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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced.
Mr Kim, who has led the communist nation since the death of his father in 1994, died on a train while visiting an area outside the capital, the announcement said.
He suffered a stroke in 2008 and was absent from public view for months. His designated successor is believed to be his third son, Kim Jong-un, who is thought to be in his late 20s.
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A new report on the 2008 financial crisis reveals some shocking numbers that dramatically exceed the $700 billion TARP bailout.
The report by Bloomberg Markets Magazine details trillions of dollars in secret federal loans made to the big banks during the 2008 financial crisis, a process that helped them rake in billions of dollars in undisclosed profits.
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Violent video games can alter the brain in just one week and make players more aggressive, according to researchers.
A study has found that key areas in the brain suffer reduced activity, and leave it physically altered.
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Trustees of the California Medical Assn., which represents more than 35,000 physicians statewide, adopted the position at their annual meeting in Anaheim late Friday. It is the first major medical association in the nation to urge legalization of the drug, according to a group spokeswoman, who said the larger membership was notified Saturday.
Dr. Donald Lyman, the Sacramento physician who wrote the group’s new policy, attributed the shift to growing frustration over California’s medical marijuana law, which permits cannabis use with a doctor’s recommendation. That, he said, has created an untenable situation for physicians: deciding whether to give patients a substance that is illegal under federal law.
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More than five years after the American military denied claims that its troops had executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians in cold blood, new evidence has emerged in a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable casting serious doubt on the US version of events.
A UN complaint contained in the latest batch of cables published by the whistle-blowing organisation suggests that in 2006 US troops killed at least 10 civilians, including five children and an elderly woman, in the central town of Ishaqi before ordering an air strike which destroyed the house where the alleged killings took place.
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Global Orbit Decay
By: Willie McDonald
*cdnld30@gmail.com*
The events below were discovered by scientific organizations such as NASA, not by me! These events were discovered in the 20th century, and are occurring simultaneously, and are slowly worsening. Many of these events below have been occurring for less than a millennium (LTM).
I believe they are now beginning to affect the Earth’s climate. Greenhouse gases have nothing to do with global warming. Many scientists believe the sun plays a larger role in climate change than first thought.
The oil companies’ crude oil extraction process is causing less crude oil to reach the core, causing the core to cool, which causes the Earth’s magnetic field to weaken, which is causing the Earth orbit around the sun to destabilize. This link below proves hydrocarbons (crude oil, and methane) are being burned in the lower mantle, and outer core, and carbon materials are also ejected from volcanoes during eruptions. Carbon is a by-product of hydrocarbons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil
If it’s not reversed in time all life on this planet will perish. Below are the reasons I believe the Earth’s orbit around the sun is destabilizing, and is responsible for global warming. The heat from the sun will spread from the equator toward both polar ice caps as the Earth orbit destabilizes. The temperature is always higher in regions on, or near the equator, than regions near the polar ice cap. The temperature depends on the location, not greenhouse gas concentrations.
(1). The sun is getting hotter, and brighter. It is possible Earth is moving closer to the sun. (LTM).
A. http://www.biocab.org/Amplitude_Solar_Irradiance.html
C. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/sun-brightness.html
D. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0313irradiance.html
E. http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/GW_Part6_SolarEvidence.htm
F. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=232
G. http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm
(2). The earth is developing a breach in its magnetic field. (LTM).
A. http://www.science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/16dec_giantbreach
B. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0909_040909_earthmagfield.html
(3). The moon is moving away from the Earth. (Read last sentence above figure 11.).
A. http://www.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/Notes/section4/new17.html
(4). The Earth’s rotation is slowing down. (LTM).
A. http://bowie.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggfc/tides/intro.html
(5). The Earth is increasingly shifting, or tilting on its axis. (LTM).
A. http://divulgence.net/axis%20shift%202.html
(6). The Earth is wobbling on its axis.
A.http://www.world-weather.com/world-weather/our-wobbling-earth-wobbled-by-the-worlds-weather/
B. http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/chandler_wobble
(7). Both polar ice caps outer regions are being melted by the sun, during each ice caps summer season, and the oceans are rising. (LTM)
A. You should know this by now.
People shade themselves from the sun, not from the greenhouse effect. You will never get sun burn, heat stroke, or skin cancer from the greenhouse gas effect. Beware of the sun.
