NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - September 14, 2009

Routine Consumption of Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes "A Big Lie" (NaturalNews) Taking an aspirin a day appears to increase a person's risk of dangerous gastric bleeding as much as it decreases their risk of heart attack or stroke, researchers have found. "We don't have good evidence that, for healthy people, the...

Interview with Paul Mamakos from Everything Raw (NaturalNews) Here's an interview with Paul Mamakos, founder of Everything Raw (www.everythingraw.com). This is the company that makes what I consider to be the very best testing raw food bar on the market today: the Yoga Bar. In this interview...

School Lunch: Where the Real Weapons of Mass Destruction Lie (Opinion) Mike Adams wrote a great piece on how the public is kept nutritionally uneducated. Unfortunately, the best place to start with this is the youngest members of society through the school lunch program. In this era of government bailouts and...

Harry Hoxsey: Guilty of Curing Cancer with Herbs Of all the episodes of alternative cancer treatment suppression by the medical establishment, none is more dramatic and long lasting than Harry Hoxsey's. Harry's constant conflicts covered almost 50 years of the 20th Century. Hoxsey was flamboyant...

H1N1 Vaccine with Mercury and Squalene Pushed on Pregnant Women (opinion) (NaturalNews) It's getting crazy out there. New revelations about the novel H1N1 vaccine are raising more questions than ever about its safety while there's a new drive to push shots of the stuff as quickly as possible on perfectly healthy pregnant women...

Chemicals in Our Diets Produce Fat People Most people don`t think about how chemicals in their diets affect their weight or weight loss efforts. But the man-made chemicals you consume on a regular basis can play a big role in whether you`re fat or not - even if those chemicals don`t...

Study Reveals Serious HPV Vaccine Problems: Fainting, Blood Clots, Death Among Risks (NaturalNews) At first glance, a study just published in the August 19th edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is yet another whitewash job about the safety of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine...

SearchEngineLand.com | Google Crop Circles Logo, Missing “L”

Sep 14, 2009 at 9:07pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Currently, most Google search properties that are currently in a time zone that is September 15th, such as Google UK, are sporting a special Google Doodle that links to a search result for crop circles. The logo looks like the image above, i.e. of crop circles.

If you look at the logo’s file name, it is goog_e.gif, which is interesting because the Google flying saucer logo from ten days prior to this logo was missing an ‘O’ in the file name, go_gle.gif.

So first a missing O and now a missing L.

Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation - How it looks right now - September 14, 2009 8:45pm CDT

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Reuters | U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to deny ACORN access to federal housing funds

NBC | AUGUSTA, Ga. - Richmond County deputies say they're a growing problem: Tent cities, make-shift communities for the homeless

DailyMail.co.uk | Too close for comfort: The astonishing twisters captured by storm-chasing photographer

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AP | 'Dirty Dancing' star Patrick Swayze dies at 57

Canadian Press | Nearly 60 per cent of Canadians would have trouble paying the bills if their paycheque was delayed by one week, a new polls suggests.

America-Hijacked.com | Trust in News Media Falls to New Low in Pew Survey

Brookings Institution | Is the G-20 Summit a Step Toward a New Global Economic Order? (Brookings Policy Brief Series # 170)

September 2009 —
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Brookings Policy Brief Series

In November 2008, President George W. Bush convened the first G-20 summit in Washington to address the worst global financial economic crisis since the Great Depression. This summit provided a long-overdue opportunity for a dramatic and lasting change in global governance. This was followed by the election of Barack Obama, who had campaigned on a distinctly different foreign policy platform compared with his Republican rival, Senator John McCain. These two events were no mere coincidence.

The global crisis has moved the United States, along with the rest of the world, toward a new global economic order, with the G-20 summit as one of the principal manifestations of the new global governance system. Of course, movement toward this new economic arrangement and progress toward reformed global governance are not inevitable. It will take a clear and sustained commitment to a new set of values and strong leadership, especially from President Obama and the United States, to ensure that the G-20 summit is not a short-lived exception to what had been a long-standing stalemate in global governance reform. The effectiveness of the G-20 in addressing the global economic crisis could lay the foundation for a new global order and provide the impetus for the many other necessary global governance reforms. Whether or not this happens will depend to a significant extent on the direction chosen by President Obama.

