Link to this movie

Posted: 11:50:58 PM  

During the distraction of an important referendum count in Dublin last Friday a U.S. military aircraft (the large $218 million dollar C17) landed at Dublin Airport. Dublin airport authority confirmed that the U.S. military dropped off undisclosed cargo.

Posted: 11:48:23 PM  

Less than a month after declaring polar bears a threatened species because of global warming, the Bush administration is giving oil companies permission to annoy and potentially harm them in the pursuit of oil and natural gas.

Posted: 11:43:58 PM  

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain's troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran's nuclear ambitions.

The three mild rounds of U.N. sanctions and a mostly solo U.S. effort to crimp Iran's vast overseas financial operations have had little appreciable impact. Iran has not only continued enriching uranium, but expanded and improved its program. Tehran says it seeks only civilian nuclear energy, not nuclear weapons.

Posted: 11:42:15 PM  

Gore is one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, but he maintained a low profile in the primary campaign.

He's planning to appear with Obama at a rally in Detroit Monday night.

Presidents are not Elected, but Selected ...

Posted: 11:35:22 PM  

Yesterday's Sunday Times said Dutch campaigners against the treaty were jubilant and quoted Socialist MP Harry van Bommel as saying Ireland's no vote on Friday had left the treaty 'as dead as a doornail'.

Posted: 11:27:45 PM  

Juveniles on dna database tripled

Since 2005, everyone convicted of a crime punishable by four years or more in jail must give a dna sample. This is kept on the data base for 20 years.

Posted: 11:25:47 PM  

Thus enters the summer solstice of 2008. Our boundaries have lessened, the veil has become thinner, and within this process many have been taken advantage of for their kindness, consideration, love and supporting ways which exist in a higher reality.

Posted: 11:21:46 PM  

"It was nice to see auroras in June," he says.

(Note: Auroras tend to avoid solstices and prefer equinoxes, so June auroras are rare.)

Sky watchers at high latitudes should remain alert for auroras tonight.

The solar wind continues to blow and more geomagnetic storms are in the offing.

Posted: 8:11:46 AM  

This particular video was produced by a company called Cardo Systems as part of a viral marketing campaign.

The company is now being straightforward about its role, even featuring the video on its website, and posting versions of the video with the tag "made by Cardo Systems." The idea, presumably is that it was just a good-natured joke. Still, the hardly unpredictable effect is to stoke public fears about cellphone use, particularly fears about putting the devices up to their ears. Cardo conveniently enough, makes bluetooth earphone attachments.

Posted: 7:57:57 AM  

The Franco-German plan is to get all 27 EU states to ratify the treaty as soon as possible, to quarantine the Irish and then come up with some legal manoeuvre enabling the treaty to go ahead.

Posted: 7:42:11 AM