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Ohhhh the contracts - the glorious corrupt American political contracts. http://www.rt.com/usa/311215-endless-detention-gitmo-detainee-ruling/ More than 700 inmates have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, at a cost of more than $5 billion, since it opened in 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The facility has been mired in scandal throughout its history, with allegations of torture, force feeding and sexual abuse. There are still 116 detainees at the prison. Speaking at national security conference in Aspen, Colorado on July 24, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said it “doesn’t make fiscal sense” to keep Guantanamo open. Johnson said that it costs nearly $900,000 per year to house each prisoner at Guantanamo, amounting to a total cost of more than $100 million per year for 115 prisoners. In comparison, he said the cost of housing an inmate in a high-security federal prison was $80,000.

I fucking hate telemarketers. (period) Now we in Australia, seem to suffer the affliction of the "entitlement mentality" where telemarketers and survey takers, "in the interests of, and fairness to all" - have a legislated right (government approved) to call / contact us, at our homes and business's, via phone / email etc., but only during reasonable hours - which is supposed to make something that is essentially an annoying invasion of privacy, as being all right as it's before 8pm and not 11pm - which supposedly makes it all right. And the banks - those lazy arsed pieces of lying shit, seem to think that your opinion really counts for something - so much so, that they want to ask you lots of questions about their shitty arrogance and generally dishonest incompetence. But will they actually ask you this in person? No. Because employing people to contact 1000 - 10,000 other people in person, via a phone costs money and time - namely theirs. Will they offer y

Lawmakers consider how to stop US heroin epidemic Published time: 29 Jul, 2015 04:24 Get short URL © Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters American lawmakers are grappling with ways to respond to a worsening heroin epidemic. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death in the US, surpassing car accidents and gunshot wounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lawmakers attending a House of Representatives judicial committee hearing on Tuesday learned that the number of people overdosing on opioids has quadrupled in the past decade, with many deaths occurring in the upper class, particularly among women and in suburban areas. “ There were over 43,000 deaths in 2013, or approximately 120 per day, over half of which involved either a prescription painkiller or heroin. These are our family members, friends, neighbors, and colleagues,” Jack Riley, acting deputy administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, told the

I use Twatter - that aimless shit-fest of chit-chat, like once every three years. I just see my life as being far more meaningful than reading endless messages like: " @arse-fuck   Did you know Australians eat Vegemite? Awesome!" And I kind of like interfaces, that say things like: [ X ] Log Out Like this is not hard, to figure out how to log out once you know where the "Log Out" key is located... It's part of a group of sub functions, that arise from clicking on the big yellow square with the white blob shape - on the right -> Now if you don't know how to "Log Out", you have to go searching for it - and searching for "Log Out" in the Twatter screen, simply returns 140 million other peoples Twats, all asking the same question. And given the fact that there IS a shit load of screen real estate in the top menu bar, how come these stupid fucks have to resort to drill down menus headed by a non descript icon, instead of a symbol or word,

The retards.... "I want to speak to a real person, who was born in Australia, who speaks English, and has the ability to fix this problem, instead of being diverted to a fucking answering machine." "Don't you swear at me." "I don't tell you to say fuck, so don't you tell me not too." "If you swear at me one more time, I will terminate the call." "If you terminate my call, instead of doing your fucking job, I will close my fucking accounts and when it comes to paying your fucking wages, you can eat fucking dirt."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/24/we-may-have-already-committed-ourselves-to-6-meter-sea-level-rise/ July 24, 2015 We May Have Already Committed Ourselves to 6-Meter Sea-Level Rise by Pete Dolack Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today, a catastrophic rise in sea levels of six meters may be inevitable. Two previous prehistoric interglacial periods, in which the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere was believed to be about what it is today, resulted in dramatic rising of the oceans. High-latitude ice sheets are melting, and given that global warming is most pronounced in the Arctic, it may already be too late stop a rise in sea levels that would flood out hundreds of millions around the world. Two new papers, the latest in a series of scientific studies, paint a picture considerably less rosy than conventional ideas that major damage can still be avoided. One of these papers, a nine-scientist repor

http://www.sciencealert.com/denmark-just-generated-140-of-its-electricity-demand-from-wind-power Denmark just generated 140% of its electricity demand from wind power And it's sharing the excess with Norway, Germany, and Sweden. BEC CREW 15 JUL 2015   On a particularly windy day last week, Denmark’s wind farms produced between 116 and 140 percent of the national electricity requirements, and they weren’t even operating at their full 4.8GW capacity at the time. Eighty percent of the excess was shared by Germany and Norway, and Sweden got 20 percent of the spoils, showing just redundant fossil fuels can be if governments make the commitment to renewable energy sources. "It shows that a world powered 100 percent by renewable energy is no fantasy," Oliver Joy from the European Wind Energy Association said in a statement. "Wind energy and renewables can be a solution to decarbonisation - and also security of supply at times of high demand." Denmark has lon

