A decade after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, some of the emergency workers who responded to Ground Zero say their health has declined dramatically. (Sept. 9)
Continue reading …A Paris court Thursday convicted ex-Dior designer John Galliano in an anti-Semitism case. But he won’t face jail, and his fine was suspended. (Sept. 8)
Continue reading …Click here to view this media MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, has a new country song calling for the U.S. to bring home troops sent into war after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “In an endless war / Tell me please how many more have to die / Before my sweet boy comes home,” Scarborough sings in “Reason to Believe.” The accompanying music video was created by JAM, a production company owned by Scarborough and Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski. It was released by Sony Records. “It’s critical that we remember the heroes of 9/11 and those who are still fighting in an endless war,” Scarborough told The Huffington Post . “They need to come home. It’s time.” But Scarborough wasn’t always against the war effort. “I’m waiting to hear the words ‘I was wrong’ from some of the world’s most elite journalists, politicians and Hollywood types,” the MSNBC host said in April 2003 . “I just wonder, who’s going to be the first elitist to show the character to say: ‘Hey, America, guess what? I was wrong’? Maybe the White House will get an apology, first, from the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd. Now, Ms. Dowd mocked the morality of this war…” “Maybe disgraced commentators and politicians alike, like Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Dennis Kucinich, and all those others, will step forward tonight and show the content of their character by simply admitting what we know already: that their wartime predictions were arrogant, they were misguided and they were dead wrong. Maybe, just maybe, these self-anointed critics will learn from their mistakes. But I doubt it. After all, we don’t call them ‘elitists’ for nothing.”
Continue reading …David Vitter isn’t going to attend President Obama’s speech tonight, not because he’s sending a message to the president, but because he’s got better things to do. “I have a Saints party,” the Louisiana senator told Fox News yesterday, “and I am absolutely going to be there for the big…
Continue reading …It was judgment day for John Galliano, whose trial verdict over anti-Semitic hate speech was handed down today by a French court. The court found the British designer guilty of hurling anti-Semitic insults to customers — among other things, he told them that in an earlier time their relatives “would have been gassed” — in
Continue reading …Actors Ethan Hawke and Gillian Anderson recall their experiences on Sept. 11, 2001. (Sept. 8)
Continue reading …‘True Blood’ star Kristin Bauer is sinking her teeth into her character’s journey this season. Leading up to Sunday’s finale on HBO, Bauer talks about vampire Pam – from breaking with her maker to literally rotting inside. (Sept. 8)
Continue reading …Nasa says chances of its dead 20-year-old satellite, due to fall to Earth later this month, hitting anyone are 3,200-1 Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone. The space agency does not know when or where its 20-year-old satellite will drop. It will probably be in late September but could fall in October. And it could land anywhere south of Juneau, Alaska, and north of the tip of South America. Nasa says there is only a one in 3,200 chance of satellite parts hitting someone. Experts say not to worry. In the more than 50 years of the space age, no one has ever been hurt by falling space debris. The 5.4-tonne satellite was used to monitor the atmosphere. Most of it will burn up during re-entry. Only about 550kg of metal should survive. Nasa Space United States guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Nasa says chances of its dead 20-year-old satellite, due to fall to Earth later this month, hitting anyone are 3,200-1 Nasa says one of its dead satellites will soon fall to Earth but there is very little chance that it will hit anyone. The space agency does not know when or where its 20-year-old satellite will drop. It will probably be in late September but could fall in October. And it could land anywhere south of Juneau, Alaska, and north of the tip of South America. Nasa says there is only a one in 3,200 chance of satellite parts hitting someone. Experts say not to worry. In the more than 50 years of the space age, no one has ever been hurt by falling space debris. The 5.4-tonne satellite was used to monitor the atmosphere. Most of it will burn up during re-entry. Only about 550kg of metal should survive. Nasa Space United States guardian.co.uk
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