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RMN.com | HEAR THIS AUDIO INTERVIEW: HOW BARAK OBAMA KNEW THAT HE WILL BECOME U.S. PRESIDENT FROM 1982

WhatReallyHappened.com | More photos from Washington DC Protest

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House.gov - Ron Paul | Healthcare Reform is More Corporate Welfare

StanDeyo.com | Picture(s) of the Day - September 14, 2009

millions mad as hell!

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Taxpayers stormed Washington, D.C., today, taking their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol.

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Black Speaker at DC Rally Mocks Obamas Teleprompter Dependence (YouTube)

StanDeyo.com | Today's Headlines - September 14, 2009

Vaccine to be Ready by Early October as U.S. Cases Spread

Vaccinating 70% of US Population Could Control Pandemic

Health Expert Fears Vaccine will Come Too Late

Swine Flu Everywhere – map of N. America

Obama 'Clones' Bush in Killing Sovereignty

Poll: Health Care Speech Doesn't Boost Obama

Black Speaker at DC Rally Mocks Obamas Teleprompter Dependence – video

Time Lapse Video Shows Magnitude of D.C. Rally – video

'Go Home!': DC Crowd Drowns Out CNN Reporter During Live Report – video

New Bin Laden Tape Calls Obama 'Powerless'

President Obama Extends 9/11 National Emergency

Immigration Raids Yield Jobs for Legal Workers

USGS Captures Rockfall Event at Kilauea Volcano

Hong Kong Issues Storm Warning as Cyclone Approaches

In Flooded West Africa, People 'Live Like Fish'

Venezuela to Develop Nuclear Energy with Russian Help

Venezuela to Get Russian Missiles

Stampede Kills 18 at Ramadan Flour Giveaway

Yemeni Girl, 12, Dies in Painful Childbirth

Russians Claim Israel May be Planning Iran Attack

Netanyahu: Israel Won't Hold Back When Attacked

Animal, Plant Fossils Not Necessary for Crude Oil; Supply Not About to End

Aging Muscles: Hard to Build, Easy to Lose

GlennBeck.com | Picture(s) of the Day - September 14, 2009

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Telegraph.co.uk | Lehman collapse: Dubai and Gulf give a glimpse of a new world order

The unfolding of the West's debt crisis left Dubai with a half-finished skyline. A year on the region is reassessing its place in the world.

Nowhere did the financial crisis expose dreams as fantasy more starkly than Dubai and the Gulf. But perhaps nowhere, not even China, is the new world order that might result more clearly visible.

In the early months of the credit crisis, before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Gulf states seemed immune.

Energy giants such as Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi saw their sovereign wealth funds swell from the upwards surge of the oil price.

Dubai real estate, leaping skywards both physically and financially, enjoyed a final blowout in early 2008. It seemed an exciting alternative to wobbly stock markets for what investors' cash remained in the system.

But after September, it all turned out to have been a Ponzi scheme in disguise. Dubai's trademark developers had been encouraged to sell off-plan sites low to create a feeding frenzy of "flippers" who sold unfinished properties to each other at ever higher prices........

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Many of the largest earthquakes in history may have been caused by a wobble in the Earth's obit, according to an author of a new book about gravity.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/author-william-k-vogeler-says-gravity-wobble-caused-big-earthquakes-2009-09-14

NYTimes.com | Obama’s Speech: “TARP on steroids” — a permanent expansion of the Treasury’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program

Lehman One year Later- Rick Santelli (YouTube)

FoxNews.com | Should the Feds Freeze ACORN's Funds? ONLINE POLL

After a week of revelations about questionable practices by ACORN, including workers appearing on videotape offering tips to two undercover reporters about how to run a brothel, should all federal funds to the group be frozen until there is a full investigation?

CNN.com | Eli Lilly to cut 5,500 jobs

James Kunstler | Reality Receding

September 14, 2009 - Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the "recession" over, is exactly the moment when what's left of the so-called economy is most likely to implode. If there were still shoeshine boys on Wall Street, they'd be starting their own hedge funds now, and CNBC's Larry Kudlow would be toasting them in the Grill Room of The Four Seasons. What we've seen in the vaunted rally for the last six months is the triumph of wishing over facts, combined with the most arrant market manipulation by floundering banks backstopped by a panicked government -- all pounding sand down a rat-hole of hopeless non-performing debt, while pretending that the machinery of capital finance still grinds on.

