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Vintage Cover - No Diggity Jessica Rabbit Style

siftbot says...

Tags for this video have been changed from '1990s, Ariana Savales' to '1990s, Ariana Savales, Postmodern Jukebox' - edited by Zawash

Marine M1 Minefield breaching vehicle at work

poolcleaner says...

"In the 1990s, the U.S. Army decided it could not afford to continue developing complicated, maintenance-heavy vehicles for this purpose. The Grizzly program was canceled in 2001. The prototype developed never made it to the production lines."

THIS is why we "liberals" don't like so-called success. This. Success for what? So we can call human life a trifle? We can't afford to develop appropriate life-saving vehicles, and yet we have so much wealth in this godforsaken country.

It's godforsaken, because your Christ did NOT advocate material success. He cared for the tired and the hungry. Guardians of Democracy? More like a bunch of A-holes...

At least the military had an answer. I like the military, but I hate our "successful" American Judas'. Selling out their fake Jesus eeeeeevery freaking day. And for what? I hope His love doesn't buy them past the pearly gates because THAT would be a tragedy. I'll see you all in hell.

Skydiver Almost Struck By Meteorite

BicycleRepairMan says...

I think this might be legit, this report is made by a science show on NRK called "Schrodingers cat" They are (in addition to having picked a really cool name) usually thorough and fact-based, and they have been running since 1990. NRK is the Norwegian counterpart to the BBC.

It is of course possible that the diver has faked the footage etc, but if so, he has fooled not just the tv-show but also a few scientists. They've even organized search groups to look for this thing.

Nintendohemian Rhapsody - full parody

newtboy says...

Why does no one write odes to the Turbo Grafix 16? It was AMAZING for a 1990 hand held, playing all the regular turbo grafix games AND being a handheld TV. Nothing else came close for nearly a decade (if then), but no one else has love for the turbo. That makes me a sad panda.
I still play devil's crush every year or so! WHOO HOO!

Guru Josh project-infinity 2008

Graham Bell skis Sochi downhill with handheld camera

notarobot says...

Wow! I could never get down a slope like that without an ambulance or air lift. I had to look up the impressive fellow with the skills to make it down in one piece and film.

"Graham Bell and his brother Martin competed for Britain throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Graham took a Silver Medal at the World Junior Ski Championships in 1984 and represented Great Britain at five Winter Olympics in Sarajevo 1984, Calgary 1988, Albertville 1992, Lillehammer 1994 and Nagano 1998." /sauce

Stevie Ray Vaughan's Roadie is the Epitome of a Professional

Muhammad Ali Avoids 21 Punches in 10 Seconds

Muhammad Ali Avoids 21 Punches in 10 Seconds

TDS: Minimum wage hike and the Pope denouncing Trickle Down

xxovercastxx says...

This is where my thoughts immediately went -- maybe $15/hr sounds so high because we're so far behind the inflation curve -- but I wasn't sure, so I pulled up this list of historic minimum wages and this inflation calculator and started doing some conversions.

1950: $0.75 = $7.30 today
1960: $1.00 = $7.81 today
1970: $1.60 = $9.74 today
> 1978: $2.65 = $9.80 today -- @enoch: How are you getting $22?
1980: $3.10 = $9.28 today
1990: $3.80 = $6.92 today
2000: $5.15 = $7.03 today
2010: $7.25 - $7.71 today

@Yogi is probably right; These people are probably asking for $15 and hoping for $10 (and $10 seems reasonable based on historic rates above).

Cranking up minimum wage much higher than that might be treating the symptoms rather than the sickness. Entry level jobs not paying enough is not the root cause; the root cause is that people are trapped in entry level careers. By all means, bump minimum wage up to $10, maybe $12 an hour, but then start taking action so that, when inflation catches up to those rates, there's more job mobility.

VoodooV said:

This is what happens when employers refuse to raise wages to match inflation.

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Unmanned: America's Drone Wars trailer

bcglorf says...

do me a favor. Remove yourself from the conversation if your just going to spout idiotic crap. The first Interpol warrant for Bin Laden's arrest was issued in the 1990's. If you want to protest a lack of evidence and proof you are choosing to live in a dream world. I won't debate fiction with you.

