DC : Life imitates art, art imitates life

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now that is one ugly vehicle but at least it's cheap compared to DC's cars...

[Morthrai]

For the Nomenklatura in your life
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/04/ ... comes-suv/

Hmm...when I was a kid the phrase "only in America" was popular, as it was the era of Apollo missions and muscle cars. Seems that Russia is becoming the place to gently mock these days?

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Seems that Russia is becoming the place to gently mock these days?

America has plenty enough left to be mocked, bare-knuckles style even.

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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Meet Sharlotte. Like a lot of grandmothers, she likes to keep busy. But while some grannies sit and knit scarves and afghans, this 91-year-old has a decidedly different hobby. She makes suicide masks. Sharlotte started making and selling these suicide kits out of her cozy Southern California home after watching her husband die a slow and painful death from colon cancer. She blames doctors for keeping him alive.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/04/ ... h-dignity/

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Barack Obama was pre-identified in time as U.S. president by secret DARPA time travel program

The notion that President Obama has had a lifelong affiliation with the CIA is supported by the revelations of crusading lawyer Andrew D. Basiago about a heretofore unknown “quantum access” capability within the US intelligence community provided by time travel technology.

Mr. Basiago has been identified as a “planetary-level whistleblower” by the Web Bot for his account of a secret time-space program, Project Pegasus, launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

According to Mr. Basiago, by 1970, Project Pegasus was teleporting individuals between locations in time-space via “teleporters” based on the later works of Nikola Tesla and also propagating images of past and future events via “chronovisors” first developed by the Vatican scientists Pellegrino Ernetti and Pier Maria Gemelli.

These have been used to provide the U.S. president, intelligence community and military with better information about past and future events by which to engage in better contingency planning for future events.

In numerous TV and radio interviews, Mr. Basiago has described how, among other intelligence findings, Project Pegasus was identifying future American presidents and then approaching them and apprising them of their destinies as President.

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Washington Times report: Newly released Obama birth certificate forensic forgery - Seattle exopolitics | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in- ... z1L8aYSTsP

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"A 10 metre object on a heliocentric orbit, now catalogued as 1991 VG, made a close approach to the Earth in 1991 December, and was discovered a month before perigee with the Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak. Its very Earth-like orbit and observations of rapid brightness fluctuations argue for it being an artificial body rather than an asteroid. None of the handful of man-made rocket bodies left in heliocentric orbits during the space age have purely gravitational orbits returning to the Earth at that time and in any case the a priori probability of discovery for 1991 VG was very small, of order one in 100 000 per annum. In addition, the small perigee distance observed might be interpreted as an indicator of a controlled rather than a random encounter with the Earth, and thus it might be argued that 1991 VG is a candidate as an alien probe observed in the vicinity of our planet."

http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi- ... etype=.pdf


NEW MADRID COUNTY, MO (KFVS) -

Because the Army Corps of Engineers opened the levee at Birds Point in Mississippi County , Missouri , Monday evening, Mississippi County Coroner Terry Parker is advising the public that a number of cemeteries and grave sites in Mississippi and New Madrid Counties will be flooded.
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/14566740/mo ... ose-graves

Artistic inspiration
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthp ... owicz.html

Note the side effects of this plant
http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/39809.html

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Now these are too good not to share...images and details of some of the world's abandoned subway/Tube stations and tunnels.

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In old tales are hidden truths.


Urban legends include tales that range from being simply scary and gruesome to downright ridiculous. Giving an example of an old wives’ tale, Ghania said, “In the old days there used to be people who were cannibals. A lot of them were women and they would get jobs as maids and when the men left for work they would attack the wife and eat her.”

She narrated another story that a foreign maid told her mother around 50 years ago. “She told my mother that in the place that she was originally from, people would avoid traveling by train after sunset, as there are cannibals who attack people at night,” she said.

“The maid added that she and three women were once stranded at a train station and that the station employees locked themselves in their cabins while she and the other women were left outside until morning,” said Ghania.

“In the night, some men came out of the field and dragged one of the women off.

The maid told my mother that she and the other women couldn’t help the woman and that they saw the men bite her and tear off her flesh like animals as they dragged her into the fields. They said they could hear the woman scream and that all of a sudden there was silence,” she added.

Another old wives’ tale Ghania mentioned was that of a group of people who lived in a river. “These people lived all their lives in water and even had webbed hands. They were excellent swimmers but were unable to stand on dry ground.

They even gave birth to children in water, and lived solely on fish. They made no contact with normal people and if anyone went near them they would attack them,” she said.


http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article55531.ece

MIAMI (AP) -- Transnational criminal organizations across Latin America pose the region's greatest threat, U.S. officials and experts agreed Friday.

