsin
Exclusive - Mike Huckabee Extended Interview Pt. 3 - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/06/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central In this unedited, extended interview, Mike Huckabee discusses the growing antagonism toward Christians. (Fundies are an oppressed minority)

Speed Trading May Be Heading Out to Sea, Literally - CNBC (speed of light now the limit)

Good results of bad habits? Research explains paradox
12:31 In 1981, Jernigan was sentenced to death for stabbing and shooting 75-year-old Edward Hale, who discovered him stealing a microwave oven. Jernigan spent 12 years in prison before his final plea for clemency was denied. His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project at the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center.
Spacewalk - the blue sky below us | triggerpit.com
The Möbius Gear
Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Univ of Nevada at Las Vegas Proposing to Eliminate ENTIRE Philosophy Program
Coolican: Philosophy has shaped civilization, yet UNLV plan would cut it - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun - t this is Nevada, and the first term Republican governor has proposed a 17 percent cut to higher education, so sure, why not eliminate philosophy? (Republicans keepin' you stoopid)
How can you have a university without a philosophy department? | Adventures in Ethics and Science (easy; let Republicans decide what you need to know)

The 50 books every child should read - News, Books - The Independent Michael Gove says he wants 11-year-olds to read the equivalent of a book a week. So what should they be? We ask the experts
20 Even Stranger and More Wonderful Books
YouTube - OrangesSunshine_trailer.mp4
Stolen Generations

YouTube - Wits - Julia Sweeney "Sex Ed." Monologue
YouTube - If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out (Take My Wife) by Tim Minchin
Top Post-Punk Artists As Determined By RYM Ratings - Rate Your Music
Inflatable Crowd Company
YouTube - Google Exodus

Videos Posted by Facebook Engineering: Introducing the Open Compute Project [HD] | Facebook

040711
Muammar Gaddafi's former energy minister flees to Malta | World news | guardian.co.uk Omar Fathi bin Shatwan says members of Libyan leader's inner circle also want to defect but fear for their lives
Nato air strike 'kills Libyan rebels' | World news | The Guardian Attack near Brega reported to have hit tanks and killed at least 13 rebel fighters
Up to 250 African migrants feared drowned after boat sinks off Italy | World news | guardian.co.uk Fifty rescued after overladen vessel capsizes en route from Libya
VersoBooks.com
Irish Left Review · Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, France, Libya and Me

BBC News - Japan: Earthquake prompts Fukushima evacuation
Twitter / ReutersBreakingNews: Tokyo Electric says its engineers at Fukushima Daiichi plant have evacuated after tsunami warning

Ivory Coast: French forces airlift Japanese ambassador to safety | World news | guardian.co.uk Gbagbo fighters break into ambassador's residence near presidential compound in Abidjan
BBC News - Bodies found as Mexicans march against drug violence Protests in more than 20 Mexican cities against drug-related violence have been interrupted by news of the discovery of 59 bodies.
Fifty-nine bodies found in Mexican mass graves | World news | guardian.co.uk
Ian Tomlinson's last words revealed at G20 inquest | UK news | guardian.co.uk 'The fuckers got me' said newspaper seller as he collapsed after being knocked down by riot policeman, court hears
Rio school shooting: official says 13 children dead | World news | guardian.co.uk Witnesses tell how gunman opened fire on pupils at Tasso da Silveira primary school in Rio de Janeiro
A Jewish renaissance in Poland | World news | The Guardian There are signs that Poles are discovering their lost Jewish heritage and that antisemitism is in decline
Spain rules out becoming bailout victim after Portugal succumbs | World news | guardian.co.uk Spanish economy minister says there is no risk of contagion • UK could contribute more than £3bn to help Portugal
LRB · Perry Anderson · Lula’s Brazil
Prominent Israelis offer 'peace initiative' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English The plan, drafted in part by ex-military and intelligence officials, includes land swaps and no right of return.

My Student, the 'Terrorist' - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (your war on terror at work with no accountability)

Obama Issues Veto Threat As Government Shutdown Looms
Reid: GOP Culture Wars Will Shut Down The Government
The Washington Monthly - Even The Threat Of A Shutdown Is Expensive
Balloon Juice » I Can’t Help Myself
Slight Progress But Still No Deal After White House Budget Meeting | TPMDC
Heritage Foundation Removes Unemployment Data From Budget Study | TPMDC (they took out the unemployment unicorns that Ryan was basing his "budget" on)
Daily Kos: Congressman endorses shutdown if GOP doesn't get everything it wants Indiana Republican Mike Pence says that if Democrats don't accept every single Republican demand for spending cuts, then he supports shutting down the federal government—and believes the Democrats will be blamed.
Scott Walker Struggles To Downplay Wisconsin Election That His Allies Built Up As A Referendum
Wisconsin Election Results: David Prosser, JoAnne Kloppenburg Await Official Outcome In State Supreme Court Race (Republicans won't back down )
Conservative Pundit Sees Vote Fraud In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race (video) | TPMDC (the New Black Panther Party stole the election!)
WisPolitics.com: SCWMTA: Wisconsin voters pass referenda in support of amending the U.S. Constitution Wisconsin voters pass referenda in support of amending the U.S. Constitution 4/6/2011 - corporations are not people and money is not speech. The City of Madison referendum passed with 84% of the vote, and the similar Dane County referendum passed with 78%.
Once Again, Ohio GOPers Punishing Their Own Over Support For Unions | TPMDC a prominent Republican legislator has been stripped of a committee chairmanship in the midst of debate over legislation that unions oppose.
Bryan Fischer: Muslim Immigration To The U.S. Is A 'Toxic Cancer' | TPMMuckraker Conservative radio host Bryan Fischer on Wednesday doubled down on his "Muslims have no first amendment rights" comments from last month, this time arguing that the United States should "restrict immigration from Islamic countries."
YouTube - To all Who Hate muslims Must Watch
Fox & Friends Outraged Crayola Recognizes More Than One Skin Tone | Media Matters for America
AMERICAblog News: Poll: Miss. Republicans think inter-racial marriage should be illegal 46% of Mississippi Republicans say inter-racial marriage should be illegal, to 40% who say it should be legal. And it seems Palin does better with the racist crowd.
Why Glenn Beck lost his Fox News show: 4 theories - The Week

FORA.tv - 92Y: Paul Krugman (Why Obama kissed Wall Streets ass and loves their parties)
P.J. O’Rourke: Atlas Shrugged. And So Did I. - Ideas Market - WSJ
Dead-Missing-Jailed BP Whistleblowers

The Sleepless Elite - WSJ.com Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done
Hot Rocks: Geology Photo Contest Winners | Wired Science | Wired.com

Cathie Black OUT As Schools Chancellor - In a press conference on Thursday, Bloomberg said Black's tenure had not gone as planned (no education experience at all; went through four deputies in 4 months; was a bitch; that didn't work out so ell, did it?)
College Professor Rankings In Texas Spark National Debate (they aren't worth it and neither are their presidents)
America's 10 Most Segregated Cities

YouTube - Dear Woman
‘Conscious Men’ apologize to women for many years of bad behaviour - The Globe and Mail
Creepy Guys Make Apology to Women for 50,000 Crappy Years
Heartless Bitches International - Why "Nice Guys" are often such LOSERS
Urban Dictionary: chick crack
YouTube - A Good Attitude Towards Menstruation
YouTube - Leonard Cohen - Light as the breeze (Studio)

The Fix (the myth of drug addiction and its "cure" or "treatment")
Meditation Leads to Greater Pain Relief Than Morphine - Alex Knapp - Robot Overlords - Forbes
Motif No. 1 in Rockport, MA This fishing shack on Bearskin Neck is one of the most famous buildings in the world and instantly recognizable to any student of art or art history.
James Salter Month | The Paris Review

I don't hate Macs, but they do give me a syncing feeling | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian Apple's "sync" bullshit is a deception, which pretends to be making your life easier, when it's actually all about wresting control from you. (just say no, dude)

AT&T, Verizon Forced to Let Rivals Use Networks For Data - Businessweek
The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers » HTML & CSS, Layout » Design Festival
LinkedIn and Facebook: Personal Vs. Professional in the Identity Wars: Tech News and Analysis «

040611
Gaddafi Sends Message To Obama "Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, your intervention is the name of the U.S.A. is a must, so that Nato (NATO) would withdraw finally from the Libyan affair," Gadhafi wrote. "Libya should be left to Libyans within the African union frame."
Gaddafi forces using civilians as human shields, says France | World news | guardian.co.uk Libya rebels accuse coalition of standing by as Misrata assault continues, saying air strikes have abated since Nato took charge

Tepco starts pumping nitrogen into Fukushima reactor | World news | The Guardian Japanese nuclear power plant operator hopes to prevent explosive buildup of hydrogen gas
BBC News - Japan earthquake: Radioactive leak 'plugged' at reactor A leak of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been stopped, its operator reports (however, that big hole in the bottom of the reactor is another story)

Panorama - Shooters walk free, whistleblower jailed - DasErste.de (Collateral Murder documentry; Obama really hates whistleblowers +where are the "military tribunals?")
2011-04-02 This Week in WikiLeaks Podcast - Talking About the Anniversary of Release of 'Collateral Murder' w/ Ethan McCord [Update:1] | WL Central
2011-04-05 Netherlands foreign minister expresses willingness to extradite Rop Gonggrijp to US (Updated) | WL Central (for documenting the truth; Obama can't wait to take his clothes off)
2011-03-11 Denial of 'Twitter 3' Request to Throw Out Twitter Order Renews Government War on Internet Freedom, Whistleblowing | WL Central (Obama spying on foreign legislators)
Newsflash: not being extradited « rop.gonggri.jp

Raids on ex-Taliban threaten Afghan peace process, diplomats warn | World news | The Guardian Security forces target homes of former regime members who have played a vital role in pushing peace talks with insurgents
Ivory Coast talks collapse as Gbagbo plays for time | World news | The Guardian Laurent Gbagbo accuses France of assassination attempt amid fresh fighting and desperation on the streets of Abidjan
Portugal seeks EU bailout due to debt crisis | World news | The Guardian Country will ask for bailout due to high debts and difficulty raising money - which analysts say could be €80bn (a month in Afganistan)
Sudan Accuses Israel Of Attack; Khartoum 'Reserves The Right To React' He said Israel undertook the attack in order scupper Sudan's chances of being removed from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Ian Tomlinson inquest – Tuesday 5 April 2011 | UK news | guardian.co.uk PC Simon Harwood, the police officer who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground at the G20 protests two years ago, gives his second day of evidence at the newspaper seller's inquest
Ian Tomlinson inquest hears barrister accuse G20 officer of lying on oath | UK news | The Guardian PC Simon Harwood back-tracks on claim that Ian Tomlinson had been acting 'defiantly' at G20 protests
Sukey - Keeping demonstrators safe, mobile & informed

Phone hacking: alleged target Leslie Ash speaks out | UK news | The Guardian Actor says the police let her down by not telling her about evidence that tabloid hackers were targeting her (Murdoch bought the cops)
Georgian woman cuts off web access to whole of Armenia | World news | The Guardian Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper
China goes wild for 3D porn film | Film | guardian.co.uk Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is a world first, with technology that hopes to revive an ailing industry. But it is unlikely to be seen in full in the mainland

NPR's CEO Forced To Resign Just As Transcript To Full O'Keefe Video Was Being Reviewed | Media Matters for America (maybe if they had reported the story the 11 times before they would have had a clue, but no; disgusting)

Government shutdown: two theories for Republican behaviour | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 2. It's about economics and the presidential election. The GOP knows that if the economy keeps improving and unemployment is down to 8% by election time, their chances in 2012 are fairly slim. (#1 - teabaggers)
Obama: Government Shutdown Will Delay Pay To Troops - Sen. Reid: 'Every Time We Agree To Meet In The Middle, They Move Where The Middle Is' (ya think?)
The Washington Monthly Yesterday afternoon, the lead story on Mark Halperin's "The Page" was the White House's mild rebuke of Paul Ryan's Republican budget plan. Halperin's headline: "Obama Pans Ryan -- Without Alternative." (cranking out the rightwing propaganda is hard work)
Memory Hole Alert - NYTimes.com The Ryan plan sharply cuts taxes on top income, yet if you look at the last page you’ll see that tax receipts are supposed to go up by almost $600 billion. (the 2.8% unemployment unicorns are coming, Republicans say)
Evaluating Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan On Its Own Terms. | The New Republic Does Not Compute (the usual Republican lies and bullshit)
Balloon Juice » Making money the Confederate way… 150 years ago the Confederacy launched the Civil War to protect an economic systems based on the theft. Slavery was the most obvious example, but the system also exempted the rich from taxes and the burdens of war. It also refused to support innovation, invention or infrastructure as tools to generate wealth. It was a Kleptocracy (the South rose and screwed everyone again)
The Congressional Budget Battles and Beyond - NYTimes.com (Collins vs Brooks and the end of Social Security)
Yglesias » Nancy Pelosi Vows To Party Like It’s 2005 With Paul Ryan’s Draconian Medicare-Ending Budget Proposal (all the "adult conversation" Dems should just shutup and let Nancy talk)
How to Be Serious (Really!) | Mother Jones - there's a litmus test for being serious about the medium term deficit too. Here it is: you should be in favor of letting the Bush tax cuts expire in 2012. All of them. This ought to be the first question you ask any deficit hawk. If they're OK with letting the cuts expire, then the conversation can continue. If not, they're just preening. (they won't and they are)
The Serious Pain (For You, Not Me) Caucus : Lawyers, Guns & Money There was no question that an ostensibly liberal pundit was going to come out with loads of praise for the boldness of Paul Ryan’s appallingly regressive, transparently fraudulent attack on the Great Society. Whoever had Jacob Weisberg in the pool, collect your winnings! (Slate sucks)
Scott Walker's 'Waterloo': 19 Counties Flip To Democrats In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Mary Bottari: Court Race Throws a Spanner in the Works of Wisconsin's Right Wing
Kloppenburg declares victory - JSOnline (on to recounts and endless Republican bullshit)
Wisconsin Election Results: David Prosser, JoAnne Kloppenburg Await Official Outcome In State Supreme Court Race Unofficial results showed challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg ahead by a scant 311 votes over incumbent Justice David Prosser, a former Republican speaker of the Assembly (Wisconsin solidly 50% far rightwing)
Wisconsin supreme court election amazing result | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 'Nonpartisan' but liberal-leaning JoAnne Kloppenburg leads the conservative incumbent in Wisconsin. Wow
The tragedy of Milwaukee’s bus service | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com Of course, the fewer people with work in Milwaukee, the less the city earns in taxes, the more depressed the local economy becomes, and the more the government has to cut back. This is why you can’t cut your way to growth (go Wisconsin; those budget cuts will really work for you)
Glenn Beck's Fox News Show Ending | Media Matters for America Glenn intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year (all those canceled ad contracts added up for Fox)
Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program - NYTimes.com Color of Change, the group that spearheaded an advertiser boycott of Mr. Beck, asserted that the program lost “over 300 advertisers.”
Iowa Family Receives 3 a.m. Visit From Drunk Pawlenty Campaign Worker testing voter attitudes by "trespassing" in people's homes and "vomiting" in public after getting "wasted." Everyone who said that Pawlenty wasn't going to run an edgy campaign had better apologize now.

Participatory Budgeting Project
Government can't solve budget battles? Let citizens do it. - CSMonitor.com To resolve the budget battles tearing apart Congress and state and local governments, politicians should look to a new model of citizen involvement: participatory budgeting.

Big Business Dominating Tax Reform Talks (of course)
JPMorgan CEO Says Rich Should Pay 'Lion's Share' Of Taxes, Warns of Dodd-Frank's Effect (Dimon hates fianancial regulation, though)
Jury Awards Homeowner $21 Million In Mortgage Lawsuit When he called his mortgage company to find out why his payments were not going through, his attorneys said, he was repeatedly routed to overseas customer services staff who couldn't answer his questions (they probably thought it was really funny)
How The Oil Lobby Greases Washington's Wheels
Precious Metal: Scrapped Euro Coin Scam Costs Bundesbank Millions - Spiegel Online - News - International - 6 million euro scam involving reconstituted euro coins that had been sold to China as scrap metal. One and two euro coins were then brought back to Germany, some via Lufthansa airline employees, and traded in at the central bank.

New Type of Drug Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria - Technology Review Scientists hope bacteria won't develop resistance to nanoparticles that poke them open.
Tevatron data suggests new, unknown particle—but not the Higgs
[1104.0699] Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with a W boson in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Arctic Ocean freshwater will cause 'unpredictable changes on climate' | Environment | guardian.co.uk Ice cap meltwater and river run-off could have significant impact on the climates of Europe and North America, say scientists (more of that "global warming" thing Repubicans say is liberal plot to infringe on their lifestyle)
4.5-Billion-Year-Old Antarctic Meteorite Yields New Mineral | NASA Research | Meteorites & Early Solar System | LiveScience - Wassonite.
Stem cells form an eye-like structure - video | Science | guardian.co.uk Time-lapse films of mouse embryonic stem cells spontaneously organising into a rudimentary eye (a fluorescent green stain reveals the location of retinal precursor tissue in the top sequence)
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - Falcon Heavy
Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific First - ScienceNOW
Pierley/Redford Dissoicative Affect Test - your brain's affective response system

Morning-After Pill: Illinois Judge Rules Pharmacists Can't Be Required To Sell Plan B Sangamon County Circuit Judge John Belz sided with a pair of pharmacists who filed suit against the rule, claiming that it violated the state's "right-of-conscience" law (Republicans vs your uterus)
Lakewood Police Use Pepper Spray On Second Grader
7 States Considering Allowing Guns On College Campuses

Video -- Cultural Differences -- National Geographic
My month of no snark - Life stories - Salon.com I wanted to see if I could change the way I felt by being nice to people. The weirdest part? It worked
Gus Van Horn: Snark vs. Values
Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library | The Awl

Diablo Magazine | The Setup
Timeline of a Scandal - Concord, CA Patch
Drug Commander, Concord PI Plead Not Guilty - Clayton, CA Patch
Richmond cops accused of hiring, arming Explorers

pick a year (end of the world through the years)

1 in 5 US women have kids with multiple dads - Health - Kids and parenting - msnbc.com Poverty, lack of education and divorce perpetuate lack of opportunities
Study: Many American Women Have Children With More Than One Man - - TIME Healthland
'Baby daddy' study may draw unfair spotlight to black women

7 Basic Things You Won't Believe You're All Doing Wrong | Cracked.com
BBC News | HEALTH | Toilet habits 'could cause stroke' Doctors in Calcutta, India found a third of stroke deaths occurred while people were squatting.
| Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles | The American Historical Review, . | The History Cooperative
YouTube - Udderly Amazing: Girl Teaches Cow to Jump
Damn Cool Pics: Laughing Owls
Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949 « How to be a Retronaut

LJ: news: DDoS Attack
Why is LiveJournal still massive in Russia? (Wired UK)
Russian blog site under attack | GlobalPost LiveJournal, Russia's blogging platform of choice, is sustaining biggest cyberattack attack in its history. Bloggers say the Kremlin wants to crack down on political discussion.
Who was behind the Russian LiveJournal attack? | FP Passport It seems a little unlikely that the Kremlin would find it worth their while to temporarily disable an entire blogging platform -- the majority of which is nonpolitical -- eight months before an election. Unlike past DDOS attacks on Estonia or Georgia, it's not really clear who's being targeted here. (it's a test, dudes)

040511
Guantanamo Bay: The Prison That Keeps Causing Trouble (Obama breaks another promise because his Republican daddies won't let him)
Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal (yeah, remember when he had a majority everywhere?)
Father of 9/11 Hero Has Searing Words For Holder | TPMDC
The most uncounted cost of Endless War - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (your rights have evaporated because "we're at war")
Primitive Muslims' unique love of violence - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Nuke 'em. Invade 'em. Torture 'em. Occupy 'em. Murder their scientists and religious leaders. Put 'em in cages for life without due process. Reduce 'em to rubble. Why? Because Muslims are so prone to violence and barbarism! That's a fairly succinct summary of America's political culture for the last decade at least.

Japan Nuclear Plant Crisis Could Last Months
flvplayer.swf (Tsunami video)
Fears hit all things Japanese – Business 360 - CNN.com Blogs

Libya: Ready For Elections, But Gaddafi Must Stay
Yemen protests: fresh clashes in Taiz | World news | The Guardian Tens of thousands demonstrate against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern town a day after 15 people were killed
Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo under siege - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Ivory Coast: UN's intervention broke the impasse | World news | guardian.co.uk Peacekeepers finally adopted a robust posture after Gbagbo's forces attacked a UN base
Ivory Coast's Ambassador To France, Appointed By Alassane Ouattara, Says Laurent Gbagbo Is Negotiating Surrender
Ivory Coast fighters surround presidential palace | World news | guardian.co.uk Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara team up with UN and French helicopters to loosen Laurent Gbagbo's grip on power

Moody's Further Downgrades Portugal, Says Country Urgently Needs Bailout
Phone hacking: NoW journalists arrested | UK news | guardian.co.uk Former news editor and current chief reporter arrested after presenting themselves at separate London police station (Murdoch's minions)
David Willetts blames feminism over lack of jobs for working men | Politics | The Guardian Conservative minister's comments on social mobility trigger criticism from the Labour party and the TUC (Conservatives always blame women for their problems)

CBS News Washington Bureau Chief Was an FBI Snitch

High Drama As Congressional Leaders Lose Hope Of Avoiding Government Shutdown | TPMDC (let the party of fuckyou reap what they sow)
Polls: Public Split On Who To Blame In Government Shutdown - Sixty-two percent of respondents said they thought Republicans were playing politics while only 31 percent said Republicans were honestly trying to solve the budget impasse.
Paul Ryan's Budget Proposal: Analysis Of The Numbers cuts the top income tax rate by nearly a third, from 35 percent to 25 percent.
Daily Kos: GOP fiscal plan relies on projections from group that predicted Bush boom
The right just doesn't get journalism - Karl Rove - Salon.com Oh, good, Karl Rove started his own WikiLeaks. A conservative WikiLeaks. This WikiLeaks is about "transparency" and exposing malfeasance by the Obama administration
House Republicans Maneuver For Budget Cuts As Shutdown Looms (Repubicans, the party of fuckyou)
Jon Stewart Mocks Obama's 2012 Re-election Campaign, Lack Of Transparency (video) (that was then)
Out Of Service: Milwaukee Budget Cuts Hit Bus Lines -- And Keep Residents From Jobs (Wisconsin has its priorities and getting rid of workers/tax-cuts is number 1)
Huckabee Hearts Secrecy | Mother Jones The records are unavailable, and the computer hard drives that once contained them were erased and physically destroyed by the Huckabee administration as the governor prepared to leave office and launch a presidential bid (learned from W)
Scott Walker Gives Donor Jerry Deschane's Son an $81,000-a-Year Job Brian Deschane gets job despite lack of college degree, experience and two DUIs)
Scott Walker Pays $81.5K Gov’t Salary to Drunk-Driving Loser Son of Crony
Walker gives himself more power to fill high state jobs - JSOnline.mobi
Maine Mural Controversy: U.S. Labor Department Says Put It Back Up Or Repay The Money

Yglesias » Here We Go Again (Republican plan to kill you which the Dems will "compromise" with)
CNN's Erickson Revives Death Panel Lie To Promote Ryan's Budget Plan | Media Matters for America
GOP Budget Ignores CBO To Claim Health Care Repeal Will Reduce The Deficit | TPMDC (makin' shit up, like they always do so your media can steno it)
Don't Mess with Nancy Pelosi - TIME As the spring of 2005 wore on, some pestered her every week, asking when they were going to release a rival plan. "Never. Is never good enough for you?" (2006: good times!)

U.S. Will Hit Debt Limit No Later Than May 16, Geithner Says
SEC Asked Bank Of America For Details On Loan-Loss Reserves
Apple Weighting To Be Cut In Nasdaq Rebalance
Big Banks Go After 401(k) Trillions - BusinessWeek JPMorgan Chase, BofA, and Wells Fargo are gearing up to compete with Fidelity and Vanguard to administer retirement plans

FORA.tv - BioForum: Using Data to Infer Climatic Shifts on CA Coast
Spreading Lionfish Invasion Threatens Bahamas : NPR
The Cryptid Zoo: Beast of Gevaudan
‘Predator’ Smart Camera Locks Onto, Tracks Anything … Mercilessly | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Improbable Research
Journal of Unpublished Results
Journal of Universal Rejection
NCBI ROFL | Discoblog | Discover Magazine
Journal of Are You Fucking Kidding

Cocaine smugglers laundered billions through Wachovia bank - Yahoo! News
The Global Initiative for Drug Policy Reform The 50-year War on Drugs has failed (but the cop/prison industry has succeeded)
Woman Charged In Attack On 'Evil' Gauguin Painting Burns also said: "I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you."
Time lapse video of woman with HIV/AIDS - Boing Boing
'Hiccup Girl' Jennifer Mee: 'I'm Not Guilty' of Murder, but 'I Took the Path of the Devil'
Bristol Palin's Teen Pregnancy Work Earned Her $262K
Tennessee Sewage Plant Spill: 2 Workers Missing After Millions Of Gallons Of Wastewater Spill From Gatlinburg Plant Two workers were missing Tuesday after a wastewater treatment plant in a Smoky Mountains tourist town failed and spilled millions of gallons of sewage.

Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Images of a Peoples' Movement
The Myth of the Forever Family by Dawn Friedman The hard truth is that adoption is not just like giving birth. It is rarely as straightforward. And as much as we would like to think otherwise, not all forever families are forever
Tape Flags and First Thoughts: Things I Hate to Admit (adoption)

Condé Nast Got Hooked in $8 Million Spear-Phishing Scam | Threat Level | Wired.com

040411
American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. --  I've Been to the Mountaintop (April 3 1968)
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike (1968) (they were slaves and they died for the right to collectively bargain, which the Repubicans are now taking away)

Libya Rebels Advance On Strategic Oil Town
By Two-to-One Margin, Voters Think Libya Not Worth the Cost | FDL Action
Libyans in Misrata describe terror inflicted by Gaddafi's snipers | World news | The Guardian 'We are afraid to step into the street. You can just be shot', say Libyans in Misrata, as assault by regime enters sixth week
Libya: UK to increase number of Tornado jets | World news | guardian.co.uk David Cameron announces four more strike aircraft to target Gaddafi forces as US moves out of frontline operations

Efforts to Plug Japanese Reactor Leak Seem to Fail - NYTimes.com Experts estimate that about seven tons an hour of radioactive water is escaping the pit
Radiation Dosage Chart
Excite News Photo - Japan Earthquake leaking radioactive contaminated water drain through crack of a maintenance pit, right, into the sea, near the Unit 2
YouTube - Criticality Reactor #1 Fukushima Japan Neutron Beams *** Could it be more?
Daniel Wagner: Japan's Government Needs to Move Quickly
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Hi-Res Photos
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Hi-Res Photos 2
Defiant Japanese boat captain rode out tsunami - CNN.com

U.N. Vote on Palestinian State Could Force Israel's Hand - NYTimes.com (to do what? bomb the UN?)
Afghan Policeman Kills 2 NATO Soldiers
Yemen Protest Fired On, Killing 6
US Jumps Aboard Saudi Endgame on Yemen | FDL News Desk
Ivory Coast 'Final Assault' Begins In War
Laurent Gbagbo's forces fired on by UN attack helicopters | World news | The Guardian Four missiles reported to have been fired at a military base in Abidjan as UN seeks to stop weapons being used to hit civilians
Myanmar Storms Leave 700 Fishermen Missing

This Presidential Campaign Brought to You by a Massive Capitulation on Civilian Law | Emptywheel (Black Pres hates civil rights)
Campaign-finance Reform and the Supreme Court : The New Yorker
Court Upholds Arizona’s Tax Credit for Religious Tuition - NYTimes.com (now you're paying for Christian schools; taxpayers have no "standing" +5-4 of course)
Whatever Happened to Compassionate Conservatism? Whatever Happened to Compassionate Conservatism?
Will Media Give Monday’s Nationwide Union Rallies As Much Coverage As Tiny Tea Party Event? | Media Matters for America Will Media Give Monday’s Nationwide Union Rallies As Much Coverage As Tiny Tea Party Event?
Wisconsin recall drive already making history - The Plum Line - The Washington Post Wisconsin recall drive already making history (lamestream media won't cover this)
Fox: States spend nearly 4x more per capita on prisons than on education | Cop Block
Republicans Abandon Winning 2010 Strategy with Medicare Privatization Plan | FDL News Desk (taking away the teabaggers personal mobility scooters will not fly)
Scott taking aim at Florida's public hospitals - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com Gov. Rick Scott, who made millions running a private hospital company, took aim Wednesday at Florida's public hospitals.
Privatizing public hospitals: Scott orders study of replacing public hospitals - OrlandoSentinel.com Former corporate hospital executive seeks 'more rational' approach to paying hospitals for care of the uninsured (keep voting teabagger, FL, you had it coming)
POLL: Columbia/HCA whistleblowers stunned Rick Scott is atop Florida governor polls » Naples Daily News (FL elected a crook)
Truly Pathetic | Talking Points Memo Why on earth did the Democrat speaking for the Democrats just now on Hardball say it was "courageous" but "politically stupid" for Paul Ryan to put up a plan to abolish Medicare and other federal social programs? That's the best he can do? "Courageous"? (well, you-know-who isn't exactly "courageous" either)
YouTube - Zach Wahls Speaks About Family House Joint Resolution 6 which would end civil unions in Iowa (not even gay marriage)
A Revived CNN Takes On Fox News and Bill Sammon

Pennsylvania Limits Authority of Oil and Gas Inspectors - ProPublica (PA will sink into a hole in the ground)
60 Minutes Investigates 'Cutting Corners' On Foreclosures (video)

Glaciers melting faster than originally thought: study showing that the glaciers of Patagonia in South America are melting at a much faster rate than originally thought (Republicans say they are socialist glaciers)
Mastigias migration


YouTube - Manhood in the Mirror (TCE)
The Testicular Cancer Resource Center - Testicular Cancer Information for Everyone
TC-Cancer.com | Testicular Cancer Information & Support
Study Shows Women Like Using Lube for Sex. In Other News: Duh. - Los Angeles Sex, LA After Dark

The Highest-Earning Public College Presidents (best people, yadada)
YouTube - Andrew Lansley Rap = six hundred clause Health and Social Care Bill 2011 eviscerated in three minutes by amateur rapper
Chowchilla bus kidnapping: In Chowchilla, Calif., many residents are aghast that the three young men who kidnapped a bus full of children and entombed them in a quarry in 1976 might be paroled - latimes.com Thirty-five years ago in Chowchilla, Calif., three young men from upscale families kidnapped a bus full of children and their driver and buried them in a quarry
Chowchilla Calif school bus kidnapping -- The Crime Library — Fears And Nightmares — Crime Library on truTV.com

How to Cook Basic Beans with Steve Sando - Videos - CHOW
“Clothing In The Year 2000” (fashion predictions from 70 yrs ago)
don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story

Work around New York Times 20 article limit
The Easiest Way to Cheat the New York Times Paywall Still Works - Business - The Atlantic Wire - All it took was four lines of code to take down a paywall that cost the Times $40 to $50 million to build.
Philip Greenspun's Weblog » How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall?
The Yorkshire Ranter: Scaling and scoping the NYT paywall (sorry, it still doesn't make sense)

VGHQ » Hackers Take Down Sony and PlayStation.com, PSN Goes Offline group of hackers, who are known as Anonymous,
Facebook Photoshop App Scam Lures 600,000 Users With Fake Photos
Why the US needs to blacklist, censor pirate websites
Music Industry Will Force Licenses on Amazon Cloud Player — or Else | Epicenter | Wired.com
The MP3: A History Of Innovation And Betrayal : The Record : NPR

040311
Libyan conflict descending into stalemate as US winds down air strikes | World news | The Observer Rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces appear to be losing their way amid growing concern in the west over the revolution's end game
Libya: 400 illegal immigrants 'disappear' on way to Italy - Telegraph Aid agencies and coastguards are attempting to discover the whereabouts of two boats carrying more than 400 illegal immigrants towards Italy which have disappeared
revolutionology - Libyan blog

Afghanistan: when gentle Mazar-e-Sharif erupted in violence | World news | The Observer UN workers warn killings in surge of anger prompted by Qur'an burning could end Afghan mission
Afghanistan Protests Over Florida Quran Burning Enter Third Day (blood on Terry Jones' hands)
UN Envoy Details How Employees Were Killed During Quran Burning Protest In Afghanistan He placed direct blame on those who burned a copy of the Muslim holy book in Gainesville, Florida, last month, stoking anti-foreign sentiment that already was on the rise after nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan.
Suicide Bombers Kill 30, Wound 100 at Pakistani Shrine
Ivory Coast Fighters Prepare To Oust Leader Laurent Gbagbo
Ivory Coast refugees report massacres by Ouattara rebels | World news | The Observer Civilians sheltering in Liberia say fighters are attacking villages with orders to 'to kill everyone and anyone'
UN evacuates Ivory Coast staff | World news | guardian.co.uk UN worker says evacuation of 200 employees follows repeated attacks on its Abidjan offices by pro-Gbagbo forces
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs | World news | The Observer As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored
Judge Goldstone expresses regrets about his report into Gaza war | World news | The Guardian Richard Goldstone writes that Israeli military investigations have revealed that civilians were not targeted as a matter of policy (they just got in the way)
Amnesty International posters - in pictures | World news | The Observer Amnesty has produced powerful posters over the past 50 years. Here are some of the best
Iceland media initiative: Iceland seeks to transform itself into sanctuary for free speech - latimes.com An ambitious media initiative aims to promote transparency not only in Iceland but across an increasingly interconnected world. But first, lawmakers have to work out how to address national security and terrorism concerns.

Japan Nuclear Plant: 2 Missing Fukushima Workers Found Dead
Absorbent yet to soak up radioactive water at Fukushima plant | Kyodo News
Chemical, sawdust, newspaper mix used to plug leak at nuclear plant - CNN.com (that would be "attempt" to plug leak)
Radioactive Iodine-131 Found In U.S. Milk Samples - Slashfood

Constant—The Faulty Judgment of the Powerful (Harper's Magazine)
Panel votes unanimously to retain openly gay sailor - Stripes Central - Stripes

Budget Fight Looming on Medicare and Government’s Size - NYTimes.com Their Medicare proposal would allow those nearing eligibility to remain with the current system, and it would create a program that would provide payments to Medicare enrollees to buy private health insurance (which won't cover their personal mobility scooters or their air tanks)
House GOP budget to call for big changes to Medicare, Medicaid - CNN.com (sorry, your wars and bankers ate all the money)
Ohio Anti-Union Law: Opponents Start Repeal Push
Kasich wants to open parks to oil, gas drilling | The Marion Star | marionstar.com budget plan released this week includes a proposal to open up state parks to drilling for natural gas and oil, along with expanding timber sales.
The New Spin: The White House Would Be A Step Down For Sarah Palin | TPMDC
The Secret Government - Fox Business Video - FoxBusiness.com he Judge's plain truth on secret government, spying and transparency -

Transocean Execs Get Bonuses For 'Best Year In Safety,' Despite Gulf Disaster (like the bankers, they always win)
For Millionaires ‘Wealthy’ Is $7.5 Million, Fidelity Says - Bloomberg
Wachovia Paid Trivial Fine for Nearly $400 Billion of Drug Related Money Laundering « naked capitalism (your war on drugz at work)

The Azimuth Project - an international collaboration to create a focal point for scientists and engineers interested in saving the planet.
This Week’s Finds (Week 311) « Azimuth
YouTube - nicepeter's Channel (Einstein vs Hawking rap battle)

Truth breaks out on Nixon break-in (paranoid, delusional history at Nixon Library oh wait)
One small-town reporter makes a big difference: On the Media - latimes.com A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964. Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel.
Bill James, Solid Fool's Gold: Why can we develop athletes and not writers? - By Bill James - Slate Magazine Why are we so good at developing athletes and so lousy at developing writers?
Arianna Huffington: A Word About Digital Subscriptions to The Huffington Post - If you don't live in Winnipeg or are not an employee of The New York Times, you will continue to have full and free access to our news, information, opinion, and the rest of our rich offerings
Black Moses Barbie (Harriet Tubman Commercial) (1 of 3) on Vimeo
Black Moses Barbie commercial #2 of 3 on Vimeo
Cannabis Culture on Vimeo
'030' by The Good The Bad (UNCUT) on Vimeo
The Ramones Live: 26 Songs In 54 Minutes : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR

How Radio Host Alex Jones Has Cornered the Bipartisan Paranoia Market -- New York Magazine

Facebook sued for $1 billion over Intifada page The suit, a copy of which was obtained by technology blog TechCrunch, was filed in DC Superior Court by Larry Klayman, who describes himself in the complaint as "an American citizen of Jewish origin" who is "active in matters concerning the security of Israel and all people." Klayman also identifies himself as the founder of Freedom Watch
Huge malware attack compromises more than 1.5 million web pages | VentureBeat
USC Nude Photo Scandal: A Blow-by-Blow Analysis (Photos) - Los Angeles News - The Informer
YouTube - USC rooftop sex fratboy in trouble after pics go viral (japanese news animation commentary)
USC's Kappa Sigma at Center of Sexually Explicit Email Scandal: LAist
USC sex on roof scandal: Young lothario caught on camera in high-rise tryst goes into hiding | Mail Online Fraternity member sent email describing women as 'targets'
12 Helpful Tools to Monitor a Website’s Downtime | blueblots.com
Google Implements Two Step Account Verification
Epsilon Hack: Customers Targeted From Citigroup, Walgreens, TiVo, Capitol One, HSN, College Board

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Western Air Strike In Libya Kills Multiple Rebels, Rebel Fighters Report (send in the drones)
Andy Carvin (acarvin) on Twitter

Afghanistan: United Nations mission rocked by mob killings | World news | The Guardian Death toll unconfirmed after protesters storm Mazar-e-Sharif compound in response to Qur'an burning by US pastor (Fundie Terry Jones responsibile for at least seven deaths)
800 dead in Ivory Coast violence around Duekoue city, says Red Cross | World news | guardian.co.uk Delegates report 'huge number of bodies' from week of tribal clashes as fighting continues over disputed presidential election
BBC News - Ivory Coast: Abidjan in grip of fierce fighting Heavy fighting is taking place in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, for a third day as rival forces battle for power.
Census reveals that 17% of the world is Indian | World news | The Guardian Country closing gap with China by adding 181 million citizens in past decade – which is equivalent to population of Brazil
Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes - The Washington Post Simply put, the laws of armed conflict apply no less to non-state actors such as Hamas than they do to national armies.
Tor Project Wins Award for Role in Middle East Revolutions (Obama wants it banned)

Radioactive water from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking into sea | World news | guardian.co.uk Tepco officials say 20cm crack in containment pit under reactor two may be source
Japan Nuclear Crisis: Radioactive Water Leaks Into Sea From Crippled Plant

Citizenship duties - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the myth of bankster/corporate lawyer Obama's brilliance and "superior judgement")
Daily Kos: GOP to propose $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts
House GOP passes 'force of law' spending bill mocked by Dems - The Hill's Floor Action - Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), who broke with his party and said on the floor that this aspect of the bill "violates my conscious and the Constitution, and I cannot vote for it." ("my conscious" +Repubicans always only need one branch of gov)
House Session - C-Span - Anthony Weiner tells Rethugs to read "House Mouse, Senate Mouse" because it's short and rhymes
Getting America Back On Track | u4Ya.ca/blog - Rational Reasons to be Hopeful for the Future “The top 100 companies, with $5 trillion in 2010 revenue and $500 billion in pre-tax earnings, paid less than 10% last year in non-deferred federal taxes (Americans are so stupid)
Jon Stewart: Why Are We Cutting Corporate Taxes? GE’s not paying taxes … and public employees are the ones we’re calling “greedy, parasitic, and selfish?
US Republicans spend fortune trying to kill Duffy video - Mercy | TechEye The video shows United States Representative Sean Duffy moaning about how he is "struggling" to get by on his $174,000 salary.
CNN's Joe Johns Corrects Sean Duffy Selective Editing Report (video) | TPMDC
Wis. Dems To File First Recall Petitions Against GOP State Sen. Dan Kapanke | TPMDC
ThinkProgress » Gov. Kasich’s Jobs Plan: Drink More Booze, Hand The Profits To A Private Development Company Thus, Kasich is selling his state’s liquor stores at fire-sale prices, even as it faces billions in deficits (Replundercans privatising and giving away money to corps so they can kill Unions and pensions)
Rachel Maddow: Voter regret, backlash in wake of GOP war on workers - Urchins of the World Unite (Rethug Maine teabaggers bring back child slavery; why they don't want any history on their walls)
The Normalization Of Nullification | TPMMuckraker (segregationist Nut-ball America and the rise of the insanomaniacs)
Republicans rush to trample women's rights | Washington Times Communities

Joseph E. Stiglitz - Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% | Society | Vanity Fair
Fla. Senate panel diverts low-cost housing funds - BusinessWeek (Lex Luthor robs the bank, totally unexpected)

BBC News - Ring 'ripples' in Saturn and Jupiter linked to comets
Fake: Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan labeled most important find in Christian history « Derren Brown Blog

Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media - Magazine - The Atlantic
Bill Keller vs openness and transparency | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com (Christ, what an asshole +how's that paywall thingy working out for you?
The Guardian is going large in the States, says Rusbridger | Media | guardian.co.uk "I can't see anywhere in world that's tried charging [online] for general news that has made a go of it in the sense that you get enough people and enough money to make up for the loss of influence."

How Slavery Really Ended in America - NYTimes.com - “Somehow there was to my eye a weird, solemn aspect to them, as they walked slowly along, as if they, the victims, had become the judges in this awful contest, or as if they were . . . spinning, unknown to all, the destinies of the great Republic.”
Cornerstone Speech by Alexander H. Stephens March 21, 1861 Savannah, Georgia (White Southerners making shit up for 150 years and killing the country)
Mr. Lincoln and Freedom
Richmond EnquirerSaturday Morning, The True Issue (is slavery: in their own twisted words)

Univ. of Wisconsin Responds To GOP's Open-Records Request Against Professor | TPMDC (well played! +you can't do this to Republicans because they aren't public employees)
Conservative Think Tank Receives Bomb Threats After Michigan FOIAs | TPMDC (they are more used to doing this themselves)
Alan Hale: DUI Laws 'Destroying A Way Of Life' (video) The Republican from Basin implied that people need to drive home after drinking at their local bars (and kill a few people)
Every Member of Seattle's Legislative Delegation Goes on the Record in Favor of Legalizing Pot | Slog
FORA.tv - Glenn Wilson: Sex Wars (sex addiction is phony)

YouTube - wooden xylophone in Japanese forest plays Bach
YouTube - Nikon or Cannon?
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside on Vimeo
Free Posters for Everyone! - Dorm Room Dreadfuls

AT&T gets law passed to let it hike landline phone rates | Electronista
GJAIF: Gamers Deserve Better - G4, GamePro and GamrFeed get caught being stupid
GamePro, G4TV and VGChartz GamrFeed have been abusing multiple accounts to spam and manipulate /r/gaming for months : gaming
Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No.

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Gaddafi regime starts talks with the west to end conflict | World news | The Guardian Rebels offer ceasefire as doctor says seven civilians have been killed in an air strike
By merely bolstering the weaker side, we are prolonging Libya's civil war | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian The interventionists lack the courage of their convictions. If they really want Gaddafi gone, they should just get on with it ... As George Bush and Tony Blair found, you can drum up an international lawyer to defend anything (did you mention Obama?)

Syrian security forces crack down on 'Friday of Martyrs' | World news | The Guardian At least three people are killed and scores injured during protests across the country
Laurent Gbagbo's guard mounts last stand against rebels in Ivory Coast | World news | The Guardian Forces backing Ouattara bombard presidential palace • African Union calls on president to resign and end suffering
Afghanistan Quran Protest Leaves Up To 20 Dead, Two U.N. Staffers Reportedly Beheaded - The Christian preacher Terry Jones, who after international condemnation last year canceled a plan to burn copies of the Koran, supervised the burning of the book in front of a crowd of about 50 people at an obscure church in Florida on Sunday, according to his website.
Afghanistan: United Nations mission rocked by mob killings | World news | The Guardian Death toll unconfirmed after protesters storm Mazar-e-Sharif compound in response to Qur'an burning by US pastor Terry Jones ... thousands of people poured out of Mazar's Blue Mosque after a tub-thumping sermon by the presiding mullah (tub-thumpers at work)
The Washington Monthly - From Florida To Mazar-I-Sharif.... A radical Christian pastor in Florida, Terry Jones
Afghan government plans crackdown on revealing wedding dresses | World news | The Guardian Committees would ensure brides are modestly dressed and male and female guests do not mix under a new law
In France, breast is definitely not best | Fiachra Gibbons | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Claims that a couple breastfed their baby to death play to prejudices in a land where 'breasts are for your husband, not your baby' - France has the lowest breastfeeding rate in the western world (o rly)
Yglesias » Empty Chinese Houses “a property bubble like which I don’t think we’ve ever seen,” he says. “It will make the United States pale in comparison. It’s said that there’s around 64 million empty apartments (so, what happens to the Chinese economy when the Gov is forced to de-value?)

Japan Government Reportedly To Buy Partial Stake In Tokyo Electric Power, Parent Company Of Nuclear Plant
House Panel Investigating Plan To Halt Yucca Mountain Nuclear Site (more nukes)

Obama's new view of his own war powers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com But what Clinton's stated view really harkens back to is the Iran-contra scandal, when the Reagan administration funded the Nicaraguan contras despite an express Congressional prohibition on doing so, and then took the position -- when exposed -- that Congress has no power to restrict its national security decisions. That position was pioneered in 1987 by then GOP Rep. Dick Cheney
Eunomia » Put Not Your Trust In Princes This is an outrageous statement, but it’s entirely consistent with what the administration has been illegally doing for the last 12 days. They seem to believe quite seriously that, as long as they don’t call it a war, it doesn’t fall under any laws regulating war powers or the Constitution.

Does A Tea Party Rally Attracting “Dozens” Qualify As News? | Media Matters for America (to our elite liberal media but they won't cover hundreds of thousands protesting teabagger govs)
Firefighters, Cops Warn Republicans Anti-Union Stance Has Consequences Leaders from two unions known to support the Republican Party warned of serious repercussions for GOP candidates in the 2012 elections, saying the onslaught of anti-labor bills in state capitals has shifted their political allegiances (cops and firefighters, long a protected species that could vote identity politics against their own interests, wake up)

Republican policies don’t care about poor people - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post - If we’re going to reform entitlements, it seems, we’re going to start with the one that serves the poor. (everyone knows real Amuricans vote Republican)
US jobs data boosts Wall Street shares as FTSE finishes week over 6000 | Business | The Guardian Hopes that US economy is on course for recovery

Court Rejects Damages for Innocent Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison The 5-4 decision, which was hotly debated by the justices, shielded the New Orleans district attorney’s office from being held liable for its mistake (no justice in America)

Climate change: A record-making effort | The Economist including $100,000 from a fund set up by Bill Gates and $150,000 from the Koch foundation, whose animosity towards action on climate change made the Berkeley project look yet more suspicious to some climate-change activists
NewsDaily: Special report: When the drugs don't work A new wave of "super superbugs" with a mutation called NDM 1, which first emerged in India, has now turned up all over the world,
Giant stars reveal inner secrets for the first time
A new method for measuring X-ray optics aberrations - phase retrieval methods to measure wavefront aberrations produced by imperfect hard x-ray optics
Earth's gravity revealed in unprecedented detail (w/ video)
Putting Vanishing Points Into Perspective With Generative Architectural Collages | The Creators Project

New details and audio on Severin's suspension - The Names Blog - Boston.com - right-wing talk show host on Boston's WTKK-FM - In talking about a lawsuit involving a CEO being sued for sexual harassment by two former female employees, Severin said he had slept with his own interns and didn't understand the fuss

Alye Pollack's Anti-Bullying Video: Conn. Eighth Grader's Message Strikes A Chord
Rule63 @ paheal
Barry Michels, Therapist for Blocked Screenwriters : The New Yorker

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Google's recipe for recipes
Let me google that for you
All The News That’s Fit To … Oh No, Not Again! | Popehat
ShowMeWhatsWrong.com

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The wisdom and legality of arming Libyan rebels - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Question for Juan Cole - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Answer to Glenn Greenwald | Informed Comment
Revealed: Gaddafi envoy in Britain for secret talks | World news | The Guardian Contact with senior aide believed to be one of a number between Libyan officials and west amid signs regime may be looking for exit strategy
Libya foreign minister Moussa Koussa must face atrocities trial, rebels declare | World news | guardian.co.uk Revolutionary leadership wants defector returned and tried for crimes against humanity once Gaddafi is toppled
New Cracks In Gaddafi Regime As Minister Defects
Libya conflict: reactions around the world | World news | The Guardian The UN security council may have sanctioned air strikes, but they are viewed with ambivalence in most countries
Gaddafi's Son Toured Air Force Academy Before Uprising
Khamis Gaddafi Killed
Video: Khamis Gaddafi spotted on Libyan TV - Telegraph Libyan State TV broadcast what they claim is live footage of Colonel Gaddafi's son, Khamis Gaddafi.
Wells Fargo Jet Makes Mystery Flight Into Libya - the plane’s real owners were “buried four layers deep” beneath two companies registered in Cyprus and another in Switzerland. However, a U.S. official said the flight had “no connection” to the U.S. intelligence community.
The Mystery Behind Moammar Gadhafi's Birth: Some Say He's Jewish
FMC the Netherlands (FMCNL) on Twitter
Listen: Secret Libya Psyops, Caught by Online Sleuths | Danger Room | Wired.com
Rep. Gohmert: Libya Goal Is To "Deplete The Military" So Obama Can Call Up Private Army | Political Correction (yes, they are really insane)

URGENT: Radioactivity 10,000 times the limit found from groundwater: TEPCO | Kyodo News A Tokyo Electric official said the radiation level is ''extremely high.''
Fukushima Workers Face Risk of Uncontrolled Reactions, Atomic Agency Says - Bloomberg - The IAEA “emphasized that the nuclear reactors won’t explode,”
Analysis - Japan's nuclear nightmare set to run and run - Yahoo! (can't be "scrapped")
Has Japan 'lost the race' to prevent a total nuclear meltdown? - The Week Nuclear fuel apparently melts through the bottom of a container at one of the Fukushima reactors, heightening fears of a major meltdown
UK nuclear chief outlines scope of Fukushima report | shp
Japan under pressure to widen nuclear evacuation zone | World news | guardian.co.uk High levels of radiation detected outside current 20km zone • Prime minister plans to review nuclear energy policy
View images of tsunami by date, location - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com
Entomb? Cement pumps flown in to nuke plant - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com Same company that helped seal in Chernobyl is sending equipment
Fukushima Japan nuclear power plant updates: get all the data | World news | guardian.co.uk
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Hi-Res Photos
Citizen Action in Japan Prevented Larger Plutonium Disaster at Fukushima Reactor 3 | Common Dreams - MOX fuel was not loaded into the reactor until August 21, 2010 and the reactor began operation on September 18, 2010. Consequently, all the MOX fuel remains in the core and none of it had yet been transferred to the unprotected fuel pool. (it would have been much worse, otherwise)
Japan Earthquake Survivors' Stories - Graphic - WSJ.com
In the middle of hell | Exclusive 360 degree photos of Japan tsunami aftermath | thetelegraph.com.au

The Dangerous US Game in Yemen | The Nation - “The global war on terror has acquired a life of its own,” says Colonel Lang. “It’s a self-licking ice cream cone (they always reinforce each other)
Kirkuk: Ignore It While You Can | Spero News
Kurds Move To Upend The Status Quo In Kirkuk : NPR (Steve Inskeep, NPR's $331K "reporter")
The Hindu : News / National : Census 2011: population pegged at 1,210.2 million
Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death - CNN.com Hena was walking from her room to an outdoor toilet when Mahbub Khan gagged her with cloth, forced her behind nearby shrubbery and beat and raped her ... dropped after 70 lashes ... Amazingly, an initial autopsy report cited no injuries and deemed her death a suicide ... Sharia Law
Bangladesh clerics arrested after girl whipped to death | World news | The Guardian Fourteen-year-old accused of relationship with married man given 70 lashes
When a Girl is Executed...for Being Raped - NYTimes.com
Rugby star facing axe murder charges A former top South African rugby player has allegedly hacked three people to death in a revenge attack after his daughter was reportedly gang-raped and infected with HIV.
China 'Jasmine Revolution' Crackdown Nabs Over 20 Dissidents And Human Rights Advocates
Russia Detains 150 Anti-Government Protesters In Moscow, St. Petersburg

Reform, More Illusory Than Real | Politics & Media | SPLICETODAY.com Why I no longer stand by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - Obama Healthcare Reform is a Joke: Conservatives Won This War - Polls show that most Americans consider our system good to excellent, and many think we have “the best healthcare system in the word.” (two years of Ben Nelson and Queen Olympia for this; so no real financial reform would happen)
Government Shutdown: Polls Show Voters Blamed GOP For 1995 Crisis (that was then)
YouTube - Anthony Weiner KILLS At Congressional Correspondents' Dinner
YouTube - Congressman Anthony Weiner Responds to Top 5 Upvoted Questions on reddit

A Rising Tide or a Shrinking Pie The Economic Impact of Legalization Versus Deportation in Arizona (Arizona racists screw themselves)
House Republicans seek IRS probe of AARP - Yahoo! News (they hate old people)
Jim Messina, Obama's Enforcer | The Nation (drives a Porche, makes sure Dems are Conservative "centrists" like you-know-who)
Tea Party Rallies To Send GOP Message On Spending "You're going to see massive amounts of (GOP) primaries" in next year's election, said Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots. If the Ohio Republican strikes a budget deal that doesn't cut spending enough, Meckler said Wednesday, "he is going to face a primary challenge." (their moment has passed but you reap what you sow)

Ohio Union Bill Poised To Become Law
GOP Wants To Legislate Use Of Them, But Just Don't Use The Word "Uterus" In Front Of Them | Crooks and Liars It's a damn shame they're not equally as squeamish making laws to put the government right into women's uteri (FL Dem suggests incorporating wife's uterus to keep Republicans out of it)
Jan Brewer Signs Controversial Abortion Bill Into Law
Ohio Abortion Heartbeat Bill Approved By House Panel outlawing the procedure at the first detectable fetal heartbeat.
Ohio Collective Bargaining Limits Prevail, But Unions Vow Fight
As Gov Kasich's Approval Tanks, Ohio House Passes Anti-Union Bill
Same Sex Couples Denied Immigration Benefits By U.S. a review by lawyers from the Department of Homeland Security, it was concluded that a law prohibiting the government from recognizing same sex marriages must be followed ("homeland security" now determining marriage law)
Floridians Are Maybe Starting To Understand Their Governor Is A Grifter
Maine Gov. Paul LePage Regrets Stirring Up Labor Mural Controversy (teabaggers waging war on ordinary people)
Wisconsin Union Law Battle Has Republicans Facing New Hurdle
Maddow Stunned By Think Tank Targeting Professors Who Use Her Name In Emails (video) She also noted that the Center is funded by many prominent conservative foundations, such as those of the Koch brothers, the Waltons, and the parents of Blackwater chief Erik Prince
Wisconsin Judge Declares Union Law Not In Effect (Walker crumbles)
Mike Huckabee Says He Wants Americans To Be Indoctrinated At Gunpoint « SpeakEasy

CNBC Realty Check Blog — Olick: Banks Fight Mortgage Principal Reduction — CNBC.com Real Estate News - CNBC Jamie Dimon told reporters, "Yeah, that's off the table." (Obama took a lot of things "off the table" including long prison sentences)
Ireland's Black Thursday: banking sector's black hole to be revealed | Business | guardian.co.uk Trading in Bank of Ireland and AIB shares has been suspended, hours before Central Bank reveals extent of the country's black hole
Russ Feingold: Jeffrey Immelt must go - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (Obama -always- behind the curve)
For Many Lawmakers, The BP Spill Offered Chance To Pitch A Constituent's Solution (spill, baby, profit)
Boeing Received Minimum Of $5.3B In Banned U.S. Subsidies, WTO Says
IRS Commissioner Says Shutdown Scenarios Under Discussion - Bloomberg (Republicans won't let you have your tax refund)

What is to be done about sexual harassment in the philosophy profession? - New APPS (Philosophy Profs are creepy, sexist old men)
News: A Call to Shun - Inside Higher Ed Let's say there is a scholar in your field who is known to harass women.
sexual harassment « What is it like to be a woman in philosophy? - Archive for the ‘sexual harassment’ Category
Kieran Healy's Weblog – Gender divides in Philosophy and other disciplines
Disciplinary Relations/Sexual Relations: Feminist and Foucauldian Reflections on Professor–Student Sex - TAYLOR - 2010 - Hypatia - Wiley Online Library
Active Bystanders: Looking Out for One Another At MIT
The Yale Herald: Yale Students File Title IX Suit Against the University The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced today it will open an investigation to review Yale’s policies for dealing with sexual harassment and sexual assault.

They Call It Pollution. We Call It Life. : NPR The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which gets some of its funding from such companies as ExxonMobil, has released a counterstrike to Al Gore's new documentary An Inconvenient Truth. (ExxonMobil in 2006: pollution is good for you)
Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics Technique - Technology Review (Phong shading)
YouTube - Oh No, Pi Politics Again
YouTube - A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space (miliary insanity)
Giant Virus-Eating Virus Discovered in Antarctica Lake "Organic Lake Virophage" or OLV, was discovered in Organic Lake, a 6,000-year-old body of saltwater in eastern Antarctica
AFP: After 30 years, war on AIDS at 'moment of truth' "AIDS has claimed more than 25 million lives and more than 60 million people have become infected with HIV," Ban said in his progress report on the disease.
Psychological debriefing is a waste of time -- Wessely and Deahl 183 (1): 12 -- The British Journal of Psychiatry
Psychological debriefing for preventing post traum... [Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2002] - PubMed result There is no current evidence that psychological debriefing is a useful treatment for the prevention of post traumatic stress disorder after traumatic incidents. Compulsory debriefing of victims of trauma should cease.
CBC.ca | The Current | Teen Suicide (bullying)
Guest Blog: Walking the Line Between Good and Evil: The Common Thread of Heroes and Villains ... X-Altruists and Sociopaths: A Genetic Link?
Post-Sex Blues Plague a Third of Young Women, Study Suggests - Yahoo! News ... The next step, Schweitzer said, is to look at women's emotional characteristics and how they view themselves to see if personality contributes to bedroom blues (it has to be her fault)

Is It Plausible That Michelle Rhee Really Never Considered the Possibility that Teachers and/or School Administrators Cheat? | Beat the Press
Newport Beach, libraries: Newport Beach considering going bookless at its original library - latimes.com The city is considering closing its original library and replacing it with a community center that would offer all the same features — except for the books (Republicans: libraries are socialistic)
How a Bill Could Make It Hard to Buy Your Favorite Beer - Ben Terris - Life - The Atlantic Beer distributors and producers are warring in Washington. What's at stake? The right to ship beer straight to consumers.
Authorities in Awe of Drug Runners' Jungle-Built, Kevlar-Coated Supersubs | Magazine

FBI — Help Solve an Open Murder Case, Part 2
FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
Very Tough Love | This American Life (Georgia Drug Court is very expensive)

Bureaucracy
The Atheist Experience™: Open thread on episode #702: Ray Comfort
How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) - Austin Kleon
YouTube - Fran Lebowitz: Reflections on Austen

Census Maps Using Word Frequency From 19 Million Dating Website Profiles | Colossal (+Vermont is the only "liberal" State)
Google making app that would identify people's faces - CNN.com
GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons' Elephant Hunt Sparks Outrage (graphic video)
NameCheap Blog » Transfer for $4.99 and Help Save the Elephants (screw the Republican CEO of GoDaddy)
Mobile Carrier Delays Harm Internet Security | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Libya and Middle East unrest - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Pro-Gaddafi forces retake Brega and advance on Ajdabiya • Britain backs US on legality of arming Libyan rebels • Libyan foreign minister flies to London to defect
Gaddafi troops retake key oil port of Ras Lanouf | World news | guardian.co.uk Libya rebels withdraw from oil town as international coalition continue discussions over legality of arming them
Looking for Luck in Libya - NYTimes.com (little Tommy Friedman: "boots on the ground")
Administration Denies that Libya Mission Goes Beyond UN Mandate | FDL News Desk
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: Goodies And Baddies - The idea of "humanitarian intervention" which is behind the decision to attack in Libya is one of the central beliefs of our age.

Radiation rises in seawater near Fukushima plant | World news | guardian.co.uk Japanese officials concede they are no closer to resolving nuclear crisis as high level of radiation is detected in ocean
Japan Nuclear Crisis: Setbacks Mount In Leaking Plant - TEPCO acknowledged publicly for the first time that at least four of the plant's six reactors will have to be decommissioned once the crisis subsides, citing the corrosive seawater used to cool reactors and spent fuel pools.
Can US nuke plants handle blackouts? - US news - Environment - msnbc.com 'Given what happened in Japan ... Do we need to make it even more robust?' official asks

UN chief: Israel's occupation is 'morally, politically unsustainable' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Ban Ki-moon calls on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to take advantage of this 'crucial time' to move peace talks forward and realize the two-state solution. (Israel: "what Palestine?")
Challenge to Cameron over torture claims | World news | The Guardian Alleged terrorist says he was taken to Uganda and interrogated by MI5
BBC News - Facebook drops 'intifada' page for promoting violence Facebook has removed a page calling for a new Palestinian uprising against Israel after more than 350,000 people signed up to it.
Wilders 'anti-Islam' trial to go ahead - Europe - Al Jazeera English Court rules case will continue against Dutch politician Geert Wilders on charges of inciting hatred against Muslims.
Assad blames conspirators for Syrian protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Syria's president makes first public address since protests erupted two weeks ago, but fails to make expected concession (and no apologies, either)
PressTV - Pakistanis protest US drone attacks
Pakistan's secret dirty war | World news | The Guardian n Balochistan, mutilated corpses bearing the signs of torture keep turning up, among them lawyers, students and farm workers. Why is no one investigating
Brazil considers helping Portugal ease debt crisis | Business | guardian.co.uk Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff may offer former colonial power a financial lifeline
BBC - Peston's Picks: The unbelievable truth about Ireland and its banks Ireland's central bank and new government will confirm on Thursday that the hole in the country's banks is even wider, deeper and darker than seemed to be the case last November,
Ten years of same-sex marriage: a mixed blessing | Radio Netherlands Worldwide homosexual couples still marry far less often than heterosexual couples, partly because they still face obstacles when they wish to have children.
SBS Dateline | China s Ghost Cities (64 million vacant apartments)
Spain's unemployed: one in five under 30 still looking for that first job | World news | The Guardian With the 16-19-year-old jobless rate at 43%, the young think they face emigration or harder lives than their parents
UK Uncut arrests threaten future protests, lawyer warns | UK news | The Guardian Matt Foot, solicitor at Birnberg Pierce, says the detention of 145 activists will 'threaten the right to peacefully protest'
Doctor in court after father's 27-year fight for justice for dead daughter | World news | The Guardian French court to give verdict on Dr Dieter Krombach's involvement in death of André Bamberski's daughter Kalinka
YouTube - History of U.S. Intervention in Iran - 1953 Until Present

Senate vote may end Obama's climate change ambitions | Environment | guardian.co.uk Four proposals seek to ban or limit US government's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (Republicans: pollution is good for you and a little global warming will bring prosperity)

Maine GOP Legislators Looking To Loosen Child Labor Laws (teabaggers in action, supporting business with child slaves)
Texas Republicans Take Harder Line On Immigration : NPR
Proposed Texas immigration law contains convenient loophole for ‘the help’ - Yahoo! News
Let's say it again: Florida's legislators are for sale - St. Petersburg Times It is now legal in Florida for the leaders of our House and Senate, of both the Republican and Democratic parties, to operate what are laughably called "leadership funds." ("bribes" - Republicans at work corrupting your systems)
Childish Wisconsin GOP Taunts "Leftist" Judge | The Awl
Scott Fitzgerald: We've broken the power of unions - JSOnline
GOPers Demand Sean Duffy Salary Tape Be Pulled From The Internet | TPMDC (videotaped at public meeting)
Rachel Maddow: Wisconsin governor goes rogue to force anti-union bill (Rachel is the excellent)

Tax the Super Rich now or face a revolution Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch Commentary: A ‘Super-Rich Delusion’ is leading us to ruin
Austerity Games, Here And There - NYTimes.com But by then expansionary austerity was the official doctrine of the Conservatives in Britain (and also the ECB) and of the GOP here. So, how are they dealing with the collapse of their doctrine? - contraction is expansionary! (up is down, Conservatives are smart, etc)
As Economy Sputters, a Timid Fed - Economic Scene - NYTimes.com (Fed/bankster deficit hawks were wrong every time, have learned nothing)
House Votes To Terminate Obama Administration's Anti-Foreclosure Program (Obama happy that his do-nothing failure program is axed)
Why “#StartUpBritain” is nothing more than a government backed link farm (usual Conservative smoke-and-mirrors)
gdvaL.jpg (C&H - Capitalism)

AIDS vaccine in final testing
Colchicine price increase: how drug companies are taking advantage of the FDA's Unapproved Drugs Initiative. - By Arthur Allen - Slate Magazine How drug companies are making crucial, common drugs up to 100 times more expensive.

BBC News - Jordan battles to regain 'priceless' Christian relics They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born
Britain has fewer high-tech medical machines than Estonia and Turkey - Telegraph Hospitals in Britain have fewer high-tech medical machines than those in poorer countries such as Estonia and Turkey, according to the public spending watchdog.
Debut of the first practical 'artificial leaf' Scientists have claimed one of the milestones in the drive for sustainable energy -- development of the first practical artificial leaf.

County Health Rankings
Steinbolt1, My Fourth Day in the Mental Ward | Steinbolt1, Update on my mental health

YouTube - The Beauty of Pixar
YouTube - Smoke on the Water [HD]
YouTube - Just Keep Going, You Got Nothing To Lose
Blödes Orchester on Vimeo
YouTube - Words are worse than Sticks and Stones (bullied 8th grader tells story with no words)

Righthaven loses second fair use ruling over copyright lawsuits - Friday, March 18, 2011 | 4:56 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun "Righthaven is not using the copyright the same way the R-J used it. Righthaven is using it to support a lawsuit," Mahan said.
EFF wants Righthaven to pay for its own ass-kicking - Boing Boing
RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file-sharing cases

As Its Paywall Launches, Times Announces Deep Discounts Paper tries to lure readers to pay model with 99-cents offer
Is All of Human Knowledge on the Internet? : Discovery News - One word: copyright.
Maximum PC | Palm: The Rise and Fall of a Legend

Kathy Schrock's - Google Blooms Taxonomy
25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later
Tell-all telephone
How Nokia fell from dominance and got pinned down by competitors - Economic Times

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'Carnage Beyond Imagination' In Misrata As Gaddafi Pounds Rebels
Libya crisis: live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk International conference on Libya being held in London • Fighting continues near Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte
Libya War: Rebels Battle Outside Gaddafi Hometown Of Sirte Libyan government tanks and rockets blunted a rebel assault on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown
Gaddafi's Army, Libyan Rebels, Square Off For Showdown
Obama on Libya: What Would MLK Say? | Antemedius President Obama on Monday said he would "never hesitate" to use the U.S. military "unilaterally" to defend "interests" and "values," including "maintaining the flow of commerce." Fear of exactly that led the founders of this republic to give Congress the exclusive power to declare war.

Japan earthquake: life goes on amid the rubble - in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk Japanese survivors try to rebuild their lives following the devastating earthquake and tsunami
Japan mulls nationalising Fukushima nuclear plant company | World news | guardian.co.uk Doubt over Tepco's future coincides with mounting criticism of its handling of the worst nuclear accident in country's history ... Shimizu's firm has been accused of delaying the use of seawater to cool overheating reactors at Fukushima because of the damage it might cause.
Togetter - "damage the image of the library (Tohoku region Pacific Ocean earthquake in 2011) Earthquake Damage to Libraries"
YouTube - Chernobyl "Biorobots" Part-1 (800,000 people, 45 seconds at a time)

US army apologises over photos of soldiers posing with dead Afghans | World news | guardian.co.uk (the photos, not the dead Afgans)
Army: Rolling Stone Photos Of Afghan Killings 'In Striking Contrast" To Our Standards, Values (photos, not the killings)
Syrian cabinet resigns as regime seeks to calm protests | World news | guardian.co.uk President Bashar al-Assad accepts resignations amid speculation over scrapping of emergency laws
Israel threatens unilateral steps if UN recognizes Palestinian state - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Foreign Ministry instructs envoys in 30 countries to send 'diplomatic protest' to host nations over plan for September vote in General Assembly.
Israel West Bank Annexations Considered (first, illegal "settlements," then "it's ours!")
Brisbane rape victim sues UAE luxury hotel - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A Brisbane woman is suing a five-star hotel in the United Arab Emirates after she was drugged and raped by co-workers and jailed for eight months

I have no regrets, says PJ Crowley after state department resignation | World news | The Guardian Spokesman tells BBC he believes Pentagon treatment of jailed soldier Bradley Manning is 'counterproductive' to US interests
Frontline Ignores Most Embarrassing “Cause” of WikiLeaks Leak | Emptywheel

BP Managers May Face Manslaughter Charges Following Gulf Oil Spill: Bloomberg Report
Obama administration restricts findings on Gulf’s dead dolphins The Obama administration has issued a gag order on data over the recent spike of dead dolphins, including many stillborn infants, washing up on Mississippi and Alabama shorelines, and scientists say the restriction undermines the scientific process (add science to the list of things Obama is will to throw under the bus for his corporate daddies)

Wisconsin Union Law Fight Heads To Court
Weigel : Poll: Rick Scott Joins the Ranks of the New Republican Governors Who've Torqued Everybody Off
Rick Scott Faces Challenge Over Decision To Make Drug Tests Mandatory For State Workers (criminal Lex Luthor at work)
Conservative Think Tank Seeks Michigan Profs' Emails About Wisconsin Union Battle ... And Maddow | TPMDC (they always escalate)
Fox News Exec Bill Sammon Linked Obama To Socialism On Air, But Thought It Wasn't True (audio)
Weigel : Steve King's Cattle Call: An Autopsy

What's At Stake In The Massive Walmart Anti-Discrimination Case Before The Supreme Court "If this class action mechanism is undermined, I fear that it could mean massive amounts of discrimination that would remain undiscovered and un-remedied,"
Big Banks Save Billions As Homeowners Suffer, Internal Federal Report By CFPB Finds
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether - NYTimes.com
Scocca : Ronald Reagan Cared More About Protecting Americans from Corporate Greed Than Barack Obama Does Let's see...$3.2 billion is $200 million more than the amount that the Obama Administration wanted to slash from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, because the White House was showing that it was serious about restraining spending in tough times. So the poor go without fuel, and G.E. gets $3.2 billion in handouts, and the budget almost balances out. Fiscal discipline! (Obama far to the right of Reagan)
Jon Stewart Calls Out NBC News For Not Reporting on GE's $0 Tax Bill (video) (they wouldn't report on themselves, would they?)
Chinese Regulators: More Action Needed Against 'Irrational' Property Market
Largest Mortgage Firms Profit from Crime, Kill Moral Hazard for All of Wall Street | FDL Action (Obama had their backs)
JPMorgan loses court ruling over loan putbacks | Reuters - Insurer need not show breaches of individual loans

BBC News - China 'to overtake US on science' in two years (Republicans: "science is socialistic")
First Conservation Laws Derived For A Virtual Universe - Technology Review Symmetry is intimately linked to conservation laws in the real Universe. Now physicists have worked out how to use the same approach in a virtual one
BBC News - Doctors cause a third of stubborn high blood pressure A third of hard-to-treat high blood pressure may actually be 'fake' and instead a patient's nervous response to being seen by a doctor, say experts (needing expensive drugs to control)
APOD: 2011 March 29 - Kepler's Suns and Planets
Scientists discover one of 'world's oldest brains' belonging to Iron Age man in ritual killing | Mail Online Carbon dating suggests it is around 2,500 years old Archaeologists baffled at how brain has survivede - a man in Iron Age Britain who was sacrificed in a ritual killing. (eewwww +they had death panels)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration of African American Men | LA Progressive (Obama's corporate slave-state Amerika)
Homeland Insecurity:US Muslim Troops Abused By Uncle Sam's Theocrats

Who Goes to Hell? - FoxNews.com
Team Hell gets loud | slacktivist - Team Hell gets loud | slacktivist That’s the whole ball of wax — the whole ball of fire and brimstone — right there. That’s the “biblical” case that Team Hell is always on about. Pretty weak.

Rob Bell's Upcoming Book on Heaven & Hell Stirs Blog, Twitter Backlash on Universalism | Liveblog | Christianity Today
Post on hell lands pastor in hot water
Heretics | This American Life
The fall and rise of Carlton Pearson

The Muqata: Talmud Study now Mandatory in South Korea . In a country of close to 49 million people who believe in Buddhism and Christianity, there are more people who read the Talmud - or at least own their own copy at home - more than in the Jewish state. Much more.
Babylonian Talmud: Sanhedrin 59 A heathen who studies the Torah deserves death (Jews: "reading=stealing" - big content 2,000 years before CD's)
Elder of Ziyon: More on Korean Talmud studies - not quite as it was reported
The Talmud is assigned reading to all Elementary school kids here (Catholics go/already are insane)
America under the Talmud (more fundamentalism)

YouTube - Perlman Zukerman Handel Halvorsen Passacaglia
YouTube - twin baby boys have a conversation - part 2
YouTube - Twin babies laughing at each other

BigAl's Books and Pals: The Greek Seaman / Jacqueline Howett - An author takes exception to a review of her book & comments on the reviewer's site. What could possibly go wrong? ... "This is definitely a master class on how to burn bridges in the publishing industry."
"My Writing Is Fine" Snake Mug from Zazzle.com
YouTube - The Greek Seaman book excerpt
Authors Behaving Badly | Red Adept Reviews
Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic Alice Hoffman
To quote rhiannonhero from LJ: "Anne Rice wouldn't last a day in fandom, yo."

