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  Thursday Evening - February 11, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
 More evidence showing our government's lack of accurate reporting on earthquakes .... from the Chinese news there was a 6.6 mag quake and USGS calls this same quake a 5.7 magnitude ... the government would hate to wake up the sleeping American sheeple - keep them entertained with the republican - democrat game they have rigged to always keep their elitists' puppet masters winning - no matter which American political party wins! 6.6 magnitude quake strikes Bali, Indonesia  JAKARTA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- A shallow quake with magnitude of 6.6 struck waters off Bali Island, a center of Indonesia's tourist industry, on Friday morning, the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reported here. The U.S. Geological Survey first recorded the quake was at 5.9 magnitude and then revised it down at 5.7 magnitude. The quake jolted at 1:43 a.m. Jakarta time Friday (1843 GMT Thursday) with epicenter at 210 km southwest Nusadua of Bali at the depth at 10 km under sea bed, an official of the agency Farid Nurahim told Xinhua over phone. The agency did not issue tsunami warning as the quake magnitude was lower than 7, he said. The intensity of the quake was felt at 3 to 4 MMI (Modified Mercally Intensity) at Karangkates of East Java, 3 MMI at Denpasar and Badung of Bali, and 2 MMI in Yogyakarta, he said. Indonesia sits on a vulnerable quake-hit zone so called the " Pacific Ring of Fire." RELATED: National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications
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North Texas Snowfall Increases; Total Could Reach 10 Inches FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ― Snow has been falling across North Texas since 3 a.m, and it's getting heavier: we could have as much as 10 inches of snow before it's all over. MOST SNOW ON RECORD IN DC... Snowiest Winter in Philly's History... Records in Chicago... Baltimore Snow Record! | ||||||||||||||||||
BILL CLINTON HOSPITALIZED IN NYC
Russia temporary restricts food imports from U.S., Brazil, EU MOSCOW, February 12 (RIA Novosti) -- Russia has imposed temporary restrictions on meat and dairy imports from a number of U.S., Brazilian, Finnish and Czech companies starting from Friday, the country's agricultural regulator said. Tests revealed that some products contained harmful substances, while others were infected with salmonella, bacteria that cause a potentially lethal disease, salmonellosis, Rosselkhoznadzor said in a statement. Shipments from U.S. and Brazil, which had been sent before Friday, will be allowed to the Russian territory on the condition of mandatory lab tests. |
NJ Gov. Freezes Spending TRENTON (CBS) Gov. Chris Christie took broad steps Thursday to close New Jersey's $2.2 billion budget gap, freezing money for schools districts, higher education and hospital services, among hundreds of other programs. In his first major budget speech since being elected in November, the Republican governor told lawmakers that the state is in a financial state of crisis and that the current budget is in "shambles." Christie plans to freeze $1.6 billion in unspent money, including $475 million in school aid, $62 million for higher education, and $12.6 million in hospital charity care. .... |
Omar Bin Laden Says the U.S. Will Never Catch His Father
Osama bin Laden's son has a chilling warning for those who are hunting his father with drones, secret agents and missile strikes.
80 Haitians caught at sea repatriated to homeland
Miami-Dade police environmental fund under a cloud A fund set up to attack environmental crimes is facing scrutiny amid purchases of SUVs driven by top brass, satellite TV subscriptions and other expenses. |
Airport body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslims say
Muslim-American groups are supporting a religious ruling that forbids Muslims from going through body scanners.
Photos | Winter Olympics are a day away12:41 p.m. The countdown to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has reached the final hours. Athletes are practicing as Canada puts the final touches on the venues. More than 15,000 deployed for Olympics security |
China shuts down another 16,000 websites in porn crackdown
Source: Xinhua
Death toll of Afghan avalanche soars to 165  |
DPRK (North Korea) celebrates 68th birthday of Kim Jong Il
DPRK senior official meets UN special envoy
DPRK foreign minister meets UN special envoyChina finds no sweet solution to sugar shortage: report |
Recent CEO/CFO/Other Resignations (150+)
Taxpayer’s $2.3 Billion Stake In CIT Group Worth $0February 11th, 2010 Fascist Soup Total loss. Praise Mao. You love it. The Street reports:
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U.S. Foreclosure Filings Surpass 300,000 for 11th Month in Row - Bloomberg
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. foreclosure filings rose 15 percent in January from a year earlier and exceeded 300,000 for the 11th consecutive month as modification programs failed to keep delinquent borrowers in their homes, RealtyTrac Inc. said.
