Tuesday, May 31, 2011
For Sale: The Desperate States Of America
Chicago drivers will pay Morgan Stanley at least $11.6 billion to park at city meters over the next 75 years, 10 times what the system was sold for.
The Mayor used millions from the deal to help balance the budget, but since then, Morgan Stanley has raised parking fees 42%.
The Mayor used millions from the deal to help balance the budget, but since then, Morgan Stanley has raised parking fees 42%.
Gulf oil spill documentary 'The Big Fix' screens in Cannes
The film disputes industry claims that the millions gallons of oil spilled after the April 22, 2010, explosion on the BP PLC-owned Deepwater Horizon rig have largely been cleaned up or dispersed.
Seafood fraud
While 84 percent of the seafood eaten in the United States is imported, only two percent is currently inspected
Monday, May 30, 2011
"Memorial Day" by James McMurtry
James McMurtry - Memorial Day.mp3
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Memorial Day Massacre of 1937
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Memorial Day Massacre of 1937
Sunday, May 29, 2011
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830
Put that on your twenty dollar bill and smoke it
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Video of Kindergarten teacher in Mexico keeps her students under control while there's a gunfight outside. 5 people were killed.
The majority of this violence is the result of the Merida Initiative signed into law during the Bush Administration
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Mexico’s Top Narco-Blogger Comes Forward
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Mexico’s Top Narco-Blogger Comes Forward
Wandering preacher with mules, covered wagons looks for souls to save
Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show live 1970
I guess he always used a backtrack for that song
I guess he always used a backtrack for that song
The Bed Bug Registry is a free, public database of user-submitted bed bug reports from across the United States and Canada.
Bedbugs: Infestation in Denvers Capitol Hill apartment complex estimated at 10,000 bugs (PHOTOS)
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Woman Turned Away From Hospital Because Of Bed Bugs
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Woman Turned Away From Hospital Because Of Bed Bugs
(May 24)Foot patrols in Afghanistan boost IED detection
May 25 - Two soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in roadside bombings in Afghanistan
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May 26 - Eight soldiers on foot patrol were killed in two individual improvised explosive device explosions that struck the patrol
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Afghanistan War IEDs Cause Surge In Double Amputees Among U.S. War Wounded
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May 26 - Eight soldiers on foot patrol were killed in two individual improvised explosive device explosions that struck the patrol
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Afghanistan War IEDs Cause Surge In Double Amputees Among U.S. War Wounded
TomDispatch Audio - Back-Asswards
Ira Chernus, a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, discusses president Obama's recent ultimatum that Israel return to its pre-1967 borders.
Gil Scott-Heron dead at 62
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
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Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle
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Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Bear Stalks Man
This one is scarier - Alaska Grizzly Bear Attack - July 2008
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Bear Incident on Donner Pass
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Bear Incident on Donner Pass
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) says no aid for Joplin without cuts
And yet in his speech at AIPAC , Obama gave assurances that American tax dollars will continue to flow in the billions to Israel.
(from 2007)Israel and the United States signed a deal on Thursday to give Israel $30 billion in military aid over the next decade
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Missouri Senator Roy Blunt says he’s asking the federal government to reimburse 100 percent of the cost to local governments dealing with the Joplin tornado aftermath.
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Strange photo from the Joplin, Missouri tornado
(from 2007)Israel and the United States signed a deal on Thursday to give Israel $30 billion in military aid over the next decade
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Missouri Senator Roy Blunt says he’s asking the federal government to reimburse 100 percent of the cost to local governments dealing with the Joplin tornado aftermath.
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Strange photo from the Joplin, Missouri tornado
The federal government can charge banks for money laundering or aiding drug trafficking if they accept deposits from a marijuana dispensary.
American Express cards may no longer be used to purchase medical marijuana.
