The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America’s key allies in its clandestine torture flights program.
Submitted by David Wilson to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Submitted by David Wilson to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> The president talks candidly to a group of conservative journalists. “I’m from Texas,” Bush said. “My buddies are saying, are you doing enough.... They want to know, are we winning. They want to know are we doing what it takes takes to win?
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Okay all you 9/11 conspiracy freaks, I'm going to explain exactly how Osama Bin Laden's heinous crew of extremists pulled off 9/11.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Pat Tillman's brother lets you know how he really views the U.S., the Iraq War, and the ominous direction in which America is headed.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Two more morgues are planned for construction in Baghdad as death squad killings have soared -- 1,536 were killed in Iraq's capitol in September.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> The Republican National Committee has released a new campaign ad to rally the GOP base and other voters by showing threatening quotes from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden followed by the pitch: "These are the stakes. Vote Nov. 7." (with video)
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Former Maryland state legislator Cheryl C. Kagan was anonymously given disks containing source code to Diebold’s BallotStation and GEMS (Global Election Management System) tabulation software used in the 2004 elections.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> In a round of calls, Jerry Lewis (R-Ca.) fired 60 investigators who had worked for his committee rooting out fraud, waste and abuse, effective immediately. Lewis is under investigation for how he oversaw Congress' annual budget of $900 billion.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Across America, right-wing radicals are running for everything from national political office to a county mosquito control board.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> The Racine County (Wisconsin) Sheriff’s Department used Google Earth — an online mapping program — last week to pinpoint marijuana fields in Mount Pleasant and bust a Racine man for harvesting pot.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> This week in Las Vegas, “dozens of people” were implanted with VeriChip microchips. Vegas TV station, KVBC, was there gushing about "chipping." Earlier this year, a KVBC poll showed many Vegas residents were in favor of chipping immigrants.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Despite claims to the contrary, the deficit is nowhere near under control. According to the Bureau of Public Debt, the US Treasury has issued over $550 billion in net new debt each year for the last 4 years. This indicates the Bush's public numbers are
Submitted by Blue Bunting to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A little-known Republican group, America's Pac, is running racist ads aimed at the Black and Hispanic communities. In one ad, they attempt to link Democrats to a white supremacist who served as a Republican in the Louisiana Legislature, David Duke.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A little-known Republican group, America's Pac, is running racist ads aimed at the Black and Hispanic communities. In one ad, they attempt to link Democrats to a white supremacist who served as a Republican in the Louisiana Legislature, David Duke.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Disney says it's concerned about kids' eating habits. But the company can't turn down the huge profits associated with helping junk-food companies market to children.
Submitted by David Wilson to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> (With Olberman Video - 7:17)The Military Commissions Act of 2006 was passed by the Senate over two weeks ago, yet President Bush has not yet actually signed HR 6166. The question is, why?
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> How frightening is this....
Scientists said on Monday that they had found the first direct evidence linking the collapse of an ice shelf in Antarctica to global warming widely blamed on human activities.


Submitted by DC Bass to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A poll conducted for CNN over the weekend suggests support among Americans for the Iraq war is dwindling to an all-time low. Just 34% of those polled say they support the war, while 64% say they oppose it.
Submitted by John F Picciano to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A federal judge on Tuesday refused to toss out claims by thousands of emergency workers who sued New York City and about 150 private contractors after the workers were sickened by dust at the World Trade Center site.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Colorado authorities have opened a criminal investigation into whether an attack ad run by GOP Rep. Bob Beauprez against his opponent for governor illegally used confidential information from a federal law enforcement database.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Gambling, prostitution, and now pot? Organizers of a Nevada ballot measure hope voters in a state where almost everything goes will go one better and legalize marijuana.

Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Research with British and US offenders suggests nutritional deficiencies may play a key role in aggressive bevaviour.
Submitted by David Wilson to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor who has come under scrutiny for saying that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks compares President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay that his students are being required to buy.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Nov. 8, Mercury will pass through inferior conjunction, a point in its orbit where it is directly between Earth and the Sun. Normally the innermost planet is not visible during an inferior conjunction.
Submitted by Past Member to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A small plane crashed into a high-rise Wednesday on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, touching off a raging fire that sent a pillar of black smoke over the city, police said. The FBI said there was no reason to believe the incident was terrorism-related.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> 3,054Total Fatalities
Operation Iraqi Freedom: 2,717
Operation Enduring Freedom: 337
(Updated October 6, 2006)
The Washington Post Company
Submitted by debbie p. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Never before has the system of government established by the U.S. Constitution been as seriously threatened; never before has the built-in remedy for the sort of threat we face been as badly needed...
Submitted by Terri S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> The above mandate and more, according to the U.S. Constitution and the Geneva Convention (too bad there's not a ticker showing how often these laws are broken around the world each day, a la` the national debt ticker).
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Next time you're in the supermarket, stop and take a look at Stonyfield Farm yogurt. With its cow and green fields, the container evokes a bucolic existence, telegraphing what we've come to expect from organic food. But there's more behind the label.
Submitted by David Wilson to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley about his inappropriate social contact with male pages well before the speaker said aides in his office took any action.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Susan Ralston, Karl Rove’s key aide in the White House, submitted her resignation today “in the wake of congressional report that listed hundreds of contacts between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House.”
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]>
The 15th century altar, part of the Aztec emp
Submitted by Jacqueline V. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> There exists a terrible, painful split within the forest conservation movement between those working to preserve with full protection all the world's remaining ancient forests, and those that believe that certified industrial forest logging...
Submitted by Maria W. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Less than 24 hours after Rep. Mark Foley resigned in disgrace, some 50 gay Republicans gathered at a friend's house in Virginia. A close friend of Foley's summed up the situation this way: "It is a disgrace."
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Thanks to his previous work against pedophiles, the Florida congressman who sent possibly inappropriate emails to a teenager had little choice but to resign. Now the GOP has yet another vulnerable seat to defend

Submitted by June Marshall to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Mark Foley "was not honest about his conduct," according to the chairman of the House Page Board, referring to an e-mail exchange between the former congressman and a teenage male page.


Submitted by June Marshall to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A small group of Muslim clerics is spreading the myth that the vaccine is part of a conspiracy to sterilize Muslims -- and as a result, helping to spread a disease many thought was conquered

Submitted by June Marshall to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Indian doctors will insert the world's smallest cardiac support system into a patient with a weak heart -- the first such non-surgical procedure to be carried out in the country -- at an international conference beginning here on Sunday.
Submitted by Blue Bunting to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> The world would have to give up only one year's economic growth over the next four decades to reduce carbon emissions sufficiently to stave off the threat of global warming.
Submitted by David Wilson to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Rep. Woolsey and 15 Other Congress Members Hold Hearing on Iraq
Lt. General Odom speaks truth in basement of U.S. Capitol. Dome shakes.
Submitted by Blue Bunting to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Government documents reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> United Methodist Church leaders helped launch a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace in the capital, urging President Bush to pull US troops out of the country.
Submitted by Blue Bunting to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> A new paper published in the American Journal of Human Biology concludes that having a male in a household can affect the timing of menarche, when a young woman first gets her period.
Submitted by David Wilson to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> ...raised his hands and shouted in Pashto, "De Khoday day para ma me vala!" according to his brother. "For God's sake, don't shoot me! At day's end, Waller would report to his chain of command that six enemy fighters had been killed in action.
Submitted by Blue Bunting to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Although Aaron McGruder has made no statement about retiring or resuming The Boondocks for print newspapers, Universal Press Syndicate is announcing that newspapers should not count on it coming back in the foreseeable future.
Submitted by David Wilson to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]> Three former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s.
Submitted by David Wilson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
]]>