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Well since we all have our respective outlooks/information etc, why not form a comprehensive list for which the novice 12oz'er can get up to speed with. feel free to drop audio and .pdf links too. Bhagavad-Gita http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/index-english.html -------------->online book (full version) The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit भगवद्गीता Bhagavad Gītā, "Song of God") is a Sanskrit text from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata epic. Due to differences in recensions they may be numbered in the full text of the Mahabharata as chapters 6.25 – 42.[1] or as chapters 6.23-40[2] According to the rece…
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sorry, if this has already been posted, but look at this thing... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=109_1195663753
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Who Would Jesus Torture?
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"Inflicting bodily or psychological harm on a helpless captive would be inconsistent with the Christian understanding of human dignity. But as with all moral obligations, there may be circumstances for exception. It is well understood in Christian tradition that while we are supposed to obey the law, there may be times when there is a higher obligation (see Aquinas, Augustine, and Martin Luther King). To rescue a drowning person, a Christian would be justified in disobeying a “no trespassing” sign. So it is with torture; if a competent authority honestly believed that this was the only way to get information that might save the lives of thousands, I believe he w…
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I think it may give us a good idea of the state of human rights in the world if we kept all of the stories in one place. Sound like a good idea? This story has been already posted, but new events have complicated the issue somewhat. The court has actually increased the sentence because the defendant's lawyer had notified the media, thus bringing the ire of the Western world upon the Saudi criminal justice system. I think this story is interesting for two reasons. The obvious "blaming the victim" angle is something that is actually codified in the Saudi justice system, but at the same time still exists in rape cases in the United States. It would be interesting i…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH3BTaWrQ3I no words describe....
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Remember Rwanda, but Take Action in Sudan by Samantha Power April 6, 2004 Reprinted from the New York Times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ten years ago this week, Rwandan Hutu extremists embarked on a genocidal campaign in which they murdered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus — a genocide more efficient than that of the Nazis. On this anniversary, Western and United Nations leaders are expressing their remorse and pledging their resolve to prevent future humanitarian catastrophes. But as they do so, the Sudanese government is teaming up with Arab Muslim militias in a ca…
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http://www.slate.com/id/2178158/pagenum/2/ so i admit i didn't understand all of the technical stuff (is spectrum just wireless territory aka air?), but this shit is getting on a star wars level. next thing google's gonna be invading belarus for "not being open enough". as far as it means more free/ill shit for me i say go for it google. i've been using google scholar all day.
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found this on dmiessler.com thought it a good read. Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack’s shotgun. He goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2007 - School goes into lock down, and FBI is called. Jack is hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers. Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school. 1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. 2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnn…
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It appears to be an uncanny freak of nature, an albino dolphin, with reddish eyes and glossy pink skin. It is small in comparison to the others it is traveling with and appears to be a youngster traveling with mama. After spotting the beautiful mammal cruising with a pod of four other dolphins, Rue and his guests Randy and Peyton Smith and Greg and Sam Elias of Monroe, LA idled nearby while watching and photographing the unusual sight for more than an hour. Our expectations are high that we will see this amazing mammal again as it was in an area frequented by the gentle mammals and one confirmed report has it being spotted at least a month earlier in a nearby locatio…
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Aliens... ghost... angel... smog becoming alive... you decide...
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http://www.local6.com/news/14578641/detail.html A strange blue cloud seen floating and darting around customers, freezing for 30 minutes and then speeding from an Ohio gas station, remains unexplained even though it was caught on security cams. The ghostly image was seen moving near and over cars at a Marathon gas station located near the corner of State Road and Pleasant Valley in Parma on Sunday. Surveillance video of the image showed it flipping and then sitting in the same location for 30 minutes.It then flies off the screen at a high rate of speed."It gives me the chills," a witness said.Security video then shows it coming back and resting on a car window be…
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why are there so few who participate in these crossfire topics? i see about 20 heads in here. how many read this information? are the majority of writers ignorant, lazy or just dont care about learning? are they afraid of feeling dumb? or do they just not care? opinions and ideas welcome.as well as how would one go about bringing more in to discuss these issues.
