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Bush hypnotizes a nation

Politics – A five minute explanation for the past seven years.

View Story Discuss (9) (youtube.com) 61 days ago by berkeley

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McCain Actively Sought Hagee Endorsement

Politics – Despite John McCain's attempts to distance himself from the controversial pastor, John Hagee has now confirmed that McCain actively sought his endorsement for president.

View Story Discuss (2) (nytimes.com) 124 days ago by Aidenag

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Is it possible for geeks to fix the United Nations?

Gadgets & Tech – Probably not - or not directly. But some of the same people that have 2 million people tracking their MPs' voting records via the site theyworkforyou.com and who, through farmsubsidy.org, got the EU to publish full subsidy data, have set up UNdemocracy.com, an attempt to shed light on the inner workings of the UN.

View Story Discuss (2) (guardian.co.uk) 130 days ago by pagey

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Obama: I'll discard Bush's unconstitutional executive orders

Politics – Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at a town hall meeting in Casper today that he would restore respect for law in the White House by reviewing every executive order issued by President George W. Bush and discarding any deemed unconstitutional.

View Story Discuss (44) (denverpost.com) 138 days ago by tomboy501

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Experts Scoff at Sat Shoot-Down Rationale

Science – So pretty much everything else you can think of (including getting hit by an asteroid/comet) is many times more likely than dying from this. Having the US government spend millions of dollars to destroy a billion-dollar failure to save zero lives is comedic gold.

View Story Discuss (2) (blog.wired.com) 153 days ago by berkeley

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Ethanol Boom Saps Water

Science – Ethanol is supposed to be good for the environment. But producing green fuel can cost a lot of water.

View Story Discuss (9) (newsweek.com) 153 days ago by Neophile

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Senate Vote on Telecom Immunity

Politics – 31 Senators respect the tradition of law. 67 are incompetent. 2, including Hillary, failed to vote.

View Story Discuss (2) (senate.gov) 163 days ago by berkeley

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Call To Swat Anti-Teen Mosquito Gadgets

Gadgets & Tech – A device that disperses teenage gangs with high-pitched noise should be banned, according to human rights campaigners.

View Story Discuss (1) (news.sky.com) 163 days ago by akhodiodi

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The Astronaut Spies of the 1960s

Science – They were the "Magnificent Seven" of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, an elite corps of U.S. astronauts trained to gather intelligence on the Soviets during the Cold War from an orbiting watchtower in the sky. MOL was canceled in 1969, before any of its astronauts went into space, and most of the program's details remain classified

View Story Discuss (1) (thespacereview.com) 164 days ago by tomboy501

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Waxman Subpoenas EPA for Global Warming Docs

Do No Evil – Henry Waxman has issued a subpoena to compel the EPA to provide "unredacted" copies of a PowerPoint presentation that was made to him about CA's petition to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA had refused to hand over the presentation to the Senate committee in its full glory and turned over mostly blank pages.

View Story Discuss (2) (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) 166 days ago by tomboy501

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Obama draws 20,000 at KeyArena, but hundreds can't get in

Politics – Those who made it inside were not allowed to leave because police wanted to keep those outside from pushing through the doors and forcing themselves in. People outside were banging on glass doors and windows of the arena, as police were trying to maintain peace.

View Story Discuss (2) (seattletimes.nwsource.com) 167 days ago by ameliog

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Why Darwin Matters
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Why Darwin Matters

Science – Charles Darwin had a big idea, arguably the most powerful idea ever. And like all the best ideas it is beguilingly simple. In fact, it is so staggeringly elementary, so blindingly obvious that although others before him tinkered nearby, nobody thought to look for it in the right place.

View Story Discuss (144) (guardian.co.uk) 166 days ago by Neophile

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FBI program alleged to prepare businesses for martial law
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FBI program alleged to prepare businesses for martial law

News – Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials.

View Story Discuss (35) (progressive.org) 167 days ago by Aidenag

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Cuban students publicly grill top official

News – In a rare public expression of discontent, a video obtained by CNN shows Cuban students grilling a top official about low wages, restrictions to Internet access and why Cubans are barred from tourist hotels and from traveling abroad.

View Story Discuss (3) (cnn.com) 166 days ago by tomboy501

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Chicago voters are told pen had 'invisible ink'
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Chicago voters are told pen had 'invisible ink'

Politics – Twenty voters at a Far North Side precinct who found their ink pens not working were told by election judges not to worry. It's invisible ink, officials said. The scanner will count it. "This one defies logic,'' said Jim Allen, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections.

View Story Discuss (93) (suntimes.com) 168 days ago by tomboy501

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