Jim Sinclair's MineSet | Mountain Of OTC Derivative WMDs Waiting To Explode

Kitco.co | How to Prepare For China's Coming Derivative Default

Rian.ru | Almost all militants recently killed in counter-terrorist operations in Russia's N Caucasus republic of Ingushetia were foreign mercenaries

YAROSLAVL, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - Almost all militants recently killed in counter-terrorist operations in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia were foreign mercenaries, the republic's president said on Monday.

"Out of 30 recently killed participants of illegal armed formations, 27 were foreigners," Yunus-Bek Yevkurov told an international conference on 'The modern state and global security' in Russia's Volga city of Yaroslavl.

He said that the figures give sufficient grounds to refer to 'international terrorism' in the region.

"The main disease of the present day, which has grasped the whole world, is international terrorism. It would be better for the world to wake up and for all countries to realize that this disease may reach anyone," he said.

Attacks on troops, police and other officials have been reported almost daily in Ingushetia and Russia's other North Caucasus republics in recent months.

On August 17, Ingushetia was hit by a suicide bombing which killed at least 20 people and injured 260 people.

Yevkurov himself survived a suicide car bomb attack on his motorcade in June and returned to work last month.

MoscowNews.ru | Current Headlines - September 14, 2009

Calling things by their proper names

The Kremlin’s think tank

North Caucasus violence a vicious circle

The week in review - Chavez on arms shopping spree

Putin slams Iran sanctions

The 2012 question

GAZ the winner in Opel battle

Is a second crisis wave coming?

The week in review - Medvedev slams Russia's economy

AvtoVAZ may cut third of workforce

Chechnya’s two-state solution Chechnya

Kremlin plans need time to set

Anger at record output Russian output

Still time to bag a bargain

CSKA sees major shake-up

Talk of the tribuny 15 – 21 September

When smoking is good for you

Russians’ favourite employer revealed

Anti-alcohol programme moves forward

USGS.gov | Widespread Occurrence of Intersex Bass Found in U.S. Rivers

For Your Information:
Intersex is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy
between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes
and ovaries). The older term for this condition, hermaphroditism ...
www.google.com/health

“Although the USGS has already documented the severity of intersex in individual basins such as the Potomac, this study reveals the prevalence of intersex is more widespread than anyone anticipated, said Sue Haseltine, associate director for biology at the U.S. Geological Survey. “This research sends the clear message that we need to learn more about the hormonal and environmental factors that cause this condition in fish, as well as the number of fish afflicted with this condition.”

The study, said Hinck, presents the observed occurrence of intersex in a variety of freshwater fish species, but not potential causes. “This study adds a lot to our knowledge of this phenomena, but we still don’t know why certain species seem more prone to this condition or exactly what is causing it. In fact, the causes for intersex may vary by location, and we suspect it will be unlikely that a single human activity or kind of contaminant will explain intersex in all species or regions,” she said.

For example, said Hinck, at least one of their sites with a high prevalence of intersex—the Yampa River at Lay, Colo.—did not have obvious sources of endocrine-active compounds, which have been associated with intersex in fish. Such compounds are chemical stressors that have the ability to affect the endocrine system and include pesticides, PCBs, heavy metals, household compounds such as laundry detergent and shampoo, and many pharmaceuticals. Yet other study sites with high occurrence of intersex were on rivers with dense human populations or industrial and agricultural activities, which are more generally associated with endocrine-active compounds.

“We know that endocrine-active compounds have been associated with intersex in fish, but we lack information on which fish species are most sensitive to such compounds, the way that these compounds interact to cause intersex, and the importance of environmental factors,” Hinck said. “Proper diagnosis of this condition in wild fish is essential because if the primary causes are compounds that disrupt the endocrine system, then the widespread occurrence of intersex in fish would be a critical environmental concern.”

VOA News | Researchers has found evidence that humans in what is now Georgia were using flax some 30,000 years ago

Early Humans Wove, Dyed Flax in Caucasus

An international team of researchers has found evidence that humans in what is now Georgia were using flax some 30,000 years ago.

Flax is one of the oldest domesticated crops, and has been used to make linen for thousands of years. Flax fibers are also used in rope, twine, and paper.

Harvard University archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef says he and his colleagues stumbled across the flax while looking through soil samples for grains of pollen, which prehistoric archaeologists use to infer climate conditions....

