http://boards.4chan.org/new/

Given that he doesn't seem to think it'll be up long, I'll be leaving /n/ up for the time being.

I'll remove the board if: 1) 4chan's /new/ is permanent and 2) activity here dies down a lot.

As the science scandals keep coming, the air has gone out of the climate-change movement

In 2007, the most comprehensive report to date on global warming, issued by the respected United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made a shocking claim: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035.

These glaciers provide the headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers and lifelines for the more than one billion people who live downstream. Melting ice and snow would create mass flooding, followed by mass drought. The glacier story was reported around the world. Last December, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group, warned, “The deal reached at Copenhagen will have huge ramifications for the lives of hundreds of millions of people who are already highly vulnerable due to widespread poverty.” To dramatize their country's plight, Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks and held a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest.

But the claim was rubbish, and the world's top glaciologists knew it. It was based not on rigorously peer-reviewed science but on an anecdotal report by the WWF itself. When its background came to light on the eve of Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, shrugged it off. But now, even leading scientists and environmental groups admit the IPCC is facing a crisis of credibility that makes the Climategate affair look like small change.

“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics.

The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if we knew what to do – a global deal was never in the cards. As Mr. Mead writes, “The global warming movement proposed a complex set of international agreements involving vast transfers of funds, intrusive regulations in national economies, and substantial changes to the domestic political economies of most countries on the planet.” Copenhagen was never going to produce a breakthro

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:26 No.203338     >>203329 lol no, there is a troll on wikipedia fudging the data about that, look up some articles about him

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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)18:13 No.203342     >Heating causes greater water evaporation, which causes more clouds, which produce more rain, which falls to water plants, and causes massive vegetation growth, like the type seen during the era of the dinosaurs, where most of the land on earth was covered in forests, and where climate conditions allowed animals to grow really big, due to plentiful resources.

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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)18:32 No.203345     File: 126568277143.jpg-(31.65KB, 341x450, HitlerEX.jpg) In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

Reporting from Washington - Fresh off her speech to the Tea Party Convention, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Sunday left open the possibility that she would run for president in 2012 and asserted that President Obama would lose if the election were held today.

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Palin was asked about a recent poll that showed her topping a field of potential Republican candidates by 5 percentage points. She told interviewer Chris Wallace that she would run for the 2012 GOP nomination "if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family."

"I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country," she added.

Palin's political ambitions are getting renewed attention after her address to the convention Saturday in Nashville. At one point during her address, a buoyant crowd burst into a chant of, "Run, Sarah, run."

She seemed willing. As John McCain's vice presidential nominee in 2008, she was criticized by some members of his campaign staff as ill-informed on global and national issues. Since her resignation as governor, she said, she is more conversant with issues outside Alaska.

"Now, of course, my focus has been enlarged," she said Sunday. "So I sure as heck better be more astute on these current events, national issues than I was two years ago."

Whatever Palin's intentions, it does her no harm to leave her options open, said one Republican strategist.

"This far out from the election, it would be insane for her to rule out running even if she has no intention of actually doing it," Todd Harris said in an interview Sunday. "As long as the possibility is out there, it helps add to her cachet. It adds to her political power. And, frankly, it helps fill seats at rallies and sell books."

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:20 No.203335     >>203330 >Old-fashioned left-wing politics Too bad we don't have that anymore

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:24 No.203337     >>203330 Basically what we need is an American equivalent to the BNP.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)18:28 No.203343     >>203337 No, what we need is an American version of the LibDems. With a BNP immigration policy.

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), 77, a Vietnam veteran who staunchly supported military spending and became a master of pork-barrel politics, died today at Virginia Hospital Center. The 19-term lawmaker died from complications of gallbladder surgery.

Elected to Congress in 1974 from a southwestern Pennsylvania district that has been economically devastated by the decline of America's coal-mining and steel industries, the gruff and jowly Rep. Murtha was beloved by his constituents for tapping billions of dollars in federal funds to seed new industries there.

