BuzzFlash.net: published http://www.buzzflash.net www.buzzflash.nethttp://www.buzzflash.nethttp://www.buzzflash.net/img/es/buzzflash_buzz-logoalt1_small.jpg Collaborate publishing site and blog's communication swapping Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:00:02 -0500 http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/meneame/ en <![CDATA[Happy Birthday America: Americans Need To Stop Listening To The Myths They’ve Been Fed: By John Stanton]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58143 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58143 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:00:02 -0500 OrpRam Progressive Issues greed-wllstrt-aipac-wh-fscsm-mltrsm-lies dmcrcy http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58143 The American executive and legislative branches of government are in dire need of an aggressive purge in the form of a no-confidence referendum. Unfortunately, the American people have no such device to rid themselves of desiccated people and the interests that tell them what American national policies should be. More’s the pity, presidential candidates Barak Obama (D) and John McCain (R) have merely repackaged the status quo and are selling it as new-face-equals-new policy. None of it adds up to change and, no matter who is elected as president or which party controls congress, odds are America will be on the same course towards more war, more economic pain, more infrastructure problems, and more security intrusions into the daily routine.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58143 <![CDATA[Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says: Kimberly Johnson]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58130 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58130 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:30:02 -0500 OrpRam Environment sci-math-physics-geology-geomagnetic pole reversal http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58130 Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface, a new study says. "What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field," said study co-author Nils Olsen, a geophysicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen. The findings suggest similarly quick changes are simultaneously occurring in the liquid metal, 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) below the surface, he said. The swirling flow of molten iron and nickel around Earth's solid center triggers an electrical current, which generates the planet's magnetic field. The study, published recently in Nature Geoscience, modeled Earth's magnetic field using nine years of highly accurate satellite data. The changes "may suggest the possibility of an upcoming reversal of the geomagnetic field," said study co-author Mioara Mandea, a scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam. Earth's magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times over the past billion years, and the process could take thousands of years to complete.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58130 <![CDATA[YouTube / Viacom lawsuit poses a threat to more than just civil liberties]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58111 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58111 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:05:03 -0500 srpr Progressive Issues youtube viacom lawsuit http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58111 In 2004, Yahoo turned over user information to the Chinese government that was used to track down a dissident journalist, Shi Tao, and send him to a labour camp. It was the moment that the Internet knew sin.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58111 <![CDATA[Sewage In Water Threatens Gazans]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58135 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58135 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:45:02 -0500 sacredsage The World gaza sewage contaminated water http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58135 Gaza is being forced to pump 77 tonnes of untreated or partially treated sewage out to sea daily due to the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory. The fear is that some of this is creeping back into drinking water. "The health of Gaza's 1.5 million people is at risk," Mahmoud Daher, from the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) told IPS following a report released by WHO after it carried out a number of tests on Gaza's contaminated water. On the ground Israel's closure has translated into a lack of fuel, electricity and spare parts needed to operate wastewater and sewerage treatment plants. Consequently Gaza's water and sanitation systems are near complete collapse as the power required to run treatment and desalination plants, pump water to homes, and pump sewage away from populated areas is only available on a very limited basis.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58135 <![CDATA[Nation’s worst polluters]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58121 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58121 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:30:02 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans defense dept epa lies republicans http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58121 Fort Meade in Maryland, Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida and McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey — are among 129 military sites on the EPA’s Superfund list of the nation’s most polluted places, 13 of which have no cleanup plans. The Defense Department has rejected the EPA’s orders to clean up the bases in Maryland, Florida and New Jersey, which EPA officials suspect are leaking contaminants into soil and the water supply. Pentagon officials, meanwhile, have refused to sign agreements for how the other 10 sites will be cleaned up. Under federal law, the EPA requires Superfund polluters to sign agreements describing how cleanups will be conducted, schedules for the work and penalties for missed deadlines.