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John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963 was the murder of the century. Over the intervening 40 years, divergent conspiracy theories surrounding the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, have captured the imagination of people the world over. Now, for the first time since the Warren commission presented its findings in 1964, compelling facts supporting a new scenario have been uncovered and

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Documentary showing how the National Socialist's theories of aesthetics and "race hygiene" let to the mass murder of the mentally ill and handicapped and to the genocide of the European Jews.

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"A Day A Day in the Afterlife focuses on the man himself, in all his crazy, drug-addled, paranoid glory. The mind behind some of my favorite books is fascinated by the constant bombardment of advertising, the effects of giant media conglomerates, and the overwhelming feeling that the world in which we live exists only in the glowing vacuum tubes of countless television sets. It is an ode to one

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Part 1 Part 2 "This 1994 German documentary is a profoundly unsettling three hours at the movies. Riefenstahl made two brilliant documentaries—“Triumph of the Will” (1935) and “Olympia” (1938)—under the aegis of the Nazi Party. She was known as “Hitler’s favorite filmmaker,” but has always insisted that her movies were never meant to advance a political program—that she looked at contemporary

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In his film Defamation (2009) Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative – and at times irreverent – quest to answer the question, “What is anti-Semitism today?” Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the

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On January 20, 1942, 15 men gathered in a villa in Wannsee on the outskirts of Berlin for a clandestine meeting that would ultimately seal the fate of the European Jewish population. Ninety minutes later, the blueprint for Hitler's Final Solution was in place.Adolf Eichmann prepared 30 top-secret copies of the meeting's minutes. By the fall of the Reich, all had disappeared or been destroyed —

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Adapted from Gore Vidal's best-seller, this biopic chronicles Abraham Lincoln's (Sam Waterston) life, beginning with his inauguration and ending with his assassination. After taking office, Lincoln faces one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history, what with the Civil War, dissent in his cabinet and his decision to draft the Emancipation Proclamation. All the while, he must deal with his

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2007 BBC 4 documentary on the making of Carol Reed's The Third Man.You Tube play list in 7 parts.

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Leslie Megahey interviews Orson Welles for BBC 2 (1988).You Tube play list in 16 parts.

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Let's Get Lost (1988) is an Oscar nominated American documentary about the turbulent life and career of singer and jazz trumpeter Chet Baker written and directed by Bruce Weber.“Let's Get Lost isn't primarily about Chet Baker the jazz musician; it's about Chet Baker the love object, the fetish. Behind it all is a soundtrack made up of Baker recordings that span more than three decades — the

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As the Pope ends his visit to Britain, historian Dr Thomas Dixon delves into the BBC's archive to explore the troubled relationship between religion and science. From the creationists of America to the physicists of the Large Hadron Collider, he traces the expansion of scientific knowledge and asks whether there is still room for God in the modern world.The relationship between science and

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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature (1997)An American four-part documentary series about water, money, politics, and the transformation of nature.The film chronicles the growth of a large community in the western American desert. It brought abundance and the legacy of risk it has created in the United States and abroad.The first three episodes are based on Marc Reisner's book,

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PBS broadcast Houston Grand Opera, 1987 Music by John AdamsLibretto by Alice GoodmanDirected by Peter Sellars Choreographed by Mark Morris Conducted by John DeMainIntroduced by Walter Cronkite You Tube playlist in 17 parts.

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Dr. David Morrison is the Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute and Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at the NASA Ames Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard and is internationally known for his research on small bodies in the solar system, including advocacy for developing plans to defend the Earth from impacts by comets and asteroids.A Fellow of CSI, he has written

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The bombing of April 19, 1995, was the biggest attack on American soil before 9/11, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The programm talks to conspiracy theorists who claim that the US government not only had foreknowledge of the attack, they had informants inside the conspiracy who actively encouraged the bombing. The film features revealing interviews with the leading FBI investigators

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These videos examine and explain the science of climate change and debunk some common myths. You Tube playlist in 8 parts.

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Manufacturing Dissent is a 2007 documentary that asserts that filmmaker and polemicist Michael Moore has used misleading tactics. The documentary exposes what the creators say are Moore's misleading tactics and mimics Moore's style of small documentary makers seeking and badgering their target for an interview to receive answers to their charges. The film was made over the course of two years by

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History Channel, 41 min. Watch on Google.