A total of 315,716 properties received a notice of default, auction or bank seizure last month, or one in 409 households, the Irvine, California-based seller of default data said today in a statement. Filings fell 10 percent from December.
Bank seizures, also known as real-estate-owned or REOs, may rise to a record 3 million this year, RealtyTrac said last month. About 66,000 delinquent loans out of a targeted 4 million by 2012 were permanently modified as of Dec. 31 under the Obama administration’s Home Affordable Modification Program, according to the Treasury Department. About 787,000 mortgages are in trial programs that change loan terms, the Treasury said Jan. 19.
“It’s almost inevitable that modifications will fail,” Michelle Meyer, New York-based U.S. economist for Barclays Capital Inc., said in an interview. “Over the next several months, we should see REOs increase at an accelerated pace.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=amQhHZdxq3Ag
TARP Watchdog Says Commercial Real Estate Loans Pose Danger - Bloomberg Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Commercial real estate loans have the potential to go sour and wreck the U.S. economy unless regulators prepare now, according to a report today from a watchdog Congress created for the government’s financial bailout program. The report should be a “red flag” that prompts regulators to increase preparations for staving off another banking crisis, said Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and chairman of the Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The panel was created in October 2008 to monitor the Treasury’s efforts to rescue the banking system from the worst financial crisis in decades. Between 2010 and 2014, about $1.4 trillion in commercial real estate loans will reach the end of their terms and nearly half are “underwater,” meaning the borrower owes more than the property is worth, the report said. If economic conditions and tighter lending standards mean that borrowers can’t refinance, “hundreds” of banks could fail and the broader economy could suffer, said the report, which the panel approved unanimously. “There is a serious problem coming and it will hit an already weakened financial system,” Warren said on a conference call yesterday with reporters. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=adAZXsczStfc |
From this morning's UrbanSurvival.com
Not So Swift Thinkers
Gordo (the Gold Seller) Brown thinks a global bank tax is near. Proof positive again to me that Gordo and the rest of the PTB are trying to make it appear as those they are doing something good.
Anyone who would sell 60% of his country's gold reserves around $275 an ounce has to be a financial dope. Why anyone would listen to his poppycock now stuns me. Let alone how he got into office, but that's what happens when you're a tool who sells cheap gold to the PTB, huh?
But, the truth of globalism is a lot simpler than just putting a tax on banks which will then (invariably) be passed on depositors. And the banks are frauds that don't return purchasing power nowadays anyway....
The fact is that globalism -- through its reduction in tariffs -- has caused individual countries to lose tariff incomes (which BTW is why America didn't have an 'income tax' for more than 100 years).
The result: Putting income taxes on people and ensuring that when you go to work, someone in India or a lesser developed country can bid on doing your job. In other words, with perfect globalism, your income is being systematically brought down to the lowest global bidders who in turn, effectively pay a commission to global corporatists for arranging to steal your job. The globalists mark up the least cost bidder's work, call it profit, and maintain control....is that a sweet screwing, or what?
Which is why you can seldom find companies that have customer service in the USA anymore, or IT departments, or...well you know the bloodied list.
Take the unemployment in the UK and bring back offshored jobs and guess what? Prosperity would return. Same thing in America. But thanks to a gazillion dollars in high-priced lawyering, this is now all set in treaties and 'agreements' so it has to collapse in on itself, which is how depressions happen - when houses of cards blow over.
But no, the globalists preach daily at the Church of the Almighty Dollar's Profit Pulpit against 'trade barriers' because it's how they make their spreads. But, I repeat myself - besides you already knew that, right?
