English: Artist rendering of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft delivering cargo to the International Space Station. Credit NASA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

TITUSVILLE, FL - MAY 22: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft atop rocket Falcon 9 lifts off from Pad 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Titusville, Florida. The launch this morning makes SpaceX the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

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Build Your Own Film/Video Rig This Weekend

Of all the hobbies you can have, making movies—or just recording great video—is one of the most difficult and expensive, but that's all the more reason to invest in a little DIY. Here are some of the best projects you can do yourself and put together your very own video rig. More »

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NASA Announces Winners in Commercial Crew Funding; Which Company Will Get to Space First?

Inside the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule prototype, testing out the seating arrangement for a crew of seven. Test crew included (from top left): NASA Crew Survival Engineering Team Lead Dustin Gohmert, NASA Astronaut Tony Antonelli, NASA Astronaut Lee Archambault, SpaceX Mission Operations Engineer Laura Crabtree, SpaceX Thermal Engineer Brenda Hernandez, NASA Astronaut Rex Walheim, and NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra. Photo: Roger Gilbertson / SpaceXNASA announced today the winners of the third round of commercial crew development funding, called the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap). T

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Romney's Folly: Ending Tax Breaks for Wind Power

The GOP candidate makes his position official: he'd end the popular tax breaks for Americans who invest in wind power.

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Sudan and South Sudan strike oil deal

Profit-sharing agreement of oil revenues reached by two Sudans, says AU mediator Thabo Mbeki.

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The Austerity Hoax

image source Stephen Lendman, ContributorActivist PostSince 2008, Western nations have force-fed their people austerity poison. Decline replaces prosperity. Millions suffer. Living standards deteriorate. Societies become no longer fit to live in.Neoliberal and imperial priorities let essential public needs go begging. How much more people will take before erupting remains to be seen.The longer

2 GLOBAL POLITICAL ... / by noreply@blogger.c... / 3 hours ago

Sunday Classics preview: Sampling the musical relish of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances

Seiji Ozawa conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in the first of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances, in C minor, Op. 46, No. 1.by KenI could swear that we've sampled Dvořák's Slavonic Dances in Sunday Classics, but so far I haven't been able to find a link. (I really have to do something about updating the index.) I've had it in mind for a while now devote a post to these little treasures. I had fantasies of a

DownWithTyranny! / by KenInNY / 15 min

Fast and Furious Fallout: Former Deputy Director Leaving ATF

KARNWilliam Hoover(WASHINGTON) -- The former Deputy Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has left the agency in the wake of the fallout from the Fast and Furious gun walking scandal. William Hoover was no longer employed at the agency as of Aug. 1, 2012, according to an ATF spokesman. Officials declined to comment further citing the Privacy Act.Hoover had served as t

The Intercept / by Intercept / 21 min

Lucky Lottery Night in Massachusetts

I didn't win because I never play. Looks like you came up a winner though, readers:"Mass. lottery sales hit a record $4.74b; Instant tickets helped lift total" by Sarah N. Mattero | Globe Correspondent, July 24, 2012The Massachusetts State Lottery announced Tuesday that it had set a sales record, grossing $4.74 billion over the last fiscal year.The lottery credited a varie

MSM Monitor / by Rocker / 1 hour ago

Syria - Dozens of Terrorists killed by the Syrian Arab Army 03-08-2012

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The Neoconservative War Criminals In Our MidstAugust 1, 2012 | Original h

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General Assembly Piles on Bashar al Assad, But International Community Still Divided

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The EnvironmentaList

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Curiousity to Land on Mars in Two Days

NASA's space rover on track to begin most ambitious and adventurous mission to the Red Planet

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The Corbett Report

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Syrian Updates and Food World Order

Kofi Annan steps down as the UN’s Syria ‘Peace’ Envoy as more rebel atrocities come to light and details of Obama’s secret authorization of CIA support emerge. Join us tonight on the program as James breaks down all the latest on the Syrian crisis. In the second half of the program we shift gears to cover all the latest in the Food World Order from James Evan Pilato. CLICK HERE to download the mp3

