Wearing t-shirts proclaiming “Thank you, Lord” in Spanish and English, the miners gradually surfaced one by one as their rescue from the collapsed mine was completed.
Oct 15, 2010
Chile miners: San Jose mine and Camp Hope could be turned into museum attraction
Oct 14, 2010
They're all out: 33 miners raised safely in Chile - Yahoo! News
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – The longest underground nightmare in history ended safely — and faster than anyone expected.
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MER Update 093010 - Spirit Snoozes, Opportunity Bolts Past Halfway Mark to Endeavour Crater
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Maas Digital
As Opportunity picked up the pace to Endeavour Crater this month and crossed the halfway point on the long journey from Victoria Crater and Spirit continued sleeping in hibernation mode, the Mars Exploration Rovers chalked up their 81st month of what was supposed to have been just a three-month tour of the Red Planet.“There’s been no word from Spirit,” ....
NASA - NASA's Hubble Captures First Images of Aftermath of Possible Asteroid Collision
These four Hubble Space Telescope images, taken over a five-month period, from January to May 2010 with Wide Field Camera 3, show the odd-shaped debris that likely came from a collision between two asteroids. Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI) Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA) WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first snapshots of a suspected asteroid collision. The images show a bizarre X-shaped object at the head of a comet-like trail of material.
Exploding Clays Drive Geminids Sky Show? - Breaking Orbit
A Geminid meteor cuts across star trails over Georgia in 1985.
—Image courtesy Jimmy Westlake via NASA
(See "Intense Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight" [2009].)
Instead, scientists have traced the Geminids to an object called 3200 Phaethon. This bizarre body has all the mineral makings of an asteroid, but, like a comet, it left behind a stream of dust that follows along in its orbit.
Thanks to gravitational interactions, this dusty trail regularly crosses Earth's orbit. The particles then burn up in our atmosphere, creating the Geminids meteor shower.
Until recently, the favored view of Phaethon was that it's a dead comet—the rocky core of ..
Bombing Earth-bound Asteroids a Viable Option, Experts Say
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Saturn's Largest Moon Has Ingredients for Life?
Picture courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/DLR
Published October 8, 2010
The chemical "letters" used to write the basic code for life on Earth might exist on Saturn's largest moon, according to new research presented Thursday.
Last Chilean rescuer back to surface
SAN JOSE MINE, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The last Chilean rescuer was brought back to surface early Thursday, completing the rescue operation for the 33 trapped miners who had been staying underground for more than 2 months.
Dozens of Los Angeles residents charged in crackdown on medical fraud
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Los Angeles residents were charged on Wednesday for their roles in a Medical fraud that fleeced Medicare out of millions of dollars, authorities said.
9 killed in U.S. drone attack in NW Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The death toll has risen to nine following a U.S. drone strike launched late Wednesday night in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan, reported local media.
Obama stresses benefits of college tax credit to U.S. families
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday highlighted the benefits of an initiative to make college education more affordable, according to a statement from the White House.
Iranian president slams reports over Hezbollah's involvement in Hariri's murder
BEIRUT, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday slammed the "fabricated" claims that Hezbollah was involved in the assassination of Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
Is Netanyahu trying to shift the focus with new offer?
JERUSALEM Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- The aftermath to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech on Monday, offering a possible extension on settlement construction freeze if the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, has questions arisen regarding the timing and reason for the offer.
Acropolis hill blocked by Greek protestors over austerity measures
ATHENS, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Acropolis hill, the most famous archaeological site of Greece, was blocked on Tuesday by Greek employees of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in protest of austerity measures.
Landmarks of Berlin to be illuminated during Festival of Lights
The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated during the Festival of Lights in Berlin October 13, 2010. Several landmarks of the German capital, including boulevards, squares, towers, historical and modern buildings, will be illuminated during the festival. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Last trapped Chilean miner rescued, historic rescue completed
This video grab shows the last miner Luis Urzua is rescued back to the ground at the collapsed San Jose mine, 800 km north of the Chilean capital Santiago, on Oct. 13, 2010. The operation to lift out the 33 miners trapped for over two months in northern Chile has been successfully completed by Wednesday. (Xinhua)
Oct 13, 2010
Chile mine rescue underway; two-thirds hoisted to safety
SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE - One by one, the miners who have been trapped under 2,000 feet of rock in northern Chile for more than two months were being pulled to the surface Wednesday in a special capsule, then embraced by emotional family members as the end of their saga was beamed live around the world.
