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New Greenland Ice Cracks Worry Scientists

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:23:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Further south in Greenland, Box's satellite images show that the Jakobshavn glacier, the fastest retreating glacier in the world, set new records for how far it has moved inland.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.

This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right, is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part of the glacier could lose up to one third of its size. (AP Photo/Byrd Polar Research Center)

And that's led the university professor who spotted the wounds in the massive Petermann glacier to predict disintegration of a major portion of the Northern Hemisphere's largest floating glacier within the year

Respected Architect: New 9/11 Investigation Will Save Lives

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:38:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings, and the band is tuning up in NYC.

Clip Source: www.petersnewyork.com

Richard Gage

A member of the American Institute of Architects who is attached to a West Coast firm involved in the construction of multi-million dollar projects

The perpetrators of the 9-11 attacks, Gage contends, have yet to be identified. He told a gathering of 150 or so people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of America's premier engineering and architectural schools, that "they can plan and execute another one."

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--Using a cardboard model of one of the World Trade Center towers, architect Richard Gage, AIA, illustrates the contradictory nature of the
government's explanation of the World Trade Center building collapses during a presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

NYC Initiative May Force New 9/11 Inquiry

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:32:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Power to the people. The truth will out.

Clip Source: www.petersnewyork.com

NEW YORK CITY BALLOT INITIATIVE COULD BRING 9-11 UNDER RENEWED SCRUTINY

Can they awaken a sleeping American public? That's what a handful of critics who question the government's version of the events of September 11, 2001 are banking on. In fact, they believe they have already achieved a measure of success, and are looking to translate that into votes, not for politicians, but for the formation of a commission that will investigate 9-11 more thoroughly.

The 9-11 ballot initiative is a grass-roots movement supported by a sizable number of groups and individuals that have serious questions about the federal government's official 9-11 Commission report of four years ago. If successful, it will give New York City voters a chance to establish a new commission that will look into the events of that day in what many hope will be a more satisfactory, less politicized, manner than previous investigations.

4 Ton Girders: Blowing In The Wind?

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:10:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "4-ton girders were found as much as 600 feet from the base of the North Tower of the World Trade Center after its collapse. This raises obvious questions. How fast must they have been ejected from the collapsing building to land that far away? What forces were at work to give such massive structures high horizontal velocities? If anything besides gravity was at work, pandora's box is opened up."

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: 9/11, 9-11. world trade center

South Tower Coming Down

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:51:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "This is a movie of the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center taken with a hand-held camera. In the original video, the camera is moving wildly, so the details of the collapsing building are hard to see. "

Clip Source: youtube.com

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Tags: 9/11, 9-11

The March Of "Civilization"

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:36:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A powerful photo and a heartbreaking story.

Clip Source: blogs.reuters.com

An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs. REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica/AE (BRAZIL)

Name The 11 Planets In Our Solar System

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:09:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Come on. You can do it!

Clip Source: www.suntimes.com

Can't name the 11 planets? Here's help from a Montana fourth-grader

Maryn Smith, the winner of the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, has created a handy way to remember the plants with the phrase: My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.

The 11 recognized planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris. Ceres, Pluto and Eris are considered dwarf planets.

11 Obsolete Skills

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:26:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Care to add to the list?

Clip Source: scobleizer.com

1. Dialing a rotary phone.

2. Putting a needle on a vinyl record.

3. Changing tracks on an eight-track tape.

4. Shorthand.

5. Using a slide rule.

6. Using carbon paper to make copies.

7. Developing film/photos.

8. Changing the ball or ribbon on your Selectric Typewriter.

9. Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set.

10. Adjusting the rabbit ears on your TV set.

11. Changing the gas mixture on your car’s carburetor.

You Never Expect The Spanish Inquisition

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:31:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Who would have thought, all those years ago, Monty Python would be current in their assertion in 2008?

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Military prosecutors announced yesterday that they have filed death penalty charges “against a former senior leader of Al Qaeda and five other Guantánamo detainees on Monday for their roles” in the 9/11 attacks.

One of these detainees, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the so-called 9/11 “mastermind,” has been confirmed to have been waterboarded. Yesterday evening, Attorney General Mike Mukasey refused to rule out using this evidence in court, saying, “What evidence gets presented at this trial is up to the prosecutors.”

