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FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:34:09 GMT

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FAKE TERROR -
THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP

Michael Rivero

It's the oldest trick in the book, dating back to Roman times; creating the enemies you need.

In 70 BC, an ambitious minor politician and extremely wealthy man, Marcus Licinius Crassus, wanted to rule Rome. Just to give you an idea of what sort of man Crassus really was, he is credited with invention of the fire brigade. But in Crassus' version, his fire-fighting slaves would race to the scene of a burning building whereupon Crassus would offer to buy it on the spot for a tiny fraction of it's worth. If the owner sold, Crassus' slaves would put out the fire. If the owner refused to sell, Crassus allowed the building to burn to the ground. By means of this device, Crassus eventually came to be the largest single private land holder in Rome, and used some of his wealth to help back Julius Caesar against Cicero.

JFK Quote

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:53:50 GMT

clipped by: katsteevns

Clip Source: www.notonemore.us

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” — John F. Kennedy

Bad Bugs Slideshow:Identifying Bugs And their Bites

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:42:45 GMT

clipped by: chedare
clipper's remarks: ~29 at source, informative about dangers!~

Clip Source: www.webmd.com

Bad Bugs Slideshow: Identifying Bugs and Their Bites

Black-legged, or deer ticks, can transmit Lyme disease to humans.

Ticks

Many bugs give us reason for pause, including poisonous spiders, chiggers, bees and lice. But few get under our skin – quite literally – like the tick. If you enjoy the outdoors, be careful of ticks — they can attach as you brush past grass and plants. Ticks don't always carry diseases, and most bites are not serious. But they can carry diseases including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Tags: health, well being.pests, webmd, 29 common bities

71 Things You Can Do

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:06:29 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Here's a few:

# Stand up straight and have good posture.
# Look people in the eyes when you talk to them.
# Smile.
# Be polite.
# Keep your promises.
# Never speak worse about a person behind their back than you do to their face. (Feel free to say nicer things about a person behind their back than to their face.)
# Don't gossip and don't have a big mouth.
# Never judge other people harsher than you judge yourself.
# Forgive, but never forget.
# Don't have skeletons in your closet.
# Keep as few secrets as reasonably possible.
# Despite the rule before this one, keep your friends' secrets.
# Privately question your own values.
# Avoid questioning other people's values, especially in public.
# Listen more than you talk.
# Never tell other people that you think they or something they are doing is immoral or sinful.
# Keep your moral values and religion to yourself. Use them to direct your own actions.
# Don't be camera shy.
# Say "I love you" often.

Clip Source: warriorism.info

71 Things You Can Do

Most people do things that don't make sense, and I'm fine with it. I've learned to accept the non-sense that fills this world.

Still, the point is that people do things that don't make sense. They whine, complain, and cry over problems they can easily change. They get depressed over problems they cause for themselves.

For example, lazy people often whine that they don't make more money. Selfish people complain that they don't have more friends. Many people sabotage all their romantic relationships and then complain that they don't have a lover.

Granted, sometimes when something bad happens to a person it's purely bad luck. For example, you could be sitting in your well-built home while reading the newspaper and a tornado could tear your home up.

However, usually when you don't like what's happening in your life, it's your own damn fault. It's your fault if you're fat, lazy, uneducated, lonely, etc.

In the following, I list 71 things that you can do to be more successful.

Slideshow: 10 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:16:06 GMT

clipped by: chedare
clipper's remarks: And for most people, metabolism slows steadily after age 40. Although you can't control your age, gender, or genetics, there are other ways to get a boost. Read on for 10 ways to rev up.

Clip Source: www.webmd.com

Slideshow: 10 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

The Elusive Metabolism Boost

Boosting the metabolism is the holy grail of weight watchers everywhere, but how fast your body burns calories depends on several factors. Some people inherit a speedy metabolism. Men tend to burn more calories than women, even while resting. And for most people, metabolism slows steadily after age 40. Although you can't control your age, gender, or genetics, there are other ways to get a boost. Read on for 10 ways to rev up.

Tags: health, well being, lifestyle guide, aging gracefully

Murder of Natalia Estemirova ;Will Russia punish the killers?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:19:41 GMT

clipped by: chedare
clipper's remarks: Natasha was well known outside Russia as someone who sought justice and accountability for abuses by all sides to the conflict in Chechnya. We honored her with the Human Rights Watch Defender Award in 2007. Natasha had also been honored by various European institutions: In 2005 she received the European Parliament's Robert Shuman medal and in 2004 was awarded the "Right to Life" award by the Swedish Parliament. She also was the first recipient of the Anna Politkovskaya prize -- named for the journalist who met the same fate.

While the international community applauded her work, the Chechen authorities were not as pleased. She risked, and lost, her life for her cause.

