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MY GOD!!! We have nations to invade, and children to burn, and a treasury full of cash that needs to be looted by the military industrial complex. We don't need stuff like BASIC RESEARCH. Hell with that crap. We need bombs and guns to keep the empire rolling and extract other nations resources for our own lazy convenience.

RS

witherstaff writes "The FCC has ruled that TMZ and the 700 club count as bona-fide newscasts. "Real News" does not have to give equal time for opposing political viewpoints if it's a 'news' story. Are the days of trusting some sort of journalistic integrity to be part of 'news' over, or has mega media finally won?"
http://freepress.net/node/39576

witherstaff writes "The Treasury department is seeking to expand the Federal Reserve's power to regulate virtually the entire financial industry. For those who don't know, the Federal Reserve AKA The Fed is part private, part public, and organized to be separate from the 3 branches of government. Even the House Banking Committee, part of the Fed oversight, doesn't know what goes on behind their closed door meetings, with minutes not published for 5 years after the fact. Planned changes include merging the SEC with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, consolidate bank oversight to one person, letting the markets be more self regulating, and give the Fed the authority to look at the financial status of any institution that could affect market stability. With the recent Bear Stearns collapse from $171 to $2 a share, and the economy as a whole either in, or on the brink of, a recession, is this move a good idea?"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/28/financial.oversight/index.html

witherstaff writes "a consortium of companies and universities has created a robot that scoops in snow and turns them into ice blocks. I'm looking forward to the day I can have the equivalent of a roomba for clearing my drive of snow. Fox news has the scoop"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319473,00.html