15 Years Ago, the Combined Assets of the 6 Biggest Banks Totaled 17% of GDP... By 2006, 55% ... Now, 63%

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(Weapons Porn)Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System

The weirdest thing you will see - Octopus vs Man

Police use pepper spray to break up Country Club Plaza crowds in KC

Plaza Brawls Caught On Camera

Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil (The Cultures and Practice of Violence) (Hardcover)

Pentagon: F-35 fighter jet cost $113 million per plane

The Marines, the Air Force, and the Navy are planning to buy a combined 2,450 of them for $323 billion.

Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy

About 5,000 people have been slaughtered in Ciudad Juarez in 27 months.

The Forever Drug War - Inside the Mexican Drug Wars Quickly Consuming a Nation

BATF agents invited Koresh to go shooting with them 9 days before they raided the church.

Koresch supplied the ammunition.

Anzob Tunnel, Tajikistan - recumbent style

The recently completed Anzob Tunnel which connects the previously hard to access Northern part of the country to the capital Dushanbe has been labeled as part of the new Silk Road.
It is part of a road under construction that will connect Tajikistan to Iran and the Persian Gulf through Afghanistan.

Code Pink Tries To Arrest Karl Rove(with video)

Dunning Kruger effect

Believe It or Not (2010 Imperial Edition) - U.S. War-Fighting Numbers to Knock Your Socks Off By Tom Engelhardt

That's where I found this - The Weakness of Taliban Marksmanship

Medical Marijuana Bill Moves Through Maryland Senate In Landslide

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Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour - Lock and Key(82MB )

Now would be a good time to grab that Baseball episode

Kansas Considering Beer Tax Increase Tax Intended To Raise $50 Million For Programs For Disabled People

How could anyone be against it? You're not against helping the disabled are you?
This is the same arguments used with children to fund and pass censorship laws.

The reality is that no one really knows how much money the bureaucratic machine takes as opposed to how much actually gets to the disabled.

Grass-fed steak has about twice as many omega-3s as a typical grain-fed steak.

CIA Columbia Obama Cover Up

James David Manning says Barack Hussein "The Long Legged Mack Daddy" Obama was a C.I.A operative who used Columbia University as a cover to go to Pakistan in 1981 when the CIA and the Mujahideen worked together against the Soviet Invasion. Obama supplied arms, logistics, and money using his Muslim background.

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the new name for the federal Food Stamp Program.

Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages.

Scott Horton Interviews Dahr Jamail

List of Chinese Inventions

Dates on Timeline indicates technology developing in China, and the approximations of discovery in Western civilization refer to some form of the invention observed later.

PATRIOT Act may be used against tea party

King Tut had dreadlocks, and they are still intact to this day

Tennessee Removes 100,000 From Medicaid Rolls

L.A. Mayor Calls for Three-Day Workweek to Address Budget Crisis


Schwarzenegger axes low-cost auto insurance program as state & feds fleece impoverished public

The Pledge of Anti-Socialism

NASA Study Finds Atlantic Ocean 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing

An Alaska board member shown in wolf skinning video and citing the Bible to explain man's dominion over animals(no video)

A Medical Lab on a Silicon Chip for Every Home?

This is not a futuristic technology; four tests already have received FDA clearances, so “They’re here… It’s in hospitals around the country.

Video: Tunnel Boring Machine Breaks Through 34th St Station Cavern Wall

Bad Honey from China

100,000+ vintage advertisements to explore

INTERIOR COOKING BOOKS ON ALASKA OFFSHORE ECO-ANALYSES

NOAA CONCERNS BRUSHED ASIDE IN OBAMA OFFSHORE DRILLING PLAN

Michael Hunter, Former New Orleans Cop, Admits Coverup In Post-Katrina Danziger Bridge Murder

Insect swarms(pics)

Dean Kamen Appears on Colbert Report, Literally Armed with Bionic Limb

FBI Takes Out Billboard On Bad Guys

The U.N. health agency on Wednesday launched a global "1,000 cities, 1,000 lives" drive to combat a threat to health in fast-growing urban areas

The Enemy Belligerent Act of 2010

From Truthdig-The Criminalization of Bullying

Obama’s Secretary of Education, kept a confidential log of names of the rich and powerful who were trying to take advantage of political connections

Titanic's Last Supper

The RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, in what is now Northern Ireland.

GM lost 4.3 billion dollars since leaving bankruptcy in July

Tons of Hope in GM's Terrific Loss

A newly discovered asteroid, 2010 GA6, will safely fly by Earth April 8th at 4:06 p.m. Pacific

At the time of the closest approach 2010 GA6 will be about 223,000 miles away from Earth - about 9/10ths the distance to the moon.

Wonders Of The Solar System, Episode 4 (Part 1/6)

And so it begins--Is President Karzai a Heroin Addict?

Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail

Global Warming Melts Two More Icefields at Northern Montana Park, Scientists Say; Only 25 of Original 150 Remain

Record-breaking heat has taken hold of New York City. It was 90 degrees at 1:45 p.m. in Central Park, breaking the record set for April 7 in 1929.

Nederland became the second municipality in Colorado to legalize marijuana within its borders on Tuesday night.

The Navy faces an operational “tipping point” where the demand for overseas presence will far exceed the number of ships

The Worlds Most Dangerous Drug-Colombian Devil's Breath

This robot exists in order to demonstrate a solution to the problem of finding and retaining perception of edges in a changing topography

Bob Dylan's planned tour of east Asia called off after Chinese officials refuse him permission to play in Beijing and Shanghai

Robert Gates, US Secretary of Defence, is a graduate of the Jesuit Georgetown University.

