Marijuana and porn were sent down a communications shaft and smuggled to those trapped Chilean miners

with pic of stoned miner

Obama vows US will ‘out-hustle’ world

via

“Basically, if we want to win the future, America has to out-build, and out-innovate, and out-educate and out-hustle the rest of the world. That’s what we’ve got to do.”

Is This How a President Should Act? - Matt Welch

China just announced plans to build 1 million electric cars per year.

People from around the world buy pizza for Wisconsin protesters

Johnny Angel - Shelly Fabares

The Indictment For Torture Filed Against George W. Bush (Part One: The Facts)

The CIA Should Be Held In Contempt For Destruction Of Torture Tapes, ACLU Says

Scientist Investigating How Mosquitoes Transmit Diseases Dies From Ingested Cyanide

also- The LSU community is reeling after the sudden death Thursday of prominent LSU coastal scientist Gregory Stone.
Stone, who was quoted extensively in many publications internationally after last year’s BP oil leak, was the director of the renowned Wave-Current Information System.
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Scientist Dies of Bubonic Plauge

Seattle Times Calls For Legalization Of Marijuana

Oklahoma mom Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow is currently serving a 12 year sentence for selling what amounted to 31 dollars of weed to an undercover cop

Local Pot Report - Police are investigating a robbery at a Boulder marijuana dispensary by a man and a woman allegedly wielding machetes Friday night.

The Rocky Mountain Diner, downtown Denver's comfort-food castle, is closing at 4 p.m. today after a 20-year run.

Wolfe's Barbeque just closed two months ago

Kansas - Death Of Mother Nature Suite - Cowtown Ballroom - 1973

Frank Zappa-Duke Of Prunes- Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City,MO -1972

We went there with the entourage we called the House of Chadron(named after Chadron Nebraska-where Paul was from)for the Zappa show
Paul and his house mates had crafted a small little race car shaped like a pickle and when Frank took the stage they rolled it out to him.
He looked at it, rather perplexed, and a roadie came and carried it away.
Shrug

Banks may not be the only businesses the U.S. government is determined to help succeed-Defense Department Helps Big 5 Military Contracters

US casualties in Iraq, last week rose to 77,735, -35,540 dead and wounded from "hostile" causes and 42,195 dead and evacuated from "non-hostile"

Black Bear, Bummed Out By Climate Change, Falls Asleep In Backyard - In February.

Complete Audio of the Execution Tapes - Complete collection of subpoenaed Georgia execution tapes, totaling more than eight hours of audio

The United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council

Hollywood's source for custom special effect contact lense

The KinKs Rainbow Theater 1972

The Kinks - A Well respected man

The Worst Gig.com

Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants so the interviewer can read not only his postings, but those of his family and friends too.

Temperature swings 100 degrees in one week in Okla. town

The tanks that roll through the streets of Bahrain are M60A3 tanks, made in Detroit in the 1990s,

American military sales to Bahrain have totaled nearly $1.5 billion in the past decade alone.

US Companies Reported Hoarding Over $2 Trillion In Cash Overseas To Avoid World’s Highest Tax Rate In America

U.S. companies are taxed at up to 35% when they bring home the earnings generated through the operations of their overseas subsidiaries.
They get a credit for any taxes paid to foreign governments—but, since the corporate-tax rate in the U.S. is one of the world's highest, most companies are in no rush to bring the money back onshore.

Colorado Congressman Jared Polis has amendments to the House would eliminate much of the federal funding for the war on drugs in the United States

Help Rep. Jared Polis defund the Drug Czar

For Libya riot videos-The Great Libyan Video Archive

And something you hear nothing about Algerian braces for second pro-democracy rally

US Mulls Proposal for Another 73,000 Afghan Troops

US will be spending upwards of $12 billion annually just on the Afghan military.

Ironically A top Social Security Administration official warned workers they may have to take furloughs if cuts proposed by House Republicans take effect.

The GOP budget would allocate $10.7 billion for 2011, while President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget asks for $12.5 billion for the agency, which dispenses checks to 53 million people each month.

