If you want to drive a

"Go to Iraq."   Thomas Friedman

Democracy Now

Difference of opinion, Iraq, August 25, 2005
DN! Headlines: text, audio, and video
[Bloodshed in Iraq: Violence Among Religious Factions]

Digerati

Annie Lennox

Click to Listen.
Darfur

Some of the news that's fit to print

[Free News]

Put the camera down Put the camera down. Now.

Police swat party in Utah. No pics please. [wikinews]

Philosopy of the mind

John Searle
How exactly do neurobiological processes in the brain cause consciousness.

Serial killer

He was our ally at one time. By mistake.
Are these leaders mistakes?
Saudi Arabia's Abdullah [1]
Russia's Vladimir Putin [2]
China's Hu Jintao [3]
Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo [4]

Divine Right of Kings

Divine Right in today's language: National Sovereignty.
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"Why is it right that the world takes no action when millions are ... dying in a dictatorship?" Haider asked. "In the Red Zone", p54.

Elevated walkways and bikeways

The Highline in New York City.
The cars have taken the earth.
Let's have elevated bikeways and walkways.

Banana Republicans

Richest country.   Poorest government.

The "All Volunteer" army: the War Core

Americans in the Spanish Civil War
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Many soldiers are extended against their will via "Stop Loss".

Valerie Plame

is not the largest issue.
That was a "dirty trick", and criminal.
Whose idea was it to forge the Niger "yellow cake" documents?
Italian military intelligence officer Rocco Martini? Let's ask him.
Democracy Now! contemplates Berlusconi as a co-consiprator
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Adrianna speculates, darkly, on why Judith won't talk.
Similarly, Cockburn squints at Judy Miller's War
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John Dean comments on Karl's problems with Title 18 USC 641.

Fundamentalist

Extremist
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[1.Is it: good secular muslims and bad fundamentalist muslims?]
[2.What we need is more radicals]

Peak coal

500 billion tons is 10 Quintillion BTUs (US share = 2.3 Quint BTUs)
Current USA coal usage is 23 Quadrillion BTUs per year.
2.3 Quints is a 100 year supply if used at the current rate.
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Wyoming produces the most coal. The black hills.

What comes before Hydrogen cars?

Coal cars.
What comes after hydrogen cars?
Bike paths.

Fetus

This was you.

Love your enemy

The sermon on the mount. [Matthew 5]

Marlboro Man

Barbara Walter's comment
[causes of death in the USA]

TV: The whole world is watching

Genocide IS news.[play video]
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August 23rd:
Networks refuse to carry ads about themselves. [story]

Died, 1879

Bernedette Soubirous of Lourdes (1844-1879).
Her well preserved body as it is today at Nevers, France.
Some other miracles.

Our Lady of Gudalupe in Los Angeles

A very tiny piece of Juan Diego's tilma (cloak)
is on display at the Los Angeles cathedral.
The rest is in Mexico City.

Illegal immigration into the US from Mexico

Steven Vincent

Steven writes about the Thugs of Basra
Censorship, jihad style.

Cooling towers

A lot of heat is "lost" making electricity.
Maybe you can see where it goes.