The U.S. government believes it is highly likely that Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei signed off on a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington and bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies here, senior U.S. officials said Wednesday.
“This is the kind of operation — the assassination of a diplomat on foreign soil — that would have been vetted at the highest levels of the Iranian government,” said a senior official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the sensitive analysis. “We can’t prove that, but we do not think it was a rogue operation in any way.”
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Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, “now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment.”
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The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s largest economy.
S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about the government’s budget deficits and rising debt burden. The move is likely to raise borrowing costs eventually for the American government, companies and consumers.
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Drug warriors often contend that drug use would skyrocket if we were to legalize or decriminalize drugs in the United States. Fortunately, we have a real-world example of the actual effects of ending the violent, expensive War on Drugs and replacing it with a system of treatment for problem users and addicts.
Ten years ago, Portugal decriminalized all drugs. One decade after this unprecedented experiment, drug abuse is down by half.
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It’s official: The housing crisis that began in 2006 and has recently entered a double dip is now worse than the Great Depression.
Prices have fallen some 33 percent since the market began its collapse, greater than the 31 percent fall that began in the late 1920s and culminated in the early 1930s, according to Case-Shiller data.
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Tripoli, Libya — NATO officials admitted Sunday that the alliance was probably responsible for an airstrike in a densely populated Tripoli neighborhood that Libyan authorities said killed nine people and injured 18.
The early-morning airstrike destroyed one apartment building, crushing residents beneath tons of debris while they were sleeping, Libyan authorities said. Half a dozen other homes on the normally quiet street were also damaged.
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Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden is dead, according to US officials.
The US is in possession of Bin Laden’s body, the reports say. President Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday another reactor of its quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plants had lost its cooling functions, while at least 15 people at a nearby hospital were found to have been exposed to radioactivity.
It was the sixth reactor overall at the Fukushima No. 1 and No. 2 plants to undergo cooling failure since the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan on Friday.
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The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the last five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance their causes in Washington, records show.
L-3 Communications, which has sold $39.7 million worth of the machines to the federal government, spent $4.3 million to influence Congress and federal agencies during the first nine months of this year, up from $2.1 million in 2005, lobbying data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show. Last year, the company spent $5.5 million on lobbying.
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The UN today warned that food prices could rise by 10%-20% next year after poor harvests and an expected rundown of global reserves. More than 70 African and Asian countries will be the worst hit, said the Food and Agricultural Organisation in its monthly report.
In its gloomiest forecast since the 2007/08 food crisis, which saw food riots in more than 25 countries and 100 million extra hungry people, the report’s authors urged states to prepare for hardship.
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Not as many people are aware of it as should be, but Jon Stewart’s older brother, Larry Leibowitz, is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Mr. Leibowitz was appointed chief operating officer in the first quarter of 2010. In this capacity, he (Leibowitz) is responsible for all the operations management, global cash execution and global listings.
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A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that encourages federal agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the government released a handful of documents, including a May 2008 memo detailing how social-networking sites are exploited by the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS).
As of Thursday morning, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Digg had not commented on the report, which details the official government program to spy via social networking. Other websites the government is spying on include Twitter, MySpace, Craigslist and Wikipedia, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which filed the FOIA request.
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The world’s rivers, the single largest renewable water resource for humans and a crucible of aquatic biodiversity, are in a crisis of ominous proportions, according to a new global analysis.
The report, published Sept. 30 in the journal Nature, is the first to simultaneously account for the effects of such things as pollution, dam building, agricultural runoff, the conversion of wetlands and the introduction of exotic species on the health of the world’s rivers.
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For the first time, astronomers have detected a rocky planet in another solar system that has the most basic and essential conditions needed to support extraterrestrial life.
The presence of Earth-like exoplanets in what is called the “habitable zone” has been predicted for some time, but actually identifying and measuring one was referred to Wednesday as the beginning of a new era in the search for life beyond Earth.
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The sun is burning hotter than usual, offering a possible explanation for global warming that needs to be weighed when proceeding with expensive efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, Swiss and German scientists say.
“The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures,” said Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research.
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It sounds like something straight out of George Orwell’s nightmarish Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In a move that harks back to the dark days of the KGB, the Russian security service has been given new powers to crack down on so-called ‘thought crime’.
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