Despite some of its flaws, Google seems determined to turn Fast Flip, the experimental news-reading app, into a success. It is still not polished enough to leave Google Labs, but it has gotten a lot more exposure, as it is now featured on the Google News homepage albeit at the very bottom. The change isn’t entirely unexpected, as the project got a lot … (read more)
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Fast Flip Gets Integrated into Google News
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Allure magazine cover
Beyonce is on the cover of the newest issue of Allure Magazine. If anyone has the magazine, feel free to send us the scans.
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Self-powered Pocket-Pump Flashlight needs your touch to glow
Eco Factor: Sustainable flashlight generates renewable energy.
While manufacturers are busy showcasing their green gadgets at this year’s CES, industrial designers are working to design products that run on clean energy and save it as well. The Pocket-Pump Flashlight is one such device that harvests renewable energy and makes sure that it never glows when there isn’t a need.
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Court Report: Coming and going
A busy Friday was marked by notable returns (Danny Granger(notes), Chauncey Billups(notes)) and losses (Vince Carter(notes), Anthony Randolph(notes)).
• Danny Granger returned to the court Friday, one day after being ruled out
for the weekend by Jim O’Brien. He made seven of 19 shots (3 of 10
threes) in 31 minutes en route to 19 points, and probably won’t push
his season average of 37 minutes initially. Nevertheless, it’s good to
see Granger back on the court, as well as Troy Murphy(notes), who returned
from his ankle injury (30 minutes, 21 points, 5 threes, 5 boards, 4
steals).• The suddenly crowded roster held Luther Head(notes) to 20 minutes
(6 points) in his sixth start of the season, with Brandon Rush(notes) (29
minutes, 7 points, 2 threes, 4 boards, 4 assists, 2 steals) and Mike
Dunleavy (26 minutes, 18 points, 4 threes, 6 boards, 3 assists, 1
steal) still warranting steady run. If everyone can get and stay
healthy and productive (Dunleavy in particular), then there will only
be so much playing time available for Head.• Friday’s line (32 minutes, 15 points, 1 three, 8 boards, 6
assists, 1 steal, 1 block) could be what pushes Ryan Gomes(notes) back into
the starting lineup, ahead of Damien Wilkins(notes) (23 minutes, 13 points, 4
boards, 3 assists).• Game two for the post-Arenas (?) Wizards was a 104-97 win over the Magic, thanks in large part to a 55-41 rebounding advantage and 30 made free throws. Sterling individual efforts came via Antawn Jamison(notes) (28 points, 11 boards, 2 steals), Caron Butler(notes) (23 points, 7 boards, 1 steal, 2 blocks), Brendan Haywood(notes) (18 points, 15 boards), and Randy Foye(notes) (20 points, 2 threes, 6 assists, 0 turnovers, 2 blocks). Mike Miller(notes) returned to the starting lineup and played 39 minutes in his first game action since Nov. 21 (6 points, 6 boards, 6 assists, 5 turnovers). He was also sporting a buzz cut. Tonight’s starting five should stick until injury and/or transactions affect any/all of the involved parties.
• Vince Carter just can’t get anything going. He’s 69th in per-game rank on the season, and that drops to 102nd over the past month. Entering Friday’s action, he’d shot 33 percent over his past nine games and 21 percent over his past four. Sadly, things only got worse Friday, as VC sprained his left shoulder in the second quarter on a pick by Andray Blatche(notes). He left without talking to reporters and we’ll have to wait until at least Saturday to get some more specific details. J.J. Redick(notes) would once again benefit if VC were to miss any games. He had 14 points and made three treys in 33 minutes Friday and averaged 13.2 points and 2.3 threes in six starts in early November.
• Jose Calderon(notes) played 24 minutes in his second game since returning from a hip flexor strain (8 points, 3 assists) and it’s hard to see anything but some kind of platoon with Jarrett Jack(notes) (31 minutes, 10 points, 1 three, 4 boards, 4 assists, 1 steal, 1 block) moving forward. The split could eventually turn back in Calderon’s favor, but it won’t happen in the short-term.
