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[Triple Zero]

Fucking insane retards, the lot of them.

fuck you Nigel, some of my best friends are humans!

[Cain]

FUCK YOU, MY MOM WAS KILLED BY INSANE HUMAN RETARDS!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

 

[Cain]

Hackers are trying to extort electricity companies after causing power outages

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSw3W7MyNAF7rq8RTxcvoz76WIiwD8U8GUP02

[stromcrow]

"The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece

[Cain]

"The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3216737.ece

This is a bloody incredible story and deserves way more coverage.

The whistleblower in question, Sible Edmonds, says she has more to reveal as well.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/75351/

[AFK]

Austrailian Gov't to issue official apology to Aborigines

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22907094/

Australia's government announced Wednesday it will issue its first formal apology to country's indigenous people next month for past policies that forcibly removed generations of Aboriginal children from their families.

The apology would be a milestone on an issue that has divided Australians for decades.

The Feb. 13 apology to the so-called "stolen generations" of Aborigines will be the first item of business for the new Parliament, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin said.

"The apology will be made on behalf of the Australian government and does not attribute guilt to the current generation of Australian people," Macklin said in a statement.

But, the apology doesn't include any sort of economic solutions to help drag them out of poverty. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Talk is cheap.

Apology even more so.

[AFK]

The End of the World is officially here.

Slayer won a Grammy last night.  Seriously.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23101297/

[Triple Zero]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/08/sad.shopping.ap/?iref=mpstoryview

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- If you're sad and shopping, watch your wallet: A new study shows people's spending judgment goes out the window when they're down, especially if they're a bit self-absorbed.

Study participants who watched a sadness-inducing video clip offered to pay nearly four times as much money to buy a water bottle than a group that watched an emotionally neutral clip.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/02/08/sad.shopping.ap/?iref=mpstoryview

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- If you're sad and shopping, watch your wallet: A new study shows people's spending judgment goes out the window when they're down, especially if they're a bit self-absorbed.

Study participants who watched a sadness-inducing video clip offered to pay nearly four times as much money to buy a water bottle than a group that watched an emotionally neutral clip.

SURPRISE!

[Darth Cupcake]

Srsly. "I NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED!"

Also, the picture that goes with the article is extra special. It really highlights the "misery" part of "misery is not miserly."

[Diseris]

Drugs will make you smart...

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2008/feb/11/woman-says-she-mistakenly-deposited-meth-into/

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Dude.

[Cain]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/14/usa.georgebush?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews


George Bush's fellow Republicans walked out of Congress today, staging a dramatic display to support giving the president long-term authority to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant.

The current law allowing the Bush administration to wiretap without a warrant expires Saturday, and congressional Democrats have sought a temporary extension to allow more time for negotiating between the Senate and the House of Representatives on a new plan.

But Bush has threatened to veto a short-term extension of the very law he helped write, and House Republicans backed him up today by storming out of the Capitol to protest Democratic inaction on the White House's new preferred eavesdropping proposal.

"We need this [new] bill to be brought to the floor of the House ... we will have made America safer and this fight will be over," John Boehner, the House Republican leader, told reporters.

The bitter falling out came hours after liberals and conservatives in the House banded together to defeat a three-week extension of the current wiretapping law, which allows the administration to monitor communications between US citizens and foreigners without court approval.

Democratic leaders have suggested since that they are inclined to let the law lapse.

"If there is no extension, it is solely in the hands of the president of the United States. He has tried to frighten the American people," the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry Reid, said. "But having said that ... we'll continue today to see if we can get this [law] extended."

Bush wants Congress to pass the Senate's bipartisan wiretap bill, providing a six-year window for unfettered surveillance of phone calls and e-mails that the administration believes are tied to terrorism. Democrats largely prefer the House's bill, which contains more civil liberties protections for Americans.

Most significantly, the House bill does not offer legal amnesty to the telecommunications companies that allowed the administration to spy on their customers without a warrant.

"The Senate bill will provide fair and just liability protection for companies that assisted in the efforts to protect America after the attacks of September the 11th," Bush said today.

"Without this protection, without this liability shield, we may not be able to secure the private sector's cooperation with our intelligence efforts."

But the expiration of the current law does not stop the Bush administration from wiretapping without a warrant, as Democrats often note. Spying on already identified targets can continue for up to one year, and new surveillance targets can be chosen after consultation with the secret foreign intelligence court that formerly supervised US wiretaps.

Ben Powell, general counsel for the director of national intelligence, said that scenario would not be sufficient for the administration. He told reporters that US spy agencies should not have to show probable cause before eavesdropping on phone calls made to overseas locations.

The House Republicans vowed to remain in Congress until the Senate wiretapping bill is passed, and Bush said he would postpone a planned trip to Africa if Democrats did not act. But the new majority in Congress appears ready to stand its ground and blame Bush's allies for opposing a temporary extension of current law.

"I think that the president is beginning to learn, even though it's slow ... What should happen is, the president should give the House and Senate time to act, as we've done for 230 years," Reid said.