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http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/georgia-police-.html direct video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MThThdEmswU p.s.: the u.s. gave them the sonic blaster
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Terrorism suspects arrested in Germany By Mark Landler and Nicholas Kulish Wednesday, September 5, 2007 FRANKFURT: Police in Germany have arrested three Islamic militants suspected of planning major terrorist attacks on Frankfurt's airport and the United States military base at Ramstein. The suspects - two German citizens and a Turkish resident of Germany — were within days of carrying out bombing attacks, said a German security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Germany's defense minister, Franz Josef Jung, said on state television, "There was an imminent security threat." The arrests were made Tuesday evening at a vacation home in…
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Here are the pages... I suggest downloading them, they wont last forever on fileshack... Plus, it's easier to read if you zoom in ;) Too much Vodka? Or a rare event? Front cover of the mag: http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4563/25763046gl6.jpg Rest: http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5962/35135668yv3.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2811/39726814fx7.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9905/57322953ag9.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2484/22426813fo6.jpg http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8923/67fr8.jpg http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7228/godyw0.jpg And, just to be 'conservative' I will say it could be fake. But one da…
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http://www.ted.com/ Anyone been there before? My teach showed me this video of Theo Jansen and the creatures he made. Then i stumbled on the site itself, watched a bunch of stuff..... thought you guys would dig. eh?
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What we need is a new water bill!!! Well it looks as though the senate has finally grabbed there balls and done something for a change. I just think its funny that they chose this over some of the other things that came up. I guess people were just fed up after the childrens health care bill didnt get passed and they needed to show they could stand up for something... Senate Overrides Bush Veto on Water Bill President Bush suffered the first veto override of his presidency Thursday, as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill to fund dams, sewage plants and hundreds of other projects. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projec…
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Did anyone else used to read Transworld Stance? It was such a raw magazine...it had articles on every possible thing guys would be interested in...anyone know what ever happened to it?
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"Trademark travesty.(Seriously). ." New Internationalist. 405 (Oct 2007): 27(1). COPYRIGHT 2007 New Internationalist Magazine In a brilliant PR move, US health-product giant Johnson & Johnson (J & J) is suing the American Red Cross for, wait for it ... using the red cross symbol on some commercial products the charity sells to raise funds for its disaster relief services. The New Jersey-based maker of such things as Band-Aids[R], Rogaine[R], Tylenol[R] and Wart-Off[R], is arguing that it has exclusive rights to use the world famous symbol for its own first-aid products and is seeking a court injunction ordering the American Red Cross to stop usi…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/us/nationalspecial3/06interrogate.html?em&ex=1191816000&en=dcb92a91dfb27ef5&ei=5087%0A Bush Says Interrogation Methods Aren’t Torture function getSharePasskey() { return 'ex=1349409600&en=031c72502f2c13d6&ei=5124';} function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent('http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/us/nationalspecial3/06interrogate.html'); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent('Bush Says Interrogation Methods Aren’t Torture'); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent('The president championed a once-secret program to detain and interrogate high-profile…
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White House: Fake FEMA news conference won't happen again http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_apologizes_for_fake_FEMA_1026.html White House Press Secretary Dana Perino assured reporters today that the staged news conference organized on Tuesday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would not happen again, and said the White House would never employ such tactics at its own press briefings. "It is not a practice that we would employ here at the White House or that we -- we certainly don't condone it," said Perino. According to a report in the Washington Post, FEMA had instructed its own public relations staff to pose as reporters whe…
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I love those damn Scandinavians, they know how to party! Guy draws cartoon of Mohamed with the body of a dog. Man now has a price on his head, for drawing a picture. Awesome. http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/16/artist.controversy/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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Wanna see UFOs? 1 2
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I thought this was going to be the same ol lame UFO talk. I was corrected. http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-5305085298884471236&q=UFOs&total=5726&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-5305085298884471236&q=UFOs&total=5726&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-5305085298884471236&q=UFOs&total=5726&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Watch it all... Some awesome footage.... Get a camera with an infrared filter. http://www.astronomycast.com/wp-content/uploa…
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered/index.html#cnnSTCVideo im sure some of you have seen this already.. .. just a minute of patience and he woulda cooled down. six cops on him, and they use a fucking taser. privilege of speech ftw. note to self: bring sledgehammer if attending these gatherings........
