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sUPEREDS 254 weekly inreRnet video" for nov 12 2011 titled "the american dollar" sUPERED the internet video artist/street performer/film editor/professional weird-0 billed as the 12th most strangest person on de internet makes a video about the shape of the american dollar and how other countrys around the world view the american dollar enjoy smile IIIII11111IIIIIsUPERED 111111sUPERED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dllcj8fDB6ssUPEREDS 254 weekly inreRnet video" for nov 12 2011 titled "the american... more
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sUPEREDS 254 weekly inteRnet video" for nov 12 2011 titled "the american dollar" sUPERED the internet video artist/street performer/film editor/professional weird-0 billed as the 12th most strangest person on de internet makes a video about the shape of the american dollar and how other countrys around the world view the american dollar enjoy smile IIIII11111IIIIIsUPERED 111111sUPERED------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ about 3 years ago i was doing a job digging some dirt when i found this old torn dollar bill--- i saved it---- i keep it in view on the desk on my main station i was doing some research on how the dollars of different nations have different values the golbal value of the american dollar is in decline so thats where i got the idea for this weeks video thats all for now be good--keep it real --have fun at no ones expense love each other and help those in NEED by love sUPERED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dllcj8fDB6shey current.com here is this weeks website... more
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This is made for the people! Please share... the music was composed by my son years ago and when I heard it... it broke my heart to know that at 23 he was feeling the depth of a ticking time bomb... his world as he knew it then was certain to fail. He used the sound sample from the movie Network and electonically altered the message... I found myself glued to the images on the internet and was compelled to make this video. Power to the people! Connie M. JohnsonThis is made for the people! Please share... the music was composed by my son years... more
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The United States government killed an American citizen in Yemen on Friday in hostile action, despite not having declared war on the country or charging the citizen, American-born Anwar al-Awlaki, with a crime.
In a statement Friday morning, President Obama hailed the killing as "a major blow to al Qaeda's most active operational affiliate." He also said the death "marks another significant milestone in the broader effort to defeat al Qaeda."
Time magazine reported al Awlaki was killed by airstrikes by the secretive Joint Special Operations Command, the same unit that took out Osama bin Laden in May.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/awlaki-killed-american-cl_n_988929.htmlThe United States government killed an American citizen in Yemen on Friday in hostile... more
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Preview of the wonderful art in DC.
We visited the Hirshhorn
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Phillips Collection
Renwick Gallery
Smithsonian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJqU0jafWAsPreview of the wonderful art in DC.
We visited the Hirshhorn
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I was informed by the California Director of the Humane Society of the United States Jennifer Fearing yesterday that AB376 passed through the senate 25-9 and now proceeds to the Governor for final sign off to be made a law making California partner with Washington, Oregon and Hawaii on the ban on the sale or possession of shark fins.I was informed by the California Director of the Humane Society of the United States... more
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This video has been circulating on the Korean Internet this week of a black gentleman yelling at and threatening an elderly Korean couple. It's definitely going to be a viral hit by the end of the week, as it's making its rounds around the world as we speak...
Anyway, his violent behavior was the result of him misunderstanding the elderly man’s comment to him. The elderly man reportedly said “니가 여기 앉아” (a sign of consideration) but not knowing Korean, the man in question interpreted “니가” as the N-word which led to his violent outburst.
