Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips50 Strange Buildingsclipped by: ncoutlander50 Strange Buildings of the World1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) 2. Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany) 3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain) 4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France) 5. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States) 6. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States) 7. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States) 8. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada) 9. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands) 10. Hang Nga Guesthouse a.k.a Crazy House (Vietnam) American Civil War - The Finer Timesclipped by: thefinertimesclippers remarks: Thefinertimes.com is set create a content rich, ambitious, stylish interface for all averred readers to enjoy, the internal blog style layout will accommodate for readers accustom to the blog environment, while the easy to navigate menu structure allows for pinpoint topic retrieval. 
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2008/12/10
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2008/12/09
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsLouisiana elects first Vietnamese-American member of US Congress.clipped by: ratcatcher2 Vietnam-born lawyer wins US pollVoters in the US state of Louisiana have elected the first Vietnamese-American member of Congress.  Anh Joseph Cao has never held public office before Anh Joseph Cao, a Republican, defeated the incumbent Democrat Representative William Jefferson, who faces trial on bribery and money-laundering charges. Lawyer Mr Cao was born in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, and came to the US with his family at the age of eight, after the end of the Vietnam War. The election, delayed by Hurricane Gustav, was one of two in Louisiana. Mr Cao won 50% of the vote in the 2nd congressional district, which includes most of New Orleans, to Mr Jeffersons 47%, state officials said. Analysts say the Republicans ran an aggressive campaign to take the seat from Mr Jefferson, 61, who is accused of soliciting millions of dollars in bribes and using his office to broker business deals in Africa. In a search of his home, FBI agents said they found $90,000 in bribe money in a freezer.  Jefferson Intelligent have better spermclipped by: tabseyclippers remarks: This has just created another "ism". (No, not that word!) People will joke about Republicans sperm, for instance. Someone will invent a word and the fun police will add "ism" and then "they" will protest its existence, until it becomes non-existent. Men of higher intelligence tend to produce better quality sperm, UK research suggests. A team from the Institute of Psychiatry analysed data from former US soldiers who served during the Vietnam war era. They found that those who performed better on intelligence tests tended to have more - and more mobile - sperm. The study, which appears in the journal Intelligence, appears to support the idea that genes underlying intelligence may have other biological effects too. Therefore, if tiny mutations impair intelligence, they might also harm other characteristics, such as sperm quality. Conversely, people with robust genes might be blessed with a biological "fitness factor" making them fit, healthy and smart. Previously, scientists tended to assume that lifestyle factors were more likely to underlie any relationship between intelligence and health. For instance, brighter people may be less likely to smoke, and more likely to take exercise, both of which are known to impact on mental performance. Tags: dunno Intelligent men have better spermclipped by: cakebellyMen of higher intelligence tend to produce better quality sperm, UK research suggests. A team from the Institute of Psychiatry analysed data from former US soldiers who served during the Vietnam war era. They found that those who performed better on intelligence tests tended to have more - and more mobile - sperm.  The study, which appears in the journal Intelligence, appears to support the idea that genes underlying intelligence may have other biological effects too. Therefore, if tiny mutations impair intelligence, they might also harm other characteristics, such as sperm quality. Conversely, people with robust genes might be blessed with a biological "fitness factor" making them fit, healthy and smart.  This does not mean that men who prefer Play-Doh to Plato always have poor sperm  Dr Rosalind Arden Institute of Psychiatry matildaclipped by: lexakenMafalda was written by Quino, pseudonym of Joaquin Salvador Lavado, from Argentina. And I say "was" because unfortunately Quino decided to discontinue Mafalda 20 years ago after about 10 years of delighting us through newspapers and magazines. As you can notice, the comic is quite old, but nevertheless very uptodate (one can eg replace Vietnam by Iraq or Yugoslavia or whatever). Mafalda was translated to many languages, I know of versions in German, Greek, English, Chinese, etc. * 30 anios despues de su nacimiento, Mafalda entrara en las escuelas en caracter de personaje de interes educativo y su historia completa debera estar presente en cada biblioteca escolar de Capital Federal (De Interlink Headline News No. 114).       Tags: quino Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2008/12/08
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsObama selects Gen Shinseki for VA Secretaryclipped by: wiccantexanPresident-elect Barack Obama will nominate retired Gen. Eric Shinseki to be secretary of Veterans Affairs, two Democratic sources said Saturday.  Obama was expected to make the formal announcement Sunday -- Pearl Harbor Day -- at a news conference in Chicago. Veterans groups appeared to support the selection. "I am excited. I dont know him personally but this is a huge move," said Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. For years, Shinseki, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, has been the patron saint of Pentagon critics who say the former Army chiefs sage advice was ignored in 2003, resulting in too few U.S. troops being sent to Iraq after the invasion. He said Shinseki would have to make key connections with the veterans community, adding, "This is a big name and it shows that he (Obama) is not going to treat the Veterans Affairs secretary as a low priority." samsungclipped by: denisanaFür die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2008/12/07
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsEscalating the War in Afghanistanclipped by: papananookclippers remarks: Its just too much of a clusterfuck for me to bear--Thanks Mr. New Prez... "No less than in Vietnam several decades ago, the prospects for a military victory in Afghanistan are extremely slim. Far more likely is a protracted version of what CBS anchor Walter Cronkite famously called a bloody stalemate in February 1968. But, in 2008, more important than whether the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan can bring victory is the question of whether it should continue. "Right now, the basic ingredients of further Afghan disasters are in place -- including, pivotally, a dire lack of wide-ranging debate over Washingtons options. In an atmosphere reminiscent of 1965, when almost all of the esteemed public voices concurred with the decision by newly elected President Lyndon Johnson to deploy more troops to Vietnam, the tenet that the United States must send additional troops to Afghanistan is axiomatic in U.S. news media, on Capitol Hill and -- as far as can be discerned -- at the top of the SONALI KOLHATKAR Co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. Solomon, the author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, is executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He said today: "Among the best and brightest who are set to oversee foreign policy for the next president, there appears to be a consensus for escalating the war in Afghanistan. The assumption bears an ominous resemblance to the political atmosphere and media tone during the mid-1960s, when the conventional wisdom was that everyone with a modicum of smarts knew that upping U.S. troop levels in Vietnam was a necessity. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2008/12/05
