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BBC-TV: "Set up to steal it again." Is 2008 already fixed?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:39:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's quite possible, ya know--the neocons are very, very sneaky and corrupt and our voting systems are outrageously flawed.

Clip Source: www.stealbackyourvote.com

"A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?” Well the answer is, we don’t! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal it again!" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight.

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On Friday at 6pm and 10pm Eastern Time, BBC America will bust open the story of the systematic attack on US voters that could easily cost Barack Obama the White House. (Watch the promo below)

Or watch it, beginning Friday night, at www.Gregpalast.com.

Newsnight investigative reporter Greg Palast travels from the Native pueblos of New Mexico to the war-zone of the 8 Mile neighborhood of Detroit to meet some of the three million voters (Show me more...)

StealBackYourVote.org will be back up and running soon - for now you can download the comic and order bulk print copies of the Investigative Comic Book below.

Donate to download the investigative comic book

Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:21:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The theory of evolution is a major hoax and deception in the history of science.

Clip Source: www.harunyahya.com

ATLAS OF CREATION

Some 150 years ago, the British naturalist Charles Darwin proposed a theory based on various observations made during his travels, but which could not be supported by any subsequent scientific findings. In essence, his theory of evolution consisted of various scenarios, assumptions and conjectures that Darwin dreamed up in his own imagination.

This book will provide you with not only such information as what fossils are and where and how they are found, but also a closer examination of a variety of fossil specimens, millions of years old, that are still able to declare, "We never underwent evolution; we were created." The fossils discussed and illustrated in this book are just a few examples of the hundreds of millions of specimens that prove the fact of creation. And even these few are enough to prove that the theory of evolution is a major hoax and deception in the history of science.

ATLAS OF CREATION VOLUME II

ATLAS OF CREATION VOLUME III

Tags: atlas, creation, darwin, harun, yahya, islam, knowledge, nature

Some Good News: The U.S. Dollar Strengthens

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:25:07 GMT

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Clip Source: current.newsweek.com

The dollar is making a comeback. It’s now somewhat cheaper for Americans to visit many foreign countries than it has been in a while

euro is $1.37, as of this morning. That's down from $1.44 when I was in Munich about a month ago and from record highs of around $1.60 earlier this year

Mexico is the cheapest it's been since 1993 with the peso at .08 cents (roughly 12 pesos to $

Canadian dollar, which crept above $1 in 2007, is back at 91 cents. The British pound is $1.76, and the Australia dollar has plummeted to 73 cents, just in time for spring down under

Among major currencies, only the Japanese yen has bucked the trend and strengthened against the dollar

even in a climate of panic, ongoing job cuts, and wildly fluctuating markets—triggered by the U.S. and now spreading across the globe—the dollar is still viewed as the safest currency. The New York Times recently provided helpful context, crediting the phenomenon partially to faith in America’s economic and political systems

Palin’s Alternate Universe

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:20:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Palin’s Alternate Universe

We’ve lived through nearly two terms of an administration that believed it could create its own reality:

“Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”

Now comes Ms. Palin, a smiling, bubbly vice-presidential candidate who travels in an alternate language universe. For Ms. Palin, such things as context, syntax and the proximity of answers to questions have no meaning.

In her closing remarks at the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, Ms. Palin referred earnestly, if loosely, to a quote from Ronald Reagan

if Americans weren’t vigilant in protecting their freedom, they would find themselves spending their “sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men were free.”

What Ms. Palin didn’t say was that the menace to freedom that Reagan was talking about was Medicare

Reagan “saw Medicare as the advance wave of socialism

Does Ms. Palin agree

Palin’s Alternate Universe

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:49:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Palin’s Alternate Universe

Sarah Palin is the perfect exclamation point to the Bush years.

We’ve lived through nearly two terms of an administration that believed it could create its own reality:

“Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”

In her closing remarks at the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, Ms. Palin referred earnestly, if loosely, to a quote from Ronald Reagan. He had warned that if Americans weren’t vigilant in protecting their freedom, they would find themselves spending their “sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men were free.”

