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Thursday, August 21, 2008 18:40
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Police Bulletin: People With City Maps Could Be Planning Violence The ACLU has obtained a leaked copy of
a Denver Police Department bulletin which advises officers that violent
protesters at the upcoming Democratic National Convention may be identified
from their use of hand held radios, bikes, maps and “camping information.”
Google
Caught Censoring Net, Says Hacker
An internet hacker claims to have caught Google in the act of deleting
documents from its cache that showed Chinese gymnasts to be underage.
Is
Georgia 2008 a Repeat of Hungary 1956?
The crisis in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia eerily recalls a
tragedy of the Cold War, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. That year,
after revolutionaries challenged Soviet control of this satellite state,
Russian tanks and troops rolled into Hungary.
2008
Coolest For At Least Five Years Man-made global warming advocates are
scrambling to explain away the fact that 2008 has so far been the coolest
year in five years, as climate change alarmists face embarrassment amidst
a barrage of evidence that the planet has embarked on a clear and natural
cooling trend.
Skeptics
win one! NOAA/NCDC to pull the CCSP report Regular readers may recall on August
1st a posting where I stated my views on the NCDC report being produced
by Dr.’s Karl and Peterson of NCDC (National Climatic Data Center)
called Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.
No
stereotypical terrorist, intel agency says There is no straightforward way to identify
the typical extremist, research conducted by the domestic intelligence
agency MI5 shows, The Guardian reported Thursday.
Potential
Obama VP Is Pro-War, Pro-Patriot Act Neo-Con The man who many are tipping to become
Barack Obama's running mate is a pro-war, pro-patriot act, Bilderberg
member who was an honorary co-chair of the neocon Committee for the
Liberation of Iraq, a group that aggressively propagandized for the
invasion of Iraq in 2003. Ladies and gentlemen - meet Senator Evan Bayh.
McCain
On Reinstituting A Military Draft: ‘I Don’t Disagree’
Today at a townhall meeting, an audience member
praised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his vow to “follow bin Laden
to the gates of hell.” After a long question about veterans’
care, the questioner said she believed we needed to reinstate the draft,
to which McCain seemed to readily agree.
American
Eagle gold coins sold out after spree A buying spree in the popular American Eagle
bullion coins appears to have depleted inventory of major North American
coin dealers, contributing to supply fears and sharply higher gold prices
on Thursday.
Israel
retracts war on Iran threats Israel's Interior Minister warns Tel Aviv against
attacking Tehran saying such an attack would be a 'megalomaniacal reckless'
idea.
DARPA
seeks 'perch and stare' spy-fly robot Pentagon war-boffins have shelled out $4.6m
to a noted aerial crazytech firm to develop a spy drone which can "perch"
near a target, "stare" at it, then take off again and fly
home.
No razor
wire at DNC jail
There won't be razor wire, but anyone arrested during the Democratic
National Convention will be held in locked chain-link cells in an old
warehouse.
Russian
troops pull out of Gori Russian troops have started pulling back from
the Georgian town of Gori which links South Ossetia with Tblisi, Russia's
Defense Ministry says.
Argentina
Investigates Deaths of Vaccinated Children Argentine authorities are investigating a possible
link between the deaths of 14 children and an experimental vaccine they
were taking as part of a clinical trial run by GlaxoSmithKline.
