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Wednesday, December 17
NASA: A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:24 PM EST
NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics. More>>>
Google: Obama’s Residence Linked to PSL Phone Number
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 07:14 PM EST
Insurance loophole claimed in fire deaths: Company says smoke that killed 3 was 'pollution'
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 02:54 PM EST
"This is shocking. It's an extraordinary effort by an insurance company to avoid paying on a contract for insurance," said Randy Sorrels, who represents several family members in wrongful death lawsuits from the fire in a six-story atrium building on the North Loop. Great American has asked U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal to find that the deaths caused by the smoke, fumes and soot from the March 2007 fire set by a nurse working in the building will not be covered by the policy because there is a specific exclusion for pollution and it mentions smoke, fumes and soot More>>>
What Posse Comitatus? Army 'Strategic Shock' Report Says Troops May Be Needed To Quell U.S. Civil Unrest
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 02:31 PM EST
Infowars.net: “The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials,” reported the Washington Post last month. In a September 8 Army Times article, Northcom announced that the first wave of the troop deployment, which was put in place on October 1st at Fort Stewart and at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, would be aimed at tackling “civil unrest and crowd control”. After a controversy arose surrounding the admissions made in the Army Times article, Northcom retracted the claim but conceded that both lethal and non-lethal weaponry traditionally used in crowd control and riot situations would still be used in the field. The increasing militarization of America is part of a long term agenda to abolish Constitutional rule and establish a "military form of government," following a large scale terror attack or similar disaster, as Tommy Franks, the former commander of the military’s Central Command, alluded to in a November 2003 Cigar Aficionado piece. Franks outlined the scenario by which martial law would be put in place, saying, “It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important. In the short term, the domestic deployment of troops is likely aimed at combating likely civil unrest that will ensue after a complete economic collapse followed by a devastating period of hyperinflation. This warning was again echoed a few days ago in a leaked internal memo from Citibank. More>>>
Bernanke Goes All In
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 02:25 PM EST
Now the Fed is embarking on a further monetary adventure and asking the world to believe that this time it will work. We sincerely hope it does. And if a lack of liquidity is the problem in some credit instruments, the Fed's direct purchase of those assets should contribute to a credit thaw. It has already contributed to a decline in mortgage rates. However, the larger economic problem today isn't an overall lack of liquidity. It is fear and uncertainty. Banks, consumers and business are dug in their foxholes, conserving their cash until they believe the worst has passed. Meanwhile, investors around the world are deleveraging to reduce risk and cut their losses, a process that the Fed can do little about. More>>>
Counterfeiting Versus Monetary Policy
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 02:21 PM EST
Congress is on a spending binge. With all the calls for bailouts, economic stimulus and other assorted handouts, there is a real risk of inflation in our future. If we do have a rapid inflation, it's likely that Congress, as they did in the financial meltdown, will blame it on everybody except themselves. Before Congress begins to shirk their responsibility, let's understand what an inflation is and is not. More>>>
Postponing Reality
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 02:19 PM EST
For thousands of years, horses had been the way to go, whether in buggies or royal coaches, whether pulling trolleys in the cities or plows on the farms. People had bet their futures on something with a track record of reliable success going back many centuries. Were all these people to be left high and dry? What about all the other people who supplied the things used with horses-- oats, saddles, horse shoes and buggies? Wouldn't they all go falling like dominoes when horses were replaced by cars? More>>>
Update on Coleman/Franken Race
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 02:14 PM EST
There are some important developments happening in the ongoing recount between GOP incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota you should know about. (Snip) Further confusing things is the fact some absentee ballots arrived damaged, as in physically crumpled. Then an election official was obligated, in accordance to law, to create a duplicate ballot, with ''duplicate'' clearly marked on it. In a number of precincts someone neglected to write ''duplicate'' and those ballots were counted with the original vote More>>>
Will normal mom lose daughter to lesbian?
by
Riley Jones
on Wed 17 Dec 2008 11:17 AM EST
The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court this week not to hear the case of Lisa Miller v. Janet Jenkins may, effectively, send a Christian mother to jail for not sharing Thanksgiving – and her 6-year-old daughter – with her former lesbian partner. Because the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal, Miller now faces trial dates in January and possible contempt charges for refusing to comply with a lower court's dictate that her former lesbian partner be granted visitation rights with her daughter, Isabella Miller. More>>> |
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