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New Law Would Allow Medical Marijuana Sellers To Get Bank Loans
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New Law Would Allow Medical Marijuana Sellers To Get Bank Loans
Louis Armstrong - Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train
The Monroe Brothers - New River Train (1936)
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Plutonium detected in rice paddy by a food manufacturer more than 50 kms away from Fukushima power plant:
Map of Japan’s 55 Nuclear Power Plants
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Extremely High Levels Of Nuclear Cesium Radiation Found In Japan Sewer Systems
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Greenpeace finds radioactive sea life off Japan
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Rankin Dub Ainu Band - You can't see it, and you can't smell it either
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Extremely High Levels Of Nuclear Cesium Radiation Found In Japan Sewer Systems
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Greenpeace finds radioactive sea life off Japan
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Rankin Dub Ainu Band - You can't see it, and you can't smell it either
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Study released Monday by Gov. John Hickenlooper says consumers nationwide could save $3 billion annually by voluntarily cutting their electric use.
This sounds like "voluntary" rationing is on it's way
Released American Hiker Sarah Shourd Jumps Bail,Won't Return To Iran For Spy Trial With Friends
When asked if she was still engaged, she replies she lost the ring.he he.
The comments give more insight to this case.
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Ahmadinejad Stresses Women's Key Role in Iran's Progress
The comments give more insight to this case.
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Ahmadinejad Stresses Women's Key Role in Iran's Progress
Federal Reserve Could Start Tightening Credit Before End Of This Year
quote-The Fed would likely consider raising interest rates only
Starting June 25 of this year, Bank of America will start charging more and more of their credit card customers an APR of almost 30%.
Ya'll getting ready to get screwed hard
Starting June 25 of this year, Bank of America will start charging more and more of their credit card customers an APR of almost 30%.
Ya'll getting ready to get screwed hard
The Who - Twist and Shout
Originally called Shake It Up, Baby Twist and Shout - Top Notes 1961 (Rare original version)
Monday, May 23, 2011
Netanyahu Lectures Obama
A Conservative Estimate of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: Almost $114 Billion while the US sinks into being a Third World Country
'Light Up My Life' songwriter kills himself
DEBBIE BOONE SINGS " YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE " STEREO
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Patti Smith "You Light Up My Life" on "Kids Are People Too"
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Patti Smith - Because The Night
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Patti Smith "You Light Up My Life" on "Kids Are People Too"
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Patti Smith - Because The Night
For Profit Prison Industrial Complex Starts to Fail with the Release of 37,000 Inmates
"Ugly beds" stacked in gyms, tiny cages for suicidal prisoners—the photos that helped convince Supreme Court justices to downsize California's overcrowded lockups.
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On average, it costs $19,888 per year to house a prisoner in the state, but an ailing elderly prisoner costs Louisiana $80,000 a year
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On average, it costs $19,888 per year to house a prisoner in the state, but an ailing elderly prisoner costs Louisiana $80,000 a year
Mandatory Car Black Boxes Are Coming. Here's How It Affects You
They will install this in your car and record every your every move and infraction. Then when you reapply for license plates they can fine you for your offenses.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Delta Rhythm Boys "Take The A Train" 1942
Coon Sander's Nighthawks - Kansas City Kitty (1929)
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra was the first Kansas City jazz band to achieve national recognition, which it acquired through national radio
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Kitty from Kansas City - Rudy Vallee - 1931
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra was the first Kansas City jazz band to achieve national recognition, which it acquired through national radio
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Kitty from Kansas City - Rudy Vallee - 1931
Newport Beach Lifeguards Rake in ... $200K a Year
Only about half of that paycheck is salary, the rest is in the perks; after adding in overtime, special compensation, pension—Newport Beach's lifeguards can retire at 50 with 90% of their salary—medical benefits, and life insurance, even the lowest-paid officer made more than $98,000.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Bruce Haack - Electric to Me Turn
Electric Lucifer
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AHEM-- Robert Tim Scully is best known in the psychedelic underground for his work in the production of LSD from 1966 to 1969, His best known product, dubbed Orange Sunshine, was considered the standard for quality LSD in 1969.
LSD became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, and Scully wanted to set up a new lab in Denver, Colorado.
Scully set up the new lab in the basement of a house across the street from the Denver zoo in early 1967. Owsley and Scully made the LSD in the Denver lab.
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Dragnet Blue Boy LSD scene
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AHEM-- Robert Tim Scully is best known in the psychedelic underground for his work in the production of LSD from 1966 to 1969, His best known product, dubbed Orange Sunshine, was considered the standard for quality LSD in 1969.
LSD became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, and Scully wanted to set up a new lab in Denver, Colorado.
