tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55981612011-11-27T20:15:51.978-05:00The United States: Now officially the best government money can buy.Keithnoreply@blogger.comBlogger30581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-47499106749331505152010-11-01T10:27:00.000-04:002010-11-01T10:27:29.504-04:00

Hey, anyone still reading this thing?! Since Keith's sworn off FB, the must-read links have to go up here. :)Manufacturing Mayhem in Mexico: From Nixon to NAFTA and Beyond

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GM lobby helped draw up crucial report on Britain's food supplies | Environment | The Observer: "The Grocery Manufacturers of America association estimates that 75% of all processed foods in the US contain a G[enetically]M[odified] ingredient."

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Israeli publicity machine cranks into gear over raid on Mavi Marmara | World news | The Guardian

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A $95,000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks in the US? | World news | The Guardian

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "The hybrid corn seeds Monsanto has donated to Haiti are treated with the fungicide Maxim XO, and the calypso tomato seeds are treated with thiram....The EPA also barred marketing of the chemicals for many home garden products, because it assumes that most gardeners do not have adequately protective clothing.[4] Monsanto’s passing mention of thiram to Ministry of

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Revenger's tragedy: The forgotten conflict in Pakistan - World Politics, World - The Independent: "a high degree of technical expertise is not necessary since even the most botched and ineffective bomb attack has a powerful political impact so long as it happens in the US"

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American manufacturing: A battery maker's struggles illustrate what's wrong and what's possible - latimes.com1400 words on the difficulty of manufacturing in the USA, and complete absence of three letters: W.T.O. Should I say W.T.F.?

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Van hits 2 motorcyclists, pedestrian, deputies say | The Columbus Dispatch Three separate incidents, two hit-skips, only stopped because he flipped the van, and no charges have been filed.

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Government requests directed to Google and YouTube

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EPA Said to Have Suppressed, Misclassified Records | Secrecy News

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-57447145986313578822010-05-03T17:39:00.000-04:002010-05-03T17:39:45.193-04:00

Man the toolmaker - The Long Now Blog

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-41999513817632499912010-04-24T18:10:00.000-04:002010-04-24T18:10:10.799-04:00

A Vast Collection of Blighted Buildings, an Immense Petri Dish | Beyond The Beyond

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An Annotated Guide to the Talking Points of a Death Threat Nut - Violence - Gawker

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-15308245580338735032010-04-05T00:32:00.000-04:002010-04-05T00:32:52.580-04:00

Pedestrians remain mindful of beach traffic after accident - News Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace.

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Two versions of the same story. SUV Runs Over Sunbather On New Smyrna Beach Orlando woman hit by car on beach Sunbathing between cars or darting into traffic? An 18 year-old says playing in traffic, but the captain of the beach patrol says she was lying on the sand sunbathing. One version is obviously better for Volusia County's beach driving business. Guess which version is carried by the AP.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-51662171796484462382010-04-02T07:11:00.000-04:002010-04-02T07:11:29.754-04:00

Warrantless Surveillance of Charity Ruled Unlawful | Secrecy News

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Information is beautiful: war games | News | guardian.co.uk

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Suspect Caught On Camera Installing ATM Skimmer - Photos - WFTV Orlando ATM hacker/skimmer detail images. Image 15 is ATM with skimmer installed, image 19 is same ATM minus skimmer.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-55820258347357080632010-03-29T21:21:00.000-04:002010-03-29T21:21:41.083-04:00

Wonkette : Southern Racists Will Declare Themselves As Such, On Their Census Forms

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-15281635437253092102010-03-29T17:05:00.000-04:002010-03-29T17:05:52.875-04:00

A U.S. Biometrics Agency | Secrecy News: "used for automated recognition"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-62966221475999872852010-03-29T16:56:00.000-04:002010-03-29T16:56:42.141-04:00

Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-40469321293257193872010-03-28T15:47:00.002-04:002010-03-28T19:05:20.084-04:00

Performing on CNBC (starts @ 1:30), top-ranking Republican Senator Shelby of Alabama says, "We do not ever want to go back to where we were 18 months ago. The American people are against that." What happened 18 months ago? The Bush Administration Added $4 Trillion To National Debt

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-41499647268617128582010-03-25T21:28:00.001-04:002010-03-25T21:29:02.147-04:00

High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain, researchers find"When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they're becoming obese -- every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don't see this; they don't all gain extra weight."

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Health Reform Passes, But I Still Don't Feel So Good | CommonDreams.org

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Remember back in September, when pandemic fears were high, the US and other developed countries pledged to supply vaccine to the developing world?Well, now that we know we have plenty left over, here it comes. Weeks or months after it might have done the most good.

