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9/11 Truthers Could Be Locked Up For Life Under Proposed U.S. Law

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
A new bill quietly introduced by Congress last week is causing quite a stir among civil liberties groups. The brainchild of senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, the bill would give the United States government the power to indefinitely detain ... ...read article

Can We Build Robotic Eyes?

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
Geeks are now discussing the topic of "computer vision", and this article includes a video showing how robots are taught to perceive images. ("For robots, the choice of eyes varies, from single light-dependant resistors to high-resolution video ... ...read article

Surprise? Old Men Have More Sex Than Old Women

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
From Time: Spring is coming, and a young man's thoughts turn to … you know. Apparently, old men's thoughts turn to the same subject. According to an article to be published Wednesday in the journal BMJ (British Medical Journal), 67% of men ages ... ...read article

U.S. National Biometric ID Cards Coming Soon

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
A dream of governments worldwide has long been to make people carry identification papers or cards, but the United States has always rejected direct attempts to institute such a program. That may be about to change, according to the Wall Street ... ...read article

'Jihad Jane': American Woman's Plot To Kill Swedish Cartoonist

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
'Jihad Jane,' as Pennsylvania woman Colleen LaRose dubbed herself, was indicted Tuesday for helping recruit a network for suicide attacks and plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist. Seven Muslims were arrested in Ireland in connection with the alleged ... ...read article

Republicans' Internal Documents Call For Strategy Of “Fear”

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
The politics of fear, laid out in PowerPoint. From Politico: The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on 'fear' of President Barack Obama and a promise to “save the ... ...read article

Yes Men Dupe Utah With Call For Gay “Final Solution”

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
Pranksters the Yes Men held a bogus press conference in Salt Lake City, posing as an organization called “Patriots for a Moral Utah,” and called for a “Final Solution” of the forced removal of gays and lesbians of Utah. ... ...read article

Only Some Conspiracy Theories Welcome at Huffington Post

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
Have to agree, the Huffington Post loves to embrace all sort of crazy pseudoscientific theories about your health, but has a problem with this post from Jesse Ventura. (You can read the Ventura post on InfoWars.) Alex Pareene writes on Gawker: The ... ...read article

Waterboarding For Dummies

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
MARK BENJAMIN writes on Salon: Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the water.” But recently released internal documents reveal the ... ...read article

Splitting the Sky on Trial in Canada for Attempting to Arrest President Bush

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
Via YouTube: A man named Splitting the Sky, tried to arrest former President George W. Bush for war crimes. He crossed police lines on one of President Bush's visits to Canada and was arrested. He now faces criminal charges in court, the trial began ... ...read article

Working For Walmart

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
Outside the Wal-Mart in Orland Hills, IL, by Clean Wal-Mart. Kevin Robinson writes on Chicagoist: As part of our on-going coverage of Wal-Mart’s attempt to break into the Chicago retail market, we take a look this week at the company’s employment ... ...read article

Electronic Musician HipGnosis Talks About Mind-Altering Music

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
Electronic musician HipGnosis talks about his techniqiues for making consciousness altering music. Via Technoccult: I know you use binaural beats and other methods to enhance your music by making it consciousness altering. Can you describe some of ... ...read article

Voodoo Practitioners Shrug Off Blame for Haitian Quake

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
From the Telegraph: In a whirl of limbs and with eyes bulging, the woman is helped to a squat in the ramshackle shed and starts cackling maniacally like a terrified chicken. “Kaaaa! Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka,” she screams and stutters, her right ... ...read article

Report: Californians Consume 16 Million Ounces of Pot a Year

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
This humble Disinfonaut believes that the numbers on these sorts of reports are always too low. I would imagine that the real amount is many, many times higher. From the Sacramento Bee: So how much pot do Californians smoke? According to a recent ... ...read article

Water Found in Apollo Moon Rocks

Disinfo.com: 4 hours ago
From National Geographic: Recently NASA crashed two spacecraft into the moon and orbiters scanned the lunar surface for telltale light signatures—all to confirm the rocky body isn't bone dry after all. But, it turns out, solid evidence for water on ... ...read article

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