Michelle Obama's plea to America
Plea for more time ... Michelle Obama. Photo: Reuters
US First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday poignantly said she felt the economic anxiety of hurting Americans, but pleaded with them to give her husband more time to forge the change he promised.
Last of 33 miners likely to be saved Wednesday
The last of 33 miners trapped in a Chile mine could be saved by the end of the day, officials said Wednesday, as a complex, fast-moving rescue operation went without hitch, triggering global rejoicing.
Question of the Week: Investors Seek Metals To Soften Blow of Global Currency War
The housing market remains in the dumper. U.S. stocks - despite a rally - are still 22% below their record highs of two years ago. And the "official" unemployment rate remains at a heart-stopping 9.6%.
Flu Shots May Reduce Heart Attack Risk
Sept. 21, 2010 -- Yearly flu shots may do more than stave off the seasonal flu -- they may also prevent heart attacks, according to a new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. And the earlier you get the flu shot, the greater this protection, the study shows.
You Heard it Here First: China's Plan to Dethrone the Dollar Continues to Unfold
The U.S. dollar is on the way out as the world's top reserve currency. And as Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald predicted more than a year and a half ago, the yuan could be set to replace it.
Chile miners: Rescue workers expect to begin lifting trapped miners Tuesday | La Plaza | Los Angeles Times
Officials said that Tuesday, the 69th day underground for 33 miners trapped 2,300 feet down in a northern Chile mine, will see at least the first rescue via metal capsule, with the rest to be lifted to freedom over the next two days.
Indian athlete Rani Yadav fails dope test at Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games Federation says Yadav, who was sixth in the women's 20-kilometer walk on Saturday, has been provisionally suspended from the event.
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World Financial System Not Sustainable
The financial system the world has evolved on the Bank of England model is not sustainable. It creates nearly all money as debt. Such money only exists as long as someone is willing and able to pay interest on it. It disappears, wholly or partially, in recurring financial crises. Such a system requires that new debt must be created faster than principal and interest payments fall due on old debt.
Beck Aides Try To Debunk Diet Coke Dangers
It's hard to believe after three decades of controversy on aspartame, NutraSweet, Equal, AminoSweet, E951, Benevia, Canderel, Spoonful, etc. that anyone would even question the fact that aspartame is a chemical poison. In reality, it is an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically-engineered drug and adjuvant that damages the mitochondria and interacts with drugs and vaccines.
The Foreclosure Game Tricks and Traps in the Fine Print By RALPH NADER
This time the big banks and mortgage servicing companies, with their long, one-sided fine print contracts, may have outsmarted themselves. The newspaper headlines and the network television news are blazing news of the erupting fraudulent foreclosure process. This long-overdue coverage is generating public visibility and suddenly hundreds of thousands of foreclosures may be questioned due to what one commentator delicately called “flawed paperwork.”
Spying and lying about the left
A company hired by the state of Pennsylvania has spied on left-wing, antiwar and student groups. The US peace group "Peace of the Action" has discovered documents showing that it and many other organisations have been under surveillance for many months by a private agency called the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR).
California to decide on cannabis
Those backing legalised marijuana sale enjoy narrow lead ahead of November vote. This November, California voters will decide whether they would legalise the sale of marijuana. A measure on the statewide ballot called Proposition 19 would fully legalise, regulate and tax marijuana sales, which would be restricted to adults over age 21. Most of California's elected officials and candidates for governor oppose legalisation, but the latest polls show voters who are in favour of Proposition 19 have a narrow lead.
US lifts deep oil drilling freeze
Six-month moratorium on deep water drilling lifted after implementation of new stringent safety measures. The administration of Barack Obama, the US president, has lifted the moratorium on deep water drilling that it imposed in the wake of the disastrous BP oil spill, that dumped millions of litres of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
MEET THE SUPREMACIST JEWISH REBBE MEACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON
By Nahida Izzat (Uprooted Palestinians) – Some still insist that Chabad is a “fringe group”, that “has no influence” and that exposing their supremacist ideology, their level of influence and the harm they do is a “distraction” ! Watch Benjamin Netanyahu Ordered by Chabad Rebbe to Hasten Jewish Messiah’s Coming YouTube – Veterans Today Netanyahu [...]
