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The pay gap is a myth and when the studies are analysed and things such as years of experience and hours worked are taken into effect women earn the same if not more than males in the same job.

The biased studies that try to show a gap try to equate age to "years of experience" and don't account for a 40 year old male who has spent 20 years working after college to a 40 year old female who took 5 years off to stay at home with kids.

What will happen next is that women will demand equal pay regardless of experience or even job role.They will say that teaching kids is just a valuable to society as designing a jet engine and therefore the government should step in to equalize pay. Which given the way economics actually works, will only bring down the higher pay not increase the lower pay.

There is an inherent illogic in th ewhole setup as well. We have tech people being laid off in order to bring people over from other countries to work for less. There is no argument regarding that.

Why on earth do corporations that would do that, not hire all female staff so they could save 30 percent on payroll? If all else is equal, that's a hellava saving, which services the stockholders very well indeed. SO far it looks like only HuffPo has figured that out. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

IOW women should get hiring preference, and the male unemployment rate should be much higher than the female rate.

Last year some jackass named John Greenewald Jr. ripped off a small open source software project designed to data-mine FOIA websites that scan and digitize historical documents. Amusingly the public reaction was completely reversed from how people are flipping out about the OkCupid data theft.

Despite the fact that this loser of a human being, John Greenewald, ripped off hundreds of thousands of documents, and never uttered a single word about where he got the data, or how he ripped off an open source software team that had been developing the project for years, nor did he give attribution to the company that did the actual work of scanning the documents—and made them available for free no less. On top of all that this complete parasitic loser even had the balls to try monetize Fold3's work. Yet hilariously people still have the temerity to attack Fold3 and Ancestry.com claiming the company was somehow in the wrong for forcing this attention-whoring sideshow clown to remove the data from his website or face a lawsuit.

The sad truth is people don't care about the actual morality of data theft. They only care about whether or not the data is personally beneficial to them, and if it is, well, ... then it's okay.

the typo was for "dates", apparently arabic for dates and virgins differ by very small amounts, or so some guy claims

Once upon a time, SS cards said right on them "Not for identification." They still should. http://files.abovetopsecret.co...

According to a Nobel scientist quoted here: http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
"In voicing support for Christie's quarantine, Dr. Beutler -- current director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas -- told the website, "I favor it," adding, "I favor it, because it's not entirely clear that they can't transmit the disease." He was referring to currently asymptomatic healthcare worker Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse who recently returned to New Jersey after treating patients in Sierra Leone and was quarantined in the state for 65 hours. She was eventually taken to her home state of Maine.
    "It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can't transmit the disease, because we don't have the numbers to back that up," Dr. Beutler continued in his NJ.com interview. "It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even.
    "People may have said that without symptoms you can't transmit Ebola. I'm not sure about that being 100 percent true. There's a lot of variation with viruses," he added."

Also apparently sneezing can potentially spread Ebola for several feet and it can live on surfaces for days:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Ways to decontaminate with robotics UV:
http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

Some suggest vitamin C may help:
https://www.patrickholford.com...

Others disagree: http://scienceblogs.com/insole...
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

It's a bit more complicated.

Ukrainian military right now basically consists of three distinct parts. One is the regular army - those are reasonably well equipped (all the usual stuff, artillery, tanks, air etc - if somewhat outdated), but poorly motivated. The other is the National Guard, which was basically recreated and stuffed with mostly ex-MVD and internal troops - these are neither well equipped nor well motivated (many of them were on the "wrong" side of Maidan).

Then there is that part of the National Guard that consists of the volunteer batallions - Azov, Dniepr, Donbas, Aidar etc. These consist mostly from people who were on Maidan and wanted to keep the fight going, but also from the newly reinvigorated far right groups like Right Sector (in particular, Azov is almost 100% neo-Nazi, and they aren't even hiding that fact - take a look at their insignia, and if you're not familiar with the symbolism, look up Schwarzezonne and Wolfsangel). Now these guys are very motivated, and they are one of the few units which sometimes even refuse to retreat against direct orders to do so, and are generally very battle efficient. However, they are not well equipped - in many cases the state didn't even issue a proper uniform, so they're wearing the stuff that was crowdsourced for them, and they have very little heavy armor or artillery.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

They're doing it all the time at "abovetopsecret.com"

Light source seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Ammonite fossil seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Mystery rock found on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Stone Hut seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

They're doing it all the time at "abovetopsecret.com"

Light source seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Ammonite fossil seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Mystery rock found on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Stone Hut seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

They're doing it all the time at "abovetopsecret.com"

Light source seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Ammonite fossil seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Mystery rock found on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Stone Hut seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

They're doing it all the time at "abovetopsecret.com"

Light source seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Ammonite fossil seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Mystery rock found on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

Stone Hut seen on Mars: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/...

