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http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-food-hybrid-poison-grass-that-kills-texas-cattle-not-genetically-modified

Pinch-to-Zoom was invented at a public university on public funding and therefore it ought to belong to The People.

Well, considering when this historical document was written, the State Governors could call up a militia from the able-bodied population. When you were called to duty, you were also expected to bring your long arm with you. So yes, the common man would have expected to have access to cutting-edge military technology of the time.

In modern times, we restrict sales of certain items to government or law enforcement agencies only. That's consistent with maintenance of a standing army (I'm not expected to bring my long arm and ammunition to boot camp should I enlist.) Unfortunately, there's a huge middle ground of contestable items - from machine guns to suppressors - that initiate frothing emotional debates from very opinionated folks. It doesn't help when BATFE classifies copper pot scrubbers and shoe laces as "firearms."

And in case we don't think it could happen here, from Sarah Brady's own mouth:

http://www.examiner.com/article/sarah-brady-claims-obama-pushing-under-the-radar-gun-control

So much for the most legit and transparent administration, like, EVER!

"... Doesn't look like she's missing too many meals" http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/candice-schwager?slide=37962031

She eats the babies she can't save.

"Now she’s trying my patience. She’s going back and forth offering the pay me and threatening to sue me and beating the “save the babies” drum very hardand upside me head."

This is the type of gold one used to find on cruel.com from time to time.

/. mis-spelled the name. Doesn't look like she's missing too many meals

http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/candice-schwager?slide=37962031

What Do GMO Seeds Have to Do With Bee Die-Offs in the Corn Belt?

More proof pesticide causes bee Colony Collapse Disorder

Too right! They should be recognising your negative reaction for what it is and embrace your differences accordingly!

Mistreatment of employees? Microsoft does none of this.

"The last incidence of a threatened jump over labor conditions was at a plant producing Microsoft's Xbox 360."
http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/27/foxconn.central.china.plant.sees.protest/
http://www.examiner.com/article/brazilian-foxconn-workers-threaten-strike-over-poor-working-conditions

So someone points out five examples of serious bias by non-Fox networks, only two of which apparently ended in apologies... and the response isn't "yea, they're all biased", but rather "Fox doesn't apologize"?

Simply googling "fox network apology" show's that it isn't entirely true that Fox never apologizes: here's one example, and another.

I never watch Fox News or MSNBC or any other TV news show, and I'm not defending Fox. But it seems like if your vehement argument for superiority boils down to "my partisan biased news show is somewhat more likely to apologize for its excesses when it gets caught than yours", you might want to be a little less proud of that.

And yet, the original comment gets modded flamebait, and both of the retorts get modded up...

Of course, smugly, Obama is yet again just a ditto-head on this sanction issue (this despite his Tony Rezko's inspired Syrian "reset" policy)

http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-calls-syrian-tyrant-a-reformer-despite-assad-s-bloody-record
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/world/middleeast/04syria.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-levies-tech-sanctions-syria-120642375.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/obama-tightens-penalties-on-iran-and-syria-for-trying-to-evade-get-around-us-sanctions/2012/05/01/gIQAz2ZNuT_story.html

(and we'll see how this last one plays out)
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/02/24/exclusive_state_department_quietly_warning_region_on_syrian_wmds

This article would suggest that police are not trained on how to deal with dogs. They usually carry mace, tasers, etc, but it seems they almost always go straight for the gun. I'm not sure what kind of training most police receive regarding handling situations involving pets, but I'd argue that this is most likely a case of Hanlon's razor.

This story is a hypersensationalization of the actual facts.

What you seem to be missing is a moderate left party. Where is the American party that isn't aiming for communism, but would increase taxes on the rich, using the money to pay for improved infrastructure and social services (e.g. public transport, more money/help for the unemployed or low income people, single-parent families, investment in bad bits of cities, etc)?

That sort of thing is pretty much the platform of the Democratic party in the US. However, in fairness, there is very little legislation that passes in the United States at the national level, or in most states, that doesn't have at least some degree of support from both parties. The Republican party is also for improving infrastructure, and social services - when necessary. There are disagreements as to how to pay for things, how long they last, etc. One thing that many Europeans have a hard time with is that American political parties, at least the Democrats and Republicans, tend to be "big tent" parties that have a fairly wide range of political views - the parties both have their conservative and liberal wings. This is somewhat less true than in the past, say 30 years ago.

