Jose Aldo: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King

The WEC Featherweight title fight between reigning champion Mike Thomas Brown and number one contender, Jose Aldo, was billed as a classic battle of speed vs. power. Brown, an incredibly strong wrestler with a lethal right hand, is the strongest 145-pounder in the game and looked like a dominant champion in the division with two convincing wins over formerly invincible champ, Urijah Faber, and annihilating top contender Leonard Garcia. The common wisdom coming into the fight was that he should have no problem taking Aldo down once he got his hands on him.

Aldo, on the other hand, displayed lightning fast, dynamic striking of every variety…punches, kicks, knees, elbows…en route to five straight knockout or TKO stoppages inside the WEC cage since becoming a Zuffa athlete and an overall MMA record of 15-1. Naturally, when you heard that Aldo defeated Brown by second round TKO on Wednesday night at the Palms to capture the belt, the first thought had to be that speed triumphed over strength and power.

Not so fast…pun intended.

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**watch the full fight here

Cop tasers girl for resisting bedtime (no, seriously)

The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.

To hear Bradshaw tell it, he was now in the midst of a full-on brawl on the living-room floor with Kiara, a Grade 5 student. The 65-pounder was "verbally combative ... struck me with her legs and feet in the groin," Bradshaw wrote.

That's when he reached for his holster and delivered a "very very (sic) brief drive stun to her back with my taser."

Unsurprisingly, Kiara's struggling stopped immediately. Bradshaw then cuffed her and carried her to his squad car, since she could no longer walk.

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Global government: won't happen? EU pres says otherwise

"2009 is also the first year of global governance, with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of the financial crisis. The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet."

The money that is sold abroad is you

Why boys are turning into girls

Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream.

The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution measures and regulations are falling far short of getting to grips with it.

Sperm counts are falling so fast that young men are less fertile than their fathers and produce only a third as much, proportionately, as hamsters. And gender-bending chemicals are increasingly being blamed for the mystery of the "lost boys": babies who should normally be male who have been born as girls instead.


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Our Produce-or-Die Culture Is Killing Us -- And We're Idiotically Grinning and Bearing It

We've been reduced to "human assets" in a relentless economic machine. And we can't even complain: appearing cheerful is vital when all of life is monitored by an employer.

Proof abounds of the unending joy and importance of work and production in our wealth-based economy. Just read the job recruitment ads. Or ask any of the people clinging fearfully by their fingernails to those four remaining jobs in America. But is a job -- hopefully a good one -- and workplace strivance really everything? Most of us would say, "Well of course not." But in a nation that now sends police to break up the tent camps and car camps of homeless unemployed citizens who once belonged to the middle class, it might well be everything.

U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

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Dear Spooks,



Thanks for visiting!

Hydrogen-fueled cars become a thing of the present

"When the US government cut funding for hydrogen-fueled cars last May, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said such vehicles will not be practical for another decade or two.

Lim Tae-won thinks he can prove Secretary Chu wrong.

Dr. Lim runs the team at Hyundai (HYMLF.PK)-Kia Motors that is developing hydrogen fuel cell technology. And they are on course, he says, to mass produce hydrogen cars in six years…"

Like every business venture, there is no certainty and therefore this is a gamble. The undertaking to develop this into a commercially viable energy source relies upon funding from the Korean government. Unlike the U.S., Korea probably has the money to fund such a program and as they are keen to carve out leadership niches in the global economy and new world order, look for their commitment to manifest itself in earnest.

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Surprise...swine flu pandemic a sick joke

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Panic, little ones, it's the Carbon Monster

IF you don't reduce your carbon footprint, then puppies will drown and bunny rabbits will die. And a terrifying, jagged-toothed monster with crazy hooked hands will descend from the clouds to eat you up.

Indiana: 500 applicants in 3 days for one $13/hr job

BURNS HARBOR, Ind. — As soon as the job opening was posted on the afternoon of Friday, July 10, the deluge began.

