Tuesday, June 9

ACLU: American Detained, Tortured in UAE at US Government's Behest

“In a handwritten statement given to the U.S. Embassy in  Abu Dhabi , Hamdan said he was kept in a frigid cell with blinding lights on 24 hours a day, and only left to be interrogated and tortured and to go to the toilet.”

Nanny State Runs Amok With City’s Cigarette Tax

“Next month, Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to ask the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to impose an excise tax of 33 cents on every pack of cigarettes sold locally, justifying it as a way of forcing smokers to pay for cleaning The City’s streets of unsightly cigarette debris.”

US Government Buying Milk Products to Keep Up Prices

GOP Objects to Town Allowing AWOL Sanctuary Debate

"The city of Bellingham, WA is holding a public forum Monday night on the question of becoming a 'GI Sanctuary City,' where police will be directed not to arrest AWOL soldiers who are refusing to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan. If the ordinance is passed, Bellingham would become the third such city, following Ithaca, NY and Berkeley, CA."

Antiwar Radio: Laurence M. Vance

(Audio) Scott Horton interviews Vance on the basis (or lack of) of Christians supporting the warfare/military state.

Words and War

“A few weeks ago, some prominent U.S. news stories did emerge about Pentagon air strikes that killed perhaps a hundred Afghan civilians. But much of the emphasis was that such deaths could undermine the U.S. war effort. The most powerful media lenses do not correct the myopia when Uncle Sam’s vision is impaired by solipsism and narcissism.”

Long-Term Economic Memory Loss

“His Chinese university audience, being economically literate, laughed at Geithner.  It apparently did not dawn on the US Treasury Secretary that if Chinese money is rising in value relative to the US dollar, the value of Chinese investments in dollar-denominated US Treasury bonds is falling.”

'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure

Another revolution in computing technology?

Botox Cures Paralysed Man

“However, after just a month of botulinum toxin injections, he found he could stand up and even walk short distances, reports the Daily Telegraph.”

9 Child Prodigies Who Are Clearly Dangerous Mutants

(video)

Swedish Pirates Capture EU Seat

“The result puts the Pirate Party in fifth place, behind the Social Democrats, Greens, Liberals and the Moderate Party.”

Peter Schiff on Government's Bad Fiscal Policies

Mandatory Molyneux

Morality, atheism and child abuse.  (video, Editor's pick)

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