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Words

nobody@vox.com(TruthTeller998) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:20:45 +0000

The War on Terror. Read those words; The. War. On. Terror. Each word has a blunt finality about it, this is not A War on Terror, it is not The Struggle Against Terror, and it is not The War on Extremists or weapon wielding maniacs, or the policy to protect people. It is simply The War on Terror and...

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation

nobody@vox.com(TheKK) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:56:44 +0000

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Solari | Navigating Toward a Financially Intimate World

nobody@vox.com(DollarMan) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:32:01 +0000

An evening workshop and lecture with Catherine Austin Fitts "Positioning Your Assets for Growth in Uncertain Times" August 29, 2008 - Lecture 7-9:30pm August 30, 2008 - Workshop 10am-2pm Mill Valley Community Center, Mill Valley, California Mill Valley Lecture $25.00 Mill Valley Workshop and Lecture $250.00 Events will be filmed

http://www.solari.com/

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John McCain: "I hate the bloggers!" We hate you, too, John.

nobody@vox.com(CupCate) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:29:19 +0000

Politics Buzz John McCain admits his hatred of bloggers everywhere. With no teleprompter in sight, McCain’s true feelings about the blogosphere finally come out: “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.”

http://buzzfeed.com/scott/i-hate-the-bloggers

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Political Punch from ABC News Blogs about Jesse Jackson Hammering Obama

nobody@vox.com(SerenityLife) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:47:31 +0000

RECENT POSTSHot Mic Catches Jesse Jackson Hammering Obama; Jackson ApologizesWhat About Social Security Was McCain Calling a "Disgrace?" German Chancellor Tells Obama "Nein" on Speech LocationObama Anti-Smear Website Names Alleged SmearersObama's FISA ShiftJesse Ventura To Run for Senate?McClellan: "I Could Not Say Honestly Today that this Administration…Does Not Engage in Torture"Obama Regrets Letting Young Daughters Talk to Access HollywoodConservative Christian Group Invokes Slavery In Opposing Obama¿Quien Es Mas Macho?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/hot-mike-catche.html

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The Allah and the Mullahs.

nobody@vox.com(Bharath Bushan Layman) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:43:10 +0000

There is a story which remains in circulation among the Christian communities in the South Asian region. It is about the origin of the Satan. It happened very long before the origin of the humankind. According to the story, the Lord and the angels lived in Paradise. The Lord ruled Paradise. He...

http://bharathbushanlayman660.vox.com/library/post/the-allah-and-the-mullahs.html

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Why some conservatives are backing Obama

nobody@vox.com(MichaelHeggen) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:44:24 +0000

(07-07) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/07/MN3T11JI0P.DTL

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Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting

nobody@vox.com(Stan) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:59 +0000

Our National Bus Tour will kick off its next leg in Michigan on July 10th. We've already traveled over 25,000 miles and have delivered our Voter's Self Defense System to 33 states. We'll be out on the road from now through Election Day.

http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm

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Roger Hedgecock

nobody@vox.com(SuperSparky) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:38:02 +0000

San Diego, California's "Radio Mayor" and frequent Rush Limbaugh substitute. He discusses local and national issues.

http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/

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Sean Hannity

nobody@vox.com(SuperSparky) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:35:33 +0000

A really nice guy that says it like it is. He never says anything without physical proof, and even likes those with contrary opinions. Never a smear out of his mouth, although many on the left just love to try to smear him. The man has character.

http://www.hannity.com/

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"Mr. Lucky" sucked me in...

nobody@vox.com(Michael Caputo) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:25:50 +0000

Sometimes it's the messenger. Sometimes, the message. But here might be one of the rare times when it's the company messages keep. A sign touting cheap divorces next to one offering to help women get gun training. A sign blasting GUNS at the reader in the middle and a sad tribute to slain officers...

http://here-n-now.vox.com/library/post/mr-lucky-sucked-me-in.html

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Michelle And Barack Obama Land Cover Of Us Weekly: Their Love Story -

nobody@vox.com(Obama-vox) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:12:44 +0000

Barack and Michelle Obama appear on the cover of the Us Weekly hitting newsstands later this week, further establishing their crossover appeal as both political and entertainment figures. The magazine will feature a six-page article on the Obamas' love story as well as an album of family photos. The cover is headlined "Michelle Obama: Why Barack Loves Her" and teases, "She shops at Target, loved 'Sex and the City' and never misses the girls' recitals. The untold romance between a down-to-earth mom and the man who calls her 'my rock.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/17/michelle-and-barack-obama_n_107685.html

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torontomapleleafsmg on Technorati

nobody@vox.com(torontomapleleafsmg) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:34:44 +0000

Technorati: Front Page Blog search, breaking news, photos, and videos, on the latest headlines, business, entertainment, lifestyle, politics, sports, and technology.

http://www.technorati.com/people/technorati/torontomapleleafsmg

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The Manning Memos -- Much Worse than Downing Street

nobody@vox.com(ileen4justice) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:15:49 +0000

Although this article appeared earlier in the New York Times, the news blackout in this country did not mention a word. This memo unequivocally establishes that Bush knew there were no WMD and talked about literally painting military planes to look like U.N. planes to fly over Iraq so that they...

http://ileen4justice.vox.com/library/post/the-manning-memos----much-worse-than-downing-street.html

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Amend the Consitution to get rid of Habeas Corpus?

nobody@vox.com(michellemybelle) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:20:08 +0000