When Stacey Ross, C. R. England’s head of corporate recruiting, arrived at her desk at the company’s Salt Lake City headquarters the next Monday, she found about 300 applications in the company’s e-mail inbox. And the fax machine had spit out an inch-and-a-half thick stack of résumés before running out of paper. By the time she pulled the posting off Careerbuilder.com later in the day, she guessed nearly 500 people had applied for the $13-an-hour job. “It was just shocking,” she said. “I had never seen anything so big.”

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This article is particularly interesting because it sheds a little more light on the perspective of the employer, and may explain why a large percentage of applicants do not receive a response to an application or resume submission.

Cook County Sheriff Loses Craigslist "Erotic Services" Ads Case

Yesterday, a federal court tossed a lawsuit against craigslist over erotic advertisements. In March, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart alleged that craigslist was liable for the illegal ads posted by its users in its "erotic services" (now "adult services") category. As craigslist argued in their motion for judgment on the pleadings, and as EFF and others pointed out at the time, Dart's complaint had virtually no chance of success because Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act plainly immunized Internet intermediaries like craigslist from civil liability for material posted by third parties.

On Tuesday, the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois agreed with craigslist, throwing out Dart's complaint in its entirety, confirming that Section 230 immunized craigslist from the allegation that it constituted a "public nuisance." The court made a number of important observations regarding the attempt to saddle craigslist with responsibility for the behavior of its users:

Petman prototype

The makers of the eerily lifelike robotic mule have a new creation: a machine that walks around like a real human being. Boston Dynamics is building the “Petman” prototype for the U.S. Army, to test out protective clothing.

Why BTM failed

Break the Matrix has seemingly failed to accomplish its goals. The goals of the website were to establish a social networking community based on free speech, libertarian ideology, and political fundraising.

Kill BofA!

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Kill fractional reserve banking altogether.

New "conservative" Bible will eliminate "liberal" text

If Andy Schlafly has his way, there will be no socialists or snake handlers in the Bible. No woman caught in adultery. And, definitely, no Stephen Colbert.

Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia.com, wants to save the Scriptures from liberals with his latest venture, the Conservative Bible Project. He says translations like the New International Version have added socialist ideals to the Good Book. But his rewrite of the Bible has drawn criticism from biblical scholars, liberals and conservatives.

Ron Paul/Peter Schiff on CNN

Paradox

Bite your tongue until it bleeds.

This pain is worth more than what you have to say.

Swallow your pride because silence is golden,

And I wouldn't pay a penny to hear your thoughts.



Lie down your guard and surrender.

All that you're proving is your ignorance.



Choose your words carefully.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life.

He that opens his lips too wide

Shall bring on his own destruction.



Bite your tongue until it bleeds.

The pain is worth more than what you have to say.

Swallow your pride.

Swallow your pride because silence is golden,

And I wouldn't pay a penny to hear your thoughts.



Lie down your guard.



Lie down your guard and surrender.

Huerta: Heart in Hollywood or in Haymakers?

When a fighter is a complete package–skillful, marketable and a winner–its easy to forget the intangible that separates fighters from competitors–heart.

Roger Huerta had an endless supply, it seemed, in and out of the ring. But as FIGHT! contributor Mike Chiappetta excellently discovered at MMA Fanhouse, even the most resilient hearts wear thin under the reproof of others.

Huerta, known for his emotionally draining performances against Leonard Garcia and Clay Guida in 2007, was divided. He was the rags to riches story in the Octagon, however, at the top it feels like critics are trying to rip new clothes into rags. The split lead him to question his identity as a fighter and embrace it as a personality. Hollywood was calling, and even though Marilyn Monroe warned “Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul,” Huerta puckered up, believing the grass in Hollywood was greener than it was in Las Vegas.

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Huerta's super-talented, but he'll go the way of Tito if he's not careful.

Peek behind the veil

Smooth Criminal

Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time.

Those two purchases put her in violation of Indiana law 35-48-4-14.7, which restricts the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, or PSE, products to no more than 3.0 grams within any seven-day period.

When the police came knocking at the door of Harpold’s Parke County residence on July 30, she was arrested on a Vermillion County warrant for a class-C misdemeanor, which carries a sentence of up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine.


