its fun to do bad things.

This just in off the wires of the associated press. Children exposed to lead are more likley to be bad boys later in life. This explains both bad boys one and 2, as well as camerin and james. And that kid who stole his grandmamas car and took it for a joyride, and later beat up his grandma at a mcdonalds.

article sez:

"Between 1979 and 1984, Dr. Kim Dietrich a professor of environmental health at University of Cincinnati and colleagues recruited pregnant women in poor areas of Cincinnati, known for high concentration of older lead-contaminated housing. About 250 out of the 376 newborns recruited into the study were included in the final analysis.


The researchers measured blood lead levels during pregnancy and then regularly until the children were six and a half years old, as an indication of their lead exposure. The level of lead exposure was then correlated with local criminal justice records on how many times each of the recruits had been arrested between becoming 18 years old and the end of October 2005.


The study found that 55 percent of the subjects (63 percent of males) had been arrested at least once and that the average was five arrests between the ages of 18 and 24. In fact, the higher the blood lead level at any time in childhood, the greater the likelihood of arrests was. "

this also explains this:

Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra
credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends
on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a
couple of hookers in a Texas motel.

The credit card company involved
said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all
security questions are answered.

The escort girls who were released
without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said
they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.

Police said they
were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering
supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they
could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just
made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some
relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.

When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous
electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local
escort girls.

so what youre telling me is that a chemical that no one should be exposed to is changing brain chemistry to make people more apt to break the law? something tells me the overcrowding in our bloated insane prison system might be caused by a little more than some paint chips. But interesting none the less.

ps.

i think whoever made this movie probably ate paint chips and SHOULD have been sent to jail. i say we let all the drug users out of prison and replace them with the fuckers who are putting crap like problem child and survivor in my brain. i should not have a place in my memorybanks for the above photo.

No one rides for free

Dr. Robert L. Hirsch directed the US fusion energy program during the 1970s evolution of the Atomic Energy Commission (including initiation of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), through the Energy Research and Development Administration to the present Department of Energy. In addition to his role in development of fusion energy by magnetic confinement, Hirsch was also interested in inertially confined fusion.


His previous management positions include:

* Senior Energy Program Advisor, SAIC (World oil production)
* Senior Energy Analyst, RAND (Various energy studies)
* Vice President of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
* Vice President and Manager of Research and Technical Services for Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) (Oil and gas exploration and production).
* Founder and CEO of APTI, a roughly $50 million/year company now owned by BAE Systems. (Commercial & Defense Department technologies).
* Manager of Exxon’s synthetic fuels research laboratory.
* Manager of Petroleum Exploratory Research at Exxon. (Refining R & D).
* Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) responsible for renewables, fusion, geothermal and basic research. (Presidential Appointment).
* Director of fusion research at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and ERDA.


The Dr. had this to say, concerning the prices of oil:

“The prices that we’re paying at the pump today are, I think, going to be ‘the good old days,’ because others who watch this very closely forecast that we’re going to be hitting $12 and $15 per gallon,” Hirsch said. “And then, after that, when oil – world oil production goes into decline, we’re going to talk about rationing. In other words, not only are we going to be paying high prices and have considerable economic problems, but in addition to that, we’re not going to be able to get the fuel when we want it.”

if youre interested in reading more, check out the original article HERE

also read more about the HIRSCH REPORT

from wikipedia:

In 2005, the US Department of Energy published a report titled Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management.[105] Known as the Hirsch report, it stated, "The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking."

Myanmar Update

cryptofascism

"In the absence of any experience of accountability or transparency - the basic ingredients of an open society - even the most thoughtful Russians are prone to say: "Russia needs a strong man at the centre. Putin has made Russia great again. Now the world has to listen."

The new Prime Minister has brilliantly exploited the patriotism and latent xenophobia of the Russia people to unify them in the belief that they face a major threat from NATO and the United States.

This combination of national pride and insecurity has been fuelled by the America with its proposed deployment of missiles only a few hundred kilometres from the Russian border, allegedly to counter a nuclear threat from Iran.

No serious defence analyst believes this makes any strategic sense, while even impeccably pro-Western Russians recoil from this crass assertion of super-power hegemony by President Bush.

Similarly most Russians feel threatened - and humiliated - by the prospect that Ukraine and Georgia, once the most intimate allies of the Soviet Union, may soon be enfolded in the arms of NATO.

Georgia, which is struggling to contain a separatist movement that is openly supported by the Kremlin, has the potential to become a dangerous flashpoint in which the Western allies could only too easily become ensnared.

