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Ultimate Guide to the Invisible Web

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:12:09 GMT

clipped by: cabrown

Clip Source: oedb.org

When you use a search engine on the Internet and can't find what you're looking for, what do you do? Maybe you're seeking to learn something, which means you're probably going to keep trying until you find it. Or give up in frustration. Don't give up that easily. There's information out there that is actually not indexed in the big search engines. Such Web pages are part of what's called the Dark, Deep, Hidden or Invisible Web. Those pages that are actually indexed are known by some as the surface Web. Fortunately, the invisible Web is getting easier to search, with tools beyond the standard big three search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

Background of the Invisible Web

9 Reasons a Web Page is Invisible

10 Ways to Make Invisible Content Visible

How to Access and Search for Invisible Content

15 Invisible Web Search Tools

Deep Web Search Engine — Clusty.

Art — Musie du Louvre.

Books Online — The Online Books Page.

Business — Explorit Now!.

Consumer — US Consumer Products Safety Commission Recalled Products.

Economic and Job Data — FreeLunc.com — A searchable directory of free economic data.

Finance and Investing — Bankrate.com.

General Research — GPO's Catalog of US Government Publications.

Government Data — Copyright Records (LOCIS).

International — International Data Base (IDB).

Law and Politics — THOMAS (Library of Congress).

Library of Congress — Library of Congress.

Medical and Health — PubMed.

Science — ScienceResearch.com.

Transportation — FAA Flight Delay Information.

Tags: search, web

Five Million People Annihilated: not news.

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:34:36 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: As ever, the government and mass media determine what we talk about.

Clip Source: munaeem.blog-city.com

"A human death toll that approaches the Nazi's annihilation of Jews in World War Two unfolds without a whiff of complaint from the superpower."

Possibly a quarter million people have lost their lives in Darfur, western Sudan, in ethnic conflict. The U.S. government screams its head off in denunciation of genocide, in this case. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as many as five million have died since 1994 in overlapping convulsions of ethnic and state-sponsored massacre. Not a word of reproach from Washington. A human death toll that approaches the Nazi's annihilation of Jews in World War Two - an ongoing holocaust - unfolds without a whiff of complaint from the superpower.

Why is

Congo unworthy of mention? The answer is simple: in Sudan, the U.S. has a geopolitical nemesis to confront: Arabs, and their Chinese business partners. In the Congo, it is U.S allies and European and American corporate interests that benefit from the slaughter.

Tags: congo, genocide, africa, news

Awesome research/ Homework resource

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:06:30 GMT

clipped by: cosmic_kitten1
clipper's remarks: I only found this the other day and mostly I'm clipping it for my own uses; however, it's a great resource and I thought I'd share. The site itself has pretty cool info too. 'Hope you guys like the clip.

Clip Source: www.crf-usa.org

Research Links

Subject Matter

Click for instructions on how to make CRF's Research Links your homepage.

CRF: Constitutional Rights Foundation

Programs

Publications

Free Lessons

Tags: resource, homework, research, info, links

Protesting Clippers could face Prison or Fines.

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:19:15 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Well it's too late for me I reckon, so I might as well just keep on keepin' on peacefully protesting. Now more than ever, it seems so necessary. This is another "I dare you" clip. Are they trying to scare, intimidate or threaten people to the point, that they just don't dare comment or clip or pop or blog or speak out anymore? Should I just cave in and "turn myself in" quarterly and bow down to oppression? I think not. I will not be silenced. If I ever stop clipping about all this, you'll know why. See ya in Guantanamo!

- The White House's own recently de-classified strategy for "winning the war on terror" targets Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to "diminish" their influence.

- Chertoff pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.

Clip Source: infowars.net

Bloggers Who Criticize Government May Face Prison

Bill would allow rounding up and imprisoning of non-registered political writers

You'd be forgiven for thinking that it was some new restriction on free speech in Communist China. But it isn't. The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress in the latest astounding attack on the internet and the First Amendment.

Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of GrassrootsFreedom.com, a website dedicated to fighting efforts to silence grassroots movements, states:

"Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress the same as the big K Street lobbyists. Section 220 would amend existing lobbying reporting law by creating the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever. For the first time in history, critics of Congress will need to register and report with Congress itself."

