A 12-day old male reticulated giraffe calf, seen next to its mother Camerun, at Rome's zoo, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. The nameless calf is 1.70 meters tall (5.5 feet) and was born at the Rome zoo on Monday Sept. 28, 2009. The Rome zoo launched a contest amongst the capital's children to find a name for the giraffe calf.
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MEXICO CITY — October 12, 2009 - President Felipe Calderon on Sunday disbanded the public utility that supplies electricity to Mexico City and the surrounding area, citing a gaping budget hole that threatened service to 25 million consumers.
About 500 federal police seized the Mexico City offices of the electricity company Luz y Fuerza del Centro, hours before the government published a decree documenting severe financial and operational inefficiencies at the electricity provider.
Luz y Fuerza is a state-run company that services Mexico City and parts of four central states, but business decisions were largely dictated by a powerful labor union that was locked in a dispute with Calderon's government. The 66,000-member union promised protests to resist the move in the coming days. FULL STORY
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is looking to unload 1/8 of its 3,217 tonnes of gold to increase its ability to lend to poor countries. After the US and Germany, the IMF is the largest official holder of gold bullion.
This is bullish for gold! Central banks like those of Russia and China will increase their store of gold to shore up their accounts and hedge against inflation. China has already expressed their interest in purchasing more gold, and Chinese bankers have even been quoted that they will “buy gold during any dips in price.” Look for a long post soon on China’s hunger for gold and what this means for your investment future.
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| MAG | UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s | LAT deg | LON deg | DEPTH km | Region | |
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| MAP | 5.1 | 2009/10/13 00:54:26 | 34.938 | 46.889 | 10.0 | WESTERN IRAN |
| Magnitude | 5.1 |
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| Location | 34.938°N, 46.889°E |
| Depth | 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program |
| Region | WESTERN IRAN |
| Distances | 40 km (25 miles) SSW of Sanandaj, Iran 70 km (45 miles) NNW of Bakhtaran (Kermanshah), Iran 150 km (90 miles) ESE of As-Sulaymaniyah, Iraq 420 km (260 miles) W of TEHRAN, Iran |
LONDON - October 12, 2009 - FRANCE has the best quality of life out of Europe's biggest countries, while Britain has the worst despite having the highest incomes, a study said Monday.
British workers can expect to spend three years longer at work and die two years younger than their French counterparts, while they pay above the European average for fuel, food, alcohol and cigarettes, the study by uSwitch.com said.....
October 12, 2009 - Two polar scientists hot on the trail of an arctic mystery have a new tool for exploration: a hovercraft, specially outfitted for week-long trips over the ice with scientific instruments and solar panels. Their quarry is a nearly 22,000 square-mile patch of disturbed Arctic sea floor that could be evidence of a massive asteroid strike. John Hall, a now-retired geoscientist, discovered the anomaly during his late-60s graduate work aboard Fletcher’s Ice Island, a huge berg U.S. scientists inhabited for several decades.
Since then, no scientific vessel has been back over the area to collect more data. The massive icebreakers that have crunched through the arctic since the 1990s can’t reach the spot, said Yngve Kristofferson, a scientist and explorer at the University of Bergen in Norway. FULL STORY
The Nation is a weekly[2] United States periodical devoted to politics and culture, self-described as "the flagship of the left."[3] Founded on July 6, 1865 at the start of Reconstruction as a supporter of the victorious North in the American Civil War, it is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the US. It is published by the Nation Company, L.P. at 33 Irving Place, New York City.
The Nation has bureaus in London and Southern Africa, with departments covering Architecture, Art, Corporations, Defense, Environment, Films, Legal Affairs, Music, Peace and Disarmament, Poetry, and the United Nations. The circulation of The Nation was rising and measured 184,296 in 2004 more than double that of The New Republic and higher than conservative papers The Weekly Standard and National Review.[citation needed] The Nation has lost money in all but three or four years of operation and is sustained in part by a group of more than 30,000 donors called The Nation Associates who donate funds to the periodical above and beyond their annual subscription fees.[citation needed]
October 12, 2009, 4:43 PM (GMT+02:00) - US and Israeli forces were already poised to launch their joint Juniper Cobra strategic missile defense exercise, which takes place every two years, to begin Monday Oct. 12, when at noon an Israeli military spokesman suddenly announced its postponement by one week.
The announcement came three days after Turkey called off its sixth annual international air maneuver when the US and Italy pulled out in protest against the Israeli air force's last-minute exclusion by Ankara.
It also followed a statement in Tehran by Revolutionary Guards Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami that Iran's high-tech Sejil missiles can repel any threat and attack on the country.
Our military sources report that the announcement caught 17 US naval ships fitted with Aegis missiles and ground teams operating THAAD and Patriot missile interceptors already in place - altogether 1,000 personnel. DEBKAfile's military sources report: They were to interlock with Israel's Arrow II and Navy for the biggest joint exercise they have ever held, simulating a multiple-direction missile attack on Israel from Iran, Syria, the Lebanese Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The American FBX-T radar installed at the Israel's Air Force base at Nevatim in the Negev was assigned a key role in the practice which was to be overseen by Adm. Mark Fitzgerald, commander of the US. Navy's Sixth Fleet, and the head of Israel's air defense arm.
