Archive for September, 2009
Fifty Questions on 9/11
September 11th, 2009Via: Asia Times: It’s September 11 all over again – eight years on. The George W Bush administration is out. The “global war on terror” is still on, renamed “overseas contingency operations” by the Barack Obama administration. Obama’s “new strategy” – a war escalation – is in play in AfPak. Osama bin Laden may be […]
FBI Informant Says Agents Missed Chance to Stop 9/11 Ringleader Mohammed Atta
September 11th, 2009Via: ABC News: On the eve of the eight year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an FBI informant who infiltrated alleged terrorist cells in the U.S. tells ABC News the FBI missed a chance to stop the al Qaeda plot because they focused more on undercover stings than on the man who would later become […]
Mice Levitated in Lab Using Magnetic Fields
September 11th, 2009Via: Live Science: Scientists have now levitated mice using magnetic fields. Other researchers have made live frogs and grasshoppers float in mid-air before, but such research with mice, being closer biologically to humans, could help in studies to counteract bone loss due to reduced gravity over long spans of time, as might be expected in […]
Kucinich Responds to Obama’s Address to Congress: Windfall for Insurance and Pharmaceutical Companies
September 10th, 2009Broadband South African Style: 4GB USB Drive Attached to a Pigeon
September 10th, 2009Wow. You’ve seen the end of my bitching about my Internet connection. Via: BBC: Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery – but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon. A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick […]
Foreclosures Keep Coming
September 10th, 2009Via: Reuters: U.S. mortgage foreclosure filings in August hovered near July’s record high despite broad efforts to keep borrowers in their homes and will probably rise for another year, according to a report released on Thursday. Filings — including notices of default, auction and bank repossession — dipped 1 percent last month from July’s all-time […]
Australia: Sleep-Deprived Doctors Told to Drink Coffee
September 10th, 2009Via: Reuters: Exhausted Australian doctors have been told to drink up to six cups of coffee a day to stay awake during extended shifts, building pressure on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to seize control of state-run hospitals. A document on fatigue management released by health officials in Queensland state recommended doctors ingest 400 milligrams of […]
Dr Pepper’s Wet Dream: Water, Government Subsidies and Transfer of Wealth in the Middle of the Desert
September 10th, 2009Via: Alternet: On a sun-baked afternoon in October 2008, a group of soft-drink executives and city officials gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony at an old Air Force base on the outskirts of the city, 100 miles east of Los Angeles. They were standing on the edge of the Mojave Desert, one of the driest, most […]
Britain: Question a Doctor and Lose Your Child
September 10th, 2009Via: Sunday Times: PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors’ diagnoses or objecting to their medical care. John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, who campaigns to stop injustices in the family court, said: “Very often care proceedings are used as retaliation by local authorities against ‘uppity’ people who […]
Family Values: California Republican Assemblyman Has Sex with Utility Company Lobbyist, Brags About It—Woops, the Mic is On
September 10th, 2009Via: AP: Mike Duvall’s second term as a member of the California Assembly was progressing pretty much like his first — in relative obscurity, with few notable legislative accomplishments. The Orange County Republican is now a YouTube hit after his racy comments about his sexual conquests were caught on an open microphone in a Capitol […]
