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President Zelaya Has Returned to Honduras
“I am here in Tegucigalpa. I am here for the restoration of democracy, to call for dialogue,” Mr Zelaya told Honduran television. His return raises the stakes for the conservative de facto government, which was installed after the coup and which has defied international pressure to let Mr Zelaya return.
AP Photo of Dying Marine Stirs Controversy
AP has published a photo taken August 14 of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard after he suffered severe leg injuries from a rocket propelled grenade during a firefight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Bernard died a short time later on the operating table. The photo was released despite objections from the Secretary of Defense and Bernard’s family.
AP photo of dying marine Stirs Controversy
AP has published a photo taken August 14 of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard after he suffered severe leg injuries from a rocket propelled grenade during a firefight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Bernard died a short time later on the operating table. The photo was released despite objections from the Secretary of Defense and Bernard’s family.
Texting While Driving
One survey in the US found that 80% of people who had seen this video were less likely to text while driving than before. Warning graphic images.
People of Walmart
A collection of all the creatures that grace us with their presence at Walmart, America’s favorite store. Eeewh, it’s an old man with big supple delicious looking breast implants.
‘I Pledge’ To Be A Servant to Our President …
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s video has parents in an uproar, after it was shown to children at an elementary school in Utah. A politically conservative group leader called the viral video “radical, leftist propaganda.”
Pastor Preaches ‘Obama Should Die’
Listen to Pastor Steve Anderson’s sermon to his flock of wingnuts at the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D
If you only watch one astronomy video this year, make it this one. This is unbelievable eye-candy, and I encourage you to enjoy it!
Orbital Skydives to Follow Inflatable Heatshield Success?
NASA has announced a successful live test of a prototype inflatable heat shield for re-entry to a planet’s atmosphere. The blow-up shield could have important implications for future missions to Mars — and also, perhaps, for the nascent field of orbital spacesuit skydiving.
Top Sweden Newspaper Says IDF Kills Palestinians For Their Organs
A leading Swedish newspaper reported this week that Israeli soldiers are abducting Palestinians in order to steal their organs, a claim that prompted furious condemnation and accusations of anti-Semitic blood libel from a rival publication.
Swimmers Are Told to Wear Burkinis
British swimming pools are imposing Muslim dress codes in a move described as divisive by Labour MPs. Under the rules, swimmers – including non-Muslims – are barred from entering the pool in normal swimming attire.
Instead they are told that they must comply with the “modest” code of dress required by Islamic custom, with women covered from the neck to the ankles and men, who swim separately, covered from the navel to the knees.
Man Catches MSI Laptop With … His Arse
With so many laptops, notebooks, netbooks and – even – smartbooks on the market, manufacturers must create increasingly brilliant adverts in order to sap the cash from your pockets. Not MSI, though, which just resorts to ‘cheeky’ adverts.
Sequoia E-Voting Machine Commandeered By Clever Attack
Computer scientists have figured out to how trick a widely used electronic voting machine into altering tallies with a technique that bypasses measures that are supposed to prevent unauthorized code from running on the device.
The method, known as return-oriented programming, has already been used to defeat security measures built into the Linux and OpenBSD operating systems.
Now scientists have used it against the Sequoia AVC Advantage machine, which is used almost universally in New Jersey and in parts of Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Colorado and Virginia, according to the Verified Voting Foundation.
New Imaging Study Reveals Brains of Assholes
Assholes were made to perform certain tasks while their brains were being scanned. In one task, the subjects were asked to imagine lying on a beach on a tropical island. In other tasks, the assholes were asked to imagine something good about a member of their family, any accomplishment they could be proud of, a waitress they were nice to, and something that went wrong that they were willing to accept responsibility for. They failed every task spectacularly. As their brains were thus engaged, a certain part of the posterior corpus rumpus, known as the temporal anal cortex, lit up like a Christmas tree.
Beaches in NW France have Toxic Seaweed
Top resort beaches in France are now struggling to dispose of thousands of tons of Ulva lactuca – more commonly known as sea lettuce. Doctors have warned that the algae pose a health risk as they produce hydrogen sulphide when they rot. That can become trapped under a seaweed crust and be as deadly as cyanide if released suddenly.
FBI Translator’s Testimony Implicates Members of Congress
The State Secret’s Privilege was invoked by the Bush administration to silence Sibel Edmonds. The U.S. Department of Justice was not present at the deposition to bar her testimony. She testified how a Turkish agent blackmailed one congresswomen to change her vote on the 2000 Armenian Genocide Resolution, and she testified in other matters. So far her deposition has not been sealed by the Obama administration.
FBI Translator’s Testimony Implicates Members of Congress
The State Secret’s Privilege was invoked by the Bush administration to silence Sibel Edmonds. The U.S. Department of Justice was not present at the deposition to bar her testimony. She testified how a Turkish agent blackmailed one congresswomen to change her vote on the 2000 Armenian Genocide Resolution, and she testified in other matters. So far her deposition has not been sealed by the Obama administration.
FBI Translator’s Testimony Implicates Members of Congress
The State Secret’s Privilege was invoked by the Bush administration to silence Sibel Edmonds. The U.S. Department of Justice was not present at the deposition to bar her testimony. She testified how a Turkish agent blackmailed one congresswomen to change her vote on the 2000 Armenian Genocide Resolution, and she testified in other matters. So far her deposition has not been sealed by the Obama administration.
FBI Translator’s Testimony Implicates Members of Congress
The State Secret’s Privilege was invoked by the Bush administration to silence Sibel Edmonds. The U.S. Department of Justice was not present at the deposition to bar her testimony. She testified how a Turkish agent blackmailed one congresswomen to change her vote on the 2000 Armenian Genocide Resolution, and she testified in other matters. So far her deposition has not been sealed by the Obama administration.