EarthObservatory.NASA.gov | Today's News - September 14, 2009

FIRES IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Wildfires raged in Los Angeles County in late August and early September 2009.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40118&src=nha
*** ASTER(Terra) image from Sep 06, 2009 (Posted on Sep 08, 2009 2:41 PM)
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40115&src=nha
*** MISR(Terra) image from Aug 30, 2009 (Posted on Sep 08, 2009 2:27 PM)

TROPICAL STORM MUJIGAE
Tropical Storm Mujigae traveled westward between the Philippines and Vietnam in early September 2009.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40161&src=nha
*** (QuikSCAT) image from Sep 09, 2009 (Posted on Sep 11, 2009 8:39 AM)

TROPICAL STORM LINDA
Tropical Storm Linda traveled north-northwestward over the Pacific Ocean in early September 2009. As of September 11, the storm was expected to weaken as it traveled over cool waters.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40158&src=nha
*** (QuikSCAT) image from Sep 10, 2009 (Posted on Sep 11, 2009 7:53 AM)

HURRICANE FRED
Hurricane Fred traveled northwestward across the Atlantic Ocean in early September 2009.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40156&src=nha
*** (QuikSCAT) image from Sep 09, 2009 (Posted on Sep 10, 2009 3:51 PM)

HEAVY RAIN IN ISTANBUL
The worst rain in 80 years struck northwestern Turkey, including the city of Istanbul, in early September 2009.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40152&src=nha
*** (TRMM) image from Sep 02, 2009 (Posted on Sep 10, 2009 3:30 PM)

HURRICANE FRED
Hurricane Fred traveled northwestward across the Atlantic Ocean in early September 2009.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40143&src=nha
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 09, 2009 (Posted on Sep 09, 2009 3:24 PM)

TROPICAL STORM DUJUAN
Tropical Storm Dujuan formed over the western Pacific Ocean in early September 2009.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40132&src=nha
*** (QuikSCAT) image from Sep 08, 2009 (Posted on Sep 09, 2009 10:19 AM)

FIRES AND SMOKE IN BORNEO
Thick smoke covered much of Borneo in September 2009.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40135&src=nha
*** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 06, 2009 (Posted on Sep 09, 2009 1:44 PM)

FLOODS ACROSS THE WESTERN SAHEL
In late August and early September 2009, widespread flooding occurred throughout western North Africa along the western expanse of the Sahel.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40127&src=nha
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 08, 2009 (Posted on Sep 08, 2009 4:53 PM)

PLUME FROM RABAUL VOLCANO
Rabaul Volcano on the northeastern end of New Britain released plumes of volcanic ash and/or steam in early April 2009. The volcano continued low-level eruptive activity for months afterward.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40150&src=nha
*** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 10, 2009 (Posted on Sep 10, 2009 1:02 PM)

OIL SLICK IN THE TIMOR SEA
An oil rig in the Timor Sea began leaking oil and gas on August 21, 2009, and fuel continued to spill into the sea in the first week of September.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40123&src=nha
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 03, 2009 (Posted on Sep 08, 2009 3:06 PM)

BailOutPeople.org | A Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed September 20 - 25 (During the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh)

A Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed September 20 - 25 (During the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh) Yes to Jobs & Human Needs; No to War & Wall Street Greed

• Sunday, September 20 - Rally & March for a Real Jobs Program
• Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for the Unemployed & Supporters
  the weekend before the G-20 Summit
• Organizing Caravans of Unemployed People and Supporters to Converge on Pittsburgh during the week of September 19-26
• Marches, Protests and Events Before and During the G20 Summit addressing demands such as: Bring the Troops Home from Iraq & Afghanistan Now! & Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, World-Renown Political Prisoner, Journalist, Activist and 'Voice of the Voiceless!"

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PittsburgLive.com | Spouses of Pittsburg's G-20 attendees may prove interesting themselves

BigIslandVideoNews.com | VIDEO: USGS captures rockfall event at Kilauea volcano

The Detroit News | Detroit casino revenues fall off for first time

Detroit-- The city's casino business, 10 years old in July, is finally showing the ravages of Michigan's prolonged recession.

For the first time, Detroit's three casinos are likely to record a drop in combined annual gaming revenues, already down 2.5 percent through August. The downward trend for MGM Grand Detroit, Greektown and MotorCity is expected to continue unless the economy shows a startling uptick in the year's final four months.....

Examiner.com | Dog Breeds 101: How can I protect my pet during a disaster?

