breaking news: Hostage Situation in St. Louis

Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:18 AM EDT

My girlfriend just called from St. Louis. She says Chestnut St. is shut down by police. According to a police officer she talked to, the subject of a high-speed chase abandoned his vehicle and took refuge in a hotel.

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police, crime, st-louis, us-news, hostage, breaking-news

Bush's long history of tilting Justice - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2007 2:47 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Joseph D.Rich, former headof the Department of Justice's voting section, gives personal testimony about the irregularities and political abuses he saw under Gonzales:...A destructive pattern of partisan political actions at the Justice Department started long before this incident …

bush, white-house, politics, justice, corruption, scandal, gonzales, department-of-justice, attorneygate, gonzogate

The Political Profiling of Elected Democratic Officials: When Rhetorical Vision Participation Runs Amok

Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:05 AM EDT (epluribusmedia.org)

Much has been made of the firing of 8 US Attorneys by the Bush administration, but there were 85 other prosecutors who were retained. Donald C. Shields and John F.

bush, politics, scandal, gonzales, justice-department, obstruction-of-justice, department-of-justice, us-attorneys, political-profiling, republican-administration

NYCTA Metrocard FOIL Project | Eyebeam R&D OpenLab

Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:27 PM EDT (research.eyebeam.org)

An attempt to access NYC Metro Card data fails. There are implications here about the surveillance capabilities of Metro Cards in the refusal of the NYC Transit Authority's refusal to release the data.

technology, new-yorkers, surveillance, hacking, data-mining, new-york-city-transit-authority, freedom-of-information-legislation

This American Life, on TV | Salon Arts & Entertainment

Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:33 AM EDT (Salon.com)

In case you didn't know, This American Life is a radio show on NPR that makes every other radio show seem frenetic and disjointed. It's slow and calm, and it explores places you never thought about, or places you've thought too much about.

entertainment, tv, radio, television, npr, this-american-life

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Bush's Shadow Army

Seeded on Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:31 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Blackwater's mercenary corps has become a secret army that places itself above the law, but the tables may be turning now, with an investigation into their activities by the House Intelligence Committee and a wrongful death suit by the survivors of four employees.

bush, iraq, politics, military, house-intelligence-committee, mercenaries, blackwater

Don't Touch the Monkey!

Seeded on Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:04 AM EST (schneier.com)

Bruce Schneier links to some amusing TSA regulations.

travel, security, monkey, tsa, 9-11, flying, schneier, security-theater, snowglobe

Spanking: When Parents Lift Their Hands

Seeded on Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:13 PM EST (The L.A. Times)

WHEN Murray Straus was raising his children in the 1950s and '60s, spanking was de rigueur in the American household. The Straus residence was no exception, with the father of two occasionally reacting to their misbehavior with a swat to the bottom.

health, children, spanking, discipline, punishment, child-care

Newsvine 85% Good!!!!

Seeded on Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:52 PM EST (homokaasu.org)

The Sect of Homokaasu's Gematriculator, a Web app which infallibly determines the goodness or evilness of Web pages, has determined that Newsvine's front page is a full 85% good, and only 15% evil.

odd-news, newsvine, good, evil

Hugh Hewitt interviews Gen. William Odom about Iraq

Seeded on Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:51 PM EST (Town Hall)

General William Odom puts Hugh Hewitt in his place. Kudos to Hewitt for having the courage to publish the transcript...but perhaps he's not bright enough to realize what happened.

iraq, iran, politics, war, surge, nuclear-weapons, hewitt, odom, cut-and-run, escalation

Democrats press reform for military contracts - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:47 AM EST (The Washington Post)

The Senate is finally doing something about the outrageous war profiteering that has gone on in Iraq.WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S.

bush, iraq, fraud, war, waste, halliburton, dick-cheney, criminal, profiteering, dorgan

Blue Men Black Balled

Seeded on Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:30 PM EST (buzzine.com)

Blue Man Group, Inc. has had a history of labor disputes, including one that ultimately closed its Toronto production.

theater, art, performance, theatre, blue-man-group

The Need Not to Know: The American Jewish Community and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement

Seeded on Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:36 AM EST (UN News Centre)

Review of The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003 By Tanya Reinhart:Zionism's drive to create a state for the Jewish people was designed to serve two purposes.