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Watch this, discuss. I think it is a great video. I rarely post in this section, but I hope some of you find the time to watch this. MONEY
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Many of you have seen this already... But this is truly amazing... (I've seens some films on youtube about the 'Joe Cell' but nothing as good as this; http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=5838886797220015378 If you don't want to watch the whole thing... (Roughly ffwd to) 38:00 - 46:00, to see this thing used in a car, and the way to use it in a car, and shorty after, around 48:00 you can see how to weld, without using flux and or rods. 1:20:00, to see various explosions, and tips on using these gases. This is basically a H20 water splitter. There is no loss of water (although it does turn it brown). You can make this in your back ya…
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8353942004369311258 worth to watch for those who eventhough know the "bush administration" is corrupt still dont believe there is a new world order trying to be established by a group of people all related and interconnected. 47 minutes long, beware
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Okay, I'm assuming most of you guys are up to date on the Israeli airstrikes on Syria a couple weeks ago, claiming it was nuke material, Syria says it was only an abandoned building. FUrthermore, Israel very inconveniently left fuel tanks in Syria. Israel- left those tanks there on purpose. This story about the nukes borders on conspiracy. Hezbollahs victory last summer proved that nukes are far from necessary. Israel hits something that they know is insignificant (so there will be no significant losses), yet demonstrates clearly their ability to attack. it is meant to threaten Syria's leadrship, as well as demonstrate that Syria is completely isolated, and that they…
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush again called Democrats "irresponsible" on Saturday for pushing an expansion he opposes to a children's health insurance program. "Democrats in Congress have decided to pass a bill they know will be vetoed," Bush said of the measure that draws significant bipartisan support, repeating in his weekly radio address an accusation he made earlier in the week. "Members of Congress are risking health coverage for poor children purely to make a political point." In the Democrats' response, also broadcast Saturday, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell turned the tables on the president, saying that if Bush doesn't sign the bill, 15 states will ha…
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nau,pnac,aipac,eu,the amero,cfr,bilderberg,nafta,ect might sound like crews,but they are not,and if they were they would steal your cans and cross you out for no reason.
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VID -----> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ba_1192742876 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/world/asia/18cnd-pakistan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin KARACHI, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 19 — Two bombs exploded Thursday night just seconds apart and feet from a truck carrying the returning opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, narrowly missing her but killing scores of people and bloodying a triumphal homecoming after eight years in exile. Various reports said up to 126 were killed and some 150 were wounded, including civilians and party workers. In the initial chaos, however, the Interior Ministry could only confirm 70 deaths. Ms. Bhutto, who had spent ei…
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Watch this http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ DONT KNOW IF ITS BEEN POST.. BUT REPOST .. TELL EVERYONE.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,,2173071,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront Osama bin Laden today called on Pakistanis to "rebel against the apostate" Pervez Musharraf in a video message posted on the internet.The footage, on an islamist militant website, featured the al-Qaida leader's voice over previously released footage of him. In what was the third message from Bin Laden this month, he described Gen Musharraf as an infidel, condemning the president's closeness to the US. He said the decision to send the military into the Red mosque in Islamabad in July had "demonstrated Musharraf's insistence on continuing his loyalty, submissiveness and aid …
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6nqJ2hK9D4
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"The Purpose of Racism" by Immortal Technique I begin this new installment today by apologizing in advance for the incomplete nature of the subject matter being presented. I seek only to give brief examples and not go too in depth into slavery or racism but more so to discuss why we who were once the victims of this and other American's still hold onto the idea of Race. I correlate this stubborn inability to let go with the very way in which slavery and racism became a part of this nation. Explaining the difference between the institution's past, present and future will hopefully help us to understand how to fight it and overcome it, as it remains alive not j…
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Iraq revokes license of U.S. contractor Blackwater By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 10:34 AM PDT, September 17, 2007 BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Interior Ministry canceled the license of controversial American security firm Blackwater USA today after Iraqi officials charged that eight civilians were shot by company bodyguards accompanying a U.S. State Department motorcade the day before in Baghdad. "It has been revoked," said Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf, a spokesman for the ministry. "They committed a crime. The judicial system will take action." The decision marks Iraq's boldest step yet to assert…
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The numbers can only be guessed... Maybe there's a mixture of drug use and religious belief... But which one could be summed down to more deaths? Also keep in mind, the people who have died in jail, or by police just because they used a drug. This is amazing: The History of marijuana http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-7417904870843277177
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In yet another auto industry tribute to 12oz Moderators: Yamaha unveils Tesseract.
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Korean leaders issue peace call The two leaders reached agreement on a number of issues The leaders of North and South Korea have signed a joint declaration calling for a permanent peace deal on the Korean Peninsula. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and the North's Kim Jong-il issued the declaration after a three-day historic summit in Pyongyang. They called for international talks on a treaty to replace the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War. The agreement came a day after the North agreed to end its nuclear plans. Officials involved in separate, international talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear programme confirm…
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wait... you can do that? British Prime Minister Opts Not to Have Elections in November LONDON, Oct. 7 — After intense speculation, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Sunday that he would not go ahead with a general election, a decision apparently prompted by the unexpected success of the opposition Conservative Party’s annual conference last week.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2329057520070823Gaping hole found in universe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday. The team at the University of Minnesota said the void is nearly a billion light-years across and they have no idea why it is there. "Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said astronomy professor Lawrence Rudnick. Writing in the Astrophysical Journal, Rudnick and colleagues Shea Brown and Liliya Williams said they were examining a cold spot using the Wi…
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