A number of other CIA directors have links to the Jesuits.

George Tenet is a graduate of the Jesuit Georgetown University.

Leon Panetta is a graduate of the Jesuit Santa Clara University.

William Casey was a graduate of the Jesuit Fordham University.

And Robert Gates is a long time War Criminal

To honor the 100th anniversary of his birth, GE has donated $15 million to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation

Micro Counter-IED Robot, launching Fiery Arrows (pirophoric arrows) to Neutralize IEDs

WATCH ... They Came From Climate Change!

BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE HEALTH BILLS REQUIRE THE MICRO CHIPPING OF AMERICANS

James Lovelock: Humans Are Too Stupid to Prevent Climate Change

Actor Corey Haim employed "doctor shopping" to obtain 553 prescription pills in the two months before his death

GHB overdose (It looks real)

Cameras make Chicago most closely watched US city

Sen. Joe Lieberman says domestic terrorism is a real and growing danger and more must be done to protect trains, buses and subways.

SIBEL EDMONDS: THE TRAITORS AMONG US

Internets Undersea Cables

F-Secure's WorldMap Live showing an outbreak of malware named Small.DAM.

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Florida House gives itself a 4% raise instead of a 3% cut in pay.

Has the militarization of our police departments cost us our 4th Amendment rights?

Oldest Boeing Airliner In Flying Condition

WikiLeaks Video: U.S. Military Murders 12 including Two Reuters Journalists

The U.S. military said Tuesday it can't find its copy of a video that shows two employees of the Reuters news agency being killed by Army helicopters in 2007, after a leaked version circulated the Internet and renewed questions about the attack.

NATO spokesmen have admitted culpability in the Feb. 12 deaths of five members of a family, including two pregnant women and a respected law enforcement official.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Nightmare - 1968

Cigarettes Contain Radioactive Polonium

Old Fashioned Morphine-Amanda Mabro

Good enough for Isabelle Eberhardt

Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour Show-Days Of The Week(84.8 Mb)

Blow-up - Antonioni (Yardbirds Scene)

Directed By Michelangelo Antonioni in (1966) The Yardbirds (with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck) playing Stroll On

Saudi central bank to head new Gulf monetary union

Still to be determined about the single currency is whether it would be pegged to a basket of currencies, the U.S. dollar or some other currency. All six Gulf Cooperation Council nations peg their currencies to the dollar except for Kuwait which relies on a basket.

So there lies the US economic future. Buckle up.

Why Torture Is Necessary

Why Beheadings Are Popular In Mexico

Meet the Toxic 100 Corporate Air Polluters

The Pope compares criticism of the Catholic Church over child abuse to "collective violence suffered by the Jews".

All three tiers of unemployment extensions will be cut off effective April 5th, 2010.

Human Society's 3rd Benefit Photo Auction

Silly rabbit, you're Easter dinner!

Electric Light orchestra - Can't Get It Out Of My Head

Emergency Food Kit: Food For Health™ 275 Servings for $69.99

For best taste and nutritional value, use product before:
20 years of manufacturing date when stored at 60° F
10 years of manufacturing date when stored at 70° F

Obama installed as his secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa and supporter of everything that's bad in the food OPs

Mr. Fish in Conversation With Graham Nash

The FBI is warning police across the country that an anti-government group's call to remove governors from office could provoke violence.

As of Wednesday, more than 30 governors had received letters saying if they don't leave office within three days they will be removed, according to an internal intelligence note by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
The note was obtained by The Associated Press.

The FBI expects all 50 governors will eventually receive such letters.

Easter Alert---Six-foot-long boa constrictor still missing

It is being billed as the largest cannabis gathering in the country bringing in visitors from Maine to California.

The Obama administration has quietly scrapped plans to enact sweeping new federal quarantine regulations

Here Comes the Next Big One

Last Thursday, March 25, 2010, an event occurred in the world of finance which will build into a second “meltdown” of economic disaster for the United States and the world. At a public hearing by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission it was revealed, in dramatic fashion, that the futures trading market in precious metals is a complete and utter fraud.

The biggest hazard remaining at the site of the former Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant is tiny plutonium particles that are known to remain in the soil

Karen Carpenter Drum Solo - 1976 First Television Special

Col. Oliver North on Afghan Opium War

'Scar My Tattered Body No More With Your Punishing Dildo Mallet': Accused Militia Plotter Bared Almost All In Film (VIDEO)

Judge Andrew Napolitano's Freedom Watch - Constitutional Awakening in America - 03/30/10

Iraq: The Wrong Type of Sand

So, at no little cost, boatloads of more resilient desert had to be floated in from other countries — namely the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. And not just for blast walls."...

Early this year a “fob in a box” — military slang for 80 shipping containers with all the tents, showers and construction material needed to set up a remote forward operating base — was put on trucks here for the trip from one war to another.

“If they come with tractors, I will lie down in front of the tractors and they will have to roll over me and kill me before they can kill my poppy,” s

“We Made a Devil’s Bargain”: Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies That Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming

Cigarettes May Contain Pigs Blood

University of Sydney Professor Simon Chapman points to recent Dutch research which identified 185 different industrial uses of a pig — including the use of its hemoglobin in cigarette filters.

Researchers have created an ingestible pill capsule fitted with a tiny RFID and antenna that alerts each time a pill is taken

The second half of the quote — “innovative ways of delivering health care” — is doublespeak for “health care rationing” (providing less)

Things We've Known That Are On The Way Out