In response to today's landmark Supreme Court decision granting habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees, Lindsey Graham has decided he wants to amend the United State Constitution to strip it of any pesky kinds of civil rights protections that have existed since the Magna Carta.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/12/17277/3723/62/534898

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God's Politics - Two Firsts

nobody@vox.com(eliz. s.) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:36:47 +0000

My 9-year-old son, Luke, considers Hillary a “friend” ... At the CNN candidate forum on faith, values, and poverty that Sojourners co-sponsored last June, Luke got to meet her again and told the senator privately, “Hillary, I can’t vote, but if I could, I would vote for you.” She beamed the biggest smile and said, “Oh Luke, that means so much to me!”

http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/06/two-firsts-by-jim-wallis.html#comments

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Thank You, Senator Clinton.

nobody@vox.com(TruthTeller998) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:57:18 +0000

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton endorsed Barack Obama. The speech she delivered was nothing short of amazing. Now, I am obviously a supporter of Senator Obama, and have been throughout the primary season. I will admit, that over the last six months I've sometimes criticized the words and tactics of the...

http://sarack.vox.com/library/post/thank-you-senator-clinton.html

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Obama Resigns From Black Nation – blackagendareport.com

nobody@vox.com(DollarMan) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:46:16 +0000

How far is Barack Obama willing to run from the very same Black nationalism that was fundamental to his victories in so many state Democratic primaries? The nominee-apparent is in pell-mell flight from everything that does not conform to his own "race-neutral" worldview. Obama's political contradictions compel him to reject his most fervent supporters, and apparently to reexamine his ties to the Black Church as an institution. The "journey" to Black identity that Obama describes in his book Dreams From My Father seems in conflict with the Road to the White House. Longtime friends - maybe Black people as a whole - are left by the wayside. Perhaps "Obama ought to just keep on steppin' out of Black America entirely."

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content

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Philosophy

nobody@vox.com(Physics1Philosophy) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:44:55 +0000

.. My purpose therefore is, to try if I can discover what those principles are, which have introduced all that doubtfulness and uncertainty, those absurdities and contradictions into the several sects of philosophy; insomuch that the wisest men have thought our ignorance incurable, conceiving it to arise from the natural dullness and limitation of our faculties. (George Berkeley) Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? ... Oddly, things have now reached such a state that even among men of intelligence philosophy means something fantastical and vain, without value or usefulness, both in opinion and practice. (Michel de Montaigne) Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. (Charles Darwin, Introduction to The Descent of Man, 1871)

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy.htm

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Quantum Physics

nobody@vox.com(Physics1Philosophy) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:42:44 +0000

Quantum Physics: Quantum Theory / Wave Mechanics These Quantum Physics pages (on either side) show how this new understanding of physical reality (that all light and matter interactions are wave interactions in Space) explains and solves the central problems of Quantum Theory. The mistake was to work from Newton's foundation of particles and instantly acting gravity forces in space and time (many things) and then have to add more things to explain light and electricity, i.e. charged particles, continuous electromagnetic fields and waves (Faraday, Maxwell, Lorentz, Einstein's Special Relativity). Thus by 1900 the central concepts of Physics were; Matter as discrete particles with both gravitational mass and electrical charge properties (mass-charge duality). Light as continuous electromagnetic waves (velocity of light c). Continuous electromagnetic fields created by discrete charged particles (discrete particle-continuous field duality). Local charge interactions limited by the velocity of electromagnetic waves (velocity of light c). Over the next 30 years Quantum Theory destroyed these foundations by showing the exact opposite, that; Matter has wave properties thus a particle-wave duality (de Broglie Waves, Schrodinger's wave equations). Light has discrete particle properties thus a particle-wave duality (Light 'quanta', Max Planck, Albert Einstein) Continuous deterministic fields are replaced by discrete statistical fields e.g. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Niels Bohr's Copenhagen Interpretation, Born's probability waves to predict the location of the particle. Non-Local matter interactions (instant action-at-distance EPR Bell Aspect) The solution to this confusion and contradiction is simple once known. Describe reality from One thing existing, Space (that we all commonly experience) and its Properties. i.e. Rather than adding matter particles to space as Newton did, we consider Space with properties of a continuous wave medium for a pure Wave Structure of Matter. This is the Most Simple Science Theory of Physical Reality (despite many claims to the contrary, science does actually work, we just needed the correct foundation of continuous Space rather than discrete matter). Most importantly, this Dynamic Unity of Reality provides simple solutions to all the 'strangeness' of quantum physics that has resulted from this discrete / disconnected 'particle' conception of matter. i.e. Matter is a Wave Structure of Space - the Spherical Wave Center creates the 'particle' effect. Light is a Wave Phenomena - however, spherical standing waves (matter) act as spherical resonators and only interact (resonantly couple) at discrete frequencies / energies which gives the effect of discrete light 'quanta'. Reality is both Continuous (Space) and Discrete (Standing Wave Interactions). Reality is both Local and Non-Local - matter is causally inter-connected in Space by its Spherical In and Out Waves (traveling at velocity c, i.e. Einstein's Locality). However (and very importantly), with relative motion these matter wave interactions form de Broglie phase waves that travel at high velocities (c2/v), explaining EPR and apparent Non-Locality / Instant-Action-at-a-Distance. Reality is Causally Connected but Non-Deterministic / Statistical. The waves in quantum theory are real waves (not abstract 'probability waves') but lack of knowledge of the interconnected whole (infinite Space) causes statistical behaviour of matter (as Einstein believed).

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Physics-Quantum-Theory-Mechanics.htm

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