It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -Samuel Adams  Tuesday Morning - February 9, 2010 |
 We started Monday morning with our planet's 'protective' magnetosphere in a magnetic reversal ... well ... seems we're on a reversal 'trend'! ANOTHER REVERSAL taking place this morning!! FEBRUARY 9, 2010 at 7:04 AM CDT   http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html |
| "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801) |
HAITI Doctors: Haitian may have survived 4 weeks in rubble  U.N.: Some Haitian hospitals charging patients for drugs He said about $1 million worth of drugs have been sent from U.N. warehouses alone to Haitian hospitals in the past three weeks. Hospitals don't need to charge patients to pay their staff, because Haitian Health Ministry employees are getting paid with donated money, Rerat added. U.N. officials said that beginning now, any hospital found levying fees for medicine will be cut off. U.S. Military vows to stay course in Haiti  |
Russian security chief says NATO still serious threat to Moscow
NATO continues to pose a serious threat to Russia, not least because of its desire to expand closer to Russia's borders, Russian security chief Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday.
"We have grave doubts [that Russia will be more secure due to NATO expansion]," the Russian Security Council secretary said at a news conference in RIA Novosti. "NATO represents a rather serious threat to us."
Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, NATO has expanded from 12 members to 28, absorbing the majority of Moscow's Cold War allies in Eastern Europe and some former Soviet republics.
Patrushev criticized NATO for its continued enlargement efforts, including its encouragement of Georgia's and Ukraine's bids to join the alliance.
He also blamed NATO for arming and preparing Georgia for an attack on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and said NATO countries continued to supply Tbilisi with weaponry despite Russia's protests.
MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
French president defends sale of Mistral warship to Russia
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has defended his decision to allow the sale of a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship to Russia by saying it would not threaten regional security, the Daily Herald reported.
The potential sale has alarmed some of Russia's former Soviet bloc allies, including those now in NATO, especially after the Russia-Georgia conflict over South Ossetia in August 2008.
Sarkozy told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates at a brief meeting on Monday that in his opinion the sale did not pose a military problem because Russia should be treated as a real partner.
"One cannot expect Russia to behave as a partner if we don't treat it as one," Sarkozy said
Russia earlier announced that it was considering buying one of the Mistral-class ships, worth 400-500 million euros (around $600-$750 million), and potentially building three or four vessels of the same class in partnership with the French naval shipbuilder DCNS.
A Mistral-class ship is capable of transporting and deploying 16 helicopters, four landing barges, up to 70 vehicles including 13 battle tanks, and 450 soldiers. The vessel is equipped with a 69-bed hospital and can be used as an amphibious command ship.
The Russian military has claimed that a Mistral-class warship would have allowed the Russian Navy to conduct a more efficient operation in the Black Sea during the Russia-Georgia war.
However, many experts believe that Russia simply wants to gain access to advanced naval technology that could be used in the future in potential conflicts with NATO and its allies.
French Defense Minister Herve Morin said on Monday it was time to turn the page on Cold War-era antagonisms with Russia and start a new relationship with Moscow through new exchanges.
MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
Veterans Storming the Hill, 2010
VA Underestimating Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties Veterans Today
US to Launch Fallujah-style Attack in Afghanistan As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war.
The operation in central Helmand province, long an area of intense resistance to the US-led occupation, will constitute the largest military offensive since Washington invaded the country in October 2001. At least 15,000 troops are expected to lay siege to the Helmand river valley town, which has 80,000 inhabitants and is said by the US military to be a stronghold of the Taliban.
A total of 125,000 people live in the district around Marjah, which is an agricultural center 350 miles west of Kabul. The population has been swelled by Afghans fleeing villages occupied by US Marines last summer, following President Barack Obama’s order shortly after he took office to send 21,000 more troops into Afghanistan. READ MORE  |
Why We Seek War: Cowardly Congress Plays it Safe
“Congressmen and Congresswomen are almost always political cowards, and they care only about staying in office indefinitely if not forever,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. “They do not wish to cast a decision-making vote on war lest their individual decisions---whichever way they may come down---will cost them the next election.”
“They are far happier…to let the President make the decision and take the responsibility, while they only Monday morning quarterback in order to carp and complain after the fact if and when things do not go well,” Velvel writes.
