Land-Swap Plan Causes Trouble For CongressmanSUPERIOR, Ariz. -- As they dig for nickel, copper and other commodities in the far corners of the earth, the world's largest mining companies, Rio Tinto PLC and BHP Billiton Ltd., are used to solving geological problems. Here, though, the problems they encountered were political.
North America's largest copper lode is believed to be buried more than a mile beneath Apache Leap, the stark red cliffs that loom above this storied Old West town about an hour east of Phoenix. Resolution... (more)
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YouTube deletes video of McCain singing 'Bomb Iran'YouTube confirmed Friday that it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu ditty about starting a war with Iran.
The Arizona senator joked about attacking the sovereign nation during a campaign stop in South Carolina this week, singing, to the tune of the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann": "That old, that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, anyway."
According to a video recorded by wh... (more)
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State Lawmakers Want To Limit Internet Porn Access (By Fining Everyone With WiFi)SALT LAKE CITY State lawmakers are considering a proposal that would force Utahns to limit access to their wireless networks with a password.
It’s all in an effort to keep teens with laptops from driving around in search of a wireless Internet connection to look at pornography.
The proposal comes from an Internet law professor at BYU. Cheryl Preston has developed several proposals designed to keep kids from seeing porn on the Web. Today, legislators began cons... (more)
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Sex and the internetWHEN the internet took off in the 1990s, it was demonised as a steaming cauldron of porn. It has certainly made pornography more widely and easily available than ever before. The online porn industry is difficult to measure, but was valued at $1 billion in 2002 by America's National Research Council. Google, which publishes its “zeitgeist” list of top search queries, redacts sex-related terms from the rankings for fear of causing offence. But the popularity of pornography is clear fr... (more)
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Google's data-storing feature fuels privacy fearsFacing worries about its tracking Web surfers' every move, Google Inc. is now offering a feature to track Web surfers' every move.
Its free Web History service is strictly voluntary — Google users can sign up to have the Internet giant keep detailed records of every website they visit so they can easily find them again later.
The feature is similar to that offered by Web browsers, except the data are stored on Google's servers instead of users' computers and t... (more) Use Scroogle.org's Google scraper for all your Googling needs. |
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"Conspiracy Theories," "Facts," and Perspective"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
Some people seem to be confused as to why we post articles which could be perceived as conspiratorial. They say posting "conspiracy theories" makes the site look bad and others will judge us for it. I want to make it clear, this site is not about pandering to "the masses" out of fear of some sort of judgment. We are also not robots who's only concern in life is 'data'... (more)
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Our dead, their deadAs tragic as the Virginia Tech shootings are, let’s face it: 32 dead is a slow day in U.S.-occupied Iraq.
“Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate,” President Bush said. “They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.” He would know.
In America, we have the luxury of mourning our dead for days or even years (see 9/11). If Iraqis tried to “pull together” and “come to grips” with ever... (more)
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Bringing Down the House of LiesIt's a bit of a mixed feeling to realize that millions and millions of people who didn't get this distinction two, four or six years ago now understand that the "political' issues we now face aren't about right and left, they're about right and wrong. On one hand, what took you so long? On the other, thank God and welcome aboard.
Although the media has downplayed it -- it doesn't fit with the general stupidization program of creating a lot of heat but very little light -- more and... (more)
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The State or the People What use is the political left? This is a serious question, not a rant. The same question can be asked about the political right.
The question does not imply derogatory implications about individuals on the political left or the political right. Rather, the question concerns the basket of emotions, issues, and knee-jerk responses associated with the political left and the political right.
Traditionally, the political left has had a Benthamite view of government, see... (more)
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Killer blood given to kidsBRITISH doctors used kids as guinea pigs by giving them blood riddled with HIV and deadly hepatitis, the Sun can reveal.
Medics knew some donors were heroin-injecting prisoners in American jails, but still tested their “high risk” blood on young Brit haemophiliacs.
Victims were aged from just three months to 15.
The truth emerged as Lord Archer of Sandwell opened a public inquiry in London into the scandal.
