Democracy Now! | Discovery Channel Accused of Political Censorship for Dropping Oscar-Nominated Doc on U.S. Torture: "AMY GOODMAN: But if they still own the rights, can they just not air it for three years and keep you from airing it anywhere else?
ALEX GIBNEY: Yes, they can."
Tuesday
Monday
Alexander Cockburn: The Terrorists Still at Ground Zero, 7 World Trade Tower, Lower Manhattan
Alexander Cockburn: The Terrorists Still at Ground Zero, 7 World Trade Tower, Lower Manhattan: "US interrogators torture men in secret prisons seeking to catch those members of Al Quaeda still at large, starting with Osama bin Laden and Aiman al-Zwahiri. Yet here's Moody's man calmly threatening to destroy the US government's credit ranking unless it follows his agenda, and he strolls around Lower Manhattan unmolested, even if his threats could add up to the financial equvalent of a thermonuclear device planted under the Statue of Liberty."
Saturday
The Intelligence Community Tells the American Public All About Cyberwar | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
The Intelligence Community Tells the American Public All About Cyberwar | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com: "An American-owned global Storm-bot network by Christmas"
Friday
Physicians group urges easing of ban on medical marijuana - Los Angeles Times
Physicians group urges easing of ban on medical marijuana - Los Angeles Times: "The American College of Physicians, the nation's largest organization of doctors of internal medicine, with 124,000 members, contends that the long and rancorous debate over marijuana legalization has obscured good science that has demonstrated the benefits and medicinal promise of cannabis."
Monday
Thursday
Safety lapse during bioterror test a wake-up call for labs | ajc.com
Safety lapse during bioterror test a wake-up call for labs | ajc.com: "The test simulated the arrival of samples where a bioterrorism agent is suspected, but not identified. The labs were to conduct tests to identify or rule out various agents. The testing kits included written instructions stating the samples should be handled inside a special safety cabinet and within the protective barriers of a Biosafety Level 3 lab.
Despite these instructions, some lab workers handled the samples in high risk ways, even sniffing open culture plates as they sought clues to what was growing on them"
Despite these instructions, some lab workers handled the samples in high risk ways, even sniffing open culture plates as they sought clues to what was growing on them"
Wednesday
Bush asserts authority to bypass defense act - The Boston Globe
Bush asserts authority to bypass defense act - The Boston Globe: "Bush's frequent use of signing statements to advance aggressive theories of executive power has been a hallmark of his presidency. Previous presidents occasionally used the device, but Bush has challenged more sections of bills than all his predecessors combined - among them, a ban on torture."
Saturday
Bush plan for Iraq would be a first - The Boston Globe
Bush plan for Iraq would be a first - The Boston Globe: "Bush does not intend to submit the deal to Congress"
Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey - by Joshua Frank
Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey - by Joshua Frank: "As with most stories of this magnitude, the U.S. media has put on blindersAs with most stories of this magnitude, the U.S. media has put on blinders"
Friday
Wolfowitz appointed chairman of arms-control advisory panel - The Boston Globe
Wolfowitz appointed chairman of arms-control advisory panel - The Boston Globe: "The advice given by Paul Wolfowitz over the past six years ranks among the worst provided by any defense official in history"
DefenseNews.com - CBO Report: U.S. War Costs Up in Iraq - 01/23/08 08:48: "Congress has written checks for $691 billion to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and related activities...
All of the Iraq and Afghanistan war money — about $11 billion a month - ...gets added to the U.S. debt. The CBO estimated that just the interest payments on the debt would total $234 billion this year, more than the likely $250 billion budget deficit for the year."
All of the Iraq and Afghanistan war money — about $11 billion a month - ...gets added to the U.S. debt. The CBO estimated that just the interest payments on the debt would total $234 billion this year, more than the likely $250 billion budget deficit for the year."
Thursday
The Complex Crux Of Wireless Warfare: "The Defense Science Board, an advisory body to the secretary of defense,...said...that it 'lacks confidence in current tools for detecting malicious code.'"
U.S. in role of wounded giant at Davos - International Herald Tribune
U.S. in role of wounded giant at Davos - International Herald Tribune: "Several economists said the Federal Reserve seemed to have lost control of events since the subprime crisis erupted last summer. Some criticized its steep cut in interest rates Tuesday as a knee-jerk reaction to calm the markets rather than a sound response to a deteriorating situation."