While the Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, invests Congress with the power “to declare War,” the law school dean points out this has been largely ignored since President Harry Truman in 1950 “de facto changed the Constitution so that not the Congress, but the President, and he alone, makes the decision on war.” READ MORE
The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism, Part 2 by: Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t | Interview |
Towards a Russia -China -Iran Military Alliance?
Our Secret Government - Lawlessness in government has become the rule of the land 
Lawlessness in government has become the rule of the land. Loyalty to the party superseded the loyalty to the country, which is a déjà vu phenomenon in the archives of fascism. The stench of our political sewage system has contaminated our nation and the world. Mendacity became truth, and manipulation became intelligence and virtue.
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1. R. W. McGeehee-1983. Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA. Sheridan Square publications Inc. N.Y. New York , 10013 |
Ron Paul: State Of The Republic – Blood In The Streets
At around time 14, Ron describes what our ultimate fate will be should the government continue on its binging of debt, taxation, regulation, and oppression
Total tyranny, and you love it.
Faber Says U.S. Would Be Rated Junk if It Were a Company Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Marc Faber, publisher of the "Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," talks with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan about U.S. government debt and the nation's top Aaa rating. Faber also discusses Federal Reserve policy, China's economy and the real estate market. (Source: Bloomberg) |
Toyota brake recall targets 437,000 hybrids
DPRK (North Korea) top leader reiterates denuclearization of Korean Peninsula  UN envoy in DPRK for visit 02-09 16:22Lynn Pascoe told Xinhua he and DPRK officials will mainly discuss ways to enhance cooperation between UN and the DPRK.  DPRK reiterates denuclearization UN envoy in Seoul for nuclear talks |
U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege
NY Times Feb 9 2010
Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change face accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest.
IPCC And CRU Are The Same Corrupt Organization
Canada Free Press By Dr. Tim BallCost of the corruption of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) is likely a trillion dollars already and there is no measure of the lives lost because of unnecessary reactions like biofuels affecting food supplies.
Stories appear about the corruption at the IPCC and others about the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Most people, including the media, don’t seem to realize the IPCC is the CRU. Some articles mention both but don’t make the connection. A recent article in the Globe and Mail is a good example.
Geithner to Meet with Global Warming Crazies and Opportunists, in Snow Buried D.C. On Tuesday morning, Treasury Secretary Geithner will host a breakfast meeting for members of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of leading businesses and environmental organizations that have advocated for federal climate legislation.  |
Minnesota’s frozen turbines raise new doubts about wind power
Federal government dictated, United Nations infiltrated The Federal Choke-hold on Education Canada Free Press Monday, February 8, 2010 I couldn’t have known it at the time, but my generation that attended schools in the 1950s would be among the last to get an education that the federal government hadn’t dictated or the United Nations had not infiltrated. The education I received was intended to be primarily a function of local communities with oversight by the states. I often remind people that the word “education” does not appear in the Constitution as a function of the federal government because it was always a local responsibility. READ MORE |
Despite budget crisis, state of California spent $75 million on vehicles, furniture
Hard times leave some people high and dry The city will cut her water service on Feb. 15 if she can't come up with the $140 that is overdue. She says she doesn't have the money and is resigned to losing water. Nicks, 39, will be one of about 100 Redmond residents and several hundred Central Oregonians who lose their water service this month. Local water utilities have been shutting off dozens of water accounts each month as people struggle to pay bills.City officials say there is no law requiring people to have water, so some, like Nicks, appear to be staying in homes without running water, despite the obvious hygiene issues. |
German minister calls for Lisbon Treaty EU army
Australia close to defaulting on debts  |
National Guard patrolling Pittsburgh streets
| POLICE STATE |
Video: Audi Superbowl Commercial Depicts Eco-Nazi Police |
| CYBERSPACE |
| Akamai Real-Time Web Monitor Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers As Data Flows In, the Dollars Flow OutNY Times - The average American is expected to spend nearly $1,000 this year on services like cable, Internet and video games. |
Israel Threating To Use Nuclear Weapons On Iran!