The "Y-shaped" downturn - A Greater Depression? A more severe crisis is already "Baked in the Cake"  |
War Widows Wage Futile Fight for Benefits
Feb 10 2010
For a decade, war widows in matching yellow suit jackets and hats quietly and persistently have knocked on Capitol Hill doors seeking an end to the "widows' tax," a government policy that deprives them of benefits from their husbands' military service.
They are always warmly received, but that's where the hospitality ends. Despite pledges of help from scores of federal officials — including President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — their long quest remains unfulfilled.
Every year since 2005, the Senate has voted to eliminate the policy that denies widows the ability to collect both a military survivor's benefit and the full annuity bought when their military husbands were alive. But in each of those years, the fix was dropped when House and Senate negotiators wrote the final bill in private. ....
| Associated Press Two former Blackwater Worldwide employees say in a federal lawsuit that the security company repeatedly billed the U.S. government for excessive or inappropriate expenses. A man who killed his newlywed wife by throwing her off a cliff in suburban Los Angeles has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The Internal Revenue Service and 37 states are cracking down on companies that try to trim payroll costs by illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, rather than as full employees, The Associated Press has learned. The practice costs governments billions in lost revenue and can leave workers high and dry when they are hurt at work or are left jobless. A private prison in Arizona is on lockdown after a brawl broke out that involved as many as 150 minimum-security inmates and left a staff member and 12 prisoners with minor injuries. A fire station in Maryland has been largely destroyed by a three-alarm blaze after snow from the region's double blizzards collapsed the roof. A group of conservative Utah lawmakers wants to use eminent domain to take federal land in the state. A Texas jury acquitted a nurse on Thursday who filed an anonymous complaint to a state board about a doctor who she said had improperly encouraged patients to buy herbal medicines and wanted to use hospital supplies to perform a procedure at a patient's home. West Virginia is spending about $1 million a day to clear snow after two epic blizzards hit the East Coast. Several D.C. lawmakers are slamming the mayor's approach to digging out from record-breaking snow. 2 latest east Texas church fires deemed arson The Associated Press Investigators have determined that two rural church fires on the same night this week in east Texas were the acts of an arsonist. Intelligence ties between London and Washington have been jeopardized by a British court's disclosure that a terrorism suspect was beaten and shackled in U.S. custody, diplomats and security officials said Wednesday. Argentina has escalated its dispute with Britain over oil and gas exploration in the South Atlantic, blocking a ship it said was carrying drilling equipment for the disputed Falkland Islands from leaving the port of Buenos Aires. A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan border policeman's uniform blew himself up Thursday at a U.S. base near the Pakistani frontier, wounding five Americans, an Afghan official said. Polish police recovered 11 tons of human blood plasma that had been stolen from a U.S. company and was on its way to Austria, officials said Thursday. At least seven suspected drug traffickers and a policeman are dead after a gunbattle broke out in a Rio slum a day before Carnival. The lawyer for one of the suspects in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack was shot dead Thursday, police and a colleague said. U.S. and Afghan soldiers linked up with Marines on the outskirts of the Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, sealing off escape routes and setting the stage for what is being described as the biggest offensive of the nine-year war. NATO should serve as a global security forum where members could consult with partner nations on threats to international stability, the alliance's chief said on Thursday, adding this might require a "cultural revolution" within NATO. Two suicide bombers struck outside a police complex in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 15 people and underscoring the relentless security threat despite army operations and U.S. missile strikes against al-Qaida and the Taliban. The United States and Russia have agreed that a new arms control treaty will mention a link between offensive nuclear arms and defenses against them, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow said Thursday, signaling a possible breakthrough in arms reduction talks. The Saudi religious police launched Thursday a nationwide crackdown on stores selling items that are red or in any other way allude to the banned celebrations of Valentine's Day, a Saudi official said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed Thursday that Iran has produced its first batch of uranium enriched to a higher level, saying his country will not be bullied by the West into curtailing its nuclear program a day after the U.S. imposed new sanctions. The Philippines launched a European-funded program Thursday to reduce the country's large number of extralegal killings and disappearances of activists, journalists and union workers. European Union leaders faced down markets Thursday with a statement of support for Greece - but offered no detailed bailout for a debt crisis that has plunged the euro into its deepest crisis since it was launched 11 years ago. |
Tehran Uses China’s High-Tech Trucks to Squash Protests
Clashes reported as Iran marks Revolution Day...