First, the pyroclastic flow (superheated gas and ash) would play havoc with the western half of the U.S.:

It would kill all life within roughly a 300 mile radius, in a matter of minutes.

It would most likely melt or incinerate anything with a boiling point equal to or less than that of iron.

After about 300 miles the heat would gradually start dying out, leaving people alive, but suffering first, second, and third degree burns.

About that time, the shockwave should hit. There's really no way to predict what kind of damage will happen, but it will likely leave almost anyone in the western half of the U.S. deafened, or with severely damaged hearing. Ironically, this will be the least of the troubles, because...

Though the gas has cooled enough to only scald people, for the remainder of the roughly 600 mile radius, people will have to also deal with their air being poisoned and acidic. Those not killed outright will soon have a very bad day, however, because...

The next effect will primarily cover twice the 600 mile radius in ash, most likely in an eliptical pattern to follow windflows, up to about 4 meters. A good portion of this ash will also come from the previously incinerated landscape. Those not killed by heat, poison, and acid, will now find breathing and moving extremely difficult as they wade through a 12-foot sea of fine powder.

Global Effects would be felt the same day and continue to worsen for the next 3-14 days, depending on the weather patterns. The would include things like.

Little, if any, government assistance. The largest disaster FEMA has ever had to face is 9/11, which stretched their resources to the limit. The affected area of the supervolcano is an estimated 10 million times greater than that of 9/11. To date, FEMA does not have a contingency plan for a disaster on the scale of a supervolcano. Though they have shown an interest in developing one, it is doubtful they will ever have the resources capable of dealing with such an event. So you might want to be prepared, either with supplies, with guns, and/or with your god.

Another problem that will have to be dealt with is the gas sulphur dioxide which forms sulphuric acid when it gets into the stratosphere. This has two main effects, one is blotting out the sun, the other is, of course, sulfuric acid rain.

Within a day or so, temperatures would plummet 15-20 degrees, on average, across the globe. While this wouldn't exactly cause the end of the world, it is likely to turn many temperate climates into arctic ones. Strangely, the greatest differences would be in the southern hemisphere, though thanks to the normally high temperature, it would probably make them a cool average of 72-degrees year-round, thus remove San Diego's monopoly on such temperatures.

Since most foodcrops depend upon a particular temperature and sunlight range, and most foodcrops are grown in temperate climates, and the breadbasket of the U.S. will be under a 12-foot layer of ash, and the damage to global infrastructure, one can expect that a lot of people will starve--roughly 1 billion, at best estimates.

Travel using engines would be severely limited for a while, though the time and location would depend largely on the ashfall. The enormous amount of particulates in the air would not only impair visibility on an unprecedented scale, but also clog air filters within a very short amount of time.

Anyone with breathing problems or allergies can count on a miserable life. Those with perfectly healthy lungs can count on developing breathing problems and allergies.

Most of North America would become uninhabitable until the ash had been beaten down by the acid rain, and hardened enough to walk on. Even then, the poisons within the ash, the topsoil covered with volcanic roc

Neither of those planes could go above 200 knots.

Neither of those planes could go above 200 knots.

That's the great thing about having big stockpiles of chemical weapons - there are plenty to go around, capture, and use. But do keep in mind that the Syrian government has a bit more practice and training for this sort of thing.

Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about

I doubt it for these reasons.

The Russian government continues to cover the back of the Syrian government as it has for decades.

Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about

... against whom? the rebels or the saudis?

Noone with half a brain believes Assad is behind the chemical attack because

1) He has nothing to gain by doing so
2) He has everything to lose by doing so
3) He is not a retard

Not to mention that the past 6 months have shown that Assad isn't exactly cornered, on the contrary, he has been pushing further and further back against the rebels.

Maybe you can explain why the Syrian, not Saudi, regime has previously used chemical weapons on its people under conditions far less dangerous to the regime?

Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about

You are only offering bold declarations, not analysis. Also note that without Iranian assistance in the form of troops, training, and material, the Syrian government would be in far worse shape than it is now.

Obama's (and the neocon's) response: bomb a civil war in the Middle East...

Just to be clear, are you advocating leaving the Syrian government in peace to use nerve gas on the population at will.... like Saddam was doing to the Kurds? Another Hama is OK? Just asking.

Because Syria launching chemical weapons makes about as much sense as Obama nuking Texas.

Do you have any "insightful" comments about Saddam's gassing of the Kurds? Interesting fact - Iraq was, and Syria is, ruled by the Ba'ath Party, and both have been bloodthirsty.

By the way, the Syrian government has gassed people before: Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about

Google Mebendazole discontinued: I get this

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread822776/pg1

For information on it being made illegal,

http://www.elderlawanswers.com/buying-prescription-drugs-from-canada-legal-or-illegal-1204

Basically, in support of their IP, the pharmacy companies got laws passed banning parallel imports. Now, they have every incentive to discontinue safe, cheap, effective, OTC drugs with expired patents, in favor of forcing people to buy dangerous, less effective high profit drugs. Which they do.

All of which speaks to the First Post of this story.

That strategy has been in place since the time of Echelon being the program everyone was worried about.

I would say that everyone though needs to use a slightly different list every time they put out the list, otherwise the list would be immediately recognized and ignored.

Here is are some examples of the old Echelon list.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi/noframes/read/703

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/31/what_are_those_words/

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread455848/pg1

Gates Foundation is a funnel for corruption, and a pocket-liner for Gates' own business interests in the guise of a bureaucracy-dodging philanthropic enterprise.

Gates is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Monsanto/Glaxo Industrial Complex, making the world safe for the IMF and its participating billionaires.

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html

http://naturalsociety.com/bill-gates-foundation-buys-500000-shares-of-monsanto/

http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/the-gates-foundation-connection-to-the-glaxo-drug-fraud-scandal-humanosphere/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353287/28-billion-health-fund-backed-Bill-Gates-Bono-investigation-fraud.html

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread777028/pg0

But? If they FUND journalists and transparency foundations, then the immunize themselves from criticism by the press... It's buying coverage.

http://philanthropy.com/blogs/giveandtake/why-is-the-gates-foundation-giving-so-much-money-to-journalists/27524

http://techrights.org/2013/03/22/gates-manufacturing-a-false-image/

stenvar says:

So, it's educated middle class people in the city protesting that politicians aren't giving them stuff cheaper and that politicians are wasting their money.

If you had done some proper research, you would have discovered that the "middle class" did not support the protest, it started off peacefully and only gained traction after abusive police crackdowns.

The marches began this month with a small protest in Sao Paulo against a small increase in bus and subway fares. The demonstrations initially drew the scorn of many middle-class Brazilians after protesters vandalized storefronts, subway stations and buses on one of the city's main avenues. But the movement quickly gained support and spread to other cities as police used heavy-handed tactics to try to quell the demonstrations. The biggest crackdown happened on Thursday in Sao Paulo when police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in clashes that injured more than 100 people, including 15 journalists, some of whom said they were deliberately targeted.

There's even a eyewitness report, together with pictures and videos of the police brutality by the poster "Canslli" here .

But the problem, again, was the government and it's police. They cowardly shot tear gas and rubber bullets on people who were peacefully protesting or just passing by (many reporters say that the police shot first, creating chaos)...

A journalist from Folha de São Paulo was hit in the eye by a rubber bullet while she was sitting on a sidewalk talking with some other journalists...

A lady who was just passing by, also hit by rubber bullets...

Protesters surrendering to the police, only to be shot after...

A homeless boy, that lives on one of the streets engulfed in chaos, was shot in the leg by a rubber bullet. Some people took him to a drugstore to receive treatment...

Here is a video of some people who were chanting "No Violence!" until the cops shot rubber bullets at them...

So while you sit safely at home smugly spinning lies to support your ideological war against the left, understand that there are real people with real issues who are bleeding and dying in the riots. At least respect that.

I always preferred this explanation

Anyway, I'm glad that these guys are doing this. That way when the inevitable alien invasion occurs, we'll know /exactly/ who to blame.
(cue pedants reminding us that Earth has been spewing out radio signals for over a century).

