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Uranium bonfire: Air Force incinerated radioactive waste
• Salt Lake City TimesOver the past eight months, Hill AFB sent a nine-ton batch of obsolete military hardware to the burn plant, unaware that the items contained "trace" amounts of depleted uranium. All told, five pounds of uranium went up in smoke.
CIA has 7,000 documents relating to rendition, detention, torture programs, filing shows
• Rawstory.comThe Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged having 7,000 pages of documents pertaining to President George W. Bush's secret rendition and detention programs, according to three international human rights groups.
Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid
• Rawstory.comScalia said that when officers have probable cause to believe a person has committed a crime in their presence, the Fourth Amendment permits them to make an arrest and to search the suspect in order to safeguard evidence and ensure their own safety.
U.S. Prison Population Dwarfs That of Other Nations
• International Herald Tribune.comThe United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
Era of cheap food ends as prices surge
• London TimesFamilies have been warned that the prices of basic foods will rise steeply again because of acute shortages in commodity markets. Experts said prices of rice, wheat and vegetable oil would rise further, with high prices and shortages here to stay,
Bay Area Shoppers Asked To Limit Rice Purchases
• NBC TV11At least one Bay Area store is asking customers to hold back on their rice purchases. Costco has posted signs asking customers to follow their regular rice-buying habits. The rice price increase is a result of a domino effect, NBC11's Noelle Wa
Americans hoard food as industry seeks regs
• Washington TimesFarmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that drives food prices higher. Some Americans are stocking up on staples such as rice, flour and oil in anticipation of high price
Wal-Mart's Sam's Club limiting rice purchases
• ReutersWal-Mart's Sam's Club warehouse division said it is limiting sales of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rice "due to recent supply and demand trends." The news came as rice prices surged, with U.S. rice futures hitting an all-ti
Climate change 'may put world at war'
• Daily TelegraphClimate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defense think tank has warned. [give us money]
U.S. to Insist That Travel Industry Get Fingerprints
• Washington PostThe U.S. government today will order commercial airlines and cruise lines to prepare to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the USA under a security initiative that the travel industry has condemned as costly and
Ron Paul gets 16% in Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania Sec. of StateWith 99.44% of the districts reporting John McCain got 73%, Ron Paul 16% and Mike Huckabee with 11% in a three way race.
Petraeus picked to lead Mideast command
• APGen. David Petraeus, who has led US forces in Iraq for more than a year, will be nominated by President Bush to head the command that oversees the Middle East. The command is responsible for the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa.
Food Shortages Or Globalist Depopulation Agenda?<br>Kurt Nimmo
• InfowarsIn addition to "climate change," Mohan blames the failures of capitalism — described as "supply-side responses" to market forces — and the "absence of technological breakthroughs in terms of higher yields from new varieties o
Appeals court: Border agents can search laptops without cause
• BoingBoing (h/t Minarchian)Federal agents at the border do not need any reason to search through travelers' laptops, cell phones or digital cameras for evidence of crimes, a federal appeals court ruled, extending the government's power to look through belongings to ele
What the Iraq War Is About - by Paul Craig Roberts
• AntiWar.comThree trillion dollars could have paid for U.S. oil imports for 30 years; $5 trillion could pay the U.S. oil bill for a half century had the Bush regime preserved a sound dollar.
Earliest Oil Paintings Discovered
• LiveScienceOil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting.
RIAA spent $2 million lobbying for tougher IP laws in 2007
• ARS TechnicaDuring 2007, the RIAA spent $2.08 million lobbing Congress on 3 pieces of legislation near and dear to its heart: The PRO-IP Act, the Intellectual Property Enforcement Act, college funding bill The College Opportunity and Affordability Act, and legis
Inciting thinness now a crime
• APThe French parliament's lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.
DOD data: More forced to stay in Army
• USA TodayThe Army has accelerated its policy of involuntary extensions of duty to bolster its troop levels, despite Defense Secretary Robert Gates' order last year to limit it, Pentagon records show. Gates directed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf
Sending in the Marines (to Recruit Women)
• NY TimesTHE Marines are looking for a few good women. Actually, they will take as many as they can get. Faced with the difficulty of recruiting during a long and unpopular war, the United States Marine Corps has started marketing itself to women in a conc
Struggling homeowners could get new taxpayer backed loans
• APHomeowners staggering under mounting mortgage debt and facing foreclosure could get cheaper, government-backed loans under Democrats' housing rescue plan.
A defendant's right to confront accusers: How far does it extend?
• Christian Science MonitorThe Constitution's Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right to face their accusers in court. But what happens when the accuser is not available for cross-examination at trial because she was murdered by the very person she would t
Texas begins DNA tests on polygamist sect children
• ReutersFor the tests to be useful, the adults would also have to give DNA samples. However they can legally refuse to do so which could complicate matters further and delay [them ever seeing their kids again] legal decisions about the fate of the children.
Al-Qaida No. 2 says 9/11 theory propagated by Iran
• APOsama bin Laden's chief deputy on Tuesday denied a theory that Israel carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and blamed Iran and Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida's strike against the U.S.
Clinton defeats Obama in Pennsylvania primary
• APHillary Rodham Clinton gained a gritty victory in the Pennsylvania primary over a better-funded Barack Obama, staving off elimination in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The former first lady was winning 54% of the vote
Robert Shiller: U.S. Housing Slump May Exceed Great Depression
• CalculatedRisk.blogspot.comYale University economist Robert Shiller ...said there's a good chance housing prices will fall further than the 30% drop in the historic depression of the 1930s.
Rupert Murdoch Firm Goes on Trial for Alleged Tech Sabotage
• Wired MagazineDid a Rupert Murdoch company go too far and hire hackers to sabotage rivals and gain the top spot in the global pay-TV war? This is the question a jury will be facing in a spectacular five-year-old suit that has, oddly, received little notice from U.
House Dems, Ron Paul targeted over surveillance votes
• RawStory.comNew radio ads are running in districts of several Democratic members of Congress, as well as Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, targeting the lawmakers for their opposition to a White House-backed surveillance bill.
Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years
• USA TodayThe previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.
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