Deglaciation and Shell Human Rights Trial Mysteriously (?) Delayed Oh, and Did We Mention The Plague??? and More for Friday, June 5, 2009

Mount Rainier and Carbon Glacier image licensed under Creative Commons by brewbooks


We're in for it now. The glaciers will likely melt away and be gone by this time next year. So we hope you're enjoying a cool, wet summer, while you still can? Do you live in a region that depends on glaciers for fresh water? Don't count on it. We're betting on desalination...

Oh, and why does the case of human rights abuse against Shell keep mysteriously getting delayed??? Is a payoff or some other action involved here? When will we hear the truth about the hanging death of Ken Saro-Wiwa? And here's a topic we did not want to discuss...the fact that the wise'crackin' Latina remarks by Sotomayor just won't get away. They just keep sticking to her. We deeply wished to avoid this controversy, but (like the death of Saro-Wiwa, deglaciation and so on) some things just won't go away... Like...the plague! It just won't go away either! Yipes! Does anybody else recall The Black Death? Oh, that was a lot of fun....NOT!!!

Oh, and if that's not enough...we predict that by this time next year, we'll see the Atlantic Ocean move right up Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac and make a new shoreline right in front of the White House. Yes, its alarming. You should be alarmed. How do you like them apples, Mr. Obama?

Deglaciation

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/06/deglaciation.html

Younger Dryas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

Glacier

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier

History Channel: MegaDisaster Episode Archives

http://www.history.com/content/megadisasters/episode-archive

The End of Nations? And More for Friday, February 6, 2009

http://americanpoliticalhandbook.blogspot.com/2009/02/for-friday-february-6-2009.html


Shell human rights trial in US stalls again

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090603/ts_alt_afp/usjusticenigeriarightscompanyshell;_ylt=Aopbcfqu1JffiVZOq86A.ukPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTM4dGFqNHMxBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDYwMy91c2p1c3RpY2VuaWdlcmlhcmlnaHRzY29tcGFueXNoZWxsBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdA

Ken Saro-Wiwa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa

Climate Change Models Find Staple Crops Face Ruin On Up To One Million Square Kilometers Of African Farmland

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090602204259.htm

"Wise Latina" Remark Still A Problem

http://www.cbsnews.com/external/story.php?story=/stories/2009/06/05/link/blog/main5065731.shtml

The disaster that may have saved D-Day

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30977039/

D-Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day

Track U.S. treatment of enemy detainees

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/05/detainee.timeline/index.html

British PM shuffling cabinet amid more high-profile resignations

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/05/uk-brown-cabinet-shuffle-expenses462.html

Third minister quits amid Brown reshuffle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8085783.stm

Geoff Hoon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Hoon

Bissau army kills 'coup-plotters'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8084525.stm

Baciro Dabo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baciro_Dabo

Guinea-Bissau

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea-Bissau

Tenn. lawmakers approve guns in bars

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31122117/

SEC charging ex-Countrywide CEO with fraud

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31108985/

Angelo Mozilo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Mozilo

NOAA head requests review of fishery enforcement

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090604/ap_on_re_us/us_fishery_enforcement;_ylt=At8.j5TUS5_ZvLMgJ5zRaXMPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJzbWl0cTk5BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNjA0L3VzX2Zpc2hlcnlfZW5mb3JjZW1lbnQEcG9zAzEzBHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbGsDbm9hYWhlYWRyZXF1

Jane Lubchenco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lubchenco

Pakistan arrests senior Islamists

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8084430.stm

GM in deal to sell Saturn brand

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8084474.stm

How Humans Have Disrupted The Nitrogen Cycle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604144322.htm

Nitrogen cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle

Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604181251.htm

Diarrhea vaccine urged for all children

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31121962/

Rotavirus vaccine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotarix

8-Year-Old N.M. Boy Dies Of Bubonic Plague

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/05/health/main5064847.shtml

Bubonic plague

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague

For Sunday, January 18, 2009

Obama to Issue Out-of-Iraq Order on Day One, Aide Says

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Inauguration/story?id=6674817&page=1

Arctic front freezes US, Canada in record cold snap

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090116/ts_alt_afp/usweatherrecord;_ylt=AnBUIh49ligwV1_itrbCmr8PLBIF

Hamas Gives Israel 1 Week to Leave Gaza

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6673259

Hamas announces ceasefire in Gaza

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7836205.stm

Rockets fired despite ceasefire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7836008.stm

Steer clear of peanut butter: U.S. authorities

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50f7gh-us-salmonella-usa/

Hunt for Salmonella Source Expands

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6671886&page=1

More peanut butter products recalled

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28695782/

Full list

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28719699/

Little Debbie peanut butter crackers recalled

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/salmonella_outbreak;_ylt=Ap4eipmzSjzNsqT6sQOLSRKs0NUE

'Gas to flow' after Moscow deal

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7834796.stm

N Korea issues warning to Seoul

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7835357.stm

South Korea on alert after North's statement

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28716044/

China confirms girl infected with bird flu

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/18/china.bird.flu/index.html

Pilot Recounts Crash Of US Airways Flight

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/18/national/main4731798.shtml

Mexican drug wars worry some Americans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28719835/

U.S. transfers six detainees out of Gitmo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28712366/

Obama pauses to honor war dead at Arlington


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28719897/

The Doomsday Memo

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/18/sunday/main4731897.shtml

Most see Bush as failure, poll says

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/18/poll.bush.presidency/index.html

Summers: Stimulus Will Pass Within A Month

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/18/link/blog/main4732024.shtml

U.S. mayors skeptical of city help in stimulus plan

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50g2qd-us-usa-economy-stimulus-mayors/

Slump casts pall over Chinese New Year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28713372/

For businesses big and small, it's lights out

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28715829/

Want to Refinance? Good Luck Finding Loan

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=6660760&page=1

Sick and uninsured in the US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7833290.stm

Brown to announce bank bail-out

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7836259.stm

Taiwanese given shopping vouchers to boost economy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7836458.stm

Crane pulls airliner from Hudson

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7835939.stm