Many of us have plans that are set aside in case of disaster, such as a fire or flood, etc. According to a study done by the American Kennel Club (AKC) only 61% of people in the US include their pet in their emergency plans. And while 91% of people say that they will take their pet with them if they have to evacuate, there are countless examples of pets being left behind for whatever reason. As a pet owner, you are responsible for your pet despite emergency situations.

So what do you do?

Typically there are two major scenarios that cover all disasters. Either you are confined to your house for an uncertain length of time (with or without water, electricity, etc.) or you are forced to evacuate. When planning for either of these scenarios, be sure to include your pet........

FBI.gov | THE DECLINE OF CRIME Even in Tough Economic Times

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Examiner.com | Congress are you listening now? 912 Tea Party in D.C. a success of historic proportions.

MalaysianSun.com | 107-year-old Malay woman wants 23rd hubby!

Geology.com | News - September 14, 2009

Greenland Glaciers Satellite Image Posted: 14 Sep 2009 12:32 AM PDT Earth Observatory has published a satellite image that shows several glaciers flowing into a dry valley in Western Greenland.

Landslide Image Collection Posted: 13 Sep 2009 10:20 PM PDT On the Slide Blog has a small collection of impressive landslide images from India, Colombia, China and Spain. Related: USGS Landslide Fact Sheet.

Stacked Play in the Bakken and Three Forks-Sanish Posted: 13 Sep 2009 10:11 PM PDT In North Dakota, Continental Resources reports that they have drilled a well that penetrated two oil-bearing rock units – the Bakken Shale and the Three Forks-Sanish Formation.

Lava Flow Hazard Maps and Home Insurance Posted: 13 Sep 2009 09:36 PM PDT Insurance companies providing homeowners coverage in Hawaii have used USGS maps to set their rates for a long time. Now some companies are modifying rates or dropping coverage and homeowners want to know if the lava flow hazard maps – which were made 35 years ago – still represent the hazard accurately.

Global Warming, Algae and Caribbean Corals Posted: 13 Sep 2009 09:28 PM PDT “A rare opportunity has allowed a team of scientists to evaluate corals–and the essential, photosynthetic algae that live inside their cells–before, during, and after a period in 2005 when global warming caused sea-surface temperatures in the Caribbean to rise.” Quoted from the NSF Press Release.

Space Junk Mapping Posted: 13 Sep 2009 08:23 PM PDT “Space junk” is any man-made object in orbit around the Earth that no longer serves a useful purpose. To minimize the risk of collision between spacecraft and space junk, the U.S. Space Surveillance Network tracks all debris larger than 10 centimeters. This image is a map of all man-made objects currently being tracked.

Large Earthquakes Trigger Small Earthquakes at a Distance Posted: 13 Sep 2009 08:09 PM PDT An article and video on the Science Daily website present the idea that the L-waves of large earthquakes can trigger smaller quakes far from their source.

Wireless Electricity Posted: 13 Sep 2009 08:03 PM PDT Within a few years you might be able to recharge your cell phone or run an electric appliance without plugging them in. A technology is being perfected that will convert electricity into a magnetic field and transmit it through the air.

PRINCE Charles and other members of the Royal Family are urged to allow local people on to their land to grow their own food.

http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/news/Royals-urged-allow-food-growing-land/article-1334503-detail/article.html

TreeHugger.com | 2 Foot Sea Level Rise Along US East Coast, Not Due to Global Warming

What? Double what? The sea rose 2 feet along the US east coast this summer? Seems like the only sea level rise we ever hear about happens on islands in the Pacific. And now we're finding out, thanks to National Geographic News, that it was not directly due to global warming? What is going on? Find out more after the jump.

Scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noticed reports of seas rising much higher along coastal property lines this summer through the months of June and July. This is typically the sort of thing seen after a tropical storm, for example, except this time it lingered for close to two months. Scientists have several mechanisms to use for predicting seasonal tidal changes, such as the moon, but even those couldn't explain the changes.

Turns out it's something worse than just plain, old global warming. Apparently this summer there was a weakened Gulf Stream and stronger than usual winds from the northeastern Atlantic. Dun dun dunnn. While scientists have identified these two as the cause of the higher than normal sea level rise, they're not sure what caused these conditions in the first place. The Gulf Stream typically pulls water towards it and away from the east coast - the weaker than normal pull meant more water was allowed to crash on shore. Local fishers were also able to notice the increase winds that came earlier than normal, as well as the changing coast lines. A few stretches of beach were covered up or washed away.

