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Kick ass Yoko figure from Gurren Lagann

*whimper* http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/25222/Gurren+Lagann.html

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UK Bans Parents from Playgrounds

"Only council-vetted "play rangers" are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two... more

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Ambien for Coke Heads

The latest pharmaceutical being sold on the street is a knock-you-out antipsychotic... more

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Morale Drops for Marines in Afghanistan

"“People here regard the American troops as occupiers,” said Haji Khan, a leader of the Baluch tribe, who rules like a medieval baron. “Young people are turning against them and in time will fight them.”

“I’m not much for this war. I’m not sure it’s worth all those lives lost,” said Sergeant Christian Richardson as we walked across corn fields that will soon be ploughed up to plant a spring crop of opium poppy.

A New Yorker who joined the marines after 9/11 and served two tours in Iraq, Richardson, 24, said his men had achieved much. “You can see we are making progress, slowly. But when we leave, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda will surely return.”

The platoon knows there are at least 20 booby-trapped bombs on the high ground around the base. More than half the men have already been caught in blasts. One marine explosive expert was killed; others suffered broken legs and amputated feet. Three have survived two explosions and come back to fight again.

Later, a marine intelligence officer said the drug economy and the feudal system made the strategy of winning hearts and minds extremely complex. As drug producers, men such as Khan had a “working relationship with the Taliban”.

Nobody knew of the announcement last week in Kabul of a new round of national elections. Nobody voted in the first round. “We never even heard of elections. If we had, I suppose we might have voted,” said one villager."

You may wonder why NATO supports adding 40,000 more American troops to occupy Afghanistan. Well, when you look back at the Opium Wars and, here's a quote from Wikipedia of all places:

"The success of the First Opium War allowed the British to resume the drug trafficking within China. It also paved the way for the opening of the lucrative Chinese market and Chinese society to missionary endeavors."

you'll find that the British got the Opium from Afghanistan and they've been trying to control it ever since. When the Soviets tried to invade Afghanistan, not to spread Communism, but to get the Opium as well, the British intelligence and their American surrogates (b/c the British use the American military to fight its wars b/c they are weak and also co-conspire to stage world events) funded and armed the Taliban to fight them off.

I won't even get into 9/11 except for the fact that all the hijackers were Saudi Arabian (Al Qaeda=CIA), but anyway, our soldiers are dying because of Heroin, not Terrorism, Heroin. Terrorism is a front to introduce a police state, Big Brother, surveillance society: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25surveillance.html. Its a method to divide the people along religious lines; they've been doing it since the Crusades and laughing all the way to the Swiss bank.

Its going to be a long, cold winter for our troops in Afghanistan and when the spring comes, the Taliban will surge and kill a lot of Americans (thousands). Imagine being 22 years old and being sent to a remote mountain in Kandahar; you're a sitting duck, surrounded by militants who don't care if they die. There's no way we can win. We need to demand that our troops be brought home before they're sent back in body bags."“People here regard the American troops as occupiers,” said Haji Khan, a leader... more

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San Francisco recruits, as Obama deliberates Afghanistan troop surge

San Francisco's Blue Angels recruitment drive was more excruciating than ever this... more

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Connecting South Central Asian Resources with American Sustainability

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Junk Food as Addictive as Heroin - Rats Say

Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. Pleasure centers in the brains of rats addicted to high-fat, high-calorie diets became less responsive as the binging wore on, making the rats consume more and more food. The results, presented October 20 at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, may help explain the changes in the brain that lead people to overeat.

"This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings," says study coauthor Paul Johnson of the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Fla.

To see how junk food affects the brain's natural reward system -- the network of nerve cells that release feel-good chemicals -- Johnson started at the grocery store. He loaded up on typical Western fare, including Ho Hos, sausage, pound cake, bacon and cheesecake. Johnson fed rats either a standard diet of high-nutrient, low-calorie chow, or unlimited amounts of the palatable junk food. Rats that ate the junk food soon developed compulsive eating habits and became obese. "They're taking in twice the amount of calories as the control rats," says Johnson's coauthor Paul Kenny, also of Scripps.

Johnson and Kenny wanted to know if this overeating affected the pleasure centers of the rats' brains, the regions responsible for drug addiction. The researchers used electrical stimulations to activate these reward centers and induce pleasure. Rats could control the amount of feel-good stimulation by running on a wheel -- the more they ran, the more stimulation they got. The rats fed junk food ran more, indicating that they needed more brain stimulation to feel good.

After just five days on the junk food diet, rats showed "profound reductions" in the sensitivity of their brains' pleasure centers, suggesting that the animals quickly became habituated to the food. As a result, the rats ate more food to get the same amount of pleasure. Just as heroin addicts require more and more of the drug to feel good, rats needed more and more of the junk food. "They lose control," Kenny says. "This is the hallmark of addiction."Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted... more