Tag: spain
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Grand Chessboard Updates: Ultimatum, Pandering & Rapid Response
US, Pakistan near open war; Chinese ultimatum warns Washington against attack // China asks US to respect pakistan’s sovereignty, independence // Anglo-american military axis: west backs holy alliance for control of arab world & gulf // Obama tells BBC he will violate Pak borders
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hooded penitents take part in holy week processions in spain
from telegraph: Christian believers around the world celebrate the Holy Week of Easter marking the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Hundreds of processions take place around the clock in Spain, drawing thousands of visitors. The religious fraternities and brotherhoods are responsible for carrying the statues and organising the penitents and musicians. The clothes and…
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Spanish Murals Show Man Used Magic Mushrooms 6,000 Years Ago
Long before the modern hippy discovered them, magic mushrooms – hallucinogenic fungi – were used by ancient humans in religious ceremonies.
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obama presidency resembles modern-day ‘ancien régime’
while obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in spain from telegraph: What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and…
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Econocrash: Fortune, Fail & The Fed + Geopolitiks Update
In an internal e-mail released Saturday, Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein wrote in November 2007 that the firm “didn’t dodge the mortgage mess,” but “made more than we lost” by betting against the U.S. housing market.
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New Software Shows US One of Top Five Food Safety Offenders
A new global monitoring tool identifies the United States as one of the top five worst food safety offenders, along with China, Turkey, Iran, and Spain. The findings are based on food contamination data collected between 2003 and 2008.
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9/11 updates: gop, dems, the media & the peace movement
debra medina’s 9/11 remark pushes campaign off track* letter to rachel maddow on debra medina* media response to the growing influence of 9/11 truth* peace movement vs 9/11 truth* gop rep chaffetz agrees with concerns of 9/11 truthers: there’s still a lot to learn* yet another congressman questions 9/11* 1992 flashback: small knives used in…
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econocrash updates: the fed, failures & bailout bust
geithner says auditing the fed is a ‘line that we don’t want to cross’from corbett report: In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to…
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swine flu updates: propaganda & the 1918 spanish flu
… swine flu flashbacks: part 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 … video: 1st case of swine flu in russia kids who get the flu shot are more likely to be hospitalizedfrom ecochildsplay: A Mayo Clinic study shows that kids who got the flu shot – especially those with asthma – are 3 times as…
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report says 6 bush officials to be indicted on torture charges
from raw replay: Sources have told The Daily Beast’s Scott Horton that Spanish prosecutors will investigate six former Bush officials for sanctioning torture. Horton told CNN’s John Roberts that Spanish prosecutors wouldn’t have investigated if they had received assurances from U.S. officials that they would investigate the crimes. RAW STORY has more details here. This…
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spanish cops seize 40k doses of psychoactive drug used by shamans
from ap: Spanish police have raided a house in a Madrid suburb, arrested two people and seized 40,000 doses of a psychoactive substance traditionally used by South American shamans. The substance yaje – or ayahuasca in Quechua, the ancient Inca language – is derived from a hallucinogenic jungle vine used for centuries in religious and…
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sudden death after arrest may be ‘new syndrome’
it’s called ‘policius brutalis’ & it’s similar to the ‘unusual event’ that caused wtc7 to fall… ooh, or what about that woman who strangled herself in the airport? from reuters: Young men who die suddenly after being arrested by the police may be victims of a new syndrome similar to one that kills some wild…
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spain’s supreme court acquits 4 over 3/11 bombings
from afp: Spain’s supreme court Thursday overturned the convictions of four of 21 people condemned to prison over the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004. It also upheld a lower court’s decision to acquit one of the alleged masterminds of the Al Qaeda-inspired attacks, Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed, known as “Mohammed the…