Mullen Warns Against Attack on Iran; Iraq arrests Governor of Maysan
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen appeared to warn Israel on Wednesday against an attack on Iran. He said at news conference, ’Opening up a third front right now would be extremely stressful on us . . . This is a very unstable part of the world, and I don’t need it to be more unstable.’ Mullen is (...)
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England’s national underperformance
Iran: Wars and Rumors of War
Do We Really Need Religion?
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Science & Tech
New growth factors for wind industry
Improving technology, expansion off-shore, and exploring the building sector potential. By Bruno De Wachter. The wind sector has been growing spectacularly over the past decade. However, to sustain these impressive growth figures over the next (...)
by Blogactiv Team (Brussels, Belgium)
International
Morocco swelters in heat wave
In the last few days Morocco was blasted by a searing heat wave which lasted all weekend and extended into Monday and Tuesday. Just as an example; at Safi, Monday’s high reached 45 degrees Celsius (110 degrees F). Located on the coast, (...)
by The View From Fez (Morocco)
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North Pole to be ice-free for the first time this year, scientists say
Don’t worry. The CDC labs are perfectly safe.
Honda Will Release the FCX Clarity in July
OTHER STORIES
Swedish spy law impacts Scandinavia
Iran : Wars and Rumors of War
Holland nixes download law
Opinion Column
Obama’s Father: The Truth Will Set You Free!
It is a classic story of the American dream made real: an impoverished Kenyan goatherd rising to become a brilliant Harvard-educated economist.On the way he fights racial prejudice at home and corruption at work, survives the heartbreak of a (...)
by Liberally Conservative (Chicago, United States)
Arts & Entertainment
Dinner in the Sky Takes Summerlicious and Toronto Cuisine to New Heights
Summerlicious 2008 couldn’t have launched with any more pomp and style than it did today in Toronto. Using a massive industrial crane to hoist up and suspend a 5-tonne, 22-person table over a red-carpeted Yonge-Dundas Square, the American (...)
by BlogTO (Toronto, Canada)
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The prohibitionists are at it again
Who Is Barack Obama ?
England’s national underperformance
OTHER STORIES
Highlights from the IABC International Conference in New York
Summer Jam Festival in Casablanca
Where Does Innovation Come From ?
Politics
McCain Apparently Lost Temper With Nicaruagan Communists In 1987, Threatened To Punch One Out
Leave it to the media to paint these assertions from Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) as a bad thing. “McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table, and I don’t know what attracted my attention,” Cochran said. “But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the (...)
by Rob Port (Minot North Dakota, America)
International
Swedish spy law impacts Scandinavia
Locals aren’t the only people outraged by Sweden’s new Big Brother spy law. Its repercussions are echoing in other parts of Scandinavia. The government now has carte blanche to spy on all SMS, email and other data traffic and the sweeping measures will, “have a significant impact on Finland as the bulk of its telecommunications to third countries is routed through Sweden,” says NewsRoom Finland, going on: Even some of (...)
by Jon Newton
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Wesley Clark Thought John Kerry’s Military Experience Made Him Fit For President
Obama To Visit Middle East
Paul : Iran and Energy Crisis
OTHER STORIES
McCain Adviser Plans Casino on the Tigris
Turkish Delight
Egypt : Those damn Fowegners
Opinion Column
The prohibitionists are at it again
I wish people could just have the courage to come out and say it like it is. No sugarcoating, no sanitizing, no B.S., just call a spade a spade. The candy ass Ramsey County Commissioners are afraid to be straight with you. I’m picking on them because they have banned smoking outside, on beaches, on playgrounds and ice arena’s. I have never seen such a blatent disregard of rights in my life. Can you anti-tobacco folks just be honest? You (...)
by Chip D.
Society
Citibank hacked, Security Hole Reveals PIN Numbers
Apparently if you use the Citibank ATMs at the local 7-Elevens in New York, you may want to change your Personal Identification Number. A security hole was exploited by 3 individuals who took over 2 Million dollars in a 5 month period.They are (...)
by Geek News Central
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Obama’s Big Oil Lie : Drilling Down to Facts
Steele on White Guilt
Do We Really Need Religion?
OTHER STORIES
Most Deaths From Guns In America Are Suicides
What Would It Take To Get Americans To Protest High Gas Prices ?
Man arrested in 21st century Lolita case
Politics
Wesley Clark Thought John Kerry’s Military Experience Made Him Fit For President
Recently retired general Wesley Clark has made news lately by saying that John McCain’s experience in the military, which includes being shot down in Vietnam and spending seven years being tortured in captivity by Vietnamese socialists, (...)
by Rob Port (Minot North Dakota, America)
Opinion Column
Who Is Barack Obama?