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Discovery Channel 59 min. Watch on Google.This special program of the show "BEST EVIDENCE" was broadcasted August 10th, 2007. It looks at those who claim that jet fuel of ... all » commercial and military aircrafts contain secret experimental additives, such as aluminum oxide, for weather modification purposes.

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Channel Five (2003) 49 minutes. Watch on Google.

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Discovery Times Channel (2003). Review of this program in Slate magazine.

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Jon Ronson meets with Randy Weaver and daughter Rachel, two surviving members of the Weaver family. The film shows previously unseen archive footage to describe the life of a family who moved to a cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho to escape what they saw as the tyrannical elite of international bankers bent on enslaving the world. Ronson also explains how the Weaver family's paranoid conspiracy

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First shown on the British television network Channel 4 on April 2001. Watch on Google.Jon Ronson follows theorist and radio host Alex Jones as he attempts to infiltrate the annual gathering of dignitaries and business leaders (reportedly including George Bush and Henry Kissinger) at Bohemian Grove, California. The film includes footage of attendees dressed in robes and burning an effigy at the

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Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, was a conspiracy theorist. He believed that a shadowy elite secretly controls the governments of the world, conspiring to establish a genocidal New World Order. Jon Ronson goes in search of the truth about the Oklahoma bombing. Along the way he meets terrorists on the run, eccentric strip-club owners, conspiracy theorists, elevator engineers, and ends up in

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BBC 1 hr 28 min. Forty years after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot on November 22, 1963, over 70 percent of Americans still believe there was a conspiracy to kill him and that the suspected assasin, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Utilizing modern technology, computer animatorDale Myers created a digital simulation of the only known film of the murder, a 16 mm home movie taken by

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BBC interviewer from ‘The Conspiracy Files’ show explains with some exasperation to Loose Change wunderkind Dylan Avery the meaning of a simile. Dylan seems perplexed even after the explanation. The expression on Dylan’s face is priceless. He obviously has no idea what the BBC guy is talking about.

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CHF from the JREF Forum:On Saturday Aug 25th,[2007]... I headed down to Ground Zero for a chat with the truthers. I spent a good hour or so with these folks; some were polite, some were complete punks, and it was difficult at times to not get annoyed at hearing the same claims for the 500th time...

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"TRUTH AND HUMANITY - DR. SUSAN BLACKMOREIn this show, the seemingly indefatigable Susan Blackmore and hosts David Quinn and Dan Rowden try to come to grips with issues as diverse yet integrated as mystical experiences, memes, free will, consciousness and how truth can become integrated into the nature of what we are as humans. In a wide ranging and stimulating discussion other subjects touched

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PROGRAM NOTES03:30 Jon Hanna introduces Susan Blackmore08:04 "A lot of people kind of think that scientists like myself are kind of pushing the problem [of what is consciousness] away, some are, but there’s a huge excitement about what we do with this mystery, and it’s a very strange mystery indeed."09:22 "That’s what we mean by consciousness, in contemporary science, what it’s like for you."09:

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Susan Blackmore - Memes

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If you're masochistic enough, you can view the rest of the Donahue-Rubin videos atClassic Television Showbiz: The Phil Donahue Show with guest Jerry Rubin (1970)

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Turns out the secret has to do with pictures of cats . Who'd a thunk it? (Please don't ask me why the cat has lipstick on its ass. I didn't put the lipstick on the kitty's tush and don't remember where I got the picture.)

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The search for the pure guiding light of reason, uncontaminated by human passion or metaphysical principles that go beyond all possible evidence, continues, however; and recently, an epidemic rash of books has declared success, at least if success consists of having slain the inveterate enemy of reason, namely religion. The philosophers Daniel Dennett, A. C. Grayling, Michel Onfray, and Sam

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James Lipton, the host of U.S. talk show, Inside the Actors' Studio, once worked as a pimp in Paris, France.The revered TV presenter, who has sat down with Hollywood's biggest names for in-depth chats about their life and work over the last 13 years, has revealed he once procured clients for French hookers.He says, "This was when I was very very young, living in Paris, penniless, unable to get

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Victor Yuschenko said...Here is a letter I sent to David Cohen, executive VP of Comcast, this summer. I am amazed at how similar my experience is to others on this board.I am writing to tell you about the Single Worst Customer Experience of My Life, courtesy of the fine men and women of Comcast.This story has it all – shocking lack of competence, outright lies, and a customer service system that