• The Raptors have now won eight of nine games, while the 108-106 loss pushed the 76ers to 7-8 in games where they’ve held a double-digit lead at any point and 10-25 overall. Eddie Jordan is not making a lot of friends these days and nobody can deny that the matchup of system and personnel is looking poor, at best.
• Elton Brand(notes) missed the game with a stomach virus but is expected to play on Saturday. Allen Iverson(notes) took a hit on his arthritic left knee Friday and will not be in the lineup Saturday.
• The Jazz were a tale of two teams in the home-and-home series with the Grizzlies, playing without Deron Williams(notes). In Wednesday’s 117-94 win in Utah, they shot 57 percent as a team and, amazingly enough, had a season-high 39 assists on 46 made field goals. The Jazz then fell to just 40-percent shooting in Friday’s 91-89 loss in Memphis. Ronnie Brewer(notes) propped up 13 total points in the two games with averages of 4.5 boards, 8 assists, and 2.5 steals. C.J Miles scored a season-high 24 Wednesday and then went scoreless in 25 minutes Friday (0 for 7). Williams (wrist) is no lock to play on Saturday, either.• Mike Bibby(notes) may be working himself back into the scoring mix for the Hawks. He had a recent stretch of 10 straight games without taking at least 10 shots, but he’s reached that milestone in three of the past five games. During that time, he’s averaged 13 points on 49-percent shooting, 2 threes, 5 assists, 1.6 turnovers, and 1.2 steals in 29 minutes.
• Meanwhile, Jamal Crawford(notes) has been the Carl Landry(notes) of guards, providing consistent and efficient offense for the Hawks without significant supporting stats. Over the past 10 games, he’s averaged 19.4 points on 49-percent shooting, 2.3 threes, and 84-percent foul shooting, 3.4 boards, 2.1 assists, 2.3 turnovers, and 0.8 steals.
• Chris Paul(notes) shut down Devin Harris(notes) in a big way Friday, limiting him to four points (2 of 9 shooting) and four assists in 34 minutes. Paul himself went for 11 points and 18 assists in 40 minutes. Shaky play isn’t new for Harris, however – his per-game rank now stands at 128th on the season, with averages that include 15.9 points on 38-percent shooting, 0.6 threes, 5.8 assists, 2.8 turnovers, and 1.7 steals.
• Courtney Lee(notes) had season-highs of 28 points, five threes, and six assists in yet another losing effort for the Nets, as Harris, Chris Douglas-Roberts(notes), Yi Jianlian(notes), and Brook Lopez(notes) combined to shoot 33 percent (14 of 43).
• David West(notes) had another big game for the Hornets (32 points, 10 boards) and continues his upward trend. Over the past 11 games, he’s averaged 22 points on 54-percent shooting, 86-percent foul shooting, 8.8 boards, and 1.7 steals-plus-blocks.
• Manu Ginobili(notes) is healthy and producing and, in the interest of self-preservation, is assuming that he’s already made the last start of his career. Over the past eight games, Ginobili has averaged 13.4 points on 47-percent shooting, 1.3 threes, 95-percent foul shooting, 4.5 boards, 5.5 assists, 1.4 turnovers, and 2 steals in 28 minutes.
• Derrick Rose’s(notes) numbers have been much improved in recent weeks and he now looks to be completely over his early-season injuries. Over the past 10 games, he’s averaged 24.4 points on 48-percent shooting, 81-percent foul shooting, 4.5 boards, 6.8 assists, and 2.9 turnovers. With that said, 0.1 threes and 0.5 steals in those games could cap how far up the ranks he can climb. • Tyrus Thomas(notes) isn’t going to garner a lot of support to join the starting five with his recent stretch of games. Friday marked his fourth consecutive game with no more than seven points (4 points, 1-of-4 FG), and thus far in January he’s averaged 5.8 points on 32-percent shooting, 5.3 boards, 0.8 steals, and 1 block in 22 minutes.
