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Obama to Form Financial Fraud Task Force

President Obama will issue an executive order on Tuesday that will create an administration-wide financial fraud task force,... more

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Officials to inspect Illinois jail for Guantánamo inmates

THOMSON, Illinois - Federal officials were due in rural northwest Illinois on Monday to inspect a prison that could be bought by... more

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Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house

Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits... more

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Companies Kill 16 Workers A Day

You won't believe this -- Sixteen workers are killed a day in the United States because of reckless negligence on the part of... more

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Woman Faces Prison Time for Cutting in Line at Walmart

Memphians will attend a rally on behalf of Heather Ellis, who faces 15 years in prison for an incident that started with her... more

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Uninsured ER patients twice as likely to die

Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in... more

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TRAGIC ENDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA’S PRECIOUS SHANIYA

click to read more, sad story http://getwititmagazine.com/2009/11/16/752/

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Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan

I was just reading this blog an came across this article. It is absolutely heartbreaking.... more

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‘Remote Control’ Ken Ober Dies At 52 (Photos)

MTV’s ‘Remote Control’ host Ken Ober was found dead at his home on Sunday (November 15). Ken started complaining... more

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U.S. Companies Willfully Kill 16 Workers per Day

It's legal in the U.S. for companies to have known deadly safety violations that they know will kill workers. But they find... more

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Shuttle Atlantis takes off on station delivery mission

Shuttle Atlantis takes off on station delivery mission CNET News KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--The space shuttle Atlantis roared to... more

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CNN Finding The Prime-Time Success Is Elusive

NEW YORK – The latest rough patch for CNN illustrates the two contradictions at the network's heart. In a brutal... more

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Shaniya Davis Found Dead; Mother Charged With Trafficking

Shaniya’s body was discovered early Monday afternoon about 100 feet off a wooded road southeast of Sanford in central North... more

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Detroit Too Broke To Bury Their Dead! (You Can Donate & Help!)

Follow up on the Michigan county that ran out of money to bury their dead. "They were stacked up like shoes in a... more

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NASA - The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare

The year 2012 is acting like a badly behaved celebrity. Frightful rumors and gossip are spreading. Already more than a half dozen books are marketing, to eager fans, astronomical fears about 2012 End Times. Opening in theaters on Friday, Nov. 13, will be 2012, a $200-million disaster movie that seems designed to break all records for disaster spectacles -- with cracking continents, plunging asteroids, burning cities, and a tsunami throwing an aircraft carrier through the White House. The movie's ominous slogan: "Find out the truth." Two other major movies about the 2012 doomsday are also reported to be in the works.

Anyone who cruises the internet or all-night talk radio knows why. The ancient Maya of Mexico and Guatemala kept a calendar that is about to roll up the red carpet of time, swing the solar system into transcendental alignment with the heart of the Milky Way, and turn Earth into a bowling pin for a rogue planet heading down our alley for a strike.

None of it is true. People you know, however, are likely becoming a bit afraid that modern astronomy and Maya secrets are indeed conspiring to bring our doom. If people know you’re an astronomer, they will soon be asking you all about it.

Here is what you need to know. (read on at article... very enlightening!)

The end says this:
The Secret NASA Conspiracy
Some advocates for the 2012 catastrophe say that what will actually cause the devastation is an alignment of planets. There is no planet alignment on the winter solstice in 2012. Nonetheless, advocates of doom connect the fictional alignment to astrological predictions or groundless claims about a reversal of Earth's magnetic field and unprecedented solar storms. Many internet postings and guests on all-night apocalyptic radio have elaborated on these themes.

In particular, several threads of irrational thought have created an internet phantom, the secret planet Nibiru. It's the bowling ball, and Earth is the pin. There is no such planet, though it is often equated with Eris, a plutoid orbiting safely and permanently beyond Pluto. Some insist, however, that a NASA conspiracy is in play and that Nibiru, looming in on the approach, can already be seen in broad daylight from the Southern Hemisphere. It was supposed to become visible from the Northern Hemisphere, too, by last May, but like a fickle blind date, it stood up those awaiting it.

Others on the Web, confused about the supposed alignment of the winter-solstice sun with the Milky Way's center, have declared that the Sun is now plummeting to the Milky Way’s center and dragging Earth with it. The predicted result? Earth’s polar axis will shift. Most of what's claimed for 2012 relies on wishful thinking, wild pseudoscientific folly, ignorance of astronomy, and a level of paranoia worthy of Night of the Living Dead.

