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5 Man Eaters

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:39:01 GMT

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5 Man Eaters

Often it is the reverse, we killing the wild animals but history has shown us, that the hunter can be hunted.

1. The North American Bear lives nearly everywhere habitable in North America.

2. The Estuarine Crocodile or call it the Saltwater Croc, this is the biggest species of crocodile and the most effective man eaters in the planet.

3.The Giant Squid, is a carnivorous predator. It has the same eyes as the human and has 10 arms.

4.The Komodo Dragon of the Indonesian Island.

5.Leopards, known as the hardest of the big cats to hunt, because of their intelligence and abilities.

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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Famous Nurses of the Past

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:15:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some of the best from the west

Clip Source: www.cnaboard.com

Famous Nurses of the Past

There are literally hundreds of thousands of nurses out there in the United States and abroad today. A very successful career in the medical industry would not be met without the help and compassion of the men and women who have chosen the selfless profession of nursing. This article will shed a light on four of those women in history who have brought the nursing profession to where it is today: Displaying courage, compassion, great depths of education, intelligence, and bravery. Standing against all odds and time. These famous nurses of history have made their own mark in the world of nursing, clearing the paths for the men and women of today, and tomorrow.

Clara Barton-

Florence Nightingale-

Margaret Sanger-

Helen Fairchild-

Windows 7 'vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:19:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fix it?

Clip Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

SophosLabs reported in its security blog that a test Windows 7 system on a clean PC was affected by 80 per cent of viruses.

Sophos' Chester Wisniewski, said engineers loaded a full version of Microsoft's recently launched operating system, and configured it to follow system defaults for UAC (User Account Control) without installing an anti-virus package.

"Unfortunately, despite Microsoft's claims, Windows 7 disappointed just like earlier versions of Windows," he wrote.

"The good news is that, of the freshest 10 samples that arrived, two would not operate correctly under Windows 7."

Microsoft's Security Intelligence Report released this week said the infection rate of a Windows Vista machine running Service Pack was 61.9% less than on an up-to-date Windows XP computer.

But only around one in five Windows users are using the new operating system or Vista.

"Windows 7 is no cure for the virus blues, so be sure to bring your protection when you boot up."

Tags: windows7, vulnerable, to, 8, out, of, 10, viruses'

Information Technology & Business Process Outsourcing India:

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:45:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sisindia.info

As a diverse end-to-end IT solutions provider, we offer a range of expertise in knowledge process outsourcing involving Information Technology, Application & Business Process Outsourcing capabilities with the objective of helping clients to re invent their businesses to compete successfully in a dynamic marketplace.

Our extensive skills encompass all aspects of implementation and operation, including business requirements definition, development of functional specifications for client approval, system design, and overseeing development teams customizing software to fit specific client needs and controlling costs.

Intelligence, Innovation and Creativity are the key words for the company, Therefore we strive hard to provide our clients as well as the general market, products which are artistically as well as technologically ahead of others.

GOOD DOG ,SMART DOG.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:17:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: LIFE AS A LABRADOODLE

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Good Dog, Smart Dog

Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you’re Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done.

He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various phobias and hypoglycemia. Jet has been trained to anticipate seizures, panic attacks and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by staring intently at her until she does something about the problem. He will drop a toy in her lap to snap her out of a dissociative state. If she has a seizure, he will position himself so that his body is under her head to cushion a fall.

Jet seems like a genius, but is he really so smart? In fact, is any of it in his brain, or is it mostly in his sniff?

The matter of what exactly goes on in the mind of a dog is a tricky one, and until recently much of the research on canine intelligence has been met with large doses of skepticism.

Tags: dog, seizure, epilepsy, anxiety, phobias, panic

Universal Collective Unconscious

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: and the Metaphysical Utopia

Clip Source: www.authorhouse.com

The Universal Collective Unconscious and the Metaphysical Utopia

The term 'Collective Unconscious' may also be interchangeable with the following terms; Chaotic Void, Universal Intelligence, Cosmos, Nature, Will, Eternal Stream of Unconscious, God-mind, Human Energy Field, Primal Energy, God, Infinite mind, Universal mind, Implicate Order, the Dialectical Whole, the Yin and the Yang and UCU. All of these terms are metaphors created to provide an expression for the Whole from which we, all species, matter and abstract entities come from, are part of and always will be a part of whether consciously or unconsciously. Language itself, which this thesis and all theses, ideas and human communication come from is merely the UCU expressing itself. Humanity is the UCU or implicate universal mind realizing itself in its highest form of evolution.

Unaccountable Elite!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:36:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Perhaps the “I Didn’t Do It” philosophy is the American Way.

Clip Source: www.inteldaily.com

Social Decay in America: The “I Didn’t Do It” Culture

(The Intelligence Daily) -- “The gap between our citizens and our Government has never been so wide. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual..What you see too often in Washington and elsewhere around the country is a system of government that seems incapable of action. You see a Congress twisted and pulled in every direction by hundreds of well financed and powerful special interests. You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and a fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends…Our people are losing…the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. ” Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979

New Jersey Plastic Surgeon The Best Choice I’ve Ever Made

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:24:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I recently went to a New Jersey Plastic Surgeon and not only were the results great, but the job was done so well I’m planning on going back for more.

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Plastic Surgery Can Improve Your Career Prospects

By A Aaronson

You'd never think of your plastic surgeon as someone who can help you improve your career prospects, but if a new study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology is to be believed, intelligence is not the only trait that matters when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder.

