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Somali Pirates Seize Ukraine Ship Carrying Tanks: US and Russian ships pursue

a shared story    175 weeks 5 days 9 hours 49 minutes ago
Somalia’s notorious pirates have staged perhaps their most brazen attack yet, seizing a Ukrainian ship in the Indian Ocean full of arms bound for Kenya’s military, including dozens of battle tanks, maritime and diplomatic officials said Friday. Somalia’s 1,880-mile coastline is infested with pirates, and they have...(more) 




New Interest in Vertical Farms for Urban Areas

a shared story    186 weeks 2 days 4 hours 21 minutes ago
What if “eating local” in Shanghai or New York meant getting your fresh produce from five blocks away? And what if skyscrapers grew off the grid, as verdant, self-sustaining towers where city slickers cultivated their own food? 



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McCain on banking and health: he wanted to make health insurance more like banks!

a shared story    176 weeks 5 days 4 hours 33 minutes ago
John "any opinion any time, just like me" McCain wrote and article over the summer PRAISING the banking system he now condemns and recommending that health insurance be modeled on banking. From the article: "Here’s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform: ...(more) 




Financial bailout now the biggest outlay in US history

a shared story    167 weeks 10 hours 46 minutes ago
Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a problem while doing the research for the Bailout Nation book. I needed some way to put this into proper historical perspective. If we...(more) 



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Esquire: The 10 Worst Members of Congress

a shared story    172 weeks 4 days 12 hours 27 minutes ago
The competition was staggering, and for every one on this list, there are five who could just as easily have stood in. Ladies and gentlemen, the very worst of the worst. 



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GOP Senator Slams McCain Hate-filled Robo Calls

a shared story    172 weeks 4 days 12 hours 14 minutes ago
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson report: Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on Sen. John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Sen. Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers." "These kind of tactics have no place...(more) 



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Cindy McCain: I Will Never Release My Tax Returns - what is she hiding?

a shared story    195 weeks 6 days 13 hours 13 minutes ago
But this morning on NBC's Today show, Cindy McCain declared that she will never release her tax returns -- not during the presidential campaign, and not even if she becomes first lady. "I'm not the candidate," she said. 



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Strong quake jolts Iran, sends tremors across Gulf

a shared story    178 weeks 14 hours 36 minutes ago
AP - A strong earthquake rocked southern Iran on Wednesday, sending tremors across the Persian Gulf and shaking the skyscrapers of Dubai. No casualties were immediately reported. 



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Lawyer: Fake Bomb Charge an Overreaction

a shared story    228 weeks 3 days 12 hours 5 minutes ago
The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb. Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson was charged Friday with possessing a...(more) 



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Democrats Try to Minimize Stadium’s Political Risks

a shared story    179 weeks 6 days 10 hours 56 minutes ago
When Senator Barack Obama announced in early July that he would give his nomination address in an outdoor stadium in front of 75,000 people, he wowed members of both parties who saw it as an inspired stroke of campaign image making. But as he landed here on...(more) 



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Brainy Birds Out-Thought Doomed Dinosaurs?

a shared story    157 weeks 12 hours 57 minutes ago
Superior brainpower could be why birds survived the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, suggests a new study of fossil bird brains. 



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Musharraf spokesman denies he's set to quit

a shared story    181 weeks 5 days 11 hours 17 minutes ago
President Pervez Musharraf's spokesman on Friday rejected reports that the embattled Pakistani leader was set to resign, even as another ally said back-channel talks were under way on ways to avoid his impeachment. The spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, also called claims that Musharraf was seeking legal immunity in...(more) 



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