More Oil Spills

Michigan River
In the Gulf

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The Dark Side of Dubai: Capitalism Gone Mad

Above: The Slave Quarters of Sonapur.

The Independent

Talk about the Tower of Babel for real.

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Top Secret America

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FRONTLINE goes inside the Post's two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top-secret world the government has created in response to 9/11.

Via the Washington Post: "... has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work."

Among the findings: An estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances. More than 1,200 government organizations and nearly 2,000 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in 10,000 locations. We speak with one of the co-authors of the series, Bill Arkin. {via: Democracy Now}

Over 2000 new agencies have been created and built to join this Top Secret level clusterfuck supposed to help us since 9-11.

Raise your hand if you think they everyone knows what the other agency is doing.

More Sources: PBS | Washington Post

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The Great Speckled Bird is Going Online!

The following was an email I got regarding The Bird...

The complete run of The Bird, Atlanta's underground paper, is being digitized at GSU and fed into a database for scholarly searches. The Bird thus becomes a major research tool on the era. Thus no one else need spend the hours I did searching old Birds for data and pics. Hooray!

Unfortunately no one can find Vol 5 #47. Please check if you might have this issue squirreled away that you would lend for digitizing.

Contact Patrick Edmondson
mystere2@bellsouth.net

The Great Speckled Bird was an underground newspaper in the Vietnam War era. The FBI had more interest in it than the Klan or the local mob. One of the Bird's claims to fame, aside from getting repeatedly fire-bombed, was twice being quoted by Walter Chronkite on the CBS Evening News. Many of the photos on this web site were first published in the Bird.

Great Speckled Memories | Website

I cannot WAIT to be able to read these old magazines again. Anyone who lived anywhere near the southeast in the late 60s, early 70s, has either bought the Bird or sold the Bird and if you did, you probably met me someplace on the Strip back then. My hair looked wilder than Robert Plant's and I was usually 10 paces behind my boyfriend who was ripping off stores and buying dope for us. Ah, but that could have been any old couple on the Strip at that time. My old VW van (a 1959 with a '65 motor in it) made the trip most weekends from college in Tennessee down to ATL.

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Cordyceps Fungi

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Journey Through a 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

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Akshardham

Opened in November 2005, this enormous complex was created by HDH Pramukh Swami Maharaj spiritual leader of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha. It shows ancient Indian art and culture and is the number one Hindu religious place.

I would seriously love to visit this place. And by the same token, all serious offers will be considered.

Akshardham

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