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To his audience — cosmopolitan young Azeris following his commentaries on blogs and Facebook
— the video was a sly send-up of the government, which had been accused
in the local news media of paying exorbitant prices to import donkeys.
When an Air Force command in north Florida sought new battlefield technologies, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) steered millions in federal dollars its way to hire defense contractors.
The research effort at the Pensacola Air Force base fell apart, however, when investigators found evidence that it was used to improperly pay a series of companies linked to Murtha. A handful of defense firms were paid for work that was never done or not called for in the contracts. Some of the companies involved, based in Wyoming, Florida and Murtha's district in Pennsylvania, had hidden owners, prosecutors allege; one was secretly owned by the Air Force official who helped approve the payments.
And then one day the stop sign was gone.
It was the very stop sign one block from my house that was oddly stationed at a low-traffic, 3-way intersection, tempting every driver to slow down but not come to a complete stop.
How the city cleaned up on that one! I have personally coughed up in excess of $1,000 for tickets there, one time receiving two tickets in as many days. This sign was even the reason that I spent a day in jail for failing to fork over when the judge said I should.
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea.
Hunters started noticing the stuff last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters.
The U.S. Coast Guard found "globs" of the stuff floating miles offshore Friday and collected samples for testing.
If you haven't seen it: four pics of various editions of Newsweek that go to newstands around the world. The American edition is special-- after all, we don't want to upset the suckers (taxpayers)...
The housing bust, for example, has victimized nearly every home-owning individual in the country, even those individuals who own homes in the Hamptons - the posh summertime playground of Manhattan’s rich Wall Streeters.
Any kind of bank holiday will push the US$ lower, which may be a bonus benefit to their ongoing scenario of letting the $ fall. Such a fall would get the devaluation they want without having to declare it.
Usually when physicists talk about quantum teleportation,
they're referring to the transfer of quantum states from one particle
to another without a physical link. Now, physicists have investigated a
slightly different form of teleportation, in which they teleport a
quantum field, or an entire beam of light, from one location to
another. This kind of "strong" teleportation is required for some
quantum information applications, and could lead to the teleportation
of quantum images.
There is never a good time to raise the minimum wage. Just ask the people working in low-skilled jobs that are laid off as a result.
Now is a particularly bad time. Yet the federal minimum wage is scheduled to rise to $7.25 on July 24, the third step of a $2.10 increase enacted in 2007. In more than half the states, the minimum wage already exceeds the current national minimum of $6.55 an hour.
This Monday our sorry excuse for a governor signed 79 (that’s right, 79!) new laws that will take effect September 30th. The Arizona Republic reported on 12 of them. Some look good; others look pretty bad. Either way, it’s still beyond the understanding of most libertarians why in the good Lord’s name we have so many laws in the first place.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT http://kokeshforcongress.com
"We call for a new monetary and economic world order... we must restructure the world financial system to take into consideration the needs of developing countries."
The whole thing is a giant gong show really. When the world unraveled these companies stopped giving guidance and analysts guessed really really low. This was done precisely to guarantee a beat or make an official miss impossible.
Selected stories and videos I think you should be aware of.
California’s credit rating, the lowest among U.S. states, was cut for the second time in as many weeks as lawmakers and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger met behind closed doors to resolve a ballooning budget deficit...
Here’s an example of why Adam Kokesh’s bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., next year is so interesting.
Either way, it’s a drop in the Florida Bay compared to reports that some 3.5 million homeowners face foreclosure this year — a rate close to 10,000 per day — because mortgage holders can’t pay...
The rate of capacity utilization for total industry declined in June to 68.0 percent, a level 12.9 percentage points below its average for 1972-2008.
“Radically” different central-bank policy may be needed to change inflation expectations if the U.S. economy starts to resemble Japan’s era of deflation, McCulley wrote. He said the U.S. economy is not currently suffering from deflation.
Guests:
Rep Ron Paul Peter Schiff Lew Rockwell G. Edward Griffin Shelly Roche Adam Kokesh – Will have major announcement!As always, tune in at 2pm Eastern for another liberty lovefest!
Having had an armed escort through Arizona, Mike once again pedals alone in his cross-country "Ride For Honesty" through 120 degree heat.
Dave vonKleist, activist, patriotic recording artist, broadcaster, film producer and former co-host of “The Power Hour” radio program, is putting his historic Martin D-1 guitar up for auction on ebay! This guitar, serial # 527215, was purchased in 1995 and was vonKleist’s main instrument for ten years. All the songs from his first two albums of music were written and recorded with this guitar and include, “A Patch of Green in a Sea of Blue” (The Ballad of Michael New), “Where Are the Voices that Care?” (Gulf War Vets song), “The Ballad of Shirley Allen”, “You Won’t Be Trusted”, “Are We Freer (in America Today)”, “Terri’s Fight” (Song for Terri Schivo), “OK Can You See?” (Oklahoma City bombing song), “Cold Dead Hands” (2nd Amendment song), along with many other songs of social and political awareness. The guitar is in very good condition, considering the battles it has seen. A slight buckle rash on the back, and a couple of small dings are the only blemishes. It has
You have got to see these dogs. Unbelievable! Apparently she has been convicted and will be sentenced today.
[Consequences of embargo?] An Iranian passenger plane crashed Wednesday in northwest Iran, killing all 168 people on board, state media reported.
New Haven Firefighters are once again front and center in the national spotlight as Judge Sonia Sotomayor faced the Senate Judiciary Committee. Video:
Kwok and colleagues at NASA and the University of Washington, in Seattle, report that Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick, older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. Using ICESat measurements, scientists found that overall Arctic sea ice thinned about 17.8 centimeters (7 inches) a year, for a total of 67 cm (2.2 feet) over four winters. The total area covered by the thicker, older, multi-year ice that survives one or more summers shrank by more than 40 percent.
Converting the photosynthesis of rice from the less-efficient C3 form to the C4 form would increase yields by 50%,” ; said Dr. Sheehy, adding that C4 rice would also use water twice as efficiently. In developing tropical countries, where billions of poor people rely on rice as their staple food, “The benefits of such an improvement in the face of increasing world population, increasing food prices, and decreasing natural resources would, be immense,” he added.
That now brings up another issue. A previous post on the Antarctic ice core, established that every 100,000 years or so we swing by Sirius and get bathed in ultraviolet radiation for a thousand years or so. The effect of this is to essentially melt out a large part of the ice caps and add perhaps another couple of hundred feet of sea level. The temperature will rise several degrees on average and that surplus must migrate north. Far more importantly huge amounts of water will find its way into the atmosphere introducing enough rain to establish tropical conditions almost to the poles themselves. It also means a massive expansion of Amazon tropical rainforest like conditions far to the north. The Mississippi valley, the Sahara, the Outback, the Middle East will all become saturated swamplands fully able to support their own populations of crocodiles.
There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment
rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is
expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when
the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our
nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into
the private sector is unprecedented.
House Democrats rolled out a far-reaching $1.5 trillion plan
that for the first time would make health care a right and a
responsibility for all Americans, with medical providers, employers and
the wealthiest picking up most of the tab.
