I noticed this link on the Drudge Report:
PRAVDA: Another human civilization may live inside Earth’s hollows…
Apparently it was so popular, the server for the link crashed, but I found this link on Google…
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/11313_InnerEarth.html
Wow, who knew the Hollow Earth theory from the 40’s which inspired the D&D campaign set of the same name would be considered news?
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000596.html
“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still, and pursue the same object. The last appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all.” -Thomas Jefferson
Here’s an interesting treaty that was secretly being negotiated under the Clinton Administration. The agreement would give international investors the ability to “roll back” any state legislation deemed counterproductive to investors and give investors the right to sue host countries in closed arbitration without any rights to affected communities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateral_Agreement_on_Investment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_track_%28trade%29
“It seems agreed on all hands now that the bank is a certain & gratuitous augmentation of the capitals subscribed in a proportion of not less than 40 or 50 percent. And if the deferred debt should be immediately provided for in favor of the purchasers of it in the deferred shape, & since the unanimous vote that no change shd. be made in the funding system, my imagination will not attempt to set bounds to the daring depravity of the times. The stockjobbers will become the praetorian band of the government—at once its tool & its tyrant; bribed by its largesses, & overawing it by clamours and combinations…” -James Madison
“When Westen and his Emory colleagues conducted brain scans during the 2004 presidential campaign, they found that partisans of either side, when presented with contradictory statements by their preferred candidates, would struggle for some seconds with feelings of discomfort, then resolve the matter in their candidates’ favor.
“The scans showed that to do this, they used the part of their brain that controls emotion and conflict. The area that controls reasoning was inactive — “the dead zone,” Westen said.
“Westen writes that it doesn’t make sense to argue an issue using facts and figures and to count on voters — particularly the swing voters who decide national elections — to make choices based on sophisticated understandings of policy differences or procedures. He says Democratic candidates must learn to do what Republicans have understood for many years — they must appeal to emotions. And (talking to you, Mr. Gore) stay away from numbing statistics.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-guru9jul09,0,3671214.story?coll=la-home-center