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Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:16:09 GMT

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cushion stars feeding on seal faeces in South Cove, Antarctica. Shrinking sea ice is significantly increasing the rate at which icebergs scour the Antarctic seabed, a study has found. About 80% of Antarctic marine life is found on the seabed and these scours crush animals and plants living up to 500m below the surface

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Sri Lanka treats wounded and orphaned baby elephants and sends them back to the wild

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animal market in Jakarta

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flamingo chick in Hanover

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Grandma Ding the animal lover has over 250 cats and dogs in her home. Beijing authorities have been clearing the streets of stray animals in the run up this year's Olympic games

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A painted donkey, known as a Mexican Zebra, dries in the sun after being painted with black stripes in Tijuana

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2.2m long swordfish found on the beach near Zingst, Germany

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rose field in Tarnichene, Bulgaria

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Storks circle above the city of Odessa in Ukraine

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coquerel sifaka, a type of endangered Lemur named for its distinctive alarm call

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raptor rescue centre in Beijing

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ladybird

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Irreligious Cartoons? Not A bit funny! Ok?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:57:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well, maybe a little funny. Some of them ...very funny..

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"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
–- Thomas Jefferson, 1813

Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a liberal?
--Hunter S. Thompson

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
--Frank Dane

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
--Arthur C. Clarke

It's downright amazing to see how many people have a direct line to God, yet all receive different messages.

Nothing is more dangerous than an armed religio-nut doing God's will.
Bush and Osama think alike.
-- Bartcop

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Religious Bullshit !

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24 hours in pictures - July 18

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:06:36 GMT

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Australia: Actors perform Stations of the Cross

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Los Angeles, US: Strange Fruit, an Australian performing arts company, performs Swoon

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Berlin, Germany: A model during Sisi Wasabi's spring/summer 2009 collection

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Prague, Czech Republic: A visitor's silhouette in a newly discovered tunnel beneath the city

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models of the air monitoring stations in the city at the Beijing Environmental Protection Monitoring Centre

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Spain: A sculpture called Splash

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Tall Ships

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Amritsar city, India: A wrestler gets a massage as part of his daily exercise routine

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Gaza Strip: A Palestinian boy stands outside a makeshift tent

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ir-conditioned stables of the Shatin Olympic Equestrian venue

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2008 Open golf

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Seoul, South Korea: Riot police blast water at anti-government protesters

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Tokyo, Japan: People wear replica gas masks at the premiere of the movie The Happening

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Srinagar, India: A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays at the shrine of Sheikh Hamza Makhdoomi, a Sufi saint

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Islamabad, Pakistan: A girl at a food distribution centre

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Thailand:

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Irish Eyes are Smiling. And what a Smile.

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:13:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good guys do win. After a successful amateur career, including winning the Walker Cup with the Great Britain & Ireland team in 1995, he turned professional later that year, joining the European Tour in 1996. He came to professional golf at a relatively late age, having qualified as an accountant and worked in the business for a number of years.

He has spent a considerable amount of time both in the top ten of the Official World Golf Rankings and as the highest ranked European golfer, his best ranking being third, which he achieved following his second Open Championship victory.

He has also played for Europe in four Ryder Cups; losing in 1999 but winning in 2002, 2004 and 2006. He has also won the par-3 contest at the Augusta National Golf Club.

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Harrington blows field away to seal double Open triumph

Padraig Harrington won his second consecutive Open title

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A year later at the 2008 Open Championship it was unclear if he would get a chance to defend his Open title at Royal Birkdale as eight days prior to the event he injured his wrist. However, Harrington successfully defended his title overcoming a 2-shot deficit to Greg Norman with a final round 69. He shot a 32 on the back nine which enabled him to pull away from Norman and Ian Poulter. His eagle on the par 5 17th all but sealed the tournament. He is the first European golfer since James Braid in 1906 to retain the Claret Jug

The win moved him to third overall in the world rankings behind Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.

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He is a distant cousin of 1995 World Series of Poker champion and author Dan Harrington and NFL Quarterback Joey Harrington.^[3]

His name Pádraig is an Irish language version of the name Patrick, which is in common usage in Ireland.

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four Ryder Cups;

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On This Day: July 20

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:23:36 GMT

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20 July

1974: Turkey invades Cyprus

Thousands of Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus after last-minute talks in the Greek capital, Athens, fail to reach a solution.

