Mandela Is on US Terrorist Watch Lists
Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC). In 1990, Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison for crimes committed during the struggle against Apartheid, a repressive regime that subjugated black South Africans. In 1994, he was elected South Africa’s first black president. Members of other groups deemed a terrorist threat, such as Hamas and Tamil Tigers, also are on the watch lists.
My Brain Knows It, But I Don’t See It
Patients with “hemineglect” disorder will tend to ignore things presented to their left side. So that means “I only see right side of the shirt that you are wearing”
But sometimes these ignored stimuli may be processed without awareness. The brain may extract the meaning of presenting objects and symbols , but the patient will not consciously perceive.
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Dad jailed after daughter fails math test
A Fairfield man is in jail because his daughter hasn’t gotten her General Equivalency Diploma (GED). A judge ordered the father to stay on top of his daughter’s education months ago and when that order wasn’t followed, Brian Gegner was sentenced to 180-days in the Butler County jail. The judge says if she passes the test, her father could get out of jail before his six-months sentence is up.
Doomsday Is 2012
As we all know, there are many spiritual leaders and believers had predicted end of the world, dating back to at least 2800 B.C. They have all been wrong for thousands of years, but they are still trying to predict the doomsday.
These believers solely trust that they have known the Earth- shaking secret that should be informed to others. We all are familiar with the dozens of predictions that the world would end in 2000, but it’s been 8 years and nothing happened so far.
The latest prediction says that the world is going to end in 2012 . It either will bring a new age of global spiritual awakening, or the end of the world. Or maybe something in between.
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Cost of Obesity $487 billion
In the United States, 66% of adults are overweight. Almost 33% of adults are obese, and 4.7% are morbidly obese, or more than 100 pounds overweight. If Americans were slim, the country would save $487 billion. Breakdown of the savings, $5 billion in fuel costs (airlines would be profitable); $10 billion on plus-size clothing; $81 billion from the extra food we need to maintain our massive weight; $141 billion on health care; and $257 billion in lost productivity. The savings on medical, fuel, food and other costs would be enough to give every U.S. household more than $4,000.
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UFO in phoenix?
Several Phonenix residents reported seeing strange red lights in the sky on Monday night and the cause of the lights remains a mystery. The lights were moving to the east and they disappeared one by one. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said that air traffic controllers at Sky Harbor Airport also witnessed the lights, but they do not know the cause. There was a similar incident happened in Phoenix on March 13, 1997.
Here is video footage by a local resident:
420 : National Pot Smokers day.
April 20th is National Pot Smokers day. Do you know, “four twenty”(420) is a term used in North America as a discreet way to refer to the consumption of Marijuana. Although many diverse theories exist to explain the origin of the term one central root of the phrase stems from a group of guys (Waldo’s) in the 1970’s made 4:20 their official meeting time to smoke marijuana after school. Phrases such as “420 friendly” sometimes appear in roommate advertisements, indicating that the current occupants are tolerant of cannabis users.
Pizza.com sold for $2.6m
Domain name Pizza.com has been sold for $2.6m. Chris Clark registered the internet domain name ‘pizza.com’ in 1994 for just $20. He decided to sell it after hearing that another domain - Vodka.com - was sold for $3m in 2006
First Male Pregnancy
Thomas Beatie was indeed a woman who then changed her sex. He kept his female sex organs intact but removed his breasts, and legally having his gender changed from female to male. Now he is pregnant and an obstetrician has declared the pregnancy “normal” and says the baby he is carrying his healthy. Beatie has appeared on Oprah show and is being fawned over by feminists and liberals everywhere.
Here’s part of his appearance on Oprah:
Best 2008 Scam prize for Tsunami fraud
Purpose of the, Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s annual best scam awards is to warn people about the empty promises of ‘get rich quick’ schemes. An e-mail asking people to claim to be the next of kin of a man who died in the Boxing Day tsunami in order to help a Togo lawyer access his $US17 million estate is chosen as the biggest scam of 2008.
Woman hired hitman to kill husband
A woman offered a hit man $50,000 and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle to kill her husband. Amazingly husband is still alive even after he was stabbed 13 times. His wife and the hit man are behind the bars now.
Human settlement on Mars by Google!
Virgle Inc., a joint venture by Google and Virgin Group,dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars, launched yesterday. The Virgle 100 Year Plan’s milestones will include Virgle Pioneer selection (2008-2010), the first manned journey to Mars (2016), a Virgle Inc. initial public offering to capitalize on the first manned journey to Mars (2016), the founding of the first permanent Martian municipality, Virgle City (2050), and the achievement of a truly self-sustaining Martian civilization with a population exceeding 100,000 (2108).
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