Yesterday, one he... (more)
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Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire Whenever The New York Times finally gets the point to what is going on in our native land a celestial choir can be heard in Times Square, shouting hosannas. This happened recently, on April 14th, when they realized that there could be a dark explanation for what W. is doing when he sends a Mr. Bolton, a U.N. hater, to be ambassador to that body or a Mr. Wolfowitz to the World Bank, a man as ignorant of history and finance as the president himself. Maureen Dowd in the Times was allowed to set the... (more)
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Chinese make first artificial snowfallChina claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly ambitious attempts to control the weather.
Officials in the meteorological bureau in Tibet said they had used "rain-seeding" techniques to trigger a snowfall over the city of Nagqu last week.
"This proves it's possible for humans to change the weather on the world's highest plateau," said Yu Zhongshui. The bureau said it had produced just under half an inch of snow at a ... (more)
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Bush: Be Wary of 'Abnormal Behavior' President Bush said on Thursday that mass shootings are a reminder that people must be willing to raise a red flag about others' disturbing behavior.
"One of the lessons of these tragedies is to make sure that when people see somebody or know somebody who is exhibiting abnormal behavior, you do something about it, to suggest that somebody take a look," the president said during an appearance at a high school here.
His war on terror speech c... (more)
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Licensed Gun Owning Student Arrested, Firearms Seized A Rochester Institute of Technology student was arrested and suspended from classes after authorities discovered he had two assault rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition a day after the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Jonathan Hackenburg, a 22-year-old engineering senior from Hackettstown, N.J., told Monroe County sheriff's deputies and campus safety officials he had a valid federal firearms license and purchased the weapons, a STAG-15 an... (more)
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TV Dramas Pre-Empted VA Massacre From April 17th broadcast of CNN's Showbiz Tonight, hosted by Brooke Anderson and A.J. Hammer.
ANDERSON: The Virginia Tech shooting proved too close for comfort for network TV. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you the Fox network has pulled this week`s episode of the crime drama Bones, which features a body found on a college campus. Fox tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "out of sensitivity to the victims and families touched by this senseless tragedy, we felt the change was ... (more)
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British professor: Students feared gunman for 18 monthsThe Virginia Tech gunman was taken to a mental health facility in 2005, it has been revealed.
Cho Seung-Hui was evaluated by mental health professionals after female students complained to police about him and his parents became afraid he was suicidal.
Virginia Tech police chief Wendell Flincham confirmed moments ago that Cho Seung-Hui had targeted two female students in November and December of 2005.
He made contact with the first woman through phone... (more)
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Va. Tech Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit A court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was "mentally ill" and potentially dangerous. Then it let him go.
In December 2005 -- more than a year before Monday's mass shootings -- a district court in Montgomery County, Va., ruled that Cho presented "an imminent danger to self or others." That was the necessary criterion for a detention order, so that Cho, who had been accused of stalking by two female schoolmates, could be evaluated by a state do... (more)
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Virginia Tech Aftermath Drills?
Paul Rodgers witnessed a "roll playing drill" at just after 7:00pm on April 18, 2007.
3 men running from campus 2 of which were USMC with ear pieces and one with a hand held.. Chasing a man with a white t-shirt and a bookbag. They ran from cam... (more)
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Did anti-depressants trigger shooting? Investigators believe that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech murderer, had been taking anti-depressant medication at some point before the shootings, according to The Chicago Tribune.
Perhaps it's just a terrible coincidence, but Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and Kip Kinkel, the 15-year-old Oregon youth who killed his parents before opening fire on his classmates, were also taking drugs for depression.
It's not yet cl... (more)
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Tag elderly people, says science minister Elderly people should be "tagged" to enable the authorities to keep tabs on them, a government minister suggested today.
Science minister Malcolm Wicks said satellite technology could be used to allow families to monitor frail or elderly relatives, it was reported today.
According to the Mirror newspaper, Mr Wicks said many families worried about elderly relatives or "what's happening about an 80 or 90-year-old who may have Alzheimer's... (more)
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EU agrees new racial hatred law European interior ministers have agreed to make incitement to racism an EU-wide crime, but have stopped short of a blanket ban on Holocaust denial.
The agreement makes it an offence to condone or grossly trivialise crimes of genocide - but only if the effect is incitement to violence or hatred.
The deal follows six years of talks, and will disappoint Germany, which pushed hard for a Holocaust-denial law.
Berlin has ... (more)
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