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With the US facing the prospect of the least-powerful government in its history, world leaders are gathering in the Hague in an atmosphere of crisis to discuss the dangers of climate change, and there is talk of compelling the US to act domestically to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions if the country will not act on its own. The discussion centers around making provisions of the controversial Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to require industrial nations to reduce releases of carbon dioxide and other gasses which trap heat in the atmosphere.
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The Nov. 8th solar eruption that triggered an ongoing radiation storm around Earth also launched a coronal mass ejection that appears to be heading in the direction of our planet. The CME raced away from the Sun traveling faster than 2000 km/s and it could strike Earth’s upper atmosphere late Friday or Saturday. Forecasters estimate a 25% chance of severe geomagnetic storms at middle latitudes during the next 48 hours. Go to to {http://spaceweather.com for continuing coverage.

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Special counsel John Danforth, ending a detailed review of the horrific 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian Complex at Waco, has indicted former US attorney Bill Johnston.

The indictment, issued by a St. Louis grand jury convened by Danforth contains five counts against the prosecutor, who, along with US attorneys Ray and LeRoy Jahn, prosecuted the 11 surviving Davidians in 1994.

The indictment, according to news reports, charges Johnston with lying to and obstructing the special counsel investigation by withholding notes that he knew about the government’s use of pyrotechnic tear-gas shells during the siege that killed Davidian leader David Koresh, seventy-five of his followers, and four federal agents.
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From NASA’s Spaceweather.com:

RADIATION STORM: The flux of high-energy protons near Earth is approximately 100,000 times greater than normal following an M8-category solar flare near active region 9218 on the Sun’s western limb.

The sun has been unusually active lately, even given the fact that we are moving through a solar max. The flare that has led to the present magnetic storm was an extremely powerful M-8 leading to an S4-class radiation storm, which is the most powerful to strike the earth since August of 1976.

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