Taliban capture US base in Afghanistan
Taliban militants have claimed that they have driven US troops out of a military outpost in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar Province. They also said that the Americans fled the military outpost in Kunar's Marawara district in helicopters on Monday.
Fourth of 33 men rescued from Chilean mine - Yahoo! News
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – To hugs, cheers and tears, rescuers using a missile-like escape capsule began pulling 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom at last early Wednesday, 69 days ..
Oct 12, 2010
Chile miners: Rescue workers expect to begin lifting trapped miners Tuesday
Officials said that Tuesday, the 69th day underground for 33 miners trapped 2,300 feet down in a northern Chile mine, will see at least the first rescue via metal capsule, with the rest to be lifted to freedom over the next two days.
Racism scandal: Australian cops joke about Indian's electrocution
MELBOURNEL In a shocking incident, top Australian police officers have been caught in a racist e-mail scandal joking about the electrocution of an Indian train passenger and suggesting that it could be "a way to fix the Indian student problem" in Melbourne.
Pope takes biggest step to revive Christianity
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI today outlined his most tangible initiative yet to try to revive Christianity, creating a Vatican office for re-evangelising Europe and other traditionally Christian regions where the faith is falling by the wayside.
Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa to be guest of honour at CWG closing
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KATHMANDU: Despite their differences, Nepal's Maoist party and the dissidents dismissed in unison reports in the media about a collusion between the Indian rebels and their comrades in Nepal, that was alleged to have resulted in "hundreds" of Indian Maoists receiving arms training in Nepal's Terai from the Nepal Maoists' People's Liberation Army (PLA) and operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
NZ radio host apologises for calling Gov Gen Anand Satyanand 'fat Indian'
MELBOURNE: New Zealand radio host Michael Laws today apologised for calling his country's Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand a "fat Indian".
Indian accused of stabbing ex-girlfriend 27 times in Dubai
DUBAI: A 41-year-old Indian computer programmer has denied in court the charge of premeditatedly attempting to murder his ex-girlfriend, who claimed he stabbed her 27 times.
Pak accelerates pace of its nuclear weapons programme: Watchdog
The Institute for Science and International Security has obtained satellite images showing that a row of cooling towers at Pakistan's secret Khushab-III reactor has been completed, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Taliban now tap kidnapping as revenue source
ISLAMABAD: Taliban in Pakistan's northwest have changed their strategy and adopted a new approach of target killings and kidnapping for ransom, with a psychiatrist teaching youngsters brainwashed by militants and a relative of a political leader among the victims of this campaign.
Militants bomb girls school in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified militants bombed a girls school on Tuesday morning in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a media report said.
Musharraf planned to topple govt ever since he became army chief: Butt
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf had plans to topple the elected government since his inception as the army chief in 1998, revealed General Ziauddin Butt who was appointed as army chief by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on October 12, 1999, the fateful day that put an end to Butt's military career and Sharif's civilian rule.
Making news: US man bites police dog
WASHINGTON: When a dog bites a man, it's not news but the opposite is. Now, a man in US has hogged headlines by exactly doing that — biting a police canine.
Vampire wife drinks man's blood to express love
Vampires are probably not mythical creatures anymore — Melbourne 'vampire' Kriss Poison drinks her husband's blood as an expression of love.
Sex with the boss best way to the top
NEW YORK: Having sex with the boss is the fastest way to get to the top, according to an increasing number of Americans.
US lifts Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling ban
WASHINGTON: The United States on Tuesday lifted a ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill and set tough new safety conditions, officials said.
Militants bomb girls school in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified militants bombed a girls school on Tuesday morning in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a media report said.
British media join forces against Murdoch buyout
LONDON: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has dominated Britain's press for decades, shaking Fleet Street to its foundations and dueling with the BBC.
Merkel sides with Romania on Gypsy issue
BUCHAREST: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday the expulsion of hundreds of Romanian Gypsies from France will not influence the decision about whether Romania can join Europe's visa-free travel zone.
