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FLASH Laser Leads to Discovery of New State of Matter Flash-laser
Post Date: 2010-05-28 07:27:13 by A K A Stone
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Like a scene out of Star Trek, Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science fiction, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with important implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion. In this week’s Nature Physics an international team, led by Oxford University scientists, report that a short pulse from the FLASH laser ‘knocked out’ a core electron from every aluminium atom in a sample without disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. This turned the aluminium nearly invisible ...
Japan slaps new sanctions on North Korea
Post Date: 2010-05-28 03:26:18 by WhiteSands
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SEOUL, South Korea — Japan said Friday it is slapping new sanctions on North Korea by clamping down on money transfers, while the leaders of Japan and the U.S. pledged cooperation in taking the North before the U.N. Security Council over the sinking of a South Korean warship. International pressure is mounting on North Korea over the sinking, which a multinational team of investigators blamed last week on a North Korean-made torpedo. Forty-six South Korean sailors died in the March 26 disaster, the worst military attack on the South since the Korean War. North Korea has denied responsibility and has warned that any retaliation or punishment would mean war. Any Security Council ...
Alarm rises as N Korea threatens attack
Post Date: 2010-05-27 21:34:54 by A K A Stone
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North Korea threatened to scrap all military assurance agreements with South Korea on Thursday and warned of an immediate attack should Seoul intrude on the disputed maritime border, further raising tensions on the peninsula. Pyongyang’s threat to abandon the agreements – designed to prevent accidental armed clashes and protect the safety of South Korean workers in a Northern factory enclave – came as Seoul elevated its alert level and began anti-submarine exercises off the west coast of the peninsula. The threats mark the most serious deterioration in relations between the neighbours, who are still officially at war, in more than a decade and have rattled international ...
Japan Toughens North Korea Stance
Post Date: 2010-05-27 20:41:22 by WhiteSands
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TOKYO—Japanese lawmakers moved Thursday to tighten restrictions on North Korea, signaling Tokyo's desire to remain a strong and reliable U.S. partner following months of acrimony over U.S. troop deployments. Japanese officials are also considering other steps that could affect a group of about 600,000 North Koreans in Japan—a legacy of Japan's domination of Korea more than 60 years ago. A Japanese parliamentary committee passed a bill Thursday to authorize the nation's coast guard to inspect North Korean cargo ships in international waters. The bill is expected to pass the main chamber of Japan's upper house of parliament Friday Japanese government officials are ...
How government-enforced tribalism is destroying America, and how libertarian nationalism can save the Republic
Post Date: 2010-05-27 15:47:46 by Chris Moore
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(By Chris Moore, LibertarianToday.com) -- In an Occidental Observer Blog post on the recent contretemps revolving around Rand Paul's position that one of the Titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 conflicts with property rights, White-identity advocate Professor Kevin MacDonald of California State University Long Beach takes "libertarian" neocon Jonah Goldberg to task for dodging the issue of free association in an opinion piece Goldberg wrote for the L.A. Times. First, Goldberg makes the excellent point that the Statist-liberals currently throwing fits over Rand Paul's limited government position today are the same types who praised libertarians to the high heavens for ...
Israeli Heckler Calls Rahm Emanuel "Anti-Semite"
Post Date: 2010-05-27 14:58:41 by Badeye
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Israeli Heckler Calls Rahm Emanuel "Anti-Semite" Posted by Robert Berger 19 comments Share50 0diggsdiggShare E-mail Print Font JERUSALEM -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel got a hot welcome to Jerusalem's Old City Thursday. Arriving to celebrate his son's Bar Mitzvah, President Obama's right-hand-man was heckled by far right-wing Israeli activist Itamar Ben-Gvir. "You are an anti-Semite, a hypocrite who hates Israel!" Ben-Gvir shouted. "You want Israel to return to the 1967 borders. Shame on you!" Many Israelis feel betrayed by Emanuel, whose father is Israeli. They blame him for what they see as President Obama's anti-Israel policy. ...