• The Bucks have won three in a row despite just 9 points on 25-percent shooting from Brandon Jennings(notes) in those games. Jennings was 1-for-9 Friday (5 points, 8 assists, 4 turnovers, 3 blocks) and has made just 34 percent of his shots over the past 11 games. Andrew Bogut(notes) continued his strong play Friday (27 points, 13 boards, 6 blocks) and has now averaged 17.1 points on 50-percent shooting, 10.5 boards, and 2.2 blocks over his past 14 games.
• The MIA@PHO box score is having trouble registering Rafer Alston(notes), so jump here if you want to see his numbers. Alston got
a somewhat unexpected start and played 35 minutes, delivering a fairly
expected line (10 points, 3-of-9 FG, 2 threes, 4 assists, 1 turnover, 1
steal). Carlos Arroyo(notes) got the DNP-CD and will likely continue to do so
as long as Mario Chalmers(notes) doesn’t completely bottom out (13 minutes, 3
points, 3 assists). A reset on Alston: he’ll be a reasonable source of
threes, assists, and steals for fantasy owners that can deal with a
(very) low shooting percentage, and warrants a look in most formats.
Chalmers is universally droppable – his role as the No.2 point guard is
locked in with Arroyo also around for the duration.• Andre Miller(notes) turned in good line (39 minutes, 17 points, 1 three, 7 assists, 2 steals, 1 block) a day after a heated exchange with Nate McMillan. Both Miller and McMillan apologized to the team Friday and called this a closed issue. The Blazers shot 51 percent from the field and made 32 of 39 free throws in the 107-98 win over the Lakers, who shot 43 percent and made five of 10 free throws.
• Pau Gasol(notes) missed his third consecutive game Friday and Phil Jackson called him a "maybe" for Sunday. Lamar Odom(notes) has averaged 13.6 points on 47-percent shooting, 0.9 threes, 14 boards, 4.3 assists, 1.8 turnovers, and 1.9 steals-plus-blocks over the past eight games, all starts.
• Ime Udoka(notes) got a spot start Friday, in place of the injured Donte Greene(notes), and responded in huge fashion (35 minutes, 19 points, 4 threes, 14 boards, 2 steals, 1 block). With this team in build mode and Kevin Martin(notes) and Francisco Garcia(notes) eventually coming back, there isn’t a whole lot to read into this performance. Udoka peaked while Omri Casspi’s(notes) streak of 20-plus point games ended at four, as he scored just four points on 1-of-8 shooting.
• Andris Biedrins(notes) put up some good per-minute stats (22 minutes, 6 points, 9 boards, 3 assists, 0 turnovers, 3 steals) and continues to work his way back to 100 percent. He could be in for an expanded role now that Anthony Randolph is headed for the inactive roster. He left Friday’s game with a left ankle injury that has been diagnosed as a sprain and possible fracture, which could sideline him for up to six weeks. His status will be updated after a CT scan on Saturday.
• The Nuggets got Chauncey Billups and Chris Andersen(notes) back but were still missing Camelo Anthony for their 99-97 win over the Cavs Friday. Kenyon Martin(notes) had another double-double (19 points, 12 boards) and has averaged 13.1 points on 48-percent shooting, 10.3 boards, 1.4 steals, and 0.6 blocks over his past 13 games. Anthony is doubtful for Saturday but hopeful that he’ll be back on the active roster Monday.
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Saudi warplanes hit N Yemen districts again
Press TV
Friday, January 8th, 2010Saudi fighter jets have launched another round of
aerial bombardment of Houthi positions in northern parts of Yemen along
the border with the oil-rich kingdom.According to a statement released by the fighters on Thursday, Saudi
forces carried out 13 aerial raids on Jebel al-Madood as well as
villages in close proximity to the border region in northern Yemen.The statement added that Saudi forces fired some 1400 rockets against the rugged area.
