Propeller.com Stories submitted by ameliog

Celebrity Passport Records Popular

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:58:37 EDT

Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found.

Channel: News Tags: government snooping celebrity passports

Acidifying oceans add urgency to CO2 cuts

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:42:16 EDT

It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean - often called the cradle of life on Earth.

Channel: Science Tags: climate change globale warming deniers oceans co2

Breaking Iraq and Blaming Iran

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:02:37 EDT

British black ops and the terror campaign in Basra.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: iraq war coalition of the two disinformation

Push for biofuel leaves 'millions at risk of hunger'

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:55:27 EDT

The G8's push for greater biofuel use has been a significant factor in the 82 percent rise in food commodity prices since 2006 that has put 760 million people at risk of hunger, ActionAid says.

Channel: Food Tags: hunger profit food poverty

Women calm attacker with beer

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:51:56 EDT

A 71-year-old Los Angeles woman said she was able to stop an attacker in her home from assaulting her daughter by offering him beer.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: beer alcohol and violence

Trunk Monkey Compilation

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:33:19 EDT

I wish I had a trunk monkey! Compilation of commercials.

Channel: Humor Tags: trunk monkey

Coinkydinks? McCain Travels To Columbia; Hostages Freed

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:59:44 EDT

There are "coincidences", and then there are true coinkydinks. Particularly in the political world.

Channel: Politics Tags: 1980 election reagan and iranian hostages bush cia mccain

The Predictable Return of the National Black Republican Association

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:57:58 EDT

Now that the 2008 election if upon the nation, the NBRA has re-emerged with a new series of ads - one calling the Democratic Party racist, the other calling Barack Obama an elitist.

Channel: Politics Tags: Black Republican Association gop last century thinking

A Supreme Court on the Brink

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:34:15 EDT

Some of the most important decisions came on 5-to-4 votes - a stark reminder that the court is just one justice away from solidifying a far-right majority that would do great damage to the Constitution and the rights of ordinary Americans.

Channel: Politics Tags: supreme court politicizing justice partisanship stacking the court

Punished for pot puffing at puppy

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:22:12 EDT

A judge has ordered a 60-day jail sentence for an Illinois man accused of stealing a $1,500 Pomeranian puppy and blowing marijuana smoke into its face until it passed out.

Channel: Pets Tags: stupid pot tricks

Calif. Wildfires Out of Control

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:21:43 EDT

Gov. Schwarzenegger on Tuesday ordered 200 National Guardsmen to report for fire training to begin assisting on fire lines early next week. The governor's office said this is the first time since 1977 that California's National Guard troops have been sent to the fire lines.

Channel: Music Tags: ca wildfires california fires

The machine that copies itself

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:07:20 EDT

The inventor of the 'RepRap' machine believes that it will enable developing countries to get a foothold on the manufacturing ladder.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: copy machine reprap

Iraq Oil Deals Fulfill Cheney's Goals

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:26:29 EDT

Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.

Channel: Politics Tags: cheney halliburton bush neocons war for oil

GM bankruptcy possible

ameliog — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:06:30 EDT

General Motors Corp will need to raise as much as $15 billion in cash to shore up liquidity and bankruptcy is "not impossible" if the U.S. auto market continues to slump, Merrill Lynch said.

Channel: Autos Tags: general motors gm

First images of solar system's invisible frontier

ameliog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:37:51 EDT

NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot solar wind slams into the cold interstellar medium.

Channel: Science Tags: space the final frontier you know the rest

Which countries would you pick for your climate team?

ameliog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:35:26 EDT

In order to understand why some nations fall behind in their international climate duties, Michele Battig and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, created a Climate Cooperation Index.

Channel: Science Tags: global warming climate change climate cooperation index

McCain orders shake-up of his campaign

ameliog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:20:43 EDT

McCain, responding to Republican concerns that his candidacy was faltering, put Steve Schmidt in charge of day-to-day operations and abandoned an effort to have the campaign run by 11 regional managers, the senator's aides said Wednesday.

Channel: Politics Tags: mccain campaign trouble republican brand gop

Ill. Democrats face off in rare impeachment fight

ameliog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:29:02 EDT

Gov. Rod Blagojevich finds his enemies these days boldly considering impeachment. The enemies? His fellow Democrats.

Channel: Politics Tags: Blagojevich impeachment

Troubled economy hits women hard

ameliog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:25:05 EDT

Income inequality, a real estate slump, and exposure to subprime loans play a role.

Channel: Women Tags: economy women and economy

Big Oil's prize is America's downfall

ameliog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:22:58 EDT

It's getting harder and harder to remain deluded. With each day comes new facts to drag our heads out of the sand.

Channel: Politics Tags: war for oil bush cheney neocons no bid contracts

McCain Dogged by Economy Comment He Denies Making

ameliog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:32:59 EDT

The Republican senator from Arizona smiled as he denied he ever dissed his understanding of economics and said he was "more experienced than my opponent."

Channel: Politics Tags: mccain 2008 presidential race economy

Unlocking Mysteries Of 'Blinking' Phenomena Of Fluorescent Molecules

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:55:07 EDT

A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsar Janko provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics.

