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Shaking things up on Clipmarks.com

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:57 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Please read the entire post by clicking the source link before reacting.

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

Unfortunately, we have recently become increasingly concerned that the site has become overly antagonistic and inappropriately controlled by a disproportionately loud group of users. In all honesty, we no longer feel that the processes of our site are producing a unique, high quality blend of content. Instead, the magical blending of diverse topics on the Clipmarks home page has seemed to dissolve into a battleground for extremely hostile politically oriented users who are overwhelming the rest of the site. Because of this we are working on making some fundamental changes to the way the Clipmarks site works. We will do our best to make changes that improve the site and will continue to iterate until we are comfortable that it is just right.

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Before I die I want to...

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:46:21 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: Before I die I want to see the world.
And,yes,skydiving of course.

Clip Source: beforeidieiwantto.org

Tags: wishes

USA ground troops attack in Pakistan village?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:11:10 GMT

clipped by: citizenbfk
clipper's remarks: Sad. Tragic. Annoying.

No. #1) The use of the term: "Afghan coalition forces."
Other stories say: "NATO forces."

In reality, if this was done it was done by USA troops but like in Iraq they say "Coalition Forces," when there is no real coalition: There are approx 158,000 USA troops, 140,000 USA paid mercenaries and 'private security contractors,' 3 troops from Latvia, 11 soldiers from Moldova, , 37 fine men from the Ukraine, 40 soldiers from Estonia, 70 fighting Albanians, etc. -- all of them pressured or bribed to participate except for Merry Old England with 5,500 approx. troops, loyal Australia with 900 -- (& 2,000 Georgians now gone). Some "coalition."

No. #2) Who is this soldier? Since he appears to have a M-16 is he American? Where are his identifying patches? Why face hidden?

Thus, in fact, thus, he's an 'unlawful enemy combatant." This is a sad and tragic photo for a U.S. fighting man. Looks like the KKK

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Claim: Afghan coalition forces kill 20 in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Coalition forces crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan early Wednesday and carried out a raid which killed at least 20 civilians, according to a local leader.

Officials with the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said they were not aware of such an incident.

Tags: pakistan, nato, coalition, us-led

Is a "Little Ice Age" Imminent? -Maverick Scientists Say "Yes"

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:59:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The idea is especially intriguing considering that most of the world is in preparation for global warming. Could we be preparing for the wrong scenario?

Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, notes that pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show that there are currently no spots on the sun. He believes this is the reason why the world cooled rapidly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.

"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."

Sorokhtin believes that, in spite of the results of certain recent studies, lack of sunspots does indicate a coming cooling period. In fact, he calls manmade climate change "a drop in the bucket" compared to the cold brought on by inactive solar phases.

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Evidence has mounted that global warming began in the last century and that humans are, at least in part, responsible.

The concern is that the warming of our climate will greatly affect its habitability for many species, including humans.

Evidence for abrupt climate change is readily found in ice cores taken from Greenland and Antarctica.

One of the best known examples of such an event is the Younger Dryas cooling of about 12,000 years ago

This event began and ended rather abruptly, and for its entire 1000 year duration the North Atlantic region was about 5°C colder.

Could something like this happen again? It sure could, and because the changes can happen all within one decade—we might not even see it coming.

Now an 11-year low in Sunspot activity has raised fears among a small number of scientists that rather than getting warmer, the Earth could possibly be about to return to another cooling period.

Tags: climate chnge, ice age

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

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:07:52 GMT

clipped by: righthand
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

Tags: history, terrorist, israel, atrocity, pm

HOPES FADE FOR BABY WHALE.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:39:17 GMT

clipped by: vk2yoc
clipper's remarks: It's Nature, but we don't have to like it, so prey for a miracle.
Check out the source for more links, plus video.

Clip Source: www.smh.com.au

The fate of the three-week-old baby humpback whale stranded in Pittwater will most likely be decided by vets from Taronga Zoo after attempts to lure it out to sea this morning failed.

The vets hope to be able to assess the health of the calf and whether it can survive. If not, the calf may have to be put down.

The North Sydney manager of the NSW Parks and Wildlife Service, Chris McIntosh, will give an update on efforts to save the whale's life soon but there are fears that, if it is too weak to survive, it may have be destroyed.

The whale - weak, hungry and desperate to find its mother - has probably been ignored by whales swimming along the coast who can hear its distress calls, the National Parks and Wildlife Service says.

National Parks and Wildlife Service spokesman John Dengate refuted reports that there were plans to euthanase the whale, but said there was very little else that could be done.

"It's absolutely the case that we haven't given up on this little whale," he said

Tags: nature, whales, orphan

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

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:28:56 GMT

clipped by: righthand
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."

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Scopes

Tags: usa, social, history

Einstein, Eisenhower on War

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:22:14 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: on a cross of iron.

— Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 speech

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

— Albert Einstein

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross

Airstrikes Kill more civilians

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:08:56 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Afghanistan--ATTENTION, CITIZENS--TO SAVE YOU WE MUST KILL YOU...GET USED TO IT, THERE'S MORE COMING!!! Try ducking...

Clip Source: www.japantoday.com

At least eight civilians were killed and two wounded by a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in western Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday. A coalition convoy on a routine patrol came under sustained attack from machine guns and indirect fire from a number of houses adjacent to the road in Bakwa district of Farah Province on Wednesday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

‘‘The coalition convoy returned fire and called for close air support on the enemy positions. A house was hit; eight civilians were killed, two others injured,’’ the statement said. A local official from Bakwa said all those killed were women and children. Around 700 Afghan civilians have been killed in violence so far this year, according to a recent U.N. survey.

Is she "the Patron Saint of Terror" or a real HEROINE?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:55:46 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Did she "for all intents and purposes committed suicide" as this Zionist alleges? Must all victims of Zionist atrocities somehow become the authors of their own deaths? Fleeing women and children become suicidal maniacs?

It's so easy now to stick suicide beside Arab or Muslim and blame them for their own murder. And if it works with Arabs why not on Arab sympathisers, even American sympathisers. All deserve to die in the fascist meat grinder. Well when they can murder 34 brave men on USS Liberty with no consequence what do you expect for a slip of a lass like Corrie, full of youthful idealism. Death! And a tarnished reputation!

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The Patron Saint of Terror

Toronto, Canada, has been the latest city to be victimized by the Rachel Corrie Lobby. This is an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish lobby that seeks to demonize Israel and blame it for the death of the clueless Rachel Corrie, who died in the Gaza Strip

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She was killed by a Caterpillar D9 armoured bulldozer operated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during a protest against the destruction of Palestinian homes by the IDF in the Gaza Strip

The details of the events surrounding Corrie's death are disputed; an Israeli military investigation ruled the death was an accident, while the ISM maintains that Corrie was run over deliberately

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Corrie for all intents and purposes committed suicide in her efforts to prevent Israeli anti-terror operations from proceeding.

The Corrie parents have also been running their own little anti-Israel jihad

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Corrie parents have spent years capitalizing on an accidental death

caused by the stupidity of a pro-terror naif in Gaza to make trouble

Tags: israel, corrie, death, suicide, arab, usa, jihad

Anti-Israel/Apartheid videos

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:56:16 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Israel's war crimes in Gaza continue to mount up--far more vicious than most people know.

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[Video]

NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:18:17 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: The pictures are much better than my Russian

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NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS (30 фото)

Здесь лучшие фото за 10 лет журнала (каждый год он проводит конкурс) "Nature's Best Photography'. Я как-то смутно догадываюсь, что это любительские фото. То есть журнал специализируется на карточках, присланных читателями. Здесь есть даже фото, сделанные детьми. Но, как всегда, я могу ошибаться.

Jo Stafford: Dead at 90

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:03:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This wikipedia page lists all the songs that Stafford made famous in the '50's.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Jo Stafford

This article is about a person who has recently died.

Jo Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008^[1]), born Jo Elizabeth Stafford, was an American jazz singer whose career spanned the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Stafford is greatly admired for the purity of her voice and was considered one of the most versatile vocalists of the era. She was also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody, having won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1961 (with husband Paul Weston) for their album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris.

"All The Things You Are"
"Allentown Jail"
"Autumn in New York"
"Black Is the Color"
"Day By Day"
"Early Autumn"
"Feudin' and Fightin'"
"Goodnight Irene" (better known version by The Weavers)
"Haunted Heart"
"Here I'll Stay"
"I Love You"
"Indiscretion"
"I'll Be Seeing You"
"It Could Happen to You"
"It's Almost Tomorrow" (better known version by The Dream Weavers)
"Ivy"
"Jambalaya"

Notable songs

Tags: jo stafford, 50's, pop singer

Original Walt Kelly Quote

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:28:00 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Loved Pogo!

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"There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tinny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us." --Walt Kelly

A Real SHI@ Story.

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:13:23 GMT

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Cow dung fate for 'manure bomber'

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A woman fell into a tank of slurry as she tried to make "manure bombs" using her stockings, German police today said.

The unfortunate woman stripped off her foul smelling clothes and fled the scene naked, along with a female accomplice wearing just her bra and pants, a police spokesman told Reuters.

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It is unclear what the women were going to do with the manure-filled stockings, but officials suspect it could have been related to Germany's 3-2 victory over Turkey in the Euro 2008 semi-finals that day.

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The two women entered a farm in the northern village of Eberholzen, Lower Saxony, on Wednesday evening and started to fill the stockings from the slurry tank.

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"One of them slipped into the manure tank, right into the cow muck," said the spokesman. "The other one helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off naked, the other in her underwear."

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Police have not said if the pair had committed any offences

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held on to the discarded clothi

Tags: environment, eu