No. But it does equate to a double standard. A different standard is applied to Israel than to everyone else. What's worse is that the other Arab countries are treating their own people like shit.

Despite your flamebait moderation, you are essentially correct.

As far as a double standard against Israel, the UN is a great example of that.

From: Middle East Quarterly - Winter 2004
The Case for Israel

... The Case For Israel ... Dershowitz points out that a full 27 percent of the U.N.'s country-specific resolutions critical of a state have been directed against it. In contrast, no resolution in the history of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has condemned Syria, China, Saudi Arabia, or Zimbabwe, all of which are self-evidently far worse violators of human rights. Israel, asserts Dershowitz, has a "far better record on human rights than any other nation in the Middle East and most other nations in the world." As evidence, he notes that "Israel is the only nation in the world whose judiciary actively enforces the rule of law against its military during wartime" and that "Israel has killed fewer innocent civilians in proportion to the number of its own civilians killed than any country engaged in a comparable war."... The Case for Israel

Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War - Israel does not "deliberately" target civilians.

Regarding the mistreatment of Arabs by Arabs, two interesting cases that immediately come to mind:

Black September - In Context
Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about (Not for those of weak constitution. The SS had nothing on the Syrian Army.)

For some reason you never really hear about those. What makes it doubly interesting is that Black September was specifically against the Palestinian Arabs.

It may have worked for you for a long time but the world is slowly awakening to just how evil the behaviour of Israel is.

Given your views, you should probably hope that the world isn't awakening to evil behavior, otherwise the there some unexpected drubbings that are going to be handed out.

Palestinians Celebrate after Brutal Murder of Fogel Family
The Jews Were Brought to Palestine for the Great Massacre
Palestinian Myth Machine
Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War
Goldstone: You Cannon Undo a Slander
The European Left and Its Trouble With Jews
Why the al-Dura Blood Libel Still Matters

Yes, much of the world joins to condemn Israel, often based on lies, but either passes in silence over true horrors of the genuine mass murdering regimes in the Middle East, or actually defends the real butchers.

Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about
Commentary: Remembering Iraq's mass graves

What happened to Iraq's 'human shields'?

If Israel was only as evil as Iraq or Syria, the Paelstinians would have disappeared into mass graves long ago. That clearly hasn't happened.

Government slaughter of civilians should be everyone's problem.

It is a long standing problem in Syria.

Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about

In 1982 the Syrian government killed 30,000 – 40,000 of its own citizens. Assad leveled an entire city with an air bombardment followed by artillery and tank fire. Why? They were anti Baath party, and apparently in 1982 in Syria that was a death sentence

CAUTION: Graphic descriptions of atrocities in the article

You can take that caution seriously if you are of delicate constitution. The SS didn't really have anything on the Syrian army.

Hama makes an interesting counterpoint to the frequent claims of massacre or genocide made against Israel by various Arab groups and their allies. Those claims generally prove to be false, misleading, or exaggerated, once exposed to scrutiny.

Have a Rotten Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone
Fighting the Lies Harder Than Fighting the War - Israel does not "deliberately" target civilians.
Palestinian Myth Machine

So I was noticing how filthy the wheels are... and I'm wondering, if the planets as dry as it's supposed to be, why would dirt be sticking to anything? What's making it sticky? Static? I'm a bit perplexed by what seems to be moist earth rather than desert sands as I'd expect.

I googled that question and it came up with this page (linked below). Scroll down to see some very fine closeup pics of the rovers dirty wheels.

The best comments seem to agree that it could be a combination of very fine dust and static involved.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread880460/pg1

I was complaining about the US's war crimes, or don't they count as crimes if your own country does it?

They don't count as war crimes if they are ordinary acts of war falsely labeled war crimes, as many are wont to do.

I'm curious - do the actual war crimes or crimes against humanity of a Saddam or a Assad trouble you at all? Or is it just the actions of the United States?

