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 25, 2009

Israeli PM in war crimes pledge

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7850085.stm

Inside Gaza: The ruins of Jabaliya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7850143.stm

Hamas opens offices and prepares for talks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28839036/

BBC refuses to broadcast appeal for Gaza aid

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/25/bbc.gaza.advert/index.html

Newsweek: New report could complicate Gitmo closure

http://www.newsweek.com/id/181453

Guantanamo Case Files In Disarray

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/25/politics/washingtonpost/main4752093.shtml

Issue of terrorists' rights to test Obama's pledge

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_go_pr_wh/guantanamo_politics;_ylt=AlqIPNHA5bLQEFaDIoSw.Zms0NUE

Schieffer On What We Stand For

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/25/ftn/main4752088.shtml

China reports 4th bird flu death this year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28841978/

Avian flu detected in southern B.C.: CFIA

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/24/bc-avian-flu-detected.html

World's highest drug levels entering India stream

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/pharmawater_india;_ylt=Alu2U8oR8V66p3dduIGc4Oms0NUE

Downturn accelerates as it circles the globe

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28823013/

States Hobbled By Unemployment Bills

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/24/eveningnews/main4751368.shtml

CNNMoney: Market braces for 'awful' news

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/25/markets/sunday_weekahead/index.htm?postversion=2009012508

Obama issues US recovery pledge

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7848977.stm

Obama aide won't rule out more money for bailouts

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50o13c-us-obama-summers/

Iceland minister resigns as government reels

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/25/iceland.resignation/index.html

Obama: Stimulus plan will cut power bills

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28825558/

Wired president: Obama creates an e-mail trail

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28816112/

Face The Nation: Biden: Recovery Plan Is "Off And Running"

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/25/link/main4752019.shtml

Governors seek sacrifices from public workers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28828042/

Finding college aid could prove tough test

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28830583/

Obama envoy expected in Middle East next week

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/ln737066-us-palestinians-israel/

Pelosi signals willingness to add to TARP funds

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50o0ty-us-financial-bailout-pelosi/

Speaker of the House

http://www.speaker.gov/

McCain: Won't vote for stimulus as it stands

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28840572/

NYT: Obama to act quickly on financial rules

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28832617/

Wall Street's entitlement culture

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28817800/

Ideological Smackdown: Obama vs. Rush

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/potus-v-limbaug.html

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III

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

Major Data Breach Puts Millions At Risk

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/23/cbsnews_investigates/main4750218.shtml


Steelmaker Corus in major jobs cut


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7850013.stm


Corus

http://www.corusgroup.com/

Kim son 'not interested' in power


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7849205.stm


Darfur peacekeepers: Sudan bombs town


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28841375/


Top Mexico cops charged with links to cartels


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28832995/


More Accurate FEMA Flood Maps Could Help Avoid Significant Damages And Losses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123111515.htm

FEMA

http://www.fema.gov/

NOAA Gives Navy Marine Mammal Protection Measures For Sonar Training Off The Atlantic Coast And Gulf Of Mexico

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090124122305.htm

NOAA

http://www.noaa.gov/

Minn. meningitis cases worry CDC officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28814862/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://cdc.gov/

Haemophilus influenzae Serotype b

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?queryText=Haemophilus+influenzae+Serotype+b&action=search&searchButton.x=52&searchButton.y=8

Haemophilus influenzae

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

Mystery Heart Ailment Strikes New Moms

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/story?id=6724565&page=1

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?q=peripartum+cardiomyopathy&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&btnG.x=30&btnG.y=5

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

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

Blueberries May Shrink Tumors In Babies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/health/webmd/main4746918.shtml

Cyanococcus

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

Fossils seized in Mexico

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Climate shift 'killing US trees'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7841030.stm

Tree Deaths Double Across Western U.S.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122141222.htm

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/china_s_golden_dams;_ylt=AnujgZbIpx6RxKnCpmDIVzes0NUE

Mexico City vows 'green' dumps

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28777897/

Mexico City

http://www.df.gob.mx/

WATCH: Malicious Worm Infects Computers

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6714273

Windows virus still infecting corporate networks: online security firm

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/23/virus.html

Google sees strong revenue growth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7846189.stm

Waco Cult Leader's Mother Killed, Aunt Charged

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=6723485

Zsa Zsa 'loses $7m in US fraud'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7849741.stm

Zsa Zsa Gabor

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