We are planning a concerted response to ensure that Russia does not let this crime go uninvestigated or forgotten.Shared sentiment with chara and thnx... www.hrw.org

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Fwd: Murder of Natalia Estemirova

Clip Source: www.hrw.org

Natalia Estemirova, a top human rights activist in the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya and a close colleague of Human Rights Watch, was abducted near her home in Grozny on the morning of July 15, 2009, carried off in a car as people on a nearby balcony heard her call for help. Her body was found later that day in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia.

Estemirova was a researcher with the leading Russian human rights group Memorial for a decade and had worked closely with Human Rights Watch, including on its recent investigations into the punitive killings and house burnings against people suspected by Chechen authorities of having links to rebels.

In 2007 she was given the Human Rights Watch Defender Award. This video was presented to introduce her work.

Tags: human rights, chechnya, russia, international concern shared for fellowman

Finding Fear: Neuroscientists Locate Where It Is Stored In The Brain

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:26:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Finding Fear: Neuroscientists Locate Where It Is Stored In The Brain

For the first time, neuroscientists have located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain.

Fear is a powerful emotion, and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. Fear conditioning is a form of Pavlovian, or associative, learning and is considered to be a model system for understanding human phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders.

Neuroscientists previously suspected that both the amygdala and another brain region, the dorsal hippocampus, were where cues get associated when fear memories are formed. But the new work indicates that the role of the hippocampus is to process and transmit information about conditioned stimuli to the amygdala, said Ilene Bernstein, corresponding author of the new study and a UW professor of psychology.

Mapping Big Ideas - 200 pages of world-changing thinking

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:05:37 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: " In case you’re wondering just why this visualization model works, watch information designer Tom Wujec’s excellent short TED talk about the 3 ways the brain creates meaning out of words, images, feelings, connections"

Clip Source: www.brainpickings.org

Mapping Big Ideas: BIGVIZ

200 pages of world-changing thinking

When two of our favorite ideas — TED and data visualization — converge, it’s a beautiful thing

BIGVIZ —

is the work of visual cartographers David Sibbet and Kevin Richards, who created over 700 spontaneous sketches in real time at TED. The 200-page PDF book — a free download — visually captures the gist of each speaker’s talk, mapping out the broader themes and the connections between them

You’ll also find a number of fascinating charts and graphs on information patterns, some rather humorous illustrations of memorable TED moments, and even a few blank pages for you to sketch whatever ideas, connections or insights the talks may have sparked in you

And in case you’re wondering just why this visualization model works, watch information designer Tom Wujec’s excellent short TED talk about the 3 ways the brain creates meaning out of words, images, feelings, connections

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Spying arrest strains ties with China

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:14:35 GMT

clipped by: chedare

Clip Source: news.theage.com.au

Spying arrest strains ties with China

Canberra is facing a diplomatic stoush with its second biggest trading partner after a Rio Tinto mining executive was detained in China on suspicion of spying.

Australian consular officials are still seeking access to Mr Hu - China has until Saturday to permit a meeting under a consular agreement.

Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Australian officials were advised on Wednesday afternoon that Mr Hu was being detained on the suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets.

The arrest comes at a sensitive times in the relationship after Rio Tinto pulled the pin on a bid by China's state-owned Chinalco to take a $US19.5 billion ($A24.7 billion) stake in Rio Tinto.

And it coincides with unconfirmed reports that Chinese steel mills have finally agreed to annual iron ore prices - but for six months rather than a year.

The long-term Rio Tinto employee was detained on Sunday by officials from China's Ministry of State Security.

perplexed by the allegations.

Tags: tit for tat, state security, payback, spying, minerals recources

Another nice review of Amplify

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:47:53 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: We haven't been seeking out the reviews, but nice to see Amplify getting noticed. I clipped this paragraph because it speaks to one of the reasons we created Amplify as a separate service from Clipmarks. We really didn't want to disturb the user experience or community on Clipmarks.com, but we wanted a way to better support Twitter and Facebook users as well as groups. We felt the best way to do this would be to create Amplify as a separate service from Clipmarks, but giving Clipmarks users the option to sync the two.

Clip Source: www.appscout.com

In a way, Amplify is what I had hoped Clipmarks would be: in addition to giving you an easy way to take entire clippings of the Web that you can return to and review later, the service allows you to share those interesting tidbits with the world. This way you give other people a way to interact with you, comment on your clippings, and see what you're reading on the Web that you think is interesting and worth sharing. Since Amplify allows you to hook into your Twitter or Facebook account, the service doesn't have to compete with those networks for attention and can compliment them instead.

Tags: amplify, appscout, pc magazine, review

The Reason Project

Sun, 24 May 2009 12:48:49 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Looks promising...

Clip Source: www.reasonproject.org

The Reason Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society. The foundation draws on the talents of prominent and creative thinkers in a wide range of disciplines to encourage critical thinking and erode the influence of dogmatism, superstition, and bigotry in our world.

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Clip Source: www.reasonproject.org

The Scripture Project

Clip Source: www.reasonproject.org

Photo Gallery

A selection of images including paintings, drawings, typographic treatments, and photographs. These images explore religion and its influence in our society.

Tags: atheism, science, community

Exactly why we created Clipmarks...