What Would a Korean War Look Like? 4 Predictions
Post Date: 2010-05-27 12:33:17 by Badeye
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What Would a Korean War Look Like? 4 PredictionsUpdated: 34 minutes ago .Print Text Size EmailMore Paul Wachter Contributor AOL News (May 27) -- Tensions continue to mount on the Korean peninsula in the wake of an international investigation that concluded a North Korean submarine was responsible for sinking a South Korean navy ship in April, killing 46 sailors. In the latest chess moves, Seoul staged a big anti-submarine drill, which Pyongyang responded to by saying it will no longer honor an agreement meant to avoid accidental naval clashes between the two nations. As the crisis escalates, an unsettling question comes into focus: What would war on the Korean peninsula look like some 50 ...
Very Severe Hurricane Season Ahead, Say Top Meterologists
Post Date: 2010-05-27 12:04:58 by Badeye
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Very Severe Hurricane Season Ahead, Say Top Meterologists Published May 27, 2010 | FOXNews.com Print Email Share Comments Recommend NOAA Hurricane Bill hovers 820 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on August 21, 2009. Bill was a category 3 hurricane with 115 MPH winds at the time. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued its 2010 hurricane season forecast, predicting one of the strongest seasons on record -- and reiterating fears that the Gulf oil spill may be impacted by the severe weather. Hurricane season for the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico begins June 1 and lasts through Nov. 30. That's when about 90 percent of the storms ...
S.Korean, U.S. Forces Raise Alert-South Korean and U.S. forces have raised by one notch the level of military alert against possible aggression from North Korea.
Post Date: 2010-05-27 02:37:53 by WhiteSands
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S.Korean, U.S. Forces Raise Alert South Korean and U.S. forces have raised by one notch the level of military alert against possible aggression from North Korea. A high-ranking South Korean government source on Wednesday said the threat of North Korean provocation has risen as sanctions against North Korea take effect following the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan. The source added the two militaries have raised the "Watchcon" (watch condition) level from three to two, which denotes "vital indications" of a security threat. Watchcon is a five-stage surveillance system watching over North Korean military movements. The higher the level, the more spy satellites, ...
Bid For My Kid
Post Date: 2010-05-27 00:10:55 by A K A Stone
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A TWISTED dad chained his eight-year-old son to a lamppost and tried to AUCTION him to strangers. Yong Tsui offered the terrified child as a slave because he wanted him off his hands. He put up a table with a sign on it, giving the youngster's name and age and boasting of his capacity for hard work. But when bidders began to ask how much the boy ate, angry bystanders attacked the father. Police now have the lad in care in Wuhan, central China. Yong told them the boy's mother died three years ago and he could not afford to raise him. An officer said: "He has no job, no home and no money. He says he wasn't interested in money, just finding a home for the boy." ...
War on Korean Peninsula: High Tension Prompts Scenarios
Post Date: 2010-05-26 21:16:42 by Brian S
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By BILL POWELL Bill Powell Wed May 26, 1:55 pm ET "A symphony of death." That's the chilling phrase that Kurt Campbell, who is now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Obama Administration, once used to describe the likely outcome of any military encounter on the Korean peninsula between the U.S., its ally South Korea and their mutual enemy across the 38th parallel in the North. The possibility of war breaking out once again in Korea is so unthinkable that a lot of people in various military establishments - the Pentagon, South Korea's armed forces and China's People's Liberation Army - actually spend a ...
Could US-Trained PA Military Turn Guns on Israel?
Post Date: 2010-05-26 20:54:57 by Brian S
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During a military exercise with the IDF’s elite Kfir Brigade last week at the Tze'elim base in Israel’s south, GOC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Avi Mizrahi warned soldiers of potential challenges they may face in the near future. The Kfir brigade, created December 2005 to deal with unrest in Israel’s Judea and Samaria regions, trained extensively in urban warfare and simulated a scenario in which IDF soldiers were pitted against the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority’s new American-trained military. Mizrahi told soldiers that the PA security forces, trained in Jordan by United States Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, is a formidable potential enemy and that the IDF needs to know ...