On CNN last night, Charles Swift, the “hero of Guantanamo” who represented Salim Hamdan in the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, slammed the government’s refusal to rule out waterboarding-based evidence in the military commission:

SWIFT:

If we use waterboarded testimony in that trial, to my knowledge…the last precedent for using that kind of testimony was the Spanish Inquisition.

Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11 - A Timeline

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:40:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ticking off the particulars of the death of the true American ideals.

Clip Source: www.cooperativeresearch.org

This is the home page for the Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11 investigative project, one of several grassroots investigations being hosted on the History Commons website. The data published as part of this investigation has been collected, organized, and published by members of the public who are registered users of this website.

Legal Changes

Court Verdicts (17)Expansion of Presidential Power (54)Other Legal Changes (49)Patriot Act (15)Signing Statements (1)

Prisoner Rights

Detainments Outside US (15)Detainments in US (11)

Freedoms

Airport and Immigration Security (7)Freedom of Speech (7)Media Freedoms (6)Privacy (148)Impositions on Rights and Freedoms (176)

Secrecy

Continuity of Government (7)Government Acting in Secret (177)Government Classification (164)

Surveillance

Database Programs (36)National Security Letters (13)NSA Wiretapping (130)Other Surveillance (53)

Book Claims 9/11 Commision Director Had Links To Bush

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:14:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oh, what a wicked web we weave.

Clip Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com

The Sept. 11 commission's executive director had closer ties with the White House than publicly disclosed and tried to influence the final report in ways that the staff often perceived as limiting the Bush administration's responsibility, a new book says.

Philip Zelikow, a friend of then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, spoke with her several times during the 20-month investigation that closely examined her role in assessing the al-Qaida threat. He also exchanged frequent calls with the White House, including at least four from Bush's chief political adviser at the time, Karl Rove.

according to Philip Shenon's "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation,"

The book says phone logs maintained by the commission's executive assistant showed at least two calls from Rove to Zelikow's office number in June 2003, and two more calls in September.

Zelikow ordered the assistant to stop keeping phone records of his contacts with the White House,

Demonizing 9/11 Truth

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:39:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Research = Terrorism, or so BushCo and the neocon perpetrators would have us believe. Dissent is patriotic.

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

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"We Are Change" has 26 chapters around the country and the world.

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth is an affiliated group.

What is the mission of these groups?

To get to the truth of what happened on 9/11.

The government would like to criminalize this activity.

Why?

Because the movement is too big, too well organized and its fact base is too compelling.

How will the government turn patriotic action into a crime ?

They're going to do it with "education" sessions like this:

"Using the web as a weapon: The Internet as a tool for violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism."

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Research = Terrroism

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:36:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Demonizing 9/11 Truth

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

"We Are Change" has 26 chapters around the country and the world.

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth is an affiliated group.

What is the mission of these groups?

To get to the truth of what happened on 9/11.

The government would like to criminalize this activity.

Why?

Because the movement is too big, too well organized and its fact base is too compelling.

How will the government turn patriotic action into a crime ?

They're going to do it with "education" sessions like this:

"Using the web as a weapon: The Internet as a tool for violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism."

See the complete catalog of
free Brasscheck TV videos

America's Debt In 11 Graphs - Depressing

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:43:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great site. Heartbreaking facts.

Clip Source: mwhodges.home.att.net

Tags: debt, finances

Cuba Sees Worst Floods In 40 Years

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:18:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The world is becoming a very nasty place.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

One person was killed and tens of thousands of homes damaged or destroyed in Cuba, in what the authorities say are the biggest floods in 40 years.

Of the 80,000 evacuated last week, half have not been able to return home.

nearly 22,000 homes in the east of the country were damaged or destroyed.

Incessant rains which soaked the east of the country from 11 October to 5 November also wrecked thousand of kilometres of roads.

Officials said 50,000 hectares (123,000 acres) of sugar cane fields had been flooded or damaged.

Cuba has not seen such devastating floods since 1963, when Hurricane Flora killed over 1,100 people and destroyed more than 11,000 homes.

Tags: cuba, floods, weather