Bronx Zoo's Cobra (BronxZoosCobra) on Twitter
Bronx Zookeeper (BronxZookeeper) on Twitter

Why Facebook’s Political Moves Should Terrify Us All Rather than hiring lobbyists, Facebook is hiring Washington insider
BBC News - Spotify ads hit by malware attack
For Some, Amazon Takes the Cloud Out of Its Cloud: Cloud Computing News «

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Obama Libya Speech Strongly Defends Intervention (Full Text)
Libyan rebels halted in advance on Sirte | World news | guardian.co.uk Muammar Gaddafi's troops sent to save his home city as David Cameron praises British pilots carrying out air strikes
The war in Libya: who controls the skies? | World news | guardian.co.uk Nato is now formally in charge, but France and Britain remain in the driving seat for the next few critical days
Analysis: Rebel leaders cautious as airstrikes reshape battle against Gaddafi | World news | The Guardian Libyan revolution's leaders privately acknowledge turnaround is no reason to believe they can pull off military victory
Tripoli Battle Looms As Libya Rebels Advance Through Gaddafi Hometown

The Emails from a Fukushima Nuclear Plant Worker - Global - The Atlantic Wire
Japan business lobby gives OK to scrap corporate tax cut - Yahoo! News (never in Ameristan)

Syrian troops fire teargas at protesters in Deraa | World news | guardian.co.uk Witnesses say shots were heard as forces confronted up to 4,000 demonstrators in southern city
India Pirate Bust Nabs 16, Rescues 16 Hostages The Indian navy has seized around 120 pirates, mostly from Somalia, over the past few months. Two weeks ago, the navy captured 61 pirates when they attacked a naval ship.
Explosion In Yemen Kills Dozens; Political Deal Still Possible A series of blasts at a bullet factory in south Yemen killed at least 110 people Monday when residents broke in to steal ammunition a day after clashes between militants and the army in the town, doctors said.
Tahrir Documents
Afghan Elite Borrowed Freely From Kabul Bank - NYTimes.com The terms were hard to beat: no collateral, little or no interest. And repayment optional, at least in practice.
Madonna sued by charity workers over scrapped Malawi school | World news | The Guardian Chirambo said some of the workers he represented were directly connected to the school project, while others taught Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism of which Madonna, 52, is a devotee (that didn't work out so well)
Rodrigo Rosenberg’s Murder in Guatemala : The New Yorker Unravelling the ultimate political conspiracy.
France Seeks UN Council Action to End Ivory Coast Conflict - Businessweek

The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon (because it would undermine the confidence in the military)
The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics (more pictures Obama doesn't want you to see)

Biden Team Apologizes To Reporter Scott Powers For Keeping Him In Closet During Fundraiser (at least they didn't take his clothes away)
Emails: Insiders Worried Over Political 'Meddling' - They show that insiders described the unusual political vetting as "meddling," "nuts" and "bananas!" (Obama's super-secret national pro-business surveillance state)
Michigan Becomes First State To Curtail Jobless Aid Gov. Rick Snyder signed controversial legislation on Monday, making Michigan the first state in the country to reduce unemployment insurance for those who lose their jobs through no fault of their own (Rethugs at work mugging your workers)
Indiana Dems To Return Home With Big Concessions From GOPers | TPMDC
Wisconsin Union Law Fight Sees Fresh Controversy (Gov will dissolve the other two branches of government)
Maine Department Of Labor Quietly Removes Mural Over The Weekend after Gov. Paul LePage (R) sparked controversy last week by ordering it removed and saying it was biased against businesses and employers - the governor made his decision after complaints from businesses owners, eventually pointing to a single anonymous letter, in which the author said that when looking at the mural, he or she felt like it was something from "communist North Korea." (teabagger will rename Dept. of Labor Dept. of Pro-Business)
The Anti-Obama: Maher Introduces The Perfect GOP 2012 Candidate
Republicans Prepare To Reject Final White House Budget Offer | TPMDC (yes, they moved the football again)
The Washington Monthly Quote Of The Day ... That disgraced former House Speaker sure does say strange things ... Unless we all become conservative Christians, the next thing you know, prominent leaders might start cheating on multiple wives (oh wait)
Will Islamophobia be a key feature of 2012 presidential race? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post (if the Rethugs have anything to say about it)
Planned Parenthood fights to prevent loss of federal funding: Health | Alaska news at adn.com Some say it's leading abortion provider; others point out services ... Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has gotten attention around the country for being one of few Republicans to speak out in support of Planned Parenthood.
Female workers make gains but still earn less than men | NewsOK.com The number of women in the workplace is growing, but their pay is significantly lower.
Barely Legal: Anti-Choice Lawmakers Make Bold Moves | EcoSalon | Conscious Culture and Fashion There are a number of ways anti-choice groups and legislators are currently battling the right to choose (Rethugs regulatin' your uterus)
Donald Trump Birth Certificate Released By Potential Presidential Candidate (turns out not to be official, oh, the irony)
White House's Birther Strategy Working To Perfection (On Fox News!) | Media Matters for America (part of his 11-dimensional strategy)

States broke? Maybe they cut taxes too much | McClatchy (can't ... connect ... the ... dots)
Housing market: 13% of all U.S. homes are vacant - Mar. 28, 2011 Maine had the highest proportion of empty housing stock, at 22.8%. Other states with gluts of empty houses included Vermont (20.5%), Florida (17.5%), Arizona (16.3%) and Alaska (15.9%) (worst ... States ... run ... by ... teabaggers)

Opinion: Why I didn't sign deficit letter - Joseph E. Stiglitz - POLitico.com I believe the Bowles Simpson recommendations represent, to too large an extent, a set of unprincipled political compromises that would lead to a weaker America — with slower growth and a more divided society. (apparently America is not ready for a "serious, adult conversation" about throwing granny under the train)
GE Defends Tax Record, Attacks New York Times In Twitter Campaign The GE public affairs account calls the Times story "inaccurate," "erroneous," and "grossly oversimplified." (but not, you know, "wrong")
Should Homeowners Be Jailed For Taking Out Bad Loans? (Obama thinks so)

Image of the Day: One Trillion Stars! Andromedea Galaxy in Infrared & X Ray
APOD: 2011 March 28 - Time Lapse Auroras Over Norway
GVCS tools - Open Source Ecology

When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real? - usatoday.com (no, they cheated)
Rev. Brent Girouex Had Sex With Boys to Cure Them of Homosexual Urges - True Crime Report
World map of The Penis Size Worldwide (country) by Country - TargetMap
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What would a real life Barbie look like?
YouTube - 68 Domino Techniques / Inventions
Unusual ballroom underwater in Goldalming, Surrey | Life | Sabotage Times
Cité de la musique Live
Earth Hour 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
YouTube - Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church spirtiual song

Paul Baran, 84, Dies - Helped Pave Way for Internet - NYTimes.com Mr. Baran’s invention was so far ahead of its time that in the mid-1960s, when he approached AT&T with the idea to build his proposed network, the company insisted it would not work and refused.

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Libyan rebels take back oil towns of Brega and Ras Lanuf in westward push | World news | guardian.co.uk Gaddafi's forces ousted with help from international air strikes as regime accuses coalition of trying to push Libya into civil war
Libya Rebels Push West, Take Back Key Oil Town From Gaddafi Forces
Clinton, Gates: Libya Operation Could Last Months (at least 1 Friedman Unit)
The war in Libya: Nato decides how far it wants to go | World news | guardian.co.uk Nato faces a dilemma. If France thinks the alliance is not being aggressive enough, it could carry on flying its own missions (Sark going all unilateral and rogue)
Libya: Bernard-Henri Lévy dismisses criticism for leading France to conflict | World news | The Observer Philosopher says criticism of dealings with Sarkozy of no importance compared with 'avoiding a bloodbath in Benghazi'
Johy Cole: An Open Letter to the Left on Libya | Informed Comment
Top Ten Ways that Libya 2011 is Not Iraq 2003 | Informed Comment
Tally on Libya Should Include Geopolitical Distraction: Egypt, China, Iran, North Korea Watching - The Washington Note (response to Cole)
Misinformed Commentary: A Response to Juan Cole From the Left | The Tomathon
The Qaddafi I Know: The Good, the Bad, and the West’s Ugly Intervention - By Yoweri Museveni | Foreign Policy

Huge Radiation Spike At Fukushima Nuclear Plant An Error, Japan Officials Say
Fukushima Tsunami Plan: Japan Nuclear Plant Downplayed Risk
Radiation In Massachusetts Rainwater Likely From Japan
Map: See Which Earthquake-Prone Areas Have the Most People - Environment - Good

Syria 'to lift emergency law' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Syrian government adviser confirms to Al Jazeera that the country's emergency law is to be lifted but fails to say when.
Anti-cuts march draws hundreds of thousands as police battle rioters | Society | guardian.co.uk Turnout for generally good-natured rally exceeds organisers' expectations, but mood marred by violent minority
Liberal Democrats in mutiny over benefit cap of £500 a week for families | Politics | The Observer Party joins forces with charities and senior figures in local government to warn about risk of more child poverty
Opposition to India-EU drugs deal - Asia - Al Jazeera English - Activists fear a free trade agreement could risk lives that depend on affordable drugs (big pharma deathpanels)
YouTube - Pakistani Actress Defies Mullah Accusing Her of Immoral Behavior on an Indian Reality TV Show (get his ass handed back to him)
BBC News - Israel questions Argentina over Buenos Aires attacks - The newspaper Perfil quoted a leaked Iranian diplomatic cable that detailed the offer.

Pentagon spends billions to fight roadside bombs, with little success | McClatchy
Top Bush-era GITMO and Abu Ghraib psychologist is WH's newest appointment - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (WH frantically back-walking)
China and US among top punishers but death penalty in decline | World news | The Guardian Many countries still executing people for crimes and hundreds remain on death row, Amnesty International report reveals

In Iowa, Social Conservatives May Shape 2012 Race - NYTimes.com - “We look like Camp Christian out here,” (media hyping the same of 27% of tribal dead-enders)
Lippmann's Ghost: The War on Unions and the Struggle for Power
Halfway There: Publish and perish? Wisconsin GOP channels Joe McCarthy
Wisconsin GOP Tries to Silence UW Professor for Asking Questions
Total recall{break}Efforts target all eligible senators | Political Gaze | Wisconsin Gazette
14 Felonies Later, Gov Rick Scott Wants Taxpayers to Fund His Clinics (what did they expect from Lex Luthor?)

Elizabeth Warren meets with undue resistance
Hacking the Free Market · Contact and Coil
Yglesias » The Alternative To Deflation Is Inflation (bankers want free money; Obama agrees)
I, For One, Do Not Welcome Our Dumb Robot Overlords - NYTimes.com tock in Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet’s company, jumps every time Anne Hathaway, the actress, gets a lot of media play.
When Illegal Doesn't Matter: US Uncut's National Day Of Protest | The Nation “I’m tired of people calling for shared sacrifice and it’s all coming from the workers and nothing’s coming from the top,” says protester Dave Sonenberg. “I’m sick of companies like Bank of America not paying their taxes.”
Fed Will Release Bank Loan Data as Top Court Rejects Appeal - Bloomberg The Federal Reserve will disclose details of emergency loans it made to banks in 2008, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an industry appeal that aimed to shield the records from public view (Obama wanted them kept supersecret +banks: "if you make us tell who borrowed what we might not borrow next time we're out of money")

BBC News - Acute myeloid leukaemia genes' role discovered Three groups of mutations which cause acute myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, have been identified by scientists.

www.culturalcognition.net - Projects - Second National Risk & Culture Study Americans are culturally polarized on a range of societal risks--from global warming to domestic terrorism, from school shootings to vaccination of school-age girls for HPV.
DownWithTyranny!: Who Has Passports... And Who Doesn't? And For Which Party Do They Vote? the states with the smallest percentage of passport holders-- i.e., states with people who don't travel outside the country-- are also the states that elect Republicans that most regularly
The Washington Monthly - The Right'S Selective Embrace Of Religious Liberty ... Republicans don't love religious liberty; they love religious liberty for people who think as they do.


YouTube - Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood - Hunter S Thompson Documentary
YouTube - Cover Tune Grab Bag - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"

Need Proof That Not All 4G Is the Same? Here It Is.: Mobile Technology News « (At&T sucks the most)
AT&T Users Already Complaining About Inaccurate Meters - Measuring From DSLAM Inflating Usage Numbers? | DSLReports.com, ISP Information

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Live Blog Libya - March 26 | Al Jazeera Blogs
Libyan rebels recapture Ajdabiya | World news | guardian.co.uk Anti-government fighters, backed by allied air strikes, push Muammar Gaddafi's forces out of strategic eastern town
Libyan Rebels Regain Key City After Airstrikes
Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell Media of Her Rape - NYTimes.com
Libyan Woman Claims Rape By Soldiers, Is Dragged Away
Libyan crisis: Kenneth Clarke warns UK at risk of new Lockerbie | World news | The Guardian Muammar Gaddafi could stage Lockerbie-style attack in revenge for UK's role in Libya campaign, warns lord chancellor

Japan | Tsunami | Ookawa The students and teachers at Ookawa school knew what to do when the tsunami warning sounded. But they never thought it would happen to them.
U.S. Naval Barges Bring Fresh Water To Assist With Cooling At Japan Nuclear Plant
US Radiation Detectors Under Construction, Out Of Service (Republicans don't believe in radiation)

March for the alternative – live updates | Society | guardian.co.uk Estimated 500,000 march in London against coalition cuts • Protesters gather for biggest demo for eight years
Caution: Middle East under construction - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Popular uprisings and internecine hostilities will lead to the redrawing of regional maps, which will be a far cry from those underlying the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement and other accords
The Top 5 Countries the U.S. Should Invade Next | This or That
Is Neoconservatism Fascism by Another Name? | Elia Isquire

Losing Our Way - NYTimes.com
The new U.S. Census data: 6 key takeaways - The Week America is getting less white, and a lot more Hispanic. Demographically, the middle of the U.S. is Plato, Mo. And that's just the beginning...
The Washington Monthly - Is A Looming Government Shutdown Unavoidable? (yeah, because Obama/Dems had no mid-term message except not offending Rethugs)
Scott Walker Kills His Wisconsin Union Busting Bill By Publishing It Just as Bush refused to wait for the UN, Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans could not allow the process to play out properly. Instead, they went all rogue cowboy and reminded us why we swore we’d never vote Republican again.
Wisconsin Union Law Published Despite Court Order (fuck you, Judicial Branch; Republicans never play by the rules, hate democracy)
UW Prof. Cronon: I Wish GOP 'Could Have Spelled My Name Correctly' | TPMDC
Come Saturday Morning: The Washington Post Wants You to Starve to Death | Firedoglake (they are literally trying to kill people in revenge for their own greed and folly +Globe-bone connected to the Wapo-bone connected to the Times-bone)
Protesters Erupt As New Hampshire GOPers Move Anti-Union Bill That Goes Farther Than Walker's | TPMDC
50,000 Call For Resignation Of State Rep Who ‘Joked’ About Shooting Illegal Immigrants Like Hogs – The Political Elite - Rep. Virgil Peck - Republican bigot
Special Needs by Janet Malcolm | The New York Review of Books - Conservative politicians rarely even mention poor people—and then only to tell them to pull up their socks. The right seems to be sinking deeper into its fantasy of poverty as the result of character flaws and of the governmental safety net as an agent of spoiling. (JM: "professional assassin")

The Austerity Delusion - NYTimes.com
Florida law firm to pay $2 million to settle foreclosure fraud charges - The Washington Post The Law Offices of Marshall C. Watson (pennies on the dollar; they always walk; FL State Bar will do nothing)

Brown Dwarfs and Planets: A Blurry Boundary
Origins of Mankind: Canada vs the United States | The Intersection | Discover Magazine (United States of Dimbulbs)

Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy? | Magazine

Have any of you ever found a great PDF online that really helped you with something? Let's share interesting papers, articles, educational books etc. I hope this takes off... : AskReddit
YouTube - In Performance at The White House Bob Dylan
A history of the world in 100 seconds Many Wikipedia articles are tagged with geographic coordinates. Many have references to historic events. Cross referencing these two subsets and plotting them year on year adds up to a dynamic visualization of Wikipedia's view of world history.
YouTube - Will Hunting had it right 14 years ago

350 000$ For A Domain Name | Geek with Laptop
Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know - NYTimes.com
Android May Be the Greatest Legal Destruction of Wealth in History
- Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer (Dragon Age II - Dragon Age II Official Campaign Quests and Story (spoilers)) | BioWare Social Network

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Libyan Airspace 'Under Control' As Two Sides Meet
Libya and Middle East unrest - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Allies agree to put military campaign under Nato command • UAE to send planes to help with no-fly zone
Libya no-fly zone: British military's enforcement role 'modest' | World news | The Guardian Number of bombs and missiles fired by British military small compared to US and France (Sark is the mad bomber)
Libya: Nicolas Sarkozy reignites row over Nato military role | World news | The Guardian Putting Nato in charge of strikes against Gaddafi ground forces would play into hands of Libyan leader, warns French president
Cruise Missiles: The Million-Dollar Weapon Missile cost nearly tripled since 1999 (Raytheon at work)
Syrian people outraged over government shootings in Daraa | World news | The Guardian Human rights groups say that more than 100 people may have been killed when troops opened fire on a mosque
Syria Troops Open Fire On Protesters, Witness Says

Fresh coolant injected, high-radiation water leaks in nuke crisis | Kyodo News
Japan faces new setback in fight to avert disaster at Fukushima plant | World news | The Guardian Prime minister urges vigilance after safety officials said break in nuclear reactor may have caused big radiation leak
Japanese nuclear officials fear crack in reactor core | World news | The Guardian Possible damage at Fukushima nuclear power plant could cause leak of high levels of radiation
Burma earthquake death toll mounts | World news | The Guardian At least 65 people reported dead after magnitude 6.8 quake hits Burma near border with Thailand
Irish Banks Might Need An Additional $48 Billion Bailout (whole country of indentured servants to the rich)
Portugal's borrowing costs hit new high after ratings agency downgrades debt | Business | guardian.co.uk S&P cuts Portugal's debt rating two notches to BBB and keeps it on negative watch
Adultery On Way Out As Crime In Mexico

Canada Government Toppled After Opposition Pressure Canadian opposition parties brought down the Conservative government in a no confidence vote Friday, triggering an election that polls show the Conservatives will win.
YouTube - English freeman standing in court-council tax the take down begins 3 mirror (you can't see this in the UK)

Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census - NYTimes.com Browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development.

Vt. House Passes Single-Payer Health Care Bill | Common Dreams (Hillary considering no-fly zone)
Liberal Quiz - What Kind of Liberal Are You? - Political Identity Quiz

Corporate Profits At All-Time High As Recovery Stumbles
Urgent leak investigation needed - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com A senior U.S. defense official revealed the contents of the intelligence report on condition of anonymity because it was classified secret (blood on their handes ... oh wait)
Miranda is Obama's latest victim - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The number of instances in which Obama has violently breached his own alleged principles when it comes to the War on Terror and the rule of law are too numerous to chronicle in one place
Balkinization Bradley Manning, Barack Obama and the National Surveillance State - Obama has continued Bush era policies of preventive detention, surveillance, and protection of state secrets. And in other respects, he has gone further ... Crowley forced Obama to acknowledge the fact of the Defense Department's actions in public, and to report calmly to the press that that the DOD had informed him that everything is perfectly acceptable.

Bob Herbert Leaving New York Times "for some time now I have grown eager to move beyond the constriction of the column format, with its rigid 800-word limit, in favor of broader and more versatile efforts.” (same reason as Rich; now they will hire more dumb Conservatives like Douthat)
Washington Post Staffers Openly Criticize Publisher Katherine Weymouth's Salary after it emerged that she made over $2 million in 2010 and is getting a raise in 2011--even as the paper has undergone repeated rounds of cost-cutting and layoffs (worth every penny, best people, etc ... and what does little Freddie Hiatt make?)
Wisconsin: Anti-Union Bill Published Despite Restraining Order | FDL News Desk (Republithug Walker to Wisconsin Judiciary: "Restrain this!")
Mother Of All Negative Ads Dropped On WI Judicial Race (VIDEO) | TPMDC
Did Wisconsin GOP target Scott Walker critic with “McCarthyite” tactics? - The Plum Line - The Washington Post - It’s a remarkable request, as TPM notes. The Wisconsin GOP is apparently using the state’s open records law to request the private emails of a university professor who criticized Walker and Republicans (are you now, or have you ever been, a union member? +how Republicans work)
Judson Phillips: 'Charlie Sheen Still Makes More Sense Than John Boehner'
alicublog: I am John Galt

Fears Of Weakening Economy Threaten U.S. Recovery As Consumer Sentiment Falls (Obama: just a little confidence problem; clap hard and spend more even if you don't have a job)
Christina Romer, Former Top Economist: Administration 'Shamefully' Ignoring Unemployed the Obama administration's former top economic advisor expressed her frustration with the government for not doing enough to help unemployed Americans (Obama hates the unemployed, homeowners, immigrants, gays, unions and liberals)
Obama Administration Scales Back Proposed Homeowner Relief Effort Over Alleged Foreclosure Abuses The Obama administration has significantly diminished a proposed homeowner relief program that initially aimed to force the nation's five largest mortgage companies to reduce monthly payments for three million distressed homeowners (see: HAMP, the program designed to fail and screw homeowners)
Real Vs. Nominal Housing Prices: United States 1890-2010 [chart] (no, your house didn't go up)
Federal Reserve Official: High Unemployment Isn't Inevitable After Bubbles Collapse n one of the paper's more surprising claims, Kocherlakota suggested that extending unemployment benefits -- sometimes seen as adding to the jobless rate because it can discourage those receiving benefits from actively seeking jobs -- actually reduces it (gee, that's not what "all economists agree" on)
G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether - NYTimes.com (like, zero; see Obama's pal Immelt, the outsourcing king)
Guess Who's Making Money? NPR - DailyFinance

A new domain of life: Plenty more bugs in the sea | The Economist Tantalising evidence is emerging of a serious gap in biologists’ understanding of the diversity of life on Earth
The Synthetic Kingdom on Vimeo
Methods:Dealing with a possible T1 infection - EcoliWiki
Dynamic Diagrams: Orrery (not scaled, but cool)

Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom | Scholar as Citizen (Republican bullies stop at nothing; Scott Walker's wreckingcrew)
Krugman: Academic Intimidation - NYTimes.com
Indiana prosecutor resigns over Walker email | WisconsinWatch.org
Monetary Policy Hearing Today, or: Ron Paul Versus the Kochtopus. « Rortybomb
John Lott's Mysteriously Changing Blog Post | Media Matters for America Did John Lott change his quote on Big Government and then accuse me of misquoting him? Is someone else to blame? Maybe Mary Rosh did it (Lott's old sockputtet +lying John Lott's Mysteriously Changing Blog Post | Media Matters for America Did John Lott change his quote on Big Government and then accuse me of misquoting him? Is someone else to blame? Maybe Mary Rosh did it. (Lott's old sockpuppet +Republicans always lie)
White knights catch French grandmasters cheating by text - Europe, World - The Independent

YouTube - Wozard of Iz - They're Off to Find the Wozard - Blue Poppy
Mort Garson's "Wozard of Iz" LP
YouTube - The Dark Side of the Rainbow Oz / with original soundtrack

Dear Coke Talk | On teenage flirting. | Dear Coke Talk

RIAA request for trillions in LimeWire copyright case is 'absurd,' judge says - Computerworld Federal Judge Kimba Wood notes that damages sought would amount to more than music industry has made in its history (making shit up, like they always have)
World Bank, World Development Indicators - Google public data - World GDP
Facebook Responds To 'Incorrect' Social Ads Meme

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Libya War: Where Gaddafi Remains In Charge, Residents Publicly Voice Loyalty Libya's biggest tribe joins march of reconciliation to Benghazi | The Guardian - Members of Warfalla deny plan to join civilians in carrying olive branches through war zone is a propaganda stunt Al Jazeera team held in Libya - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Muammar Gaddafi's security forces have arrested four Al Jazeera Arabic journalists and are holding them in Tripoli.
Francis Fukuyama: Is China's Regime Next to Fall? - WSJ.com Will the protests that have swept the Middle East inspire a similar movement in China, or is that country's middle class more interested in the material than the political?
CNN Contributor Accuses Obama Of "Manufacturing" Libya Crisis To Help Reelection; Blames "Women Drivers" | Media Matters for America

War Nerd Blog: Day One, Year Zero - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled
THE EXILE - Tom Clancy Is Not One of Us - By Gary Brecher - The War Nerd
THE EXILE - Victor Hanson: Portrait of an American Traitor - By Gary Brecher - The War Nerd

Earthquake hits Myanmar near China and Thailand borders - CNN.com - a magnitude of 6.8, the survey said, revising the estimate down from an initial reading of 7.0.
Japan nuclear plant workers in hospital after radiation exposure | World news | guardian.co.uk - Three cable-layers at Fukushima power plant exposed to high levels of radiation after stepping into contaminated water YouTube - Christchurch Earthquake 2011 - Central City - Civil Defense videos

See Afghan "Kill Team" Corpse Photos Published by Der Spiegel Here (photos) - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly - Der Spiegel, which says it has some 4,000 such photos, has come out and made them available for all (banned in America)
US soldiers posed with dead Afghan - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English Two US soldiers charged with murdering civilians shown posing with body in photos leaked by Der Spiegel newspaper.
Syria says it may ease restrictions - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com Thousands march in defiance of deadly crackdown
Vatican Says Opponents Of Gays Are Victims, Too (Pope's tiny little violin plays again) Health Bill amounts to 'abolition' of NHS, academic warns - Telegraph Controversial Government reforms will spell the end of the NHS as it stands, academics warn, as the Health Secretary was forced to reassure MPs that hospitals and doctors would not face accusations of running cartels.
Billionaire Tea Party financiers to lobby Alberta government Koch Industries owned by billionaire brothers who fund Tea Party, climate change denial (Faces of Satan)

Few Americans see Obama as strong military leader - Yahoo! News (wonder why that is?)
Pentagon Discharged Hundreds Of Service Members Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' In Fiscal 2010: Report
House Lawmakers Draft Legislation To Defund Libya Operations ("lawmakers" = Republicans +predictable, had no problem w/Bushboy) 2012 Elections: Republican Anxiety Building Over Crop Of Candidates (totally unappealing) Gay City News > Archives > Gay City News > News > Bi-National Lesbian Couple Can Press US Marriage Claim
Anti-Abortion Bills Advance In Statehouses Nationwide (Republicans regulating your uterus) Democrat Announces Alternate Hearings On U.S. Muslims (threats to Muslim's civil rights)
Have Consumers Gone on Strike? - CNBC

Research behind Craigslist Adult Services shutdown debunked [Updated]
Women's Funding Network sex trafficking study is junk science - Page 1 - News - Minneapolis - City Pages
Beth Schapiro responds to story debunking her child prostitute study: "We stand fully behind our work" - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - The Blotter ("work"="guesses")
NASA - Einstein's Theory Fights Off Challengers
Serotonin-lacking male mice not picky about sex of their mates

YouTube - 19. Scott Atran - Beyond Belief 2007
The Founding Fathers had a national motto: E Pluribus Unum
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr - The best journalism-job want ad ever ever.
“When It’s Not Your Turn”: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s “The Wire” «

9 Bills That Would Put Creationism in the Classroom | Mother Jones (they never give up with their Sharia Law)
Founder of Creation Museum banned from convention | Latest Local, State News | Kentucky.com because he made "ungodly, and mean-spirited" comments about another speaker, according to the convention's organizers.

The Aurora on Vimeo
Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture
photos of the tennis girl Fiona Walker
The Zombie Autopsies with Steven Schlozman, MD on Vimeo

Cody Gault: Anonymous Online Commenting: A Culture of Cowards (eroding "civility" ... erode this you fucker) New York Times Asks Twitter to Plug Paywall Loophole - Paper aims to firm up pay barrier before launch (Twitter must protect the NYT's business model fail) Man Charged With Polygamy After 'Defriending' First Wife on Facebook Amazingly, MySpace’s Decline Is Accelerating - News Corp. seems sensitive to getting a lot less than they paid for MySpace – $580 million in 2005 Color: A Social Network For The Post-PC--And Post-Privacy--World Apple Pulls Controversial 'Gay Cure' App Groklaw - Why Is Microsoft Seeking New State Laws That Allow it to Sue Competitors For Piracy by Overseas Suppliers?

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Tokyo Officials Say Radiation In Tap Water Twice Recommended Limit For Infants
Japan nuclear firm admits missing safety checks at disaster-hit plant | World news | guardian.co.uk Documents show operator failed to carry out mandatory checks at Fukushima Daiichi and allowed fuel rods to pile up
Otsuchi: the Japanese town that must rebuild without its leaders | World news | The Guardian Mayor and local officials among thousands dead or missing after earthquake, tsunami and fires devastate town in Iwate prefecture
Navy to axe 'Fukushima type' nuclear reactors from submarines | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Gaddafi Forces Retreat From Key City After Airstrikes
Libya crisis: live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Nato to assume day-to-day military command in Libya • Fighting continues in Misrata, food running low • Obama says Gaddafi may wait out military assault
Libya Forces Intensify Shelling Of Rebels In East; Gaddafi Speaks
Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin On Mideast Revolution, U.S. News, Glenn Beck's Caliphate Theory ... "You kind of are left wondering why, despite all of this progress, and despite all of this, American cable companies have completely remained behind"
40 Lipsticked Virgins: Gadhafi's Best Bet for Survival (+they are ninjas)

Jerusalem Explosion Reported: Blast Near Bus In Israel
Portugal Government May Collapse Ahead Of Debt Vote
Roma Sterilization Case Opens
Iran Claims They've Built A 'Flying Saucer' (will invade L.A.)
Chavez: Life On Mars Ended By Capitalism (and Goldman-Sachs)

Jeremy Morlock, U.S. Soldier, Pleads Guilty To Murders Of 3 Afghans

Poll: Obama In Good Shape For Re-Election More Americans would prefer to see Barack Obama re-elected than would prefer a Republican to win in 2012 (about the same support as for Bush when he lost the 2004 election)
Proposition 8 Remains During Appeal On Gay Marriage Decision
Maine Gov. Paul LePage Orders Removal Of Labor Mural From State Agency on the grounds that the image is biased against business owners (how's that teabag Gov working out for you, Maine?)
Newly Released Wisconsin Emails Show GOP Considered Ways To Punish Democrats (Walker and his crowd really are creepy people) This Is What Passes For Liberal At The  Washington Post | Media Matters for America The Washington Post's new designation of opinion columns as "Right-Leaning" and Left-Leaning" ... Today's "Left-Leaning" page features a column by Robert Pozen advocating a reduction in Social Security benefits for middle-income workers (by a Republican; Fred Hiatt/Kaplan Test Prep at work making sure you are stupid)
Federal Officials Send 4-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Back To Guatemala Authorities took her grandfather, a non-citizen on a valid work visa that allowed him to travel, into custody. But the young girl was detained in the airport, then sent back to Guatemala with her grandfather, citizenship notwithstanding (Obama hates immigrants and US citizen also)

R.I.P., New Home Sales - NYTimes.com The new-home sales numbers for February came out today, and they are horrible ... The government estimates that 19,000 new single-family homes were sold during the month. That is the lowest figure for any month since the figures began to be compiled in 1963 (go Republicans!)
Calculated Risk: New Home Sales as Leading Indicator (2005; yes, the Republicans screwed the economy and you)
Bingaman tells the truth about gas prices, is lonely in doing so | Grist r. If we want to solve our problems with oil, we have to use less of it. That simple truth is what centrist Democrats generally refuse to tell their constituents.
In AT&T Deal, Bankers Guaranteed To Benefit As Consumers And Shareholders Hope For Best

Amygdala circuitry mediating reversible and bidirectional control of anxiety : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Anxiety In The Brain: Have We Discovered An 'Off' Switch?

Breitbart Website Warns Of "National Security Threat" Of "Terror Babies" | Media Matters for America hundreds of thousands of women visiting the United States give birth to babies here each year and that some of them are likely "terror babies" who will eventually use their U.S. citizenship to attack the United States in 20 to 30 years (is Mark Krikorian the new James O'Keefe?)
Report: Parting With Rome, Most American Catholics Favor Gay Rights : The Two-Way : NPR (unlike evangelical "Christians" who hate teh gay)
Losing State Support, Cincinnati’s Streetcar Project in Peril « The Transport Politic (Republicans hate infrastructure; they want it to fall apart so they can "privatise" it)


BBC News - 'Serious' cyber attack on EU bodies before summit
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Power for Japan nuke coolers on hold - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com Emergency crews dump seawater on spent fuel pool, reducing temperatures
Japan earthquake | Page 52 | Liveblog live blogging | Reuters.com
Japan Nuclear Plant's Power Lines Reconnected ... though more work is needed before electricity can run through them ("connected")
Japan fears food contamination as battle to cool nuclear plant continues | World news | guardian.co.uk Abnormal radiation levels reported in tap water, vegetables and milk with concerns that fish may also be affected
Japan After the Earthquake and Tsunami : The New Yorker A nation bears the unbearable.
Fukushima Plant Warnings Went Unheeded - NYTimes.com Just a month before a powerful earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant at the center of Japan’s nuclear crisis, government regulators approved a 10-year extension for the oldest of the six reactors at the power station despite warnings about its safety.
Japan Plant Had Troubled History - WSJ.com
On The Media: Transcript of "Japan's Information Crisis" (March 18, 2011) - So the nation is depending for its survival on the very institution it trusts the least.
Controlling the media: Japan's press clubs - CORRESPONDENT
Japan Nuclear Crisis: The Experts Weigh In | The Awl

Libya: air strikes continue live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Air strikes on Gaddafi-held Ajdabiya this morning • US fighter jet crash lands in Libya
Libya War: U.S. Military Plane Crashes, Two Crew Members Ejected (greeted with flowers +shitty maintenance)
Stalemate Feared In Libyan Conflict
Libyan rebellion reveals chaos of civilians at war | World news | The Guardian Chris McGreal witnesses the advance, retreat and panicked dispersal of young fighters on the outskirts of Ajdabiya
Sarkozy opposes Nato taking control of Libya operation | World news | guardian.co.uk Dissent from Germany, Turkey and Norway leaves question marks over command structure (calls them "sausage-eating surrender-monkeys")
Putin Rebuked For Libya Disagreement Hours later, Medvedev rebuked the prime minister: "We have to be absolutely accurate in our assessments. Under no circumstances is it acceptable to use expressions that essentially lead to a clash of civilizations such as crusades and so on." ("watch you mouth" Putin)
Lexicon of war has a new buzzword | Media | The Guardian Like so many buzzwords, optics seems to have originated in Washington, presumably deep inside the Beltway.
Odyssey Dawn - Unconstitutional War - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/21/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
America's Freedom Packages - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/21/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests | World news | guardian.co.uk
CNN Nic Robertson | Human Shields Libya Fox Outrageous | Mediaite
Scocca : Samantha Power Is the New President of Libya
What intervention in Libya tells us about the neocon-liberal alliance - By Stephen M. Walt | Stephen M. Walt - So if you're baffled by how Mr. "Change You Can Believe In" morphed into Mr. "More of the Same," you shouldn't really be surprised. George Bush left in disgrace and Barack Obama took his place, but he brought with him a group of foreign policy advisors whose basic world views were not that different from the people they were replacing
Right-Wingers Suddenly Skeptical of Bombing Middle Eastern Countries | Firedoglake
NationalJournal.com - Costs of Libya Operation Already Piling Up - Monday, March 21, 2011 (Obama vows to fire more teachers)

Israel Launches Air Strikes In Gaza Strip, 19 Wounded (while you weren't looking)
Moshe Katsav, Former Israeli President, Jailed For Rape (seven years, will be commuted next month)
Anti-cuts campaigners plan to turn Trafalgar Square into Tahrir Square | World news | guardian.co.uk Student activists draw inspiration from Egypt protests and call for 24-hour occupation of London landmark
MPs' report finds government in contempt - Ottawa - CBC News (Conservative rule!_

Appeals Court Overturns Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Warrantless Spying | FDL News Desk
How to Ensure You’ll Always Have War Powers to Fight Eastasia | Emptywheel

Playboy Interview with Reporter Helen Thomas, April 2011 Playboy Magazine (casualty of the War on Truth)
WikiLeaks' Founder Takes on Indian Prime Minister - PCWorld Business Center (embarrassing corrupt governments around the world)
Allison Silverman Recreates the Story of Julian Assange, Terrible Houseguest | Splitsider
Julian Assange: Roommate from Hell | Politics | Vanity Fair
Julian Assange, Cat Hater - NYTimes.com - “It’s about training vigilance,” Julian explained.

Sarah Palin aborts visit to Bethlehem - Telegraph Sarah Palin has emerged at the centre of a potentially embarrassing mystery when she abruptly aborted a visit to Bethlehem just yards from an Israeli checkpoint guarding the entrance to the city of Christ's birth (we see what you did there, Telegraph)
Sarah Palin went to India and all they got was this lousy media blackout | The Political Carnival
Alaska Union Bill Would Restrict Collective Bargaining
Chris Christie's School Budget Cuts Left State Unable To Meet Educational Obligations: Judge (fat Chrisie -- tax cuts for the rich, no school for your kids)
South Dakota Abortion Bill Signed Into Law By Governor Dennis Daugaard requiring women to wait three days after meeting with a doctor to have an abortion, the longest waiting period in the nation (Repubicans in your uterus)
Sexism Is Alive And Well At National Review | Media Matters for America - Mark Krikorian (sexist Repubican jerk, oh triple oxymoron)

The Selling of the Tax Cut: First Stop Greenspan - TIME (2000: how the Republicans bankrupted the country so they could run against deficits)
This Peak Oil Clock is Absolutely Terrifying : TreeHugger

'White Dwarf Hypernovas' -The Cause of the "Great Silence"? - A massive white dwarf star in our galaxy may become a supernova several million years from now, and could possibly destroy life on Earth (and all the alien invaders)
BBC News - Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

The Frustrations of the Educated and Unemployed American - NYTimes.com (the big education scam)
Lessons From Wisconsin About Unions and Higher Education - NYTimes.com
Eschaton: Morning Thread Fish is a star, or has been, partly because of his willingness to be a House Academic for the Wingnut Hordes, making them feel smarter because "even Stanley Fish is a conservative!" (was against unions before he was for them)
News: (Liberal) Academic Self-Selection - Inside Higher Ed - "self-selection" is the primary reason so many academics are liberal. (shocking! Conservative not discriminated against in academia; they just aren't that smart and don't want to work for low wages)

The Stoner Arms Dealers | Rolling Stone Politics
E-mail on interfaith marriage gets St. Charles man on no-fly list - Chicago Sun-Times (yes, they are reading your email)

More Women Going Gray Before Age 30: Study 32 percent of British women under the age of 30 have started to go gray -- up 14 percent from two decades ago. And apparently two-thirds of ladies blame their changing hue on stress - GHOSTS -- Grey Haired Over Stressed Twenty Somethings.
Could this new book kill the Kindle? | Books | The Guardian It's small, light and portable – and it doesn't need charging. So could the new 'flipback' book be the next big thing in publishing?

YouTube - Bye Bye Birdie - What's the Matter With Kids Today

How Operation b107 decapitated the Rustock botnet

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Stabilisation at Fukushima Daiichi Workers on site have succeeded in increasing the stability of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, with units 5 and 6 now in cold shutdown. Pressure built up within unit 3 but a more significant venting does not seem necessary now.
Japan quake death toll passes 18,000 | World news | guardian.co.uk World Bank says economy will take years to recover
The truth about the Fukushima 'nuclear samurai' | World news | The Guardian Japan's 'nuclear samurai' are risking their lives to avert catastrophe, but many are manual labourers unequal to the task
Special Report: Fuel storage, safety issues vexed Japan plant | Reuters When the massive tsunami smacked into Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power plant was stacked high with more uranium than it was originally designed to hold and had repeatedly missed mandatory safety checks over the past decade.
Fukushima Japan nuclear power plant updates: get all the data | World news | guardian.co.uk
Workers Flee Japan Nuclear Plant As Smoke Rises
Japan crisis: 'There’s no food, tell people there is no food’ - Telegraph Japan’s survivors scavenge for food in aftermath of tsunami
Japan reactor containment OK for now, U.S. says - World - CBC News Process to bring nuclear plant under control proceeding in fits and starts
Map: See Japan Get Battered By 572 Earthquakes in Eight Days - Environment - GOOD
Where Fukushima meets Stuxnet: The growing threat of cyber war - By David Rothkopf | David Rothkopf
What happens if a Japan-sized earthquake hits California? - The Week

Libya Rebels Advance, Buoyed By Allied Airstrikes
Libya no-fly zone – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Military action against Libya to continue into third night • Disputes over whether Gaddafi is a legitimate target
Military top brass question British strategy over Gaddafi | World news | The Guardian Defence chiefs contradict Liam Fox by stating specifically that they do not regard Colonel Gaddafi as a target
Libya and the suspicious rush to war | Jeremy Corbyn | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk After many more deaths we are likely to see the partition of Libya – why has there been such a consensus for this military action?
Yes, a better America was possible | Alex Slater | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk If the Obama administration does nothing else, it will always compare favourably with Bush's for its diplomacy over Libya
Obama's Libya Policy Makes Strange Bedfellows Of Congressional Critics
Listen: Secret Libya Psyops, Caught by Online Sleuths | Danger Room | Wired.com

Yemen showdown looms as army loyalties divide | World news | The Guardian Defence minister vows to stand by president after 12 senior military commanders defect from regime

Photos show US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead civilians | World news | The Guardian 'Trophy' pictures show US soldiers posing with corpses of Afghan civilians they are accused of killing for sport (your military at work)
US Army 'kill team' in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians | World news | The Guardian Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of "trophy" photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed (the coverup failed)
Army slow to act as crime-lab worker falsified, botched tests | McClatchy (more interested in coverup than justice)

Court allows constitutional challenge to new FISA law - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Today's ruling puts at least some brakes -- for now -- on that license of lawlessness. It rejected the Bush/Obama claim that citizens must prove they have been targeted by an illegal presidential program before they have the right to ask a court to declare it illegal.
Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Challenging NSA Surveillance of Americans | Threat Level | Wired.com
US agrees to improve human rights record in first UN assessment, but death penalty remains - The Washington Post

Crises Push Foreign News to Top Level Since 9/11 - NYTimes.com (but they won't let A-J on your cable)
Gaffney's Latest Nonsensical Theory: Obama May Use Libya Precedent To Order Military Strike On Israel | Media Matters for America (rightwing bullshit, but one can dream)
The Washington Monthly - The 'Gang Of 64' Needs Some Help (all bi-partisans agree no need for jobs)

US house prices tumble to lowest in almost a decade - Telegraph raising the prospect that even a recovery in the labour market may not be enough to pull prices from their slump.
White House To Remain Mum In Social Security Fight -- Until Congress Comes Up With a Plan | TPMDC
Nobodies of Macroeconomics (Very Wonkish) - NYTimes.com (epistemic closure in the Republican-dominated field of economics -- basically, aggressive always-wrong bullies took over the profession)

Video -- Equinoxes -- National Geographic
The Oklo Natural Nuclear Reactor
APOD: 2002 October 16 - Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors
Craig Venter’s Genetic Typo - David M. Ewalt - Metagamer - Forbes (no fair-use for you, gene-boy)

War on drugs has failed, say former heads of MI5, CPS and BBC - Telegraph The "war on drugs" has failed and should be abandoned in favour of evidence-based policies that treat addiction as a health problem, according to prominent public figures including former heads of MI5 and the Crown Prosecution Service.

Map of How Manhattan’s Grid Grew - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com
Library of Congress Home (new version LOC website)

The Newspaper Guild - Guild tells HuffPost writers: 'Don't work for free' 16 Mar 2011
Arianna Huffington: 'Go Ahead, Go On Strike -- No One Will Notice' | The Wrap Media
The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post - NYTimes.com
NYTimes’ “Fair” Prices | Monday Note

David Lose: Misogyny, Moralism and the Woman at the Well

AT&T to Acquire T-Mobile USA From Deutsche Telekom | AT&T (we're all screwed)
AT&T will cap DSL and U-Verse internet, impose overage fees (update) -- Engadget
AT&T Inc: Recipients | OpenSecrets (Obama got $800K from Deathstar)
AT&T, T-Mobile Merger: A Regulatory Quagmire?: Tech News and Analysis «
In AT&T & T-Mobile Merger, Everybody Loses: Tech News and Analysis «

Why Women Rule The Internet women are the majority of users of social networking sites and spend 30% more time on these sites than men; mobile social network usage is 55% female according to Nielsen.
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Watchdog to Obama: Schmidt policing online privacy is like Madoff heading SEC Will Eric Schmidt go from being Google CEO to being Obama's voice on privacy as the next Commerce Secretary? (you don't need no steenking privacy ... logical appointment by spy-boy)
Daily Kos: "Exodus International" iPhone App: Why is Apple supporting hate speech?
Hacker News | I think tumblr has a huge security hole

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Attempts to refill fuel ponds
Badass of the Week: Hideaki Akaiwa
The Oil Drum | Fukushima Thread: March 19, 2011
Japan’s Once-Powerful Nuclear Industry is Under Siege by Caroline Fraser: Yale Environment 360 The proposed Kaminoseki nuclear plant is to be built on landfill in a national park in the country’s well-known Inland Sea, hailed as Japan’s Galapagos ... The Inland Sea has also been the site of intense seismic activity, including the epicenter of the 1995 Kobe earthquake that killed 6,400 people.
Japan earthquake: 9 earthquake and volcano eruption possibly linked - latimes.com The eruption of the Shinmoedake volcano hundreds of miles away may be linked to the quake, but it's difficult to prove, one scientist says. In general, though, one can easily affect the other.
Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Reports | Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report |
Heroes: Hear the Voice of the Heroic Young Woman Who Saved Thousands of Lives - Environment - GOOD
Looting in Japan: Why so little looting in Japan? The explanation is legal as much as cultural. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty (yakuza)
Japan disaster shows U.S. journalists unprepared
New maps of nuclear power plants and seismic hazards in the United States | Greenpeace USA
Daily Kos: It's time to leave nuclear power behind (Obama-boy's plan to build 1,000 nukes as "safe as Japan")

BBC News - Libya: RAF 'comfortable' with outcome of airstrikes Prime Minister David Cameron said it was a "just cause" and in "Britain's best interests".
Libya attack – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Coalition air strikes see waning support from Arabs, China and Russia | World news | The Guardian Arab League and China express regret as Moscow suggests US-led coalition is going beyond its mandate
Mike Mullen: U.S. Mission In Libya 'Limited', But No End In Sight
U.S. Hits Libya With Stealth Bombers, Fighter Jets As Gaddafi Vows 'Long War'
Libya attack – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk US claims no-fly zone is now in place after strikes against Libya • State TV reports 48 dead after missiles strike military targets
Libya air strikes: Allies claim Gaddafi's attacks halted by missile barrage | World news | guardian.co.uk More than 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles target Muammar Gaddafi's military as he denounces 'crusaders' in address from bunker
War on Gaddafi is personal – and he is unlikely to retreat | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Capturing or killing the Libyan leader has now become an end in itself for the western allies (Sark is pissed)
Bahrain hospitals under siege as soldiers maintain Manama crackdown | World news | The Guardian Doctors arrested or prevented from working as martial law in tiny Gulf state approaches second week
Syrian police seal off city of Daraa after security forces kill five protesters | World news | guardian.co.uk Cordon aimed at suppressing spread of conflict following demonstrations and funeral procession
At the Qaddafi Compound, Supporters Create a Human Shield - NYTimes.com
Huh. Wow. : Lawyers, Guns & Money Peggy Noonan said something insightful. This may well be the most shocking event of 2011 thus far ... "the minute there are boots on the ground, the minute we leave a footprint—there will spring up, immediately, 15 reasons America cannot leave. The next day there will be 30 reasons, and the day after that 45."
On Libya: 'What Happens Then?' - James Fallows - International - The Atlantic - The most predictable failure in modern American military policy has been the reluctance to ask, And what happens then? (Obama might want to work on "what happens now?")
Coalition attacks wreak havoc on ground troops | World news | The Guardian Air strikes hit Gaddafi's forces hard, but revolutionary leaders appeal for more
BBC News - Bahrain and Iran expel diplomats
Bernard Kalb's Modest Dissent - TIME When the Reagan Administration was reported to have organized a "disinformation" campaign to mislead both Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the U.S. press (yes, they've been doing psyops on you forever)
A peacemaker’s case against the U.S. Institute of Peace - The Washington Post (it was really the "Institute of War")

Live Blog: Democracy Now! Reports On Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Historic Return to Haiti
Carlos Pascual Resigns: U.S. Ambassador To Mexico Out, Says Clinton (wikileaks again)

Anti-war activists arrested near White House as they mark 8th anniversary of start of Iraq war - The Washington Post (Obama=Nixon +more rightwing)
Antiwar protest on 8th anniversary of Iraq War nets 113 arrests // Current
2011-03-19 Daniel Ellsberg arrested at Bradley Manning rally #March20 | WL Central

NSA Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation - AT&T is cooperating with the illegal surveillance. The undisputed documents show that AT&T installed a fiberoptic splitter at its facility at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco that makes copies of all emails, web browsing, and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers, and provides those copies to the NSA. This copying includes both domestic and international Internet activities of AT&T customers. As one expert observed, “this isn’t a wiretap, it’s a country-tap.” (Obama's Spy-State)

Koch Brothers and US Chamber: Polluting Our Earth and Our Democracies | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet The Kochs are right up there now with the great plutocrats of American history, a 21st century version of the robber barons.
Confirmed: Our Government Has Criminalized Beauty Products | Emptywheel (Total Beauty Awareness)
Judge Questions Government’s Persecution of DADT Activists | Emptywheel The government’s lawyers intend to prosecute the 13 defendants for “violating the orders of a federal law enforcement officer,” which could result in jail time. This is the first time DADT protesters have been in federal court. The other defendants were processed for minor misdemeanors in DC’s court system (Obama hates any kind of protest against his authoritariam regime)

Implosion of Foreclosure Mill Leaves 100,000 Cases in Limbo « naked capitalism
Unemployed facing new obstacle | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/20/2011 Some do not want to hire the out-of-work, fearing they were let go because they were lousy workers (not because Goldman Sachs destroyed all the jobs)

The power of lonely - The Boston Globe - psychology’s conventional approach to solitude — an “almost exclusive emphasis on loneliness” — represented an artificially narrow view of what being alone was all about

Welcome to Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages

YouTube - "United We Rise" | Peop1e [HD]
Le Flâneur (music by The XX) on Vimeo
Platonic Love Stories – Pictory
YouTube - Twin Peaks - Cooper's Dream (Dwarf Scene)
YouTube - twin peaks - cooper's dream - REversed
YouTube - Reversed clip of bookstore scene from Top Secret!(1984).
YouTube - Top Secret!: Rare books rare eye
YouTube - Top Secret Pinto scene
YouTube - Underwater Bar Fight

Welcome | ICorrect - The Universal Website for Corrections

YouTube - Casey Heynes Interview - Bully Victim Who fought Back

AP Removes Hyphen From 'Email' In Style Guide
The “Twitter Can’t Topple Dictators” Article » Pressthink
8 Powerful & Inexpensive Desktop Design Apps
Music Industry Destroys Another Powerful Free Download Tool | TorrentFreak
Apple says browser study is flawed - Faster Forward - The Washington Post study released yesterday claiming that Android’s Chrome was over 50 percent faster than iOS Safari when it came to mobile browsing.

031911
Japan: One week later - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Japan sees some stabilization in nuclear crisis | Reuters One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilize Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a catastrophic release of radiation.
Japan: Elevated Radiation Found In Milk, Spinach Near Plant
Japan nuclear power plant updates: get all the data | World news | guardian.co.uk
Japanese struggle in aftermath of earthquake and tsunami - in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk Lastest images from Japan as its people deal with the hardship caused by the 11 March disaster
Nuclear power stations and reactors operational around the world: listed and mapped | News | guardian.co.uk
Bid to 'Protect Assets' Slowed Reactor Fight - WSJ.com
Hiroko Tabuchi (HirokoTabuchi) on Twitter
Lawmaker: Japan's government doesn't lie – In the Arena - CNN.com Blogs
Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Caps Decades of Faked Safety Reports, Accidents - Bloomberg
How The Japanese Government Manipulated Commercial Nuclear Power. | The New Republic The Japanese government’s influential and manipulative role in commercial nuclear power.
Japanese Taxpayers Likely to Shoulder Nuclear Liability - Law Blog - WSJ (it was an act of God that TEPCO put their fuel tanks next to the ocean)
Nuclear Liability to Fall on Japan's Taxpayers - WSJ.com (and lied for years )
Japan: Interview with Eric Ouannes, General Director, MSF Japan | Doctors Without Borders
CNN.com - Heavy fallout from Japan nuclear scandal - September 2, 2002
YouTube - Hyperrescue to the rescue)
The Oil Drum | Fukushima Thread: March 18, 2011
debito.org » Blog Archive » Exclusive to DEBITO.ORG: Another trustworthy source connected with the industry believes, short of a miracle, Fukushima reactors won’t be cooled enough in time; there will be “fission product release”
Six Ways Fukushima is Not Chernobyl - ProPublica
YouTube - Tsunami video - Miyako City, Iwate
Japan's nuclear danger explained - Nuclear Power - Salon.com
Astonishing Wave Heights Among the Findings of an International Tsunami Survey Team on Sumatra heights may have ranged from 15 to 30 m (50 to 100 ft) along a 100-km (60-mi) stretch of the northwest coast
BBC News - Japan tsunami 'could be 1,000-year event' similarities between the last week's event and another giant wave that hit the Sendai coast in 869AD.
2011-03-19 Bulgarian "Criminal Radiation" Leaks from Unedited Wikileaks Cable | WL Central (the mob runs the nukes in Bulgaria)
At California Nuclear Plant, Earthquake Response Plan Not Required he Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which sits less than a mile from an offshore fault line, was not required to include earthquakes in its emergency response plan as a condition of being granted its license more than a quarter of a century ago (nuke, baby, nuke)
Obama requests nuclear review, sees risk in Japan | TPM News Pages (Obama is fond of "reviewing" things)
XKCD: Radiation

BBC News - Libya: French planes 'preventing pro-Gaddafi attacks''
Libya May Lash Out With Terrorist Attacks, U.S. Official Says (and then ...)

Yglesias » Why Context Matters t providing more bed nets to prevent malaria would be cheap and logistically simple compared to deposing Gaddafi and that the easiest step America could take to deal a blow to Arab autocracy would be to stop selling weapons to Arab autocrats that they turn around and fire on their people.
Beck Upset Obama Didn’t Act On Libya -- Then, 20 Seconds Later, Upset That He Did | Media Matters for America
Yemen Protests: US-Backed President's Violent Crackdown Is Unsuccessful (Obama loves violent, repressive dicatators)
Syrian police seal off city of Daraa after security forces kill five protesters | World news | guardian.co.uk Cordon aimed at suppressing spread of conflict following demonstrations and funeral processions
Major Oil Companies' Exposure to Libya - Seeking Alpha
Why American Cable Systems Won't Carry the Al Jazeera Network - The Hollywood Reporter (Obama afraid of revolution)

Newly Released OLC Opinion Reveals How Yoo Relied on Eliminating Fourth Amendment to Wiretap Illegally | Emptywheel (Obama looking forward)
Quantico Marine Base Issues “Threat Advisory” for Bradley Manning Protest | FDL Action (calling in the Predators)

The NPR ‘emergency’ - The Washington Post (from the guy who thinks torture is funny)
NPR O'Keefes James O'Keefe With Misleadingly Edited Version Of Interview (audio) | TPMMuckraker (maybe he'll lose - cough - his funding)

Bank of America Leak Exposes Alleged Force-Placed Insurance Fraud - Seeking Alpha

'Supermoon' Visible This Weekend Saturday's full moon will be the closest it has been to Earth in 18 years

Arkansas 'Fracking' Site Closures Extended As Earthquake Link Studied (how's that drill, baby, drill thing working out for you?)
What Made This University Scientist Snap? | Magazine (Amy Bishop didn't "snap" she was always nuts_

VIDEO: Surveillance cameras capture tornado hitting hardware store - The Feed - CBS News
Top 10 Videos of Unknown Chicks Rocking Extremely Hard | Latest

Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift — It Could Shift An Industry

Huffpo Claims Its Bloggers Aren’t Writers. Is That True? - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes
Update: ICANN Approves .XXX Domain | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Official PayPal App Quietly Published On Nokia’s Ovi Store

031811
Japan nuclear situation 'serious but stable' - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English UN's atomic agency says quake-damaged reactors have not deteriorated further, amid desperate moves to avert meltdown.
Japan nuclear crisis: Japan nuclear plant likely has a dire breach, U.S. nuclear officials say - latimes.com A leak in a spent fuel pool at the Fukushima nuclear plant would be an unprecedented problem with no clear remedy, experts say.
Alert level raised at crippled nuke plant - UPI.com
Japan nuclear crisis: Radiation hampers power restoration at nuclear plant - latimes.com Efforts to try to restore power to reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex are interrupted as high radiation forces the withdrawal of workers. But it's unclear whether a return of power will help. Spent fuel rods remain the biggest concern.
Japan Reactor Crisis: Satellite Pictures Reveal Damage
Japan nuclear crisis and tsunami aftermath - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Japan's nuclear battle continues as extra workers drafted in | World news | The Guardian Race is on to restart cooling systems with emergency power after dropping water on damaged reactors has little effect
IAEA: Japan in race against time to control nuclear crisis | World news | guardian.co.uk UN nuclear chief urges Japan to provide more information as trucks douse reactor at Fukushima No 1 plant with water
Japan nuclear reactor water-bombing has little effect | World news | guardian.co.uk Radiation levels rising rather than falling after No 3 reactor doused with hoses, while helicopters appear to miss their target
The Oil Drum | Fukushima Dai-ichi status and potential outcomes | The Oil Drum | Fukushima Thread: March 17, 2011
MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub (http://web.mit.edu/nse/) | Information about the incident at the Fukushima Nuclear Plants in Japan hosted by http://web.mit.edu/nse/ :: Maintained by the students of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT
Graphs of Earthquake and Radiation Data
Workers brave radiation in effort to save plant - The Globe and Mail
A father's goodbye: 'Live well. I cannot be home for a while' - Asia, World - The Independent
Radiation Fears and Distrust Push Thousands From Homes in Japan - NYTimes.com
Trapped in the radiation zone, and no help in sight
YokosoNews on USTREAM
The post-earthquake nuclear crisis: The Japan syndrome | The Economist
Radiation Spread Seen - Frantic Repairs Go On - NYTimes.com
Japan earthquake: Fukushima 50's families post touching messages hailing 'suicide fighters' | Metro.co.uk
Power line connected to crippled nuke plant - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com
| Rick Martin Quake Tools (and Resources)
ines.pdf
Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report
Japan’s wind farms save its ass while nuclear plants founder | Grist - Even the country's totally badass Kamisu offshore wind farm, with its giant 2 MW turbines with blades big as the wings on a jumbo jet, and only 186 miles from the epicenter of the largest quake ever recorded in Japan, survived without a hiccup thanks to its "battle proof design."
With Quest to Cool Fuel Rods Stumbling, U.S. Sees ‘Weeks’ of Struggle - Readers' Comments - NYTimes.com Japanese officials reached for ever more desperate methods to avert disaster as the United States’ top nuclear official warned that the effort could take weeks.
Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 17 March update « BraveNewClimate
Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA • The Register Shameful media panic very slowly begins to subside
Japan's troubling history of downplaying disasters - Japan - Salon.com For decades, the country has been slow to respond to damage reports and quick to shun foreign aid
2011-03-16 Japan's Growing Nuclear Calamity Compounded By History of Neglecting Safety, Downplaying Accidents | WL Central
Japan earthquake: live - Telegraph Here are the latest minute-by-minute updates on the Japan crisis post-earthquake as the struggle continues to avert a full-blown nuclear disaster at Fukushima
Ex-Sandia engineer talks about some of the worst things that could happen in Japan | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com Dr. Michael Allen
Neon’s Glow – The Blog of John DeArmond » What I Know About the Japanese Nuclear Situation
Nuclear crisis solutions simple but not easy - The Washington Post
The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2010 | Union of Concerned Scientists (turns out Bush and Obama have classified most reasons for failure of American reactors)
Understanding Japan's nuclear crisis
Japan Admits Disasters Overwhelmed Government
Insight to Fukushima engineering challenges
NRC: Fact Sheet on NRC Review of Paper on Reducing Hazards from Stored Spent Nuclear Fuel (response to Alvarez paper)
Twitter / arclight: Some are easy to spot, lik ... e putting all your diesel generators at the same elevation near the ocean...
Twitter / Joi Ito: NHK: How to make toilets out of cardboard boxes / TBS: Press conference with gov officials about cooling efforts revealing little new info
Radiation By The Numbers: Isotopes To Watch : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Nuclear Reactors in Earthquake Zones in the U.S. [Map] : TreeHugger
Greg Palast » Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear PlantsThe no-BS info on Japan’s disastrous nuclear operators (Obama requested $4Bn for TEPCO to build nukes in TX; Pres Behind-the-Curve strikes again, but he was given "assurances") - the 'EDGs' in nuke-speak: Emergency Diesel Generators. That they didn't work in an emergency is like a fire department telling us they couldn't save a building because "it was on fire." (actually, Obama wanted to give them the contract to avoid American "whistleblowers")
- Brookings Institution (Hanford dumped their nuke waste in cardboard boxes)
Local News | Hanford needs $2.9 billion in 2013 for cleanup | Seattle Times Newspaper (now Republicans won't pay to clean it up)
YouTube - Tsunami of Tohoku Earthquake Before Wrecking the Coast
#edano_neta | Hiroiro (Edano finally sleeps)
Digital Life - Japanese student learns family is alive thanks to YouTube video
YouTube - Looking for victims of the tsunami, woman finds her lost cat-
FNN - Surfin' Tsunami
YouTube - (Subbed) Nuclear Boy
The Radioactive Boy Scout - Ken Silverstein
Amazon.com: Tomica Hyper Rescue Ambulance (Japan): Toys & Games
YouTube - A harrowing tsunami survival story - Japan earthquake 3/11 (MSN)

Libya military action: live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Libya declares ceasefire after UN resolution • Resolution backed no-fly zone and air strikes
Yemen troops shoot protesters dead | World news | guardian.co.uk At least 35 killed and hundreds wounded in capital of Sana'a after government troops and loyalists open fire on marchers

Charting the Human Cost of Different Types of Energy - ProPublica

Obama Counterterrorism Adviser Slams Congressional Efforts to Block Guantanamo’s Closure - ProPublica (Republicans keeping us safe)
United States diplomatic cables leak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Over 130,000 of the documents are unclassified, some 100,000 are labeled "confidential", about 15,000 documents have the higher classification "secret", and none are classified as "top secret" on the classification scale. ("blood on their hands")

House Votes To Cut NPR's Federal Funds : The Two-Way : NPR The House of Representatives just voted 228-192 to bar NPR from receiving any more federal funds. It was a partisan vote, with Republicans voting "aye" and Democrats voting "nay." (their reward for ignoring O'Keefes phony editing in ten news stories)
Anthony Weiner Sarcastically Mocks GOP NPR Defunding Bill (VIDEO) | TPMDC
On The Media: Transcript of "The Bias Bias" (March 11, 2011) (Ira Glass -- "we're being nice polite Republicans and not fighting back" ... the "truth" is "impractical, unrealistic and naïve.)
Daily Kos: You're gonna defund NPR? Fine- We'll defund Faux News!- UPDATED prohibit any federal funds from being used to advertise on Fox News! (yes, Obama gives Fox money)
House Votes to Defund National Public Radio - FoxNews.com
a White House Reaffirms Commitment To Funding NPR, Public Broadcasting
Glenn Beck’s Website Reveals NPR Lunch Video Was Edited To Ruin NPR
House Vote 191 - H.R.1076: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions - NYTimes.com (how your Rep voted +like, NH totally anti-gay)
The NPR video and political dirty tricks - The Washington Post (WaPo can't see that NPR didn't report on the editing because they didn't either)
Latest James O'Keefe NPR Tape Immediately Proves A Dud | TPMMuckraker
Is There Legal Tension Between James O'Keefe And Hannah Giles? | Media Matters for America
James O'Keefe Requests Nonprofit Status For Project Veritas
ThinkProgress » Ending The Afghan War Would Save Taxpayers 40,000 Times More Money Than Defunding NPR
ThinkProgress » GOP Congressman: NPR Defunding ‘Does Not Actually Save Taxpayer Dollars’ - The funds CPB does not send to NPR under the bill are returned to CPB to be spent subsidizing other private radio producers (win-win)

Republican freshmen in Congress: 'The children of Reagan' reshaping Congress - latimes.com Many of the GOP freshman class elected to the House last year are members of Generation X: Their average age is 47, and many of them formed their political notions during the Reagan presidency (born around 1964, just in time for the counter-revolution)
Donald Trump Would Spend $600 Million Of His Own Cash On 2012 Campaign (Video)
Make-believe billionaire candidate Donald Trump is a birther now - War Room - Salon.com The living parody of capitalist excess continues to win attention with his transparently phony bid for office
Google Reader Republicans Accuse Dems of Using Gay Rights as a Wedge Issue

Nearly 20% of Florida homes are vacant - Mar. 18, 2011 (mabe Lex Luthor will come up with a plan that doesn't involve jobs)

Humans and Animals - An Ancient and Complex Bond - NYTimes.com
Species Census: Yes, the 6th Mass Extinction Is Happening Now | 80beats | Discover Magazine
lowflyingrocks (lowflyingrocks) on Twitter

In the Shadow of Bones - Robert A. Metzger

YouTube - Circo_Roncalli_WMV_V8.wmv (wait for it)
Flickr: Society for Science & the Public (SSP)'s Photostream
Hipster Trap Creators Have A History Of Duping Unsuspecting New Yorkers: Gothamist

China won't let Google do street-view, so ...

Open Letter to RSA Customers Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
Hacker Spies Hit Security Firm RSA | Threat Level | Wired.com
SecurID Company Suffers Security Breach - NYTimes.com
Securosis Blog | **Updated** RSA Breached: SecurID Affected
EDGAR Filing Documents for 0001193125-11-070159 EMC CORP (Filer) CIK: 0000790070 - "Our company's main cash cow just had all its internal organs removed by Chinese hackers. We do not expect this to impact future profits."
Microsoft shuts down spam behemoth Rustock, reduces worldwide spam by 39%
AT&T cracking down unofficial tethering apps like MyWi (ho-ho)
Tracking Protection Lists: A privacy enhancing technology that complements Do Not Track | Electronic Frontier Foundation

031711
Dozens of nuke plant workers injured, exposed - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com Expert says workers at stricken nuclear plant are 'like suicide fighters in a war,' but some are reportedly volunteering to join them
'We're not running away': Fukushima worker
Japan rejected early US help on nuclear disaster: report - Yahoo! News (didn't want to dismantle the plants; thought they could restore cooling)
IAEA Update on Japan Earthquake
Danger of Spent Fuel Outweighs Reactor Threat - NYTimes.com
Japan Offers Little Response to U.S. Assessment - NYTimes.com
YouTube - TEPCO video
YouTube - A deshaken view over Fukushima plant
Twitter / ???: Power cable to the #Fukushima Daiichi No.1 Nuclear power plant is connected. #Japan
Japan nuclear crisis and tsunami aftermath - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk - Some 850,000 households in the north of Japan are without electricity in near-freezing weather.
Containment vessel failure unlikely: Edano | The Japan Times Online Smoke, fires spark new havoc, tactics at ground zero
Japan Military Helicopters Dump Seawater On Nuclear Reactor In Effort To Avoid Full Meltdown
Evacuation Zone around Nuclear Plant - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com (up to 1.9 million people)
BBC News - Nuclear crisis: Inside Fukushima's exclusion zone
Fukushima nuclear plant owner falsified inspection records | The Australian THE Japanese owner of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant falsified safety data and "dishonestly" tried to cover up problems there.
The Oil Drum | Fukushima Thread: March 16, 2011
Terror at N-plant during quake : National : Daily Yomiuri Online :Strong horizontal jolts dislodged ceiling pipes and massive amounts of water started flooding out--this was the frightening scene experienced by a worker who was in the building housing the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant when the earthquake hit Friday.
YouTube - Used Nuclear Fuel - Removing the Fuel Assemblies
Crise nucléaire : robots français pour centrale japonaise en panne | Atlantico
Tokyo flight triggers O'Hare radiation detectors - chicagotribune.com
Why Fukushima isn't a rerun of Chornobyl Japan's response has been swifter, more candid than the Soviets'
Fukushima Will Be a Wasteland: Scientific American Podcast Fukushima to have reached Chernobyl proportions.
Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill - Ben W. Heineman, Jr. - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
Japan's Nuclear Power Industry Has History Of Scandals
Ten reasons why new nuclear was a mistake – even before Fukushima | Energy Bulletin (Obama always behind the curve)
Japan and American environmentalism: Backing slowly away from the reactors | The Economist
Energy’s greatest health risk comes from fossil fuels — precisely why we need to hit the pause button on nuclear power « Climate Progress
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America rebukes Bahrain after violent crackdown on demonstrators | World news | The Guardian Hillary Clinton condemns the rulers in Manama for not showing restraint as Shia-Sunni tensions mount around the Middle East
U.S. Denies Paying Pakistan For Raymond Davis Acquittal
Why Yasir Qadhi Wants to Talk About Jihad - NYTimes.com

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology | The Guardian : Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda (to Americans)
America's absurd stab at systematising sock puppetry | Jeff Jarvis | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The US has a chance to move on from a history of clandestine foreign policy – instead it acts like a clumsy spammer - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called WikiLeaks disclosures "not just an attack on America [but an] attack on the international community". The leaks, she said, "tear at the fabric" of government.

Wikileaks And Bradley Manning | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (basically, Israel is running our foreign policy)
Manufactured Violence: Pushing People Over the Edge | Media Matters for America

The Democrats’ misplaced frustrations - The Plum Line - The Washington Post Democrats have failed to unite behind a coherent critique of the GOP’s fiscal policies, and have failed to articulate a clear alternative
Lawsuit settled: Isthmus, AP will get emails, Walker must pay legal costs - Isthmus | The Daily Page
Republican lawmaker blames 11-year-old victim of alleged gang rape | The Raw Story Republican Florida state Rep. Kathleen Passidomo (infamous on the internets for all eternity for blaming the victim)
Why I am an amoral, family-hating monster…and Newt Gingrich isn't : Pharyngula
Educators hit back over Pa. budget plans — NewsWorks

Streetsblog New York City » Replacement For Yankee Stadium Parking Will Still Have to Pay The Bills As the operator of the taxpayer-financed Yankee Stadium parking garages heads toward default, there’s no longer any question that providing so much parking in such a transit-rich location was a mistake on the scale of Carl Pavano’s contract.

The Complex Origins of Food Safety Rules--Yes, You Are Overcooking Your Food: Scientific American U.S. agencies recommend temperatures and times far beyond those supported by science
Wave Disk Engines could be 3.5 times More Fuel Efficient and should have 25 KW prototype by yearend
Preschool lessons: New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. - By Alison Gopnik - Slate Magazine New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire.
Non-hormonal contraceptive a future possibility
The decline effect and the scientific method : The New Yorker

Bret Easton Ellis: Notes on Charlie Sheen and the End of Empire - The Daily Beast Bret Easton Ellis explains how you are completely missing the point if you think Sheen’s meltdown is about drugs.
Rick Poynor: Surrealism in the Pre-School Years: Observers Room: Design Observer - Babylon

A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions - NYTimes.com (paywall is dropping; you get 20 articles/month ... and this counts as one)
New York Times paywall: wishful thinking or just crazy? - Boing Boing
Free NewYorkTimes (FreeNYT) on Twitter (that didn't take long)
Hightower Lowdown

CCIA: copyright wiretaps are Hollywood's "PATRIOT Act" Maybe we should be grateful our government only wants to make streaming a song or movie a felony with potential prison time as punishment. What's next, corporal punishment? (Obama will take your clothes off)
Sony to Get PS3 Hacker’s PayPal Records | Threat Level | Wired.com Magistrate Joseph Spero in San Francisco granted Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who had visited Hotz’s website from January of 2009 onward


031611
Breaking News | Reuters.co.uk - Timeline: Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis
Japan nuclear emergency: a timeline of the crisis | World news | guardian.co.uk The key events in the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the earthquake and tsunami struck
Timeline: The Japanese Nuclear Emergency - IEEE Spectrum
YouTube - Japan Earthquake Swarm Google Earth Animation

Japan nuclear crisis - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk ''The possibility of recriticality is not zero".
Pentagon preparing for a nuclear worst-case scenario at Fukushima - News - Stripes
Japan earthquake: Fire erupts again at Fukushima Daiichi reactor; nuclears rods damaged at other reactors - latimes.com Fire breaks out for the second time at the No. 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. Meanwhile, a report says about 70% of the nuclear fuel rods at the No. 1 reactor have been damaged, along with 33% of the rods at the No. 2 reactor.
March 15 Updates on Japan's Nuclear Crisis and Earthquake Aftermath - NYTimes.com
Flaws in Japan’s Leadership Deepen Sense of Crisis - NYTimes.com - Left-leaning news media outlets were long skeptical of nuclear power and its backers, and the mutual mistrust led power companies and their regulators to tightly control the flow of information about nuclear operations so as not to inflame a broad spectrum of opponents that include pacifists and environmentalists.
Japanese Bureaucracy Delays Foreign Search and Rescue Teams - ABC News Swiss Rescue Team Held Up By Rules Allowing Dogs to Enter the Country
Japan radiation leaks feared as nuclear experts point to possible cover-up | World news | The Guardian Lack of radiation readings echoes pattern of secrecy employed after other major accidents such as Chernobyl (yeah, all of a sudden all the detectors fail for some reason)
Fukushima Fifty on whose bravery all hope rests
U.S. Concerned Japan Facing Situation That Could Be 'Deadly For Decades': ABC News

Japan tsunami and nuclear crisis – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk Latest pictures from the Fukushima nuclear power plant emergency and the tsunami recovery effort
Japan tsunami: Dramatic amateur footage - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Navy News Service - Eye on the Fleet Description: A Japanese home is seen adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Saundra Schimmelpfennig: The Dos and Don'ts of Disaster Relief Donations

Japan earthquake: Ian Sample on efforts to contain the nuclear accident | World news | guardian.co.uk Japan earthquake: Ian Sample on efforts to contain the nuclear accident After three explosions and two fires at the Fukushima nuclear plant workers seem to be losing the battle to contain the radiation. Day by day Ian Sample will be talking us through all the latest developments, starting with 15 March ...
NHK World English Radioactivity forecast system down - SPEEDI data are intended to be used to draw up evacuation plans for residents around power plants in case of accidents (so that's broken also)
Japan Says 2nd Reactor May Have Ruptured With Radioactive Release - now: U.S. Calls Radiation ‘Extremely High’ and Urges Deeper Caution in Japan - NYTimes.com
EU energy chief says Japan reactor out of control | Reuters
Radiation spike forces evacuations at Fukushima nuclear power station | World news | guardian.co.uk Workers battling to prevent meltdown are ordered to pull back from danger areas, delaying efforts to restore safety
Japan nuclear crisis and tsunami aftermath - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Latest nuclear plant explosion in Japan raises radiation fears - The Washington Post
Q+A: What do latest events at Japan nuclear power plant mean? | Reuters
Workers at Fukushima Plant Brave Radiation and Fire - NYTimes.com
Chernobyl 25 Years Later Becomes Japan’s Lesson on Meltdown - Businessweek
Rachel Maddow: What is a nuclear meltdown
Japan's Nukes Following Earthquake
NHK World English - TEPCO releases photo of No.4 reactor
Japan earthquake and tsunami: French claim full scale of nuclear disaster being hidden | Mail Online
Japan earthquake | Page 95 | Liveblog live blogging | Reuters.com
NRC: Fact Sheet on NRC Review of Paper on Reducing Hazards from Stored Spent Nuclear Fuel
The Great Beyond: Fukushima Crisis: Radiation exposure, beyond the numbers
Fukushima I Nuclear Power Station - Simple English Wikipedia
home | Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal
Radiation Plume Course Charted by U.N. Agency - NYTimes.com
20110315_fuku_Cs-137-glob_12.gif (animation of radioactive plume path across Pacific)

U.S. Concerned Japan Facing Situation That Could Be 'Deadly For Decades': ABC News (or maybe three or four thousand years) - Cables recently released by WikiLeaks show the Japanese government was warned about the design of its nuclear reactors years ago, and did not act (Obama: those treasonous terrorist whistle-blowers with blood on their hands should all be locked up and have their clothes taken away)
US embassy cables: MP criticises Japanese nuclear strategy | Environment | guardian.co.uk

What is Decay Heat? | MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub (http://web.mit.edu/nse/)
US nuke plants ranked by quake risk - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com - So much for San Andreas: Reactors in East, Midwest, South have highest chance of damage
At California Nuclear Plant, Emergency Response Plans Don't Include Earthquakes - he Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on the California coast, which sits less than a mile from an offshore fault line (that would be too expensive)
The True Battle of Chernobyl Uncensored
Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus

Twitter / arclight: @Bjaardker People with massive fiduciary responsibility cannot afford an amateur like me misspeaking or having my goodwill abused (arclight silenced; communication taken over by industry flacks)
Twitter / arclight: @MCunnaneAgency I tendered ... my resignation & was refused. I very much respect the people I work with & for.
Twitter / arclight: I patiently and honestly and honestly answered the media's questions. I would like them to return the favor.

