Original Article found here: Rollingstone Magazine By Tim Dickinson May 25, 2011 8:00 AM ET At the Fox News holiday party the year the network overtook archrival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a Midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted...
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Original article via Ramsey Clark chosen to head commission to investigate Bush crimes | Veterans Today. IndictBushNow.org reports that on April 3, at a meeting of over 150 lawyers, legal scholars and human rights campaigners, Ramsey Clark, founder of Indict Bush Now, was chosen to be the chairperson of an international campaign...
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Original Article here: HuffingtonPost via MediaMatters Fox News host Eric Bolling pulled a Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, asserting that there were no terrorist attacks on “American soil” during President Bush’s term in office. Giuliani famously made a similar assertion in early 2010, saying, “we had no domestic attacks under Bush.” Of course, the 9/11...
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Joy Stick | Culture Magazine. Marijuana’s positive effects on your Xbox play is no game theory By David Jenison Are video game competitors taking steroids to enhance their performance? Well, not exactly. They aren’t sticking needles in their butts, but many of them will smoke cannabis before a tournament. “I’ve seen a number of players...
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Tomdispatch.com / By Barbara Ehrenreich and Tom Engelhardt How far will the automation of war and the substitution of autonomous robots for human fighters go? Last week, William Wan and Peter Finn of the Washington Post reported that at least 50 countries have now purchased or developed pilotless military drones. Recently, the Chinese had...
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DHS: Imported Consumer Tech Contains Hidden Hacker Attack Tools | Fast Company. BY Neal UngerleiderFri Jul 8, 2011 A top Department of Homeland Security official has admitted to Congress that imported software and hardware components are being purposely spiked with security-compromising attack tools by unknown foreign parties. A top Department of Homeland Security...
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BBC News – Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant. 7 July 2011 Last updated at 12:03 ET By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News, in Stockholm The replacement windpipe was grown in the lab Related Stories Synthetic transplant surgery Windpipe transplant breakthrough Stem cell windpipe op ‘success’ Surgeons in Sweden have carried...
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Original Article via Rolling Stone Magazine Illustration by Victor Juhasz By Matt Taibbi June 22, 2011 8:00 AM ET Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don’t laugh. It may be the...
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.
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Palestinian children and others in boats fly Palestinian flags to show their support for the flotilla attempting to reach the Gaza Strip, in the port of Gaza City on July 2. (Hatem Moussa/Associated Press)
Canadian ship bound for Gaza seized by Greeks - World - CBC News.
The Greek coast guard took control Monday of a...
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