Does this mean - as some have argued - that we are about to face a new Cold War? I don't think so for a moment.

With communism consigned to "the dustbin of history", there is no ideological conflict of any significance. And there is now only one military superpower.

In comparison with America, Russia's armed forces are a joke. Only catastrophic stupidity on either side could lead to a nuclear confrontation.

But this does not mean that we can all breathe a sigh of relief and forget about the Bear.

An autocratic and resurgent Russia that feels bruised and threatened is an unstable beast.

The Kremlin's growing rapprochement with Beijing (the adversaries of a generation ago are now not only major trading partners, but conduct joint military exercises) shifts the balance of power in the world.

And as life on earth becomes less and less secure, with evermore people competing for a dwindling supply of vital resources, Russia, as an energy giant, is once again a big player on the world stage.

Make no mistake, we are in for a very bumpy ride."

read this article on putin. do it now.

beneath a limen

From Wikipedia:
A subliminal message is a signal or message embedded in another medium, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception. These messages are unrecognizable by the conscious mind, but in certain situations can affect the subconscious or deeper mind and later actions or attitudes.

Subliminal techniques have occasionally been used in advertising and propaganda; the purpose, the effectiveness, and the frequency of the application of such techniques is debated.

Liberty City

I'm sure most folks out there realize that a lot of the stuff they read/see in the mainstream media is bullshit, and that propaganda is not something that went out of style with Hitler. But here is evidence that it is still going on, in a major way, today. Some 8,000 pages released by the pentagon detailing a meticulously planned trip for "military analysts" to "inspect" the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

Basically after crazed left wing radicals such as The Red Cross started spreading totally false rumors about Gitmo, suggesting the good ol USA was using: "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions" against prisoners. The inspectors concluded that "the construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture." The Pentagon took action, inviting ex military personnel to come visit the camp, and see for themselves, what kind of stuff was going on.

The "Military Analysts" spent a total of four hours in cuba total. They spent less than three hours touring the facility, and one hour was spent eating lunch with the troops.(gotta support them)

What did the Analysts see?
-a viewing of an interrogation,
-a tour of an "unoccupied cellblock,"
-a visit to the detention hospital.

Here is what one of the visitors had to say about their time spent in Cuba to CNN's Betty Nguyen

NGUYEN: Let's back up for just a moment, because you said you said watched an interrogation.

SHEPPERD: Yes.

NGUYEN: Kind of explain to us how that played out. And were there any instances of abuse or possible abuse?

SHEPPERD: Absolutely not. These -- when I sat and watched them, I want to be very careful in describing them. And I don't want to describe how we watched or anything of that sort. But basically, you're able to observe interrogations. They have various ways of monitoring the interrogations and what have you and letting you see what's going on. With the interrogations that we watched were interrogators, there were translators that translated for the detainee and there were also intelligence people in there.

And they're basically asking questions. They just ask the same questions over a long period of time. They get information about the person's family, where they're from, other people they knew. All the type of things that you would want in any kind of criminal investigation. And these were all very cordial, very professional. There was laughing in two of them that we...

NGUYEN: Laughing in an interrogation?

SHEPPERD: ... in the two of them that we watched. Yes, indeed. It's not -- it's not like the impression that you and I have of what goes on in an interrogation, where you bend people's arms and mistreat people. They're trying to establish a firm professional relationship where they have respect for each other and can talk to each other. And yes, there were laughing and humor going on in a couple of these things. And I'm talking about a remark made where someone will smirk or laugh or chuckle.

NGUYEN: All right. General Don Shepperd, we appreciate your time and that look inside Gitmo, with you being there on this tour. Thank you for that.

I would totally be cracking up too. I mean, naked pyramids are hilarious. Also this interrogation sounds particularly hilarious:

"he was stripped naked, isolated, given intravenous fluids and forced to urinate on himself, and exercised to exhaustion during interrogations that lasted 18 to 20 hours a day for 48 of 54 days."

Anyways, read the rest of the salon article, if this kind of stuff interests you as much as it does me. Its the sort of thing anyone with the slightest bit of common sense realized without having to be told, but its still sobering to read internal pentagon documents detailing how elaborate this particular charade went. This isnt even getting into terror alerts or WMDs or blackwater or what kind of shit is really going on in the streets of Iraq either. This is the stuff that is available for us to learn, its probably just the icing on the cake, y'know?

SOURCE

Now thats the News!

Shailendra the Mighty

A man in eastern India says he is going to take to the air by hanging from a helicopter suspended by his ponytail.

Earlier this week Shailendra Roy drew large crowds when he pulled the famous Darjeeling toy train with his ponytail.