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A Brandt name to relaunch a country
Post Date: 2014-12-21 05:18:09 by Tatarewicz
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We know him as Willy Brandt - but that was just a pseudonym the former chancellor took to avoid the Nazis. Born Herbert Frahm in Lübeck on December 18th, 1913, former chancellor Willy Brandt’s name is carried by streets and squares across Germany (and even now its troubled Berlin-Brandenburg BER airport). But few people know about the statesman’s near spy novel early years – or his kaleidoscopic series of identities. Humble origins indeed: The son of a single mother who worked as a store cashier, the future West German chancellor went on to lead a war-time life packed with the exploits of storybook legend. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 1930, he ...
Chinese Sick Leave
Post Date: 2014-12-20 19:57:21 by James Deffenbach
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(Ohio Gov. John Kasich) Governor Signs Bill Restricting Red Light Cameras
Post Date: 2014-12-19 19:59:49 by X-15
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COLUMBUS (AP) -- Ohio's governor has signed a bill to require a police officer's presence for tickets to be issued from traffic cameras. The legislation would regulate the statewide use of the devices, though opponents say it's tantamount to a ban. Gov. John Kasich's signature came Friday, a day after a divided Ohio Supreme Court again upheld use of traffic camera enforcement by the state's municipalities, reversing a lower court after a year of legal setbacks for camera advocates. Traffic cameras surged in use but have faced increasing pushback, including challenges to their constitutionality and criticism they're nothing more than moneymakers for cities. Voters ...
Al Sharpton and the Rayciss White Washing Machines
Post Date: 2014-12-19 11:28:44 by James Deffenbach
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Al Sharpton was in Sears. He was there to protest the fact that most all of the washing machines were white. So the clerk called the store manager, who asked, Whats the problem here, Reverend? Sharpton pointed at the machines and loudly bemoaned the fact that most of them were white. The manager replied, Well, Reverend, it's true that most of the washing machines are white, but if you'll open the lids, you'll see that all the agitators are black."
The difference between Pravda and Pravda.Ru
Post Date: 2014-12-19 06:34:28 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda... Vadim Gorshenin: The difference between Pravda and Pravda.Ru. Vadim Gorshenin, chairman of Pravda.Ru Board of Directors The legendary newspaper Pravda is now older than 110 years, and its multimedia successor Pravda.Ru is going to celebrate its 16th anniversary in January 2015. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Media Holding Pravda.Ru, Vadim Gorshenin, appeared in a studio of the Higher School of Trading to speak about the history of the Pravda, the birth of Internet journalism and the influence of oligarchs on mass media. "What happened to the newspaper Pravda after the collapse of the USSR? What is Pravda.Ru?" "The Pravda is a well-known Soviet publication. ...
WALMART CHECKOUT LINE SONG
Post Date: 2014-12-18 16:53:42 by James Deffenbach
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101 Low Caost Bartering Items
Post Date: 2014-12-16 16:54:06 by BTP Holdings
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When SHTF, bartering is one of the most important skills you can have. Chances are that traditional money will be scarce or lose its value altogether, and in order to survive you will have to trade and barter to get what you need. Of course there are the obvious bartering items like food, clothes and building materials… But there are some items that are less obvious, but no less valuable. Click here to learn more. Inside this article: 101 Bartering Items for When SHTF •The importance of knowing how to trade and barter •Bartering tips •101 low-cost barter items I’ll bet you’ve never thought of the bartering potential of many of these items… But ...
Germany to Register Gun Owners in International Database
Post Date: 2014-12-15 14:52:02 by X-15
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Continuing a dubious record as a champion of freedom in Europe, "the German government plans to launch its complete registry of legal gun owners at the beginning of next year, two years ahead of a deadline set by the EU [European Union]," according to a German website. After all, "Under new EU laws, all member countries are obliged to compile a centralized register." Meanwhile, Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs--leaving to other bureaucrats the tiresome business of preventing the economic collapse of Western Europe--found time instead to muse about the "the harm caused by firearms" and the need for the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. In ...
Sleepy Hollow, Kazakhstan
Post Date: 2014-12-15 05:50:42 by Tatarewicz
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RT... For two years the villagers of Kalachi in Kazakhstan have been suffering from an inexplicable disorder, where they fall asleep for no apparent reason. The indiscriminate illness has no cure. Episodes begin without warning, and those affected never know if they will wake up again. Its causes and consequences remain unknown despite multiple attempts by medics and scientists to solve the riddle. Now the RTD team goes to Sleepy Hollow, as it has come to be known, to undertake its own investigation. Poster Comment:Maria Ene I believe it is a satellite which targets some area with a strong magnetic field on a frequency that humans use in brain and causes "falling asleep". Sounds ...