It was not immediately clear whether the highly exceptional week's postponement of the exercise on the very day it was to begin was a joint US-Israeli decision or one made by Israel for political or perhaps technical reasons. At any rate, it indicates something seriously amiss.
12 October, 2009, 17:32
Russia and China are set to seal deals worth more than five billion dollars in energy, infrastructure and telecoms. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is leading a high-powered delegation to the eastern country.
Around a hundred top Russian business leaders form the delegation, hoping to win a bigger slice of one of the world’s largest markets.
Putin will meet with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao during his visit, as well as China’s President Hu Jintao, and will take part in a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The meeting is expected to focus on the strengthening of humanitarian and economic cooperation between the SCO member states, including their cooperation in overcoming the consequences of the global financial crisis.
Heads of Government of the SCO member states are also to discuss joint projects in the transport, energy, information and telecommunication spheres.
The SCO, founded in 2001, consists of Russia, China and the ex-Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is an intergovernmental mutual-security organisation.
Although the declaration on the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation contained a statement that it "is not an alliance directed against other states and regions and it adheres to the principle of openness", many observers believe that one of the original purposes of the SCO was to serve as a counterbalance to NATO and the United States and in particular to avoid conflicts that would allow the United States to intervene in areas bordering both Russia and China.[40][41] And although not a member state, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has used his speeches at the SCO to make verbal attacks against the United States.[42]
The United States applied for observer status in the SCO, but was rejected in 2005.[43]
At the Astana summit in July 2005, with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq foreshadowing an indefinite presence of U.S. forces in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, the SCO urged the U.S. to set a timetable for withdrawing its troops from SCO member states. Shortly afterwards, Uzbekistan asked the U.S. to leave the K-2 air base,[44].
Recently the SCO has made no direct comments against the U.S. or its military presence in the region. However, several indirect statements at the past summits, including the 2007 summit in Bishkek, have been viewed as "thinly veiled swipes at Washington".[45]
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I have found many flat, colorful particles in Morgellons lesions and coming out of pores on my body. I have called these flat, microscopic particles "plaques."
The underlying question about all of the objects shown on this page is, what purpose do they have and why are they infesting the bodies of human beings? Who is doing this to us and why is this being ignored? These objects are real and making people ill.
Is there anyone out there with enough humanity to get some answers and make this stop?
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10-12-09 - Martin here with an urgent update on the next phase of this crisis … Fed Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Geithner are in for a rude awakening. Even as they declare “victory” in their battle against the debt disaster on Wall Street, they face defeat in the war against four dangerous, unintended consequences on Main Street:
SYDNEY — A 6.4-magnitude quake hit the Santa Cruz islands in the South Pacific on Monday, US seismologists said, but there was no immediate warning of a tsunami.
The quake struck at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres (six miles) about 355 kilometres north of Luganville, part of the Vanuatu archipelago, at 8:37 pm (0937 GMT), the US Geological Survey said.
But no tsunami warning was immediately issued as a result of the tremor, which followed a series of huge quakes last week that triggered a region-wide tsunami alert.
The Pacific is still recovering from an 8.0 magnitude earthquake and huge tsunami that crashed into Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga on September 29, wiping out villages and resorts and killing 184.
Blimps for Delivering Arctic Cargo Posted: 11 Oct 2009 10:09 PM PDT Boeing and Skyhook hope to use giant blimps to lift heavy cargo such as oil rigs and pipeline equipment into Canada’s far north. The method might not only be cheaper than overland transport but would also have a lower environmental impact. |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2009 10:01 PM PDT On October 8 and 9, 2009, more than a dozen earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater occurred near the island nation of Vanuatu. Earth Observatory has a map of their epicenters and a brief summary of the events. |
| Sea Level Rise: South Coast of England Posted: 11 Oct 2009 08:35 PM PDT Sea level is rising, posing a danger to coastal areas worldwide. 150 years of cumulative data indicate that the southern coast of England may experience more severe flooding in the future. |
| Landslides in the Philippines – Typhoon Parma Posted: 11 Oct 2009 08:28 PM PDT This video shows the results from landslides triggered in the Philippines by Typhoon Parma. Dave Petley has photos and commentary at his “On The Slide” blog. |
| New Prehistoric Mammal Found in China Posted: 11 Oct 2009 08:05 PM PDT A new prehistoric mammal has been discovered in the Liaoning Province of China. The creature, named Maotherium asiaticus, is helping scientists learn about the evolution of the middle ear. |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2009 07:59 PM PDT The Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling is sponsoring an Ocean Science Art contest. Students can submit a drawing, painting, or other artwork featuring the JOIDES Resolution scientific expeditions ship and its work. Winning classrooms and schools will be visited by JOIDES Resolution crew and staff. For rules and instructions, visit http://joidesresolution.org/node/446. |
| Posted: 11 Oct 2009 07:54 PM PDT Electron microscopes used to be the size of a car and cost $1/2 million or more. Now, Hitachi has a table-top model that plugs into a standard wall outlet, sends the view to your laptop, costs about $60,000 and is very easy to use. |
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