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Phobic encounter: European spacecraft to skim Martian moon

Science – The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.

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Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:56am

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Big McCain Fundraiser Has Abramoff Connection

Politics – as Mr. McCain releases the names of hundreds of "bundlers" -- his top money collectors -- one person who popped up is Juan Carlos Benitez, a lawyer and lobbyist whom Mr. Abramoff had championed for a Bush administration post.

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Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:56am

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The facts behind the fiction of the Lebanon war of 2006

News – Today two dead Israeli soldiers have been returned to Israel by Hezbollah who kidnapped them before the Lebanon war. Their kidnapping was the official reason for the war, but was it also the factual reason?

View Story Discuss (21) (deepjournal.com) 2 days ago by berkeley

Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:34am

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FBI: Ex-driver helped try to track bin Laden

News – A one-time driver for Osama bin Laden helped the FBI try to track down his boss after being captured in Afghanistan, his former interrogators testified Wednesday.

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Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:30am

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Mexico captures submarine loaded with drugs

News – Mexican troops seized a small submarine smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, the military said.

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Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:30am

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When the bottom line overrides the Hippocratic oath

News – As a naive pediatric resident, I couldn't believe it when the surgeon called back and said we don't treat those kinds of patients.

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Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:28am

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Can we engineer a cooler earth?

Science – As CO2 mitigation efforts lag, some explore sun-blocking, cloud-forming technologies, and more.

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Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:28am

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The bloody battle of Genoa

Politics – This public dishonesty was part of a wider effort to cover up what had happened. On the night of the raid, a force of 59 police entered the building opposite the Diaz Pertini, where Covell and others had been running their Indymedia centre and where, crucially, a group of lawyers had been based, gathering evidence about police attacks.

View Story Discuss (6) (guardian.co.uk) 2 days ago by berkeley

Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:27am

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Oil: A History

Do No Evil – A short history of black gold, from the ancient Persian army's flaming oil-dipped arrows to today's piercing pain at the pump.

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Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:27am

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All aboard the nuclear power superjet. Just don't ask about the landing strip.

Science – Yet to disregard the "vestigial risk" of nuclear energy is to misunderstand the cultural and political dynamic of the "residual-risk-society". The most tenacious, convincing and effective critics of nuclear energy are not the greens - the most influential opponent of the nuclear industry is the nuclear industry itself.

View Story Discuss (3) (guardian.co.uk) 2 days ago by berkeley

Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:27am

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MSNBC Has Its Eye on Rachel Maddow

Television – For clues about who might be next to get a show on MSNBC, viewers need not have looked further than "Countdown" earlier this month. For eight nights beginning just before the Fourth of July, Rachel Maddow, the host of a program on Air America, the liberal talk-radio network, served as a substitute for the vacationing Keith Olbermann.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 2 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on July 17, 2008 11:17am

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McCain slams Obama for missing a vote he also missed

Politics – Following Iran's missile tests this week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) slammed Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) position on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, declaring, "This is the same organization that I voted to condemn as a terrorist organization when an amendment was on the floor of the United States Senate. Senator Obama refused to vote."

View Story Discuss (7) (thinkprogress.org) 7 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on July 12, 2008 01:03pm

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Poll: Obama Beating McCain In His Own State!

Politics – In a sign of continued weakness in his home state, an online poll shows Sen. John McCain trailing Sen. Barack Obama by 3-percentage points in Arizona. The poll also shows the candidacy of Liberterian Bob Barr is having a significant impact on McCain's campaign by siphoning off conservative voters nationwide.

View Story Discuss (4) (washingtonindependent.com) 7 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on July 12, 2008 12:58pm

Shock bracelets for airline passengers?
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Shock bracelets for airline passengers?

Do No Evil – A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser. The bracelet would be worn by ALL airline passengers.

View Story Discuss (58) (washingtontimes.com) 7 days ago by Aidenag

Voted for on July 12, 2008 12:58pm

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The Russian-Israeli Mafia: Off-limits to FBI, US intelligence

Politics – FBI agents have been hamstrung by the Justice and Homeland Security Departments, led by two individuals, Michael Mukasey and Michael Chertoff, whose close links to the Russian-Israeli Mafia in New York and New Jersey have seen case after case involving Russian-Israeli mobsters going un-investigated and virtually ignored.

View Story Discuss (0) (onlinejournal.com) 7 days ago by berkeley

Voted for on July 12, 2008 12:57pm