Google Snaps Up YouTube for $1.65B

October 9, 2006 by element115
Internet search leader Google is snapping up YouTube for $1.65 billion, brushing aside copyright concerns to seize a starring role in the online video revolution.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Gaza house destroyed in Israeli raid

by element115
The house, in the Khan Yunes refugee camp in northern Gaza City, was completely destroyed in the air strike, but its residents were not in the building at the time, the sources said.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Earth's ecological debt crisis

by element115
...mankind's 'borrowing' from nature hits new record.

Today is a bleak day for the environment, the day of the year when mankind over-exploits the world's resources - the day when we start living beyond our ecological means.

The new economics foundation has calculated from research by a US academic group, Global Footprint Network, that the day when we use more than our fair share of the Earth ­ when "humanity starts eating the planet" ­ is October 9.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Scientists Probe North Korea Nuke Test

by element115
North Korea sets off an earthshaking explosion _ and claims it was nuclear. Was it? For scientists, that was not a quick and easy question to answer.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

N. Korea Claims Nuclear Test

by element115
North Korea declared on Monday that it had conducted its first nuclear test, asserting a claim to be the world's newest nuclear power and drawing strong international condemnation.

The South Korean government informed officials in Washington that an explosion occurred at 10:36 a.m. local time.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Magnitude 4.2 - NORTH KOREA

by element115
Man-made blast...
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Assad: Syrian military preparing for war with Israel

October 8, 2006 by element115
The Syrian military is preparing for war with Israel, Syria's President Bashar Assad told the Quwaiti newspaper Al-Anba on Saturday.

In an interview widely quoted by Syrian news agencies, Assad said Israel could attack Syria "at any moment."
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Woodward: Cheney Cursed At Me About 'State of Denial'

by element115
Bob Woodward described how Vice President Dick Cheney called him 10 days ago about Woodward?s new book State of Denial.
Woodward says Cheney cursed at him and then hung up the phone.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Lawsuit Intends to Force the Bush Administration to Recognize the Constitution

by element115
Since taking office the Bush administration has successfully lobbied Congress to budget $500 million for marriage education programs. Much of this money is slated to go to religious organizations, despite the fact that the First Amendment mandates separation of church and state. A recent lawsuit filed by Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) against the Department of Health and Human Services aims to force the Bush administration to cease violating the Constitution by funding marriage programs with an overtly religious slant. If successful, this lawsuit would have a profound impact on the ability of the Bush administration to continue funding religious organizations with taxpayer dollars.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Neocons spam Youtube with Fox News Propaganda

by element115
Under the usernames "intelsum" and "TerrorFreeOil", neocons have spammed Youtube with over 800 propaganda clips from Fox News including every clip of Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter you could ever want.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

The World According to Rummy

by element115
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld circulated a secret memo titled "Illustrative New 21st Century Institutions and Approaches." The six-page document, excerpted below, highlights the Iranian threat, calls for a multilateral military force and argues that the United States' antiquated system of government makes competence "next to impossible."
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Cheney back with grim stump speech

by element115
Vice President Cheney sometimes starts speeches with a Ronald Reagan quotation about a "happy" nation needing "hope and faith." But not much happy talk follows. Not a lot of hope, either. He does, though, talk about the prospect of "mass death in the United States."
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Murder in Moscow

by element115
The murder yesterday of Anna Politkovskaya, the most famous reporter in Russia, is a story as sinister as anything she investigated in her fearless, award-winning career.

Her most powerful enemy was President Vladimir Putin. The murder came two days before she was due to publish an exposé of the Chechnyan Prime Minister.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Kissinger's back in the White House

by element115
Slate --> Will we never be free of the malign effect of this little gargoyle?
Posted in | 0 Comments »

What the Amish are Teaching America

by element115
...the United States culture from which the Amish are isolated is moving in the other direction ? increasingly exacting revenge for crimes and punishing violence with more violence.

If, as Gandhi said, "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind," then the Amish are providing the rest of us with an eye-opening lesson.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

A new type of engine to run on compressed air

by element115
Posted in | 0 Comments »

End of the Revolution

by element115
TIME --> Sex, lies and power games are just the latest symptoms of a Republican party that has strayed from its ideals.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Jeb Bush gets rude welcome in Pittsburgh

by element115
"We don't want you here," protesters chanted.
"Jeb, go home," they shouted.

Bush had been walking in the area near the T-station.
...the governor was ushered into a T-station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

America ponders cutting Iraq in three

by element115
An independent commission set up by Congress with the approval of President George W Bush may recommend carving up Iraq into three highly autonomous regions, according to well informed sources.
Posted in | 0 Comments »

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers

by element115
Now playing --->



in Toronto:
Bloor Cinema
506 Bloor St. W.
Sun: 4:30
Mon: 7:00
Posted in | 0 Comments »
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Pages

Powered by Blogger.

Blog Archive