The study found that attractiveness, along with confidence, can help you stand out from the herd and boost your job prospects. Actually, that's not really a new finding. It's been known for years, that no matter how much we downplay our tendency to find attractive people more appealing, it's built into our biology to do so.

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Brutal and repressive regime: our ally Uzbekistan

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:39:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It shows Western criticism of Iran to be the load of crap that it is.

Clip Source: www.rferl.org

Uzbekistan: Interview With Former British Ambassador Craig Murray

Craig Murray may be one of Britain's least diplomatic diplomats in recent memory. While ambassador to Tashkent, he spoke publicly about repression and the lack of democratic freedoms in Uzbekistan. Last year he accused the United States and United Kingdom of using intelligence gained from people tortured in Uzbekistan. And in a widely published speech in November, he criticized the United States for helping prop up what he called President Islam Karimov's "brutal" regime.

He now plans to run against British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in Britain's Parliamentary election

I think that under this government Britain has moved away from the basic principles that governed foreign policy for many years, in particular support for the United Nations, support for the role of international law.

people didn't approve of us entering into an illegal war against Iraq without the sanction of the UN Security Council.

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Italian court convicts 23 CIA agents over rendition

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:44:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Italian prosecutors had charged the Americans and seven members of the Italian military intelligence agency in the abduction of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as //Abu Omar, on Feb. 17, 2003. Prosecutors said he was snatched in broad daylight, flown from an American air base in Italy to a base in Germany and then on to Egypt, where he asserts that he was tortured.//

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003.

Critics of the Bush administration have long hailed the case as a repudiation of the tactics it used to fight terrorism. And the fact that Italy would actually convict intelligence agents of an allied country was seen as a bold move that could set a precedent in other cases.

Judge Oscar Magi handed an eight-year sentence to Robert Seldon Lady, a former C.I.A. base chief in Milan, and five-year sentences to the 22 other Americans, including an Air Force colonel and 21 C.I.A. operatives. Three of the other high-ranking Americans were given diplomatic immunity, including Jeffrey Castelli, a former C.I.A. station chief in Rome.

“Of course it was an illegal operation. But that’s our job.

Tags: cia, italy

ITALY CONVICTS 23 AMERICANS FOR C.I.A. RENDITIONS.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:45:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

Judge Oscar Magi convicted 23 Americans of kidnapping in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric on Wednesday in Milan.

The case was a huge symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, who drew the first convictions involving the American practice of rendition, in which terrorism suspects are captured in one country and taken for questioning in another, often one more open to coercive interrogation techniques.

Tags: italy, americans, convicts, kidnapping, abduction, muslim

Steps Toward The American Police State are Always Tried-Out in Britain First

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:58:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The very phrase “domestic extremist” defines protesters in the eyes of the police as the problem, the enemy. Spying on entire groups and organisations, and targeting the innocent, undermines not only our rights but the law "

Clip Source: www.blacklistednews.com

Steps Toward The American Police State are Always Tried-Out in Britain First

I was sent the now notorious “police spotter card” through the post. It’s an official laminated card for “police eyes only” and labelled as coming from “CO11 Public Order Intelligence Unit”. The card contained the photographs of 24 anti-arms trade protesters, unnamed but lettered A to X. My picture appeared as photo H. You can imagine my reaction at finding I was the subject of a secret police surveillance process … I was delighted. I phoned my agent and told him I was suspect H. He replied: “Next year we’ll get you top billing … suspect A.”

This kind of highly confidential document – pictured above – is rarely seen by the public.

These so-called “spotter cards” are issued by police to identify individuals they consider to be potential troublemakers because they have appeared at a number of demonstrations.

Matt Damon in 'Green Zone', Movie With Message About Iraq War

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:58:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Bourne Goes to Iraq" or Loyal Army officer finds out truth and the real enemy which changes his mission against the "powers that be". Note in the clipmark from Wiki the producer intends this to be not merely entertainment but relevant commentary:

"Film shouldn't be disenfranchised from the national conversation. It is never too soon for cinema to engage with events that shape our lives.

Perhaps this is like Clooney and Damon in Syriana in that respect.

Allegedly based upon this book here., which has some real interesting "reviews" worth considering.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Green Zone is an upcoming thriller film written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film is based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran which is based in Green Zone, Baghdad. It stars Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson. Production began in January 2008 in Spain and moved on to Morocco. The film is scheduled to be released on March 12, 2010.

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Matt Damon portrays Roy Miller,^[2] a warrant officer who helps a senior CIA officer in the search for weapons of mass destruction.^[1]

Greengrass said of the project's contemporary relevance, "Film shouldn't be disenfranchised from the national conversation. It is never too soon for cinema to engage with events that shape our lives."^[15]

Tags: movies, green zone, iraq, iraq war, wmd, intelligence, propaganda

For ‘Big Bang’s’ Sheldon, the nerd is the word

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:48:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Sheldon Cooper is narcissistic, socially awkward, childish, hurtful, naive, irascible, selfish, rude, and irrepressible.

He is also extremely popular with viewers and even lovable. As "The Big Bang Theory" character has said, "This would be one of those circumstances that people unfamiliar with the law of large numbers would call a coincidence."

As played by Jim Parsons, Sheldon is the ultimate sardonic outsider who's unaware and unconcerned of the implications of his observations, from which the show derives the bulk of the humor.

While his statements often stem directly from his vast intelligence, he's so smart and detached from normal human interaction that he's frequently a jerk.

His combination of immaturity and exceptional intelligence makes for a lot of witty humor, even jokes that play off of otherwise tired material.

Tags: tv, television, science, nerd, social, culture