Vote Udall!

Rep. Tom Udall voted NO in 2002 on the Iraq War, and continues to oppose it. He advocates withdrawing U.S. troops as soon as practicable.

Udall counts among his highest legislative priorities as expanding health care services, additional funding for public education, and repealing certain sections of the Patriot act.

Udall's voting record is rated 100% pro-choice by NARAL, and 93% pro-civil rights by the ACLU, 97% pro-affirmative-action by the NAACP and a D- by the NRA. He voted NO on free trade agreements with Singapore, Chile, Peru and Central American nations (CAFTA).

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Bobby Peru, a real class act.

No worries at all mate

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Thanks for the update amigo.

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It seems to be dead

Thanks for the update amigo.

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It seems to be dead

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The common conclusion is that the planet is warming. That's all anyone is saying with any certainty.

As to the cause, well, take your pick.

When we discovered that the amount of lead in the atmosphere was due solely to the lead being added to petroleum in cars, the entire motor industry changed overnight.

Global warming is different. It's political. The energy industry IS the government in America.

If you truly believe that global warming is man made, then get rid of your car, change your lifestyle, and be proud of yourself for doing something that actually will make a difference.

Energy efficient homes? Go out to Cambodia, or visit a village in Peru, or stay with a tribe in the Amazon. And it'd all be wiped out tomorrow with a big fucking McDonalds in the middle of it if corporate america could get away with it.

Sup. I'm Jim. I'm a lifelong New Yorker (26 full years) and just finished my undergrad at Hunter College, majoring in Latin and minoring in Physical Anthropology. My battle with college raged for eight years, and I have to say to all doubters and those living in fear: fuck what your parents (and others) say and do it your way. I got into the grad school of my dreams (in Biological Anthropology), and have enough perspective now on what's important that I'm deferring admission for a year so I can go live and teach English as a second language in Taipei, Taiwan.

I travel a lot. It started with a month-long humanitarian trip to rural Kenya when I was 14, digging irrigation trenches in Kondo, Kenya (near Thika) with the Ridgewood, New Jersey, YWCA. That experience affected me deeply, organically engendering in me the staunch idea that race is total bullshit, and I am addicted to constantly proving myself right (also, it might be noted that I was raised by a Jamaican woman whom I loved more than my own mother--I'm of mixed European descent). My latest jaunt was last summer to coastal Ecuador, where I attended an archaeological field school, and where I met my girlfriend. We're going to Peru at the end of this month (I hear they're finally closing Machu Picchu pretty soon due to foot traffic erosion of the ruins), and we'll have less than ten days state-side before we go off together to Taiwan.

VideoSift and science mags are pretty much the only things that I use these here intertubes for. I am a pretty staunch atheist, but my particular brand of atheism has many facets, as I believe every individual's brand of religiousness/spirituality has.

I'm not sure what's going to happen when I get back from Taiwan; I might go to grad school and support myself by teaching high school biology, or I might get my finances in order and check right out of this crazy-ass America hotel. My girl and I are researching what it would take to open a hostel in South America and all the costs associated. But that's just the latest pipe-dream.

K, that's enough about me. Catch y'all on the sift waves!

Viva Peru!

Been to Lima and Iquitos...land of beauty and many secrets

i just read up on Peru and that was 5000 years ago (they had pyramids and some kind of primitive city.
There are some indications that there were possibly Pre-Ancient Egyptian Kingdoms. For instance from ice weathering on the Sphinx and hieroglyphic records of past leaders. Also, pottery that there's no evidence that the ancient egyptians we know of could have possibly made.
regardless of this, ancient history records are bound to be amended with new evidence.

Insincere apology utilized. Do you know which state Peru is in, dooogle????

I...don't know real talent or art. At least when it comes to talent/art from Peru.
Sorry.