Was it a crime against peace for the United States led coalition to remove Saddam's occupation army from Kuwait?

http://www.newser.com/story/125261/mexican-helicopter-mistakes-airports-lands-in-texas.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023633/Mexican-military-helicopter-soldiers-lands-airport-Texas--MISTAKE.html
http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Mexican-military-helicopter-lands-in-Laredo-by-2082188.php
https://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/mexican-military-helicopter-spotted-flying-over-texas/
http://texasliberal.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/mexican-helicopters-flying-over-texas-would-obama-respond-to-mexican-invasion-with-use-of-force/
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread557760/pg1
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110905191138AAP32Xj
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=429229#.US-m5WJ2n4Y

BTW, the idea of a Mexican helicopter "mistakenly" landing 16 miles away from its target is utterly ridiculous. No competent pilot would ever make such a mistake; that's why they have GPS in aircraft now, not to mention basic navigational skills and fuel-burn calculations (plus the Rio Grande river, which is obvious from the air) rule this excuse out.

Also, it's one thing when there's a large concentration of police force during protests or other big event. Completely another when it is a day-to-day, routine thing.

Do routine traffic stops with a tank count?

In the capital, you don't.

Washington, D.C. has a very high murder rate; Well above national average. It's actually on par with Detroit.

We're all just at the bottom of a big Ponzi scheme. Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNxRwaF6iyo

And read this:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread893084/pg1

No internet makes it easier to recreate the success of the 1981 attack on Hama again if they think it is needed, while suppressing news about it. You may want to recall Hama the next time you read some claim about how ruthless the Israelis are for killing a dozen Arabs trying to blow them up.

Is that how you little penguins operate? Of course it is. PURE deceit &/or half-truths.

(It is TRULY, the "why" of WHY You fools will NEVER get ahead, & see "the year of Linux on the desktop"... period!)

Bottom-line - People won't listen to bullshit artists & 1/2 truths, & certainly NOT those using unjustifiable downmods vs. facts!

NOW - The funniest part is, you all seem to *think* people are stupid and can't see posts you bogusly downmod like mine has been (for merely citing verifiable facts & truths... ones "penguins" can't handle!).

Newsflash - many here browse below the default moderation threshold (which is purest bullshit since anyone can pull a downmod - in fact?

I'll let an OPEN "SORES" BIG NAME SPEAK FOR ME on that very account:

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"It just takes one Ubuntu sympathizer or PR flack to minus-moderate any comment. Unfortunately, once PR agencies and so on started paying people to moderate online communities, and to have hundreds of accounts each, things changed." - by Bruce Perens (3872) on Friday July 30, @03:55PM (#33089192) Homepage Journal

SOURCE -> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1738364&cid=33089192

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Deceitful little bogus downmodding trolls are JUST like:

The Chinese Water Army:

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22Chinese+Water+Army%22&btnG=Search&gbv=1&sei=tSchUJjPGYn36gGYtIDACQ

AND HBGary:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

PERTINENT QUOTES/EXCERPTS:

"According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online... And all of this is for the purposes of infiltration, data mining, and (here's the one that really worries me) ganging up on bloggers, commenters and otherwise "real" people to smear enemies and distort the truth... "

and

"They are talking about creating the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader... And another thing, this is just one little company of assholes. I can't believe there aren't others doing this already. From oil companies, political campaigns, PR firms, you name it. Public opinion means big bucks. And let's face it, what these guys are talking about is easy."

and

"To the extent that the propaganda technique known as "Bandwagon" is an effective form of persuasion, which it definitely is, the ability for a few people to infiltrate a blog or social media site and appear to be many people, all taking one position in a debate, all agreeing, for example, that so and so is not credible, or a crook, is an incredibly powerful weapon."

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This takes the cake, as to how "PR Firms" pull crap, in "Confessions of a Shill" (pulling crap on anti-semitic stuff):

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread826545/pg1&addstar=1&on=13829871#pid13829871

Unbelievable... but, there it is, along with ALL THE OTHER PROOF just above!

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(Forums sockpuppeting mu

No those things just add to the list, but the primary thing would be that backstabbing a former ally creates a bad reputation especially if the former ally has truckloads of dirt on behaviour of secret services that fits the category of war crimes.

If you say so. When it comes to "back stabbing", don't you think the Syrians saw the way the Europeans treated Khadafi after he started coming clean and gave up his nuclear weapons program? That ship has already sailed.

It seems to me that you greatly exaggerate the closeness of the relationship between the US and Syria, and the efficacy of any claims that they might make. After all, what form would they take? "The United States returned a man of Syrian heritage to our security services in Syria, and how did we greet him? We tortured the hell out of him! . . . Just like we do to thousands and thousands of others. . . just not to death in his case. We did offer him the kindness of suggesting he not settle in Hama, where we are recreating some of our success from 1982."