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Another Republican elected official-- a pal of David Diapers Vitter no less-- caught toe-tappin' in the boys room! And he wants wanted to be a state senator too! Yesterday's Times-Picayune painted another dismal picture of another Republican pervert who trawls from public restroom to public restroom looking for... love? Well, looking for something. Joey DiFatta is the chairman of St. Bernard

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Yep, 12-tone gay cowboys ... It's not a hoax ...When word emerged this week that an operatic version of Brokeback Mountain is in the works, with a score by Charles Wuorinen, [pictured, left, with with Lepton the cat] a lot of people in the classical music world weren't sure what to think. For a start, the news appeared in the Rush and Molloy gossip column in New York's tabloid Daily News — not a

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Ready for the facts, kids? Bogging is like a bargan sale at Macy's. If you weren't at the front of the line when the doors opened, you don‘t get the silk pajamas. Like professional wrestling and capitalism itself the game is fixed and, like high school, social (if not financial) success depends on who you know. But all is not lost, if you work real hard you might still be able to make a buck.

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I was in the Big Apple recently and ate lunch at the Fox News headquarters on Sixth Avenue near Rockefeller Center and I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between the Fox commissary and any other media employee’s restaurants in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by fascists and most of the patrons were Fox News propagandists!It was frigin’

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My letter to the editor did NOT get published as promised by Bay Times. (See my article two posts below, or click here.) I decided then to revise and update it, and resend it. Here is the result:Dear Editor,It is clear to me that Hole in the Wall Saloon's prolonged relocation difficulties is a matter of karmic justice, than of NIMBY politics and business rivalry. During my two-plus years as a

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Condi's "Closest Female Friend"I had an interesting conversation with Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler, whose new book is The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy.There have long been questions about Rice's sexual orientation and her personal life in general. As Kessler notes, "She has built a wall of privacy around her that is never breached."

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Posted by CrimeBlog.US on Aug 27 2007 True Crime/Speculation, homicide, developing story, True Crime-Weird[**NEW DISCLAIMER** 9/21/07: NO CLEAR, DIRECT CONNECTION HAS EVER BEEN TRULY DRAWN BETWEEN CUADRA AND KEREKES AND JASON DRAKE. HANDJTRIAL.BLOGSPOT.COM DOES SOME GOOD DEBUNKING HERE. There still may have been some connection between North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry and Jason Drake.

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Cuadra and Kerekes killed Kocis because they wanted to work with lead actor, Sean Lockhart from MySpace Killers.Two gay porn actors are facing murder charges for allegedly killing a porn executive in a dispute over a coveted actor.Police believe Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes went to the Dallas, Pa., home of Cobra Video bossBryan Kocis on Jan. 24 and slashed his throat. After he was dead, they

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Disgraced memoirist James Frey is back with a new novel and judging by some of the comments on a UK Times article his gullible fans are waiting to lap it up:I loved both of James Frey's books and don't really understand why people are treating him the way they are. I watched the show where Oprah went after him. The books are incredibly touching and would assist anyone who is surviving addiction

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YouTube sensation inks deal with 44 BlueThe "Leave Britney Alone" guy could be getting his own TV show.Reality shingle 44 Blue Prods. has inked a development deal with Chris Crocker, the Internet superstar whose tear-filled defense of Britney Spears has generated nearly 8 million hits on YouTube in just one week.Plan is to develop a docusoap built around Crocker, a 19-year-old who lives with his

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Hmm... Somebody got some ''splaining to do. Kos diarist bobbyd100 apparently had second thoughts on the Andrew Meyer tasering incident at Flordia State University. He removed his original post defending the cops (in support of Kerry, he said). The Google Cache preserves the evidence.There's lots of hand wringing going on over on Kos about this incident. 'Reasonable conservative' Jon Swift has a

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Sparks flew during a townhall meeting that Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., held yesterday at the University of Florida. Journalism student Andrew Meyer interrupted the speech, prompting police to drag him away from the microphone and shoot him with a Taser gun."He apparently asked several questions — he went on for quite awhile — then he was asked to stop," university spokesman Steve Orlando tells the

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The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night, reflecting a growing view in the industry that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site.In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge,

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Kent Hovind is an evil creationist liar who is currently cooling his backside in prison [in Edgefield, S.C.] convicted for evading $840,000 in taxes. That’s the good news. It’s downhill from there.His group, Creation Science Evangelism, has been on a pogrom — a jihad, if you will — taking down YouTube videos that reveal Hovind for what he is: an evil creationist liar. This group has been sending

