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ShareThisScientist with suspicious item at airport did prison time for smuggling plague into U.S. 03 Sep 2010 A world-renowned Texas scientist specializing in infectious diseases who was once charged with smuggling dangerous samples of plague bacteria into the U.S. was questioned by authorities after a suspicious item found in his ... [Link] [Cache]

Following this short article are a few pictures taken at the event by photojournalist, Roberto Chile. The full set of pics can be found at Cubadebate — a link is provided directly after the article. Fidel looks nothing short of TERRIFIC! Viva Fidel! Cuban Revolution Leader Adressses University Students in ... [Link] [Cache]

Gov. Jan Brewer followed up her trainwreck debate performance with a vow never to debate again. The kicker is that this small-government conservative admitted that she only participated in the panel at all because she, get this, wanted to qualify for public money to finance her campaign. Incumbent Republican Jan ... [Link] [Cache]

The Prism Between Middle Eastern Reality and Americans Emmy award-winning film-maker Tom Hayes describes the censorship, or information blockade, that he faced in every step of the creation and distribution of his award-winning film ‘Palestine is Still the Issue.’ The Link – November/December 1997 “Are there really goblins Daddy? Reelee?” ... [Link] [Cache]

"Ayad Allawi, the head of the al-Iraqiya faction, told an Emirati daily that he has sought the intervention of the leaders of Syria, Turkey, Qatar and Russia to assuage Iran..... but He insisted, however, that he will not tolerate foreign interference in the domestic affairs of Iraq.In the same interview, ... [Link] [Cache]

It appears that National Public Radio NPR correspondent in Jerusalem, Lourdes Garcia Navarro, managed to get a big admission from Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon: Israel’s two-and-a-half-year-old program of military-administered punitive sanctions against Gaza was “not that effective”. The Israeli military sanctions, which were to have been progressively tightened, ... [Link] [Cache]

The RIAA may have given up on lawsuits targeting P2P users, but other companies have stepped into their shoes. There are many ways to detect P2P users and collect evidence of their behaviors for use in lawsuits. The simplest way needs nothing more than a BitTorrent client.We’ve covered some of ... [Link] [Cache]

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On 1 September the Palestinian Authority's PA security forces launched an unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas party in the occupied West Bank. The arrest sweep followed attacks earlier in the week against Israeli settlers in Hebron and Ramallah. [Link] [Cache]

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Torture Apologist now Judge Jay Bybee Here’s how our crack 9th Circuit Judge Jay Bybee played word games so as to consider bottles of water left for migrants traversing the Arizona desert “litter” even if they weren’t “garbage.” h/t Balkinization 1The regulation suffers from several grammatical challenges. The regulation begins ... [Link] [Cache]

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It appears America up and ESSploded in these past few weeks. Specifically in the last few days. But It’s All Under Control. As you were. On August 22nd, a 400-person riot broke out in the peaceful, hippie-beatnik town of Ft. Collins, Colorado. Irony: It happened right after Earth, Wind & ... [Link] [Cache]

Thirteen Palestinian factions issue threat amid relaunch of direct Middle East peace negotiations in Washington.Last Modified: 03 Sep 2010 18:03 GMTHamas has said that 'resistance' will follow despite efforts in Washington to reach a peace deal Hamas fighters have threatened to carry out a new wave of attacks against Israel ... [Link] [Cache]

photo: Chris Daniels flickr In my post about the rumored tax-cut stimulus package being tossed around at the White House, I quoted Dean Baker, who had some ideas on what you could do to stimulate the economy in a fantasy scenario. Since Republicans aren’t likely to let much of anything ... [Link] [Cache]

It's in my top three and it's on TBS tonight.What do you want me to do when I break, watch news? Here is a bit of a preview."Titanic expedition provides new images, but hurricane puts survey on hold" by Associated Press | August 31, 2010ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — A team ... [Link] [Cache]

Audre Lorde used the metaphor of the masters tools not being able to dismantle the masters house to explain why racism could not be used to fight sexism. Unfortunately, no one told many of the scholars who attended the recent Yale conference Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity. In no ... [Link] [Cache]

The Guardian: "Kabul is the new Beirut." This frivolous drivel fell from the mouth of a journalist in Afghanistan. She was effervescent with excitement about the prospect of Kabul's expatriate bars being even more hip than those in Beirut. Beirut – where they dance to the beat of the bombs, ... [Link] [Cache]

The Washington Post: Afghanistan's Central Bank has taken control of the country's biggest and most politically potent private bank and ordered its chairman to hand over $160 million worth of luxury villas and other real estate purchased in Dubai for well-connected insiders, according to Afghan bankers and officials. The intervention ... [Link] [Cache]

Front-page stuff:Pizza deliveryman is lured, robbed, killedDeliveries fraught with dangersMaybe I'll call it in for pick-up; better yet, let's just cook something at home.Here are some other things to chew on:Earl bears downWait for storm stirs memories of fear and destructionStorm surge a growing menace as sea levels riseExcept that ... [Link] [Cache]

I certainly have not seen eye-to-eye with Bob Shrum on political strategies over the years. So when we’re both beating the same drum with the same urgency at the same time, it’s somewhat unusual. But we both agree that President Obama and the Catfood Commission threaten the electoral chances of ... [Link] [Cache]

In two weeks Bard College is staging a lecture in New York by New Republic editor Martin Peretz. You have to wonder how appropriate this is given Peretz's latest rant against Muslims and the First Amendment. Peretz's anti Arab-racism is by now well known and an embarrassment even to the ... [Link] [Cache]

Hussein AssiVideo03/09/2010Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said on Friday that the so-called Middle East peace talks were stillborn and doomed, stressing that Jerusalem cannot be the eternal capital of the illegal State of Israel.His eminence said that the Israeli enemy is facing a lot of challenges, emphasizing that the ... [Link] [Cache]

The Angelides Commission Squints Back at the Bank Bailout and the Fall of Lehman By MICHAEL HUDSON | CounterPunch | September 3, 2010 What is the difference between today’s economy and Lehman Brothers just before it collapsed in September 2008? Should Lehman, the economy, Wall Street – or none of ... [Link] [Cache]

I really think things were easier long ago. "US unable to link rash to Pampers" by Associated Press | September 3, 2010 WASHINGTON — Government safety officials have not found a connection between a new kind of Pampers diapers and severe skin reactions reported by some parents groups. Is this ... [Link] [Cache]

Cook at the CFR;"...The Palestinians remain divided, that's been the situation since the January 2006 elections [in which Hamas won the majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament] and the June takeover in 2007 of Gaza by Hamas. So the Palestinian leadership is clearly divided. They are reluctant to go ... [Link] [Cache]