Tags: palin, elections, us, republicans, debates

Make-Believe Maverick--McCain's true nature

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:49:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: EXCELLENT article Highly recommend if you are wavering or undecided...Dramesi continued:
"McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man," Dramesi says today. "But he's still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in."

Clip Source: www.rollingstone.com

A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty

• VIDEO: Five Myths About John McCain
• The Double-Talk Express
• Mad Dog Palin: The Full Story

On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.

"I'm going to the Middle East," Dramesi says. "Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran."

"Why are you going to the Middle East?" McCain asks, dismissively.

"It's a place we're probably going to have some problems," Dramesi says.

"Why? Where are you going to, John?"

"Oh, I'm going to Rio."

"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"

McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.

"I got a better chance of getting laid."

The brain parasite that influences human culture

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:04:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Spread by cats

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

We like to think that we are masters of our own fates. The thought that others might be instead controlling our actions makes us uneasy. We rail against nanny states, we react badly to media hype and we are appalled at the idea of brainwashing. But words and images are not the only things that can affect our brains and thoughts. Other animals - parasites - can do this too. According to research by Kevin Lafferty from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, could be influencing human culture across the globe.

spread by cats

in another animal, it travels to the brain and changes the host's behaviour to maximise its chances of ending up in a cat

For rodents, this means being eaten

infected individuals are less fearful of cats

Humans

tend to show long-term personality changes that are small but statistically significant

higher level of neuroticism

To establish the true direction of causality

need to find out how the parasite manipulates the mind

Palin's Alternate Universe

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:58:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “Say it ain’t so, Joe! There you go pointing backwards again ... Now, doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education, and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and God bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right?

Aw-shucks, darn-right, I’m-just-a-hockey-mom governor of Alaska mouthing something completely devoid of meaning?

If Governor Palin didn’t like a question, or didn’t know the answer, she responded as though some other question had been asked. She made no bones about this, saying early in the debate: “I may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you want to hear.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Sarah Palin is the perfect exclamation point to the Bush years.

We’ve lived through nearly two terms of an administration that believed it could create its own reality:

“Deficits don’t matter.” “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” “Those weapons of mass destruction must be somewhere.”

Now comes Ms. Palin, a smiling, bubbly vice-presidential candidate who travels in an alternate language universe.

After Ms. Palin had woven one of her particularly impenetrable linguistic webs, Joe Biden turned to the debate’s moderator, Gwen Ifill, and said: “Gwen, I don’t know where to start.”

Of course he didn’t know where to start because Ms. Palin’s words don’t mean anything. She’s all punctuation.

Burning Man 2008: A Retrospective in Images

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:51:16 GMT

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Clip Source: matadornights.com

The Temple of Basura Sagrada burns on Sunday night.

This place had great music, a bar that was always serving stiff drinks and was a favorite hangout for the “really, really, really, really goodlooking people”.

Critical Tits. There were so many participating that it became a traffic jam of bikes and boobs before it even got going. Most ended up walking their bikes.

Really good house music and fun people at this tent.

Flaming ping pong anyone?

A super-creative art car, all made out of scrap metal and old car parts.

The Aftermath: where else in the world would you see trash quite like this?

Astral projection

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:24:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Astral projection (or astral travel) is an esoteric interpretation of a type of out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it.

Clip Source: theunexplainedmysteries.com

Astral projection

Astral projection (or astral travel) is an esoteric interpretation of a type of out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of an "astral body" separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it. Astral projection is experienced as being "out of the body". Unlike dreaming or near death experiences, astral projection is practiced deliberately.

The idea of astral travel is rooted in common worldwide religious accounts of the afterlife in which the soul's journey or "ascent" is described in such terms as "an...out-of-body experience, wherein the spiritual traveller leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body (or dreambody or astral body) into ‘other’ realms."

