http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_lewis_crowdsourcing_the_news.html
Crowdsourcing the news
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I found this interesting because: (1) British cops gone rogue AND (2) a new citizen journalistic meme is defined.
Wonder where this will take us?
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So much for the RKBA!
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/11/the-last-bayonet-charge-in-vietnam
Friday, November 11th, 2011 | Posted by Jim W. Dean
The Last Bayonet Charge in Vietnam
A Veterans Day Retrospective on Our Veterans Today Senior Editor and a Marine – Gordon Duff
Intro by… Jim W. Dean
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In Vietnam, as with Afghanistan, we sent an army to a hopeless war led by the most corrupt leadership in America’s history.
In Vietnam, a generation of Americans was systematically destroyed, with the best and brightest of the generation “doing time” in Vietnam, combat units, while “bottom feeders” sat in Saigon and DaNang.
Those shirkers an “no accounts” have given us the America we have today, broke, addicted to propaganda and fear, obsessed with safety, a generation ducking responsibility and leadership, borrowing from tomorrow to steal today.
The number of members of congress who ducked Vietnam through imaginary illness, special arrangements for “safe” National Guard units or simply deferment after deferment created a list of “chickenhawks” that became a national shame.
Those that ducked service in Vietnam were the first to push for war after war for the children of those who fought.
Who would have imagined this or have believed they could have gotten away with it?
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The day after Veterans’ Day, and all the problems remain. And, the “chickenhawks” are trying to drum up a war with Iran.
Vote Ron Paul!
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I’m going to shun Penn State today. If its game today is on the tube — and I would have watched it — then I’ll just ignore it. Maybe if their ratings go down, even if just by one person, then they will get the message. Their conduct was deplorable. I don’t know what others will do, this is my small gesture.
p.s. The Penn State game is on ESPN at Noon. I suggest IGNORING it.
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Sunstone satnav: How Vikings used mysterious crystal to guide them to America
Norse warriors located sun through clouds with Iceland spar crystal
By SIMON TOMLINSON
Last updated at 12:44 PM on 2nd November 2011
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Ancient legends of Viking mariners using mysterious sunstones to reveal the position of the sun on a cloudy day may well be true, according to a new study.
Before the invention of the compass, Norse adventurers travelled thousands of kilometres across the oceans toward Greenland and most likely as far as North America centuries ahead of Christopher Columbus.
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Fascinating stuff. And, that the knowledge and wisdom was lost for centuries.
Why?
That’s even the better story.
And, what else have we lost?
Also, could this “trick” be useful today? It’s not like no gets lost.
How else can we use it? How did these “primitives” explain it to themselves and what does that tell us?
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I RECEIVED TWO MESSAGES TODAY THANKING ME FOR MY SERVICE
Here’s my reaction.
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Thanks, but there are others far more worthy than I to receive such a message. All I did was “defend” Maryland. Unfortunately, the US’s political leadership hasn’t measured up to the worth of the girls and boys who served. Argh! That’s why I’m for Ron “bring the troops home” Paul. Ten years in AfPak, two sessions in the sandbox, and open ended wars in six countries in Africa only highlights the absurdity of bases in Korea, Japan, and Germany. Time for a return to a good old American tradition of MYOB. Yeah, I know, grumpy fat old white guy injineer. But, “old soldiers” see things a lot more clearly in their dotage. That’s why we shouldn’t be allowing non-vets “chicken hawks” to send those young girls and boys out to fight. Not that vets are any smarter, braver, or stronger. Just that they understand what the price is. That’s what Vet’s Day is all about. Understanding the true price.
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“A consortium of eighty companies and developers have developed the StreetScooter, a modular electric vehicle developed in a year using open-source methodologies. With a top speed of 74mph and an 80-mile range, the vehicle is expected to cost $7000 and be available in Germany in 2013.”
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And, apparently no Gooferment money involved?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day
Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918.
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“60 million people who died in the war.”
Mister Wilson, who ran for President on a “peace platform”, when the country was very isolationist, almost immediately took us to war. The Lusitania, the causus beli, we know know, was carrying munitions in violation of the accepted standards of neutrality.
60 million!
And, it set us on the path to the American Empire.
The entrance of America into Europe’s War balance the sides. The Armistice was the toot cause of WW2 which killed another generation of American men.
And, we’ve never been able to get off that path. Ten years in AfPak? Policeman to Africa. We’re broke.
I won’t get into politics on the graves of Americans, who were duped into dying for the Empire.
