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Superb article about the rise and eventual fall of the US and USSR as superpowers.

Written by Dmitry Orlov on realitysandwich.com.

Like that of our metaphorical heavyweight champion, a super-power’s diet must contain plenty of red meat, in this case, human flesh. A superpower must continually ingest plenty of highly skilled and motivated personnel managers, scientists, engineers, and military officers, who must be willing to endure hardship, give up their best years, ruin their health, perhaps even give their lives, slaving away designing and building things, fighting and doing all the dirty work.

Read the full article here.

Great visuals! Seems like they spend a lot of time/money to get it just right when performing.

You can check out the article on wired.com here.

This video is from their 2008 tour in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Martin Atkins (drummer with Pigface, Ministry, PiL & Killing Joke) gives an interview to wired.com about his 2006 trip to China and how he met various Chinese musicians and copiled a movie:

Atkins shot 80 hours of video from his 2006 trip into Asia’s 21st century powerhouse, and chopped it down into the recently released documentary Sixteen Days in China.

Read it here.

On August 29, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with senior political correspondent Matthew Chance for a CNN exclusive interview.

Not only did CNN delete Putin’s historical roundup of relations between Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia going back to the 18th century that followed, the network cut out almost everything else as well.

Apparently, this interview was never fully broadcast by CNN - only certain clips were shown out of context (what’s new?) to ridicule him.

Read the full story on exiledonline.com.

Ezekiel 23:20 (New International Version)

20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Found on reddit - source biblegateway.com

…the following story outlines the role of the CIA in supplying opiates and cocaine over the years. No one can prove these allegations as they would be protected “secrets”, unavailable to any investigator. Still, the evidence supplied by participants and witnesses is rather compelling.

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A very funny but political collection comics from the USA: viruscomix.com

The media have covered such recent events as the Olympics, the selection of Joe Biden as the Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, and what John McCain is going to do about the selection of the Vice President of the Republican Party. Now the media will focus on the national convention of the Democratic Party.

The most important news for the month of August was the fact that President Bush has quietly sent the largest armada into the Persian Gulf since the Iraq war began in 2003, when there were six carrier groups. This is a huge number of ships to be concentrated in one location in peacetime.

Read full story - from lewrockwell.com

Standing straight and tall, an impressive and deeply introspective man, Sami El Haj walks with a limp and the help of a walking stick. Neither laughter nor smiles light up the refined face of this man, old before his time. A deep sadness pervades him. He was 32 years old when, in December 2001, his life, like that of tens of thousands of other Muslims, became a horrific nightmare.

Read full story - from voltairenet.org