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0 commentsWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has brought the U.S. “to its knees”, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an article published on Wednesday.
“Assange – a man who was known by few just several months ago – has proved that a challenge could be issued to even the most powerful empire ever,” Castro’s Empire in the Dock article read.
“Ideas can be more powerful than nuclear weapons,” he added.
via Assange brought U.S. to its knees – Fidel Castro | World | RIA Novosti.
Posted by adminWhat more needs to happen before we stand up for what is right? Will we only decide to fight for liberty after Bradley Manning’s tortured carcass is discovered? Will we only confront their treachery after Julian Assange disappears forever? Will we only choose to defend democracy after they remove all obstacles to their tyranny? Will we only give our unreserved support after this noble movement has been destroyed?
To those of you who have misgivings, who are uncertain and who are unwilling, I implore you to open your eyes and truly see our world for what it is. The events of this day reveal the wretched reality of our society. The hypocrisy, the authoritarianism, the deception, it is there for all to see. Please, I beg of you on behalf of all who champion freedom and democracy, please do all that you can to ensure that the dishonest do not escape justice. Whether it be a letter submitted to a paper, a poster put up on a wall, a local protest organized, a new institution established to preserve liberty, a complaint made to a figure of authority, an account of the truth divulged to a friend, every action that fortifies this movement is an extra step on the road to a just society. Please, before it is too late, act now to protect what is decent. Please do not allow this vision of purity to be extinguished by greed and shameless corruption.
The power lies in your hands. For once, you can decide the destiny of our society.
For Honesty. For Democracy. For Freedom.
Coffee Talk!
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Problem:
An Apple product fan was shocked to discover that on the day he started using his new iPhone 4 he ran up a 300-yuan (US$45) bill within an hour – while he was sleeping.
When photographer Cao Zichen checked his account, he discovered this charge was for Internet use. The bill said he had used his iPhone 4 to connect to the Internet at 2 am, generating a network data flow for 58 minutes.
The confusion is caused by iPhone 4′s new multi-tasking feature, which allows users to run more than one app and switch through different apps when needed.
The new function means a single tap on the Home button will no longer turn off the apps, but only return to the homepage. To turn apps off, users must double-click the Home button, press the apps icon for about two seconds and then press the “Quit” button.
Answer to Problem:
To turn apps off, users must double-click the Home button, press the apps icon for about two seconds and then press the “Quit” button. THEN, flush phone down toilet. Flush twice or three times to make sure phone is really gone…
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Posted by adminWallace, Idaho – To those in search of miracles, I give you this:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/bond2.1.1.html
Without fail, every morning, give or take 5 minutes depending on the weather, at 0530 our newspaper appears on the front porch. Not in the weeds or the snow. On the front porch, right by the door, so a be-slippered old geezer can reach out for it without embarrassing his neighbours or getting frostbite on his toes, even in the dark.
The impeccable and predictable timing would be enough to remark upon. Except that, winter or summer, tucked into the newspaper is a dog biscuit. Whoever throws the paper on our porch has never met Chase, our dog, because he is inside the house at this dark hour. But Robert has heard a grump or a woof and figures somebody inside would like a treat.
Comes out of his own pocket, this newspaper-carrier’s milk bone. Now, milk bones are not the most expensive of things, unless you buy them 365 days a year for the hundreds of dogs who live along his route. And I know that our paper-guy does this, because at 3:30 a.m., throwing papers way up in Mullan, he is doing the same thing for the dog-people there. I have witnesses.
Now, come to find out, this individual lives in Smelterville. Smelterville is 20 miles west of Mullan. So in the damned cold and dark (winter or summer, take your pick) he departs the comfort of his feathers, picks up his newspapers in Kellogg, and by 0300 is in Mullan, throwing the day’s news and doggie goodies, and by 0530 or so is tossing the newspaper and the milk bone onto our front porch. This round-trip is about the distance between Seattle and Olympia.
And to top all of that, a couple of days ago, he dropped a Christmas card into the mix, strapped into the same rubber band as the newspaper and the milk bone. It was there on the front porch, at 0 Dark 30. The return address was, simply: The Newspaper Guy. Chase ate the milk bone and spared the card. Who says dogs are unsentimental?
I’ve caught the newspaper guy two or three times on the front porch, his beater breathing exhaust, thanked him for the good work he does every day. He respects my thanks, but he has a route to deliver, he is on his way. By looks he is an old hippie, like me, like most of my orbit. Just doing what he needs to do, except with a flair. I wonder, was he growing pot in California in 1965, or maybe just bugging out of the orange smoke at LZ Crystal on the last Huey before Charlie shot guys out from under him. Maybe, like me during those turbulent times, he was just passing through. I don’t know and I don’t care. Sacrifice is sacrifice and redemption is redemption. We all muddle through.
What I do know is that a guy gets up in the misery of the night, and goes beyond the minimum. He makes Chase, our dog, happy. And once a year thanks me for his business with a Christmas card.
If there is an America to be saved, it will not be trillions to U.S. and foreign banks. It will not be the Fed. It will not be a hideously powerful military steaming through the Straits of Formosa into the maw of an Exocet missile. Salvation will come from a guy waking up 30 miles to my West in the middle of the night, and in addition to doing his job, gives a damn about my dog. Without complaint, but with a great deal of grace.
December 3, 2010
David Bond [send him mail] worked 30 years in the newspaper business as a general assignment and political reporter and editor, on both coasts, Alaska and Canada, garnering numerous national awards for his work. He now covers precious metals equities.
Copyright © 2010 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.
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China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, which is capable of 2.57 quadrillion computing operations per second, pulling ahead of the United States in the global supercomputing race.
The lead of the China-made system was confirmed by the 36th edition of TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, which was released Monday on the TOP500 list website.
Tianhe-1A was followed by the former No. 1 system, the U.S.-made Cray XT5 “Jaguar” at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee.
The Jaguar system performs at 1.75 quadrillion per second, 92 percent slower than Tianhe-1A, running Linpack, the benchmark used to officially determine the speed of supercomputers.
The Tianhe-1A is installed at the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in the north China port city of Tianjin, which specializes in super computing outsourcing services for complex work like the surveying of mines, the forecasting of weather, the design of high-end machinery, bioinformatics and large-data animation design.
Cool…
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Smoking women have higher chance of giving birth to criminally-inclined children.
Scientists of the Harvard School of Public Health have stated that in comparison with a non-smoking woman a smoker 31% more likely to give birth to a problem child.
This concerns women who smoke 20 and more cigarettes a day.
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