Unsold homes
hits record high - US gives Iran one week ultimatum - 1,300 people
died in Iraq this week - Bush's poll approval numbers fall to record
low 34% - Collection of unpublished civil rights photos found in a
closet
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![]() News Link Internet
New Google service could compete
with PayPal
02-28-2006
By Elise Ackerman - Mercury
News
Google has begun
offering a new payment option for a handful of people who had listed
items for sale on the Google Base posting service, a step that could
eventually put the Mountain View Internet giant in direct
competition with eBay and PayPal.
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![]() Feature Article Entertainment: Movies
The Three Burials of Melquiades
Estrada
Powell
Gammill
Few films
have ever captured the feel of the desert Southwest better than
Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.
It's all there: the dust, the cattle, the brush, the waitress in the
coffee shop with flyspecked window
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![]() News Link World News
Arabs call for international law
against religious bashing
2-28-2006
UPI
Arab legislators meeting in Jordan will seek to introduce
international laws barring religious slander following the insults
to Islam recently made by European media. [Does that include attacks
on Judaism?]
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![]() News Link Economy
Economic growth
negligible
2-28-2006
Associated Press
The
economy, sagging under the strain of lofty energy prices, grew at an
annual rate of 1.6% in the final quarter of last yeara mediocre
performance. Economists said the economy is already rebounding
smartly prdicting a robust 4.5% pace in the curre
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![]() News Link WAR!!!
US lacked Iraq post-war planning
and expertise
2-28-2006
Associated
Press
Poor prewar planning
left the US without enough skilled workers to efficiently rebuild
Iraq's economy and public works, according to a report issued
Monday. It recommended the government establish a "civilian reserve
corps" to deploy ar
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![]() News Link Israel
Israel warns world not to let
Iran play for time
2-28-2006
Agence France
Presse
Israeli Defence
Minister Shaul Mofaz warned the UN Security Council not to stand
idly by while Iran did everything in its power to play for time to
develop nuclear weapons. "Israel has the right and need to defend
itself," the Iranian-born
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![]() News Link WAR!!!
Sunnis mobilizing to combat
Shiites, protect mosques
2-28-2006
Knight Ridder
Sunni Muslims from across central Iraq, alarmed by
how easily Shiite Muslim fighters had attacked their mosques during
last week's clashes, said that they were sending weapons to Baghdad
and were preparing to dispatch their own fighters to the Ir
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![]() News Link WAR!!!
Militias, armed gangs rule
streets of Iraq
2-28-2006
Reuters
Look in the pockets of Iraqis whose jobs take them
around Baghdad every day and you are likely to find a clutch of
passes and identity cards, one for every police, military or militia
checkpoint they may run into.
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![]() News Link WAR!!!
US gives Iran one week
ultimatum
2-28-2006
Agence France Presse
The United States said that Iran had a one-week
"opportunity," before the March 6 meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog
agency, to ease fears that it seeks atomic weapons.
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![]() News Link Legislative Mischief
Give your kid a violent video
game and become a felon
2-28-2006
Salt Lake
Tribune
The [Utah] House
voted overwhelmingly to yank violent video games out of the hands of
minors and punish as felons adults who provide such entertainment to
children. Such games as "Resident Evil 4" and "Grand Theft
Auto".
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![]() News Link Economy
Unsold homes hits record
high
2-28-2006
Associated Press
The
Commerce Department reported that sales of new single-family homes
dropped by 5% , that was the slowest pace since January 2005 and
left the number of unsold homes at a record high of 528,000.
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![]() News Link Health and Physical Fitness
The forefront of democratic
tyranny, banning smoking in cars
2-28-2006
BBC News
Authorities in Australia's most populous state,
New South Wales, are to consider banning smoking in cars. A
parliamentary inquiry will look at the effects of passive smoking on
passengers, particularly children. Tough action should be
implemented
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![]() News Link WAR!!!
1,300 people died in Iraq this
week
2-28-2006
Washington Post
Sectarian violence unleashed by last week's bombing of a
Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis according to
Baghdad's main morgue. More than 3 times higher than reported by the
US military and the news media.
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![]() News Link Politics: Republican Campaigns
Bush's poll approval numbers fall
to record low 34%
2-28-2006
CBS News
The latest CBS News poll finds President Bush's
approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34% down from 42%
last month, while pessimism about the Iraq war has risen to a new
high.
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![]() News Link World News
China not happy with the bird
from Taiwan
2-28-2006
Reuters
China condemned Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian
for scrapping a council on eventual unification and it warned the US
not to offer Chen any leeway. Chen declared an end to the National
Unification Council and its 15-year-old unification guidelines
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![]() News Link Criminal Justice System
U.S. Settles With 9/11
Detainee
2-28-2006
Associated Press
The
U.S. government has agreed to pay $300,000 to an Egyptian man who
sued after he was detained for nearly a year following the Sept. 11
attacks, his lawyer said. Elmaghraby, a former restaurant worker,
was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center
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![]() News Link Anthropology
Scientists find lost city of
Tambora
2-28-2006
Associated Press
Scientists have found what they believe are traces of the
lost Indonesian civilization of Tambora, which was wiped out in 1815
by the biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
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![]() News Link Politics: Republican Campaigns
Congressman's nack for getting
lobbyist to pay for family vacation
2-28-2006 Raw
Story
With out disclosing
it, Rep. John Linder (R-GA), took a 5-day trip to Puerto Rico with
his wife in August 1998. The trip was paid by a client of lobbyist
Jack Abramoff.
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![]() News Link Weather Links
Government report on Hurricane
Katrina
2-28-2006
Daily Kos
The White
House Homeland Security released its post-mortem on Hurricane
Katrina, with a review of lessons learned and a list of 125
recommendations. Predictably, the report contains the usual fawning
references to His Majesty the President, a
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![]() News Link Health and Physical Fitness
A chocolate bar a day keeps the
doctor away
2-28-2006
Probably the Dutch Cocoa
Council
Men who consumed the
most cocoa had a 50% lower risk of dying from disease compared to
those who did not eat cocoa, Dutch researchers said. Cocoa is known
to lower blood pressure, though previous studies have disagreed
about whether it staves off hea
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![]() News Link Economy
20 somethings finally realizing
they have inherited the wind
2-28-2006
Business Week
Several years ago, Tamara Draut and her husband
were sitting in the middle of their living room floor, thinking
about selling their CD collection to raise food money. They
struggled to repay $57,000 in student loans and $19,000 of
credit-card debt.
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![]() News Link Politics: Republican Campaigns
Republican Governors nervous
about 2006 elections
2-28-2006
Associated
Press
Republican governors
are openly worrying that the Bush administration's latest
stumblesfrom the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina to
prescription drugs and ports securityare taking an election-year
toll on the party back home.
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![]() News Link Bill of Rights
Collection of unpublished civil
rights photos found in a closet
2-28-2006
The Birmingham
News
Dozens of
unpublished images (see story link) from Birmingham spanning decades
of history of the early to mid 20th Century discovered in a closet
at The Birmingham News. A good way to end Black History
month. Interesting.
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![]() News Link Entertainment: Movies
"V is for Vendetta" (So, you say
you want a Revolution)
02-27-2006
By Roger Friedman -
FoxNews
The fact is that
Matrix filmmakers Larry and Andy Wachowski not only wrote and
produced V, but they are the nominal directors. Its got their
fingerprints all over it.
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