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Research Study Finds Attending Meetings Can Make You Act Brain-Dead

Rebecca Smith
The Telegraph
Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:21 UTC
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Women were affected by the situation more clearly than men
Meetings make people stupid because they impair their ability to think for themselves, scientists have found.

The performance of people in IQ tests after meetings is significantly lower than if they are left on their own, with women more likely to perform worse than men.
Researchers at the Virginia Tech Crilion Research institute in the US said people's performance dropped when they were judged against their peers.

Read Montague, who led the study, said: "You may joke about how committee meetings make you feel brain-dead, but our findings suggest that they may make you act brain-dead as well.

"We started with individuals who were matched for their IQ. Yet when we placed them in small groups, ranked their performance on cognitive tasks against their peers, and broadcast those rankings to them, we saw dramatic drops in the ability of some study subjects to solve problems. The social feedback had a significant effect."
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Obama Birth Certificate a 'Forgery' Says Sheriff Arpaio

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:30 UTC
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio
US - Armed with a new 10-page report he commissioned, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday he suspects the birth certificate President Obama released last year is a "computer-generated forgery" - and also raised questions about the authenticity of the president's selective service registration card.

In an extensive - and at times combative - press conference in Phoenix, Sheriff Arpaio repeatedly said he is not questioning the president's legal status under the Constitution nor alleging fraud on Mr. Obama's part, but did say there is evidence crimes have been committed by someone and his investigation continues.

"Based on all of the evidence presented and investigated, I cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic," Sheriff Arpaio said. "My investigators believe that the long-form birth certificate was manufactured electronically and that it did not originate in paper format as claimed by the White House."

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The disgrace of a nation that treats old people like animals

Sandra Parsons
The Daily Mail
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:54 UTC
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Can it really be so hard to tend to dementia patients with compassion?
(UK) - Let's imagine for a moment that it's routine practice in this country to sedate babies who won't settle: that the more they cry, the more drugs are poured down their tiny throats.

The same treatment, let's imagine, is also routine for the mentally disabled: whenever they create too much disturbance, we simply cosh them with chemicals.

There would be a national outcry. Heads would roll. Money would be found immediately to train medical staff and carers so that such a scandal could never, ever happen again.

Now let's stop imagining and face the appalling truth. The nightmare scenario that I've just painted is precisely what's happening to some of the most vulnerable people in the land - the elderly.

A shocking three-year study by Nottingham University has concluded that more than half of all those over 70 who are admitted to hospital have dementia. Yet very few doctors, nurses or healthcare assistants have had any proper training in how to deal with them.
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Foreign Affairs Hearing Feb 29 2012, Questions to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

CongressmanRonPaul
YouTube
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:50 UTC
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The Ghost and the Machine

Kathy Kelly
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:33 UTC
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A member of the 214th Reconnaissance Group flies a Predator aircraft drone in support of ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan at Davis-Monthan Air Base in Tucson, March 10, 2009.
Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan's Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son, Aymal, that his father was killed by an American bomber plane, remote-controlled by computer.

That July, in 2007, Aymal's father was sitting in a garden with four other men. A weaponized drone, what we used to call an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV, was flying, unseen, overhead, and fired missiles into the garden, killing all five men.

Now Fazillah and Aymal share a small dwelling with the deceased man's mother. According to the tradition, a husband's relatives are responsible to look after a widow with no breadwinner remaining in her immediate family. She and her son have no regular source of bread or income, but Fazillah says that her small family is better off than it might have been: one of the men killed alongside her husband left behind a wife and child but no other living relatives that could provide them with any source of support, at all.

Aymal's grandmother becomes agitated and distraught speaking about her son's death, and that of his four friends. "All of us ask, 'Why?'" she says, raising her voice. "They kill people with computers and they can't tell us why. When we ask why this happened, they say they had doubts, they had suspicions. But they didn't take time to ask 'Who is this person?' or 'Who was that person?' There is no proof, no accountability. Now, there is no reliable person in the home to bring us bread. I am old, and I do not have a peaceful life."
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Andrew Breitbart's Fiery CPAC Speech: I Have 'College Days' Obama Videos

James Crugnale
Mediaite
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:51 UTC
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Andrew Breitbart took the podium at CPAC Friday afternoon, introduced to the stage with Rage Against The Machine's Guerrilla Radio, and revealed to the audience he had "videos" of Barack Obama from his college days. "I have videos, this election we're going to vet him," Breitbart disclosed to raucous applause. "We are going to vet him from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008."

"The videos are going to come out, the narrative is going to come out, that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails in the 1980s, like Bill (Ayers) and Bernadine (Dohrn), who said one day we would have the presidency, and the rest of us slept as they plotted, and they plotted, and they plotted and they oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in the Annenberg Challenge and they had real money, from real capitalists. Then they became communists. We got to work on that. That is a parenthesis. Barack Obama is a radical, we should not be afraid to say that! Okay? And Barack Obama was launched from Bill and Bernadine's salon. I've been there."
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Monkees Singer Davy Jones Dies


ABC News
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:30 UTC
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Davy Jones, the lead singer of The Monkees, died this morning after suffering a heart attack in Indiantown, Fla., his representative confirmed to ABC News. He was 66.

"He passed next to his passions, his horses, and was one hour away from his wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones," his rep said in a statement.

"All of his family, friends and fans mourn Davy's loss," Joseph Pacheco, Jones' manager and brother-in-law, said. "We were fortunate to have such an incredible human being in our lives. Sadly, his time on Earth was cut far too short and he will be missed tremendously by all who knew him."

The Martin County, Fla. medical examiner's office will be conducting an investigation into Jones' death but said in statement that "there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances" surrounding it.

Jones is survived by his wife and four daughters from previous marriages.
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Neocon Blogger Andrew Breitbart Dies Suddenly At 43


TMZ
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:18 UTC
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US - Andrew Breitbart -- founder of the popular news website Breitbart.com -- died early this morning at the age of 43.

According to his website, Breitbart -- the political journalist who broke the Anthony Weiner penis pic story -- died "unexpectedly from natural causes" shortly after midnight this morning in L.A.

A statement on Breitbart reads, "We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior."
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Woman vanishes from Celebration Cruise Lines Bahamas Celebration ship

Dan Krauth
WPTV.com
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:30 UTC
Riviera Beach, Florida - A woman aboard the Bahamas Celebration ship was reported missing early Wednesday morning after the ship returned from a two-night trip, Celebration Cruise Lines spokesman Glen Ryerson said.


The woman was reported missing at 8 a.m. after the ship docked at 7 a.m., according to Ryerson.

Ryerson said there are confirmed documents that show the woman boarded in the Bahamas.

Her boyfriend shared a cabin with her on board.

According to Celebration President Charlie Kinnear, the boyfriend claims he last saw his girlfriend at 1 a.m. in the gift shop before he headed to the inboard casino.
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Embalmer Allegedly Stole Gold Crowns From The Dead


CBS News Denver
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:10 UTC

US, Colorado: A man who was working as an embalmer says he stole from the dead in order to support his family.

Adrian Kline, 43, of Brighton, is accused of removing gold crowns from the teeth of dead people and then selling them. He turned himself in last Friday.

Police believe Kline may have recovered or extracted hundreds of teeth from the deceased or the deceased's remains.

After a body is cremated, any metal - including dental work - is usually removed from the remains to be recycled. Kline claims he only took the gold crowns that were going to be thrown away at the funeral homes, but one funeral home manager in Brighton said Kline was fired after jewelry belonging to a deceased man went missing.
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