Frankly, I think that anyone who believes your position already believes the US is among the worst countries on the planet, and little is likely to change that for good or ill.

According to the official chart, it looks like weather balloons probably make much greater use of the spectrum than LS is willing to admit: http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/8b51a211569e.jpg

Maybe they should look into the swamp gas spectrum.

It looks like a lot of water, but it's mostly on the surface so it is misleading. Here's a neat graphic.

But when Iran & Syria do the exact same thing - buying snooping gear from the free market to keep their population in check - they are suddenly "evil"

No, I'm afraid you are quite wrong there, Syria and Iran have been evil regimes for quite some time. The 1982 Hama massacre is a good taste of what the Syrian regime is capable of. It also serves as an example of what the Arab & Muslim world will tolerate in silence, but when an Israeli soldier kills one Palestinian Arab suicide bomber it is decried as a massacre and war crime. Iran has long practiced state sponsored terrorism.

The US government is using surveillance on people in direct contact with terrorist* organizations to stop people who want to do things like fly planes into buildings for mass slaughter and detonate bombs in crowds for mass slaughter. The Syrian government is using surveillance and mass slaughter to prevent free and fair elections. The difference is clear as the difference between night and day.

For the uninformed - this is the sort of regime that runs Syria, and what it is capable of doing to its own cities and citizens:

Hama 1982 – The Syrian massacre you never heard about

Now, why might the United States government be engaging in surveillance? I'm sure you can figure it out if you try.

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 27, 2012

Denver: Man Arrested for Providing Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization

Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested by members of the FBI’s Denver and Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Forces on a charge of providing and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist organization. Full Story

Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Use of a Weapon of Mass Destruction in Plot to Attack Armed Forces Recruiting Center

U.S. citizen Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, pled guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property in connection with a scheme to attack an armed forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland. Full Story

Washington Field: Man Pleads Guilty to Shootings at Pentagon, Other Military Buildings

Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virginia, pled guilty to damaging property and to firearms violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in northern Virginia between October and November 2010, and to attempting to damage veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Full Story

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending January 13, 2012

1.Tampa: Florida Resident Charged with Plotting to Bomb Locations in Tampa

A 25-year-old resident of Pinellas Park, Florida was charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack locations in Tampa with a vehicle bomb, assault rifle, and other explosives. Full Story

2.Baltimore: Former Army Solider Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to al Shabaab

A man who secretly converted to Islam days before he separated from the Army was charged with attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, a foreign terrorist organization, and was arrested upon his return to Maryland after traveling to Africa. Full Story

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending December 9, 2011

Seattle: Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Attack Military Processing Center

A former Los Angeles man pled guilty in connection with the June 2011 plot to attack a military installation in Seattle. Full Story

FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending December 2, 2011

San Diego: Woman Guilty of Conspiring to Provide Material Support to al Shabaab

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Please do not compare things like gravity, that are observable and measurable, to evolution, it is not scientific. We need to apply the same scientific standards to evolution not give it a pass.

Evolution is observable. Evolution is observable every time there is a mutation in a species that sticks around because it either has positive survival benefits or neutral survival benefits (in which case, it sticking around was chance, rather than natural selection, but there is a difference between evolution and natural selection). Hell, evolution would be observable if a member of a species developed a mutation and passed it on (and it propagated) despite having negative survival benefits. That's evolution, too.

Please show the fossil record for the mutations of any species, any at all, from one animal to another. This would be all over the news if it existed. Darwin predicted there should be thousands for any single animal. There are only nodes on the tree chart without the evidence of the branch connections.

I don't need to show fossil records. Fossil records would actually be harder to show than actual animals because of the previously mentioned relative rarity of an animal becoming fossilized and thus the extreme difficulty of finding every individual animal in an evolutionary track. Remember, a mother never (or at least extremely rarely) gives birth to an animal of a different species, the lines aren't drawn that hard in the sand. So, you can't just find 2 fossils, you would need a very large number of generations, all connected directly, parent to child, to show it with ONLY the fossil record. Fossil record is NOT the biggest evidence here.

As far as actual animals, let's go with a simple one, that I can be reasonably sure you've heard of, first. It's not evolution of one species to another, but it's evolution. It's an obvious trait that has developed and become more common throughout a species. If it keeps propagating like it has, it will likely either become a new species or completely change a trait so that the old species basically doesn't exist anyway. MRSA. Staph has developed a resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics over the course of a relatively short time. How would that have happened without evolution?