The conflict in northern Yemen began in 2004 between Sana’a
and Houthi fighters. It intensified in August 2009 when the Yemeni army
launched Operation Scorched Earth in an attempt to crush the fighters
in the northern province of Sa’ada.Yemen claims the fighters are seeking to revive an imamate that was toppled in 1962.
The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violation of their civil
rights, political, economic and religious marginalization as well as
large-scale corruption.Houthi fighters say that Riyadh has also been pounding their
positions, and that Saudi forces strike Yemeni villages and
indiscriminately target civilians. According to the fighters, Saudis
use toxic materials, including white phosphorus bombs, against
civilians in northern Yemen.Saudi forces began fighting with Yemeni Shia resistance fighters,
known as Huthis, and bombing their positions on November 4 after
accusing the fighters of killing Saudi border guards.The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004, up
to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa’ada
and take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.Add starLikeShareShare with noteEmail
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‘US intervention in Yemen could strengthen al-Qaeda’
Press TV
Friday, January 8th, 2010A senior Yemeni official has warned that any military intervention
by the United States in the country to fight al-Qaeda will not go as
planned and to the contrary would make the terrorist network stronger.“Any intervention or direct [military] action by the United
States could strengthen the al-Qaeda network and not weaken it,”
Rashed Al-Alimi, the deputy prime minister for defense and security
affairs, said on Thursday.“Our position is clear; we will fight and chase the al-Qaeda
group depending on Yemeni forces and security agencies,” he added.The comments came amid reports that Washington is reviewing targets
for possible strike on Yemeni soil in retaliation for a failed
Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.Two senior US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said in late December
that the preparation is aimed at being ready with options for the White
House, should US President Barack Obama order a retaliatory strike.
They added that the effort is to see whether the targets can be
specifically linked to the planning for the airliner incident.“US special operations forces and intelligence agencies, and
their Yemeni counterparts, are working to identify potential al-Qaeda
targets in Yemen,” one of the officials said.Add starLikeShare
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Immigrants riot in Italy amid racial unrest
Reuters
Friday, January 8th, 2010Thousands of immigrants protested against racism in a
southern Italian town on Friday, after a night of rioting sparked by an
attack on African farm workers by a gang of white youths.In one of Italy’s worst episodes of racial unrest in years,
dozens of Africans in Rosarno, in the Calabria region, smashed car
windows with steel bars and stones and set cars and rubbish bins on
fire late into Thursday night.Police said at least one car was attacked while passengers were inside — several of whom were injured.
The immigrants, who also blocked a road, clashed with police in riot
gear. Police said 7 immigrants were arrested. Thirty-two people,
including 18 policemen, were injured.Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
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Afghan war kills three children a day: report
AFP
Friday, January 8th, 2010KABUL — Children are the biggest victims of the
war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old
killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog.Taliban-linked militants caused around 64 percent of all violent
child deaths last year, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a
report.Children were also press-ganged, sexually exploited, deprived of
health and education, and illegally detained by all sides in a war that
is dragging into its ninth year since the US-led invasion toppled the
Taliban regime.“At least three children were killed in war-related incidents
every day in 2009 and many others suffered in diverse but mostly
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France to Introduce Body Scanners At Airports
Reuters
Friday, January 8th, 2010France will use body scanners at some of its airports,
initially to search passengers heading to the United States, Transport
Secretary Dominique Bussereau told Europe 1 radio on Friday.France said it would tighten security measures at its airports after
a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. plane heading for Detroit on
Christmas day.Bussereau said the first scanners would be used “certainly for
flights to the United States and the most sensitive flights to start
with” and said there may be six or seven scanners at the
beginning.A scanner will be installed at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris
within the next two weeks and another at the city’s Orly airport
at a later date, Eric Plaisant, director of security at France’s
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China Threatens To Send Troops In To Hong Kong To Crush Protests
AFP
Friday, January 8th, 2010China’s top official in Hong Kong made a rare
appeal for pro-democracy protests to remain peaceful as a politician
close to the central government warned it will send in troops if the
demonstrations get out of hand, a report said Thursday.The remarks were made after thousands of people took to
the streets on New Year’s Day to call for universal suffrage and
for the release of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.The march was largely peaceful until scuffles broke out as around
100 activists were confronted by scores of police outside the Central
Government Liaison Office, the body responsible for the city’s
ties with Beijing.The group chanted slogans, banged drums, and tried to break through a police barricade.