Iran produces first batch of 20% enriched uranium: president
- Former Uruguayan fascist dictator sentenced to 30 years in prison. Juan Maria Bordaberry was one of Henry Kissinger's Latin American caudillos. Hopefully, the vile Kissinger will be next.
- Cyber-rebels shut down Australian government websites. Hacking of sites protests Australian government censorship of Internet. GOOD ON YA MATES!
- Thousands protest Greek government wage freeze. Government workers hit streets while only the police -- the new centurions of the elite -- stage standoff with their fellow government employees. Did the police ever wonder who orders their guns and ammo? It is the employees in the contracting and logistics departments -- people who could easily divert such shipments to others, with the police on the receiving end for a change.
QUAKE NEWS (Chapter III of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" by Emmanuel Goldstein, 1984, by George Orwell: "All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon . . . others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Pentagon briefing, April 28, 1997:"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.")
- Haitian government raises quake death toll to at least 230,000. Of course, who will ever know after the world was okay with bulldozers dumping piles of bodies into mass graves. When its black people who are the victims, mass disposal of human bodies seems perfectly okay to the corporate media.
- South Java shaken by quake. 5.4 quake strikes in Yogyakarta province with USGS once again under-estimating quake at 4.8.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Reuters photographer released in Iraq after a year and a half of being detained by U.S. military thugs without charges. Military's charges against Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed are "classified." A year of Mohammed's incarceration was under Obama. more change, huh, Barky?
- Simon Wiesenthal Center shows its "tolerance" by building a Jewish "Museum of Tolerance" on top of an ancient Muslim cemetery in occupied Jerusalem. The other "constant whiner" -- Abe Foxman's pal Rabbi Marvin Hier proclaims "its a fantastic site." Meanwhile, The New Republic plays its tiresome "anti-Semite" card [canard] against Andrew Sullivan. It is really just a question of mind over matter with the Zionist lickspittles, we don't mind and they don't matter.
- Iraq expelling 250 Blackwater/Xe personnel. Iraq responds to CIA Judge Ricardo Urbina dropping case against Blackwater murderers of Iraqi civilians.
NATIONAL NEWS
- Blackwater billed government for prostitute and alcohol. Mercenary firm also double-billed on Afghanistan and Katrina contracts.
- Four governors defend Toyota. They claim Obama has a major conflict-of-interest because his administration has a major stake in GM. This article has an error: one of the four "Republican" governors is a Democrat -- Kentucky Gov. Steven Beshear. WMR reported on Toyota story with further details of Obama's conflict-of-interest.
- 1,000 children forced into sex trade every year. Not in Thailand -- in Ohio! Connections to Harrisburg -- Gov. Ed Rendell's sordid state capital.
- Historic blizzard slams East Coast. Snowfall in Washington beats record set in 1898-1899 winter.
13th Street in downtown Washington devoid of traffic as blizzard wallops DC Metro area.
- Former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-TX) dead at 76. Wilson's advocacy for Afghan mujaheddin inspired the "Al Qaeda" CIA pool of mercenaries and weapons smugglers and he was the main character in the book and film "Charlie Wilson's War."
- Obama is cool with obscene bonuses for Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs. Thanks for letting us know who controls you, Barky (the trained seal).
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Hacker group in demonstration against web filter that blocks sites deemed offensive by authorities Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, February 11, 2010 Hackers protesting government censorship of the Internet have shut down several Australian government websites in a demonstration against the announcement that filters would be imposed to block access to websites deemed offensive by the authorities. The..
