MOSCOW, Russia — Alexei Dymovsky sits in full uniform and stares at the camera with tired eyes.
“Maybe you don’t know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I’m ready to tell you everything. I’m not scared of my own death,” Dymovsky says in a YouTube message addressed to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
“I will show you the life of cops in Russia, how it is lived, with all the corruption and all the rest – with ignorance, rudeness, recklessness, with honest officers killed because they have stupid bosses.”
And so Dymovsky continues, in a series of three 2-to-7-minute long videos released over the past week that have together garnered 1 million hits on YouTube, and caused a firestorm across Russia

"Mrs. Betts," I asked. "Is Colby a cyborg?"

"What do you mean, cyborg?"

"Is he like a human brain inside a robot? Like Robocop?"

"Oh, no, John..." Mrs. Betts laughed. "He's just a computer."

I was puzzled. "But he believes in God."

"Well, of course! We wouldn't be doing the play if he didn't."

"If he doesn't have a soul, how can he believe in God?"

"Ah, I see where you're going..." Mrs. Betts mused. Then she paused and thought for a second. I'll never forget what she said next. In a few words, Mrs. Betts perfectly expressed something: an ideological contempt for personal meaning that has come to define for me both the Fundamentalist whack job and militant atheist alike.

"No, you're right, Colby doesn't have a soul," Mrs. Betts explained. "He's just been programmed to think he does."

China's economy is continuing to grow despite the global recession, helped by a massive government stimulus package of $585bn.
But doubts remain whether such strong growth can be sustained by public spending alone.
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from Inner Mongolia, where a whole town built with government money is standing empty.

I think a direct correlation can be made, for instance, between the rise of social media and the fall of the economy.

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The Chans are like a particularly huge toxin processor for human consciousness.

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According to a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Occurrence Report, “Shock and Detonation Physics Group researchers heard a loud unusual noise from Technical Area 15, Building 562 after firing a shot from a large-bore powder gun (LBPG).” The researchers accidentally blew a building apart at Technical Area-15, on December 16, 2009 while testing a gun which acts like a Civil War cannon.