Tag Archives: USA

2011 Sep 22 Thursday

The American Police State is the ‘New Normal’ – Yahoo! News

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The American Police State is the ‘New Normal’ – Yahoo! News

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:12 pm

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2010 May 10 Monday

Strategic Consequences of F-22 Termination (via auairpower.net)

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Those who think the USA (and its allies) needs a fighter like the F-22, blame Obama for killing it, but he is merely carrying a political football that Bush carried to just inches from the goal line… The Bush Administration justified its pro-JSF/anti-F-22 campaign using two items of pure fiction. The first item of fiction [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 3:23 pm

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2010 Apr 22 Thursday

22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered (via Gizmodo)

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According to the AP, soon-to-be-heroic technicians have uncovered 22 million email messages from the George W. Bush administration—far more than the Bush White House said they’d lost in the first place. “Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq”: 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered – whitehouse – Gizmodo.

by Dr. Agonize @ 6:40 pm

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2010 Mar 21 Sunday

Health care reform passes House with 219 votes (via Boing Boing)

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Health care reform passes House with 219 votes – Boing Boing.

by Dr. Agonize @ 10:53 pm

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2010 Mar 10 Wednesday

What the Credit CARD Act Means for You (via MintLife Blog)

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Got credit card debt? If so, good news: the card issuer can no longer hike your interest rate without warning or raise rates on an existing balance. They have to send your bill at least 21 days before it’s due (up from 14 days). And each bill has to show how long it will take [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:35 pm

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2010 Jan 29 Friday

Washington Memo – Supreme Court Gets a Rare Rebuke, in Front of a Nation (via NYTimes.com)

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The President’s pubic rebuke of a Supreme Court decision was a rare moment, but should indicate the egregiousness of the court’s action: The core of the Citizens United decision said corporations have a First Amendment right to make independent expenditures in candidate elections. Only a constitutional amendment, which is exceedingly unlikely, could undo that core [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 3:03 pm

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2010 Jan 19 Tuesday

Rule of Law returning to USA?

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The FBI collected more than 2,000 records on U.S. telephone calls by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or by persuading phone companies to provide them, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday… FBI broke law in phone searches: report | Reuters

by Dr. Agonize @ 6:23 pm

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2010 Jan 19 Tuesday

Infographic: Job Market in 2018

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NPR research put together this informative graphic about how different employment sectors will change between 2008 and 2018: Employment Future: The Decade Ahead In Jobs found via Fast Company NPR also has a special series called New Jobs For A New Decade

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:55 pm

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2010 Jan 17 Sunday

Gapminder World

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Gapminder.org has awesome infographics! For example this moving graph of Oil Consumption vs. Oil Production by country, 1965 to present: Gapminder World

by Dr. Agonize @ 6:23 pm

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2009 Aug 30 Sunday

DataSmut: New Orleans since Katrina – (via CNN.com)

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Wired has Inforporn, and now we have DataSmut. It’s rare that the media updates us on how the government is fixing New Orleans, so I’d like to thank CNN for this very un-abstracted visualization of post-Hurricane Katrina civil engineering projects: Charting New Orleans’ progress since Katrina (via CNN.com)

by Dr. Agonize @ 10:22 pm

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