The Republicans aren't far right, they are center-center right. I don't think even in a European context they would be truly far right. There is one notable difference between the American and European right. The American right rejected the far right in the 50s and 60s, so it has withered. The Left in America hasn't done that fully.

The Republicans reject authoritarianism, racism (despite the nonsense you read on Slashdot), and are not anti-immigrant. They do want all immigration to be legal, however. As things stand now, approximately 10% of the population of Mexico has crossed into the United States, almost all illegally. That really can't be a good thing for all the things it implies.

As to your other questions -

I don't believe that the National Socialists have won any elections ever, although they do run for office from time to time. The various Communist parties put people on the ballot, but I doubt they've won much unless it was unopposed. Communists have been appointed to high government positions, however - Van Jones, for example. The Socialists have won office here and there. There is a US Senator who is a socialist, and the city of Milwaukee (a major city) has elected a socialist party mayor in years past. The state of Minnesota also elected a Reform Party governor several years ago - Jesse Ventura, the actor and former wrestler. I believe Green Party members have won local office as well.

So the United States truly does have the full range of political parties in it, but the American electorate is drawn more towards the center. The national election system helps reinforce that tendency. I don't think that is a bad thing.

I keep getting ads for guns, ammo, tannerite and paracetamol! WHY? OH WHY?

http://www.tannerite.com/
http://www.examiner.com/article/boa-drops-firearm-company-mcmillan-company-to-halt-accepting-boa-cards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammunition_box

Duck Duck Go gave those links when I entered my mood.

Back in the Kyoto talks, we were TOLD that if no action was taken, then the point of no return was something like 2007. Well? Based on that "science", nothing we do can help anyway.

We get predictions like that all the time. If there's anything we learned from the climategate emails, it's that a lot of the scientists working on this problem are not working in good faith.

The solution, I think, is to work on things that will help us anyway, even if AGW turns out to not be a problem. For example, improving electric car technology will be good for America, whether AGW is a big ball of hype, or whether it's real. Same with fusion electricity. We can work on those things.

Just turn the wheel all the way in one direction before you remove the keys, that way you'll only go in a nice, safe circle, like this: http://www.examiner.com/strange-news-in-national/elderly-south-florida-woman-run-over-by-her-own-car-1

They key is to mimic a car wheel. Just think of where the wheel would be if a car were to stop over the loop. An upright wheel will do as well as laying the bike down, if the position is correct. And yeah, I was referring to the octogon ones, they usually have a circle etched over them. The only rectangular ones I have seen are these. They can be triggered by getting your wheel over any of the sides. I prefer the center one, as I would be triggering both he loops. If you see a different one, just mimic a car wheel, and it will certainly work.

Slightly tilting you bicycle to one side, also helps. Its induces more changes in current than standing upright and being still.

Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ [youtube.com]

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE [youtube.com]

Fukushima secret news:

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation [endoftheam...ndream.com]
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/ [independentaustralia.net]
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/ [alexanderhiggins.com]
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back [zerohedge.com]

US to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/ [nuclear-news.net]
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact [examiner.com]

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths [examiner.com]

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm [radiationnetwork.com]

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/ [fairewinds.com]
http://enenews.com/ [enenews.com]

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY [youtube.com]

"Detoxify or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown":

http://www.he

Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ [youtube.com]

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE [youtube.com]

Fukushima secret news:

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation [endoftheam...ndream.com]
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/ [independentaustralia.net]
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/ [alexanderhiggins.com]
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back [zerohedge.com]

US to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/ [nuclear-news.net]
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact [examiner.com]

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths [examiner.com]

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm [radiationnetwork.com]

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/ [fairewinds.com]
http://enenews.com/ [enenews.com]

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY [youtube.com]

"Detoxify or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown":

http://www.he

Warrantless snooping on the Internet

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room

Randy Quaid blows whistle on crime against celebrity Targeted Individuals

October 31, 2010

Deborah Dupre
Human Rights Examiner

- http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/randy-quaid-blows-whistle-on-celebrity-targeted-individuals
- http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/deborah-dupre

"In a Vancouver press conference, actor Randy Quaid described part of the typical plight of a Targeted Individual, naming eight close Hollywood associates he believes were targeted and killed. The targeting system is highly organized; involving people at all levels of society including in banks, the Department of Justice, and even family members who are are often co-opted to help destroy the innocent target, as Quaid has learned first-hand.