Pope takes biggest step to revive Christianity
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI today outlined his most tangible initiative yet to try to revive Christianity, creating a Vatican office for re-evangelising Europe and other traditionally Christian regions where the faith is falling by the wayside.
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Huge win for BJP in Gujarat civic polls due to Muslim support: Modi
CWG: India beat England on penalties to reach hockey final
India elected to UNSC as non-permanent member
UNITED NATIONS: After a gap of 19 years, India was today elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, a position which would help it push more aggressively for the reform of the world body's top organ.
Oct 11, 2010
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Settlers move furniture out of Jerusalem home
Israeli settlers ransacked the home of a Palestinian family in occupied East Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday tossing furniture into the street. Homeowner Mazin Qirrish said Israeli police provided protection to the settlers as his family and neighbors tried to the prevent the evacuation of their home. The family's troubles began 14 September as settlers announced their plan to move in, claiming ownership. An Israeli court recently ruled in favor of the settlers...
American Science’s Racist History Still Haunts the World
Early in America’s crusade to spread the wonders of modern medicine, a group of researchers in Guatemala did something unspeakable in the name of science. Documentation of the project is just now coming to light, more than 60 years later, and it reads like a horror novel: Hundreds of men systematically infected with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases in an effort, endorsed by both the U.S. and Guatemalan governments, to research the effectiveness of drug treatment.
When Did Teachers Become Bums?
When did teachers become bums? When did it become okay to vilify an entire occupation — three million college educated professionals working as hard as anyone to make the world a better place? It wasn’t that long ago that teachers occupied a quasi-secular-sainthood. It was the underpaid, overworked teachers who guided, inspired, succored, and cajoled every one of us to find in ourselves that bigger person we all long to be.
Torture Victim Sues Obama Administration Over `Kafkaesque Nightmare'
In a first for a former Guantánamo captive freed by a federal judge, a Syrian man now living in Europe is suing the U.S. government for damages from what he calls a ``Kafkaesque nightmare.'' Abdul Razak al JankoThe 44-page lawsuit by Abdul Razak al Janko, 32, described a decade-long odyssey of detention -- first in Taliban-era Afghanistan, where he was tortured as an alleged pro-American Israeli spy, and later in U.S. military prisons that ignored or misdiagnosed his history as a torture
White House staff exodus exposes Obama to charges of disarray
More senior staff including defence secretary Robert Gates, and senior advisor David Axelrod, leave their jobs. More senior White House staff are to leave in the next few months, adding to the high exit rate from President Barack Obama's administration. Political analysts attribute the attrition rate to exhaustion, but Republican opponents blame disarray inside the White House, with an insular team responsible for too many policy failures.
How Hank Paulson's Inaction Helped Goldman Sachs
Henry Paulson has received widespread acclaim for his bare-knuckled decision-making as the treasury secretary at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, but former federal regulators say he missed multiple chances to contain the disaster.
Major shift: California leans toward marijuana legalization
A new Field Poll highlighted Sunday in The San Francisco Chronicle (whose site has crashed as of this writing) suggests that the tide has turned in favor of medical marijuana legalization. "In a dramatic shift of sentiment, nearly half of California's likely voters now want to legalize marijuana use in the state, according to a new Field Poll," the site's authors write.
Currency wars are necessary if all else fails
The overwhelming fact of the global currency system is that America needs a much weaker dollar to bring its economy back into kilter and avoid slow ruin, yet the rest of the world cannot easily handle the consequences of such a wrenching adjustment. There is not enough demand to go around.
Prisoners Protest by Self-Mutilation
ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN - Horrific protests that have seen hundreds of inmates slice their stomachs open over conditions in jails in Kazakhstan are set to continue as the UN accuses the Central Asian country of trying to mask the real state of its prison system. Convicts have said that torture, beatings and rapes are common in prisons and that the only option left to them to highlight their plight to the outside world is brutal self-mutilation.
Afghan War, Afghan Holocaust & Afghan Genocide 9th Anniversary - 4.9 million dead, 3.2 million refugees
The Afghan War has now entered its 10th year. It has become the longest US war. As of 7 October 2010, the 9th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 4.9 million violent deaths or non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupier-imposed deprivation.