In other words Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats may redefine the meaning of lobbying in order that political communications to and even between citizens falls under the same legislation.

Under current law any 'lobbyist" who 'knowingly and willingly fails to file or report." quarterly to the government faces criminal charges including a possible jail term of up to one year.

The amendment is currently on hold.

This latest attack on bloggers comes hot on the heels of Republican Senator John McCain's proposal to introduce legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards.

Tags: free speech, civil rights, fascism, clipmarks, bloggers, oppression

Illegal to Buy an Eco-Friendly Car

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:49:42 GMT

clipped by: ellen_001
clipper's remarks: It's illegal to buy a low emissions car. Goes against reason, doesn't it?

Clip Source: autos.msn.com

Dirty Secret: Green Cars
Automakers Won't Sell You

There's only one catch: You can't actually buy this ultra-green Accord, or the four-cylinder version that also produces near-zero pollution. That is, unless you live in California, New York or six other northeast states that follow California's tougher pollution rules. Only there can you buy this Accord, or the roughly two dozen other models that meet so-called Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle standards, PZEV for short.

Not only can't you buy one, but the government says it's currently illegal for automakers to sell these green cars outside of the special states. Under terms of the Clean Air Act—in the kind of delicious irony only our government can pull off—anyone (dealer, consumer, automaker) involved in an out-of-bounds PZEV sale could be subject to civil fines of up to $27,500. Volvo sent its dealers a memo alerting them to this fact, noting that its greenest S40 and V50 models were only for the special states.

Tags: environment, government

The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:57:20 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: No clipmarks for them?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

the stark realities of life in North Korea were perhaps most evident in a simple satellite image over the shoulder of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during an Oct. 11 briefing. The image showed the two Koreas — North and South — photographed at night.

The South was illuminated from coast to coast, suggesting that not just lights, but that other, arguably more bedrock utility of the modern age — information — was pulsating through the population.

The North was black.

This is an impoverished country where televisions and radios are hard-wired to receive only government-controlled frequencies. Cellphones were banned outright in 2004. In May, the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York ranked North Korea No. 1 — over also-rans like Burma, Syria and Uzbekistan — on its list of the “10 Most Censored Countries.”

That would seem to leave the question of Internet access in North Korea moot.

At a time when much of the world takes for granted a fat and growing network of digitized human knowledge, art, history, thought and debate, it is easy to forget just how much is being denied the people who live under the veil of darkness revealed in that satellite photograph.

While other restrictive regimes have sought to find ways to limit the Internet — through filters and blocks and threats — North Korea has chosen to stay wholly off the grid.

Julien Pain, head of the Internet desk at Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based group which tracks censorship around the world, put it more bluntly. “It is by far the worst Internet black hole,” he said.

Tags: internet, technology, korea, censorship, information, web, politics, government, news, photographs, satellite, society, media, asia

100 Top Reference Sites

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:48:14 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.100tophealthsites.com

100 Top Reference Sites

Refdesk
The single best source for facts on the Net.

Dictionary.com
Online dictionary, plus fun and games, word of the day and more.

The Library Spot
An extensive online reference desk with everything from dictionaries to genealogy, library links to "Ask the Expert," and government info to reading rooms.

Ancestry.com
A top source for family history online.

National Geographic Map Machine
Map collection from the popular magazine.

MyWay.com
Find a person, business, get directions or a map.

Information Please
All the knowledge you need"--almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, weather, and more

A.Word.A.Day
Vocabulary building resource.

Farmers' Almanac
Information on weather, gardening, astronomy and more.

Fedstats
One stop resource for federal government statistics.

RhymeZone
Find rhymes, near rhymes, homophones synonyms, and semantic siblings of any English word. Ideal for writing poetry and lyrics.

World Book
Stop looking for answers on the Internet and start finding them.

Tags: 100 top reference sites, reference, education, knowledge, research, resources

The US is its Own Terrorist

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:32:26 GMT

clipped by: digits
clipper's remarks: I wrote this August 01, 2006. How appropriate now after Bush's State of the Union.

