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Liberal Media ‘Whitewashed’ Evils of Communism

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:46:44 GMT

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Liberal Media ‘Whitewashed’ Evils of Communism, New Study Documents

(CNSNews.com) – Twenty years ago this week, the Berlin Wall fell, opening a door to freedom for millions of East Germans who had lived under communism for nearly 50 years. But as a new report documents, much of the major U.S. media coverage of the Berlin Wall, and the subsequent downfall of Soviet communism, failed to accurately report the brutal nature of communism and often tipped in favor of the oppressors.

“Communism was a blight on humanity for much of the 20th century. Even Hitler's Holocaust pales next to the 100 million people killed by communist dictators in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Yet our report shows many in the liberal media had a blind spot to this evil ideology,” said Rich Noyes, lead author of the report, “Better Off Red? Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Recalling the Liberal Media’s Blindness to the Evil of Communism.”

Poor nutrition stunts growth of millions

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:32:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 200 million. Guess it is better than starving quickly. Most will experience starvation, as the food supply is not improving. Partial cure for overpopulation.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Nearly 200 million children in developing countries suffer from stunted growth and health problems due to poor nutrition in their early years, the UN children's foundation UNICEF says.

However, the percentage of children with retarded growth in Asia fell to 30 per cent last year from 44 per cent in 1990, and in Africa to 34 per cent from 38 per cent over the same period, UNICEF said in a report.

Despite a decline in the rate of the problem, 195 million children under five years old in developing countries have stunted growth due to poor nutrition during the critical period between their conception and second birthdays, UNICEF said.

Undernourished children often have poor physical health and slower mental development.

When the problem is widespread, as in India and Afghanistan, it undermines those countries' ability to improve their economies and eradicate poverty.

"Undernutrition steals a child's strength and makes illnesses that the body might otherwise fight off far more dangerous,"

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McDonald's Around the World

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:14:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.darkroastedblend.com

It all started with the Samurai Pork Burger. I saw this advertised outside a McDonald's in Bangkok back in 2004 and was somewhat perplexed. Why is it a Japanese name when I’m in Thailand? And what do Samurai have to do with pork? Actually, why is it called Samurai at all? Sadly, I never actually found out any of the answers, but it made me start paying closer attention to McDonald's every time I went to another country in Asia.

In Singapore, the national obsession with rice extends to having rice cakes in your burger.

Seaweed Flavoured Fries

Also, see below-right: the tasty tentacle snack from Japan. Yum.

In Indonesia, as the world’s largest Muslim country, chicken is far more popular than beefburgers (and, of course, the Samurai Pork Burger would be completely taboo). Hence you get combo sets of chicken, rice and Coke:

Spaghetti - Soaked In - Sugar!

In the middle of Moscow, on a busy Arbat street, you can get a take-out for your horse:

Gap year- year out, year off ,time off and time out

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:44:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: n e gappers out there?

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Gap year

A gap year (also known as year abroad, year out, year off, deferred year, bridging year, time off and time out) is a term that refers to a prolonged period (often, but not always, a year) between a life stage. The most popular gap years are taken between school and university or college.

Some students spend the time traveling, others spend the time working, and many combine these into an international working holiday. A popular option for gap year students, also known as "gappers", is international volunteering. In the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, a great number of the volunteers who helped in South Asia were on a gap year.^[1]

Nidal Hasan Terrorist Threat 'Not That Big a Deal'....Matthew Yglesias

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:58:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think a pretty good case can be made that this kind of situation actually is the main face of the terrorist threat. Not a big well-thought-out plot centrally directed from a “safe haven” in South Asia and undertaken by brilliant covert operatives, but the desperate violent act of a clearly disturbed individual. It’s going to be very hard to prevent this sort of thing. As long as the United States remains a country in which firearms are widely available"for the foreseeable future, in other words"we’re going to be unusually vulnerable to mentally ill spree killers of various kinds, including spree killers who nod in the direction of Islamist thinking.

But the larger point is that while these incidents are serious crimes and major tragedies for the victims, they hardly rise to the level of a major macro-level social crisis. They’re certainly not a first-order national security threat. And even put in the lower-stakes context of violent crime in America

Clip Source: americanpowerblog.blogspot.com

Thirteen people were killed and 29 wounded during Nidal Malik Hasan's jihadi rampage at Fort Hood. President Obama spoke today, and the PowerPoint transcripts of Hasan's Army doctors' lecture have been made available. Of course, I've been covering the story extensively. I've noted the remarks of a number of extremely pernicious leftist commentators, but Matthew Yglesias' post

today - coming at the same time as this new information paints a damning indictment of Hasan's propensity to fanatical violence - really takes the cake for willing blindness, even complicity, on the radical leftist:

Of course, it's not like Yglesias is sympathetic to Islam:

Tags: democratic party, islam, radical left, terrorism, war on terror

2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:43:57 GMT

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""We're predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Our forecast is in good accord with independent theoretical work by other astronomers."

"A remarkable feature of this year's shower is that Leonids will appear to be shooting almost directly out of the planet Mars," notes Cooke.

It's just a coincidence. This year, Mars happens to be passing by the Leonid radiant at the time of the shower. The Red Planet is almost twice as bright as a first magnitude star, so it makes an eye-catching companion for the Leonids"

Clip Source: science.nasa.gov

The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

November 10, 2009: This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst over Asia. The phase of the Moon will be new, setting the stage for what could be one of the best Leonid showers in years.

