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POPSThe Known Universe by AMNH I may have clipped this truly awesome video before but it still blows my mind. Enjoy and contemplate for awhile. Sssshhhhh....
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POPSGeorge Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television Check out the NPR interview (laugh-filled half hour) link--very funny I really miss GC...I can almost hear his voice sneering and railing at the hypocrisy of the Obama escalation and embrace of the MIC. "That motherfucking twit Obummer is actually falling for the cocksuckers in the Pentagon's shit-licking perpetual war agenda..." or something funnier and more cutting, I'm sure.
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POPS Lost leviathans: Hunting the world's missing whales fascinating article.... A large number of whales escaped the hunters to die later from harpoon injuries. WHEN settlers arrived in the New World in the 17th century, they found waters so thick with whales it was said you could walk across the bay of Cape Cod on their backs. Such stories have been dismissed as fantasy. Nevertheless, it appears that the whale population was once vastly bigger than we thought, and that our slaughter of them was more thorough than history records (see "Ghosts of whales past"). This matters because commercial whaling may be allowed to resume once populations reach 54 per cent of their "historic" levels. This is generally assumed to be the population of the mid-19th century, before the explosive harpoon was invented. But if this historic benchmark is too low, the whaling moratorium must continue. Ironically, the vast slaughter of whales past may yet help to secure their future.
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POPSThe Sanctity of Military Spending is Obscene The facts about America's bloated, excessive, always-increasing military spending are now well-known. The U.S. spends almost as much on military spending as the entire rest of the world combined, and spends roughly six times more than the second-largest spender, China. Even as the U.S. sunk under increasingly crippling levels of debt over the last decade, defense spending rose steadily, sometimes precipitously. That explosion occurred even as overall military spending in the rest of the world decreased, thus expanding the already-vast gap between our expenditures and the world's. As one "defense" spending watchdog group put it: "The US military budget was almost 29 times as large as the combined spending of the six 'rogue' states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) who spent $14.65 billion."
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POPSCorporate "Free Speech" Dooms USA's Future. This just might be the straw that broke the camel's back of US-insA-nian politics. Congressional trough-feeders must be rubbing hands and licking lips in anticipation of the coming bribes. I'm officially gonna boycott and ignore any election, if at all possible, given that the corporations will be bombarding us with getting that tool Palin elected Prez. Gawd, the horror!... not that the last 10 years haven't been a surreal nightmare. It's just gonna get worse until they've sucked every last dime out of our soon to be fascist (in the true sense--totally corporate owned and run)country. Another Empire falls with a sickening thud. I'm done with
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POPSUS Military hegemony stamps boot in Haiti Neither Bush or Clinton ever respected Haiti's independence. Using them as a front for the USAnian military response, tho welcome for humanitarian aid, also reminds us of the heinous history of US repression of Haiti's people. Is it gonna be the deja vu of the military beast or real altruism?
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POPSThe future of air travel/security I remeber the last time I flew and had to remove my belt and dropped my jeans around my ankles (i go commando-no shorts), then had to bend over to pick 'em up...my fat ass was flyin' high... it was frickin' hilarious. Not to me, tho.
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POPSObama Spreading War Flames to Engulf the Middle East
By pouring in hundreds of thousands of troops to chase after a few hundred al Qaeda militants, the U.S. is spreading the war to wider and wider areas, and by using aerial assassination tactics, it is turning civilian populations into America haters. These tactics raise the question of whether the U.S. will launch air strikes anywhere it believes al Qaeda forces are. Senator Carl Levin, Armed Services Committee chairman, January 13th asked whether the war will widen to include Yemen, known to have al Qaeda forces there. Will Yemen become the fourth country in which the U.S. is fighting? And, if you credit a report by Seymour Hersh that the U.S. already has "boots on the ground" in Iran, will there soon be all-out fighting in five Middle East countries? Hightower claims, "Obama has been taken over by the military industrial hawks and national security theorists who play war games with other people's lives and money." As this writer noted earlier, the Pentagon's yearly budget now exce
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POPSI'm not calling Obama a Nazi but.... (from a " minitrue" comment) We are rapidly becoming the Fourth Reich, if we are not already there. Will it take another generation of the world's youth to stop us? How long must the planet be drenched in blood before this finally ends? We have hundred$ of billion$ for war, but nothing for the sick, starving and homeless that once were the American working and middle class. The US Military and its various black agencies have received endless monies (our taxes) to build it into the most powerful, deadly force the world has ever known. Yet the greed, the demands for more money for the MIC, more profits and bonuses for the bankers goes on unremittingly, backed by a Congress and Executive that is owned lock stock and barrel by the cartels they are supposed to be regulating, in our interest.
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POPS(Rare!) Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (1930 Newsreel Footage) This reminds of my time spent at Sonoma St. Hospital after refusing to serve in the army when I had a deaf-blind student, Tommy Weick, who I taught to speak sign language and some verbalisation. It took almost a year for him to say his first word, EGG, which I taught him using an egg carton, his favorite toy. He just loved them for some reason. What a thrill when he finally said EGG! But after that day he learned about 40 words in a month or 2.
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