Left Hook - 8/31/13, Dean Henderson

While Americans line up at the gas pump for their annual Labor Day fleecing, Exxon Mobil reported 2012 earnings of $44.9 billion.  That’s $300 million shy of the all-time record for corporate profits.  That record belongs to – you guessed it – Exxon Mobil.  So much for Labor Day.  Global monopoly capital, now pushing for war in Syria, is firmly in the driver’s seat.

(Excerpted from Chapter 7: The Four Horsemen: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)

In 1975 British writer Anthony Sampson penned The Seven Sisters, bestowing a collective name on a shadowy oil cartel, which throughout its history has sought to eliminate competitors and control the world’s oil resource.  Sampson’s “Seven Sisters” name came from independent Italian oil man Enrico Mattei.

National Geographic - 8/29/13, Sasha Ingber

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Wednesday’s Washington rain did not deter thousands from heading to the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Photograph by Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty
 

Source: BeforeItsNews.com - 8/21/13

Grumman F6F Hellcat

“There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots.”

The U.S. Navy used slogans like these to emphasize the importance of flight safety when Byron D. Varner was an aviation cadet during World War II. That particular one stayed embedded in his mind through out his flying experience because he saw many would-be heroes kill themselves trying to be bold pilots. Mr. Varner hadn’t thought of this slogan for a long time until he met Rolan D. Powell, the only “old” pilot he ever knew who totally disproved it. Mr. Powell retired as a Lt. Cdr. USNR after not only serving in World War II aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Yorktown, but also in Korea and Vietnam on other assignments. On November 29,1996, Rolan celebrated his seventieth birthday.

The following narrative begins on page 72 of the Varner/Powell book.

Phys.org - 8/19/13

Researchers have shown that ancient Egyptian iron beads held at the UCL Petrie Museum were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather than iron ore. The objects, which trace their origins to outer space, also predate the emergence of iron smelting by two millenia.

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