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How the Mysterious Giant Spiral Happened. Sorry people, no alien invasions. Yet.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:42:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm sorry but this article is wrong. The light was actually caused by all the Taco Bell I ate.

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

It wasn't the fury of Thor or an alien portal or the Second Coming of Hey-Zeus. Here you have the explanation of the mysterious giant spiral that happened yesternight in Norway, computer simulation included.

[Video]

The video shows a rocket running out of fuel and spiraling out of control, which looks exactly like the photos and videos.

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard says it's 99.9% safe to say that it's a rocket out of control, while some newspapers and TV channels are quoting Russian military sources, confirming that this is a failed Bulava missile launched from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea.

The Norwegian defense has confirmed that, even while they have not admitted the failure, the Russian Navy alerted them about the tests prior to the giant spiral appearing in the skies. And if that wasn't enough to convince everyone, here are two images of the missile trails being blown away by the wind, at dawn:

Tags: mysterious giant spiral, not the fury of thor, not an alien portal, not the second coming of hey-zeus

6 Colleagues File Suit in Whistleblower's Death

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:41:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: David Kelly may yet have his day.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Six senior doctors have begun legal action to force a new inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly, the scientist who died days after being exposed as the source of a controversial BBC story on the Iraq war.

The action is being taken because six doctors are convinced that the original verdict of suicide is unsafe and should be overturned.

Some suspect that Dr Kelly, 59, was murdered shortly after it was revealed that he was the source of a BBC story which alleged that evidence against Iraq had been "sexed up" by the Government in order to justify the 2003 invasion.

The body of Dr Kelly, who was a UN weapons inspector, was found more than six years ago in woods near his Oxfordshire home after he went out for a walk. His wrist had been slashed. He also had painkillers in his bloodstream, although not at a lethal level.

Feeding Polar Bears (12 pics)

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:40:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you want to be friends with polar bears, you just need a couple of cans of condensed milk.

Clip Source: acidcow.com

Feeding Polar Bears (12 pics)

If you want to be friends with polar bears, you just need a couple of cans of condensed milk.
They love it.

Tags: polar bears

"DeepThroat" Emerges in Mike Connell Plane Crash

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:30:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mike Connell developed websites for George W. Bush & John McCain. His plane crashed shortly after a grand-jury deposition.

Clip Source: legalschnauzer.blogspot.com

An anonymous informant has provided information indicating that an airplane piloted by Republican computer expert Mike Connell was sabotaged before it crashed on December 19, 2008, near Akron, Ohio.

One of Connell's sisters says she believes the family will file a wrongful-death lawsuit against Republican strategist Karl Rove if foul play ever is proven in the plane crash.

Connell, the founder of New Media Communications in Richfield, Ohio, was considered a skilled and experienced pilot. He developed campaign Web sites for a number of Republican clients, including George W. Bush and John McCain.

Connell had been forced to give a deposition in an election-fraud lawsuit on November 3, 2008, the day before the general election. Roughly six weeks later, his plane crashed next to a vacant house in Lake Township, Ohio, as Connell was returning from a business trip to Washington, D.C. The cause of the crash is unknown, and it remains under investigation

"DeepThroat" Emerges in Mike Connell Plane Crash

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:30:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mike Connell developed websites for George W. Bush & John McCain. His plane crashed shortly after a grand-jury deposition.

Clip Source: legalschnauzer.blogspot.com

An anonymous informant has provided information indicating that an airplane piloted by Republican computer expert Mike Connell was sabotaged before it crashed on December 19, 2008, near Akron, Ohio.

One of Connell's sisters says she believes the family will file a wrongful-death lawsuit against Republican strategist Karl Rove if foul play ever is proven in the plane crash.

Grim fate of injured hunter trapped in well shocks Spain

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:28:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They gave the cause of death as gunshot wounds and police said it was clear that he had killed himself, presumably after giving up hope of being found.