"We have a key threat that we all need to focus on and that is transnational criminal organizations," the head of U.S. Southern Command Gen. Douglas Fraser told a conference organized by the University of Miami's Center for Hemispheric Policy.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... SECTION=US

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"Suit". Right.

POLICE are searching for an armed robber dressed as a large furry animal who outran them after holding up a bank in the Swedish city of Gothenberg.

Swedish newspaper Gotebors-Posten (GP) reported that shots were fired as the unusually-attired perpetrator attempted to rob the bank, located in a large shopping center, late Friday.

"A man in a monkey outfit, or similar, may have been a bear, too, came running with security guards behind him. I thought it was a joke at first, a stunt, but then I walked past the bank and saw the shattered glass," a witness told GP.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaki ... 6051809224

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There is now a shocking new strategy to fight copper crime. Street lights are now staying on 24-hours a day in one Sacramento neighborhood and the city is banking on live wires to keep criminals away.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/05/ ... r-thieves/

[Morthrai]

A list of abandoned cities from around the globe. A couple have been mentioned in the past (Centralia for one) but these just scream DC to me, especially the first image

http://www.gadling.com/2011/04/27/the-w ... ed-cities/

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Fun Fact - If I've read it right, Centralia is about two hours west of where DETOUR takes place.

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"Last Woman Standing"
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/One-woman ... 831020.jpg

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Three women are accused in Florida with scamming people out of thousands of dollars by promising to cleanse them of evil spirits.
Prosecutors say they promised people they could get rid of evil spirits through religious cleansing. One person was told a Rolex watch was needed to remove demons.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... SECTION=US

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A 43-year-old homeless man who was dumped from a commercial trash bin into a garbage truck and "compacted" appears to have escaped without serious injury, authorities said.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/ ... z1LzFAEajg

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YELM, Washington -- Police are investigating whether possible strange fumes that sickened detectives had something to do with two bodies that were found in a house near Yelm on Monday, the Thurston County Sheriff's Office said.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/27829429/detail.html

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Canadian town cut off, burning
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le2022761/

The last goat standing: Satanism fear stalks village as animals are tortured and killed

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1MWetQt2g

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A British woman cannot use an electric kettle, keeps her washing machine in a concrete outhouse and cannot have neighbours with wireless internet because she is allergic to electricity.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8 ... icity.html

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More and more doctors are using their own medical inventions, from medicine to machines, using unsuspecting patients as guinea pigs
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct ... 1920.story

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But in a reversal of fortunes it now appears that large Indian companies are actually now themselves outsourcing - to U.S. shores. Large corporations that have boomed in India amid the country's nimble economy have been drawn to the U.S. where unemployment has soared.

Struggling residents desperate for work are paid between $12 and $14 a hour to be stationed in tiny cubicles for long shifts of telesales work. Once the employees are established, many are offered the chance to be flown to India themselves - the same tactic Western countries have done in India.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1NHLWTas9

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But in a reversal of fortunes it now appears that large Indian companies are actually now themselves outsourcing - to U.S. shores. Large corporations that have boomed in India amid the country's nimble economy have been drawn to the U.S. where unemployment has soared.

Struggling residents desperate for work are paid between $12 and $14 a hour to be stationed in tiny cubicles for long shifts of telesales work. Once the employees are established, many are offered the chance to be flown to India themselves - the same tactic Western countries have done in India.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1NHLWTas9

As interesting as this seems, I wouldn't really trust the Daily Mail to get the information correct.

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As interesting as this seems, I wouldn't really trust the Daily Mail to get the information correct.

True enough. How about Business Week?
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/co ... 040050.htm

PATERSON — A Pennsylvania woman has pleaded guilty to child neglect and cruelty charges stemming from a bloody religious ritual in Paterson. Authorities say Yenitza Colichon made her 7-year-old daughter watch an initiation rite in Paterson that included a chicken sacrifice and feeding the girl its heart.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/0 ... _chil.html


When Su Meck got hit with a ceiling fan and woke up one week later with a total memory loss, her husband Jim thought she "was Su 2.0. She had rebooted."

Back then, she was 22. The accident erased all her memory, reverting her brain to that of a 4-year-old child. She couldn't read. She couldn't do anything by herself. Nothing. Except a few phrases, her brain was a tabula rasa. She had to restart her life—a life with two baby sons—learning everything from the start.
http://gizmodo.com/5804641/the-inspirin ... oot-age-22


The Germans viewed canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and attempted to build an army of fearsome 'speaking' dogs, extraordinary new research shows.

Hitler hoped the clever creatures would learn to communicate with their SS masters - and he even had a special dog school set up to teach them to talk.

The incredible findings show Nazi officials recruited so-called educated dogs from all over Germany and trained them to speak and tap out signals using their paws.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... n-WW2.html