1944: Hitler survives assassination attempt
Adolf Hitler escapes death after a third attempt on his life when a bomb explodes in Rastenberg

1982: IRA bombs cause carnage in London
Eight soldiers on ceremonial duty are killed in two IRA bomb blasts in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.

1960: Ceylon chooses world's first woman PM
Sirimavo Bandaranaike makes history when she becomes the first-ever female head of government.

1990: IRA bombs Stock Exchange
An IRA bomb blows a 10-foot hole in the London Stock Exchange.

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Turkish troops have invaded northern Cyprus

Tension has been running high in the Mediterranean island since a military coup five days ago in which President Archbishop Makarios, a Greek Cypriot, was deposed.

fears among the Turkish Cypriot community that the Greek-backed military rulers

press for unification for Cyprus with Gre

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Atomic bombers beware... you could now face wrath of the law

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:07:02 GMT

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The original Bill to punish anyone who might decide to set off nuclear weapons in Ireland was not exactly overly harsh on offenders.

It provided a humble district court judge the power to impose a €5,000 fine and a 12-month jail term.

Now offenders -- including any would-be Dr Strangegloves -- would see their trial going forward to the Central Criminal Court, where sentences might better fit the crime.

Now the issue is back on the order paper, decreeing that "a person who carries out, or causes the carrying out of, a nuclear explosion in the State shall be guilty of an offence".

The provisions also make it an offence here for an Irish citizen to carry out or to cause to be carried out, a nuclear explosion in Ireland, elsewhere on the planet, or in space.

This Day in History-July 21 'Infamous Monkey Trial'

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:28:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "To show up fundamentalism,""to prevent bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the educational system of the United States." said Darrow.

So what has changed after 80 years of intellectual backwardness?! Would this case be out of place in Bush's America - in the land of the 'free and home of the brave', mired in debt and death of its own making?

Where now is the shinning beacon of liberty? What country has made 'democracy' a dirty word. What county elects an AWOL drunk as commander-in-chief, TWICE? Where is the KKK a white sheet away from power and the noose? What country is still loved even by it pseudo enemies?

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July 21, 1925

The so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with high school teacher John T. Scopes convicted of violating a state law against teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. It was considered to contradict the Bible’s description of creation in Genesis

Scopes

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The trial pitted two of America’s leading advocates as the opposing lawyers: William Jennings Bryan, thrice the Democratic presidential candidate (1896, 1900, 1908), the state’s prosecutor; and Clarence Darrow, a lawyer famous for representing the underdog, for the defense. Referred to as “the trial of the century” even before it began, it was the first trial ever broadcast (on radio). Bryan became ill and died shortly after the trial’s end; the conviction was later overturned by Tennessee’s Supreme Court.

The Verdict:
Thou Shall Not Think

"What is the meaning of this harangue?"

"To show up fundamentalism,"

Darrow, "to prevent bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the educational system of the United States."

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Scopes

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This Day in History - July 22

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:17:33 GMT

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July

July 22, 1756

The "The Friendly Association for gaining and preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures." was founded in Philadelphia. It was comprised primarily of Quakers

1877

A general strike, part of the railroad strike that had paralyzed the country, was called in St. Louis, where workers briefly seized control of the city

1966

Federal Judge Claude Clayton issued a sweeping injunction ordering the police of Grenada, Mississippi, to stop interfering with lawful protest, ordering them instead to protect demonstrations, and requiring certain rules to be set down for the conduct of marches

followed weeks of arrests and beating of demonstrators who had been attempting to integrate all the businesses and other institutions

1987

Ronald Reagan signed into law the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (named for a member of Congress from Connecticut) which provided emergency relief provisions for shelter, food, mobile health care, and transitional housing for homeless Americans

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9/11 of its Day. Today: King David Atrocity.

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:07:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From criminal, to terrorist, to killer, to Prime Minister, to Nobel Peace Prize winner, yes it had to be a Zionist. Menachem Begin was commander of the Irgun terrorist gang then more infamous and feared than today's al Qaeda.

Begin wrote in his memoirs, The Revolt:
" History and experience taught us that if we are able to destroy the prestige of the British in Palestine, the regime will break. Since we found the enslaving government's weak point, we did not let go of it."
Words that could be about the USA instead of the Brits by al Qaeda and not the Prime Minister of Israel.

