Clipmarks | arifsali's 'united states' clips

Africa is big. Really big.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:30:53 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

The African continent is apparently big enough to fit the United States, India, Argentina, Western Europe, and most of China in it’s space! In fact, all together, these 5 countries still do not make up the total square kilometers of Africa.

Americans are "not" stupid - WITH SUBTITLES

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:07:29 GMT

clipped by: robertsurfdude6
clipper's remarks: OK....we are all stupid!!!!

Clip Source: video.google.com

[Video]

Tags: stupid, america, subtitles, streets, not smart, funny, news, walking, running, jogging, dumb, triangles, one, two, three, war, united states, not stupid

Politican Cartoons

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:32:36 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: "The United States, some years back, found its new bogeyman "Islam" to replace its former imaginary enemy "Communism." And now the European press appears to have finally (?) found a replacement for the Jewish people that they used to malign and attack. Anti-Islam/Muslimism appears to now have officially replaced anti-Jewish sentiments in Europe.

The roots of these attacks are the same: an inability to acknowledge and respect a diversity of people that might result in a Europe that is non-White and/or non-Christian.

The anti-Muslim/Islam cartoons of today are little different than the anti-Jewish cartoons that were published by the Nazis during WW II."

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Target: Journalists!

Newsitem: Eason Jordan, a CNN news executive stated that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Israeli Peace Plan

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The "Center for Islamic Pluralism" was founded on March 25th by neo-con Stephen Schwartz, and others.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The finger problem

Europe resurrects its Facist past

Stalingrad surrendered.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Everyone is innocent around here!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

United States' Media Propaganda!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

mosque and state

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Hate Speech

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Tags: politics, cartoons

If the world were 100 people

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:43:52 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz

Clip Source: www.wildcrazy.com

Something to think about!!

If the world were 100 people

There would be:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from North and South America

8 Africans

52 would be female

48 would be male

70 would be nonwhite, 30 white

59% of the entire world's wealth would belong to only 6 people

and all 6 would be citizens of the United States

80 would live in substandard housing

70 would be unable to read

50 would suffer from malnutrition

1 would be near death

1 would be near birth

Only 1 would have a college education

99 of them will not see this message,

because only 1 would have a computer.

Tags: if

How to Write Aphorisms

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:43:09 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks:

Delacroix, Eugene (France, 1798-1863)

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty; to be a poet at forty is to be a poet.

According to James Geary, editor of the compendium Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists, a truely memorable, quotable aphorism satisfies five laws:

It must be brief. It must be definitive. It must be personal — that's the difference between an aphorism and a proverb. It must be philosophical — that's the difference between an aphorism and a platitude, which is not philosophical....

And the fifth law is it must have a twist. And that can be either a linguistic twist or a psychological twist or even a twist in logic that somehow flips the reader into a totally unexpected place.

Now you know, so get to work!

Clip Source: www.npr.org

Hubbard, Frank McKinney (United States, 1868-1930)

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Roosevelt, Eleanor (United States, 1884-1962)

A woman is like a teabag — only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

Tutu, Desmond (South Africa, 1931- )

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Bunsch, Karol (Poland, 1898-1987)

Honest conceit is better than false modesty.

Morandotti, Alessandro (Italy, 1909-1979)

The kiss is an ingenious invention that prevents lovers from uttering too many inanities.

You recognize a true friend by how he lies to you.

Chekhov, Anton (Russia, 1860-1904)

Any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Sato, Issai (Japan, 1772-1859)

There are always people who make big declarations. These are always people of little consequence.

Tags: aphorisms, writing, history, quotes, pithy, how-to, be famous!

What the World Eats : Food habits of people around the globe

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:21:11 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: This is interesting.. Go thro the facts in the site...

Clip Source: www.time.com

What the World Eats

What's on family dinner tables in fifteen different homes around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet"

Clip Source: www.time.com

Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City

Clip Source: www.time.com

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily

Clip Source: www.time.com

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp

Clip Source: www.time.com

Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City

Clip Source: www.time.com

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina

Clip Source: www.time.com

Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca

Clip Source: www.time.com

China: The Dong family of Beijing

Clip Source: www.time.com

Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna

Clip Source: www.time.com

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo

Clip Source: www.time.com

Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo

Clip Source: www.time.com

United States: The Caven family of California

Clip Source: www.time.com

Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar

Clip Source: www.time.com

Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis

Clip Source: www.time.com

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village

Clip Source: www.time.com

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide

Tags: food, world

Mystery of Antarctica's 15-Million Year-Old Lake

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:31:49 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Researchers have thawed ice estimated to be perhaps a million years old or more from above Lake Vostok, an ancient lake that lies hidden more than two miles beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica using novel genomic techniques to determine how tiny, living "time capsules" survived the ages in total darkness, in freezing cold, and without food and energy from the sun.