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The story of two Nova Scotia boys who got more than 400 schoolmates to wear pink to support a bullied younger student has swept across North America and made its way to Europe.Travis Price and David Shepherd, Grade 12 boys who organized a drive to back a new Grade 9 student who was harassed for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school last week, have been deluged with e-mails and interview

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This is a video I made one quiet (very quiet) Sunday afternoon while passing through Edgefield, South Carolina, (pop. 4,450) on my way back from somewhere else.The statue in the square is of native son Strom Thurmond who was born... and died... in Edgefield. (Strom knocked up the black family maid in Edgefield, too, when he was a 22 year-old still living at home.) Except for a few passing cars,

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Video archive of every Countdown show (even on the nights Keith has off which seems a bit obsessive) broken down into segments for your viewing pleasure. There is no excuse to miss Keith now!Olbermann.org: An Unofficial Keith Olbermann Archive and Fan Site

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Nineteen and gay, too effeminate to hide, and persecuted by haters in his small town, Chris Crocker turned to the web to vent. Now he's a huge YouTube celebrity. Is the internet Chris Crocker's ticket out?The Stranger, Seattle's Only NewspaperThe Stranger article was published last May. Chris's "Leave Britney Alone" video posted above, which played all over cable TV this week, may be his

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MP3: Message From James BrownThis is a rarity: an unreleased promotional single that was probably distributed to radio stations only. There is no discographical info whatsoever (there isn't even a label on the record), but it must date from around 1967, which would be the time of national race riots that it is obviously intended to try and quell. JB had done a famous concert at Boston Garden

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Many thanks to Mike Signorile and producer David Guggenheim for access to the audio of my segment yesterday on Mike's satellite radio show on SIRIUS OutQ 109. We tried in 20 minutes to untangle the latest GOP gay scandal involving Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC10) and a cast of characters involved in a bizarre Florida murder-suicide. It's a murky, pretty depraved mess that is crying

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Opening arguments for the Phil Spector murder trial began in Los Angeles on April 25. KTLA, a local television station, is streaming live video of the trial on its Web site. You can also access KTLA's streaming video on the Los Angeles Times' dedicated Web page for the trial, which includes its own real-time trial blog. Court TV also provides live Web coverage, now free of charge (earlier in the

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This link below is a TV stream from China that I can find no information about on the web. The station plays mostly English language movies with Chinese subtitles with no commercial breaks. There's Chinese stuff between the movies. No program guide that I can find so you have to take pot luck. I've seen Independence Day (1996) and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) playing recently.bjiptv

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Keith Olbermann’s Countdown has reached a milestone that many thought was out of reach. After getting a boost from an airing during the pre-season football broadcast on NBC a couple of weeks ago, Countdown has burst into a real competition with its nemesis, The O’Reilly Factor.The highpoint of the week for Olbermann was Friday when he bested O’Reilly in the 25-54 demo by 39,000 viewers. But the

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The Joyce Hatto story is about more than pianists, lies, and audio tape. At its heart is failed ambition and deeply sweet revenge..."There was a transparent poignancy to the con: Hatto had possessed genuine talent but there had been no brilliant career. The con had a genius and the revenge a sweetness, the false persona providing a balm for her failed ambition. It was also a love story, one that

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This is off an album my dad made in the 1960's called, "Chips of Wisdom" (my dad was a pretty famous ventriloquist back in the day). Ostensibly, this was an album for kids, but it was so disturbing we couldn't listen to it when we were little.I don't know if it was the horrible subject matter, my dad's acting or the album cover, but this thing gave us the willies. We had nightmares about it.The

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"There are commenters named walter, marc, wesley and Dunkin' on my posts here and at Scrutiny Hooligans. An awful lot of work to denounce a story, don't you think? If I was predisposed to think the whole thing sensationally unbelievable before, I certainly am not now. Since I have other sources tying the Florida murder to McHenry long before I'd ever heard of Drake or Gonzalez, methinks these

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Despite the hopes of many democratic progressives, the gay GOP murder-suicide case in Orlando will not lead to the outing or political ruin of any possible republican closet cases like Patrick McHenry in North Carolina or Ralph Reed in Georgia in my always humble opinion.