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58121 <![CDATA[Religious Right Leaders Back McCain -- New Set of Problem Pastors?]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58120 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58120 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 07:20:02 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans mccain (r-idiot) religious reich http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58120 Ohio Religious Right leader Phil Burress recently said of McCain, "We don't like him, and he doesn't like us." But Burress has gotten himself out ahead of the pack of Religious Right leaders who appear poised to finally get around to helping McCain. In the wake of McCain having been recieved by Billy and Franklin Graham, and a widely reported meeting of Religious Right leaders in Denver this week, we are about to see how badly the Religious Right wants to stop Barack Obama, or at least limit the damage.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58120 <![CDATA[Report: Iran will halt enrichment if West removes sanctions]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58131 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58131 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 06:00:02 -0500 buzz Busheviks iran uranium enrichment sanctions lift http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58131 Iran expressed readiness to freeze its uranium enrichment program in return for lifting the international sanctions imposed on it, Israel's Channel 2 senior analyst Ehud Ya'ari revealed Thursday evening. The incentives offered include rebuilding Iran's fleet of aircraft and aiding the country with civilian nuclear technology. The package has been given a time-frame of six weeks; the Iranians announced they preferred the deal to go forth immediately.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58131 <![CDATA[Peter Morici: Crisis Grips The Jobs Market: Economy Loses 62,000 Jobs In June]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58090 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58090 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:45:02 -0500 sacredsage Progressive Issues unemployment inflation economy feds http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58090 Today, the Labor Department reported the economy lost 62,000 payroll jobs in June, after losing 62,000 jobs in May. Economists expected a 50,000 loss in June. Governments added 29,000 jobs, and private sector employment fell 91,000. Businesses have become too pessimistic about the outlook for the economy, and the capacity of the Bush Administration and Federal Reserve to manage it. While exports remain strong, domestic demand remains weak and shows few signs of recovering. The Labor Department reported the unemployment rate steady at 5.5 percent. However, this statistic was greatly affected by the number of discouraged adults who have left the labor force. Factoring in the decline in the number of adults participating in the labor force, the unemployment rate is closer to 7.2 percent.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58090 <![CDATA[Harry Reid Tells Truth About Coal, Oil: Sen. Majority Leader Says ‘Coal Makes Us Sick, Oil Makes Us Sick’]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58118 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58118 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 03:30:02 -0500 OrpRam Environment ovrpop-greed-oil-coal-env-co2-350-health-alt enrgy http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58118 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spoke about the adverse health and environmental consequences of burning coal and other fossil fuels on Monday, and a YouTube video of Reid’s remarks has gone viral, reaching more than 360,000 viewers. Reid’s refreshingly honest rhetoric stood out and won praise from environmentalists at a time when many politicians seem scared to stand up to the oil and gas lobbies and many are even insisting coal can be clean. “This is real leadership from Harry Reid,” Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder said. “He’s telling it like it is. Air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels, including coal and oil, is already making Americans sick, and as the climate crisis intensifies the health threats are only going to get worse. Harry Reid is 100 percent correct when he says we have to end our addiction to fossil fuel. Americans’ lives quite literally depend on it.” Many pro-environment activists, including bloggers at Grist, The Huffington Post, Informed Comment, d-day and Think Progress are praising Reid’s comments.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58118 <![CDATA[Another Day in America: Cop Chokes Pot Smoker]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58074 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58074 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:20:02 -0500 xxdr_zombiexx Progressive Issues cannabis reform police brutality http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58074 Cops chokes man during "routine traffic stop" after "smelling burning marijuana". Chokes the man until he PASSES OUT to "prevent a drug overdose". What else is there to say?

