Torture timeline and Iraq-Al Qaeda tiesAccording to the Emptywheel’s Torture Timeline, the DIA were getting false information from torture at the same time as they were devising their plan to torture Abu Zubaydah.
April, 2009
Would you live in a house made of shit?
It’s 20% lighter and 20% stronger than clay bricks, prevents the environmental damage of digging up clay, reduces carbon emissions and increases the income of local farmers… but it’s made from poo.
Obama, like valium for the economy
The effect of Obama’s first 100 days: 48% of Americans now think the country is headed in the right direction. That’s way up. And consumer confidence seems to have bottomed and is rebounding.
Newspoll: 53-47 to Coalition in NSW
The latest bi-monthly NSW state Newspoll shows the Labor government continuing to narrow the gap after the post-mini-budget blowout.
Financial crisis inspires Wall Street sequel
The global economic downturn has inspired a belated sequel to Oliver Stone’s 1987 corporate thriller Wall Street.
Ten’s 90-minute news “just doesn’t work”
Insiders say Channel Ten’s attempts to revamp their afternoon news to extend into the 6pm time slot “fell flat on its face”.
GFC hits Fashion Week
Organisers say this year’s Australian Fashion Week is “15% smaller than last year” (how did they even arrive at that figure?) due to the GFC.
Obama’s big mistake
Obama’s first 100 days has been marred by the disastrous appointment of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, says Ben Rosen.
Nobel laureates discuss capitalism’s future
Capitalism can be still be saved, if the opinion of these three Nobel-Prize winning economists is any indication.
Has MTV lost touch?
One gets the sense that MTV is a bit nervous about whether it can stay in touch with the kids’ zeitgeist.
Greek Cypriot refugee ruling to have profound impact on reuniting Cyprus
The European court of justice yesterday awarded a Greek Cypriot refugee the right to win back land he was forced to flee when war partitioned the island in 1974.
Citigroup in bonus payout shame
It’s difficult to think of a worse time for the world’s biggest bank to be pushing the banker bonus issue.
Obama’s penny pinching on video
Barack Obama’s $100 million in budget cuts gets the Youtube treatment.
If you thought the first 100 days were bad, wait for 200
The first 100 days of the Obama administration will now look like a period of relative prosperity for the GOP — at least compared with the second 100.
America’s favourite drugs
How popular are various drugs by area? GOOD do what they do best, and show us — in graph form. Pretty, pretty graph form.
Is something rotten on the NY Times op-ed page?
Bjorn Lomborg — Danish statistician and self-styled “Skeptical Environmentalist” — found his way onto the New York Times op-ed page over the weekend.
ESPN.com attacked by unicorns
Keith Lam is the programming guy for ESPN.com and spent most of his final hour yesterday fighting off unicorns from ESPN.com’s site. How did this awesomeness happen? He explains. Kind of.
The day Dick Pratt said he’d be Carlton president
Dick Pratt’s ascent to the Carlton presidency began with a plea for $5 million from his great mate John Elliott in Pratt’s Little Lonsdale St office in February 2007.
The Newtown Pippin: the Big Apple’s apple?
The question on every New Yorker’s lips: will the Newtown Pippin be dubbed the city’s official apple?
podcast Canberra Calling: The ding dong Dick is dead edition
Swine Flu stalks the land — but not according to the World Health Organisation.
Should Michael Vaughan be in the England squad?
Ray Illingworth and Kepler Wessels argue the toss over whether the former England captain deserves a Test recall.
Golfers test limits of good sense in golf carts
The golf cart has always been treated like a plaything, but gold cart accidents are no laughing matter. Ok, maybe just a little bit.
The glorious but sad story of the magnificent Keith Miller
ABC1 has run a special two-part Australian Story documentary on the life of Keith Ross Miller.
So what does Glyn Davis actually do?
Melbourne Uni’s Peter McPhee is retiring less than two years into his three year contract. Will vice-chancellor Glyn Davis resume at least some of McPhee’s duties? asks Erica Cervini.
NASCAR, we have a problem
All of NASCAR’s measures to stop cars from flying toward grandstands failed Sunday at Talladega. For NASCAR, this is a nightmare.
