VioletPlanet






















27830 Karma Points
Insane Realist
http://violetplanet.blogspot.com
Los Angeles
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On American Fascism: Divine & Rapturous Violence view photo
4 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 3 hours ago
- (http://violetplanet.blogspot.com/...)
“Recently a disturbing book came to my attention, and as I read it, it became clear to me that perhaps the most significant development in what we may call “illuminated politics” in the twenty-first century is happening now in the United States. The
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Large Hadron Collider Nearly Ready! Photo # 2 view photo
3 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 4 hours ago
- (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/...)
INCREDIBLE
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Eyes Turn To The Dawn Of Visual Computing view story
6 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 5 hours ago
- (http://www.breitbart.com/print.ph...)
Astronauts, film makers and celebrities joined software savants, engineers and gamers in the heart of Silicon Valley this week for a first-ever NVision conference devoted to computer imagery advances changing the way people and machines interact.
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Three Vital Questions for ABC News About its Anthrax Reporting in 2001 view story
3 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 6 hours ago
- (http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone...)
Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News, in which he shows that ABC News was probably duped by someone on a story of huge importance, putting Iraqi fingerprints on anthrax attacks that actually came from the U.S at a time when the case for war wit
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The Stone of Madness view photo
6 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 6 hours ago
- (http://scienceblogs.com/bioepheme...)
At one point or another, Hieronymous Bosch must have turned his paintbrush to every bizarre practice known to the fifteenth century Dutch mind, and this early piece is no exception. The composition is relatively simple: a surgeon is performing trepanation
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Not Just The USA, UK Economy As Bad As The Seventies... view story
5 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 6 hours ago
- (http://www.independent.co.uk/news...)
Pressure is mounting on Gordon Brown to find help for hard-pressed families as the new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England warned that the financial situation was at least as bad as that of the 1970s. As the Prime Minister returns to his desk today to
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Arctic Tundra Holds Global Warming Time Bomb view story
3 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 6 hours ago
- (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/200...)
New research suggests that the heavy rains that often accompany supercells may be key in triggering tornadoes to form.
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Poverty Is the Real Scandal view story
4 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 8 hours ago
- (http://www.commondreams.org/view/...)
DENVER - Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention. His wife, Elizabeth Edwards, was to speak also. Poverty was their focus. But they are not here because John Edwards had an affair. Will the Democrats
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Networks Sleep While Democracy Burns view story
3 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 8 hours ago
- (http://www.commondreams.org/archi...)
The "Big Three" have decided that democracy is bad for business, and are treating viewers to excited hormones (ABC's "High School Musical"), miniskirts (NBC's "Deal or No Deal") and bachelor hi-jinks (CBS's "Two and a Half Men") instead of Democratic and
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The Pentagon: Some-Things-Never-Change Department: The Wild Weapons Of DARPA view story
4 votes- Submitted by VioletPlanet
- about 9 hours ago
- (http://www.commondreams.org/archi...)
When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth satellite, the basketball-sized Sputnik, it caught the United States off guard and sent the government into fits. Not only had the Soviets exploded an atomic bomb years before the Americans

