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Report: Republicans were source of bogus Benghazi quotes (via Raw Story )

Republicans provided the erroneous quotes linked to White House emails regarding how to address the September 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, CBS News reported on Thursday. According to the report by chief White House correspondent Major Garrett, a quote leaked on May 10 attributed to then…

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New images of a possible lost city hidden by the rain forests in Honduras show what could be the building mounds and foundations of Ciudad Blanca, a never-confirmed legendary city.

Archaeologists and filmmakers Steven Elkins and Bill Benenson announced last year that they had discovered possible ruins in Honduras’ Mosquitia region using lidar, or light detection and ranging.   Basically, slow-flying planes send constant laser pulses to the ground as they pass over the rain forest, imaging the topography below the thick forest canopy.

What the archaeologists found — and what the new images reveal — are features that could be ancient ruins, including canals, roads, building foundations and terraced agricultural land. The University of Houston archaeologists who led the expedition will reveal their new images and discuss them today (May 15) at the American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas in Cancun.

Ciudad Blanca, or “The White City,” has been a legend since the days of the conquistadors, who believed the Mosquitia rain forests hid a metropolis full of gold and searched for it in the 1500s. Throughout the 1900s, archaeologists documented mounds and other signs of ancient civilization in the Mosquitias region, but the shining golden city of legend has yet to make an appearance.

Whether or not the lidar-weilding archaeologists have discovered the same LOST CITY

 city the conquistadors were looking for is up for debate, but the images suggest some signs of an ancient lost civilization.

“We use lidar to pinpoint where human structures are by looking for linear shapes and rectangles,” Colorado State University research Stephen Leisz, who uses lidar in Mexico, said in a statement. “Nature doesn’t work in straight lines.”

 

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Angel Falls Canaima National Park Venezuela

Detian Falls China and Vietnam

Jog Falls India

Plitvice Falls Croatia

Rhine Falls Switzerland

Seljalandsfoss Iceland

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This is my cousin PFC Samuel Lightman, USMC and he is honored on Panel 12E, Row 10 at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  He was killed by a sniper on November 12, 1966 in Quang Nam.  When my mother died, I could not find any of this information so I thought it was all lost.  But several weeks ago, I Googled his name and even found a photo that I also thought was lost.

Of the 2,709,918 Americans who served in Vietnam, less than 850,000 are estimated to be alive today. More than 285 Vietnam veterans are dying each day and their stories will die with them if we don’t act now.

In 1982 the American people helped The Vietnam Veterans Memorial fund complete an impossible mission to heal a nation and bring comfort and solace to a generation of Veterans. Today, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is working to complete this mission by building The Education Center, the place on the National Mall where our heroes’ stories will never be forgotten. Help us build it.

The Education Center at The Wall will ensure that the stories of all our heroes are told. With your support, we’ll ensure that future generations always remember and never forget our fallen soldiers from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. 

The names in the granite of the Vietnam Memorial Wall resonate with us all: those of us who served, those who lost loved ones, those who lived through the divisive era. Behind every name is a face and a story.

The Exterior: The 35,000 square foot Education Center at The Wall will bring these stories to life. Using state-of-the-art digital technology, the Education Center will connect future generations to the lasting impact, the profound insights, and the individual heroes of the Vietnam War.

The Wall of Faces: Displays the images of the 58,282 whose names are memorialized on The Wall, giving a face to the faceless. The visitor sees that these are real people who shared the same hopes and aspirations that we all do. This exhibit will include a fitting tribute to those who have sacrificed all in Iraq and Afghanistan

The Wall of Faces: This exhibit will also include a fitting tribute to those who have sacrificed all in Iraq and Afghanistan. Until such time as they get their own Memorial, the Center will serve as a place to celebrate and remember the service of these veterans.

 

 

Those Who Served: A history of America’s conflicts, from Bunker Hill to Baghdad. This is a place of civic reflection, where patriotism is shown to be timeless.

 

 

The Collection: Selection of the more than 400,000 personal items left at The Wall. Objects of respect from brothers-in-arms, keepsakes from parents, a token left by a child for a grandparent they will never meet.

 

The Timeline: The Timeline is a unique telling of one of the most divisive moments in US history. The visitor is immersed in a rich multimedia experience, as their curiosity transports them from the battlefront to the homefront and back again

 

 

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This is a video log from one of my funny girls:

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Citizen Hearing On Disclosure
April 29 To May 3, 2013 – Washington, DC

“If the Congress won’t do it’s job, the people will.”

