Sunday
Kremlin dusts off Cold War lexicon to make US villain in Georgia - Times Online
Kremlin dusts off Cold War lexicon to make US villain in Georgia - Times Online: "the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the United States."
Friday
The Real News Network - Story
The Real News Network - Story: "The last referendum in the region was in November 2006. Ninety-one percent of attendance. Ninety-nine percent, they voted for union with North Ossetia and Russia. And the referendum was totally ignored by Georgia, the US, and in Europe. Once Saakashvili decided to attack South Ossetia last week, he was applying Pentagon tactics. US troops had just finished teaching Georgians how to ethnically cleanse an area. That was part of the so-called, I quote, 'Georgian-US Immediate Response 2008 Military Exercises.'"
Wednesday
Tuesday
CJR: Unhealthy Alliances Between Hospitals and TV Stations
CJR: Unhealthy Alliances Between Hospitals and TV Stations: "a plea to news outlets to stop doing phony journalism"
Thursday
Win Points for McCain! - washingtonpost.com
Win Points for McCain! - washingtonpost.com: "Just cut and paste."
CJR: Dissent Deficit
CJR: Dissent Deficit: "America’s sclerotic political system (the “sensationalist” press included) is too consumed with trivia and sustaining the status quo to respond effectively to a world in which, as he writes, “on every dimension—industrial, financial, educational, social, cultural—the distribution of power is…moving away from American dominance.”"
Tuesday
Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. “The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,” he said."
The Rise and Relative Fall of Stupidity in America (Comics)
The Rise and Relative Fall of Stupidity in America (Comics) "Maybe letting stupid people run everything wasn't such a good idea."
POLITICS-US: No Traction in the Middle East
POLITICS-US: No Traction in the Middle East: "The hard-line, confrontational policy the United States has embraced under the Bush administration has inadvertently demonstrated the limits of U.S. power"
Monday
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U.S. special forces soldier pleads guilty in stolen weapons case -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
U.S. special forces soldier pleads guilty in stolen weapons case -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com: "Army investigators found 32.5 pounds of C4 explosives, 11 grenades, a full spool of detonator cord, one live rocket-propelled grenade warhead and other firearms and explosives"
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President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran - Times Online
President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran - Times Online: "stand by for immediate attack and tell us when you’re ready"
Saturday
Regulators Seize Mortgage Lender - NYTimes.com
Regulators Seize Mortgage Lender - NYTimes.com "You haven’t had a lot of failures of that size, yet."
Thursday
Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip » Blog Archive » Anti-Gay Alabama A.G. Caught Being Gay
Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip » Blog Archive » Anti-Gay Alabama A.G. Caught Being Gay: "What are the odds of a dude named Troy King getting caught in bed with a Homecoming King from Troy University?"
Tuesday
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The Associated Press: The buck doesn't stop here; it just keeps falling
The Associated Press: The buck doesn't stop here; it just keeps falling: "The almighty dollar is mighty no more. It has been declining steadily for six years against other major currencies"
Saturday
Thursday
Tomgram: Rick Shenkman, American Stupidity
Tomgram: Rick Shenkman, American Stupidity: "we are living in an Age of Ignorance."
Monday
Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "members of the Democratic leadership—Congress has been under Democratic control since the 2006 elections—were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party’s presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors direct talks and diplomacy"
Saturday
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Saturday
Bangladesh is set to disappear under the waves by the end of the century - A special report by Johann Hari - Asia, World - The Independent
Bangladesh is set to disappear under the waves by the end of the century - A special report by Johann Hari - Asia, World - The Independent: "If you really want people in the West to understand the effect they are having here, it's simple. From now on, we need to have a system where for every 10,000 tons of carbon you emit, you have to take a Bangladeshi family to live with you. It is your responsibility."
U.S. Says Israeli Exercise Seemed Directed at Iran - NYTimes.com Oil companies hope Israeli exercise brings $7/gallon gasoline.