I know, I know, you're screaming about needing to see one species evolve into another (even though THAT is not required to prove evolution, all that is required is a mutation that becomes dominant over time, such as MRSA or elephants losing their tusks, or fish becoming immune to some toxic waste). I just wanted to give you an example that you'd likely heard of there.
How about http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread572409/pg1 ? King demoiselle recently evolved into three different species. Midas cichlid evolving into other species within the past century. There have been a number of instances where speciation has occured in the laboratory, apple maggot flies for example. New species of plants have been observed (O. gigas, is an example) . Pasterniani's experiments with corn.

Then there are the Central European blackcap and Galapagos ground finch, which have undergone natural speciation which scientists have been able to observe. There have been other birds whose names I don't remember and I believe a species of lizard. It's happened.

There is the cell. It's been around for 3.5 billion years, as per evolutionists. It has factories in it such as a DNA sequencer, molecular folder, transport mechanisms, along with the programming data to run everythin

Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.

The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:

Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project!!

Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.

Dude, she's female, of course she's crazy.

Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.

The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:

Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project!!

Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.

Sounds like an Alien Entanglement.

Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.

The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:

Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project!!

Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.

Sounds like part of this story is a somewhat unintentional hoax: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread354322/pg2

someone needs to remind them that Osama bin Laden had his own porn stash. that makes it ok.

Obviously it's a swamp-gas weather balloon manufactured by ACME.

Ahhh, one of these?

Solar is propped up far less than the dirty fossil fuel industry. Oil and Natural Gas alone are set to reap more than $1.25 Billion from Texas alone this year in subsides and tax breaks. At the Federal level, they've reaped more than $50 Billion since 2002. In order to level the proverbial playing field, the subsidies to Solar and other alternative energy forms are necessary. But the Oil and Gas companies are reaping billions of dollars in profits and paying less tax than the average wage earner in terms of a percentage of income.

Without subsides, our $4 gallon gas would be more like what they pay in Europe--nearly double that and would cripple or kill the auto industry. Of course it may well spur development of better and more efficient (and more profitable) forms of Public Transportation, but most of that would take a decade or more to put in place. This, too, would kill our fragile economy. Had this all been done during the Clinton Administration, when we were seeing 5% Annual Growth, then removing the subsidies for Oil and Gas would

I really think that pentagon is very good at hiding money from the coffers when they want to, more so then figuring out how to harness the power of the sun.....here knock yourself out.... http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread60582/pg1

Is it a good idea at all to let the military have such high budgets, especially when the people living there do not spend that much on air conditioning themselves....
so are we to say we are the weaker of the 2 nations as our people NEED air conditioning, when they do not....mmmmmmm.....let me think....nope, i think it may just be a smoke screen as my previous post.....so unless you are willing to do all those calculations to prove to me I am wrong that 20 billion in air conditioning is less then the said needs to operate solar panels to generate electricity...I would query some other posts to troll in if I were you.

Also using up all those sand dunes to operate solar panels (which is already being used by the nations in which our armies are posted) would be really less costly land wise....as sand is free over there........heck they could spray paint solar paint on all 4 sides of the pyramids in order to get as much electricity as possible for all I care, it would still be less expensive then 20 billion...and renewable, not used once....dolt.

There was mention a while back about government projects to provide tools to agents so they could manage hundreds/thousands of online personas... paranoid linky: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread664190/pg1 Considering the hysterical attitude of the gov't about wikileaks, it's sadly not unbelievable that this would extend to such places as slashdot.

something as vaporous as 'there might be an earthquake in the next few days' isn't going to change routines

Please tell me you're kidding.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread701933/pg1

http://www.cnkeyword.info/taiwan-14-earthquake-predicted-wave-triggered-evacuation-helicopter-apron-shift/

http://gardencityquake.blogspot.com/2011/03/false-earthquake-prediction-sparks.html

People are willing to evacuate cities based upon the predictions of this guy: "He is co-author of Pawmistry: How to Read Your Cat's Paws, which teaches ways to read a cat's mood and "explores the psychic influences that numerology and the zodiac have on your cat"."

Hopefully a scientifically backed prediction would have at least as much effect.