Commissioner Michael Astrue said earlier this month that $12.5 billion was the least he could work with to dispense checks on time and to review millions of disability benefits claims.

How Monsanto And Evangelical Christian Organizations Hijacked The Taxpayer Money Intended For Haiti

A resolution urges Congress to call a convention to draft a constitutional amendment allowing states to repeal federal laws

House of Representatives voted on Friday to choke off cash to fund President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law

After 10 months and an estimated 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, oysters are back on New Orleans menus

Mutant Fish Safely Store Toxins in Fat

When Anacondas Attack

Anaconda Attacks Dog

World’s first hummingbird-like unmanned aircraft system takes flight

President Ronald Reagan - Address on Iran-Contra

Gerald Celente on Obama's budget: "They're bankrupting the country!"

Researchers at University College London have developed a technology that allows artificial limbs to be directly attached to a human skeleton.

German researchers have demonstrated a car that can be driven with brain power alone

Judy Padilla tells her story of working at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant from 1982 to 2005.

ISRAELI EMBASSY IN NYC A RADIATION HOT SPOT

Ecuador oiled, sick and dying may not see penny of $8.6B lawsuit

White House Missile Battery

WTC Hard Drives Show $100 Million In Criminal Credit Transfers Before Towers Fell

US Export of biomaterials to Iraq in 1984

Could Your Cola Give You Cancer?

Google has put every issue of the influential Spy magazine up on Google Books to read for free

Iraq is demanding that the US apologize and pay $1 billion dollars for destroying Baghdad

Colorado legislature is also now considering a legal limit for how much marijuana a driver can have in their system.

The legislature will soon consider a bill to set the legal driving limit for marijuana in a driver's system at 5 nanograms of THC per milligram of blood.

What Global Alcohol Consumption Looks LIke

Relative volumes of the oceans and atmosphere with respect to Earth

55+ REALLY GOOD REASONS TO ABOLISH THE COPS!

Birthday Freebies

Benihana’s Japanese Restaurant birthday freebie is pretty darn awesome, if you ask me. What other place gives you thirty bucks every year?

"The turn toward heaven", "The Heaven Shaker" or "Change the World" were manned torpedos and suicide craft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy

WTF?--Ray McGovern Brutalized & Left Bleeding by Hillary Clinton Police

YouTube

Jane Cunningham believes Missouri kids need to improve their work ethic so she's sponsoring a bill that would repeal much of the state's child labor

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said in a lecture posted to his YouTube channel that Congressional laws banning child labor are forbidden by the US Constitution.

Army admits Gulf War medical records destroyed

A simple experiment demonstrating the visualisation of cymatics can be done by sprinkling sand on a metal plate and vibrating the plate

NBC Action News takes a comprehensive look at the 150 years since America's Civil War and how it has changed the country and the Kansas City area.

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys [Hardcover]

Feds Accidentally Shut Down 84,000 Websites over Wrongful Kiddie Porn Accusation

Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Monterey 1967)

The Ha'iku Stairs, aptly nicknamed the Stairway to Heaven, is a steep climb on the island of Oahu that seems to disappear into the sky itself.

The History of the CBS Eye Logo 2001

FBI Says There Is A 100% Chance of WMD Attack Days After San Diego Nuke Story

Madison WI police respond to the fourth day of street protests

see Wisconsin Governor to slash pay and cut benefits with no negotiation and to Use National Guard Against State Workers who rise up
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Madison schools close for the day to allow teachers to protest Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting budget plan.
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Video: We…really have little idea why our teachers brought us here to protest some dude
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Protest downtown Madison 2/16/11 #wiunion
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“Democracy Uprising” in the U.S.A.?: Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin’s Resistance to Assault on Public Sector, the Obama-Sanctioned Crackdown on Activists, and the Distorted Legacy of Ronald Reagan

Crooked Still - Come On In My Kitchen

How a Dead Elephant Is Consumed In Under Two Minutes

Barney Frank Ambushed By Jason Mattera: Banking, Brothels & Fannie Mae

The newest way to make meth is called the Shake n’ Bake

Comments from methheads are hilarious if not tl:dr
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Teach Your Kids to Make Meth Song

Florida Police Obtain Warrant to Search ‘All Persons’ in Apartment Complex

Police Officer Threatens to Taser Man's Genitals
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New "Laser" Weapon Debuts in LA County Jail

The Blonger Gang - Lou Blonger's army of grafters preyed mercilessly on visitor's to Denver's downtown district for almost thirty years.

