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News Link • More about Inventions
Pilot Flies Jet Powered Wings Over Swiss Alps
05-14-2008
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Ginn
Yves Rossy built his own wings--but unlike Icarus, when he took his maiden flight over the Swiss Alps--he never flew too close to sun.
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News Link • More about Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi
5-14-2008
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RealClearPolitics
In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday by a 54%-46% margin; a startling wake-up call for a party in dire straits.
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News Link • More about Arizona's Top News
Dibor Roberts to go to trial
5-14-2008
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by J.D. Tuccille
[Just ran across this. Not much on it. Still has not gone to trial?] Woman late at night. Flashing lights behind her alone on a country road. Slows down but is looking for lighted area to pull off. Cop runs her off road, assaults and arrests her.
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Confirmed: John Edwards to endorse Barack Obama tonight
05-14-2008
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LA Times
Tonight, according to sources in the Obama campaign, Edwards will endorse Sen. Barack Obama at a rally in Michigan, a crucial state for Democratic plans to recapture the White House Nov. 4. (It matters not,... she is our King)
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • More about Police State
What was discussed at a closed session of the U.S. House of Representatives?
5-14-2008
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Australia 24.7
"Not only did members discuss new surveillance provisions as was the publicly stated reason for the closed door session, they also discussed: The imminent collapse of the US economy to occur by September 2008, the imminent collapse of US federal
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
What role for Democratic 'super-delegates'?
05-15-2008
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MSNBC
Voters don’t choose the 842 unpledged “super-delegates” who comprise nearly 40 percent of the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. (Still think Hillary can't win?)
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Editorial • More about Constitution
A Liberty Moment
Democracy cannot Survive
05-14-2008
Howard Blitz
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. Fr
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Dr. Mary Ruwart: Tough Enough
05-14-2008
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YouTube
Dr. Mary Ruwart, Libertarian for President, discusses the toughness needed for the candidate chosen to represent the Libertarian Party in 2008
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • More about Weird/Offbeat News
Don't miss the gorilla!
5/14/08
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www.marginalrevolution.com
Picture yourself watching a one-minute video of two teams of three players each. One team wears white shirts and the other black shirts, and the members move around one another in a small room tossing two basketballs. Your task is to count the number
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • More about PC: Political Correctness
Smoke Nazis Roll Over Pipe Smokers Convention, Individual Rights
05-14-2008
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Mondoreb
Smoke Nazis in the Chicago area rolled over a pipe smokers' convention--and some individual freedoms along the way.
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • More about Bush Administration
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder - By Vincent Bugliosi
5-14-08
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informationclearinghouse.info
Even after Bush admitted on September 17, 2003, that he had “no evidence” that Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11, he audaciously continued, in the months and years that followed, to clearly suggest, that Hussein was involved in 9/11.
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News Link • More about Energy
Oil Refiners and Oil Prices
5-14-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
The demand for gasoline in the U.S. is falling, while world demand for oil is still strong. So the price of oil has risen sharply (because of global supply and demand, probably not speculation), while the price of gasoline in the U.S. hasn't kept
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News Link • More about Homeland Security
ICE Drugged Detainees Against Their Will for Deportation
5-14-08
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Rawstory.com
As they pinned him down so the nurse could punch a needle through his coveralls into his right buttock, one officer stood over him menacingly and taunted, "Nighty-night."
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News Link • More about Economy
Credit crisis makes Americans sell possessions
05-14-2008
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waronyou
Americans who have lost their homes in the property crisis are starting to lose their possessions too as even the cost of storage proves too much for them.
Auctioneers across the United States are conducting sales at self-storage facilities, se
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Reference Link • More about Science, Medicine & Technology
Lifeboat Foundation
Lifeboat Foundation
Help us begin the early steps in constructing a NanoShield. Help fund diamond mechanosynthesis research!!
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News Link • More about WAR!!!
Northern Soul
5-14-2008
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Youtube (h/t Alannah)
Music antiwar video
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News Link • More about Weird/Offbeat News
In Houston Area - Electricity-Hungry Ants Are Grinding Technologically-Based Society Down
5-14-2008
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Yahoo News
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
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News Link • More about Economy
Flood of Foreclosures Prove Loan Modification Isn't Working
5-14-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Banks are so capital impaired they are not able to take writedowns until they raise still more capital. More asset sales are coming. In the meantime, because so many problem mortgages are securitized in pools, banks cannot act even if they wanted to.
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Ron Paul discusses the Neocons
5-14-2008
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Youtube (h/t Kurt H)
This is a speech given by Ron Paul on the House floor in which he names the neocons and the views they adhere to.
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News Link • More about Media: Television
Top Ten Angry On-Camera Meltdowns
5-14-2008
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Youtube (h/t Barry Hess)
Video guru Richard Blakeley (who's explored reportorial bloopers before) collected ten of our very favorite meltdowns by people whose job it is to not curse on TV. Some of these went out live, some were stolen from satellite feeds, but they'r
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News Link • More about Economy
Let the Monkeywrenching begin June 5th
5-14-2008
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This June 5th
On the 75th Anniversary of the death of the gold standard ... it is time to cash out.
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News Link • More about Economy
Fox Business David Asman Interviews Ron Paul 05/13/2008
5-14-2008
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Youtube
Sweeps month. Who ya gonna call for the economy? Da doctor.
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News Link • More about Conspiracies
Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers
5/14/08
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blog.wired.com/
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries'
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News Link • More about Presidential Campaigns for 2008 - United States
Mike Huckabee Is McCain's VP Choice?
05-14-2008
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Mondoreb
Huck tops the list of John McCain's vice presidential choices, according to one campaign insider. Will it help?
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News Link • More about Iran
Iran Studies Plan To Cut Crude Output
5-14-08
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Michael Shedlock / Mish
Iran, OPEC's second-largest oil producer, more than doubled the amount stored in tankers idling in the Persian Gulf, sending ship prices higher as demand for some of its crude fell, people familiar with the situation said.
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News Link • More about Economy
1,000 Foreclosures per Day in California
5-14
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
As bad as 2007 was, 2008 will be much much worse.
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News Link • More about Economy
Bank Repossessions Jumped 145 Percent in April
5-14-08
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Calculatedrisk.blogspot.com
Banks will seize about 60,000 properties a month through December, when about 1 million U.S. homes, or a quarter of all homes for sale, may be bank-owned ...
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News Link • More about Police State
Washington D.C. Police to be Armed With AR-15 Rifles This Summer
5-14-08
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WashingtonTimes.com
Police in Miami and Los Angeles already use the weapons, and Chicago police have plans to use them in the near future.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • More about Economy
States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets
05-14-2008
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waronyou
The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they're supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a "Good Morning America" investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn'
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News Link • More about Federal Reserve
June 5th Bank Holiday
05-13-2008
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thisjune5th.com
This could be interesting - everyone withdraw your money on June 5th from the banks and hold it for 10 days. Maybe we can all be labeled financial terrorists!
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