Maybe the change is due to the mild El Nino that we are currently experiencing. Or possibly this change is ultimately related to global warming after all. A slowing down of the Gulf Stream is one predicted change due to global warming - which will potentially alter the climate all along Europe's western countries. At this time scientists still are not saying. Fortunately no major flooding or damage was reported. This time... : National Geographic News

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Latest news stories updated from NEWS.com.au network - September 14, 2009 12:00pm CDT

Sex slave accused set almost $35m bail
3:01am THE convicted US rapist accused of kidnapping a young girl and holding her for 18 years has had bail set at $US30 million ($34.79m) and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Pirates finally release ship and crew
2:35am SOMALI pirates have freed a Greek-owned merchant vessel and its 21 Filipino crew, five months after hijacking it in the Gulf of Aden, a maritime watchdog says.

Ukraine set to block Elton John adoption
1:41am POP star Elton John's bid to adopt a HIV-infected Ukrainian child will be rejected, according to a government minister.

US detainees get right to seek freedom
1:21am THE Pentagon is to give some 600 prisoners held in the US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, the right to challenge their detention, Defence Department spokesman Bryan Whitman said today.

The Australian | Slow-motion disaster - Leak in oil rig belching up to 400 barrels of crude oil into the Timor Sea off Australia

THERE was plenty of backslapping in Perth yesterday over the final approval for the $43 billion Gorgon gas project, but another story involving Australia's oil and gas industry continues to paint a different picture. The West Atlas drill rig has been belching up to 400 barrels of light sweet crude oil a day into the Timor Sea off Australia since a leak developed in a well deep below the ocean floor.

Along with unknown quantities of methane gas and condensate, as much as 1215tonnes of oil may have seeped into the sea since the blowout almost four weeks ago.

PTTEP Australasia, the Thai-owned company that operates the wellhead platform 250km northwest of the Truscott air base in Western Australia's Kimberley region, has put in place a complex and highly technical operation to plug the leak.....

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OIL SLICK IN THE TIMOR SEA
An oil rig in the Timor Sea began leaking oil and gas on August 21, 2009, and fuel continued to spill into the sea in the first week of September.
* http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40123&src=nha
*** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 03, 2009 (Posted on Sep 08, 2009 3:06 PM)

Guardian.co.uk | Dolphin slaughter turns sea red as Japan hunting season returns

Taiji's annual cull of bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales continues despite growing international condemnation

Guardian.co.uk | US puts Europeans on alert to provide more troops for Afghan campaign

US 'will ask' Britain for more troops in Afghanistan

Nato sources say Britain, France, Germany and Italy have capacity to send reinforcements

Indiana Barrister | Tea Party or Third Party

SpaceWeather.com | Interplanetary Magnetic Field - It comes from the Sun!

The Sun is a big magnet.
During solar minimum the Sun's magnetic field, like Earth's, resembles that of an iron bar magnet, with great closed loops near the equator and open field lines near the poles. Scientists call such a field a "dipole." The Sun's dipolar field is about as strong as a refrigerator magnet, or 50 gauss. Earth's magnetic field is 100 times weaker.
During the years around solar maximum (2000 and 2001 are good examples) spots pepper the face of the Sun. Sunspots are places where intense magnetic loops -- hundreds of times stronger than the ambient dipole field -- poke through the photosphere. Sunspot magnetic fields overwhelm the underlying dipole; as a result, the Sun's magnetic field near the surface of the star becomes tangled and complicated.
The Sun's magnetic field isn't confined to the immediate vicinity of our star. The solar wind carries it throughout the solar system. Out among the planets we call the Sun's magnetic field the "Interplanetary Magnetic Field" or "IMF." Because the Sun rotates (once every 27 days) the IMF has a spiral shape -- named the "Parker spiral" after the scientist who first described it.
Above: Steve Suess (NASA/MSFC) prepared this figure, which shows the Sun's spiraling magnetic field from a vantage point ~100 AU from the Sun.
Earth has a magnetic field, too. It forms a bubble around our planet called the magnetosphere, which deflects solar wind gusts. (Mars, which does not have a protective magnetosphere, has lost much of its atmosphere as a result of solar wind erosion.) Earth's magnetic field and the IMF come into contact at the magnetopause: a place where the magnetosphere meets the solar wind. Earth's magnetic field points north at the magnetopause. If the IMF points south -- a condition scientists call "southward B_z" -- then the IMF can partially cancel Earth's magnetic field at the point of contact.
Above: Earth's magnetosphere. From the Oulu Space Physics Textbook. "When B_z is south, that is, opposite Earth's magnetic field, the two fields link up," explains Christopher Russell, a Professor of Geophysics and Space Physics at UCLA. "You can then follow a field line from Earth directly into the solar wind" -- or from the solar wind to Earth. South-pointing B_z's open a door through which energy from the solar wind can reach Earth's atmosphere!
Southward B_z's often herald widespread auroras, triggered by solar wind gusts or coronal mass ejections that are able to inject energy into our planet's magnetosphere.