Final Vote Results for Roll Call To Extend Expiring Provisions of the USA PATRIOT

A Secret Waterfall - The fourth hidden wonder of South America.

Not to be outdone, Kuelap can only compare in size and grandeur to Machu Picchu in Peru, and the greater archaeological sites in the Americas. Kuelap's construction is presumed to have taken at least 200 years to complete and millions of cubic feet of stone.

George Orwell wrote an article on the making of a decent cup of tea that insisted on the observing of 11 different "golden" rules.

via How To Make a Decent Cup of Tea Ignore Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and heed George Orwell's tea-making advice. By Christopher Hitchens

WeAreChange Confronts Dick Cheney on 9/11 Standdown Order

Top Documentary Films

Obama Budget Proposal: Cuts To Target Working Poor, Middle Class & Students

Obama Pencils In $37 Billion Budget Increase For DHS, Naked Body Scanners
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Obama’s $3.7 Trillion Budget Calls for Military Spending Increases and Deep Cuts to Social Service Programs
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Amid Budget Cuts, Air Force to Develop New Bomber
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Congress & U.S. Aid to Israel(Since 1996, the American taxpayers are still sending Israel $3 billion a year and providing assorted loan guarantees, waivers, rich technology transfers and other indirect assistance.)
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Do We Really Need More Submarines and Aircraft Carriers?
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Mr. Obama‘s budget projects that 2011 will see the biggest one-year debt jump in history, or nearly $2 trillion
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5 Winners from the 2012 Pentagon Budget
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NPR thanks Obama for money in the budget.

U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

Mongolian female contortionists

A Tribute to Olbermann and Countdown (Special Event)

Watch IBM's Watson On Jeopardy Tonight

Jeopardy Archive

Ron Paul at CPAC 2011 Feb 11 FR

Superbugs in the Supermarket

Dollar Dumping Dogpile

Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

via Valentine's Day Playlist

Wisconsin Governor to slash pay and cut benefits with no negotiation and to Use National Guard Against State Workers who rise up

I refer you to Mefi for discussion

We're Not Running Out of Oil, Just Cheap Oil

Dr. Galbraith and Dr. Paul Discuss the Constitutionality of the Federal Reserve - July 26, 2009

"The Central Intelligence Agency makes up fifty percent of U.S. embassy staff in certain countries

Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama's latest nominee to the Supreme Court, helped protect the Saudi royal family from 911 lawsuits

Chicago Installs ‘Virtual Shield’ Of 10,000 Surveillance Cameras

Denver Post Data Center

Video of 23 Year-Old Steve Jobs Making His First TV Appearance

America’s Legacy of Mutagenic War

Egypt used Israeli technology to disable state's internet

Experts determine age of the Voynich manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is a handwritten book thought to have been written in the 15th century and comprising about 240 vellum pages,

Craigslist Congressman Warned Teens About Dangers of the Internet

oops,,Married GOP Congressman Sent Sexy Pictures to Craigslist Babe

Confirmed: FBI Got Warning Day Before Oklahoma City Bombing

New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the FBI received a phone call the day before the Oklahoma City bombing warning that the attack was imminent, and that the feds tried to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table if he admitted making the call.

MORE than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year around the world from using equipment meant for right-handed people.

Evolution of Humans Animated 4 billion years in 8 minutes Carl Sagan

Witness account: 28 hours in the dark heart of Egypt's torture machine

Web programmer based in Canada sentenced to death after allegedly confessing under torture to designing adult sites
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From 2004--UK troops held torture contests, Iraqi claims

Secret ingredients of Corexit now revealed by feds after their dumping on the Gulf

Virtually every perfume, cologne and fragrance product on the market is made with cancer-causing chemicals that their manufacturers refuse to disclose, claiming their formulas are "trade secrets."

Genealogy of the US Presidents