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58074 <![CDATA[DoD Inspector General Resigns -- What does this mean?]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58114 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58114 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:15:02 -0500 AmyW Busheviks dod bush fraud iraq http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58114 DoD Inspector General Claude M. Kicklighter resigns and takes university position with little explanation. What are the factors at work here, if any?

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58114 <![CDATA[Civil Liberties Group Criticizes New FBI Profiling Authority: by Lara Jakes Jordan]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58116 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58116 Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:20:02 -0500 OrpRam Progressive Issues wllstrt-grd-fscsm-mltrsm-fbi law-cointelpro-cvl rt http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58116 Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI was roundly criticized for investigating Americans without evidence they had broken any laws. Now, critics fear the FBI may be gearing up to do it again. Tentative Justice Department guidelines, to be released later this summer, would let agents investigate people whose backgrounds - and potentially their race or ethnicity - match the traits of terrorists. Such profiling faintly echoes the FBI’s now-defunct COINTELPRO, an operation under Director J. Edgar Hoover in the 1950s and 1960s to monitor and disrupt groups with communist and socialist ties. Before it was shut down in 1971, the domestic spying operation - formally known as Counterintelligence Programs - had expanded to include civil rights groups, anti-war activists, the Ku Klux Klan, state legislators and journalists. Among the FBI’s targets were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and John Lennon, along with members of black extremist groups, Fidel Castro sympathizers and student protesters.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58116 <![CDATA[Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion: by Naomi Klein]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58104 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58104 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:25:02 -0500 OrpRam The World greed-prstc prdtry cptlsm-fscsm-mltrsm-extortn-dth http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58104 Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil. Some have gone so far as to invite me on for a friendly chat about an insidious new phenomenon: “disaster capitalism.” It usually goes well–until it doesn’t. For instance, “independent conservative” radio host Jerry Doyle and I were having a perfectly amiable conversation about sleazy insurance companies and inept politicians when this happened: “I think I have a quick way to bring the prices down,” Doyle announced. “We’ve invested $650 billion to liberate a nation of 25 million people. Shouldn’t we just demand that they give us oil? There should be tankers after tankers backed up like a traffic jam getting into the Lincoln Tunnel, the Stinkin’ Lincoln, at rush hour with thank-you notes from the Iraqi government…. Why don’t we just take the oil? We’ve invested it liberating a country. I can have the problem solved of gas prices coming down in ten days, not ten years.”There were a couple of problems with Doyle’s plan, of course. The first was that he was describing the biggest stickup in world history. The second, that he was too late: “We” are already heisting Iraq’s oil, or at least are on the cusp of doing so.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58104 <![CDATA[A Devil’s Bargain: by Carolyn Eisenberg]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58119 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58119 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:35:01 -0500 OrpRam Democratic Party grd-oil-wh-aipac-cong-fscsm-mltrsm-lies-accntblty http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58119 With more than 60% of the country opposed to the Iraq war and significant majorities saying they want the troops out within a year, this Congress has handed over to President Bush and to his successor, the right to persist in this failed enterprise. Or to put the matter bluntly, Congress has just agreed to keep our soldiers in harm’s way for another twelve months, killing and dying for no achievable end. Is this worthy of some attention? Perhaps even distress? Should it be a bland assumption rather than a horrifying fact that to get the government to provide adequate veteran’s benefits, extended unemployment insurance and relief from summer floods, that another year of senseless war is approved? The reality of this dirty Washington trade is far removed from the inspirational rhetoric on the campaign trail. Whether on the stump or in formal debates, the Democrats reliably bring down the house, when they denounce the Iraq War and promise to bring the troops home. Yet such things were also said in 2006 and two years later a Democratic-controlled Congress cannot even agree to a non-binding “goal” for troop withdrawal, let alone a binding deadline. Meanwhile Barack Obama, the new Democratic torch-bearer, who has been electrifying young people with his message of courage and change, skipped the vote on the war-funding bill despite his presence in the Capitol.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58119 <![CDATA[Patriotism in the Time of Treason: by Lucinda Marshall]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58109 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58109 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:45:02 -0500 OrpRam Progressive Issues grd-cptlsm-aipac-wh-fscsm-lies-mltrsm-dth-accntblt http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58109 IMPEACH - IMPEACH - IMPEACH - IMPEACH - IMPEACH! --- The Democratic leadership will tell you that impeachment is a waste of time, will drive away voters and it is off the table. Sadly, they have not taken heed of former U.S. Representative Elizabeth Holtzman who has repeatedly and correctly pointed out that impeachment is a crucial tool in defending the integrity of the Constitution and that allowing a lawless President to remain in office is a deathblow to democracy. Yes you say, but Bush and Cheney will be out of office in a few months anyhow. True, and clearly ending the reign of terror that this man has wrought at an earlier point would have been far more patriotic, but nonetheless, impeaching even at this late date would be a significant step in beginning the monumental task of healing that needs to take place in this country.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58109 <![CDATA[Bush’s Abuse of FISA, Yet Again]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58112 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58112 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:55:02 -0500 SpinDentist Progressive Issues bush civil liberties http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58112 Will the Bush Administration ever acknowledge that our constitution guarantees us civil liberties? Don’t hold your breath. Scalia is likely to vacate this decision, if he can help it, in the next session. But it is encouraging to see judges standing up to the Bushies.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58112 <![CDATA[It's Not The Man, It's The Movement - Amy Goodman]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58089 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58089 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:10:02 -0500 sacredsage Elections obama campaign fisa dems http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58089 I was on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado this week when Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter asked me, “Is Obama a sellout?” The question isn’t whether he is a sellout or not—it’s about what demands are made by grass-roots social movements of those who would represent them. The question is, who are these candidates responding to, answering to? Richard Nixon’s campaign strategy was to run in the primaries to the right, then move to the center in the general election. Bill Clinton’s strategy was called “triangulation,” navigating to a political “Third Way” to please moderates and undecided voters. This past week, Barack Obama has made some signal policy changes that suggest he might be doing something similar. Will it work for him?