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Britain in grip of coldest winter for 30 years
Press Association
Friday, January 8th, 2010Britain remained in the grip of the coldest winter for
more than 30 years today, with conditions set to feel even more icy in
the coming days.Temperatures were already on a par with the South Pole after the country suffered its coldest night of the winter so far.
There will be little respite, with more snow in eastern England
today and temperatures likely to be pegged at or below freezing in all
areas.Over the weekend an easterly wind will move from the south of
England across the country, bringing with it a biting chill factor as
the coldest spell for more than three decades grinds on.The mercury sank to minus 22.3C (8.1F) in Altnaharra in Scotland
this morning – close to the minus 22.9C (minus 9.2F) currently at
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Assassinator Robot Wasp No Longer Drug-Induced Hallucination
Darryl Mason
YOUR NEW REALITY
Friday, January 8th, 2010The future is now….that super-weird science fiction future
where flying killer robot insects can undertake missions that humans
with a steady hand and a sniper rifle once had to take care of :The Air Force Research Laboratory set out in 2008 to build the ultimate assassination robot : a
tiny, armed drone for U.S. special forces to employ in terminating
“high-value targets.” The military won’t say exactly
what happened to this Project Anubis,
named after a jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology. But
military budget documents note that Air Force engineers were successful
in “develop[ing] a Micro-Air Vehicle (MAV) with innovative seeker/tracking sensor algorithms that can engage maneuvering high-value targets.”It might seem limited compared to larger craft, but the
Wasp excels at close-in reconnaissance. Its quiet electric motor means
it can get near to targets without their ever being aware of its
presence.The Air Force’s 2008 budget plans described the planned Project Anubis as “a small UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] that carries sensors, data links, and a munitions payload to engage time-sensitive fleeting targets
in complex environments.” It noted that after it was developed by
the Air Force Research Laboratory, Anubis would be used by Air Force
Special Operations Command. The total cost was to be just over half a
million dollars.According to the budget, $1.75 million was spent to reach the goal.
Anubis, an Egyptian god of the dead, who dealt with mummification and getting the dead through to the afterlife :
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Israel gets its Hummus record back again 🙂
Take that Lebanon……..If you’re looking for a Guinness, you won’t find one in Abu Gosh.
JawdatNo one in the largely Muslim village sells beer.
But if it’s a Guinness world record you want, they now have one: the world’s largest dish of hummus. And it’s a dish all right.A 6.5-yard satellite dish with more than 9,000 pounds of hummus, the stuff of both consensus and controversy in the Middle East.
The new record beats one set only two months ago in Lebanon, which has been waging a culinary-rights war with Israel for the last two years. In the past, Lebanese industrialists have pushed for registration of falafel, tabouleh and other elements of traditional Middle Eastern cuisine as Lebanese to protect them from what they call plundering by the Israeli market.
Hummus doesn’t belong to anybody, says Jawdat Ibrahim, proprietor of the Abu Gosh restaurant and the organizer of the event. He hadn’t slept in two days but he was beaming, groom-like, and patiently received one media crew after the other covering the event, which turned into a sunny street-party for all, including many Jewish guests who came to celebrate with their Arab neighbors.
The village near Jerusalem is a popular domestic tourism site. On weekends, thousands of visitors stream in, heading to the many restaurants that have long become a meeting place for politicians, journalists, diplomats and any Israelis Jews who crave Arab food and a whiff of the Arab world too but no longer venture into Jerusalem’s Old City.
JackThe one thing all people in the Middle East have in common is their love of hummus, said Ibrahim, who sees his restaurant as something of a metaphor for the region. No matter what people discuss, agree or disagree on they always do it over a plate a hummus.