[Sources say] Disgusting dredlocked hippie Crystal Bowersox is ...
Post Date: 2010-05-26 20:43:04 by Biff Tannen
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warmingglow.uproxx.com/20...on-2nite-douche-vs-hippie What’s on 2nite: Douche Vs. Hippie "Disgusting dredlocked hippie Crystal Bowersox is favored, which means that Fox will probably crown man-tool Lee DeWyze the new Idol. The next steps for both: brief recording career that fizzles followed by briefly successful Broadway career followed by drug-addled unemployment. At least I hope so."
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Hugo Chavez's implosion continues in Venezuela
Post Date: 2010-05-26 16:29:58 by Badeye
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Hugo Chavez's implosion continues in Venezuela Hugo Chavez has been keeping a relatively low profile of late -- there have been no grand world tours, no fiery speeches at the United Nations. The Obama administration, which once promised to “engage” the Venezuelan caudillo, is instead quietly shunning him. There’s a simple reason for this: the implosion of Chavez’s self-styled “Bolivarian socialism” is accelerating. Figures reported Tuesday by the Chavez-controlled central bank portrayed an economy that is completely out of sync with the rest of the region -- and perhaps unique in the world in the degree of its current distress. Gross national product fell ...
Home Front Command: Israel Unprepared For Most Likely WMD Attack
Post Date: 2010-05-26 11:40:35 by Brian S
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Israel is not sufficiently prepared for a chemical missile attack, a top IDF Home Front Command officer warned on Tuesday, in response to a report in The Jerusalem Post that the military lacked 40 percent of the gas masks needed to complete their distribution to the public. “We are ill-prepared for a chemical threat due to the lack of gas masks,” said Col. Hilik Sofer, head of the Home Front Command’s Population Branch. “We have so far distributed just more than 300,000 gas masks, but there is what to improve.” Kadima MK Nachman Shai slammed the government for not allocating to the Defense Ministry the funding needed to complete the overhaul of the gas masks that ...
N.Korea Accuses South, Threatens Military Action
Post Date: 2010-05-25 12:23:47 by Brian S
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North Korea accused South Korea's navy Tuesday of trespassing in its waters and threatened military action, further raising tensions sparked by the sinking of one of Seoul's warships in March. The South has announced a series of reprisals including a trade ban after a multinational investigation concluded last week that a North Korean submarine had torpedoed the Cheonan on March 26. The communist North denies involvement in the sinking, which claimed 46 lives and brought it widespread international condemnation. It threatens full-scale war if there is any attempt to punish it. The North's military made its complaint Tuesday in a message to the South's armed forces, ...
Australia Boots Israeli Diplomat Over Fake Murder Passports
Post Date: 2010-05-25 11:25:01 by Brian S
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Australia said Monday it would expel an official from the Israeli embassy after finding the Jewish state was behind fake Australian passports linked to the killing of a Hamas operative. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Australia remained a "firm friend" of Israel but no government could tolerate the abuse of its passports. "The government has asked that a member of the Israeli embassy in Canberra be withdrawn from Australia," Smith told parliament, without identifying the official. "I have asked that the withdrawal be effected within a week." An investigation into how four Australian passports were used by the team that carried out the January killing of ...
US And South Korea To Test Military Force As An Affront To North Korea
Post Date: 2010-05-24 13:36:59 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and South Korea are planning two major military exercises off the Korean Peninsula in response to North Korea's torpedo attack on a South Korean warship. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters on Monday the joint exercises conducted in the "near future" will test the nations' ability to defeat submarines and to monitor and prevent illicit activities. Whitman says the exercises are being planned as a result of the March 26 attack, in which a torpedo blew up a South Korean warship and killed 46 Korean sailors.
