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George Washington's boyhood home was found
Happy 4th of July! George Washington's boyhood was....
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Bush to attend the olympics
President Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing on August 8, the White House announced Thursday. Some world leaders, including Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, have said they will not attend the opening ceremony in Beijing in response to human rights abuses in China. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also said she will not attend the ceremony, but Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, said when he announced her decision that it was not meant as a political protest.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose country will host the next summer Olympics, also will not attend the opening ceremony but plans to be at the closing ceremony.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution in April urging China to end its crackdown on Tibet and free nonviolent protesters imprisoned there. And a handful of senators, including former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, sent President Bush a letter urging him not to attend the opening ceremony, saying that "if the Chinese government is ever to treat its people with basic human rights, it must be sent a bold and clear message." President Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing on August 8, the White House announced Thursday. Some ... more -
that monster should pay for what he did!
Her own uncle killed her.. what a...
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Menstruation innovation no contamination!
Obviously, the Keeper is not for every woman, but only one woman in my extended circle of Keeper experimenters ever chose to discard hers and return to tampons. If you think the Keeper may be for you, I encourage you to investigate this low-cost, low-impact option. It's not any "grosser" than what we've all been doing since the tender age of 12, to be printably vague. It is a sanitary, environmentally friendly method compatible with white pants, volleyball games, and soft music wafting in the background while you run in slow motion on the beach Obviously, the Keeper is not for every woman, but only one woman in my extended circle of Keeper experimenters ever chose to discard h... more
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The perfect husband...is there one?
I think every woman has an idea what a perfect husband is......
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The Earth's cries are heard in space
Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, astronomers have discovered.
The sound is awful, a new recording from space reveals.
Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s. It is created high above the planet, where charged particles from the solar wind collide with Earth's magnetic field. It is related to the phenomenon that generates the colorful aurora, or Northern Lights.
The radio waves are blocked by the ionosphere, a charged layer atop our atmosphere, so they do not reach Earth. That's good, because the out-of-this-world radio waves are 10,000 times stronger than even the strongest military signal, the researchers said, and they would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet.
Theorists had long figured the radio waves, which were not well studied, oozed into space in an ever-widening cone, like light from a torch.
But new data from the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, a group of four high-flying satellites, reveals the bursts of radio waves head off to the cosmos in beam-like fashion, instead.
This means they're more detectable to anyone who might be listening.
The Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR), as it is called, is beamed out in a narrow plane, as if someone had put a mask over a torch and left a slit for the radiation to escape.
This flat beam could be detected by aliens who've figured this process out, the researchers say. The knowledge could also be used by Earth's astronomers to detect planets around other stars, if they can build a new radio telescope big enough for the search. They could also learn more about Jupiter and Saturn by studying AKR, which should emit from the auroral activity on those worlds, too.
"Whenever you have aurora, you get AKR," said Robert Mutel, a University of Iowa researcher involved in the work.
The AKR bursts -- Mutel and colleagues studied 12,000 of them -- originate in spots the size of a large city a few thousand miles above Earth and above the region where the Northern Lights form.
"We can now determine exactly where the emission is coming from," Mutel said.
Our planet is also known to hum, a mysterious low-frequency sound thought to be caused by the churning ocean or the roiling atmosphere.
Hear it hear..... http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=0806... Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, astronomers have d... more -
Gun law passed in Atlanta,GA....
new law in Atlanta, GA. here is the kicker: if you are a gun owner, you are allowed...
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the other presidential contest.
Less than six months after the next American president takes office, Iran will hold its own Election Day. To win that race takes not only popular acclaim but the approval of one man—Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—and so far, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has the edge. For all his economic and diplomatic bungling, Ahmadinejad is still liked by Iran's poor: he stands up to the West; he knows how to talk to ordinary folk, and he's never been accused of personal corruption. Fat oil revenues help, too. Most important, he's no threat to Khamenei. Here's a look at other contenders.
Ali Larijani: Speaker of Majlis (Parliament). Khamenei likes him, but his ego puts others off.
