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A photo shoot involving a 747 used as Air Force One and two fighter jets flying at low altitude led to hundreds of frightened calls from residents and workers in Lower Manhattan this morning, triggering memories of 9-11 as many evacuated their offices... According to officials, the flight -- authorized by the FAA -- came in as low as 1000 feet to 150 feet above the city as it made a large circle over Manhattan, Staten Island, and New Jersey... Other officials noted that they were led to believe the flight would be limited to the area near the...

For the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome. They then went on to treat the infection with complete success. In a study published in the new journal from the Society for Applied Microbiology: Environmental Microbiology Reports, scientists from Spain analysed two apiaries and found evidence of honey bee colony depopulation syndrome (also known as colony collapse disorder in the USA)...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's self-diagnostic system was compromised by hackers, officials say. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of confidential files on the U.S. military's most technologically advanced fighter aircraft have been compromised by unknown computer hackers over the past two years, according to senior defense officials. The Internet intruders were able to gain access to data related to the design and electronics systems of the Joint Strike Fighter through computers of Pentagon contractors in charge of designing and building the aircraft, according to the officials, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue....

Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 (l), but not this year (r) There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time. The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting. The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At its peak, it has a tumultuous boiling atmosphere that spits out flares and planet-sized chunks of super-hot gas. This is followed by a calmer period. Last...

Obama's blockbuster gift for Brown: 25 classic films Joe Murphy March 5, 2009http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23657981-details/Obama's+blockbuster+gift+for+Brown:+25+classic+films/article.do ...Sarah Brown gave Sasha and Malia Obama an outfit each from Topshop, which has just opened its first American store in New York. She also picked six children's books by British authors which are shortly to be published in America. In return, the Obamas gave the Browns two models of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, to take home to sons Fraser and John...     http://whitehouse.merchantcart.net/mainshopping.cfm?icg_id=10&showsku_ID=434&Show=PURCHASE  

<p>Gordon Brown has been given a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD as his official gift from Barack Obama.</p> <p>The Prime Minister flew home from his successful trip to Washington this morning with the "special collector's box" of films hidden in his luggage.</p>

It was bad enough last week when the powers that be decided that Sarah would have to lose her baby, but Big Love jumped the shark tonight when Sarah declared to Barb that she was glad she had lost her baby, and Barb concurred. That occurred at 9:51 eastern time, and we turned the TV off that very minute.

Are males becoming an endangered species? That's the question scientists and researchers have been pondering since alarming trends in male fertility rates, birth defects and disorders began emerging around the world. More and more boys are being born with genital defects and are suffering from learning disabilities, autism and Tourette's syndrome, among other disorders. Male infertility rates are on the rise and the quality of an average man's sperm is declining, according to some studies. But perhaps the most disconcerting of all trends is the growing gender imbalance in many parts of heavily industrialized nations, where the births of baby...

Phoenix Office: 5353 North 16th Street Suite 105 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Main: 602-952-2410 Fax: 602-952-8702 Tempe Office: 4703 South Lakeshore Drive Suite 1 Tempe, AZ 85282 Main: 480-897-6289 Fax: 480-897-8389 Tucson Office: 407 West Congress Street Suite 103 Tucson, AZ 85701 Main: 520-670-6334 Fax: 520-670-6637 Washington Office: 241 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Main: 202-224-2235 Fax: 202-228-2862 I call on Captain John S. McCain, USN (ret.), Republican, Senior Senator from Arizona, to put a stop to the public smearing of your erstwhile running mate, Governor Sarah L. Palin, Republican from Alaska. Governor Palin committed herself and her...

A number of Freepers across the country have been working behind the scenes over the course of the last week in a furious race to try to provide evidence in support of Jack Cashill's thesis which holds that William Ayers was at least a co-author of Dreams from My Father, if not in fact the majority ghost writer of Dreams. Our original goal had been to scan several thousand pages of material into our database, but it turns out that the meticulous digitization of paper materials is an enormously time-consuming undertaking, especially when care must be taken to ensure that...

Could someone please help research the genesis [etymology/etiology] of the following Black Liberation Theology chant: ...half-notes scattered without rhythm / no tune distraught laughter fallin' over a black girl's shoulder it's funny / it's hysterical the melody-less-ness of her dance don't tell a soul she's dancing on beer cans and shingles... somebody / anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin' / struggle / hard times sing her song of life... I found god in myself and I loved her / I loved her fiercely I'm getting hits...