I’ll just pray for them and the next generation who will fight in someone else’s war.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ycn-10399373
Mike McQueary Will Have to Publicly Live with His Cowardice: A Fan’s Perspective
By Pete Lieber, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Nov 9, 1:43 pm EST
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When the common citizen conjures up images of a “grad assistant,” they may picture a frail, nerdy, insecure college graduate living in libraries because their sociability is at its apex amongst books. That is not the case here. Mike McQueary is a tall and brooding red head, standing well above six feet and carrying 200-plus burly football player pounds. He was a quarterback at State College High School and Penn State. He is said to have been a vocal leader on the field in Happy Valley and a brilliant persuader of young men when recruting in a living room.
He is said to be a “leader.” What a frighteningly sad reality it is when a community as large as Penn State’s can so horrendously mischaracterize someone who’s stature on the sidelines of every Penn State game is as evident as Joe Pa himself. A leader sternly and angrily screams into that shower to stop. A leader grabs the closest towel or blanket and scoops that boy up, running at break neck speed to the closest area hospital while feverishly dialing 911 on their cell phone. A leader might take a moment to knock out Jerry Sandusky with repeated blows so when the police arrive on scene, he’ll still be there, right at the scene of the crime. A leader stands up. Leaders don’t cower. Leaders don’t run to daddy to ask for advice. Yeah, let’s mull it over in front of the family fire place over cocoa while a ten year old endures a life-changing, earth-shattering assault. Lets look out for my own rear end by, in essence, protecting someone who in 2002, didn’t even work there anymore.
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Well said.
Wish I could have said it that way. Or that well.
One has to wonder what any parent, who’s been sold by this cad, feels. Maybe to take a shower. But that has it’s own risks if any Penn Stater is around.
Argh!
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http://menendez.enews.senate.gov/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100080157.671524.210&gen=1
Dear Friend,
This Veterans Day, it is time to recommit ourselves to helping every military family across the Garden State.
We need to help businesses help veterans and their spouses build careers, make sure that our schools are doing all they can to help military kids, and all of us need to do what we can to help military families in our local communities.
But truly honoring our veterans means providing jobs. It means job training, and giving every job opportunity possible to unemployed veterans.
In New Jersey we have 453,498 veterans — 12 percent of them are unemployed. That’s why I am proud to be a co-sponsor of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act that gives businesses a tax credit for hiring returning veterans, and more of a tax credit if they hire a wounded veteran.
As our troops begin coming home from Iraq, our duty to them is not just remembering their service, not just saying thank you on Veterans Day, it’s delivering on the promise of a grateful nation every day.
New Jersey’s hero-sons-and-daughters did not wait to sign up to serve this country, and they should not have to wait to get the benefits they have earned defending it. And they should not have to come home only to stand on the unemployment line after putting themselves on the line serving this nation.
That’s why the Veterans jobs bill encourages employers to hire veterans, ensures that disabled veterans who have exhausted their unemployment benefits get the training and rehabilitation they need, the Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment benefits they need and job assistance tailored to today’s job market.
The bill provides a competitive grant program for nonprofits that provide mentoring and training programs for vets. It allows employers to be paid for providing on-the-job training to veterans and it would provide Work Opportunity Tax Credits for businesses that hire veterans — and more for businesses that hire disabled vets.
We made a promise to veterans, and it’s a promise we must keep.
Happy Veterans Day to all.
May God bless our troops. And may God bless America.
Sincerely,
Robert Menendez
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I found this email condescending at best, and socialistic at worst.
First the greeting “friend”? Vet, Taxpayer, Voter, even “Fool” would have been more appropriate.
“New Jersey’s hero-sons-and-daughters”! Sorry, but last I looked “New Jersey” was incapable of having children.
And, I wonder who signed up knowing that we’d be spending a decade in AfPak?
Many signed up to defend “New Jersey” and wound up in a sand box or a rock box somewhere. Some several times.
Sorry, but “we” didn’t make a promise to vets. You politicians, wrote a lot of checks and we’re supposed to make good on them.
I have little respect for politicians, who fail to serve in the military, and then are the first to welcome them home.
If “our” two Senators met every “box” at Dover sadly destined for New Jersey, I might find this email more believable.
When I read the Dover “landfill” story in the Washington Post — – https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/remains-of-war-dead-dumped-in-landfill/2011/11/09/gIQAz7dM6M_print.html – — well, let’s just say that I doubt the seriousness of the Gooferment’s politicians and bureaucrats to “honoring” Vets. Remember the standing joke at VA hospitals, that many vets think “their” VA doc is out to kill them. Promises by the Gooferment to Vets are soon forgotten. Remember the “Bonus Army”?
(Before all the D’s get their shorts in a knot, I’m no fan of the R’s that do the same thing on this day. Talk about “stolen valor”!)
Argh!
And, by the way, it’s “Veterans’ Day”. The missing apostrophe irritates me too. Seems like us vets should at least possess the day.
GBA; with a Bravo Zulu and a prayer to and for all those who are still on station, on patrol, or otherwise on eternal duty.
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