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Right Wing Eats Itself Over Sean Hannity's Charity - Sean Hannity - Gawker: "Freedom Alliance, the Oliver North-backed charity affiliated with the concerts, reported revenue of $10,822,785. But that only $397,900, or 3.68 per cent, went to troops or the children of troops"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-87361599467961878072010-03-19T16:47:00.000-04:002010-03-19T16:47:32.543-04:00

GOP Congressmen: Most Republicans Now Think Iraq War Was a Mistake | Cato @ Liberty

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t r u t h o u t | Pledging Allegiance to God

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Robot Surgery, Thy Name is DaVinci | Singularity Hub

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-16689756821631004872010-03-15T15:41:00.000-04:002010-03-15T15:41:49.827-04:00

Wonkette : Meet Mrs. Clarence Thomas, the Teabagger!

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-55644687289398245882010-03-14T12:15:00.000-04:002010-03-14T12:15:58.175-04:00

Justice's wife launches 'tea party' group - latimes.com

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Texas Rubes Almost Finished Rewriting American History - Texas - Gawker: "Why does the Texas Board of Education hate capitalism?"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-82710609681975723482010-03-12T01:25:00.000-05:002010-03-12T01:25:03.389-05:00

Senate Judiciary Committe Advances Crack/Powder Cocaine Bill - Blog - OpenCongress

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-53388145226375539552010-03-10T18:09:00.000-05:002010-03-10T18:09:31.314-05:00

More about the Mariposa botnet | Beyond The Beyond: "Seizing control of millions of computers owned by utter strangers is, what, a team sport in Spain?"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-63490066090527727622010-03-10T18:04:00.000-05:002010-03-10T18:04:59.294-05:00

The New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste | NORML Blog, Marijuana Law Reform: "Where is the Martin Luther King Jr. of the movement to end the War on Drugs? Why is he or she not responding to the efforts to end the single greatest cause of racial inequality in this nation?"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-36083325745314925402010-03-10T10:59:00.000-05:002010-03-10T10:59:18.830-05:00

Informed Comment: Israel Humiliates Biden, Announces Further Colonization on Eve of US-Brokered Talks: "demonstrating once again that it has not the slightest interest in pursuing a just peace with the Palestinian people or in trading a cessation of its colonization of the Palestinian West Bank for a comprehensive peace with the Arab world."

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-11581664564805375842010-03-09T22:36:00.000-05:002010-03-09T22:36:50.122-05:00

The Real Climategate: Conservation Groups Align with World's Worst Polluters

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Two New York Officers Charged With Robbing Perfume Warehouse - NYTimes.com: "But things went awry when one of the victims managed to call 911, Mr. Gramiccioni said. When the police arrived, two of the rental trucks were at the scene. Officials traced those to a rental agency and found that Officer LeBlanca had paid $205.79 for one of the trucks with a Visa debit card, which was subscribed and

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Philip Morris Pushing Smoking Hard in Foreign Countries | Center for Media and Democracy: "High Illiteracy Rates are Good for Business"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-55506430221195367722010-03-06T12:29:00.000-05:002010-03-06T12:29:42.888-05:00

So what's in our food (besides HVP and maybe salmonella)? Take a look ... | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times

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Oh yeah, that Chinese drywall: "The coal-ash muck is laden with heavy metals linked to cancer... [but] isn't considered hazardous waste. EPA officials late last year delayed a decision whether to propose reclassifying coal ash as hazardous. Doing so would limit where it could be sent for disposal, possibly increasing the projected $1.2 billion cleanup cost for TVA ratepayers and affecting the

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Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-60023262720087584582010-03-03T09:13:00.000-05:002010-03-03T09:13:04.081-05:00

M.I.T. joins climate realists, doubles its projection of global warming by 2100 to 5.1°C « Climate Progress

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-77371987279763845452010-03-01T10:27:00.000-05:002010-03-01T10:27:50.447-05:00

Heads Up: Prayer Warriors and Sarah Palin Are Organizing Spiritual Warfare to Take Over America | News & Politics | AlterNet

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-26883898793291256462010-03-01T08:45:00.000-05:002010-03-01T08:45:46.767-05:00

The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care - NYTimes.com: "“People think if we do nothing, we will have what we have now,” said Karen Davis, the president of the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health care research group in New York. “In fact, what we will have is a substantial deterioration in what we have.”"

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You’re So Vain - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: "a crucial dynamic in American political debate: the extent to which public figures are punished for actually knowing what they’re talking about."