Scully set up the new lab in the basement of a house across the street from the Denver zoo in early 1967. Owsley and Scully made the LSD in the Denver lab.
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Dragnet Blue Boy LSD scene
Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child Live
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
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Jimi Hendrix - Red House live in Stockholm 69
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Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze (Live)
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Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady at Rainbow Bridge
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Jimi Hendrix - Red House live in Stockholm 69
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Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze (Live)
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Jimi Hendrix Foxy Lady at Rainbow Bridge
Friday, May 20, 2011
China has agreed to immediately provide 50 JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan,
from March 2, 2011 New War Ahead: China-Pakistan vs. U.S.A.
The Dawn Media Group and Julian Assange, Chief Executive of Sunshine Press Productions, the publishing arm of WikiLeaks, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the exclusive first use in Pakistan of all the secret US diplomatic cables related to political and other developments in the country.
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Ron Paul: U.S. may try to occupy Pakistan
The Dawn Media Group and Julian Assange, Chief Executive of Sunshine Press Productions, the publishing arm of WikiLeaks, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the exclusive first use in Pakistan of all the secret US diplomatic cables related to political and other developments in the country.
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Ron Paul: U.S. may try to occupy Pakistan
Implant helps paralyzed man stand, take steps
When I was in jail, back in 2002, I met a guy in a wheelchair(there for sale of marijuana)and I promised him that, even though it sounded like a long time, he would be walking again in fifteen years due to Moore's law
Looks like I am right on schedule, though I wonder what ever happened to him.
Looks like I am right on schedule, though I wonder what ever happened to him.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The guy who started the May 21 rapture/doomsday insanity lives in Boulder, Colorado.
He originally predicted the world would end on Sept. 6, 1994. When he was wrong, he said it was a "mathematical error."
Zaba search has deleted his address from their files
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Harold Camping was born in Boulder ninety years ago
Zaba search has deleted his address from their files
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Harold Camping was born in Boulder ninety years ago
Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer was written by Rudy Toombs, who was not a performer himself. Toombs wrote the song for Amos Milburn, but, before Milburn had a chance to record it, John Lee Hooker came out with a version of his own.
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cough--Rammstein performs a Bavarian drinking song
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Cal Smith -- Lord Knows I'm Drinkin'
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cough--Rammstein performs a Bavarian drinking song
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Cal Smith -- Lord Knows I'm Drinkin'
Angelina Jolie visits with Wounded Warriors
She's a member of the CFR and a Freemason
speaking of Freemasons, Lindsay Lohan fears 'Freemason stalker'
speaking of Freemasons, Lindsay Lohan fears 'Freemason stalker'
We may well look back at May 16, 2011 as the day the Constitution gasped its last breath.
Top congressional leaders agreed Thursday to a four-year extension of the anti-terrorist Patriot Act
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Assassination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama's license to kill?
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Richie Havens - License To Kill
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Assassination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama's license to kill?
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Richie Havens - License To Kill
We're being bathed in deadly radiation now. There's no getting around it - everybody in the northern hemisphere is being poisoned
Nuclear Physicist: Most Of The Fallout From Dirty Plutonium MOX Fuel Will Drop On The US, Unless Very Strong Winds Take It Somewhere Else
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Japan: Radioactive Water Dumped Into Pacific Due To “STRONG REQUEST” From The US
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Dr Helen Coldicot Japan Radiation will Kill Millions of People (18.03.11)
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As the Japanese government and TEPCO struggle to bring the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control, a group of pensioners has decided to put their lives at risk to save younger people from radiation.
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Japan: Radioactive Water Dumped Into Pacific Due To “STRONG REQUEST” From The US
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Dr Helen Coldicot Japan Radiation will Kill Millions of People (18.03.11)
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As the Japanese government and TEPCO struggle to bring the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control, a group of pensioners has decided to put their lives at risk to save younger people from radiation.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Mark Stark’s Prosthetic Hand lands on the cover of Popular Science!