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58089 <![CDATA[Pressure on Lieberman intensifies from left]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58100 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58100 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:30:02 -0500 regroce Miscellaneous lieberman brave new films so long joe http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58100 "Liberal groups plan to deliver a petition to Capitol Hill next week calling on Democrats to oust Sen. Joe Lieberman from his committee chairmanship in the 111th Congress. ... Last week, (Brave New Films) released a Web video carrying controversial statements made by Lieberman and launched a petition drive to request Democratic leaders to strip Lieberman of his position as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee."

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58100 <![CDATA[Gail Collins: What We Learned in the War [and the war record?]]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58108 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58108 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:40:02 -0500 RicKelis Elections mccain poor service record wes clark http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58108 Gail Collins looks at McCain's muted reaction to the "attack" on his service record. Maybe he wants to keep it under wraps. See comment below for some of the details. From Collins: "Wesley Clark suggested that John McCain’s military command background did not, by itself, qualify him to be president. Here we see a violation of the first rule of the political talking head: Speak softly when cable TV hosts are entering a summer slow-news week. Nevertheless, what Clark said was obviously true. McCain’s first reaction suggested he’s already run out of material for heated but meaningless controversies. Later, McCain called on Obama to “cut him loose”, referring to Clark. There was a time when this might have had some traction, but we’ve had so many calls for so many people to be fired lately that it’s gotten ho-hum. We yearn for the good old days when people saved proposals of employment termination for larger errors, like, say, mismanaging an entire war, or subverting the Constitution."

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58108 <![CDATA[A Supreme Court on the Brink - Editorial - NYTimes]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58092 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58092 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 18:05:01 -0500 kladner Elections scotus narrowly divided election http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58092 More evidence of NYT's schizophrenia in reporting vs editorials: "One more conservative appointment would shift the balance to the far-right bloc. If that happens, the court can be expected to push even further in a dangerous direction. It would most likely begin stripping away civil liberties, like the habeas rights vindicated in the Guantánamo case. The constitutional protection of women’s reproductive rights could be eliminated. The court might well strike down laws that protect the environment, workers’ rights and the rights of racial and religious minorities. The court was teetering on the brink in this term. Voters should keep that firmly in mind when they go to the polls in November.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58092 <![CDATA[Military Chief Warns Against Striking Iran: by Aamer Madhani]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58113 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58113 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:20:02 -0500 OrpRam The World wllstrt-grd-aipac-wh-fscsm-mltrsm-iran-mullen wrns http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58113 The words Wednesday from Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were notable for their blunt pragmatism: An Israeli airstrike on Iran would be high-risk and could further destabilize the region, leading to political and economic chaos. On Iran’s western border, the U.S. military is more than five years into a war in Iraq that has taken 4,113 American lives and cost U.S. taxpayers more than $600 billion. And on Iran’s eastern border, American commanders are now openly questioning whether they have lost their way in the fight against a resurgent Taliban. Israel, the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East, has refused to rule out a strike against Iranian nuclear sites, and this week’s New Yorker magazine reported that the U.S. has stepped up its covert operations inside Iran. While Bush repeated Wednesday that a military strike remains an option, Mullen’s words of caution underscored the Pentagon’s belief that a move against Iran-by the U.S. or one of its allies-would have an undeniable effect on the ongoing U.S. missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Opening up a third front right now would be extremely stressful on us,” Mullen acknowledged during a Pentagon news conference. He added moments later, “This is a very unstable part of the world, and I don’t need it to be more unstable.”

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58113 <![CDATA[U.S. Is in No Shape to Give Advice, Medvedev Says]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58049 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58049 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:45:02 -0500 protect_democracy Republicans mccain (r-idiot) russia lies http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58049 Mr. Medvedev made his comments on Tuesday in a meeting with a small group of foreign journalists a day after the American treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., appealed in Moscow for Russian investment in the United States. The symbolism of the visit resonated here, in that only a decade had passed since the Russian economy was in shambles and the country was desperate for Western aid. In the interview, Mr. Medvedev was asked about a call by Senator John McCain (R-Idiot), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, to bar Russia from the Group of 8 because of its record on democracy.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58049 <![CDATA[22 year CIA agent FIRED for not lying about Iran threat]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58027 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58027 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:55:01 -0500 yurbud The World cia iran lies intelligence http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58027 "On five occasions he was ordered to either falsify his reporting on WMD in the Near East, or not to file his reports at all," and then they fired him. Why is Congress buying the crap Bush says about Iran?

