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Archive for July, 2009
30 Jul
Pulling back the media veil on the NBAF, Read the New GAO report for yourself
Updated 7:00 PM EST | The latest GAO report regardng the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility(NBAF) has been released, you can find it here.
The legislative wrangling over intial funding for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) may have hit a brick wall if you believe the latest findings in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) draft report obtained by the [...]
28 Jul
N.C. men charged with plotting ‘violent jihad’
Source: WRAL
A father and his two sons are among seven people accused of supporting terrorism by training and traveling overseas, federal authorities said Monday.
According to indictments, Daniel Patrick Boyd, also known as “Saifullah,” and the other defendants conspired to provide resources to terrorists over the last three years.
Boyd, who authorities said led the men, lived [...]
27 Jul
GAO reports says NBAF too risky, DHS used “outdated modeling”
Infectious Diseases Study Site Questioned
Tornado Alley May Not Be Safe, GAO Says
Source: By Carol D. Leonnig | Washington Post Staff Writer
The Department of Homeland Security relied on a rushed, flawed study to justify its decision to locate a $700 million research facility for highly infectious pathogens in a tornado-prone section of Kansas, according to a [...]
26 Jul
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: The Great American Bubble Machine Interview
Source: Rolling Stone | Youtube
About the Video series: Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression. Link to Matt Taibbi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine” in Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83
Matt Taibbi takes on “the Wall Street Bubble Mafia” — investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with [...]
26 Jul
Forget Posse Comitatus:Cheney wanted to use the military on US soil
The insanity we call Cheney gets more and more bizarre with each passing revelation.
According to a story in Friday’s New York Times,Vice-President Cheney advocated in 2002 for the Bush administration to send military troops to Buffalo to arrest the so-called Lackawanna Six as enemy combatants.
This would have violated both Fourth Amendment guarantees against search and [...]
26 Jul
Do we have no shame?
This is a truly unbelievable story.
Rosenbaum was arrested in a sweeping federal case that began as an investigation into money laundering and trafficking in kidneys and fake designer bags. It mushroomed into a political corruption probe, culminating in the arrests this week of 44 people, including three New Jersey mayors, various other officials, and five [...]
24 Jul
Hubble Image captures scar from rouge object impact
Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision
Source: ScienceDaily (July 24, 2009)
The checkout and calibration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been interrupted to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. The spot, caused by the impact of a comet or an asteroid, is changing from day to day [...]
24 Jul
Raddow Maddow: Cheney Blasts Bush
Rachel discusses Cheney’s latest efforts to rewrite history, also his recent attacks on his former boss, former President Bush for not pardoning Scooter Libby. Barton Gellman author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency joins her and gives his perspective on the Bush, Cheney relationship.
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24 Jul
NAIS explained: An interview with Linda Faillace, author of Mad Sheep
Source: BARN OnAir & Online
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An excellent interview which explains in layman terms what the consequences of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and H.R. 2749 will be. Linda Faillace’s book Mad Sheep is ”the True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm” from a personal [...]