Pimply post pubic girl working in a chain store tool shop. Do you have: a) Left handed screw drivers? Check. b) Tap Washers? (Non scratch cloth washers for taps) Check. c) Tins of striped paint - in white and clear for picket fences. Check. and d) Sky Hooks. Check. That girl runs a really well sorted out tool shop. Got everything in stock - they have. Trying so hard to push the bullshit as far as I can without laughing... Damn - forgot to ask her for long weights...

Ashley Madison (sounds like a prostitutes business name - doesn't it) is a company run by people, who incite women to cheat / have affairs/ fuck around behind their partners back.... And women being what they are, with their cunts having more say so than their brains, so many of them need little to no inducement - it merely has to look like something that can be fucked, and they are on to it... So team sleaze at Corp Ashley Madison bring out adds on the TV that say, "Hey - IF your husband is a lame fuck - have an affair - come to our website and go fuck these guys - they are hot." (and pay us lots of money to help you meet them) Fine.... so between fleas and fucking on the African plains, religions and the last few thousand years - nothing seems to have changed. But this article - and the roll into the comments - LOL - sums it up nicely. The cynicism in the last comment, points the "entire fiasco"... http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/07/privacy-security-encrypti

Yeah yeah yeah..... You know the letters...  Signed by Knob Job, and a phone number to call (him/ her) or more exactly - the organisation.... by implication. I want all people of the world to consider this..... If the organisation is an especially shitty one, ring them up and demand to talk to the person who put their name, on the letter, that they (meaning the organisation with it's lip service glove puppet) have sent to you. Simple solution.... "You wrote the formula letter, you signed it, you named and addressed it, and you sent it to me - and since your so fucking genuinely thrilled about my health and well being - and my money, you answer the fucking call - that I made to you, in response to your letter to me." (And not your team of buck passing, bottom dollar, out sourced, clueless call centre goof balls)

Yes, the perenially incestious relationship, between social media sites (software producers) like Facebook, Google +, etc., etc., etc.,the web tracking spy networks - of both the advertising agency / profile building and the NSA / police types... Well the internet has rotted from within... You know, everything has become fucking corporatised, and regulated - and controlled etc... Like there is a shit load of "social media" sites / profiles - that one can sign up to be profiled from, and tracked by, to be profited from, and interlinked through a shitload of other sites with. Like "Site X" runs a story / article, that people might want to comment / argue / fight over / with / contradict / support etc., In the old (internet days) you could just comment, and that was it. Now along came the dick head spammers who loaded up the comments section with shit.. So that all changed when the robot spammers got locked out of the comments section. Then the security / spammer contr

Satellites show world is running out of water - new NASA study Published time: June 17, 2015 18:02 Edited time: June 18, 2015 16:09  http://rt.com/news/267898-nasa-study-world-water/   Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh  The world is losing its underground water resources at an alarming rate, as the world’s quickly depleting aquifers put millions of people at risk due to dwindling water supplies, new NASA research claims. A joint study conducted by scientists from NASA and the University of California has revealed that the world’s water reserve levels have become dangerously low. The main reason is humanity’s constantly growing demand for water. The researchers have concluded that “ significant segments of Ea

Have you seen the Paris Hilton plane crash prank? The pilot is doing some fun flying, all the other "passengers" are in on it and are all yelling and screaming, and carrying on, "Ahhhh we are going to die! We are going to die!!!", And poor old Paris thinks it's all real and that the plane is going to crash.... And she starts freaking out... Fucking funny as... But it's one thing to play a joke on someone - a bit of fun etc., but for her, this got to be too real for too long... frightened the poor thing to death... While it is fucking mean, it is still really funny - sort of. And while the women sitting behind her periodically snigger and try to suppress the laughter between screams, poor old Paris thinks it's totally for real. As a recap, the "prank" was very well done. The supporting cast - very good acting.The plot - which included two (?) fake pilots, with parachutes - jumping out of the plane - seemingly leaving the plane pilotless - fuckin