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Martin Luther King's plan for peace compared with Bush, Obama hypocrisy for endless wars *hyperlinks and videos live at source* The only trial on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King found the US government guilty of his murder. Corporate media did not headline this news, and history textbooks excise this essential understanding of Dr. King’s life; providing an excellent case study of what the US Senate Church Committee disclosed as an active US propaganda program to disinform the American public. For comparison, please consider the corporate media coverage to inform in every detail of O.J. Simpson’s trials.  Obama propagandizes you through your own phone  Canada Free Press By Judi McLeodThe same president who speaks to you through a TelePrompter is well on his way to propagandizing the population through a free App on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. One week before President Barack Obama’s defiant State of the Union Address, the White House announced the new White House App available for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. “The White House App delivers dynamic content from WhiteHouse.gov to the palm of your hand. (Dave Cole, White House blog, Jan. 19, 2010). |
 HILLARY CLINTON U.S. Department of State |
Clinton: Islamist terror is No. 1 threat Washington Times  Russian Lavrow - Hillary Clinton discuss arms deal over phone  More Nuclear Scaremongering about Iran from Clinton Iranian.com - 9 hours ago Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in some fearmongering on Iran on Sunday on Candy Crowley's CNN magazine show, State of the Union. ...  |
U.S. and Romania: a new alignment?
The United States' decision to deploy a missile defense system in Romania has been widely discussed over the past few weeks. Many wonder how much this step by the Barack Obama administration will affect Russia's interests
Russia's response was predictable: it demanded an explanation from the U.S.
It wanted to know what kind of ground facilities Washington planned to deploy in Romania. The U.S. intention to send Aegis-equipped ships with SM-3 missiles into the Black Sea also caught Russia's attention.
Iran vs Israel: What The Media Wants You To Forget
Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget.
1. Last Spring, Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel refused.
2. The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
3. The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections. Israel refused.
4. Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed.
5. Iran allows IAEA inspections of all its facilities.
6. Contrary to face-saving claims, it appears that the US and Israel were both caught off guard by Iran's announcement. The reasoning is simple. Had the US or Israel announced the existence of he new facility before Iran's notified the IAEA, it would have put Iran on the defensive. As it is now, the US and Israel seem to be playing catch up, casting doubt on the veracity of Israel's claims to "know" that Iran is a nuclear threat.
7. The IAEA and all 16 United States Intelligence Agencies are unanimous in agreement that Iran is not building and does not possess nuclear weapons.
8. In 1986, Mordachai Vanunu blew the whistle and provided photographs showing Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona.
9. Israel made the same accusations against Iraq that it is making against Iran, leading up to Israel's bombing of the power station at Osirik. Following the invasion of 2003, international experts examined the ruins of the power station at Osirik and found no evidence of a clandestine weapons factory in the rubble.
10. The United Nations has just released the Goldstone Report, a scathing report which accuses Israel of 37 specific war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza earlier this year. Israel has denounced the report as "Anti-Semitic (even though Judge Goldstone is himself Jewish), and the United States will block the report from being referred to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, thereby making the US Government an accessory after-the-fact.
We all need to be Joe Wilson right now. We need to stand up and scream, "LIAR!" at every politician and every talking media moron that is pushing this war in Iran. And we need to keep dong it until they get the message that we will not be deceived any more.
Israel wants to send your kids off to die in Iran, and YOU are the only one that can stop them.
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Jewish Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out Against Israel
This is an excellent speech about the parallels between the Israelis now and the Germans in the 2nd world war.
 People's Republic of China (PRC) |
Buying Spree Nets China Stakes in Top U.S. Firms Flush with cash despite the global economic downturn, China’s sovereign wealth fund quietly snapped up more than $9 billion worth of shares last year in some of the biggest American corporations, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup.  Militarization of the Indian Ocean: China Spurs Navy Fortification in Andaman GlobalResearch.co - by Rahul Singh - 2010-02-08 China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean region appears to have injected new momentum in India’s efforts to fortify its farthest military outpost, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Plans are afoot to upgrade airstrips to support fighter operations, induct 5,000 more troops and deploy additional warships, senior officials said.
Myanmar’s Coco Islands, where the Chinese navy has reportedly set up a surveillance post, are barely 40 km from the Andamans’ northernmost tip Landfall.
New Delhi may not openly flag concerns about China’s strategic moves to squeeze India with its presence in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, but there is a growing realisation the Andamans hold the key to dominating a vital maritime zone. READ MORE |
| JAPAN |
Japan resists paying billions for U.S. troops on its soil.
| UKRAINE |
KIEV - Ukraine has narrowly chosen the pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovich as its next President, results showed yesterday, after elections that rejected the West-leaning policies of the Orange Revolution.