Debunking a viral blog post on the nuke threat - War Room - Salon.com An MIT researcher's claim that there was no threat of radiation in Japan was picked up widely, then it fell apart ... Dr. Josef Oehmen (industry flack has no credibility)
Fukushima Nuclear Accident – 16 March update | The Energy Collective (more industry shills)
Atomic Insights Blog ("atomic industry activist" - nuke industry shills and flacks)
Nuclear Power’s Existence Dependent on Multiple Forms of Corporate Welfare | FDL Action

MAP / Japan quake radioactive material monitoring post MAP - Google
National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center

Four New York Times Journalists Missing In Libya
Five die in Bahrain crackdown | World news | The Guardian Hillary Clinton condemns the rulers in Manama for not showing restraint as Shia-Sunni tensions mount around the Middle East
Yemen clashes leave scores wounded | World news | guardian.co.uk At least 150 protesters hurt in Hudaida rally calling for an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule
CIA spy escapes murder case in Pakistan after US pays 'blood money' | World news | The Guardian Raymond Davis flown to US airbase after payments made to relatives of men shot dead by intelligence agent in Lahore (what about the deficit?)
Dem Rep Accuses Petraeus Of Using 'Charlie Sheen' PR Strategy On Afghanistan | TPMDC the Charlie Sheen counter-insurgency strategy, which is to give exclusive interviews to every major network, and to keep saying 'we're winning' and hope the public actually agrees with you,"
Stunning Tweets from Resistance Claim Kamikaze Defected Pilot Hero crashes into Gadaffi stronghold

Various matters: Afghanistan, Libya & Manning - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (71% of Americans want to GTFO by Summer
Punishing Pfc. Manning - Los Angeles Times
Bradley Manning: Cruel and unusual | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian There was at least the ghost of an excuse for bullying foreign combatants but no US need for mistreating one of their own
Pfc. Bradley Manning doesn’t deserve humiliating treatment - The Washington Post (Obama really has no moral center or periphery either)
Cruel and Unusual Punishment? Protests Grow of Bradley Manning's Treatment in Detention - Spiegel Online - News - International - Once in office, Obama underwent a radical shift. His government is currently taking legal action against a number of whistleblowers. The government apparently wants to use the Manning case as a deterrent. (maybe the Pentagon will bring Obama up-to-date on this non-story)
Ten Liberal Perspectives on Manning - Matthew Shaffer - National Review Online
Twitter / Steve Randy Waldman: Oddly, Manning's treatment ... helps to justify his actions ex post. Is a govt that would do this a govt we should trust to act in secret?
Cruel and unusual treatment of WikiLeaks suspect - CNN.com The problem with the argument that Manning is being kept in long-term solitary confinement to prevent his suicide is that long-term solitary confinement causes suicide (not that they wanted that to happen)
ACLU Calls Military Treatment Of Accused WikiLeaks Supporter Pfc. Manning Cruel And Unusual | American Civil Liberties Union
Balkinization A Statement on Private Manning's Detention
What to do about Gitmo? - This Modern World - Salon.com The president consults with General Flustercluck (that was then and he ain't lookin' back)
Who Is IOZ?: In Jerusalem What this episode reveals is that the most salient aspect of Barack Obama's character is that he is an asshole of the worst order. He does not delight in cruelty like his predecessor, but is grossly indifferent to it. The Ts have all been crossed. Proper procedures followed? Yes. Fine. Let's move on. I have been assured.
EzraKlein Archive Why I hate The New Republic (talk about no moral center)
Dissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Packer, Berman, DeMott, O’Brien—and Iraq - The U.S. is still nowhere near the ideals of international law—witness our punitive detention of accused Wikileaker (a.k.a. patriotic whistleblower) Bradley Manning—but I cannot let severe disappointment devolve into despair.
The Manning Disgrace Barack Obama's record on civil liberties arguably constitutes the worst part of his tenure so far. And his administration's treatment of Bradley Manning remains a particularly striking example:
Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, Not a Criminal | The Nation
Explorer | Solitary Confinement | National Geographic Channel (the Obama-supported American Torture System)
Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? (Obama has been "reassured" that it isn't ... how did we get to this point with Mr Hope and Change?)
Solitary Confinement: The Invisible Torture | Wired Science | Wired.com (torture camps in America run by sadists)

Global paedophile network smashed | Society | The Guardian More than 180 people arrested worldwide after online ring uncovered (no, not that one)
Silvio Berlusconi: sex with 33 women in two months? I'm 75! | World news | The Guardian (no, not him either)

It’s Sunshine Week, But Obama’s Transparency Record Is Cloudy | Threat Level | Wired.com (opaque is the new transparency)
Conservatives: We Are Being Outworked And Out-Organized In Wisconsin Recall Campaigns (the media-hyped/Kock-funded teapartiers left in the dust)
The Washington Post 's Liberal-Bashing, Pro-Torture "Left-Leaning" Columnist | Media Matters for America (and Meryerson is a communist)
The sad, hypocritical retirement of Evan Bayh - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (who could have predicted he was really a Republican asshole?)
Tom Corbett Sued For Axing Low-Income Health Plan (Republicans at work dismantling the health-care system: an "entitlement" that needs to be stopped)
KU community fears budget cuts could mean 32% tuition hike if Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to cut funding to those schools in half is approved. (Republicans at work dismantling the educational system: an "entitlement" that needs to be stopped)
Eunomia » Palin and the “Party of Ideas” (II) It’s a bit rich to claim now that these political concerns have become secondary to concern for the intellectual integrity of the Republican Party, not least since there was no evidence of concern for this during the Bush era.
In Ohio, Public Work Is a Road to the Middle Class - NYTimes.com

No JOLTS to Complacency - NYTimes.com (bubble-boy shielded from reality)
Hullabaloo Grand Bargains and Adult Conversations - leading figures in the president’s economic team — are pressing Obama to cut Social Security benefits (now that's "adult" - and no conversation on "jobs" because that would be ...)
Yglesias » Still Waiting For The Budget Debate (ain't going to happen, Dems already bought into the Republican lies)
Ten Things Dave Ramsey Got Wrong | Bad Money Advice
It’s Coming: The $5 ATM Fee - Deal Journal - WSJ (it really is their money)
US life expectancy surpasses 78, a new record - Yahoo! News (time to get rid of Social Security, oops we mean "refom")

Peeking past Rhea | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation on Vimeo
Form Constants and the Visual Cortex | countyourculture
Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine
Out of Context Science

Texas Bill Would Outlaw Discrimination Against Creationists | Mother Jones (you won't be able to call them stupid anymore and have to give them jobs on your "science" faculty)
Panel urges TSA to implement ‘trusted travelers’ program - The Washington Post (you give them your tax returns; if you make enough money, you're cleared)
New Hampshire House Passes Medical Marijuana Bill - Toke of the Town nearly 3:1 Republican supermajority, overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday that would allow residents to use marijuana for medical purposes.

YouTube - Thailand's Got Talent : Boy or Girl? (English Subtitle) (don't miss)
IAm 96 years old. AMA. : reddit.com

EU to force social network sites to enhance privacy | Media | The Guardian 'Right to be forgotten' would ensure users of Facebook and other sites could completely erase personal data (Zuckerberg: what privacy?)

031511
Japan battles to contain nuclear crisis and relieve quake survivors | World news | The Guardian Radiation hits harmful levels at Fukushima plant
Japan nuclear crisis and tsunami - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk New explosion at nuclear plant, fears of leak • Dangerous levels of radiation at Fukushima plant
Reactor Design in Japan Has Long Been Questioned - NYTimes.com
Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise - NYTimes.com
Risk conditions as wind blows radioactive cloud after Tokyo - Spiegel Online - News - International
Japanese nuclear plant may spray water by helicopter to cool reactors - Chicago Sun-Times
All Things Nuclear • Monday Update on Fukushima Reactors
Radiation decreasing, fuel ponds warming
Japanese nuclear plant may spray water by helicopter to cool reactors - Chicago Sun-Times
In Fuel-Cooling Pools, a Danger for the Longer Term - NYTimes.com
Japanese Government Warns Those Nearby Nuclear Plant To Stay Indoors In Order To Avoid Radiation
Japanese Earthquake Update (15 March 05:15 UTC) : IAEA Alert Log
Radiation decreasing, fuel ponds warming
Cosmic Log - Clearing up nuclear questions
The Automatic Earth: March 13 2011: How Black is the Japanese Nuclear Swan?
In Fuel-Cooling Pools, a Danger for the Longer Term - NYTimes.com
BBC News - live: Japan earthquake
Japan Nuclear Crisis Rated Six On International Accident Scale - MyStateLine.com
Chernobyl clean-up expert slams Japan, IAEA | Reuters Greed in the nuclear industry and corporate influence over the U.N. watchdog for atomic energy may doom Japan to a spreading nuclear disaster
AMERICAblog News: Why does the US (and Japan) refuse to build true fail-safe nuke plants?
Study: U.S. States 'Poorly Prepared' For Radiation Emergency | TPMMuckraker
Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest - ABC News Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant Has Five Mark 1 Reactors

In 2003, U.S. Spurned Iran's Offer of Dialogue - washingtonpost.com a proposal from Iran for a broad dialogue with the United States, and the fax suggested everything was on the table -- including full cooperation on nuclear programs, acceptance of Israel and the termination of Iranian support for Palestinian militant groups (Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz laughed in their faces)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Presses Administration For Clear Withdrawal Plan From Afghanistan
Germany's new boom: making money by making stuff | World news | The Guardian While the UK and US increasingly relied on the financial sector, Germany concentrated on manufacturing (Obama is an "innovative financial product")

The clarifying Manning/Crowley controversy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Obama's record as the most aggressive prosecutor of suspected government leakers in U.S. history - Politico - In other words, one would object to abusive detention only if one were "unusually sensitive" because of some overwrought, emotional family issue; no rational, objective person -- with Beltway power -- could possibly find anything wrong with inhumane detention. So Crowley is just a weird, emotionally affected outlier because of his "unusual sensitivity" to such matters.
The Abuse of Private Manning - NYTimes.com the military has been treating him abusively, in a way that conjures creepy memories of how the Bush administration used to treat terror suspects. Inexplicably, it appears to have President Obama’s support to do so (Bill Keller wakes up)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich « Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette
DOD Gives Manning Caveman Gown, Says They’re Not Humiliating Him | Emptywheel
Dana Milbank Thinks Torture Is Funny | MyFDL frat-boy Milbank thinks this is hilarious. (your Villagers at work)

How NPR Helped Empower James O'Keefe | Media Matters for America - 10 NPR reports that mentioned O'Keefe prior to the controversy over his NPR video. Only once in these 10 reports is there so much as a hint that O’Keefe had ever behaved dishonestly in presenting the results of his "stings" to the public ... NPR repeatedly covered O'Keefe, and adopted his (false) claims about what his videos showed (why you shouldn't get your news from Nice Republican Radio)
House GOP Declares Emergency ... Over NPR Funding | TPMDC (they refused to report on O'Keefe's fake editing for fear of upsetting Republicans, so ...)
NPR 'Apologizes' To The Tea Party (Video)

Va. tea-party activists frustrated with Cantor | Richmond Times-Dispatch
Mormon Politicians Feel Tea Party Heat at Home in Utah - NYTimes.com
Kansas GOPer: Let's Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs | TPMDC (shoot them from a helicopter)
Walker's Budget Would Make WI Labor Mediator A Political Appointee | TPMDC
Santorum: JFK Was 'Radical' For Believing In Separation Of Church & State | TPMDC



The Ultimate Anti-Bullying PSA: Kid Fights Back With Devastating Body Slam



031411
Japan nuclear crisis escalates as third Fukushima reactor faces meltdown | World news | The Guardian Officials warn cooling pumps failing at third unit at plant in north-east of country, leaving fuel rods exposed
Japan tsunami and nuclear alert - Monday 14 March part one | World news | guardian.co.uk - Hydrogen explosion at Unit 3 of Fukushima Daiichi plant • Reports of 2,000 bodies found in Miyagi prefecture ... The latest reported explosion at Fukushima's number two reactor was heard at 6.10am JST, around two hours ago.
BBC News - Japan earthquake: New blast at Fukushima nuclear plant
BBC News - live: Japan earthquake - Meltdown alert at Japan reactor
Tokyo streets and shops empty – and the air is heavy with fear | World news | The Guardian After the earthquake, nerves are beginning to fray in Japan's capital following the tsunami and nuclear crisis
Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise - NYTimes.com
Daiichi-Fukushima-reactors_IEERstatement.pdf Post-Tsunami Situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan: Facts, Analysis, and Some Potential Outcomes
Aftershocks are major concern around Pacific
TimeOutTokyo (TimeOutTokyo) on Twitter
Japan Nuclear Plant Rocked By Second Blast, Nuclear Rods Likely Melting
All Things Nuclear
Japan earthquake: before and after the tsunami - Telegraph
Video: New footage shows tsunami swamp Kamaishi - Telegraph
Video: Tsunami wave hits Japanese coastal town Noda - Telegraph
Japanese death toll to far exceed 10,000 | World news | The Guardian Tens of thousands believed to have died as result of tsunami and huge earthquake that triggered it
The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermath >> TotallyCoolPix
U.S. Carrier Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation From Japan - NYTimes.com
Tsunami aftermath in Japan | Reuters.com
Photos of Japan After Earthquake and Tsunami - Photographs - NYTimes.com
Inside Minamisanriku: 'some kind of Armageddon' - Channel 4 News
10-degree Map Centered at 40°N,140°E
Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring - Japanese does not have a word for excessive preparation.
Japan-style earthquake and tsunami unlikely to hit Southern California, experts say | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times “There’s no offshore fault in any of Southern California that’s exactly like the one that broke in Japan,” ... Northern California and the Pacific Northwest are at a greater risk of a major tsunami because of their proximity to the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

The Crippled Japanese Nuclear Reactors - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
File:BWR Mark I Containment, diagram.png - Wikimedia Commons
Japan-style earthquake and tsunami unlikely to hit Southern California, experts say | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times “There’s no offshore fault in any of Southern California that’s exactly like the one that broke in Japan,”
Nuclear energy 101: Inside the "black box" of power plants - Boing Boing (yes, they put the nukes on the beach)

Lituya_bay_megatsunami.png In 1958 Lituya Bay in Alaska was hit by a 524 meter (1720 ft) wave (it could have been worse)
1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The World From Berlin: Nuclear Disaster 'Will Have Political Impact as Great as 9/11' - Spiegel Online - News - International
BBC - Peston's Picks: How will Japan finance its reconstruction?
What will the effect of the Earthquake and Tsunami be on the Japanese economy and the rest of the world? « Notayesmanseconomics's Blog

The Dalai Lama resigns: So long, farewell | The Economist
Afghanistan suicide attack kills dozens | World news | The Guardian Taliban claims responsibility for third attack in a month in formerly peaceful Kunduz province (how's that surgey-thing working out for you?)
BBC News - Gulf states send forces to Bahrain following protests
Gulf Military Force Enters Bahrain To Battle Unrest: Report a military force from Gulf states has entered Bahrain to help deal with a month of political unrest in the island kingdom.
Politics live blog - Monday 14 March | Politics | guardian.co.uk David Cameron's most bellicose intervention yet on the subject of Libya. It sounds very much as if military intervention of some description is on the way
Yglesias » The Slippery Slope Of Unilateralism - Anne-Marie Slaughter loves war (eponhysterical)
Whiskey Fire: Bombs, See, Grow on Trees On any other issue involving the government spending money, we're "broke." When it comes to exploding things on top of foreigners... we're rich again!
The Washington Monthly - The Libyan Quandary (what could possibly go wrong?)
Iraq Then, Libya Now - NYTimes.com - it’s striking how quickly the bipartisan coalition that backed the Iraq invasion has reassembled itself to urge President Obama to use military force against Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi. (led by Wolfowitz; Douthat actually thinking)
Libya Our Home : News and Views

DOD Continues to Stall on Kucinich’s Request to Visit Bradley Manning | Emptywheel Kucinich goes on to note he’s a member of the Oversight Committee and that under the Constitution DOD ought to be subject to some accountability ... Obama says DOD has assured him everything they’re doing to Manning is standard. If so, then why are they fighting so hard to prevent a member of Congress from visiting him?

Does Raw Video of NPR Expose Reveal Questionable Editing & Tactics? | The Blaze (note: March 10; it took NPR THREE days to catch up to their own story)
Further Analysis Finds Deceptive Editing In Sting Tape, As NPR Gains An Unlikely Defender Had NPR just waited, they'd have Ron Schiller and his perfectly protean opinions on the Tea Party headed to the Aspen Institute, and Vivian Schiller citing the Project Veritas video's content and NPR's own coverage as a demonstration of NPR's editorial integrity. But they decided to go in a different direction (why did it take Glenn Beck to look at this, no they didn't do their own analysis +defund the pussies)
Ira Glass: I Don't Understand Why NPR Is Not Fighting Back | TPMDC (well, Ira ...)
Did NPR Exec. Really Call Tea Partiers Racist? | Media Matters for America (no, but NPR clutched their pearls and fell over)

WisPolitics.com: Sen. Fitzgerald: Email re: Senate Democrat voting privileges in standing committees (Rethugs in Wisc. revoke Senate Dems voting capability; what next?)
Nearly half of signatures collected for recall of Wisconsin GOP state senators, Dems say - The Plum Line - The Washington Post
Scott Walker Rewards Wisconsin Tax Cheats While Homeowners Pay More
REPORT: Fox Gave Far More Airtime To Supporters Of King's Anti-Muslim Hearings Than To Opponents | Media Matters for America (Fox: the racist network)
Roger Ailes Told Palin Not To Make 'Blood Libel' Video: NY Mag "Lie low," he said. "There's no need to inject yourself into the story." Sherman writes that Palin said her lawyer and other confidantes had given her the same advice. Of course, she didn't follow that advice, and made the video. Ailes was not happy.

#anonleaks - #BlackMonday Ex-Bank of America Employee Can Prove Mortgage Fraud Part 1
U.S. Millionaires Say $7 Million Doesn't Make You Rich, Survey Says

MathJax | Beautiful math in all browsers

The 10 Most Flirtatious Cities in America as Measured Online - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic (Boston #2)
Number of Depressed College Students On the Rise, Study Says - ParentDish
Happy Kids Divorce More: University Of Cambridge Study happy children are likely to be more confident and have more friends and family and are more likely to be supported. If they find themselves in a sad position where their marriage has broken down, they might be able to leave it.

$10 preemie preventive now $1,500 - TwinCities.com A drug for high-risk pregnant women has cost about $10 to $20 per injection. Next week, the price shoots up to $1,500 a dose, meaning the total cost during a pregnancy could be as much as $30,000.

An Accelerated Grimace: On Cyber-Utopianism | The Nation Gather round, netizens, for Clay Shirky has a story to tell ... with nary a whisper about faked Obama birth certificates or the James O’Keefe YouTube videos.
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson : The New Yorker Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” (2009)
The Pirate's Prophet: On Lewis Hyde | The Nation
Obama Image Copyright Case Is Settled - NYTimes.com

031311
2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
NHK World English
Japan tsunami and earthquake - Live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk Original quake upgraded to magnitude 9 by Japanese authorities • Over 250 aftershocks so far
YouTube - Hydrogen Explosion At Fukushima Number 3 Reactor (March 14)
Twitter / Pink Tentacle: Explosion at Fukushima Rea ... ctor 3. The walls and ceiling are gone.
Fukushima Explosion: Japan Nuclear Plant Blast Believed To Be Hydrogen Explosion
Japan's twin disasters: March 13 liveblog | Al Jazeera Blogs
In Tsunami, Japan’s Seawalls Were No Security - NYTimes.com But the diesel generators were situated in a low spot on the assumption that the walls were high enough to protect against any likely tsunami. That turned out to be a fatal miscalculation ... “The cost is peanuts compared to what is happening,” he said. (call it the Rudy Guiliani fuck-up)
YouTube - New dramatic video: Tsunami wave spills over seawall, smashes boats, cars
Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Volcano Mountain Blast with Massive earthquake 8.9 in Japan, Tsunami Eathquake 13.03.2011
Japan Volcano Eruption: Hundreds Flee From Shinmoedake Volcano
1605260179420_2624.mp4 street-level video of tsunami onslaught
TEPCO : Press Release | Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 9pm March 13th)
Japan earthquake: Japan nuclear agency reports emergency at another reactor - latimes.com Officials say the cooling system has malfunctioned at Unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the same complex where an explosion occurred Saturday at a different reactor, according to the Associated Press.
Nuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario at Fukushima Power Plant: Scientific American
Japan Earthquake: 10,000 Feared Dead, Hundreds Of Thousands Without Food, Water, Electricity
YouTube - Natorigawa River TSUNAMI Earthquake in Japan
Alexander Cockburn: Earthquakes, Waves and What Ifs
Japan earthquake: Meltdown may be occurring, Japanese nuclear official says - latimes.com 'There is a possibility, we see the possibility of a meltdown,' an official with Japan's nuclear agency says
Japan Earthquake Aftermath - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
Inside Minamisanriku: 'some kind of Armageddon' - Channel 4 News
Japan nuclear crisis worsens as country braces for second huge earthquake | World news | guardian.co.uk
Earthquake and tsunami 'Japan's worst crisis since second world war' | World news | guardian.co.uk Prime minister Naoto Kan speaks as Japanese struggle to avert nuclear disaster and police say death toll could top 10,000
Japan's nuclear crisis: the causes and the risks | World news | The Guardian How did the explosion at the Fukushima No 1 power station in Japan happen? And what are the consequences?
Japan confronts full scale of quake devastation - video | World news | guardian.co.uk Up to 10,000 people are missing in the town of Minamisanriku, as rescue efforts continue along the devastated eastern coast of Japan
Japan earthquake: 'The tsunami just swept my parents away' | World news | The Guardian Jonathan Watts hears harrowing tales from survivors in the wrecked coastal town of Shintona in Miyagi prefecture
Japan Earthquake: State Of Emergency Declared At Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
YouTube - Stabilizing an Earthquake
YouTube - Japan tsunami earthquake "Best Japanese Films" SORRY, Part 3, March 11, 2011.mp4

Gaddafi forces rout rebels in eastern Libya | World news | guardian.co.uk Rebels driven out of town of Brega under heavy bombardment as pro-regime forces advance towards Benghazi
Gaddafi's army will kill half a million, warn Libyan rebels | World news | The Observer Rebels flee Ras Lanuf and call on UN to impose no-fly zone as Gaddafi's forces recapture strategically important towns
Al-Jazeera cameraman was 'lured into trap' and killed by Gaddafi supporters | World news | The Guardian Arabic station says cameraman was shot dead in ambush near Benghazi after reporting on Libya protests
China says Middle East should solve problems itself | Reuters Middle East countries should be left to themselves to resolve the problems they currently face without outside interference, a Chinese vice foreign minister said during a visit to the region.
Israel approves West Bank homes after murder of settlers | World news | guardian.co.uk Binyamin Netanyahu approves hundreds of settler homes in West Bank after Palestinian militants kill family
David Cameron has even less grasp of how government works than I'd thought | Comment is free | The Observer David Cameron's astonishing attack on 'bureaucrats' betrays a serious lack of understanding of the public sector

P.J. Crowley Resigns As State Department Spokesman in the wake of making controversial comments about the Pentagon's treatment of Army private Bradley Manning ("controversial" = "the truth" which is not allowed in the Obama administration)
Saturday Night Massacre: Obama Axes PJ Crowley for Telling the Truth about Bradley Manning | MyFDL
Balloon Juice » Brian Manning Talks to PBS About His Son’s Detention (not adding up)

The Monkey Cage: You Want More Epistemic Closure? Global Warming (again) and Evolution - well-educated (and therefore politically attentive) conservatives are less likely to believe in the scientific consensus regarding global warming than are less well-educated conservatives - political elites take contrasting positions on issues, those positions will be reflected in their fellow partisans in the public, at least among those who are paying enough attention to politics to receive these elite messages. (closure of the rightwing mind to knowledge increases with education)

Does Raw Video of NPR Expose Reveal Questionable Editing & Tactics? | The Blaze (what do you think?)
Wisconsin Protesters Refuse To Quit Police estimated the crowd at 85,000 to 100,000 people – along with 50 tractors and one donkey
'FitzWalkerstan': The Republican Brothers And The Wisconsin Showdown | TPMDC "Welcome to FitzWalkerstan," State Rep. Mark Pocan (D) wrote on his blog on Thursday. - "A very conservative family. Very Catholic. Very pro-life."
What can be learned from PATCO strike? (2006; historical context)

Why Gas Is So Expensive Today (Hint: It’s Not Libya) - Chris Peterson (same as the last time)
Why the Fed needs to get its act together on payments | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com (see, they thing is, your money belongs to the bankers)

American Medical Association: You Can’t Look At Your Genome Without Our Supervision | Wired Science | Wired.com - , the AMA is seeking to maintain its members’ traditional monopoly over the interpretation of genetic information – and they expect regulators to act as their enforcers, beating down the upstart DTC genomics companies who have wandered onto their sacred turf. (American medicine at work: it would be socialism to let you have your own genetic info)
People Have A Right To Access Their Own Genetic Information « Genomes Unzipped the “independent” panel convened at the meeting appeared to converge on the proposal that all health-related genomic tests should be ordered and reported through physicians - Jeffrey Shuren must resign.
Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste: Scientific American By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation (strip, baby, strip)

Bank Of America Leak: Anonymous, WikiLeaks Sympathizer, Plans Monday Release
Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found - Yahoo! News
UNOTES Daily - Finding Atlantis, Featuring Professor Richard Freund, to be Screened
Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia | Ampersand | National Post

FT.com / Weekend Columnists / Matthew Engel - British institutions: the BBC
Xtranormal | Why you shouldn't become an archivist

SXSW 2011: Jay Rosen on bloggers vs journalists | Technology | guardian.co.uk New York University's professor of journalism hits out at on partisans on both sides who keep the feud alive - Sneering at bloggers was a way journalists avoided confronting these developments. In short "this is fucking neurotic." ("both sides" = "journalists" +sneer)

With hacking, music can take control of your car | ITworld Remote-controlled car hacking is a real possibility, researchers say
List of content farms | Jon Gales
CustomizeGoogle :: Add-ons for Firefox
Google Domain Blocker for Greasemonkey
Google Hit Hider by Domain (Search Filter / Block Sites) for Greasemonkey

031211
YouTube - citizentube's Channel
gulfnews : Nuclear fears overshadow rescue efforts in Japan Government spokesman Yukio Edano said the explosion destroyed the exterior walls of the building where the reactor was placed
Japan's Nuclear Emergency | Mother Jones
Japan: Sendai Earthquake 2011 | The Washington Post
Map of the Damage From the Japanese Earthquake - NYTimes.com
Japan's fears of nuclear mayhem recede as nuclear reactor starts to cool | World news | guardian.co.uk Physicists feared second explosion would create radioactive cloud as residents panicked, jamming city's exit roads
Twitter / Reuters Top News: FLASH: Japan's nuclear saf ... ty agency says Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant No. 3 reactor's emergency cooling system not functioning
Bellum » Japan’s Nuclear Safety Board DID NOT Confirm Meltdown
Japan ministers ignored safety warnings over nuclear reactors | World news | guardian.co.uk the real embarrassment for the Japanese government is not so much the nature of the accident but the fact it was warned long ago about the risks it faced in building nuclear plants in areas of intense seismic activity. Several years ago, the seismologist Ishibashi Katsuhiko stated, specifically, that such an accident was highly likely to occur
Japan's TEPCO preparing to release radiation from second reactor | Reuters
Japan nuclear alert and earthquake - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk More than 300,000 people have now been evacuated from their homes in northern Japan and that number will rise as the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear power plant is widened, Kyodo News reports.
Radiation leaks from Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant | Reuters
Japan's tsunami, nuclear plant blast and recovery - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Fukushima nuclear plant blast puts Japan on high alert | World news | guardian.co.uk
Japan Nuclear Plant Explosion Raises Fears Of Meltdown; Earthquake Death Toll Rises
YouTube - inside Sendai airport
NHK??(1ch) nico-nico live feed
LiveLeak.com - Video Shows Tsunami Hitting City of Kamaishi (NHK)
Japan earthquake: nuclear disaster feared after power plant 'explosion' - Telegraph Japan is battling to avoid a nuclear disaster after an explosion at a power plant in the aftermath of the country’s biggest earthquake and devastating tsunami.
YouTube - ?????? ????? Explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant
Mat - Explosion en direct a la centrale de Fukushima #séisme #nucléaire - TwitVid
YouTube - 3/11 Earthquake from Otemachi, central Tokyo, 22nd floor
I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Flea powder may be saving lives in Japan - Cringely on technology
Japan Floods Nuclear Reactor Crippled by Earthquake to Avert a Meltdown - NYTimes.com
Official: 2 Japanese plants struggling to cool radioactive material - CNN
Japan quake: With two natural disasters and a nuclear emergency, recovery begins
Health risk from Japan reactor seems quite low: WHO | Reuters
Battle to stabilise earthquake reactors
Japan's Tsunami: Human Failings, Not Nature's Power, Are the Real Calamity | Environment | AlterNet
YouTube - Japan Earthquake - Before and After images of quake zone
BBC News - Japan earthquake: City of Iwate devastated by tsunami
Minami Sanriku Cho Japan - Google Maps (all gone) w
Tsunami: How Does it Occur? | Graphic.is
Cosmic Log - How quake prediction works (or not)
Americans happy that Japan suffers major disaster "payback for Pearl Harbor" apparently they forget those nuked cities - We're #1 in being assholes
GOP budget targets agency that warned of tsunami - usatoday.com
Japan earthquake hits global markets - Telegraph Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami knocked already jittery global stock markets on Friday, with Europe following Asia lower.
Larry Kudlow Devalues Human Life With Japan Earthquake Freudian Slip | VF Daily | Vanity Fair “The human toll here,” he declared, “looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that.” (your Galtian overlords weigh in on Japan)
P8Y6y.jpg (CNBC, again, nuking Japan)

Bahrain protesters march on palace for second day
Murder trial collapse exposes News of the World links to police corruption | Media | The Guardian David Cameron hired Andy Coulson despite knowing that as editor he employed Jonathan Rees, who paid police for stories (Scotland Yard is really corrupt, left hand of Murdoch)
Generation leads to lowball 300,000 demonstrators to Avenida da Liberdade-Economy - Business Journal Online
Dubai on Empty | Culture | Vanity Fair

BBC News - Demand for Twitter details in Wikileaks probe upheld A federal judge has ruled that the US government may demand that three associates of Julian Assange hand over Twitter account information in the criminal investigation into Wikileaks - "The Twitter Order does not seek to control or direct the content of petitioners' speech or association," she wrote in her ruling (though it might affect their ability to go on living) = "This ruling gives the government the ability to secretly amass private information related to individuals' internet communications. "Except in extraordinary circumstances, the government should not be able to obtain this information in secret. That's not how our system works." (well, it does now)
Obama stands by Manning treatment | politico 44 (basic standards for Obama = Armani suit and shoes)
This shameful abuse of Bradley Manning | Daniel Ellsberg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business
2011-03-07 100 Revelations to Mark 100 Days Since Cablegate Began | WL Central
Playing God with Bradley Manning | Emptywheel
Mainstreaming Brutality
NYT’s Selective Press Prosecution Outrage Doesn’t Include WikiLeaks | Emptywheel (of course not)

A Recent History of Violent Right-Wing Extremism: Neo-Nazis and Other White Supremacists Are Most Dangerous | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Teabag Fascists: Scott Walker and Rick Snyder's Assault on Freedom
The Washington Monthly one of the Republican leaders in the legislature considers the bill "crazy," and believes it may put firearms in the hands of schizophrenics, but he supports the bill anyway.
Obama Shies Away From Union Protests (won't take off his Armanis)

Daily Kos: The real national defense bill: $1.22 trillion 51 percent of Americans support reducing defense spending, and only 28 percent want to cut Medicare and Medicaid health programs for the elderly and poor. A mere 18 percent back cuts in the Social Security retirement program (go, Republicans)
Koch Brothers Increased Wealth by $9 Billion Last Year As They Fund Laws to Make Working Class Poorer | BuzzFlash.org

During climate hearing, Markey asks if anti-science GOP will repeal gravity, heliocentrism, relativity « Climate Progress (well, yes, actually)
Jerry Cope: NASA Data Strengthens Reports of Toxic Rain on the Gulf Coast From BP Spill (but Obama told us everything was ok)
Daylight Saving Time 2011: Why and When Does It Begin? Why spring forward? Should daylight savings be stopped? Get the facts (Republicans planning to repeal time)

Groundbreaking New UN Report on How to Feed the World's Hungry: Ditch Corporate-Controlled Agriculture | | AlterNet

Christian Dior's Neo-Nazi Family

American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population - American Religious Identification Survey 2008 Nones are much more likely to believe in human evolution (61%) than the general American public (38%).
Hipster Faith | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

The 'Godzilla' Incident: Did Twitter Users Gang Up on CNN Earthquake Anchor?
Anonymous Hackers Release Stuxnet Worm Online - FoxNews.com were reportedly found when the faceless group hacked into the computers of HBGary, a U.S. security company that the anonymous collective viewed as an enemy. And the security experts FoxNews.com spoke with said the leaked code was serious cause for concern.
65 Terrific Social Media Infographics | Social Media Today

031111
Massive earthquake hits Japan - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Economic Effect of Quake Likely “Much Bigger Than Anyone Can Imagine” - Stocks To Watch Today - Barrons.com
Ingv: Japan earthquake shifted Earth's axis was 10 cm | Home | Reuters
See Japan's Massive Underwater Earthquake Ripple Across the World
Widespread destruction from Japan earthquake, tsunamis - CNN.com
Japan declares emergencies at 2 nuclear plants - World - CBC News
Japan earthquake: Post-quake events at Japan nuclear plant raise concerns - latimes.com "These first-generation boiling water reactors have the least margin of safety of any reactor design," said Frank N. von Hippel, a Princeton University physicist and former White House advisor.
Japan tsunami and earthquake - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk 10.45pm GMT: Now there are reports from nuclear plant operator Tepco that the Fukushima No 2 plant has lost cooling to three of its reactors (forced evacuation in 10km radius)
Radiation 1,000 times normal at Japan nuke plant - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com
YouTube - Japan's Chernobyl? Radiation pressure fears at Fukushima plant
UPDATE1: Defense force troops sent to area near Fukushima nuclear plant
YouTube - EarthQuake 8,9 Japan 11.03.11 Tsunami disaster terremoto .wmv (ground level view)
Watch NHK World Live TV from Japan.
TBStv on USTREAM:
Watch Raw Dramatic Video Footage Of The Massive Earthquake & Tsu - KHQ Right Now - News and Weather for Spokane and North Idaho | Nearly 88,000 people are reported missing, according to the official Kyodo news agency.
YouTube - tbsnewsi's Channel
National Data Buoy Center
YouTube - skyscrapers almost falling over
Japan earthquake - epicentre location | World news | guardian.co.uk Quakes measuring up to 8.9 magnitude hit northern Japan • Tsunami waves of up to 10 metres sweep away homes and vehicles • Strong tremors shake buildings in Tokyo and spark major fire in Chiba
Japan Tsunami Video Shows Devastation After Massive 8.9 Earthquake< br /> Japan earthquake - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, numerous aftershocks ... Japan declares emergency at nuclear plant ... Death toll rising
Japan earthquake: hundreds feared dead as tsunami spreads across Pacific | World news | The Guardian Up to 300 bodies found in Sendai city ... The quake hit at 2.46pm Japan time (5.45am GMT), about 6 miles below sea level and 78 miles off the east coast.
Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant under state of emergency after quake | World news | The Guardian Thousands evacuated after reactor cooling system fails
Japan Earthquake 2011: 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Hits, 13-Foot Tsunami Triggered - NHK said more than 4 million buildings were without power in Tokyo and its suburbs
Huge Quake and Tsunami Hit Japan - NYTimes.com
Updates and Video of the Quake and Tsunami, in Japan and Elsewhere - NYTimes.com Updates and Video of the Quake and Tsunami, in Japan and Elsewhere
Fukushima Nuclear Plant Scrambles To Avert Radiation Crisis
Record 8.9 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Japan, Unleashes Tsunami | TPM Photo Galleries
The Associated Press: US says Japan earthquake left billions in damage A massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan Friday was the strongest quake in the area in nearly 1,200 years.
Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Tsunami wave hits Kona, Hawaii
Tsunami makes its way to Emeryville, CA (SF area) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Waves destroy Crescent City Harbor docks - Times-Standard Online ”The harbor has been destroyed,” said Crescent City Councilman Rich Enea in a phone interview at 9:45 a.m. “Thirty-five boats have been crushed and the harbor has major damage. Major damage.”
Tsunami Capsizing Boats in Santa Cruz | NBC Bay Area
Fish foul freeway frenzy on Friday | Local News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California
Tsunami Relief And Preparedness Cut In GOP Budget Proposal: National Weather Service

Top U.S. Intelligence Official Tells Congress Gaddafi 'Will Prevail' In Libya The government's top intelligence official fumbled the Obama administration's message Thursday about embattled Muammar Gaddafi's fate, telling Congress that the Libyan leader will prevail in his fight with rebel forces there.
BBC Journalists Describe Beating, Abuse By Libyan Security Forces (video)

Indefensible Detention - NYTimes.com Should a former attorney general be held personally liable for brazenly misusing the material witness statute when he was in office to hold an American man in brutal conditions on the pretext that he was a witness in a case in which he was never called to testify? (and they're not talking about Bradley Manning) (Obama's DOJ totally behind it though)
NYT and "torture": Searching for a justification - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com according to The New York Times, it's journalistically improper to call waterboarding "torture" -- when done by the United States, but when Nazi Germany (or, more generally, China) does exactly the same thing, then it may be called "torture" repeatedly and without qualification.
The "Bush-tortured" excuse for indefinite detention - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Amnesty calls for protests over Bradley Manning's treatment - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Stripped naked every night, Bradley Manning tells of prison ordeal | World news | The Guardian US soldier held on suspicion of leaking state secrets speaks out for first time about experience
Not Only Won’t Obama Close Gitmo, He’s Now Relying on Gitmo’s SOPs | Emptywheel So not only won’t Obama close Gitmo, then, but he’s willing to rubber stamp the standards introduced there for use on American soil (time for Obama to be introduced to some "basic standards")
P.J. Crowley: Bradley Manning Treatment 'Counterproductive And Stupid'
Obama: Bradley Manning Treatment Appropriate ... but remarks made by State Department and Hillary Clinton spokesman P.J. Crowley to a small audience at M.I.T. on Thursday characterizing the Pentagon's treatment of Manning as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid." (Obama loving torture)

Saudi police open fire on pro-democracy protesters | World news | guardian.co.uk Government officials had warned strong action would be taken against protests calling for democratic reforms
What Will Washington Do When Saudis Quash Democracy Demonstrations? | Firedoglake (nothing, as usual)
Al Qaeda Could Seize Tankers For 9/11-Style Attack: PM
Our Government-Funded Mission to Make Haiti Christian: Your Tax Dollars, Billy Graham's Son, Monsanto and Sarah Palin | The Awl Our Government-Funded Mission to Make Haiti Christian: Your Tax Dollars, Billy Graham's Son, Monsanto and Sarah Palin (Obama's Chrisitan Soldiers)
Danny Pye, Christian Missionary Wrongly Interned In A Haitian Prison, Has Fallen Into A Media Black Hole As Sauer has reported elsewhere, last year's massive earthquake brought out the dregs of the Christian missionary world, who took U.S. tax dollars to exploit the tragedy. But Pye wasn't part of that -- he'd been in Haiti doing missionary work since 2003. The couple established a ministry that operates 16 schools, serving underserved children.

CAIR on Hot Seat at Hearing on U.S. Muslims - NYTimes.com (Christian Jihad)
Peter King: force behind Muslim hearings was an IRA supporter | World news | The Guardian Republican senator dismisses critics' attempts to draw a parallel with al-Qaida, arguing the IRA never attacked on US soil
Muslim hearings in US Congress dismissed as 'equivalent of reality TV' | World news | The Guardian Organisers say hearing is vital to US security, but critics say it raises spectre of McCarthy witch-hunts
HR 607 (Peter King want to kill amateur radio and give the spectrum to cops for their own special internet)
IRA Terrorist Peter King Now Wants To Take America’s Amateur Radio Band

Debit card spending limit? Banks consider a $50 cap - Mar. 10, 2011 Chase is already testing $3 monthly fees on debit cards and $15 fees on checking accounts in certain states (it's their money anyway, and they resent you spending it on yourself)
Big Banks Threaten Debit Card Cap: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup Might Limit Debit Card Purchases - ABC News

The Age of the Political Sting | Mother Jones (doesn't have to be true, or anything, the Villagers will go nuts)

PolitiFact Wisconsin | Michael Moore says 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined - "Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined." (true)
New Hampshire Republican Won't Apologize For Saying 'Defective' People Should Die In Siberia | TPMDC - "I mean all the defective people, the drug addicts, mentally ill, the retarded -- all of them." (oooh, death panels)

In News Conference, Obama to Address Energy Prices - NYTimes.com following what appears to be a new willingness to have the president face reporters more frequently
Health Care Benefit Cuts Being Mapped Out By House Republicans
Congressional Republicans Set Sights On Homeowners, Elizabeth Warren As Split Emerges with State GOP Leaders (you don't need no steenking comsumer protection)
Sherrod Brown on Cenk: President Obama Has a Loud Microphone | MyFDL Cenk’s reaction was a “then we’re doomed” expression when Brown’s first response is that we have a President Obama with a [loud] microphone.
Walker Signs Anti-Union Bill Into Law In Wisconsin | TPMDC
Walker Rescinds Layoff Notices for 1,500 Wisconsin Workers - NYTimes.com - for 1,500 state workers after Wisconsin lawmakers approved his plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits for public employees.
PolitiFact | Fact-checking the Wisconsin budget battle
Wisconsin Loss For Labor Could Spur Unions To Mount Counterattack In 2012
Unions Frame Collective Bargaining As Civil Rights Issue
Michael Moore To Rachel Maddow On Wisconsin: 'This Is War' (video)
Recall Scott Walker
Wisconsequences: What Happened This Week and What's Next (Up First: the Voter ID Bill) | The Awl
YouTube - VoicesOfSolidarityWI's Channel
Democrats, Labor Set Sights On Recall Of Six Wisconsin Republicans (or maybe only three)
Democratic Party Releases First Post-Vote Ad Targeting Wisconsin Senate Republican
Randy Hopper, family man? - Blogging Blue But protesters outside the Hopper house this week in Fond du Lac were met by his wife who reportedly came out and told them: Hopper no longer lives there, but with his 25-year-old mistress in Madison.
Walkouts, Bank Boycotts and Recalls: Wisconsin Protests Intensify as Union-Busting Legislation Pushed through State Assembly Walkouts, Bank Boycotts and Recalls: Wisconsin Protests Intensify as Union-Busting Legislation Pushed through State Assembly
Weighing General Strike Option, Wisconsin Unions Map Fights on Many Fronts - Working In These Times
E.J. Dionne Jr. - What Wisconsin Democrats can teach Washington Democrats What Wisconsin Democrats can teach Washington Democrats (but then mediacorps like the Boston Globe would consider them "unseemly")
Wisconsin Protest Shows D.C. Dems Power of Principle | Democratic Strategist (see Boston Globe)

Thousands descend on Statehouse for labor rally » Local Education » The Herald Bulletin Union supporters protest GOP-backed bills (Indiana)
Ohio governor: When union bill passes, I'll sign it - USATODAY.com
Silenced Majority Portal: Boycott Koch Industries Products - Climate Deniers & Tea Party Backers
? Report: The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation of The Right « Unknown
Second O'Keefe-NPR Video Released, Alleging That NPR Agreed To Shield Donation From Scrutiny [update]
Health Care Benefit Cuts Being Mapped Out By House Republicans
New fronts open in abortion wars Now 22 more states are considering similar abortion bills.
Lawrence O'Donnell's Brutal Parody Of Newt Gingrich's Affair Apology Interview (video)
Rachel Maddow Has A Lot Of Fun With John Ensign's Retirement, Sex Scandal (video)
Iowa GOPer Dubs NRA-Backed Legislation 'Give-A-Handgun-To-A-Schizophrenic Bill' | TPMMuckraker
Oprah's OWN Network Undergoes An Overhaul (who could have predicted that wouldn't work out so well)

inequality-page25_actualdistribwithlegend.png (Inequality in Amercia_
Men's Heavyweight T-Shirt | Uther's stuff (turned into t-shirt)
General Strike! (black only) | Uther's stuff
Daily Kos: Class warfare, illustrated
Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cuts

'Sovereign Citizens' Arrested In Alaska For Alleged Plot To Kill Police, Federal Judge | TPMMuckraker (another "isolated incident" of rightwing terrorism)
Insiders: Buy Daniels, Pawlenty; Sell Palin - Hotline On Call

Yglesias » What I Learned At The Treasury Department 3. Treasury claims that HAMP is currently working well, though it wasn’t necessarily working well in the past (muhahah)
Daily Kos: Sen. Sanders proposes 5.4% surtax on millionaires. More like this guy, please! (Andrea Mitchell and the Villagers go nuts)
Ricardian Confusions, Continued (Seriously Wonkish) - NYTimes.com - the supposed story in which government spending is frustrated by a fall in private spending never happens. (economists bunch of rightwing hacks, turns out)
Renault’s Electric Car Secrets Case Is Crumbling - NYTimes.com Renault is reconsidering its accusations amid doubts about crucial evidence, creating a possibility that heads will roll amid deep embarrassment in the French establishment.

Working conditions drive women from engineering, UWM survey says - JSOnline Patronizing attitudes push females out ("patronizing attitudes" = "asshole men")
More More Americans Survive Cancer, Raising Stakes For Later Care : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Updating the Rossi Focardi Cold Fusion Reactor | New Energy and Fuel

March 2011 Update - Strategic Planning (WP editors give up after less than a year in face of aggressive control-freaks)
Wikipedia - Encyclopedia Dramatica The People's Communist Republic of Wikipedia?, commonly shortened to simply Wikipedia, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game in which participants play editors of a hypothetical online encyclopedia.

Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty (Obama loves "negotiating" with corps behind losed doors to screw you)
Did an old grudge get Old Man Murray deleted from Wikipedia? - Boing Boing
The Remarkable Notability Of Old Man Murray | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Caltrops - Rants - ------------
Bed Against The Wall: Running A SSH Honeypot With Kippo: Let's Catch Some Script Kiddies
Kippo TTY Log
Worlds worst hacker | George Hedfors
Official Google Blog: Hide sites to find more of what you want
Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work • The Register
Heap Memory » Nokia adopts Windows Phone 7 – an employee’s perspective
13 Reasons Why I Love The N8 | The Nokia Guide

031011
Rebel forces retreat from Ras Lanuf - Africa - Al Jazeera English Rebel fighters fall back from oil town under rocket fire and aerial assault as Gaddafi loyalists launch major offensive.
Libyan Rebels Flee Strategic Town Under Heavy Attack - NYTimes.com
The Case for a No-Fly Zone Over Libya - NYTimes.com General McPeak to get his take on a no-fly zone, and he was deliciously blunt: “I can’t imagine an easier military problem,” he said. “If we can’t impose a no-fly zone over a not even third-rate military power like Libya, then we ought to take a hell of a lot of our military budget and spend it on something usable.”
Hoard of Cash Lets Qaddafi Extend Fight - NYTimes.com (yeah, he kept all the money)
Gaddafi Showers Strategic Oil Port With Rockets

Dirar Abu Sisi, Palestinian In Ukraine, Allegedly Abducted By Israel
Obama's Afghan Legacy: More Civilian Deaths There is no consensus about what good has been achieved in the two-plus years that President Barack Obama has waged war in Afghanistan. But one negative result is indisputable: the war has grown deadlier for Afghan civilians (war-boy)

Julian Assange police investigator a friend of sex assault accuser | Media | The Guardian Officer and Miss A met through political party and corresponded over internet months before WikiLeaks chief was accused (nothing fishy there, is there?)

Dalai Lama Will Give Up Political Role In Tibetan Government-In-Exile

Air Canada suspends cargo shipments to US [updated] | Canadian Manufacturing US Transport Security Administration security amendment forces embargo
US Congress grills TSA on air cargo screening progress | Post & Parcel

Terror Hearing In Congress Begins Amid Heightened Security (Islamic Jihad meets Christian Inquisition led by former IRA terrorism supporter, Peter King, Republithug)
ThinkProgress » Jon Stewart: ‘Wait Until Congressman Peter King Gets A Hold Of Terrorist Sympathizer Peter King!’
The Washington Monthly = How Peter King May Make The Terrorist Threat Worse (ins't that what they always do?)
King Defends Domestic Terrorism Hearing - NYTimes.com “to back down would be a craven surrender to political correctness.” (not to mention, sanity)

Wisconsin Assembly Set to Approve Limits on Union Bargaining - NYTimes.com
Wisconsin GOP Senators Pass Stand-Alone Anti-Union Bill Without Democrats Present (we don't need no steenking Dumbocrats)
Labor Vows To Step Up Recall Effort Against Wisconsin GOP, Challenge Anti-Union Bill In Court
What Michael Moore 'Gets' About Wisconsin... and America | The Nation
YouTube - Travesty of Justice.MP4
YouTube - Line of Shame.MP4
Barca files complaint with district attorney on controversial Capitol vote
One Wisconsin Now Statements on Gov. Walker, Republican Legislature's 'War on Working Wisconsin' - One Wisconsin Now
Watch DOT Traffic Cameras
The Plum Line - Poll: Majorities support recall of two Wisconsin GOP senators
Twitter / Jacquelyn Gill: Large crowd outside King S ... t. Entrance just told that Senate is proposing bill to change recall laws (which are in constitutional).
Pop Up Video
WisPolitics Budget Blog: Holperin on his way home
PiratenPad: wisconsinchoices
Why Walker won't back down
Dale Schultz statement on Senate action
Mary Spicuzza - VIDEO: Protesters who wouldn't leave the Assembly anti-chamber being carried away by officers. #wiunion - TwitVid
WisPolitics Budget Blog: Barca moves to have Fitzgerald removed as speaker
Can you say "Governor Russ Feingold"? - War Room - Salon.com The former senator could make a comeback if Wisconsin's governor is forced into a recall election
Ontario's 'Days of Action' - A Citywide Political Strike Offers A Potential Example for Madison | Labor Notes
John Darnielle Covers "Power In A Union" In Support Of Wisconsin Protesters [video]
Limbaugh Says WI Protests Are "Mob-ocracy" And "Thuggery" By "Bused-In Union Thugs" | Media Matters for America
Freelancers Union :: About Us - Pages from Freelancers Union
Daily Kos: Wisconsin GOP Did Not Provide Proper Notice
Only the Beginning (2) Today, Republicans stampeded their right-wing attack on workers. No longer in the state of Wisconsin will citizens be able to say there is no difference between the Democrats and Republicans.
Report: Major DC Lobby Firm Throwing Fundraiser For Wisconsin GOP Leaders | TPMDC
Mr. President: Use the damn bully pulpit! - Wisconsin - Salon.com (he's a facilitator, not a leader)
YouTube - Wisconsin Union Wisconsin Republican senators leave through secret tunnel after march 9th vote
YouTube - Michigan is screwed (Rick Snyder creates budget problem, screw everyone)
IWW General Strike posters to print and forward - Boing Boing

Illinois Death Penalty Abolished: Pat Quinn Signs Death Penalty Ban, Clears Death Row
Mike Huckabee: 'Death Panels' Will Grow From Stimulus-Planted Seeds - "Death by Chocolate' won't just be a cute name on the dessert menu."(whut?))
Golf courses in state parks 'the worst idea in history' - St. Petersburg Times (Lex Luthor's latest bright idea)
James O'Keefe, NPR-Slayer: What Kind of Journalist is This? | The Wrap Media
GOP Cuts: A "Guillotine Job" on the Special Olympics | Mother Jones Add disabled kids to the growing list of vulnerable Americans who could suffer the fallout from the budget battle.
Florida Conservatives Standing Up For Liberty With New Law to Ban Farm Photo - Salem-News.Com The specific freedom-enhancing element of this particular initiative is that apparently freedom-hating animal rights activists have been known to secretly document farm activities in order to advance socialism (just when you think they can't get more outrageous)

Fed Report Finds No Wrongful Foreclosures By Banks, Consumer Advocates Slam Methodology (Obama's program to find illegally foreclosed homeowners designed to fail to find any)
Simon Johnson: Battle of European Heavyweights on Banking Policy - NYTimes.com (Europe will address problem Obama doesn't think is a problem)
aer.101.1.1 100 Years of the American Economic Review: The Top 20 Articles
Healthy Bonuses For Health Care Executives | WBUR

The New Atlantis » What Scientists Believe

The New York Times' Rape-Friendly Reporting | Mother Jones (11 and asking for it, according the the NYT)
Cleveland texas gang rape: The New York Times skips context in its reporting.
Media Blows It With Pathetic Gang Rape Coverage [updated]
Texas Gang Rape Coverage Continues To Appall [updated]
Breast-Feeding Boutique Battles a Condo Board - NYTimes.com the Pythian, a legendary landmark originally built as an exclusive — and, yes, all-male — lodge.
Graphic of the Day: Pregnant on the subway :: Second Ave. Sagas

How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself - ProPublica (are now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?)
Todd Bieber - i make movies, I found the owner.  (lost film canister adventure, sweet)
Universal wrapping paper | David Airey, graphic designer
Language Log: Recursively nested quotation marks

Hackers figure out MS Point card algorithm and steal $1.2 million – Video Games Reviews, Cheats | Geek.com
House Panel Votes To Repeal New FCC Internet Rules A Republican-controlled Congressional panel has voted to repeal new Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit phone and cable companies from interfering with Internet traffic on their broadband networks.
The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed - Facebook - Salon.com I'll never know why the kids did it, but there it was: Sleazy, horrifying, and I was powerless to get it taken down (zuckerfucked)
Mozilla Labs » Gaming » Blog Archive » Game On Spotlight: Favimon

030911
New air raids hit Libyan oil city - Africa - Al Jazeera English Concern that gas facilities have been struck as Ras Lanuf, a strategic city, comes under shelling by Gaddafi's forces.
Libya Official Flies To Egypt With Gaddafi Message
Obama does not get it - Opinion - Al Jazeera English If independent, democratic, governments are formed in the Middle East, they won't follow Washington's orders (well, he'll strip them naked and put them in little cells)
Hacker group vows 'cyberwar' on US, businesses - Technology & science - Security - msnbc.com Actions to retaliate for treatment of WikiLeaks, Manning, spokesman for Anonymous says

Bradley Manning Is Punished for Seeking a More Perfect Union | MyFDL He’s Accused of Telling the Truth in a Time of Lies (and tortured by the Liar-in-Chief)
Raymond Davis Murder Trial Postponed, DeHaven Granted Bail, CIA-ISI Tensions Grow | MyFDL
Petraeus: Momentum is 'Modest' In Afghanistan (reverse momentum)
Afghan civilian deaths jump - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English The UN report on civilian deaths says the toll increased by 15 per cent compared to last year (that would be Obama's drone "surge")

Top UK businessmen among 9 arrested in bank probe - Yahoo! News Police have arrested nine people, including two of Britain's wealthiest entrepreneurs, on suspicion of fraud in connection with the 2008 collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing bank during the global financial crisis (time for international financial war-crimes trial)
Tchenguiz brothers arrested in Kaupthing investigation | Business | guardian.co.uk The Serious Fraud Office has been investigating the collapse of the Icelandic bank since last year, amid allegation market manipulation in the run-up to the financial crisis (never in America)
BBC News - England 'healthier than the US' People living in England enjoy better health than Americans, despite less investment in healthcare, research published in the US has revealed

Radical Islam hearing stirs hornets' nest msnbc.com Inquiry by congressional committee looks like inquisition to many Muslims (Peter "I am a flaming racist" King)
Gulf spill sickness wrecking lives - Features - Al Jazeera English Nearly a year after the oil disaster began, Gulf Coast residents are sick, and dying from BP's toxic chemicals (well, just keep voting Republican and you won't have to worry about children)
White House moving to repair troubled relationship with Cabinet badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet - Emanuel did not help them set priorities but instead only called to complain when things went wrong. "Rahm was always moving too fast, thought the Cabinet was useless, didn't have time for it, everything was full speed ahead - fast, fast, fast, can't stop to explain it to somebody" (Obama can't even lead his own Cabinet +you were right, Rahm sucked at everything)

Daily Kos: NPR: Sources say CEO 'forced out' after O'Keefe video (when you don't stand up to lying bullies ...)
Vivian Schiller, NPR CEO, Resigns (O'Keefed by the righwing echo chamber)
Aspen Institute Informs Wonkette That Ron Schiller Can’t Work There, Either
Juan Williams thrilled as man is fired from NPR for having wrong opinions - Juan Williams - Salon.com
Everything NPR Executive Said about Tea Party is Backed by Lots of Objective Polling | Firedoglake ("objective?" who cares about "objective?")

Suspect In MLK Day Bomb Charged With Attempted Use Of WMD | TPMMuckraker the suspects in the case "are apparently affiliated with white supremacists." (another "isolated incident" of rightwing terrorism)

Collective bargaining bill passes Senate, Thursday vote scheduled in Assembly (it was a budgetary issue until it wasn't, "50 years of rights, gone" his next step was martial law)
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and public employees unions -- Isthmus | TheDailyPage.com
Wisconsin Republicans portray protests as 'violent' in quest for donations - Isthmus | The Daily Page
Anti-Public Employee Bill Passes Senate in Wisconsin; Only the Beginning of the Fight | FDL News Desk
Wisconsin Senate Votes To Eliminate Collective Bargaining | The UpTake
Gov. Scott Walker's Secret Weapon: The Wisconsin Veto - Jordan Ellenberg - Politics - The Atlantic
Ezra Klein - What happened in Wisconsin tonight
Hightower to join farmers during farmers' 'tractorcade' and rally
Justseeds: Blog: Be prepared for the General Strike if and when it is called

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Senate advances collective bargaining changes; Democrats to return Thursday - JSOnline Senate advances collective bargaining changes; Democrats to return Thursday - The bill eliminates almost all collective bargaining for public workers (as usual, Republicans play dirty)
Don't Journalists Have Any Labor Leaders In Their Rolodexes? | Media Matters for America (no)
Daily Kos: Michelle Rhee supports many of Scott Walker's anti-teacher measures
In Wealthy Bronxville, Concern Over Rising School Taxes - NYTimes.com Peter P. Pulkkinen is one. A 40-year-old investment banker, he and his wife, Sarah, moved here in 2004 from the Upper East Side and their two oldest children are now in the first and third grades. He wants small classes for them. But rather than raise taxes, he would restrict teacher compensation— particularly their benefits (its hard to find good help to work for free)
Corbett’s budget: No tax hike, lots of spending cuts | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/08/2011 (PA: another teabag Gov destroying his state)
How Corbett fracked Pa.'s middle class | Philly | 03/08/2011 "Their philosophy is that the public sector is fat and bloated," said Madonna, who said he was stunned by the governor's scheme to cut some $625 million in funding - which is more than half - for 14 state-owned colleges and universities and state-backed schools like Temple, Penn State and Pitt (nationwide war on teachers +drill, drill until the earth moves under your feet)
Art Robinson vs. Oregon State: 'I don’t have definitive proof' | KVAL CBS 13 - Eugene, Oregon (teanut sues because his kids are stupid)
In states, parties clash over voting laws that would affect college students, others In states, parties clash over voting laws that would affect college students, others (young people shouldn't be allowed to vote because they are liberal and just vote their feelings)
Arkansas GOPer: It Was 'Inadvertent' That I Called My Political Rival A 'Pro-Abortion Jewish Lawyer' | TPMDC
Washington Post Columnist David Broder dead at 81 - Washington Post - Salon.com
Daily Kos: Idaho legislature strips teachers' collective bargaining rights (Republican war on teachers)
Daily Kos: Pence: Family planning has nothing to do with women's health services
Buying Legitimacy: How A Group Of California Executives Built An Online College Empire POTEMKIN UNIVERSITY (while we're cutting teachers' everything)
Benjamin Grumbles, Former Bush EPA Official: 'Fracking' Exemption Went Too Far (too fracking far)

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In Wealthy Bronxville, Concern Over Rising School Taxes - NYTimes.com (NYT sends reporter to Bronxville to get quote that investment banker thinks his kids' teachers are paid too much)

Soros: GOP Budget Cuts A 'Serious Brake' On The Economy (Republicans always destroy your economny)
Reporting the debit interchange debate | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com Wyatt’s article as a whole is greatly tilted towards the bank lobby. By my count, he gives the banks’ side of the story eight different times, by quoting bankers directly or just recounting what “banks contend”. By contrast, the merchants get cited only twice, and their argument doesn’t really get parsed at all (it's always one-sided)

It's all in a name: 'Global warming' vs. 'climate change' Many Americans are skeptical about whether the world's weather is changing, but apparently the degree of skepticism varies systematically depending on what that change is called (how about "liberal conspiracy to deprive us of our SUVs")
People don’t know when they’re lying to themselves | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Seriously jaw-dropping picture of the Sun | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
How Energy Efficiency Can End Up Hurting the Environment - NYTimes.com
Inside Glacier Caves (17 photos) - My Modern Metropolis
Land of the Giants: Dutch Tower over Americans - ABC News Some See Height Tied to Nation's Health ("some see ..." +Americans getting wider, not taller)

Lady Gaga Reportedly Ends Bad Romance with Target Over Political Donations (that would be "anti-gay" donations)
The New York City Bike Lane Backlash is Completely Irrational (Mrs Schumer hates bikes +rich people should be able to park their Jag for free on streets)
Millions of dead fish at King Harbor in Redondo Beach [Updated] | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
Study: Does Having Kids Makes Parents Delusional? - TIME Healthland
Does Having Children Make You Happy? - Newsweek "In fact, no group of parents—married, single, step or even empty nest—reported significantly greater emotional well-being than people who never had children. It's such a counterintuitive finding because we have these cultural beliefs that children are the key to happiness and a healthy life, and they're not."
Older parents are happier with more children; young parents, with fewer (or, getting older makes you happier, unless it doesn't)
YouTube - Vihart's Channel - Mathemusician

YouTube - Fantastic Scenic Views Of Planet Earth

Affidavit: Texas girl's assault recorded on cell phones - CNN.com
The NY Times' sloppy, slanted child rape story - Media Criticism - Salon.com

New Law Requires Sites To Have 'Explicit Consent' Before Tracking Starting May 25, a controversial new European law will require sites to obtain "explicit consent" from users before issuing cookies, the BBC reports.
Judge: Debt Agency Can't Contact Woman On Facebook
Sprint in talks to acquire T-Mobile USA, report claims | BGR
YouTube - VerifoneParody.wmv
YouTube - VeriFone Announces iPhone Secure Payments Solution (what a bullshit company)
Gangs skim $50m from EFTPOS machines | News.com.au
Credit Card Theft - The 5 Biggest Credit Card Heists in History
Activist Michael Anti Furious He Lost Facebook Account--While Zuckerberg's Dog Has Own Page (you've been zuckerfucked)

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International Women's Day: 5 Ways To Help Empower Women

Rebels set demands for Gaddafi exit - Africa - Al Jazeera English Head of Libyan opposition says Gaddafi 'will not be pursued' if he quits within 72 hours and stops bombing countrymen.
U.N. Claims 1 Million In Libya Will Need Emergency Aid
Libya Air Strikes Hit Rebels At Oil Port

Military Must Remain In West Bank: Israeli PM Netanyahu (forever)
Rafsanjani ousted from Iranian post - Middle East - Al Jazeera English 'Moderate' former president steps down as head of state body, a move which seems to tighten hardliners' grip on power.
Sweden bomb suspect arrested in UK - Europe - Al Jazeera English
'Corrective' Rape: Fighting a South Africa Scourge - Yahoo! News
Sarah, Duchess Of York, Got Loan From Wealthy U.S. Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Obama's new executive order on Guantanamo - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com McCarthyite Rep. Peter King (R-NY) issued a statement this morning, as quoted by The Post, which lavished Obama with praise: "I commend the Obama Administration for issuing this Executive Order. The bottom line is that it affirms the Bush Administration policy that our government has the right to detain dangerous terrorists until the cessation of hostilities." That perfectly captures the legacy of Barack Obama and civil liberties.
Rasmussen Poll: Majority Want U.S. Troops Out Of Afghanistan Within A Year (Obama loves wars)

Isolation: "The Ideal Way Of 'Breaking Down' A Prisoner" | MyFDL How bad is isolation? Bad enough that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld himself felt it warranted a “caution” in his April 16, 2003 memo authorizing certain aggressive forms of interrogation, i.e., torture (bow to our new torturer-in-chief)
A Modest Proposal: Indefinitely Detain the Banksters | Emptywheel (well, that would lead to you-know-where)

Dem Spending Cut Consensus Blunts 'Job-Destroying' Attack On GOP | TPMDC (Dems cutting jobs to agree with Republicans and getting blamed by Republicans for cutting jobs, or, Steny Hoyer)
Matt Damon: Obama Has 'Rolled Over To Wall Street Completely' (shoe-shine boy)
Christopher Lydon: David Bromwich on the "Disappointment in Obama"
Nation criticizes Utah’s call for records secrecy | The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah=Libya West)
Wisconsin Protesters Break Up GOP Congressman's Town Hall Meeting In Governor's Hometown (taste of his own medicine)
Wis. Dems File Ethics Complaint Over Walker's Comments On 'Koch' Call | TPMDC
Florida Republicans Are at Odds With Their Leader - NYTimes.com “The governor doesn’t understand there is a State Constitution and that we have three branches of government,” (Lex Luthor at work +they never do, do they?)
A Brief Encounter With One Samuel J. Wurzelbacher - First Draft (Thers: "Wingnut spokesmeathead Joe the Plumber (NB: not an actual plumber) is a perfectly pleasant guy. (Aren't they all, on some level?) And he has no intention of allowing complete ignorance of the Wisconsin budget to interfere with his right to opine upon it. (+wingnuts love veterans, but not to the extent of actually supporting them or being, you know, veterans themselves)
Sarah Palin: Africa Is A Continent, Rumors I Don't Know That Are 'Lies' (don't make fun of dimbulb Sarah-poo)
Bill Maher: Charlie Sheen Is Like Sarah Palin on Cocaine (video)
Government Worker Benefits See Political Battles Playing Out In State Capitals (laid off from Harley-Davidson, now hates union workers; cant ... connect ... the ... dots)
Ron Schiller, Former NPR Fundraiser, Caught On Tape Bashing Tea Party, Questioning Need For Federal Funds (better off without them, but they'll still report like Republicans)
What James O'Keefe's Latest Video Means for NPR Funding - Chris Good - Politics - The Atlantic
Rush Limbaugh Denies Paying Actors To Pose As Radio Callers
Marty Kaplan: Al Jazeera English vs. The Charlie Sheen Channel (Comcast, the mediacorp with five sports history channels)
Charlie Sheen is not filial - GlobalTimes Actor Charlie Sheen is a classic example of the difference in Western and Eastern values and norms.
The truth about Newt and his cancer-stricken wife - War Room - Salon.com (big fat liar)

Dogg Days - NYTimes.com Ladies and gentlemen, the man President Obama chose to co-chair his deficit commission: "grandchildren now don’t write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they’re walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg, and they don’t like them!” (Alan "Serious Person" Simpson, the man Obama appointed to screw you)
Mortgage Industry To Face Massive Changes Under Regulators' Plan; Homeowners, Investors Better Protected (not if Obama has anything to say about it)
YouTube - 9 TRILLION Dollars Missing from Federal Reserve,Fed Inspector General Can't Explain

You Never Get a Seventh Chance to Make a First Impression: An Awkward History of Our Space Transmissions by Genevieve Valentine | Lightspeed Magazine
What is Derivatives Of Displacement? (jerk, jounce, snap, crackle and pop)

s3rka.png - analysis of rightwing "thinking"

Girl Walk // All Day on Vimeo (watch for at least two minutes)
Fractal Lab - Interactive WebGL Fractal Explorer
International Center of Photography Library
Piano mansion voodoo shock - m.NYPOST.com

I’m sticking with Disqus. Here’s Why | Both Sides of the Table
Lauren Weinstein's Blog: New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis" New Facebook Feature Empowers the Dangerous "Comment Nazis"
Zenroll ? Tech In Asia
Facebook Disconnect - Remove Fb Connect from Websites | Chrome Story
Ghostery
Staving off the search war apocalypse | MediaFile | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com Think the search engine wars are over? They’ve only just begun.
blog.reddit -- what's new on reddit: Millions Ask Anything
BitTorrent User and $4 Seedbox Saves 172 BBC Websites From Extinction | TorrentFreak A decision to cut BBC Online’s budget by a quarter over the next 2 years with the loss of 360 staff is set to completely wipe out more than 170 websites this year. In an attempt to show just how cheaply this valuable history could be kept alive, a BitTorrent user armed with a sub $4 seedbox has made all of them available in a single torrent. (conservatives at work)

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Libyan forces strike back at rebels - Africa - Al Jazeera English Opposition fighters ask for help to fend off fierce counterattacks by Gaddafi loyalists aiming to retake lost towns.
Report: Gaddafi agrees to leave power if his safety is guaranteed - Israel News, Ynetnews the London-based Asharq Alawsat Newspaper reported. Also according to the report, Gaddafi demanded to be allowed to leave for any country he chooses, without future prosecution (probably not true)
Libya Rebels Reject Potential Gaddafi Offer To Step Down: Reports (story getting traction)

Gates: U.S. Afghanistan Involvement Should Continue (forever)
Judd Gregg: 'I Don't Think We Can Afford Afghanistan Much Longer' (well, we just need to cut pensions in America, then everything will be fine)
Obama To Restart Guantanamo Bay Trials After Two-Year Ban - latest acknowledgement that the detention facility Obama had vowed to shut down within a year of taking office will remain open for some time to come. (worse than the old Bush)
Pentagon reveal financial terrorists may have triggered economic crash | Mail Online Two mystery investors 'were number one traders in all financial companies that collapsed or are now financially supported by the U.S. government'
Now It's Blame-the-Terrorists For the Crash of '08 : CJR
Don't be afraid of economic terrorists - How the World Works - Salon.com How stupid can we get? A Pentagon-funded study warns that al-Qaida might have helped crash the economy (like we needed any help doing that)

Chirac corruption trial begins - Europe - Al Jazeera English Long-awaited corruption trial of former French president begins, but faces delays after a defence appeal.

Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico - CBS Evening News - CBS News ATF agent says "Fast and Furious" program let guns "walk" into hands of Mexican drug cartels with aim of tracking and breaking a big case
BBC News - Mexico queries US gun smuggling operation
Ethos « BuelahMan's Revolt

Supreme Court Overrules Kafkaesque DNA Decision - Texas refused an individual convicted of a capital crime access to DNA evidence from the case, because ... he had not provided sufficient evidence of his innocence (Thomas, joined by Alito and Kennedy, agreed with the Kafkaesque logic of the lower courts.) (oh, gotcha!)
John Ensign to Become 8th Senator to Announce Retirement | FDL News Desk - with these 8 retirements, that means that at least half of the body will be made up of people who haven’t been there longer than 7 years, come 2013. This is a very newer, younger Senate, and despite the setback in rules reform this year, I think that bodes well for some changes down the road.
Doesn't Anyone Remember Christine Whitman? | Media Matters for America So, in the mid-1990s, Christine Whitman raided New Jersey's pension fund to pay for tax cuts. Critics warned that doing so would cause massive problems for the state's budget -- and nailed the timing of those problems with remarkable accuracy. And now, the media is full of stories suggesting New Jersey's pension system is the cause of the state's budget shortfall -- without mentioning Whitman's role in causing it to happen (they've been doing this for decades, and the media never remembers)

Senate Dems Consider Health Care Fix That Could Hit Poor Consumers The Hardest
Hullabaloo - History's Actors - Isn't that special? The administration has staked out a position that it's willing to meet the Republicans halfway and now beyond. Surprise! Now the issue is what "halfway" really means (our a-historical status-quo no-moral-center right-of-Nixon Pres)
In Its Crusade Against Choice, Has the GOP Gone Too Far? After all, one in five women has visited a Planned Parenthood clinic—often for routine gynecological care. Is the GOP going to set up a replacement network of clinics to provide Pap smears and breast exams and STD testing and such? Or is Jesus now the national gynecologist? What on earth is the matter with these people? (wake up, women voters)
Jan Brewer Critics Gather Signatures To Force Recall Election (wicked witch of the South-West)
Transplant patients a target of Arizona budget cuts | Reuters Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (death-panel Gov)
Immigration bills: States hesitate to follow Arizona's lead - latimes.com A year after SB 1070 inspired a call for similar laws around the country, other states have failed to follow suit. Only Utah has passed a diluted version (what happened to all the teabaggers?)
Sarah Palin 'Not Afraid' Of Jon Stewart, Says Aide "If I were Sarah Palin and remember what Katie Couric did to me, I can't imagine what Jon Stewart would do to me,"
Huckabee's Constantly Evolving, Consistently Dishonest Explanation For His Obama/Kenya Comments | Media Matters for America (lyin' for Jeebus)
New York Times : Fox Officials "Contemplating Life Without" Beck | Media Matters for America - Beck has "lost over a third of his audience on Fox -- a greater percentage drop than other hosts at Fox." (what will the post-Beck era look like?)
Right-wing radio duck hits the net - Opinion - Al Jazeera English An old Disney icon is used to illustrate alleged paranoia propagated by right-wing pundit Glenn Beck.
Eschaton Interpreting Chunky BoBo - "the slutty sluts should stop being slutty," with the occasional "also, too, abortion bad." (Ross Douthat hates women (Reese Witherspoon esp.), gets paid for it by the NYT)
Balloon Juice » Balloon Juice Lexicon (A-H) (see "Chunky Reese Witherspoon")

Degrees and Dollars - NYTimes.com The fact is that since 1990 or so the U.S. job market has been characterized not by a general rise in the demand for skill, but by “hollowing out”: both high-wage and low-wage employment have grown rapidly, but medium-wage jobs — the kinds of jobs we count on to support a strong middle class — have lagged behind (Obama's fake education program)
Patent Expirations Threaten Drug Industry Profits - NYTimes.com (having spent all their money on advertising drugs that kill you)

APOD: 2011 March 7 - A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
“David and Goliath” viruses shed light on the origin of jumping genes: UBC study « UBC Public Affairs (mavirus)
A Virophage at the Origin of Large DNA Transposons
Transposon - encyclopedia article - Citizendium
REPOST: Mobile Elements: Drivers of Genome Evolution : erv
Virus Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine - ScienceNOW
Full Bladder, Better Decisions? Controlling Your Bladder Decreases Impulsive Choices - Association for Psychological Science

In states, parties clash over voting laws that call for IDs, limits on where college students can cast ballots In states, parties clash over voting laws that call for IDs, limits on where college students can cast ballots
Twitter / Naomi Klein: Attacks on union, net neutality, even PBS, r all about destroying any possible counter weight to corporate power
Newswire: Amtrak vs. TSA - Forums - Trains Magazine - Online Community: Forums and Blogs “When I saw it, I didn’t believe it was real,” O’Connor said. When it developed that the posting on an anti-TSA blog was not a joke, “I hit the ceiling.” (Obama's in your trains, searchin' your underwear and gropin' your genitals)
Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business - Page 1 - News - Minneapolis - City Pages "The legitimacy of testing is being taken for granted," he says. "It's a farce." (Obama's fake education program)

Wesley Yang on 'Tiger, Tiger,' by Margaux Fragoso -- New York Magazine Book Review A survivor tests the boundaries of just how far a memoir of child abuse should go.
Book Review - Tiger, Tiger - By Margaux Fragoso - NYTimes.com
A Clinical, Searing Memoir Of Abuse in 'Tiger, Tiger' : NPR
Tiger, Tiger, by Margaux Fragoso - The Globe and Mail
Deconstructing the monster: Margaux Fragoso's memoir of abuse - The Globe and Mail
Tenured Radical: If You Are Considering Writing A Memoir About Your Childhood Sexual Abuse....
Summer 2010 : Honey Rock Dawn Yesterday, I went to court. I was there for the sentencing of the man who spent this summer stalking me.

A 5-minute framework for fostering better conversations in comments sections | Poynter.
NPR Struggling with Crude Behavior by Some Users of Its Website : NPR Ombudsman : NPR

YouTube - I love skateboarding - Rodney Mullen
YouTube - Danny MacAskill - "Way Back Home"

YouTube - DEFCON 18: Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal a Hackers Computer 2/2
Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns | TorrentFreak (they always win)

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U.S. Wavers on 'Regime Change' in Middle East - WSJ.com (Obama triangulating with his authoritarian interests)
Libya: Pro-Gaddafi Forces Launch New Counteroffensive As Rebels Advance Toward Tripoli
Gunfire erupts in Tripoli as Libya battles rage - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Rebels have been quick to dismiss reports that forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi have recaptured a string of key towns, as heavy gunfire rocked the capital Tripoli - "Everything is safe. Tripoli is 100 per cent under control. What you are hearing is celebratory fireworks. People are in the streets, dancing in the square."
'SAS unit' captured in Libya | World news | The Guardian Defence secretary Liam Fox says 'small diplomatic team' is in Benghazi to talk to rebels
Libyan loyalists celebrate Muammar Gaddafi's phoney triumphs | World news | The Guardian Gunshots in Tripoli as Gaddafi's regime claims to have taken back several cities that are still under opposition control
Women on the Frontlines in Bahrain | Truthout “Sixty percent of the protestors are women,” she says. “The reason for this is that a lot of men are in jail or dead and 15-year-old boys are just picked off the street and tortured.”

The Law Office of David E. Coombs: The Truth Behind Quantico Brig's Decision to Strip PFC Manning (Obama supports torture of Amercian citizens)

Karzai Rejects U.S. Apology For Killing Of Nine Afghan Boys (Obama loves endless, pointless wars that kill innocent children)
Gaza truck drivers on strike - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Lorry drivers protest Israeli's closure of a key commerical crossing, which tightens the blockade on the territory (while you weren't looking, Israel decided to fuck with the Palestinians)

How anti-semitism entered the zeitgeist - Telegraph As Charlie Sheen, John Galliano and Julian Assange demonstrate, anti-semitism is becoming fashionable (we see what you did there, rightwing newpaper)

DOJ Bigfoots Over A Bridge Too Far On Loughner Indictment | Emptywheel (Obama's out-of-control DOJ considers a mall "federal property" to justify huge overreach of Federal power; goal is Obama's National Security/Surveillance State)

Why Washington Doesn't Care About Jobs | The Nation - a governing elite that is profoundly alienated from the lived experiences of the millions of Americans who are barely surviving the ravages of the Great Recession (Obama and the Villagers are all rich and have jobs and are very socially distant from the rest of America)
From No 1 fan to critic-in-chief, Damon takes aim at Obama - Americas, World - The Independent The President has rolled over to Wall Street completely (torture-happy shoe-shine boy to the rich +"just look at his resume")
Dick Durbin On Democratic Spending Cut Proposals: We've 'Pushed This To The Limit'

20 lies (and counting) told by Gov. Walker « Russ' Filtered News
Wisconsin’s Legacy of Labor Activism and Conservative Pushback - NYTimes.com
Local Poll: Wisconsin Wants Compromise (then they shouldn't have elected a tea-hadist)
YouTube - 'America Is NOT Broke': Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI -- March 5, 2011
Arizona Budget Cuts Target Potentially Life-Saving Care For Transplant Patients
Daily Kos: Wisconsin's war on women (women are teachers and nurses; men are cops and firemen; guess who gets their wages/pensions/jobs cut?)
Why employee pensions aren't bankrupting states | McClatchy (turns out, the teaparty hacks are lying about pensions; who coulda known?)
tlG0Y.jpg - rich vs poor - equivalences
CNN's Reliable Sources : "Conservative Pundits Have Been Raising Their Voices In Challenging Beck" | Media Matters for America
OpEdNews - Article: Limbaugh/Hannity Parent Company Admits Hiring Actors to Call Radio Shows (Murdoch is astroturfing your radio)

Krugman: The Truth About Pensions - NYTimes.com (just what you thought: the bankers caused the problem and it still isn't as bad as they are saying, to make you give up; your pension)
Amazon.com: Fraud & Greed: Wall Street, Banks, & How to Invest book list
PG&E launches huge paper chase for pipeline data Their job: Find proof in documents, some of them crumbling and dating back decades, that PG&E's gas lines are as safe as the utility says they are.

A special report on feeding the world: The 9 billion-people question | The Economist The world’s population will grow from almost 7 billion now to over 9 billion in 2050. John Parker asks if there will be enough food to go round
Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau (desertification of the SW)
Mean girls and queen bees: Females threatened by social exclusion will reject others first
Happiness improves health and lengthens life, review finds
Sexual Safety and our Youth | Graphic.is Among 14 to 17 year-olds, 80 percent of boys and 69 percent of girls say they used a condom the last time they had intercourse, compared to well under half of sexually active adults.
Mark Sisson | Mark's Daily Apple
Black Holes Point Way to Leap Existing Barriers in Physics
Did scientists discover bacteria in meteorites? : Pharyngula
Gawker —
Left-Handedness Loses Its Stigma but Retains Its Mystery - NYTimes.com (Ford, Clinton and Obama all sinistral)

Prison Rape and the Government by David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow | The New York Review of Books (our torture-loving, tough-on-crime, drug-warring conservative Pres)
Crackpot Ideas | Mother Jones This 1995 Mother Jones feature, debunking the myth of the "crack baby," points the way to a more skeptical look at today's "meth epidemic." - dooming a new generation to "a life of certain suffering, of probable deviance, of permanent inferiority," to quote columnist Charles Krauthammer. (racist fucks were always doing this)

Feminism's global challenge: With one voice | Society | The Observer

YouTube - O Teste do Medo - Apenas uma menina num corredor de hotel...
YouTube - The Grudge Prank
YouTube - The Skeleton taxi driver
700-year-old mummy found by road workers in east China in excellent condition | Mail Online

51 hours left to live : IAmA by Lucidending
YouTube - Goodbye lucid ending

YouTube - Ohio Priest's Rants in Jail After DUI Arrest

The ghost in the field – Blog – BERG
Nearness – Blog – BERG
YOUrban — Immaterials: Light painting WiFi
Wireless in the world

Photo editor online / free image editing direct in your browser - Pixlr.com
Web breaks echo-chambers, or, ‘Echo-chamber’ is just a derogatory term for ‘community’ – my remarks at #AAASmtg | A Blog Around The Clock
Are science blogs stuck in an echo chamber? Chamber? Chamber? | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy
Global Android Activations Mapped and Animated | Graphic.is
Who Mobile Malware Affects, and How: Mobile Technology News «
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Ayatana overlay scrollbars: something truly Natty
Mozilla's Web O'(pen) Wonder
Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Observer (suckas)

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Gaddafi Forces Launch Counterattack, Overcome Defenses In Rebel Town
alJazeera Magazine - Anti-govt. protests held in Saudi Arabia
Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution | Video on TED.com
Saudi Arabia says won't tolerate protests | Reuters
imgur: anti-ICNA Jewish-supported anti-Muslim hate group in OC - the face of hatred in America
Amnesty: Qatari blogger detained - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Human rights group says Sultan al-Khalaifi has been held incommunicado in Qatar since March 2 and risks being tortured (AJ, based in Qatar, criticizes Qatar ... well?)
Are Americans Ready for Democracy? | Mind Matters | Big Think (no, intervention may be necesary)

Bradley Manning's forced nudity to occur daily - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The treatment of Manning is now so repulsive that it even lies beyond what at least some of the most devoted Obama admirers are willing to defend - Yes, the Greatest Moral Leader of Our Lifetime and Nobel Peace Prize winner is well aware of what's being done and obviously has been for quite some time. (Obama loves, just loves, torturing whistle-blowers who do the right thing; morally corrupt and hates gays, immigrants and the working poor, but shines the shoes of bankers)
Sexual Sadist Denise Barnes Strips Bradley Manning Naked Over Sarcastic Quip | Firedoglake (fish rots at the head, Obama's corporate DOJ)
A Narrative Chronology of Bradley Manning’s Alleged Leaks | Emptywheel

In Philadelphia, Fears That Abusive Priests Are Still Active - NYTimes.com Three weeks after a scathing grand jury report said the Archdiocese of Philadelphia had provided safe haven to as many as 37 priests who were credibly accused of sexual abuse or inappropriate behavior toward minors, most of those priests remain active in the ministry (20 yrs of shuffle-shuffle, deny-deny by WLPO)
BBC News - Pope accused of failing to act on sex abuse case Pope Benedict XVI failed to act over complaints during the 1990s about a priest in the US who is thought to have abused some 200 deaf boys, victims say (the fish rots from the head)
"O They Will Know We Are Christians" - Google Search

freedom and peace: Technical Terms of the Intelligentsia

David Brooks' dream world for the trust-fund set - David Brooks - Salon.com His buzzed-up new fiction/science amalgam had me leaping to my feet -- to yell, "Die, yuppie scum, die!" (PZ Myers)
Matt Taibbi takes on New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's new book The World is Flat The peculiar genius of Thomas L. Friedman.
Impolitic, by Molly Ivins - On Camille Paglia
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses by Mark Twain

Hollywood's Crush on Obama Cools - The Atlantic Wire "However, if you take a look at the resume, you couldn't find somebody—in retrospect—more unqualified." (know-nothing, no-moral-center, no-leader, no-progressive upwardly mobile Obama)
Reading Is Fundamental Funding Eliminated - GalleyCat Earlier this week Congress approved (and President Barack Obama signed) a bill that will cut funding for the literary organization, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) (hates reading too)
Hullabaloo The news that Boehner may "play ball" with the White House to destroy Social security has made the Villagers' day (Obama hates Social Security and old people too)
Bill Keller: Fox News Viewers 'Among The Most Cynical People On Planet Earth'
Hillary Clinton's Al Jazeera Comments Draw Attention Of U.S. Media Former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld calling it "inexcusably biased." That hostility played a big role in the network failing to get any traction with U.S. cable systems (rest of the world wants news, not biased opinion)
Lawrence O'Donnell: Huckabee And O'Reilly Are Lying About Obama (o rly))
Glenn Beck’s Decline: What Caused It? | The New Republic
Do Republicans Still Need Beck?

A Liberal Is a Villager Who’s Been Screwed By a Mortgage Servicer | FDL News Desk (Dana Milbank, of all people, but not everyone can write a column in WaPo about it)
Steve Jobs - Wikipedia - after resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs as a temporary cost-cutting measure until profitability improved.[62] Despite the company's record-breaking profits and $40 billion cash on hand,[63] Jobs has not reinstated a philanthropic division at Apple (or, given any of his personal fortune to charity)

If you don't link to primary sources, you are dead to me - bengoldacre - secondary blog
BOK Globules & Black Holes: Could They Be Prime Habitats of Advanced ET Civilizations?
Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World - The Big Picture - Boston.com (or, Hell on Earth)
Garrison Keillor's Stroke | Men's Health After a blood clot infiltrated his gray matter, the Prairie Home Companion host started thinking seriously about sex (and other important stuff)

I'm 4 years old. AMAA. : IAmA
YouTube - Toddlers & Tiaras with Tom Hanks

Use a Google Voice Number from Outside the U.S.

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Libya uprising continues – live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Fighting rages in Libya's east - Africa - Al Jazeera English At least 30 civilians killed after Gaddafi loyalists try to retake rebel-held town of Az Zawiyah, witnesses say.
Fresh protests hit Libyan capital - Africa - Al Jazeera English Security forces fire tear gas on protesters rallying against Muammar Gaddafi following Friday prayers.
Huge explosion levels key Libyan rebels' arms depot | McClatchy
Fighting in Libya takes center stage on day of Arab protest | McClatchy
The son also slaughters - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was brought in from the cold as his second son positioned himself as an agent of reform
Gaddafi's survival could end the Arab revolt | Simon Tisdall | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk If the uprising in Libya is to succeed, then international effort, via the Arab League, must help the people to help themselves
Libya: Fierce day of raids and clashes signals shift to civil war | World news | The Guardian Pro-Gaddafi forces launch widespread offensives and rebels fortify their positions as diplomatic efforts fail
Libya feared to be preventing migrant workers from leaving | World news | The Guardian Number of workers crossing the border into Tunisia drops from up to 15,000 to fewer than 2,000
Yemeni army 'fires on protesters' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - Soldiers fire rockets at anti-government demonstrators in the country's north, killing four people, rebels say.
Libya Protesters Hit With Tear Gas In Tripoli
Hillary Clinton Calls Al Jazeera 'Real News,' Criticizes U.S. Media - 'A Million Commercials'.. 'Arguments Between Talking Heads'.. (no wonder no one outside of America pays any attention to US media)
Glenn Beck: HIllary Clinton's Al Jazeera Comments 'Insanity' (no irony there)
Protesters converge on Iraq capital - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Thousands of Iraqis take to the streets across the country to protest against corruption and unemployment.
Anti-government protest in Bahrain - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Thousands of people converge on head office of state television, a day after clashes between Sunni and Shia communities.
Behind Libya: rising food prices and US debt - CSMonitor.com Behind the popular discontent in the Arab world is food. And behind soaring food prices is Ben Bernanke.

PMO directive rebrands 'Harper Government' - Politics - CBC News First it was the "Government of Canada." Then it was "Canada's New Government." Now it's the "Harper Governmet" - "It's not Stephen Harper's government, it's the goverment of all Canadians," Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc told CBC News. "You'd expect this kind of directive to be issued by the ministry of information in North Korea."
Daily Star reporter quits in protest at tabloid's 'anti-Muslim' coverage | Media | The Guardian "Well, try this: 'The lies of a newspaper in London can get a bloke's head caved in down an alley in Bradford.' If you can't see that words matter, you should go back to running porn magazines."
YouTube - Hate Comes to Orange County (OC Teabaggers hurl hate and racial epithets at Muslim charity dinner to raise money for homeless; get support from Republican congresspeople) (Rabbi David Eliezrie, the president of the Rabbinical Council of Orange County, helped sponsor this protest)
YouTube - Raw Video of Anti-Sharia Protestors Confronting Muslim Man Outside White House
Mom: Anti-Muslim mob "terrified" my kids - Islam - Salon.com
Hundreds protest Muslim event in Yorba Linda | america, fundraiser, wahhaj - News - The Orange County Register ICNA spokesman Syed Waqas said the protesters "should know the facts. We have no links to any overseas organization. We absolutely denounce violence and terrorism."
Pam Geller On 'Hate Group' Label: 'A Badge of Honor' | TPMMuckraker
Michael Oren's Warning to American Jews - Jeffrey Goldberg - International - The Atlantic Israel's ambassador to the United States
A Racist Party With A Racist Strategy: The Republicans
Dangerous Minds | Terry Southern on Rush Limbaugh: ‘Unspeakable slime and putrefaction’
Southern Baptists Apologize For Slavery Stance : NPR (164 years later - "Born Again" into Christian slaveholders)
YouTube - Dead Kennedys - Stars and Stripes of Corruption

YouTube - Investigation: US ATF Secretly Arming Mexican Drug Cartels (Mar 3, 2011 - CBS)

The Law Office of David E. Coombs: PFC Manning Forced to Strip Naked nexplicably stripped of all clothing by the Quantico Brig. He remained in his cell, naked, for the next seven hours. At 5:00 a.m., the Brig sounded the wake-up call for the detainees. At this point, PFC Manning was forced to stand naked at the front of his cell (Obama ordered "enhanced interrogation")
Bradley Manning 'forced to sleep naked' | World news | The Guardian WikiLeaks suspect made to relinquish boxer shorts for about seven hours due to 'situationally driven' event (the situation of Obama hating him)
The serial deceit of Geoff Morrell - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com But forced nudity of prisoners was pervasive in the military intelligence unit of Abu Ghraib ... Morrell -- a former ABC News reporter before joining the Pentagon during the Bush administration -- is one of those countless Beltway officials who seamlessly travel back and forth between government positions and "journalism." (Obama's orders)
DOD Passes the Buck Rather than Let Kucinich Visit Bradley Manning | Emptywheel - "Is this Quantico or Abu Ghraib?" w(Obama's orders)

Weigel : Wisconsin Capitol Occupation Ends With Fishy Damage Figures- $6 million for ... wait for it ... Officials said in court that the damage came from tape used for posting fliers and papers and other material (Walker making shit up, oh wait, he's a Republican)
Daily Kos: Damage estimate at Wisconsin Capitol goes from $7.5 million to ... uh ... $0?
Jon Stewart Calls Out Fox News' Hypocrisy Comparing Teachers, Wall Street (video)
Republican Pollster: GOP Is Jumping Off a Cliff, Chased By Tea Party "Tiger" | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Scott Walker's Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood, Targets Contraception Access (oh, he's a Republican)
John Kasich: Ohio Union Bill Likely To Become Law (they will get what they voted for)
DNC 2012 Convention Plans In North Carolina Have Unions Wary (swing state strategy fail)
Rick Scott Rejects Obama Administration's Last-Ditch Pitch On High-Speed Rail (Lex Luthor nixes jobs and infrastructure)
AMERICAblog Gay: Sam Arora speaks: I'm now against same-sex marriage but I'll vote for the bill anyway
Maryland Politics: House committee passes same-sex marriage bill - baltimoresun.com
Boehner-Led Group Will Defend DOMA In Court (Republicans hate gays)
Now We're Talkin' | Talking Points Memo (watch)
CNN Article Legitimizes "Pro-White" Commentators | Media Matters for America (CNN, the "pro-white" network)
Hey! Let's Listen To The 'Morning Joe' Crew Have An Awkward Conversation About Sex And The Youth At any rate, the youngs and their sexual mores: who better to talk about this than the crew of "Morning Joe"? And really, who better to have on hand to discuss this than people like known ladykiller Pat Buchanan and Andrea Mitchell, to whom Alan Greenspan is always sending sexts?

Alan Greenspan: 'Government Activism' Slowing U.S. Recovery (no irony)
New Economy, New Wealth by Arthur Brock on Prezi
Unemployment rate dips to 8.9%, the lowest in nearly two years, 192,000 jobs created last month (that .1% makes all the difference in Winning the Future)
Unemployment Rate Falls In February, U.S. Adds 192K Jobs
The Man Who Plowed Into A Group Of Bikers Is A Brazilian Central Banker, And He's Charged With Attempted Murder (just doing what bankers do)

Is the world entering an economic supercycle? - The Globe and Mail
Prepare For The Amazing Global Economic Supercycle That's Going To Blow Away Your Wildest Expectations - This time, the cycle is all about the emerging consumer class in Asia
Looking East for the Economic 'Super-Cycle' - WSJ.com
FT Alphaville » Behold the new economic super-cycle
China Takes Giant Step Towards Making Yuan the World's Reserve Currency ? Washington's Blog

Downtown need a makeover? More cities are razing urban highways - CSMonitor.com Removal of aging highways is a strategy some cities are using to try to boost their downtown districts (who could have predicted that?)
The GOP Offer Lame Brain Reasons Why Americans Should Have Safe Roads - Bilbray’s bizarre solution to an antiquated and crumbling transportation system was to eliminate stop signs in lieu of yield signs.

Exposing the memory engine: the story of PKMzeta | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Where's Tyche, the 10th 9th planet? Getting the full story
The most typical face on the planet - Yahoo! News t a male, 28-year-old Han Chinese man is the most typical person on the planet. There are 9 million of them.
MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of His Son's First Words, Graphs It | Fast Company

Blunt Assessment: The Need for Legal Weed in Philadelphia | Cover Story | News and Opinion | Philadelphia Weekly
Why Do Smart Men Date Less Intelligent Women? - The Atlantic Wire (story based on personal anecdotes of hedge-fund mangager)
Ask an Abortion Provider | The Hairpin

Choire Sicha - The Last Photograph of Cat
When you bring a pet into your life, you begin a journey...... | Pet Humor

Colorado boy, 12, accused of shooting dead his parents | World news | The Guardian The carnage has caused bewilderment among relatives and neighbours who saw the family as utterly normal, if deeply religious ... All the children, the four eldest of whom have left home, were home schooled and the Longs were pillars of their local evangelical church where the boy often used to volunteer in Bible classes.
What porn did to a marriage – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs - s pornography now such a pervasive problem in the church that leaders need to talk more openly about? (no irony)

LRB · Jim Holt · Smarter, Happier, More Productive The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
Is the Personalization of the Web Making Us Dumber?
I just got robbed : self
What's Up With Today's Wave of Cyber Attacks? The popular blogging platform WordPress.com was definitely attacked with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack (also: CIA, S.Korea)
Days-Long Gmail Outage Leads To Fury, Frustration, Mistrust

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BBC News - Audio slideshow: Human Planet

Mass funerals for Libyan rebels - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Evidence of Libya torture emerges - Africa - Al Jazeera English As the opposition roots through prisons, fresh evidence emerges of the government's use of torture.
More airstrikes in eastern Libya; Gaddafi to face international probe
Rebels Deploy Around Strategic Libyan Oil Port
Libyan rebels reject Hugo Chávez mediation offer | World news | guardian.co.uk Leaders of anti-Gaddafi fighters say talk of peace is too late and they will not negotiate via Venezuelan president
Briton feared killed in Libya fighting | World news | guardian.co.uk Libyan-born father of seven Khaled Att-ardi from Manchester reportedly died in battle for Brega while trying to rescue his daughter
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton: Al Jazeera is 'Real News', U.S. Losing 'Information War' - Political Punch You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners,” she added.

General David Petraeus Apologizes for Deaths of Afghan Children - WSJ.com (three weeks later, turns out we did kill the babies after all)
NATO Apologizes For Killing 9 Afghan Civilians - "accidental" killing of nine Afghan boys (they were probably terrorists)
Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq Resigns
UK facing 1970s-style oil shock which could cost economy £45bn – Huhne | Environment | The Guardian
Germany Shooting Suspect Admits Targeting American Troops
Sarajevo survival tools

Bradley Manning could face death: For what? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - these leaks showed us the true face of American conduct in the world. Those who reveal truths which most people would prefer to ignore are typically hated, and are often those most severely punished.
YouTube - The Forgotten Man: Bradley Manning (2011) 1/3
The Law Office of David E. Coombs: PFC Bradley Manning Is Not Being Treated Like Every Other Detainee
Pfc. Bradley Manning Faces 22 New WikiLeaks Charges - NYTimes.com
Julian Assange Launches Appeal Against U.K. Extradition (US: extradite the lousy traitor or we'll kill him)

You Support the Troops by bringing them Home
Growing anti-Muslim hatred in the U.S. - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Earlier this week in Tennessee, a bill was proposed to make it a felony to follow sharia law -- which would essentially criminalize the practice of Islam in that state.

AFL-CIO Fights Back Against Scott Walker With Powerful We Are One Ad
Daily Kos: Late afternoon/early evening open thread Stephen Colbert points out that if peaceful Wisconsin protesters didn't want Bill O'Reilly and Fox to show footage of violent protesters from California, then they should have been violent themselves.
Wisconsin Republicans Getting Desperate. Is the End in Sight? (Mar 2, 2011 - msnbc) | Frequency (how the media and Obama ignores average Americans: raise taxes)
Rasmussen Poll: Majority of Wisconsinites Side With Unions On Collective Bargaining | TPMDC (mission accomplished)
AWOL Wisconsin Dem Beats The System, Gets His Paycheck Mailed To Him | TPMDC
Fox News Presents Mayhem In Madison (video) | TPMDC (Fox survives tour of combat duty in ... Madison)
Moderate Dems Form Group To Cut Spending ("moderate" = "conservative" carrying Republican water)
Nick Rahall, Collin Peterson Join GOP Fight To Restrict EPA Three Democrats are joining a Republican effort in the House to block the Environmental Protection Agency from reducing the gases blamed for global warming ("moderate" Dems)
Pro-Choice Advocates: GOP's Revised Abortion Bill Remains 'Extremely Harmful' To Women (maintaining Sharia law)
Obama Administration's Foreclosure Program Shambles Along The latest monthly release shows, however, that more than 800,000 homeowners have been bounced out of HAMP as of January (progam Obama designed to do diddly-squat)
Ohio Union Bill Aimed At Reducing Bargaining Rights Passes State Senate
Beck Claims His Coming "Perfect Storm" Will Lead To Something Worse Than "Even [The] Civil War" | Media Matters for America (we already had one, you dumb fuck)
Newt Gingrich's Legacy As A Political Commentator: Smears, Falsehoods, And Inflammatory Rhetoric | Media Matters for America (go Newt, go!)
The Plum Line - No, it's not okay to traffic in pure fiction about Obama's heritage Right, but Huckabee didn't "look at his personal education." Huckabee created an entirely fictional one (Huckafuck is a liar)
Bardella Email Scandal Reveals Sorry State of DC Journalism | FDL News Desk - Issa, a man with subpoena power, was having his staff work as his personal publicists rather than doing honest government work - Bardella also disclosed contempt for reporters he described as “lazy as hell. There are times when I pitch a story and they do it word for word. That’s just embarrassing. ("reporters" at work)
Balloon Juice » The queen is dead, long live the queen “We have people pull up at the pharmacy window in a BMW and say they can’t afford their co-payment.”—Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, Feb. 27, 2011 - Next it’ll be strapping young bucks buying Kobe beef.
Chris Christie: Collective Bargaining Something 'I Love' ( ... "to hate")
AMERICAblog Gay: Raging question in Annapolis: What happened to Sam Arora's support for marriage? (turns out he was a lying fuck)
Texas Legislation Proposes Felony Charges for TSA Agents – Tenth Amendment Center Blog The first bill, HB 1938, prohibits full body scanning equipment in any Texas airport and provides for criminal and civil penalties on any airport operator who installs the equipment. The second bill, HB 1937, criminalizes touching without consent and searches without probable cause.

Of ideology, recession, and policy paralysis « The Berkeley Blog - Richard Abrams, professor emeritus of history (long and rewarding)
Will it be Obama vs the economy in 2012? | Reuters With a leading Republican candidate yet to emerge, the biggest risk to President Barack Obama's quest for a second term next year is a jobless rate that has hovered between 9 and 10 percent for months.
When Cities Struggle, Workers Punished -- But Bondholders Spare (but of course)d
Simon Johnson: Is the New York Fed Making a Big Mistake? - NYTimes.com - hardening their position against requiring big banks to maintain more capital (see, change that will never happen under Obama)
Hullabaloo Turning Shlaes Into An Oracle
Laissez-faire Is More : The New Yorker A revisionist history of the Depression. by John Updike July 2, 2007 - “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression,” by Amity Shlaes, former member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal (and rightwing crank/hack)
Ezra Klein - What do John Taylor and Mark Zandi disagree about?
New Left Project | Articles | The Men Who Stole the World Shaxson offers a clear account of the mechanics of tax avoidance and connects it to a much broader offshore system that plays a central role in the global economy.
Trains and Freedom - NYTimes.com And don’t get me started on how much more freedom of movement I feel in New York, with subways taking you almost everywhere, than in, say, LA, where you constantly have to worry about parking and traffic (but trains are socialistic!)

Nymphomania and the brain. - By Jesse Bering - Slate Magazine What should we think of people whose addled brains are driving them to nymphomania? (Klüver-Bucy Syndrome)
The Space Review: When will our Martian future get here?

Gays against Gaga
NPR letters: The tedious, annoying complaints of public radio listeners. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine The tedious, annoying complaints of public radio listeners.
It’s Time to Play ‘Sheen, Beck, or Qaddafi?’ -- Daily Intel
Proposed Illinois law may take East Moline man off sex offender registry - WQAD
YouTube - Civil Rights Roundtable 1963

Museum of Art - Rhode Island School of Design - Brilliant Line
Romantically Apocalyptic
Hei Mao Jing Zhang (‘Black Cat Detective’) – a review and retrospective « May Contain Bolts
YouTube - Herbie and Jabby- Puppy Love
YouTube - Rowan Own Side - Caitlin Rose
YouTube - Facts on cats (and some tips)
YouTube - Simon's Cat in 'Sticky Tape'
YouTube - WATAMBI - A Film by Joel Crawford
VCA 2010 Race Run on Vimeo
YouTube - Finally Released: Skier loses footing, falls off huge cliff [Captured by his own GoPro] HD
YouTube - How to deal with policewomen in Russia

Hate Man | Feature | Oakland, Berkeley & Bay Area News & Arts Coverage How a New York Times reporter dropped out and became a hate evangelist in Berkeley.
First Nerve: Ex-NYT Reporter on Eating Garbage: Sniff It First
BLDGBLOG: Unsolving the City: An Interview with China Miéville
Mystery Novel Appears on New York City Street Lamps - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Holy Crap (The Novel), Page 7: Gothamist
Holy Crap: Writer Posting Novel Offline, On Lampposts: Gothamist

Verizon to End Unlimited Data | Mobile Technology | ITBusinessEdge.com (Apple tax)
The Battle for Control — What People Who Worry About the Internet Are Really Worried About « The Scholarly Kitchen what we’re really arguing about is control.

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Libya Rebels Rout Gaddafi Forces In Fierce Battle For Oil Port
Battle for Bregga could mark start of real war in Libya | World news | The Guardian
Muammar Gaddafi in performance: non sequiturs from the non-president | World news | guardian.co.uk Three-hour address at the Libyan People's Congress enthuses the faithful but bemuses the world's media
Arabs may impose Libya no fly zone - Middle East - Al Jazeera English International concern grows over violence in Libya with Arab state ministers saying they could impose a "no-fly" zone.
We saw the Arab revolutions coming - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera's director general asks why, when Al Jazeera saw the uprisings coming, the West did not (CIA failure, AJ knew but you can't watch it in RepublicorpAmerika)

Profile: Shahbaz Bhatti | | DAWN.COM Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated on Wednesday during an attack on his vehicle in Islamabad. – (two of three sponsers of anti-blasphemy law killed)
Egyptian military jails activist - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Activist sentenced to five years in prison as rights organisations condemn trials of civilians in military courts.

US Army to charge Bradley Manning with 'aiding the enemy' | Richard Adams | World news | guardian.co.uk US Army says it will charge Bradley Manning with 'aiding the enemy' and 21 other offences for leaking classified documents (the enemy=you)
Shifting editorial standards - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com After the Bush administration implemented a worldwide torture regime, The New York Times (and many other American media outlets) infamously -- and so very courageously -- refused to use the word "torture" to describe what was done (and it goes downhill from there)

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Unveils Full Budget With Deep Cuts (1. create crisis with tax-breaks to rich businesses; 2. fire everyone and close all the schools; 3. profit!)
Wisconsin Democrats Launch Recall Effort Against GOP Senators
The F Word: Capital or Community in Wisconsin | The Nation How many Americans know, for example, that Governor Walker gave $140 million in tax breaks to corporations—right before he announced this fiscal year's deficit of $137 million? ... It’s not only structural; it’s structured—to bring about exactly this phony budget crisis.
The Kochs Vs. Mainstreet: the Right-Wing Billionaires' Open War on Everyday Americans | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet The Kochs have directed many millions into a vast propaganda machine that's corrupting American politics in order to reward their pollution-based enterprise.
Nation & World | Minnesota Dem wants NASCAR out of Defense budget | Seattle Times Newspaper Rep. Betty McCollum, who's out to get rid of the Pentagon's sponsorships for NASCAR teams, says she won't back off and, despite GOP resistance, will broaden her fight to repeal tax breaks for track owners, too (NASCAR subsidiary of the Pentagon)
Daniel Akaka Retiring In 2012 The 86-year-old Akaka becomes the seventh recent senator to announce plans to retire (yeah, what's wrong with Senators in their nineties?)

George Will Says High Speed Rail is a Liberal Delusion. He's Dead Wrong : TreeHugger (he always is)

Breast Stem Cells | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
The Science of Cat Ladies: Women Really Do Have a Special Bond with Cats - TIME Healthland
ScienceDirect - Behavioural Processes : Factors influencing the temporal patterns of dyadic behaviours and interactions between domestic cats and their owners
World Science Festival Video : The Story of the Living, Breathing Mirror Living with the perceptual disorder known as prosopagnosia—the inability to recognize even the faces of people you know—can be difficult. But it can also be awkwardly funny, as the legendary author and neurologist Oliver Sacks recounts from his life experiences of living face blind.
Eastern Cougar Extinct: Mountain Lion Declared Gone From East U.S.

The Obstinate Dr. Heicklen—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) Federal prosecutors in New York have reached the alarming decision that informing individuals on the street in front of the courthouse (some of whom may be en route to serve on a jury pool) about the doctrine of jury nullification is a criminal act. Their view would find no sympathy among the authors of America’s constitutional system.
Jury Nullification Advocate With Court Pulpit Charged - NYTimes.com (no free speech for you)

How We Train Our Cops to Fear Islam - Meg Stalcup and Joshua Craze There aren’t nearly enough counterterrorism experts to instruct all of America’s police. So we got these guys instead.
Pope finds Jews not to blame for death of Jesus | World news | guardian.co.uk Pope concludes those responsible for the crucifixion were the 'Temple aristocracy' and supporters of the rebel Barabbas (what crucifixion?)
Meet Alex Jones, the Talk Radio Host Behind Charlie Sheen's Crazy Rants | Rolling Stone Politics The most paranoid man in America is trying to overthrow the 'global Stasi Borg state,' one conspiracy theory at a time

Court Says Constitution Protects Picketers at Military Funerals - NYTimes.com
South Dakota Bill Would Mandate Religious Counseling Prior To Abortion South Dakota Bill Would Mandate Religious Counseling Prior To Abortion
Barefoot and Progressive: No same sex couples allowed at the Creation Museum Date Night (Update)
Class sex toy demonstration causes controversy - The Daily Northwestern - Campus (the "fucksaw")
Talking to the "naked therapist" - Prostitution News | Prostitutes, Gigolos, Sex Work - Salon.com She's a media darling and an unlikely shrink. But Sarah White's operation reminds us of something else: Sex work
YouTube - God's Angry Man - Werner Herzog [1/6]

When bad websites happen to good restaurants - The Boston Globe Click here if you've got plenty of time to search for a menu
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: If This Fusion Restaurant's Website Could Talk.
What I want from a restaurant website - The Oatmeal
Never said about restaurant websites
xkcd: University Website (apropos)
Boston Restaurants, Boston Menus, Ratings, Reviews, Boston Restaurants Guide

Myths RETOLD

Google engineers help good sites harmed by search result cleanup

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Libya Protests: Pro-Gaddafi Forces Fight Rebels In 2 Cities
Chaos at Libyan-Tunisian border - Africa - Al Jazeera English
Libyan Rebels Celebrate Win In Battle Near Tripoli
Afua Hirsch: No redress on Gaddafi asset seizure | Law | guardian.co.uk The unusual moves to seize Gaddafi's assets do not provide for any form of challenge
Libya unrest: the net closes in on Tripoli | World news | guardian.co.uk Britain is working on plans for a military no-fly zone over Libya and is considering whether to arm the opposition forces in the east of the country
Libya received military shipment from Belarus, claims EU arms watchdog | World news | guardian.co.uk A plane landed at Sebha airport in the Libyan desert on 15 February just before the UN imposed an arms embargo, says Sip
Libyan pro-Gaddafi forces 'fail' to retake Zawiyah | World news | guardian.co.uk Opposition forces armed with tanks and anti-aircraft guns 'beat back' troops loyal to Gaddafi in six-hour battle
Libyan refugee and food crisis looms | World news | The Guardian Borders under pressure as foreign workers escape to Tunisia and Egypt amid fighting and rising fears over food supplies
Rebel-held city near Tripoli celebrates battle win - World Politics, World - The Independent
Anderson Cooper: Gaddafi Telling 'Lies' About Libya (breaks jounalistic code again and uses "L" word)

WikiLeaks, Internet in record Nobel Peace field | Reuters

BBC News - Behind the scenes of Pakistan Raymond Davis 'spy' saga (more news unfit for the Times to print)
Forty-five arrested for having links with Davis | Pakistan | DAWN.COM (should have shot his cellphone, yes?)
“Tactics Developed for Use against Terrorists May Have Been Unleashed against American Citizens” | Emptywheel

Pirates threaten to kill children - Africa, World - The Independent
Israel Settlers Rampage In West Bank After Outpost Dismantled
Special Report: U.S. cables detail Saudi royal welfare program | Reuters When Saudi King Abdullah arrived home last week, he came bearing gifts: handouts worth $37 billion, apparently intended to placate Saudis of modest means and insulate the world's biggest oil exporter from the wave of protest sweeping the Arab world.
Scandal Threatens India's Economic Growth : NPR
www.outlookindia.com | 800 New Radia Tapes (India is not a democracy)

AnonNews.org : Everything Anonymous Open Letter To The World

BP reneges on deal to rebuild oyster beds, repair wetlands, Louisiana officials say | NOLA.com
Judge Orders Wisconsin Capitol Re-Opened | TPMDC
Poll: Wisconsin Voters Turn On Gov. Walker, Back State Unions | TPMDC
John Boehner: Unions Have A 'Machine Gun' Pointed At 'The Heads Of Local Officials'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Fox News Will Not Be Moving Into Canada After All Canada regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news (never in America)
LiveLeak.com - Fox News Lies: The Mike Tobin "Attack"
The Biggest Newser - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 02/28/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central CNN anchors show what's popular on Twitter, run YouTube videos and ask viewers to choose the news.
Bernie Goldberg: Fox News' Jesse Waters Is Not 'An Objective Reporter' Who Practices 'Journalism' | TPM LiveWire
ThinkProgress » Religious Coalition Tells The GOP That ‘The Budget Shouldn’t Be Balanced On the Backs Of The Poor’
Huckabee: Obama Grew Up "In Kenya" | Media Matters for America (Jeebus told him to lie)

Dagny Taggart Wept - NYTimes.com Oh, boy — this George Will column (via Grist) is truly bizarre (+extra irony from a stupid man)
Can More Flexibility Mean More Political Support? (no, Obama triangulating with himself on HCR as he's done all along)
A Chapter 11 threat in orchestra talks | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/01/2011 Some orchestra board members are advocating bankruptcy - despite the fact that the group has no debt and an endowment well north of $100 million - because they believe it would allow management to no longer fulfill its pension obligations (and pay themselves more!)

Humans, Version 3.0 § Seedmagazine.Com

Nice Jewish Girl: Theory vs. Practice - Shomer Negiah (Jewish anti-women law Sharia and its effects)
Guernica / In Search of a Modest Proposal For Orthodox Jews, matchmaking and dating are more confusing than ever. Is secularism to blame? Feminism? Or is it part of a greater crisis
Bad for Shidduchim

Frank Rich To Exit NYT Op-Ed Page For New York Magazine | paidContent
The Very Rich Indie Writer – Novelr - Making People Read
Sub City New York on Vimeo

Porn Addiction in America (Infographic) | SkitZone
Defining Internet "freedom": Ars interviews Senator Al Franken

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Libya: African mercenaries 'immune from prosecution for war crimes' - Telegraph African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend's UN resolution that was demanded by the United States (Obama dedicated to protecting war criminals and murderers)
Libya Protests: Food Prices Spiral In Tripoli Amid Crackdown
Libya's Berbers join the revolution in fight to reclaim ancient identity | World news | The Guardian Mountain tribes in the west, also called Amazigh, unite with opposition after decades of Gaddafi repressing their identity
Keeping up with the Gaddafis - Features - Al Jazeera English Leaked diplomatic cables tell a tale of sibling rivalry, private armies and multi-million dollar parties.
Yemen 'to declare unity government' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Beleagured president to make announcement "within next 24 hours", sources tell Al Jazeera.
Egypt imposes travel ban on Mubarak - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Prosecutor also orders financial assets of former president and his family inside country frozen pending investigation.

NYT Explains Why It Held Back Reporting On CIA Contractor | TPMMuckraker "In practice, this meant [the Times'] stories contained material that, in the cold light of retrospect, seems very misleading," Brisbane wrote.
Report: U.S. Has Wasted Tens Of Billions Of Dollars On Contractors In Iraq And Afghanistan | TPMDC
Report: Wartime Contractors Waste, Steal Tens Of Billions -- Then Come Back For More (military welfare queens and bandits)

YouTube - "If law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange" (Reagan Judge)

Majority in Poll Back Employees In Public Unions - NYTimes.com
Laid Off And Left Out In Wisconsin (might want to vote next time, Wisconsin)
4bw13.jpg ("comfortable shoes" really was the giveaway, wasn't it?)
Wisconsin governor defiant amid protests, issues flare in other states - CNN.com
Koch Bros money trail [pic] - Digg
Walker Welding Capitol Windows NOW to Keep Workers from Passing Food to Those Inside | AFL-CIO NOW Blog (sounds like some middle-eastern dictator doesn't he)
Rumors Are Flying: Has One Wisconsin Republican State Senator Withdrawn His Support For Walker's Union-Busting Budget? | Crooks and Liars
The Interregnum | TPMCafe Wasn't one of the great signposts of American freedom the right of workers to organize collectively? Maybe that's why Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck sided with Mubarek before the Egyptian Revolution. Because their embrace of freedom, like David Koch's is only about their freedom from paying taxes or paying for cleaning up the pollution they cause.
Rasmussen Poll On Gov't Shutdown Shows Inverse Of Gallup Findings | TPMDC - New York Times polling guru Nate Silver wrote, "Because of the problems with question design, my advice would be simply to disregard the Rasmussen Reports poll, and to view their work with extreme skepticism going forward." (Republican pollsters at work)
Darrell Issa's Watchdog Team Includes Industry Insiders (yo, dawg, we're in your dawg watchin' your dawg)
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Massey Energy Official For Lying In W. Va. Mine Probe | TPMMuckraker
Georgia Legislator Behind Bill Criminalizing Miscarriage is Christian Reconstructionist | Religion Dispatches
Revealed: The Group Behind the Bills that Could Legalize Killing Abortion Providers | Mother Jones It's no coincidence that bills to expand justifiable homicide laws have popped up in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. Meet the group that launched the effort.
Hullabaloo A Many Pronged Attack

Kickitover.org | Before economics can progress it must abandon its suicidal formalism (neo-classical economics and corpocratic plunderism)
Oil Supply Fears Grow On Libyan Unrest
Yglesias » The Dual Oil Threats Nothing about political upheaval in Libya implies that America’s on the verge of a wage-price spiral with unemployment over 9 percent. But for months now there’s been agitation for tight money that’s seeking any kind of vaguely plausible pretext, and expensive gas might provide that pretext (they will always make up shit to screw you)
GOP spending plan would cost 700,000 jobs, new report says (yeah, but teh deficit!)
Simon Johnson: No Smoke Without Mirrors -- Disinformation About the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("just like the TSA" ... "major step towards dictatorship")
New Legal Protections for Social Entrepreneurs - BusinessWeek
Corporate-Funded Online 'Astroturfing' Is More Advanced and More Automated Than You Might Think | | AlterNet Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment threads and forums are being hijacked by people who aren’t what they seem to be (rise of the corpobots)
An Interview With Bernie Madoff -- New York Magazine One evening, my home phone rang. “You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,” a recording announced. And there he was.
interfluidity » On Tyler Cowen’s “Great Stagnation”
Gene Expression » Trust - a two standard deviation increase in IQ increases a person’s wage by 30%; but increases a nation’s wage by 700%. (why Republicans hate education)

What is the Base Edition of NGO-in-a-box? | BaseBox a collection of essential tools for running a small-to-medium sized NGO.
Message in-a-Box gives you everything you need to make and distribute your own media.
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Large Release of Intelligence Imagery Foreseen | Secrecy News

Toxic Contamination From Natural Gas Wells - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com (looks like a nuclear blast map on PA, Republicans kill the state)
Did Earth Once Share Its Orbit with a Mars-Sized Planet? New Kepler Data Suggests "Yes"
Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Autism Groups “Kill Children” — And He’s Right (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) | GeekDad | Wired.com (but former Playboy model and vaccine expert Jenny McCarthy disagrees)
Q+A: Director of "Transcendent Man," a Documentary on the Singularity (Video) | Motherboard - Ray Kurzweil
Large Hadron Collider warms up for final drive to catch a Higgs boson | Science | The Guardian As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to restart, physicists are optimistic it will detect hints of the Higgs this year
Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe
APOD: 2011 February 27 - Saturns Hyperion: A Moon with Odd Craters

Application Inflation - Admissions & Student Aid - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anti-gay Christian couple lose foster care case | Society | The Guardian Court rules against Christian couple who claimed their beliefs on homosexuality should not prevent them becoming foster carers = In a sharply worded judgment, Lord Justice Munby and Justice Beatson dismissed the couple's lawyer's claims as "a travesty of reality ... . We live in this country in a democratic and pluralistic society, in a secular state not a theocracy."
Foster parents defeated by the new Inquisition - Telegraph (religous right view)
Architizer Blog » Blog Archive » The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Dailymotion - Koyaanisqatsi - Pruitt Igoe - une vidéo Film & TV

The Intellectual Field — Crooked Timber (French and American "intellectuals" don't know anything +Gladwell makes fun of bloggers because he was stupid and wrong)
New York Times Punk’d By Anti-Union Plant | FOK News Channel
Hullabaloo The Paris Hilton Of Newspapers Sees What He Expects To See - Sulzberger just wrote a 733-word article about the prank call. Number of mentions of Walker loving a certain Sulzberger-written New York Times article? Zero. (Pinch Sulzberger at work being stupid and burying his inevitable corrections +Scott Walker thinks he's a useful tool)
Daily Kos: Wisconsin: Walker cited debunked New York Times story to defend union-busting

30 Catastrophic Russian Wedding Photos: Pics, Videos, Links, News
75 Awesome "Looking Into The Past" Pictures: Pics, Videos, Links, News

Facebook To Share Users' Home Addresses, Phone Numbers With External Sites (all your data are belong to them +your childrens' too))
Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Rahm Emanuel (MayorEmanuel) on Twitter - archive in chrono order
It's only words, unless they're motherfucking true. | MetaFilter (the climax of the play - Twitter as real-time theatre)
Gmail Reset Erases Messages? Users Report All Emails DELETED

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Hillary Clinton: U.S. Stands Ready To Aid Libya Protesters (no specifics)
Libya's Gaddafi clings to Tripoli - Africa - Al Jazeera English With much of the oil-producing regions in opposition hands, Gaddafi's power base shrinks to the capital's periphery.
A glimpse into Gaddafi's palace - Africa - Al Jazeera English Libyan leader's palace outside al-Baida is not just luxurious, but a bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack.
Libya Protests: Rebel Troops Prepare For Violent Stand-Off Against Gaddafi Forces
U.N. Security Council comes down on Gadhafi as opposition takes shape - CNN.com
Exclusive: Libya envoy to U.S. backs interim government | The Raw Story Exclusive: Libya envoy to U.S. backs interim government
Libya celebrates as Gaddafi's remote strongholds rise against him | World news | guardian.co.uk On the road from Benghazi to Tripoli, evidence of the dictator's demise includes sacked barracks and official buildings burned
Gaddafi's diplomatic immunity revoked by Britain | World news | guardian.co.uk William Hague says Libyan leader and immediate family will receive no diplomatic safeguards in UK and says he should quit
Pressure mounts on Gaddafi - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Libyan writer Hisham Matar's English boarding school experience. - By Hisham Matar - Slate Magazine The child of an outspoken Libyan dissident on attending boarding school in England.
Paul Wolfowitz Hits Obama On Libya, Blames Pan Am Families For Bush Policy Toward Gaddafi (crawls out from under a rock)
Tunisia prime minister resigns - Africa - Al Jazeera English Mohammed Ghannouchi announces his resignation on state television, a month after president Ben Ali flees the country.
As U.S. Rebuilt Ties With Libya, Human Rights Concerns Took a Back Seat - ProPublica (but he was our brutal repressive Arab psycho-strongman)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) spoke on CNN's "State of the Union" (they were perfectly happy with Bush "normalizing relations" but now they want to invade Libya)
Deaths in Oman protests - Middle East - Al Jazeera English At least two people killed in industrial town of Sohar as police clash with anti-government demonstrators.
History's shifting sands - Opinion - Al Jazeera English The revolutions sweeping the Arab world indicate a tectonic shift in the global balance of people power.
Egypt uprising: Egypt prison guards fired on inmates, rights groups say - latimes.com Egyptian human rights group and Amnesty International say that guards at several prisons have killed at least 200 prisoners, and that those who try to administer medical aid or move the bodies are fired upon as well.
Congo coup attempt leaves six dead, say authorities | World news | The Guardian President Joseph Kabila not at home as heavily armed group attacks presidential palace in Kinshasa, according to minister
China's jasmine revolution: police but no protesters line streets of Beijing | World news | The Guardian Major show of force from Chinese authorities following anonymous call for peaceful protests
North Korea Threatens To Attack South Korea, U.S.

Britain should pull out of Afghanistan, says Gorbachev - World Politics, World - The Independent The ex-Soviet leader argues the US must take some blame for fanning Islamic fundamentalism
DNC Pressures Obama, Passes Resolution Endorsing Swift End To Afghanistan War
Scumbag Obama. FTFY - Imgur

The military/media attacks on the Hastings article - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Noron and Lara, the War Whores, for instance)
Sen. John McCain Responds To Psy-Ops Claims: 'Put Me Down As Skeptical' (claims he wasn't brain-washed because ...)

100K Turn Out In Madison For Largest Rally Since Vietnam War | Crooks and Liars
Rupert Murdoch and David Koch Collude Against Wisconsin Workers | | AlterNet While Fox News feeds its rabble the anti-union line, Murdoch's Wall Street Journal columnists front for Koch's Americans for Prosperity and coddle elite investors.
FreakOutNation » WI Police In Solidarity With The Unions Refuse To Throw Protesters Out As Ordered
Why Wouldn’t the Tea Party Shut It Down? - NYTimes.com NO one remembers anything in America, especially in Washington, so the history of the Great Government Shutdown of 1995 is being rewritten with impunity by Republicans flirting with a Great Government Shutdown of 2011.
In Heavy Snow, Massive Crowd Rallies in Madison | TPMDC
Wisconsin Protests Draw More Than 70,000 In Largest Rally Yet
The Class War Pincer Movement
Wisconsin Unions Call For General Strike
Facts in short supply in debate over union bill - BusinessWeek
ThinkProgress » Report: Top 10 Disastrous Policies From The Wisconsin GOP You Haven’t Heard About

Roger Ailes to be Indicted | The Big Picture probably this week, maybe even Monday.” (doubtful but we can dream)

Email From The Embassy: Current Events (Or Why We Deserve This Pay Cut)
Life After Jerusalem: Write your Senator! (Congresscreeps treat FSO as servants, so they want to cut their pay)

Executives Behind Financial Crisis at Little Risk of Jail Time - NYTimes.com So much for Angelo Mozilo taking the fall for the financial crisis (not with Obama shoe-shine boy for the bankers)
Will banksters get away with it? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Wall Street crime goes deeper: The system means prosecutors fail to jail corporate criminals.
China's economic turning point - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Communist party leaders need to steer China away from export led growth towards more domestic consumption.
Behavioral Economics: The End of “Manly” Banking? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice

Waterlife - NFB
Regulation Lax as Gas Wells’ Tainted Water Hits Rivers - NYTimes.com (Republicans at work putting jet fuel in your drinking water ... it's good for you!)
The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Frontpage | Cave hope for moon house
Transgenic fungi may be able to combat malaria and other bug-borne diseases

Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
The Volokh Conspiracy » Asteroid defense and libertarianism (asteroid shrugged)
Submitted Without Comment : Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jacob T. Levy Sasha's asteroid
Empirical Proof that America's Libertarians Are Completely Insane... - Grasping Reality with a Sharp Beak The intellectual train wreck is truly astonishing.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood — by James Gleick | James Gleick
How We Know by Freeman Dyson | The New York Review of Books The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

How To Be A Writer « Thought Catalog “First, try to be something, anything, else.” – Lorrie Moore, ‘How to Become a Writer’
Marilyn by Larry McMurtry | The New York Review of Books
YouTube - Dubstep Dance France
YouTube - Apaci Dansi - Hasan Baba

Sick note: Faking illness online | Münchausen by internet | The Guardian | Why would someone fake a serious illness online? Jenny Kleeman on the strange world of Münchausen by internet

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Libya: Unrest and uncertainty - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Robert Fisk: The destiny of this pageant lies in the Kingdom of Oil - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent 0 One after another, our satraps are falling, and the people we paid them to control are making their own history – our right to meddle in their affairs (which we will, of course, continue to exercise) has been diminished for ever.
Cairo Protests Resume in Tahrir Square - NYTimes.com
Libya Protests: Tripoli Residents Say Civilians Being Armed; UN Plans Meeting
Gaddafi's defectors denounce 'government of Mussolini and Hitler' | World news | The Observer Some of the former Libyan ministers and diplomats who have turned on the regime of Muammar Gaddafi
Raymond Davis, American CIA Contractor, Goes On Trial For Murder In Pakistan
Jon Huntsman, U.S. Ambassador, Blocked By China's Web Police
YouTube - Mladi Jastreb i branitelji u živom zidu izmedu prosvjednika i specijalaca (protests spread to Croatia)

Ireland’s Ruling Party Headed for Crushing Defeat, Early Poll Shows - NYTimes.com
Fianna Fáil trounced as Fine Gael and Labour set to form coalition | World news | The Observer
Searchlight poll finds huge support for far right 'if they gave up violence' | UK news | The Observer Level of far-right support could outstrip that in France or Holland, says poll for Searchlight
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YouTube - Even US Soldiers are Waking up to the New World Order
Obama signs temporary extension of Patriot Act
DOJ gets reporter's phone, credit card records - U.S. news - Security - msnbc.com (Obama's spy-state)
The DOJ's creeping war on whistle-blowers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Last April, the DOJ served a subpoena on New York Times reporter James Risen, demanding to know his source for a story he published in his 2006 book regarding a "reckless" and horribly botched CIA effort to infiltrate Iran's nuclear program - Covertly obtaining and then digging through the phone, banking, and travel records of journalists is about as extreme a step as can be taken in trying to detect and punish whistleblowers. (Obama promised to protect whistle-blowers and our rights but that was then, like protecting Unions)

Workers Nationwide Fighting For Labor Rights; Barack Obama Invisible - You know, Barry, you are president right now. It’s one thing for you to be a clueless spectator on something like Egypt or Libya, but it’s very much another thing to be out to lunch on midwestern labor battles
Hullabaloo - Rich Man Poor Man (another President, another time)
Philip E. Agre - What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? Q: What is conservatism? A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy (and stupid peasants)

Dayton: Tax rich to fix deficit St. Paul, Minn
Anonymous targets Koch bros with #OpWisconsin - National Democrat | Examiner.com Anonymous, the notorious collective of unnamed Internet activists, is declaring war on the controversial Koch brothers. In a press release this weekend Anonymous accuses the brothers and their financial empire of attempting "to usurp American Democracy," and call for a "boycott all Koch Industries' paper products." Anonymous accuses the Koch brothers of taking "actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin."
AnonNews.org : Everything Anonymous
Navy News Service - Eye on the Fleet - the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) departs San Diego on its maiden deployment to the western Pacific Ocean (not p-shopped)
The Washington Monthly - A Partisan War On Two Fronts - The administration was effectively throwing a life-preserver to a Republican who's drowning, only to be told, "We don't like government life-preservers."
ThinkProgress » Flashback: Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership ‘One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights’
Workers Of America Unite: Pro-Union Rallies Cropping Up Nationwide | TPM Photo Galleries
The G.O.P.’s Abandoned Babies - NYTimes.com (Republicans hate babies)
Pope Urges Doctors to Protect Women From Abortion - NYTimes.com

ThinkProgress » REPORT: You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays In Federal Taxes “I have one dollar in my wallet. That’s more than the combined income tax liability of GE, ExxonMobil, Citibank, and the Bank of America. That means somebody is gaming the system.”
Fiscal policy: Cutting recovery short | The Economist Republicans are cutting short-term discretionary spending to address a fiscal crisis that doesn't exist while ignoring the fiscal crisis that does exist. Their proposed cuts aren't emerging from any cost-benefit analysis; rather they seem designed to spare GOP interests at the expense of Democratic interests. And to do this, they're prepared to—potentially—cost the American economy 2 percentage points of growth.

Child Burial Provides Rare Glimpse of Early Americans - ScienceNOW
Earliest Human Remains In US Arctic Reported : NPR

The Maddow Blog - Speaking for the skin and the bone (Union songs)
Union Songs
YouTube - Union Maid
YouTube - Billy Bragg - Internationale

Sex is cheap: Why young men have the upper hand in bed, even when they're failing in life. - By Mark Regnerus - Slate Magazine
Mormon polygamists shared the flaws of the fruit fly | Science | The Observer Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon Church. The religious leader had 55 wives by whom he had 56 children before he died, aged 76, in 1877. His followers had similar polygamous marriages (but less children for women, of course)

Arianna Huffington's AOL deal sparks accusations of a political sell-out | Media | The Observer The Huffington Post website made her the heroine of America's left, but critics say she failed to pay bloggers and used items generated by other news organisations
HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations (well, the electrons wear out after the library lends them 26 times)
Testing Google's New Algorithm: It Really Is Better - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Hacker Writes Easy-to-use Mac Trojan - PCWorld Business Center - HellRTS,

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‘Volcano of Rage’ by Max Rodenbeck | The New York Review of Books Leaders (Arab leaders fat, corrupt, complacent, out-of-touch, confident in their thugs)
Libya in turmoil - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Key air base near Tripoli switches to rebel support
Libya's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi leaves many dead - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
U.S. Pulling Back in Afghan Valley It Called Vital - NYTimes.com (not so vital anymore)
Merkel rebukes Israeli PM Netanyahu for failing to advance peace | World news | guardian.co.uk Israeli paper reports that PM was told in fractious phone call: 'You haven't made a single step' (Obama to continue to triangulate with zero)
Terrorist who alleged torture in custody loses appeal | Law | The Guardian Appeal court rejects Rangzieb Ahmed's claim that British authorities 'outsourced' his torture to Pakistan
Rape victim 'inviting,' so no jail - Winnipeg Free Press Judge rules woman's clothes, conduct ease blame on attacker - Manitoba Judge Robert Dewar, who recently spared a convicted rapist jail time because the victim sent signals that "sex was in the air" (Canadian justice)
Teodorin's World - By Ken Silverstein | Foreign Policy - Playboy bunnies. $2 million Bugattis. Bags full of cash. Meet the world's richest minister of agriculture and forestry.
AFP: Spain adopts energy saving measures to combat oil price hike (Government actually trying to something besides reward bankers for the crisis they caused)

Why Are Other Democracies Better Off than the U.S. Is? | Stephen M. Walt (your corrupt, insatiable military)
Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries - Europe, World - The Independent (business as usual for the world's largest sex-ring)

Spain Will Investigate Gitmo Torture | Emptywheel - this is a monumental decision that will enable a Spanish judge to continue a case on the “authorized and systematic plan of torture and ill treatment” by U.S. officials at Guantanamo. Geoffrey Miller, the former commanding officer at Guantánamo, has already been implicated, and the case will surely move up the chain of command (remember the wikileads cables about US pressure on Spain's Judiciary?)
Gates Warns Against More Wars Like Iraq and Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
Bush Cancels Denver Visit, Citing Invite To Julian Assange
Freedom for all, unless you’re Wikileaks or Ray McGovern (video) - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com (McGovern beaten by Hilliary's thugs when he turns his back on her speech promoting "freedom of expression")
Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Beaten, Arrested for Silent Protest at Clinton Speech
Balloon Juice » Louis CK to Donald Rumsfeld: “Are you a lizard?”
Balloon Juice » Reality Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias, Wisconsin Edition
Victory: PayPal Restores Account for Bradley Manning Defense Fund | FDL Action the payment processing giant backed down after public pressure to restore access to the account.

Rep. Paul Broun Asked At Town Hall: 'Who Is Going To Shoot Obama?' (another "isolated incident" of violent rightwing rhetoric as Repubican Rep acknowledges "frustration")
Senate Dems Try To Help Republicans Find Even More Cuts In Budget | Crooks and Liars

tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions? Out of every dollar that funds Wisconsin' s pension and health insurance plans for state workers, 100 cents comes from the state workers (it's all too complicated for your elite press to understand)
The Wisconsin Protests Shatter the Myth of Liberal Media Bias For the second weekend in a row, no labor leaders, such as the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka, have been invited (as of now) on the Sunday morning shows.
Wis. Assembly Passes Bill Taking Away Union Rights - NYTimes.com abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening (how they roll)
The Notes - First Draft - video showing the 10,776 messages sent to the Governor by the people of WI taped to the walls of the halls outside his office (Republicans smugly unmoved)
Another Day, Another Conservative Poll With Bad News For Scott Walker | TPMDC
Walker’s Budget Plan is a Three-Part Roadmap for Conservative State Governance « Rortybomb

Gay Marriage Clears Maryland Senate - NYTimes.com
Secession from Arizona pushed Amendment would have allowed Pima County to form its own state
Beck: Charlie Sheen "Sounds Like An Anti-Semite ... Which Does Go Hand In Hand, Usually, With The Progressive Movement" | Media Matters for America (the day after Abe Foxman slapped his wrist for anti-semitism)
Even GOP activists are turning against Sarah Palin | McClatchy - Bachman "Sarah Palin with a brain," said Gail Moore (takes one to know one)
Streetsblog New York City » Gibson Dunn Attorney Jim Walden: Blog Comment “Potentially Libelous”
To Baldly Go Where Everyone Has Gone Before | James Wolcott's Blog | Vanity Fair RightNetwork, launched with much fanfare a few months ago by its spokesmodel Kelsey Grammer, appeared to be doing a dead man's float. ... Now ... it's poignantly clear that it's decided to let everything ride on the illusionary populist appeal of its pet rock, "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher, yes, that has-been never-was pseudo-phenomenon from 2008.

Shock Doctrine, U.S.A. - NYTimes.com - Krugman - Union-busting and privatization remain G.O.P. priorities, and the party will continue its efforts to smuggle those priorities through in the name of balanced budgets.
UK economy contracted by 0.6% in last three months of 2010 | Business | guardian.co.uk
The Republican shakedown - War Room - Salon.com How the influential rich steer the government away from real solutions for the economy
GDP: Economy Slows on Cuts From State and Local Levels - CNBC (50 little Hoovers, most run by Republicans)
KPCB - USA Inc. #usainc

Gulf Coast dolphin death toll rises to nearly 60: Scientific American (moving on)
Image of the Day: One of the Most Massive Black Holes in the Universe
Coral Reefs May Be Gone By 2050: Study (Republicans: who cares?)

Behind The Assault On Planned Parenthood
Former president of Gainesville Mothers Against Drunk Driving Debra Oberlin on DUI charges | Gainesville.com
The Eleven Most Inexplicable Quotes From Today’s Charlie Sheen Radio Meltdown -- Vulture

'Practice Babies': Cornell Unveils Dark History of Adoption World - ABC News

Google demotes 'low-quality' websites in search overhaul | Technology | guardian.co.uk Change will affect about 12% of Google search queries in US in move designed to tackle so-called 'content farms'

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Christchurch earthquake: 'Today we're thinking it's probably not liveable' | World news | The Guardian "Nine out of 10 of the people that we've spoken to there have plans to be out of the city within the next two or three days

Libya’s Gaddafi wages bloody war against protesters » peoplesworld
Libya revolt: Libya opposition reportedly seizes key western city - latimes.com Opponents of Moammar Kadafi are said to have taken control of Misurata, Libya's third largest city and where Kadafi traditionally has maintained strong tribal support.
90% of Libya in Rebel Hands | Informed Comment
Libya Protests: Gadhafi Hold Whittled Away As Libya Revolt Spreads
Libya Protests: Gaddafi Forces Strike Back At Revolt Near Tripoli (blames "outside agitators")
NORTH KOREA First public protests against the Kims’ regime - Asia News First public protests against the Kims’ regime

YouTube - Ghosts of Abu Ghraib-Full Length Documentary (down the memory hole)
The Wrong Stuff : My Country Right or Wrong: Conscientious Objector Josh Stieber on Being Wrong About the Military - There's really no way to defend yourself against a sniper shot or a roadside bomb, so some of our leaders felt that the only way we could defend ourselves was to intimidate the local population into preventing the violence in the first place. So our battalion commanders gave the order that every time a bomb went off, we were entitled to open fire on whoever was standing around.

Hullabaloo Village Psy-ops (oh, this is good; war cheerleader Norah O'Donnell says she wasn't brainwashed, either because she didn't have one or it didn't have anything to wash +they should brainwash Senators anyway because it's a National Security Issue +media hates people who tell the truth and don't coverup Goverment lies, see NYT)
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Rolling Stone Politics - The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops
General Petraeus Launching Probe On Reported Psy-Ops Manipulation Of Senators (they always "launch probes" which "probe" nothing)
Judge: Eric Holder Violated DOJ Policy With Public Statements On FBI Terrorism Sting | TPMMuckraker
Barack Obama | Lockheed Martin | F-35 Why is Obama peddling Lockheed Martin’s stealth F-35 fighter around the world?
Robot Wars | George Monbiot Online astroturfing is more advanced and more automated than we’d imagined.
Megaphone desktop tool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia " tool developed by Give Israel Your United Support (GIYUS) and distributed by World Union of Jewish Students, World Jewish Congress, The Jewish Agency for Israel, World Zionist Organization, StandWithUs, Hasbara fellowships, HonestReporting, and other pro-Israel public relations organizations.
Spycraft: A tide turns | The Economist

BBC News - Wikileaks' Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden
20110224-Britain-Ruling-Assange-Extradition-to-Sweden.pdf City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court (Sitting at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court) The judicial authority in Sweden -v- Julian Paul Assange Findings of facts and reasons
2011-01-21 Former Swedish judge Sundberg-Weitman speaks out on the handling of the Julian Assange case | WL Central “Why these half-truths allocating all responsibility to Ny for the procedure in Sweden and to the British for Sweden´s appeal in Britain?” Her answer: “Well, I don’t know the answer to that, but it does appear as if something is being hidden under the carpet.”
Glenn Greenwald on the Assange Extradition Ruling, the Jailing of Bradley Manning, and the Campaign to Target WikiLeaks Supporters
Julian Assange extradition hearing decision – live updates | Media | guardian.co.uk Assange ends his statement calling on Swedes who have seen evidence of abuse of process to come forward and to "make this bigger than me".
Do Sweden's Rape Laws Infantilise Women? (Regardless of Julian Assange) | Red Room
Q & A: The Assange Case And Swedish Extradition : NPR
Bradley Manning Support Network » Archive » PayPal Cuts Service to Alleged WikiLeaks Whistle-blower Support Effort The online payment provider PayPal has frozen the account of Courage to Resist, which in collaboration with the Bradley Manning Support Network is currently raising funds in support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (Obama at work killing your rights)

How the British fell out of love with drugs | Society | The Guardian The number of young people taking drugs has fallen by 30% in 15 years. Is the drop down to quality, bad celebrity PR or price?

Anon "brought it" to Westboro Baptist Church: Domain Seized under section #14 of the rules of the Internet (youtube views go to 1/2 million in one day, will God be angry?)
YouTube - Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website During Live Confrontation

Wealth And Inequality In America
Interactive | State of Working America (how the rich got enormously richer, and the middle class had their brain removed)
Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About | Mother Jones
Matt Stoller: The Liquidation of Society versus the Global Labor Revival « naked capitalism The GOP likes to foster corruption through privatization of public services, a shadow large government in the form of security contractors, corporations, and banks that are supported with taxpayer money but consider themselves part of the “private sector”. The elite Democratic model of governance is more subtle; it is embodied in high expertise-driven regulatory programs like the health care bill, cap and trade, GSE reform and Dodd-Frank. Low pay for regulators means corruption in the form of the revolving door.

Poll: Barely Half Of Americans Know Health Care Law Hasn't Been Repealed | TPMDC Meanwhile, one fifth -- 22% -- of all Americans believe that the law has been overturned, while another 26% aren't sure what's up with the law (land of the stupid and uniformed)
The Challenge Of Polling Labor Rights only 26 percent of Americans who said that they heard "a lot" about the Wisconsin protests last week, 34 percent who heard "a little" and 40 percent who said they heard "nothing at all." (the same 40-50% who don't know anything about anything)

Will Obama Find Those Shoes? | MyFDL I’ll will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner (that was then, this is now, looking forward, not backward)
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and public employees unions -- Isthmus | TheDailyPage.com
Mitch Daniels on Drugs After Mitch Daniels '71 was arrested, indicted and convicted on charges of drug use as an undergraduate in May 1970, he said that he thought his aspiring political career was doomed (but he was a Republican with no empathy so it didn't matter)
Wisconsin Assembly Reaches Deal To End Debate, Vote On Anti-Union Bill
Ezra Klein - Andy Stern: 'It may not end beautifully in Wisconsin.'
Groups officially begin recall process for seven lawmakers - JSOnline Groups officially begin recall process for seven lawmakers (Utah will recall Wisconsin Dem Senators)
Shep Smith: Wisconsin Fight Has Nothing Do With Budget, All About Busting Unions (video)
The Plum Line - No labor officials on Sunday shows this weekend? (of course not)
Wis. Senate GOP Leader's Wife Gets School Layoff Notice | TPMDC
Madison Police Chief: Scott Walker's Koch Call 'Troubling' | TPMDC . "I find it very unsettling and troubling that anyone would consider creating safety risks for our citizens and law enforcement officers."
Obama Has No Plans To Visit Wisconsin (another campaign promise broken)
Is The Wisconsin Bill Really Hiding A Secret Bonanza For Energy Companies? | TPMMuckraker - "The Koch Brothers' End Game in Wisconsin."
Ex-AG sees violations by Walker in stunt call
FreakOutNation » Ron Paul: The Tea Party Is Now Corporately Owned Worth noting is that Ron Paul voted against the Patriot Act, leaving him fairly ostracized from his own party. While many of his political beliefs I give pause to, auditing the Fed is not one of them.
Rachel Maddow Explains How The Wisconsin Protesters Are Winning

Nebraska Justifiable Homicide Bill Allows ANYONE to Murder an Abortion Provider (not just their "masters" - more extreme and SD)
NYT: Affidavits Say Roger Ailes Told Employee To Lie | TPMDC , the previously unnamed individual who forced former HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan to lie about her affair with then NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik was none other than the chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes.
ADL: Beck Comparing Reform Judaism To 'Radicalized Islam' Is 'Bigoted Ignorance' | TPMMuckraker (Abe Foxman had to suspend the "conservative pass" rule on this one)
We Have A Winner In The Breitbart Blogging Parody Contest | Media Matters for America

Senate Democrats Meet To Find More Cuts For Long-Term Funding Deal With GOP (Dems, Obama and Republicans agree to deeply cut social spending because the Republicans spent all the money for the next ten years)
Does the U.S. Really Have a Fiscal Crisis? - NYTimes.com None of the leadership on either side is willing to talk openly about how our biggest banks caused great fiscal damage. No one is willing to explain why our health care costs continue to rise. And no top politicians currently champion real tax reform (no, but we will because of Republican irresponsibility)
How to fix Social Security | Marketplace From American Public Media Commentator Robert Reich says there's one way to keep Social Security financially solvent. And it doesn't involve cutting benefits or raising the retirement age.
YouTube - Vampire Takes On Bank - and Wins

Oral sex now main cause of oral cancer: Who faces biggest risk? - Health Blog - CBS News - This year, 37,000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year
B4MwD.jpg (Left/Right Brain)

Providence Officials Give Precautionary Layoff Notices To ALL The City's Teachers
Churnalism | Search (how to tell when you're reading a press release disguised at journalism)

Vice Style » News » London Fashion Week: Two Hours of My Life Gone Forever
Heather Armstrong, Queen of the Mommy Bloggers - NYTimes.com (Dooce and others)
Why I can't stop reading Mormon housewife blogs - Internet Culture - Salon.com
mimi smartypants - Seriously, though: what's with the penguins?
Beauty School, Crotch Out | The Hairpin
Powered Paragliding Ontario - PG pilot sucked in a thunderstorm.

Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia
Sony moves to the next level, police raid graf_chokolo home! - PSX-SCENE: The oldest and most trusted Playstation Scene Community (Sony orders German poice to raid Linux developer)
Broadband Map - Technology - National Broadband Map

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Barack Obama tells Gaddafi: Libya violence must stop | World news | The Guardian US president finally breaks silence on Libya to condemn ruling regime and make threat of sanctions (1,000 dead people later)
Libyan city dubbed 'Free Benghazi' as anti-Gaddafi troops take control | World news | guardian.co.uk Local doctors put massacre death toll at 230
Libya analysis: 'It's hard to imagine a peaceful outcome to this crisis' - video | World news | guardian.co.uk Middle East editor Ian Black looks at the implications of Muammar Gaddafi's speech and the continuing violence in Libya
Arab League urged to condemn Gaddafi by angry protesters in Egypt | World news | guardian.co.uk Demonstrators outside Arab League headquarters in Cairo accuse members of being out of touch (guess who else is out of touch and dragging his feet?)
Muammar Gaddafi: method in his 'madness' | Brian Whitaker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Gaddafi has lost touch with his people, but though his actions may seem bizarre, there is a kind of logic to his behaviour
Libya Protests: Shocking Photos and Video - The Daily Beast
Gadhafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing, Ex-Minister Claims some Lockerbie victims' relatives have questioned his conviction. They argue that insufficient attention was paid to the possibility that the bombing was carried out not by Libyan intelligence but by Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorists.
Wikileaks: Gadhafi Family A Web Of Greed, Nepotism
WikiLeaks: Gadhafi Turned Down Madoff (looked too much like a ponzi scheme)

Egypt sexual harassment: Egyptian women face growing violence and sexual harassment - latimes.com Some women in Egypt say they suffer catcalls, groping and other sexual harassment daily. For a time it seemed that the Tahrir Square protests might point to progress, but the attack on TV reporter Lara Logan and others showed otherwise.
HarassMap: Tracking Sexual Harassment in Egypt with SMS | MobileActive.org

Torture inquiry is legally flawed, say rights groups as NGOs ponder boycott | Law | guardian.co.uk Investigation fails to meet UK's obligations under international and national law on impartiality and openness, say campaigners (at least they had an inquiry, torture perfectly fine with Americans and their leaders)
Spy agency fights release of Tommy Douglas file - thestar.com Canada’s spy agency is pulling out all the stops to block the release of decades-old intelligence on socialist icon Tommy Douglas - full disclosure of the file on Douglas could endanger the lives of confidential informants and jeopardize the agency’s ability to conduct secret surveillance. (they never stop lying)

Christchurch earthquake death toll rises with hundreds still missing | World news | guardian.co.uk Curfew and cordon thrown around rescue zone in centre of New Zealand city, where 75 are confirmed dead and 300 missing

It's the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones (8 simple graphics explain why America is going down the drain)

Obama: DOMA Unconstitutional, DOJ Should Stop Defending In Court (always way behind the curve)
Obama administration will no longer defend section 3 of DOMA...what now?
Eschaton I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means - Clinton statement on passage of DOMA (he was stupid and wrong and Obama kept this on the books for almost three years)
Are We Born Gay? And If We Were, How Would We Know? » Sociological Images
My son, the pink boy - Real Families - Salon.com Moms ask if my "feminine" son is gay. Strangers tell me I'm being too permissive. Here's what they don't understand

YouTube - Maddow Destroys Wisconsin's Gov Walker (butt vodka)
The Selling of Wisconsin: Enter Koch Brothers' Bag Man Jeffrey Schoepke | The Awl
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and public employees unions -- Isthmus | TheDailyPage.com (live feed)
Wisconsin’s Walker Signs Bill Requiring 2/3 Majority for Tax Increases | FDL News Desk (which California just changed the other way because they were bankrupt)
Balloon Juice » How They Roll Say anything to get them back in the state, then screw them. That’s the plan (Obama still "weighing his options")
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Warns Of 'Dire Consequences' If Budget Bill Fails To Pass
Gov. Walker Informed That Bill Targeting Unions May Cost State $46 Million In Federal Funds (all of a sudden, it's not about the "deficit")
Scott Walker Gets Punked By Journalist Pretending To Be David Koch And so Walker, believing himself to be on the phone with his patron, seems to have had a long conversation about busting Wisconsin's unions.
Wisconsin Democrat: Scott Walker Exposed As 'Cocky' And 'Gullible,' Has Pushed Us Away From Negotiations (aren't they all)
Did Scott Walker Get Crank-Call Pwned? (AUDIO) UPDATE: YES | Mother Jones
Scott Walker Caught On Tape With “David Koch”? | Oliver Willis (transcript)
Indiana Official: "Use Live Ammunition" Against Wisconsin Protesters | Mother Jones - Jeff Cox, deputy attorney general for the state of Indiana, was terminated Wednesday (another "isolated incident" of rightwing loon threatening violence, this time he's a "government official")
A call for armed counterprotesters to Atlanta labor rally | Jay Bookman “Atlanta Tea Party and Many Other Groups, Facing Off the SEIU Thugs Wednesday”
Indiana Senate leader says right-to-work bill is dead | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com
Indiana kills 'right-to-work' bill - Jennifer Epstein - Politico.com “It was a mistake,” said Senate President Pro Tempore David Long, a Republican (how's that Wisconsin think working out for you?)
National Guard has toured multiple prisons - JSOnline As large labor protests continue at the Capitol, the Wisconsin National Guard has toured more than one prison in the state, a spokeswoman said Tuesday (plans to fill prisons with protestors)
Daily Kos: Fox flips poll results to falsely claim Americans support union-busting
YouTube - smailtronic's Channel - The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) - This Land is Your Land (with omitted verses)

The Perfect Storm Is Definitely Here This Time | Media Matters for America (Beck has perfected the "perfect storm" - why does these rightwingnuts hope for the apocalypse?)
ADL: Beck's Comments About Reform Judaism Demonstrate "Bigoted Ignorance" | Media Matters for America in which he compared Reform Judaism to radicalized Islam, as "highly offensive and outrageous" (but there is nothing he can say that will ...)
Michele Bachmann votes to defund AmeriCorps, which her son joined - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - The Blotter (hypocrisy, thy name is Republican)
Maine Gov. Paul LePage On BPA: 'Worst Case Is Some Women May Have Little Beards' (anti-EPA teahead Repubican makes an ass of himself)

Calculated Risk: Fed's Hoenig: Financial Reform: Post Crisis? the existence of too big to fail financial institutions poses the greatest risk to the U.S. economy (which Obama, of course did nothing to stop)
Capitalism for the Long Term - Harvard Business Review

pandagon.net - No, seriously, they want this to be the Republic of Gilead (Republicans to make every miscarriage a crime scene, will call in CSI)
Paradigm Shift on Gay Marriage in Evidence in Rhode Island | Elections Only senior citizens, by a 48/39 margin, are opposed to legalizing same sex marriage (anti-gay geezers dying off)
What About the Mens? Marriage Edition. a depressingly trite piece in The Wall Street Journal about how men don't grow up, headlined "Where Have the Good Men Gone?" Feel free to judge the article based on the title alone ("women reach adulthod simply by becoming physically mature" men play video games and drink beer)
CNSNews' Jeffrey: "It is time to drive public schools out of business" | Media Matters for America - American freedom depends on fidelity to our Judeo-Christian heritage even more than it depends on proficiency in reading and math. (they think education is a "business" and an "entitlement" and Americans don't need it)
No strong teacher unions, lower SAT/ACT scores. Any correlation? | Get Schooled (the Republican War on Education)
Is the United States too democratic? | PRI.ORG "If you're not investing in education, if you're not investing in mathematics and in science," Moyo says, "America will simply not be competitive enough to help solve these problems." And if that's true, the entire world will suffer.
Barry Levine Tabloid Takedown - John Edwards & Reille Hunter Affair, National Enquirer Reporter

The extraordinary face of the Moon | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Nearside Spectacular! - LROC News System | LROC Image Browser (holy crap, look at this, click to zoooom in)
YouTube - Lunar Libration
YouTube - Synchronous Rotation of the Moon

Out of Sync on Vimeo
Top 10 South Park Episodes About Religion
Five weeks on a container ship. (1) - By Rose George - Slate Magazine

Why You Should Be Jealous of South Korea. South Koreans pay an average of $38 a month for connections of 100 megabits a second (bigcorp America left in the dust)
Are Likes Poised to Replace Links as the Web's Primary Signal? - Steve Rubel

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Libya erupts as Gaddafi clings on - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Libyan leader makes rambling speech after days of unrest - Hague: 'Structure of Libyan state is collapsing'
Libya under Muammar Gaddafi | World news | guardian.co.uk
Qaddafi’s Grip Falters as His Forces Take On Protesters - NYTimes.com
Gadhafi Vows To Fight On, Die A Martyr In Rambling Speech Shouting in the rambling speech, he declared himself "a warrior" and proclaimed, "Libya wants glory, Libya wants to be at the pinnacle, at the pinnacle of the world." (propping up psychotic dictataors everywhere)
Key Libyan diplomats disown Gadhafi's regime - Yahoo! News
Cameron says UK prejudiced for believing Muslims cannot manage democracy | Politics | guardian.co.uk Prime minister will tell Kuwait national assembly that Britain was wrong to prop up 'highly controlling regimes' as way of ensuring stability (think Obama might say something like that?)
Ivory Coast protesters killed calling for Laurent Gbagbo to step down | World news | The Guardian Security forces react violently in support of loser of last election who will not cede power, as African leaders form a panel to try to broker peace
Sudan’s President, Bashir, Won’t Run Again, Spokesman Says - NYTimes.com
Zimbabwe Arrests 46 for Watching Uprisings on TV - NYTimes.com Dozens of students, trade unionists and political activists who gathered to watch Al Jazeera and BBC news reports on the uprisings that brought down autocrats in Tunisia and Egypt have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to oust President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

The real challenge for Internet freedom? US hypocrisy. And there's no app for that. - CSMonitor.com Secretary Clinton's speech on Internet freedom was full of good news. The US has a more grown-up view of the complexities of Internet freedom and its importance. The bad news was in what Clinton didn't address: the role US foreign policy and US companies play in Internet oppression

Petraeus, Spox Smith Lie Again When Confronted With Afghan Civilian Deaths, Injuries | MyFDL Afghan government officials alleged Sunday that a U.S. military operation in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan killed 65 innocent people, including 22 women and more than 30 children, the most serious allegation of civilian casualties in months.

Strong Earthquake Strikes New Zealand - NYTimes.com
Google Person Finder: Christchurch Earthquake, February 2011
GeoNet – New Zealand Earthquake Report - Feb 22 2011 at 12:51 pm (NZDT)
New Zealand Earthquake 2011: Temblor Kills At Least 65, Traps More
Somalia Pirates Kill Four Hostage Americans: Reports - The Adams ran a Bible ministry and have been distributing Bibles to schools and churches in remote villages in areas including the Fiji Islands, Alaska, New Zealand, Central America and French Polynesia (ignored warnings, turned off radio)
Liam Fox vows to tackle Ministry of Defence spending crisis | UK news | guardian.co.uk Conspiracy of optimism and focus on fantasy projects has led to £38bn hole in MoD budget, says defence secretary (American military laughs)
Israel Silent as Iranian Ships Transit Suez Canal - NYTimes.com
In Post-Marcos Philippines, Corruption Still a Way of Life - New York Times

Reagan Memoir Raises the Difficulty of Confirming Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com Ron Reagan’s new memoir, “My Father at 100,” has touched off sensational headlines with its suggestion that President Ronald Reagan might have begun showing hints of Alzheimer’s disease while still in the White House (denials everywhere)
The ‘Long War’ May Be Getting Shorter - NYTimes.com President Obama and the NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, have effectively moved the planned troop withdrawal date from July 2011 to at least 2014, with surprisingly little objection.

ThinkProgress » Priorities? GOP Governors Shift Burden To Poor, Middle Class To Pay For Tax Breaks For Rich, Corporations
Koch Brothers’ Money Fuels Wisconsin Fight - NYTimes.com
Ohio and Wisconsin Brace for Protests Over Public Employees - NYTimes.com
AFL-CIO Polls Show Wisconsin Supports Protestors, Opposes Walker (not so popular after all)
Wisconsin Protesters Rise Up Against Tea Party and Fox News Tyranny
Wisconsin Budget Battle Continues, GOP Legislators Forge Ahead
George Will's Dishonest Assault On Unions | Media Matters for America This capital has been convulsed by government employees sowing disorder in order to repeal an election (irony-free zone)
Indiana House Democrats leave state, Wisconsin style - JSOnline (Indiana to outlaw ALL unions)
BP Says Settlement Terms in Spill Are Too Generous - NYTimes.com

Political economy: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich | The Economist
Sherrod Brown: Obama Is Disappointing On Manufacturing | TPMDC (Obama doesn't do jobs, unless they belong to his banker-buddies)

Update: Why Mars is Losing Its Atmosphere -A Mystery Solved? Mars is constantly losing part of its atmosphere to space due to pressure from solar wind pulses.
'Global Katrina': Biggest solar storm ever could cause power cuts for MONTHS | Mail Online Earth is overdue a solar storm as the sun enters its most active period (Obama to send politely-worded letter to the Sun asking it to triangulate with him )
Feds Will Study Only 'Negative Consequences,' Not Medical Pot - Toke of the Town

"Nobody Wins a Nuclear War" But "Success" is Possible Mixed Message of 1950s Air Force Film on a U.S.-Soviet Conflict (60 million dead? We win!)

YouTube - The Lost Thing
YouTube - TOC 2011: Margaret Atwood, "The Publishing Pie: An Author's View"
Kindle e-book piracy accelerates | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews

Amazon takes on Netflix with movie streaming service for Prime
Despite 861.5 Percent Growth, Android Market Revenues Remain Puny

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Gadhafi's Support Crumbles As Libya Protests Continue - "Unlike the fall of the regime in Tunisia and Egypt, this is going to be a collapse into a civil war," said Lisa Anderson, president of the American University in Cairo, and a Libya expert said
Libya's press restrictions: This time, the revolution may not be televised – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
Libya in crisis - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Two Libyan fighter land in Malta seeking political asylum - Libya denies reports Gaddafi is on way to Venezuela - Ambassadors resign in China, India, Indonesia and Poland
BBC News - Libya unrest: Scores killed in Benghazi 'massacre'
2011 Libyan protests - Wikipedia
Tunisia, After Uprising, Debates Role of Islam - NYTimes.com Protesters held up signs saying, “Politics ruins religion and religion ruins politics.” (more advanced than US)
Libya Protests: Dozens Killed As Anti-Gaddafi Protests Continue
Jordan: Why It's Not A Domino In The Middle East - one of the Middle East's few constitutional monarchies
Unrest in the world this weekend « Flickr Blog - There have already been 9,512 images posted to Flickr since Friday with the word protest and the weekend isn’t over at the time of this writing.
Hullabaloo - Back In The Day Qadhafi was Bush's BFF - 2004 State of the Union address. Libya was welcomed into the world of civilized nations and Qadhafi was treated as a conquering hero.

MI5 had 'no inkling' of 7/7 suicide bombings, inquests told | UK news | The Guardian (do they ever?)
Suicide Car Bomber Kills 12 North of Baghdad - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Top Secret Army Video The Pentagon Wont Release
In Belgium, Beer and Frites in Honor of Political Failure - NYTimes.com Belgium overtook Iraq’s record in trying to form a government: 249 days and counting (let's try this in America, couldn't be worse than what we have)
Russian Cops Crash Pill Pusher Party — Krebs on Security
Potters Bar crash: Network Rail to plead guilty over safety failures | UK news | The Guardian Company to be sentenced next month over derailment in 2002 that killed seven people (did you read that part about "Company to be sentenced?" another headline you'll never read in America)
Novelist Ian McEwan Criticizes Jewish Settlements During Acceptance Of Jerusalem Prize

Government Tries to Keep Secret What Many Consider a Fraud - NYTimes.com Montgomery and his associates received more than $20 million in government contracts by claiming that software he had developed could help stop Al Qaeda’s next attack on the United States. But the technology appears to have been a hoax, and a series of government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Air Force, repeatedly missed the warning signs, the records and interviews show (Obama covering up so these guys won't look like gullible idiots, "undermining confidence in National Security")
U.S. Officials Admit American Arrested In Pakistan Worked With CIA | TPMMuckraker - The Times reports that it had agreed to temporarily withhold information about Davis after a request by the Obama administration, which said disclosure of his specific job would put his life at risk. That request was lifted Monday, after foreign news organizations reported about Davis' work with the CIA. (NYT: all the news the CIA thinks is fit to print ... "blood on their hands")
Drone Attacks: Yet Again, Terror War "Vital Tool" Revealed as Security Theater Prop | MyFDL How depraved has our government become when “analysts” in Pakistan and on US bases work together to sit in judgment on “foot soldiers” arbitrarily deemed guilty from afar and then execute them without detention and trial? Now, heaped on that offense is the realization that all of this is for show, because it can be switched on and off depending on how much political “heat” is on the program

The NYT's journalistic obedience - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The New York Times -- by its own shameless admission -- was one of those self-censoring, obedient media outlets - the U.S. Government has spent weeks making public statements that were misleading in the extreme -- Obama's calling Davis "our diplomat in Pakistan" -- while the NYT deliberately concealed facts undermining those government claims because government officials told them to do so. That's called being an active enabler of government propaganda. (exactly why we need more wikileaks, right guys?)
Letters: The NYT's journalistic obedience - Salon (4) No matter what else is true, there is never any excuse for a newspaper to mislead the public. It's one thing to remain silent about an issue entirely.

Insurrectionism Timeline - Coalition to Stop Gun Violence - the rise of rightwing gun violence promoted by Republicans

Daley, Chief Of Staff, Earned $8.7 Million From JPMorgan Last Year (GS decided to cut out the middleman and take direct control of Pres)
New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion | TPMDC (Republicans have always hated women, being fundamentalist authoritarian dictators)
The Washington Monthly - Stuck In The Wrong Conversation .... During the hour-long episode of "Meet the Press" yesterday, there was exactly one reference to the U.S. unemployment rate, uttered by former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D). The word "spending" was used 40 times
What If the Egyptian Protesters Were Democrats? - "In short, if the Egyptian protesters were Democrats, they would have undertaken no revolution. The Democratic Party represents the pervasiveness of elite corporate power; its liberal supporters represent the appropriation of oppositional politics into the neoliberal economies of electoral hegemony; the Egyptian protesters represent a determined, collective will to social justice and legitimate freedom. If those protesters were American liberals, they would have sided with the state while professing support for the people."
What Conservatives Really Want | Common Dreams The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy (Obama is so inside their frame)
Paul Craig Roberts: America Has Become an Oligarchy of Private Interests
Wisconsin Power Play - NYTimes.com Mr. Walker isn’t interested in making a deal. Partly that’s because he doesn’t want to share the sacrifice: even as he proclaims that Wisconsin faces a terrible fiscal crisis, he has been pushing through tax cuts that make the deficit worse. Mainly, however, he has made it clear that rather than bargaining with workers, he wants to end workers’ ability to bargain.
Daily Kos: Top Dems reject Social Security cuts Once again, the message that Social Security does not contribute to the deficit was heard loud and clear on the Sunday shows. Of course, what's depressing as hell in all of this is the capitulation to the austerity crowd--deficits aren't the nation's primary problem right now. It's jobs, jobs, jobs. But it's good to hear they've at least the Social Security/deficit bit worked out (but still operating within their frame)
TMF: Re: Class Warfare / Political Asylum (light vs darkness in the trenches)
The Average Teacher in Wisconsin Has a Smaller Salary Than the Median Wisconsin Household. « Rortybomb
The Less Discussed Part of Walker’s Wisconsin Plan: No-Bid Energy Assets Firesales. « Rortybomb The bill would allow for the selling of state-owned heating/cooling/power plants without bids and without concern for the legally-defined public interest (Walker selling off infrastucture to his rich friends with no competitive bidding)
Glenn Beck slams Wisconsin protesters, claims no buses were there for his rally - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com (Kochtopus at work)

For Nervous AWOL Dems In WI, The Pressure's Off...For Now | TPMDC
Wisconsin & Egypt: How The Right is Being Taught About End of The World & 'Anti-Christ' Obama | Frequency (Muslim Brotherhood organizing protests in Wisconsin)
Scott Walker Rejects Compromise Proposal As Protests Continue ("we will fight to the last bullet")
Stanley Kutler: What Gov. Walker Won’t Tell You - Truthdig - Walker, a Republican, failed to tell the state that less than two weeks into his term as governor, he, with his swollen Republican majorities in the Wisconsin Legislature, pushed through $117 million in tax breaks for business allies of the GOP. There is your crisis (just a small example of how Republicans always work to screw stupid voters)
What Pundits Often Mean When They Refer To "People" | Media Matters for America on Meet the Press when host David Gregory praised a think tank speech that New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie gave last week (sucking Christie's dick and lying to viewers)

Hullabaloo - It's Not Getting Better - If 10% unemployment is the new normal then how are these people supposed to survive when the conservatives finally zero out unemployment insurance? If economists are seeing this as "structural" and therefore nothing is to be done, we are well and truly fucked. This cannot be considered "normal" by any stretch of the imagination.
Dems: Obama Broke Pledge to Force Banks to Help Homeowners - ProPublica
Finally! Empirical Evidence About How the Foreclosure Crisis is Impacting the Recovery « Rortybomb Democrats go on the record saying that during the cramdown debate Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner “was really dismissive as to the utility of” cramdown, and Larry Summers “was not supportive of this” to any degree, even though President Obama campaigned on it (fool listening to fools)
Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income taxes | Reuters Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales, a government study released on Tuesday said (we solve that with more tax breaks for the rich, oh wait)
Woman pays off mortgage, finds herself in default - chicagotribune.com (Atrios: "The moment it became in the servicer's interest to foreclose whenever possible - legally or not - the system was fucked.")

Earth with Saturn's Rings and Moons - Imgur
Science Hobbyist: Curing lane-merge traffic jams (don't be so selfish and aggressive, asshole)
Science Hobbyist: Traffic Waves FAQ

Fair Drug Policy | The Fearless Campaign (defund the war on Americans)
The Chilean Miners Smoked Weed Underground -- Daily Intel
TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth (no changes or disciplinary action; they knew it wouldn't work, but Skeletor got the contracts)
YouTube - Mom Lashes Out At "Scumbag" Judge That Was Found Guilty Of Sending Kids To Jail For Payola

Everything Is A Remix: Kill Bill on Vimeo
The REAL Death Of The Music Industry (music industry lies and uses fake charts by Bain Capital to justfiy their prices and insane copyrights)
Letters of Note: I had no idea that the City of Casablanca belonged exclusively to Warner Bros.
Psykopaint - Create and paint amazing art from photos
ouqQK.jpg (NSFW Wolves)

Another misleading story reports that blogs ‘r’ dead — Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard - Fourteen percent of online adults are making some effort to write regularly in public! (corrupt corporate media has always tried to marginalize blogs - "kids in the basement in their pjs")
Generations Online in 2010 | Pew Internet & American Life Project
Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter - NYTimes.com (they lie: the report they are "reporting" on shows blogging is growing "from 11% in late 2008 to 14% in 2010" - now why would the Times do that?)
Soup — Blogs Are Dead, Version 9.0

Educator remembers the Alamo » Times Record News (Republicans: education is an individual repsonsibilty and hard-working Americans with jobs shouldn't pay for it)
Vienna Philharmonic must answer for exclusion , all but four of those musicians are men, and all of them are white.


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American Service-Members' Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a United States federal law introduced by US Senator Jesse Helms as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act and passed in August 2002 by Congress - e The Hague Invasion Act[1][2], since such freeing of US citizens by force might only be possible through an invasion of The Hague, Netherlands, the seat of several international criminal courts and the seat of the Dutch government. (why America will never have war criminals)
Colin Powell Slams U.S. Officials Over 'Curveball' Iraq Defector Claims Handling - "It had become clear over the years ... The question should be put to the CIA and the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) as to why this wasn't known before the false information was put into [a key intelligence estimate] sent to Congress, the president's State of the Union address and my Feb. 5 presentation to the U.N." (sure, Colin)

Morocco Joins Middle East Protests: Protesters Demand New Constitution, Economic Reforms
Bahrain | Protests | Saudi Arabia Concerns grow in Saudi Arabia as protest fever sweeps Bahrain.
The Obama Administration and the Taliban : The New Yorker
Libya protests: 140 'massacred' as Gaddafi sends in snipers to crush dissent - Telegraph Women and children leapt from bridges to their deaths as they tried to escape a ruthless crackdown by Libyan forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken - assgrabbing "one of the realities of covering the news in Pakistan"
Benghazi residents say told Gaddafi's guard defeated | Reuters Members of a Libyan army unit told Benghazi residents on Sunday they had defected and "liberated" the city from forces supporting veteran leader Muammar Gaddaf
Holocaust Survivor's Planned Talk Angers Jewish Leaders | loonwatch.com Meyer has equated the Holocaust to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, drawing intense fire from Sacramento’s Jewish community and the Anti-Defamation League (Abe Foxman at work)

Empire at the End of Decadence - NYTimes.com (USA! USA! We're Number 33! - US becoming third-world because of Republicans)

George Soros: Tea Party Activists Being 'Used,' Obama's 'Lost Control Of Agenda' (both true)
The Human Cost of Budget Cutting - NYTimes.com “I go back to when President Nixon tried to put us out of business. Reagan tried to push us off the table. They didn’t succeed. Quite frankly, I didn’t expect that at this stage of the game we’d be facing these kinds of cuts from a President Obama (worse than Nixon and Reagan)
GOP Freshmen Test Mandate To Shrink Government (Republicans more open than Dems)
For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Was Long Coming - NYTimes.com He and state lawmakers passed $117 million in tax breaks for businesses (Times buries shock-doctrine lede at bottom of story)
Republicans reject offer by unions to compromise on concessions - BizTimes (the party of no compromise)
Anti-Walker Protests Continue, Outnumbering Pro-Walker Showing | TPMDC The pro-Walker Tea Party rally featured something of all-star cast: Andrew Breitbart, Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher, Herman Cain (yeah, but Sarah wasn't there)
Madison Protests Hit Largest Numbers On Saturday 70,000 protesters
Fox Reporter Greeted With 'Fox Lies' Chants In Madison
YouTube - Representative Gordon Hintz on the "Budget repair bill"
Democratic Strategy In Wisconsin: Kill The Bill, Then Recall Republicans From Office
Wisconsin Protests Set Up Delicate Dance Between Obama And Labor (Obama hates unions, too)
Balloon Juice » This is repulsive: Charles Lane seeks to make a speechless victim of political violence a spokesperson for his own political philosophy. This is disgusting (WaPo: Obama calling the teabagger assault on unions an "assault" is the same as shooting Giffords in the head)
Stars and Sewers - NYTimes.com (Dowd: free speech is good except when I don't like it +Leon Wiseltier, TNR editor, hates commentors)
Quinn Budget Cuts: Drug Treatment Programs To Lose All Funding
Michele Bachmann: 2012 Decision Will Depend On 'Inner Assurance,' Prayer (VIDEO) "My husband and I gave our lives to the Lord when we were 16 years of age
10 More Websites Glenn Beck Doesn't Trust, Other Than Google

Philly Homeowner Declares He's 'Foreclosed' on Wells Fargo - The Consumerist
Wells Fargo Meeting Today With Philly Homeowner Who "Foreclosed" On Them (Here's How He Did It) - The Consumerist

Fair and accurate elections, statistically speaking
Oldest fossils of large seaweeds, possible animals tell story about oxygen in an ancient ocean
Plastic fantastic! Carrier bags 'not eco-villains after all' - Green Living, Environment - The Independent Unpublished Environment Agency research shows polythene may be less harmful than cotton or paper
Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science — PNAS
What the New York Times' John Tierney gets wrong about bias and women scientists. - By Alison Gopnik - Slate Magazine Understanding a new study about discrimination - Science reporters are supposed to understand these complexities and explain them to their readers—not claim, in spite of the evidence, that sex discrimination is a figment of the biased liberal imagination (the Times "science writer" agrees with NRO; both wrong, being Republicans)
FemaleScienceProfessor: Orders of Magnitude

YouTube - Ueli Steck speed solo Eiger record
An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end « A Blast From The Past

CBC.ca | The Sunday Edition | Women in Publishing - MMR Autism Scandal - Phil Ochs Documentary
American Power: Feminist Anne Hays Launches Boycott of The New Yorker
Whiny Women Writers At It Again | Lit Drift: Storytelling in the 21st Century
Does The New Yorker Have Girl Problems? Reader Demands Gender Balance or a Refund - New York News - Runnin' Scared

How $31 of pot gave mom a 10-year-prison sentence | NewsOK.com (mother of four; OK justice at work)

Fashion News and Trends - The New York Times
Blues Documentaries -The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins- Classic Blues Videos
The Day the Movies Died: Movies + TV: GQ
Rauch Bros. Animation | Danny and Annie
The Overheated, Oversexed Cult of Bikram Choudhury: Critical Eye : Details
Where Have the Good Men Gone? - WSJ.com Kay S. Hymowitz argues that too many men in their 20s are living in a new kind of extended adolescence (no one wants to marry Kay Hymowitz, we wonder why?)
Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude - WSJ.com
TinyPic : Click The Pic!

Westboro Baptist Church replies to Anonymous. - Imgur - Bring It! God Hates Fags AND Lousy "Hackers"
Hotfile Goes To War Against Copyright Infringers | TorrentFreak (deleting your files, confiscating your money; won't answer questions; avoid like the plague)

021911
Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa -- country by country - CNN.com
Protesters retake Bahrain centre - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Algeria braces for more protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Oil-rich country on high alert as opposition groups mobilise for weekend of rallies and gatherings calling for democracy
Iranian opposition calls for fresh protests over pair killed during rally | World news | guardian.co.uk Move comes after Iranian regime launches harshest crackdown on Green Movement since post-election unrest in 2009
Bahrain, Libya and Yemen try to crush protests with violence | World news | The Guardian Reports of dozens killed by Gaddafi's security forces, while Bahrain troops leave scores wounded
Bahrain Protesters Fill Pearl Square Again After Military Backs Down
The New Egypt Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)
Impressive Video: What Egypt's Twitter Hashtag Network Looked Like - Culture - GOOD

Swedish justice questioned as Julian Assange awaits extradition ruling | Media | guardian.co.uk Australian ambassador to Sweden seeks assurances that WikiLeaks founder will be treated fairly (no waterboarding, only "enhanced interrogation")
Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government - Greg Hoglund (is spying on you)

US vetoes UN resolution on Israeli settlements - World Politics, World - The Independent (more change that makes you sick)
Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest | openDemocracy

House Approves Bill With Massive Spending Cuts After All-Night Session
Planned Parenthood Funding Blocked In House Vote

Wisconsin Protests Continue Saturday, Huge Rally Expected
Wisconsin Democrats Could Stay Away For Weeks In Fight Over Unions
Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes
Come Saturday Morning: ALEC — The Koch-Funded Group That’s Stealing Your Rights And Your Birthright | Firedoglake
Scumbag Governor - Imgur (Scott Walker, scumbag Republican teabagger)
Shorter Joke Line: Unions Suck and Protest Sucks and Your Face Sucks - First Draft (anti-union wanker Joe Klein)
P5wr9.jpg - Egypt supports Wisconsin - One World, One Pain

Like First Lady, Palin once promoted breastfeeding - Andy Barr - Politico.com ("Do you want Big Government micro-managing your boobs? I didn't think so.")

Someone Please Explain to Bill Maher That Social Security Is Not Responsible for Our Deficit Problems | Reich:
1) "Social Security won't be a problem for another 26 years.
2) "Today, though, the Social Security payroll tax hits only about 84 percent of total income.
3) It went from 90 percent to 84 percent because a larger and larger portion of total income has gone to the top. In 1983, the richest 1 percent of Americans got 11.6 percent of total income. Today the top 1 percent takes in more than 20 percent.
4) If we want to go back to 90 percent, the ceiling on income subject to the Social Security tax would need to be raised to $180,000.
5) Presto. Social Security’s long-term (beyond 26 years from now) problem would be solved."
(four simple concepts too complicated for politicians, Obama, and media buffoons like Maher to understand; see Bernie Sanders)

Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Come Up Short - WSJ.com
Wall Street's 'Buy Everything' Sentiment Continues "I've never seen a market like this,"
Obama Lawyers Urge Court to Reject Banks on Loans - Bloomberg (reverses course on defending banks no matter what)
Angelo Mozilo Will Not Be Charged | Emptywheel If you commit massive amounts of fraud by yourself, even George Bush’s DOJ will indict you; but if everyone in an industry conspires to commit the same kind of fraud, Barack Obama’s DOJ won’t charge anyone (well, they own him; Obama: kiss up, kick down)

YouTube - RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature
RSA - The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature
Are We One of Many Universes? MIT Physicist Says "Yes"
Science/AAAS | Multimedia: International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge 2010

Kentucky Aims to Become ‘Sanctuary State’ for Big Coal | ecopolitology
Defending 'Foodies': A Rancher Takes a Bite out of B. R. Myers - Nicolette Hahn Niman - Politics - The Atlantic
New York Fashion Week: Behind the scenes - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Bank of Satan

BBC News - Caravaggio's crimes exposed in Rome's police files

Bill O'Reilly - Can't Explain That Meme | Geekosystem
Advice Dog | Know Your Meme
An Introduction to Net Neutrality: What It Is, What It Means for You, and What You Can Do About It
AnonNews.org : Everything Anonymous Open Letter to Westboro Baptist Church - The warning has been given. What happens from here shall be determined by you. (now they're in trouble)
Nothing New Under The Copyright-Eclipsed Sun | TorrentFreak The copyright industry has tried the same tricks and rhetoric for well over 500 years, and they are also keen on trying to rewrite history. But the tale of the history books differs sharply from what the copyright industry is trying to paint.
Google debuts Delicious bookmark importer to tempt away users | VentureBeat
HTML5 Security Cheatsheet
Google, Best Buy, and Sony ally against Big Cable

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Violent Protests in Yemen with Calls for Saleh to Step Down - TIME
Security Forces in Bahrain Open Fire on Mourners - NYTimes.com
Latest Updates on Middle East Protests - NYTimes.com
Algeria braces for more protests | World news | guardian.co.uk Oil-rich country on high alert as opposition groups mobilise for weekend of rallies and gatherings calling for democracy
Iran's Revolutionary Guard pledges to hold fire - Telegraph Senior officers in Iran's Revolutionary Guards have written a letter to their commanding officer demanding assurances that they will not be required to open fire on anti-government demonstrators.
Libya protests caught on amateur video | World news | guardian.co.uk
Crackdown in Bahrain: live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Egypt | Protests | Muslim Brotherhood | US Foreign Policy There is a moment now for Washington to reconsider the Muslim Brotherhood and engage with a moderate Islamist movement.

Phone hacker 'passed information to several News of the World journalists' | Media | guardian.co.uk Lawyer for agent Sky Andrew tells high court that private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's claim 'hits paper's defence for six' (Murdoch spy/hacking scandal coverup )
Phone hacking | Media | guardian.co.uk

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com they have been entirely denied even the right to have their cases heard in court. That's because the U.S. Government has invented -- and federal courts have dutifully accepted -- a whole slew of legal doctrines which have only one purpose: to insulate the country's most powerful political officials from legal accountability even when they commit the most egregious crimes, such as imprisoning incommunicado and torturing an American citizen arrested and detained on U.S. soil (our anti-Constitutional Lawyer criminal coverup Pres)
Judge Napolitano: "If we allow the Governments of the world to label Assange a terrorist, and allow them to shut down Wikileaks, it will be one giant leap towards tyranny." | Frequency Judge Napolitano: "If we allow the Governments of the world to label Assange a terrorist, and allow them to shut down Wikileaks, it will be one giant leap towards tyranny." (Obama's plan)
Persona Management Software. - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities Solicitation Number: RTB220610 Agency: Department of the Air Force

Hullabaloo Go Bernie! 1) Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States. For 75 years, it's worked perfectly. It can pay out every nickel for the next 27 years 2) But that reduction commission was made up of a conservative Democrat and a right-wing Republican; 3) The deficit primarily has been caused by two wars unfunded, huge tax breaks to people who don't need it, an insurance-company-written Medicare Part D prescription drug program, and the bailout of Wall Street 4) You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street (the things our Republican Pres will never, ever, say)

Of Course a Grand Bargain Would Be Tilted Toward Spending Cuts | FDL News Desk - I’d love to see just one Democrat come out and say, “You know, just letting the Bush tax cuts expire completely would solve the entire medium-term deficit issue. And we wouldn’t even have to pass anything (Obama will compromise between the far-right position and his catfood commission position)
Hullabaloo - State of play - the Grand Bargain is basically about cuts to "entitlements" and "tax reform" both of which are essentially GOP issues

Hullabaloo - Remember where he was just three and a half years ago - General Jerry Boykin, the crusader - the things I know have been done in every Marxist insurgency are being done in America today (batshit insane Christian Fundamentalist military)
Dobson and Boykin Expose The Muslim Conspiracy To Take Over The World | Right Wing Watch

House Votes To Block EPA From Regulating Greenhouse Gases
Planned Parenthood Funding Blocked In House Vote
Balloon Juice » GOP War on Women (and Families) Continues
Obama administration replaces controversial 'conscience' regulation for health-care workers The Obama administration rescinded most of a federal regulation Friday designed to protect health workers who refuse to provide care they find objectionable on personal or religious grounds (he didn't want to do it, either)

Wisconsin’s Walker Just Following Obama-McConnell Shock Doctrine Playbook | FDL Action (Obama created the deficit with his trillion dollar tax cuts to the rich and now has to cut "entitlements")
Dems Closed Much Larger Budget Shortfall In Wisconsin Without Destroying Worker Rights | TPMDC To the extent that there is an emergency, Walker essentially created it, giving him the chance to pass a bill that would permanently deny public workers collective bargaining rights, while he's still riding the wave of his own post-election popularity (how Republicans work)
Wisconsin Protests: Tens Of Thousands Turn Out In Madison Against Anti-Union Proposal - a "modest proposal." (so illiterate and unaware: "let them eat their own babies" - of course not one HuffPo commenter ever read Swift, either)
Wisconsin Protests Have State GOP Sending State Troopers After Democrat
Some Stats behind the Wisconsin fight with David Cay Johnston | Dylan Ratigan The average Wisconsin state employee gets $24,500 a year. That’s not a very big pension. The state pension plan, 15% of the money going into it each year is being paid out to Wall Street to manage the money (manufacture a crsis, squash the middle class and gut unions; profit! the Republican way)
Madison Metro Could See Big Changes - Madison News Story - WISC Madison Either the system must be completely restructured, or lose $45 million in federal funding. The situation came about because federal law requires collective bargaining rights on wages, pensions and working conditions for that aid. City officials say this detail is something that was overlooked by many (espeically teabag Govs intent on destroying their states, go Wisconsin voters!)
Republican governors just love saying no to rail | Grist
Ann Coulter Returns To MSNBC (VIDEO) Coulter, who was fired twice from the network in the 1990s (new rightwing MSNBC)
Glenn Beck: Some Muslims Want To Bring About The Antichrist (Video) (look in the mirror, dude, it worked)

Willie Sutton Wept - NYTimes.com - Mr. Obama has lately been going where the money isn’t, making a big deal out of a freeze on nonsecurity discretionary spending, which accounts for only 12 percent of the budget - What would a serious approach to our fiscal problems involve? I can summarize it in seven words: health care, health care, health care, revenue
Inside Job: how bankers caused the financial crisis | Film | The Guardian The film Inside Job brilliantly exposes the corruption in US banking that led to the 2008 crash. We ask four bankers for their verdict on this damning indictment of their world (wreck everyone's lives but theirs and profit!)
Democratic Pollsters Telling Leadership They Must Cut Deficits | FDL News Desk (Obama triangulating with himself, again, even though no one cares about "spending" and "the deficit")
Learning from Boeing’s outsourcing disaster | Analysis & Opinion | Hiltzik’s point, which is undeniable, is that Boeing’s outsourcing mania has cost it billions - Outsourcing is a bit like taking collateral from your repo operation and investing it in subprime credit. Most of the time, you make a small amount of money — and then, occasionally and unpredictably, you lose an absolute fortune. Boeing was picking up pennies in front of a steamroller, and ended up getting crushed (top executive talent! worth millions in pay! which is why Jeffrey "Outsource" Immelt is head of Obama's economic "advisors")

Climate change and extreme flooding linked by new evidence | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk Two studies suggest for the first time a clear link between global warming and extreme precipitation
New Scientist TV: HIV as you've never seen it before
Split the rent: Survey results - Split the Rent accurate to within 10%
YouTube - Bertrand Russell's Message to the Future [*]

YouTube - Dramatic sensational goldfish fish magic show on the Chinese new year 2011
YouTube - Cat Laser Bowling
YouTube - 'Long, stabby thing'
Paulina Porizkova: Modeling Is A Great Job And A Sh*tty Career
Rumors I've Heard About Anna Wintour | The Hairpin
Roses Are Red: Obama, Poet : The New Yorker He takes the subtext of the poem to be Obama’s reckoning with his absent father, for whom his grandfather is, inevitably, an inadequate substitute (Harold Bloom review Obama's poems written when he was 18 - still searching for approval from his rejecting Republican daddies)
YouTube - Bush "Fool Me Once..."

How 5 Browns Dad Struck a Deal in Sexual Abuse of Daughters : People.com
Pa. judge guilty of racketeering in kickback case | AP | 02/18/2011- he ran his courtroom with "complete disregard for the constitutional rights of the juveniles," including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea. - "Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that it was illegal." (Republicans being tough on petty crime and profiting from it)

How 5 Browns Dad Struck a Deal in Sexual Abuse of Daughters : People.com - Prosecutors dismiss the claim that Brown, 55, revealed his own transgression. They say the abuse actually came to light only after his daughters reported their father's crimes to police when they discovered he planned to manage child musicians again (repentent)
YouTube singer charged with felony | WOOD TV8 (20 yrs for "child abuse")
How to Foil a Nationwide Internet Shutdown (there's this thing called a "modem")
The man behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad has six weeks to live | A New Morning
Photos of Steve Jobs Looking 'Gaunt'; Apple Stocks Drop - San Francisco News - The Snitch
Obama to Meet with Jobs, Zuckerberg, and Schmidt: Will the World Tilt on Thursday? | Techi.com (he thinks he's in a movie)

021711
Clashes rock Bahraini capital - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Armoured vehicles seen on the streets of Manama after police storm protest site in roundabout, killing at least four.
Arab capitals braced for violence as unrest spreads | World news | The Guardian Arab capitals are braced for further violent clashes after the killing of three demonstrators in the Gulf state of Bahrain and violence in Libya threatened an escalation of regional unrest in the wake of the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
Bahrain in crisis and Middle East protests – live blog | World news | guardian.co.uk Bahrain: five killed in police raid on Pearl roundabout - Libya: reports 14 killed across several cities - Yemen: protesters clash with security forces
Yemen violence mounts in bid to remove President Saleh | World news | The Guardian Police shoot dead protester in Aden, while students lead anti-government rally in Sana'a
Libyan protesters prepare for 'day of rage' | World news | guardian.co.uk Plans circulated by anonymous activists on social networking sites urge protesters to 'make it a day of rage in Libya'
Bahrain crackdown will make citizens more determined | Abdulnabi Alekry | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The strategy was to demonstrate peacefully, but attacking Bahraini activists has ruined hopes of a brokered deal
Bahrain Protests: Several Reported Dead As Riot Police Storm Group Of Anti-Government Protesters
Bahrain uses UK-supplied weapons in protest crackdown | World news | The Guardian
In dramatic turnaround, US to censure Israel in Security Council | The Raw Story
Baghdad: U.S. Apology, $1 Billion Owed For Blast Walls

Phone hacking: police hand over evidence they claimed did not exist | Media | The Guardian Lawyers for interior designer Kelly Hoppen claim material 'drives coach and horses' through News International's defence (Murdoch bought Scotland Yard)

Daily Kos: Updated: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other.
Lawmaker reintroduces WikiLeaks prosecution bill - U.S. Department of Justice, security, Scott Brown, Regulation, Peter King, legislation, Julian Assange, John Ensign, Joe Lieberman, government, Eric Holder - Security - Techworld The legislation would make it easier to prosecute Julian Assange for espionage (Peter King, R,NY hates democracy)
YouTube - Empire - Social networks, social revolution

Norwegian shipper: kill pirates 'on the spot' - Yahoo! News

Serious doubt cast on FBI's anthrax case against Bruce Ivins - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Obama still blocking investigation, why?)

YouTube - Raw Video: Thousands Protest Anti-union Bill
Wisconsin Gov. Walker Ginned Up Budget Shortfall To Undercut Worker Rights | TPMDC (its worked many times before, see Obama)
Poll: Support For Labor Unions Remains At Near-Historic Low | TPMDC - Pew pegged support for unions at 58%. Three years later, it had fallen an astounding 17 points (well, you see, it was their fault)

Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam | World news | The Guardian Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi let imagination run wild and became main source for Colin Powell's case for war in 2003
Curveball could face jail for warmongering, says German MP | World news | The Guardian Agent whose lies about Saddam's weapons capability led to Iraq war has broken German law, says Green MP (how about Bushney?)
Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies | World news | The Guardian Former US secretary of state asks why CIA failed to warn him over Iraqi defector who has admitted fabricating WMD evidence (Powell shocked that someone lied to him, demands answers right now)

Obama Faring Poorly Against Imaginary Candidate (a moderate Repubican named "Thor")
Tea Party Targets Three Longtime Senators For Removal In 2012 (Lugar, Queeen Olympia and Hatch, because moderate Republicans are so popular)
Union Bill Clears Committee, State Senate To Consider Thursday - Madison News Story - WISC Madison A bill eliminating most collective bargaining rights from nearly all Wisconsin public employees passed the Legislature's budget-writing committee just before midnight Wednesday (union-busting will become the new Republican meme)
Make a donation to Planned Parenthood « Margaret and Helen I find it funny how universal healthcare is big government gone bad, but somehow the government crawling up my uterus and telling me what choice to make isn’t. (Rick "Fiddling while Texas Burns" Perry will sonogram every woman who wants an abortion so they will have to look at their "unborn adult")
Daily Kos: Beck warns against searching his conspiracy theories on Google .because Google might be a part of the conspiracy (well, duh)

Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics Financial crooks brought down the world's economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them (Obama's friends: criminal bankers and war criminals)
The Great Abdication - NYTimes.com Fiscal policy didn’t fail; it wasn’t tried (our incredibly naive and inexperienced National Security State Pres)
Government Spending Goes From Hero To Goat "It's as if people suddenly forget the world is heliocentric. An entire concept, one taught in every introductory economics course, has simply disappeared from our discourse."
MERS: Stop Foreclosing in Our Name | The Big Picture (the whole stealing your house things hits a speed-bump)
Bank Regulator Pushing For Modest Settlement With Industry Over Improper Mortgage Practices (Obama: There Will be no Consequences for anybody except you know who)

Dwarfism gene linked to protection from cancer and diabetes
Iceland volcano drilling suggests magma could become source of high-grade energy
One of the world's grandest waterfalls is in Peru, and no one knew about it until 2006. (photos) - By Joshua Foer - Slate Magazine
YouTube - Logical Fallacies 1: The Unstated Proposition

Castro Pot Bust Goes Awry and a Law Professor Threatens to Sue - Page 1 - News - San Francisco - SF Weekly "I've been on the fence for years about the legalization of drugs ... and now I'm a victim of this crazy war on drugs," says Freshman, who pledged to sue until "I see [the agents'] houses sold at auction and their kids' college tuitions taken away from them. There will not be a better litigated case this century."
Two TSA agents arrested at JFK Airport for stealing $39K from passenger's bag Two TSA officers were busted Wednesday for stealing $40,000 from a bag at Kennedy Airport they thought belonged to a drug dealer, a law enforcement source said. Under questioning, the pair also admitted swiping up to $160,000 from other unsuspecting passengers
5 Browns father, Keith Brown, charged with sexually abusing three daughters (from Utah, but they don't mention the word "Mormon")

Frum Satire
The Most Heimish Post Ever « A Frum Punk
Frummies sue for damaged wig on The People’s Court
A frummies guide to labeling and judging other frummies « Frum Satire
The difference between being Frum and being Frummy « Frum Satire
Cons for Frummies (and people with severe OCD)

YouTube - Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas
YouTube - That's the Most Illegal Thing I've Seen in the History of Wrestling!
Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex on Vimeo
YouTube - The Art of FLIGHT - snowboarding film trailer w/Travis Rice

Cases Against Thousands of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates Dismissed | TorrentFreak - Larry Flynt
Gawker Network’s Redesign Is Killing Traffic to All But Two Sites | Electronics, Phones & Tech News @Signature9
isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
Hash, Bang, Wallop.
Adequately Good - Thoughts on the Hashbang - by Ben Cherry
Nick Denton Is A Genius
Nokia Plan S

021611
AMERICAblog News: Mubarak ordered Tiananmen-style massacre of demonstrators, Army refused
BBC News - Middle East protests: Country by country (two down, eleven to go +Israel)
Miguel Marquez Beaten In Bahrain: ABC News Correspondent Attacked During Protests In Pearl Square

BBC News - Japan halts whale hunt after chase by protesters Japan has suspended its annual Antarctic whale hunt following protests from a campaign group (lying Cetacean-killers)
YouTube - Queensland Flood Rescue Helicopter - Aw139 EMQ Australia

Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
HBGary Email Viewer: Portal - AnonLeaks
Re: first cut - Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:27:59 -0500 Also need to get people to understand that if they support the organization we will come after them. Transaction records are easily identifiable. Security. As I pointed out. Need to get to the swedish document submission server. Need to create doubt about their security and increase awareness that interaction with Wikilieaks will expose you.
YouTube - Big-Money targets Glenn Greenwald & WikiLeaks supporters: documents expose conspiracy

Curveball and the manufacture of a lie | Carne Ross | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk As WMD expert David Kelly knew, intelligence from a defector is the least reliable. But the fix was in – an avoidable war the result
TAPPED Archive Iraq Flashback (Curveball insanity and Bush's lies)
Corn on "Hardball": Is Rumsfeld Rewriting History? | Mother Jones
Simply the Worst - NYTimes.com
Rumsfeld’s book shows how he pulled wool over our eyes - Chicago Sun-Times
Fact Checker - Rumsfeld's flight of fancy on Iraq
In new book, Rumsfeld knows best - TheHill.com

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Faces Backlash For Threatening Public Workers With National Guard (destroying union is their wet-dream +just like you know where)

The Washington Monthly - Patriot Act Clears Its House Speed-Bump (the Suspending the Constitution Because We Feel Like It Act - 234 Republicans in favor)
The Plum Line - South Dakota lawmaker, under fire, is now mulling changes to "justifiable homicide" unborn proposal
Florida Governor Rick Scott Rejects Funding for Tampa-Orlando Intercity Rail Project « The Transport Politic (Lex Luthor pisses off Disney; LaHood says we'll give the money to another state that wants it; teabag fiscal responsibility at work)
Fla. Governor Scraps High-Speed Rail Plan - News Story - WFTV Orlando "This project could have supported thousands of good-paying jobs for Floridians and helped grow Florida businesses, all while alleviating congestion on Florida's highways," LaHood said. "Nevertheless, there is overwhelming demand for high speed rail in other states that are enthusiastic to receive Florida's funding and the economic benefits it can deliver."
'The Watchdog': Lawmaker Seeks To 'Modify' Child Labor Laws (Republicans: they can go to work when they're five, and work until they die because we raised the retirement age, muhahah)
ThinkProgress » Missouri Lawmaker Pushes Bill Rolling Back Child Labor Laws
Mike Huckabee Compares Abortion To Slavery (they're on a roll)
Chris Lee, Shirtless Congressman, Reportedly Sent Craigslist Photo During GOP Retreat In Baltimore (party hardy)
Scott Brown Recalls Childhood Sexual Abuse In 60 Minutes Interview (VIDEO) by a camp counselor and also living with an abusive stepfather.

GOP Budget Plan Would Cut CFPB Funding Nearly In Half (Obama didn't like it anyway)
Hullabaloo Village on the rocks (Andrea "Stupid" Mitchell wants to means-test SS, not reform our skyrocketing HC costs)
Social Security Options in the Grand Bargain | FDL News Desk (Obama's grand bargain with himself)
Living Without Discretionary Fiscal Policy - NYTimes.com
Facing Foreclosure Without Missing A Payment: One Couple's Housing Nightmare (it all goes back to Obama's decision not to support homeowners because we was busy with bankers and Larry Summers slow-walked the whole mortgage thing and it was too complicated, so ...)

Journalist Who Cruelly Mocked Lara Logan Attack On Twitter Resigns From NYU Nir Rosen, was up until yesterday a journalist who was known for covering the Iraq war.
ECHIDNE of the snakes the topic of this post, disgusting as it is: The comments wherever the sexual assault is discussed, especially on non-moderated comment threads. The majority of those comments are the vilest of the vile. Here is an example for those who wish to wade in the filth themselves
Tracy McMillan: Why You're Not Married marriage is not about getting something -- it's about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession -- a free-agent penis -- and for us, it's the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.
UNLV president plans for 'state of fiscal collapse' - Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 | 1:51 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun Under the "financial exigency" plan, tenured professors could be fired and whole departments and programs more easily closed down (teabaggers hate education, all money should go to the rich)
YouTube - Valentine marriage (Mormon Church censorship fail)
Hidden "Asscam" Reveals What Really Goes on Behind Women's Backs

Opening Statement by Alice P. Gast for Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI's Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters Public Briefing
FBI — FBI and Justice Department Response to NAS Review of Scientific Approaches Used During the Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters
New review of anthrax case discussed by review committee vice chair, Stanford bioterrorism expert - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine Although the scientific evidence was supportive of a link between the letters and that flask, it did not definitively demonstrate such a relationship (so yeah, they fucked up again to close the case and protect the real evildoers)
Leahy: Others Involved in Anthrax Attacks - ABC News Senator Tells FBI Director He Is Convinced Army Scientist Bruce Ivins Not Sole Offender (2008)
Why Is Gonorrhea Stealing Our DNA? | The Atlantic Wire (they're not saying)

Rick Santorum's 'Google Problem'
Santorum Google Searches Spike After He Speaks Out About His 'Google Problem'

021511
Iran Opposition Leaders Should Be Tried And Executed, Hardline Lawmakers Say (learning from Egypt)
State Department to Announce Internet Freedom Policy - NYTimes.com ("circumvention strategies" to defeat authoritarian regimes' attempts to censor internets and Al-Jazeera, no irony there)
Al Jazeera English: Live Stream - Watch Now (banned by authoritarian regime in America)
Protests in the Middle East - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk Bahrain – thousands gather at Pearl Roundabout

Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war | World news | The Guardian Man codenamed Curveball 'invented' tales of bioweapons - Fabrications used by US as justification for invasion (no consequences for Bush/Cheney killing 100,000+ Iraqis)
BBC News - Silvio Berlusconi faces Ruby sex charge trial in April
Berlusconi Indicted: Italian Prime Minister To Stand Trial On Teen Prostitution Charges (the child-molesting clown Pres of Italy)
Wild Oats Founder Accused Of Child Prostitution - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver Michael Gilliland, Who Also Founded Sunflower Markets, Arrested In Phoenix

Spy games: Inside the convoluted plot to bring down WikiLeaks (Aaron Barr: the Man who Knew too Little)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Government contractors targeted Chamber of Commerce's critics - latimes.com - Three data security firms submitted a plan to the Chamber of Commerce's law firm to monitor and discredit the chamber's critics, e-mails show. A proposal to help Bank of America was also requested (Chamber of Illegal Activity)
Hacked e-mails reveal plans for dirty-tricks campaign against U.S. Chamber foes (Chamber of Dirty Tricks)
More facts emerge about the leaked smear campaigns - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The HBGary Scandal: Using Counterterrorism Tactics on Citizen Activism | Emptywheel (it was never about the "terrorists")
HBGary Execs Run For Cover As Hacking Scandal Escalates - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes
Anonymous: US security firms 'planned to attack WikiLeaks' | Media | guardian.co.uk Hackers claim to have unearthed proposal to undermine site ahead of reportedly planned disclosures about Bank of America - Anonymous also claims to have obtained access to Stuxnet, the sophisticated computer virus reportedly developed as a joint Israeli-US cyber attack against Iran's nuclear facilities (won't read that in America)

Judge: Government Can Shield Its Conversations about Engaging in Torture | Emptywheel the President’s need to get candid advice on how to make torture legal trumps citizens’ right to know about such illegal activity
Ad Campaign On Cable Nets Pushes For Jonathan Pollard's Release | TPMDC (free the Israeli spy! +Israel didn't admit until 1998 that Pollard spied for them)

Obama’s 2012 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent - NYTimes.com

Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI case against Bruce Ivins
National Academies on FBI Anthrax Investigation: Scientific Link to RMR-1029 Not as Definitive as DOJ Claim | MyFDL , this report appears to be devastating to the scientific conclusions drawn by the FBI in their investigations (FBI lied, drove an innocent man to suicide, to coverup Gov terrorism)

The 25 Best Quotes of CPAC 2011 - Quotable Conservative Insanity - Esquire (nothing they can say ...)
BBC News - House votes to extend Patriot Act surveillance powers
Speaker Boehner: If GOP Spending Cuts Kill Jobs, "So Be It" | Political Correction (where their priorities lie)
Shawna Forde, Anti-Immigration Vigilante, Convicted Of Killing Nine-Year-Old Girl And Her Father In Arizona (another "isolated incident" of rightwing terrorism and murder)
Balloon Juice » I Take the Cue from Certain People I Know - sloppy, intellectually lazy work of Conor "Useful Idiot" Friedersdorf
Pigford: A Tragedy and a Non-Troversy — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen This story, of course, is largely being driven by Andrew Breitbart’ (reparations! teach the controversy!)
Lawrence O'Donnell: Bill O'Reilly 'A Joke' (Video) and a serial liar.
ThinkProgress » KS GOP Rep. Connie O’Brien Says She Can Tell Who Is ‘Illegal’ Because They Have ‘The Olive Complexion’ (Connie O'Brien, racist dumbfuck is "thinking" about it)

The Washington Monthly - The Prospects Of A 'Grand Bargain' (like the last one, giving away $1 trillion in tax cuts for the rich for ... nothing)
Yglesias » Lucky Duckies “let the geezers keep their full benefits while they whine about how Democrats are bankrupting the country” (Obama triangulating with himself, again)

NASA Unveils First Photos From Comet Tempel 1 Flyby | Comet Tempel 1 Photos, Stardust-NExT Flyby | Space.com
No, there’s no proof of a giant planet in the outer solar system | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms | Video on TED.com

Rep. Steve King Pledges "Smackdown" on Planned Parenthood | Mother Jones vowing to cut $327 million in federal family planning funding (well, it worked with ACORN, didn't it?)
South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers | Mother Jones A bill under consideration in the Mount Rushmore State would make preventing harm to a fetus a "justifiable homicide" in many cases.
2011 Session - Bill History Homicide is justifiable if committed by any person while resisting any attempt to murder such person, or to harm the unborn child of such person in a manner and to a degree likely to result in the death of the unborn child (also, burning down clinics legal +"mistresses")
Concealed-Carry License Gets You Fast-Track Access To Texas Capitol | TPMMuckraker (school children sent through metal detectors, white guys with guns walk right in)
TSA comes under fire again as employees admit to repeatedly stealing money from passengers | Mail Online (Total Stealing Agency)

Echoism (symmetrize yourself!)
Researchers Study 'Sidewalk Rage' - WSJ.com Researchers Study 'Sidewalk Rage,' Seeking Insights on Anger's Origins and Coping Techniques - "intermittent explosive disorder"
8dYzO.jpg 4Chan meets eBay
Estranged Sex - Image Gallery - Sandra Torralba
No. 1: James Hynes' "Next" - Good Sex Awards - Salon.com Our countdown of the year's best sex writing concludes with a steamy, erotic encounter on a farmhouse porch
YouTube - Shields and Yarnell - "The Lost Tape"
Uncanny valley - Wikipedia
BoxCar2D: FAQ
superHarmony.com Love is super.

Court confirms: IP addresses aren't people (and P2P lawyers know it)
Official: Apple locks down the Kindle app | FutureBook (all apps and any apps that use other apps will pay 30% Apple tax, suckas)
KeyGhost USB KeyLogger : Mac and PC USB hardware key loggers record keystrokes Mac OS X iMac Apple Macintosh Linux keyboard spy

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Fox News' Liz Trotta Slams Anderson Cooper's Egypt Coverage (he told the truth, too much for authoritarian Fox to handle)
Journalists angry over the commission of journalism - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (which they never do)
Anti-government protests spread to Iran
Egypt Labor Unrest Grows After Anti-Mubarak Uprising
Palestinian Authority Cabinet Resigns In Wake Of Egypt Unrest
Where is Egypt's Hosni Mubarak? (in hiding, WaPo?)
Daily Kos: Resistance spreads in Iran, Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria, Libya
Website for Egyptian Presidency: best "under construction" page ever - Boing Boing
Obama Proposes Cuts To Democracy-Promoting Programs Abroad, Despite GOP Rebukes Over Egypt (Obama hates Democracies, everywhere)
Bahrain Protests: Thousands Of Anti-Government Protesters Call For Reform As Security Forces Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets
Iran Protests: Hundreds Of Thousands March, Tear Gas Fired
Yemen Protests Continue As Demonstrators Demand Ouster Of President Ali Abdullah Saleh

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Verdict A Farce, Judge's Assistant Says (who could have predicted that making the KGB head Pres would work out like this)
Berlusconi Refuses To Step Down, Dismisses Protesters "I have always tried to act in such a way that every woman feels special," he said (very special)
AP Newswire | Stars and Stripes and has decided to funnel the money into food for the poor instead (something we might try ...)

Obama's 2012 Budget (PDF)
Video: Democrats Take Aim at Rhetoric From CPAC - NYTimes.com
Rightbloggers Welcome Gay, Muslim Diversity at CPAC -- But Not Too Much - New York News - Runnin' Scared
YID With LID: CPAC Wrap-up What The Media Didn't Tell You - Ms. Dowd was not happy and indignantly asked the person who blocked her entry, "Do you have any idea who I am?"
Glenn Beck: Muse's Grammy Performance A 'Call For Revolution' (AUDIO) they came from a "degraded" continent: Europe.
Streetsblog New York City » Have You Seen the Latest Marcia Kramer Segment on Prospect Park West? (Schumer's CBS news bimbo flacks for his anti-bike nimbyism)

White House Acknowledges 'Real Impact' Of Cuts To Energy Assistance Funding (he bargained away $1 trillion in tax cuts for the rich for what, again?)
Poll: Sheriff Joe Leads AZ-SEN Primary Race | TPMDC (just when you thought it couldn't get worse than Kyl)
GOP Rep. Didn't Take Federal Health Insurance -- He Already Had Better State Benefits | TPMD (Leonard Lance (R-NJ, R, State of Hypocrisy)
Breitbart Changes Tune On Why He Released Sherrod Video | TPMMuckraker
'A weapon of mass destruction was found in the U.S.': Shock confession of Customs officer | Mail Online aising major questions over a possible government cover-up (if Obama is covering it up, you know it was a Republican, not a Mooslim dirty bomba)
Republican Lawmakers Face Grassroots Pressure Over 'War On Contraception' NARAL Pro-Choice America launched a campaign on Monday to mobilize activists in six districts where abortion-rights advocates lost to "anti- or mixed-choice representatives" (Americans hate birth control, right?)
Fear of Crime: Crime has plummeted over the last 20 years. Why aren't we less scared? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

The New Obama Budget - NYTimes.com - We care about the victims of our policies.”
The Washington Monthly - The Wrong Priority At The Wrong Time - Republicans are simply choosing to pretend unemployment isn't a problem (+Republicans criticize their Republican-lite Pres over the deficits they caused)
Obama Can't Balance Budget With Social Spending Cuts he entire federal budget, including entitlements and war spending, is $3.7 trillion, meaning that the social spending Obama is targeting amounts to 12 percent of the overall budget (our "fiscal nightmare" caused by Bush)
Investing rules absent in Congress | Democrat and Chronicle (rules for you, but not for the fats cats in Congress)
House Republicans' Spending Bill Would Cut Pell Grant by 15 Percent - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education (wars, not education)
Japan: Economy slips to third in world - CNN.com
Rich Take From Poor as U.S. Subsidy Law Funds Luxury Hotels - Bloomberg
Economist Debates: Global elite - This house believes that the global elite serve the masses (mu-hahaha)

Overcoming Bias : Opinion Warning Signs
Cancer's Genome - Technology Review For the first time, scientists can track the precise genetic changes behind an individual case of cancer. Such information provides a picture of how tumor cells originate and evolve. And it could change the way we treat the disease.
Why infertility will stop humans colonising space - Science, News - The Independent high-energy proton particles would probably sterilise any female foetus conceived in deep space and could have a profound effect on male fertility. "
How to spot a spinning black hole : Nature News Twists in space-time caused by rotating black holes should be visible from Earth.
TIME's report on our robotic future: 5 incredible predictions - The Week (Kurzweil attacks, unleases singularity)
The Mystery Of The Giant Planet Hidden In Our Solar System | TPM Idea Lab (Nibiru!)
Scientists discover how to make squids go completely berserk - CSMonitor.com = A single protein found on the surface of squid egg capsules will instantly transform a placid cephalopod into a eight-armed undersea terror, scientists discover (what?)

Another Isolated Incident - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine NJ cops break into house, beat up students, "detained" is new copword for "arrested," handcuffed for 2 hrs in their underwear on the curb in December -- wrong house

15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | The A.V. Club
7z7Mq.jpg -- Hate your job?
St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece | Art and design | The Observer
Emergent systems: The forum at the end of the universe | The Economist
Observations on film art : Watching you watch There Will Be Blood
Alan Sepinwall: He changed TV criticism. But can you be a rabid fan and a thoughtful reviewer? - By Josh Levin - Slate Magazine


How Your Username May Betray You - Technology Review
Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets - NYTimes.com (Times discovers the internets, again)
Official Google Blog: New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results (anti-content farm)
The Content Farm
Groff's Content Farm

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Egypt’s Path After Uprising Does Not Have to Follow Iran’s - NYTimes.com (well, that's not what Republicans are saying)
Egypt Military Leaders Dissolve Parliament, Suspend Constitution meeting two key demands of protesters who have been keeping up pressure for immediate steps to push forward the transition to democratic, civilian rule after forcing Hosni Mubarak out of power.
What Egypt Can Teach America - NYTimes.com The truth is that the United States has been behind the curve not only in Tunisia and Egypt for the last few weeks, but in the entire Middle East for decades - It was Arab satellite television broadcasts like those of Al Jazeera that broke the government monopoly on information in Egypt. Too often, Americans scorn Al Jazeera (and its English service is on few cable systems), but it played a greater role in promoting democracy in the Arab world than anything the United States did. (America used to be a Democracy)
Rachel Maddow Blasts Fox for Betraying Freedom and Siding with Mubarak (Republicans lovin' their dictators everywhere)
Israel | Palestine | Egypt | Mubarak | Protests Analysis: With Mubarak's ouster, Israeli officials see country "encircled" by hostile states (Israel=Glenn Beck, both hate freedom)
Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts - Telegraph Internet providers were shut down and Facebook accounts deleted across Algeria on Saturday as thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were arrested in violent street demonstrations.
Republican Party = Muslim Brotherhood
Mona Eltahawy on the Protests in Algeria: Sounds Like Everyone is Catching Freedom Fever | Video Cafe
Anderson Cooper Egypt Coverage Criticized By L.A. Times Cooper, Rainey wrote, should not have called the government "liars" as much as he has (Republicans trying to nip this in the bud)


CPAC Chaos as Ron Paul Wins Straw Poll | MyFDL (mainstream Republican Party, folks)
Clarence Thomas Keeps 5-Year Supreme Court Silence - NYTimes.com In the past 40 years, no other justice has gone an entire term, much less five, without speaking at least once during arguments
Daily Kos: The modern GOP is irresponsible and dangerous
CPAC Audience Cheers Wildly For Coulter Comment, "I Think There Should Be More Jailed Journalists" | Media Matters for America (sounds just like you know where ... old hag has passed her freshness date)
McConnell says Obama agenda is `over' - Yahoo! News
Romney's `No Apology' for Health Law in Massachusetts May Hinder 2012 Bid - Bloomberg
In Spokane, a Mystery With No Good Solution - NYTimes.com A week before the bomb was found, the Spokane City Council approved a contract to build a new road that will be the city’s first street named for Dr. King. Previous efforts to rename existing streets were rejected (another "isolated incident" of rightwing terrorism in America)
Man gets 8 years for attacking Obama supporter (another "isolated incident")

Fewer Want Spending to Grow, But Most Cuts Remain Unpopular: Overview - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (they only want to cut Foreign Aid, which they misoverestimate by 1000% - the stupidty surplus)
At Last, Bernie Madoff Gives Back - NYTimes.com Barack Obama would be inaugurated and declare “a new era of responsibility.” Now, another two years have passed, and while the economy is no longer in free fall, we’re still waiting for that era to arrive (it's gonna be a long wait, dudes +Obama's fake Crisis Commission)
Foundation Center - Interactive Map of Direct Grants by U.S. Grantmakers to Non U.S. Recipients
Hullabaloo "This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You" (Obama to cut programs "even he cares about" but not as much as he cares about his banker pals like Jamie Dimond)

Mark Hyman, MD: Acne: Are Milk and Sugar the Causes? This is what our government suggests we drink in high doses--at least 3 glasses a day for me, a healthy adult male, according to the mypyramid.gov website (USDA, an arm of bigcorp agribusiness helping to make you sick)
Graduate Students May Face Higher Debt Under Obama's Budget Plan (winning the future with a stupid America)
Ziebach County, South Dakota: America's Poorest County This is America's poorest county, where more than 60 percent of people live at or below the poverty line (but voting Republican)

APD won't hinder citizens who videotape cops  | ajc.com (facist cops sued, lose; one small step)
Sabermetrician In Exile | ThePostGame
Batted Balls and DIPS

Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice - Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net
YouTube - Christopher Tin - Baba Yetu (Official Music Video)

Text row man faces jail for killing friend (From The Bolton News) (probably a JobsPhones)
Use Dropbox with your own Web Domain (.htaccess)

021211
ThinkProgress » Former Bush-Cheney National Spokesman Thinks Muslims Are Incapable Of Democracy: ‘This Is The Middle East’ (they were so smart, and still on the wrong side of reality)
Egypt's Revolt Met With Widespread Celebration And Censorship (blacked out in China, etc.)
Anatomy of a revolution: Meet the young Egyptian activists who started it all | Slide Show - Salon.com
Algerian protesters clash with police - Telegraph Thousands of people defied an official ban on demonstrations in the Algerian capital and gathered in the city center for an pro-reform protest, the day after weeks of mass protests in Egypt succeeded in toppling the president (crackdown)
Egyptian Army Commits To Civilian Power Transfer, Peace With Israel
Egypt State TV Switches Sides As Mubarak Falls
democracyarsenal.org: Credit Where Credit Is Due, Obama Played This Beautifully
Obama plays Egypt just right, backing protesters over dictator Mubarak
Bill O'Reilly Dismisses Beck's Egypt Theory: 'No Evidence' (Video)
It Ain't Just Mubarak -- 7 of the Worst Dictators the U.S. Is Backing to the Hilt | World | AlterNet
Faustian Bargains in Egypt and Elsewhere | Firedoglake

Musharraf Arrest Warrant Issued: Former Pakistan President Sought In Connection With Benazir Bhutto Assassination (how have the mighty murderers and former US allies fallen)

When Democracy Weakens - NYTimes.com
The Interrogation of Rumsfeld | The Weekly Standard

Obama assertion: FBI can get phone records without oversight | McClatchy the legal position is flawed and creates a potential loophole that could lead to a repeat of FBI abuses that were supposed to have been stopped in 2006 (Bush/Cheney's "unitary executive" fiction on steroids - Democracy over in America)
YouTube - Weiner Calls Out GOP For Violating Their Own Rules (wouldn't be the first time)
Something the matter, GOP? - Imgur
CPAC & 2012: Can Potential White House Hopefuls Actually Deliver? (old, white and crazy)
The Week in Sharia: Texas Has Its Sputnik Moment (Updated) | Mother Jones Wyoming state rep. Gerald Gay, who warned that if Americans don't combat Sharia now, "pretty soon you have the camel's nose under the tent.
New Wisconsin GOP Governor Pushes For Massive Rollback Of Worker Rights | TPMDC he's alerted the National Guard ahead of any unrest, or in the event that state services are interrupted (sounds like ...)
At CPAC, Mitch Daniels Touts Red Scare | TPMDC (fear, fear, cut taxes, fear, drill, fear, privatize, fear, cut Social Security, fear)
The Washington Monthly - This Week In God - Kline, a Minnesota Republican, made an odd claim in his resolution, arguing that "the sentiment, 'In God We Trust', has been an integral part of United States society since its founding (and they got rid of slavery, too)
Conservatives queue up for peek at 'Atlas Shrugged' at CPAC
Vision: How Small, Mostly Conservative Towns Have Found the Trick to Defeating Corporations | | AlterNet As the Right pushes privatization as a solution to the economic collapse, one organization is teaching communities how to defeat corporations.
Conservatives Take the Stage At CPAC 2011 | TPM Photo Galleries

Don't Cut You, Don't Cut Me - NYTimes.com The conclusion is inescapable: Republicans have a mandate to repeal the laws of arithmetic (they've always had a problem with 2+2)
White House Retreats From Social Security Offer - WSJ.com The White House last month considered offering specific benefit cuts and tax increases to shore up Social Security's finances, but ultimately decided to back off (to fix the program that won't be broken for forty years - what a lying asshole)
Structural Impediment - NYTimes.com - Charles Plosser, the Fed’s reigning inflation hawk (and the rep from BigCorps is wrong and stupid, but you're screwed anyway)
Borders Bankruptcy Coming Next Week
Bill Proposed to Force Sale of University of Iowa's Pollock Painting (Republicans hate art, will destroy everything to avoid repsonsibilty)
Geography, Unemployment, and Senators - Brad DeLong
The Theory of Relativity: Is It Time to "Teach the Controversy" in America's High Schools? - Grasping Reality with Eight Tentacles - the conservative wing of the Republican Party is composed exclusively of people who have completely disabled their bullshit detectors. That working hypothesis has served me very well for seventeen years now.

