Rare Jimi Hendrix Pics

New York, 1968

Woodstock, 1969

Bakersfield, California, 1968

Pete Seeger - Full Transcript of Evidence to House Un-American Activities Committee

Courageous evidence given to the witch-hunters by Pete Seeger HERE. 
He kicked it. 
Proudly remembered.

Russia - How Homosexuality Became a Political Crime

Siege of Leningrad - Images

SLIDESHOW HERE

Upward Mobility Probabilities - Geography

The map below is a picture of an interactive graphic from the New York Times which was developed from the report which shows the percentage chance that someone born into the lowest quintile might reach the top quintile by adulthood; in the darkest red shade, that chance is less than 4%, and includes several pockets in the South, including Atlanta at 4% and the Memphis environs at 2.6%; those in the lighter red shadings, including much of the South and Detroit at 5.1%, Cleveland at 5.2%, and Chicago at 6.1% all have less than 10% chance of rising to the top fifth from the bottom...the yellow shading, including most of the rural areas and cities such as Salt Lake at 11.5% and San Francisco at 5.2%, all have upward mobility chances greater that 10%, while those in green with a 20% chance of making it to the top include some smaller western plains cities such as Casper Wyoming at 19% and Yankton S. Dakota at 22.8%...and in a telling revelation not specifically noted in any of the literature but clearly obvious on the map, children born dirt poor in the western counties of North Dakota shown in blue as have as much as a 35% chance of reaching the top quintile, with those born in the heart of the Bakken oil field in Williston North Dakota having a 33.1% chance of earning top bucks as adults despite being born into families at the bottom. Via R.J. Sigmund.

Syrian Talks Show Signs of Modest Compromise

"Supernova That Happened 12 Million Years Ago Just Appeared" | Space

"Supernova That Happened 12 Million Years Ago Just Appeared" | Space:
"What an incredible discovery! Last night, telescopes at the University of London Observatory (UCL), caught a exploding star in a galaxy 12 million light years away! The team stated that this supernova is the closest to Earth since 1987!"

Neocolonialism In An Image

the dirty business of fracking

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The Clinton Connection

Vindicated

Enormous Galaxy Formed When Universe Was 6% Its Present Size.

Himiko, a "space blob" named after a legendary queen from ancient Japan, is an enormous galaxy, with a hot glowing gaseous halo extending over 55,000 light-years. Not only is Himiko very large, it is extraordinarily distant, seen at a time approximately 800 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only 6 percent of its present size and stars and galaxies were just beginning to form.
Continue reading "Enormous Galaxy Formed When Universe was 6% of Its Present Size Puzzles Astronomers" »

Gruesome photos show Marines torching dead Iraqi insurgents

Gruesome photos show Marines torching dead Iraqi insurgents: report - NY Daily News: 
"The U.S. military is investigating new gruesome photos that reportedly show Marines burning dead bodies in Iraq.
The disturbing images were shot in Fallujah in 2004, according to TMZ, which said it published only eight of 41 pictures.
Some show a Marine pouring gasoline on the bodies of slain Iraqi insurgents.
Another shows a Marine posing for the camera next to a skull."

Obama Fights With His Own Party's Ziocons

Obama's Democratic friends in the Senate are even more obsequious to the Israelis than he is. His struggle to prevent Senate Democrats from backing strict new sanctions that could upend his diplomatic efforts is casting a long shadow over talks with Iran. Link

Interview - Chomsky on Channel 4

Asia Times Online :: The whitewashing of Ariel Sharon

Asia Times Online :: The whitewashing of Ariel Sharon

Death of Sharon, The Butcher of Shatila

Social media reactions confirm that Governments are out of touch with citizens. Governments praise Sharon while citizens condemn his murderous legacy.

Gates on Obama's Fake War-gasm

Face Of A Million Words

Hubble Photographs Universe's Oldest Galaxies

Hubble Photographs Universe's Oldest Galaxies:
 "Photographs showing objects from the first billion years after the big bang have been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
It has glimpsed further away into the universe than any observatory before it to produce six new "deep field" images.
The photos used a 50-hour exposure to gather enough light, revealing galaxies that may be more than 12 billion light-years away.
Project leader Jennifer Lotz said: "It is the deepest view of the universe ever taken."

Fall of Fallujah

The incompetence of US foreign policy is there for anyone to see all over the world. It is nowhere more blatant than in Syria/Iraq where the AQ rebels in the FSA America has armed are joining with the Iraqi AQ rebels they failed to defeat. Obama talked about the 'New Iraq' in the midst of the Mission Accompished spin which accompanied the US withdrawal, tail between legs, from Iraq. Its new now alright. Maliki, America's surrogate, continues to pursue his inept revenge against Sunnis and in the process is losing major cities in the West of Iraq to Islamists who are now joining forces with their brothers from Syria. American response is to provide more weapons. A bigger mess would be difficult to invent.

  

Map of Annual Military Budgets

The rise and fall of American newsreaders, as not chronicled by Will Ferrell's Anchorman

The rise and fall of American newsreaders, as not chronicled by Will Ferrell's Anchorman: 

"Although most countries have their own celebrated newsreaders and commentators, in the US, the anchorman has traditionally been regarded as a sort of village explainer, rising above the machinistic fray, providing clarity, reassurance and wisdom. Long before the arrival of television, Americans always responded favourably to those who ministered to the national psyche. As befits a country that began as a religious experiment – and which, despite the church/state separation embodied in the Constitution, harbours a curious belief that we are God’s preferred nation – the most revered American presidents (Lincoln, Roosevelt, even Washington) are seen as father figures who embodied those virtues that we like to think define the soul of the nation: independence, integrity, moral rectitude. (In reality, despite our talk of family and community, the US still largely operates according to the rules of social Darwinism.)"

Mursi Supporters Gunned Down By Egyptian Junta Police

Is 2014 The Year The UN Comes Into It's Own? Er, No.

Sunrises

As seen from Venus, Earth, Mars and Titan (Pics from NASA).