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Police: Madoff associate Jeffry Picower dies at 67 Jeffry Picower, a philanthropist accused of profiting more than $7 billion from the investment schemes of his longtime friend Bernard Madoff, was found at the bottom of the pool at his oceanside mansion and died Sunday, police said. He was 67. Picower's wife, Barbara, discovered his body and pulled him from the water with help from a housekeeper, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Medical Center at about 1:30 p.m. Palm Beach police are investigating the death as a drowning, but have not ruled out anything on the cause of death. Picower suffered from Parkinson's disease and had "…
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I'm on some conspiracy theory shit here. Have you noticed how aggressive these Cash4Gold commercials have gotten lately (in the U.S)? What if they, and their offshoots are secretly owned by the U.S. Government to "discretely" gather up all the gold and use it to back the Dollar which is gasping for air? Am I crazy? Why the sudden intense interest?
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Puerto Rico Paralyzes all mayor economic activity. Is in Spanish any dout try to use a good traductor. http://www.babylon.com Here are some links but i will be posting more photos soon. :D http://www.elnuevodia.com/concluyeelparosinmayoresincidentes-626744.html http://www.elnuevodia.com/fotogaleria/626755/
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You are now 70 years old, and after decades of boozing, drugs, smashing, partying and inhaling spray paint fumes, you're feeling something awful and on top of that mother nature's death grip of aging is tightening. So my question to you is...do you say, "ah fuck it, it was a good run" and die? Or take a trip down to your local hospital and get life extension/age reversal therapy to reek havoc for another 70 years? This is Aubrey de Grey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey he claims that the way we age is a disease and it needs to be cured. interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1wFzUqVCzQ&feature=related also peep this: http://m…
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http://www.ishmael.org/Education/Writings/unschooling.shtml Schooling: The Hidden Agenda I suspect that not everyone in this audience knows who I am or why I've been invited to speak to you to day. After all, I've never written a book or even an article about home schooling or unschooling. I've been called a number of things: a futurist, a planetary philosopher, an anthropologist from Mars. Recently I was introduced to an audience as a cultural critic, and I think this probably says it best. As you'll see, in my talk to you today, I will be trying to place schooling and unschooling in the larger context of our cultural history and that of our species a…
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absolutely worth the listen. this is very well informing: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=49EB4A68C90A7A2A&search_query=AIB+Radio
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http://www.wjfw.com/video_center.html?mainvideo=NewsUpdate3-26.flv&action=display So back on the reservation most of my family is from, the tribal government is fucking up really bad..making stupid investments, and not taking care of the debt that has slowly been building up and pretty much our tribe is broke. so a bunch of tribal members and non-tribal members took over the tribe's main building and refuse to come out until someone from washington comes down to negoigate a plan to get us out of debt. this is in lac du flambeau, wisconsin.
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Either this guys really good at being full of shit, or hes legit. Dr.Steve Pieczenik Hour 1 http://www.stevequayle.com/qf_july_21_2009_hour_1.mp3 Hour 2 http://www.stevequayle.com/qf_july_21_2009_hour_2.mp3
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The goverment of Puerto Rico wants to shut down the only institution in Puerto Rico that teaches Fine arts just because "there is no money" http://www.cultura7.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGh4W3WvEyo
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HEPATITIS, VIRAL - PAKISTAN: (SINDH) FATAL ****************************************** A ProMED-mail post <http://www.promedmail.org> ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases <http://www.isid.org> Date: Tue 9 Jun 2009 Source: Regional Times [edited] <http://regionaltimes.com/09jun2009/heartlandnews/4person.htm> 4 persons die of hepatitis, 460 other cases reported in New Saeedabad --------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to consumption of contaminated water in village Jan Muhammad Jamali near New Saeedabad [Matiari District, Sindh], 4 people have died, while 460 o…
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DISCUSS.
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But you cant take the Germans out of being Nazis http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,648086,00.html Right wing extremist political party, the NPD, was re-elected in Saxony two weeks ago. Now a leading politician in Bavaria wants to seek a national ban on them. But his push is causing political conflict. Because while most German politicians want to stop the NPD, they can't decide how best to do so. And you think the States has problems!! You think they would have learned the last time they killed five million people.