Leonids are bits of debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. Every 33 years the comet visits the inner solar system and leaves a stream of dusty debris in its wake. Many of these streams have drifted across the November portion of Earth's orbit. Whenever we hit one, meteors come flying out of the constellation Leo.

The first stream crossing on Nov. 17th comes around 0900 UT (4 a.m. EST, 1 a.m. PST). The debris is a diffuse mix of particles from several old streams that should produce a gentle display of two to three dozen meteors per hour over North America. Dark skies are recommended for full effect.

from the Sacred Text Archive: Prophecy & Divination texts

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:37:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What does the future hold? This is one of the big questions we'd all like answered. This page has links to resources at sacred-texts that relate to prophecy and divination.
Prophecy
The Prophecies of Nostradamus
by Nostradamus. The complete predictions of Nostradamus both in English and Old French, with a biography of Nostradamus and some notes about the events of 9/11.

Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time by Lee McCann [1941].
A biography and historical novel of Nostradamus, with many interpreted quatrains, written during World War II.

The Oracles of Nostradamus by Charles A. Ward [1891]. The complete text of one of the best books about Nostradamus ever written.

The Sibylline Oracles Tr. by Milton S. Terry [1899]. Read the mysterious (purported) predictions of the Roman Sibylline Oracle.

The Book of Revelation-The most famous Christian prophecy.

The Prophecies of Paracelsus by Paracelsus, tr. by J.K [1915]. The alchemist and esoteric philosopher issued a set of

Clip Source: www.sacred-texts.com

Prophecy and Divination

What does the future hold? This is one of the big questions we'd all like answered. This page has links to resources at sacred-texts that relate to prophecy and divination.

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India wins top travel award

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:24:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Described as the "Oscars" of the travel industry by the Wall Street Journal, the prestigious awards allow the winners to market themselves as the "best of the best" in their respective regions.

Clip Source: www.southalltravel.co.uk

India wins top travel award

Travel agents from around the world have voted India as the leading destination in Asia at this year's World Travel Awards.

Described as the "Oscars" of the travel industry by the Wall Street Journal, the prestigious awards allow the winners to market themselves as the "best of the best" in their respective regions.

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Air India express online booking

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:18:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Best of basic as well as luxury comfort is given by Air India express online booking at very low Air India express fares on Air India express flight reservation. Discounted and economical costs on Air India express fares with Air India express online booking or go to any Air India express flight reservation center.

Clip Source: www.air-india-express.com

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No Afghanistan troop decision made!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:38:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: just clarifying

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

"People at the Pentagon are trying to force a certain outcome," one of the senior administration officials told CNN.

White House: No Afghanistan troop decision made

Two other senior administration officials told CNN that the CBS report and other similar speculation is false.

Obama is scheduled to return from Asia on November 20, after stops in Japan, Singapore, China, and South Korea. Officials have suggested Obama could announce a troop decision shortly before or after Thanksgiving.

Diya Mirza Wallpapers

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:56:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Diya mirza wallpapers images photos pics

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Diya Mirza won the prestigious Miss Asia Pacific title at the beauty pageant held on 2 December, 2000, in Manila. She is the second Indian contestant to be crowned Miss Asia Pacific and the first in 29 years.

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Celebrating the Fall of The Berlin Wall

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:29:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not Obama.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

President Obama squeezed in a trip to Copenhagen last month to lobby, unsuccessfully, for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. He plans to travel to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that even Obama has said he does not deserve. And this coming week, he sets out on a weeklong tour of Asia.

But the president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he's ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy.

"John F. Kennedy famously told Berliners, 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' On the 20th anniversary of the last century's most stirring triumph of freedom, Obama is telling them, 'Ich bin beschaftigt' -- i.e., I'm busy," he wrote. "Obama's failure to go to Berlin is the most telling nonevent of his presidency. It's hard to imagine any other American president eschewing the occasion."

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Gladstone Qld LNG boom town

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:32:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Massive gas projects are planned for Gladstone. A power hungry South East Asia is patiently waiting for Santos, BG and Origin, ConocoPhillips to start exporting. Real Estate in the Gladstone area will be keenly sought after it might pay to get in early .......

Clip Source: www.yipmag.com.au

Gladstone: Queensland LNG boom town
2/11/2009

Across Australia there is one mining boom town that stands head and shoulders above the rest. One town with over a massive $65bn in planned and committed infrastructure projects.

That town is Gladstone, a town of 30,000 on the mid-north coast of Queensland just to the South of Rockhampton.

With nine planned or committed infrastructure projects over $1bn in value, Gladstone is the classic example of an infrastructure boom town. Indeed, the value of the town's projects has rocketed 188% over the last two years to a breath-taking $65bn.

Tags: gladstone, calliope, tannum sands, santos, bg, origin

Former UK Ambassador: CIA Sent People to be ‘Raped with Broken Bottles’

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:49:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Murray alleged that in the late 1990s the Uzbek ambassador to the US met with then-Texas Governor George W. Bush to discuss a pipeline for the region, and out of that meeting came agreements that would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan's natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.

"The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan," Murray noted.

"There are designs of this pipeline, and if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you'll see that undoubtedly the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It's what it's about. It's about money, it's about oil, it's not about democracy."

Clip Source: www.informationclearinghouse.info

The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive

, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.

Craig Murray

said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on."

Murray asserts that the primary motivation for US and British military involvement in central Asia has to do with large natural gas deposits

a natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:44:14 GMT

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