Any Arab terrorists have a long long way to go in the terrorist league to catch the Zionists.

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King David Hotel bombing

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an attack by the Irgun on the King David Hotel headquarters of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine, which was carried out in Jerusalem on the 22nd of July, 1946

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Irgun

Raziel who proved to be the most prominent Irgun commander until Menachem Begin

assumed a Rabbi's identity ("Yisrael Sasover")

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Major Mackintosh, became suspicious of this group of Arabs and began to ask questions, but was suddenly gunned down by a member of the Jewish gang and subsequently died. A policeman stationed at the tradesman's entrance suffered a similar fate when he challenged the Jewish terrorists. Both victims were unarmed

Many were killed instantly as the whole wing of the building collapsed about them, others were trapped and many more injured.

Not all the 91 one people killed were members of the British Security Forces. There were 15 Jews among the dead, including women

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Menachem Begin

6th Prime Minister of Israel

arrested by the NKVD

NKVD mug shot of Menachem Begin, 1940

Lukiškės

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This Day in History-July 21 "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo"

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:44:43 GMT

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1976

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Since 1983, on the Thursday closest to July 21

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Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

an association of Argentine mothers whose children "disappeared" during the Dirty War, the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

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are joined by others, and walk the 7 km (4.3 miles) from Calilegua to San Martin, demanding answers about their loved ones

supported by Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Commission

A military junta under

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Jorge Rafael Videla

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Pinochet y Videla

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he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists, political opponents

their families, at secret concentration camps. The accusations also included the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres

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Dirty War

state-sponsored violence against Argentine citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983

30,000

"disappeared

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Recession is not the worst possible outcome

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:51:27 GMT

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If this had been a mere financial crisis, it would be over by now. The fact that we are suffering its fourth wave tells us there might be something at work other than merely financial euphoria and bad regulation. Maybe this is not a Minsky moment after all. Hyman Minsky, the 20th century US economist, formulated the long forgotten, and recently rediscovered, financial instability hypothesis, according to which capitalist economies, after a long period of prosperity, end up in a vicious circle of financial speculation. The Minsky moment is the point when what economists call this “Ponzi game” collapses.

SEXY. If only ...

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:58:46 GMT

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Obama's Civilian National Security Force

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:03:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?
Now, maybe he was misquoted by the Congressional Quarterly and the Chicago Tribune. I guess it's possible. If so, you would think he would want to set the record straight. Maybe he misspoke. That has certainly happened before. Again, why wouldn't the rest of my colleagues show some curiosity about such a major and, frankly, bone-chilling proposition?
Are we talking about creating a police state here?
The U.S. Army alone has nearly 500,000 troops. That doesn't count reserves or National Guard. In 2007, the U.S. Defense budget was $439 billion.
Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that?
If not, why did he say it? What did he mean?

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For several days now, WND has been hounding Barack Obama's campaign about a statement he made July 2 in Colorado Springs – a statement that blew my mind, one that has had me scratching my head ever since

In talking about his plans to double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and the size of the nation's military services, he made this rather shocking (and chilling) pledge: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Now, since I've never heard anyone inside or out of government use the phrase "civilian national security force" before, I was more than a little curious about what he has in mind

If we're going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn't this rather a big deal?

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This Day in History - July 20

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:07:04 GMT

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July 20, 1967

The first Black Power conference was held in Newark, New Jersey, calling on black people in the U.S. "to unite, to recognize their heritage and to build a sense of community."

1971

The first labor contract in the history of the federal government was signed by postal worker unions and the newly re-organized U.S. Postal Service through the collective bargaining process.

1878

Publication of "Eight Hours," written by Rev. Jesse H. Jones (music) and I.G. Blanchard (lyrics), the most popular labor song until "Solidarity Forever" was published by the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in 1915.

“Eight hours for work,
Eight hours for rest;
Eight hours for what we will.”

The eight-hour was an established concept before the song.
Shown is an 1856 banner from Melbourne, Australia

1954

Major world powers, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, reached agreement on the terms of a ceasefire for Indochina, ending nearly eight years of war

Communist Viet Minh, under leader Ho Chi Minh, and France,

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