Please see ....

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FA485DF5-5A4D-4186-BB58-BA93A0C85386/

Clip Source: digits.newsvine.com

The War on Terror is failing. The U.S. citizens are losing. From the Patriot Act to mother's having to drink their own breast milk in order to board planes, the so-called "War" has been a miserable defeat to the citizens of the United States.

We are living in a reactionary period and the U.S. government has invoked and provoked more fear into the hearts of their citizens more so than any act of terror from foreign hostiles have. Humans have this wonderful capacity to forgive and forget but since that seems to be apathetic to the plight of those who have lost loved ones due to foreign enemies let's try a rephrase: Time is a magic pill.

Running from looks exactly the same as running toward but in the difference, there is a world. "I don't know where I'm going but I need to get away." versus "I am running toward something I want." Fear versus Freedom. The government is counting on your fear-based beliefs to not know the difference.

Tags: politics, bush, america, usa, privacy, liberties, newsvine

Saddam was right and Bush was Wrong

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:27:29 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.opednews.com

Think about it. It was the Bush administration and not Saddam that turned out to be lying about WMDs. As we all know now, there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Amazingly enough, it was Saddam who was telling the truth from the very beginning. Bush was the one who lied to the whole world.

George Bush repeatedly told us that Saddam was lying, that Iraq had WMDs, and that Iraq under Saddam was a "threat to the whole world." So, here we are, years later. What have we learned to be the truth?

The search for WMDs turned up nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

Everything Hussein said about the weapons has turned out to be true. Everything Bush said about the weapons has turned out to be false.

The non-existent weapons of mass destruction weren't the only falsehood. There were the phony uranium purchases, lies about Al-Qaeda training camps in Iraq, mobile weapons labs, and drones that were going to attack the East Coast of the US.

So, when confronted with the charge that he lied about the reasons to go to war with Iraq, President Bush simply went into spin mode and said, "The defense of freedom is always worth it."

Was it worth it to the thousands of Americans who have been wounded or killed?

Was it worth it to the countless Iraqi men, women and children who have died?

Was it worth it to their families?

The reality of the situation is that the US Government - from Bush Sr., to Bill Clinton, to G.W - decided on its own that Saddam should no longer be the president of Iraq. This is the very thing that the Constitution and International Law were designed to prevent.

America was never threatened by Saddam Hussein. Iraq had absolutely no capability to attack the United States, and never was there indicated a desire to do so.

We're living in sad times, indeed, times when you can trust what Saddam Hussein says more than your own government.

Tags: bush, sadaam, war, lies

Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:09:21 GMT

clipped by: sam.reckoner

Clip Source: www.ft.com

Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned

The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s top government inspector has warned.

Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government”.

“They need to make fiscal responsibility and inter-generational equity one of their top priorities. If they do, I think we have a chance to turn this around but if they don’t, I think the risk of a serious crisis rises considerably”.

Tags: politics, government, finance, economy

The best of the Internet - Neatsites.com

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:58:59 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: neatsites.go41.com

The best of the Internet
Click the category headings too!

Index Sites

News

Social Networking

Amusing Sites

Specialty Index Sites

Shopping

Internet

Audio and Video

Weather

Directories

Research Tools

Sports

Movies and TV

Computers

Maps

Language

Home

Travel

Recommended Free Software

Shareware

How to...

Government, Politics, and Law

Ratings

Health

Tags: best of, the internet, neatsites

FREE HIDDEN INFORMATION VIDEOS!!!!

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:02:09 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: I know I'm screaming, but wow!

Clip Source: www.valis666.net

9/11, IRAQ WAR, BUSH ADMINISTRATION

POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY

What Is Fascism?