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LOS ANGELES, CA -- Drug-industry investigators have uncovered documents exposing an international drug ring, operating from New York City, is behind the H1N1 swine flu fright and vaccination preparations. Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz and Sherri Kane, an investigative journalist, have released evidence in legal affidavits that leaders of a private global biotechnology "trust" are behind the pandemic flu, including its origin and alleged prevention via vaccinations. Their documents, being sent by attorneys to the FBI this week, evidence industrialists are operating a crime ring within the "Partnership for New York City" (PNYC), and are behind the pandemic's creation, media …
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Anyone that does not know by now.....radio station G105 in raleigh NC's dj spent 15 minutes non stop stateing every kind of racist native American slang and sterotype I have heard anyone say in one sitting......even went as far as to call the Lumbee tribe inbreds.....it is more stuff than I can type here!!!! EVERYONE needs to go to the news station nbc 17's website and watch the news broadcast from today. You can also go here and listen to the entire thing....be warned you will be very mad once you hear it....don't say I did not warn you. http://www.djforge.com/audio/showgram.mp3 send messages to the station send complaints to the fcc....do whateve…
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Ron Paul stating he does not agree with the 9/11 inside jobbers that follow him:
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I cannot find the whole video, props to anyone who does. I keep seeing this argued again and again and there is no basis for the argument. "In the west, 10 or 20 years, there has been massive research documenting the fact that the media are extraordinarily subordinated to external power. Now, when you have that power, the best technique is to ignore all of that discussion, ignore it totally, and to eliminate it, by the simple device of asserting the opposite. If you assert the opposite, that eliminates mountains of evidence demonstrating that what you are saying is false. That's what power means. And the way we assert the opposite is by just saying that …
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C'MON! Were 12oz damnit! We've got some really intelligent folks and some really whacked out idiots AND PMB is some kind of 'law talkin' guy'! Surely we can invent a REALLY GOOD anti-establishment paranoid fantasy scare. We'll come up with a great premise, then we can isuue some press releases and then we can SUE WHOEVER THE FUCK WE WANT! I mean EVERYBODY! World leaders, ex-girl friends, dicks from High school, corporate FAT CATS, people you 'just don't like', Washington PUNDITS, Obama, Nobama, Usama, UrGrandMa, Abraham Lincoln, Baberaham Lincoln, 'Tricky Dick' NIXON, Mojo Nixon, The Dead Milkmen, NOT Dead Kennedys (too soon), that guy in front of you in line in…
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here is the link to their arguements . DISCUSS http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3943 this would make it so that not only the action of the crime is punished but also the thoughts and reasons being punishable if this is expanded. this is against freedom of speech in my opinion
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nothing else but the truth ............. they really despise free speech and attack it with name calling ...
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009873854_medina16m.html http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/16/obama-wh-collects-web-users-data/ coming to a town near you ...gestapo !!!!!! love it ..everytime they pass a law in congress and the president signs it .your FREEDOMS are being taken away !!!! we WERE the government ..now its an obsticle in our daily lives .. i will update myself on things i find interesting you can too ..but this is for the haters of the government ..dont come in here trying to sell me some social program the government is gonna throw at us .. Right or Left .. were screwed ...
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This contest will be a tricky one as the Tag Body Spray ads are creeping in every now and then on 12oz.. so for this one you will have to click the ad and go into TAG RECORDS link... In the video playing FIND 2 THINGS... 1. What media company presents this video? 2. What is the last image seen at the end of the video? First 15 people to do this get 2 months VIP, and if you have already a green name, we will add it onto your months.. no posting within this thread, they will not count! no time limit as everyone isnt getting this ad served and may take awhile... fairly easy... tricky part is getting the ad to come back around in rotation. a…
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Just curious what everyone's thoughts are on the issue of Obama addressing schools on Sept. 8th. In the Email sent to the schools, it explains that the President will speak to children about Goals, personal responsibilty, etc. This is the first time in history that the President will be speaking directly to school children. It will be done live from the White House and be streaming on the website. There is no advance transcript of it at this time.
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Karl Rove, former senior aide to President Bush, spoke to a hostile crowd at the University of Iowa yesterday evening. Students and local citizens protested his appearance at the university and “staged a mock trial” for Rove inside the student union before the speech. During the lecture, Rove lashed out at hostile questioners, telling one man his comment showed “a simple, stupid mind” and chastised what he said were “stupid statements” from the audience. Rove also said that former Amb. Joseph Wilson “lied” about his 2002 trip to Niger and accused an audience member of “perpetuating libel” on the U.S. military for asking about the real number of deaths in the Iraq war: …
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I know, one source is FOX... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/28/senate-president-emergency-control-internet/ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-internet ... deal with it.