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Surpass 300,000 for 11th Month in Row
Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze NY Times February 10, 2010 WASHINGTON — As millions of people along the East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments. Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of dangerous human-driven climate change — this looks more like global cooling, they taunt. Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent and more intense weather events. But some independent climate experts say the blizzards in the Northeast no more prove that the planet is cooling than the lack of snow in Vancouver or the downpours in Southern California prove that it is warming. As an illustration of their point of view, the family of Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, a leading climate skeptic in Congress, built a six-foot-tall igloo on Capitol Hill and put a cardboard sign on top that read “Al Gore’s New Home.”   RELATED: Scientists call for reforms to UN climate body  |
Canada Free Press | Today's Cover Stories - February 11, 2010  When Islamists attacked Mumbai, India’s New York, many people called it that country’s 9/11. Although it certainly was the most high profile attack, it was far from the first in this country of over a billion people. India faces terrorist attacks of one sort or another multiple times each week. The South Asia Terrorism Portal collects figures on terrorism here and calculated that 47,371 Indians have died in terrorist attacks since 1994. Since 2006, about two-thirds of the fatalities occurred as a result of Islamist attacks; the rest came at the hands of radical communists. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved a request to add Al-Jazeera English (AJE) to the list of television satellite services for distribution in Canada. Supporters of the Arab government-funded propaganda channel hope that acceptance in Canada will lead to more cable and satellite carriers in the U.S. picking up the incendiary network. Obama’s minders have a bit of a problem. Thus, they ran back to David Plouffe, his 2008 campaign manager who will increase his role in the Obama administration. Recall that after the Brown victory, Obama went back on the campaign trail in Ohio, looking and sounding dreadful. The Stupid Weather Still Won’t Cooperate with the Leftist’s Global Warming Science By Jim Byrd Wednesday, February 10, 2010 In another calamitous blow to the global warming church, the highly anticipated National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), which is part of the Commerce Department, had to cancel their global altering press conference about man-made global warming in Washington D.C. because of an unprecedented winter storm that has shut D.C. and the federal government down. Alas, all is not lost; they will hold their press conference via telephone, God willing the snow and ice does not disable the telephone system. Since taking office, Obama’s key objective on terrorism has been to transform the public perception of it from an international military conflict, to a limited domestic criminal problem. Renaming terrorism to the bureaucratically euphonious term, “Man Caused Disasters” was straight out of the first rule in the textbook of organizational coverups, to phrase your sentences so that the identity of the perpetrators of the crisis remain as vague as possible. Focusing on everything but terrorism, while shutting down Gitmo and dispatching top Al Qaeda terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to civilian trials, was meant to restore the illusion of normalcy, while doing away with the terrorism focus of the Bush Administration. Is Assaulting Jewish Students on Canadian Campuses Now Legitimate Criticism of Israel? By Dr. Richard L. Cravatts Wednesday, February 10, 2010 In a country where multiculturalism has a reverent following and criticism of protected minorities has essentially been criminalized as “hate speech,” it is more than ironic that on some Canadian campuses radical students have taken it upon themselves to target one group, Jewish students, with a hatred that is nominally forbidden for any others. We-the-People have protested the increasingly apparent willful destruction of our economy, jobs and careers and liberties and freedoms by the Obama Administration for many months. We have told Obama & Co—in no uncertain terms—that we want neither his totalitarian ObamaCare Death Plan nor his Cap & Tax based upon the global warming hoax; a hoax established by the Marxist elite to steal even more power and resources from the American people and ultimately the people of the world. I know for a fact that access to my own website is blocked by many colleges and libraries in the UK, who put me on their ‘proscribed’ list for my non-PC views. But, at least there are other ways to access it. I can put up with this kind of childish game… but there now appears to be a different, deadly-serious game afoot – the complete silencing of dissent on the internet. |
Possible cancer cure found in blushwood shrub
