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Controversial South African Ad Melds Hitler And James Dean
First Posted: 10- 1-09 05:30 PM | Updated: 10- 2-09 10:21 AM
South Africa’s CNA Stores decided having just one celebrity’s image on their latest ad was just not enough. Instead, as AdFreak reports, they decided to meld the faces of Adolph HItler and James Dean into a […]
The cover is bad enough,
but the author’s photograph on the back flap
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Images: #1–(woman) via a goodyarn.net; (flag-top left) via abytheliberal.com;(flag-bottom center) via library.usu.edu; #2–(main photo) via agoodyarn.net; (swastika) via hinduvoice.co.uk; (Messerschmitt) farm4.staticflickr.com;
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Did you know that the largest attendance to see a Major League team
was not at a venue in the United States?
On October 18, 1936 Nuremberg Stadium recorded an attendance of 322,463 to watch the St. Louis Browns take on the Cologne Atomizers of the Hanseatic League. Baseball Commissioner Keenesaw Mountain […]
Axis of Incompetence
Lessons from the Nazis on how not to run an empire.
Reviewed by Andrew Nagorski
Sunday, October 12, 2008; BW04
HITLER’S EMPIRE
How the Nazis Ruled Europe
By Mark Mazower
Penguin Press. 726 pp. $39.95
Surveying Nazi Germany’s conquests shortly after it invaded the Soviet Union, Hitler’s minister of economics boasted: “Never before in the history of the world has […]
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Images: (Hermann Goring) cwporter.com; (All House of Wax photos) via moviescreenshots.blogspot.com except (3D paddle baller) via cinemafantastique.com;
(All Hitler and interior photos) via Reuters–by Tobias Schwarz & Wolgang Rattay except (Hitler in a box and Botox) via Adam Berry/Bloomberg News; (3D glasses) diyhappy.com; (paddle ball toy) askville.amazon.com;
Story.
Bush teary-eyed about Auschwitz
TheStar.com
January 12, 2008
JERUSALEM–A teary-eyed U.S. President George W. Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz yesterday at Israel’s Holocaust memorial and said the U.S. should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there.
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How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to powerRumours of a link between […]
August 19, 2007
Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law
By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches of American citizens […]
Lee Glendinning
Tuesday August 7, 2007
The Guardian
He expelled Jewish and Russian musicians from concert halls during the Third Reich, claimed in Mein Kampf that there was no independent Jewish culture, and referred to Russians as sub-humans, yet at the same time Adolf Hitler listened to their music in secret.
Around 100 gramophone records which apparently belonged to […]
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Gonzalez–Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Newsweek
Aug. 13, 2007 issue - The controversy over President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant, raided the suburban Washington home of a former Justice Department lawyer. The lawyer, Thomas M. Tamm, previously worked in Justice’s […]
The universe is a string-net liquid
* 15 March 2007
* From New Scientist Print Edition.
* Zeeya Merali
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(Image: Elmar Lackner/Mindat)
In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of “particles” with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives […]