The Diebold Bombshell by David Dill, Doug Jones and Barbara Simons
• David Dill, Doug Jones and Barbara Simons". . . we never imagined that Diebold would be as irresponsible and incompetent as they have turned out to be."
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Game Wardens seize "illegal" fish!!
• Portland(ME) Press Herald"They treated me like a criminal," said Cuong Ly, who escaped from Vietnam 25 years ago. "I lived under communism and I felt like I'm back there again." Ly, 45, said his pet koi were like family members and their confiscatio
FBI To Gain Access To Billions Of Your Personal Records -- In Order To Seize Your Guns
• Gun Owners of AmericaAnti-gun zealot Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) is going after your guns... again. HR 1415 was reported out of a House subcommittee in May and is now scheduled for a full committee vote on Wednesday.
Mideast violence may raise odds of US attack: experts
• ReutersThe Bush administration's tacit support for Israeli military strikes on Lebanon may have increased the danger of militant retaliation against the United States and U.S. interests abroad, some experts say. U.S. and European authorities have ste
Evidence of Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan
• APScientists said they have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan. The cluster of lakes was spotted near Titan's frigid north pole during a weekend flyby by the inter
US sued over poor evacuation of Americans in Lebanon
• ReutersAn Arab-American civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit charging the Bush administration with failing to protect the lives of thousands of U.S. citizens trapped in Lebanon by the Israeli military offensive. The lawsuit, which was filed by the
Chicago Passes New Restrictive Ordinances
• APIf you're a cell phone-using, goose liver-eating, cigarette-smoking, fast food-loving person, Chicago might not be your kind of town. In this city that once winked at Prohibition, members of the City Council are trying to crack down on things
Marijuana plants for sale
• APJoseph White's home office is like a modern-day hippie hangout. Books on Buddhism and yoga, an acoustic guitar rests next to a shuffle of sheet music for "Mr. Tambourine Man." And then there are the marijuana stalks. Towering six-footer
Must US allow Guantánamo detainees to attend own trial?
• APThe right to be present throughout one's own trial - a cornerstone of American law - is a key issue confronting Congress as it works to create a fair-trial process for suspected Al Qaeda war criminals. A month after the US Supreme Court struck
Europe tries to eradicate gum crime
• USA TodayGovernments in Britain and other European countries are fighting back against a problem that costs taxpayers millions of dollars a year in cleanup expenses: sidewalks covered with the sticky, black remains of abandoned wads of chewing gum.
Settlement appears close on Indian trust
• APAmerican Indians suing the government over billions of dollars in lost royalties say they are contemplating an offer by members of Congress to resolve their lawsuit for $8 billion. Considerably lower than the $27.5 billion plaintiffs offered to settl
Lawmakers mulling language on pension deal
• ReutersLawmakers said they were closing in on a deal to stabilize the U.S. system of employer-provided pensions, but were still wrangling over details, including some unrelated to pensions. Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy said negotiators would be gett
Democrats Offer New Economic Policy Plan
• AP"They're not taking care of America. They're bankrupting our country and failing to address the problems," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said. "Democrats know we must stop passing on debt to our children and start doing what'
Human Ancestors May Have Hit the Ground Running
• LiveScience.comNew findings raise the interesting possibility that the step from a tree-dwelling ape to a terrestrial biped might not have been as drastic as previously thought. Scientists find muscles gibbons use for climbing and swinging through trees might al
Why fast rotating stars don't fly apart
• Space.comYoung stars are loaded with energy, and they can spin around in half a day or less, compared to the 28 days it takes our more mature Sun to make a revolution. But young stars would spin even faster if something didn't hold them back.
Now why would government want to figure out how to tame humans?
• NY TimesOn an animal-breeding farm in Siberia are cages housing two colonies of rats. In one colony, the rats have been bred for tameness in the hope of mimicking the mysterious process by which Neolithic farmers first domesticated an animal still kept today
Second genetics code found?
• NY TimesResearchers believe they have found a second code in DNA in addition to the genetic code. The second code, superimposed on the first, sets the placement of the nucleosomes, miniature protein spools around which the DNA is looped. The spools both prot
US to give up controling domain names? Don't count on it.
• ReutersThe Commerce Department will hold a hearing on the government's September deadline to give up control over Internet domain names, a schedule that some high-tech industry advocates say should be delayed. The U.S. government controls the naming
10 million year old bone marrow
• LiveScience.comScientists have extracted intact bone marrow from the fossilized remains of 10-million-year-old frogs and salamanders. The finding is the first case of fossilized bone marrow ever to be discovered and only the second report of fossilized soft tiss
New Life in Dead Star: Supernova 'Changing Right Before Our Eyes'
• Space.comNewly detected dust found around the burst remains of a dead star could help reveal how planets and stars formed and how life began. About 160,000 years ago, a star 20 times more massive than our sun erupted in a fiery explosion called a supernova
The "Atlas Shrugged" film! - with Jolie and Pitt
• The Atlas SocietyAngelina Jolie arrived with a copy of the "Celebrity Rand fan" issue of TAS’s The New Individualist, edited by Robert Bidinotto, whose cover featured herself and Brad Pitt.)
The world according to Rupert Murdoch
• By Nicholas Wapshott in New York(and the master of the media Universe says...) "John McCain? I like him very much." ('Nuff said)
Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List'
• News LinkThe air marshals told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
Blasted by a Missile on the Road to Safety
• by Suzanne Goldenberg - Common Dreams(How Terrorists are created) "Mama, mama, don't go to sleep," he sobbed, gently patting her face beneath her chin. Behind her black veil, her eyelids were slowly sinking. "I'm going to die," she sighed.
Will Israel stop after defeating Hezbollah in Beirut? Damascus is only a cab ride away
• by Eric Margolis for the Toronto SunIn the last example of collective punishment against civilians outside Palestine -- Slobodan Milosevic's terrorizing of Kosovo -- NATO intervened to halt the killing and ethnic cleansing, and prosecuted war criminals.
A Currency’s Destruction
• The Daily Reckoning“So, a budget solution is out of the question. Now it is up to Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve to destroy the currency instead. In short, yes, we are bankrupt.”
Why did Hezbollah snatch the Israeli prisoners last week?
• Harper's MagazineSix Questions on Lebanon for Augustus Richard Norton - Harper's Magazine
White House release calls for Israel to hit Syria
• David DeGraw is AlterNet's video bloggerOn Meet the Press, Tim Russert points out a stunning White House press release that calls for Israel to attack Syria. (VIDEO)
Presidential adviser wants Bush to 'Lawyer Up'
• Ron Brynaert - via Raw StoryTime's Mike Allen reports that the Administration's "outlook" for the midterm elections reads "ominous" for the Republican Party and for President Bush.
VIDEO - WSJ Editor: U.S. Missiles Save Lebanese Lives
• Raw StoryThe War Street Journal - Paul Gigot (right), Editorial Page Director for the Wall Street Journal, indicated his support for rushing U.S. more missiles to Israel.
