Saturday, June 28, 2008

Louisiana passes first antievolution "academic freedom" law

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has signed the Louisiana Science Education Act into law, singling out evolution, origins of life, and global warming for criticism.

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Monday, June 23, 2008

George Carlin has died

Legendary comedian George Carlin passed away Sunday night at the age of 71. He will be missed, but never forgotten.

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Photographer Documents Secret Satellites — All 189 of Them

His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit -- despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don't exist. The Other Night Sky, on display at the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum through September 14, is only a small selection from the 1,500 astrophotographs Paglen has taken thus far.

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Uncovering AT&T's Spying Program

For years the National Securities Agency, has been spying on each & every keystroke. The national headquarters of AT&T is in Missouri, where ex-employees describe a secret room. The program is called "Splitter Cut-In & Test Procedure." Tomorrow the senate will vote to allow this to continue this activity legally & it may be too late.

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Monday, June 16, 2008

The U.S. Governments Global Electronic Surveillance Network

The ECHELON system has intercept stations all over the world to capture all satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic communications traffic, and then process this information through the massive computer capabilities of the NSA, including advanced voice recognition and look for code words or phrases (known as the ECHELON “Dictionary”)

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Ron Paul's Message to Barack Obama

Ron Paul talks about "change".

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Pentagon 'urged notes destroyed'

Guantanamo Bay interrogators were told to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify on detainee treatment, a military lawyer alleges.The lawyer, Lt-Cmdr William Kuebler, said the instructions were contained in a Pentagon operations manual.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

They say it got smart: a 2008 review of the PS3

PS2 wasn't worth owning either until a year after launch. The MGS4 bundle needs to be owned by everyone who doesn't have a PS3 yet. The versatility of the system is one of its greatest strong points, and it's absolutely essential for any media fan/home theater nut.

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Irony

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