Demonstration of Mark Stark's Natural Dexterous Hand Tying Shoelaces
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Demonstration of One-Handed Catch Using Mark Stark's Natural Dexterous Hand
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Here is a different one
Bionic hand for 'elective amputation' patient
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Amputee Patrick demonstrates his new bionic hand
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Demonstration of One-Handed Catch Using Mark Stark's Natural Dexterous Hand
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Here is a different one
Bionic hand for 'elective amputation' patient
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Amputee Patrick demonstrates his new bionic hand
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
US raids civil service pension fund as it hits $14.3 trillion debt limit
LOL, That middle-class lifestyle was fun while it lasted Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky
What Google and Facebook Are Hiding
Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don’t even know it.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Supreme Court upholds warrantless search of apartment based on marijuana smell
And just a few days ago-Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home
We don't need no stinkin Fourth Amendment
We don't need no stinkin Fourth Amendment
The ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S so Is It Safe to Eat Salmon from the West Coast?
The Topp (Tagging of Pacific Pelagics) project has discovered that bluefin tuna once believed to live separate lives in Japanese and Californian waters may belong to a single population.
Before, this tuna would have been counted twice and we would have thought there are twice as many tuna as there are,said Prof O'Dor.
Not to worry, though: ...fish are so unlikely to be contaminated, that the US govt. won't even bother to test them, so all's well...
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Radioactive materials in the ocean near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant rose to 3,300 times the legal limit on Sunday.
Before, this tuna would have been counted twice and we would have thought there are twice as many tuna as there are,said Prof O'Dor.
Not to worry, though: ...fish are so unlikely to be contaminated, that the US govt. won't even bother to test them, so all's well...
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Radioactive materials in the ocean near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant rose to 3,300 times the legal limit on Sunday.
When the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented, it will provide insurance for around 30 million Americans who currently lack it
covered here by Mefi
Ron Paul Calls Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, Compares Them to ‘Slavery’
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Ron Paul's 15 Most Extreme Positions
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Rand Paul: Universal Health Care Is Basically Slavery
Ron Paul Calls Social Security and Medicare Unconstitutional, Compares Them to ‘Slavery’
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Ron Paul's 15 Most Extreme Positions
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Rand Paul: Universal Health Care Is Basically Slavery
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Charity Navigator, America's premier independent charity evaluator
What Snopes has to say
BTW,the Salvation Army, as a religious organization, doesn't report its expenses to the IRS, the only available figures for executive salaries are estimates, which vary greatly from source to source.
BTW,the Salvation Army, as a religious organization, doesn't report its expenses to the IRS, the only available figures for executive salaries are estimates, which vary greatly from source to source.
The Skeleton Closet - All the Dirt on All the 2012 Presidential Candidates
The Skeleton Closet - All the Dirt on All the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Saturday, May 14, 2011
There are plans to increase the federal government’s powers by giving them the right to strip national security whistleblowers of their pensions.
The Boiling Frogs Podcast Show #43 presents Stephen Kohn to discuss his book The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing what’s Right and Protecting Yourself.
Russian tax law is so complex that Novikov Restaurant Group employs five accountants at each restaurant
I guess you can't read the article without registering, so you just have to read the comments on the gateway blog
Wag the Dog Is a Training Film For the Obama White House
WOW. They scammed everybody. You can not believe anything they tell you.
Like that Bin Laden porn story.
Well, In May 2010, the CIA admited to creating a fake video of a drunken Osama bin Laden and his associates purporting to have sex with young boys.
Like that Bin Laden porn story.
Well, In May 2010, the CIA admited to creating a fake video of a drunken Osama bin Laden and his associates purporting to have sex with young boys.
National Level Exercise 2011 is scheduled for May 16
The year 2011 is the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 New Madrid earthquake, for which the NMSZ is named.
Eye for an Eye - A man will be punished by dripping acid into his eyes in Tehran on Saturday May 14
Considering the damage done to the girl he is getting off easy
Update: Punishment has been delayed
Update: Punishment has been delayed
Friday, May 13, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 09, 2011
Massive Nuclear Radiation Fallout Cloud Over US.
