all the good stuff I came across today

November 22, 2008 - Saturday

Kronenberg Foundation in Warsaw on Thursdayreleased a computer-generated reconstruction of what astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus may have looked like on the basis of a skull discovered in the cathedral in Frombork, northern Poland

China's hackers stealing US defense secrets, says congressional panel

Hillary Clinton's foreign policy: Where she stands on the issues

Bill Richardson may be asked to head Commerce Dept.

Obama on Climate Change and Green Jobs

GM to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations with Money from U.S. Rescue Program

Boeing warns layoffs coming in 2009

What to do with Detroit?

Jim Stanford and Justin Fox debate the pros and cons of allowing the auto industry to go bankrupt

Strike vote by meat inspectors threatens turkey supplies

Former Pilots-Union Chief Has Inside Track to Lead FAA

Auto Makers RAIDING EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS For Years

Medvedev's Venezuela to Cuba trips set to rile U.S.

Thousands of Shias stage protests against Iraq-US pact

U.N. calls Israels blockade of Gaza -Unacceptable-

UN Resolution Condemning Human Rights Violations in Iran Passes

2002 Bush White House Joins Fight Against Electric Cars

Dow soars after news that Obama's new Treasury Secretary pick Timothy Geithner

Timothy Geithner has worked for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years and then joined the International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1988.

In 1999 he was promoted to Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs and served under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.

In 2002 he left the Treasury to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department. He then worked for the International Monetary Fund as the director of the Policy Development and Review Department until moving to the Federal Reserve in October 2003.[4] In 2006 he became a member of the influential Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.

On November 21, 2008, it was reported that President-elect Barack Obama had decided to nominate Geithner for the position of Treasury Secretar

For more on Timothy Geithner

Zimbabwe's gold output accounts for a third of export hits all-time low

Return to a Gold Standard would bring Gold to $14,172 an ounce?

Pulitzer Krugman -Prospects on Economy Much Grimmer than a week or two ago

US asks 4 oil-rich Gulf states for 300 billion to curb global meltdown

Who Profits from Larger Inmate Prison Populations ?

Fannie and Freddie suspend foreclosures for 16,000 during holiday season

The Church of STOP SHOPPING - What Would Jesus Buy ???

Buy Nothing Day this year is November 28

Secret Burma Court gives comedian to 45 years - military Cracks Down on its Dissidentss

Obama 2007 Radio Interview: My AG Will Investigate Bush Executive Orders

BROWN: And when you are... if you were to be elected president of the United States, Senator Obama, do you feel that we need to look back if the investigations have been done on this administration find out what happened, because there’s a fear there’s a dangerous precedent being set... the CIA interrogation tapes missing, warrant-less wire tapping, all of these are violations of the Constitution, and people can be forgiven for thinking that it seems like we only enforce the Constitution when its politically expedient.

OBAMA: Well one of things that I’ve said, and I’ve said this repeatedly publicly, since I taught constitutional law for ten years is that...one of my first acts as president is going to be call in my new attorney general to review every single executive order that’s been issued... to overturn those that are undermining the Constitution, undermining our civil liberties, that are promoting this cockamamie theory of Unitary government, that says that somehow the executive branch does not need to obey the Constitution…uhh

Obama Would-be appointees quizzed on gun Ownership

Four Found Guilty in Attempted Citizen's Arrest of Karl Rove

California officials unveil plans to turn San Francisco into electric car capital

Researchers Make New Electronics -- With A Twist

--4-D-- Microscope Revolutionizes The Way We Look At Nano World

Paralyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant

12,000-year-old Witch Doctor Skeleton Unearthed in Israel

police dashboard cam shot of meteor entering in western Canada

I Voted for the Lizard People Too!

Minnesota Public Radio has a great feature on contested ballots from the recent U.S. election. Here is everybody's favorite, which opponents of liberal candidate Al Franken challenged as an "overvote" since the person voted for Franken AND wrote in a vote for Lizard People.

these are actually travel ads for Nova Scotia.....pretty cute....

PomeGranate Phone

A phone that brews a cup of coffee

20 Million Dollar Fireworks Display at Dubai Luxary Hotel

The Sarah Palin Turkey Massacre

In Honor of sarah Palin this Thanksgiving :D

Bob Marley - I Shot The Sheriff

yeah yeah...