From a written statement, Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies and Brokeback Mountain star, Quaid explained the same organized criminal activities hundreds of Targeted Individuals have reported to Dupré. Each of these activities are designed to ruin the targets' careers, their finances, their well-being - and thus silence them.

Such targeting can and often does last decades. Mr. and Mrs. Quaid have been targeted twenty years according to his statement on October 29.

Quaid's brother and his attorney are part of the conspiracy to neutralize him, as he explained at his press conference that followed a Canadian immigration hearing. Most people are too naive and or arrogant to believe a close family member could be involved in such covert manipulations that ruin lives.

Both Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have sought refuge from the targeting in Canada, as though the criminal cabal is not transnational. In Canada, the couple was jailed and then released, possibly part of the typical harassment treatment targets get from officials.

In the 2nd part of the press conference video, sobbing, Quaid asked how many of the reporters have known someone that died suddenly and mysteriously in the past five years, then naming his eight associates that all met untimely deaths, "Hollywood wacked." (See Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_574552&v=ppTpSb_u7hA)

"We believe there to be a malignant tumor of star whackers in Hollywood," said Quaid.

Quaid named Heath Ledger, Chris Penn and David Carradine as targeted and killed.

IMDb reports on Quaid's targeting offers little to no validation of his claims, typical of mainstream press on the topic of Targeted Individuals.

He also names others he believes are on a hit-list: Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears,

"Merciless slandering, killing career and killing the target for profit" are among what Quaid hihglights as part of the hit-list agenda - each familiar to targeted individuals reporting to Dupré."

Copyright Deborah Dupre, Examiner 2010, All rights reserved.

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* Recommended:

The Hidden Evil
- http://www.thehiddenevil.com/

The Mind Has No Firewall
- Google for the article
**
* Links in article: (in case original article is wiped)

- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001642/news
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005453/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517820/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/

Randy Quaid Speaks to Vancouver Media pt.2 - "Star Whackers in Hollywood"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppTpSb_u7hA

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Randy Quaid blows whistle on crime against celebrity Targeted Individuals

October 31, 2010

Deborah Dupre
Human Rights Examiner

- http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/randy-quaid-blows-whistle-on-celebrity-targeted-individuals
- http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/deborah-dupre

"In a Vancouver press conference, actor Randy Quaid described part of the typical plight of a Targeted Individual, naming eight close Hollywood associates he believes were targeted and killed. The targeting system is highly organized; involving people at all levels of society including in banks, the Department of Justice, and even family members who are are often co-opted to help destroy the innocent target, as Quaid has learned first-hand.

From a written statement, Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon's Vacation movies and Brokeback Mountain star, Quaid explained the same organized criminal activities hundreds of Targeted Individuals have reported to Dupré. Each of these activities are designed to ruin the targets' careers, their finances, their well-being - and thus silence them.

Such targeting can and often does last decades. Mr. and Mrs. Quaid have been targeted twenty years according to his statement on October 29.

Quaid's brother and his attorney are part of the conspiracy to neutralize him, as he explained at his press conference that followed a Canadian immigration hearing. Most people are too naive and or arrogant to believe a close family member could be involved in such covert manipulations that ruin lives.

Both Randy Quaid and his wife Evi have sought refuge from the targeting in Canada, as though the criminal cabal is not transnational. In Canada, the couple was jailed and then released, possibly part of the typical harassment treatment targets get from officials.

In the 2nd part of the press conference video, sobbing, Quaid asked how many of the reporters have known someone that died suddenly and mysteriously in the past five years, then naming his eight associates that all met untimely deaths, "Hollywood wacked." (See Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_574552&v=ppTpSb_u7hA)

"We believe there to be a malignant tumor of star whackers in Hollywood," said Quaid.

Quaid named Heath Ledger, Chris Penn and David Carradine as targeted and killed.

IMDb reports on Quaid's targeting offers little to no validation of his claims, typical of mainstream press on the topic of Targeted Individuals.

He also names others he believes are on a hit-list: Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears,

"Merciless slandering, killing career and killing the target for profit" are among what Quaid hihglights as part of the hit-list agenda - each familiar to targeted individuals reporting to Dupré."

Copyright Deborah Dupre, Examiner 2010, All rights reserved.