Five Must See Water Infographics! | EPICr
Particles That Flock: Strange Synchronization Behavior at the Large Hadron Collider: Scientific American
A Year of Volcanic Activity - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

Strip-searched woman sues after her 'genitals are groped' when she fails to disclose raspberries at border | Mail Online - One agent then 'aggressively groped her breasts and genital area' for an extended period of time while the other one watched (and deported back to Canada: ICE pervy thugs at work)
The State We're In | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Shedding Light on the Dark Ages - Abacus and the Cross – Nancy Marie Brown – Failure magazine |
LRB · Thomas Jones · Call It Capitalism (Pyncheon)
Software Calculates Appearance Of The Average Woman in 41 Countries
Face Research » Demos » Make An Average
The Courier - Dundee fire postcard tells the 1906 tale of 'rivers of burning whisky'
Smart Pretty and Awkward
'Appalling' law lets schools expel gay students (NSW)
So Yesterday : Date A Girl Who Reads by Rosemarie Urquico
You Should Date An Illiterate Girl « Thought Catalog
The External World on Vimeo
VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 on Vimeo
Max My Dream

The cyberweapon that could take down the internet - tech - 11 February 2011 - New Scientist 250,000 such machines would be enough to take down the internet.
Cell Phone Towers To Be Replaced By Tiny Antennas
Initializr - Start your HTML5 project in 15 seconds!
Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2010
Google Map Buddy - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

021111
YouTube - citizentube's Channel
Hosni Mubarak: Egyptian 'pharaoh' dethroned amid gunfire and blood | World news | The Guardian
Mubarak Steps Down, Ceding Power to Military - NYTimes.com
Mubarak resigns - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
Will Mubarak's resignation signal genuine progress for Egypt? | World news | guardian.co.uk With the president gone there may be changes to the political system, or the ruling elite could just find a new public face (the latter)
Egypt reacts as Mubarak resigns | World news | guardian.co.uk
Mubarak's Assets Frozen By Swiss Government
The Next Step for Egypt’s Opposition - NYTimes.com
Mubarak Reportedly Flees For Red Sea Resort As Egypt Protesters Rage (short vacation out of town)
The Pharaoh Refuses to Go - NYTimes.com (Leon Panetta has egg on his face; Hilary no where to be found)
How The Mubarak Family Made Its Billions (the old-fashioned way: stealing)
Denmark Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen Calls On Egypt's Mubarak To Resign (first Euro; Blair and Berlusconi love their kleptomaniac dictators; Sark keeps his trap shut)
The GOP Cannot Control Its Own Noise Machine (The Egypt Edition) | Media Matters for America - s Beck, thanks to his TV platform, has become the face of the conservative movement in America and here Beck has spent the last two weeks attacking the brave protesters in Egypt (another edition of Wrong Side of History ... they don't like the Democrat party in Egypt, either ... Republicans: the party of authoritarian kleptomaniac dictators)
Al-Jazeera's Revolution? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan For all the talk about hashtags and Facebook, al-Jazeera is the primary vector of this democratic infection.
CIA's Mideast Surprise Recalls History Of Intelligence Failures (once again)

The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Hunton & Williams was recommended to Bank of America's General Counsel by the Justice Department -- meaning the U.S. Government is aiding Bank of America in its defense against/attacks on WikiLeaks ... just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power (Obama: status-quo machine guy hates your rights)
Yglesias » Get Greenwald
Hullabaloo Tit for Tat and Hack for Hack
HBGary Fees: “Dam It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” | Emptywheel
Security Firms Pitching Bank of America on WikiLeaks Response Proposed Targeting Glenn Greenwald | Emptywheel
Palantir Tries to Preserve Their Government Contracts | Emptywheel the CEO of Palantir Technologies just apologized to Glenn Greenwald for (I guess) allowing HBGary to target him for an oppo research and attack on his credibility - one of the two other security firms that HBGary partnered with to try to get spying business with Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce (sleazebags)
Wikileaks threatens action against ex-colleague of Assange - Europe, World - The Independent

How Do You Know Fox News Talking Heads Are Making $#!% Up? Their Mouths Are Moving. | Crooks and Liars “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.” - the legitimizing of a clearly fake news organization as a real one (pure 100% propaganda)
Republican Leaders Yield to a Push for More Budget Cuts - NYTimes.com (military off the table; middle class and poor will be targets of the plutocrats)
The Sideshow February 2011 Archive the fact is that Obama and the Dems spent two years in charge and absolutely refusing to do what Americans wanted them to do.
CPAC Conference Shows Tea Party’s Power - NYTimes.com (going even crazier with the teahadists)
Hosni Mubarak resigns as president - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces.
Sarah Palin Reality Show Could Be Taxpayer-Subsidized (win-win)
10 Historical 'Facts' Only a Right-Winger Could Believe | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet (they lie and they're stupid)

"Foreclosure Mill" Order to Show Cause Why Ben Ezra & Katz Should Not be Held in Contempt of Court | zero hedge
New Statesman - Why this could be the longest recession for 100 years (Republicans destroying everything)
Abraham Lincoln, Inflationist - NYTimes.com With the old Confederacy now the heart of the Republican base, boasting about the party’s Civil War-era legacy is no longer advisable.
EIU.com
EIU Women's Economic Opportunity Index - Economist Intelligence Unit Data Viz | The Ideas Economy
Cheating, Incorporated - BusinessWeek
Business & Technology | Amazon closing Texas distribution center amid sales-tax dispute | Seattle Times Newspaper (Texas has an "unfavorable regulatory climate" har-har)

World's total CPU power: one human brain
YouTube - opoc engine how it works.mp4

Wayne Lee's Renaissance - NYTimes.com

More Women Earn Bachelor's Degrees Than Men, Study Shows (23%/14% -- men increasingly useless)
Colby professor resigns amid secret-camera flap | The Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME Affidavit spins tale of photos snapped in women’s bathroom
News: Race at Alabama - Inside Higher Ed

Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft | Nokia Conversations - Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as its primary smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader. (failing Finnish company asks failing American corp for help, fail-fail)
Nokia Developer News | Letter to Developers about Today’s News ("you're fucked")
Nokia will be able to customize 'everything' in Windows Phone 7, but likely won't -- Engadget

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Egypt unrest: Protesters erupt in anger after Mubarak signals he will not resign – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
Mubarak Delegates Some Powers To VP But Will Not Resign | TPM LiveWire
In Focus - The Atlantic - Egypt: A New Turning Point for the Revolution?
Mubarak To Resign? Egypt's President Will Reportedly Hand Over Power (to the miliary)
Mubarak to address the nation amid mixed resignation reports -
Mubarak out? World waits for speech - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com
Egypt inspires Iraq protests - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Ongoing protests in Egypt are inspiring anti-government demonstrations in Iraq.
Researcher Makes Free Phone and Text Encryption Available to Egypt | Threat Level | Wired.com

How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price (Aaron Barr, rodeo clown and security "expert")
ThinkProgress » Exclusive: US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents (hackers!)
Balloon Juice » More Fallout From Anonymous - Anyone who does anything that empowers the little people or that threatens the wealth and power of the plutocracy must be destroyed (Chamber of Commerce is leading a class war "by any means possible")
WikiLeaks Crippled, Can't Protect Leakers' Anonymity, Sources Say

Obama's Big Budget Cut Proposals Target The Poor (only interested in rich people)
Fox News Insider: “Stuff Is Just Made Up” | Media Matters for America (Fox: "we lie, you believe")
Hullabaloo - Letter to the Senator - Richard "Raise the retirement age every few year, mu-hahah" Shelby get a letter from Dean Baker, but he's not interested in facts
The Tea Party and civil liberties - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Georgia Lawmaker Equates Gays With Criminals, 'Unrepentant' Drug Dealers
Jon Kyl Retiring In 2012: Report
Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY) Resigns After Shirtless Pix, Flirty Emails Surface | Firedoglake ("family-values" at work)
Boehner Won't Comment On Conversations With Former Rep. Chris Lee | TPMDC Though reports surfaced again this morning that Lee was one of several junior members that Boehner warned last year about their personal lives
Exclusive: The Woman Behind 'Craigslist Congressman' Chris Lee's Downfall | TheLoop21.com What started out as a laugh turned into a resignation for the New York Republican.
GUEST VIEW: Teen Internet safety must be a priority » Opinion » Tonawanda News By U.S. Rep. Chris Lee
Beck Follows Goldberg In Cropping Quote About Mussolini, Misattributes It To NY Times | Media Matters for America (puke-funnel)
GOP critic calls Joe Biden's $53 billion high-speed rail plan 'insanity' - Yahoo! News He called Amtrak a "Soviet-style train system" and said it "hijacked" nearly all the administration's rail projects ... Chair Rep. Bill Shuster (R) of Pennsylvania said Mr. Biden's plan was "insanity" (you know who's insane?)
Profiles: The King of the Deal : The New Yorker
Separate, Unequal, and Ignored | Politics | Chicago Reader Racial segregation remains Chicago's most fundamental problem. Why isn't it an issue in the mayor's race?
Miss. License Plate Proposed To Honor KKK Leader : NPR
Hullabaloo Another Isolated Incident (rightwing violence and terrorism is always an "isolated incident")

Deutsche Boerse Group To Merge With NYSE, Create World's Largest Exchange
UBS Whistleblower Finds Himself in Federal Prison - CNBC (Obama hates whistle-blowers)
Entrepreneurship Interview and Business Case Study

Ruth Madoff Turned Away At Son Mark Madoff's Memorial

EXCLUSIVE & PHOTOS: Tom Cruise Received Luxury Airport Hanger & Office From Church Of Scientology, Says Ex-Staffer | Radar Online

TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Susan Jacoby's Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age, a bracing attack on the myths we've created about aging, namely that we're all going to enjoy active, healthy, fulfilling "golden years" in which we skydive, run triathlons, and have great sex into our 90s, and some vaguely defined "wisdom" will make the fact of our physical and mental deterioration no big deal (but ... golf!)
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization | Video on TED.com
The Mindful Eye Photography School
Poems From My Ex by Lisa Catherine Harper : The Poetry Foundation

Strange valentines: Some customers literally 'in love' with possessions
1968-75: How 'X-Rated' Became Synonymous With 'Porn' - James Fallows - Culture - The Atlantic
YouTube - "Turbo Encabulator" the Original
FTW

4Chan Turns in Teen For Planning School Massacre
How did WordPress win?

020911
Egypt Labor Strikes Break Out Across The Country; Protesters Defiant

Pakistan: daily life - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Dave Lindorff: The Deepening Mystery of Raymond Davis and Two Slain Pakistani Motorcyclists
Donald Rumsfeld: Saddam Hussein placed $60m bounty on my daughters heads | Mail Online (and he tried to kill Bush's daddy)
Britain's Progressive Tea Party — Can the U.S. Learn from UK Uncut's Campaign Against Corporate Tax Evaders? by Johann Hari In the UK, the Great Recession inspired ordinary people to take on corporate tax evaders—with enormous success. Can the same model work in the U.S.? (no)

Firm hacked by ‘Anonymous’ plotted against WikiLeaks on bank’s behalf: report | Raw Story
Security Firms Pitching Bank of America on WikiLeaks Response Proposed Targeting Glenn Greenwald | Emptywheel

Petraeus Warns of a Bloody Spring in Afghanistan - World Watch - CBS News (it's been about six months since six more months ... )
John G. Mason - Leo Strauss and the Neo-Cons at War -- Logos: Spring 2004
The Iraq Gamble « Entitled to an Opinion (supporting the Iraq War was a great career move in the media; not so much with Democratic voters +turns out, Obama really did like war)

Tea Party Meets Kucinich Halfway, Foils PATRIOT Act Extension | MyFDL - 122 Democrats voted no, and 67 voted yes (well, well)
NationalJournal.com - EXCLUSIVE: White House to Cut Energy Assistance for the Poor - Wednesday, February 9, 2011 Budget proposal would cut billions from aid program (remember when he gave away $3 trillion to the super-rich so they'd like him better?)
Hullabaloo Welfare Reform for the whole country - What could go wrong? - the House bill promises pro-defense lawmakers in both parties stable funding for the military (Obama: Social Securty cuts="welfare reform" - "Welfare Reform Part II: The Greedy Geezers")
Dems: Thomas should recuse himself - Jennifer Haberkorn - politico.com (Thomas: "you see my middle finger?")
Sex Scandal Might Bring Down John Boehner | MyFDL Boehner has been involved in extramarital affairs with at least two women, according to a new report in the National Enquirer (c'mon, he's a Republican!)
'Forcible Rape' Language Remains In Bill To Restrict Abortion Funding (they said they'd take it out ... and then they didn't!)
Virginia: The Second Civil War (the Macaca guy is back, big-time)
Nikki Haley Affair Rumors Resurface As Blogger Alleges Steamy Encounter In New 'Tome Of Love' The governor, then a candidate, promised last summer that she would resign if any of Folks' claims proved valid (nothing stops them)
Rick Santorum: Sarah Palin May Be Skipping CPAC Due To Lack Of 'Financial Benefits' seemingly implying that the former Alaska governor's standard $100,000 speaking fees
Is It Too Soon To Start Speculating About A Potential Bristol Palin Candidacy? (Fox)
Congressman Chris Lee Resigns After Shirtless Photo Posted on Internet - ABC News New York Republican Reportedly Sent Revealing Photos to a Woman He Met on Craigslist
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect Conservatives To Beck: You're Doing It Wrong (the elite crazy fights back +WaPo's Islamophobe Jennifer Rubin whose loyalties are plain)
Kristol/Beck Feud Divides Conservatives | Media Matters for America (the elite crazy vs the rodeo-clown crazy)
Christine O’Donnell forms PAC to ‘investigate and counter attack leftwing groups’ | Raw Story (Atrios: "dumbo Dufarge")
Yglesias » The Wages of Disengagement Oh wait, so all those times that Democrats caved on the issue of women’s health — years of rubber-stamping the Hyde Amendment, rolling over on contraception access, failing to do away with abstinence-only sex ed, shrugging off Stupak-Pitts — they were under the impression they were engaging in a bi-partisan negotiation to protect women’s rights?
CBS Evening News Mainstreams Smears Against Planned Parenthood | Media Matters for America
Sarah Palin Media Addict from Gina Gershon, Peter Moses, FOD Team, Shauna O'Toole, kevinstewart, and BoTown Sound Sarah Palin goes into extreme withdrawal during a month without her favorite drug -- the press.

Stiglitz Expects 2 Million U.S. Foreclosures This Year - Bloomberg A quarter of U.S. homes are underwater.” (the house-less, job-less recovery for rich people)
Wall Street Journal Finds Evidence that Employers Cannot Find Qualified Staff for Top Management Positions | Beat the Press It will always be the case that employers will have difficulty attracting skilled workers to positions where they are offering below market wages (take your shit wages and eat it)

Heart attack survival more likely than ever before - chicagotribune.com
Life_expectancy_in_some_Southern_African_countries_1958_to_2003.png (impact of AIDS on Africa in one graph)

Social Psychologists Detect Liberal Bias Within - NYTimes.com (where are the teacrazy scientists? oh wait ...)
Haidt.Postpartisan-Social-Psychology Ppt Presentation
JSTOR: Journal of Social History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 113-124 : Walter Johnson : On Agency
Brown University to offer course on conservatism "Modern Conservatism in America: Conservative Thought in the 20th Century," was developed as part of a project called Conservatism 101.
Conservative or Liberal : Would I Date You?

Fact-Checking The Church Of Scientology: Journalist Lawrence Wright : NPR
New app helps Catholics confess on the go - CNN.com
The Octopus Conspiracy: One Woman’s Search for Her Father’s Killer | Magazine
eelsblood in his cold toes: Jersus.Com » Archives » Cut Funding to NPR (the new Republican-friendly NPR)
The Time Hack
How Tech Tools Transformed New York's Sex Trade | Magazine | Wired.com

YouTube - Bob Dylan's "No Direction Period" (un-cut)
YouTube - Reel Wisdom: Lessons from 40 Films in 7 Minutes
Survey Says Everyone Trusts Apple, Hates Bankers - Culture - GOOD

Court to UK copyright troll ACS:Law: you can't drop your cases - Boing Boing

020811
Hosni Mubarak | World's Richest Man Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be the world's richest man with an estimated fortune of $70 billion dollars, according to reports (in Swiss bank accounts)
Cairo | Wael Ghonim Protesters try a new tack — taking the fight from Tahrir Square to Cairo's lawmakers.
Shocking 'Egypt images' emerge - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Suez Canal workers go on strike, no major disruptions witnessed yet - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
Shooting the Messenger: Egyptian Journalist Shot Dead by Sniper While Covering Cairo Protests Shooting the Messenger: Egyptian Journalist Shot Dead by Sniper While Covering Cairo Protests
Massive Tahrir Square Protests Today Despite Stage-Managing in Egypt | FDL News Desk
Egypt, Obama, Clinton, AIPAC and Twitter | FDL Action AIPAC could have counted on George Bush to be enthusiastically supporting their dictator of choice in the name of “stability in the region.” In fact, name a President they couldn’t count on. Or a member of Congress (Israel running the US, but they can't stop Twitter)
Obama Administration Won't Endorse Calls For Immediate Resignation Of President Mubabrak
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs The Egyptian revolution is being dissolved right in front of the world's eyes by an optical illusion.
Why Egypt's Military Cares About Home Appliances : Planet Money : NPR
News Desk: Does Egypt Need Twitter? : The New Yorker (Gladwellizing the revolutions)


Will there ever be a US president who doesn't do God? | Jonathan Chaplin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk So much for Barack Obama the social liberal: it seems he, too, refers his decisions to the Almighty - . In case you missed that, the president of the US is implying that he thinks his Christian faith can legitimately shape the way he governs the nation (what a scam)
GOP Senator Proposes Increasing Social Security Retirement Age 'Every Several Years' - Richard Shelby (so you will never, you know, retire) - The senator said that anyone who had mastered "sixth-grade math" knows that Social Security is actuarially unsound. But his calls for alarm about the system are simply not supported by the facts (facts? what are facts?)
Obama's Second Year Widened the Partisan Divide on How He Is Seen (Obama triangulates himelf off the map)
Bill O'Reilly's Interview With Obama Misses Ratings Mark - NYTimes.com Bill O’Reilly, whose “The O’Reilly Factor” is highest-rated program on Fox News, had predicted – perhaps facetiously – that the 15-minute interview with Mr. Obama would be the most watched in television history (fail for them both)
Welch to Issa: Step Away -- Or At Least Step Back -- From FOIA Demands | TPMDC Demanding FOIA identities and content would "blow a cold, chilling wind on citizens' FOIA requests," he wrote in a letter to Issa.
Colorado GOP Chairman Quits: 'I'm Tired Of The Nuts' | TPMDC "I have tired of those who are obsessed with seeing conspiracies around every corner and who have terribly misguided notions of what the role of the state party is while saying 'uniting conservatives' is all that is needed to win competitive races across the state,"
Bill Clinton calls Michele Bachmann divorced from reality on health care - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - The Blotter t Rep. Michele Bachmann exists in a parallel universe divorced from reality when it coms to America's position in the world, especially with regards to health care policy.
Americans Want To Cut Spending, But Polls Show They Don't Agree How | TPMDC public opinion about potential cuts is often influenced by gross misconceptions (you mean Fox News)
Alabama State Lawmaker Makes Controversial Remarks, Attempts To Do Damage Control a Republican, reportedly made eyebrow-raising remarks over the weekend, calling on members of his party to "empty the clip and do what has to be done" in order to address illegal immigration, which he regarded as a problem.
Tea Party In New Hampshire Mixes Strange Political Brew
The Plum Line - House GOPer: Leadership had to talk me into voting for repeal (teacrazies having second thoughts)
The Washington Monthly - The Brewing Kristol, Beck Feud
Whiskey Fire: Sad Freaks of the Nation - It's the similarities. Can't have the rubes sniffing around and discovering it's the same exact shit in a fancier package, what what? (Kristol and Beck, shades of crazy, who's more evil?)
Glenn Beck Rips Super Bowl Players For Conduct During National Anthem (VIDEO) Glenn Beck criticized some players in the Super Bowl for not putting their hands on their heart during the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner."
Palin says she'd deport Christina Aguilera for botching the national anthem // Current / "Here's another case of an airhead diva going on TV, running her mouth off, sounding like a fool" (truth or parody -- you decide)

DOJ Watchdog Investigating The Abuse Of Muslim Federal Inmates | TPMMuckraker
Most New York Graduates Are Ill Prepared, Data Show - NYTimes.com (winning the furture by dumbing-down America)
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect - Crooked Morality Cops - Lila Rose and James O’Keefe ... Where do such lowlifes come from?

Smoking pot may hasten onset of mental illness | Reuters
Arch Gen Psychiatry -- Cannabis Use and Earlier Onset of Psychosis: A Systematic Meta-analysis, February 7, 2011, Large et al. 0 (2011): archgenpsychiatry.2011.5v1
Depression: Here's a gene that may make some folks more susceptible - chicagotribune.com
Are We Already Experiencing the Effects of Overpopulation? | The Atlantic Wire

Analysis: Texas vs California: A tale of two budget deficits | Reuters - Texas faces a budget deficit estimated as high as $27 billion for the upcoming two-year cycle of 2012-2013. To close the gap, state legislators have proposed steep cuts in funding to education and welfare programs (teacrazies killing your state)
radical cartographers unite - local calendar

U.S. High School Students Shot To Death In Mexico (Hillary: we can't legalize drugs because there's too much money in it)

Nazi graphics standards manual
Conscientious Extended | Simon Menner: Images from the secret STASI archives

Jen -- are you still out there?: Facebook page adds to cold case mystery | Peninsula Clarion Sherry Turkle is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (?)

020711
/ ThinkProgress » U.S. Envoy To Egypt Frank Wisner’s Law Firm Has Represented The Mubarak Regime In The Past (the new "pro-business" State Dept. +Hillary is a failure)
Deposed Despots - Newsweek (most of them supported by America, land of the free and stupid)
The Egyptian mirror - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Resentment Finds a Target In Ahmed Ezz - NYTimes.com - Mubarak's Egypt has long functioned as a state where wealth bought political power and political power bought great wealth (Times points finger at self-dealing and corruption ... oh wait)

/ Mystery over claims of naked Silvio Berlusconi photographs - Telegraph Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi have filed legal actions over investigations that have allegedly found photographs of him naked in the company of young women (just then you think it can't get worse ...)
Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks: The Untold Story - ProPublica (Pakistan did it)
Guantanamo death highlights U.S. detention policy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (father of 18, kept in a cage for 9 years; blood on your hands, Barack)
Netherlands recalls ambassador from Iran | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 07.02.2011 in protest of a Dutch-Iranian woman's death at the hands of Iranian authorities. The move came amid revelations she may have died during torture.

/ Assange extradition trial begins - Europe - Al Jazeera English WikiLeaks founder appears at London court that will decide whether to extradite him to Sweden over sex crime claims - Assange's defence team are also expected to argue that the extradition request is unacceptable, because he has not been charged with any crime (but Sweden denies Hillary theatened them)
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Former FBI Agent Turned ALCU Attorney: Feds Routinely Spy on Citizens | Network World

/ CA-36: Jane Harman to Resign from Congress | FDL News Desk (the second richest member of Congress and the other Senator from Israel quits; takes job at rightwing thinktank; good riddance to bad Dems)
Daily Kos: Anon pwns HBGary Federal Updated w/Press Release
Anonymous to security firm working with FBI: "You've angered the hive"
em14R.jpg (Anon's press release)
#1535735 - Pastie - how Anonymous social-engineered Aaron Barr's "security" firm
aaronbarr (aaronbarr) on Twitter
More WikiLeaks: The 24-hour Athenian democracy | The Economist (at the peak of Anon's fightback over Wikileaks)

Frances Fox Piven defies death threats after taunts by anchorman Glenn Beck | Media | The Observer Leftwing academic speaks out amid hate campaign led by Fox News host Glenn Beck (rightwing terrorist campaign against anyone who thinks)

/ POLITICO Forums:Politics: Clinton calls meeting of ambassadors - POLITICO.com Ambassadors from almost all 260 U.S. embassies, consulates and other posts in more than 180 countries are expected to convene at the State Department for what’s being billed as the first meeting of its kind.
In Speech to Chamber, Obama Promises to Work with Business - NYTimes.com (like that will really work)
Yglesias » Would Winning The Future Serve The Interests of the US Chamber Of Commerce? (big business loves competiton, not)
Bill O'Reilly Restrains Himself -- Barely -- With President Obama Super Bowl Interview | Crooks and Liars - O'Reilly: Does it disturb you that so many people hate you? (from the haters' mouths)
Bill O’Reilly interviews President Obama before Super Bowl XLV (Full Video) - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com (Murdoch to hire Obama)
Obama 2.0 - Empire - Al Jazeera English Empire discusses the failures and successes of Barack Obama's presidency.
Pentagon Paid Billions To Contractors Suspended For Fraud (just like the banksters; another Obama FAIL)
Health-related money continues to flow to members of Congress
Political Packrat: Saint Ronald Casts a Long Shadow (trickledown and Iran-Contra and $3 trillion deficit; where were the Teapartiers? ... oh wait)
Introducing The Real Reagan - War Room - Salon.com On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we'll leave the mythology and hagiography to others
The Real Reagan - Salon.com
Fox talkers use Reagan's birthday as an opportunity to bash Obama | Crooks and Liars
Hullabaloo: Sarah's Running? - the Arctic Martyr (is afraid she might get shot at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)

/ Paul Ryan’s budget: unnecessary pain with no long-term gain (raise taxes on what's left of the middle class; cut taxes on superrich even more; win!)
Balloon Juice » With Friends Like These… Conservative activists now try to redefine the word “preventive” to exclude birth control (Teapartiers/Koch Bros war on women, Obama will go along)
Streetsblog New York City » What Happens When Senator Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Like the New Bike Lane? (Chuckie hates bikes in front of his house, so ...)

/ China, men, purses: In China, alpha males carry designer purses - latimes.com 'It's crucial for business,' says a 41-year-old investor with a brown leather clutch. 'It shows I have good taste.'
Energy Companies Insist Arkansas Earthquakes Have Nothing To Do With Fracking | Crooks and Liars
Hillary Clinton: We Can't Legalize Drugs Because 'There Is Just Too Much Money in It' - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine - Clinton evidently does not understand that there is so much money to be made by selling illegal drugs precisely because they are illegal (always was a confused drug warrior; besides, she can't wait to invade Mexico)
Texas state budget - Sunshine Review Texas will show a $1.3 billion deficit at the end of the budget year[1], which is up dramatically from the July 2010 estimate of a shortfall of up to $18 billion dollars.[2] Other estimate the shortfall at $28 billion. (so they'll cut you know what)

/ Droughts, Floods and Food - NYTimes.com - what we’re getting now is a first taste of the disruption, economic and political, that we’ll face in a warming world. And given our failure to act on greenhouse gases, there will be much more, and much worse, to come (but, but ... it's snowing!)
Einstein was right - honey bee collapse threatens global food security - Telegraph (USDA poisons bees to raise price of food for bigcorps and kill people)
Failure to act on crop shortages fuelling political instability, experts warn | Environment | guardian.co.uk Soaring prices for staples is thought to have been one of the factors contributing to unrest in Egypt and Tunisia (revolt, migrate or die)
U.N. Notes Sharp Rise in World Food Prices - NYTimes.com
What? Me Sexist? | Gender News
Spotlight: Have Humans Evolved to Believe in God? | The Atlantic Wire
NASA - Runaway Star Plows Through Space 54,000 miles per hour
This Is the Most Beautiful and Terrifying Portrait of Earth I've Seen

/ Paris Review – An Evening with J. D. Salinger, Blair Fuller ("fucking nuts")
Apocalypse Moby
Tura Satana - Swindle Magazine
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

/ Paul Haggis Co-writing a Book on Fleeing Scientology « Word and Film
The Church of Scientology is Under Investigation for Slave Labor - The Superficial - Because You're Ugly (w/the Cruiser)

/ Arianna Huffington: When HuffPost Met AOL: "A Merger of Visions" (we'll see how that works out)
80% Of AOL's Revenue Is Subscribers, 75% Of Whom Don't Need It - The Consumerist
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Forbids Underlings From Discussing The Possiblity Of Losing
Armstrong’s Internal Memo To AOLers About The HuffPo Deal
Please Update Your Bookmarks: TechCrunch.com is now HuffingtonCrunch.com

/ Sites to Ask a Question and Get an Answer Gain Adherents - NYTimes.com (another clueless Times piece)
Shah - Measuring effectiveness and user satisfaction in Yahoo! Answers
Did the Internet Kill Privacy? - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News Facebook Photos Lead to a Teacher Losing Her Job; What Expectations of Privacy Exist in the Digital Era? (don't drink wine in your local restaurant if you're a teacher +facists in Georgia, of course +CBS won't identify the school or principal)
If governments can block top level domains, is .gay doomed?
LightSquared gets satellite waiver • The Register A bird in the air is worth ignoring

/ 020611
/ Egypt Leadership Holds Firm After Talks - NYTimes.com - “We are nothing to them. The United States wants to sacrifice all of our lives, 85 million people.” (because Israel said so)
Latest Updates on Day 13 of Egypt Protests - NYTimes.com
As Mubarak Digs In, U.S. Policy in Egypt Is Complicated - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Death in Alexandria
Egypt Protests: Government Agrees To Major Demands In Talks On Sunday
Stability of Egypt Hinges on a Divided Military - NYTimes.com
3arabawy
Cheney Calls Mubarak A Good Friend, U.S. Ally (Blair, Berlusconi and Cheney, peas in a pod with dictators)
Wallflowers at the Revolution - NYTimes.com - the legacy of years of self-censored, superficial, provincial and at times Islamophobic coverage of the Arab world in a large swath of American news media ... there were only 19,235 registered Twitter accounts in Iran (0.027 percent of the population) on the eve of what many American pundits rebranded its “Twitter Revolution.” ... Unable to watch Al Jazeera English ... millions of Americans last week tracked down the network’s Internet stream on their computers. Such was the work-around required by the censorship practiced by America’s corporate gatekeepers (Obama will put them all on the no-fly list)
Militants, Women and Tahrir Square - NYTimes.com whether the Muslim Brotherhood might be bad for peace. She thought for a moment and said: “Yes, possibly. But, from my point of view, in America the Republican Party is bad for peace as well.”
How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend | Technology | The Observer The way Twitter managed to get past Egypt's internet shutdown was the perfect example of a crisis breeding innovation ... When they first came to office, the Obama team had a mantra: "Never waste a good crisis". They then spent the next two years doing exactly the opposite (our hopey-changey status-quo failure Pres)

/ Julian Assange Witness Donald Bostrom Raises Questions About Alleged Sex Victim - He said Ardin admitted "lying" to him ... "It smelled really wrong, all of it from beginning to end," that journalist said, according to the police report. "Because there was something there that didn't add up ... She'd had sex with him right away. She said that she had the hottest man on the planet, and she was proud of it."
Julian Assange Swedish Sex Allegations Documentation | Public Intelligence
BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere

Bush Cancels Visit To Switzerland Due To Threat Of Torture Prosecution, Rights Groups Say (waterboard the little fucker)
John Kerry Breaks With Obama On Afghanistan, Calls For Fewer U.S. Troops On The Ground (Obama likes killing people for no reason)
What do Israeli sex tourists in Thailand really think? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Guy Brucker spent three months in Pattaya, where Israeli men go for one reason - to have sex with prostitutes.
Eurozine - Reluctant heroes - Lydia Cacho

/ "Progressive Hunter": Gunman Cites Listening to Glenn Beck and Others as Inspiration for Armed Plot Against ACLU & Tides "Progressive Hunter": Gunman Cites Listening to Glenn Beck and Others as Inspiration for Armed Plot Against ACLU & Tides (rightwing terror apparatus)
Koch brothers now at heart of GOP power - latimes.com The billionaire brothers' influence is most visible in the makeup of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where members have vowed to undo restrictions on greenhouse gases.
Sarah Palin Blasts Obama's Handling Of Egypt Palin said the U.S. must find out who is "behind all the turmoil" (and shoot them)
Freshman GOPer Didn't Know Government Paid For Her Health Benefits | TPMDC Rep. Ann Buerkle (R-NY) (Teaparty-Idiot)

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/ Bill O'Reilly on science: Why is Earth the only planet with a moon? | The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times (Bill O'Dumbshit)
How Many Moons are in the Solar System 166 moons in the Solar System (and God put every single one of them there)
Twenty Four Hour View of the Sky - Earth Science Picture of the Day
Spur of the Milky Way?
Space Software - Home

/ The Final Chapter on Vimeo Staff Blog
The Story Beyond the Still - All Chapters - Final Collaborative Film on Vimeo
YouTube - Sitting dance

/ The Hindu : Arts / Books : In Conversation: Speaking to Spivak

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/ 020511
/ Egypt Ruling Party Leadership Resigns; Obama Backs Gradual Transition (very gradual and controlled by Israel)
2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police’s Methods Firsthand - NYTimes.com (Murbarak's sadistic cops)
YouTube - Egyptian unrest and US media bias (it's all about Israel)
In Turkey’s Example, Some See a Road Map for Egypt - NYTimes.com
How Al Jazeera Is Using Promoted Tweets & Trends to Get Into U.S. Markets (no information for you, buddy, say Obama and his bigcorp content buddies)
Opinion > Image > NYTimes: Charles Blow: Infographic: Revolutionary Measures: Benchmarks (US has hightest income disparity among Arab dictatorships)

Updated: PR firms drop Israeli image campaign / News / The Foreigner — Norwegian News in English. Israel wants to hire PR firms in 10 countries to improve its reputation, according to Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth. Norwegian PR firms have refused (just a little PR problem)
WikiLeaks cables: FCO 'refused to speak with doomed British hostage' - Telegraph Foreign Office officials turned down the opportunity to speak to a British man held hostage in Mali before his execution because they did not want to be seen to negotiate with terrorists (Gordon Brown. So they killed him)

On my return to Haiti … | Jean-Bertrand Aristide | Comment is free | The Guardian A profit-driven recovery plan, devised and carried out by outsiders, can not reconstruct my country (Democratically-elected Haitian Pres overthrown by US)
Haiti earthquake: Rape and intimidation of women resurge after Haiti earthquake - latimes.com Sexual violence against women has long been a scourge in Haiti, but rights activists had made real progress in recent years. Many of them died in the quake, and now women and girls are stalked by gang rapists
Karin Lissakers: Reform and Realism in Afghanistan's Minerals Sector
Iceland Shows Ireland Did ‘Wrong Things’ Saving Banks - Bloomberg
When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair - Michael Lewis

Palin: America Is Out Of Step With Reagan's Values (who's out of step?)
Protecting the Palin Brand: Sarah and Bristol (R) Go for Trademark Status
Limbaugh: "Where Did You Get This Silly Notion That Reagan Raised Taxes?" | Media Matters for America (St Ronnie of the Alzheimers never raised taxes says oxycontin-added Rush's brain)
Ronald Reagan Myth Doesn't Square with Reality - Political Hotsheet - CBS News following that initial tax cut, Reagan actually ended up raising taxes - eleven times. That's according to former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, a longtime Reagan friend who co-chaired President Obama's fiscal commission that last year offered a deficit reduction proposal (Obama's good friend)
Five myths about Ronald Reagan's legacy
Christie goes to Illinois on a hunt for jobs | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/05/2011 Illinois raised its flat personal income tax rate to 5 percent from 3 percent, but that is below New Jersey's graduated rates for taxable incomes above $40,000 ... while the Illinois corporate rate is increasing to 7 percent from 4.8 percent, that is still below New Jersey's 9 percent rate (stupid, or stupid?)
Bachmann Drops Proposal To Cut Veterans' Benefits | TPMDC Bachmann's plan was attacked by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose leader said among other things in a scathing press release: "The day this nation can't afford to take care of her veterans is the day this nation should quit creating them."
New GOP Bill Would Allow Hospitals To Let Women Die Instead Of Having An Abortion | TPMDC (compassionate conservatism)

Obama: U.S. Businesses Have Responsibility To Hire American Workers, Pay Decent Wages (which is why he appointed the outsource-king Immelt to be his chief)
Nasdaq Hackers Reportedly Penetrated Computer Network Multiple Times

Scientists suggest protocol for messaging to aliens
Department of Energy seeks to cut solar costs by 75 percent | Reuters
First ever aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe released

YouTube - The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained
Guernica / Wallace Shawn: Why I Call Myself a Socialist: Is the World Really a Stage?
How Porn Is Affecting the Libido of the American Male -- New York Magazine He’s Just Not That Into Anyone - Even, and perhaps especially, when his girlfriend is acting like the women he can’t stop watching online.

For Gays Seeking Asylum in U.S., a New Hurdle - NYTimes.com (Obama's new policy -- "you don't look gay")
Bill Gates: Anti-Vaccine People “Kill Children” | Oliver Willis (so meone call former Playboy model Jenny "Bodycount" McCarthy)
Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie' - CNN.com
Roger Bianchini: Controversy Remains After Priest's Confession Of Sexual Indiscretion During Exorcism official apologies, explanations and defenses of both Euteneuer's past behavior as not only the superstar of the international pro-life movement, but also an exorcist for the Catholic Church (they all go together, don't they?)
Cornell Student Yawns in Class, Professor Loses His Mind > control freak, Cornell, crazy people, Mark Talbert, what hath god wrought | IvyGate (ooooh, Mark Talbert, Professor of Hotels, is a flaming abusive asshole)
Court bans man with low IQ from having sex - Telegraph (views on sex very similar to Fundamentalist Christian Americans, who shouldn't have sex either)
Gunshow Undercover - Arizona (assholes)

Big Cable fed up with endless P2P porn subpoenas

Everything the Internet Knows About Me (Because I Asked It To) - Digits - WSJ

020411
Egypt protests: US resists calls to cut military aid | World news | guardian.co.uk White House says suspension of $1.3bn in annual aid to Egypt would undermine push towards a post-Mubarak system
It's not radical Islam that worries the US – it's independence | Noam Chomsky | Comment is free | The Guardian The nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains
Egypt protests: US resists calls to cut military aid | World news | guardian.co.uk White House says suspension of $1.3bn in annual aid to Egypt would undermine push towards a post-Mubarak system
Egypt's 'day of departure' protests – in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk Anti-Mubarak protesters have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square and elsewhere in Egypt on the 'day of departure', a reference to demands that the Egyptian president step down immediately (lesson: don't build cities with big empty spaces)
Egypt: Cairo Mob Storms and Burns Al Jazeera News Agency Offices - ABC News Now It's Arab Governments Angry With the TV Network (banned in US and Muslim countries)
Demand Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera English (take to the streets)
Egypt Protests Grow Larger As Pressure On Mubarak Mounts
Day Of Departure, Feb. 4, 2011: Crowd To Call For Mubarak To Resign
Berlusconi: Hosni Mubarak Is 'The Wisest Of Men' (Tony Blair: "Courageous leader")
Anderson Cooper In Egypt: 'I'm A Little Bit Scared' (in hiding)
Mubarak intensifies press attacks with assaults, detentions - Committee to Protect Journalists
Glenn Beck Stands By Egypt Caliphate Conspiracy Theory: 'I'm Not Wrong' (AUDIO) He has warned that the world is "being divvied up" by the "uber left" and the "Islamicists," and that what was formerly "Ancient Babylon" could emerge as the new seat of "evil" and center of the new caliphate (led by the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, you-know-who)
Chris Matthews On Beck: 'What In Hell Is This Man Talking About?' (VIDEO) One of the points Beck made was that both Presidents Bush had avoided bombing what used to be known as "ancient Babylon" when they invaded Iraq, seemingly because it was intended to be the center of the new caliphate. Matthews was dumbfounded.
WikiLeaks Cable: King Abdullah II's Jordan Reforms Questioned By U.S. Diplomat (next domino to fall?)

WikiLeaks: the latest developments | World news | guardian.co.uk We support a cause that is no more radical a proposition than that the citizenry has a right to scrutinise the state. The state has asserted its authority by surveilling, monitoring and regimenting all of us, all the while hiding behind cloaks of security and opaqueness


Dems: Obama Broke Pledge to Force Banks to Help Homeowners - ProPublica The program had to be voluntary, Treasury officials say, because the bailout bill did not contain the authority to compel banks to modify loans or follow any rules ... Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner “was really dismissive as to the utility of it,” said Rep. Lofgren. Larry Summers, then the president’s chief economic adviser, also expressed doubts in private meetings, she said. “He was not supportive of this.” (and there you have it)

Economy adds 36K jobs in January, unemployment rate falls to 9 pct., lowest since April 2009 | Canadian Business Online
Another Kind of Financial Fragility - NYTimes.com the sensitive egos of powerful bankers. I’ve been calling this the Ma! He’s looking at me funny! syndrome; it’s quite something to behold (the superrich and their delicate feelings)
Financial Crisis Prosecutions On Wall Street Slow To Develop Despite Cries For Justice (Summers "slow-walking" everything)

Senator Ron Wyden Worries Domain Seizures Could Give License To 'Censor The Internet' - "These seizures represent a major shift in the way the U.S. government combats copyright infringement in the digital environment," (Obama hates gays, immigrants, mortgage-holders and the internets, but loves his bigcorp content facists)
Attention Fox Nation: There Is More Than One Version Of The Bible | Media Matters for America You might think it would be difficult for conservative smear merchants to continue to cast doubt on Obama's faith when he calls Jesus Christ "my lord and Savior," like he did at yesterday's annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC...Obama was quoting from the New International Version, while Fox Nation was pointing to the King James Version to "debunk" him. This would be funny if it weren't so pathetic (Christian Nation with one version of the Bible, the Fox Bible!)
Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her Credibility Once And For All | Media Matters for America , James O'Keefe protégé Lila Rose shows a Planned Parenthood employee telling a man who claims to be a sex worker that clinics are required to report statutory rape and that minors are required to have parental consent in order to get an abortion in Virginia (oh, horrors, defund PP, or something)

Cabinet // How to Make Anything Signify Anything
BBC News - Today - Experience the magic
Solar cell could beat theoretical efficiency maximum - You put one photon in, you get many out, shake it all about | TechEye You put one photon in, you get many out, shake it all about
How tiny Nauru became world's fattest nation - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent Scientists warn of 'tsunami of obesity' as Western lifestyles spread across the globe

Physiological impacts of homophobia - NOW - Concordia University
Born Gay, Born This Way: A Photo Blog : The Picture Show : NPR
BFI Screenonline: Snow (1963)

Rude Rejection Letter for Gertrude Stein | News | The Advocate
Fame: Who's going to live forever? - By Samuel Black - Slate Magazine Everyone remembers Leonardo da Vinci, but is "immortal glory" still possible?
YouTube - shawnd80s's Channel - "Return of the Living Dead" with Joe Bob Briggs on MonsterVision
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NBC Employee Fired for Leaking Today Show's Embarrassing Internet Cluelessness So, that video exposing Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel's complete ignorance of the internet? The one where they literally ask "What is the internet?" NBC's canned the person responsible for the leak.
Misguided Internet Vigilantes Attack College Student's Cancer Fundraiser
Data Wrangler

020311
Egypt protests - live updates | News | guardian.co.uk
Mubarak Defies a Humiliated America, Emulating Netanyahu | Informed Comment t should be remembered that Egypt’s elite of multi-millionaires has benefited enormously from its set of corrupt bargains with the US and Israel and from the maintenance of a martial law regime that deflects labor demands and pesky human rights critiques.
Egypt Endgame | Marc Lynch Yesterday's frenzy 0f regime-orchestrated mob violence shows clearly that Mubarak is not interested in following this advice, and like so many dictators before him intends to cling to power by any means necessary.
Egypt Army Moves In As Protesters Clash With Mubarak Supporters
Right Wing Reacts To Egypt Protests: Obama Is In League With The Muslim Brotherhood | TPMMuckraker (no crazy too far for the rabid right)
Tony Blair: Mubarak 'Immensely Courageous And A Force For Good' (Christ, what an asshole)
Obama's Restraint Doctrine: How The President's Egypt Policy Has Managed To Please No One At All (Pres Wrong-Side-of-History)
Egypt's army is the power behind the throne. And Mubarak knows it | World news | guardian.co.uk Egyptian president need only remember 1952 to see what happens when the armed forces turn on those in power
Vodafone: Egypt Forced Us To Send Pro-Government Messages
YEMEN TIMES President’s concessions may backfire

Pentagon Paid Billions To Contractors Suspended For Fraud (well, yeah, but what about ACORN?)


Republicans Promise More Health Care Repeal Efforts After Amendment Fails (doing death panels on your insurance)
Why Can't Congress Police Itself? Ensign Case is Exhibit A | TPMMuckraker
Nelson Rejects Backdoor GOP Plan To Kill Health Law | TPMDC "The repealers who have their own government health insurance are very eager and ready to make sure that others don't get it through the law that's in place."
Voting Rights Act Questioned By Federal Judge (says discrimination is so sixties)
Reagan Solicitor General: 'I Am Quite Sure That The Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional' - Charles Fried (Roberts: we'll see about that)
GOP Leaves Bachmann Alone, Hopes She Behaves : Roll Call (unlikely)
Ken Feinberg, BP Not Independent According To Judge Feinberg must clearly disclose in all communications that he is acting for and on behalf of BP in fulfilling its obligations as the responsible party under the Oil Pollution Act (another arm of BP, not independent at all)
Clarence Thomas, what? | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk So we have Palin and Bachmann who don't care what they say. And what about this guy, who doesn't seem to care what he does ("I didn't know I was braking the fucking law, mu-hahaha")
Federal Homelessness Program Runs Out Of Money As Need Rises (Republicans: lets them freeze or starve, whichever comes first)

Only Two Years After Crisis, Wall Street Earns Record Pay | The Atlantic Wire (thanks to our statis-quo Pres)
Simon Johnson: The Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks - NYTimes.com a blatant attempt to shake down the public purse (they've done pretty well with that, now cut your deficits and leave us alone)
Undercover Panhandling: What did I learn and what did I earn? | Downtown Tampa-Ybor City News

NASA - NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone, Six Planet System
Kepler: NASA Finds Earth-size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six Planet System
Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. - By Neal Stephenson - Slate Magazine What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation.
Experimental Error: Lies, Damned Lies, and Seminars - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers

azcentral.com blogs - E.J. Montini's Columns & Blog - EJMontini - Arizona to secede (without OFFICIALLY doing so) Arizona to secede (without Officially doing so) (and you can take Texas with you; you could call it the Gun-Nut Republic)
No Junk Food for You! Parents and Principals Not Pleased About Coming School Lunch Guidelines - time (OK: we want our football players fat)
Group Accuses Government Investigators of 'Malpractice' In Undercover Report On For-Profit Colleges (Kaplan scam-prep fights back)
Why Nielsen Ratings Are Inaccurate, and Why They'll Stay That Way | Splitsider - It probably wasn't your favorite show's terrible ratings that got it canceled. It was your favorite show's ads' terrible ratings
Zach Wahls, 19, Talks Family During Iowa Gay Marriage Hearing | On Top Magazine
Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List - Lowering the Bar Officials confirmed on January 30 that the man had confessed to adding his wife's name to the list after she left for Pakistan, with the result that she was not allowed to get on a plane to come home. Airline and immigration authorities refused to explain to her why she was not being allowed to travel, although I imagine she put two and two together after her immigration-officer husband stopped answering his phone.

Snowdecahedrons - Temporary Public Art - Dan Sternof Beyer 2011 - Porter Sq. Cambridge, MA
lens culture: Lucia Ganieva "Dreaming Walls" - In a small, remote village in the Udmurt Republic of Russia

BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: Rupert Murdoch - A Portrait Of Satan (good historical perspective/documentation w/video clips of Satan's rise on the world scene)
The iPad Newspaper is Here
Why the iPad Newspaper is Doomed

Ottawa to reverse CRTC Internet billing decision - thestar.com that effectively imposed usage-based Internet billing on small service providers will be reversed (
Free Internet Porn Isn’t Unfair Competition To Pay Sites: Appeals Court | Epicenter | Wired.com - . “Now that consumers have the ability to watch high quality adult videos for free on redtube.com, fewer are making the choice to pay other adult website proprietors for the same content.” (that used to be called "the free market")
S0BtP.jpg (O'Reilly book repurposed)

020211
Colossal Storm Roars Through Nation's Heartland, Warnings From Texas To Maine
5 Essential Purchases for Surviving a Winter Storm | The Smoking Jacket

Cyclone Yasi: Category Five Cyclone | Yasi crosses coast residents will learn at first light just how destructive Yasi has been after a terrifying night where the region was battered by the worst cyclone in living memory.

UPDATE 2-U.S. sees Suez Canal closure as inconceivable | News by Country | Reuters The United States would respond "diplomatically, economically, militarily" to any closure of the Suez Canal although such an event seems inconceivable, the head of U.S. Central Command said on Tuesday ("strategic interests" even if they are in someone else's country)
Who are the pro-Mubarak demonstrators? - CNN.com "It looks like much of this violence is being orchestrated by the Egyptian authorities in order to force an end to the anti-government protests, restore their control and cling onto power in the face of unprecedented public demands for them to go,"
Al Jazeera English: Live Stream - Watch Now - Al Jazeera English
Mubarak concessions 'insufficient' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Egypt protesters continue to demand president's immediate ouster, as US calls for urgent transition and reforms plan.
Egypt protests - guardian.co.uk
Why Mubarak is Out
Who is behind the Egyptian protests? | Robert Dreyfuss | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk A panoply of activists and opposition groups are maintaining the assault on Hosni Mubarak's presidency
Egypt Pro-Government Supporters Clash With Anti-Government Protesters
Beyond Mubarak - NYTimes.com Mr. Obama said that he had told the Egyptian leader that “an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.” (the Times ed board is fond of the term "must" uses it six times)
Anderson Cooper Attacked, Punched In The Head By Pro-Mubarak Mob In Egypt
Jim Cowie: Egypt Returns to the Internet (they were hoping everyone would go home and watch porn)
WikiLeaks: U.S. Concerned For Years Over Power Succession In Egypt After Mubarak (America a proxy for Israel)
xvRTw.jpg (-ocracy)

Wikileaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize - Times LIVE by Norwegian politician Snorre Valen, who cited its role in freedom of speech.

Military Downplays Key U.S. Objective In Afghanistan (experts at moving the goalposts for 50 years)
BBC News - Why Norway deported its 'Norwegian of the year'

News Committee Announces Earmark Moratorium (ha-ha Republicans; "earmark" only when a Dem does it)
The Importance of Severability : Lawyers, Guns & Money (Obama could have been a leader, but no ...)
Al Gore Explains Winter Snow To A Perplexed Bill O'Reilly | Media Matters for America (but its snowing! idiots killing your planet)
Immigration Prosecutions Climb With Record Deportations: Study (Obama worse than Bush -- hates gays, immigrants and librals)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: GOP Abortion Bill Is A 'Violent Act Against Women' (Republican rapists)
Beck: Progressives Are "Enemies Of God" | Media Matters for America
The Pyrrhic victory theory of healthcare repeal - Healthcare Reform | Obama Health Care Plan - Salon.com If Republicans succeed in shooting down the Affordable Care Act, could the path be cleared for stronger reform? (not if Obama has anything to say about it)
Jon Stewart: Glenn Beck's Egypt Coverage Makes Him 'The Woody Allen Of Fox News"
Balloon Juice » Al Gore is Fat and Nasty, or Annals of the Gutless: Your GOP At Work The GOP is not a governing party. It’s a badly run kindergarten, populated and led by people who have lost the capacity to own their own actions.
Pew Immigration Study Undermines 'Anchor Baby' Argument | TPMMuckraker nly a fraction of the babies were born to parents who have recently arrived in the country -- running counter to an argument made by conservatives who want to do away with birthright citizenship (it was always a smokescreen lie to further their anti-brown agenda, and Obama triangulated with them, as usual)

Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth | The Onion - America's Finest News Source "We believe that the decisions of how to deal with the massive asteroid are best left to the individual," King added ... "This law is a job killer," said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who argued the tax increases required to save the human species from annihilation would impose unbearably high costs on businesses. "If we sit back and do nothing, Obamastroid will result in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs, which we simply can't afford in this economy."

GOP budget cuts: Deficit hawkery as farce | The Economist Even more confusingly, there is no plausible argument that current unemployment or slow growth stem from the federal budget deficit (its just an "opoportunity," dudes)
The Great British austerity experiment | Dean Baker | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk With deficit hawks poised in the US, we watch with great interest UK economic policy. It's not looking an enviable example so far (it was never about "deficits")
Robert Greenwald: Americans: If You're Going to Cut, Cut Military Spending, Not Safety Nets (ho-ho-ho)
White House Allies Push Bank Lobby Line On Government Mortgage Reform (he really is banker Pres)

: 'Invisibility Cloak' Conceals Massive 3-D Objects | Polarization of Light & Metamaterials | LiveScience (watch out for Predators)
What blame can tell us about autism Neuroscientists find evidence that autistic patients have trouble understanding other people’s intentions - autistic adults were more likely than non-autistic subjects to blame someone for accidentally causing harm to another person.
Food Politics » The 2010 Dietary Guidelines: Enjoy your food, but eat less! What about the “toxic” food environment? Shouldn’t these guidelines be directed at the food and restaurant industries? (no! FDA insures the health of businesses and agricorp!)
The Breastfeeding Diet Milk production burns 500 calories a day
A Full Day Captured In A Single Photograph | The Creators Project

DEA Agent Who Shot Self Presses Forward In Suit Against Gov't (VIDEO) | TPMMuckraker "I am the only one in the room professional enough, that I know of, to carry this Glock 40," Paige said just before he shot himself in the foot.
Woman who dumped condiments in book drop pleads guilty | Reuters Authorities say Cassidy dumped an assortment of condiments including ketchup, maple syrup and mayonnaise into the book deposit because of conflicts the senior citizen had in the past with library patrons and staff
From the Library: 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader | Bitch Media (w/revisions)
Weimar: Planck Apes
The King's Speech: good movie, very bad history. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine The King's Speech is riddled with gross falsifications of history.
The King's Speech: Backlash against The King's Speech - latimes.com

Why Match.com Shouldn't Have Purchased Dating Site OkCupid - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic
Playlists and Archives for Best Show Gems with Tom Scharpling (wfmu)
Everything is a Remix Part 2 : Everything Is a Remix
Web Design Inspiration: Websites Having Bokeh Effect | Naldz Graphics (bokeh != fuzzy bubbles for background)

Canadian Download -- We download it, burn it, and ship it to you - A metered Internet in Canada is a threat to entrepreneurship everywhere. Every online business has a responsibly to do something about this
The Daily launch – live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk ("revolutionizing the news" - just buy an iPad and you can read our propaganda: Jobs and Murdoch, match made in hell)
Rojadirecta.org One Of Several Sites SEIZED By U.S. Authorities The seizure of the site is particularly controversial because Rojadirecta, a Spanish site, was found by Spanish courts to be operating legally ... It's a controversial move that comes just ahead of the Super Bowl (big content yanked Obama's chain)
Greater Interoperability for Windows Customers With HTML5 Video - Interoperability @ Microsoft - Site Home - MSDN Blogs we are making available the Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, which is an extension for Google Chrome to enable Windows 7 customers who use Chrome to continue to play H.264 video.
Defcon speaker calls IPv6 a 'security nightmare' • The Register Growing pains for next-gen address system ... The use of the so-called extended unique identifier means that people who want to remain anonymous online will have to take precautions that aren't necessary under today's IPv4 system
[Full-disclosure] GMail complete anonymity possible via IPv6
Microsoft PowerPoint - fgont-futurenet2010-ipv6-security - Powered by Google Docs
Ready or Not, IPv6 Security Threats are Coming « VPN Haus
The coming IPv6 security disaster | Security Viewpoints
What To Do When Your Website Goes Down - Smashing Magazine
Jonathan Stray » A computational journalism reading list
cFIDc.jpg (baby-throwing meme goes viral)

020111
Snow blankets the Bay State

Mubarak won't seek new term; go now, crowds shout - Boston.com
Protesters flood Egypt streets - Middle East - Al Jazeera English More than a million rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square as massive countrywide protests are held against President Mubarak.
Egypt protests - live updates | News | guardian.co.uk
Egypt News Today: Protesters Prepare For 'March Of A Million People'
Undercover Egyptian police were among looters, hospitals tell Human Rights Watch (professional state-sponsered looters)
As ElBaradei Rises, U.S. Works to Size Him Up - NYTimes.com Mr. ElBaradei, an international bureaucrat well known in diplomatic circles, is someone whom the United States can work with, Mr. Zelikow said. (and if he isn't?
New Jordan Government: King Abdullah II Dismisses Government (trying to get ahead of the game)
Official Google Blog: Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard (tweet w/phone)
Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit? | Slavoj Žižek | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The western liberal reaction to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia frequently shows hypocrisy and cynicism (Žižek talking to himself, again)

WikiLeaks cables reveal 'cold, callous and brutal' behaviour of ministers - Telegraph British ministers after WikiLeaks documents revealed how they secretly advised Libya on securing the successful early release of the bomber.
The messy truth of police CS spray use | Bibi van der Zee | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The use of CS spray on protesters confirms police-watchers' fears – panicked police will use weapons inappropriately

Paul Ryan Can’t Tell the Truth on Economics - Conservative Gospel, based on misinformation (=lies)
Hullabaloo The Sodomized Virgin Exception Part II

BBC News - Why healthcare reform has been a tough sell (every civilized country is going like, wtf?)
Heritage Asks Issa To Reverse Decades Of Worker, Consumer, Environmental Laws | TPMDC (Obama will "compromise")
Hard turn right worries GOP moderates in N.H. - The Boston Globe (teapartiers took over, will fuck up the state)
Nearly half of Palin backers may flee GOP if she isn’t nominated | Raw Story
David Perel: Technology & Psychology: The Never-Before-Revealed Details of Why John Edwards Finally Confessed to Affair Edwards' fecund ability to lie -- and persuade others to swear to it -- caught the Enquirer team by surprise.
Barbara Bush Endorses Marriage Equality

Associated Press - 91,000 Gulf oil spill claims, just 1 final payment - and that $10 million payout went to a BP business partner (another one of Obama's scam relief programs)

Most teachers lukewarm at best on evolution Two political science professors claim a strong majority of US biology teachers either don’t advocate the theory of evolution, or flat out promote either creationism or intelligent design (we'll just get our biologists somewhere else .. oh wait)

Radio Silence On Rape-Redefining Abortion Bill From The Right | TPMDC (Planned Parenthood is all crickets)
South Dakota Considers Requiring Gun Ownership | TPM LiveWire ("we want every man, woman and baby packin' heat")
John Pistole: 'No More Private Screeners' (will keep current sexual-assault team)
Camille Grammer On 'Joy Behar': Why Kelsey Denied Me Sex, Cuddling (video) "He was too busy watching fox news," she said. "He didn't want to cuddle." (Seah Hannity is so hot, he said)

YouTube - HD Twilight Landing At LAX (Cockpit View)
The NBC Peacock is Gone and Rightfully So - Brand New
Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code | Magazine

Plenty Of Fish Hacked – Chris Russo explains what happened « Grumo Media Marcus Frind, Founder of POF (can't accept responsibility for his huge FAIL, has to blame the messenger; 28mil acccount w/paypal info)
PlentyofFish.com Hacked, Blames Messenger — Krebs on Security (Markus Frind knows nothing about security, sounds like he's on coke and is almost certainly a flaming asshole)
The new Internet millionaires (Markus Frind, multi-millionaire and security n00b)
Attention: ATM skimming device | i.materialise 3D Printing Service Blog -
Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, then uses that information to improve Bing’s own search listings. Bing doesn’t deny this.
Chart Of The Day: Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Watchdog Group questions Google's relationship with NSA | Network World report that implies Google is protected by “inappropriate secret relationship” with NSA (that's a surprise)

013111
Snow to arrive Tuesday morning; up to 21 inches expected

Egypt's opposition calls for 1 million on streets - Boston.com
Egypt protests - live updates | News | guardian.co.uk
Egypt protests continue - in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk Thousands of Egyptian protesters remained camped out in central Cairo after demonstrations against the government
Israel urges world to curb criticism of Egypt's Mubarak - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Jerusalem seeks to convince its allies that it is in the West's interest to maintain the stability of the Egyptian regime (Israel loves dictators, hates democracy)
Israelis Trying to Tamp Down Criticism of Mubarak | FDL News Desk (where your foreign aid is going)
In Israel, Mike Huckabee Criticizes Egyptian Uprising, US Government | Firedoglake (Dumbfuckabee is anti-American)
EGYPT: A Complete Guide To The 2011 Revolution
Al Jazeera English Journalists Arrested In Egypt
Egypt's New Government Announced On State TV (same as the old boss)
Jimmy Carter: Egypt's 'People Have Decided'
Hullabaloo: The Map Of Their Imagination (Fox convincing you Egypt is Iraq with subliminal hypnosis)

The Treatment of Bradley Manning (Jane Hamsher and David House) | Frequency (our "Constitutional Law Professor" at work)
Balloon Juice » They’ll Do Anything Can we all at least agree that forcing Manning to watch Meet the Press with Harold Ford constitutes a form of torture?
The story behind Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy - video | Media | guardian.co.uk
WikiLeaks: Strained relation, accusation – and crucial revelations | World news | The Guardian Extract from WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy reveals twists and turns in the fraught lead-up to the publication of US embassy cables

Losses at Kabul Bank, Afghanistan’s Biggest, Could Be $900 Million - NYTimes.com (Fraudsters walked away with a billion, Obama will bail them out)
Scientists develop train that can go faster than airplane - GlobalTimes The new technology is expected to be put into operation within 10 years and promoted across the country in 2030, the Shanghai-based Science Pictorial reported Sunday (while Republicans return America to the 18th century)
Clinton Ambassador Meeting: Unprecedented Mass Meeting Of Top Envoys (to tell them - "don't send cables")

Florida Judge Voids Entire Health Care Law | TPMDC Roger Vinson, a Ronald Reagan appointee, agreed with the 26 state-government plaintiffs that Congress exceeded its authority by passing a law penalizing individuals who do not have health insurance.
Republican Majorities Pushing Photo ID Voter Requirements Across Country | TPMMuckraker (show your papers - Republicans hate voters)
alicublog Douthat, alas, will never improve; his faith in Jesus insulates him from any instructive feelings of humiliation. (Mooslims!)
Sarah Palin: Media Boycott Will Keep Me From Being 'Blamed' For Egypt Uprising (it's always all about her)
Tucson shooting: Undercover agents expose loophole in US gun laws | World news | The Guardian New York mayor sent investigators to Phoenix, Arizona – where they were able to buy Glock pistols with no questions asked
Family Offers $25K Reward After Officials Say John Wheeler Died Of Blunt Force Trauma | TPMMuckraker
Hullabaloo Pushing The Left - Lynch basically wants to put the Democratic Party up for bid to big business, telling labor and liberals in the party to get with the program or shut the hell up. The people shall have no say in who represents them. This shall be done solely by the powers that be.
Daily Kos: Bristol Palin, the wingnut welfare queen (and "abstinance expert")

Scott Brown Will Get Republican Primary Challenge, Ex-Backer Vows (challenge on the right by rapid teapartiers)
Conservative ideological bills concern group | NewsOK.com (Republicans try to turn OK into their own little theocracy, while the state burns)

Math and Economics Are Hard! | Beat the Press That is pretty much what former Obama adviser Steven Rattner had to say in the Washington Post today - "don't blame the talented economists who were advising you" (like Larry "Big Bummer" Summers)
Vernon Smith on Balance Sheet Recessions, Left-Right-And-Center on Underwater Homes and Bankruptcy Modification « Rortybomb
In Vallejo, A Municipal Bankruptcy Means Big Sacrifices For Ordinary Workers As cities like Vallejo struggle to get their fiscal houses in order, they are often doing so at the expense of their middle-class workers (the little guy always pays the price for the blunders of the rich)
Despite price rebound, many Washington area homeowners still face steep losses (meanwhile, inside the Beltway)
Calculated Risk: Q4 2010: Homeownership Rate Falls to 1998 Levels (Bush housing bubble finally over, leaving country in worse shape than before ... oh wait!)
Lay Offs via Facebook? Don't Even Think About It | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com
Which MBA? | Think twice Set your heart on an MBA? Philip Delves Broughton suggests a radical alternative: don’t bother
Twenty-Five Arrested, Thousands Converge on Koch Brothers Billionaire's Caucus in the California Desert | News & Politics | AlterNet Sunday's protest against the Koch brothers' right-wing gathering in Rancho Mirage demonstrated a growing boldness by progressive causes and activists (more pitchforks, please)

Study: Roads are safer in urban areas - usatoday.com
Streetsblog New York City » CBS2 Must Stop Reporting While Driving Basically, CBS2 correspondents are reporting while driving — filing entire segments with their hands on the wheel, their feet poised near the pedals, and their gaze shifting back and forth between the road and the camera.
Adults With College Degrees in the United States, by County - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education (the dark blue spots should secede)
Environmental Microbiology Referees’ quotes – 2010emi_2394
ZOMGscience.net
Childhood obesity linked to habits, not heredity: U-M study | University of Michigan Health System obese children eat more school meals, watch more TV, exercise less than normal weight peers (Republicans hate health)
Beijing Faces Longest Wait For Snow In 60 Years
s Findings - Trusting Nature as the Climate Referee - NYTimes.com - financial penalties on carbon emissions that would be set according to the temperature in the earth’s atmosphere. The penalties could start off small enough to be politically palatable to skeptical voters ("skeptical voters" = dimbulb teapartiers +Republicans say "climate" in a liberal terrorist nazi)


200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet (coming soon to an AT&T/Verizon/Comcast near you -- deregulate those suckers)
100,000 P2P Users Sued in US Mass Lawsuits | TorrentFreak (Obama unleases big content on you ass)
Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions - NYTimes.com
Women on Wikipedia - Mindspillage
Portal:Feminism - Wikipedia
The Top 9 Websites Blacklisted In 2010 Ranked By OpenDNS
SourceForge.net: Sourceforge Attack: Full Report

013011
Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau - Middle East - Al Jazeera English Network's licences cancelled and accreditation of staff in Cairo withdrawn by order of information minister (Obama watching closely to see what he can learn)
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. cable carriers do not give viewers the choice of watching Al Jazeera. That corporate censorship comes as American diplomats harshly criticize the Egyptian government for blocking Internet communication inside the country and as Egypt attempts to block Al Jazeera from broadcasting (Obama shuts down Al Jazeera in US, afraid of poular uprising)
Egypt: 8-year-old girl lectures Mubarak (video) - Boing Boing
Twitter / Evan Hill: State TV announces Al Jaze ... era's broadcasting license and press cards are being revoked. Our bureau is packing up. #jan25
Egypt protests - live updates | News | guardian.co.uk
Hillary Clinton: Egypt Must Transition To Democracy
Egypt Death Toll Passes 100 As Protests Continue
Egypt Protests: Thousands Of Tourists Swarm Cairo Airport
Whose side is Obama on anyway? - Egyptian Protests - Salon.com
Why is America so afraid? - War Room - Salon.com The Egyptian revolution threatens an American-imposed order of Arabophobia and false choices
What next for Egypt, the USA and the Middle East? - Telegraph Barack Obama is acutely aware he must get Egypt right, for the wrong side of history eagerly beckons (the wrong side of history is his specialty)
YouTube - TessHeder's Channel Egyptians Rally in Harvard Square

YaCy - The Peer to Peer Search Engine: Home fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index

The Sideshow: Obama's speech - Obama has chosen to give our money to the Malefactors of Great Wealth and make up excuses about technology and international competition to convince us that we should survive on subsistence wages in order to "compete" with China and India. Compete for what? Why, compete to make our rich people richer than their rich people. (incoherent, historically un-hindged, and generally stupid)
Casual Friday, January 28, 2011 | The Majority Report with Sam Seder The real problem with Obama’s speech tonight was, once again, the historical narrative that he led off with, and that he is determined to have us believe ("great technology changes" not government policy, is why we suck)
Open Left:: WE are the moderates--fighting extremists on both sides Perhaps the favorite Versailles trope is that of "extremists on both sides", which was deployed yet again, recently, to try to dismiss the fact that rightwing incitements to violence are so omnipresent in various different forms (Jihad vs McWorld)
Hullabaloo Disturbing No One (SOTU: The problem, of course, is that if we are going to "compete" with China on the terms that actually exist today, we are going to be racing to a lower standard of living for American workers and higher profits for American companies.)
The 'Sputnik Moment' That Wasn't | The Nation - Why has that moment, now more than a half century past, been dragged out of obscurity to define the present? ...There’s so much Obama could have addressed but didn’t. (distrubing no one)
Shadow of the Hegemon: Jon Stewart Needs to Get the Hell Over It (the "big lie" +really kind of naive, still)
The Rally To Restore Vanity: Generation X Celebrates Its Homeric Struggle Against Lameness - By Mark Ames - The eXiled (E.A. Hanks; Leaving aside for now the question of “What the fuck is Tom Hanks’ daughter doing talking as if she and ‘The Left’ ever had a deal?” +friends w/Megan McCain! +Daily Show Democrats)

Chuck Schumer: GOP Risking, 'God Forbid.. A Depression' With Budget Antics
Jamie Radtke: Tea Party 'Wouldn't Exist Today If Republicans Hadn't Failed Under Bush Years' (failing upwards)
Bill Daley Addresses His Past Criticism Of Obama's Health Care Law (Obama's bigcorp HCR hater)
Obama Tries New Can-Do Slogan, Details TBD ("You're Screwed" at the top of the list)
Jack Kingston: 'I Came From God Not From A Monkey' (you're still a monkey, asshole)

Phone-hacking scandal hits Murdoch business as investors grow restless | Media | The Observer Storm surrounding News of the World threatens to engulf global empire, with investors worrying row is threat to BSkyB deal

Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion (w/ Video) (rejected by peer-review)
Scale on Vimeo
Research team casts light on asteroid deflection So you think global warming is a big problem? What could happen if a 25-million-ton chunk of rock slammed into Earth? When something similar happened 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs and other forms of life were wiped out.
YouTube - Solar Death Ray: Power of 5000 suns!

Douglas A. Blackmon | Pulitzer Prize | Author
The Movie | Slavery By Another Name

Antidepressants and sex: A doomed romance? - Sex News, Sex Talk - Salon.com when news broke this week that the FDA had approved Viibryd, a so-called sexy-friendly antidepressant, it caused quite a stir. Far too often, people are forced to choose between their mental and sexual health -- as though these were entirely separate categories.
YouTube - Marijuana Will Ruin Your Life
Shockingly, Anti-Meth Laws Have Had Unintended Consequences | The Agitator the fallout from those meth fighting laws that restrict the sale of cold medication has turned up results that “surprised” law makers and law enforcement officials (your Republican/Obama war on drugz is a stupid nation-destroying failure)
Wondermark » Archive » #696; The Chilling Case of Were-Cat
YouTube - ! Chris Medina - BreakEven : American Idol 10 Auditions !
.:Electric Velocipede:. A Brief and Incomplete History of Zombie Literature
YouTube - Chinese anti-gov video gone viral

Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: The Big Dose of Philosophy in Last Weekend's New York Times--and the Continuing Misrepresentation of the Subject and Its History
50 Best Blogs for Humanities Scholars | OEDb
Paul K. Moser - The Evidence For God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined - Reviewed by Thomas D. Senor, The University of Arkansas - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame

Back in 1994, People Had No Idea What the Internet Was (Katie Couric)

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Storming Cairo for Freedom: A First Hand Experience | MindfulOfDreams.com
Updates on Friday's Protests in Egypt - NYTimes.com
Protesters return to Cairo's main square - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com Egyptian president fires his cabinet but refuses to step down
New clashes erupt as Egyptians spurn Mubarak speech | TPM News Pages
Caution v. Celebration | Talking Points Memo
New Egypt Government To Be Appointed, But President Mubarak Refuses To Step Down
YouTube - The Most AMAZING video on the internet #Egypt #jan25
Twitter / Sultan Al Qassemi: Al Jazeera reporter: "I re ... ceived calls from hospitals in Egypt by doctors telling me they have been told not to record deaths by bullets"
Richard Engel, On The Ground In Egypt, Shows Tear Gas Canister Stamped 'Made In The USA' (supporting repressive regimes the world over)
NwLWb.png - "Hillary Gas" made in USA, the one of the few products America can still produce
Egypt's Internet Shut Off--But How? The Blackout Explained (they were testing the new "Obama Internet Kill Switch")
Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt, Disappointing Human Rights Activists (Obama loves his dictators)
Egypt News: What the Country's Internet Shutdown Means For Your Online Life - Speakeasy - WSJ
Egypt not trending in China - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English Beijing blocks searches for "Egypt" from microblogging site following protests there.

