Archive for February, 2009
9/11 Activist Who Sued Government Killed In Buffalo Plane Crash
Steve Watson: One of the passengers aboard the plane that crashed into a house 10 miles from Buffalo, New York, airport late on Thursday was a 9/11 widow who had questioned the official account of the attacks, sued the government and consistently lobbied for an Investigative Commission.
Beverly Eckert was flying to the city for a celebration of what would have been her husband Sean Rooney’s 58th birthday, reports the Press Association. Mr Rooney died on the 98th floor of the World Trade Center’s south tower.
She was among the 44 passengers and four crew on board the Continental Connection flight operated by Colgan Air when it crashed in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center. After 9/11, Ms Eckert refused to accept a cash settlement as compensation and instead sued the government.
“I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues… my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers…
Man Who Shot TV Mad About Digital
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — Police said a 70-year-old Missouri man was so upset by the switch to digital television
broadcasting that he opened fire on his TV set.
Walter Hoover, 70, was arrested and charged with unlawful use of a firearm after his frustration over losing his cable and his inability to make his digital converter box function properly allegedly led him to his act of violence against electronics, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, reported Monday.
Investigators sad Hoover’s wife told officers that he had been drinking alcohol prior to the gunfire.
Man Sues Ex for Sending Him Hairy Postcards
A Croatian man is suing his former girlfriend for harassment for continually sending him postcards with pieces of her hair stuck on them.
Croatia, postcards, lawsuit, hair
A Croatian man is suing his former girlfriend for harassment for continually sending him postcards with pieces of her hair stuck on them.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Rev. Spook & LucidSketchMaster Collab Got Play on Fox Sports!
RevSpook/LucidSketchMaster collab got play on FOX SPORTS RADIO on Monday, February 23, 2009!
The song was ‘Evil In My Den’ from the BIGSPIRIT e-Album: Listen to it here!
Bernie Madoff, Monster … And The People Who Enabled Him
What made Bernie Madoff, a man who helped revolutionize Wall Street and built a completely legal billion-dollar business, perpetrate the greatest fraud in history? Steve Fishman | New York Magazine:
A little more than a year before he blithely confessed to masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Bernie Madoff attended the wedding of his niece. That Saturday evening, September 29, 2007, Shana Madoff, the daughter of his younger brother, Peter, his partner for almost four decades at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, married a former official at the Securities and Exchange Commission, an irony that Bernie couldn’t quite keep to himself.
He tossed an arm around the neck of one young guest and directed the young man’s attention across the dance floor, toward a clean-cut group sipping cocktails. “See them,” Madoff said, pale-blue eyes flashing incongruously in his kindly face. “That’s the enemy.”
There were a hundred guests at the Bowery Hotel, some…
Atlantis Revealed at Last … or Just a Load of Old Googles?
More than six hundred miles off West Africa and more than three miles down lay a mysterious grid of lines that resembled the streets of a city. The image — discovered on internet mapping tool Google Earth — lay in an area of the Atlantic long thought of as a possible location for the city.
Experts were agog, marine geologists baffled and internet bloggers were buzzing. There were just two problems, however.
First, the grid of streets, walls and buildings turned out to be the size of Wales. That meant Altantis was 20 time as big as Greater London. More problematic still, the grid of lines doesn’t exist on the sea floor. According to Google, the pattern is an ‘artifact’ of its map-making process.
Details for the ocean maps on Google Earth come from sonar measurements of the sea floor recorded by boats — and the area around the Canaries was mapped by…
5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don’t Work)
Between the hybrids, the reusable canvas shopping bags and cloth diapers, everybody’s doing their little bit to save the world. Entire industries have sprang up to cater to us socially-responsible types who want to leave behind a better world for the robots to inherit once they take over.
But, most of the time, making you feel better is about all it does. For instance…
#5. Buying Organically Grown Food
Why People Do It: Seems like a no-brainer. Organic food eliminates the use of chemical fertilizers, hormones and pesticides. Getting rid of all those nasty chemicals means healthier foods and less contamination to the planet.
And anything that’s organic or natural has to be better for you, right? It’s like you’re eating the opposite of Twinkies here.
