Sunday, April 10, 2011
6 Year Old Girl Groped By TSA
NHS chiefs ration healthcare to meet cuts target
Growing numbers of patients are being denied treatment for conditions such as loss of sight, arthritis and infertility as the NHS increasingly rations healthcare in order to save money, research by the Guardian shows.
Services for patients with mental health problems and addictions and those who need physiotherapy after accidents are being scaled back, while operations to fix hernias or remove cataracts or varicose veins are either being refused or delayed.
Big protest in Baghdad to demand U.S. leave Iraq
Source: SFGate
A day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that American troops could remain here for years, tens of thousands of protesters allied with Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American Shiite cleric, flooded the streets demanding an end to the American military presence.
The protests were scheduled before Gates' comments - made Friday during a visit to troops in northern Iraq - although his statements may have fueled some of the day's fervor. The protesters were whipped up by comments drafted by al-Sadr, who sent a message to the crowd threatening to reconstitute his militia, the Mahdi Army, if the American military did not leave this year.
Navy successfully uses Northrop lasers aboard ship

The U.S. Navy used a laser developed in Redondo Beach by Northrop Grumman Corp. to demonstrate how the weapon can defend a ship against small boats, the company and military branch said Friday.
The open ocean tests were conducted between October of last year and this month at the Pacific Ocean Test Range near San Nicolas Island off the Central California coast.
The at-sea tests "validated the potential to provide advanced self-defense" that ships can use to keep threatening small boats at a "safe distance," the Navy said in a statement.
Stiglitz Calls for New Global Reserve Currency to Prevent Trade Imbalances
The world economy needs a new global reserve currency to help prevent trade imbalances that are reflected in the national debt of the U.S., said Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
A “global system” is needed to replace the dollar as a reserve currency and help avoid a weakening of U.S. credit quality, said Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University in New York. The dollar fell to an almost 15-month low against the euro last week, and the U.S. trade deficitwidened more than forecast in January to the highest level in seven months.
Naples joins statewide redlight camera protest
Naples will join other Florida cities in a statewide protest against red light camera ticketing.
Locally, the protest is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Pine Ridge Road and U.S. 41.
Liberty groups throughout the state are organizing the simultaneous event to bring attention to red light ticketing. The Libertarian Party of Florida, Campaign for Liberty, Florida Civil Rights Association, and multiple tea party groups are among the event's organizers.
Participants of the red light camera protest are urging citizens to contact their state legislators and tell them to support SB 672 and HB 149, a law that would ban red light cameras in Florida.
» Supreme Court rules prosecutors can lie and fabricate evidence
Pharmaceutical drugs causing spike in diseases they supposedly treat
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Arab Leauge proposes no-fly zone over Gaza
The organization's Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Sunday that the body plans to present the UN Security Council with the proposal, AFP reported.
Japanese Experts: Effort is in danger of failing… and reactors too hot to cover in concrete
… A month into the crisis, the utility acknowledges,there is no end in sight. …
Some Japanese experts now say the effort is in danger of failing unless Japan seeks more help from international experts to bring it to an end. Tetsunari Iida, an engineer-turned-industry critic, said the situation is “beyond the reach” of Japan’s closely knit nuclear establishment. …
[E]xperts say the overheated fuel rods are likely to have suffered extensive damage, and there is a complication for seemingly every advance. …
Tokyo Electric officials told CNN they can’t say when they’ll be able to restore those normal cooling. …
Satoshi Sato, a Japanese nuclear industry consultant, called the current line of attack a “waste of effort.” Plant instruments are likely damaged and unreliable because of the intense heat that was generated, and pumping more water into the reactors is only making the contamination problem worse, he said.
“There is no happy end with their approach,” Sato told CNN. “They must change the approach. That’s something I’m sure of 100 percent.”
After the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world’s worst to date, the Soviet Union encased the plant’s damaged reactor in a massive concrete sarcophagus. Iida said Fukushima Daiichi’s reactors remain too hot to pour concrete, but he suggested pouring a slurry of minerals and sand over them to carry away heat before encasing them. …
YES! Iceland's Got the Balls No One Else in Europe or America Has! "... it's still a bailout and the people of Iceland are having none of it
Iceland voted yesterday in a second referendum on the proposed Icesave deal, rejecting it by a 57% to 43% margin
Gaddafi 'accepts' AU plan to end fighting
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has accepted a "road map" for a ceasefire with rebels, according to a delegation of African leaders.
The announcement followed a meeting between the leaders and Gaddafi on Sunday in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, just hours after NATO air raids targeted his tanks, helping the rebels push back government forces who had been advancing quickly towards their eastern stronghold.