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There is no such thing as safe, clean nuclear power, and there never will be.  There is no such thing as safe containment of nuclear waste, and there never will be.  Therefore, we should not put our money into President Obama's misguided nuclear dementia.

For bringing unloaded gun into wiards' locker room
Basketball humor

In a wide-ranging interview, President B. Rack O’Bomber today faulted Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas for bringing an unloaded pistol into his team’s locker room.

Mr. President,
 
It is easy to understand that you are beholden to corporate interests in a number of diverse ways, which could limit your sense of options relative to unrestrained fossil fuel use. Yet, we, all together, cannot face run-away climate change, weak support for constructive energy programs, unbridled economic growth, barely regulated free trade, ever expanding resource wars, critical resource depletions (involving water, minerals, oil and so forth), high extinction rates for multitudinous species, overall environmental ruin, increasing overpopulation, grossly inequitable sharing of global wealth and other dire conditions, and all of which are interconnected, without your forcefully taking the lead to address them and doing so in a holistic tough fashion.

I sensed a bit of frustration during President Obama’s state of the union address when he said, “The longer it [the health-care overhaul] was debated, the more skeptical people became.” I’m not totally sure what point he thought he was making. After all, it wouldn’t speak well for a proposal if prolonged discussion of its particulars created doubt about its value. But surely he didn’t want to convey that message.

The UN secretary general has said he cannot determine if the Israelis and Palestinians have complied with a UN demand to carry out credible and independent investigations into alleged war crimes during the war in Gaza more than a year ago.

Ten Americans accused of trying to take 33 children out of Haiti illegally in the aftermath of last month's earthquake, have been charged with child kidnapping and criminal association.

North Korea has said it will release an American missionary who crossed its border illegally in December.

A deadly airstrike in Afghanistan's Kunduz province last September did not comply with Nato's rules of engagement, according to the military organisation's own investigators.

Political parties and religious groups across Pakistan have expressed their support for separatist movements in Indian-administered Kashmir.

An indigenous tribe from India's Andaman Islands, thought to have existed for 65,000 years, has disappeared with the death of its last member.

Two bomb blasts in the Pakistani city of Karachi, apparently targeting Shia Muslims marking a religious ceremony, have killed at least 22 people.

Four British politicians will face criminal charges over alleged abuse of parliamentary expenses, the country's chief prosecutor has said.

Romania has backed a US plan that would see interceptor missiles deployed in the country as part of a missile shield to protect Europe, its president has said.

The Israeli foreign minister has cautioned Syria against drawing his country into another war, saying the Syrian army would be defeated and its regime would collapse in any future conflict.

At least 27 people have been killed and more than 75 others wounded after two explosions in the Iraqi city of Karbala as hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims observed a major religious rite.

US safety regulators have opened a formal probe into problems with the brakes of Toyota’s Prius, the world's top-selling hybrid and a vehicle that has powered the car maker's reputation for fuel-efficiency.

The US unemployment rate has reached a five-month low of 9.7 per cent, despite US employers reporting that they cut 20,000 jobs from their payrolls in January.

Toyota's CEO has apologised for the massive global recall of eight million vehicles over faulty accelerator pedals and floor mats, in a bid to repair a damaged reputation and sliding sales.