And undoubtedly, the dispute in the region is serious and calls for alot of hummus. It’s going to be one long discussion. Zuheir Baloul, a prominent Israeli Arab journalist invited to host the event, joked that never mind the countless mediators the region has known from Kissinger to Mitchell: it’s hummus that’s the real Middle East mediator.
The mayor, Salim Jaber, extended wishes for a peaceful and prosperous year "from the village of peace and coexistence to our neighbors in Lebanon and all Arab countries." Hummus is a symbol of the region’s culture we are all part of, he said. Ibrahim said his next project would be to work with the Lebanese on a new joint world record.
This might take a while. Until then, Ibrahim’s determined to defend his title. Competition is healthy, he said.And it is certainly a better way of competing than using violence, said Jack Brockbank, the Guinness World Record adjudicator. Given the nature of the competition, this may not be his last visit to the region: "Yes, I realize this could be an ongoing battle."
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Solar geomagnetic index reaches unprecedented low – only “zero” could be lower – in a month when sunspots became more active
Watts Up With That?
Friday, January 8th, 2010Back on December 12th 2009 I posted an article titled:
Solar geomagnetic activity is at an all time low – what does this mean for climate?
We then had a string of sunspots in December that marked what many
saw as a rejuvenation of solar cycle 24 after a long period of
inactivity. See December sunspots on the riseIt even prompted people like Joe Romm to claim:
But what Joe doesn’t understand is that sunspots are just one
proxy, the simplest and most easily observed, for magnetic activity of
the sun. It is the magnetic activity of the sun which is central to
Svensmark’s theory of galactic cosmic ray modulation, which may
affect cloud cover formation on earth, thus affecting global
temperatures. As the theory goes, lower magnetic activity of the sun
lets more GCR’s into our solar system, which produce microscopic
cloud seed trails (like in a Wilson cloud chamber) in our atmosphere, resulting in more cloud cover, resulting in a cooler planet. Ric Werme has a nice pictorial here.When I saw the SWPC Ap geomagnetic index for Dec 2009 posted
yesterday, my heart sank. With the sunspot activity in December, I
thought surely the Ap index would go up. Instead, it crashed.
Annotated version above – Source: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/weekly/Ap.gif
Source data: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/weekly/RecentIndices.txt
When you look at the Ap index on a larger scale, all the way back to
1844 when measurements first started, the significance of this value of
“1″ becomes evident. This graph from Dr. Leif Svalgaard
shows where we are today in relation to the past 165 years.
click for full sized image Source: http://www.leif.org/research/Ap-Monthly-Averages-1844-Now.png
With apologies to Dr. Svalgaard, I’ve added the
“1″ line and the most current SWPC value of “1″
for Dec 2009.As you can see, we’ve never had such a low value before, and the only place lower to go is “zero”.
But this is only part of the story. With the Ap index dwindling to a
wisp of magnetism, it bolsters the argument made by Livingston and Penn
that sunspots may disappear altogether by 2015. See Livingston and Penn – Sunspots may vanish by 2015
Above: Sunspot magnetic fields measured by
Livingston and Penn from 1992 – Feb. 2009 using an infrared
Zeeman splitting technique. [more] from the WUWT article: NASA: Are Sunspots Disappearing?The theory goes that once the magnetic strength falls below 1500 gauss, sunspots will become invisible to us.
Note where we are on this curve that Dr. Svalgaard also keeps of LP’s measurements:
click to enlarge Source: http://nw0.eu/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/d5bfa3e629f66fc30fa8731e1d86f7df.png
It appears that we are on track, and that’s a chilling thought.