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-65913344470425602102010-02-26T12:13:00.000-05:002010-02-26T12:13:27.290-05:00

Stem Cell Transplant Defeats HIV? Patient Still HIV Free After 2 Years | Singularity Hub

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-8550301421723934872010-02-25T22:32:00.000-05:002010-02-25T22:32:02.515-05:00

SK Foods at Center of Bribe Scheme to Sell Tainted Tomatoes - NYTimes.com

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New research: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil carbon, undermines soil health | The N2 Dilemma: Is America Fertilizing Disaster? | Grist: "“The fact is, the message we’re delivering in our papers really is a rediscovery of a message that appeared in the ‘20s and ‘30s,”"

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Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com: "a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built. The site isn't just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-66940850847830343762010-02-23T12:08:00.000-05:002010-02-23T12:08:45.466-05:00

Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine: "the only company whose name is synonymous with the verb search"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-40858704825522902452010-02-23T12:06:00.000-05:002010-02-23T12:06:21.515-05:00

Group tries to lift veil on mystery in D.C. | Columbus Dispatch Politics "an exclusive residential club for powerful officials may be masquerading as a church."

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-67373288000020252882010-02-23T10:04:00.000-05:002010-02-23T10:04:53.389-05:00

Wonk Room » Lisa Jackson Announces EPA Will Delay And Weaken Proposed Greenhouse Standards

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-18995484591814717802010-02-21T14:07:00.000-05:002010-02-21T14:07:41.824-05:00

Firedoglake » “Mount Vernon Statement” Erases Equality, Rights: "nothing so clearly reveals the conservatives’ true authoritarian mission better than the omission of the Declaration’s very first self-evident truth: “That all men are created equal.”"That beautiful phrase does away with the cornerstone of conservative thought, which is that some are born to rule, others to be ruled. Quite

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-32349650905264540912010-02-19T15:35:00.000-05:002010-02-19T15:35:26.049-05:00

palingates: Andrea Friedman, actress from "Family Guy" sets the record straight after Sarah Palin's Facebook rant - UPDATE: "My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes."

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-33233714549253508502010-02-17T20:40:00.000-05:002010-02-17T20:40:49.115-05:00

By way of the arctic | The Columbus Dispatch: "Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber-optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage." Making hay while the sun shines.

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Much higher tritium levels found at nuclear plant - Boston.com

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Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Pimping Weapons to the World | TomDispatch: "America’s Global Weapons MonopolyDon’t Call It “the Global Arms Trade”"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-2660890642133630712010-02-17T09:52:00.000-05:002010-02-17T09:52:40.010-05:00

Struggling Over a Rule for Brokers - NYTimes.com Congress shall make no law regulating the separation of fools from money.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-43731938257730130272010-02-16T14:51:00.000-05:002010-02-16T14:51:23.468-05:00

Power from motion and vibrations

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-82006419697673664082010-02-16T13:04:00.000-05:002010-02-16T13:04:30.992-05:00

Ten-dollar cardboard gecko roaches | Beyond The Beyond: "The age of robots will have arrived,” says Fearing, “when you can buy one for ten dollars that does something really useful."

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-89898434647386107822010-02-16T11:54:00.000-05:002010-02-16T11:54:30.248-05:00

Cyberwar, the New Normal | Beyond The Beyond

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Is Soda the New Tobacco? - NYTimes.com: "reverse the fact that healthy food is too expensive and unhealthy food is too cheap"

Keithnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-33101998220477540952010-02-13T10:36:00.000-05:002010-02-13T10:36:34.861-05:00

William Blum: That Which Can Not be Spoken

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In China, shift to privatized healthcare brings long lines and frustration - latimes.com

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Health insurers take heat for rise in profits - latimes.com: "the five largest health insurance companies racked up combined profits ... up 56% over 2008, [and] covered 2.7 million fewer people than they did the year before.The report released Thursday also said some of the five insurers cut the proportion of premiums they spent on their customers' medical care, committing relatively more to

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FAIR Blog - Blog Archive - Political Reporters Too Scared of Politics to Cover Politics: "Washington political journalists can't tell you what's going on inside the White House because then they would lose access to what's going on inside the White House."

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What Caring for Illegal Immigrants Costs - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com: "contrary to popular perception, immigrants actually cost the health care system less per person than do natives of the United States. Nor do illegal immigrants make up a disproportionate share of the costs to public programs like Medicaid"

Susannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-20408334518066901522010-02-11T11:58:00.000-05:002010-02-11T11:58:03.561-05:00

3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles: "And I think Toyota got in trouble because they just overburdened that capacity — not necessarily the technical capacity, but the capacity to develop people." Scroll down to the comment placing Toyota's current recall(s) into perspective compared to massive recalls by other automakers.