Gholam Ali Haddad Adel: Supreme Leader's in-law and friend, not independent enough for some voters.
Mohammad Khatami: Reformist ex-president, widely seen as hopelessly wishy-washy.
Mehdi Karrubi: Tougher than Khatami, but equally poor odds. Reformists like him scare Khatami.
Mohammad Jafar Ghalibaf: War-hero mayor of Tehran has been running since 2005.
I wonder if the current administration has taken this into account while planning to deal with Iran. Less than six months after the next American president takes office, Iran will hold its own Election Day. To win that race takes not o... more -
Queen of Hawaii demands independence from U.S.
The United States is an illegal occupying force that should hand the 132 islands of Hawaii back to the monarchy overthrown more than a century ago, according to members of a Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
For almost two months, the self-proclaimed Hawaiian Kingdom Government has peacefully occupied the grounds of the Iolani Palace, residence of the islands' last two monarchs, operating a shadow government from a tent erected in its stately grounds.
Her Majesty Mahealani Kahau, a descendant of Hawaii's last king who was elected "head of state" by the group, and her ministers gather each day to debate how to achieve their goal of restoring Native Hawaiian rule.The group, which claims 1,000 followers, is demanding the dissolution of the State of Hawaii and the return of land and bank assets totalling billions of dollars.
Hawaii has about 200,000 Native Hawaiians, or kânaka maoli, out of a population of 1.3 million. The Hawaiian Kingdom Government is just one of a number of sovereignty groups, many with similar names, waging independence campaigns.
All aim to "right the wrong" inflicted on Native Hawaiians in 1893 when a small, mostly American group of sugar plantation owners and other businessmen overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy with the support of US troops sent ashore from a Navy warship. The United States is an illegal occupying force that should hand the 132 islands of Hawaii back to the monarchy overthrown more than a... more -
400,000 defy Mugabe
Almost 400,000 Zimbabweans defied the threat of violent retribution by Robert Mugabe's thugs to vote against him or spoil their ballot papers, according to official results released on Sunday. Announcing the inevitable outcome of Friday's second-round presidential poll, election officials claimed that Mr Mugabe had almost exactly doubled his tally from the first round in March, in which he was defeated by Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
According to the Zimbabwe Election Commission's figures the turnout of 42 per cent was almost exactly the same as the first round – although many polling stations were virtually deserted throughout election day.
But the body unwittingly handed a propaganda coup to the opposition, whose activists and supporters have faced intense intimidation and political violence, including murder and rape, in the run up to the second round. Officials said that Mr Tsvangirai had received 233,000 votes, with another 131,481 spoiled papers, even though the opposition leader pulled out of the election in the face of widespread and sustained violence. Almost 400,000 Zimbabweans defied the threat of violent retribution by Robert Mugabe's thugs to vote against him or spoil their ballot... more -
Hearing loss link to stroke risk
Sudden hearing loss could be a warning sign of increased stroke risk, Taiwanese research suggests.
People hospitalised for sudden hearing loss had more strokes in the following five years than otherwise healthy appendicitis patients.
The article, in the journal Stroke, suggested no reason why the hearing problem could be linked to strokes
There are dozens of reasons, including some illnesses, such as mumps, measles, and meningitis, why someone might suffer sudden hearing loss.
The suggestion of the research, which looked at 1,423 patients taken to hospital after losing their hearing, is that it could be a sign that the person has a far higher chance of stroke even some years afterwards.
The hearing loss patients were compared with 5,692 patients taken into hospital for appendix removal - chosen because among hospitalised patients, they best represent the healthy population outside.
The researchers found that after hearing loss, they were one-and-a-half times more likely to have a stroke in the five subsequent years
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Secrets of the Federal Reserve
Many people in this country and throughout the world are unaware of how the Federal Reserve came about and why it is there. One of the #1 reasons our forefathers came to America and declared indepence from Britain was because of the fact that in Britain, the central banks had complete control of the country. Our forefathers realized that giving a single institution complete control of the currency simultaneously granted that institution complete and utter control of the country in general. From 1783 until 1913 our country was running just fine without a central banking system.