Drunken diplomacy: new settlements
Barack Obama should demand an end to settlement expansions in the West Bank, putting Israel on the road to redemption. "Disappointed." That's the best the US could do. The Israeli government ends a 10-month suspension on settlement construction - it was, in fact only a partial freeze, but that's another story - and cement and bulldozers immediately start to spread across the West Bank. Did anyone really expect better?
Cuba's changes: what would Che say?
Cubans who previously worked for the state will be encouraged to take up farming under new economic policies. It is hard to imagine what Che Guevara, the legendary communist revolutionary, would make of Cuba's plan to lay off 500,000 state workers by 2011 as the island moves closer to a market economy.
A huge setback for, if not the end of, the American nuclear renaissance
A cascade of insurmountable obstacles now stand in the path of development of the widely trumpeted new generation of nuclear power generating plants in the US despite generous federal loan guarantees offered by Obama’s Department of Energy.
MUSIC AND TONES RISE FOR GAZA BY LAUREN BOOTH
Until now, it' been a real source of pride amongst Israel's support network that big name musicians have felt 'safe' to appear at Zionist fund raisers. Even whilst Israel commits ever more stomach churning war crimes in Palestine and -as we saw in May with the attack on the Freedom Flotilla - in international waters. Aappearing at events to raise issues related to justice in Palestine was seen as a sure fire way of artists being branded anti semitic- leading to (so artists were lead to believe) falls in record sales and trouble s booking tour venues. But, as Gilad Atzmon has aptly named his latest CD ' the tide has changed.'
GILAD ATZMON: WAGNER AGAIN
Oi vey, an Israeli orchestra plans to play the music of this meshigine Wagner, whom Hitler loved so much. Wagner’s music is considered taboo in Israel, it is years since he made it to top 40’s in the Jewish state. Wagner also held views that are far from being popular amongst Jews. He once wrote that Jews were only capable of producing money-making music and not works of art. I guess that Israelis do not like meshiges with an astute reading of the socio-economy of the show business.
Chile mine shaft reinforced, ready for rescue
MINE SAN JOSE: Chilean engineers Monday completed reinforcing a rescue shaft with steel tubes, preparing for an operation to bring 33 trapped miners to the surface, a local lawmaker said.
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HC sets aside divorce for wife of dead man
MUMBAI: Can a divorce be granted to a woman whose husband is dead? The Pune family court certainly thought so and passed just such an order recently. But finding the Pune order nothing short of "preposterous, a bench of Justices B H Marlapalle and U D Salvi of the Bombay high court set it aside on Monday.
A Pune-based woman who was married for almost 20 years through a love match and had two minor teenagers was going through a divorce battle when a freak accident took her husband's life.
A Pune-based woman who was married for almost 20 years through a love match and had two minor teenagers was going through a divorce battle when a freak accident took her husband's life.
London bombers may have changed attack date: Inquests
WASHINGTON: US doctors have begun treating the first patient with embryonic stem cells as part of the first human study of the controversial treatment authorized by the government, the Geron Corporation said Monday.
US treats first patient with human embryonic stem cells
WASHINGTON: US doctors have begun treating the first patient with embryonic stem cells as part of the first human study of the controversial treatment authorized by the government, the Geron Corporation said Monday.
India wins first Games track & field gold since Milkha Singh in 1958
Arnie’s back – in Skolkovo
by Lidia Okorokova at 11/10/2010 20:49
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger flew into Moscow on Sunday for a three-day visit that included a whistle-stop tour of Russia’s answer to Silicon Valley, a ride on the metro and a spin in President Dmitry Medvedev’s vintage Chaika.
Schwarzenegger to lead tech delegation to Russia
MOSCOW — California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will lead a delegation to Russia next week to meet with President Dmitry Medvedev and visit the future Russian "Silicon Valley", organisers said Wednesday.
Military parade to honour Kim Jong-un casting Corporation)
Speaking to the APTN news agency, North Korean ruling party member Yang Hyong-sop said his people were honoured to serve Kim Jong-un.
The comments are the first public confirmation by a regime official that Kim Jong-il's youngest son will succeed his ailing father.
BBC News - Chile reveals timing of attempt to rescue 33 miners
A test of the rescue capsule has been carried out successfully, descending almost the whole way down the 622m (680yd) shaft, engineers say.
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