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-63428600212844503072010-02-09T11:28:00.000-05:002010-02-09T11:28:53.291-05:00

Prosecutors: Bernie Kerik Was a Republican - bernie kerik - Gawker

Keithnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598161.post-25291274850962985592010-02-09T09:03:00.000-05:002010-02-09T09:03:23.484-05:00

Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon us: "As Krugman sees it, the economic ideas associated most heavily with the University of Chicago — such as the continuous efficiency of markets and the need to keep government out of the economic arena — have had a broad and baleful influence on economics education."

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The web consists of malware and spam | Beyond The Beyond

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Texas Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor - NYTimes.com

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'I'm Not Saying Your Mother's a Whore': How Fox News Censored Jon Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly - Jon Stewart - Gawker

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Social Research Conference: Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy

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India's Roaring Economy Is Hitched to a Galloping Addiction to Coal - NYTimes.com

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Informed Comment: Sophisticated Taliban Bombing, Deaths of 3 US Troops, Embarrasses Zardari Government by Revealing US Troop Presence on Ground in Pakistan: "Many Pakistanis believe that the wave of bombings besetting their country, blamed by the mainstream on the Taliban, is secretly carried out by American agents, in order to destabilize Pakistan and justify a US imperial presence."

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Think Progress � Thanks To Obama’s Rejection Of Torture, Abdulmuttalab Has Been Providing Intel On Al Qaeda

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Could Cars Have Caused the Mortgage Meltdown? | Autopia | Wired.com: "The survey found mortgage holders were less likely to face foreclosure if they lived in “compact” neighborhoods with sufficient public transit to make owning a car optional."

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Classified Outreach to Muslim Women | Secrecy News

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Clare Short: Tony Blair lied and misled parliament in build-up to Iraq war | UK news | guardian.co.uk

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OIA Air Marshals Accused Of Bigoted Game - News Story - WFTV Orlando: "I don't want to get on a plane with a guy who might be more likely to shoot a black guy than a white guy"

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How Your Right-Wing Talking Point Sausage Is Made - Politics - Gawker: "And the Tea Party people don't like you to mention this (not because it renders their movement illegitimate but because it would turn off the people they are trying to appeal to who really do dislike the Republican party), but they are the well-funded activist arm of the Republican party establishment as it has existed since

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America Hits the Wall on Fast Food - Food - Gawker: "In short, we seem to have reached the point at which America is so saturated with grease and corn syrup that is brain has locked into a holding pattern, unable to be influenced by even the cleverest of clever marketing campaigns. We are, at last, chair-bound zombies—and the very plastic-food companies that pushed us to this point will suffer

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First rise in teen pregnancies since 1990 gives agency new mission | The Columbus Dispatch: "the pregnancy rate among 15- to 19-year-olds jumped 3 percent from 2005 to 2006." The after effects of abstinence-only sex education.

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60 years of waste must go at Delphi casino site | The Columbus Dispatch: "GM dumped about 1,800 tons of waste sludge in the lagoons each year"

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Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com: "But the reviewer, career veteran David Margolis, downgraded that assessment to say they showed “poor judgment,” say the sources. (Under department rules, poor judgment does not constitute professional misconduct.) The shift is significant: the original finding would have triggered a referral to state

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Panopticlick

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Hans Blix | Blair's blind faith in intelligence | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk "A month before the war, I told Tony Blair it would be absurd if 250,000 troops were to invade Iraq and find no WMD. So it was."

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‘All or nothing’: "If you have insurance, the idea that whatever happens to people who are uninsured isn’t going to affect you is a very misleading notion,” Finkelstein explained. “When you increase the share of the population with insurance, you increase the market size for these technologies, and you almost surely increase the pace of development of these technologies in the future."

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I Don't Even Want To Be Alive Anymore | The Onion - America's Finest News Source If only...

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Informed Comment: The Irrelevance of Bin Ladin: "the jihadis know that this thing is likely a fraud"

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David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information | Mail Online

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Justice Sotomayor, Judicial Minimalism And Citizens United - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime

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Wonkette : ‘They Started It:’ The Best Justification For Holy War In Ten Years: "This should be our only offered reason for any of the nine or ten million profound foundational fuckups currently blowtorching the country into a real-life cartoon of death"

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CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names: "The Supremes Have Opened the FloodgatesBy Sen. RUSSELL FEINGOLD"

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Exclusive: Kucinich shreds Democrats for betraying the promise of change | Raw Story

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Speech Transcription - Dr. Martin Luther King's 1963 WMU Speech Found - Archives - WMU Libraries: "There are certain technical words within every academic discipline that soon become stereotypes and cliches. Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word 'maladjusted.' This word is the ringing cry to modern child psychology.

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China rising - The Long Now Blog "the world will be a different place if China is the country setting the global agenda for everything"

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Ohio lets power plants, factories ignore federal mercury limits | The Columbus Dispatch

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