"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution." --Benjamin Franklin
Several international bankers realized the potential profit they could make by convincing the American people that a central banking system was necessary. In the early 1900s a few self-serving bankers decided to institute a central bank for the US. They knew the government and public were weary of this so JP Morgan exploited his influence on the media to cause mass hysteria by claiming some privately owned banks were going bankrupt. This caused mass withdrawals putting many banks out of business. In 1910 a secret meeting was held on Jeckyll Island where the Federal Reserve act was drafted by bankers NOT law makers. The bill was handed to Senator Nelson Aldrich, the banker's political frontman. In 1913 with heavy political support from the bankers, Woodrow Wilson became president, having already agreed to sign the Federal Reserve Act in exchange for political support. THIS is how our Federal Reserve came about. Many people in this country and throughout the world are unaware of how the Federal Reserve came about and why it is there. One of the... more -
War with Iran will not stop "nuclear program".
A U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could set Tehran's program back years but would raise the risk of retaliation against American troops in the region and of driving Iran to work even harder to make atomic weapons, U.S. experts and officials say.
Any U.S. attack -- something the Pentagon insists is not planned but is subject of frequent speculation as Iran defies calls to rein in its nuclear program -- could involve thousands of sorties and missile launches against hundreds of targets.It would be limited to air strikes, rather than a full-scale attack requiring U.S. ground forces, who are now tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan, analysts said.
But the strike would be hampered by a lack of intelligence on the number and location of the nuclear facilities dispersed throughout Iran, according to nuclear security experts.
At best, many experts say a U.S. strike could delay Iran's nuclear weapons capability by three to five years. Parts of the program would likely survive, perhaps even critical technologies and certainly know-how.
"We could set it back probably at least several months maybe a few years but then we run the risk of stimulating them to work even harder next time, burying facilities even deeper, putting in more air defence batteries," said Charles Ferguson, nuclear expert at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.facilities are scattered throughout the country and could be included as targets, experts speculated. Satellite pictures suggest Iran has dug tunnels around Natanz, for example, which could contain uranium enrichment equipment.
Nuclear research facilities in Iran's capital might be targeted as well, but such strikes raise the risk of civilian casualties and the attendant risk of international uproar, said U.S. defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.The military risks, however, are high, according to both defense analysts and officials.
Primary among them is the possibility of retaliation against U.S. troops by Islamist militant groups Washington says Tehran supports. The U.S. military accuses Iran of training and equipping the Shi'ite militias in Iraq, which are seen by U.S. commanders as one of the largest threats in that country.
But particularly frightening to officials inside the Pentagon is the possibility Iran would use suicide boats to attack U.S. ships in the Gulf or to disrupt crude oil trade.
A U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could set Tehran's program back years but would raise the risk of retaliation agai... more -
the 80s meet 2008
This show reminds me of a movie from the 80s...
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Women rush through sex when tv is on according to...
There is a new survey out in the world. It is about 'women rush through sex so they don't miss their ....
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Brazillian tribe without a language for numbers, colors, or desire for material we...
The Piraha tribe are truly unique in their approach to life. They have no mythology. Can't count past 2. No base words for colors(red would be "blood like" or something similar.). Don't link up pronouns(We can say: “I saw the dog that was down by the river get bitten by a snake,” They would have to say, ‘I saw the dog. The dog was at the beach. A snake bit the dog.’) Have a very zen attitude towards existence and my favorite is anyone who can't speak the Piraha language they say is talking in "crooked head". The Piraha tribe are truly unique in their approach to life. They have no mythology. Can't count past 2. No base words for colors(red ... more
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Is North Korea going soft?
USA will reward North Korea (within 45 days) by removing N.K. from the U.S. list of state sponsors and having trade sanctions....
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FBI makes arrests in 16 cities beacuse...
authorities have arrested more than 300 members of....
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