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736
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back a while ago i used to believe that everyone on the internet cared about free speech. also i had faith in that users all had good intentions. this is not the truth. there are people who have been here a year with 1000's of posts far more possible than imaginable. they hack them. simple. then they try to gain credibility by making incredibly long posts about shit everyone already knows about. or something to misinform you of the truth<------------- commonly you will find this through your cable box but now it has elevated to individual "agents" of misinformation on the internet. there goal is to control what you think about and hide the exhistence of real things …
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Never thought I'd be making a thread with a Huffpo article headlining it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_b_264706.html Common Sense 2009 by: Larry Flynt The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate mas…
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Obese People Have 'Brain Degeneration' (Aug. 25) - A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today. Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " you big dummy"
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I dont necessarily have any proof of anything beyond what we already assume. But under my assumptions i believe we have technology and propulsion systems far and above what we have been decieved as of having. I once saw a video of this craft on the moon with english usa handwriting and letters. Looked like it was there for a really long time like 1000 years. usa hasnt exhisted for that long, how could this be? My reason of making this thread is to expose the alien bastards who have really invaded the fuck out of our personal space. just look at their faces as they hide amongst us. Notice how they look and act and talk as if they were superior. I'll have more…
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A recent mathematical analysis says that life as we know it is written into the laws of reality. DNA is built from a set of twenty amino acids - the first ten of those can create simple prebiotic life, and now it seems that those ten are thermodynamically destined to occur wherever they can.For those unfamiliar with thermodynamics, it's the Big Brother of all energy equations and science itself. You can apply quantum mechanics at certain scales, and Newtonian mechanics work at the right speeds, but if Thermodynamics says something then everyone listens. An energy analysis by Professors Pudritz and Higgs of McMaster University shows that the first ten amino acids are li…
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it has reached a deal with the Swiss government, gaining access to thousands of UBS AG accounts that Americans might have used to avoid paying taxes. "Thousands of taxpayers who avoided paying taxes in the past are being brought into compliance," said IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in a teleconference with reporters. "As this agreement demonstrates, the world of international taxes has drastically changed." An IRS press release stated that 4,450 accounts held by rich American investors were included in the settlement. In the teleconference, Shulman said the IRS expects to ga…
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The supporters of The MOTHERS Act have been engaging for the past few years in an aggressive attempt to pass an incredibly broad federal law which will transform the U.S. market for “antidepressant” or “antipsychotic” drugs from a voluntary pool of patients who are encouraged by commercials to seek help from their doctors, to a government-sponsored screening program to select patients who are deemed to need “antidepressant” or “antipsychotic” drugs from among the female childbearing-age population. These promoters of the bill have had vast resources and ample time to obtain support and backing from the legislators they have influenced. The bill has passed the U.S. House, …
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Gunmen open fire in Jerusalem Jewish seminary http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/06/mideast/index.html JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Several people were killed Thursday in what Israeli police are calling a "severe terrorist attack" at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem. Video from the scene showed a frantic crowd of rescue workers carrying bloodied victims into ambulances. Dozens of police officers were scouring the campus and surrounding streets. Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said: "They opened fire on innocent youngsters studying. A number of students have been killed. "We are still searching the building for the possibility of a second terrorist still…
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i think these damn shows are a form of brainwashing to get people to think that there is no way that they could possibly get away with a crime fuck, i have been in the room with the tv on in the background for the last few hours and these types of shows are all that has been on any takers?
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Living in seattle i have come to realise one thing. Starbucks, is an evil corporation. In every single area they move into, they drive out litterally all of the local business. @%^*(& starbucks. Firstly, for those of you who have fallen prey to there ingenious marketing, there drinks are 3 to 5 times overpriced. I have asked employees who say, yes, our pricing is rediculous. A good cup of cofee from a respectable business should cost you about a dollar to three dollars, depending on the size. Starbucks ranges from 3 dollars upwards to 6 dollars. for a single cup of cofee. On top of this they are exploiting foreign countrys for cheap labor, there profit margin is enorm…
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After Donald Rumsfeld testified on the Hill about Abu Ghraib in May, there was talk of more photos and video in the Pentagon's custody more horrific than anything made public so far. "If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse," Rumsfeld said. Since then, the Washington Post has disclosed some new details and images of abuse at the prison. But if Seymour Hersh is right, it all gets much worse. Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it. The speech was first reported in a New York Sun story last week, which was in turn pos…
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now i will tell you that some christian programmed people will not like this very much but i am from chicago where everywhere you look there is a cross on the sidewalk or somewhere in the distance. about the cross some people here probably know that the man they call jesus died on the cross. ok with that said what do current religions beleive and practice based on that. most christians: that he died so you can be saved catholics(jesuits): believe that its a good thing he died because he was a nuisance and they laugh at his suffering and mock him. take a look at these pictures of an omnipitent one that cannot be touched then one suffering …
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The Hacker Manifesto by +++The Mentor+++ Written January 8, 1986 Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than …
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