You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus ~ Mark Twain
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Gun Owner Stops Man on Knife Rampage
SALT LAKE CITY — A man stabbed two people at the Smith's Marketplace grocery store in downtown Salt Lake City before being subdued by a bystander.
Police say a bystander with a concealed carry permit witnessed the attack and stepped in to keep it from escalating.
"This was a really volatile situation that could have gotten even worse," [Lt.]Purvis said. "(The bystander) was definitely in the right place at the right time."
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Police say a bystander with a concealed carry permit witnessed the attack and stepped in to keep it from escalating.
"This was a really volatile situation that could have gotten even worse," [Lt.]Purvis said. "(The bystander) was definitely in the right place at the right time."
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Friday, May 4, 2012
The 10 things they really don't tell you at graduation
3) When you hit a certain point in your 20s, everyone around you starts to get married, for no apparent reason and without any warning. This is first cute, then alarming, like Justin Bieber.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
97% Owned [HD]
This is a film about UK monetary policy, but US policy is the same. The state of Europe over the past few years is a true indicator of the accelerating consequences of modern imaginary computer money. The main reason Americans don't have a clue is because of the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency. Once countries decide to pay with and accept other currencies, what has been comfortably and conveniently on the other side of the world will be in their faces.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds
This turdstorm of pointless click-bait filler is a problem for anyone who wants to be an informed voter. To learn anything useful, you need to be able to sort through all of the garbage to find the actual information and insight. So let me just tell you right now that you can safely ignore any story if ...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
TSA Unzips More Than Your Pants; X-rays Unzip Your DNA
[Technology Review] The evidence that terahertz radiation damages biological systems is mixed. "Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none," say Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a few buddies. Now these guys think they know why.
Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they've found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That's a jaw dropping conclusion.
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Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they've found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That's a jaw dropping conclusion.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
First Ever Video of Solar Tornado; 5x the Size of Earth
[Wired] Discovered using NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory satellite, this colossal twisting mass is made up of superheated gas at a temperature of between 90,000 and 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Over the course of three hours, this behemoth reached up from the sun’s surface to a height of 125,000 miles, or roughly half the distance between the Earth and the moon. The hot gases were whipped up to nearly 186,000 miles per hour.
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http://users.aber.ac.uk/xxl/tornado.htm
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/meetings/nam2012/pressreleases/nam14.html
Over the course of three hours, this behemoth reached up from the sun’s surface to a height of 125,000 miles, or roughly half the distance between the Earth and the moon. The hot gases were whipped up to nearly 186,000 miles per hour.
read more...
http://users.aber.ac.uk/xxl/tornado.htm
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/meetings/nam2012/pressreleases/nam14.html
Witness the Power of an Idea: Ron Paul Massive Rallies 2012
Apparently tens of thousands of people haven't received the Ron Paul Can't Win memo.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Mike Wallace Interviews Eugenicist and Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger
September 21, 1957
[22:25]
Wallace: Do you believe in sin?
Sanger: Well I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world...that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically...delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things; just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin that people can commit.
p.s. the Philip Morris schtick is even more hilarious the 2nd time
[22:25]
Wallace: Do you believe in sin?
Sanger: Well I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world...that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically...delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things; just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin that people can commit.
p.s. the Philip Morris schtick is even more hilarious the 2nd time
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Sy Hersh: US Funded and Trained Iranian Group on State Dept. Terror List
Seymour Hersh, the venerable investigative journalist, dropped another bombshell this morning in the New Yorker: the US military trained members of an Iranian terrorist group in Nevada in 2005.
What’s more, American intelligence continues to be transferred to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) for use in operations that include the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
What’s more, American intelligence continues to be transferred to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) for use in operations that include the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
The General's Son
[YouTube] Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His Father, Matti Peled, was a young officer in the war of 1948 and a general in the war of 1967 when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai.
Miko's unlikely opinions reflect his father's legacy. General Peled was a war hero turned peacemaker.
Miko grew up in Jerusalem, a multi-ethnic city, but had to leave Israel before he made his first Palestinian friend, the result of his participation in a dialogue group in California. He was 39.
On September 4, 1997 the beloved Smadar, 13, the daughter of Miko's sister Nurit and her husband Rami Elhanan was killed in a suicide attack.
Peled insists that Israel/Palestine is one state—the separation wall notwithstanding, massive investment in infrastructure, towns and highways that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state. The result, Peled says is that Israelis and Palestinians are governed by the same government but live under different sets of laws.
At the heart of Peled's conclusion lies the realization that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace as equals in their shared homeland.
Rick Steves: Reflections on Israel and Palestine
I've been duped.
Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive?
Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive?
Friday, April 6, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Ron Paul is Clearly Wrong: Why Bailouts Work and the Dangers of Libertarian Economics
Stimulus packages and bailouts are required to maintain the stability of a society. If the wealthiest and most powerful people in a society make a mistake, it is the responsibility of everyone in that society to collectively and financially forgive them of their mistakes. If it were not for this collective financial forgiveness of the bad decisions made by the elite, they would not be able to continue to impose the necessary policies on society.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Solar power station in Spain works at night
A unique thermosolar power station in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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