SpaceWeather.com | Weeks around equinoxes are the best times to see Northern Lights

AUTUMN LIGHTS: For reasons not fully understood by researchers, the weeks around equinoxes are the best times to see Northern Lights. The northern autumnal equinox of 2009 is only a week away and--voilà!--the show has begun:

"I had 8 people with me for an Aurora Photography Tour in Yellowknife on Sept. 12th," writes Yuichi Takasaka from the Northwest Territories of Canada. "Northern Lights started to appear from 10pm local time and stayed well after 4am!"

At this time of year, the interplanetary magnetic field near Earth tends to point south, an orientation that weakens Earth's magnetic defenses against the solar wind. Under such conditions, the slightest gust of solar wind can fuel a lovely display. Polar sky watchers should be alert for Northern Lights in the weeks ahead.

SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines - September 14, 2009

Bio-Tech Tools for Antichrist Stem-Cell Research: The Man Behind the Monster President Obama Ridicules God – video
Obama's Dissolving Credibility
Sheen Challenges 9/11 Truth Debunkers to Larry King Live Debate
Up to Two Million March to US Capitol to Protest Against Obama's Spending in 'Tea-Party' Demonstration
FreedomWorks Rally in DC – video
Stiglitz Says Banking Problems are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman
R.I.P. Zimbabwe Dollar
US Tire Duties Spark Clash
Gold is Now Underwritten by China
Money Talks, Gold Shouts
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PittsburgLive.com | Tom Daschle is the human toe fungus of Washington

Tom Daschle is the human toe fungus of Washington -- a persistent infection that may disappear from time to time but always comes back with a vengeance.

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VIVAnews | The famine which hit Yahukimo Regency, Papua, was triggered by harvest failure. As a result, many people died with empty stomach.

Harvest Failure Causes Yahukimo Famine

There were people who did not eat anything in three to four days.

Senin, 14 September 2009, 15:01 WIB

Umi Kalsum, Eko Huda S

The harvest failure was picked up as a reason by Yahukimo Regent Ones Pahabol during a press conference on Monday, September 14. "We saw with our own eyes that harvest failure has led them to death," said Ones.

He said the failure took place in 25 districts. There were people who did not eat anything in three to four days. "We found people who were dead with empty stomach," he said.

Geographically, Yahukimo is an area of extreme weather. Around 80 percent of its inhabitants live remote areas in the mountainous districts. They can only produce sweet potatoes as their main meal. "The people of Yahukimo have no other agricultural products but sweet potatoes," he said.

As a mountainous region, Yahukimo is a cold territory. People must prepare land five to six months earlier to start planting. According to him, the people have made all the calculations needed to avoid them from experiencing food shortage like they did four years ago. "Prolonged rain caused the root to shrink and rot," he said.

In order to handle the disaster, Yahukimo Regent held a meeting with the central government. The meeting decided that a team will be deployed to the region to verify the needed materials as well as to distribute food.

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Translated by: Bonardo Maulana Wahono

SmartBrief.com | Chinese banks realise counterparty risk of derivatives deals

SIFMA Global SmartBrief | 09/14/2009 Until now, foreign financial institutions have been able to structure derivatives deals with China's banks without posting collateral. Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and other major banks have started demanding that such deals be collateralised. The changes are partially spurred by a push from domestic regulators that warned banks of their exposure. Last month, a Chinese regulator called on banks to bolster their risk management in derivatives transactions. IFR Asia

