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POPSBlackbeard (S9 Biography)
The Scourge of the Spanish Main and the last Great Pirate of the Age of Sail (Jean LaFitte was a smuggler) Blackbeard's life is shrouded in myth and legend and facts about him are verd hard to verify 300 years later. Edward Teach or possibly Thatch, was famous for several things that are documented and reek of the strange and as Kenneth Hite says, High Weirdness. He would drink a mixture of gunpowder and rum set aflame... Talk about a Belch you do not want to be around. He tied "slow matches" (used for lighting cannons) into his hair and beard so there would be a wreath of smoke around his head. He shot his best friend and first mate, Israel Hands in the knee, crippling him for life just a day before his death at Okecroake Island off NC. When Israel asked why, Teach said he was saving his life! (Knew about his own death? Planned it himself?) Weirdest Fact: Held Charleston, SC hostage for several weeks until his ransom was paid - a box of Native herbs and Tobacco... See what I
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POPSWant to get stoned? Main consequence of drugs is their addiction, when people become a slave not only of the substance itself, but of that drug dealers. For the sake of the dope they are abandoning family and social ties and responsibilities. When it make no big significance for terminally ill, young and relatively healthy person gradually getting out of reality.
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POPSFort Bragg Soldier Missing After Fire At Her Apartment According to WRAL, Mrs. Wimunc had sought a protective court order in May, claiming that her husband "held loaded 9mm to my head; choked me. Threw me around living room" and also that he had threatened to take his own life, claiming that he "also held gun to his own head." Police have described the fire that consumed much of Wimunc's apartment to the media as an arson and various television reports say that fire investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms were on the scene on Friday as well. FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=298888 A member of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command speaks with detectives from the Fayetteville Police Department and an ATF agent at the scene where police are investigating the disappearance of a female soldier at Morganton Place Apartments.
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POPSThe Global Tobacco Trade Map displaying the international tobacco trade and smuggling routes. Also included are cigarette facts and smoking statistics.
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POPSCalif. Heads Toward Initiatve On Legal Marijuana "That, as a smoking substance, marijuana is far less addictive or harmful to the health of the People than tobacco--That, even though alcohol is harmful to the health and safety of the People, the prohibition of alcohol from 1920 to 1933 only increased the harms associated with alcohol use"
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POPSThe Nazi War on Cancer "Proctor reveals then that the war against Jews and the war on cancer were not that far apart, having grown out of the same Nazi ideology. If that is true, he further posits, what are we to make of so much of the "progressive" health reforms put forth by the Nazis, ideas that echo today's push against smoking and alcohol and toward improved diet, exercise, and "clean living"? He sees as the answer not so much the need to refute the ideas themselves but the opportunity to see Nazism in its full complexity, good and evil together. " And, get this: "It is only by acknowledging and examining this "flip side of fascism," Proctor suggests, that we can really understand the appeal of such totalitarianism. "
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POPSThe UK's Cushy Prisons Interesting article. The challenging of cartoon stereotypes of prisons as hotels, criminals as monsters and the right function of prison being to punish and degrade as much as possible: the slow, bit by bit intervention of the rehabilitation element of a civilized judiciary.
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POPSPut oil firm chiefs on trial
Speaking before Congress again, he will accuse the chief executive officers of companies such as ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy of being fully aware of the disinformation about climate change they are spreading. In an interview with the Guardian he said: "When you are in that kind of position, as the CEO of one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation even via organisations that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime." He is also considering personally targeting members of Congress who have a poor track record on climate change in the coming November elections. He will campaign to have several of them unseated. Hansen's speech to Congress on June 23 1988 is seen as a seminal moment in bringing the threat of global warming to the public's attention. At a time when most scientists were still hesitant to speak out, he said the evidence of the greenhouse gas effect was 99% certain, adding "it is time to stop waffling".
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POPSEnvironmental wacko want to hold trials for oil company chiefs This wacko wants to try the CEO of Peabody Energy (has anybody ever heard of Peabody Energy??) for speaking out against global warming. Maybe he can get his liberal pal Justice Kennedy to rule on anyone who uses common sense against the "sky is falling" wackos and lock them up in Gitmo. These wackos are pinning all their hopes that the al Qaeda sleeper cell, Hussein Obama, will go for the Kyoto protocal to bankrupt all western countries, and allow the third world countries like China continue to pollute the world.
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