Retired chief justice reflects on his role
Post Date: 2014-12-14 22:25:45 by Tatarewicz
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The Road Not Taken: Bernardo judge considered priesthood The judge who presided over the Paul Bernardo trial considers the question, then chooses his words very carefully: did he ever pray during his 29 years on the bench? "In very, very stressful periods - of which I've had few - yes, I would sometimes just go into a church, an empty church and sit, contemplate. A little bit of prayer, yes," Patrick LeSage tells Tapestry in an interview. If a person breaks a law, it doesn't make them a criminal. You may commit a crime, that doesn't make you a criminal in my eyes. Patrick LeSage But the retired chief justice of the Superior Court of Ontario is emphatic about ...
Jethro Tull Has Left Us - please say good-bye [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2014-12-14 22:13:11 by Lod
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JT - all your experience, wisdom and insight will be sorely missed, lod
Interesting week on C2C
Post Date: 2014-12-14 07:36:19 by Tatarewicz
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Schedule for 12.14.14 - 12.19.14 Sunday December 14, 2014 Hosted by Richard Syrett Guest(s): Victor Viggiani, Lauren Weinstein Host Richard Syrett will be joined by Canadian UFO disclosure advocate, Victor Viggiani, who will discuss Paul Hellyer, the first Canadian ranking government cabinet member in G8 to go public with his beliefs concerning UFOs, ETs, and Roswell. In the first hour, privacy expert Lauren Weinstein will reveal how your brand new "smart" TV is actually spying on you in ways that you wouldn't believe. Monday December 15, 2014 Hosted by George Noory Guest(s): Christopher Boucher A pioneer of the modern U.S. hemp industry, Christopher Boucher will detail ...
Alternative Nobel: Fidel Castro wins China’s Confucius Peace Prize
Post Date: 2014-12-14 04:14:21 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro has been awarded the Confucius Peace Prize, China’s alternative to the Nobel. Castro was praised for “important contributions on eliminating nuclear war after his retirement,” and will get US$15,000. The 88-year-old icon was selected from 14 individuals, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and two organizations, to win China’s peace prize, state newspaper the Global Times reported on Thursday "While in office, Castro didn't resort to violence or force to settle disputes in international relations, especially with the United States," the report said. "After his retirement, he has been actively ...
The professor as a pretender. What role do professors play in social life?
Post Date: 2014-12-13 06:33:12 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda...How do they affect the quality of public policy? The perceptions of what a professor is thought to be tends to be wrapped up in the narratives of public images around certain 'pop' individuals who have developed through history and fiction. Take for example when someone uses the term "Einstein". The term "Einstein" is now a persona meaning someone who is brilliant, a brilliance almost untouchable for the 'average man in the street'. It also allures to that person having a sense of pragmatism in solving 'unsolvable' problems. The "professor" played by Russell Johnson in the long running TV series Gilligan's Island, showed ...
Dead Coyote Hung from Tree with Christmas Bow (fake outrage ensues!!!)
Post Date: 2014-12-12 14:36:35 by X-15
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PLAINS, Mont., Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A dead coyote hung from a tree with a Christmas bow along a Montana school bus route is outraging residents, but police said the display is not illegal. Plains resident Mary Ellen Siegford, who posted a picture of the less-than-cheerful holiday display on Facebook, said her daughter burst into tears when she saw the dead animal. "A lot of people were just like, 'Well, be glad it's dead. You don't have to worry about it eating your pets,'" Siegford told KECI-TV. "But I don't know. To me, it's morbid, it rings of animal cruelty. It's just not very pleasant to drive past, and I feel it's pretty gruesome for the ...
Beautiful Olde Things & Places
Post Date: 2014-12-12 11:56:53 by Lod
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Enjoy.
China's grand new "canal" diverts water northward
Post Date: 2014-12-12 08:03:34 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- A series of canals and pipelines stretching over 1,400 kilometers began diverting water on Friday from China's longest river, the Yangtze, directly to the country's arid northern regions, including capital city Beijing. The completion of the water scheme marked major progress in the nation's enormous south-to-north water diversion project, the largest of its kind in the world at an estimated cost of 500 billion yuan (about 80 billion U.S. dollars). The project, which aims to alleviate water shortages in the north, is another engineering achievement by the Chinese. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the world's longest man-made river, was ...