How the Russert Test Failed America
How the Russert Test Failed America: "Dick Cheney's press aide testified during the Scooter Libby trial, Russert's show was the place the Bushies loved the most for 'getting their message out.'"
Friday
Rubio: linking drilling to gas prices is 'disingenuous' | Naked Politics
Rubio: linking drilling to gas prices is "disingenuous" | Naked Politics: Florida's Republican House Speaker says, "For anyone to represent that someone drilling off the coast in Florida is going to lower gas prices here or anywhere in this country is disingenuous and a flawed argument."
Sunday
Thursday
Think Again: Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction: Did “ Everyone” Agree?
Think Again: Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction: Did “ Everyone” Agree?: "the claim that “everyone agreed” that the evidence of Iraqi WMD was incontrovertible is simply false"
Wednesday
Monday
Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated - washingtonpost.com
Citing History, Bush Suggests His Policies Will One Day Be Vindicated - washingtonpost.com: "just two out of 109 historians said Bush would be judged a success; a majority deemed him the 'worst president ever.'"
Friday
Replicating Rapid Prototyper Replicates Replicating Rapid Prototyper | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
Replicating Rapid Prototyper Replicates Replicating Rapid Prototyper | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com: "You can start counting the minutes now until our planet is submerged in a gray-goo tidal wave of these things"
South Carolina to Offer Cross on Car Plates - NYTimes.com
South Carolina to Offer Cross on Car Plates - NYTimes.com: "The whole issue here is that people are trying to get the state to endorse their religion, and that’s wrong. It’s almost as if there’s insufficient support, and they have to go to the state to get it."
Thursday
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses"
Tuesday
Thursday
The Wenatchee World Online - A loud motorcycle does not a patriot make
The Wenatchee World Online - A loud motorcycle does not a patriot make: "the Current Occupant welcomed them with open arms at the White House, put on a black leather vest, and gave a manly speech about how he'd just 'choppered in' and saw the horde 'cranking up their machines' and he thanked them for being so patriotic. They are his kind of guys, full of bluster, giving off noxious fumes, and when they leave town, nobody misses them."
Wednesday
Sunday
Bloomberg.com: Exclusive
Bloomberg.com: Exclusive Google, Chevron Build Mirrors in Desert to Beat Coal With Solar
Friday
Restaurant menu promises buried in calories, fat
Restaurant menu promises buried in calories, fat: Can I get a diet Coke with that?
The 'Long War' fallacy - Los Angeles Times
The "Long War" fallacy - Los Angeles Times Iraq has shown the limits of U.S. power. We must change America, not the world.
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Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause: "volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season"
Tuesday
Saturday
Wonk Room » Right Wing Doctors Audio Clips To Distort Al Gore’s Comments About Cyclone Nargis
Wonk Room » Right Wing Doctors Audio Clips To Distort Al Gore’s Comments About Cyclone Nargis When the Left Wing doctors audio clips it sounds like this: Dick is a Killer (NSFW)
Thursday
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DispatchPolitics : Food banks quit payday fight Columbus Dispatch Politics
DispatchPolitics : Food banks quit payday lending fight - after threats from national donor Rent-A-Center
Wednesday
Secret Law Debated in Senate Hearing » Secrecy News
Secret Law Debated in Senate Hearing » Secrecy News: "Secret law excludes the public from the deliberative process, promotes arbitrary and deviant government behavior, and shields official malefactors from accountability"
Microsoft | Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime | Seattle Times Newspaper
Microsoft | Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime | Seattle Times Newspaper: "It can decrypt passwords and analyze a computer's Internet activity, as well as data stored in the computer." But can the thumb drive be easily duplicated?
Tuesday
From Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo
From Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo: "took the witness stand to declare under oath that he felt undue pressure to hurry cases along so that the Bush administration could claim before political elections that the system was working"
Monday
Sunday
Plant emissions trigger health concerns | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
Plant emissions trigger health concerns | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY: "exempt from certain air quality rules because it was built before those rules took effect, starting in the 1970s"
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