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always a catch

Note: Glenn Beck makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit, but no one is wrong 100% of the time.

And from KFYI.com...

(KFYI News) Half of Congress is in recess, but debate continues over President Obama's health care program concerning privacy.

Section 163 of the bill states that the government would be allowed real-time access to a person's bank records - including direct access to bank accounts for electronic fund transfers.

Even-though the bill mentions privacy aspects, the fact remains that if approved, Obama's health care plan will give the government permission at any time to your personal bank records.

Arizona Congressman John Shadegg says people have the right to be concerned.

"It's pretty Orwellian, it certainly gets the government pretty darn deeply involved in private matters in our lives."

From the Health Care bill itself:

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and regularly update standards consistent with the 15
goals described in paragraph (2). 16
‘‘(2) GOALS FOR FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRA- 17
TIVE TRANSACTIONS.—The goals for standards 18
under paragraph (1) are that such standards shall— 19
‘‘(B) be authoritative, permitting no addi-
tions or constraints for electronic transactions, 23
including companion guides; 24
‘‘(D) enable the real-time (or near real-
time) determination of an individual’s financial 6
responsibility at the point of service and, to the 7
extent possible, prior to service, including 8
whether the individual is eligible for a specific 9
service with a specific physician at a specific fa- 10
cility, which may include utilization of a ma- 11
chine-readable health plan beneficiary identi- 12
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The Plant of Immortality

Research indicates that aloe vera’s earliest use originated from the Egyptians. This plant, comprised of 99 percent water and 1 percent glycoproteins and polysaccharides, which are anti-inflammatory and healing agents, truly has an interesting history.

Egyptians had the savvy to use this wondrous plant as they were, on every level, ahead of their time. Many of the hieroglyphics on the temple walls as well as the pyramid walls boasted and attested to their love for this commodity even to the point of it being put on the same level as God. They called it “The Plant of Immortality.”

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50,000-watt electric go-kart

The only logical next step is, of course, a real-life Mario-Kart League.

Women and Children First

Woohoo! Mandatory vaccinations! Pregnant mothers and children to the front of the line! God, I'm so thankful to the government and pharmaceutical companies for looking out for everyone and keeping us safe. (sigh) Ok, fine, it sounds great and I'm really busy, but I guess I'll read the fine print...

“Some of the vaccine will be stored in multi-dose vials containing thimerosal, an antibacterial additive that contains mercury,” reports the Washington Post today in an article about which groups will receive the swine flu vaccine first.

“There will also be single-dose syringes without thimerosal, a substance that some assert is harmful to children,” adds the article, without mentioning whether or not people who take the vaccine will get a choice or even be informed if it contains mercury.

Mercury is classified by The Department of Defense as a hazardous material that could cause death if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin, and the EPA is now limiting mercury emissions from factories because the toxin “can damage the brain and nervous system and is especially dangerous to fetuses and small children,” but according to the CDC it’s perfectly safe to inject into your child’s bloodstream.

Some Oklahoma children will get a swine flu vaccine before it is available to the public. If clinical trials go well, the vaccine could be available in limited supplies by mid to late fall, experts said.

IPS Research in Oklahoma City is the first Oklahoma company to conduct the vaccination trials and will begin enrolling study patients Aug. 17, said IPS Research medical director Dr. Louise Thurman.

The trials will test the vaccine’s effectiveness and whether or not it has negative side effects in patients.

She anticipates about 200 children ages 3 to 8 will be able to enroll.

Nationwide, 12,000 children will be given the vaccine for the trial, she said. The company should know today whether it will conduct adult trials, too.

Pharmaceutical companies can be assured that they won’t face reprisals for the many thousands of injuries and deaths that will inevitably occur as a result of exposing millions to mercury and squalene during a mass vaccination program, because the government has already acted to provide them with blanket immunity from lawsuits.

“Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius,” reported the Associated Press earlier this month.


Is that all? For a second there I thought there might actually be another side of the story. Now we can all get on with doing what we're told without question...



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