Antarctica breast cancer survivor struck down again

October 17, 2008 - 5:16AM
SYDNEY - A doctor who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer while working on an isolated station in Antarctica is facing another fight, this time against a brain tumour.
Dr Jerri Nielsen, a US physician and mother-of-three, took up a medical position at a research facility in the South Pole 10 years ago....

The weather in Antarctica has (Crystal Wind Chime) hotter temperatures across the continent than ever noted before.

Antarctica is experiencing Spring and will enter Summer in December, but, the heat noted across larger square areas of the continent than before.


October 19, 2008
1200 PM UTC
Antarctica (Click here for 24 hour - missing is 3PM and all of AM satellites)

Yesterday Vostok was reporting a temperature of -77 F. That is an increase in temperature of 12 degrees Fahrenheit in less than 24 hours.

Vostok

Local Time: 12:57 AM VOST on October 20, 2008
Lat/Lon: 78.4° S 106.9° E

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m
Temperature :: -65 °F / -54 °C
Conditions :: Heavy Blowing Snow
Humidity :: 42%
Dew Point :: -72 F / -58 C
Wind :: 18 mph / 30 km/h from the WSW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure : in / hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 1.0 miles / 1.0 kilometers
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m

October 18, 2008
0600 PM UTC
Antarctica

Yesterday Base Orcadas had a mean temperature of 29 F. That is a temperature increase of 15 degrees Fahrenheit in less than 24 hours.

Local Time: 5:07 PM GST
Lat/Lon: 60.8° S 44.7° W20 ft / 6 m
Elevation :: 20 ft / 6 m
Temperature :: 44 °F / 6 °C
Conditions :: Patches of Fog
Humidity :: 50%
Dew Point :: 32 F / 0C
Wind :: 6 mph / 9 km/h from the NW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.40 in / 996 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 0.0 miles / 0.8 kilometers
Clouds :: Scattered Clouds 394 ft / 120 m (Above Ground Level)


October 18, 2008
1928 gmt
The satellite above clearly shows heat transfers arriving from the equator to Antarctica at 12 o'clock and 7 o'clock.

Antactica

Congratulations to the Obama Campaign and to Colin Powell for being a Mover and a Shaker

Thank you.



He has served many civilian leaders in the White House and knows when history is about to take a turn for the better. I honestly didn't expect this. We won't let him down.

...“I don’t believe [Palin] is ready to be president of the United States,” Powell said flatly. By contrast, Obama’s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, “is ready to be president on day one.”
Powell also said he was “troubled” by Republican personal attacks on Obama, especially false intimations that Obama was Muslim and Republicans’ recent focus on Obama’s alleged connections to William Ayers, the founder of the radical ’60 Weather Underground.
Stressing that Obama was a lifelong Christian, Powell denounced Republican tactics that he said were insulting not only to to Obama but also to Muslims.
“The really right answer is what if he is?” Powell said, praising the contributions of millions of Muslim citizens to American society.
“I look at these kind of approaches to the campaign, and they trouble me,” Powell said. “Over the last seven weeks, the approach of the Republican Party has become narrower and narrower.”...

Chinese support for US economy (A Babe in the Woods)

I told you this was a sovereignty issue. The assets of the USA including Ports and their commerce are finding a fascination again by foreign markets.

This is the price the USA pays for deregulation and 'free will' markets with no taxes to pay the bills. Next will be auctions of USA assets until the only aspect of the country that defines it as sovereign is its Constitution. They didn't auction that off yet, did they?


From the Arab News

...The People’s Bank, for instance, refused $200 billion to help fund the US bank bailout. Such reluctance stems in part from their limited experience of global capital markets. Indeed when the subprime bubble burst, the Beijing authorities were being advised by Wall Street investment bankers on how they could reform their own banking and financial system to bring it into line with the US model. Some of those Masters of the Universe found that suddenly they did not have banks to fly home to, let alone valid credit cards to settle their five-star Beijing hotel bills.
The Chinese understandably must now doubt the validity of the expensive advice on reform they were being given. But the reality is that with some $1.38 trillion of dollar-denominated foreign currency reserves, the Chinese cannot afford to let the US economy sink.
A communist government has to bail out the capitalist system. But their assistance, as that of other sovereign wealth funds, ought to carry a price.
That price should include the removal of invisible barriers US legislators have erected to stop what they regard as key assets, such as their ports, coming under “suspect” foreign ownership. We all know how Dubai World Ports was forced to sell off its portfolio of US ports after it had acquired P&O.
The global economy has to work both ways, not just in favor of US investors. Now is the time to make this clear.