Asia Times | Netanyahu plays a Russian rope trick

The top-secret dash that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made to Moscow on September 7 is believed to be the latest chapter in the maritime saga involving the "hijacked" Russian ship, the Arctic Sea, and its alleged arms shipment to Iran. The gambit was done as a hedge, because in Tel Aviv these days, trust in the United States is rapidly eroding. - Sreeram Chaulia (Sep 14, '09)

Asia Times Online | Gold a hedge and no more - yet

WallStreetWeather.net Forecast For Week Of September 14, 2009

Summary Of Last Week’s Influences:
Mercury represents trading one currency for another. Since Mercury turned retrograde, the value of the U.S. dollar to the world’s major currencies has declined to new lows for the year. On Friday the dollar index (DXY) hit a 52 week low, and made a new 2009 low against the euro. As Mercury stationed retrograde, the Chinese government expanded its plans to internationalize the renminbi, and a report by the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development said the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency should be reduced.

The stock market’s continued upward trajectory also weighed on the dollar, as the Fed

Sentinels of the Heliosphere (YouTube video)

Heliophysics is a term to describe the study of the Sun, its atmosphere or the heliosphere, and the planets within it as a system. As a result, it encompasses the study of planetary atmospheres and their magnetic environment, or magnetospheres. These environments are important in the study of space weather.

As a society dependent on technology, both in everyday life, and as part of our economic growth, space weather becomes increasingly important. Changes in space weather, either by solar events or geomagnetic events, can disrupt and even damage power grids and satellite communications. Space weather events can also generate x-rays and gamma-rays, as well as particle radiations, that can jeopardize the lives of astronauts living and working in space.

This visualization tours the regions of near-Earth orbit; the Earth's magnetosphere, sometimes called geospace; the region between the Earth and the Sun; and finally out beyond Pluto, where Voyager 1 and 2 are exploring the boundary between the Sun and the rest of our Milky Way galaxy. Along the way, we see these regions patrolled by a fleet of satellites that make up NASA's Heliophysics Observatory Telescopes. Many of these spacecraft do not take images in the conventional sense but record fields, particle energies and fluxes in situ. Many of these missions are operated in conjunction with international partners, such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).

AFP | Zbigniew Brzezinski and the idea he forwarded - G2 as a special US-China relationship - is not favored by China

China cool on idea of 'G2' with US: Beijing envoy

TOKYO — China's ambassador to Japan said Thursday his country does not favour the idea of a 'Group of Two' or G2 that would place the United States and China at the helm of international affairs.

Beijing instead supports the "democratisation of international relations" over the "dominance of the world by a few countries," China's ambassador to Japan, Cui Tiankai, said in a Tokyo address on Thursday.

The idea of a special US-China relationship, dubbed the G2, has been floated in American academic circles since 2006.

It was raised again in January by former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in Beijing as the world's largest and third-largest economies celebrated 30 years of diplomatic ties.

The concept has attracted interest, particularly since the G20 meeting in April in London where US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao launched an annual strategic dialogue and agreed to "strengthen ties at all levels."

But Cui, a graduate of John's Hopkins University in the United States, said China did not favour the concept of a G2 if it meant Washington and Beijing sharing the role of world leader.

"China doesn't have the capability to control one hemisphere of the globe. China is still a developing country which will have to face complicated and serious domestic problems for its social and economic development," he said.

He added that "China has coherently argued that we don't approve of the dominance of the world by a few countries."

"When the Group of Seven or Eight countries cannot genuinely solve global issues, it's impossible to think of global governance by only two countries," he said, referring to the G7 and G8 groupings of rich nations.

He added that "democratisation of international relations is what China has long promoted.

"If we are strengthening our power now, we will use it to promote democratisation of international relations. We won't do anything that goes against it," he said.

Cui also said he sees no contradiction between the goals of the incoming Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) government to boost ties with China and the Asian region, and maintaining close relations with the United States.

"In my impression, the DPJ's policy is that, while it stresses the importance of Japan's ties with China, it does not mean it downplays its ties with the United States," he said.

"It's possible that Japan can strengthen ties with China and ties with the United States simultaneously."

Energy-Daily.com | Australians Overtake Americans For CO2 Output As Chinese Emissions Soar

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The U.S. and Canada share a 5,525-mile border, famously styled as "the longest undefended border in the world." But Americans are crossing that border, not to conquer, but to become Canadian citizens and reduce their U.S. tax liability to zero. Read this article to learn what is involved in gaining Canadian citizenship and how it may be financially beneficial to do so... More »