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Firecrackers in a Department Store

The Turkmenistan government, ruled by President/Dictator Gurbanguli Berdymuchamedow, has reported that there was an explosion of fire crackers in a department store in Abadan, about 16 kilometers northwest outside the capital Ashgabat, close to the border with Iran. According to … Continue reading

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How the U.S. arms industry benefits from the drug war (4)

An update to this series… As CBS news reported, “the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) has encouraged gun shops to sell thousands of assault rifles and other weapons destined for Mexican drug cartels.” Does it get any … Continue reading

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Ten Stupid Traffic Laws

Ten stupid traffic laws from around the country.. 10. It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. (Alabama) 9. Horn honking is not permitted as it might scare horses. (Mississippi) 8. Before proceeding through the … Continue reading

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Privacy Laws and Social Media

Found this interesting article on CNN’s website. One of our intentions here at BrainTurnedOff is to report on stupid behaviors of sometimes so-called or wannabe celebrities. Now we can accept something like a love affair. There are numerous of those, … Continue reading

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Doomsday Update 2

I thought that the failure of the Doomsday prediction would be the end of it – not the end of the world, but the end all such predictions. But now Mr. Camping says: “We’re not changing a date at all; … Continue reading

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Doomsday Update

As you well know by now, the Doomsday prediction for this past Saturday was simply wrong. It just didn’t happen. There are some opinions why that was. I won’t go into the religious reasoning details. As you might know, I’m … Continue reading

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Doomsday

So this is it. The world is coming to an end starting today, May 21, 2001. At least according to Harold Camping, an 89-year-old leader of the ministry Family Radio Worldwide. He has predicted, that starting today a five-month destruction … Continue reading

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Is the Government desperate?

There are reports that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has seized the State of Georgia’s supply of a drug used in lethal injections. You know, the drug named “Sodium Thiopental” is part of a cocktail along with two other … Continue reading

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April 11, 1954

In this day and age, with all the things happening around us, can you ever imagine a day that nothing happening worth reporting? When the evening news on TV are canceled because there was nothing to report? No extraordinary athletic … Continue reading

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Blurred Houses are back – with eggs

It appears that the blurred houses have now re-emerged after they have been in a black hole (see also the video), with a more blurry look (compared to the snapshots taken here) It has been now reported that some houses … Continue reading

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