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Meghan McCain: Tea Party represents 'innate racism' - says young people 'turned off' by movement
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:56 PM EST (Raw Story)
Young people 'turned off' by Tea Party movement's racist undertones, McCain says The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain has sharply criticized the Tea Party movement, accusing it of "innate racism."
BBC News - World's oldest monastery restored
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 4:10 PM EST (BBC News)
Egypt has completed the restoration of reputedly the world's oldest Christian monastery, called Saint Anthony's. The monastery is believed to be 1,600 years old. The government-sponsored restoration project cost over $14m (£8.9m) and took more than eight years.
UK New Statesman writer: What role did Israel play in the run-up to the Iraq war?
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 3:42 PM EST (New Statesman Contents)
NS's Mehdi Hasan provides cogent evidence that a major reason for the Iraq War was not just oil but to increase the security of the State of Israel. Indeed key quotes he gives from Blair and Israeli leaders support this view.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | An intolerant society
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 2:58 PM EST (DAWN.COM)
Coming on the heels of the Ashura tragedy, the two blasts in Karachi on Friday are a reminder that sectarian violence poses one of the greatest threats to Pakistani society.
"Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity"
Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 2:01 AM EST (New Statesman Contents)
John Gray, UK New Statesman, Book Review of "Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity" by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.: "Apocalyptic theories about the massacres of the past..."
Soldier father accused of 'waterboarding' daughter, 4, because she can't recite alphabet
Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 4:43 PM EST (the Mail online)
A U.S. soldier has been accused of 'waterboarding' his four-year-old daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet. Joshua Tabor admitted to police that he used the CIA torture technique because he was so angry.
Turns Out Jon Stewart DID Take Down Bill O'Reilly
Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 2:56 PM EST (EW.com)
Go Jon go!
Sarah Palin is the consequence of decades of Republican anti-intellectualism, which has now reduced a former VP candidate to reading notes off hand (updated)
Sun Feb 7, 2010 1:03 PM EST
(Update 1) This is not a surprise to anyone that isn't an adolescent male, hopelessly enthralled with any woman with big tits and good looks, or a right-wing hardliner that sees politics in militaristic absolutism: Sarah Palin really is that stupid.
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Palin: Obama Could Win Reelection if He 'Played the War Card' and Declared 'War on Iran.'
Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:51 PM EST (Think Progress)
This morning on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace conducted a 25-minute interview with Sarah Palin, a paid contributor to Fox News.
Israel Cracks Down on Anti-Zionist Foreigners in Samaria
Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:15 PM EST (israelstreams.com)
(IsraelNN.com) The IDF cracked down on the Palestinian Authority's sheltering foreign anti-Israel protestors and entered Ramallah on Sunday to arrest two women accused of being involved in "illegal riots that interfered with Israeli security operations."
Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers
Seeded on Sun Feb 7, 2010 11:22 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)
(excerpts) ExxonMobil cash supported concerted campaign to undermine case for man-made warming An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.
Sarah Palin is still an idiot
Sat Feb 6, 2010 11:46 PM EST
If you like to mock ignorant people, tonight was perfect. Not only was there a "Tea Party" convention on TV, Sarah "I Quit" Palin was the keynote speaker.
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Breitbart, Tea Party Nation Organizers Shocked, Shocked to Find That Birtherism is Going on at TeaBagCon
Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 3:49 PM EST (Little Green Footballs)
There are reports that the Tea Party Convention organizers are planning a press conference today to denounce Birtherism, after Joseph Farah's speech last night.
Does anyone else find the the blow job lady banner ad disturbing and distracting?
Sat Feb 6, 2010 1:53 PM EST
The banner ad now on many NV pages featuring a lady with wide eyes bobbing her head up and down rapidly looking like she is performing a sexual act on an invisible penis is distracting at best, disturbing at worst.
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Polling Republicans: The GOP id speaks
Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 12:23 PM EST (The Economist)
BARACK OBAMA is a socialist who should be impeached. He may well have been born outside the United States, may be a racist who hates white people, and may also want the terrorists to win. In any case, he is indisputably less qualified to be president than Sarah Palin.
Photo essay of child labor in India - Bricks for Bread and Milk
Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 12:14 PM EST (foreignpolicy.com)
Bring Your Child to Work Day: In New Delhi there are upwards of 100 construction projects underway in preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games scheduled to take place from Oct. 4 to 13.
School bans 'slovenly' mothers from wearing pyjamas when they drop their children off
Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 11:01 AM EST (the Mail online)
Schools are following Tesco's example and taking a stand against parents who turn up at the gates wearing pyjamas. They are chastising parents for dropping children off - and collecting them in the afternoon - without first changing out of their nightwear and slippers.
Bruised Maid Dies at 12, and Pakistan Seethes - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 9:29 AM EST (The New York Times)
LAHORE, Pakistan — The death already seemed like a bitter injustice. A maid died after unexplained injuries she got in the house of her rich employer. But one detail in particular has outraged Pakistanis: she was 12.
White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement
Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 7:49 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
The Tea Party movement, holding its first convention this weekend, is angling to be the most revolutionary force in American politics in name and in deed, since at least the 1960s counterculture.
Alito objected to Obama's history claim - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 5:52 AM EST (Yahoo! News)
Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words "not true" during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address? He objected to the president's saying the ruling reversed a century of law.
Comic Books Will Look Incredible on the iPad
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 2:54 PM EST (Gizmodo)
I'd buy an iPad just to read comic books. Think I'm nuts? I probably am, but see how you feel after this first look at what Panelfly, maker of a popular comic book iPhone app, is building for the iPad.
BBC News - Bombings hit Iraq Shia pilgrims in Karbala
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 11:59 AM EST (BBC News)
Two suicide bombers have killed at least 40 people and injured more than 140 on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Karbala, police reports say.
Response to "A Climatology Conspiracy?"(Open Letter)
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 11:31 AM EST (Santer Open Letter Feb.3,2010)
(excerpts) A paper by D.H. Douglass, J.R. Christy, B.D. Pearson, and S.F. Singer, published online in the International Journal of Climatology (IJoC) in December 2007, contained a serious error in a statistical test.1 This error led Douglass et al.
Douglass and Christy: Bad science; disingenuous commentary
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 11:10 AM EST (desmogblog.com)
David Douglass and John Christy (inset) are lousy scientists who flee from structured, peer-reviewed debate and then generously misrepresent the facts in opinion pieces published by ideologically driven websites; at least, that's the inevitable conclusion from an open letter (a …
65,000 Year-Old Tribe Becomes Extinct as Last Member Dies
Seeded on Fri Feb 5, 2010 10:53 AM EST (CNN)
The last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited an Indian island chain for around 65,000 years has died, a group that campaigns for the protection of indigenous peoples has said. More Articles
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