israel, middle-east, peace, war, palestine, world-news

CJR January/February 2007 - Digg This

Seeded on Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:34 AM EST (cjr.org)

David Cohn, aka Digidave, contemplates the ethical questions of self-promotion and digging for money.

media, technology, digg, new-media, cjr, business-week, columbia-journalism-review

Why I'm Afraid of Christians

Seeded on Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:02 AM EST (Harper's Magazine)

I'm not afraid of every Christian, of course, but there is a dangerous breed of Christian who worships death as much as he worships God, and more than he worships Jesus.

history, religion, education, odd-news, home-schooling, fundamentalism, christianity, evangelism

NPR : Hollywood and the Spread of Anti-Americanism

Seeded on Sun Dec 24, 2006 11:30 PM EST (NPR)

Intelligence Squared is an NPR show that features Oxford-style debate on an issue of the day. Each debate features three speakers for and three speakers against an issue, and includes questions from the audience.

entertainment, debate, radio, hollywood, liberal, war-on-terror, npr, conservative, antiamericanism, anti-amreicanism

ACLU to county: Get a Christmas tree or else

Seeded on Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:34 AM EST (CNET News.com)

WAILUKU – It probably shouldn't take the threat of legal action to get into the holiday spirit, but that was what spurred Maui County into action.

politics, american-civil-liberties-union, christmas, christmas-tree, aclu, war-on-christmas

UN probes IDF uranium use charges - News from Israel, Ynetnews

Seeded on Thu Nov 2, 2006 1:03 AM EST (CNET News.com)

Did Israel use uranium bombs in Lebanon?According to 'The Independent,' Dr. Chris Busby, the British Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, said that two soil samples thrown up by Israeli guided bombs showed "elevated radiation signatures."

israel, lebanon, uranium, war-crimes, weapons, world-news

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town

Seeded on Sun Oct 8, 2006 5:28 PM EDT (New Yorker)

A gay couple was threatened with ejection from the plane after a stewardess objected to their displays of affection. Shortly after takeoff, Varnier nodded off, leaning his head on Tsikhiseli. A stewardess came over to their row. "The purser wants you to stop that," she said.

travel, gay, us-news, homophobia

High Court: Mixed marriages not in jurisdiction of rabbinical courts - Culture from Israel, Ynetnews

Seeded on Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:56 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

The High Court of Justice ruled on Monday that rabbinical courts have no jurisdiction over the approval of marriages in which either the bride or the groom is not Jewish.

israel, religion, jewish, marriages

BBC NEWS | UN denounces Israel cluster bombs

Seeded on Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:30 AM EDT (BBC News)

Israel dropped 90% of its cluster bombs on Lebanon in the days between when the ceasefire was negotiatted and when it became effective. The UN has identified at least 100,000 unexploded bomblets in over a hundred sites in Lebanon.

israel, lebanon, war, world-news

Josh Wolf Jailed For Refusal to Hand Over Video of Protest : Indybay

Seeded on Sun Aug 6, 2006 12:03 AM EDT (indybay.org)

Josh Wolf was taken into custody today after a 9am court hearing on August 1st. He was found to be in contempt for exercising his first amendment rights and refusing to provide a federal grand jury with video footage he shot at the SF G8 protest last summer.

us, politics, protest, civil-liberties, press, repression

Israel's dilemma: too nice to win?

Seeded on Thu Aug 3, 2006 6:47 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

John Podhoretz makes a passionate call for a Final Solution to the Muslim problem.

iraq, israel, lebanon, palestine

Jonathan Cook: Israel's Latest Bureaucratic Obscenity

Seeded on Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:15 PM EDT (CounterPunch)

Israel bars Palestinians from Palestine.According to the Haaretz newspaper, Israel's interior ministry has been quietly implementing a new rule since April that allows it to refuse entry to Palestinians holding foreign passports to Israel and the occupied territories.

israel, politics, war, palestine, injustice, hatred, midlle-east

BTC News » Startling new developments in Italian CIA kidnapping case

Seeded on Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:12 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

...last Wednesday, Marco Mancini, the head of counterintelligence at SISMI, the Italian military intelligence agency, was arrested for allegedly abetting the CIA's 2003 kidnap and rendition to Egypt of Muslim cleric Hassan Nasr.

bush, italy, cia, politics, war-on-terror

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