SKorea President Lee: NKorea Must Pay For Torpedo Attack On Warship
Post Date: 2010-05-24 11:32:50 by Brian S
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's president slashed trade to impoverished North Korea and pledged to haul Pyongyang before the U.N. Security Council, vowing Monday to make Pyongyang "pay a price" for a torpedo attack that killed 46 sailors. President Barack Obama offered his full support for South Korea's moves, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton conferred with China - a veto-wielding permanent seat holder on the Security Council - on the next step in what she called a "highly precarious" security situation. The March 26 sinking of the Cheonan in the Yellow Sea off the west coast was one of South Korea's worst military disaster since ...
Saudi Woman Beats Up Virtue Cop: (Hai'a got his ayazz kicked)
Post Date: 2010-05-24 09:35:42 by Murron
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Saudi Woman Beats Up Virtue Cop: (Hai'a got his ayazz kicked) By BENJAMIN JOFFE-WALT / THE MEDIA LINE It was a scene Saudi women’s rights activists have dreamt of for years. Incident follows a wave of challenges to religious authorities. When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition. But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping. A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi ...
Prostitute Plays Tennis At the French Open
Post Date: 2010-05-24 09:28:29 by no gnu taxes
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German mercenaries to fight UN-backed government in Somalia
Post Date: 2010-05-23 20:16:05 by A K A Stone
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A German security company has sealed a deal with a Somali warlord that politicians say violates UN sanctions. According to German TV, more than a 100 former Bundeswehr soldiers will fight as mercenaries in Somalia. Former Bundeswehr soldiers are to fight as mercenaries in the civil war in Somalia, according to German public TV station NDR. Asgaard German Security Group, a company based in Telgte near Muenster in northwestern Germany, has clinched a deal with Somali opposition politician Galadod Abdinur Ahmad Darman, who wants to topple the internationally-recognized Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia. Security experts warn that a Somali warlord backed by highly-trained ...
Rev. Jeremiah Wright claims Hussein Obama 'threw me under the bus' in letter to African aid group
Post Date: 2010-05-23 17:50:37 by Happy Quanzaa
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He's baaack. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's controversial ex-pastor, threw a hissy fit in a letter to an African aid group, claiming that the president "threw me under the bus" and the White House views him as "toxic." In a missive obtained by the Associated Press, Wright told Africa 6000 International that the Obama administration would likely ignore his efforts to release frozen funds for use in earthquake-stricken Haiti. "No one in the Obama administration will respond to me, listen to me, talk to me or read anything that I write to them. I am 'toxic' in terms of the Obama administration," Wright wrote the president of the ...
Israel Tests Public's Attack Readiness With Major Drill
Post Date: 2010-05-23 12:25:34 by Brian S
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JERUSALEM (May 23) -- Amid tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel today began a five day civil defense drill meant to test the public's readiness to cope with a large-scale rocket attack. The drill, the largest in Israel's history, will include police, soldiers, firemen, medical emergency crews and the public. Later this week, a siren will sound throughout the country and everyone will be asked to go to bomb shelters or stay sealed rooms for 10 minutes. In the face of recent tensions between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas in south Lebanon, Israeli officials insisted that the drill is an annual event and not meant to provoke tensions with Hezbollah or its patron, Iran. ...
Singapore, Hong Kong surpass US in competitiveness
Post Date: 2010-05-22 13:24:04 by jwpegler
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Singapore and Hong Kong are the world's most competitive economies, an annual survey said Friday, demoting the United States from the top spot for the first time since 1993. The study lists 58 economies according to 328 criteria that measure how the nations create and maintain conditions favorable to businesses - a formula that had favored the U.S. for 16 years. "They are so close in the rankings, that it would be probably better to define them as a leading trio," said Stephane Garelli, professor at the Lausanne, Switzerland-based IMD business school, publisher of the World Competitiveness Yearbook. Despite high unemployment and debt, and continued market instability, the ...
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