You be the judge... check it out.This video has been circulating on the Korean Internet this week of a black gentleman... more
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Cynthia McKinney ..... Thanks to all who have come out and participated in the Truth Tour. I have almost come to its end. Last night in Detroit, several of the women were moved to tears as I explained the situation in Libya right now as I know it to be. Every venue has had every seat occupied or was filled to capacity with standing room only. Detroit's young singer and band, Sister Ziyah and Black Rain were phenomenal and their music set the tone for the event: first song, Kickstart the Revolution; second song, Good Morning, America; third song, Today, I'm a Better Me. This Truth Tour has been unique because the true peace people in this country have revealed themselves by their willingness to step forward and be counted against this war in the very midst of the worst deceit and demonization ever. NATO war crimes are being excused, discounted, or covered up by those who posed as supporters of justice and peace. It is never OK to bomb people. And it is never OK to ask the peace-loving people of this country to sacrifice Social Security and Medicare and education and housing--and I could go on and on--so that war profiteers can fatten their ill-gotten coffers. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43002-libya-truth-tourCynthia McKinney ..... Thanks to all who have come out and participated in the Truth... more
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July 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it. The Libyan leader Moammar Al Gaddafi informed members of the Security Council in his message that the alliance decided to carry out mass murder against the Libyan people by targeting their only drinking water source, where billions were invested and without it life stops in Libya. He wondered what's the relation between this factory and the protection of civilians that NATO claims it is carrying out? http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42990-nato-attack-great-man-made-riverJuly 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply... more
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(Local reporter/columnists usually writes funny family columns on weekend..this is NOT funny.) I'm stepping off my usual editorial platform this week because I'm going to be serious, which is odd because I want to be serious about a birthday.
It's the nation's birthday that I want to discuss.
In point of fact the Declaration of Independence was neither adopted or signed on July 4, 1776, The Continental Congress actually voted for independence on July 2, and the formal signing of the Declaration of Independence didn't come until Aug. 7, according to the National Archive, but things are celebrated when we celebrate them. We are probably lucky our Congress hasn't arbitrarily decided to mark "Independence Day" on the second Friday in July just because.
What those men did in a poorly ventilated hall during the steamy summer in Philadelphia deserves recognition and honor.
In a way, to me at least, it is sad that we mark this auspicious day with picnics, and small boys, including adult males who are still small boys, playing with small explosives and little rockets.
Since I'm a newspaper reporter, I think of myself as a small "h," historian and I've always been fascinated by the Declaration of Independence and the men who authored it.
The reality of 1776 is that what would become the United States was then nothing more that a loosely associated collection of colonies who certainly thought of themselves as New Yorkers, or Virginians rather than Americans.
As a nation we couldn't have worked our way up to the status of a 98-pound weakling on the
international stage, but even so on that July day the Continental Congress thumbed its nose at our mother country, Great Britain, which also happened to be the biggest bully on anybody's block. In their declaration Congress said things out loud that had never been whispered before. They claimed the "right" to separate themselves from Britain,
Generations beyond number had accepted the concept that monarchs, by their birth, had been chosen by God to be rulers, and newborn America said that common men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
This claim could not have been more revolutionary, in any sense of the word, and for its makers more deadly.
Writing these words made all of the men involved guilty of high treason in the eyes of the British crown. They had quite literally signed their own death warrants, a fact that was not lost on the declaration's signatories.
They pinned their hopes, their lives, their families, and their fortunes on a dream, and 235 years later every person who carries the title American is the beneficiary of that dream.
As much as it pains this native son of the land of the free and the home of the brave, the dream is not fulfilled. As a nation and as a people, we are not all of what we could or should be, but I have walked the streets and breathed the air of countries on six different continents, and like Dorothy once repeated, "There's no place like home," and I'll tell anybody she was right!
Roger H. Aylworth is a staff writer with the Enterprise-Record. His column appears every Sunday and he can be reached by email at raylworth@ chicoer.com.(Local reporter/columnists usually writes funny family columns on weekend..this is NOT... more
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Corporate profits are better than ever. So why are you - and pretty much everyone else - having to work harder and harder, for less and less.......Except what's good for American business isn't necessarily good for Americans. We're not just working smarter, but harder. And harder. And harder, to the point where the driver is no longer American industriousness, but something much more predatory. Increasingly, American workers are falling prey to WHAT WE'LL CALL OFFLOADING: cutting jobs and dumping the work ONTO THE REMAINING STAFF. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42974-the-speedup-Corporate profits are better than ever. So why are you - and pretty much everyone else... more
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According to a study by the late Stanford Universtity social psychologist Alex Inkeles concluded in a paper presented to the American Sociological Association that 10 siginficant traits had continued in the American character for two centuries. Inkeles, an expert in national character, was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a sociology professor at Stanford University when he died on July 9, 2010. See VFW Magazine June/July 2011, pp. 18-19.
