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Afghanistan: U.S. Spends $20 Billion Per Year for Air Conditioning in Tents "The term we were looking for is “Forward Operating Base” or FOB. The US h

The morning of 9/11 I heard about it on a car radio on the way to a store. When I got back home I was all over the internet while listening to a radio and my wife was glued to the television.I remember yelling to her in the other room "Why the hell are they repeating Osama Bin Laden's name over and over

Government Has Run Amok Since 9/11 "Those who understand the exploitative nature of big government suspected that the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks had little to do with the security of the American people and much to do with power and money.

Doomsday shelters making a comeback"Jason Hodge, father of four children from Barstow, Calif., says he's "not paranoid" but he is concerned, and that's why he bought space in what might be labeled a doomsday s

Absolutely nothing.Edwin Starr, 41 years ago

Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev "A menacing convoy of bulldozers was heading back to Be'er Sheva as I drove towards al-Arakib, a Bedouin village located not more than 10 minutes from the city. Once I entered the dirt road leading to the village

They're working to make some people filthy rich.BP Response Workers Report Low Morale, Lack of Pay, Sickness"BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampa

No no, most of the oil is from THIS.New Gulf Oil Spill"An abandoned oil well is leaking into a Louisiana bay about 35 miles south of New Orlea

Much as I like the idea of a "Pentagon Papers" expose of government perfidy in foreign wars of fascist convenience there's something, actually a bunch of things, that should give us pause for thought.The first thing that speaks volumes is the amount of play it's gotten in MSM. Of course pack jouirnalism means if

This article jiggled a memory loose.Remnants of lost polar expedition sought"Lost in the Canadian Arctic, two British polar exploration ships more than 150 years old are frozen in some icy nook and c

Market Astrology"But the opening of Crawford's July issue is definitely the sort of thing that upsets people: "NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE JULY! We mean, of course, the planetary pictures in the sky which are developing

They belong to someone else, thief.Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water"(NaturalNews) Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as

Look for Mali and Antarctica next.Burma is working on nuclear weapons programme, experts claim"Burma is working on a nuclear weapons programme, expert

Israel claims "no PTSD in IDF, jews immune to mental illness""Today’s Israeli National News Service quoted a study on PTSD from BaMachaneh, the Israeli version of Stars and Stripes stat

Free airfare back from vaction, if you're the crafty sort. Actually Hawaii should be lauded for addressing a problem that is about ready to explode. Most area are abusive towards the homeless and treat people as criminals.

Tokyo trials digital billboards that scan passers-by"Digital advertising billboards being trialled in Japan are fitted with cameras that read the gender and age group of people looking at them to tailor their commercial

In Colombia appears a mass grave containing 2,000 bodies The unidentified bodies have been deposited by the Army since 2005"In the small town of La Macarena, Meta, 200 kilometers south of Bogota, o

Weapon testing on the wogs is over.U.S. withdraws ‘pain ray’ from Afghan war zone"A ‘pain ray’ that blasts the enemy with unbearable heat waves hasbeen pulled out of Afghanistan

McCain's challenger wants to sound like Israelis"JD Hayworth, a barnstorming Arizona Republican who is campaigning for the Senate, has strong opinions about his state's new law on illegal immigration.The law, kn

*JUST IN* Geochemist in Gulf says “When it rains, a lot of junk comes down from the particulate”"University of California Santa Barbara scientist and marine geo

I'm getting spoiled with this internet thing as far as downloading and watching films goes. It's possible to get just about any title one wants and the Mrs and I have watched a good deal of them. Since we've run through all the Oscar winners and A lists, what we're doing now is picking our favorite actresses and actors and

Florida church sponsors 'International Burn A Koran Day' "The Dove World Outreach Center, a non-denominational church in Gainesville FL, is planning to mark th

Germany Braces For Smaller French Fries"BERLIN -- French fries in Germany could be significantly shorter this year due to the heatwave that has baked Germany and much of Europe this month, the German Farmers' Assoc

Israel's New Land Grab Master Plan"The new plan updates older ones, going back to the first, what Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documented in his 2006 book, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," on David Ben-Gurion's Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), his final master

"An obsession with conspiracy." "The internet is like a giant worldwide bathroom wall." Blow dried blowhards crying in their beer over the fact their viewership is in a bus plunge and rightly so. They can't take the fact that people won't buy their lying shit anymore and the precious revenue stream is suffering.