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsNemo - The Hero of the day Dec 4th, 1966clipped by: jkrabbitclippers remarks: Many people dont know about Nemo or what he did,there are many more dogs out there that have given their life for this country, there is a movement for a war dog memorial in Washington,DC but the president wont give up any land. Maybe the next one will, I would like to see it somewhere down by the wall since over 4000 dogs were lost in the Vietnam war alone. Sentry Dog Nemo "K-9 Hero of Tan Son Nhut" Nemo was whelped in October 1962 He was procured by the Air Force when he was one and a half years old. In the predawn hours of 4 December 1966, Tan Son Nhut Air Base was attacked by a large force of Viet Cong commando raiders everal sentry dog teams stationed on preventive perimeter posts gave the initial alert and warning almost simultaneously. As a result of this early warning, security forces of the 377th Air Police Squadron successfully repelled the attack, minimizing damage to aircraft and facilities. Although wounded, one dog handler maintained contact with the enemy and notified Central Security Control of their location and direction of travel Nemo alerted and was released to attack the VC who had evaded earlier detection. Both handler and dog were wounded, but not before killing at least one VC  Obama v. King, on War and Peaceclipped by: katsteevnsclippers remarks: ?Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. ?So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such." Obama v. King, on War and Peace Can we successfully fight for social and economic justice in the United States while simultaneously escalating a war in Asia? Barack Obama says we can. But 41 years ago, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. warned against doing exactly that. On April 4, 1967, Dr. King "There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. ?A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both black and white -- through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims Demand Accountability from US, Chemical Companies in Suitclipped by: katsteevnsVietnamese Agent Orange Victims Demand Accountability from US, Chemical Companies in SuitBetween 1962 and 1971 U.S. warplanes dumped about 18 million gallons of the poisonous dioxin over Vietnam. The Vietnamese government says this has left more than three million people disabled. Today, more than three decades after the end of the war the effects of Agent Orange remain. The Second National Congress of the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange just concluded in Hanoi Wednesday. Vietnamese victims continue to demand accountability and compensation from the US government as well as the largest makers of Agent Orange, Dow Chemical and Monsanto. Dang Hong Nhut is 71-year old victim of Agent Orange. She was a part of the Vietnamese resistance for 5 years between 1961 and 1966 and was heavily sprayed with Agent Orange during that time. Since then she has had several miscarriages and now has cancer. Her husband, who was also sprayed with Agent Orange died of cancer Defying US, Afghanistan Signs Cluster Banclipped by: katsteevnsDefying US, Afghanistan Signs Cluster BanAfghanistan has defied the Bush administration and signed a new international ban on cluster bombs. The last-minute decision came as more than ninety other governments also ratified the treaty Wednesday in Oslo. The US has led a group of large nations refusing to adopt the ban. It bars use, stockpiling and trading of cluster weapons and requires signatories to clear contaminated areas within ten years. The White House reportedly urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai not to sign the treaty. Thomas Nash of the Cluster Munition Coalition welcomed the new signatories. The US has played a central role in two of the world?s worst cases of cluster bomb attacks. The Nixon administration dropped millions of cluster bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War. And the Bush administration provided critical support to Israel?s 2006 attack on Lebanon that also left millions of unexploded bomblets on the ground. 100 Nations Agree to Ban Cluster Bombs!clipped by: nedhamson1clippers remarks: The USA is not one of the signers ;>( but Afghanistan did vote for it . ;>.) WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (OneWorld.net) - As 100 nations met in Oslo yesterday to sign a landmark treaty outlawing the use of cluster munitions, human rights groups are putting pressure on the United States and other nations to join the ban.
Vietnamese security firm: Your face is easy to fakeclipped by: hotdoge3Vietnamese security firm: Your face is easy to fake HANOI, Vietnam--Regardless of what some people seem to think, we Asians do not all look the same. But according to the current face recognition algorithm used in laptops, our faces are all about as flat as a piece of paper. Thats according to BKIS, the Vietnamese Internetwork Security Center that makes the antivirus software I mentioned in a blog post Monday. At a press conference here Tuesday, the company demonstrated vulnerabilities in laptops face recognition-based authentication mechanisms that let anyone log in to a computer easily with a "special" photo of the legit owner, even at the highest authentication level.   A special photo of my face is being used to log in, and it worked as well as my real face. Tags: faceeasy2fake Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2008/12/04
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsMilitary Spending . . .clipped by: benaloyWill Obama Stay the Course? Indeed, he?s downright inspiring when he defends constitutional restraint on the presidency and shuns torture. imagine how panicked we would now be if John McCain and Sarah Palin were about to take a turn at the wheel. the $65 billion F-22 stealth fighter plane that was designed to penetrate Soviet air defenses that were never built and has yet to fly a combat sortie in either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars. under President Bush grew to be higher than at any time since World War II, exceeding the levels of both the Korean and Vietnam wars the attacks in Mumbai conducted by 10 lightly armed fanatics who should have been quickly dispatched by a well-functioning local paramilitary force. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2008/12/03
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsUSA Has not will under current leadership will not signclipped by: nedhamson1clippers remarks: Why wont USA and Russia sign this ban? Nations Prepare to Ban Cluster Bombs, which have Killed Civilians from Vietnam to Georgia Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
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