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

Cadi11ac and Would You Pay $ 50 Million for a Senator? and More for Monday, June 1, 2009

Well, we all lost - big time - today...the GOP and the Democrats have cost us all about $ 50 million for the fight for the senate seat in Minnesota. Well, this is the price of being power mad - isn't it? Why is it so vital that we keep you in office, Mr. Coleman? Its bad enough that your party (yes, the GOP, via the Bush Administration) pumped about $ 80 billion (and more, counting Chrysler) into GM - and then it went Chapter 11...that we have pay $ 50 million to keep you in power. Why is that, Mr. Coleman? When, after the first count, you just brushed off the recount ("A recount is not necessary" we think those were your words...). But now that the tune has changed, you have demonstrated that you - and the rest of your ilk - are just hypocrites. Thank you for giving us a demonstration of what the powerful are truly about - to stay in power. Thank you for helping us see the light.

The rest of us are powerless - its a day-to-day fact of life. Not to mention broke, jobless and suffering. Why should we support your hunger for power at the tune of $ 50 million? We don't see the value to it, truth be told. And we don't see the value of you. You need to be told off and you need to go away. As a matter of fact, why don't you take the rest of the GOP (including Cheney and company) and just go away. Please. We are sick of you. We just stick our fingers in our collective throats whenever we see your image...that and Fox news... You just make us ill.

Memo to Chris Matthews: please take up this case with Mr. Coleman on Hardball. Please show us all that he - and the GOP - need to get off the stage and just go away. Chris - please hear our plea and help make this thing go away and off the air. We're begging you...

GM files for bankruptcy,announces plant closings

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31030038/

Cadi11ac or Cad11ac

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/05/cadi11ac-or-cad11ac.html

N Korea 'prepares missile launch'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8076451.stm

North Korea may launch long-range missile in weeks: report

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/seo141656-us-korea-north/

Chrysler's sale to Fiat approved

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8076472.stm


Costs top $50M as Minn. Senate fight goes on

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31028626/

Al Franken

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

Norm Coleman

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

New delay hits human rights suit against Shell

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090601/ts_afp/usjusticenigeriarightscompanyshell;_ylt=AiV_Mnh.kyma7lBO6ZTPDCsPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTM4OG0xZnBrBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDYwMS91c2p1c3RpY2VuaWdlcmlhcmlnaHRzY29tcGFueXNoZWxsBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9hcnRpY2xlX3N1bW1hcnlfbGlzdARzbG

Ken Saro-Wiwa

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

US abortion doctor is shot dead

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8076253.stm

Suspect captured in killing of Kansas abortion doctor

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54u1jw-us-usa-abortion-shooting/

George Tiller

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

600 eye fungus suits settled by contact maker

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31030388/

Fusarium keratitis

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

Bausch & Lomb Inc.

http://www.bausch.com/

Satellites Observe Amazon Basin Water Storage And Runoff

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090529135720.htm

Amazon Basin

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

World's strongest laser unveiled at California lab

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_sc/us_super_laser;_ylt=AlFZVPAnGX9L4Ipp49oVuBMPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJmNWNyZmNpBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNTMxL3VzX3N1cGVyX2xhc2VyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawN3b3JsZHNzdHJvbmc-

Experts warn cell phones face hacking threat

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31043581/

Link-shrinkers in vogue as demand for brevity online rises

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/01/url-shortners-online879.html