Police said no one would have heard his cries for help, even though the well was close to the Sol de Mallorca complex of holiday homes near the island's El Mago beach. It would have been impossible for him to clamber up the sheer-walled well with his broken limbs.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Grim fate of injured hunter trapped in well shocks Spain

Spanish hunter who broke legs in fall into abandoned well shot himself after days of waiting in vain for rescue

Spaniards were today horrified by the death of a hunter from Mallorca who fell 18 metres down an abandoned country well and, after several days enduring the pain of his broken limbs and with no hope of rescue, turned his shotgun on himself.

The corpse of the municipal police officer and keen hunter, who was named as Antonio M, was eventually found after a colleague discovered his car nearby, according to Spanish newspapers.

A search of the area revealed an open, dry well with no wall around it that was hidden by thick vegetation.

Rescuers who went down the well near the town of Calvià said they found the body of the 49-year-old man in a sitting position with a shotgun beside it.

Forensic scientists confirmed that the man had broken his legs in the fall and had sat at the bottom of the well for about three days.

Tags: grim fate of injured hunter trapped in well shocks

Needed: Workplace Democracy

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:52:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Democracy gives us the power to create a society that matches our needs. Democracy in the workplace allows us to negotiate the conditions of our work.
You may think that we have all of these rights now. We don't. US workers have almost no right to organize. Every 23 minutes in the United States, a worker is either fired or harassed for trying to unionize.
In 1874 unemployed workers were demonstrating in New York City's Tompkins Square Park. Riot police moved in and began beating men, women, and children with billy clubs, leaving hundreds of casualties in their wake. The police commissioner said: "It was the most glorious sight I ever saw."

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

Unless you are a CEO, you don't have a lot of leverage to demand benefits at your workplace. Every year or two, you might go to your boss and ask for a raise or an extra day of vacation, but usually you can't do much about what hours you work, what health benefits you receive or how your retirement benefits are structured. Unions give workers that leverage.

Unions are designed to give workers a voice in decisions that affect their jobs. They allow workers to negotiate with their employers for wages, health benefits, retirement benefits, and good working conditions. In the best circumstances, unions partner with companies - both have an interest in satisfied, happy workers.

Conservatives have slandered unions for more than a hundred years.

Most of us don't think about workplace rights. We assume that because we live in America, we have all the rights we need.

Why does that matter?

Karl Rove: Obama took 80 days deciding, it only 'took us 50- days to remove them from power

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:43:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And then you abandoned Afghanistan to do some Empire building in Iraq, got beat up there and left your so-called Allies (including the French, remember them?) to bleed and die in Afghanistan.

Great job, Karl!

Clip Source: crooksandliars.com

Has there ever been a bigger dick in the history of dicks than Karl Rove? I mean, really.

Rove, on O'Reilly last night, after President Obama's speech at West Point:

It took him 80-some-odd days to do this, it took us 50-some-odd days to remove the Taliban from power after 9/11, and it took him some 80-odd days to say, 'I'm gonna give McChrystal three-quarters of what he requested in order to get done the job I told him to do on March 27.'

Yeah, and you guys did such a bang-up job keeping the Taliban out of power, didn't you, Karl?

There's a special stomach-churning quality to watching the people who created one of history's great clusterf--ks telling the people saddled with the job of cleaning it up that they're doing a crummy job.

Tags: karl rove, brainless, gop, bush, war, empire, afghanistan, obama, iraq, facts

Krampus Runs: Harmless fun, or mysogynist assault?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:37:01 GMT

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This year the Krampus debate intensified when a nine-year-old was set upon by three young Krampuses and so was so traumatized that she was reportedly afraid to return to school... The incident has heated the annual Krampus debate, with each camp growing increasingly shrill. One side holds that the "Krampus runs," as the random assaults are called, are good clean fun, the sort of local color that makes Salzburg charming and quaint, that Krampuses can be avoided by keeping off the streets between four and eight p.m., and that, in fact, most women enjoy being knocked around a bit by these burly beasts. The other side decries these assaults as blatantly sexist, misogynist exercises that have no place in modern society. "It is the only place in Europe where it is acceptable to beat women in public," a Salzburg women told me.