**
* Recommended:

The Hidden Evil
- http://www.thehiddenevil.com/

The Mind Has No Firewall
- Google for the article
**
* Links in article: (in case original article is wiped)

- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001642/news
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005453/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0517820/
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/

Randy Quaid Speaks to Vancouver Media pt.2 - "Star Whackers in Hollywood"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppTpSb_u7hA

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You must not be familiar with the San Francisco Crime Lab. Or how the fallout impacted the people involved.

Oil doesn't get subsidies.

Yes, they do. Where did you hear such a ridiculous fallacy? The Cato Institute?

And most of the time, it doesn't even get tax breaks.

Wait, are you talking about the substance itself? Surely no one would intentionally be that obtuse... anyway, oil companies most definitely receive tax breaks, to the tune of billions every year.

Most of those go to exploration, and drilling.

Well gee, Wally, care to explain why companies who break their own records for pure profit every single quarter actually need those "exploration" tax breaks?

But hey, don't let reality worry you.

Doesn't seem like I'm the one having trouble with the concept...

Feed-in-tariff ringing any bells?

No, since the term has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of oil subsidies.

True, the good thing about recording shooting more than you need is that you can crop though, I've been reading some such thoughts about the Nikon D800 (36MP, $3000 camera) and the JVC GY-HMQ10 (4K, $5000 video camera). Need an extra 2x zoom on that camera? Crop it to 9MB and you still have a very useful picture. Is what you're trying to film moving to erratic for you to stay on target? Zoom back out and crop to 1080p in post-production. Not a cheap solution but if you're can't get another take, it might be worth it.

The federal government originally hadn't mandated that the TSA be in every airport. In fact, the author of the bill creating the TSA encouraged airports to opt-out of using the TSA. Unfortunately, shortly after that article was written, the head of the TSA put a freeze on allowing any more opting-out from the airports. Even so, the Senate passed a bill a few weeks ago that would reinstate the practice. So it seems somewhat inevitable that this is the direction things are heading now. I.e. that the crazy pendulum swung far enough one way and is starting to come back towards the center now.

Alternatively, if the TSA continues to be forced on the airports, their policies aren't law, last I checked. IANAL, so this is likely wishful thinking, but stick with me:
1) If an action being done by the TSA (e.g. the new scanners) is dictated by TSA policy
2) And there are no federal laws on the books mandating the action
3) And a state passes a bill barring the action
4) That said action would be illegal in that state, since no federal law exists to trump the state's law

And if we assume that my wishful thinking is just that and nothing more, a state could still try their hand at creating laws like these. At the very least, they'd be able to force the issue to a head by pushing it into the legal system. The state laws may eventually get struck down, but the statement being made would likely be sufficient to get some changes made.

Soooo...speaking the truth is bad if it doesn't fit with your perception bubble? "All go to hell except cave 76! oh and Google!~ Rah!" please. Name a single thing the guy wrote that wasn't factual. Billion dollar web advertising company? simply look up their SEC filings and it says in black and white they make more than 96% of their income from ads, and they are a multi-billion dollar company, so check there. And Google having a history of privacy violations? I would say that's a pretty big yes. So I'm sorry if his post breaks your perception bubble but truth is truth.

As for TFA give me a damned break, we've tried that crap over and over and over and over its sucked the big wet titty. ChromeOS is going exactly nowhere,service across the country is spotty so good luck if you have anything important due soon and your connection takes a big crapola, and finally the performance sucks. As another wrote the future is rich native apps that have the ability but not the mandatory requirement of web integration. This way you have the speed of native and can choose whether or not to use the cloud for syncing or backups or getting the latest data.

Apparently you never noticed that more than one media outlet carried the story. Here is another source. Thank you for your faux insight.

Wikileaks considering move 'truly offshore,' where only maritime law applies

And investors who might consider buying a boat for the purpose must have so much money that it is likely they already own at least one boat that could do the job. In addition, of course, boat can be hired or rented.

Apparently you've never heard of shipping companies. Ship the servers to a port. Put the servers on a boat.

Thank you again for your faux insight.

It's funny but more than one year since the UCSF letter of concern was issued many of the points have been largely ignored by our government. The TSA continues to roll them out and gets more funding for junk that doesn't work and creates more risks in terms of possibly damaging health issues than it protects. There has been no independent study, there has not been any proof that these make our skies safer and people still get additional screening in most cases after going through these contraptions. I'm sorry, but if there has ever been a white elephant in our government, it's these devices and a full, unbiased, study of the health effects and security benefits must be undertaken. Until that time, turn them off and give everybody a pat-down. That's the only way somebody can be assured that the traveling public at least from the traveling public's perspective is safe.