Yogi said:

No this isn't true. The US started a War with Afghanistan refusing to give any evidence against Osama Bin Laden. They said hand him over or else, and they didn't have any evidence against them which the CIA admitted 8 months after the War was launched.

The US doesn't present evidence, they don't go to the World Court and they don't even tell the Pakistani Military or Government when they are going to attack someone. They do what they want.

Stephen Colbert: Super Reagan

st0nedeye says...

Regimes supported

Juan Vicente Gomez, Venezuela, 1908-1935.
Jorge Ubico, Guatemala, 1931-1944.
Fulgencio Batista, Republic of Cuba 1952-1959.
Syngman Rhee, Republic of Korea (South Korea), 1948-1960.
Rafael Trujillo, Dominican Republic, 1930-1961.[citation needed]
Ngo Dinh Diem, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), 1955-1963.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran, 1953-1979.
Anastasio Somoza Garcia, Nicaragua, 1967-1979.
Military Junta in Guatemala, 1954-1982.
Military Junta in Bolivia, 1964-1982.[citation needed]
Military Junta in Argentina, 1976-1983.
Brazilian military government, 1964-1985.
François Duvalier and Jean-Claude Duvalier, Republic of Haiti, 1957-1971; 1971-1986.[citation needed]
Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay, 1954-1989.[citation needed]
Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines, 1965-1986.[8][9]
General Manuel Noriega, Republic of Panama, 1983-1989.
General Augusto Pinochet, Chile, 1973-1990.
Saddam Hussein, Republic of Iraq, 1982-1990.
General (military), Suharto Republic of Indonesia, 1975-1995.
Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire/Congo, 1965-1997.
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, 1981-2011.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Kingdom of Bahrain, 2012.
Saudi royal family, 2012.
Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan, 1991-2012.[10]
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia, 1995-2012.[11]
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea, 2006-2012.[12]

BRILLIANT Aussie Ad That Rupert Murdoch Had Banned

Quboid says...

Using a scumbag's tactics against them isn't hypocritical if you're satirically doing this to draw attention to the technique (did you know Glen Beck refuses to deny that he raped and murdered a woman in 1990?) but I don't think that's what's happening here. This is just misleading, I assumed he banned it from any TV channels he owns but nope.


In particular, this grates:
And if you aren't used to audience-catching video titles by now, then where have you been?
Because even though I'm used to this sort of thing, I still think it's wrong.

If you consider audience-deceiving tactics to be acceptable, why does Murdoch bother you so much?

Glenn Greenwald Speaks Out

radx says...

And another one. So now that we have it in print, can we drop the pretence and call it what it is: the world's most sophisticated system of industrial espionage.

I'd complain about being spied upon by supposed friends and allies, but as recently declassified documents showed, the Allied Control Council reserved the right to spy on any and all communications in Germany, even beyond the reunification in 1990. So it's not like we had any privacy to begin with, only the illusion of privacy, lasting a whopping 61 years. And it's all legal. Unconstitutional, but legal.

Snowden's material included surveillance statistics, showing that the NSA is intercepting, on average, 20 million phone calls a day in this beautiful country of mine. Most of it will be plain old industrial espionage, just like the bugs they planted at the EU offices.
So I'm rather surprised at the lack of outrage coming from my government. I know they don't give a rat's ass about the privacy of us plebs, but industrial espionage on a massive scale? I'd assumed they wouldn't like that one bit. Not a peep though, only silent obedience.

Anyway, everything's presented as shocking news in the media, so I thought I'd just link a certain document, aptly named AN APPRAISAL OF THE TECHNOLOGIES OF POLITICAL CONTROL. As you can see, it is a report that was presented to the European Parliament in 1998.

Skip to 7.4.1:

The Interim report said that within Europe, all email, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency, transferring all target information from the European mainland via the strategic hub of London then by Satellite to Fort Meade in Maryland via the crucial hub at Menwith Hill in the North York Moors of the UK.

And that was just Echelon, the 20th century cousin of PRISM, Stellar Wind, Tempora, whatever you want to call it. Much less sophisticated, much less capable.

I know, I know... paranoia. *shrug



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