The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard Got 20 minutes to connect with stuff you already knew intellectually?
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "It's really stretching the imagination try to understand how a new doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear strikes can possibly be part of the War on Terror™. The concept of nuclear deterrence can't apply if your perceived enemy doesn't have nuclear weapons. 'We think they might be making them,' is not the same as a nation having them, and being overtly hostile toward another nation"
Monday
Greenhouse gases at new peak in sign of Asia growth - Yahoo! News UK
Greenhouse gases at new peak in sign of Asia growth - Yahoo! News UK: "The affluent world wants to buy cheap stuff and we buy it...from the inefficient old-fashioned technology that we have got rid of"
Sunday
Saturday
A conversation with Dennis Kucinich | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/04/2008
A conversation with Dennis Kucinich | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/04/2008: "In October of 2002 the Democrats counseled in a telephone conference with our leaders in which we were told that the election of 2006 was about three things: Iraq, Iraq and Iraq. The ads attacking Republicans were replete with references to the war and the Democrats sensed from the polls indicating a shift in public opinion against the war, campaigned against the war, elected House and Senate because of the war, and yet it wasn't one month after that victory was achieved because of the war that the Democrats gathered in a conference and declared that has a party we were going to continue to fund the war."
Friday
Monday
IRAQ: Awoken to a New Danger
IRAQ: Awoken to a New Danger: "'The armed groups called 'Awakening' are now the only powerful players in many Sunni areas in Baghdad, and so they show their power the way others did,' Qussay al-Tai'i, a lawyer from Saydiya town southwest of Baghdad told IPS. 'It seems that violence has become routine procedure for American soldiers, Iraqi security men and now the so-called Awakening fighters.'"
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: What do you no longer believe? What do you now believe?
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: What do you no longer believe? What do you now believe?: "What makes the 2007 sea-ice collapse so unnerving is that it happened too soon. The ensemble averages of our most sophisticated climate model predictions, put forth in the IPCC AR4 report and various other model intercomparison studies, don't predict a downwards lurch of that magnitude for another fifty years"
Sunday
‘Filipino Monkey’ may be behind radio threats, ship drivers say - Navy News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Navy Times
‘Filipino Monkey’ may be behind radio threats, ship drivers say - Navy News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Navy Times: "Several Navy ship drivers interviewed by Navy Times are raising the possibility that the Monkey, or an imitator, was indeed featured in that video."
Friday
Heart ailments linked to terror worries, UC Irvine researchers find - Los Angeles Times So 9/11 is profitable for the pharmaceutical industry, too - surprise, surprise.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/10/2008 | U.S. counterfeiting charges against N. Korea based on shaky evidence: "'I can't remember if I was laughing or asleep,' said one person."
Tuesday
America's inflated asset prices must fall - Yahoo! News
America's inflated asset prices must fall - Yahoo! News: "A sharp decline in asset prices is necessary to rebalance the US economy. It is the only realistic hope to shift the mix of saving away from asset appreciation back to that supported by income generation. That could entail as much as a 20-30 per cent decline in overall US housing prices and a related deflating of the bubble of cheap and easy credit."
Voting Machines - Elections - Ballots - Politics - New York Times
Voting Machines - Elections - Ballots - Politics - New York Times The NYT Sunday Magazine asks "Can You Count on Voting Machines?" The answer depends on who "you" are.
Monday
Saturday
News Hounds: It Was a Terrible Day on Wall Street but Neil Cavuto Blew it Off
News Hounds: It Was a Terrible Day on Wall Street but Neil Cavuto Blew it Off: "Cavuto spends his days touting the wonders of capitalism, the 'free market,' and the Republican way of doing business, but when those policies begin to collapse the economy, he protects the very people who created the mess because his first allegiance is to them, not to his viewers. Watch Cavuto, he'll lie to you and treat you like an idiot"
US doomed if creationist president elected: scientists - Yahoo! News
US doomed if creationist president elected: scientists - Yahoo! News: "This is a way of leading our country to ruin"
Friday
Dark Reading
Dark Reading The World's Biggest Botnets - What makes three of today's largest botnets tick, what they're after – and a peek at the 'next' Storm
Monday
The Year in Review: The planet - Independent Online Edition > Climate Change
The Year in Review: The planet - Independent Online Edition > Climate Change: "an area of 1.2 million square kilometres, or more than 385,000 square miles. This represents an extra area of ice five times the size of the United Kingdom. Gone in a single summer. If you consider that and you don't think the world is rapidly warming up, what do you need to convince you?"