Alex Jones' InfoWars.com | Featured Stories February 11, 2010 Man Arrested for Practicing Second Amendment, Warning About Martial LawKurt Nimmo | Massachusetts passed a martial law bill in 2009. Internet Censorship Protest Shuts Down Australian Government WebsitesPaul Joseph Watson | Hacker group in demonstration against web filter that blocks sites deemed offensive by authorities State Department Admits: Detroit Christmas Bomber Was Deliberately Allowed to Keep US Entry Visa, Board His FlightWebster G. Tarpley | The Detroit Christmas bomber was deliberately and intentionally allowed to keep his US entry visa. Who Wants to Bomb Iran?David Kenner | The “Bomb Iran” crowd is making a big return to the political center stage. Inflationary Depression Still DominatesBob Chapman | The stimulus will fail to work and the world will slip into total insolvency and deflationary depression. |
Texas Prisons Part Of State Budget Cutting AUSTIN (AP) ― Closing some Texas prisons is an option as the correctional system faces a Monday deadline to put together a budget-cutting plan. Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Joe Straus asked all state agencies in January to offer proposals cutting 5 percent of their budgets by Feb. 15. Texas is facing a projected state budget shortfall of at least $10 billion. |
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Feds push for tracking cell phones (CNet Feb 11 2010) ... On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments (PDF) in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices. In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.... RELATED: Obama: Americans Enjoy No “Reasonable Expectation of Privacy” February 11th, 2010 Fascist Soup Our glorious leaders have decided knowing where you are at all times does not violate your 4th amendment right to privacy. Praise Mao. CNet reports:
I just can’t keep up anymore. I feel totally overwhelmed by the unfolding tyranny that spews out of our criminal government on a daily basis. Its like a sewer drain overflowing with crap spilling into my backyard. This is just insane, “no reasonable expectation of privacy” as it pretains to knowing where my phone is at, and hence, knowing where I am at? They are seriously arguing this? I’ll take bets the court upholds this. The court is a bunch of tyrant criminals even more so that the fascist politicians that are put into office by the banks and lobbyists.  |
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| Pentagon's Black Budget Tops $56 Billion Feb 1 2010 Obama seeks record $708 billion in 2011 defense budget Pentagon Wants Magnetic Muscle Makers The Pentagon’s scientific fringe want to fast-track the quick and easy repair of wartime wounds, by eliminating one of the most important elements of tissue engineering - and replacing it with magnetic fields. Last year, Darpa-funded researchers successfully generated human muscle tissue, and the agency requested proposals for a device that could pump out new body parts made with adult stem cells. Now, Darpa’s next-gen military medicine mission continues: the agency’s budget for the upcoming year includes $6.5 million for the creation of a scaffold-free tissue engineering platform, which would allow the construction of “large, complex tissues in vitro and in vivo.”  |
| Rapid Breakup of the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf February 11, 2010 | NASA Earth Observatory “Within a 24-hour space, an area of sea ice larger than the state of Rhode Island broke away from the Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf and shattered into many smaller pieces. ” Quoted from the Earth Observatory image release. |
| Coal Companies Entering the Natural Gas Business? February 11, 2010 | Washington Post The demand for coal could suffer significantly as climate change efforts look for cleaner energy production. Now some coal companies with significant mineral rights holdings are starting to consider going into the natural gas business. |
Five Percent Severance on Marcellus Shale Gas? February 11, 2010 | Reuters Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell proposes a five percent severance tax on natural gas produced from the Marcellus Shale. Although natural gas producers are strongly opposed to the tax, many other states collect similar taxes on resource production. |
Haiti: Minimizing Damage of Natural Disasters February 11, 2010 | University of Colorado Natural disasters are inevitable, but the severe damage that they sometimes cause is not. Information and preparation are the keys to minimizing destruction in areas with known geologic hazards. Haiti could benefit significantly by incorporating knowledge about earthquakes, landslides, and hurricanes in their rebuilding efforts. |
Chevron Disputes Environmental Report February 11, 2010 | In Ecuador, a court-appointed study argues that Chevron should pay $27 billion for environmental damage. Chevron says that the study should be thrown out because the primary author has serious conflicts of interest. |
Smog From Asia Reaches the US West Coast February 11, 2010 | AOL News Air pollution from Asia is being carried by winds and reaching the western United States. Ozone levels in China have been increasing for the past decade. Related: Tracking Pollution by Satellite from Asia to North America |
How Bacteria Became Mitochondria February 11, 2010 | Monash University How bacteria became mitochondria is one of the mysteries of early life. Biochemists at Monash University have some new information about this key metamorphosis. |
Volcanic Bomb February 11, 2010 | Earth Science Picture of the Day A recent Earth Science Picture of the Day is a volcanic bomb photographed and described by David Lynch. |