Continuing with my Shelby Steele blogging, he went into what I thought was a really unfair attack on Barack Obama, drawing an invidious comparison between Obama and John McCain and Hillary Clinton on the grounds that we don’t really know (...)
by Matthew Yglesias (Washington, DC)
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Obama vs. McCain - Tracking Polls (lastest update)
Obama Makes Me Nervous
The Irony of Reform
OTHER STORIES
Patriotism
Obama Goes Abroad : Foreign Policy In A Thimble
Prisons of war, furnaces of radicalism
Media
"What’s The Matter With Kansas" Author Rocks
The hallmark of a great columnist is great reporting. Whatever one thinks about Rupert Murdoch taking over the Wall Street Journal, adding Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler magazine and author of "What’s The Matter With Kansas", as leftwing ballast to that paper’s usual roster of rightwing crank columnists was inspired. Read today’s column on Charlie Black, one of John McCain’s top advisers, to see what I mean. Here’s a (...)
by Merrill Goozner
Opinion Column
England’s national underperformance
We have a seat on the UN Security Council and troops in conflicts around the world; and yet this year we didn’t even qualify for the European Championships. There is a famous story of how, in 1945, Gen de Gaulle was taken by the Soviet (...)
by Boris Johnson
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Despite great services, Google is always all about Google
NBC settles ’To Catch a Predator’ suicide
Why a metered Internet would actually be good
OTHER STORIES
Department of Analogies : American military presence in Iraq
Obama’s Mosque Avoidance : Shhhh ! Don’t Say the M-Word
Harper : Québec is an autonomous nation
International
Iran: Wars and Rumors of War
A Pentagon official expressed fears that Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities at Natanz near Isfahan before the next president is sworn in. He identified two red lines. One was the delivery and installation from Russia of a new (...)
by Juan Cole
Health
Food safety proposal: throw the bums out
As the tomato Salmonella outbreak heads past the 800 case level, it’s time to ask some questions about why we don’t know the source of what is the largest produce associated disease outbreak on record. CDC has its own explanation, (...)
by Effect Measure
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McCain Confuses Baghdad with Seoul Again ; 5 Dead, 10 Wounded in Minibus Bombing ; Do Ruling Shiites Want US Out ?
Why the Norwegians don’t have an energy crisis
The world food summit : a lost opportunity
OTHER STORIES
Watch porn. Live longer. (possibly get divorced)
HIV-AIDS: Yemen’s Challenge
I’ll have some tomatoes, Salmonella on the side
Society
Most Deaths From Guns In America Are Suicides
Here’s a fact the gun-control activists don’t often talk about: The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens’ ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research (...)
by Rob Port (Minot North Dakota, America)
Economics
Should You Rent or Buy Social Real Estate?
Anyone looking for a place to live invariably needs to first answer this question: "should I rent or buy?" Each has pros and cons. If you rent a house or an apartment, you control your own destiny. It’s easy to get out if you want to move. (...)
by Steve Rubel
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Behind Bad Kids Are Usually Bad Parents
Japan ’rampage-killer’ confesses
The School System
OTHER STORIES
Goodbye Bill Gates
Bill Gates Movie Maker rant
Nokia buys, opens Symbian
Opinion Column
Obama’s Big Oil Lie: Drilling Down to Facts
Mr. Obama has gone out on a limb again only to submit another misconception or as we’ve been calling it, a “lie”, in his effort to boost himself in the polls and demonstrate his “knowledge” of all things in the (...)
by Liberally Conservative (Chicago, United States)
Politics
Obama To Visit Middle East
The announcement was made three days ago.
by Yaakov Kirschen (Herzlia Pituah, Israel)
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Ralph Nader accuses Obama of 'talking white'
South Korea resume US. beef imports.
Shock of the Old
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Clark : McCain’s Threats of Force Disrespect Presidency
Cindy McCain- Humanitarian
The Irish referendum : how to restore confidence in our political leaders
Opinion Column
Steele on White Guilt
Well I’m on the ground in Aspen now at the Atlantic Ideas Festival that Just Happens to be Taking Place in Aspen (it’s been renamed...) and it’s really beautiful though I kind of wish there was more oxygen in the air. But they didn’t bring me out here just to enjoy the view, I’m supposed to write about the ideas in play at the festival. So here goes. Shelby Steele offered some interesting thoughts on the subject of (...)
by Matthew Yglesias (Washington, DC)
Opinion Column
Do We Really Need Religion?
British Poll: Religion More Harm than Good. More people in Britain think religion causes harm than believe it does good, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that an overwhelming majority see religion as a cause of division (...)
by A. Fatih Syuhud (Malang, East Java, Indonesia)
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Prize Patrol
Once upon a time in the download world
McCain Aide Wishes on a Star
OTHER STORIES
Breakdown : The power of online media
Hey Al Gore - Let’s Go Green !
Mugabe; the Pan-African leader!