An event with historical implications will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC from April 29 to May 3, 2013. At that time as many as forty researchers and military/agency witnesses will testify for thirty hours over five days before former members of the United States Congress.

Note: the full Citizen Hearing will be Webcast live on the Internet. Subscribe here.

The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race will attempt to accomplish what the Congress has failed to do for forty-five years – seek out the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time.

For this reason the motto for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure is “If the Congress won’t do its job, the people will.”

This is a true hearing  – you don’t make this kind of stuff up!

 

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New Palm oil plantation, Borneo, Indonesia

Village of Koh Panyi, Phang Nga Bay, Thailand

The Maelifell volcano on the edge of the Myrdalsjökull glacier, Iceland

Makoko shanty town, Lagos lagoon, Nigeria

 

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a spectacular new image of an iconic nebula to celebrate its 23 years of peering deep into the heavens.

The Hubble observatory, which launched on April 24, 1990, captured the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light, peering through obscuring veils of dust to reveal the object’s hidden features.

The Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33, is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion (The Hunter). The Horsehead is a huge interstellar cloud of gas and dust, like other nebulae, and the light from a nearby star gives it a beautiful glow.

The object is a popular observing target, and Hubble has taken numerous Horsehead photos over the years — including in 2001, to celebrate the telescope’s 11-year anniversary.

The Horsehead’s dramatic pillar is made of sterner stuff than the clouds surrounding the nebula, which have already dissipated. But the pillar will disintegrate as well in another 5 million years or so, astronomers say, and the Horsehead will go the way of the dodo.

The Hubble Space Telescope is perhaps best known for its photos in visible light. But the telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3, which was installed by spacewalking astronauts in 2009, also takes crisp images in infrared wavelengths, researchers said.

Hubble, a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, has made more than 1 million science observations since its 1990 launch, and it’s still going strong. NASA announced last month that it had extended the telescope’s science operations through April 2016.

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The Boston Marathon bombing has prompted a new round of pushbacks from the opponents of immigration reform.  In an attempt to stoke further any fears of immigrants, some are using reports of “person of interest” now cleared who was described as a “Saudi national”.

 Wednesday morning, on C-Span’s Washington Journal Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas a frequent critic of the President said that “We know Al Qaeda has camps with the drugs cartels on the Mexican border,” and that “we know that people are now being trained to come in and act like Hispanics, when they are radical Islamists.”

(Gohmert has previously accused the president of “wanting a new Ottoman Empire to take place” by allegedly “allowing” al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to take over in post-Gaddafi Libya.)

Earlier in this interview with C-Span, Gohmert dismissed reports that the FBI has cleared completely the Saudi national who was first reported to be “a person of interest” in the Boston bombing, but who authorities have said all along was not a suspect.  Gohmert had said that “when you have the greatest liberties, you will draw people that want to destroy you”, and added later the above statement about “We know al Qaeda has camps on the Mexican border…..” 

With Republicans of high-profiles failing at minority outreach, and others sordidly grasping on the recent attack to score political points, Gohmert has pulled off a double, using a discredited report about the bombing, while at the same time labeling anyone who “acts Hispanic” as a potential terrorist. 

Then there is media personality Glenn Beck’s expressing concerns stating that he has further information that he is releasing Monday concerning this Saudi national and what “his’ investigation has revealed about this “ person of interest” as well as an unscheduled meeting between President Obama and a Saudi official on Thursday.  Friday it was announced in several news reports that this “Saudi national” was being deported due to national security interests, with Beck further stating, “He is a really bad, bad, bad man”.

So the nuts are coming out with the conspiracy theories – Hispanics are really Islamic extremists, extremists camped at the border with Mexican cartels; bombing was really a government false flag operation with the brothers being the patsies; all leading to the New World Order or the Islamic Caliphate waiting in the wings to take over the world and the President working with both.   And this is leading to mass confiscations of all guns.  Now go ahead and pick one!

Add all of this with an owner of the exploded fertilizer plant in West, Texas who was keeping secret the amount of ammonium nitrate on site so he wouldn’t come to the attention of Homeland Security or the State of Texas.  Gosh, I bet someone can make a conspiracy out of that.

No wonder President Obama’s hair is turning gray.