"Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world's largest particle collider, and determined that they won't simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted. Rather, Roberto Casadio of the University of Bologna in Italy and Sergio Fabi and Benjamin Harms of the University of Alabama say mini black holes could exist for much longer"
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
FOXNews.com - Scientists Not So Sure 'Doomsday Machine' Won't Destroy World - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
U.N. crime chief says drug money flowed into banks
U.N. crime chief says drug money flowed into banks - International Herald Tribune:
"VIENNA: The United Nations' crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday. Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiralled out of control last year. 'In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital,' Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. 'In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor.'"
Monday, January 26, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Official: UN may prosecute Bush administration, regardless of US action
The Raw Story | Official: UN may prosecute Bush administration, regardless of US action:
" Official: UN may prosecute Bush administration, regardless of US action David Edwards Published: Thursday January 22, 2009 Print This Email This The UN's special torture rapporteur called on the US Tuesday to pursue former president George W. Bush and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. 'Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation' to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said, in remarks to be broadcast on Germany's ZDF television Tuesday evening. He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required 'all means, particularly penal law' to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it. 'We have all these documents that are now publicly available that prove that these methods of interrogation were intentionally ordered by Rumsfeld,' against detainees at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nowak said."
Thursday, January 22, 2009
From A Weekend Musician, To Making $4.2 Million... By Giving Music Away Free
From A Weekend Musician, To Making $4.2 Million... By Giving Music Away Free | Techdirt:
"Corey's story is quite interesting. He mostly makes money from concerts, and the free music drives more people to those concerts, but there are a few other aspects that are worth exploring. First, even though the music is available for free, plenty of people still buy his music on iTunes. However, as an experiment, they took down the free tracks from Corey's website for a period of time last summer... and sales on iTunes went down. Once again, this proves how ridiculous the claim is that free songs somehow cannibalize sales. "
Ice cream causes positive alcohol test
Ice cream causes positive alcohol test - UPI.com:
"The man claimed the alcohol reading was the result of eating a Bubble O' Bill ice cream treat and Magistrate Rod Crisp ordered a test to be performed to back up the claim. Police recorded the man's blood alcohol content as 0.00 and performed the test a second time after he took a few bites of Bubble O' Bill, yielding a 0.018 reading."
Whistleblower: NSA spied on <i>everyone,</i> targeted journalists
The Raw Story | Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists:
"'The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications -- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,' Tice claimed. 'It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.'"
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
New Law Could Keep Books Out Reach For Children
New Law Could Keep Books Out Reach For Children - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville:
"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A federal law that will soon go into effect could have some startling consequences, including the possible banning of children from libraries unless certain books are pulled from the shelves. Library Books Under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act books for children will have to be tested for lead. The law is called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and it is designed to protect children all over the country from the dangers of lead. Experts said there could be trace amounts of lead in books because of the ink. That's why the government wants all books, old and new, tested for lead."
Friday, January 9, 2009
Flu in U.S. found resistant to main antiviral drug
Flu in U.S. found resistant to main antiviral drug - International Herald Tribune:
"Virtually all the flu in the United States this season is resistant to the leading antiviral drug Tamiflu, and scientists and health officials are trying to figure out why. The problem is not yet a public health crisis because this has been a below-average flu season so far and the chief strain circulating is still susceptible to other drugs — but infectious disease specialists are worried nonetheless."
Friday, January 2, 2009
If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel.
"9. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): 'If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?' Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121. "
Aspartame Fraud
"Today we have 'Nutra-Sweet', which is widely used in a plethora of consumables, despite a demonstrated neurological reaction in some people. In February 1996, it was decided to also use the product name 'Benevia'. It is estimated that as many as 20,000,000 people cannot metabolize phenylalimine, and this inability is genetically inherited by children. The inability to metabolize phenylalinine can lead to mental retardation in children. This means a risk of retardation for millions of children. A multi-billion dollar enterprise, this substance is said to be 'refined' from 'natural' substances. Like other 'refined' substances, it represents a health threat to the general public. No long term studies have been performed to evaluate the physiological effects of this substance, yet the public is lead to believe it is absolutely safe. Technically, the chemical is called aspartame, and it was once on a Pentagon list of biowarfare chemicals submitted to Congress. [1] Aspartame is in over 4,000 products worldwide and is consumed by over 200 million people in the United States alone. What follows is a skeletal examination of the chronology related to aspartame. A more detailed chronology is given later in this chapter based on information provided to us by the Aspartame Consumer Safety Network. "
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Good Relpy!
"Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the other day and you have to read his reply to the woman who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you should smile."
aspartame.
suddenly.everything.sucks. health. aspartame.:
"Aspartame was not approved until 1981, in dry foods. For over eight years the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals. The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan took office (a friend of Searle) and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then there was so much opposition to approval that a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said: 'Do not approve aspartame'. Dr. Hayes overruled his own Board of Inquiry. "
If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel
"9. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): 'If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?' Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121. "
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