Lake Vostok is located beneath four kilometers of ice in East Antarctica. The lake is approximately 250 km long and 50 km wide. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleo-climatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for as long as 15 million years.

Because of the long isolation, it's believed that Lake Vostok could contain new lifeforms, and unique geochemical processes. For five years, scientists in Russia and the United States have sought to probe the ancient lake to discover the secrets lying inside this pristine body of water.

Tags: antarctica, lake, water, genomics, ice, time, life

The era of the American Internet is ending.

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:45:18 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: “Since passage of the Patriot Act, many companies based outside of the United States have been reluctant to store client information in the U.S.,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. “There is an ongoing concern that U.S. intelligence agencies will gather this information without legal process. There is particular sensitivity about access to financial information as well as communications and Internet traffic that goes through U.S. switches.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — The era of the American Internet is ending.

Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States.

Engineers who help run the Internet said that it would have been impossible for the United States to maintain its hegemony over the long run because of the very nature of the Internet; it has no central point of control.

And now, the balance of power is shifting. Data is increasingly flowing around the United States, which may have intelligence — and conceivably military — consequences.

“Because of the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to exploit that edge,”

Tags: net, traffic, routing, us

An Icelandic woman's experience visiting the US

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:59:14 GMT

clipped by: Johanna_G
clipper's remarks: What is wrong with the United States of America? Is it the stimulus-response mechanism of experiencing terror → making war on terror → terrorizing? Are the United States of America a hysteric or paranoid nation?

I wonder if Erla Ósk Arnardóttir Lilliendahl (that's her correct name) will experience any excuse on the part of the U.S. administration, and I wonder if those responsible will be removed from office. If not, I would be inclined to declare the U.S.A. a closed mental hospital.

Clip Source: www.sott.net

©Eva Ósk Arnardóttir

During the last twenty-four hours I have probably experienced the greatest humiliation to which I have ever been subjected. During these last twenty-four hours I have been handcuffed and chained, denied the chance to sleep, been without food and drink and been confined to a place without anyone knowing my whereabouts, imprisoned.

When we landed at JFK airport the traditional clearance process began.

I heard an official say that there was something which needed to be looked at more closely and I was directed to the work station of Homeland Security. There I was told that according to their records I had overstayed my visa by 3 weeks in 1995. For this reason I would not be admitted to the country and would be sent home on the next flight.

A chain was fastened around my waist and I was handcuffed to the chain. Then my legs were placed in chains.

So secured, I was taken from the airport terminal in full sight of everybody.

I spent the next 9 hours in a small, dirty cell.

Tags: uninhibited states of america, usa, terror, hysteria, war on terror

Why America Will Survive George W. Bush

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:53:01 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks:

Otto von Bismarck saw how American blunders led to American power and allegedly said that God has a special providence for drunks, fools, and the United States of America.

Walter Russell Mead (of the Council on Foreign Relations) puts Bush's 8-year stint in the White House into proper perspective.

America's foreign policy has been short-sighted and often self-defeating from the get-go, alternately collaborative, passive, and interventionist. And, yet, miraculously, we always come out ahead.

With the unstoppable rise of a global capitalist economy, Mead makes the case that America, for all its past and current faults, will continue to be the inevitable leader of this new international buoyancy. Not even our latest mistakes (unprecedented though they may be) can derail such a powerful incentive that is the modern American world trade system.

Which means, more than ever, we're literally all in this together.

Clip Source: www.tnr.com

Failing Upward

Nothing in the field of international affairs is as scandalous and as perplexing as the fact of American power. From Revolutionary times to the present, virtually all observers foreign and domestic have agreed that Americans don't do foreign policy well.

Moralistic, uninformed, unsubtle, alternately isolationist and hyperactive, hamstrung by a clumsy constitutional process and a public that oscillates between fatuous idealism and ignorant bellicosity, U.S. foreign policy has been shocking the world for more than 200 years.

And, worse still, we win. For two centuries, the United States has astounded critics with its bad foreign policy--and, for two centuries, the United States has steadily risen to an unprecedented level of power and influence in the international system.

The spectacle is often surreal. The United States seems to wander nearsightedly but relatively unscathed past one hazard after another

like a version of the chronically oblivious cartoon character Mr. Magoo.

Tags: america, usa, bush, foreign policy, world, history, war, empire, trade, economy

United States of Jesus

Fri, 18 May 2007 22:33:17 GMT

clipped by: laceym
clipper's remarks: A few words about America's relationship with God.