All I was trying to say is that if I was to take a trip to Peru, I wouldn't expect them to provide to my lingual needs. But I really appreciate the fact that you actually chose to discuss this. You made some very valid points.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'machupicchu, grupo, original, chicha, cumbia, videos, musica, peru' to 'machupicchu, grupo, original, prohibido, reventado, y exiliado' - edited by choggie

List of places shown in the video:
+Sultan the Pit Pony (Wales)
+Atacama Giant (Chile)
+Uffington White Horse (England)
+Area 51 Bomb Target (NV, USA)
+Nazca Lines (Peru)
+Firefox Logo (OR, USA)
+Coca-Cola logo (Chile)
+Alton Barnes White Horse (England)
+Folkestone Horse (England)
+Pintados Geoglyphs (Chile)
+Chiza Geoglyphs (Chile)
+Long Man of Wilmington (England)
+Cerne Abbas Giant (England)
+Barnsley Crop Circles (England)
+Darfield Crop Circles (England)
+Marree Man (Australia)
+Ciudad Juarez White Horse (Mexico)
+Blythe Geoglyphs (CA, USA)
+Traditional Tibetan Mantra (China)
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Music:
"Mars from The Planets"
BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1999
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Coordinates:
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Sultan the Pit Poney:
51°39'2.63"N, 3°15'22.89"W
Atacama Giant:
19°56'57.06"S, 69°38'2.21"W
Uffington Horse:
51°34'38.96"N, 1°33'59.75"W
Area 51 Bomb Target:
37°39'57.84"N, 116° 1'30.69"W
Nazca Lines:
14°41'27.91"S, 75° 7'3.22"W
Firefox Logo:
45° 7'25.54"N, 123° 6'49.41"W
Coca-Cola logo:
18°31'45.17"S, 70°15'0.04"W
Alton Barnes White Horse:
51°22'21.15"N, 1°50'53.10"W
Folkestone White Horse:
51° 6'3.95"N, 1° 8'22.77"E
Pintados:
20°37'23.96"S, 69°40'4.30"W
Chiza:
19°12'13.42"S, 70° 0'31.19"W
Long Man of Wilmington:
50°48'34.77"N, 0°11'18.77"E
Cerne Abbas Giant:
50°48'47.37"N, 2°28'28.05"W
Crop Circles 1:
53°32'13.22"N, 1°30'17.42"W
Crop Circles 2:
53°31'54.37"N, 1°21'24.19"W
Marree Man:
29°32'3.14"S, 137°28'15.24"E
Ciudad Juárez White Horse:
31°39'44.93"N, 106°35'15.97"W
Blythe:
33°47'43.31"N, 114°32'13.11"W
Tibetan Mantra:
32°54'36.39"N, 97° 2'46.38"E

Not heard the expression Google Fu before but I think I know what you're saying. Don't want to give the impression this is a game to me. I'm just fairly up to date on developments in Venezuela. The truth is you aren't up to spec on Venezuela. You are wrong about your fears re the "concentration of power", but you can be forgiven as that's the way it's been spun - without exception - in the western press. You're also wrong about there being some government media clampdown in Venezuela. I guess you didn't read my posts. Apologies for the length, I know.

As for press freedom, the United States is tied with Croatia and Botswana in 53 place, according to Reporters Without Borders. (Interestingly, RWB is funded by the NED, that little human-rights darling started by Reagan to prop up angels like Napolean Duarte, and which functions as a sort of propaganda arm, ie. School of the Americas *light* in Latin America.)

But if we were to broaden the discussion to the general media situation in Venezuela, it must be pointed up that it has become much more pluralistic under Chavez. Community radio and similar community-based media has been encouraged and has proliferated; one of the sorts of education the Misiones are pursuing is precisely giving the people the tools to put out their own shows, and funding for co-ops has included funding for local media.

Oh, and the so-called complaints against CNN? CNN reported absurdly that Venezuela has ties to Al Qaeda. Venezuela has levied charges, and rightly so. I'm not saying Venzuela is perfect.

One thing that rarely gets discussed in the media here is that the real incomes of the poor have literally doubled in the last few years. And that's not counting the impact of the free health care or the cheap food or similar social programs--they're actually making twice as much. The economy is growing 10% a year, led by construction and manufacturing. Unemployment is down. At the same time, "informal sector" employment is down, meaning real jobs are *way* up. Illiteracy has been largely wiped out. Infrastructure is being created at a massive pace. Polls in Latin America show that of the whole region, Venezuelans are second most likely after Uruguay to consider their country fully democratic. So, more than in Brazil or Argentina or Chile or Peru or all the other places we *aren't* constantly hearing allegations of undemocratic behaviour.

How do you yell "Nerds!" in Peru?