Xi chosen as 'Person of the Year' in Russia
Post Date: 2014-12-12 07:41:32 by Tatarewicz
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China Daily President Xi Jinping was named as "Person of the Year 2014" by the Russian Biographical Institute for the "strengthening of economic and political ties with the Russia", which reflects the rising influence of China and its leader. It is the first time the institute has given the award to a leader of a country that doesn't belong to the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Russian Biographical Institute, founded in 1992, is a nongovernmental and noncommercial organization based in Moscow. Its Person of the Year award acknowledges the recipients involved as being guided by the principles of social, spiritual and moral responsibility. Besides Xi, four ...
12-Year-Old Girl Shoots Mountain Lion in Self Defense
Post Date: 2014-12-12 01:22:17 by James Deffenbach
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Alyssa Caldwell and her father had been hunting all day. The weather had been nasty; cloudy skies with snow and rain alternating. They had seen a few elk, much too far away to try a shot. They left their makeshift blind to see if they could spot another elk before the end of the day. It was the middle of the afternoon . . . At 12, Alyssa Caldwell was already an experienced huntress. She had started shooting at five-years-old. On this day, Alyssa had a new rifle: a stainless Howa 1500. Alyssa and her father had only gone a few hundred yards from the blind when her father remembered that he’d left the shooting sticks behind. He told Alyssa to wait while he went back to retrieve them. ...
Pay It Forward - Kindness Boomerang
Post Date: 2014-12-10 10:45:29 by Lod
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Britons do ‘backyard burials’ over high costs: Lawmaker
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:54:59 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Rising costs are forcing Britons to hold “do-it-yourself” funerals and bury their loved ones in their own backyards, a British lawmaker warns. Emma Lewell-Buck, a Labour MP, said in a parliamentary session on Tuesday that tens of thousands of Britons struggle to pay for funeral costs, with some resorting to the practice of laying their relatives to rest in their own gardens. Citing a Royal London report, Lewell-Buck said 100,000 families struggle each year to afford the cost of a funeral. According to the British MP, an average funeral now costs £3,551; however, in some areas where there are problems regarding burial space availability, the price reaches ...
CIA Paid Millions to Company for Developing Interrogation Techniques
Post Date: 2014-12-10 02:11:56 by Tatarewicz
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by Sputnik company, established by two psychologists with no background on interrogation, was awarded millions of dollars by US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for developing and implementing the agency’s enhanced interrogation techniques against the detainees, suspected in terrorism, a report released on Tuesday by the US Senate said. “In 2006, the value of the CIA’s base contract with the company, formed by the psychologists with all options exercised was in excess of $180 million; the contractors received $81 million prior to the contract’s termination in 2009,” the report read. According to the report, in 2005, the psychologists formed a company for the ...
Walk With Me a Bit...Let's Talk
Post Date: 2014-12-07 18:13:29 by James Deffenbach
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Until Friday, it wasn't a big deal. Surgery that is. I knew it was going to happen but until yesterday, I couldn't put my finger on a calendar and show you that date. It was just a fuzzy, non-specific thing. Something that was to be scratched off a to-do list. It wasn't a big deal. I assigned it little relevance...just something I needed to do and move on. But it is a big deal. On January 16th, I will be admitted to Seton Medical Center in Austin Texas. On that day, Doctor and ENT Surgeon Peter Scholl will cure my cancer. He will do so by removing my larynx, possibly my thyroid and every lymph node in the general vicinity. We didn't come to this decision lightly. The ...
Time to put a Cork (County Cork, Ireland) in it
Post Date: 2014-12-06 13:25:18 by James Deffenbach
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Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
Post Date: 2014-12-06 05:45:04 by Tatarewicz
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ScientificAmerican... If you’ve spent more than about 5 minutes surfing the web, listening to the radio, or watching TV in the past few years, you will know that cognitive training—better known as “brain training”—is one of the hottest new trends in self improvement. Lumosity, which offers web-based tasks designed to improve cognitive abilities such as memory and attention, boasts 50 million subscribers and advertises on National Public Radio. Cogmed claims to be “a computer-based solution for attention problems caused by poor working memory,” and BrainHQ will help you “make the most of your unique brain.” The promise of all of these products, ...
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