Why They Shouldn’t: So what’s the problem with eating healthier food and saving the Earth? Nothing, except that the food may not be any healthier. And that’s even if you…
5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don’t Work)
Between the hybrids, the reusable canvas shopping bags and cloth diapers, everybody’s doing their little bit to save the world. Entire industries have sprang up to cater to us socially-responsible types who want to leave behind a better world for the robots to inherit once they take over.
But, most of the time, making you feel better is about all it does. For instance…
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5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don’t Work)
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Between the hybrids, the reusable canvas shopping bags and cloth diapers, everybody’s doing their little bit to save the world. Entire industries have sprang up to cater to us socially-responsible types who want to leave behind a better world for the robots to inherit once they take over.
But, most of the time, making you feel better is about all…
Atlantis Found on Google Maps?
THIS is the amazing image which could show the fabled sunken city of Atlantis.
It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3½ miles down. A host of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, are enclosed by the boundary.
They seem too vast and organised to be caused naturally. And last night the possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated.
The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands — a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato. He believed it was an island civilisation sunk by an earthquake and floods around 9,700BC — nearly 12,000 years ago.
The “grid” showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys.
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Noreena Hertz On The New Co-op Capitalism
The first full crisis of globalization means the start of a kinder, more selfless economic system.
There are some who say this current global financial recession, this recession/depression that is being felt in London and New York, in Shanghai and Sao Paolo, will not have an impact on the nature of capitalism. That five years from now, well, capitalism will basically look like it did six months ago.
I understand this caution about predicting anything new, a reluctance to call the past era one of capitalism’s demise. But I do not agree with it. I believe the conditions are in place for a markedly different economic model to emerge from the carnage this economic crisis has wrought.
For what we are seeing today is not just a variant of the Russian crisis, the dot-com crisis, the Japanese crisis. This first full crisis of globalization, this first collective lose-lose, this first blue- and white-…
Poodle Bites Off Woman’s Nose
An Italian woman will have to undergo extensive reconstructive surgery after her pet poodle bit off her nose.
Russia Selects Miss Atom 2009
Alyona Kirsanova of Novovoronezh is 22, works for the company Novovoronezhatomenergoremont, and loves “enjoying life.” She is a contestant in Russia’s “Miss Atom” 2009 competition, a national beauty contest for female employees in the nuclear power industry. You can vote here–who will be the sunny, smiling face of uranium-packed cooling towers this year?
Oscars Reporters Baffled By Slumdog Kids
The super adorable child stars of Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” may have had an incredible time at the Oscars as the film won Best Picture. It’s too bad our nation’s “entertainment reporters” are idiots, as seen below:
Pedophile Nazi Wins Oscar! Pedophile Priest Loses To Corpse!
How gay were the Oscars? Well, Queen Latifah sat with her trainer girlfriend; Hugh Jackman sat on Frank Langella’s lap; Beyonce sang “Over The Rainbow”; Milk writer Dustin Lance Black and star Sean Penn gave stirring speeches about how God loves the gays; and kisses from that film were included in the romance AND comedy montages!
Unfortunately, the ratings were probably so bad they can now blame queers for one more thing!
Oops. We Overlooked 193,000 Square Miles of Ice
In May, 2008, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) predicted that the North Pole would be ice-free during the 2008 melt season because of ‘global warming.’
Today, they admitted that they’ve underreported Arctic ice extent by 193,000 square miles (500,000 square kilometers). They blamed the error on satellite problems and sensor drift.
Britain Faces Summer Of Rage
Police are preparing for a “summer of rage” as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned.
Britain’s most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming “footsoldiers” in a wave of potentially violent mass protests.
Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police’s public order branch, told the Guardian that middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests this year.
He said that banks, particularly those that still pay large bonuses despite receiving billions in taxpayer money, had become “viable targets”. So too had the headquarters of multinational companies and other financial institutions in the City which are being blamed for the financial crisis.
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Bone healing
Bone fracture healing process through an indigenous medicinal plant is a common practice in India.It was prescribed in the ancient Ayurvedic texts as a painkiller, with bone fracture healing properties.