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Justin Davidson bids farewell to his job at Newsday with a ringingly hopeful overview of the state of classical music. A generous shout-out notwithstanding, I agree with most every word. I especially like this thought: "I've never been sure why the appetite for apocalyptic stories about classical music seems to be unquenchable. Maybe it's that in populist America, we take pleasure in the thought

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A Republican political consultant who had a hand in an infamous "Adam and Steve" flier that agitated a local legislative race has died in an apparent double murder-suicide in Orlando, Fla.Ralph Gonzalez, 36, president of the Strategum Group, was found dead at his Orlando home last Thursday, Aug. 23 along with his roommate, David Abrami, 36, and a friend, Robert Drake, 30. The shooting happened

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[This is a comment I left on the Bicoastal Investigations blog. Comments on the blog are moderated so I'm leaving a record of it here.]My only interest in this story is the connection (if any) between Harlow Cuadra /Joe Kerekes and Jason Drake, the shooter in the Orlando murder-suicide case. The “connection” at this point stems from Zenoble’s comment, much quoted on the internet, on the Brad Blog

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This is a total miasma! Could someone post a scorecard or maybe some background? Apparently we're supposed to know who all these gay porn actors are and what the case is about. Lots of bitching at other queen with blogs on the gay porn murder and no clarification on anything.

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Bryan, Harlow, and "Drake"

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DownWithTyranny!: WHO'LL BE THE NEXT REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITE TO BE DRAGGED OUT OF THE CLOSET SCREAMING ABOUT MEDIA WITCH HUNTS?

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WFMU's Beware of the Blog: This Week in Sex: Let My People Come, The Musical

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MP3 TRUFFLES: Super-Bolly-Folk-ilistic-Hawking-Soda-docious!

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Kael Reviews

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WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Now That's What I Call Cultural Theory! Vol. 1

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Daily Kos: Compendium of Public-Domain Image Links

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The making of an Al Qaeda homegrown

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Tucker Carlson Update: Washingtonian Next to be Destroyed - Wonkette

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Talentless Hack. Evil. Fake Journalist. Loser. Bully. Talentless Hack. Evil. Fake Journalist. Loser. Bully. Talentless Hack. Evil. Fake Journalist. Loser. Bully. Talentless Hack. Evil. Fake Journalist. Loser. Bully. Talentless Hack. Evil. Fake Journalist. Loser. Bully. Talentless Hack. Evil. Fake Journalist. Loser. Bully. Talentless Hack. Evil. Fake Journalist. Loser. Bully. Talentless Hack. Evil

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Sadly, No! » Tucker Carlson Bowtie Terror1!!!

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Orcinus: Racism And Relocation CentersMichelle Malkin Watch

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Check out this hilarious MP3 of comedian Jean Shepherd touring the It's a Small World ride and Carousel of Progress at the 1964 World's Fair. As Dan Howland notes, "In a pleasant irony, Shep delightedly and sarcastically enjoys the Carousel of Progress as only he can -- in a few years, he would provide the voice-over of the father character in an updated version of the show at Walt Disney World."

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Petty Larseny: Keith Ellison: Tip of the Iceberg

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AlterNet: MediaCulture: Keep on Hatin'

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Slate: An appreciation of James Brown.

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WFMU's Beware of the Blog: MP3 Truffles - "I'm going away tonight", RIP James Brown

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Fans at the statue of James Brown on Broad Street in Augusta, Georgia, hometown and lifelong residence of Brown on December 27, 2006, two days after his death.

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Boing Boing: James Brown, RIP: Christmas in Heaven.

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Nowhere does Kiyosaki point out that Donald Trump has gone bankrupt multiple times and ruined many small investors, nowhere does Kiyosaki point out that Donald got his bankroll from his rich father, and nowhere does Kiyosaki point out Donald is one the few people in the world to have lost money operating a casino in a prime location.Lou Minatti: Robert Kiyosaki pimps Donald Trump

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What's He Really Worth? - New York Times

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics

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Boing Boing: Good documentaries on Google video

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pareidolia

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Wired News: The Crusade Against Religion

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AlterNet: An Atheist Bullies the Faithful

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The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive »

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The Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics

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Imperfect Sound Forever - Article - Stylus Magazine

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Salon.com Books | Buddha on the brain

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President Bush - Days Left In Office Countdown Timer

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How does he smell?Sadly, No! » This Will Be A Very Funny And Successful Show

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