SPACE WEATHER
SUDDEN SUNSPOT: What a difference 48 hours can make. Only two days ago the sun was blank and calm, displaying the sort of unrelenting quiet we've come to expect from the deepest solar minimum in a century. Then, with startling rapidity, sunspot 1024 burst onto the scene: movie. Unlike other recent "sun-specks", this active region is a full-fledged sunspot group with more than a dozen planet-sized dark cores, crackling with B- and C-class solar flares.
"Sunspot 1024 is putting on... Read Full Story
Philadelphia Inquirer
Invasion of privacy is an issue that really gets under State Rep. Babette Josephs' skin.
That's why the Philadelphia Democrat introduced a bill, passed unanimously last week by the House, that would ban the forced implantation of computer chips in humans.
Conjuring Orwellian images, Josephs worries the identification devices - the size of a grain of rice - could lead to a real-life Big Brother nightmare.
"I'm doing, I think, what the legislature does too little of," sh... Read Full Story
China Daily
The declining US dollar could not play the long term role as the world’s single reserve currency and a more diversified global currency system should be formed, prominent experts said Saturday at a global think tank summit in Beijing, days ahead of the G8 meeting this week.
The US dollar has become the lightning rod for criticism since the US adopted a quantitative easing policy and let its currency devalue significantly to help fight recession. Quantitative easing is a mone... Read Full Story
Globe And Mail
The call to find an alternative to the U.S dollar as the global reserve currency is gaining momentum as France joined calls by China, India and Russia for a review of the world's currency practices.French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde challenged the dollar's supremacy “in a world that has changed because of the crisis and the growing role of emerging countries.”The questioning of the U.S. dollar as the key currency for central banks by a leader of a major European economy... Read Full Story
Formula One boss has provoked outrage by reportedly praising Adolf Hitler's ability "to get things done". Video: Ecclestone sparks fury over Hitler remarks ITN
In an outspoken newspaper interview, the 78-year-old billionaire expressed a preference for "strong leaders" like former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Max Mosley, the outgoing head of Formula One's governing body.
He added: "In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken a... Read Full Story
Fateful day: The iconic image of a 7/7 Tube victim wearing a burns maskDAILY MAIL UK - Sue ReidToday almost four years on, the images of that dreadful morning are etched into our minds: the woman in the haunting white burns mask being helped to safety; the shell-shocked businessman in a suit with his hair and shirt matted with blood; the crippled No 30 bus with its roof blown off; the mangled wreckage of smouldering Tube trains.
The country's worst-ever terrorist atrocity during L... Read Full Story
CNN - Jaime FlorCruz
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- At least 140 people were dead and more than 800 others injured after weekend violence in China's far west Xinjiang region, the regional public security department said Monday, according to state-run media.
The death toll was expected to climb, according to a regional government spokesman, as reported by China's official Xinhua news agency.
Ethnic Uyghur residents in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, took to the streets Sunday afternoon in a ra... Read Full Story
Tayyar.org Calm on the Lebanese Palestinian border does not necessarily involve good news for Israel, a report published by the Israeli daily Maariv said on Friday.The report addresses the growing capacity of Hezbollah in Lebanon, three years after the 2006 war.The journal emphasized that Hezbollah is tremendously magnifying its military capacities and compiling new combative techniques in addition to a remarkable increase in the number of its fighters and trainers. The Maariv report pointed ... Read Full Story
[link to restoretherepublic.com] [link to ]" >]">]">]">www.youtube.com] Dear friends and fellow Americans, I have an EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT for you that requires your immediate and direct attention.This ALERT is regarding the MORPHING of REAL ID in to the PASS ACT. The REAL ID as you may or may not know was the failed law that snuck through congress in May of 2005 that would require all Americans to Carry a standardized FEDERAL ID card with an embedded trackable chip.NATIONAL EMERGENCY VIDE... Read Full Story
