Halliburton provided contaminated water to soldiers

clipped from iraqforsale.org Halliburton provided contaminated water to soldiers Theatrical trailer Watch → Soldiers lack necessities, contractors profit Halliburton CEO comes clean Watch → View this clip: Embed: All bonus scenes and clips Send Brave New Films your video on YouTube and we just might post it here! Here's our YouTube profile.

clipped from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGPLchIl6p4 Robert Greenwald on ABC News

beautiful art made on the back of dusty cars!

If I found this on my dirty car, I'd probably not only never wash it again, I'd be afraid to drive it too.

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Gmail - ClipWeek: Rebels like Einstein

Gmail - ClipWeek: Rebels like Einstein

The world needs more rebels like Einstein. Luckily, they seem to pop up everywhere we look.

There are young geniuses like Igor Falecki, the 4 year old drumming prodigy and Landon Shuffet, the 7 year old pool shark. There are troopers like Harry Bernstein, who published his first book at 96 and Mae Laborde, who is Hollywood's new favorite granny after becoming an actor at 93.

There are rebels making miraculous breakthroughs. Terry Lovejoy of Queensland, Australia discovered a comet with his Canon digicam. An IBM team is helping blind people see multimedia on the web. South Korean researchers have cloned a pair of female wolves. And thanks to John Forth of the University of Leeds, we can now build houses with Bitublocks, a construction material made entirely from waste products.

There are rebels breaking down barriers. After 900 years of male-dominated canals, Alexandra Hai will be Venice's first female gondolier. Bryan Killian stood up for his right to wear pirate clothes to school in accordance with the holy texts of his religion, Pastafarianism. Others come achingly close to glory. This group of Michigan inmates were six feet from freedom when their tunnel was discovered -- they had cleared the prison perimeter, but "had not dug the 'up' part of the tunnel."

Successful or not, you have to admire the effort of the rebel. The person who invents a table that walks or a USB foot warmer. The teacher who shares the secret of the tai chi finger submission. The family who is proud to steer their horse-drawn carriage into the McDonalds drive-thru. Women like Charlotte Winters, the last female WW1 vet, who passed away this week. And men like MacGyver, who may have been the first to truly understand the power of the clip.

Slave Narratives

Neat resource.

clipped from docsouth.unc.edu           Biographies Listed Alphabetically This section of the bibliography lists biographies published in English before 1940 that were written by or about slaves or former slaves. Much less well known than autobiographical slave narratives, the biographies of slaves or former slaves constitute an abundant resource for the study of the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition. In addition to book-length biographies, the following listing comprises biographical pamphlets, books of biographical sketches, historical volumes that contain a significant proportion of biographical narratives, and substantial biographical introductions to editions of authors' works. Generally more sermonic than narrative, eulogies are not listed here. Also excluded from this bibliography are various other non-narrative biographical forms, for example, the commemorative speech, the newspaper, magazine, or journal article, and the obituary, even though they were sometimes used for biographical purposes.

Victims of an Outsourced War -- Printout -- TIME

Victims of an Outsourced War -- Printout -- TIME: " *

Thursday, Mar. 15, 2007
Victims of an Outsourced War
By Brian Bennett

In many ways, Katy Helvenston is like any mother who has lost a son in Iraq. She talks to others who have survived their kids. She wonders whether she could have done more to keep him out of harm's way. She breaks down in tears at random intervals.

But Helvenston has problems that military mothers do not have. Her son Scott, who was killed in 2004 at the age of 38, was neither a soldier nor, really, a civilian. He was an ex--Navy seal who worked for a private security firm called Blackwater. Instead of a headstone at Arlington, he has his name etched in a rock at Blackwater's corporate campus in North Carolina. And Helvenston says that three years later, she still has no real answers from the company about what led to her son's death--a death that she believes was due in part to the company's negligence.

You probably remember how Scott Helvenston and his three colleagues died. Video of their killings made newscasts around the world on March 31, 2004, when a Blackwater security convoy was ambushed by gunmen in Fallujah, Iraq. The four men were dragged from their cars, mutilate"

Quotes of the Day

clipped from www.quotationspage.com The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - ) A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989) Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 2, 2007 Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Early U.S. Daylight Savings a bust in power savings

clipped from today.reuters.com By Lisa Lee NEW YORK (Reuters) - The early onset of Daylight Savings Time in the United States this year may have been for naught. The move to turn the clocks forward by an hour on March 11 rather than the usual early April date was mandated by the U.S. government as an energy-saving effort. But other than forcing millions of drowsy American workers and school children into the dark, wintry weather three weeks early, the move appears to have had little impact on power usage. Reuters Pictures Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow "We haven't seen any measurable impact," said Jason Cuevas, spokesman for Southern Co., one of the nation's largest power companies, echoing comments from several large utilities. That may come as no surprise to the Energy Department, which last year predicted only modest energy savings because the benefits of the later daylight hour would be offset.

Stopping War for Profit: Greenwald on Olbermann

clipped from iraqforsale.org Stopping War for Profit: Greenwald on Olbermann By Jesse Haff · February 20 During congressional hearings on Iraq war profiteering last week, the governments top 3 auditors found $10 billion in overcharges or unaccounted spending out of $57 billion in private contracts. Keith Olbermann interviewed Robert on the issue of Iraq war profiteering. Robert explained: "We have to call into question the very core issue: yes they're stealing, but even above and beyond that, should people be profiting - should corporations be making millions and millions when Iraqis and Americans are being killed? That to me goes to the heart of the issue and we need to start asking that harder and harder."