Sukey - A tool for non-violent demonstrations
Spain jobless rate surges to 20.33 percent - Yahoo! News
Ehud Olmert, Israeli Former Prime Minister, Regrets Mideast Peace Talk Failure In New Memoir
China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people - Telegraph China is planning to create the world's biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million.

Wyden Eyes Legislation To Limit Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking | TPMDC (Obama will veto)
Sady Doyle - #DearJohn: Prep Time - "The "Get Away With Drugging, Raping, and Impregnating Low-Income Women And Forcing Them To Give Birth (Like Livestock) Act")
The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones Drugged, raped, and pregnant? Too bad. Republicans are pushing to limit rape and incest cases eligible for government abortion funding.
Dem Co-Sponsor Of 'Forcible Rape' Law Not Talking | TPMDC edefines what the government considers rape (it would have to be "forcible" not just ordinary rape ... and Republicans can "rape" anybody)
Massey Rejects MSHA Findings On West Virginia Mine Explosion (the BP strategy: we own you)
Palin Doubles Down On 'Sputnik' And 'Spudnut' | TPMD (golly, I'm stupid, golly gee)
Chris Matthews On Sarah Palin: 'Who Is Writing This Garbage For Her?' (VIDEO)
Ed Schultz 'Psycho Talk' Segment Axed By MSNBC (your new Comcast overlords don't like that kind of talk)
Koch Brothers Palm Springs Gathering Draws Right-Wing Billionaires
DAVOS-EU watching rare earths closely - trade chief | Metals & Mining | Reuters
Worse rare earth shortages 'yet to come' | The Japan Times Online Further cuts in Chinese exports, depleted stocks to hit Japan hard

Simon Johnson: Davos: Two Worlds, Ready or Not
Wall Street's Collapse to Be Mystery Forever: Jonathan Weil - Bloomberg And here I had thought the purpose of the commission’s inquiry was to uncover new facts that the public didn’t already know. Such as: The identity of the mystery investor that single- handedly kneecapped Bank of America’s Columbia Strategic Cash Portfolio, once the largest cash fund of its kind in the U.S. The commission had subpoena power. It should have been able to get this information. It didn’t, though (Obama told them not to look backwards)

Map of scientific collaboration between researchers
Map of scientific collaboration zoomable
BBC - Dimensions - Space (space is like really big, dude)
Researchers Call For Creation of Standardized METI Protocol For Talking To Extraterrestrials | Popular Science
Model predicts 'religiosity gene' will dominate society “Provided the fertility of religious people remains on average higher than that of secular people, the genes that predispose people towards religion will spread,” (you see, there's a gene for Mormonism)

USDA Approves Unregulated Planting of Transgenic Alfalfa the U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to allow commercial planting of alfalfa genetically engineered to tolerate Monsanto's Roundup herbicide without any federal requirements to prevent contamination of the rest of alfalfa seed and plantings (Obama loves his bigcorps)
Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt

Egypt News: What the Country's Internet Shutdown Means For Your Online Life - Speakeasy - WSJ
YouTube - SMBC Theater: God's Press Conference
One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick by Matt Kish: MOBY-DICK, Page 552

Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down - PCWorld (what to do when Obama uses his kill switch)
Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet - Wired How-To Wiki
Is Facebook making us sad? Stanford University research and Sherry Turkle's new book Alone Together suggest that social networking may foster loneliness. - By Libby Copeland - Slate Magazine By helping other people look happy, Facebook is making us sad.
iPhone Users Are About to Be Screwed Over | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com . If you think your banker is a gouger with dubious fees and no-leeway, what do you think the phone company will be like? Yes, let AT&T handle all your money for you, and see how that works out in the end.
Net poised to run out of addresses - Telegraph The final tranches of the net addresses used by most people are about to be allocated, raising the prospect of a web that isn't world wide

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Cable Viewer (big Wikileaks dump - new Egypt cables)
Al Jazeera English: Live Stream - Watch Now - Al Jazeera English
Cable Viewer Viewing cable 09CAIRO1447, Recent Goe Actions To Suppress Critical Opinion
Cable Viewer Viewing cable 09CAIRO79, GOE Struggling To Address Police Brutality
Protests gather force in Egypt | McClatchy
Audioboo / Jack Shenker in Cairo says there are signs that the police are siding with protesters. "The regime is already" falling he was told
Egypt Protests: LIVE Updates As Opposition Fills The Streets
What's behind the unrest in the Arab world? An explainer | McClatchy
Firas Al-Atraqchi: Arab Earthquake: Egypt Is the Region's Turning Point
Egypt's Internet Shut Down, According To Reports
Syria Internet Down As Egypt Blackout Catches On In Middle East: Reports
URGENT: Egypt has shut off the internet - Blog - The Arabist
World's Muslim Population Expected To Grow Twice As Fast As Non-Muslims In 20 Years: Report On a global level, the Muslim population is expected to grow by 35 percent over the next two decade
Openleaks, WikiLeaks Rival, Launches New Secret-Spilling Site
WikiLeaks: U.S. having trouble tying Assange to Manning | McClatchy
WikiLeaks probe: Army commanders were told not to send Manning to Iraq | McClatchy
FBI serves 40 warrants in search of WikiLeaks 'hacktivists' | McClatchy
Joe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down... - CSMonitor.com ("mumble ... Israel ... mumble")
RIPEstat :: egypt
A message to Anon from inside Egypt. - Imgur
Tunisian dictator's family 'not welcome' in Canada: PM (good on you, O Canada)

'Concise' terror alertsto replace color codes (Republicans keep us just below Panic)

Poll: GOP Net Favorable Rating Highest Since 2005 (heckuva job, Obama)
Senate Tea Party Caucus holds first meeting without some who had embraced banner
Palin's e-mail records to be released in May | McClatchy (three years later)
Furor at Washington U. nixes Bristol Palin appearance "People are getting so angry because of the opposition to Palin's lack of expertise and the high cost she is charging," especially in light of budget cuts that have adversely affected other student activities, he said ($20,000 for Bristol's talk +"lack of expertise" indeed")
Glenn Beck's Ratings Have Dropped by 50% in One YearPoliticususa (Murdoch will keep him going forever)

On the hunt for universal intelligence
100,000-year-old human settlement in U.A.E. overturns what we know of our evolution ... s our ancestors might have left Africa up to 125,000 years ago...twice as long ago as previously thought
Death-Row Drug Dilemma: Scientific American Lack of anaesthetic used in lethal injection exposes ethics gaps in the supply chain.
Worth Repeating: Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause Lung Cancer - Toke of the Town (though the opposite might be true)

Fox may have been early man’s best friend | Discovery Online (but they decided we weren't worth it, and the dumb dogs moved in)
In the Blink of Bird’s Eye, a Model for Quantum Navigation | Wired Science | Wired.com European robins may maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory system
No leftovers for Tyrannosaurus rex: New evidence that T. rex was hunter, not scavenger
Tiger Summit Russia 2010 - 13 nations agree on program to double tiger population - Los Angeles Times

On 'Oprah,' twins will share stories of sex abuse | Featured Story | Wichita Eagle
Neighbors rescue girls from years of molestation | Promise Not to Tell | Wichita Eagle
Outrage, disappointment over police officer who allegedly lied about being shot | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times


My Shot - National Geographic Magazine

The Confessions Of A Former Adolescent Puck Tease
The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ
Is Facebook a Bubble? | Fast Company (Is Goldman Sach involved?)
Turning White Space Into WiFi: Google Plan Gets FCC Approval - DailyFinance
Microsoft Phone 7 Is Dead in the Water | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com Windows Phone 7 is failing, and now's the time for Microsoft to embrace Linux and Android ... 300,000 Android phones activated daily

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Eschaton: Keller - Last I looked, Scooter Libby was still walking around, free (the self-serving hypocrisy of the Times)
DOD Press Office Scrambling to Explain Bradley Manning’s Treatment | Emptywheel (lying military at work)
YouTube - Pt. 7/10 - What You've Been Missing - Ep. 1 - Exposing The Noble Lie - WYBM
Whispering at Autocrats - By Tom Malinowski | Foreign Policy In one fell swoop, the candor of the cables released by WikiLeaks did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage U.S. diplomacy (Julian for Secretary of State)
Swedish ISP will anonymize all its users' traffic - Boing Boing

Anti-government rallies hit Yemen - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Bloody and bruised: the journalist caught in Egypt unrest | World news | The Guardian The Guardian's man in Cairo tells of his beating and arrest at the hands of the security forces
New Computer Program Predicts Likelihood Of Violent Civil Unrest Abroad | TPMMuckraker
Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Is Beaten to Death - NYTimes.com (result of violent rhetoric encouraged by American Fundamentalists)

freedomhouse.org: Freedom in the World 2011 Survey Release (5th straight year of world freedom decline, led by America)
List of revolutions and rebellions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Snow gridlock traps commuters for up to 13 hours (they got in their cars, headed off to work, and ...)

Pentagon Budget Cuts Split G.O.P. - NYTimes.com (it'll be a cold day in hell ...)
When the politically fueled murder of a 9-year-old girl in Arizona is NOT national news | Media Matters for America
FBI probing 'fruitful leads' in Spokane bombing plot - U.S. news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com
The Maddow Blog - The mystery of the Spokane bomb - "An anti-personel explosive device planted along the route of a parade honoring a fallen civil rights leader (THE greatest civil rights leader) in a region with a history Aryan and neo-Nazi activity," the second of two commenters writes. "Yeah…..I personally think that to be just a LITTLE more newsworthy than Sarah Palin trying to paint herself as the true victim of Tucson." (it wasn't)
News Corp. Admits: Fox News Is "Opinionated News" | Media Matters for America (otherwise known as "fake news," "lying" and "making shit up to destroy you")
O'Reilly Defends His "Dead On" Nazi Comparison | Media Matters for America (O'Lielly making shit up)
YouTube - Chris Matthews Rips Tea Party Express Co-Founder Sal Russo! ("balloon-heads!" +Sal Russo is an obfuscating asshole; spin, baby, spin)
Mississippi House OKs revised immigration bill | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger (worse than AZ)
Planned Parenthood: FBI Investigation Underway Over Potential Sex Ring Hoax | TPMMuckraker
Gallup Poll: GOP Viewed Favorably For First Time Since 2005 | TPMDC (Obama reinvigorates dead party)
'WTF?' Sarah Palin Thinks The USSR Won The Space Race? (video) | TPMDC (you know who won the space-race?)
Sharron Angle To Pursue Her Twelfth Amendment Remedies? | TPMDC she might run for president -- which she didn't rule out!
Tea Party Patron Saint Ayn Rand Applied for Social Security, Medicare Benefits | Firedoglake IOKIYARand.
Eschaton - We Were Winning The Revolution Until The Hippies And Negroes Screwed It Up
Fox News responds to rabbis calling for sanctions on Glenn Beck - Yahoo! News Fox News has issued a statement on the full-page ad that a coalition of several hundred rabbis took out in Thursday's Wall Street Journal ... "We haven't seen the ad, but this group is a George Soros backed left-wing political organization that has been trying to engage Glenn Beck primarily for publicity purposes." (Soros=Jews, but not the right kind)

It's Alive! GOPers Resurrect "Death Panels" | Mother Jones As Republicans battle health care reform, a discredited meme rises from the grave (zombie lies propagated by people with no soul and no brain)
Insurance Company Reinstates Vet After 7NEWS Story - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver Ronald Flanagan's Health Insurance Was Dropped Over 2-Cent Shortage

Debtris
Ezra Klein - Can we win the future if we lose the present? asked about shifting their focus to the future when the economy was so bad in the present, they explained that they got pretty much everything they thought they could get -- and, in fact, more than they thought they could get -- in the tax-cut deal, and it was time to let that work (plan B will kick in around 2013)
Split crisis panel blames Greenspan, Wall St | TPM News Pages - A deeply divided U.S. investigative panel issued a scathing critique of the culture of deregulation championed by Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, saying the government had ample power to avert the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and chose not to use it.
Gonzales: I don’t remember concern over mortgage fraud - Yahoo! News (or much else, actually)
Goldman Sachs Got Billions From AIG For Its Own Account, Crisis Panel Finds
BofA Unit Ordered to Halt Foreclosures in Nevada - Bloomberg
Ikea founder admits to secret foundation - The Local
Highest, lowest median incomes in Mass. - Boston.com

Core77 | Design Arena | contests - Powers of 10
NASA - NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe
YouTube - Yosemite Nature Notes - Episode 9 - Frazil Ice (biggest slushie in the world)
Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time

Cartastrophe
What is Thundersnow?
Why Is This Dude Running Through A Snowstorm Holding An Ice Cream Cone?
With emergency order, Fla. Attorney General outlaws bath salt used as drug (superdrug worse than LSD, Cocaine and Heroin combined +superhuman strength and the ability to fly; when you outlaw bath-salts ...)
Robert Leahy, Ph.D.: Why Men Don't Listen to Women The Four Horsemen are Criticism ("You are always whining"), Contempt ("You're a basket case"), Defensiveness ("I'm not the problem, you are!") and Stonewalling (withdrawing or becoming silent).
'See, Officer, I Can Too Take That Picture': A Clip-and-Save Version of a Federal Directive - NYTimes.com The public has the right to take pictures of public buildings from public spaces (secret and redacted, of course)
Weedmart: Marijuana Superstores. IPOs. Reality TV. | Mother Jones
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men’s Journal

YouTube - Black Swan - The CGI
Why ARE women's breasts getting bigger? The answers may disturb you... | Mail Online
Which Female Tech Influencer are YOU? [Infographic] | The Wpromoter

Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More | TorrentFreak Google has finally caved in to pressure from the entertainment industries including the MPAA and RIAA. The search engine now actively censors terms including BitTorrent, torrent, utorrent, RapidShare and Megaupload from its instant and autocomplete services
No Swearing in Utah « Cartastrophe (twitter map of profanity in US)
Frontline: digital nation - life on the virtual frontier | PBS

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Egypt Protests: Thousands Fill Streets To Protest Mubarak
Egypt: Night Falls, After Day of Rage · Global Voices
Press Release by Anonymous - Anonymous stands with Egyptians
The Warriors of Qiugang: A Chinese Village Fights Back by : Yale Environment 360
US child appeals against being tried for murder as an adult | World news | The Guardian

Bipartisanship pop quiz - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com CBS News reports that the Quantico commander is now being replaced; CBS certainly appears to believe that it's related to the treatment of Manning, though the Pentagon is denying this (they fired his petty-tyrant sadistic ass)
The Times's Dealings With Julian Assange - NYTimes.com
Bill Keller: Colluding With WikiLeaks Was Fun at First, Then Annoying -- Daily Intel

YouTube - Zeitgeist: Moving Forward | Official Release | 2011

Congress.org - News : More troops lost to suicide For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Full Text of President's State Of The Union Address | KXLH.com | Helena, Montana
Obama State of the Union 2011 - State of the Union: Winning the Future, or Losing Our Mind? - Esquire Compared to these two trainwrecks, Barack Obama's "America! Dude, We Rock!" pep talk was measured, nuanced, and, for the most part, very clearly in English.
President's State of the Union 2011 - Obama State of the Union Address by David Frum - Esquire (what he could have said, written by a Republican)
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect there was something irritating about a Democratic president crowing about corporate profits at a time when the unemployment rate still rides north of 9 percent, not that it stopped Georgia Republican Paul Broun from accusing Obama of believing in "socialism.
Obama Doubles Down On His Agenda, Piece By Piece (what left of it, that is)
What Obama Doesn't Mention Obama didn't mention gun control, climate change or the decline of the middle class that was the theme of his presidential campaign. Of particular note was his decision not to discuss the ever-deepening foreclosure crisis plaguing communities across the nation, even as he touted stock market gains and surging corporate profits (our bigcorp cheerleader-in-chief)
ThinkProgress » Sen. Graham: We Need to Act Like U.S. Troops And Raise The Social Security Retirement Age (Obama's favorite Republican wants you to work until 90 or so)
The Washington Monthly: The Missing Depth Of Thought (John Thune, presidential timber)
Beck: Progressives Are "Enemies Of God" | Media Matters for America (no inflammatory rhetoric there; God=Roger Ailes) )
Yglesias » Breaking the News the ratio of articles about Rahm Emannuel’s mayoral bid to information about Emannuel’s views on urban policy is almost infinite is my strong suspicion that the denominator is actually zero.
Kentucky lawmaker wants random drug testing for welfare recipients | Politics and Government | Kentucky.com (from the stupidest State who gave us Rand Paul: poor people=criminals with no rights - Lonnie Napier, R-Lancaster (ugly, ugly man)
Michele Bachmann's Tea Party overdrive mocked for Obama response | World news | The Guardian State of the union: self-styled Tea Party leader in Congress breaks with convention and is ridiculed for gaffes
Rachel Maddow Smacks Down CNN For Airing Bachmann's SOTU Response (feeding the crazies)
Fox & Friends Segment Replaces SOTU Audience Laughter And Applause With Cricket Sound Effects | Media Matters for America

Why Business is Stuck on Income Inequality - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review
Congressional Budget Office - Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2011 Through 2021 (9.9 unemployment through 2011, 32 straight months)
Financial Meltdown Was 'Avoidable,' Crisis Panel Finds (remember that "unavoidable" meltdown?)
Goldman Sachs Got Billions From AIG For Its Own Account, Crisis Panel Finds If these allegations are correct, it appears to have been a direct transfer of wealth from the Treasury to Goldman's shareholders," said Joshua Rosner

YouTube - The Thomas Beale Cipher
Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World — Proceedings - we test a bold hypothesis proposed by Vladimir Nabokov regarding the origin of Neotropical Polyommatus
Marijuana Compound Induces Cell Death In Hard-To-Treat Brain Cancer - NORML

Attention Turns to the Dangers of Distracted Pedestrians - NYTimes.com (criminalizing the iPod for exercisers)
She May Not Be a "Sexy Russian Spy," But Plano's Anna Fermanova Pleads Guilty Anyhow - Dallas News - Unfair Park

Sandy River Flood on Vimeo
YouTube - Robot (TeztigoMix_Part 02)
YouTube - Endhiran - Arima Arima - Music Video [ HD ]
YouTube - Redneck Woman (Reality Remix)
YouTube - Old Lady Hits Car With Purse

Podcast: Gabriella Coleman, "'I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed for the outrage:' Anonymous, the Politics of Spectacle, and Geek Protests against the Church of Scientology" | MIT Comparative Media Studies
The NYT’s bizarre iPad paywall | Analysis & Opinion (newpapers want you to pay for their development, will fail +"Apple is not only changing the rules, but it does so in the worst possible way — in their usual cold My Way Or The Highway manner")
USC Annenberg | Ken Doctor at M{2e} event: Web analytics are “straw that stirs the drink” of understanding media business

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Tunisia-Like Riots Are Breaking Out In Egypt
Live updates: Opposition groups protest on Police Day - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online planned protests by opposition activists in Cairo and elsewhere
BBC News - Hezbollah-backed Najib Mikati appointed Lebanese PM
UK Economy Suffers Shock Contraction in Fourth Quarter - CNBC a shock 0.5 percent contraction in the last three months of 2010 (how's that austerity thing working out for you?)
This is the Big Society, you see. It must be big, to contain so many volunteers. | openDemocracy

Various matters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com According to NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski, "investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between" Manning and Assange, as "there is apparently no evidence [Manning] passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure." (they can criminalize the Times, and bomb the Guardian and invade Germany, or ... "defy political pressure, honor the First Amendment, and accept that Wikileaks did nothing criminal." - you can guess which one Obama will choose +former Obama campaign press aide Joy Reid is a souless, broken person)
At Fort Sill, High-Interest Lenders Circle The Gates (supporting our troops by bankrupting them)
Quantico Brig Commander Continues to Abuse His Authority and Defy Medical Experts In Bradley Manning Detention | FDL Action

GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data | Privacy Inc. - CNET News (Republican's big technology inititive: spying on you!)
New York Times Prepares Plan to Charge for Online Reading - WSJ.com Paper Will Charge for Bundled Digital Service, Allow Some Free Access (Murdoch puts this piece -outside- his paywall)

State Of The Union Speech: Obama Only Latest President To Push Competitiveness (once they took Social Security away from him, he has nothing to say)
The Washington Monthly - Dueling Sotu Responses, Cont'd (far-right Republicans get infinite responses to Obama)
bjkeefe: Watch Out, Liberals! Erick Erickson and RedState.com are forming an army! (Trike Force!)
Once More Into Comcast’s Breach:* KO’s KO Foreshadows Cable on the Canvas? « The Inverse Square Blog It is indeed horrifying that the top 11 programs in cable news are all Fox shows (everyone wants to watch Repubicans!)
Anderson Cooper Wallops Bachmann For 'Flunking History' (VIDEO) | TPMDC Bachmann also said that "we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
Scott Brown: Even If I Alter The Health Care Law, I Will Repeal It | TPMDC (don't expect him to make sense)
How Bush's 'Political Boiler Room' Dispatched Cabinet Members To Campaign For GOPers | TPMMuckraker
Daily Show Labels Fox News Hosts '24 Hour Nazi Party People' | TPM LiveWire

Warren nimble in building Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | McClatchy
Case-Shiller: Home Prices Continued Their Descent In November
Financial Crisis Commission Finds Cause For Prosecution Of Wall Street (but Obama will pardon them because he wants to look forward, not back at the destruction)
Trulia - Rent vs. Buy Index (Q1 2011)
Robert Skidelsky - Life after Capitalism
Capitalism at a Crossroads - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review

Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA Acknowledges a Hand in One Mass Bird Death (birds are evil and must be destroyed by your Gov)
USDA found to be poisoning bird populations, causing mass die-offs involving millions of birds
Blocking rogue gene may stop cancer spread-study | Reuters - * Scientists say finding could lead to new drugs in a decade
Humans' critical ability to throw long distances aided by an illusion, study finds Homo sapiens has been so successful as a species because of three factors: Social organization and cooperation, language, which helps with the former factor, and the ability to throw long distance.
YouTube - On likelihood - Om sannolikhet (with english subtitles)

Scientists identify how to spot a future criminal at the age of THREE | Mail Online hildren who have low levels of self-control at three are more likely to have health and money problems and a criminal record by the age of 32, regardless of background and IQ. (+they watch Republicans on TV)
Vicki Larson: Why Women Want Out More Than Men Women ask for divorce two-thirds more often than men ... "in states where there is a presumption of shared custody with the husband the percentage of women who initiate divorces is much lower. Also, the higher rate of women initiators is probably due to the fact that men are more likely to be "badly behaved." Husbands, for example, are more likely than wives to have problems with drinking, drug abuse, and infidelity." about 3 percent of cheating men marry their lovers
Jesse Ventura sues TSA, says body scans and pat-down searches violate rights - TwinCities.com
Beagles rescued from research lab : Tails Of The City
Will an 11-year-old get life in prison for murder? Here’s what you need to know :: The Clog :: Blog Archive :: Staff Blog :: Philadelphia City Paper A judge last year concluded that the 11-year-old would be tried as an adult for murder. The judge's rationale: Jordan's refusal to admit guilt showed that he was not sorry for what he did.

Tags - food for thinkers - GOOD (writing about food)
YouTube - Rumba Rave "banquero" en el Santander
YouTube - The Speed Camera Lottery - The Fun Theory
The United States of Shame (CHART) (MA=worst drivers)
Kid Breaks it Down on Jumbotron - CollegeHumor video (wait for it)
Cougar Lesbians Go To College | Funny Videos | Atom.com
Woman Falls 23 Stories, Lands on Taxi, Survives - CBS News Witnesses Say Woman Jumped from Top of Hotel in Central Buenos Aires; Taxi Driver Got Out Just in Time; Woman Seriously Hurt
A List Apart: Articles: The Miseducation of the Doodle
Un Tour De Manege On Vimeo

Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General | Threat Level | Wired.com (plans to sue everyone in America)
Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats | Speckyboy Design Magazine
We need a serious critique of net activism | Technology | guardian.co.uk The Net Delusion argues that technology isn't necessarily good for freedom – but how else can the oppressed have a voice?

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BBC News - Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport
Blast Strikes Main Moscow Airport - NYTimes.com

Al Jazeera Launches Wikileaks Spinoff: The Palestine Papers
Statement of Events: Bradley Manning’s Primary Visitor Detained at Quantico | FDL Action
"Damage Control by Pentagon on Pfc Bradley Manning Reeks of Outright Deception" David House | Frequency (Julian to newsrags: you're going to be next)
Infographic: If Politicians and Dictators Were Mobsters - Culture - GOOD

Pilgrim's Progress - NYTimes.com By Matt Gallagher (the cost Bush/Obama's fruitless wars)
The Hypocrisy of 'America's' Democracy: Keeping it Real The United States of America is, in reality, a one-party corporatist state whose very existence is, more than ever, perpetuated by a conscious deliberate denial of reality, even in the face of the obvious.

Obama to Press Centrist Agenda in His Address - NYTimes.com ("centrist" is the new "far right" )
Reich Disappointed in Obama the Centrist - NYTimes.com “If you widen the lens, the public is being sold a big lie — that our problems owe to unions and the size of government and not to fraud and deregulation and vast concentration of wealth. Obama’s failure is that he won’t challenge this Republican narrative, and give people a story that helps them connect the dots and understand where we’re going.”
Court Says Emanuel Not Eligible to Run for Chicago Mayor - NYTimes.com (cackle)
Mike Lee: Toning Down Rhetoric After Arizona Shooting Would Mean 'The Shooter Win (R-Utah)
CNN's Erick Erickson Suggests "Mass Bloodshed" May Be Necessary If  Roe  Isn't Overturned | Media Matters for America (see?)
Gabrielle Giffords' GOP Challenger Chomping at the Bit to Take Her Seat | AlterNet
White House Backs Down On Social Security Cuts In State Of The Union Barack Obama has decided not to endorse cutting Social Security or raising the retirement age in his State of the Union address Tuesday night (he would sell you down the river in a heartbeat)
Health-care law: Arizona tries new approach to get by federal Medicaid rules Arizona lawmakers approved a novel and controversial attempt to cut Medicaid for 280,000 of the state's poor.
Yglesias » Acronym Mania A development agency report I read recently used 23 acronyms in ONE paragraph! - This helps marks them as “insiders” to America’s most socially validated institution (your military doesn't want you to understand what they are saying)

GM Selling More Cars In China Than U.S. (why Obama made Jeffrey "Outsource" Immelt head of China's job-creation program)
Taking Mom And Pop To The Cleaners: How The Small Business Lobby Hurts Small Business - for the past two years, the NFIB has been less an advocate for small businesses than an arm of the Republican Party (the small stupid association)
Republicans In A Fix On Infrastructure Spending | TPMDC That means more and more crumbling roads, more and more unhappy voters, more and more demands from local governments and constituents for Congress to do something about it. But without the will to tax and spend, they can't

The World Question Center 2011— Page 1 "How Would You Disprove Your Viewpoint?!"

BBC News - A Point of View: Has our relationship with nature changed? Fear of ecological destruction causes us to pity and protect nature rather than oppose it, says Alain de Botton

Why Wal-Mart Is Making Our Health Its Problem - Julia Kirby - Our Editors - Harvard Business Review - companies taking more and more ownership of externalities
The impact of adult entertainment on rape statistics in Camden: a re-analysis. « International Union of Sex Workers The impact of adult entertainment on rape statistics in Camden: a re-analysis (junk science)

MCkO0.jpg (What happened in 2006?)
Google Trends: anal fisting, gay sex, brokeback mountain
Roger Ebert: Film Criticism Is Dying? Not Online - WSJ.com Thanks to the Internet, there is more and better writing about movies than ever before, says Roger Ebert
Harajuku Girls' New Accessory: LED Smiles (Video) | Motherboard
Geeky Kitschy Cool: Is the Facebook Documentary Movie "Catfish" Fake?
YouTube - 1946 Willys Jeep Drifting Flying around in the mud
A chip off the old block - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else - WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and help – WPMU.org
Why I Just Dumped the iPad (Hint: Size Matters): Mobile Technology News «
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Rumored; May Come Sporting 3D Display (Video) - DeviceMAG
Sony May Use Serial Keys To "Secure" Next-Generation PS3 Games - HotHardware Under normal circumstances, we'd never believe Sony would embrace anything so sensible; the company has a decades-long history of designing great technology that everyone eventually abandons due to the availability of cheaper, less-restrictive options
A Template For Every Awful Facebook Discussion You've Ever Witnessed | someecards.com

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WikiLeaks founder Assange slams Swiss banker arrest | Reuters "Mr. Elmer is in prison because he has revealed a criminal offshore system of tax evasion in which Swiss banks play a leading role," Assange was quoted as saying in an interview.
AJE - Al Jazeera English PA offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, an historic concession for which Israel offered nothing in return (decades of lies revealed)
Palestine Papers: Al Jazeera, Guardian Release Documents On Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
BBC News - Israel inquiry finds Gaza aid flotilla raid 'was legal' (because there is nothing they could do that wouldn't be)

Marines, Afghanistan, Sangin, wounded, dead: Marines pay a price trying to secure an Afghan hot spot - latimes.com (Obama's fruitless war, maimed American soldiers so we can look good on defense, or something)
Ex-Spy, Duane R. Clarridge, Runs His Own Private C.I.A. - NYTimes.com
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists' | UK news | guardian.co.uk Promiscuity 'regularly used as tactic', says former officer, contradicting claims from Acpo

Colin Powell: Defunding NPR Won't Solve Deficit Problem, Congress Should Look At Cutting Defense (teapartiers: "Colin who?)
Dick Durbin Admits Senate May Face Health Care Repeal Vote (VIDEO) Republicans may be able to force a vote on full repeal. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also vowed that Republicans will continue try to dismantle the law "piece by piece (Republicans hate health)
Balloon Juice » Did people really believe this? Was the Beltway myopia so great that DC insiders believed 40 year-old legends more than they believed Nate Silver? (well, yes)
Chuck Schumer: Seniors Could Have To Pay Government $250 If Health Care Reform Is Repealed

Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation - CIO Central - CIO Network - Forbes Already, 70% of engineers with PhD’s who graduate from U.S. universities are foreign-born. Increasingly, these talented individuals are not staying in the U.S – instead, they’re returning home, where they find greater opportunities (Republicans hate education, so ...)
UI study links 1930 bank suspensions to contemporary suicide rates UI study links 1930 bank suspensions to contemporary suicide rates

eScienceCommons: New theories reveal the nature of numbers
Finite formula found for partition numbers | The Language of Bad Physics
Fractals plus quantum mechanics equals chaos
Unexpected Find Opens Up New Front in Effort to Stop HIV - News Room - University of Rochester Medical Center HIV’s Trickery within the Macrophage Revealed

Lagging SugarHouse slots revenue casts doubt on need for second Philly casino | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/23/2011 (twelve casinos w/in 50 miles: how's that gambling economy working out for you?)
Jill Brooke: Raoul Felder: Divorce Lawyer Weighs In On Celeb Splits, Divorce News Of The Day (Vows column) "It's doomed I think because anyone who would be that tasteless is promoting this type of marriage has narcissism in their DNA and that will surface in this new marriage too. You take yourself wherever you go." (lots of wisdom)

'Bath Salts' A Growing Drug Problem, Officials Say
Miracle Jones: This Rocketship Will Crash: The Super Secret International American Time Box


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Russia Thinks Julian Assange Should Receive Nobel Peace Prize | Newsflavor Wikileaks documents revealing plans by NATO to respond militarily to Russian threats may have prompted the Russians to seek a Nobel Prize for Julian Assange. They consider revelations on Russia worth the price (Obama: "we'll get that little motherfucker soon and you'll never hear from him again")
Bitcoin - a Step Toward Censorship-Resistant Digital Currency | Electronic Frontier Foundation (your free speech is controlled by credit card bigcorps)
Cheney/Obama Justice: 3 Detainees + 1 Jailed Whistleblower = 19,000 Rich Tax Cheats | Emptywheel (Obama hates whistleblowers)
Jack Goldsmith: Lawfare › Seven Thoughts on Wikileaks

Landslides in Brazil - The Big Picture - Boston.com Nearly 14,000 people are now homeless, 759 are reported to have been killed and another 400 remain missing in this, Brazil's worst-ever natural disaster.
More Icelandic bankers arrested | IceNews - Daily News (how they do it in Iceland; Obama could have arrested Greenspan and waterboarded him)
Algerian democracy rally broken up - Africa - Al Jazeera English Several injured as police disperse 300 people who defied a ban and attempted to demonstrate in capital, Algiers.
'Obama Robber' being hunted in Austria - Telegraph A gunman who robs banks wearing a rubber mask of Barack Obama, the US president, is being hunted by Austrian police (someone with a sense of irony)

Keith Olbermann exits MSNBC - Entertainment News - immediate speculation that the top-rated Olbermann's departure was connected to the pending takeover of NBC Universal by Comcast Corp ... But MSNBC insiders strongly denied that speculation ... )
Olbermann Hosts Last 'Countdown' on MSNBC - NYTimes.com
Keith Olbermann -- Fired By MSNBC | TMZ.com it had everything to do with Comcast's acquisition of NBC.
New Details: “MSNBC And Keith Olberman Have Ended Their Contract”; Lefty MSNBC About To Make Right Turn? – Deadline.com Olbermann hosts the highest-rated program on MSNBC, which isn't saying much since that channel's ratings lag those of Fox News by a big margin.
Final Countdown: Keith Olbermann And MSNBC Announce They Are Parting Ways (video) (the end of dissent in America, supported by Obama)
Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher React To Olbermann Leaving MSNBC (video)

Hullabaloo - The SOTU frame He plans to emphasize issues where he thinks he can find COMMON GROUND with Republicans (he doesn't have look far)
Obama approval rating: President Obama's approval rating jumps at midterm - latimes.com an 8-percentage-point increase since December, to 53%, and Gallup says more independent voters now approve of his performance
Cecile Richards: Roe v. Wade: 38 and Under Attack (by extremist Republicans)
First Anniversary of Citizens United Decision: Hundreds of Millions in Corporate Money Already Pouring into Elections | Civil Liberties | AlterNet a ruling so momentous that many are still grappling to take stock of its impact on our political system (the system is wrecked, dude)
Corporate contributions have surged for new Republican leaders in House (oh, big surprise)
Vermont Is Gearing Up to Strike a Major Blow to Corporate Personhood, Ban It Statewide | News & Politics | AlterNet Vermont politicians are moving to deny corporations the rights that humans enjoy ("corporate personhood" really)
Roger Ailes Esquire Profile - Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America? - Esquire
'Steampunk Palin' - ComicsAlliance

Eurosclerosis, Then and Now - NYTimes.com (how's that Republican bubble working out for you now?)
Robert Reich: American Competitiveness, and the President's New Relationship with American Business Whenever you hear a business executive or politician use the term "American competitiveness," watch your wallet.
Dubai islands falling into the sea: Dubai World sinks after fund crisis | Mail Online (it wasn't such a hot idea in the first place)
Kristol, Kalecki, and a 19th Century Economist Defending Patriarchy all on Political Macroeconomics. « Rortybomb

Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks
New study of environmental contaminants in breast milk The levels of environmental contaminants in a mother's body decrease during breast-feeding (because they go into baby!)
Texas Lousy at Reporting Food Poisoning, Study Says - Houston News - Hair Balls (wouldn't want to inconvienence food processors)
Of Pandas and Texas « Texas Freedom Network - Creationist Group Pushes Anti-Evolution Materials In Texas Science Classes - Texas SBOE Asked To Consider Materials from Fringe Anti-Science Group (connect . the . dots)
Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks

Artist Could Face 15 Years In Prison For Recording His Own Arrest "Illinois has the worst eavesdropping law in the country," Drew said in a phone interview. If not the single most punitive, it's certainly in the top three (see, he "eavesdropped" on his own misdemenor arrest)
Christopher Harris Still Unable to Walk, Talk, or Eat on His Own as Civil Suit Starts Over Deputy Takedown (VIDEO) - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly Harris began to slow to a stop and raise his hands, just in time for Paul to deliver a running shove that lifted Harris off his feet and sent him crashing backward into the cinema wall, leaving him with permanent brain and spinal-cord damage (cop wrecks innocent man's life, still on the job)
FT.com / FT Magazine - The forger’s story

Alan Moore - Cold reading | New Humanist
Microaggressions
YouTube - Prank on a Belgian call center (with captions in English) (perfect)
War of the future: Brian Moore's WWIII propaganda posters | Art and design | The Guardian
The Pentalobe Screw, And Apple's War Against Self-Repair : TreeHugger (Apple knows how to screw you with its closed ecosystem attitude)
YouTube - Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic - Smooth Criminal

Professional hacker - Website hacking - Private exploits - Hacked accounts and many more!
Major websites (gov,mil,edu) are Hacked and Up for Sale - Imperva Data Security Blog
Liberty Reserve – largest payment processor and money transfer system. Liberty Reserve serves millions since 2002 - Exchangers (to get around bigcorp controlling your money and speech)
Privacy and Security Fanatic: FBI warns of Trojan-tainted resumes, other phishing scams | Network World
Hide email address in source code
Is retaliation the answer to cyber attacks? The law frowns on cyber attacks but Black Hat speakers advocate exploiting vulnerabilities in attack tools and botnets against attackers
How to Wipe Yourself Off the Grid | PCMag.com (new rules for Obama's police state)
Torbutton :: Add-ons for Firefox
Tor Project: Anonymity Online
The Paranoid Kit :: Collections :: Add-ons for Firefox

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Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu
Cryptome: essays on conspiracies by Julian Assange
WikiLeaks' Assange Finds Support In Native Australia : NPR "Certainly if Sarah Palin or any of those other politicians come to Australia, for whatever purpose, then we can initiate a private prosecution, and that's what we intend to do," Stary said (call Interpol)

Andy Coulson resigns as phone-hacking scandal rocks Downing Street | Media | guardian.co.uk PM's press chief stands down over phone hacking claims
Andy Coulson resignation 'raises questions about Cameron's judgment' | Media | guardian.co.uk
Rupert Murdoch set to arrive in UK with News Corp mired in crisis | Media | The Guardian News Corp chief's London visit next week is timely because no significant decision can be taken at company without him
Andy Coulson resignation: Private eye's court claims sealed fate | Media | The Guardian Glenn Mulcaire named Ian Edmondson as phone hacking instigator, casting further doubt on Coulson's denials
tPLFE.png - Israeli vs Palestinian casualties - your tax dollars at work
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Is Said To Back African Mercenaries
Vatican, Berlusconi At Odds Over Sex Scandal he said public officials must "rediscover their spiritual and moral roots." (pot, kettle, whoops)
Latest Andean export: Beauty queens for Mexican narcos? | McClatchy

With health care 'repealed,' GOP turns to climate change | McClatchy (next up, child labor and slavery)
Fox's Kelly Absurdly Claims Fox Personalities Do Not Invoke Nazis | Media Matters for America (Megyn Kelly is a big fat liar)
Balloon Juice » Rewriting history The New York Times has a strange definition of impeachment. My exchange with the public editor follows (Joseph Burgess is dense as a rock)
ThinkProgress » Rep. Peter King Says Muslims Aren’t ‘American’ When It Comes To War (there is nothing they won't say to divide America)
Rush Limbaugh Speaks Chinese - The Colbert Report - 1/20/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

Balloon Juice » A Real, Non-Galtian Hero (John Roll)
CCR Appeals to Fox News President for Help in Silencing Glenn Beck Misinformation Campaign Against Progressive Professor | Center for Constitutional Rights - Beck: “Maybe they should burst through the front door of this arrogant elitist and slit the hateful cow’s throat,” “We should blow up Piven’s office and home,” and “I am all for violence and change Frances: Where do your loved ones live?” (see, just like Olbermann)
Poll: Majority Of Americans, Including Gun Owners, Support Tougher Restrictions (vetoed by your invisible government)
Poll Responses on How to Cut the Deficit - Graphic - NYTimes.com (majority of Americans favor cuttng military; vetoed by invisible goverment)

Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad From JesusHatesObama.Com (Fox will run it)
House GOP Pushes To End Health Insurance Abortion Coverage : It's All Politics : NPR
Hullabaloo = Choose Tea There seems to be some surprise that the GOP congress is going after abortion rights right out of the box (53 of the new House members and five new Senators are hardcore anti-choice zealots)
Daily Kos: H.R. 3 on abortion = More than Hyde Amendment on steroids (the consequences of Obama's naivete and timidity)

Hullabaloo Why is Obama desperate to appease the wealthy interests right now? There are all sorts of complicated reasons. But let's not forget that first and foremost, that's where all the money is.
It's GE's world. We just live in it. | Crooks and Liars it's not playing well in the least. President Obama plans to appoint GE chief Jeffrey Immelt to head a new White House panel on job growth (quite a come-down, eh?)
Obama Taps GE's Immelt to Head Economic Advisor Panel - Bloomberg (because what's good for GE ... another center-right Obama FAIL pick)
Cash-Strapped States Seeking A Way To Declare Bankruptcy
SSRN-Predicting the Next Big Thing: Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment by Jerker Denrell, Christina Fang
That guy who called the big one? Don’t listen to him. - The Boston Globe Inside the paradox of forecasting
The Recent History of the Dollar - NYTimes.com (Republicans at work destroying the economy)
Edgar Bronfman Jr. Convicted Of Misleading Investors euro5 million ($6.7 million) and given a 15-month suspended sentence for insider trading around the Vivendi media conglomerate when he was a top executive there (the superrich never do jail time)
To Beat Back Poverty, Pay the Poor - NYTimes.com - Between 2003 and 2009, the income of poor Brazilians has grown seven times as much as the income of rich Brazilians. Poverty has fallen during that time from 22 percent of the population to 7 percent (contrast w/American richocracy)

Dissent Magazine - Winter 2011 Issue - Real Men Find Real Utopias ... Apart from Mrs. Wright, Erik Wright’s favorite source is Erik Wright. He has read all of his works and finds them remarkable.
DNA molecules can 'teleport', Nobel Prize winner claims - Techworld.com Experiment spots spooky quantum imprinting effect
RealClimate: Getting things right
don't panic! Betelgeuse Won't Explode in 2012 : Discovery News
George Lucas says world will end in 2012 - Telegraph
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Clean-Energy Cuts at the Top of the List.
Dino-era sex riddle solved by new fossil find This fossil shows that females were crestless, solving the long-standing problem of what some pterosaurs did with their spectacular head crests: showy displays by males.
Binge Drinking - Binge drinkers may be at higher risk for heart disease than regular drinkers - Los Angeles Times

Spectacular: Antarctica Expedition in High-Speed
BBC News - Huge Delta rocket flies from Vandenberg, California
Delta IV Heavy Rocket vs. 2011 Ram 3500 Heavy Duty Diesel - PickupTrucks.com News

The 20 Best Nicknames in the Big Mafia Bust - New York News - Runnin' Scared - "Junior Lollipops" "Vinny Carwash"
YouTube - Creating A Hit: 8 Hour Challenge
YouTube - Atlanta Weather Update for Jan. 11, 2011
Yale Alumni Magazine: Anonymous was a Woman (Jan/Feb 2011) Your favorite famous quotation: was it by Voltaire? Yogi Berra? Or some woman you’ve never heard of?
The Iceman Cometh: The Rise of a Gourmet Ice Entrepreneur - Katie Robbins - Food - The Atlantic Gourmet ice, often heavily filtered and hand-cut to guarantee the optimal amount of dilution, has officially become part of cocktail culture (loses 8 oz for every 1 oz; just use distilled water, dudes)
1957 Time Capsule

Google Co-Founder Takes Over as Chief Executive - NYTimes.com (the old guy wasn't such a hot idea)
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com ... On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.” (Generation ADD)
Twitter Defamation: Can Your Business Sue? (duh)
Why Apple Keeps Covering Up Jobs' Illness Loose disclosure requirements allow company to keep investors in the dark
New York Times Paywall To Cost Under $20 A Month: BusinessWeek ($240/yr, that'll work)
Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Invests In Qwiki "forever improve the way people experience information." ("information becomes an experience you can watch" - uh-huh)
Here’s What’s Hiding in Verizon’s Net Neutrality Suit: Broadband News and Analysis « (you can imagine)

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Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - manufactures falsehoods about them, baselessly warns that they pose Grave Dangers and are severely harming our National Security, peppers all that with personality smears to render the targeted individuals repellent on a personal level, and feeds it all to the establishment American media, which then dutifully amplifies and mindlessly disseminates it all ... the WikiLeaks disclosures are significant precisely because they expose government deceit, wrongdoing and brutality (the Iraq schema +"blood on their hands" +projection)
Poll: Almost half of Britons feel WikiLeaks sex charges are "excuse" - CNN
Eunomia » The Irrelevance of Wikileaks
What the Obama administration and Emily Litella have in common | Daniel W. Drezner it now turns out that the Obama administration exaggerated juuuuust a wee bit about the damage caused by Wikileaks
Julian Assange | WikiLeaks| Swiss Banking | Rudolf Elmer

Israel | Palestinian Conflict | US Aid | Peace Talks Despite giving Israel $3 billion in military aid a year, US lacks leverage (funding Israel's welfare queen Torah "scholars")
Zimbabwe: WikiLeaks Treason Charges Considered (Britain will extradite, for sure)
Mexico's Ex-President Vicente Fox: Legalize Drugs - time (big pharma/liquor/Republicans/warmachine/DEA/Hillary say no)

New Washington Post/ABC Poll: Americans View Tea Party Less Favorably Than Russia, Socialism | Firedoglake Only 35% of Americans like the Teabaggers, about the same number that like Saudi Arabia. Kinda figures. Both love to drill for oil, hate gays, and believe in theocracy.
Petraeus Team: Taliban Made Us Wipe Village Out | Danger Room | Wired.com (your taxdollars destroying the world)

Hu Jintao given hostile reception at US Congress | World news | guardian.co.uk
Key Senator Urges Obama To Push Foreclosure Relief In State Of The Union (Obama will focus on the deficit, cutting spending)
Keith Olbermann On Lieberman: 'Good Riddance' To 'Delusional Liar' (video)
NationalJournal.com - Democrats' Losses Could Grow in 2012 - Wednesday, November 10, 2010 It doesn't take a crystal ball to understand that the short-term trends look dismal for Dems (Obama leads Dems into the wilderness)
Nearly 130 Arrested in Huge Mob Crackdown - NYTimes.com
Maryland road safety head, Post's Halsey blame pedestrians and even Michelle Obama for fatalities - Greater Greater Washington GHSA gave the Examiner a shameful statement actually claiming that Michelle Obama's initiatives to get more people outside walking and exercising could be a cause of the deaths.
Ezra Klein - If Obama wants to be bold, he should be bold the frequent infighting and petty spats that split the White House economic team over the past two years, but the individual who comes off worst in the article is not Larry Summers or Christina Romer or Peter Orszag or Rahm Emanuel. It's President Obama (he really don't know much to start with, and it's questionable whether he's learned much either)
How Larry Summers hobbled Obama’s economic policy | Analysis & Opinion (Larry "The Bummer" Summers, but the real problem was big 0)
YouTube - Glenn Beck Shoot Them In The Head Video Clip Found (both sides do it)
Rick Santorum Invokes Race In Attacking Obama On Abortion (VIDEO) Well if that human life is not a person then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say 'now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.'" (it oozes out of their slimy pores)
Mike Lee: Federal Disaster Relief Is Unconstitutional (everything except tax-cuts and no civil rights is Unconstitutional, so just die, already)
WaPo Newsroom Upset Because Black Lady With Boobs Hosts WaPo Webcast
Another Poll Shows Majority Support for Single-Payer – Healthcare-NOW! (Obama says its just a small group of disgruntled librals)
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798 - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes
BBC News - The top US presidents: First poll of UK experts

What Have We Unlearned from Our Great Recession? - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
The Class War Launched by America's Wealthiest Is Getting More Savage | Economy | AlterNet Countries with wide income inequality are unstable: they have large underclasses, high rates of crime and little opportunity
Simon Johnson: Tunnel Vision, or Worse, From Banking Regulators - NYTimes.com (or complete complicity)
Chiesi Pleads Guilty in Galleon Insider-Trading Case - NYTimes.com (she'll look good in prison clothes)
Edward L. Glaeser: Why Green Energy Can't Power a Job Engine - NYTimes.com Conservative critics, including Michelle Malkin, argue that the Devens closing provides a warning about green energy: “The myth that ’green jobs’ are a boon to the economy keeps getting pierced by failed green jobs boondoggle after failed green jobs boondoggle.” (more fair-n-balanced crap from the Times: it's the subsidies, stupid!)
In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism

News Blog: Freeman Dyson and the irresistible urge to be contrary about climate change
The Danger of Cosmic Genius - Magazine - The Atlantic
Mysteries of Lake Vostok on brink of discovery - environment - 05 January 2011 - New Scientist

Fatal hit-and-run accident leads to mob beating | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times A fatal hit-and-run in Hawthorne left one man dead, a good Samaritan injured by another car when she attempted to help, and the motorist who stopped to check on her after allegedly striking her beaten and robbed by a mob of bystanders.
45% Of Students Don't Learn Much In College (no critical thinking skills; Republicans rejoice at the dumbification of America)
Watchdog Claims Conspiracy Driving Rules On For-Profit Colleges (University of Phoenix and Kaplan University have left graduates suffering under debts they cannot repay given the meager wages they typically earn.)
YouTube - Cromartie High School #1 Bragging Contest

The Most Emailed 'New York Times' Article Ever | The Awl
Paris Catacombs - National Geographic Magazine
IfItWereMyHome.com

Sony v. Hotz: Sony Sends A Dangerous Message to Researchers -- and Its Customers | Electronic Frontier Foundation - Sony has sued several security researchers for publishing information about security holes in Sony’s PlayStation 3 (big corps: no speech/research for you)


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Warming will 'wipe out billions' - Scotsman.com News - MOST of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientists has warned - only around 10 per cent of the planet's population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.
The Climate Scoreboard — Climate Interactive
The Jevons Paradox and curbing energy consumption : The New Yorker

An uprising in Tunisia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
ABC News - Brisbane floods: before and after
BBC News - Row as Israeli Knesset plans inquiry into leftist NGOs
Leila Trabelsi, Former Tunisian First Lady, Family Despised By Nation - wife and her rapacious family.
Berlusconi criticised for 'use of policewomen's outfits in villa striptease shows' | World news | The Guardian Documents claim 'bunga bunga' parties involved Italian PM's female guests putting on – and then gradually taking off – uniforms

Robert Greenwald: No Room for the Pentagon's Wars in Dr. King's Dream (contra Team Obama)

YouTube - Weiner Gives 'Half Time Report' In Debate Over Health Care Repeal ("ladies and gentlemen, pick your side")
Obama's Social Security Talk Is Turning Voters Off, Pollsters Say (just can't be a Democrat, can he?)
Obama’s Jobs Search - NYTimes.com a new economic team is being built around Bill Clinton-era figures (deficits! +Obama not "excited")
Health Care Law Repeal Taken Up in House - NYTimes.com which Republicans say will ultimately add hundreds of billions of dollars to future federal deficits. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office disagrees (Times play fair-n-balanced between lying Republicans and CBO)
Health Care Reform Claim From Republicans Appears Shaky
Vermont Lawmakers Lay Groundwork For Single Payer System In Place Of Obamacare (Obama threatens to invade Vermont)
Steve King Dismisses Concerns Over Preexisting Conditions: 'Minor Thing' (your death is a minor thing to Republicans)
Stephen Colbert Ridicules The Dismantling Of Wake County's Successful Schools TEDESCO: If we had a school that was, like, 80 percent high-poverty, the public will see the challenges, the need to make it successful...Right now, we have diluted the problem, so we can ignore it (inside the mind? of a Republican teapartier and why they're dangerous for America)

Goldman Sachs: Extended Unemployment Benefits Not Causing High Unemployment (Republicans stick fingers in ears_
NJ Public Pension Slugfest Reporting Omits 15 Years of Governors Stealing From Workers « naked capitalism the state has been raiding the pension kitty for over 15 years ... The shell game started in 1995 with Christine Todd Whitman ... to finance her political ambitions with a popular buy-now, pay-later economic policy that will place a financial stranglehold on future generations of New Jerseyans… (15 yrs later: Republican plan worked!)
Obama Announces Regulatory Streamlining | FDL News Desk You have a Clintonite revival at the White House, and one of the first things they do is to re-implement a Clinton-era idea streamlining the bureaucracy. Man bites dog.
Merkley Offers Comprehensive Fix for Mortgage Market, Includes Bankruptcy Reform | FDL News Desk (keeps tax credit)
A Note on Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply - NYTimes.com

Voyager 1 at edge of solar system - baltimoresun.com
Harm reduction: Fighting drugs through jujitsu | The Economist (legalization is the only thing that works, or will work, ever)
drake equation - Wolfram|Alpha (says 10 communicating civilizations in the Milky Way)
Rain—and Controversy—in Abu Dhabi

Inherently Violent: Why Conservatives Love War - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (they love violence and the power they get from it)
Scholars Return to ‘Culture of Poverty’ Ideas - NYTimes.com
Boston Review — Stephen Steinberg: Poor Reason (culture of poverty) Culture still doesn’t explain poverty
Global Aging Preparedness Index
tapped Archive | The American Prospect What Is Orthodox? (American Christians know little of their religion (and don't go to church) but know whose team they play for!)
Programmed for Love: The Unsettling Future of Robotics - The Chronicle Review - In a skeptical turn, the MIT ethnographer Sherry Turkle warns of the dangers of social technology (well, there's your problem, right there)
"Alone Together": An MIT Professor's New Book Urges Us to Unplug | Fast Company (Sherry Turkle has an ad campaign for her new book +getoffmylawn)

Jared Lee Loughner's Nietzsche: Why the philosopher is misunderstood by angry young men. - By Matt Feeney - Slate Magazine
The One-Man Drug Company After prep school, he built a thriving business. Now he’s got to find a way to get out of it.
Don Justo Martinez's Cathedral Built Entirely From Trash In Spain (photos)
YouTube - Pale kid raps fast

Franken blasts approval of Comcast-NBC merger | StarTribune.com

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Worst bombing in Iraq in months claims at least 60 lives | McClatchy
Forty years on, Laos reaps bitter harvest of the secret war | World news | The Guardian More than 100 countries will today sign a convention banning the use of cluster bombs. In Laos, the most bombed nation on earth, their lethal legacy is a part of daily life (Kissinger/Nixon, war criminals, dropped more bombs on Laos than WWII)
Vietnam latest news - Thanh Nien Daily | Cold sets off wave of illness and death in Vietnam 10,000 cows and buffalos have perished nationwide due to harsh weather conditions.


Olbermann's Arizona Special Comment: The Right Is Using More Violent Rhetoric Than Before Shooting (video)
Poll: Majority Of Americans, Including Gun Owners, Support Tougher Restrictions (unAmerican)

Iraq’s Medical Meltdown | Health Policy | DISCOVER Magazine The bombings are only the beginning of the story. What comes next for Iraq’s wounded is a frightening descent into a rapidly crumbling health-care system
Dead Men Walking | Mental Health | DISCOVER Magazine What sort of future do brain-injured Iraq veterans face? (sorry, pre-existing condition)
The Leonard Lopate Show: Head Cases: The World of Traumatic Brain Injury - WNYC

Hullabaloo: The Secret Of His Success - Not a lot of talk about jobs or home foreclosures or the rest of the economic hardships still being felt by millions of ordinary Americans (or as Wolffe put it, their misconception that the country is still in recession.) I guess they're going to let the invisible hand take care of that (lurches far-center-right, where he's comfortable)
Fact Check: Shaky health care job loss estimate - Yahoo! News But the widely cited estimate by House GOP leaders is shaky. It's the latest creative use of statistics in the health care debate, which has seen plenty of examples from both sides (they lie!)
Kent Conrad Retiring From Senate: Report (Doomed Blue-Dog Conserva-Dem fucked up HCR; now ND can have a teapartier)
Are We Sure 'Civility' Will Help the Democrats? - Newsweek (otherwise known as "timidity" and "stupidity")

Freddie deBoer L'Hôte: the blindspot (updated)
Seeing Like a Policy Wonk, Left-Wing Critique, Freddie deBoer 2011 edition. « Rortybomb
interfluidity » 2011 » January
interfluidity » Endogenize ideology
Liberals and Labor | Mother Jones
On the Lack of Left Wing Discourse in the Blogosphere « naked capitalism
Confessions Of A Hippie Puncher/Ignorer | The New Republic

Christina Romer Says: Obama State of the Union Speech Should Focus on Deficit - Grasping Reality with Both Hands (of course, our center-right Pres will play right into their hands)
Stuff Happens - NYTimes.com - Texas AG: " It is almost the height of insanity of bureaucracy to have the EPA regulating something that is emitted by all living things (next up, your sewage)
$#*! My Texas AG Says: “It is almost the height of insanity of bureaucracy to have the EPA regulating something that is emitted by all living things.” « Climate Progress
Advice to a Young Tradesman - time is money

A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand - The Globe and Mail Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline.
Hiv Prevention Drugs - Preventing HIV with drugs: What now? - Los Angeles Times

No McMansions for Millennials - Yahoo! Real Estate (how can they live without a 2-car garage?)
Lenore Skenazy: Eek! A Male! - WSJ.com Treating all men as potential predators doesn't make our kids safer (keep them away from Republicans)
Where Did the Korean Greengrocers Go? by Laura Vanderkam - City Journal
Should I work for free?—a flowchart

YouTube - Sarah Palin Battle Hymn
YouTube - Night Of The Living Dead in 1080p

At $25 Per MB, No Wonder Carriers Love M2M: Broadband News and Analysis « (your pill bottles need a data-plan)
Shannon Johnson affidavit: She was playing Cafe World on Facebook as 1-year-old son drowned - Denver News - The Latest Word
George Bronk Used Facebook To Hack Women's Emails
Facebook's 3rd Biggest Advertiser is a Bing Affiliate Scam
Facebook Does U-Turn On Sharing Home Addresses, Phone Numbers controversial new policy that enabled Facebook app developers to access users' home addresses and mobile phone numbers (FB doesn't give a shit about your privacy)
pwsnt - people who said nigger today
New Twitter DM Spam Attack: Beware 'iPhone Testers' Message
All-Star Thinkers on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary - The Editors - Technology - The Atlantic
Sprint Raising Smartphone Data Fees By $10 A Month
KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more!

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Helen Thomas: I Could Call Obama Anything Without Reprimand, But I Can't Criticize Israel - Eyeblast.tv

Arizona GOP Pushing For Guns On College Campuses

On MLK Day, Some Thoughts on Segregated Schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama - Dana Goldstein Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino
Ike warned of 'military-industrial complex' 50 years ago - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency
The War on Logic - NYTimes.com Republicans seemed to have lost interest in the war on terror and shifted focus to the war on arithmetic. But now the G.O.P. has moved on to an even bigger project: the war on logic.
Darrell Issa Makes Life Difficult for Obama : The New Yorker Darrell Issa, the congressman about to make life more difficult for President Obama, has had some troubles of his own (besides being insane)
Schumer: US officials should report drug use - KOLD News 13 (what an ass)
Macon Bacon | TBogg Macon City Councilman Erick Erickson plans to leave his one-term post about six months early to take a new nighttime job as an Atlanta radio show host (whiny quitter, just like you know who)
Who had the Worst Week in Washington? Sarah Palin.
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community By this same reasoning any law involving worker safety, the minimum wage, limitations on hours worked per day and week, etc. are also unconstitutional
Did Mark Levin Incite Mass Murder? (stupid attention-seeker)
DHS Scraps Bush-Era 'Virtual Fence' Project After $1B | TPMMuckraker (Immigration Theatre)

Wikileaks to 'disclose tax dodge files' - Home News, UK - The Independent
Swiss whistleblower hands bank data to WikiLeaks | Reuters
Rudolf Elmer, Ex-Swiss Banker, Gives Data to WikiLeaks - NYTimes.com (it's a crime to embarrass rich tax-evaders)
10,000 GMAC Foreclosures Stopped in Maryland | FDL News Desk (in your house, stealin' it)
Executive order: Gov. Haslam throws out income disclosure rules » Knoxville News Sentinel Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed an executive order that eliminates a requirement for the governor and top aides to disclose how much they earn (of course)

The Imaginot Line - By Paul Seabright | Foreign Policy Why we're still fighting yesterday's economic war.
The Rise of the New Global Elite - Magazine - The Atlantic

New Type Of Entanglement Allows "Teleportation in Time", Say Physicists - Technology Review - it's possible to travel into the future without being present during the time in between (we do that all the time)
How deep the Universe | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
AFP: Researchers aim to resurrect mammoth in five years (next, T-Rex!)
“None of your damn business” – Bad Science (they don't even care anymore)
Don Lattin: Harvard Psychedelic Club: 1956 Footage Of Housewife's Acid Trip

L.A. Critical Mass Rider Sues City For LAPD 'Beating' Caught On Cell-Phone Video - Los Angeles News - The Informer (keep them under surveillance)
Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview with Rep. Sanchez - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Why you should always encrypt your smartphone (you have no right to privacy)
The Girl's Guide To Having An Abortion One in three American women have had or will have an abortion

Why Learning to Fly (or Code) Is Easier Than You Think - James Somers - Technology - The Atlantic
All Of Ricky Gervais's Most Controversial Moments
Tim Allen (Dick)
Semen Allergy Blamed For Post-Orgasm Sickness
Drawing Cats: Guide to Colors by `Cedarseed on deviantART

YouTube - A Behind the Scenes Look: How We Make Our Products
Plastic: Plastic's Sunset Approaches
Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » See Something? Cite Something.

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Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks | Media | The Observer He will disclose the details of 'massive potential tax evasion' before he flies home to stand trial over his actions (+"approximately 40 politicians") (Obama stamping his feet)
People OK with murdering Assange - 01-16-2011 @ 2:11am EDT (rightwingers inciting terrorist killings should be investigated and jailed)

‘North Korea’s Committing Genocide’ | The Diplomat
New Survey Undermines Official Policy: Most Germans Feel no Responsibility for Israel - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International most Germans feel their country has no special responsibility for Israel, despite Germany's official foreign policy of support for Israel. And only 13 percent of Germans are in favor of providing military support to Israel if the country came under attack.
Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel - NYTimes.com a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own ... In early 2008 the German company Siemens cooperated (hacking OK when Israel and your goverment does it)
Extended Subset » Blog Archive » More on OpenBSD IPsec
Power in Tunisia Changes Hands 2 Times in 24 Hours - NYTimes.com
Cables Portay U.S. Ambivalence on Tunisia - NYTimes.com - expressing alarm about popular resentment of the blatant corruption of the country’s first family (not the corruption, the "popular resentment" of American-backed corrupt dictator)
Two Officials Tied to Former President Are Held in Tunisia - NYTimes.com
Silvio Berlusconi reels as 'Ilda the Red' lands the first blow in sex offences case | World news | The Observer Magistrate Ilda Boccassini vows to cut pre-trial hearings and have the Italian PM in court this summer in a prostitution case
UK Reopens News Of The World Phone Hacking Inquiry (Murdoch almost succeeded in burying the case)

No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords - NYTimes.com - But when a Department of Homeland Security report warned of far-right extremism and attacks by “lone wolves” that same summer, Gingrich called it a smear and John Boehner demanded an apology.
Political Times - After the Tucson Shooting, Is the Anger Gone? - NYTimes.com (liberal "radio ranters and acid bloggers" keeping the hate alive)
Dr. David Bowman On Arizona Shootings: 'Heroic Things Done By Normal People'
Mark Levin, Radio Host, Threatens To Sue Chris Matthews, MSNBC Lineup (AUDIO) Matthews had cited him and fellow right wing radio host Michael Savage as examples of incendiary media figures promoting ugly rhetoric--something that has come under scrutiny in the wake of the Arizona shootings.
Anderson Cooper Blasts Oil Spill Commission Claim About His Reporting (VIDEO) but the idea that there were not plenty of legitimate reasons for people in the Gulf to be upset about the response to the spill is just ludicrous." (that would be the Government coverup commission owned by BP)
Tea Party Faces Tough Reality In Washington As New Session Begins their new lawmakers plunge into familiar patterns of raising political cash, hiring former lobbyists and stopping short of the often-heard vow to "change the way Washington works." (that didn't take long)

Chuck Schumer & Tom Coburn Agree To Sit Together At State Of The Union Two senators from different parties say they'll skip tradition and sit together during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address (and the rest of the Republicans will yell "you lie")
Chris Matthews Calls Birthers 'Crackers' (VIDEO) . "Whether it's somebody, some cracker out there on the right calling him -- some birther type that he's not an American or it is someone a little more sophisticated, but basically saying he's a socialist."
The Truth and Consequences of Repeal - NYTimes.com Americans will pay a high price if opponents get their way. Reform means that tens of millions of uninsured people will get a chance at security; and many millions more who have coverage can be sure they can keep or replace it, even if they get sick or lose their jobs (won't "destroy jobs" but repeal will destroy the economy, lying Repubicans at work)
In the Health Care Fight, a Political Focus on Jobs, With No Simple Answers - NYTimes.com many economists say the effect on jobs is likely to be modest — neither so negative as Republicans assert nor so positive as Democrats contend ... a more significant test is whether the law will slow the growth of health costs and provide greater value to consumers, taxpayers and employers in return for the $2.5 trillion a year they spend on health care (Republicans: fuck them)
Cheryl Allen Charged With Making Threats Allen ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for Indiana's 4th Congressional District seat in 2010, winning just 3 percent of the vote (insane teapartier)
Society Of Professional Journalists Ends Helen Thomas Award (pressured by AIPAC)

Tim Pawlenty: GOP Should Vote Against Raising Debt Ceiling, Then Pass Bill Preventing Default (Republicans destroying America)
Utpoian Thinking on Jobs and Unemployment at the Washington Post | Beat the Press - many other countries across the OECD also have work sharing policies and most of these countries are not run by politicians who are viewed as leftists by anyone other than the Washington Post (Kaplan Test Prep is bad for America)
Yglesias » A Public Option for Banking Chase says that unless it goes unregulated, the poor will suffer (rolls eyes)
Marvin Berkowitz Pleads Guilty In Tax Fraud Ring A Chicago man who authorities say led an Israeli-American crime ring specializing in tax fraud and money laundering has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and mail fraud charges.
Food stamp surge in Illinois - Chicago Sun-Times
Is Gun Liability Insurance the Next Big Thing?