Clip Source: www.opinionjournal.com

The Krampus is to Salzburg what the bull is to Pamplona, an oversized beast that sends an adrenaline rush of terror through the cobblestone streets of the old town, all in the name of cultural heritage. For a full week during the start of the holiday season, scores of Krampuses stalk the cobbled ways of Salzburg and its surrounding villages.

they stalk young women, fondling them, throwing them over their shoulders and whipping them with wooden switches until their shins and thighs are black and blue. They prowl the streets, wander onto public buses, and storm downtown restaurants where, after assaulting female patrons, they are treated to free schnapps to fuel their further fury. The anonymity provided by the Krampus mask combined with increasing amounts of alcohol consumption is not only feeding the violence but also a debate about this bizarre pagan holdover from a less civilized era.

Tags: krampus, austria, assault, booze

GM May Kill Saab Off If No Buyer Is Found

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:19:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sorry, but this pisses me off. Saab deserves better than this.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

General Motors Co. said it will phase out its storied Swedish Saab brand if no deal is reached by the end of this month.

GM's board met Tuesday to decide Saab's fate after a group led by Sweden's Koenigsegg Automotive AB dropped out of a deal last week to buy the company. About 4,500 jobs at Saab are at stake.

New potential buyers have emerged, GM said, so the board put off a final decision until the end of December. The automaker said in a statement that no "suitable arrangement" for Saab is found by then, it would "will begin an orderly wind down" of the unit.

The failed Saab sale marks the third time this year that GM couldn't close a deal for an unwanted brand that it is shedding as part of its reorganization.

GM decided to close Saturn after a deal with auto dealer Roger Penske fell through. And the automaker's board decided to keep the European automaker Opel after deciding it was too heavily integrated into the company for GM to let it go.

GM May Kill Saab Off If No Buyer Is Found

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:19:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sorry, but this pisses me off. Saab deserves better than this.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

General Motors Co. said it will phase out its storied Swedish Saab brand if no deal is reached by the end of this month.

GM's board met Tuesday to decide Saab's fate after a group led by Sweden's Koenigsegg Automotive AB dropped out of a deal last week to buy the company. About 4,500 jobs at Saab are at stake.

The failed Saab sale marks the third time this year that GM couldn't close a deal for an unwanted brand that it is shedding as part of its reorganization.

Meredith Baxter Is Out

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:13:58 GMT

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Clip Source: today.msnbc.msn.com

For seven years, actress Meredith Baxter has been hiding a secret.

I am a lesbian and it was a later-in-life recognition,” she told Matt Lauer on TODAY. “Some people would say, well, you’re living a lie and, you know, the truth is — not at all. This has only been for the past seven years.”

“I said, ‘I think I’m gay,’ and my oldest boy said, ‘I knew,’ ” Baxter laughed. “The support from my family and anyone close to me has been so immediate and unqualified. I’ve really been blessed.”

Meredith Baxter Is Out

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:13:58 GMT

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Clip Source: today.msnbc.msn.com

For seven years, actress Meredith Baxter has been hiding a secret.

Is Bono Paid Too Much?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:11:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He thinks so..

Clip Source: www.contactmusic.com

Bono - who is worth an estimated £400 million - believes he is ''over paid and over-rewarded''.

he believes he has more money than he deserves to have.

Speaking at the launch of Nike's Lace Up. Save Lives campaign, which raises money for HIV charity (Red) with Chelsea soccer star Didier Drogba, he said: "These guys are very wealthy. I am very well paid, overpaid and even over-rewarded for what I do. But a lot of these soccer guys are giving something back and they don't need to do that."

Tags: bono, celebrities, money, music, u2

Corporate Serf Uprising

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:52 GMT

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Clip Source: centennialsociety.com

This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company.

Clip Source: centennialsociety.com

Tags: work, corporations, fire, agriculture, hunting