Clip Source: youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: religion, politics, america, usa, jesus, god

Religious Geography in the USA - Gallery

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:43:52 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: I just clipped on map "Religious Adherents", there are more (see bottom of clip)

(dd 2000)

Clip Source: www.valpo.edu

American Ethnic Geography

A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada

Map Gallery of Religion in the United States

Clip Source: www.valpo.edu

Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)

Christian

Presbyterian

Episcopal

United Church of Christ

Muslim

Eastern Orthodox

Church of the Nazarene

Tags: religion, atheism, geography, map, maps, list, visualization, culture, us, usa, america, ethnic, gallery

Test your Geography Knowledge

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:09:36 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: I love these type of quizzes as they,at least, slow down the rotting of my brain.

Clip Source: www.lizardpoint.com

Test your Geography Knowledge

Click on an area of the map to select a quiz

World- Continents and Oceans
Continents:	Cities:
Africa
Asia	Asia - country capitals New!
Europe	Europe - country capitals New!
Australia/Oceania
South America	South America - country capitals New!
Continent zoom-ins: (regions within a continent)
Caribbean (part of N. America) Central America (part of N. America) Middle East (Western Asia)
Countries:	Cities:
Australia
Canada	Canada - provincial capitals New!
China
Germany
India
Mexico
Pakistan New!
Russia
United States	United States - state capitals New! United States major cities New!

The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:42:21 GMT

clipped by: Mohir

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing

1983: A Soviet ballistics officer draws the right conclusion -- that a satellite report indicating incoming U.S. nuclear missiles is, in fact, a false alarm -- thereby averting a potential nuclear holocaust.

Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov was duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the secret bunker outside Moscow that monitored the Soviet Union's early-warning satellite system, when the alarm bells went off shortly after midnight. One of the satellites signaled Moscow that the United States had launched five ballistic missiles at Russia.

But Petrov smelled a rat. "I had a funny feeling in my gut" that this was a false alarm. For one thing, the report indicated that only five missiles had been fired. Had the United States been launching an actual nuclear attack, he reasoned, ICBMs would be raining down on them.

Petrov lives today on his army pension in a village outside of Moscow.

Tags: history, russia, usa, cold war

The Genius/Madness of Salvador Dali

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:55:04 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: I'm a huge fan of both!

Here's an old clip on Philippe Halsman's jump portraits.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

Photographer Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali collaborated on a series of images, the result of which is a fascinating look at how photography appealed to Dali in the 1940s-60s. Magnum and Slate present a compendium of images from this series to celebrate the birth of Dali on May 11, 1904. (This gallery contains nudity.)

Salvador Dali, 1954.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

A play on Dali’s The Persistence of Memory (1931), 1952.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

UNITED STATES—Dali's My Hairspring, 1954.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

Dali, 1953.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

Dali Atomicus, by Dali, 1948.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

SPAIN—Dali in bed, projecting pieces of dirty paper "to stimulate his inspiration," 1964.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

NEW YORK—Dali's Chaos & Creation, 1960.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

NEW YORK—Dali, 1951.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

PORT LIGAT, Spain—Dali, 1941.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

UNITED STATES—Las Meninas after Velásquez, 1965.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

Dali, 1946.

Clip Source: todayspictures.slate.com

PORT LIGAT, Spain—Dali. "In 1964, when the radio and newspapers announced that Dali had shaved his mustache,

the information was wrong and Philippe and Dali concocted a photograph to show the world that Dali's mustache was still there, as strong as ever."—Yvonne Halsman, 1964.

Tags: photography, art, salvador dali, photos, artist, collaboration, motion, jump, portrait, philippe halsman

Clipmarks | arifsali's 'united states' clips

Africa is big. Really big.

Americans are "not" stupid - WITH SUBTITLES

Politican Cartoons

Ever been a Muslim?

Bring 'em home, Rummy, Bring 'em home!

the spread of american democracy

Internment camps for Muslims in America?

The Enemy of "Freedom!"

Target: Journalists!

The Israeli Peace Plan

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The finger problem

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Everyone is innocent around here!

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

United States' Media Propaganda!

mosque and state

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If the world were 100 people

How to Write Aphorisms

What the World Eats : Food habits of people around the globe

What the World Eats

Mystery of Antarctica's 15-Million Year-Old Lake

The era of the American Internet is ending.

An Icelandic woman's experience visiting the US

Why America Will Survive George W. Bush

United States of Jesus

Religious Geography in the USA - Gallery

Test your Geography Knowledge

The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing

Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing

The Genius/Madness of Salvador Dali