Monday, March 23, 2009

Alaska's Mount Redoubt Erupts Overnight
Erupting Redoubt dumps ash in Su Valley
Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupts for first time in 20 years, shooting ash nine miles into air

Finally!

Magnitude 4.2 - HUDSON BAY ISLANDS, NUNAVUT, CANADA
Hudson Bay?!

Magnitude 5.0 - NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
5.8 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand

Magnitude 3.1 - WYOMING

Magnitude 1.9 - TENNESSEE

Geologists lower Okmok Volcano warning level

Underwater volcano creates new island off Tonga

Swarm of quakes bedevils Hanford

Scientists cable seafloor seismometer into California's earthquake network

Magnitude 4.6 - REYKJANES RIDGE
Magnitude 4.5 - REYKJANES RIDGE

Magnitude 4.9 - MID-INDIAN RIDGE

Magnitude 5.1 - SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Magnitude 4.9 - SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Magnitude 4.7 - SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Magnitude 5.0 - SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE

Magnitude 4.7 - YUNNAN-GUIZHOU BORDER REGION, CHINA
Earthquake rocks China

Magnitude 5.3 - NEW BRITAIN REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Magnitude 3.6 - OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

Magnitude 3.0 - COLORADO

Magnitude 1.3 - NEW YORK
Magnitude 2.8 - NEW YORK
Magnitude 2.1 - NEW YORK

Magnitude 5.2 - CARLSBERG RIDGE

Magnitude 5.2 - TONGA REGION

Magnitude 3.3 - UTAH
Minor earthquake hits southern Utah




5,000 evacuated after hazardous acid spill in Pa.

Marysville residents get together to plan rebuilding after Victoria fires - Australia

Hundreds of animals flee Kenyan wildfire

Canadian Ebola vaccine used on German woman after accident

Officials Ask for Volunteers as Floods Threaten North Dakota, Minnesota

Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe slows : WHO

YouTube - World Water Day Video from charity: water




Obama Says Treasury Secretary's Job Is Secure
Yeah, 'cause Barry's never reversed himself before.

Organized labor gives Obama high grades so far
Of course!

Guess who else does:

Hamas leader hails Obama's new approach: report

Guess who's NOT impressed?

Venezuela's Chavez calls Obama ignoramus

Mark Steyn: AIG execs the new 'enemy combatants'

Obama advisers note populist tone, urge restraint
He and his administration are the ones that whipped it up!!!

ACORN's Federal Judge
Yep.

Justice Department to San Francisco Police: Shut Up!

Barack Obama's troubleshooter Richard Holbrooke unveils strategy to halt Afghanistan 'drift'
Great, I feel better already.

Analysis: don’t take our support for granted, President Obama warns
President Obama, even as he prepares a battle-weary American public for a long war in Afghanistan, is sending a clear message to Hamid Karzai that it would be a mistake to take US military and economic support for granted.

Judd Gregg Slams Obama "This Country Will Go Bankrupt"

'60 Minutes' transcript
"Are you punchdrunk?"

Srsly. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but that ill-timed laughter creeps me out BIGTIME. It sounded like a cross between nervous laughter and maniacal evil-overlord giggling. Neither of which is very reassuring from the most powerful man in the world.




Treasury's toxic asset plan could cost $1 trillion

From now on, think of the US as a bigger Zimbabwe

A note to the US: print and be damned

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The Mother of all Bells - Peter Schiff

Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Criticize Limits

Mass Hysteria Over AIG Obscures Simple Truths: Michael Lewis

Jonathan Clements Says the Bonus Tax Creates a Disincentive to Work

Kansas, Colorado, Georgia Banks Shut as Losses Mount

Stocks cheer Treasury plan for banks; Dow up almost 500 pts
Don't count on it lasting.

What's driving up price of oil?

Robbing the Pentagon to Pay Foggy Bottom

Raytheon lands $27M Boeing radar deal

Iraq war protesters rally in DC to mark 6th year

U.S. Supports U.N. Declaration on Homosexuality

Feinstein: Don't Spoil Our Desert With Solar Panels
H - Y - P - O - C - R - I - T - E.

Jury recommends death for Lam Luong in bridge death of 4 children
Any legal form of execution is too good for this SOB.

Gunman kills 3 officers, wounds 4th in Oakland

EPA proposal aims to regulate carbon
They should tell Redoubt to quit erupting, then.





Road map out of crisis - By Angela Merkel and Jan Peter Balkenende
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrggggggggrghhhhhhhhhhhh

Gordon Brown's G20 summit agenda is already unravelling

G20 warned unrest will sweep globe
They're probably right.

Met: G20 protesters will stretch us to our limit
Scotland Yard issued a stark warning of violent disorder in the City of London on the eve of the G20 summit, with the police stretched to their limit in the middle of an extraordinary week of public protest.

Office staff warned of confrontation as City braces for mass G20 protests

A guide to G20 protests in London

G20 must address collapsing world trade, says UK

G-20 Meeting May Give Impetus to WTO Accord, U.K., Brazil Say

New group may take over from G20

China pushes SDR as global super-currency



On a mission to change the world
KEVIN Rudd today embarks on the most important foreign mission of his prime ministership.

His ambition is epic.

He wants to transform the way the world is governed.

First, he will go to Washington to see Barack Obama for their first face-to-face meeting. He will also see the President's key cabinet colleagues. Then it's a day in New York with the mavens of American capitalism, the men and women who pull the levers of the US economy.

Then it's across to London for appointments with Gordon Brown and the Queen, and the critical G20 meeting.

The G20 is to Rudd what APEC was to Paul Keating.

Just as Keating did with APEC, Rudd wants to create a permanent G20 leaders meeting as the critical new instrument of global government, the new centre of institutional global power.

Rudd's ambition is even bigger than Keating's, for Rudd wants to change not just the way the Asia Pacific is run, but the basic institutions of global governance.

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