Microsoft unveils table computer
• BBCMicrosoft has unveiled a new touch-sensitive coffee table-shaped computer called "Surface".
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Google Maps and Earth on Tuesday debuted Street View
• Sydney Morning HeraldGoogle and Microsoft are battling anew for online travellers with rival internet mapping services that provide vivid real-world views of major US cities.
Bush takes aim at GOP critics of immigration deal
• Boston GlobeBush lashed out at critics within his own party yesterday, accusing Republican opponents of distorting the immigration deal he negotiated with leading congressional Democrats and playing on the politics of fear to undermine public support.
The US nominates diplomat as World Bank president
• euronews.netA former US deputy secretary of state is set to become the next head of the World Bank. Robert Zoellick will replace Paul Wolfowitz who was forced to resign earlier this month. Washington is confident the board of the bank will approve.
Corporate tax cuts spreading across Europe
• Donga.com - South KoreaEuropean governments are in a rush to cut taxes on corporations. The moves are being supported by both left and right-wing controlled governments.
Supreme arrogance in the "Live Free or Die" State
• thenewspaper.comThe New Hampshire Supreme Court disagreed. It first held that roadblocks are always an effective deterrent to drunk driving, rejecting evidence that conventional patrols produced more arrests per hour than roadblocks (see data in
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Immigration visa fees to rise sharply
• New York TimesDespite concerns raised by advocates, the federal agency that handles immigration visas confirmed yesterday that it would raise its fees for immigration visas by an average of 66 percent starting July 30.
Boulder City, Nevada car-seat inspection policy under review
Terry BressiChief Finn's philosophy is misguided. The roads belong to the people, not the police. Individuals shouldn't be forced to plan their travel itineraries around invasive and questionable police tactics. Rather, the police should be compelled to
The Gang
• JPFOA former minor tax collection department is now a billion-dollar agency. This groundbreaking documentary exposes how this agency harasses, oppresses, intimidates, and terrifies small businesses and decent citizens.
Ron Paul on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• www.freemarketnews.comMay 25, Ron Paul appeared on the Bill Maher program, "Real Time" and sources say he may also appear on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Colbert Report as well. (Daily Show booked for Monday June 4th)
Net taxes could arrive by this fall
• CNET NewsThe era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the US Congress prove successful. State and local government this week resumed a push to lobby Congress
Iran's Secret Department 9000
• NewsweekUS intelligence has identified the principal unit behind Tehran's effort to supply Shia insurgent cells in Iraq. It's a supersecret group called Dept. 9000, which is part of the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cor
Reconnecting with the world
• Star-Telegram(Texas)Yet during this time, poll after poll showed an alarming trajectory of increased animosity toward America and this adminstration in particular, both here and abroad
Taxpayers on the hook for just...$59 trillion!
• USA TodayThe federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year — far more than the official $248 billion deficit — when corporate-style accounting standards are used, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The loss reflects a continued deterioration in the fin
Ron Paul: Interview On 'CNN Sunday Spotlight' [May 27, 2007]
• YouTube - CNN with Ron PaulRep.Dr.Ron Paul [R-TX] Interview on 'CNN Sunday Spotlight'| [May 27th, 2007]
Who Will Save America? Rudolph Giuliani: CPR for the GOP?
Dave HodgesDid you ever experience some perverse sense of pleasure from watching your older siblings get punished by your parents? That is precisely the feeling that I get when I watch the present happenings of the Republican Party.
Jon Stewart to interview Ron Paul one day before debate
• News LinkRepresentative Ron Paul will be interviewed on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Ron Paul, Gold and “L'Infamie”
• News LinkWilliam Guy Carr, in his book entitled Pawns in the Game , describes how the Powers That Be have throughout history tried to discredit people or institutions that have threatened their power. The strategy described by Mr. Carr is called l'infamie whi
Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal
• NY TimesEven as Congressional leaders draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming, a powerful roster of Democrats and Republicans is pushing to subsidize coal as the king of alternative fuels.
FTC probing proposed $3.1B Google deal
• AP[must be election time] The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion purchase of ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.
Estonia: The first war in cyberspace
• IHTWhen the Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
Lord Goldsmith advised Army chiefs to deny detainees 'full' legal protection
• The IndependentThe Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, is facing accusations that he told the Army its soldiers were not bound by the Human Rights Act when arresting, detaining and interrogating Iraqi prisoners. Previously confidential emails, between London and Brit
Latest from McClatchy's Iraqi Staffers: We're Number One...In Corruption
• E&PToday we live in Iraqi’s achievements time, I’m talking about the fictional achievements that our government try to persuade us of its existence by using statements, signs, or even using brainwashing to make us believe these achievements.
Tenn. Republican Calls for End to Intervention
• AntiWarRep. Jimmy Duncan (R-TN) is one of the most conservative members of Congress – the American Conservative Union gives him a lifetime score of 88 out of 100. But that doesn't mean Duncan always goes along with the Bush administration. When it comes
Mo. man burns books as act of protest
• APTom Wayne has amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero's Books. Wayne began burning his books in protest of what he sees as society's diminishing support for the printed word.
U.S., Iran end 27-year diplomatic freeze
• APIranian Ambassador speaks after his 4 hours of talks with the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq saying he told the Americans that Tehran was ready to train and equip the Iraqi army and police to create "a new military and security structure" and the
RonPaulhq.com - video for the family
• RonPaulhq.comHaving a revolution at home with the kids.
Confessions of a (Ron Paul) Junkie
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UPDATED: Feingold, Kucinich Denounce the Democratic Cave
• ProgressiveAnd so the Democrats caved, pathetically, to Bush and to Bush’s war. No amount of extenuation can minimize the fact that the Democrats, who were brought to power in Congress to end the war, have just signed on to another $120 billion for that war. Th
Federally subsidized cops put motorists in danger to write tickets
• thenewpaper.comFederal funds are paying Memphis cops to stand in the middle of multi-lane highways wielding laser speed detection guns. When officers spot cars they can ticket, the driver is motioned to pull over across several lanes of moving traffic. WHBQ-TV inte
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