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Grisly Skull and Bones trophies to be auctioned
AFP
Friday, January 8th, 2010Grisly trophies from Yale University’s mysterious
Skull and Bones society, whose members include former president George
W. Bush, are to go on auction in New York this month.
The human skull and two large bones are estimated to sell for
between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars on January 22 at Christie’s.The auction house said the human remains were used as a ballot box
by the secret society. The skull includes a specially cut lid in the
top — apparently for ballots — and one of the bones is
inscribed “THOR.”The auction lot also comes with a black book listing names of Skull and Bones members back in 1831-1877.
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Ed Koch: ‘Hundreds of millions’ of Muslims are terrorists
Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
Friday, January 8th, 2010Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York City, told Fox News’
Neil Cavuto on Thursday that “hundreds of millions” of
Muslims are terrorists.Taking up the now-standard conservative political talking point, in
the wake of the Christmas Day bombing attempt, that political
correctness prevents the US from identifying Muslim terrorists as such,
Koch said:We’re afraid of calling them Muslim, Islamist
terrorists. We’ll call them anything but. Because we don’t
want to alienate Muslim countries. That’s ridiculous. Of course
the vast majority of Muslims — there are a billion, four hundred
million — are not terrorists, but there are hundreds of millions
who are. They want to kill every Christian, every Jew, every Hindu who
won’t convert. And we ought to put it on the table.Host Neil Cavuto did not attempt to correct or even question Koch’s claim.
Joshua Holland at AlertNet
gives Koch “the benefit of the doubt” and assumes Koch
meant to say “hundreds of thousands” of Muslim terrorists.
Even so, Holland argues, that suggests Muslim terrorists aren’t
doing their job very well.“Given that there were a total of around 9,000 fatalities
worldwide resulting from Islamic terrorism in 2008 (the most recent
year for which data is available), those hundreds of thousands must
have been pretty damn incompetent,” he quips.Koch was a Democratic member of Congress in the 1960s and 1970s, and
was the Democratic mayor of New York for much of the 1980s. But in
recent years he has taken to endorsing Republican candidates, including
endorsing George W. Bush for president in 2004, although he endorsed
Barack Obama in the general election in 2008. In his interview with
Cavuto, Koch said he would fire National Counterterrorism Center
Director Michael Leiter over the Christmas Day bomb attempt.The following video was broadcast on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto, January 7, 2010, and uploaded to YouTube by user therightscoop.
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Body Scanners Even Violate Nigerian Constitution
Bunmi Awolusi
Nigerian Bulletin
Friday, January 8th, 2010A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Tayo Oyetibo, on
Thursday faulted the Federal Government’s proposed use of
full-body scanners to screen international travellers passing through
the country’s airports.He added that the development was unconstititutional, saying that
the proposed action would violate Nigerians’ rights to human
dignity and privacy as enshrined in sections 34 (1) (a) and 37 of the
1999 ConstitutionOyetibo, who stated this in a statement made available to our
correspondent in Lagos, reminded the government that the proposed
action was illegal since the National Assembly was yet to make any law
to authorise the use of the equipment.According to the senior advocate, it is wrong for the government to
take a precipitating action to justify the unwarranted decision of the
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Rolling Stone Attacks ‘Climate Killers’ ‘Derailing Efforts to Curb Global Warming’
Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
Friday, January 8th, 2010Even popular liberals can come under fire from the media if they
offer heretical views on global warming, which many in the media
promote with near-religious fervor.Rolling Stone magazine went after 17 global warming dissenters on Jan. 6, hyperbolically labeling them “The Climate Killers.” Topping the list was Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Obama supporter and media darling Warren Buffett.
The magazine criticized Buffett for “doing far more than
bad-mouthing climate legislation – he’s literally banking
on its failure” by adding 1.28 million shares of ExxonMobil to
his books and acquiring a railroad that hauls coal.Rolling Stone editor Eric Bates also told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Buffett “trashed climate change legislation calling it a huge tax saying it will cost jobs.”
That’s not even news, CBSNews.com reported in September that the Obama administration said cap and trade “would cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year.” But Obama didn’t make the list of ”Killers.”
