Kyoto Observer

The Nation's Deathbed

2008-07-04T14:44:20Z

Not that I want to reinforce the message of this video by putting this up on this day, but I only found out it about today. I'll comment further when I see the whole thing. I think I get the message after a prelimary few minutes: on the way to t...

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ITV - John Pilger - In the great tradition, Obama is a hawk

2008-07-04T07:27:10Z

Democracy is an illusion. Left or right, it doesn't matter. Look at Tony Blair's (and now Gordon Brown's) Labour totalitarian alternative to years of the Tories running the show. Equally, Barack Obama offers more of the same meaningless "altern...

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NASA - Planets Align for the 4th of July

2008-07-02T09:05:22Z

Saturn, Mars, Regulus and the crescent Moon align on the 4th of July.

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Amazing Discoveries: Exposing Deceptions

2008-07-01T14:49:33Z

Professor Walter J. Veith presents a Christian perspective on secret societies spending most of this lecture on Freemasonry. He quotes from the writings of Albert Pike, Madame Blavatsky, Eliphas Levy, Manly P. Hall, and so on. Professor Veith re...

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EU forces market trader to pulp thousands of kiwi fruit because they're ONE MILLIMETRE too small |

2008-07-01T12:18:58Z

Bristol market trader, Tim Down, has to trash 5,000 kiwi fruits because they fail to meet EU regulations--by one millimeter! He can't even give them away as that would be illegal. This kind of insanity is typical of the collectivist, socialist...

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Video: Gok Wan on finding glasses for your face shape - Times Online

2008-07-01T12:12:03Z

Gok Wan's view on how to select the right glasses for you.

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BIS slams central banks, warns of worse crunch to come - Telegraph

2008-07-01T08:56:35Z

"If there are going to be more bail-outs on both sides of the Atlantic - as there will be - the "socialised risks" should be taken on by political systems, and not dumped on the books of central banks." (quoting from the article) What?! Why in th...

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NASA - The Tunguska Event--100 Years later

2008-07-01T00:25:25Z

One hundred years ago yesterday, a space rock entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded just over Tunguska, Siberia. The explosion had the equivalent of 185 Hiroshima bombs. Instead of wasting time worrying about Hollywoodesque global warming sea ...

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Marina Hyde: This surveillance onslaught is draconian and creepy: The Guardian

2008-06-30T07:25:55Z

Did you chaps know that once we all carry biometric ID cards, with physical data held on a central database, it is technically feasible to link CCTV images to specific individuals? I'm sure you know that the technology already exists for vo...

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Parents banned from ferrying children to sports matches - Telegraph

2008-06-30T04:42:17Z

Can't you people see what is going on? This junta is not stupid. This has all been planned. It's creeping fascism. They want us all registered and chipped. They do it with the Oyster card scheme in London. They know our daily travel routine. They...

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