DC : Life imitates art, art imitates life

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A spacewalking astronaut almost had to retreat into the safety of the International Space Station on Wednesday when something got into his eye and made it sting "like crazy."

Several minutes after he reported the discomfort, Andrew Feustel assured everyone his eye was feeling better and the third spacewalk of shuttle Endeavour's final voyage continued as planned.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... &TEMPLATE=

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MANTECA (CBS13) — A pair of thieves spent hours dismantling a section of the Manteca railroad tracks, only to have their plan derailed by a neighboring worker.

“They have no fear of getting caught, doing this in broad daylight, that’s just crazy,” said an Ace Tomato employee.

A man who didn’t want to appear on camera is one of many Ace Tomato employees working in the yard when he noticed the duo destroying the private railroad line.

“They were stealing the rails and the iron that held the rails together,” he told CBS13.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/05/ ... -on-metal/

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Kinberg's invention was a bicycle equipped with a line of spray cans pointed at the ground, and activated by individual computer-controlled solenoids. If all had gone according to plan, Kinberg would have ridden the bicycle around the streets of New York during the RNC, while users submitted messages through his Bikes Against Bush website. The messages would have been relayed to his laptop through a cell phone, then sprayed on the sidewalk behind him in a dot-matrix of water-soluble chalk.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerig ... nberg_0410

Making Journalism Illegal
May 27, 2011

In The Jungle Upton Sinclair went undercover and exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry in turn of the century America. Countless journalists have since employed the same tactics. Now, two states – Iowa and Minnesota – are considering legislation that would effectively criminalize such reporting. Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red, talks about the proposed legislation.
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/05/27/04

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun field testing new technology designed to identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act.

Nature reported that the DHS has been conducting tests of Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) in the past few months at an undisclosed location in the northeast.

The technology uses remote sensors to measure physiological properties, such as heart rate and eye movement, which can be used to infer a person's current mindset.

According to a Privacy Impact Assessment (PDF) released by the DHS in 2008, the technology is intended to measure a person's malintent -- the intent to cause harm.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/30/m ... ed-states/

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Researchers found a tunnel under the Temple of the Snake in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, about 28 miles northeast of Mexico City. The tunnel had apparently been sealed off around 1,800 years ago.

Researchers of Mexico's National University made the finding with a radar device. Closer study revealed a "representation of the underworld," in the words of archaeologist Sergio Gomez Chavez, of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.

Experts found "a route of symbols, whose conclusion appears to lie in the funeral chambers at the end of the tunnel."

The structure is 15 yards beneath the ground, and it runs eastwards. It is about 130 yards long.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-tun ... exico.html


In an effort to cut costs and avoid civilian casualties, manufacturers are developing small 'smart bombs,' drones that resemble model planes and microscopic crystals to tag enemy targets.
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Raytheon is developing a 13-pound GPS-guided "smart bomb" intended to be dropped from a drone.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-m ... 9311.story

Sinkholes galore
http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/05/31/sin ... _Sinkholes

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A Russian man has died after persuading a friend to bury him alive for a night, hoping it would bring him "good luck".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13623938

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A convicted felon who claimed he was from the 'fifth dimension' has been ordered held on $25,000 cash bail for allegedly using a hammer during a carjacking and then leading police on a multi-town chase along Interstate 95.
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... -1/FOSNEWS

For police and corrections officers, preventing and defusing confrontations can save lives, and that’s the premise behind the BodyGuard. Equipped with a highvoltage stunner, video camera, laser pointer and flashlight, the armor sleeve is intended to prevent violent situations. The invention was designed by David Brown, a cameraman, editor and producer who makes a living filming musical acts such as Rage Against the Machine and Snoop Dogg, as well as behindthe-scenes movie footage for the actor Kevin Costner, a friend and BodyGuard investor.
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2011- ... evelopment

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THIS shocking photo is said to show a giant rat of the type being blamed for a series of attacks on children.

The monster rodents as big as cats are believed to have killed two babies in South Africa's squalid townships.

The giant rats grow up to three-foot including their tails - and have front teeth over an INCH long.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... z1ORIVmsMi

Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/loc ... 6362.story

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Bang & Olufsen's new 3-D TV has an 85-inch screen and a $85,000 price tag.

That comes out to about $1,000 per inch of display real estate for the high-end consumer electronics firm's BeoVision 4-85 plasma television, which Sound & Vision magazine described as an aspirational product.

"The massive, anodized aluminum–encased set -- all 359.6 pounds of it -- rests on a similarly massive motorized stand (the whole package weighs just north of a half ton), which raises and lowers the screen from a floorbound rest position and conceals an integrated BeoSound 10 center-channel speaker, which emerges gracefully from beneath the screen as the motor lifts the set to viewing height," Sound & Vision's Michael Berk wrote of the new TV.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol ... 85000.html


Who invited Alfred Hitchcock to the Everett Police Department’s north precinct?

Like a scene out of the famous director’s film “The Birds,” three angry crows have been dive-bombing police officers as they dash across the parking lot to their cars.

“They’re like velociraptors,” Lt. Bob Johns told the Everett Herald.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/20 ... ciraptors/

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Japanese military develop flying robot! Aieee!

http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/blog/611111

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Japanese military develop flying robot! Aieee!

http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/blog/611111

Who is Number One?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om8Xwa3MhaU

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Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States.

The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act.

Read more: http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/surv ... z1PAEzkL1h

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I got no .. just read / look
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/0 ... s-headline

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And that's just the 'nice' end of the spectrum, you could easily have people going in to hospital for neuro-surgery, the doctors are paid/blackmailed/whatever by a Corp. to place a remote control magnet device into the patients head. When the Corp. needs a particular thing to happen, they activate the magnet to remove the patient's (victim's) moral beliefs.

Ahh the possibilities...

Indeed.

A laser based on living cells has been created by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. They were motivated to overcome one of the fundamental limitations on biological imaging: it's very difficult to get visible and infrared light in and out of the body.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26876/


U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.

The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet in a suitcase.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world ... ml?_r=1&hp

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Moscow's elite has decided it doesn't need to follow the traffic laws. Will there be a pedestrian revolution? (Seriously - you've got to read these comments)
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... _in_russia

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For years now Chinese authorities have been installing spying devices on all dual-plate Chinese-Hong Kong vehicles, enabling a vast network of eavesdropping across the archipelago, according to a Hong Kong newspaper.

The report in Apple Daily states that the recording devices began being installed as “inspection and quarantine cards” in July 2007. They were installed without charge by the Shenzhen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau on thousands of vehicles.

Smugglers were the first to note something strange about the devices. A source told Apple Daily that after the cards were installed mainland authorities had no trouble picking off the cars carrying illicit goods.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... atake.html

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New York City plans to send geese captured around its airports to a Pennsylvania slaughterhouse and then distribute them to food banks there.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NY ... 88469.html

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New York City plans to send geese captured around its airports to a Pennsylvania slaughterhouse and then distribute them to food banks there.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NY ... 88469.html

Piglet with two snouts
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/865417-pig ... -freak-out

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Krokodil: The drug that eats junkies

A home-made heroin substitute is having a horrific effect on thousands of Russia's drug addicts.

The home-made drug that Oleg and Sasha inject is known as krokodil, or "crocodile". It is desomorphine, a synthetic opiate many times more powerful than heroin that is created from a complex chain of mixing and chemical reactions, which the addicts perform from memory several times a day. While heroin costs from £20 to £60 per dose, desomorphine can be "cooked" from codeine-based headache pills that cost £2 per pack, and other household ingredients available cheaply from the markets.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 00787.html