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Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation, Part 8

Dave McGowan
Center for an Informed America
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:23 UTC
"No one here gets out alive"
Jim Morrison

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My apologies to readers for the long delay in getting this post up. These past several weeks have not been easy ones for your fearless host. Things started going south near the end of June, when our beloved family cat was taken ill and died upon arrival at the local vet's office. To many readers, this may seem a rather insignificant loss, but I have to say, in all honesty, that Thomas just may have been the coolest cat to ever prowl the streets of Los Angeles. His presence in our home is surely missed.


Comment: Continue to part IX

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Bell

When the Truth takes off Her Clothes, the World Disappears

Les Visible
Smoking Mirrors
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:53 UTC
Telling the truth is like performing a strip tease. It is because of this that many people are offended. Nudity offends people who believe that their body, the visible and the more esoteric portions, is something to hide. Another reason that some people find the truth to be offensive is because they make personal profit from lies. It stands to reason that many people believe that the truth is ugly, or inconvenient. Why go to such lengths to conceal it otherwise? It can also be said that the truth is hidden because it stands in contradiction to the thing that conceals it.
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Former foreign minister of Poland killed in car crash


Associated Press
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:57 UTC
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Bronislaw Geremek
- who was a key figure in the Solidarity trade union that helped topple communism, and went on to become Poland's foreign minister - was killed in a car accident Sunday, police said. He was 76.

Geremek was driving a Mercedes that collided head-on with a van Sunday afternoon near the western Polish village of Miedzichowo, said Hanna Wachowiak, police spokeswoman for the Wielkopolski region.

The activist-turned-politician had been serving as a member of European Parliament since being elected in 2004. The soft-spoken, urbane Geremek was highly respected in Poland as a scholar, statesmen and key adviser in the Soviet bloc's first free trade union, Solidarity.

"Polish sciences and politics have lost a great man," Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a statement.
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Pistol

No Taser Deaths In USA?

Grover
Sott.net
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:40 UTC


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This citizen was Tasered for refusing to lie down, and then Tasered again for refusing to get back up.
Long live the Taser!

I was asked to attend a Citizens Police School as part of our local police department's community outreach program. This program is held a couple times a year and lasts 12 weeks. Although this sort of thing wouldn't normally interest me, given the large amount of bad press the police are getting across the country I decided to sign up in order to learn more, in effect, to do some research. What I discovered left me with the strange urge to check if my passport was still valid.
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Chess

UPDATE: Connecting the Dots: The Axis of Evil in Motion Under Peculiar Cosmic Weather

SOTT Focus
Sott.net
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:45 UTC


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Update: Dry weather, fires, spontaneous combustion? As it turns out the Taurid meteor event was not a complete bust, more like a combustion:
1st of July 2008 - Witnesses across Southern California say they saw an object 'moving very fast across the northern sky' and falling near the San Bernardino Mountains. Officials have no firm answers on what it was.

From Hollywood Hills to the Nevada state line, people reported seeing a fireball streaking across the sky and falling near the San Bernardino Mountains this morning. But explanations of the mysterious object were scarce.

San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch reported receiving dozens of calls related to what was described as fireball moving at high speed and falling in northwest sky around 10:40 a.m.

"We got quite a few reports. It started with a gentlemen in the Lake Arrowhead reporting a fireball in the Meadow Bay area and then we started getting calls from all over," said San Bernardino County dispatch supervisor Tom Barnes. "Fire crews in Barstow and on I-15 near Stateline came up on the radio and reported an object in the sky moving very fast across the northern sky and described it as yellowish green in color with streaks of debris. It looked like it burned up before it hit the ground."
Now isn't it a "coincidence" that California became engulfed, at its peak, in 1,783 fires across the state, scorching over 527,000 acres, including one in the San Bernardino mountains. Firefighters are still battling over 300 fires. Yet, all the fires are being blamed on "unusual early-summer lightning storms".
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Rocket

Iran missiles aimed at Israeli nukes


Press TV
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:03 UTC
Iran has aimed Shahab-3 ballistic missiles at Israel's nuclear sites, including the Dimona plant, Israeli sources have claimed.


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Eye 2

Psychopath Neil Entwistle's Reaction in Court: Not a surprise

Karen Gibson
Wicked Local
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:32 UTC
As everyone within at least a hundred miles of Hopkinton knows by now, Neil Entwistle was found guilty of first degree murder in the deaths of his wife, Rachel, and their baby daughter, Lillian, at their Hopkinton home in January of 2006.

The excessive media attention of this case, and subsequent trial, threw our little town into the spotlight - one we would rather not have shone on us. This family only lived in their rented home on Cub's Path for a few months before the brutal deaths, yet they will forever be linked with our town.

As if hearing about the details of the murders during the trial were not enough, the despicable defense Entwistle's attorney's presented - that Rachel suffered from depression and killed her baby and then herself - was ridiculous and demeaning to the memory of a mother and her innocent child who were just caught in the crossfire of a man who was intent on trying to get himself out of a life he didn't like.
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Black Cat

Young Psychopath: UK 'Angelic looking' boy, 12, at risk of being lured into extremism

Sean O'Neill
The Times
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:43 UTC
An "angelic looking boy" aged 12 has been identified as at severe risk of being lured into violent Islamist extremism, a senior police officer revealed today.

The white schoolboy is the youngest of 124 children and youths, mainly Asian teenagers from Muslim backgrounds, who have been earmarked by police forces for close-contact work to try and stop them being groomed for terrorism.

The child was brought into a police station in West Yorkshire by a headmaster who said he was unable to cope with his behaviour.

Sir Norman Bettison, chief constable of West Yorkshire, said the boy's family was cooperating fully with police and other agencies trying to help him.

Comment: Isn't it amazing to notice that most of the article pushes unashamed anti-Muslim propaganda and talks about fake Al Qaeda threat, 'violent Islamist extremism' and the necessity to control Muslim youth and their main 'supplier' - The Internet, while the offender in question is a non-Muslim 'small-framed child with tousled blond hair', who already performed horrendous deeds prior to be 'exposed' to the 'extremist material'?

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Butterfly

Enough Hand-wringing! What You Can Do

SOTT Focus
SOTT.net
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:17 UTC
The SOTT editors receive a great deal of mail every day. A lot of those letters run on the theme of "What can I, one person, do in the face of so many problems and such overwhelming odds? It's impossible."

The SOTT News Service subscribes to the "butterfly effect", dedicating itself to continuous pushing against the pathocratic oppression we all suffer under. Small incremental efforts by many people can engender massive change, IF kept up persistently. The scope of our individual freedoms are maintained only by the collective effort of all who care about those freedoms.
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Stormtrooper

Wales: Move to give schools power to search for weapons

Andrew Dagnell
Western Mail
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:00 UTC
NEW powers could be given to headteachers to search pupils they suspect are carrying weapons.

The Welsh Assembly Government will soon begin a consultation on whether to go ahead with the plans after children as young as five years old were found using dangerous weapons in schools.
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