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Spanish Woman Claims Ownership of The Sun

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:47 PM PST


Have you used the sun lately? If so, Angeles Duran will be expecting a fee payment from you. It is not entirely clear what that fee is. She does not plan to keep all the money herself; only 10% with the bulk going to the Spanish government.

Good luck collecting...

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpps/news/offbeat/spanish-woman-claims-she-now-owns-sun-dpgonc-20101126-gc_10808147

"Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets in our solar system.
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"There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first."
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Duran, who lives in the town of Salvaterra do Mino, said she now wants to slap a fee on everyone who uses the sun and give half of the proceeds to the Spanish government and 20 percent to the nation's pension fund.

She would dedicate another 10 percent to research, another 10 percent to ending world hunger -- and would keep the remaining 10 percent herself."

WikiLeaks Begins Dropping 250,000+ Secret US Documents

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:23 PM PST


So far there has not really been anything that would qualify as 'explosive'. It is mostly confirmation of what was suspected. It is frighting to think that if WikiLeaks was able to get such penetration on our intelligence, how deep have our adversaries penetrated. More is certainly to come, and my fear is we are about to discover the administration has experienced some less than 'smart' diplomacy.

Scott Johnson points out some hypocrisy on the part of the NY Times.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/11/027788.php

"The New York Times is participating in the dissemination of the stolen State Department cables that have been made available to it in one way or another via WikiLeaks. My friend Steve Hayward recalls that only last year the New York Times ostentatiously declined to publish or post any of the Climategate e-mails because they had been illegally obtained. Surely readers will recall Times reporter Andrew Revkin's inspiring statement of principle: "The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won't be posted here."
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Interested readers may want to compare and contrast Revkin's statement of principle with the editorial note posted by the Times on the WikiLeaks documents this afternoon. Today the Times cites the availability of the documents elsewhere and the pubic interest in their revelations as supporting their publication by the Times. Both factors applied in roughly equal measure to the Climategate emails."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html

"A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at back-room bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.

Some of the cables, made available to The New York Times and several other news organizations, were written as recently as late February, revealing the Obama administration's exchanges over crises and conflicts. The material was originally obtained by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing secret documents. WikiLeaks posted 220 cables, some redacted to protect diplomatic sources, in the first installment of the archive on its Web site on Sunday."

Krauthammer Rips Liberal Media’s Obsession With Sarah Palin

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:55 PM PST

ICE Seizes Domain Names Suspected of Piracy Involvement

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:46 PM PST


Why bother having Congress pass the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), when without any notice they can just shut down a business on a suspicion. I am sure such a power will never be abused or used in error...

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names-

"ICE appears to be targeting sites that help Internet users download copyrighted music, as well as sites that sell bootleg goods, such as fake designer handbags.

The sites are replaced with a note from the government: "This domain named has been seized by ICE, Homeland Security Investigations."
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One of the site owners told TorrentFreak that his site was shut down without any notice or warning.

The effort comes as Congress considers the Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Critics, including Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) say it is too heavy-handed. He has vowed to put a formal hold on the bill."

Fred Finn, The World's Most Travelled Man

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:38 PM PST


Fred Finn became the Guinness World Record awarded 'the most miles travelled as a passenger' more than a quarter-century ago (1983) with a 'mere' seven million miles. He has since more then doubled that number.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1333289/Worlds-travelled-man-clocks-15-millions-miles.html

"A British tourist has become the world's most travelled man after spending a lifetime circling the globe, clocking up 15 million miles, 718 Concorde flights and 139 countries on the way.

Wealthy Fred Finn, 70, holds the official record for the most miles travelled by a passenger after visiting an incredible 70 per cent of the world's 196 nations.
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Fred has since spent 52 years travelling the globe, during which he has covered 15million miles - the equivalent of travelling to the moon and back 31 times.

He has kept a detailed log of every flight and train journey he has taken, which he had counter-signed by each driver and pilot to verify his achievement."

Oxygen Found on Saturn's Moon Rhea

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:21 PM PST


Scientist have detected oxygen on other worlds an some moons, but this marks the first time any instrument has directly successfully tested for it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/25/oxygen-saturn-moon-rhea

"A spacecraft has tasted oxygen in the atmosphere of another world for the first time while flying low over Saturn's icy moon, Rhea.

Nasa's Cassini probe scooped oxygen from the thin atmosphere of the planet's moon while passing overhead at an altitude of 97km in March this year.

Until now, wisps of oxygen have only been detected on planets and their moons indirectly, using the Hubble space telescope and other major facilities.

Instruments aboard Cassini revealed an extremely thin oxygen and carbon dioxide atmosphere that is sustained by high-energy particles slamming into the moon's surface and kicking up atoms, molecules and ions."

Doctors Sound Medical Alert on TSA Reusing Gloves in 'Enhanced Pat Downs'

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:10 PM PST


The danger is increased if the TSA agents puts their hand in your pants, but is not erased if they do not. If you must get the 'enhanced pat down' request the agent put on a new pair of gloves.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=232457

"Syphilis, lice, gonorrhea, ringworm, chlamydia, staph, strep, noro and papilloma viruses all are part of the possible fringe benefits when airline passengers next go through a full hands-on pat-down by agents of the federal government's Transportation Security Administration, according to doctors.

WND reported two days ago on alarmed passengers who noted that TSA agents doing the pat-downs that have been described by critics as molestation since they include touching private body parts were not changing gloves betweenpassengers. In fact, some apparently were patting down dozens of passengers or more wearing the same gloves.

But neither the TSA nor federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control was willing to comment on the possibilities that infections and other loathsome afflictions could be passed from passenger to passenger.

Now two doctors – and several others – have confirmed that there is the definite possibility that passengers will be able to catch whatever someone in front of them in line was suffering from via the latex gloves TSA workers use."
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