OCCULT AND SECRET SOCIETIES

Freemasons - US govenrment conspiracy mini documentary

Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove, 1h53m

Occult Symbols and Corporate Logos, 29m

Behind Corporate Logos

The Occult and Extra-Terrestrials in Government

The Brotherhood of Darkness (1hr 43m)

SPIRITUALITY, PHILOSOPHY AND METAPHYSICS

The Tibetan Book of the Dead pt1, 48m

The Tibetan Book of the Dead pt2, 45m

Reincarnation - Fact or Fiction? (1hr 27m)

Grant Morrison at Disinformation, 45m

The Secrets of Solomon's Temple

Art, Alchemy and Spirituality pt1 (14m)
Art, Alchemy and Spirituality pt2 (21m)
Art, Alchemy and Spirituality pt3 (18m)

Art, Alchemy and Spirituality pt4 (31m)

The Naked Truth: The Origins of the World's Religions (1hr 53m)

DRUGS AND ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Shamans of the Amazon, 52m

Experiment at Petaluma, 30m

Alien Dreamtime (excerpt), 12m

The History of Marijuana

SCIENCE AND FRINGE SCIENCE

DNA Pirates of the Sacred Spiral

Tags: repository, hidden, history, information, conspiracy, ufo, religion, government, bush, science fiction

Lab Freaks Gone Wild?

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:40:43 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: “What was once only science fiction is now becoming a reality, and we need to ensure that experimentation and subsequent ramifications do not outpace ethical discussion and societal decisions.

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Scientists plan to make “cybrids” by putting human DNA into cow eggs.

The British government gave the go-ahead this week for two separate groups to experiment with the process. Scientists will “inject human DNA into empty eggs from cows, to create embryos known as cytoplasmic hybrids that are 99.9 per cent human in genetic terms,” according to The Times of London.

The government had planned to ban such cybrid research, but scientists protested, leading to the reversal.

The argument is an emotional and speculative one, scientists would say, conjuring images of lab freaks gone wild that no reputable researcher envisions. Nobody has suggested the cybrids be raised and let loose in London (or Manhattan, for that matter, where the movie will likely be set. I mean, whoever heard of London being taken over by cybrids?).

“Creating human-animal hybrids could irrevocably harm the basic human genetic makeup and intentionally or unintentional change what it means to be human,”

Tags: cybrids, dna, biology

If they die, they die. Just don't hurt profits!!

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:57:33 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Are you kidding me!!!??? The United States government chose to withhold information about airline security because if people knew just how risky it was they may not buy tickets???

OMG...i think we really are living in the United Corporations of America!

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

MOFFETT FIELD, California (AP) -- An unprecedented national survey of pilots by the U.S. government has found that safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than previously recognized. But the government is withholding the information, fearful it would upset air travelers and hurt airline profits.

"NASA should focus on how we can provide information to the public, not on how we can withhold it," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said in a statement. He said the agency's research and data "should be widely available and subject to review and scrutiny."

Tags: government, nasa, flying, airlines, safety

The Beauty and Culture of the Island of Guam

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:33:33 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: Guam is home to the excellent writer for Zen Habits. A lot of great information about Guam is shared in the last post - very moving and wow! such a beautiful place!

Anyone wanna go?

Clip Source: www.geocities.com

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

Think of Guam as a little slice of America, but Pacific Island-style.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

Guam is a lot like a small town in the U.S., with malls and fast food restaurants (we have most of them, but not all), Kmart and Home Depot and Internet access practically everywhere.

Clip Source: www.guampedia.com

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

We have roads and power and American-style schools and everyone speaks English (though perhaps with a Chamorro accent many times).

Clip Source: www.flickriver.com

Road to Urunao

Talofofo Falls

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

But if we’re very American in many ways, we’re also not in others. We have a very Spanish, Catholic tradition, for example. We celebrate Catholic holidays, and have fiestas all the time, and many people speak Chamorro

Clip Source: www.flickriver.com

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

We have our problems like anywhere else — we have government corruption sometimes, but have mostly honest government workers.

Clip Source: www.flickriver.com

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

but above all the natural beauty of the island shines through

Clip Source: www.flickriver.com

Clip Source: zenhabits.net

It can be very hot and humid here, but mostly it’s just stunningly gorgeous weather in the 70s and 80s and sometimes 90s.

Clip Source: www.flickriver.com

Clip Source: www.lib.utexas.edu

Clip Source: upload.wikimedia.org