Sunday, January 25, 2009
America on Inauguration Day: Panoramic Photo.
The image was made by a special panoramic camera using a vertically oriented linear digital sensor array that scans the scene horizontally, much like the linear sensor in a Xerox copier or a desktop flatbed scanner. Check out all the familiar faces in the crowd, especially behind Obama. I think a few of them are asleep....Link
Why the Gitmo policies may not change........
There may be less than meets the eye to the executive orders President Obama issued yesterday to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and prohibit the torture of prisoners in American custody. Those pronouncements may sound dramatic and unequivocal, but experts predict that American policy towards detainees could remain for months or even years pretty close to what it was as President Bush left office....Link
Saturday, January 24, 2009
US-led forces kill 15 militants.............
KABUL (AFP) – US-led coalition forces said Saturday they had killed 15 militants in an operation in eastern Afghanistan, as a NATO soldier and two civilians were killed in separate bomb blasts across the country...Link
Indian Ocean to see solar eclipse..............
PARIS (AFP) – A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim.In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface...Link
California jobless rate hits 9.3 percent...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's unemployment rate jumped to 9.3 percent in December from 8.4 percent in November and 5.9 percent a year earlier as job cuts swept across most industries, with recession tightening its grip on the most populous U.S. state, state officials said on Friday.California's December jobless rate marked a 14-year high for the state and was significantly higher than the month's national average of 7.2 percent, underscoring a surge in job losses over the last three months of 2008, said Patti Roberts, a spokeswoman for the state's Employment Development Department...Link
Starbucks and Civilian National Security Force..
Starbucks wants to make it easy to join Obama’s proposed paramilitary brown shirt volunteers. “Starbucks will honor each person who pledges with a free tall brewed coffee beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 25. The goal of the effort is to raise pledges in excess of one million hours of service from all over the country,” a Starbucks press releases states...Link
20,000 troops to Afghanistan............
Up to 20,000 US Marines could be deployed to Afghanistan after an expected Marine withdrawal from Iraq within six to eight months, Marine Commandant James Conway said Friday."The time is right for Marines to leave Iraq," the top Marine officer said, reflecting on the improved security situation there.As part of the drawdown in Iraq, Conway said he expected "20,000 or less" Marines to be deployed to Afghanistan, although he cautioned against sending too many troops from the corps to Afghanistan....Link
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