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:37:31 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I just read this "why i use clipmarks" testimonial and it rocked me...because this describes exactly what we hoped it would be and how we hoped it would impact people.

Click the source to see who said it...

Clip Source: www.clipmarks.com

Why I use Clipmarks

The perfect combination of online bookmarking and community. The debate and comments sharpen my thinking and broaden my horizons.

Tags: clipmarks

The Coalition of the Unwilling, the Bullied and the Bribed

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:29:37 GMT

clipped by: chedare
clipper's remarks: The Bush League of Nations is an essential guide for progressives and other patriots seeking to undo the damage caused by America's worst president and worst political party ever. Debatable as it,s subjective from authors view point but the free downloadof entire book is full off information for those of us interested in politics the left , undecided,center or right wing, check it out~
~This book is dedicated to the Dixie Chicks: Natalie Maines Martre Maguire and Emily Robison.
"Six Strong Hands on the Steering Wheel".

Clip Source: www.bushleagueofnations.com

The Bush League of Nations

The Coalition of the Unwilling, the Bullied and the Bribed
The GOP's War on Iraq and America

With hard facts, analysis and humor, Jim Swanson exposes the so-called "Coalition of the Willing in Iraq" for what it is, The Bush League of Nations, a shameful Big Media-supported myth that is simply one chapter in a much broader campaign of lies and crimes intended to deceive and distract Americans while the Bush regime wages its war on Iraq, the world and especially America. The book digs into the truth behind this deception and serves as a rallying call to restore America's sacred democracy and Constitution for our children and grandchildren.

The Bush League of Nations is an essential guide for progressives and other patriots seeking to undo the damage caused by America's worst president and worst political party ever.

For a limited time:
Free download of the entire book!
A $25.95 value

Book Chapters in PDF

Part I: The Road to American Imperialism

Tags: essential guide for progressives and other patriot

'iTunes university' better than the real thing

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:23:30 GMT

clipped by: chedare
clipper's remarks: Students who downloaded the podcast averaged a C (71 out of 100) on the test - substantially better than those who attended the lecture, who on average mustered only a D (62). But that difference vanished among students who watched the podcast but did not take notes.Students who listened to the podcast one or more times and took notes had an average score of 77, McKinney says.
To find out how much students really can learn from podcast lectures alone - mimicking a missed class - McKinney's team presented 64 students with a single lecture on visual perception, from an introductory psychology course.
Half of the students attended the class in person and received a printout of the slides from the lecture. The other 32 downloaded a podcast that included audio from the same lecture synchronised with video of the slides. These students also received a printed handout of the material.
The researchers told the students they would be tested on the material in a week, and they also asked

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

'iTunes university' better than the real thing

Students have been handed another excuse to skip class from an unusual quarter. New psychological research suggests that university students who download a podcast lecture achieve substantially higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person.

offer students the chance to replay difficult parts of a lecture and therefore take better notes, says Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Fredonia, who led the study.

"It isn't so much that you have a podcast, it's what you do with it," she says.

Though her team's paper is subtitled "Can podcasts replace Professors," McKinney thinks these technologies can buttress traditional lectures, particularly for a generation that has grown up with the Internet.

researcher at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, says podcast lectures are good for lecturers too. They free him up to spend precious class time interacting with his students

brief quizzes

each class.

Tags: computers and education, study, enhanced early in classes

Amazing Plane Landing: You've Got To See This!

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:47:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Amazing Plane Landing: You've Got To See This!

[Video]

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FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP

JFK Quote

Bad Bugs Slideshow:Identifying Bugs And their Bites

Black-legged, or deer ticks, can transmit Lyme disease to humans.

Ticks

71 Things You Can Do

71 Things You Can Do

Slideshow: 10 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

Slideshow: 10 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism

The Elusive Metabolism Boost

Murder of Natalia Estemirova ;Will Russia punish the killers?

2007 Natalia Estemirova Tribute Video

Finding Fear: Neuroscientists Locate Where It Is Stored In The Brain

Finding Fear: Neuroscientists Locate Where It Is Stored In The Brain

Mapping Big Ideas - 200 pages of world-changing thinking

Mapping Big Ideas: BIGVIZ

Spying arrest strains ties with China

Another nice review of Amplify

The Reason Project

The Scripture Project

Photo Gallery

Exactly why we created Clipmarks...

The Coalition of the Unwilling, the Bullied and the Bribed

The Bush League of Nations

The Coalition of the Unwilling, the Bullied and the Bribed The GOP's War on Iraq and America

For a limited time: Free download of the entire book! A $25.95 value

Book Chapters in PDF

Part I: The Road to American Imperialism

'iTunes university' better than the real thing

'iTunes university' better than the real thing

Amazing Plane Landing: You've Got To See This!

Amazing Plane Landing: You've Got To See This!

The Coalition of the Unwilling, the Bullied and the Bribed
The GOP's War on Iraq and America

For a limited time:
Free download of the entire book!
A $25.95 value