Wayne Madsen Report Viktor Yanukovych deals blow to neocons by winning Ukrainian presidential election. |
| PAKISTAN |
Tensions grow as Pakistan cancels talks with India
(Delhi, February 8) “Pakistan Shows its True Colours,” screamed angry headlines here this morning after Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi abruptly and defiantly refused to schedule talks with India about the 2008 terrorist attacks on Mumbai and the countries’ longstanding dispute over Kashmir. Those attacks left 173 people dead. The terrorist group, Lashkar e Taiba, has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which shook this nation of over a billion people.
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 Iran moves closer to nuke warhead capacity Iran's nuclear envoy says he's formally notified the International Atomic Energy Agency of the decision to enrich at least some of it uranium stockpile to 20 percent. According to one expert, that would be a significant step toward weapon-grade uranium. WhatReallyHappened.com commentary: Weapons-grade uranium is 95% or higher. 20% is consistent with medical isotopes, which Iran openly admits they are making and selling. You cannot pretend you do not know you are being lied to this time. After Iraq, there is no question that the US Government lies about nuclear weapons to justify unprovoked attacks against nations whose oil the US Government covets. If you allow this attack to happen without protest, then you are no better than the Germans who stood mute while Hitler marched Germany into WW2. |
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Iraq War Facts, Statistics As Of January 6,2010:Casualties,Spending,Iraqi Quality of Life
For your quick reading, I’ve listed key statistics about the Iraq War, taken primarily from data analyzed by various think tanks, including The Brookings Institution’s Iraq Index, and from mainstream media sources. Data is presented as of January 6, 2010, except as indicated.
U.S. SPENDING IN IRAQ
Spent & Approved War-Spending – About $800 billion of US taxpayers’ funds spent or approved for spending through mid-2009, including $76 billion requested by President Obama and approved by Congress.
U.S. 2009 Monthly Spending in Iraq – $7.3 billion as of Oct 2009
U.S. 2008 Monthly Spending in Iraq – $12 billion
U.S. Spending per Second – $5,000 in 2008 (per Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on May 5, 2008)
Cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq – $390,000 (Congressional Research Service)
Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq – $9 billion of US taxpayers’ money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.
Missing – $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. (Per CBS News on Dec 6, 2007.)
Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq – $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings
Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported – $1.4 billion
Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items – $20 billion
Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem “questionable or supportable” – $3.2 billion
Number of major U.S. bases in Iraq – 75 (The Nation/New York Times)
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Afghanistan "Geological Reserves Worth a Trillion Dollars" President Obama's Secret: Only 100 Al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan With New Surge, 1,000 U.S. Soldiers and $300 Million for Every One Al Qaeda Fighter Afghanistan Contractors Outnumber Troops Threat of Afghan heroin is greater threat than the Taliban  KABUL – Avalanches in a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 15 people, injured more than 50 and left hundreds stranded on blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday. The avalanches took place Monday following heavy snows in the Salang Pass that links the Afghan capital with the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and rescuers worked through the night to save more than 200 people, said Gen. Abdul Rahman Sayedkhail, Parwan provincial police chief. He said 54 people were injured. Russia rules out sending troops to Afghanistan - security chief Russia will not send troops to help NATO forces counter Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, where it fought nine years ago during the Cold War, the country's top security official said on Tuesday. "We are strongly opposed to our military's role in operations in Afghanistan," Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said responding to media reports on NATO suggesting Russia contribute personnel to the Afghan campaign. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Sunday he did not rule out the possibility for Russia to join the alliance's operation in Afghanistan as it shares the bloc's security concerns. Rasmussen told a security conference in Munich that Russia would find it hard to fight the spread of drugs produced in Afghanistan, if the southwestern country turned into a refuge for terrorists again "A key to the Afghan problem lies in the political rather than military domain," Patrushev said echoing Russian leaders' repeated statements that Moscow would never sent troops into Afghanistan from where Soviet forces pulled out in 1989 after suffering humiliating losses from Islamic insurgents. The Soviet Union lost some 14,500 military personnel in its 1979-1989 campaign in Afghanistan. But Patrushev reaffirmed Russia's commitments to help the alliance in other ways. Russia has allowed land transits of non-lethal NATO supplies to Afghanistan and promised more assistance in the bloc's operations in the war-torn country by expanding transits, supplying helicopters and training Afghan security forces. The Western military bloc froze ties with Russia after its armed conflict with Georgia in 2008, but they have since resumed formal contacts. Russia's new military doctrine identified NATO's expansion to include former Soviet-bloc states as a threat. MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti) |
| VENEZUELA |
Chavez added that the coup against Honduran ousted president Manuel Zelaya was supported by the United States.