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Obsidian Wings

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When the rich really were different

by Doctor Science I got caught up in one of those obsessive desires to find out what something is -- a lifelong procrastination trap of mine which the Internet is *not* helping -- and found myself at the British Museum website[1], looking at this pot: Vase with turquoise glaze, 17th century China. Porcellaneous stoneware wine-jar of guan form, with ovoid body. The wine-jar has a gilt copper-bo

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To have and have not Friday open thread

by liberal japonicus Tons and tons of stuff to choose from, so, as is my basic principle, I go for the one with the lowest form of humor. Specifically, this: The judges declared that the claim regarding their learned friend's allegedly missing testicles could not be regarded as offensive because it had been levelled "in the context of a family dispute". Undaunted, the offended party

Obsidian Wings / by liberal japonicus / 21 hours ago

Syria Comment

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Could Syria’s Current Predicament Have Been Avoided Over A Decade Ago? – By Ehsani

Like nearly 25 million other Syrians, one cannot help but feel stunned and exasperated by the events engulfing our country. How did we get here? How can a country long associated with “stability” suddenly unravel and enter what seems to most like a black hole? Things could not look more differently back in November 2000. Barely few months into his Presidency, the 34 year-old new leader declared t

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Sports journalists are excellent examples of mindless news reporting

by Mark Vogl: When you listen to reporters at the Olympics or at a baseball or NFL game you can only think they are somebody's neice, or best friends son.

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The General Elections Resemblance to Football Season Part 1

by Russell G. Davis: Is Mitt Romney the Republican Partys JaMarcus Russell?

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Racist Decapitation Murder Shakes Small North Dakota Town

The small North Dakota town of Cooperstown has been forever changed by its first murder in 80 years – a brutal decapitation-killing carried out by a racist, a state’s attorney says. “There are doors locked now that weren’t locked before, said Marina Spahr, the assistant state’s attorney for Griggs County, the Jamestown Sun reported Thursday. The 984 [...]

4 Hatewatch | South... / by Bill Morlin / 8 hours ago

Men’s Rights Activists Disdain Men’s Sacrifice in Colorado Shooting

For most Americans, the recent mass murder in Aurora, Colo., was an unspeakable human tragedy; if the story had any political dimension at all, it was guns and gun control (or the lack thereof). But for a vocal few in the misogynistic online world of “men’s rights” — and no, not all men’s rights activists [...]

300+ Hatewatch | South... / by Arthur Goldwag / 10 hours ago

Anti-Muslim Activists to Gather in Stockholm Tomorrow

Pamela Geller, American Islamophobia’s shrillest voice, is planning yet another demonstration of anti-Muslim hate – this time, in Europe. According to her blog, Atlas Shrugs, “the world’s leading freedom action organizations” (read: anti-Muslim hate groups) will rally in Stockholm, Sweden, tomorrow to launch a “worldwide counter jihad alliance.” The conference’s sponsors are a coalition of anti-Mu

100+ Hatewatch | South... / by Leah Nelson / 12 hours ago

Texas Liberal

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Drought And Heat Go On And On In The United States—We’ll Ignore The Causes And Ignore The People Who Are Impacted

Many places in the United States are dealing with drought conditions. Above you see a map of drought conditions in the United States from the National Drought Mitigation Center. It is very dry out there in our great nation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared more than half of all U.S. counties as disaster areas for this year’s growing season. It has also been very hot in the United S

9 Texas Liberal / by Neil Aquino / 13 hours ago

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Habitable Worlds More Like Our Own

Gliese 581 is an utterly maddening star, one that continues to tantalize us with potential habitability. The case of Gl 581g, examined here yesterday, is only the latest wrinkle, but it’s in some ways the most frustrating. We’re studying planets we cannot actually see, inferring their presence through the tiniest of variations in starlight caused by the planets’ gravitational effect on their star.

Centauri Dreams / by Paul Gilster / 14 hours ago

In These Times

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Facing An Emergency, We’re Still Asking, “Where’s the Beef?”

To understand how utterly broken our society is, how hostile to sacrifice we are, and how willfully ignorant we have become, you need only look at the historic drought hammering the heartland -- and how our elected officials are responding to that cataclysm. As you likely know from this arid summer, America is suffering through the worst drought since 1950. According to the United States D

75 In These Times / by David Sirota / 17 hours ago