Studying Impact of ‘Superstorm’ on California - NYTimes.com California faces the risk not just of devastating earthquakes but also of a catastrophic storm that could tear at the coasts, inundate the Central Valley and cause four to five times as much economic damage as a large quake, scientists and emergency planners warn ... The abbreviation for atmospheric river, A.R., gave the geological survey the root of its name for these major weather events, which they call ARk storms. (start building)
Melting in Andes Reveals Remains and Wreckage - NYTimes.com “There are more ice mummies in the peaks above us,” he said. “Melting glaciers will bring them to us.”
Inactivity Is Harmful, Even With Trips to the Gym - NYTimes.com Increasingly, research is focusing not on how much exercise people get, but how much of their time is spent in sedentary activity, and the harm that does (don't sit down)
Measuring hell - The Boston Globe Was modern physics born in the Inferno?
[physics/0110031] Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws
Introduction to Scaling Laws

Sheriff and 2 Others Charged in Texas Whistle-Blowing Case - NYTimes.com A state grand jury in Winkler County, Tex., has indicted the sheriff, the county attorney and a hospital administrator for their roles in orchestrating the prosecution of two whistle-blowing nurses after they had reported allegations of malpractice (more Texas justice)

David Sehat: The Myths of American Religious Freedom
Amy Chua - Retreat of the ‘Tiger Mother’ - NYTimes.com (she killed her Amazon ratings with her WSJ troll piece)
Christine Carter, PhD: Chinese Mothers Controversy: Why Amy Chua Is Wrong About Parenting
Introduction by the Author - Op-Art - NYTimes.com Fran Lebowitz, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, is the author of the forthcoming “Progress,” which will be published within the century (if we're lucky)
Anis Shivani: New Rules For Writers: Ignore Publicity, Shun Crowds, Refuse Recognition And More
Library clears its shelves in protest at closure threat | Books | The Guardian Users urged to take out full allowance of library books in campaign to keep Stony Stratford branch open
"A Wrinkle In Time" In 90 Seconds on Vimeo
catstut6.jpeg
Mariel Clayton - Doll Photographer with a subversive sense of humour (Barbies!)
"chapman brothers" + hell - Google Search

Phone Cameras May Raise New Copyright Questions - NYTimes.com Charles Nesson, the Weld professor of law at Harvard Law School and founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society there, also said that the act of “documenting” a book, as he called it, bears many similarities to pirating music (and many dissimilarities, but we don't mention those)
End of Free Internet: US Senate Committee Approves Internet “Blacklist” Bill : Clearly this was funded by media cartels, but this has a lot more to do with Internet censorship as it does about copyright infringement. Further, this law gives the Department of Justice power to block access to websites located outside the United States. This self-appointed global power grab ... (will destroy the internets +Obama sucks)
Curation is the New Search is the New Curation
Can Google Get Its Mojo Back? (ranking has been gamed)
What Future Does Facebook Have? - Grasping Reality with Both Hands (welcome our new social overlords +"facebook it")
Four Modes of Seeking Information and How to Design for Them - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

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Joy as Tunisian President Flees Offers Lesson to Arab Leaders - NYTimes.com the first instance of an Arab leader to be overthrown in popular protests ... "“And the people wanted life,” she said, “and the chains were broken.”) overwhelming decades of accumulated power in the hands of a highly centralized, American-backed government (America loves their strong-man dictators)
Maher Arar: Tunisian Riots Signal a New Era for North Africa and the Middle East
The First WikiLeaks Revolution? | WikiLeaked (let's try this in police-state Amercia)
A week of racism in Israel - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Israeli racism may not be new but it is becoming more open, which raises the question - which way will the public tip? (take a guess)
Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence? :: Middle East Quarterly
The Volokh Conspiracy » Danish Member of Parliament (Jesper Langballe) Guilty of “Insult[ing] or Denigrat[ing]” Muslims ... Of course Lars Hedegaard shouldn’t have said that there are Muslim fathers who rape their daughters when the truth instead seems to be that they make do with killing daughters (so-called honour killings) –- and moreover turn a blind eye to rapes by uncles.
New Controls on Text Messages Documents showing lists of hundreds of banned keywords, including "democracy", "human rights," and "telling the truth," were circulating widely on the Internet. (especially that "truth" word)
Australian floods: Why were we so surprised? | Environment | The Guardian Meteorologists warned Australians six months ago to prepare for a soaking. And nobody did a thing ... (sounds like you-know-where)
China turns out first solar-powered air conditioner - GlobalTimes China's first solar-powered air conditioner that can also send excess electricity to the power grid began rolling off a Gree Electric Appliances production line Wednesday. The first 50,000 units will be sold in the American market. After that, the units will also be available for purchase in China, according to company sources (America can't make shit; well except for innovative world-destroying financial products)
2010 Was Deadliest Year Yet in Mexican Drug War | Just Say Now (Hillary getting ready to invade)

The Man Who Spilled the Secrets | Politics | Vanity Fair Guardian editors and their colleagues at The New York Times and other media outlets struggled to corral a whistle-blowing stampede amid growing distrust and anger.
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Guns In U.S. Politics: 10 Recent Examples (rightwing terrorism)
A Brief History of American Assassination Attempts - Photo Essays - TIME
Fame Through Assassination: A Secret Service Study : NPR (America: land of the NRA-enabled assassins)
Arizona shooting victim arrested after threat - Yahoo! News

DOJ Speaks from Privilege to Defend DOMA Once Again | Firedoglake (Obama hates gay people, still)
4th Amendment: Supreme Court appears set to give police more leeway in searches - latimes.com Conservative justices appear to agree police should be allowed to enter a suspect's residence without a warrant if they suspect evidence is being destroyed (rightwing Justices activating away your Constitution)
Patriot Act up for renewal and no one notices - National Independent | Examiner.com
Camp Pendleton Amphibious Assault Vehicle Sinks Off California (new trillion dollar Navy boat doesn't float)
Reagan Had Alzheimer's As President, Says Son (that was obvious, and so did Bush)
Come Saturday Morning: In Case It Wasn’t Obvious That Bigots Run The GOP | Firedoglake Yes, folks, as David Wynn Miller says, words can mean whatever you want them to mean, so “pogrom” and “blood libel” now mean “anytime somebody picks on a poor innocent widdle conservative”.
Eschaton: Kill For Peace: “I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack,” he said. The distortion beyond all recognition of what it means to be Left, at the hands of the Obama Administration, continues.
Transparency in the age of Obama - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Obama Putting Education At Front Of His Agenda, But Trouble Lurks (Republicans are always lurking)
Angry senior confronts Republican lawmaker over health care repeal (Video) - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com

Comparing US states with countries: US equivalents | The Economist (LA=Israel, TX=Russia, CA=Italy, MA=Saudi Arabia)
Vincent McCrudden, NY Money Manager, Accused Of Threatening To Kill 47 Regulators (Obama wasn't on the list)

Scientists Release Largest 3D Map of Universe Ever | ICU Online Blog Central
Clowning helps IVF patients become pregnant: study - Lin Edwards - Physorg.com - RichardDawkins.net Infertility researchers in Israel have found a 15-minute encounter with a clown immediately after fertility treatment dramatically increased the chances of a successful pregnancy
The Price of Altruism | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine
The Group: On George Price | The Nation

Tenn. Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From History Textbooks | News One (what slavery?)
GOOD.is | Are the Richest Americans Also the Best Educated? (yes and you don't want to live in KY)
William Langewiesche on Somali pirates | Politics | Vanity Fair The Pirate Latitudes
The Unsolved Mystery of the Notorious B.I.G. | Rolling Stone Music Did the LAPD suppress evidence that rogue cops conspired with Death Row's Suge Knight to assassinate rap star Biggie Smalls? Inside the civil trial that is threatening to bring down the most powerful institutions in Los Angeles ... "The LAPD deliberately hid witness statements tying corrupt police to the slaying of Notorious B.I.G., a federal judge said Thursday in granting a mistrial and potentially lucrative attorney fees to the rapper's family. (LAPD implicated +LATimes coverup +"Well, if you didn't know before, now you do.")
Pharmacist Denies Anti-Bleeding Medication Because Woman Might Have Had an Abortion | Women's Rights | Change.org (Mormons policing your uterus)
Amy Chua - Retreat of the ‘Tiger Mother’ - NYTimes.com ("death threats" but does the Times ask for evidence? did she call law enforcement? is she trolling?)
Why Chinese Girlfriends Are Superior at Shanghai Shiok! Chinese girlfriends believe that the best way to nurture a relationship is by stripping their boyfriends of individuality, so that existence as a couple – complete with its many rules and expectations — is the only existence these men will know, and be able to survive in ("Tiger Girlfriends" +Amy Chua killed her Amazon ratings with her WSJ troll piece, too bad) )
Erik Wells Proposes West Virginia Bill That Would Revoke Parents' Licenses For Children's Truancy Parents who are lax about attendance are sentencing their kids to a life of limited economic opportunity, he said (but your sucky underfunded schools have nothing to do with it)
Joseph Conrad's science fiction novel | Books | guardian.co.uk it concerns a scheme by a group of people from "the Fourth Dimension" to wipe away the current order on earth and set up their own morally dubious hegemony (early novel about Republicans)
Potrzebie: Jack Kirby meets Jack Ruby
Growing Up Gay, Part 1 - RTÉ: April 19th, 2010 on Vimeo
Are E-Cigarettes the Holy Grail for Hopelessly Addicted Smokers? | | AlterNet

Pilot Delays Takeoff for Dying 2-Year-Old's Grandfather - ABC News
Texting Girl Falls In Mall Fountain Video
YouTube - Weightless Cats - I Can Has Gravity?

frontline: the merchants of cool | PBS
Royal Pingdom » Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart)
The Internet Is Ridiculously Huge
Wikipedia: You Still Can't Trust It | Lance Ulanoff | PCMag.com (Lance discovers the internets)

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Wikileaks' Assange charged in US with 'treason' | THINQ.co.uk WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been accused of "treason" by a Florida man seeking damages for distress caused by the site's revelations about the US Government.
LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks ... The only surprising thing about the WikiLeaks revelations is that they contain no surprises (o rly; Žižek misses the point but Assange is the new Joker)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com WikiLeaks on Twitter -- a full week ago -- made clear the falsehood driving all these stories: "It is not acceptable [for] the Guardian to blame us for a cable the Guardian selected and published on Dec 8." (they forgot they published the cable first, but it was propagated by the Murdoch/WSJ, etc)

Tunisia Revolution live updates
Israel Ultra-Orthodox Jews Pose Challenges Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country (non-working welfare queens paid for with your taxpayer dollars)
Iraq Insurgents Jailbreak: Detainees Don Police Uniforms To Flee Prison A dozen terror suspects disguised in police uniforms broke out of an Iraqi jail Friday
Iraq | Withdrawal | US Troops US troops, facing hostile new Iraq government, race against the clock.
Indian Festival Stampede: 100 Pilgrims Killed In Southern India
Japanese Teens, Married Couples Losing Sex Drive: Report a whopping 36.1 percent of teenage boys between the ages of 16-19 said they had little to no interest in sex, and in some cases even despised it

/ Tears and Rain - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Politics - The Atlantic- by Michael Chabon
Obama official: MLK would love our wars! - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Salon.com - from Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson, is brazen even in the annals of misappropriations of King (it's how they think)

/ Ban On Women In Combat Is Discriminatory, High-Level Military Panel States
An Unbelievable Video of Political Madness - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic (attacked by anti-semitic nazi loser teapartiers)
Stewart Mocks Fox News For Criticizing Arizona Shooting Memorial (VIDEO)
The Geography of Gun Deaths - Richard Florida - National - The Atlantic
In his response to Tucson shootings, Arizona's John McCain avoids the spotlight (uncharacteristically quiet)
Wash Times: Criticism Of Palin's 'Blood Libel' Part Of 'Ongoing Pogrom' Against Conservatives | TPMMuckraker (Conservatives are the new Jews in medieval Europe, getting massacred everywhere)

Why Are There So Many Jews In Beck's Rogues Gallery? | Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101140003 Insurrectionism Timeline - Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Orcinus Eliminationism in America: Appendix

US Debit Fee Caps May Hurt Poorest Customers: Dimon - CNBC (you knew they would say that)
On Louisiana Coast, Damage From Oil Goes Much Deeper Than Spill
Business Columnist Joe Nocera Moving to NY Times Op-Ed Page? - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes (another ethically-challenged NYT op-ed guy)

An Unbelievable Video of Political Madness - Jeffrey Goldberg - National - The Atlantic It's amazing, in some ways, that Congressman Bob Filner survived this encounter:
Bank walkaways add to housing crisis - chicagotribune.com Research shows 1,896 red flag homes in Chicago appear to have been abandoned during foreclosure process (foreclose, kick homeowners out, then abandon; perverse financial incentives)
HuffPost TV: Roy Sekoff On GOP Dilemma: Tea Party Delivers Both 'The Energy And The Crazy' (VIDEO) "The energy and the dynamism is really with the Tea Party, but so is all the crazy and the outrage. And that's where the danger lies."
Health Care Repeal Vote Scheduled by House Republicans - NYTimes.com Republicans say they do not intend to change the name of the proposal, titled the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act (because healthcare CEO's need jobs)
Gay-Rights Groups Protest Renewed DOJ Defense Of DOMA (Obama: "marriage is between a man and a woman")
Facing New Cuts, California's Colleges Are Shrinking Their Enrollments - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Test-taking anxiety: Study says test-takers who write about anxieties do better - latimes.com
Podcast Interview | Science/AAAS Sian Beilock on how writing about testing-worries boosts exam performance in the classroom.
ReducingStereotypeThreat.org
Colchicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the FDA approved colchicine for gout flares, awarding Colcrys a three-year term of market exclusivity, prohibiting generic sales, and increasing the price of the drug from $0.09 to $4.85 per pill.
Are We Running Out of Oil? | The Nation
Flu death toll rises as millions at risk remain unvaccinated | Society | The Guardian

Houston permit rule stops couple's effort to feed homeless | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle Couple must have proper permit to continue feeding dozens each day (Texas, of course)
Whiskey Fire: Kicker of Elves Annnyway, usually when you say "I have an educational mission, and it was inspired by Hobbits," that's kind of traditionally the end of the discussion, under normal professional circumstances. Gollum fucking Gollum (rightwing/Christian college-prep for home-schooled lettuce children)
Boy, 9, has Disney World trip ruined after US immigration rules him a threat - Telegraph
Too Much Lead Prompts Recall Of 'Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge' Candy Bars : Shots - Health News Blog : NPR

Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
Talk:Sentence spacing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
APA recommends double space after a period | Typophile
YouTube - Unplugged: Basically, Kant Was Right
YouTube - conceptualtruth's Channel

The Early Lead - Patriots' Wes Welker toes the line in comments about Jets
YouTube - The Making of The Pharcyde's Drop
Cheap Paper Art by Kelli Nelson
YouTube - Danny Wood-what?
Tom and Gary's Decentralized Dance Party | The Official Decentralized Dance Party Website
Simpsons Porn Parody Cannot Be Unseen - TV News at IGN

Book scanner could allow consumer to create their own e-books | Quillblog | Quill & Quire
10 devious new ways that computer hackers can control your machines (or fix them)

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Donald Rumsfeld Torture Lawsuit Fizzles, Again
Recep Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister: Israel Must Remove Avigdor Lieberman, Foreign Minister "Netanyahu's government is the worst or the least fortunate in the history of Israel," Erdogan added in the interview.
Brazil Floods: Over 350 Dead
Indonesia: Toy Salesman Raped 96 Kids, Say Police
A Slow Poison Attacking Democracy: Facebook Generation Fights Hungarian Media Law - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
The Putinization of Hungary

Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents - Boing Boing (Obama's harrassment)
WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning To Receive $15,000 For Defense
Wikileaks: How Does it Work? | InfoGraphic5.com

Democrats Embrace Mixed-Party Seating for State of the Union - NYTimes.com
Patriot Act up for renewal and no one notices - National Independent | Examiner.com In 2007, candidate Obama said during his Presidency there would be "no more National Security Letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime" because "that is not who we are, and it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists." (that's part of the whole no looking backwards thing)
Trent Franks: 'I Wish There Had Been One More Gun' In Tucson (there was and he almost shot the wrong guy)
Does CNN Condone Erickson's Tirades Against Nonbelievers? | Media Matters for America Erickson: Liberals Use "Moment of Silence" Rather Than Prayer To "Accommodate Atheists." (they tolerated Beck for years +"Judeo-Christian heritage" -the Jews)
Eschaton Your Daley Boehner: The tan man declined to accompany the president to the memorial service, instead attending a cocktail party fund-raiser for the RNC. I don't have a joke. I just think this is pathetic
Get the Energy Sector off the Dole - Jeffrey Leonard Why ending all government subsidies for fuel production will lead to a cleaner energy future—and why Obama has a rare chance to make it happen (so he won't)


Paul Krugman: Why The Euro Could Be Doomed
Third Way “Solution” to Foreclosure Fraud? Limits on Rule of Law | Emptywheel (since they don't label themselves idiotic Republicans, they are impartial and bipartisan)
Jobless Claims Jump, Wholesale Food Costs Surge - CNBC rose unexpectedly to 445,000 from 410,000 in the prior week, the Labor Department said on Thursday. It was the biggest one-week jump in about six months,
Credit Rating Agencies That Rated Subprime Junk as Investment Grade Warn U.S. Over Downgrade | Beat the Press (you can trust their objectivity)
Real Estate, Housing and Economy: The Foreclosure Dump - CNBC

Announcing The Open Lab Finalists! : The Thoughtful Animal
2011 : Archaeology Awards
YouTube - NASA - The Frontier Is Everywhere
The Universe at 10 Billion B.C.- An Image of Infinite Stars
Massive Outbreak of Jellyfish Could Spell Trouble for Fisheries by Richard Stone: Yale Environment 360
Guest Blog: The antidepressant reboxetine: A moment in science... it turns out that Pfizer hadn’t published data on the putative antidepressant from 74% of their patients
When a deaf man has Tourette’s | Wonderland


Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » See Something? Cite Something.
stanford Magazine: January/February 2011 > Features > Digital Immersion Separation Anxiety: Now that there's no escaping the digital world, research is getting more serious about what happens to personalities that are incessantly on.
Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for openness
Modern Warfare 2 hacked to shreds on PS3 | Warp Zoned

The Decay of MySpace | The Atlantic Wire
Reddit, Digg, Fark, Slashdot, TechCrunch & Others Sued Over Ridiculous 'Online Press Release' Patent | Techdirt
Can Twitter Land You In Court? - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down

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Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Has 'Insurance Files' On Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.


Don't go blaming guns - This Modern World - Salon.com
Fearing tea party violence, four Arizona Republicans resign | Raw Story - One detractor had even made his hand into the shape of a gun and pointed it at Miller (oh, wait, that was supposed to be "liberal violence")
Jared Loughner’s friend says suspect ‘Did not watch TV … disliked the news’ - TVNewser
Right-Wing Media Smear Moulitsas With Doctored Image | Media Matters for America (Gateway Pundit post - Jim Hoft making shit up - the Republican way ... with Photoshop!)
CNN's Erickson: In Wake Of Attempted Murder Of Jewish Politician, It's Important To Stress "A Saving Faith In Jesus Christ" | Media Matters for America (yes, insane)
StopBeck.com: As of January 9, 2011, the broadcast of Glenn Beck’s show in the U.K. has run without any commercials for nearly 11 months thanks to your efforts. «
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » They’re Predictable, At Least As soon as I saw the phrase uttered in the WSJ by the Instapundit and then immediately tweeted by Republican operative Jon Henke, I knew this was the new “beclowned” or “liberal fascism.” Remember, words mean what ever wingnuts want them to mean- that is how it works when you are creating your own reality ("blood libel" because fat, rich, lying Repubicans are just like the Jews)
Eschaton: Wingnut Stupidity: Now we've moved on to the predictable "IT'S THE LIBERALZ WHO HATES THE J000Z SO NEENER NEENER" round. Hopefully Erick Erickson can call Jesus and get a ruling on this, so we can all move on to talking about how it's really liberals who hate black people. And on and on.
Palin Claims `Blood Libel' by Critics After Shootings - Bloomberg
Sarah Palin's presidential hopes surely can't survive this assassin's bullet | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian She didn't pull the trigger, and she's not the first to use the language of combat. But the Alaskan's career will certainly suffer (incitement to murder)
Sarah | Talking Points Memo Today has been set aside to honor the victims of the Tucson massacre. And Sarah Palin has apparently decided she's one of them.
Palin, Conservatives Invoke "Blood Libel" Accusation To Attack Their Critics Over AZ Shooting | Media Matters for America (liberals are accusing them of sacrificing children to Satan)
Palin criticized for using ‘blood libel’ – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs The term was initially used in the context of the Arizona shootings by conservative pundit Glenn Reynolds, who in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Monday characterized efforts to link the attacks to rhetoric on the right as a "blood libel." (+Abe Foxman is on the case)
Daily Kos: Palin: Criticism of conservatives will result in violence (they will shoot you)
Twitter / Greg Knauss: If crimes "begin and end w ...
Pat Buchanan: Sarah Palin's Use Of Blood Libel Was 'Excellent' | TPMMuckraker (most excellent)
Deep Thought Of The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan "If every person in the world was like Sarah Palin, there probably wouldn’t even be need for government because no one would be in danger of any kind. If every person were like Sarah Palin, this world would be a peaceful, beautiful world to live in," - Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ).
Sarah Palin will never be president - Sarah Palin - Salon.com The stunning narcissism and inability to even fake empathy show why she'll never lead the nation ... The narcissism required, on a day the nation is commemorating the Arizona shooting victims, to put her own sense of victimhood front and center, is stunning.
Sarah Palin's "blood libel" response to the Tucson shooting is defensive, illogical, distracting—and late. - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine Sarah Palin's response to the Tucson shooting is defensive, illogical, distracting—and late.
Rabbi: By 'blood libel' claim Palin admits 'words can be deadly' - Faith & Reason
s Blood libel: Jewish leaders object to Palin's 'blood libel' charge - latimes.com (see the teleprompter reflection in her glasses? listen to her phoniness +upstaging both Giffords and Obama) )
Daily Kos: Jewish groups condemn Palin's use of term 'blood libel' (but not ... Alan Dershowitz!)
Sarah Palin's 'Blood Libel' Video Returned Online After Being Removed For Short While
Republicans Say Palin's Israeli Flag Says It All - Israel National News
Sharron Angle: It's 'Irresponsible' To Blame Me, Palin And Tea Party Movement | TPMDC "People are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying, my goodness, what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you, the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
Exclusive: FBI details surge in death threats against lawmakers - Erika Lovley - politico.com (librals with gunz)
YouTube - Heated rhetoric comes under fire after Arizona shootings
Rush Limbaugh’s Arizona billboard: “Straight shooter” | The Political Carnival
Glock Pistol Sales Surge in Aftermath of Shooting of Arizona's Giffords - Bloomberg
Floridian: Bestseller trampled under footnotes - Coulter: "The left is itching to silence conservatives once and for all"; "If Americans knew what they (liberals) really believed, the public would boil them in oil"; "Principle is nothing to liberals. Winning is everything." (jeebus, project much, psycho-bitch?)

CPAC Attacked For Inviting Mitch Daniels | TPMDC Daniels infuriated many social conservatives when he told the Weekly Standard in June that he thinks the country should have a "truce" on social issues until economic and national security problems are solved.
The CPAC wars - Ben Smith - politico.com charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to bring America under Saudi-style Shariah law (you can't make this shit up)
More Conservative Groups Pulling Out Of CPAC -- And Blasting Gay Inclusion | TPMDC
Sneak Preview of the Cover of The Stranger This Week, Created by Dan Savage and Aaron Huffman | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper Sneak Preview of the Cover of The Stranger This Week
Free Times: This Just In S.C. Company Sells Engraved “You Lie” Component For AR-15 Rifle (get the message?)
Rush "Kill the Liberals" Limbaugh: Jared Loughner Has 'Full Support' Of Democratic Party
Hullabaloo Independents Day - So it turns out that the shooter was a registered Independent. Gloria Borger seemed to swallow her tongue when she abruptly realized that her entire worldview had been shattered. In the Village, you see, "Independents" are the practical, moderate centrists who just want everyone to get along.

Anderson Cooper Mocks Cindy Jacobs, 'Prophet' Who Blamed Bird Deaths On DADT Repeal (not that they're spreading hate or anything)


Daily Kos: Social Security 'rescue' needs no draconian fixes (slightly better than Mexico, but Repubicans will fix that; seriously, look at the chart)

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Julian Assange's sex-crime accusers deserve to be named | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | The Guardian The shielding of sex-crime accusers is a Victorian relic. Women are moral adults and should be treated as such
TwitLonger: WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE 10 Jan 2010, 10:15 PM EST “WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expec “WikiLeaks: treat incitement seriously or expect more Gabrielle Gifford killing sprees.”

Violent Riots Outside Of Dhaka Stock Exchange After Market Plunges 9.25% In One Hour

Defense firms lure retired generals - The Boston Globe In large numbers, and with few rules, retiring generals are taking lucrative defense-firm jobs

Peter King, Leading Republican, To Introduce Strict Gun-Control Legislation
Americans Favor Semi-Automatic Weapons Ban, Wary Of 'Gun Control'
Dems And GOP Agree: Gun Control Is A Non-Starter In AZ Following Shooting | TPMDC
Ariz. Sheriff Not Backing Down - CBS News Video (Katie Couric defends hate radio)
The Giffords Gun Clip: How A 'Weapon Of Mass Destruction' Became 'The Weapon Of Choice'
YouTube - Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Sarah Palin's Crosshairs Ad 'Despicable' 03/2010 View Clip - Eerie
Jared Loughner Appears In Court, Giffords 'Still Fighting' (live updates)
Clarence Dupnik is the Anti-Joe Arpaio Sheriff in Arizona
After shootings, Clarence Dupnik is Arizona's new sheriff in town - Los Angeles Times
Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik refuses to enforce state's new 'racist' immigration law "This law, it's just irresponsible," he said. "It makes them [legislators] look like racists."
Interesting Times: Arguing Tucson : The New Yorker by George Packer - Only one side has made the rhetoric of armed revolt against an oppressive tyranny the guiding spirit of its grassroots movement and its midterm campaign. Only one side routinely invokes the Second Amendment as a form of swagger and intimidation, not-so-coyly conflating rights with threats. Only one side’s activists bring guns to democratic political gatherings ... Douthat’s column adds moral ugliness to the intellectual dishonesty that’s characterized the right’s furious response
The "Politicized Mind" Of Gabrielle Giffords - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan David Brooks is astonished, sickened, appalled that an attempted assassination of a sitting congresswoman should be immediately regarded as something possibly ... wait for it ... political (David Brooks, bozo)
Shakesville: Let's Get This Straight
Is the Giffords Shooting a New Kind of American Murder? | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
“Don't politicize this tragedy!” : Pharyngula Do not sit there cowering, trying to make excuses for teabaggers and violent morons. This is supposed to be the part where you stand up, look at the shouters on the other side, and tell them, "This is wrong, and this is the harm you bring to our country." Instead, I see a rush to postures of submission.
To Understand Assassination Threat, Look Beyond Tucson - NYTimes.com there has been a 400 percent increase in the number of threats against the White House since Barack Obama took office.
The Giffords Tragedy: Is the Media Partly at Fault? | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service for death threats against Barack Obama - Telegraph
Conservatives scoff at attempted linkage to shooting - Politics - msnbc.com Limbaugh and others denounce what they see as exploitation of Tucson event
The Uses of Political Violence by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
Before Shooting, A Campaign Season Rife With Gun Rhetoric | TPMMuckraker
What is “violent rhetoric”? : Lawyers, Guns & Money
How Glenn Beck And Fox News Successfully Painted AZ Shooter As Hitler, Marx Devotee | TPMDC
The Bloody Shirt - Stephen Budiansky - First Chapter - New York Times The title of this book refers to a small footnote to the brutal war of terrorist violence that was waged in the American South in the years immediately following the Civil War (culture of victimization by the victimizers)
Marty Kaplan: The "Lock and Load" Rhetoric of American Politics Isn't Just a Metaphor
Olbermann: 'Worst Persons' Changing Following Arizona Shooting (video)
Stewart, Colbert Draw Contrasts In Response To Tucson Shooting (video)
No Signs Obama Will Shift On Gun Control After Giffords Shooting | TPMMuckrake (from our no-moral-center Republican Pres?)
Sarah Palin's InTrade Odds Dive In Immediate Wake Of Arizona Tragedy
With E-Mails, Palin and Beck Discuss the Arizona Shootings - NYTimes.com An attempt on you could bring the republic down.”

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman: Reelecting Obama Will Be 'Enormous Challenge'
Chamber President Backs Health Care Repeal Vote Chamber President Tom Donohue said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's signature legislation should be overturned.
More Small Businesses Offering Health Care To Employees Thanks To Obamacare - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes

Dean Baker: The Progressive Case Against Obama's New Team tens of millions of people across the country will experience economic hardship because the people designing economic policy can't shoot straight. But hey, why should this get anyone upset? (Team Obama Failure)
Why It Could Be Very Hard for Banks to Avoid Ibanez Mortgage Catastrophes - CNBC
Foreclosure Judges Berate Lawyers - NYTimes.com (not even a sternly-worded letter to the house-stealers)
A Wary Response To Gov. Brown's Budget | Neon Tommy


Chicago Fish Die-Off: Thousands Of Shad Dead In Lake Michigan (caused by "fireworks" in Georgia)
Ohio School Board Fires Teacher John Freshwater For Burning Image Of Cross Into Students' Arms (remember John Freshwater? +Christian Nation)
Nathan Deal: Jailing Drug Addicts Is 'Draining To Our State' Newly-elected Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R) announced Monday in his inaugural address that putting drug addicts and abusers in jail was placing an unsustainable financial and civic burden on his state.
Print - Todd Marinovich: The Man Who Never Was - Esquire
A Mormon Woman’s Choices - Modern Love - NYTimes.com

YouTube - Cat Defeats Bear
The Mathematics Of Beauty « OkTrends


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Iceland summons US envoy over demand for MP's Twitter details | World news | The Guardian Reykjavik calls for explanation of Justice Department's move to access account of politician caught up in WikiLeaks inquiry ... WikiLeaks has demanded that Google and Facebook reveal which of their users are under similar scrutiny (protests Obama's unilateral boss-of-the-world stance)
Twitter Fights US Court Demands For WikiLeaks Details | eWEEK Europe UK WikiLeaks has denied putting any lives at risk, and the UN has supported its right to publish the leaked material on human rights grounds (Obama doesn't give a shit about the fucking UN)

Government-created climate of fear - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Obama keeping you scared so you won't notice your liberties are gone +foreign nationals subject to Holder's fishing expedition)
At least 70 killed in Iranian passenger plane crash - Yahoo! News
Parag Khanna The 21st century will resemble nothing more than the 12th century (new medievalism, but America will stay stuck in the 3rd)
The Kingdom in the Closet - Magazine - The Atlantic Sodomy is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, but gay life flourishes there. Why it is “easier to be gay than straight” in a society where everyone, homosexual and otherwise, lives in the closet
Thousands of Egyptian Muslims Show Up as "Human Shields" to Defend Coptic Christians From Terorism
Laser cannons to defend ships from pirates - Telegraph
China Economy | Global Economy | Loans China may be losing control of its economy to dubious financial engineering and loan sharks.

The Names of the Heroes and a Shooting Timeline | The Range: The Tucson Weekly's Daily Dispatch
House Republicans Blame the Left for Violent Rhetoric
Eschaton Villagers Agree: When horrible tragedies occur, it is wrong to think about what might have caused them (unless, of course, it's health care reform)
'Political Spin': Conservatives Pile On Pima County Sheriff Dupnik (video) | TPMMuckraker
Giffords Sent Email On Eve Of Shooting Calling For Toned Down Rhetoric | TPMDC
Chip Berlet on "The Becking of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords" - "From a moral viewpoint Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is the victim of demagogues such as Glenn Beck and his allies at Fox News and in the Tea Party Movement. This is not about legal liability, but about moral culpability. This is about a nation that has lost its moral compass."
Patricia Maisch Describes Stopping Gunman From Reloading - ABC News Patricia Maisch Hailed as One of the Heroes Who Stopped Tucson Slaughter
Gabrielle Giffords is the victim of a debased political culture - Americas, World - The Independent It was an event that seemed to grow out of America's present disturbed and angry climate, like a killer-tornado or hurricane: awful, yes, but part of the weather, and, in some sense, only to be expected.
Giffords shooting suspect refusing to co-operate, say police | World news | guardian.co.uk As US prepares to observe minute's silence over fatal Arizona shooting, investigators say Jared Lee Loughner refuses to talk
Magazine for Gun that Felled Giffords Could Not Have Been Manufactured Under Assault Weapons Ban | FDL News Desk (Republican gun-nuts with blood on their souls)
Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman's Grudge Against Giffords | Mother Jones
Tea party in the Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine) July 2010 - The general unsightliness of the capitol makes it a fitting home for today’s Arizona legislature, which is composed almost entirely of dimwits, racists, and cranks (backgrounder)
Marty Kaplan: The Vitriol in Our National Bloodstream (rightwing vilification of the truth)
After Giffords Shooting, Other Threatened Politicians Decry Arizona's History Of Extremism ("take her out")
The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.
Watering the tree of liberty - War Room - Salon.com
If suspect Jared Lee Loughner has schizophrenia, would that make him more likely to go on a shooting spree in Arizona? - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine We're too quick to use "mental illness" as an explanation for violence.
Climate of Hate - NYTimes.com there’s a huge contrast in the media. Listen to Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann, and you’ll hear a lot of caustic remarks and mockery aimed at Republicans. But you won’t hear jokes about shooting government officials or beheading a journalist at The Washington Post. Listen to Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly, and you will (the Republican hate machine)
"Loner" Jared Loughner Spoke to Giffords in 2007 - Face The Nation - CBS News
Gabrielle Giffords profile: liberal, but a pro-gun pragmatist | World news | The Guardian Giffords remarkable feat in securing re-election last November was testimony to astute political positioning
Gun crime statistics by US state: download the data. Visualised | World news | guardian.co.uk
Drew Westen: Gun Violence and the Lessons of Tucson: Will the Chambers Once Again Be Loaded Against the American People?
Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Frightening, twisted shrine in Arizona killer Jared Lee Loughner's yard
Tucson's Tragedy Inevitable With America's Sick Political and Social Gun Fetish | MyFDL
Glenn Reynolds: The Real Victims of the Arizona Mass Shooting are Conservatives | Firedoglake (uber-wanker)
Radio host Glenn Beck "thinking about killing Michael Moore" | Media Matters for America "I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it," before concluding: "No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong?" (rightwing gun violence promoted on rightwing hateradio)

Facing state, federal inquiries, probation chief resigns - The Boston Globe Probation chief says he has been made a scapegoat (for his own corruption)

Nazi-Dressing Alleged Jihadist Charged With Biting Two FBI Agents | TPMMuckraker
Arrest Over Threat to Senator | Talking Points Memo "We can confirm that there was a threat against Senator Bennet's office and that the FBI working with the Capitol Police have arrested the individual responsible for the threat.
Tom DeLay Sentenced To Prison | TPMMuckraker - three years in prison (Supremes will overrule)
Gibbs Departure Offers Opportunity To Fix White House Press Relations Gibbs comes out to the podium with the goal of not making news (and lying as much as possible)
Eschaton - Crushing - The relentless propaganda of the Villagers has persuaded everyone including liberals that Teh Debt will give us all ebola virus in our privates ... Then stop doing stupid tax cuts, stupid wars, and stupid defense spending. Or stop voting for the stupid politicians who can't find their arse with two hands and a flashlight.

Stress Tests For Banks Will Be Kept Secret (Obama says it's a national security issue)
Ha-Joon Chang, "Kicking Away the Ladder" How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have Been Re-Written to Justify Neo-Liberal Capitalism (predatory Capitalism based on false history)

Earth must prepare for close encounter with aliens, say scientists | Science | guardian.co.uk UN should co-ordinate plans for dealing with extraterrestrials – and we can't guarantee that aliens will be friendly (probably will be socialist liberals who will take away your guns)
A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? on Vimeo
Acupuncture – it really really doesn't work - Skeptico Acupuncture doesn’t work. Any benefit from sticking needles in people is due to some other effect ("meridians" are phony)
Could It Be? Spooky Experiments That 'See' The Future : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect Daryl J. Bem Cornell University.
Bem6.pdf: Why Psychologists Must Change the Way They Analyze Their Data: The Case of Psi Eric{Jan Wagenmakers, Ruud Wetzels, Denny Borsboom, & Han van der Maas University of Amsterdam
Statistical Analysis and the Illusion of Objectivity -- Berger and Berry
Journal’s Article on ESP Is Expected to Prompt Outrage - NYTimes.com

YouTube - Valentine for Perfect Strangers
Is Mercury in Retrograde?:

Your Career: Getting lewd in the workplace - Money - TODAYshow.com Many support ship's commander; sex talk is not always harassment
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Conspiracy Theory With Teeth: Government Allegedly Forced TruTV To Yank FEMA Camps Episode | Network World
Why Obama’s National Internet ID Solution is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea | Techi.com (Obama's Internet Drivers License with your DNA signature and Verisign Cert; Constitutional lawyer, and all that)

Dropbox: Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality? - Quora

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US subpoenas Wikileaks tweets, and why this could affect you | ZDNet Mark Stephens on the BBC News also makes clear that the court order will also cover the “600,000 odd followers that Wikileaks has on Twitter“ (Obama's national spy state)
DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - "the Obama administration's always-escalating war on whistleblowers, and shows how just excessive and paranoid the administration is when it comes to transparency: all this from a President who ran on a vow to have the "most transparent administration in history" and to "Protect Whistleblowers.""

Protection of Classified Information by Congress: Practices and Proposals (Obama's new rules for your protection)
wygmu.jpg I had a terrible nightmare about the USA

Interesting Times: It Doesn’t Matter Why He Did It : The New Yorker Posted by George Packer
Arizona shooting: 'Does she have any enemies?' 'Yeah. The whole Tea Party' | World news | The Guardian Shock turns to anger as mourners blame vitriolic rightwing rhetoric for creating climate of violence in US politics (Republican "operatives" removing anti-right sentiment from memorial)
Names of shooting victims released - KGUN9, Tucson News - "people who are unbalanced are especially susceptible to vitriol," said Dupnik. "It's time to do a little soul searching about the rhetoric we hear on the radio, how are children are being raised," the sheriff said. "We have become the mecca for racism and bigotry." (blames Fox and Beck)
Hospital Spokesman: Reports Of Giffords Being Awake Inaccurate | TPMDC
Daughter of Dodgers scout killed in Tucson shooting | Dodgers Blog | Los Angeles Times
Countdown: Sheriff: More persons of interest in Giffords shooting
Live Blog: Latest Developments on Arizona Shooting - NYTimes.com Investigators said that the second man was a taxi driver who drove the suspected gunman to the scene. Upon arriving there, the passenger said he did not have change and he and the taxi driver went into the supermarket for change and the two then walked out together and separated.
Latest on shooting of Congresswoman Giffords…motivation: anti Semitic and she was the target « Gretawire
Latest developments in Arizona Shooting - CNN.com
YouTube - Clarence Dupnik, Pima County AZ Sheriff, Blames AZ Political Culture for Shooting
Live Blog: Representative Giffords Shot - NYTimes.com Sheriff Calls Arizona "Mecca" for Prejudice, Bigotry
Quote For The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (Republican crazy-hate machine has a long history)
Daniel Hernandez, intern, stays by Gabrielle Giffords' side
Clarence Dupnik, Arizona Sheriff, Criticized By Sen. Jon Kyl Over Shooting Comments
The Maddow Blog - After Rep. Giffords shot in Arizona, Palin's 'Take Back the 20' goes down
Matt Taibbi: The Crying Shame of John Boehner | Rolling Stone Politics After Boehner suggested that by voting for Obamacare, Driehaus "may be a dead man" and "can't go home to the west side of Cincinnati" because "the Catholics will run him out of town," Driehaus began receiving death threats, and a right-wing website published directions to his house
Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics - NYTimes.com
Arizona Suspect’s Recent Acts Offer Hints of Alienation - NYTimes.com
Jared Lee Loughner's statements tied to conspiracy theory - Carrie Budoff Brown - politico.com
Twitter / Michael Moore: If a Detroit Muslim put a ... map on the web w/crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he b sitting right now? Just asking.
Eliminationist rhetoric and the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords: There were plenty of precursors | Crooks and Liars
Yes, Jared Loughner was 'crazy'. That doesn't exculpate the milieu that unhinged him | Crooks and Liars - David Neiwert
Raw Video: Sheriff's press conference on Giffords shooting - KGUN9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports
The Cloudy Logic of 'Political' Shootings - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic
DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization - FoxNews.com
Insurrectionism Timeline - Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Police Looking For Second Person Of Interest In Arizona Shootings | TPMMuckraker
msnbc video: House leaders condemn Giffords attacks
FOX News cuts away from 'Giffords vigil' when Sarah Palin's name is mentioned | Crooks and Liars
Your Daily Dose of Joy - A woman’s life is never as relevant as her... A woman’s life is never as relevant as her husband’s profession. Thanks for the reminder, Fox News.
Palin ‘Target’ Graphic in Perspective
Violence and politics merge in Arizona - Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith and Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com
Tucson Tea Party Leader: We Won't Change Our Rhetoric After Giffords Shooting | TPMDC
Me on Olbermann Show | Talking Points Memo
Obama London: Inexplicable Edits on Sarah Palin's Facebook Page
Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 18 Shot Near Tucson - NYTimes.com
Looks like Jared Laughner (Giffords' shooter) was no stranger to the ATS forums. : conspiracy
The YouTube videos of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner, with full text transcripts - Boing Boing
Jared Lee Loughner: social media footprints of Arizona shooting suspect - Boing Boing
Palin staffer calls using tragedy to score political points 'obscene' "We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights," she said. "It's surveyor's symbols," the interviewer Tammy Bruce suggested. Bruce, a Palin supporter, describes herself as "a gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, Tea Party Independent Conservative. " Her show is promoted as a "chick with a gun and a microphone."
surveyor's symbol - Google Search
(1,305) #tcot - Twitter Search
(28) scrubbing - Twitter Search
Twitter / Sarah Palin: Remember months ago "bullseye" icon used 2 target the 20 Obamacare-lovin' incumbent seats? We won 18 out of 20 (90% success rate;T'aint bad)
A Former Congressional Aide on The Shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Consequences of the Politics of Hate : Michael Yaki : City Brights
If suspect Jared Lee Loughner has schizophrenia, would that make him more likely to go on a shooting spree in Arizona? - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine We're too quick to use "mental illness" as an explanation for violence.
Violence and Mental Illness — How Strong is the Link? — NEJM
Secret Service Exceptional Case Study Project: Assassination in the United States: An Operation Study of Recent Assassins, Atackers, and Near-Lethal Approachers (1999)
David Wynn Miller - Wikipedia
Redemption movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
9/11, Oklahoma City, And Now: Lessons For Obama
Open Channel - Few assassins fit the 'profile.' Most had no mental health treatment, made no threats
Gun-Toting Man Draws Scrutiny Outside Obama Town Hall - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Part 1: Hate media in Rwanda• Call to genocide: radio in Rwanda, 1994: International Development Research Centre
O'Reilly's campaign against murdered doctor - Abortion - Salon.com The Fox News star had compared Tiller to a Nazi, called him a "baby killer," and warned of "Judgment Day"
Right-Wingers Rush to Label Arizona Shooting Suspect a Liberal — While Simultaneously Accusing Left of “Politicizing” Assassination Attempt | Firedoglake
ThinkProgress » Alexander Refuses To Condemn Palin’s Cross-Hairs Map, Urges Media Not To Talk About It
Does the Appleseed Project Teach Marksmanship or Something More? - NYTimes.com

Daley is a reflection, not a cause - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com he chose Emanuel for that position because that's who Obama is. Similarly, installing JP Morgan's Midwest Chairman, a Boeing director, and a long-time corporatist -- Bill Daley -- as a powerful underling replacing Emanuel isn't going to substantively change anything Obama does. It's just another reflection of the Obama presidency, its priorities and concerns, and its overarching allegiances.
Influence outlived - BostonHerald.com Curious fact, unearthed by Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal. The average age of Republican House members in the new Congress is 54.9, younger than the Republicans’ average age in the previous Congress, 56.5. But the average age of House Democrats has risen, from 58 to 60.2.


YouTube - R. P. Feynman and the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
[1012.2698] New States of Matter Suggested by New Topological Structures We extend the well-known Borromean and Brunnian rings to new higher order versions.
Topologist Predicts New Form of Matter  - Technology Review
Borromean rings: Theme and Variations
NASA Antarctica Discovery Might Foreshadow Potential Extraterrestrial Life Forms


YouTube - Amazing Dance Caught on Celtics Jumbotron

Apple pulls VLC from the iTunes store -- Engadget the open-source community may have just planted the first brick in a walled garden of its own.
hnxJE.jpg - 4chan Information Library

010811
WikiLeaks under attack: the definitive timeline | Media | guardian.co.uk
Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account details | Media | The Guardian Birgitta Jonsdottir brands efforts by US justice department to access her private information 'completely unacceptable' (more unilateral bullshit from Obama)
WikiLeaks demands Google and Facebook unseal US subpoenas | Media | guardian.co.uk Call comes after revelation that US has tried to force Twitter to release WikiLeaks members' private details - after it emerged that a court in Virginia had ordered Twitter to secretly hand over details of accounts ("secretly")
Vincent Warren: WikiLeaks and Democracy It is disappointing to see the same president who ran on his constitutional law professor bona fides devote so much time and effort to discrediting WikiLeaks and working up charges against its founder, Julian Assange (Obama could give a shit about the "Constitution")
Carne Ross: Uncomfortable Lessons From the Reaction to WikiLeaks The contents of the leaked cables should demand a deep reflection on our foreign policy. That this has not happened tells a sorry story about our very democracy (distracting from the outrageous conduct of corporate-owned US "diplomacy")
Twitter Responds to WikiLeaks Court Order | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD (just like China)
What the Government Might Be After with Its Twitter Subpoena | Emptywheel
DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
WikiLeaks: US Demanding Our Twitter Account Info PayPal and the credit card companies severed their links with site and Amazon.com booted WikiLeaks from its servers last month.

Iceland aims to become a legal safe haven for journalists | Media | The Guardian Icelandic Modern Media Initiative would offer protection against litigation

Shot Congresswoman survives surgery, doc 'optimistic' on recovery - NYPOST.com - The congresswoman’s father Spencer Gifford, 75, was rushing to the hospital when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies. "Yeah," he told The Post. "The whole tea party."
Obama, others release statements on Giffords shooting | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona
Arizona Congresswoman Giffords shot; doctors ‘optimistic’ about recovery chances - Caveat Lector - “She was shot one time in the head through and through,” Dr. Peter Rhee said
Congresswoman, 6 Others, Killed By Gunman : NPR
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Tucson - NYTimes.com Last March, her Tucson office was vandalized a few hours after the House vote overhauling the nation’s health care system, the authorities said.
Gabrielle Giffords Shot Dead: Congresswoman Killed In Arizona (LIVE UPDATES) Rep. Giffords was also on Sarah Palin's "target list."
Twitter / Sarah Palin: Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: "Don't Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!" Pls see my Facebook page (not yet deleted Twitter comment)
Palin Puts Gun Sights On “Target” Map; Urges We “Reload” « Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Palin reloads, aims for Giffords - Arizona Daily Wildcat - Perspectives
Tucson to update gun ordinance - KOLD News 13 Under a new law passed last year and signed by Governor Jan Brewer, Tucson's prohibition on guns in parks is no longer valid.
YouTube - Classitup10's Channel
xpostfactoid: Jared Lee Loughner, "fallenasleep"
Congresswoman, others shot in Ariz. - U.S. news - Crime & courts - msnbc.com killing at least five people and injuring several others in a rampage that rattled the nation.
The End Of Access The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is a watershed event in many ways, some of which we cannot yet know, but one of the clearest and simplest is this: Congress and its members are about to be permanently quarantined, physically isolated, from the people it and they represent.
Government's Big Behavioral Science Experiment - Glenn Beck - FOXNews.com
1 down, 534 to go | dispatches from TJICistan (rightwing blogs react)

Democrats On The Attack? Obama, Allies Talking Tough About GOP Efforts To Repeal Affordable Care Act | The New Republic (Dems and Obama finally figuring out they screwed themselves to save conservadems who would be defeated anyway)
Hullabaloo Out of Touch? Nah, They're Just Better Than Everyone Else "We've checked and he's (Gibbs) getting 172,200 dollarsa year. The president says that's relatively modest" (your village media is so superior to you)
Hullabaloo Rebuilding The Coalition - Fully 60 percent of whites nationwide backed Republican candidates for the House of Representatives; only 37 percent supported Democrats
Stephen Budiansky's Liberal Curmudgeon Blog: Shamelessly courting the fat vote (Republican states are over-weight)

MA Supreme Court Deals Banks a Major Blow on Foreclosure Fraud, in the Ibanez Case | FDL News Desk
Foreclosure-Prevention Program ‘Deeply Troubling,’ Issa Says - Bloomberg (here come the crazies)
French suspect Chinese link in industrial spying at Renault | World news | The Guardian Company suspends three senior executives in what is potentially one of the biggest commercial espionage cases in recent years

Vaccine studies: Examine the evidence (fuck you, Jenny McCarthy)
The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Longstanding Mystery of Sun's Hot Outer Atmosphere Solved - US National Science Foundation (NSF) scientists believe they have discovered a major source of hot gas that replenishes the corona: jets of plasma shooting up from just above the Sun's surface.

Has the Industrialized World Reached Peak Travel? | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune. Passenger travel in the industrialized world has been stagnant for nearly a decade, researchers say.
Study Suggests We’ve Hit ‘Peak Travel’ | Autopia | Wired.com
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior - WSJ.com Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back?
Porn laws from around the globe - Asylum.co.uk
Prosser ex-mayor tried to hide relationship with teen, report says - Crime | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans - Slashdot the Obama administration is currently drafting the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (Obama wants an Internet driver's license to go with his kill-switch and you'll have to buy a cert from Verisign)
'Attack A Teacher Day' Facebook Invite Gets 6 Girls Arrested
Simone Back Announces Suicide On Facebook--And None Of Her Friends Help ("friends")

010711
Protests grow over treatment of Bradley Manning - TODAYshow.com Psychologists group deplores 'brutality' of Bradley Manning's prison conditions
WikiLeaks Relocations Possible For Exposed Sources, Warns U.S. ("countless lives will be lost" downgraded to "some people might have to move")
Feds Subpoena Twitter Seeking Information on Ex-WikiLeaks Volunteer | Threat Level | Wired.com The U.S. Justice Department has served Twitter with a subpoena seeking information on an Icelandic lawmaker who has worked with WikiLeaks a

Omar Kawasmeh Shot: Wrong Man Killed By Israel In Hamas Raid Israeli troops mistakenly shot and killed a 65-year-old Palestinian man in his bed during a pre-dawn raid Friday to arrest a Hamas militant in the West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said (arrest=murder in bed)
Haiti Earthquake Anniversary: Little Progress, Broken Promises
Nudge, nudge, wink wink... How the Government wants to change the way we think - UK Politics, UK - The Independent Martin Hickman lifts the lid on the secret Whitehall policy unit dreaming up psychological tricks to alter our behaviour
Detained American Says He Was Beaten in Kuwait - NYTimes.com (as usual, the Times doesn't like the term "torture")

House Moves Toward Vote on Health Care Repeal - NYTimes.com Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.
Hullabaloo Power Play - Last August, Jane Mayer wrote a long investigative article in The New Yorker about the Koch brothers, the conservative billionaires who bankroll a host of right-wing causes. Since then, she's apparently become the victim of a disturbing, organized smear campaign (if they can discredit global warming, they certainly can discredit one person)
Exclusive: Sonny Bono's Widow - Rep. Mary Bono - In Lurid Photo Scandal With Woman Investigated By FBI | Radar Online Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack has been caught on camera in a lurid scandal where another woman is apparently licking her breast (teapartiers!)
Rep. Virginia Foxx to Lead GOP Attack on Higher Education - COLORLINES Foxx doesn’t think higher education should be publicly funded

Krugman Debunks the “Texas Miracle” | Firedoglake Krugman doesn’t mention that Perry balanced the budget in 2009 with $12 billion dollars of the Obama’s stimulus bill — while bragging about how awesome the state economy was and threatening to secede from the Union. The whole “Texas Miracle” thing was a fraud — just like the Republican governance of the state.
Inside December Jobs Report, Labor Force Hits 'Stunning New Low' only 103,000 jobs were added in December
ThinkProgress » After Railing Against Government Spending, Speaker Boehner Can’t Name One Program He Would Cut
Wonk Room » MSNBC Chyron Falsely States That House Republicans Will Require ‘All Bills Be Paid For’ (who you gonna believe? the media or your lyin eyes?)
Why Won't The Washington Post Report Deficit Impact Of Health Care Repeal? | Media Matters for America - In the past week, the Post has run at least seven articles mentioning the House GOP's plan to vote to repeal health care reform without mentioning that doing so would increase the deficit (Pravda on the Potomac)
The Mystery of Tom Miller’s Shifting Comments on Criminal Sanctions for Foreclosure Fraud | FDL News Desk
The Texas Omen - NYTimes.com Texas is where the modern conservative theory of budgeting — the belief that you should never raise taxes under any circumstances, that you can always balance the budget by cutting wasteful spending — has been implemented most completely. If the theory can’t make it there, it can’t make it anywhere. (no unions in Texas, so ...)
For The Jobless, Cold Comfort In Improving Economy
Rep. Joe Courtney: On Day One, Republicans Cripple Construction Industry (the looters are back)

France fears 'economic war' over Renault technology leaks | Business | The Guardian Industry minister Eric Besson sounds warning as carmaker suspends three executives in industrial espionage investigation

Jenny McCarthy Body Count
The media’s MMR hoax – Bad Science
FRONTLINE: the vaccine war | PBS
Review - Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Demystified - Anxiety & Panic specialized form of cognitive behavior therapy called exposure and response prevention ("ERP") is the cornerstone of OCD treatment.

Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance | Reuters (the real Republican Death Panels)
Visualizing Slavery - NYTimes.com

WSVN-TV - Drone may be coming to Miami-Dade The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a drone, which is an unmanned plane equipped with cameras. Drones have been used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan in the war against terror (next up: missles)
Chick-fil-A Partners With Rabid Anti-Gay Group | Gay Rights | Change.org
Penis | Travel | Bhutan

Bill Zeller, Princeton Grad Student And 'Brilliant' Programmer, Dies In Apparent Suicide - "My first memories as a child are of being raped, repeatedly" ... "my parents are fundamentalist Christians"
Graph Your Inbox (Gmail)
StatCounter: Firefox surpasses Internet Explorer in Europe • Mozilla Links
Hell no, we won't go... out of our way to collect sales taxes
Spam Volume Drop on Christmas Day | Symantec Connect
BBC News - Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

010611
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets | Politics | Vanity Fair
Israel Bribes For Gaza Access Reported By WikiLeaks Cables ... an unidentified "high-level official" at the crossing headed the corruption ring.
WikiLeaks: Secret whaling deal plotted by US and Japan | Environment | guardian.co.uk American diplomats proposed Japan reduce whaling in exchange for US help cracking down on the anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd, leaked cables reveal (diplomacy is a dirty business)

Unconventional Wisdom - An FP Special Report | Foreign Policy
Afghanistan Marine Surge: U.S. Sending 1,400 More Troops To War
Benjamin Netanyahu Speech Heckled By Angry Crowd Israel's firefighting services were unprepared for the huge fire, which destroyed swaths of forest in Israel's north.

Smoking Gun proves Mandatory Army Spiritual Test is Religious | Rock Beyond Belief
Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle to Be Canceled, Officials Say - NYTimes.com

Bill Daley, Obama's New Chief Of Staff he didn't support two landmark Obama administration initiatives -- health care reform and consumer protection (you can see where he's coming from, Obama pre-triangulates his staff)
Two House Republicans Missed Swearing In While At A Fundraiser In The Capitol, Violating Constitution On Day It Was Read
Chris Matthews Gushes Over Presence Of Cameras In House Chamber (video)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Further to Douthat — Babies, Babies Everywhere… the lesser half of The New York Times’ current conservative op-ed. embarrassment, Mr. Ross Douthat ... (who) seeks to argue that women’s autonomy over their own bodies has made it virtually impossible for wealthy white couples to gain access to the children of their dreams—it ain’t so.
You Gonna Eat Those Fries? | TBogg Shorter Ross Douthat: Poor uneducated pregnant women should waste not so that upper middle-class women will want not (anti-choice Republican mind at work, or maybe just delusional)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Beating a Dead Douthat Ross Douthat’s attempt to justify the commodification of human infants - those elite citizens for whom fungible healthy newborns are “so desperately sought after, so hungrily desired” as to touch Douthat’s tender sensibilities.
Sadly, No! » Douthbaggery
As Governor, Ex-CEO Rick Scott Aims To Run Florida Like A Business : NPR (ex-felon takes over FL)
Rick Scott Neglects Sexual Orientation, Handicaps, Marital Status In Anti-Discrimination Order neglects to extend protections based on sexual orientation and identity, handicaps, or marital status.
2nd Arizona Patient Dies After State Budget Cuts Deny Transplant (Republican death panels)
Blue Cross retreats on preapproval for mental health services - Chicago Tribune Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois has dropped a plan to require subscribers to get prior approval to access a broad range of outpatient mental health services.

Down and Out on $250,000 a Year - TheFiscalTimes.com (not a satire)
The 'Luxury Prime': How Luxury Changes People — HBS Working Knowledge
Why Are Taxpayers Subsidizing Facebook, and the Next Bubble? - NYTimes.com
Yglesias » Why Progressives Find It Difficult to Take the “Fiscal Responsibility” Movement Seriously Frank and Pelosi both did support PAYGO rules that are stronger than Ryan’s. They supported budget reconciliation rules that are stronger than Ryan’s. They backed deficit-reducing early withdrawals of US military forces from Iraq
Unconventional Wisdom - An FP Special Report - The Rich Really Don't Care About the Poor - Slim, Gates, Buffett, and Ambani control more wealth than the world's poorest 57 countries.

Applying behavioural insight to health | Cabinet Office
Retracted autism study an 'elaborate fraud,' British journal finds - CNN.com - Unfortunately, (Wakefield's) core group of supporters is not going to let the facts dissuade their beliefs that MMR causes autism.
Scientist Haunted By Misuse Of Drugs He Invented : NPR . He published his study, found little interest from pharmaceutical companies in his chemical, called MTA, and moved on.
Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Sweden, Millions Of Dead Fish Found In Maryland, Brazil, New Zealand

Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals - latimes.com
Health care spending increase is smallest in 50 years | McClatchy

Ruling lets California police search your phone without a warrant - CNN.com
The Scientology Expose We've Been Waiting For
Murdered Bush Official Tried to Burn Neighbor's House Down?

Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review - 01/01/2011 | MiamiHerald.com
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
Quote Investigator
YouTube - Home - Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros Acoustic Cover (Jorge & Alexa Narvaez) (priceless)

Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
On GChat « Thought Catalog

010511
WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza's economy 'functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.' (just like you know who)
Israel said would keep Gaza near collapse: WikiLeaks - Yahoo! News (prison camps)

U.S. Military Aid and Israel | Jewish Voice for Peace
The Dubai Job: Big Issues: GQ (Israel's crack team of bumbling Mossad assassins)
Many Journalists Killed In 2010 Covered Corruption - Corruption Currents - WSJ

GOP Budget Chairman Paul Ryan: "I Can't Tell You The Answer" To Specific Spending Cuts | Political Correction (but "before the spending binge in 2008")
Republicans: good at theatre, dreadful at governing – as we'll see tomorrow | Michael Tomasky | Comment is free | The Guardian For years Republicans have shown no aptitude for running the country. Not surprising when they don't really believe in (didn't work with the last crew of dimbulb cocaine-addled crooks)
Dean Endorses Bill Daley, Rips Outgoing Obama Aides For 'Contempt' (how about arrogance and sheer stupidity? +he doesn't mention Larry "Huge Failure" Summers by name))
Yglesias » Biting the Bullet on Majority Rule - filibuster reformers should watch what we wish for
Washington Post  Somehow Doesn’t Realize People Care About The Economy | Media Matters for America (WaPo's crack team of investigative reporters discover no one in Amerca cares about the economy or jobs)
Glenn Beck Dropped From New York Radio Station WOR Meanwhile, Politico notes that Beck's television ratings took a slight tumble in 2010. He was down 6.5% in total viewers compared to 2009, and 2.5% in the coveted A25-54 demo.

Ben Bernanke Loses More Money In One Day Than All Of LTCM Ever Did... Doubled | zero hedge
Honey, I Shrunk The Credit Score (revenge of the banksters)

The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age

‘True Grit’ Popularity May Generate Awards as Well as Dollars - NYTimes.com (Times' crack team of investigative reporters discover box-office results affect Oscars)
Homeless man Ted Williams, who has 'golden' radio voice, gets second chance - NYPOST.com
Portrait of an Immigrant Detainee as a Young Man - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice
YouTube - Coyote Attack Best Footage Ever

YouTube - New Years Beatdown! (St Louis cop assaults citizen, gets cameraphoned)
YouTube Video: St. Louis Cop Shown Beating Suspect - St. Louis News - Daily RFT (censored by YouTube for being "disgusting content" well, yeah, that's kinda the whole point, dudes)

google-refine - Project Hosting on Google Code
Chapter 1. Using Google Refine to Clean Messy Data - ProPublica
Microsoft's Internet Explorer loses top spot to Firefox - Telegraph Mozilla'a Firefox has replaced Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the most widely-used web browser in Europe.
xkcd: Misconceptions
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

010411
WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us | | AlterNet Wikileaks has shown that our government and military form a 'vast lying machine' that perpetrates mass murder in our name.

DOD, State, and Obama’s “Pretend” Desire to Close Gitmo | Emptywheel (he was never serious about it)
The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam’s Statue in Firdos Square - ProPublica
BBC News - Punjab Governor Salman Taseer assassinated in Islamabad (by bodyguard; for not supporting anti-blasphemy laws)
Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan 'for blasphemy' - Telegraph

Obama's Job Approval Rises to 50 Percent in New Gallup Poll
Obama Considers Bill Daley as Chief of Staff | FDL News Desk (Wall Street decided to cut out the middle man)
Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination (they're just girls; but corps definitely protected)
Darrell Issa Asks Business: Tell Me What To Change rom more than 150 big business associations, trade organizations, and corporations concerning which of the Obama administration's regulations he should target in the 112th Congress
Florida Welcomes Rick Scott As Their New Fraudster King
Ben Nelson Is Senate Democrat Most Likely To Vote Against His Party: Analysis (Obama's go-to conservadem)
Schumer Will Get 'Stamp Of Approval' Over Rules Reform Package
Strict Obstructionist - Magazine - The Atlantic - Mitch McConnell
House Republicans schedule vote on healthcare repeal for next week - The Hill's Healthwatch
Health Care Reform Repeal Vote Could Lead To Obama Veto the House's new Republican majority plans to vote to repeal President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul before he even shows up in their chamber to give his State of the Union address.
Schumer: Health care foes should forego coverage - Ben Smith - politico.com
YouTube - David Letterman - Rachel Maddow Talks FOX News
UPDATED: Doug Ross Still Owes Me $1,400 In Gold | Media Matters for America (lying rightwing liars)

Roger Altman, Rubinite | Analysis & Opinion | If Obama chooses Roger Altman to replace Rubin’s former deputy Larry Summers, it will be clear that Rubin continues to have an intellectual chokehold on the White House — even after the financial crisis showed just how dangerous Rubin’s Wall Street-inflected worldview can prove to be in reality (the President without any experience can't learn from it)
Hullabaloo The Good Liberal - Gene Sperling ... I think there's ample reason to be skeptical of the administration's negotiating skills, so the Grand Bargain is very likely to be an agreement to sacrifice social security in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to sacrifice something they don't really care about (Obama negotiating with himself)
Doing a Deal on Social Security | Mother Jones Republicans are mainly obsessed with taxes on the wealthy
Hullabaloo - Now We're Talking Here's - James Galbraith with a very unusual article. It doesn't sound like something you've read before a thousand times: Actually, The Retirement Age Is Too High
Ohio Ruling: No Substitution of Foreclosure Documents in Robo-Signing Cases | FDL News Desk Mortgage lenders have sought to merely replace “robo-signed” documents with new substitute documents, in order to keep the foreclosure train rolling

Report: 97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real - Science Fair: Science and Space News - usatoday.com (the other 3% are Republican hedge-fund managers)

Susan G. Komen Foundation Elbows Out Charities Over Use Of The Word 'Cure' (200 trademarks, suing the shit out of everyone)
Charity Navigator Rating - Susan G. Komen for the Cure - Hala G. Moddelmog President, CEO salary w/o bonuses $531,924 (all you need to know)

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Thanks, Assholes Up North Pennsylvania has been the only state letting its waterways serve as the primary disposal place for huge amounts of wastewater produced by a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking (and now they have no water)
Local schools using textbook with inaccurate Civil War history - Daily Press Book claims 'thousands" of blacks fought for South
Let's talk parenting taboos: Rufus Griscom + Alisa Volkman | Video on TED.com
Transcending the Human, DIY Style | Threat Level | Wired.com
deconcrete - everyday urbanisms without architects' architectures
BOOKTRYST: Is This Rare Book The Worldest Oldest Fish Story?
Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes

Movie-Censorship.com
YouTube - Jaki jest widok z czuba iglicy Burj Khalifa?

Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet - NYTimes.com Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago observes, allows Internet bloggers “to create for themselves a shame-free zone in which they can inflict shame on others.” (in which Martha Nussbaud reveals herself at profoundly elitist)
Verizon shelves plans for future FiOS rollouts, relocations to Massachusetts set to boom -- Engadget
Blekko, Bing & How Facebook Likes Are Changing Search
StumbleUpon Surpasses Facebook For Social Media Traffic Generation
Making Sure Net Advertisers 'Do Not Track' You - Newsweek
Trouble In The House Of Google
Top 10 Gmail Labs You Should Enable

010311
Transparency: The Biggest News Stories of 2010 - Politics - GOOD
BBC - Magazine Monitor: 100 things we didn't know last year (Whipple tickle)

Judy Miller: Julian Assange A 'Bad Journalist' For Not Verifying Truth Of Stories (no irony here +our intrepid "journalist" is confused about how this works, or, deliberately lying, which is also possible)
Ahmadinejad Slapped By Revolutionary Guard Chief Of Staff: WikiLeaks Cable
Bank Of America Sets Up WikiLeaks Defense Team
US-Japan discussed 'action' against anti-whalers - Yahoo! News The U.S. representative to the International Whaling Commission, Monica Medina, discussed revoking the U.S.-based conservation group's tax exempt status during a meeting with senior officials from the Fisheries Agency of Japan in November 2009 (changes your view of that whole diplomacy thing, doesn't it?)
Cable Viewer cable 90BAGHDAD4237, Saddam's Message Of Friendship To President Bush
WikiLeaks Prove Wickedly Popular Among Bloggers | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

A survey of China: Country cousins | The Economist Discrimination against rural migrants is China’s apartheid (the whole system is rigged)
Opinion | Despite recent test scores, China is not 'eating our lunch' | Seattle Times Newspaper American students are not getting their lunches handed to them by Chinese students despite the scores of a recent test (only the richest and brightest allowed to compete for "average Chinese person)
Japan Curbs Hiring Foreigners Even as Labor Shortage Looms - NYTimes.com (anti-immigrant, just like you know who)

U.S. Military Commander Compares Afghanistan War To Neverending 'Tom And Jerry' Cartoon (also, new cold-war projects!)
Demise of Iraqi water park illustrates limitations, abuse of U.S. funding program the limitations and mishandling of a program that has provided U.S. military commanders with $5 billion for projects in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past six years (burning up a trillion dollars: water parks! but no pension for you)

WaPo Editors Finally Realize The GOP Isn't Serious About The Debt ... The editors are referring to the new "cut-go" plan, which exempts tax cuts from the fiscal realities of the federal government's balance sheet. It seems to have caught them by surprise!
Media Pay Insufficient Attention To Unemployment While Obsessing Over Deficits, Taxes | Media Matters for America (pukefunnel for rightwing talking points)
Michele Bachmann Spars With Anthony Weiner Over Debt Ceiling (VIDEO) "I think the Republicans have come in saying that they're gonna not raise the debt ceiling and they're gonna allow the full faith and credit of the American people go down the tubes," Weiner said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
2012 Elections May Be Significantly Influenced By GOP Agenda The GOP is promising to use the new Congress that convenes Wednesday to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and prevent unelected bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do.
The Bobblespeak Translations Graham: Obama caused a recession in 2008. Gregory: fascinating. Graham: we need certainty. Gregory: what does that mean? Graham: “certainty” means “Republican policies”
pandagon.net - it's the eye of the panda, it's the thrill of the bite Ross Douthat proves once again why the NY Times was foolish to hire him, because he can’t help but write op-eds that read more like afterschool specials about the evils of fornication mixed with crappy prayer cards than actual greatest-newspaper-in-the-country editorials ("fetal heartbeats!")
John Roberts Expected To Join Fox News Channel - TVNewser (CNN, the "liberal" channel)
Obama Spent Nearly Half of Presidency Outside of DC - Barack Obama - Fox Nation (on his ranch, cutting brush and snorting cocaine)
George Will: Sarah Palin 'Cannot Be Elected' President (VIDEO) who argued over the weekend that a primary victory by the former Alaska governor could serve as President Obama's "secret weapon."

Reagan insider: GOP destroyed economy - MarketWatch Commentary: How: Gold. Tax cuts. Debts. Wars. Fat Cats. Class gap. No fiscal discipline (Stockman and voodoo economics and piss-down)
Poll: Tax hikes on rich the first step toward balancing budget - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room Sixty-one percent of Americans said that increasing taxes to the wealthy should be the first step toward balancing the budget (never happen)
Academics critical of skyrocketing pay for CEOs - thestar.com By about mid-afternoon Monday, the 100 best-paid chief executive officers in Canada will have already earned the equivalent of an average full-time salary in this country (Canada)
Who Should Replace Larry Summers? - Grasping Reality with an X-11 Seasonal Adjustment Filter From my perspective, the scary thing is that as of now nobody has replaced Larry Summers inside the White House. Either promote Jason Furman to the job, or tell him who he is going to be working for.

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness | Magazine ... “there is no definition of a mental disorder. It’s bullshit. I mean, you just can’t define it.” ... mistakes that had terrible consequences,” he says. Diagnoses of autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and bipolar disorder skyrocketed ... But descriptive psychiatry also has a major problem: Its diagnoses are nothing more than groupings of symptoms (the battle was lost some time around DSM-I - a drug for every behavior +restrictive NDAs +"clinical neuroscience" is the new psychiatry +reductionist science hits the wall)
Human evolution: The old man of the mountain returns | The Economist More evidence for a previously unknown species of human ... The new species, which has yet to be named, clearly lived all over the place. If, despite that, it remained hidden until now, who knows what other species of human might also be out there?
Inexplicable bird and fish kills in Arkansas National attention focused on Arkansas as 2011 opened to massive kills of bird and fish within a 125-mile radius.
Breaking blackbird news | Arkansas Blog

Meet the Twiblings - NYTimes.com
Uncoached - Inappriopriate TSA Actions (child molestation now a government mission)
• Sixties Seventies • 60s + 70s • A nostalgia thought by pictures only ...

n+1: Rise of the Neuronovel
The Neuronovel : The Frontal Cortex
Jason Sanford: Why the Entire World Doesn't Steal from Harlan Ellison ... Cameron: "Harlan Ellison is a parasite who can kiss my ass." (cranky old man verging on the delusional)
YouTube - sternwolf27's Channel - Shoah (all 9+ hours)


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WikiLeaks and our obligations to the web of tellings | Nicholas Shackel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The principles of free speech, discretion and bearing witness come into conflict when considering a case such as WikiLeaks ("true witness")
Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat' - Spiegel Online (Germany acting sanely)
RRResearch: Announcing ScienceLeaks (all your taxpayer-paid data is locked up in high-rate subscription journals)
In Boeing-Airbus Rivalry, Hidden Hand of Government - NYTimes.com (just sales guys for America!)

Planet War: Photos from the World's 33 Ongoing Conflicts | Foreign Policy From the bloody civil wars in Africa to the rag-tag insurgiences in Southeast Asia, 33 conflicts are raging around the world today, and it’s often innocent civilians who suffer the most.
Next Year's Wars - Captions by International Crisis Group | Foreign Policy The 16 brewing conflicts to watch for in 2011.
Wars Update: Perspective Worldwide violence continues to decline, but most people are unaware of this because the mass media will feature whatever wars and disorder they can find.
2000 vs. 2010 | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 31, 2010 | PBS
Dilma Rousseff Inauguration: Brazil's First Female President Sworn In
With Air Force's new drone, 'we can see everything' This winter, the Air Force is set to deploy to Afghanistan what it says is a revolutionary airborne surveillance system called Gorgon Stare, which will be able to transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town ("collateral damage" to go way up)
Australia Floods Turn Deadly: 'A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions' flooding affecting about 200,000 people in an area larger than France and Germany combined
Nigeria Army Barracks Bombing: At Least 30 Dead From Explosion At Beer Garden
Egypt Church Explosion: Injuries Reported After Blast Outside New Year's Mass seven people were killed and 24 wounded. Alexandria's governor, Adel Labib, put the death toll as high as 10.
Lack of Jobs in Southern Europe Frustrates the Young - NYTimes.com “What we have is a Ponzi scheme,” said Lawrence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and an expert in fiscal policy.
Gazan youth issue manifesto to vent their anger with all sides in the conflict | World news | The Observer An anonymous group of students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence', the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the political games played by Fatah and the UN
Chinese prostitutes resist effort to rescue them from Africa - Times - the women decided to stay in the country, saying it was easier to make good money there than in China.
The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs By Clay Shirky

David Ignatius - Transforming U.S. military might into 21st-century weapons In 2010, China matched the United States in the number of rocket launches into space (15), the first time any nation has equaled the United States (priorities unlimitied money for the military, default on pensions; more aircraft carrier groups!)
Late Night: 2010 — The Year in Wingnuttery | Firedoglake
Sarah Palin's Nomination Chances: A Reassessment - NYTimes.com - #5: The media will be rooting for her
We're Headed for a Major Battle with the Tea Party Crowd over the Constitution Itself | News & Politics | AlterNet We should be under no illusion about the new flood of know-nothingism that is about to inundate the United States in the guise of a return to "first principles."
N.C. Official: Richard Burr's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Vote Sanctions 'Sexual Predators' (NC full of homophobes)
Tea Party Activists Angry at Actions of G.O.P. Leaders - NYTimes.com
The Washington Monthly - Going Through The Motions On Repeal (Dems will blow it once again, because that's all they know how to do)
A Year After Christmas Eve Senate Vote, Health Reform Celebration Seems Premature - Yahoo! News
Kucinich: GOP Healthcare Bill Repeal Brings Us Closer To Single Payer | Crooks and Liars if the Republicans really do manage to blow up the new health care bill, it's got to move the country closer to a single-payer system. Our economy simply won't survive the steeply rising health care costs and if the Cons manage to drive the car back into the ditch, we're probably going to have to do it right this time (timidity of Obama's governing)
Darrell Issa Takes Aim At Obama White House: 'One Of The Most Corrupt Administrations' ... "when you hand out $1 trillion in TARP just before this president came in" (that would be Bush, you stupid motherfucker +here it comes)
Issa demands Holder probe ACORN, other issues - Eric Holder - Salon.com New Black Panther Party, and Wikileaks
The Life of the party: Scott Brown - The Boston Globe (Mass loves their beefcake centerfold)
Ron Johnson Hires Lobbyist as Chief of Staff (railed against Feingold's "ties to Washington")

Euro stands just 20pc chance of survival in next decade - Telegraph
Austan Goolsbee: Hitting Debt Ceiling Would Be 'First Default In History Caused Purely By Insanity' (Repubican rule)
Public Employee Unions Face Rising Public Anger - NYTimes.com (vilified by Republicans, it's all the fault of unions! - Dumbmerica)
GOP Governors Ready to Kill Public Employee Contracts | FDL News Desk
For Real Estate Developers, Failures Hardly an Obstacle - NYTimes.com (rich guys always do fine, big surprise)
State Parks Crumbling Amid Recession | FDL News Desk (sorry, rich guys got all the money)

Methane on Mars: Now you don't... | The Economist The never-ending search for life on Mars continues
Win Landsburg’s Money!!! at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics The physicist Lubos Motl, however, still defends the official “50%” answer on his own blog. I am therefore offering to bet him $15,000 that I’m right

dashperiod | ‘Fuck off Harrods’ done by a disgruntled employee,... ‘Fuck off Harrods’ done by a disgruntled employee, fired by Harrods from his job as the toy department’s Father Christmas, took revenge last night in spectacular style.
Detroit in ruins | Art and design | The Observer
101 (males, 0-100)

Wormworldsaga.com - An Online Graphic Novel by Daniel Lieske - Chapter 1 - The Last Day Of School

Sanford Airport to opt out of TSA screening - WDBO Local News on wdbo.com
Army Declares Atheists Spiritually Unfit, Part 2 : Dispatches from the Culture Wars (US theocratic Military)
World Net Daily Sells Lies with the Pink Swastika Fundamentalist Christians love to blame National Socialism on the left when, in fact, it is a right-wing phenomenon, as was Fascism in Spain and Italy.
Vestigial Organs - Missing Universe Museum (Creationist idiocy)


010111 Nick Davies: The Julian Assange Investigation -- Let's Clear the Air of Misinformation (Bianca Jagger)
2010-12-30: Clearing the Air of Nick Davies' Misinformation | WL Central
On Glenn Greenwald Distorting My Words — Ryan Singel Singel-Minded
Wired.com: Lamo/Manning Wikileaks chat logs contain no unpublished references to Assange or private servers (Updated) - Boing Boing
2010-12-30: Selections from Twitter Archive concerning Swedish Investigation | WL Central
2010-12-27 FireDogLake and Glenn Greenwald: Adrian Lamo, Kevin Poulsen and Mark Rasch | WL Central
Key Wikileaks-Manning Articles | Firedoglake
When Did Adrian Lamo Start Working with Federal Investigators? | Emptywheel
Wikileaks And The Silence Of Jordanian Media | 7iber Dot Com If wikileaks is proving anything, it’s that the world is becoming more transparent and open whether we like it, enjoy it, or feel comfortable with it.
Cable Viewer: Wikileaks cable reveals U.S. conspired to retaliate against European nations if they resisted GMOs (Monsanto owns you)


Major Health Care Reforms Take Effect January 1 | TPMDC
House Republicans To Read Constitution Aloud : NPR (they will be shocked at its contents)
The Washington Monthly - Ryan'S Radical Rule? - > House Republicans quietly advanced procedural budget rules last week, which would be funny if they weren't so ridiculous ... he chamber would be forced to honor mandatory spending levels, established by one crackpot lawmaker, which the rest of Congress would never have even voted on.
Newsbusters Keeps Using Word "Liberal," Does Not Know What It Means | Media Matters for America They think Fred Hiatt is a "doctrinaire liberal" and David Frum -- former Bush speechwriter, National Review editor, Giuliani adviser, etc, etc -- is not a conservative (Judy Miller's new outlet for her lies)
Tea party group: Homeland Security ‘a liberal hate group’ | Raw Story (there you go)
The Plum Line - Why liberals think their politicians are all wimps (gee, Greg, you didn't mention the insanity factor)
Why Liberals Compromise | Mother Jones
Gov. Christie praises his administration for work done after blizzard, chastises mayors for local efforts | NJ.com When asked about the hundreds of people trapped in their homes for days, Christie said unless they lived on state roads, it's not something his administration would have been able to change. "If someone is snowed into their house, that's not our responsibility," Christie said (you voted for this asshole, NJ)
Gov. Christie Defends 'Disney World' Trip During Blizzard - Christie was anything but apologetic. He said he wouldn't have changed anything he did and local mayors were to blame for unplowed neighborhoods (suck.on.it.NJ)
YouTube - GEICO's R. Lee Ermey, appearing on behalf of Toys 4 Tots & USO unloads on President Obama (fired their voice-over guy; but President calls for armed insurrection to overthrow Obama, all ok)
ThinkProgress » Georgia Bill Would Force State Taxpayers To Pay Only In Gold Or Silver (which they will buy from Glenn Beck)

Ezra Klein - Column: Pinning down 'Obamanomics' We're two years into the Obama administration, and "change we can believe in" has become "continuity we can believe in."
Indiana Court Case: Servicer Contractually Bound to Federal Servicing Guidelines | FDL News Desk Even though the Treasury Department isn’t sanctioning servicers for their failure to comply with HAMP guidelines, it looks like in some cases, the courts could (Obama had no interest in keeping you in your home, but the courts might)
Unemployment Claims and Employment Growth - NYTimes.com The recent fall in unemployment claims bodes well for positive job growth; however, we’d really want to see numbers in the low 300s or below; only then would we be seeing the kind of job growth needed to climb out of our deep jobs hole in any reasonable length of time.

Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' // Current
Lower levels of education are associated with increased risks of heart failure

Air Travelers Will See New Consumer Protections in 2011 - DailyFinance (they will still feel your junk)
Washers and Dryers, Those Manhattan Status Symbols - NYTimes.com - two-bedroom apartment is listed for $1.299 million (with washer/dryer!)
Pa. inmate's suit claims guards withheld medication | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/31/2010 A black epileptic woman contends that three white guards at a Pennsylvania jail denied her medicine, triggering a seizure during which a guard allegedly broke one of her shoulders and used a racial slur that referenced President Obama.

Best film scenes of 2010 - Salon.com
FolkStreams » Halsted Street USA
The Happiest Penguin Ever [video]

Measuring Measures - Measuring Measures - Why the iPad is Destroying the Future of Journalism The iPad has been dubbed a revolutionary device and the journalism industry has raced to embrace it. But their embrace is more of a desperate final grasp at the past.
Why iPad Magazine Sales Are Not As Bad As They Seem (smiley face on empty gas gauge)
Issue 9392 - android - SMS are intermittently sent to wrong and seemingly random contact. - Project Hosting on Google Code