Check out the Bay News 9 reporterette, as she files her nails this morning, during Salin Palin's rally, in New Port Richey, Florida:   We believe that this is probably [!!!] Bay News 9's own Carol Minn Vacca:     Here is Carol Minn Vacca's official biography at Bay News 9:   Carol Minn Vacca - Reporterhttp://www.baynews9.com/content/13/2006/5/1/156612.html Carol began her television career in Macon, Ga., WMAZ TV as an associate producer, later becoming the weekday morning and noon anchor. She later moved further north to Louisville, Ky. As a reporter at WHAS TV, she covered everything from the Kentucky Derby...

OBAMA: In times of economic scarcity, ahm, generally, ahh, the politicians in this country, right now, ahh, want to look for scapegoats, want to organize around race, as opposed to around principle, and around values, ahh, and I think that's a mistake, and I think that can be countered, but it's gonna require the kinds of grassroots mobilization, ahh, and, and the kinds of work at a local level that I think, ahh, I talk about a lot in, in those chapters on Chicago. INTERVIEWER: Wonderful man there, Reverend Wright? OBAMA: Right! [ED: WRIGHT ?!?] And... INTERVIEWER: Yeah... OBAMA:...

Barack Obama's Close Encounter with the Weather Underground Did the presidential candidate and the revolutionary terror group cross paths at a violent 1981 anti-Apartheid protest? Barack Obama would have you believe that the bombings by the radical domestic terrorists known as The Weather Underground were something that happened "when I was eight years old" and with which he had absolutely no connection. And while it is true that their bombings started when Obama was eight years old, they actually continued until he was twenty years old. And, incredibly, the life of Barack Obama and the terror campaign of the Weather...

I have previously posted about Barack Obama's involvement in the socialist led Illinois New Party here, here and here. Below are scans from New Party News Spring 1996. They prove that Barack Obama was a member of the Illinois New Party and was endorsed by them in his 1996 Illinois State Senate race. Front page-scanned from a photocopy Front page close up-scanned from a photocopy Front page ultra close up-scanned from a photocopy Note that the text refers to Barack Obama as a New Party member, while Willie Delgado is only "NP endorsed" The New Party clearly drew a distinction....

This is really odd, and the weird thing about it is that it ran on something called "idle.slashdot.org". I'm not exactly certain what "idle.slashdot.org" really is - in theory, it's supposed to be a dumping ground for junk stories - although I have often wondered whether it might actually be some sort of an ongoing steganographic experiment, kinda like that old Google mystery billboard campaign. In general, you can't even see the stories at "idle": http://slashdot.org Instead, you have to find them at the raw search engine: http://slashdot.org/search.pl So most people don't even know that "idle" exists. And I don't...

Standing room only, infield & outfield of the Walter Latham Baseball Park, on the Elon University campus, Thursday, October 16, 2008. Miscellaneous pictures of Sarah & the crowd, shot from up to 50+ yards, with a variety of lenses: Miscellaneous pictures of the crowd; some B&W, some color: Some 0bamazoid freaks who were very rude, aggressive, and almost borderline violent. This was not pleasant: Finally, some pictures of the memorial to the Battle of Alamance, just south of the Elon University campus: HERE WAS FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE MAY 16, 1771 BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND THE REGULATORS FIRST BATTLE...

It’s nice to be the guy getting tips for once instead of the guy sending them. Yesterday I got two great tips from Morgen, a reader who had found my earlier posts digging into the Obama Ayers connection. Both tips appear to check out and the second one is, I think, big news.First, the smaller one…This Chicago Annenberg Challenge website from 2002 shows the total amount of funds given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct...

The Community Renewal Society presentsHere’s to You CATALYST’s 10th Anniversary Prom Save the date! To order tickets, call our promline: (312) 427-4830, ext. 1-300.Se Habla Espanol  Saturday, February 12, 2000 Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier  Honorary Committee Joanne Alter, FounderWorking In The SchoolsArnita Boswell, Founder, Board MemberNational Hook Up of Black WomenJulie Chavez, Managing DirectorBank of America IllinoisRonald Gidwitz, PartnerGCG PartnersSandra Guthman, PresidentPolk Bros. FoundationLeon Jackson, PresidentMulti-Fac CorporationR. Eden Martin, PresidentCivic Committee, Commercial Club of ChicagoRichard Morrow, Retired Chairman and CEOAmoco CorporationAdele Simmons, Vice PresidentChicago Metropolis 2020Rev. Kenneth W. Smith, Senior FellowChicago Community TrustChristina Tchen, PartnerSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...

<p>I read occasionally of former Weatherman Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, both now not only accepted, despite their bombing campaign against America in the 1960s and 70s, but successful , establishment educators whose opinions on social issues are taken seriously. Every time I see Ayers’ name I shudder with fear and rage and realize that I will never be able to erase the mark he left on my life one evening 40 years ago.</p>