Read the following ten traits identified by Inkeles, then ask yourself whether we, the American people, and our politicians, have forgotten what it means to be an American!
1. National pride in America’s virture and uniqueness. This pride, almost our national religion, has “persisted remarkably intact over the 150 years” since French political thinker Alex de Tocqueville published Democracy in America (1835 and 1840). “Nowhere else was there the extraodinary unanimity displayed by the Americans singling out their political and governmental institutions as special objects of pride,” Inkeles said.
2. Self-reliance. Benjamin Franklin extolled this kind of homely virture (including autonomy, independence, persistence and initiative) in pre-Revolutionary days, and de Tocqueville cited individualism and self-reliance as distinctive American traits in 1830.
3. Volunteerism. Americans are joiners. They feel obligated to take part in community action.
4. Trust. Many others reported on the openness and friendliness of Americans, their casualness and spontaniety in chance encounters. Inkeles said the evidence showing that “a high degree of interpersonal trust to be an outstanding characteristic of contemporary American is quite extensive and notably consistent.
5. “Can-Do” Attitude. A sense of being effective, or being able to improve the physical and social world prevails.
6. Optimism. Americans have confidence that striving toward a goal leads to success.
7. Innovativeness. Openness to new experiences and ideas is a hallmark of the American character.
8. Adaptability. The notion of welcoming and pursuing change is commonplace.
9. Anti-authoritarianism. This is an almost innate birthright, carrying no psychic need to submit to higher political authority.
10. Equality. A sense that one’s intrinsic worth is the same as anyone else’s in a basic American trait.
Inkeles also noted other American attributes, including restless energy, pragmatism, a tendency toward brashness and boastfulness, a preference for the concrete and a certain discomfort with aesthethic and emotional expression.
Editor’s Note.: Los Angeles Times writer Robert C. Toth summed up Inkeles’ findings in a newspaper article at the time of the study.According to a study by the late Stanford Universtity social psychologist Alex Inkeles... more
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The Best Poems Encyclopedia would like to call for submissions for its second annual Poetry print Anthology for the best 303 creative works and poems written during the year and develop a new collection dedicated to discover young emerging poets and creative writers among the social poetry and academic diaspora. The deadline for submission is 30 June 2011. All current members and those who join in advance of the deadline are eligible. Submission is free and informations on how to submit directly via the online form can be found on the website http://www.best-poems.net
We hope to receive your best poems and works that deal in some way with these themes: the focus may be on issues of modern life daily experiences in poetry of any genre. What we want are submissions that address the theme(s) of Human Relationships, Borders, Identity, War and Peace, Love, Life and Death, Inspirational, Politics, Women, etc... in new and exciting ways that allow our readers to see the multiplicity of angles and issues these broad headings generate.
Submissions are open to any poet from confirmed to new emerging ones and all creative writers in academic scholarship cycles (students, professors, etc...).The Best Poems Encyclopedia would like to call for submissions for its second annual... more
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THE history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict's garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42954-emma-goldmanTHE history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the... more
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Inner City Bluz – Part Twenty – Four
Nikada (Monee Gulamali) and Tay (Moriah Lewis) warm thrown out hamburgers in the sun. They talk about how painful Tay’s life was before she became homeless. Delmar shows up for a free hand out. “Inner City Bluz” - the webisode about homeless children living on the streets. Starring Miquail Keyes & Timera Keyes, Daniel Huff, Jayvon Brown, Zion Ocell, Harold B. Pritchett Jr., Kevin R. King, John Waters, Paul Falkowski, Selma Ross, Monee Gulamali and Moriah Lewis. Directed by Harold B. Pritchett.Inner City Bluz – Part Twenty – Four
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Friday was sad for me. I was watching a TV show and my phone buzzed at me. Not unusual with all the crap I’ve got installed on my phone. Then I looked down. One of my friends on Twitter just sent the message NOOOOO! Darla’s is out of business.Friday was sad for me. I was watching a TV show and my phone buzzed at me. Not unusual... more
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