Anushay Hossain: What's Up Saudi? The Kingdom Insists on Keeping Women in the Stone Age

Saudi Women Vow to Breastfeed Their Drivers in Accordance With Recent Fatwa if They're Not Given Right to Drive


You just have to read this! Sad but so hilarious!

"What's up, Saudia Arabia? Did anyone tell you it is the year 2010 and you can stop with your ludicrous rulings and the continuous scaling back of women's rights and more specifically, their mobility?  Yesterday a court in the Kingdom sentenced four women and 11 men between the ages of 30-40 years to flogging and prison for 'mingling at a party.'"

BP accused of killing endangered sea turtles in cleanup operation | Environment | The Guardian

"Endangered sea turtles and other marine creatures are being corralled into 500 square-mile 'burn fields' and burnt alive in operations intended to contain oil from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration confirmed today.

The killing of the turtles – which once teetered on the brink of extinction – has outraged environmentalists and could put BP into even deeper legal jeopardy."

EXCLUSIVE! OIL SPILL IN GULF - Hand of God? Connection to Israel?

Is there a spiritual, biblical connection to the BP oil catastrophe?

A new video on YouTube is suggesting a possible link to the disaster due to America's recent treatment of Israel, and at least one well-known Bible analyst, Hal Lindsey, thinks there's a valid correlation. The video was produced and posted today by Carl Gallups of the Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Fla., and is embedded here: 

White House Preparing National Online ID Plan -- Cybersecurity -- InformationWeek

"The Obama administration is set to propose a new system for authenticating people, organizations and infrastructure on the Web. The online authentication and identity management system would be targeted at the transactional level -- for example, when someone logs into their banking website or completes an online e-commerce purchase.

Making such a system effective, however, will require creating an 'identity ecosystem,' backed by extensive public/private cooperation, said White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt, delivering the opening keynote speech at the Symantec Government Symposium 2010 in Washington on Tuesday."

Online porn domain .xxx gets the green light from net regulator - Scotsman.com News

"OFFICIAL approval has been given for the creation of an internet domain dedicated to pornography.
The board of the net regulator Icann has given initial approval for the creation of the .xxx suffix at its Brussels conference.
It follows three unsuccessful attempts by a private company to get permission for a porn-only site from Icann," the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, using the name and web address suffixes such as .com and .org.
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Websites to face anti-Islam checks - Asia, World - The Independent

"Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, Yahoo and Amazon, for sacrilegious content, while blocking links to 17 lesser-known sites it deems offensive to Muslims, including pages within YouTube.

The move, which came in response to a court order, follows last month's temporary ban on Facebook following a competition to draw the Prophet Mohamed.

The ban drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has struggled to figure out how strict a version of Islam it should follow. The sites to be monitored also include MSN, Hotmail, YouTube and Bing."

Weather could increase Gulf Coast woes as relief wells progress - CNN.com

"New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- The disaster thousands of feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico could be exacerbated by a different type of calamity -- bad weather -- in the coming week, even as there's a promising new development in the effort to permanently stop the leak."

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DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS A 100% CHANCE OF AN EARTHQUAKE TODAY!

YES! There's a 100 percent chance of an earthquake today! Though millions of persons may never experience an earthquake, they are very common occurrences on this planet. So today -- somewhere -- an earthquake will occur.

It may be so light that only sensitive instruments will perceive its motion; it may shake houses, rattle windows, and displace small objects; or it may be sufficiently strong to cause property damage, death, and injury.

It is estimated that about 700 shocks each year have this capability when centered in a populated area. But fortunately, most of these potentially destructive earthquakes center in unpopulated areas far from civilization.

Since a major portion of the world's earthquakes each year center around the rim of the Pacific Ocean (Ring of Fire), referred to by seismologists as the circum-Pacific belt, this is the most probable location for today's earthquake. But it could hit any location, because no region is entirely free of earthquakes.

Stating that an earthquake is going to occur today is not really "predicting earthquakes". To date, they cannot be predicted. But anyone, on any day, could make this statement and it would be true. This is because several million earthquakes occur annually; thereby, thousands occur each day, although most are too small to be located. The problem, however, is in pinpointing the area where a strong shock will center and when it will occur.

Earthquake prediction is a future possibility, though. Just as the Weather Bureau now predicts hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms, the NEIC may one day issue forecasts on earthquakes. Earthquake research was stepped up after the Alaska shock in 1964. Today, research is being conducted by the USGS and other federal and state agencies, as well as universities and private institutions. Earthquake prediction may some day become a reality, but only after much more is learned about the earthquake mechanism

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USGS M2.5+ Earthquakes TODAY!

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