The Heritage Foundation estimated that capping carbon would act as an energy tax of nearly $2,000
on every American household. Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise
Institute has said “it would destroy tens of millions of
good-paying jobs.”Also on the Rolling Stone list were a number of predictable targets for left-wing vitriol, from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch
and ExxonMobil’s Rex Tillerson to Sen. James Inhofe and retired
physicist Fred Singer. Each person on the list was given a nasty
moniker like “the Fake Protestor” or “The Know
Nothing.”With this sidebar to its “As the World Burns” cover
story, Rolling Stone continued its one-sided crusade to stop global
warming. On Nov. 11, 2009 writer Naomi Klein made the case for climate reparations
in the magazine. Back in 2007, Rolling Stone was entertaining
predictions from climate extremist James Lovelock (founder of the Gaia
theory) who said that by 2100 global warming will kill 6 billion.The Business & Media Institute has documented how a number of
media outlets favor global warming alarmism rather than including other
viewpoints in news reports. For every dissenter appearing on the
networks, there were 13 alarmists
airing their views. By censoring the global warming debate, the news
media often leave viewers with the impression that the “science
is settled.”Those same networks ignored the November 2009 climate e-mail scandal “ClimateGate” for two weeks despite the looming climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Children At Most Risk From Pedophiles In Government
Will You Let TSA “Gods” Ogle Your Naked Daughter?
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, January 8, 2009With the Bureau of Justice Statistics now reporting
that children are at most risk from pedophiles when in government
custody, it’s no surprise that TSA “Gods” are licking
their lips at the prospect of ogling your naked daughter’s body
at airport screening checkpoints.“Some 12 percent of minors held in government
custody are sexually abused, and in some facilities the rate reaches a
stunning one in three children, says a report released Thursday by the
Bureau of Justice Statistics,” reports Raw Story.“The first-ever National Survey of Youth in Custody
found that no less than 10 percent of the 26,550 juveniles being held
in detention facilities in the US are abused by staff at the facility,
while another 2.6 percent report abuse at the hands of other
inmates.”Of course, the fact that pedophiles seek out government
jobs as an avenue of imposing their perversion on others makes perfect
sense. Government jobs allow such monsters to express their control
freak tendencies and abuse the innocent with virtual impunity.All the more alarmed we should be therefore that TSA
thugs will be given carte blanche to enjoy naked images of our sons and
daughters following the installation of virtual strip-search body
scanners that Obama promised would be rolled out at all major U.S.
airports last night.As we have highlighted, claims that the body scanners did not provide details of genitalia were disproven after a London Guardian journalist who was present at
a trial for the machines earlier this week reported that the devices
produce an image which make “genitals eerily visible.”German Security advisor Hans-Detlef Dau, a representative for a company that sells the scanners, admits that the machines, “show intimate piercings, catheters and the form of breasts and penises”.
Indeed, as was admitted when the scanners were first being rolled out over a year ago, they don’t function properly if areas of the body are blurred out.
A report from October 2008,
when the naked body scanners were first being introduced at Melbourne
Airport in Australia, detailed how the X-ray backscatter devices
don’t work properly unless the genitals of people going through
them are visible.“It will show the private parts of people, but what
we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out,
because it severely limits the detection capabilities,” said
Office of Transport Security manager Cheryl Johnson.“It is possible to see genitals and breasts while they’re going through the machine,” she admitted.
We were also given an insight into how the TSA agents
responsible for bossing these systems will act after an incident at LAX
which was reported on by NBC Chicago yesterday.“A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in
Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty
and was behaving erratically, saying, “I am god, I’m in
charge,” states the article.Another TSA agent at LAX was fired after a videotape emerged of an after-hours party during which the agent had taken drugs.
With innumerable reports over the past ten years of TSA
agents completely abusing their authority and going on petty power
trips with little other motivation than to humiliate and degrade old people, pregnant women, and even prominent war correspondents,
while proclaiming themselves to be “Gods,” government
reassurances that TSA thugs will treat pictures of our naked bodies
with the utmost professionalism are somewhat difficult to believe.Watch the video below.
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