Even after using one of these scanners, the TSA agents failed to stop somebody who had a fire arm. While the dipshits were looking at the screens and confirming what they saw, the person left the screening area. If that one incident doesn't show how screwed up the DHS is and the TSA, then I don't know what does.

It's time to de-fund the TSA and start putting some reasonable "sanity checks" back into place where air travel safety is concerned.

I could have sworn that, in previous cases (not involving a US Senator), people were told that, if the scan found something odd, you could either accept the pat-down or be arrested...I wonder what would happen if a non-Congressfolk tried doing exactly what Rand Paul did. Would they be arrested for refusing the pat down? Would they be kicked out of the airport with a police escort?

You can stop wondering:
Alaska State Legislature member refuses pat-down.
John "Don't touch my junk!" Tyner refuses pat-down.
56-year old rape victim refuses pat-down.

YMMV. IIRC, TSA dropped charges against Tyner, but I don't believe the woman in Austin, TX was quite as lucky. To date, there are no politicians who have refused to allow themselves to be molested, excuse me, I mean "groped", err..."searched"...by TSA who have even had charges filed against them, much less who have actually been prosecuted. I guess the quote is true: "You know the score, Deckard. If you ain't cop, you're little people."

examiner.com is essentially a blog, was this the best source for this information? There's no links to a reliable news source, no links to a .gov site or the congressman's announcement, just "hey he blocked it hurray!"

Is anyone else reporting that SOPA is dead?

technically The Bible (most versions) isn't copyrightable due to the sheer age of the publication

Most English translations of the Christian Bible in common use, other than the 1611 King James Version, are post-1922 and therefore copyrighted. Even the KJV is subject to copyright-like exclusive rights in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

I really liked that video until I got to the end and realized it was an ad for Insane Clown Posse's developmentally-challenged racist cousin.

- I don't know who you are talking about.

However if your bigoted statement is about Ron Paul , then you are a real ignoramus.

He is. What did you think democrats are?

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Do you know that you can be declared 'terrorist' for example for supporting Ron Paul?

He is now attacked left, right and center as a 'racist'.

It's hilarious and it's disturbing, a guy who delivered black babies for free back when nobody else wanted to is a 'racist' in MSM today.

If you watch this video, then maybe you are a terrorist too.

try this and this and most especially this one which talks about the specific numbers of articles.

Science always has conflicting results, it is the consensus that is more important, and it's quite obvious to me what it was then, and what it is now. The same damn thing.

I wasn't specifically singling out the US. In fact in Africa, the US isn't nearly as bad as some European nations, such as France and England, which still haven't gotten over the idea that these countries are their colonies. The US has been much worse in its treatment of South American nations, however.

Furthermore, I'm not denying that rich nations don't provide money for infrastructure or education, or provide funding to NGOs that provide these things. But the money quite often gets in the hands of corrupted governments, which are helped or put in power by the West. There are a few genuinely helpful programs, but these seem to be exception.

Some citations for the West plundering the resources of poor countries, aided by corrupt governments they support and/or put in power, while the people starve (or worse) :

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,686774,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8126353.stm

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2011/10/03/new-report-exposes-shell-complicity-in-nigerian-human-rights-abuses/

http://www.examiner.com/public-safety-in-national/blood-diamonds-zimbabwe-torture-camp-discovered-by-bbc

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/french-president-jacques-chirac-corruption_n_958043.html

http://foodwhistleblower.org/blog/22-2011/240-united-nations-report-contract-farmer-exploitation-imperils-food-integrity

You may say, well, these are almost all examples of corporations exploiting people, not governments. But let's not forget that these corporations are based in Western countries and have an enormous influence on their politics, the whole "revolving door" thing.

UPDATE:

This person also has a history of bad mouthing customers (link).

According to www.examiner.com, Paul Christoforo has apologized to the customer and to Penny Arcade, and also asks them to please tell people to stop sending hate male and calling him on the phone. BUT, this guy continues to badmouth Penny Arcade on Twitter, and Reddit and people who play video games.

Some of the latest posts from his twitter account:

OK ENOUGH! Just fuck off already u god damn fucking gaming cunts. Boo Hoo I yelled at a customer big deal. Ge over it

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I don't need a degree I'm just naturally smart.

