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Maldives cabinet meeting chaired by President, took place around table 16ft underwater, bubbles ascended from scuba masks
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Asked what would happen if Copenhagen fails, the president said, "we are all going to die."
The Maldives government has made an eye-catching plea for climate change action by holding the world's first underwater cabinet meeting.
Politicians from the Indian Ocean island nation donned scuba gear this morning to send a message to world leaders ahead of December's UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting, chaired by President Mohamed Nasheed, took place around a table about 16 feet (5 meters) underwater. Bubbles ascended from the face masks the president and the Cabinet wore, and fish swam around them. read more »
First shot of WWII Sept 1st: trumpet call in Poland; Sept 3, 1939, torpedo sank British ship: passenger survivor's ordeal
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This article was originally published on September 2 2009, at the time of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War
Free City of Danzig
70 years on, wartime rifts still run deep
Trumpet call in Poland: Around dawn, as the morning light pushed the darkness away from the city of Gdansk, a company of Polish sailors stood at attention as a trumpet call rang out. At 4:45am, 70 years to the minute after the first shots of WWII were fired, Poland's prime minister & president bowed their heads in remembrance. In a day of high emotion for Poland &, heads of state & dignitaries from around the world gathered at Westerplatte, the tiny peninsula overlooking Gdansk's harbor where battle first commenced, to remember the start of a conflict that would engulf the world & claim 60 million lives. At 4:45am on 1 Sept. 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein – on a "friendly visit" to Danzig – trained its sights on the vulnerable outpost & opened fire. read more »
Invited harm. 150,000 pythons out of control, spreading... near daycare, hospital; toddler strangled
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A Burmese python measuring 17 feet in length was caught on the grounds of the Okeechobee Veterinary Hospital - the male snake weighed 207 pounds and measured 26 inches in diameter. The snakes are often abandoned by disgruntled pet owners when they become too large to handle and too expensive to feed. 150,000 snakes "out of control" & spreading - they can reproduce rapidly with female pythons laying up to 80 eggs at a time, and have no natural predators in Florida.
Fla. trapper captures 14-foot python near day care center read more »
Longest full solar eclipse of century turns day to night in Asia, celestial show inspiring awe & fear in millions
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The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century was visible in a 155 miles corridor as it traveled half the globe and passed through the world's two most populous nations, India and China. The eclipse began at 5:28am local time (2358 GMT) in India and lasted up to a maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds when it hit the Pacific Ocean. Total eclipses are caused when the moon moves directly between the sun and the Earth, covering it completely to cast a shadow on Earth. Wednesday's was the longest since July 11, 1991, when a total eclipse lasting six minutes and 53 seconds was visible from Hawaii to South America. There will not be a longer eclipse until 2132. read more »
Truth self-evident. July 4's quest: which's more challenging for US, independence from Great Britain or from debt?
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*update*
Real Time U.S. National Debt Clock
The National Debt Clock is a billboard-sized running total display which constantly updates to show the current United States gross national debt and each American family's share of the debt. The National Debt Clock It is currently installed on the western side of One Bryant Park, west of Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Manhattan, New York City. It was the first debt clock installed anywhere.
WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DEBT TODAY?
$23,116,130,259,152
That's $70,008 for every single person in America.
America's growing debt is the result of simple math — each year, there is a mismatch between spending and revenues.
U.S. National Debt is $11.5 trillion (updated 1 July 2009) and has continued to increase an average of $3.91 billion per day since September 28, 2007! Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the U.S. deficit "dangerous". Canada's deficit is short-term and not structural.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the U.S. deficit "dangerous" read more »
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