'Electroshock' Weapons Controversy & More for Friday, August 14, 2009

‘Exploding’ deficit imperils health bill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32413579/ns/politics-washington_post/

Commentary: 'Death panel' fears are false

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/14/blayney.death.discussions/index.html

Health Care Anger or Mob Think?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=8323841&page=1


Newsweek: 7 falsehoods about health care reform

http://www.newsweek.com/id/211981

NYT: ‘Death panel’ rumor has familiar roots

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32412764/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/

Fear for Obama's Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8324481&page=1

Ottawa must press for Khadr's return: Appeal Court

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/13/omar-khadr-appeal081309.html

Omar Khadr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr



Iran inmates 'tortured to death'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8200780.stm

Hong Kong emerges from recession

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8201056.stm.

Lockerbie bomber withdraws appeal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8201188.stm

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Megrahi

Taser International to challenge Braidwood findings

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/08/14/taser-challenge-inquiry014.html

Robert Dziekanski Taser Incident (Wikipedia Link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dziekanski

Braidwood Commission / Inquiry (Wikipedia Link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood_Inquiry

Taser safety issues (Wikipedia Link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser_safety_issues

Lynndie England DC lecture canceled after threats

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090814/ap_on_re_us/us_abu_ghraib_england;_ylt=AvDUdvyoV3KAO_.yf_8yZims0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNscGhnM3ZtBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODE0L3VzX2FidV9naHJhaWJfZW5nbGFuZARjY29kZQNyYW5kb20EY3BvcwMxMARwb3MDNwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2x

Applying For Your Own Job, Hoping You Get It

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=8318647&page=1

Sony to support open ebook format

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8201093.stm

Appeal for anti-terrorist gadgets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8201130.stm

Internet filtering software optional, China says

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/14/china-green-dam-internet-software.html

Jet Blue's All-You-Can-Fly: Good Deal?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/14/earlyshow/living/travel/main5241908.shtml

Believe It or Not, You're Rich



http://abcnews.go.com/Business/PersonalFinance/story?id=8314465&page=1

Global Rich List

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

The Perils of Short Links

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/13/tech/real_technology/main5241148.shtml

Study finds most Twitter posts 'Pointless Babble'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32408652/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

Tweeble or Twivel

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/tweeble-or-twivel.html

Babble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babble

Drivel

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/drivel

Twilter

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/08/twilter.html

Filter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(software)

Rollover Authority, MRSA in Your Food and What is a Bee Worth? and More for Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Drug-resistant bugs in food vex experts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31766160/ns/health-food_safety/

MRSA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA


One Billion Hungry People: Multiple Causes Of Food Insecurity Considered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090625113857.htm

Food Security

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Security

Record rise in UK jobless total

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8151017.stm

Fuel costs push US prices higher

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8152113.stm

Did Dick Cheney Overextend His Authority? (MSNBC Hardball)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697#31912208

Dick Cheney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney

Rollover Authority

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/07/rollover-authority.html

Loyalty Creep

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/07/loyalty-creep.html

The White Crib

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/07/white-crib.html

Israeli group: Army used reckless force in Gaza

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31917664/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

CSIS ignored Khadr's human rights: report

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/07/15/khadr-csis015.html

Omar Khadr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr


Swedish PM sounds climate alarm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8151143.stm

Fredrik Reinfeldt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Reinfeldt

Australia warns China on spy case


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8150985.stm

Canada defends visa change for Mexicans, Czechs

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/07/14/czech-visas-mexico.html

Azerbaijan Arrests Two Opposition Bloggers

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/14/tech/main5158562.shtml

SKorean police: Hackers extracted data in attacks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_cyberattack;_ylt=AqEkqrc7gP8sQS5CTCd8mcKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFoMTkzb281BHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl90ZWNobm9sb2d5BHNsawNza29yZWFucG9saWM-

2009 Cyber Attacks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_cyber_attacks


Survey points to improving U.S. factory outlook

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n15329440-us-usa-economy/

Ontario to offer $10,000 electric car incentive

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/07/15/ont-electric-cars511.html

Mars crew return after three month mission... to Moscow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8150385.stm

Tagging technology to track trash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8149183.stm

Trash Track (Blog)

http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/

Snooping through the power socket

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8147534.stm

Help call for vanishing honeybees

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8148999.stm

Public Accounts Committee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Accounts_Committee_(United_Kingdom)

Newsweek: Raids, rage at puppy mills across U.S.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/206163

Puppy mill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_mill


Brothel offers 'green' discount‘A German brothel goes green to boost its business, offering customers money off if they arrive by bicycle’.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8149334.stm

For Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tsvangirai becomes Zimbabwe's PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7882762.stm

Morgan Tsvangirai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Tsvangirai

Azerbaijan air force head killed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7882911.stm

Rail Rzayev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Rzayev

Global alert issued for 85 terror suspects

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/11/saudi.arabia.terrorists/index.html

Omar Khadr's return in country's best interest, say opposition MPs

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/11/khadr-appeal.html

Omar Khadr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr

Indonesian city grapples with quake threat

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51a025-us-indonesia-earthquake-city/

Padang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padang,_Indonesia

Israel rivals vie to head cabinet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7883176.stm

Deadly tornado strikes Oklahoma

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7883024.stm

Mexico gun fights leave 21 dead

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7882653.stm

North Korea steps up missile test preparations

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51a0bo-us-korea-north/

Fire aftermath 'too distressing'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7882742.stm


House hearing to focus on peanut executives

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29125953/

Outbreak Tough Nut for Congress to Crack


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6848906&page=1

Tests show possible salmonella at Texas plant

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29119530/

Peanut firm boss urged shipping bad products

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138430/

Peanut company owner refuses to testify

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_go_co/salmonella_outbreak;_ylt=At6ClOP5M7WVWLRpxKcxlWMDW7oF

Granola bar may contain contaminated peanuts: CIFA

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/02/11/peanut-granola.html

Beyond peanuts: Salmonella tough to stop

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29060288/

That chicken dinner could make you sick

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28677495/

Lawmakers hope to seal stimulus deal today

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29136678/

Red, blue voters say stimulus gives them zilch

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/11/freshman.year/index.html

Don't Complain, Don't Explain: Unapologetic CEOs Talk TARP

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Politics/story?id=6849013&page=1

US bank bosses to face grilling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7883136.stm

So Who Are the Men Behind the Billions?


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6849315&page=1


Merrill execs blasted over bonus payouts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29137662/

N.Y AG: Merrill Lynch Wasted Bailout Funds

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/11/politics/main4792596.shtml

FBI, bailout watchdog expands criminal probes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138583/

NYT: Obama advisers' bank ties raise questions

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29134372/

U.S. offers $2 trillion bank plan

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5160am-us-financial-bailout/

Canada posts 1st monthly trade deficit since 1976

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/02/11/tradedeficit.html

Schwarzenegger: State worker layoffs looming

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/10/california.budget.crisis/index.html

US trade deficit at six-year low

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7883783.stm

Madoff indictment deadline may be delayed

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138814/

Dingell Sets Record for House Service

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6848340&page=1

The Honorable John D. Dingell

http://www.house.gov/dingell/

Bank says UK 'in deep recession'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7883255.stm

China's exports see sharp decline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/davos/7882816.stm

Peugeot Citroen to cut 11,000 jobs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7882913.stm

Peugeot Citroen

http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/

Caterpillar moves to shed more workers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29138898/

Five Part-Time Jobs You Can Get Right Now

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6838550&page=1

Biofuels To Cut Third Of Gasoline Use By 2030?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210133920.htm

White House Wants Wind Farms In Oil Plan

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/11/politics/washingtonpost/main4791946.shtml

Winds of Change: Where Turbines Work

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Business/story?id=6846349&page=1


Malicious insider attacks to rise


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7875904.stm

SciTechBlog: RFID freaks me right out

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/

Web "Predator Panic" A Risky Distraction

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/11/scitech/pcanswer/main4791878.shtml

Medical society probes octuplets’ conception

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29123731/

Planet Earth: Avoiding The Hothouse And The Icehouse Of The Future

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211082405.htm

Unexpected Discovery Could Impact On Future Climate Models

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210134440.htm

Oil And Gas Production A Major Source Of Dallas-Fort Worth Smog

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210162037.htm

Galapagos in peril

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/10/f-tech-galapagos.html

Galápagos Islands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos

Grass Strips Help Curb Erosion, Herbicide Transport

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090131123819.htm

Antarctic Expedition Prepared Researchers For Mars Project

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205141509.htm

Mars mission has some seeing red

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29134295/

Calif. car washers allegedly treated like 'servants'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29134338/

Can stock market gamblers blame it all on their genes?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7880860.stm

Dream Chancellor Barbie: Mattel debuts Angela Merkel doll

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090210/K021006AU.html

Official Website of Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Webs/BK/EN/


SA TV make 'Bush is dead' blunder

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7880832.stm

Woman who sang tune about fire charged with seven arsons near Philadelphia

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090211/K021102AU.html

Slayings shock super-yacht industry

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/11/murders.antigua/index.html