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No, it's not Rex, the Coelurosauravus in the youtube above, it's an Anchiornis huxleyi as you'll read about below

Fossil Feather Colors Really ARE Written In Stone

Rapper-activist Chuck D: Challenge authority, consumer culture

By Carla Meyer
Published: Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 3B

In the two decades Public Enemy frontman Chuck D has rapped and lectured about fighting the power, rap music has been swallowed by the mainstream, record companies have lost ground to the Internet, and the United States has elected an African American president.

Yet Chuck D, 49, the rapper, author and activist in town Thursday night to speak to California State University, Sacramento, students, still delivers what is in essence the same message: challenge authority and the consumer culture and make the most of educational opportunities.

In other words, as he told the crowd of 1,200 at the University Union during a free-form, humor-filled talk, "Have full capacity of yourself and do not be a robot."

That means always questioning what one is being fed, whether it is by MTV or people using the catchphrase "post-racial."

From the Dutch version of Comedy Central. Make sure you’re not drinking anything at the 1:39 mark ;-)

Help! My Water is Glowing!

January 28th, 2010 by Bunny

I’ve never seen the ocean glow, but Katie Spotz did this week. She has been rowing in the Atlantic Ocean for 3 weeks now, getting closer to South America each day. A recent tweet from her:

“Can anyone explain what these glowing specks in the water are? Every night I see them and have no clue what they are”

[...]

Bioluminescence in the water has puzzled people for thousands of years, starting with Aniximenes in 500 B.C. Many have guessed over the years.

The glow is likely from bioluminescent dinoflagellates—that is, marine plankton that light up. The plankton light up when they sense a predator. The purpose is to attract a bigger predator that will eat the plankton’s predator!

Not saying the Kings don't deserve some help for a new arena, but KJ is making a huge mistake with these sharks

Related: Why are Financial Terrorists (JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley...etc.) getting away with attacking America?

Sucker city

Team K.J. sent out another “rules of the game” communiqué last week, announcing that investment bank Goldman Sachs had accepted the mayor’s invitation to evaluate proposals for, and possibly help finance, a new Kings arena.

“Anybody who knows anything about the financial world knows what it means to have Goldman Sachs on your side,” Mayor Kevin Johnson wrote. “Simply put, Goldman is one of the largest, most influential and important investment organizations in the world.”

Let's take a look at Goldman Sachs

Related: Healthcare by the numbers

Leno’s single payer “Medicare for All” health bill passes Senate

The Destabilization of Haiti

"Washington seeks to reinstate Haiti as a full-fledged US colony, with all the appearances of a functioning democracy. The objective is to impose a puppet regime in Port-au-Prince and establish a permanent US military presence in Haiti. 

Edit: On second thought, the song I embedded, No Woman No Cry is too upbeat for the tone of the post. It's a great song with a positive message, but that kind of gives an excuse to the immoral and gluttonous elites who've ravaged these people for centuries. At the same time, I think this section of the song is a subtle political statement against the colonialist economic overlords. I think at the time, Bob Marley knew he couldn't be overt in this message, but the people who knew -- knew what he was saying

Youtube - No Woman No cry

Said, said, said, I remember when we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the hypocrites as they would
Mingle with the good people we meet,
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost
Along the way, In this bright future called life,
you can't forget your past

Below, is a devastating indictment by Chris Floyd on the economic elite's colonialist policies on the People of Haiti

Help Haiti: The Unforgiven Country Cries Out

(UPDATED BELOW)

The entropy force: a new direction for gravity

WHAT exactly is gravity? Everybody experiences it, but pinning down why the universe has gravity in the first place has proved difficult.

Although gravity has been successfully described with laws devised by Isaac Newton and later Albert Einstein, we still don't know how the fundamental properties of the universe combine to create the phenomenon.

Now one theoretical physicist is proposing a radical new way to look at gravity. Erik Verlinde of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a prominent and internationally respected string theorist, argues that gravitational attraction could be the result of the way information about material objects is organised in space.

Reply to FDL Statement on Health Care Reform from MA voter

As a Massachusetts voter, I can say that my lack of enthusiasm for yesterday’s election was certainly due to the behind the scenes corporate deal making and bailouts for the banking and insurance industries as well as big pharma and others at the expense of real reform for ordinary Americans.

The Obama administration, with help from Congress, has made the biggest transfer of wealth up from ordinary people to the wealthy and powerful in the history of the planet. This is not the change we hoped for.

What happened to the fierce urgency of now? Or is that only for banksters and insurance executives?

What the country needs now are real solutions to our very real problems. It is beyond frustrating that there are obvious solutions to benefit the vast majority of Americans and my own party refuses to even consider them — apparently because they might anger some corporate donors.

Healthcare reform is a perfect example of this.

Sac State Students Tape Mouths In Protest

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Students protested Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez Thursday during his spring address at the university.

The protesters, who were seen wearing tape over their mouths, staged a silent and peaceful protest.

Students carried signs that protested fee increases, and another that had a message that students have no confidence in Gonzalez' leadership.

Another evacuation ordered in Pacifica

Henry K. Lee,Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, January 21, 2010
(01-21) 11:13 PST Pacifica --

Several residents at a seaside Pacifica apartment building were ordered to evacuate this morning because of an eroding bluff that has already forced the red-tagging of the structure next door.

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