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58027 <![CDATA[Judge Rejects Bush's View On Wiretaps]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58082 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58082 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:10:01 -0500 sacredsage Progressive Issues bush fisa http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58082 A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive” means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government’s claim that the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law. The judge, Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge for the Northern District of California, made his findings in a ruling on a lawsuit brought by an Oregon charity. The group says it has evidence of an illegal wiretap used against it by the National Security Agency under the secret surveillance program established by President Bush after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58082 <![CDATA[Laptops Lost Like Hot Cakes At U.S. Airports]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58037 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58037 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:15:01 -0500 Sparrows Progressive Issues laptops taken tsa airports http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58037 Keep laptops close at airports, because they have a startling tendency to disappear in the blink of an eye, according to a new survey. Some of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58037 <![CDATA[E. Coli Illnesses Prompt Beef Recall]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58025 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58025 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:25:02 -0500 Sparrows Health and Wellness e. coli beef recall nebraska http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58025 Supermarkets across the country are pulling from their shelves more than 530,000 pounds of beef that may be contaminated with E. coli in the wake of an Agriculture Department warning that the beef supplied by a Nebraska company may be responsible for at least 40 illnesses. The company, Nebraska Beef Ltd. of Omaha, recalled the beef produced since May after some of its products, sold by the Kroger Company with sell-by dates of May 21 to July 5, was linked to reports of illnesses in Ohio and Michigan, the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said on Tuesday. Note: Didn't you kind of suspect it was the BEEF????

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58025 <![CDATA[Government Stops Stalling as Solar Freeze is Lifted]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58015 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58015 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:25:02 -0500 greentech Environment solar freeze government.land management http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58015 The Bush administration and Bureau of Land Management have decided to end the 2-year freeze on solar energy development on Federal land that has been stalling photovoltaic installations in 6 states and energy independence for all.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58015 <![CDATA[Bush says US to send more troops to Afghanistan]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58013 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58013 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:30:02 -0500 regroce Busheviks bush afghanistan taliban http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58013 "Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He conceded that June was a 'tough month,' in fact, the deadliest for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the war began. ... Bush said it was a tough month too for the Taliban. But the once-toppled Islamist regime in Afghanistan has now rebounded with deadly force. More U.S. and NATO troops have died in the past two months in Afghanistan than in Iraq, a place with triple the number of U.S. and coalition forces."

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58013 <![CDATA[Engineer Gets 110 MPG Out Of '87 Mustang]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58031 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58031 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:45:02 -0500 Nomen Miscellaneous fuel economy e85 400hp http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58031 Doug Pelmear said he isn't toying with the engine of 1987 Ford Mustang for the money. The engineer's tinkering, however, could earn him $10 million and save him plenty more in gas money. Pelmear, who lives in Napoleon, Ohio, has tweaked his Mustang to get 110 mpg, making the engine nearly five times as efficient as a traditional gas engine. Traditional gas engines operate at 8 to 10 percent, efficiency, while the engine on the Mustang, he said, is at 38 percent efficiency. He said he could greatly increase even that number if his car used traditional gasoline instead of a mix of gas and 85 percent ethanol. Pelmear said the car has 400 horsepower, goes well over 100 mph and can go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds. "We redesigned a lot of different things on the [engine] block," he said. "It's still a rod-and-piston engine; it just has a lot more electronics on it." He has entered his car to win the $10 million Progressive Automotive X Prize: a race to find an affordable, marketable automobile that gets at least 100 miles per gallon.

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]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/comments_rss2.php?id=58031 <![CDATA[IMF finally knocks on Uncle Sam's door]]> http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58022 http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58022 Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:45:03 -0500 Sparrows Progressive Issues the fed vs imf economy http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=58022 Der Spiegel wrote that the IMF had "informed" Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke of plans that would have been unheard of in the past: a general examination of the US financial system. The IMF's board of directors has ruled that a so-called Financial Sector Assessment Program is to be carried out in the US. This, Der Spiegel wrote, "is nothing less than an X-ray of the entire US financial system", adding that "no Fed chief in US history has been forced to submit to the kind of humiliation that Ben Bernanke is facing". The fact that the IMF is knocking on the very doors of its parents and waving legal papers about who lost the house, the car and the kids will, if the past is anything to go by, be buried in the US by pom-pom waving on CNBC telling all what a great time it is to buy. But the news that the US Fed has now lost its last vestige of credibility did not end with the German report. The Telegraph from London weighed in, following the Royal Bank of Scotland's statement last week (also lost on the US public) that it was time to head for the crags, and reported Barclays Capital's closely watched Global Outlook analysis that said US headline inflation would hit 5.5% by August and the Fed would have to raise interest rates six times by the end of next year to prevent a wage spiral. If the Fed hesitates, the bond markets will take matters into their own hands.

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