"The U.S. Empire" and the right-wing try to make the next government of Brazil to be subordinated to the imperialist mandate "which also will be terrible for the unity of South America," Chavez said.
In October 2009, the United States and Colombia signed a military cooperation agreement, which allows the presence of American troops in military bases already existing in Colombia.
The agreement has been criticized by member countries of the Union of South American Nations, mainly by Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.
Chavez, on several occasions, has said that the U.S.-Colombia military agreement is targeting Venezuela by the United States.
Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS - February 9, 2010 (snowday)
Donald Rumsfeld Makes $5 Million Killing on Bird Flu Drug -- NOTE: This article dates back to 2006!! Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease.
FDA Agents Invade Amish Farm in PA -- At 9:40 a.m. Thursday, February 4, only a few miles from the scene of the Nickel Mines Amish massacre of 2006, another drama against the Amish began as agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came onto the property of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, without permission, claiming to be conducting an investigation.
Top Canadian military official charged with murder -- The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women Ontario Provincial Police Det. Insp. Chris Nicholas said Monday that Col. Russell Williams, 46, was also charged in the sexual assaults of two other women. Williams was arrested Sunday in Ottawa.
Former Spy Bosses, Goldman Exec Behind Full-Body Scanner -- It turns out that one of the scanner’s strongest advocate, Michael Chertoff, former Homeland Security Czar, stands to gain by the sale of the scanner, via his security consulting outfit, Chertoff Group.
Thoughts For The Day from our friend Mike Tawse in the UK -- If We Are To Live In Peace and Empathy And Patience. Read More....
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NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - February 9, 2010 
Today's health headlines from across the 'net(Hand-picked by the Health Ranger for your education and amusement)
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| NON-GMO Shopping Guide Institute for Responsible Technology Dangers of Genetically Engineered Foods GMO Corn Linked to Liver, Kidney, Heart Damage: Research Shows 10 reasons why we don’t need GM foods India considers GM crop despite warning Bt brinjal, a new aubergine variety, could help to avert a food crisis — or it could poison humans, scientists warn. Kishor Tiwani, an activist, alleges that the introduction of GM cotton — the only GM crop permitted in India — has let farmers down. He claims that more than three million hectares of GM cotton failed in the western state of Maharashtra last year, contributing to scores of farmer suicides. |
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Today in History Tuesday February 9, 2010 1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president. 1870 - The United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. 1885 - The first Japanese arrived in Hawaii. 1895 - Volley Ball was invented by W.G. Morgan. 1895 - The first college basketball game was played as Minnesota State School of Agriculture. 1909 - The first forestry school was incorporated in Kent, Ohio. 1942 - The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II. 1942 - Daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the U.S. 1943 - During World War II, the battle of Guadalcanal ended with an American victory over Japanese forces. 1953 - The movie "Superman" premiered. 1960 - The first star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was for Joanne Woodward. 1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight. 1971 - The San Fernando Valley experienced the Sylmar earthquake that registered 6.4 on the Richter Scale. 1971 - The Apollo 14 spacecraft returned to Earth after mankind's third landing on the moon. 1997 - "The Simpsons" became the longest-running prime-time animated series. "The Flintstones" held the record previously. 2001 - "Hannibal," the sequel to "Silence of the Lambs", opened in theaters. |
CARP NEWS!
U.S. to commit $78.5M to try to halt Asian carp
Baby elephant plays in the water  Melbourne Zoo Feb 9 2010 A female elephant calf enjoys the water at Melbourne Zoo on February 9, 2010. The un-named calf, which goes on display on February 10, was born at 110kg on January 16 and has been putting away 12 to 14 litres of milk a day. At the time of this photograph she weighed around 138kg. |
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If the United States invades Iran, it may well lead to a new World War, a war that unlike its predecessor will not end with nuclear weapons, but start with them.
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