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Domestic violence no, it's called a fucking hug

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Look at all these gamers. Bunch of fucking losers, everyone in the biz makes fun of you fucks. All the sites you like laugh at yuo.

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Penny Arcade is for autsitic preteens that can handle good entertianment. I'm suprised you can even read at all.

And the fun continues...

Yes, Charlie Sheen is much better at this sort of stuff.

References:
https://twitter.com/oceanstretagy
https://imgur.com/t1iiM
https://www.examiner.com/video-game-industry-in-national/ocean-marketing-gaming-pr-rep-to-avoid-at-all-cost

Here in the U.S.(and within a few miles of where I was working when it happened!) a military pilot student bailed from his malfunctioning F-18, leaving it crashing into 2 houses and almost singlehandedly wiping out a family.

The military offered them an undisclosed sum, probably a few million bucks, and they said, "Fuck you, we want 56 million, see your asses in court." And they'll probably get at least half of that considering the string of errors led to the crash.

Lets talk American labor. The auto companies said, all over the news programs when they were going bankrupt a few years ago, that their labor rate is $78 / hr. That's because of all the benefits and the retirees' expenses. And here:

http://www.mt-online.com/component/content/article/40-january2009/85-uptime-lessons-from-auto-manufacturing.html?directory=90

we learn that it takes 30 - 33 labor hours for the big 3 here to build a car. That's about $2500 in labor.

The Fair Tax people, long before this article came out, have calcualted that, on average, about 22% of the price of all American goods is composed of income tax expenses incurred by American companies manufacturing things here. That's corporate income tax, employees' individual income tax that makes their labor more expensive, that also includes the payroll tax that the employees pay at 15.3% for medicare and social security that again, makes their labor more expensive, the embedded income taxes in all their raw materials and machine tools and everything else they buy, and so forth.

Imagine now a $40K SUV. It is reasonable to expect that the embedded income tax expense is around $8800. Compare that with the $2500 that goes into the labor of building the $40K SUV. An SUV would get dramatically cheaper with income tax gone as opposed to making slaves of all the workforce and shafting the retirees of all their pay.

As for the manufacturing coming back, a survey commissioned by Bill Archer, former house ways and means chair, asked 500 foreign CEO's what their reaction would be if the USA passed the Fair Tax. 400 of them said they would build their next factory in the USA. The other 100 said they would move their company HQ to the USA.

http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/survey-shows-that-companies-would-create-jobs-us-if-fair-tax-was-instituted?render=print

As for the Factcheck people, imagine how long they took to consider this question, and then note the testimony of 2 PHD economists familiar with the Fair Tax before the house ways and means committee earlier this year:

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=252676

If you scroll down to the bottom, bring up the video, and jump to the 1 hr and 36 minute mark, you find that these economists, under oath and threat of perjury, have testified that everyone's lifetime tax outlook goes down EXCEPT the very rich, who will pay more than they have been paying, because the Fair Tax hits them harder because of all their spending outstripping what their current tax burden is, which is greatly avoided through loopholes that they're very good at exploiting.

These PHD's have spent quite a lot of effort modeling the Fair Tax, and I am much more likely to take what they say about the Fair Tax bringing back prosperity rather than a website like FactCheck who, again, likely considered this for a couple days to a week.

And although the economists didn't say explicitly, imagine how many rich just don't have income taxes because they don't work. They sit around and break off a piece of cash from a very large pile of it that belongs to them and live on that each year, as well as the taxes on capital gains which is necessarily much lower than the income tax rates, or you'll kill invenstment if you try to raise them.

And that's the point - the income taxes are and have been killing the US industry for 50 years, ever since the US lost its consumer electronics to Japan starting in the 60's, and are losing the intellectual employment to places like India even today. When it _all_ goes overseas, we'll have just the thing that absolutely MUST be

Yes, the US isn't the shining beacon of hope, freedom and liberty it thinks it is. But it is still a very, very far cry from the autocratic and kleptocratic country that is Russia.

is that why police departments all over usa had beaten down occupy protesters in a move coordinated by FBI ?

http://www.examiner.com/top-news-in-minneapolis/were-occupy-crackdowns-aided-by-federal-law-enforcement-agencies

talk about democracy.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security bought an unmanned helicopter for a Texas Sheriff's Department. I feel safe!

http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-houston/first-unmanned-police-drone-texas-set-to-launch-north-of-houston

