Friday, August 24, 2007

Chicago flooded

Hurricane floods Mexico City

July car sales lowest in nine years

WSWS

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Rains are better than drought

Heat adds to Midwest flooding misery

CNN

Iran has remote controlled missile launchers

Jerusalem Post

Draft alert.

UK bird flu victims to be stored in tents

Dolphin sightings off 80 percent in one year

Bush war drums beating louder on Iran

Ray McGovern

Draft alert.

Diseases spreading faster than ever

Reuters



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Bush executed more than any governor in history

WSWS

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Storm systems ravage Midwest

CNN

RAF intercepts Russian bomber

Sky News UK



Draft alert.

Hotlanta breaks record for 100 degree days

WGCL Atlanta



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Congress approval rating at historical low

Gallup Poll

What democracy? Another superlative for the Bush era.

NYC has coldest ever August day

WCBS TV



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Russia steps up military expansion

One in four read no books last year

Yahoo! News

Two in four read Harry Potter.

Dean was 3rd most intense hurricane

Breitbart

Another near superlative for the Bush era.

July foreclosures double from last year

Need for longer US role in Iraq seen

Olympian

Draft alert.

Average 2005 Incomes still below 2000

Monday, August 20, 2007

US Army suicides at 26 year high

WSWS

Another superlative for the Bush era. Draft alert.

Arctic sea ice shrinks to record low

Yahoo! News



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Consumer confidence drops to year low

Boston Globe



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Typhoon forces a million Chinese from homes

White tail deer dying in eleven counties

Army too stretched if Iraq buildup lasts

My Way News



Surge you mean? Draft alert.

A foot of rain floods upper Midwest

CNN

Over a month of triple digit heat indexes in TN

CNN

Clergy asked to help with unrest under martial law

KSLA News



How original.

Marking time until the meltdown

Philippines teeters on brink of total war

Giuliani and McCain is the ticket

ABC News



The people's choice.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Typhoon slams into Taiwan

Jamaica braces for worst ever hurricane

South Florida Sun-Sentinel



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Risk to Vegas water supply after warmest ever July

Las Vegas Now



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Rush to pull money from CA bank

AL heat wave continues

WSFA TV Montgomery, AL - The Heat Wave Continues; The Historic Perspective



Ignore half hearted attempt to pretend it's not unusual.

US tags Iran for casualties of its own attacks

US to expand domestic spying

Flesh eating bacteria on the rise

Care2 News Network

Caution: disturbing photo.

Coral reef loss at unprecedented levels

Telegraph UK



Another superlative for the Bush era.

S Korea to send aid to N Korea after floods

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

US squeezes out 100 thousand dollars.

Russia and China hold joint military exercise

World stocks plummet yet again

Japan endures hottest ever day

Brietbart



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Biggest German intervention since WWII

WSWS

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

War Czar says military draft is on the table

Think Progress

OK Einstein, parse this if you dare.

"[U]ltimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation’s security by one means or another."

Draft alert, obviously.

Will there be a run on the banks?

Togo confirms new cases of bird flu

IOL

All time highs in Iraq

Tom Dispatch

67 more superlatives for the Bush era.

Italy probe unearths huge Iraq arms deal

WJLA

Somehow seem to have "fallen into the hands of insurgents or sectarian militias."

Fed pumps 68 billion into banking system

Cover up in UK foot and mouth scare

News Medical

Virus was traceable like Fort Detrick anthrax attack.

CA to ban electronic voting machines

Sign On San Diego

One state won't cut it.

Bird flu scare in Bali

AM

"It's thought they caught the virus from direct contact with infected birds and not from each other." And not from government lab like UK foot and mouth disease.

Fed poised to pump money into markets

First time US to name foreign army terrorists

New York Times

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Prices for key foods are rising sharply

Cheney urging strikes on Iran

McClatchy Washington Bureau



As the stock market starts to tank. Looks like Marx is right again.

Checking for danger in fliers' facial expressions

McClatchy Washington Bureau

After eight hours without food or water?

US studying clusters of homegrown terrorists

ABC News



That's what the Nazis said.

US to expand domestic spy satellites

Wall Street Journal

Not terrorists or gun violence this time, but mostly for border security and natural disasters.

Obama calls for more troops in Afghanistan

Examiner

Draft alert.

US military sees China threat to satellites

Blood in the water in FL property market

CA home sales now 54 percent below peak

Texas braces for Erin

AccuWeather



Big noise for little storm. Big rise in oil price.

Reporters must reveal sources in anthrax case

Yahoo! Finance

Or go heroically to prison like Judith Miller.

CA highest metro foreclosure rates in US

CNNMoney



Another superlative for the Bush era.

US troop levels in Iraq reach all time high

Breitbart



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Big Brother in the Big Apple

Washington Times

Right wing Moonie Times has heard of Bentham's Panopticon, but not of Foucault's. Not to be confused with Newark, where the cameras will be for gun violence.

Record breaking extreme weather in 2007

Reuters



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Dangerous heat in much of US

CNN



Heat wave stories apparently call for pictures of little brown children in various bodies of water.

Dow has biggest jump in 5 years

CNNMoney



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Millions face South Asia flood disease threat

CNN

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Iran producing 1st fighter jet

Jerusalem Post



Another superlative for the Bush era.

400 FL swimmers stung by jellyfish

WKMG Orlando



Some species go extinct. Others thrive.

UK foot and mouth outbreak from virus lab

Times UK

Like anthrax attack and TB Andy's father-in-law.

Iraq electric grid could collapse any day

PR Inside

But not inside the permanent US military bases. Now you know what the world is like for the rich.

US to keep extended troop presence in Iraq

CNN



Draft alert.

Baghdad 6m people 117 degrees no water

Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?

Common Dreams

Only if it threatens our war to spread democracy.

First armed robots on patrol in Iraq

Wired Blogs



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Lake Superior changes puzzle scientists

CNN

Microchips in humans

CNN

Millions flee worst ever Pakistan floods

CNN



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Doomsday simulations help US prepare