Sunday, May 08, 2011
John Lennon in Madison Square Garden / Mother
Merle Haggard - Mama Tried (1968 live TV performance)
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RANDY NEWMAN - MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME (Live at the BBC)
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Mother's Day was begun by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 as a cry against the carnage of war - in this case, the U.S. Civil and Franco-Prussian Wars. Now it's a hymn to flowers and chocolate and other trinkets of capitalism
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Mothers Day Plea to End the War on Drug
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RANDY NEWMAN - MAMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME (Live at the BBC)
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Mother's Day was begun by Julia Ward Howe in 1870 as a cry against the carnage of war - in this case, the U.S. Civil and Franco-Prussian Wars. Now it's a hymn to flowers and chocolate and other trinkets of capitalism
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Mothers Day Plea to End the War on Drug
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Famed marijuana activist dies of lung cancer at age 56
In August 1976, Ben Masel of Madison, Wis, led a group of marchers to the Crown Hotel in Kansas City to seek water and use of toilets.
They were refused permission to enter the hotel, where President Ford stayed during the 1976 Republican Convention, and remained outside chanting slogans.
They were refused permission to enter the hotel, where President Ford stayed during the 1976 Republican Convention, and remained outside chanting slogans.
Media Monarchy episode 217 (May 6, 2011)
The first guest,Richard A. Grove who worked at World Trade Center 1, and survived the 9/11 attacks explains the Global Network that put GW Bush in to power
Friday, May 06, 2011
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Obama administration floats a plan to tax cars by the mile
The plan is a part of the administration's Transportation Opportunities Act
Osama Bad,Obama Good(rinse,repeat)
Osama Bad,Obama Good(rinse,repeat)
Up Against the War Machine in Kansas City
,,,,,were kept in handcuffs for 5 hours and jailed for up to 20, then released pending trial. In Kansas City’s 80-year-old city holding tanks
KC jail is a bad place to be
KC jail is a bad place to be
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Justifying Torture -Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death by Paul Craig Roberts
Osama Bin Laden Hunter, Gary Faulkner demands Tuesday a share of the official $27 million reward following the terror chief's death
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'Bin Laden Dead' Hoax Exposed
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White House: We Lied the First Time Politico is reporting that the White House is re-spinning the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden:
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'Bin Laden Dead' Hoax Exposed
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White House: We Lied the First Time Politico is reporting that the White House is re-spinning the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden:
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Monday, May 02, 2011
Raymond Davis 'Acting Head Of CIA In Pakistan' Held For Double Murder: Video Of Police Interview After Shootings
UPDATE: CIA spy Davis was giving nuclear bomb material to Al-Qaeda
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Japanese Senior Nuclear Adviser Prof. Toshiso Kosako Calls Radiation Exposure Limit 20 Times Too High, Quits
Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo, was only recently named an aide to Kan on March 16, five days after a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan
Russian Navy to base warships at Syrian port after 2012
Impatiently fidgeting
Syria Intervention Inevitable
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On April 29 the White House issued an executive order to enforce new and more stringent sanctions against Syria and appealed to European North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to follow suit.
It is all about seizing control of the Mediterranean and Africa. And to try and keep China and Russia from access to oil.
Collection of photos of Obama having meetings with dictators who are currently being overthrown by their citizens.
Syria Intervention Inevitable
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On April 29 the White House issued an executive order to enforce new and more stringent sanctions against Syria and appealed to European North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to follow suit.
It is all about seizing control of the Mediterranean and Africa. And to try and keep China and Russia from access to oil.
Collection of photos of Obama having meetings with dictators who are currently being overthrown by their citizens.
The USS Macomb was one of the first to enter Tokyo Bay for the Japanese Surrender
The Minesweeper my Father was on ie,,Special Thanks to James Rocky Tankersley, EM2/c from 9/42-9/45
Here is a story from his time on the ship
,,,,"There he introduced me to Bogart and asked if I could put together a make shift PA system for Bogart who wanted to put on an impromptu show for the crew. I got together with one of the ship's electrician's mates (Rocky Tankersley) and together we jury rigged the ships movie projector sound system to serve as a PA.
Bogart and his group put on a show for the crew on the focastle."
Here is a story from his time on the ship
,,,,"There he introduced me to Bogart and asked if I could put together a make shift PA system for Bogart who wanted to put on an impromptu show for the crew. I got together with one of the ship's electrician's mates (Rocky Tankersley) and together we jury rigged the ships movie projector sound system to serve as a PA.
Bogart and his group put on a show for the crew on the focastle."
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