International
Holland nixes download law
A Dutch court has decided the government was wrong when it said downloading was OK. The court ruled against an interpretation of a copyright law which allowed downloading of copyrighted materials, according to WebWereld Netherlands. “An (...)
by Jon Newton
Arts & Entertainment
Highlights from the IABC International Conference in New York
When I heard that the IABC International Conference would be in New York this year, I registered immediately, because I never pass up a reason to visit my home town. I really do like living in the Toronto area, but I’ll always love New (...)
by Donna Papacosta
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ACTA ’veil of secrecy’
Five Years on, Saddam’s Successor Resurfaces
US-Iraq Security Talks Hit Snag ; Mosul Police HQ Bombed, 55 Killed or Wounded
OTHER STORIES
Graffiti Train - Blank canvas for urban art
Jumper
Throw Out the Ego
Politics
Paul: Iran and Energy Crisis
Sunday afternoon viewing: Ron Paul on Iran and the energy crisis. He argues that speculation about a US or Israeli strike on Iran is driving some of the increase in oil prices. The OPEC president should know a thing or two about what drives (...)
by Juan Cole
Science & Tech
North Pole to be ice-free for the first time this year, scientists say
Parents beware - Kids ordering non-floating toys for Christmas will be out of luck
by Christophe Hugo
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The Great Torture Scandal
Terrorism Versus Law Enforcement
Obama vs. McCain - Tracking Polls
OTHER STORIES
Google’s Trying to Help with NetNeutrality
Would you fly in a plane with a ’kill switch’
Genetic Sequencing Companies Join 1000 Genomes Project
Opinion Column
Patriotism
Barack Obama’s set to deliver a "major speech" on "what patriotism means to him and what it requires of all Americans who loves this country and want to see it do better." Since Americans do seem to have lingering doubts about the patriotism of Democrats in general and Obama in particular, and since Obama’s very good at delivering setpiece speeches, this seems like a good idea. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to see it live since (...)
by Matthew Yglesias (Washington, DC)
Sports
Spain Winner Germany Second
Euro 2008 symbolizes the old adage that the best team with most consistent performance will be on top. There are times when luck “rules” as it happens with Germany in its previous sudden-death matches. But luck never comes everyday (...)
by A. Fatih Syuhud (Malang, East Java, Indonesia)
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Euro 2008 is fantastic
Get public attention with poetry, not bombs
When in Beirut...
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Late Bloomer
Champions’ League Cup played in Moscow; Abidjan on the move
Kobe MVP
Opinion Column
Obama Goes Abroad: Foreign Policy In A Thimble
Barack Hussein Obama has no foreign policy experience, zero, nada, zilch, NONE! Hillary Clinton went on vacations and escaped sniper fire while attempting to develop her foreign policy experience and came up very empty. Barack Obama plans to (...)
by Liberally Conservative (Chicago, United States)
Opinion Column
Prisons of war, furnaces of radicalism
The global detention policy of the United States and its allies is incubating the insurgents of the future. By Paul Rogers. A long-term consequence of the Iraq war is the production of a new generation of young paramilitaries with combat (...)
by openDemocracy
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Not the ’natural governing party’, but maybe a party that only knows how to govern ?
Obama Wants Your Wallet - A Taxing Campaign
China : after the quake, the debate
OTHER STORIES
SCOTUS Justice Kennedy Is A Disgrace - Endangering America
The luck of the Irish
Mandawhat ?
Local News
Were Members Of The Mexican Army Involved In A Home Invasion In Phoenix?
I’ve done several pieces lately on the escalating violence just across our southern border and I’ve said repeatedly that the armed gangs will be coming this way if we don’t do something to make our border more secure. (...)
by Rob Port (Minot North Dakota, America)
Media
Despite great services, Google is always all about Google
The inescapable reality of doing business online as a local media company is that Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and a host of other pureplay internet companies are our competition. With six of every ten local online ad dollars going to these (...)
by Terry Heaton
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No X-Ray machines at London Underground Stations
Tube closures due to WW2 Unexploded Bomb Disposal
Syrian blogger Biassi jailed for 3 years
OTHER STORIES
France joins RIAA, MPAA
Web 2.0 reaches critical mass
Google Street View Showing more than Expected
International
McCain Adviser Plans Casino on the Tigris
Hat tip to Raed Jarrar and to Rick B at Ten Percent: A ’liaison to the Jewish community’ and ’foreign policy adviser’ to the McCain campaign was interviewed last February on television in Baghdad about plans for a Las Vegas-style five star hotel and casino smack dab in the middle of the Green Zone in Baghdad. He promises a trickle down effect of wealthy gamblers’ losses helping Iraq’s poor. He promises Iraqi women (...)
by Juan Cole
Opinion Column
Department of Analogies: American military presence in Iraq
On the subject of analogies between the idea of establishing an enduring US military presence in Iraq and establishing one in Germany, mostly what Andrew said. But more broadly, you have to ask yourself what the point is of bothering to construct analogies across obviously non-analogous situations. Nothing about the trajectory of US policy in Iraq since the fall of Saddam has resembled the years 1945-1950 in Germany at all. One hardly needs to (...)
by Matthew Yglesias (Washington, DC)
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Meet the world’s youngest chess grandmaster
Will Sistani Declare Jihad on US ?
Cell phones May be Sent From US to Cuba
OTHER STORIES
Obama : Even The Nazis At Nuremberg Had Habeas Corpus Rights, Reality : No They Didn’t
The housing crash : a Democratic scandal ?
Three cheers for David Davis
Local News
No X-Ray machines at London Underground Stations