Channel: Science Tags: quantum mechanics quantum physics

The Shift to Thrift

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:31:44 EDT

People will soon have to live more modestly as the age of turbo consumerism comes to an end and the rich-poor gap grows wider.

Channel: Money Tags: rich and poor income gap wealth greed love of money

Mandela finally dropped from US terror watch list

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:20:04 EDT

President George Bush has removed former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from the US terror watch list.

Channel: News Tags: Mandela terror list

Unearthed in quake: Flaws in Chinese military capability

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:18:27 EDT

"You basically had a bunch of guys humping through the mountains on foot and digging out people with their hands," said Mulvenon, director of the Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis in Washington. "It was not a stellar example of a modern military."

Channel: News Tags: china quakes china military

Coded prejudice is cloaked dagger

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:16:01 EDT

Subtle slurs still shock, humiliate targets; federal officials see increase in complaints.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: prejudice coded prejudice

Monster.com Founder Sets Sights on Online Obits

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:14:32 EDT

Now, just as papers are reeling from a massive drainage of ad dollars online, Jeff Taylor thinks he's found another one of their strongholds that's ripe for online competition: Obituaries.

Channel: Careers & Jobs Tags: obituaries online monster

New era of judicial dominance looming?

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:43:24 EDT

If the long conservative era that began with Ronald Reagan's election is over, will the judges appointed during the right's ascendancy be able to block, frustrate and undermine the efforts of a new progressive majority?

Channel: Politics Tags: will of the people power of the courts right wing judges justice in the us

Catholic bishop sorry after abortion mixup

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:39:10 EDT

Catholic leaders in Richmond are apologizing after a mix up enabled a 16-year-old illegal immigrant in a Catholic charity's care to get an abortion with help from charity staffers.

Channel: Religion Tags: catholic charity teen abortion

California Drivers Go Cell-Free

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:32:55 EDT

Becomes biggest state to pass hands-free cell phone law - but texting's still allowed.

Channel: Gadgets & Tech Tags: hands free cell phone cell phone laws

Shades of Great Depression on Wall Street

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:09:19 EDT

Barring a miraculous recovery, the Dow Jones industrial average is heading for its worst June since 1930, when it plunged by almost 18 percent.

Channel: Money Tags: bush economy wall street greed great depression recession

McCain's Spotty Military Record Is Declared Off the Table

ameliog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:07:07 EDT

McCain's military record is sacrosanct. No matter what the facts are, the storyline is this: He flew fighter jets, was shot down, captured and sat in a Vietnamese POW camp for five years - and that settles it.

Channel: Politics Tags: teflon john double standard ok to question kerrys service not ok to question mccain

Fight against climate change: US outdone by its own

ameliog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:34:33 EDT

America has all the technological know-how and resources to trigger a 'renewable energy revolution' and the world into the era of clean and affordable energy. But it must overcome its political inhibitions and start taking concrete steps at home.

Channel: Science Tags: climate change politics of global warming

Costs up, BLM considers euthanizing wild horses

ameliog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:26:01 EDT

Faced with too many wild horses on the range and in holding facilities, federal officials are considering drastic policy changes that include ending roundups and euthanizing animals.

Channel: Pets Tags: horses blm wild horses

Ethanol subsidies will make food costs from flooding worse

ameliog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:36:05 EDT

The damage to crops from heavy rains and failing levies is the result of a natural disaster. But it's nothing compared to the unnatural disaster we're creating for ourselves by subsidizing food-based ethanol, blended with gasoline, at a minimum of 51 cents per gallon, reducing the cost you pay at the pump by mere pennies a gallon.

Channel: Science Tags: ethanol biofuels government subsidies food cost

Startling sockeye salmon run hits Columbia River

ameliog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:14:50 EDT

Good snowpack and cold weather aid migration. But officials are still baffled.

Channel: Science Tags: salmon sockeye

Plant Could Provide A Day's Nutrition In A Single Meal

ameliog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:15:24 EDT

Scientists have determined how to fortify the cassava plant, a staple root crop in many developing countries, with enough vitamins, minerals and protein to provide the poor and malnourished with a day's worth of nutrition in a single meal.

Channel: Food Tags: cassava plant food shortages

Justice Scalia's Dueling Opinions

ameliog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:56:20 EDT

Scalia's opinion in the ruling overturning D.C.'s gun ban shows the flaws of his trademark judicial thinking. Especially since he marshaled nearly the reverse logic in his dissent to the Guantanamo detainee case.

Channel: Politics Tags: supreme court scalia

G8 leaders ready to backtrack on Africa aid

ameliog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:54:40 EDT

Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations are set to backtrack on their landmark pledge at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 to increase development aid to Africa to $25 billion a year.

Channel: Money Tags: african economic aid g8 empty promises

Iran-Contra's 'Lost Chapter'

ameliog — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:23:55 EDT

As historians ponder George W. Bush's disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs.

Channel: Politics Tags: gwb bush neocons conservative movement