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08-01-09

• Our Righteous Righteous Brothers and Sisters:
• Ray McGovern: Cowardice Among 'Christian' Leaders: Why the Churches Are Largely Mum on Torture (alternet/consortiumnews) "Who but the cowardly crew leading the 'Christian' churches can be held responsible for the fact that many of their flock believe in torture?" --alternet
• These United Police States of America - Turning Back and Biting the Police Themselves:
• Officers Run Background Check On Obama; Placed On Leave (wsbtv)
• MIC - War Profiteering - Our Saintly Hidden Activities - 9/11 - Is Anyone Listening?
• Ryland: A Sibel Edmonds 'Bombshell' - Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 (bradblog) "The bombshell here is obviously that certain people in the US were using Bin Laden up to September 11, 2001. It is important to understand why: the US outsourced terror operations to al Qaeda and the Taliban for many years, promoting the Islamization of Central Asia in an attempt to personally profit off military sales as well as oil and gas concessions." (lukery at kos)
• No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
• SN 1006 Supernova Remnant (apod)
  

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07-31-09

• Being the Best That You Can Be:
• U.S. military accused of atrocities against Iraqi gays (washingtonblade) "Refugee tells stunned audience that soldiers detained, executed gay civilians"
• Sipping beer with the president - typical Obama fix for a MAJOR problem:
• Patching Things Up Over a Beer at the White House Is Nice, But Equal Protection Is Better (alternet) "While the media covers Obama, Crowley and Gates making up, sipping beer, the real issue is: Police who abuse power need to be reined in at once." (Useless symbolism)
• No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
• Hubble View: Jupiter Impact (apod)
  

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07-30-09

• MIC - America the Imperial:
• Chalmers Johnson: Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire (tomdispatch) -- Reason #3: Likely insolvency similar to that of the former Soviet Union. Folks, we can't afford this lunacy.
• Obama Continues Throwing Crumbs to Queers, But No Evidence He Will Fulfill His Oh-So-Boldly Proclaimed Promises When He Was Prostituting For Their Votes:
• Harvey Milk to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom (gaypolitics)
• Of Lies and Lying Liars - 'Health Care Reform' Is Now 'Health Insurance Reform':
• John Nichols: Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare (TheNation)
• United Police States of America:
• Restore My Goddam 4th Amendment Rights!!! (bradblog) "Peter B. Collins speaks to the whistleblowers and experts still sounding the alarm as Bush-era big government intrusion continues unabated..."
• No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
• Multiverses: Do Other Universes Exist? (apod)
  

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07-29-09

• Caretakers of the Public Welfare - Or, Where is Gray Davis When We Need Him?
• The Terminator decimates California AIDS services with his line-item veto (americablog/gay - wockner) "Great legacy, Arnold. Maria should be so proud of you. More people will become infected. More people will get sicker and need more care. More people will probably die. Arnold really is the Terminator."
• Naked corporate greed - you don't have to just lie down and die when they take yet another pound of your flesh - hey, would this kind of activism help clean up Wall Street?
• Mob beats Chinese steel factory executive Chen Guojun to death (latimes) "The protesters worked at the state-owned Tonghua Iron and Steel Group, which was going to be sold to Chen's privately owned Jianlong Steel. Chen sparked the riot by announcing 30,000 workers would be laid off, the newspaper said."
• MIC - War Profiteers:
• Amy Goodman: Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups (truthdig) "The infiltration [by U.S. military personnel] appears to be in direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act preventing U.S. military deployment for domestic law enforcement and may strengthen congressional demands for a full-scale investigation of U.S. intelligence activities, like the Church Committee hearings of the 1970s."
• No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
• The Milky Way Over Devil's Tower (apod)
  

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07-28-09

• And thou shalt have dominion . . . .
• Human activity is driving Earth's 'sixth great extinction event' (guardian/uk) "Population growth, pollution and invasive species are having a disastrous effect on species in the southern hemisphere, a major review by conservationists warns"
• Swine Flu Vaccinations to a Location Near You:
• Madsen: Children to be used to test swine flu vaccine? (rt) -- Drug companies to use 12,000 children, some as young as 3, as their guinea pigs. Big Pharma stands to benefit, as usual. Guinea pig children bear all the risk. Vaccine manufacurers, as usual, are immune from lawsuit for any damage their drugs cause recipients.
• Surviving the Biggest Theft of All Time:
• Ten Things You Need to Know to Live on the Streets (thenation)
• Road Kill: It's Fresh, It's Organic, It's Free (alternet)
• And for the Investor Class: Surviving the 'End of Civilization' (marketwatch)
• Global Broiling:
• World will warm faster than predicted in next five years, study warns (guardian/uk) "New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics" -- Silence the sceptics? No, I think not. Exxon, leading Big Oil, the coal and electric utilities companies, and their bought-off Republicon mouthpieces--like Inhofe--will just come up with still more phony propaganda to try to explain away the rise in temperature, as they have been doing regarding global warming during the entire disastrous Bush years. when we perhaps still had a small chance to do something dramatic to slow it down or turn its course. The Titanic has not even begun to change course yet and we can already smell the iceberg.
• No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
• A Floral Aurora Corona (apod)
  

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07-27-09

• No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
• NGC 1097: Spiral Galaxy with a Central Eye (apod)
  

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07-26-09

• Of Lies and Lying Liars:
• Whistleblower tells of America's hidden nightmare for its sick poor (guardian/uk) "When an insurance firm boss saw a field hospital for the poor in Virginia, he knew he had to speak out. Here, he tells Paul Harris of his fears for Obama's bid to bring about radical change"
• The United Police State of America:
• Sibel Edmonds: The Makings of a Police State-Part II (123realchange)
• No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
• The Big Corona (apod)