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Montserrat Volcano Shoots Ash 9 Miles Into SkyNew York Times - 3 minutes ago Filed at 6:02 p.m. ET SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A volcano on Montserrat shot ash some nine miles (15 kilometers) into the sky Thursday, one of its most dramatic events since a devastating 1997 eruption that drove away half the Caribbean island's population. The partial collapse of the dome in the volcano's crater also unleashed flows of hot gas and rocks, triggering sirens for the evacuation of about 20 people from a nearby village. Paul Cole, director of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory, said it appeared to be the most material ejected by the volcano in about four years. He estimated 10 percent to 15 percent of the hardened lava dome had collapsed. ''When we're looking at the lava dome now, there's a large scoop out of it that's missing,'' Cole said. The dome has crumbled several times since the volcano became active in 1995, and Cole said it is possible activity will settle down as the dome builds itself up again. He said there is no immediate cause for concern about more dangerous eruptions. The 1997 eruption killed 19 people and buried much of the island, including its former capital, Plymouth, which is now abandoned. Half the British territory's 12,000 inhabitants left. LIAT suspends flights due to airborne volcano ash clouds BVI News Online Partial dome collapse Montserrat Caribbean Hurricane Network Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Recent Yellowstone Earthquakes Website Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Summary as of 8 February 2010 As of February 8, 2010 9:00 AM MST there have been 1,771 earthquakes located. The swarm began January 17, 2010 around 1:00 PM MST about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the Old Faithful area on the northwestern edge of the Yellowstone Caldera. Volcanic Bomb Volcanic bombs are blobs of lava that have been ejected from a volcano during eruption. Being somewhat gooey, airflow often molds them into aerodynamic shapes, producing teardrop or “flying saucer” shapes. Some bombs cool and harden before hitting the ground; however, this one was still viscous, and its sharp leading edge (left) was curled over on impact. The airflow lines and direction are clearly evident on the bomb’s surface, indicating that it was oriented and not tumbling through the air. Like most lava, this one contained dissolved gas which came out of solution and formed bubbles. Bombs can be thrown many kilometers from a vent, but this one probably traveled only a few hundred meters, which perhaps explains why it did not have time to cool before landing. It was found on a cinder cone on the south flank of Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii, where many other bombs could be seen.  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Today in History Thursday February 11, 2010 1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America. 1878 - The first U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, was formed. 1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed. Italy now recognized the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City. 1936 - Pumping began the process to build San Francisco's Treasure Island. 1937 - General Motors agreed to recognize the United Automobile Workers Union, thereby ending the current sit-down strike against them. 1943 - General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe. 1945 - During World War II, the Yalta Agreement was signed by U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin. 1957 - The NHL Players Association was formed in New York City. 1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor was the first black woman to become a stewardess by making her initial flight. 1960 - Jack Paar walked off while live on the air on the "Tonight Show" with four minutes left. He did this in response to censors cutting out a joke from the show the night before. 1968 - The new 20,000 seat Madison Square Garden officially opened in New York. This was the fourth Garden. 1972 - McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. and Life magazine canceled plans to publish an autobiography of Howard Hughes. The work turned out to be fake. 1979 - Nine days after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran (after 15 years in exile) power was seized by his followers. 1984 - The tenth Space Shuttle mission returned to Earth safely. 1989 - Rev. Barbara C. Harris became the first woman to be consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church. 1990 - Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity. 1990 - In Tokyo, Japan, James "Buster" Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson in the tenth round to win the heavyweight championship. 1993 - Janet Reno was appointed to the position of attorney general by U.S. President Clinton. She was the first female to hold the position. 2000 - The space shuttle Endeavor took off. The mission was to gather information for the most detailed map of the earth ever made. 2000 - Great Britain suspended self-rule in Northern Ireland after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) failed to begin decommissioning (disarming) by a February deadline. 2002 - The six stars on NBC's "Friends" signed a deal for $24 million each for the ninth and final season of the series. |
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