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Spreading to Egypt

At least three people have been killed during a day of rare anti-government protests in Egypt, reports say.
In Cairo, where the biggest rallies were held, state TV said a policeman had died in clashes. Two protesters died in Suez, doctors there said.
Thousands joined the protests after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12272836

Paypal closes down charity site -

PAYPAL: You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor people.

http://www.regretsy.com/2011/12/05/cats-1-kids-0/

Does our constitution mean anything anymore?



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This video is just getting publicity. It happened in 2004. His daughter (the victim) is just publishing it now, inspired by a Facebook movement to get the Family Law judge removed from the bench.

Caution, this is a very disturbing video.

The fact that this man presided over other families, and used his (clear lack of) judgment to rule over other children as well as his own, is sickening. We wish them luck in removing this monster from any position of authority. He should be cleaning toilets in a subway, not sitting on the bench in a courthouse.

New sunspot 1302 has already produced two X-flares, an X1.4 on Sept. 22nd and X1.9 on Sept. 24th, quickly followed by a strong M7. All three produced CMEs, none of which were Earth directed, but do involved glancing blows, at least. In a few days any CMEs it produces WILL be earth directed.

1302 is huge, with an active region stretching more than 100,000 km end to end. It has multiple dark cores, each of which is larger than earth. It is growing

According to Spaceweather.com:
"The sunspot's magnetic field is crackling with sub-X-class flares that could grow into a larger eruption as the sunspot continues to turn toward Earth."



Follow spaceweather.com for regular reports on solar activity. They also send out regular email alerts re: interesting important activity.

Ever scratch your head and wonder why ugly abstract art is so popular, while beautiful paintings and the artists who make them are disdained by museums and upper crust galleries? One of the most accomplished representational artists alive today, takes them on. Worth watching just to see the beautiful works of true art...

A 4 part YouTube series by Scott Burdick.

Heavy fighting reported in Tripoli

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/wo...a.html?_r=1&hp

For the first time in months, witnesses in Tripoli reported heavy fighting in multiple neighborhoods in the capital late Saturday night, even as rebel forces claimed to have encircled the city by taking major towns to its east, west and south.

Robin W. Tong summarizes Project Gunrunner and Operation Castaway, which were ordered by President Obama, operated through several government agencies, and funded by the Stimulus Bill. The purpose was to deliver military grade weapons to MS13 and other drug gangs and cartels in Puerto Rico, South America, and Central America, including Mexico, which is now making excursions through the border into the US.

This absolutely needs more publicity and media attention to insure swift and absolute punishment of all responsible.

http://thepatriotcode.com/Articles20...10castaway.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...-years/242810/

I have been predicting this for years now, but I had hoped it would happen in America and bring manufacturing back here. Foxconn, the largest consumer electronics manufacturer in China and makers of Apple products, will be installing one million new robots in its factories in the next three years. Since they are the big boys in manufacturing in China, other companies will follow their lead. This is going to lead to a serious unemployment crisis in China among factory workers.

This is the beginning of another historic economic shift in our global society. IMO, this new automation boom will quickly go worldwide, and unemployment among the working poor is going to skyrocket. This will, of course, also negatively effect demand for basic goods.. The drop in demand for goods due to widespread global unemployment could trigger a planet-wide depression in our already weakened global economy, leading to severe social unrest.

This move away from semiskilled human labor to automation was always inevitable. It is not going to be pretty as workers and the business sector across the globe try to adapt to this new reality

Fantastic illustrations by Richard Johnson of Canadian troops in Afghanistan




http://afghanistan.nationalpost.com/illustrations-2/

Circumventing congress again.

http://nation.foxnews.com/usmexico-b...der-rules-2012