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Scientists complete map of human genetic variation
• News LinkThey have completed a map that charts patterns of human genetic variation in the world population, to better understand human biology, evolution and how to diagnose diseases.
Stones Dig Up Rarities For Starbucks CD
• News Link"Rarities 1971-2003" will be released simultaneously on Nov. 22 in both Starbucks-owned outlets and in traditional music stores across the United States and Canada. Virgin will handle the foreign release by itself.
Tropical Storm Beta gathering force off Nicaragua
• News LinkBeta was the 23rd named tropical cyclone of the unrelenting and record-breaking Atlantic-Caribbean hurricane season. No. 22, named Alpha, broke the record for the number of storms set in 1933 and made 2005 the most active hurricane season since recor
Miers withdraws Supreme Court nomination
• News LinkThe White House said Miers had to withdraw over concerns that senators wanted documents of privileged discussions between the president and his top lawyer.
Rumsfeld To Profit From Bird Flu Hoax
• News LinkSince Rumsfeld holds major portions of stock in Gilead, he will handsomely profit from the scare tactics of the government that is being used to justify the purchase of $2 billion of Tamiflu.
Google Testing Possible EBay Competition
• News LinkGoogle confirmed that it's testing a new searchable database service, called Google Base. Google is providing few details, but the service was online several hours and at least one alert blogger snapped a screenshot.
Bush Aides Brace for Charges
• News LinkThe prosecutor in the CIA leak case was preparing to outline possible charges before the federal grand jury as early as today, even as the FBI conducted last-minute interviews in the high-profile investigation, according to people familiar with the c
Irwin Schiff and an Associate were Found Guilty
• News Link"There's no reason to put me in jail," Schiff told Judge Kent Dawson, whose patience was tested while Schiff served as his own lawyer during the five-week trial. "I'm not a flight risk. I would much rather use the time to pr
Russia, China looking to form 'NATO of the East'?
• News LinkThe group, which started in 2001 with limited goals of promoting cooperation in former Soviet Central Asia, has evolved rapidly toward a regional security bloc and could soon induct new members such as India, Pakistan, and Iran.
Infinity Unveils Bi-Coastal Howard Stern Replacement Strategy
• News LinkStern's contract with Infinity expires Dec. 16, after which he will launch a new show on satellite radio network Sirius. The Infinity slot, which currently broadcasts on 27 stations, will feature a regional mix of personalities, including: Former
U.S. Passports to Receive Electronic Identification Chips
• News LinkThe regulations mean that as of October 2006, all new and renewed U.S. passports will contain radio frequency identification chips that will include a digital photo and all other information currently printed in passports.
Cheney told aide of CIA agent
• News LinkWASHINGTON - I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first learned about the CIA officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Cheney weeks before her identity became public in
White House fax and Fox fax linked
• News LinkOn Real Time this week, Bill Maher used the excellent Think Progress video montage of FOX News and their talking point against Patrick Fitzgerald.
Lawsuit claims iPod Nano scratches easily
• from CNNI figured those nifty nanos were much more fragile than Apple let on...
US Imposed Law and Disorder in Iraq
• Agence France PresseJudges, prosecutors, attorneys, even law clerks and accountants involved in cases linked to Saddam Hussein's decades of rule in Iraq live in constant fear of being targeted for death.
Friday Strike-the-Root
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MARTIAL LAW: COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU?
• News Linkby Craig Roberts - In the past two decades I have witnessed a series of events that are extremely disturbing. Events, that if put together as pieces of a puzzle, seem to form a picture that is most disturbing-and even terrifying.
Refco's bond prices plunged to levels often associated with insolvency
• News LinkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Potential buyers began circling Refco Inc. (NYSE:RFX - news) on Friday after the largest U.S. independent commodities brokerage shut down another major business as it battled for survival.
Va. company admits kickbacks in U.N. oil-for-food scandal
• News LinkMidway Trading, a Virginia-based oil trading company, has pleaded guilty to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government for oil bought under the United Nation's Oil-for-Food Program, prosecutors said Th
The Elliot Wave predicted exactly what would happen,... over and over.
• News LinkThe Wave Principle says that action in the same direction as the one larger trend develops in five waves, while reaction against the one larger trend develops in three waves
Is Syria Next?!
• News LinkU.S. Ambassador John Bolton told reporters earlier today that he has begun discussions with other envoys on ``contingencies'' for reacting to the report. The U.S. and France plan to introduce two resolutions in the Security Council next week
Money for Nothing
• News LinkBillions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets. The $100 bills weighed an estimated 363 tons!!!!
‘Cheney cabal hijacked US foreign policy’
• News LinkVice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of St
Colin Powell is the one that'll take down Cheney,... "some people say".
• News LinkNote: This is an e-mail circulating around Capitol Hill that was forwarded to us by a source wishing to remain anonymous (no, not Scooter Libby, for God's sake). We can only offer it up as rumor and speculation, but it certainly is interesting ru
Rice Won't Rule Out Force on Syria, Iran
• News LinkWASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday refused to rule out the possibility of U.S. troops still serving in Iraq in 10 years or U.S. military force against Syria and Iran.
DeLay's co-defendants denounce prosecutor as ruthless, vindictive
• News LinkWASHINGTON - Tom DeLay's co-defendants broke months of silence Thursday with a show of solidarity and accusations of a smear campaign by an Austin prosecutor, a volley launched just as DeLay was booked on a campaign-finance charge.
Saddam attacks legitimacy of Iraqi tribunal
• News LinkA combative Saddam Hussein yesterday challenged the legitimacy of the Iraqi tribunal set up to try him and insisted he remained the constitutional president of Iraq, in a dramatic opening of a trial that was quickly adjourned until next month.
Dual-core chips: Twice as nice?
• News LinkApple’s Power Macs now feature dual-core 2.0GHz and 2.3GHz PowerPC chips from IBM. There’s also a dual-core, dual-processor 2.5GHz model, which Apple is touting as the Power Mac G5 Quad.
32 home owners in the middle of AZ ordered by EPA to begin testing their water, or else.
• East Valley Tribune32 home owners who run their own water service in Chandler are ordered to start submitting their water testing reports or face massive daily fines. There is no interstate commerce, so where does the EPA get its authority to threaten these private pr
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