Tags: astral projection, astral, astral traveler

Living Green is Expensive

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:18:32 GMT

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Clip Source: features.csmonitor.com

A bicyclist travels along the east bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan/FILE)

Portland, Ore., tops sustainable cities list

By Eoin O'Carroll | 09.22.08

What’s the greenest American city? According to the latest annual report from SustainLane, it’s Portland, Ore.

To live in the greenest cities, the Wall Street Journal’s environmental blogger writes, “you better have plenty of greenbacks.”

The bottom line: The kind of things that make cities “sustainable” also make them expensive. Take the rankings of “housing affordability.” The cheapest cities—San Antonio, Fort Worth, Arlington, El Paso—also scored the worst on public transit, bike-friendliness, and ability to walk to work. The big winners there are also among the most expensive places to live, like San Francisco, New York, San Jose, and Boston.

Tags: portland, seattle, green, sustainable

music from gypsy

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:13:16 GMT

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Clip Source: advrider.com

It does not seem to impede introspection at all. It sort of sets the stage, I guess. Most of my thinking time, however, has not been on the road. It's at the campsite, or in the river, or while taking photos, or while processing photos or while just sitting out in nature somewhere. So music just sets up those moments for me. If you haven't done so already, download a lot of new music you like for your travels. Tristan Prettyman, Joshua James, James, Liz Phair, KT Tunstall, Ryan Adams, Bob Schnieder, Jakob Dylan and Collective Soul - were the main players on my journey.

Stardust evidence points to planet collision

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:49:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: so pretty and yet so deadly

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Stardust evidence points to planet collision

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Masses of dust floating around a binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.

"It's as if Earth and Venus collided with each other," Benjamin Zuckerman, an astronomer at the University of California Los Angeles, who worked on the study, said in a statement.

"Astronomers have never seen anything like this before; apparently major, catastrophic, collisions can take place in a fully mature planetary system."

Writing in the Astrophysical Journal, the team at UCLA, Tennessee State University and the California Institute of Technology said it spotted the dust orbiting a star known as BD +20 307, 300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aries.

A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, or about 6 trillion miles. So the observations are, in essence, looking back in time 300 years.

Tags: stardust, planet, collision

Eoin Colfer to write 6th novel in Hitchhiker's Guide series

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:49:09 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

"Hitchhiker's Guide" series to ride again

LONDON (Reuters) - Children's author Eoin Colfer is to write a sixth novel in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, seven years after the death of its creator Douglas Adams, Penguin said Wednesday.

The Irish writer, best known for his Artemis Fowl fairy stories, has the blessing of Adams' widow, Jane Belson, to continue the bestselling science fiction saga.

Called "And Another Thing...," the new novel will be published in October 2009. Colfer said he was a big fan of the original books, which started as a BBC radio serial.

The satirical books tell the story of a hapless Englishman called Arthur Dent who travels the universe after the Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

Adams died from a heart attack in California in 2001 at the age of 49. He had hoped to finish the series with a sixth novel.

The Roots of Today's Science Fiction Go Back Centuries

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:41:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Much more of the website,

Clip Source: io9.com

Science Fiction came of age in the 19th Century under the talents of writers like Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells. But before these authors stands a long history of proto-science fiction tales, replete with voyages to the moon, socially and technologically advanced civilizations, and visions of the future. We've delved into our scifi roots and found some of the surprisingly forward-looking works from poets, mathematicians, politicians, and philosophers that predate the year 1800.

Lucian of Samosata – A True History (2nd Centure CE):

his rousing tale of a trip to the moon, aliens armies, man-made men, and extraplanetary colonization is frequently recognized as the first known space opera.

Ibn al-Nafis – Theologus Autodidactus (c. 1270):

Thomas More – Utopia (1515):

Francis Bacon – The New Atlantis (1626):

Johannes Kepler – Somnium (The Dream) (1634):

Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels (1726):

Voltaire – Micromegas (1752):

Tags: science fiction, sci-fi, history, literature