Welcome to my latest podcast and one which will concentrate on the foundation of Jazz, the “Blues.” The tunes the listeners will hear are still considered “Jazz” songs but more on the Bluesy side. I did this purposely to show the symphonic connection. I also feel its a great way to understand Jazz for those [...]
Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan say they expect to die from radiation sickness as a result of their efforts to bring the reactors under control, the mother of one of the men tells Fox News. The so-called Fukushima 50, the team of brave plant workers struggling to prevent a meltdown to [...]
Mr Koussa flew from Tunisia, where he had been on a diplomatic mission, and landed at Farnborough airport before being shuttled to London for immediate talks with high-ranking Foreign Office officials. Mr Koussa was one of the leading figures in Col Gaddafi’s government and one of the architects of Libya’s recent rehabilitation in the eyes [...]
Editor’s note: Don’t miss “CNN Presents: Eyewitness to Murder — The King Assassination” at 7 p.m. ET Sunday. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien retraces the steps of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray, the FBI and Memphis police, and she explores alternative scenarios of who may have been responsible for King’s death. (CNN) — [...]
TO THE many dubious distinctions of Las Vegas, add one more: foreclosure capital of America. According to RealtyTrac, a property-listings firm, one in every ten homes in the city was in some stage of foreclosure last year, almost five times the national rate. In North Las Vegas, a poorer suburb, the figure was one in [...]
TEL AVIV – A staunch denier of the Holocaust who long served as the deputy of late PLO leader Yasser Arafat served on the committee that invented the military doctrine used by President Obama as the main justification for U.S. and international airstrikes against Libya. As WND first reported, billionaire philanthropist George Soros is a [...]
In my book “The Next Decade,” I spend a good deal of time considering the relation of the American Empire to the American Republic and the threat the empire poses to the republic. If there is a single point where these matters converge, it is in the constitutional requirement that Congress approve wars through a [...]
By Daniel Allott Think of the world’s most prominent human-rights advocates, and names like Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi and China’s Liu Xiaobo come readily to mind. Now, with the world’s attention fixed on the Middle East, we are starting to learn about some of the emerging reformers across the Middle East. But there’s an [...]
Last week, U.S.-based iRobot sent four robots to help with recovery efforts at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged as the result of a 9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Workers’ efforts to bring the plant’s reactors under control have been hampered by high radiation levels, and it is hoped the robots could [...]
By Peter Orsi, Associated Press HAVANA — Former President Jimmy Carter met with religious leaders in Cuba on Monday as he began a trip to discuss economic policies and ways to improve Washington-Havana relations, which are even more tense than usual over the imprisonment of a U.S. contractor on the island. Carter met in the [...]
Tokyo (CNN) — Some plutonium found in soil on the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have come from its earthquake-damaged reactors, but it poses no human health risk, the plant’s owners reported Monday. The element was found in soil samples taken March 21-22 from five locations around the plant, the Tokyo [...]
Interesting science news everyone should know.
HAVANA (AP) – A Cuban dissident group formed to demand freedom for imprisoned relatives is continuing its weekly protests despite the liberation of the last of their family members. Ladies in White founder Laura Pollan says the group will continue its activities to demand freedom for all prisoners of conscience and for human rights. The [...]
Japanese authorities on Monday called off a tsunami advisory after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake off the country’s northeast coast produced little more than ripples. However, the Japan Meteorological Agency urged coastal residents to remain prepared to evacuate because of a continued threat of aftershocks that could spawn tsunamis. Authorities issued a tsunami advisory Monday morning for [...]
In a finding that has global implications for climate research, scientists have discovered that when icebergs cool and dilute the seas through which they pass for days, they also raise chlorophyll levels in the water that may in turn increase carbon dioxide absorption in the Southern Ocean. An interdisciplinary research team supported by the National [...]
Libyan rebels clinched their hold on the east and seized back the key oil town of Ajdabiya Saturday with the help of international airstrikes, which sent Muammar al-Qaddafi’s forces into a retreat after the town had been under siege for a week. Qaddafi’s forces shed their uniforms and ammunition as they fled while rebels pushed [...]
WASHINGTON — Having largely succeeded in stopping a rout of Libya’s rebels, the inchoate coalition attacking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces remains divided over the ultimate goal — and exit strategy — of what officials acknowledged Thursday would be a military campaign that could last for weeks. The United States has all but called for Colonel [...]
MADISON, Wis — The Wisconsin law taking away collective bargaining rights that a court had ordered not to be published by the secretary of state has been published instead by the Legislative Reference Bureau. The action was noted on the Legislature’s home page Friday. It’s not immediately clear whether the publication has the force of [...]
With the anti-government protests in Syria and Yemen becoming more ugly by the day, I am increasingly of the view that, by launching military action against Libya, we may actually have managed to target the wrong country. I fully concede that Muammar Gaddafi and his dysfunctional family should be removed from power at the earliest [...]
