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Us Army executed innocent children, then used an airstrike to cover it up

#OccupyWallstreet: Our Mission

Is America Ripe for a Tahrir Moment?

On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand for radical and immediate change in a plurality of voices, following the example set by our Egyptian brothers and sisters in Tahrir Square.

The time has come to deploy this emerging stratagem against the greatest corrupter of our democracy: Wall Street, the financial Gomorrah of America. It’s time that the people took back the streets to let Wall Street and this corrupt government know that CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE and that we demand democracy, not corporatocracy!

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Saturn as seen from Cassini.

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If you want to help legalize it

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Half Life // By: Lewis Gaston

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

End the war on drugs that has cost so many lives

The drug war has failed. It has caused millions of people to be hurt and funnels trillions of dollars into violent crime networks, costs the U.S government alone $6 Billion to imprison people who U.S government alone is $700 Million.

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Isola di Loreto (by Teone!)

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“Three Arches Above Utah” by Brad Goldpaint

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View of 21 May 2011 eruption column from Grimsvotn volcano

Credits: Bjorn Oddsson, Univ of Iceland

Source: 2011 Grimsvotn Eruption! from the Joint Commission on Volcano—Ice Interactions. 

Further information can be found at the Icelandic Met Office, the University of Iceland Institute of Earth Sciences, and the London Volcanic Ash Advisory Center

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The Rescue of Intelsat VI

One satellite, Intelsat VI F-3, was launched aboard a Titan III from Cape Canaveral March 14, 1990. However, the second stage of the booster failed to separate from the craft and its perigee motor. INTELSAT controllers commanded the spacecraft to separate from the combined booster stage and perigee motor, allowing the satellite to be placed in low, but nonoperational, Earth orbit.

It remained there for two years, until the first flight of the space shuttle Endeavour in May 1992. INTELSAT had contracted with NASA for the mission, during which three astronauts captured the satellite and attached a new perigee motor to take it to its proper orbit. Hughes provided the motor, hardware, and technical assistance for the mission. The F-3 satellite was put into service over the Atlantic Ocean at 325.5 degrees East in July 1992, in time to carry television coverage of the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

The story about how three Endeavor astronauts once captured a satellite by hand.

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