Natural disasters increase as climate change takes effect
Natural disasters increase as climate change takes effect: "Nine-hundred-and-fifty natural catastrophes have been recorded during 2007, the highest number since Munich Re records began, in 1974."
Sunday
Saturday
Friday
Los Angeles Times: A West Bank struggle rooted in land An articulate, non-polemical primer on the conflict - great reading for anyone unversed in the issues.
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Sunday
The Cincinnati Post - Ohio report: Electronic voting has problems: "critical security flaws that make them vulnerable to tampering"
Tuesday
Democrat may scuttle spending bill - Yahoo! News
Democrat may scuttle spending bill - Yahoo! News: "It is extraordinary that the President would request an 11 percent increase for the Department of Defense, a 12 percent increase for foreign aid, and $195 billion of emergency funding for the war, while asserting that a 4.7 percent increase for domestic programs is fiscally irresponsible"
Monday
Sunday
Saturday
Friday
$1B In Military Equipment Missing In Iraq, Exclusive: Report Shows Vehicles, Machine Guns And More Meant For Iraqi Forces Unaccounted For - CBS News
$1B In Military Equipment Missing In Iraq, Exclusive: Report Shows Vehicles, Machine Guns And More Meant For Iraqi Forces Unaccounted For - CBS News: "the military could not account for 12,712 out of 13,508 weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and machine guns."
Thursday
Monday
5 Myths About the Bomb and Us
5 Myths About the Bomb and Us: "Sure, we may never quite achieve total nuclear disarmament. But it is still the ultimate goal supported by every president during the Cold War and post-Cold War period -- except George W. Bush."
Saturday
Friday
Strategic Security Blog
Strategic Security Blog: "The greatest danger from uranium from such a device would be having large chunks of uranium metal fall on your head."
Thursday
Mukasey: FBI's Gun Ban List Doubles - washingtonpost.com
Mukasey: FBI's Gun Ban List Doubles - washingtonpost.com: "The vast majority of the new individuals were identified by California, which provided more than 200,000 names to the FBI in October, the Justice Department said. Ohio provided more than 7,000 new names, while the number of states reporting mental health data to the FBI grew from 22 to 28."
CJR: Is Perry Bacon Serious?
CJR: Is Perry Bacon Serious?: "Obama story has no place in the Washington Post" so they put it on the front page.
Wednesday
Los Angeles Times: The autonomous warbird
Los Angeles Times: The autonomous warbird Another step closer to kill-by-wire.
Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America
Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America:
While everyone's eyes were on Annapolis....
"The Iraqi Government in confirmation of its resolute rights under existing Security Council resolutions will request to extend the mandate of the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter for a final time. As a condition for this request, following the expiration of the above mentioned extension, Iraq's status under Chapter VII and its designation as a threat to international peace and security will end, and Iraq will return to the legal and international standing it enjoyed prior to the issuance of U.N. Security Council Resolution No. 661 (August, 1990)"
While everyone's eyes were on Annapolis....
"The Iraqi Government in confirmation of its resolute rights under existing Security Council resolutions will request to extend the mandate of the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter for a final time. As a condition for this request, following the expiration of the above mentioned extension, Iraq's status under Chapter VII and its designation as a threat to international peace and security will end, and Iraq will return to the legal and international standing it enjoyed prior to the issuance of U.N. Security Council Resolution No. 661 (August, 1990)"
Media Matters - ABC's Nightline walks away from Iraq
Media Matters - ABC's Nightline walks away from Iraq: "for 18 straight weeks (or one-third of the calendar year), Nightline effectively walked away from Iraq. What took its place? Lots of Nightline reports on pets and pop music."
Tuesday
Monday
Zogby International
Zogby International: "General election match-ups show the New York Senator would lose against every top Republican"
Secrecy News
Secrecy News: "AIPAC Court Rules on Classification Markings, Juror BiasAIPAC Court Rules on Classification Markings, Juror Bias"
Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Government Gets More Expensive: Cocaine Just Gets Cheaper
Government Gets More Expensive: Cocaine Just Gets Cheaper: "Hey, do you think we can get the government to start a War on Gas?"
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