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• Wi-Fi Routers Subject to Airborne Virii

  Created: Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:49 Author: (tmcnet.com)

   "The viral infection that began in Cambridge , Massachusetts , somewhere between MIT and Harvard University , failed to cross the Charles River into Boston ; in California , the San Francisco Bay stymied ...

• 'Doomsday' Vault Will End Crop Extinction, Expert Says

  Created: Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:47 Author: John Roach (nationalgeographic.com)

   "Deep in Norway 's frozen Svalbard archipelago sits a high-tech facility that could save the world. If global catastrophes like asteroid impacts or disease pandemics were to strike, seeds stored in this first ever 'doo...

• Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007

  Created: Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:45 Author: (judicialwatch.org)

   "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2007 list of Washington ’s 'Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians'."  READ THE FULL STOR...

• The Torture Tape Fingering Bush as a War Criminal

  Created: Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:43 Author: Andrew Sullivan (timesonline.co.uk)

   "The Washington Post reported that 'current and former officials' said the torture lasted weeks and even, according to some, months, and that the techniques included hypothermia, long periods of standing, sleep deprivation and mul...

• U.S. Troops to Head to Pakistan

  Created: Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:40 Author: William M. Arkin (washingtonpost.com)

   "Beginning early next year, U.S. Special Forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan , as part of an effort to train and support indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counterterrorism units, accor...

• The Bravest Americans

  Created: Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:36 Author: (people.tribe.net)

   "On Wednesday of this week, Russell Means led a delegation of the Lakota Sioux people to the U.S. State Department and the embassies of Bolivia, Chile, South Africa and Venezuela, declaring their secession from the United States of Amer...

• O'er the Land of the Freeeeee!

  Created: Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:34 Author: CAIN BURDEAU - AP (ekyprogressive.blogster.com)

   "One woman was sprayed with chemicals and dragged from the gates. She was taken away on a stretcher by emergency officials. Before that, the woman was seen pouring water from a bottle into her eyes and weeping. Another woman said she wa...

• Failure Beyond Finance

  Created: Friday, 21 December 2007 16:31 Author: Jim Kunstler (jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com)

   "Events are driving us now, not personalities or even policies. Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and the other characters in the headlines might pretend that they are managing things, but the truth is that problems in the financial sector have...

• Inherent Powers, Ignoble History Make New Idea Anything But Innocuous

  Created: Friday, 21 December 2007 16:27 Author: Peter Erlinder (commondreams.org)

   “For at least 18 months this 'Homegrown-Terrorism and Extremist Belief Commission' will be required to hold congressional hearings around the country, to uncover Americans with 'political, religious or social' concerns wh...

• Death Ray Replaced by Voice of God

  Created: Friday, 21 December 2007 16:26 Author: (strategypage.com)

   “With LRAD, you just aim it at a member of the crew, and have an interpreter 'speak' to the sailor. It was noted that the guy on the receiving end was sometimes terrified, even after he realized it was that large American destroy...

• Bush, Maliki Break Iraqi Law to Renew U.N. Mandate for Occupation

  Created: Friday, 21 December 2007 16:23 Author: Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland (alter.net)

   “On Tuesday, the Bush administration and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pushed a resolution through the U.N. Security Council extending the mandate that provides legal cover for foreign troops to operate in Iraq for another year....

• The Coming Collapse of the Modern Day Banking System

  Created: Wednesday, 19 December 2007 15:24 Author: MIKE WHITNEY (counterpunch.org)

   "Most people have no idea how grave the present situation is or the disaster the country will face if trillions of dollars of over-leveraged bonds and equities begin to unwind. There's a widespread belief that the stewards of the sy...

• Another Milestone on the Road to Serfdom

  Created: Wednesday, 19 December 2007 15:19 Author: Scott Horton (informationclearinghouse.info)

   "So the United States intelligence agencies in cahoots with major telecom providers are intercepting and reviewing your communications. This is occurring without warrants. And the legal community is in accord: it was criminal conduct. A...

• Wishful Thinking

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:21 Author: (obeytheconstitution.com)

   “This New Year, American citizens will file petitions requesting that Congress force the Federal Government to obey the Constitution.”  The impulse to demand that government constrain itself within some kind of boundary is und...

• Victims on Trial: The Everyday Business of Courts

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:12 Author: Jeffrey A. Tucker (mises.org)

   “It is inherently implausible, if you think about it, that the state could be an effective administrator of justice, for which there is a supply and demand like any other good. Shortages, inefficiencies, arbitrariness, and high costs w...

• Real Estate Market Top Issue in South Korea’s Election

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:06 Author: Martin Fackler (iht.com)

   "Real estate agents, developers and economists here all agree that the frozen market is the work of the current president, Roh Moo Hyun. Roh imposed new taxes and restrictions on real estate deals in an attempt to deter speculators, whom ...

• Saudi King Pardons Rape Victim

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:04 Author: ABDULLAH SHIHRI (AP, chicagotribune.com)

   "A gang-rape victim who was sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes for being alone with a man not related to her was pardoned by the Saudi king after the case sparked rare criticism from the United States, the kingdom's top ...

• Suicide Blast Kills 9 in Pakistan

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:01 Author: STEPHEN GRAHAM (AP, time.com)

   "A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Pakistani army recruits returning from a soccer game in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing nine of them, the army said."  That whole War on Terror thing is working gre...

• The Goal Is Freedom: A Matter of Priorities

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 04:59 Author: Sheldon Richman (fee.org)

   "Tis the political season, which means the season to bash immigrants. This goes especially for so-called illegal aliens, i.e., residents without government papers. (As if that's a big deal.)"  READ THE FULL STORY  ...

• International Apartheid in Roswell

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 04:58 Author: (radgeek.com)

   "It’s precisely this sort of immorality--the elevation of state control or belligerent nationalism over common decency towards peaceful people--that has been put on display recently in Roswell, New Mexico, with the arrest, jailing, ...