(arcticspirit- seriously read the entire article, there is so much MORE in it!!!)The year 2012 is acting like a badly behaved celebrity. Frightful rumors and gossip are spreading. Already more than a half dozen... more

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Nuclear Report on Iran Arouses New Suspicions

WASHINGTON — International inspectors who gained access to Iran’s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant raised questions in a report released on Monday about whether the country may have also concealed other nuclear factories.

So far Iran has denied that there are other hidden sites in addition to the one built deep underground on a military base north of the holy city of Qum. The inspectors were given access to the half-built plant late last month and reported that they had found it in “an advanced state” of construction, but that no centrifuges — the fast-spinning machines needed to make nuclear fuel – had yet been installed.

They confirmed American and European intelligence reports that the site was built to house about 3,000 centrifuges, enough to produce enough material for one or two nuclear weapons a year. But that is too small to be useful in the production of fuel for civilian nuclear power, which is what Iran insists was the intended purpose of the site.

The plant’s existence was revealed in September, as many as seven years after construction had begun.

The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspectors came just two days after President Obama, expressing increasing impatience with Iran’s responses in nuclear negotiations, indicated that he would begin to plan for far more stringent economic sanctions against Tehran. He was joined during that announcement by President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia, but Mr. Medvedev was vague about whether Russia was now prepared to join in those sanctions. Mr. Obama was expected to take up the issue on Tuesday with President Hu Jintao of China, where Mr. Obama is on a state visit. China, like Russia, has historically resisted sanctions on Iran.

In its report, the agency said that Iran’s belated “declaration of the new facility reduces the level of confidence in the absence of other nuclear facilities under construction, and gives rise to questions about whether there were any other nuclear facilities in Iran which had not been declared to the agency.”

Both I.A.E.A. officials and American and European diplomats and nuclear experts have argued that the existence of the hidden facility at Qum would make little sense unless there was a network of related facilities to feed it with raw nuclear fuel.

Iran denied that it had any other facilities that it had failed to report to the agency. But in a letter to the nuclear inspectors, parts of which were quoted in the report to the board of the I.A.E.A., Iranian officials said they were motivated to build the underground plant because of “the threats of military attacks against Iran,” a reference to the assumption that Israel, the United States or other Western powers might take military action against its main plant for uranium enrichment, located at Natanz.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/world/middleeast/17nuke.html?_r=1&hpWASHINGTON — International inspectors who gained access to Iran’s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant... more

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Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt

The Dawn spacecraft – which is on a course to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres – has taken up permanent residence in the asteroid belt as of November 13th. Dawn is officially the first human-made object to become a part of the asteroid belt, which is sandwiched between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.Dawn didn't move in without checking the place out first, though; this is the second visit for the craft, which remained there for 40 days in June of 2008. The lower boundary of the asteroid belt is defined as the furthest Mars gets away from the Sun during its orbit – 249,230,000 kilometers, or 154,864,000 miles.

Dawn, which was launched in September 2007, is on an eight-year, 4.9-billion kilometer (3-billion mile) journey to study the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. By studying these members of the asteroid belt, NASA scientists hope to learn more about the formation of our Solar System. Because Vesta and Ceres are some of the largest members of the ring of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, they are the most intact from when they were formed, and should act as a 'time capsule' to preserve information about what the early Solar System was like.

Dawn got a gravity assist from Mars in February of 2009, which propelled it past the planet and into the asteroid belt.

The spacecraft is expected to visit Vesta in August of 2011. Vesta is believed to be the source of most of the asteroid-origin meteorites that fall to ground here on Earth, and further study of the asteroid should confirm this.

In May of 2012, Dawn will make its way to Ceres, which lies further out in the asteroid belt. It will arrive there in July of 2015, where it will spend the remainder of its mission studying the icy dwarf planet, which may even have a tenuous atmosphere.

If you want to keep tabs on Dawn in its new home, the mission web site has a tool updated hourly, found here, which allows you to see where Dawn is right now. The tool includes simulated views of the Earth, Mars, Sun and Vesta from the vantage point of the spacecraft.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/16/dawn-takes-up-residence-in-asteroid-belt/The Dawn spacecraft – which is on a course to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres – has taken up permanent... more