Soon, the president will be able to order troops to invade their own country and indefinitely detain citizens such as those evil terrorist protesters who are all the rage these days.

http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-denver/dr-james-hansen-takes-final-leap-from-scientist-to-activist

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/18/dr-james-hansens-growing-financial-scandal-now-over-a-million-dollars-of-outside-income/

Definition of a scientist: A political activist that also wants to take credit for advances actually developed by engineers, entrepreneurs and lay inventors.

http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-denver/dr-james-hansen-takes-final-leap-from-scientist-to-activist

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/18/dr-james-hansens-growing-financial-scandal-now-over-a-million-dollars-of-outside-income/

Crisis in Fukushima and Japan is far from over. It's just begun. Expect to see "lost decades" due to all kinds of sicknesses due to radiation exposure. Please study the material below, also for your own knowledge and safety:

MUST SEE VIDEO: Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE

Fukushima-get up to date on repressed news:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back

Secret pacts to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths

Closer to home:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article4151087.ece

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://enenews.com/

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY

"Evacuate Children!" Rally & Demo in Koriyama City, Fukushima Pref. on Oct. 15, 2011"

Crisis in Fukushima and Japan is far from over. It's just begun. Expect to see "lost decades" due to all kinds of sicknesses due to radiation exposure. Please study the material below, also for your own knowledge and safety:

MUST SEE VIDEO: Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE

Fukushima-get up to date on repressed news:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back

Secret pacts to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths

Closer to home:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article4151087.ece

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://enenews.com/

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY

"Evacuate Children!" Rally & Demo in Koriyama City, Fukushima Pref. on Oct. 15, 2011"

MUST SEE VIDEO!!:
Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE

Fukushima-get up to date on repressed news:

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back

Secret pacts to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths

Closer to home:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article4151087.ece

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://enenews.com/

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY

"Detoxify or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown":

http://www.health-matrix.net/2011/03/19/d

MUST SEE VIDEO!!:
Japanese officials confronted with question wether people in Fukushima has the same rights as other people to protect themselves against radiation, and their surprising answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rVuGwc9dlhQ

VIDEO: Fukushima children forced to drink radioactive milk at school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Aq4JG9ULVNE

Fukushima-get up to date on repressed news:

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/much-of-northern-japan-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-radiation
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/media-2/fukushima-meltdown-caldicott-says-japan-may-become-uninhabitable-media-silent/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/10/japan-deal-radioactive-sewage-crisis-produce-cement-25231/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/remember-fukushima-its-back

Secret pacts to NOT check for radiation in imported goods and foods from Japan (made after Fukushima started melting down):
http://www.nuclear-news.net/2011/08/20/hillary-clintons-pact-with-japan-to-downplay-fukushima-radiation-risks/
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/radiating-americans-with-fukushima-rain-food-secret-clinton-pact

Experts: Fukushima 'off-scale' lethal radiation level infers 100 millions dying:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/experts-fukushima-off-scale-lethal-radiation-level-100s-millions-deaths

Closer to home:
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article4151087.ece

Independent measurements (uncalibrated, non-discriminatory - but shows no "need" for global mass-panic yet):
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm

Independent news (only ones still covering Fukushima):
http://www.fairewinds.com/
http://enenews.com/

Japanese government changing the "safe health standards" just moments after disaster struck. Now includes absurd amounts of radiation 20-30 times more than previously, which were already 2-10 times more than most Western countries'. The change document is of course provided, also with a "safe" limit of "plutonium and other ALPHA emitters". Plutonium! The most toxic substance known to life!

Raising the exposure limits were allegedly done to increase safety for citizens, something you'd expect in a Hitchcock movie..

"Becquerels" and Japan's changing "safety" standards for radiation in food and water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY

"Detoxify or Die: Natural Radiation Protection Therapies for Coping With the Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown":

http://www.health-matrix.net/2011/03/19/d

You got modded troll, but you made me curious, because I seemed to remember hearing these before, too. Doing a google search of "global warming irreversible YYYY" I came up with these:

From 2009, Obama has 4 years to save the world

From 2009, global warming is now irreversible, study says(also discussed on slashdot)

From 2006, The End of the World As We Know It; THE world has already passed the point of no return on global warming.

From 2005, past the point of no return.

Also from 2005, Global warming irreversible.

From 2004, Damage from warming becoming irreversible.

From 1989, We have a 10 year window to fix the problem.

What do you think of that?

odd I hear crickets.......