He was revered among Democrats -- and even some Republicans -- for his skill in using the power of the federal purse to make kings and deals. A right-hand man of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he was considered one of the most influential lawmakers on Capitol Hill and credited with her ascension.

Critics dubbed Rep. Murtha, the chairman of the powerful subcommittee that controls Pentagon spending, the "King of Pork" for the volume of taxpayer money he could direct to the area around his home town of Johnstown. Most of the largesse came in defense and military research contracts he steered to companies based in his district or with small offices there.

The former Marine became a mentor to lawmakers trying to learn how to work Washington's power levers but also a symbol of the controversial congressional "earmarking." In that process, lawmakers can add federal funds to the budget to give no-bid contracts to pet projects and companies of their choosing. Rep. Murtha faced a drumbeat of questions about possible ethical conflicts in his earmarks, as executives and lobbyists for the firms receiving the earmarks were among his most generous campaign contributors.

Rep. Murtha was firmly unapologetic, saying it was his duty to help his district create jobs and U.S. soldiers gain new research and tools to help them in battle. To a television crew following him in a House office building with questions about potential conflicts, he held up his miniature red, page-worn copy of the Constitution.

"What it says is the Congress of the United States appropriates the money," he said. &quo

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)14:23 No.203267     And nothing of value was lost

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)14:25 No.203269     >>203263 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown He was a Massachusetts state legislator for the past 12 years bro. And that modeling thing was two pages in Cosmo

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:56 No.203341     >>203263 Still so butthurt.

The Tea Party movement is now almost completely unrecognizable from what it was a few short years ago. It came to prominence in 2008 when the Libertarian Party of Illinois planned to hold an April 15, 2009 anti-tax “Boston Tea Party” in Chicago. In February 2009, the idea grew after CNBC personality Rick Santelli, speaking from the floor of the Chicago stock exchange, criticized the Obama administration’s tax and economic policies and urged Americans become Tea Party activists.

In fact, the idea began as the Boston Tea Party in 2006. It was founded by a group of former Libertarian Party members who criticized the party for its “abdication of political responsibilities,” declaring that “Americans deserve and desperately need a pro-freedom party that forcefully advocates libertarian solutions to the issues of today.” The Boston Tea Party opposed statism at all levels. “The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose.”

How things have changed.

It didn’t take long for establishment Republicans to steal the idea and claim it as their own. A few weeks after Rick Santelli made his comments, Ron Paul’s media coordinator Steve Gordon went on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show and complained about what he characterized as an attempt by Republicans to hijack the idea. Gordon specifically blamed former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.

It didn’t take long for Republicans to embrace the idea. RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, and Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota have suggested the Tea Party should be rolled into the Republican Borg hive.

Now there will be a national Tea Party convention in Nashville. It will be a parade of Republican statists with former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin leading the charge. “I look forward to meeting many Americans who share a commitment to limited government, common sense and personal responsibility. This movement is truly a grassroots, organic effort. It’s not a top-down organization,” Palin wrote for USA Today, “it�

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►	Anonymous 02/07/10(Sun)15:30 No.203065     >>203062 >FUCK YEAH FOOTBALL LOL, KEITH

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:27 No.203339     The only way to save the tea party is for tea partiers to expose and come out against Palin in mass for being a fraud and for the movement as a whole to differentiate itself from her - NOW! It's time for Palin and her base - the phony left right MSM - to get TOLD.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:32 No.203340     >>203339 It won't happen. It's like expecting 4channers to come out and denounce the scientology protests as obnoxious newfaggotry that's taking /b/ shit way too seriously. Now all of these Palintards think they're part of the seeekret tea party club too.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to start work on producing nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor, further raising the stakes in a dispute with the West.

Ahmadinejad's announcement is likely to irritate Western powers which want Iran to send most of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad in return for higher-refined fuel for the Tehran reactor producing medical isotopes.

Last year, Iran and six major powers discussed making such a swap as a way to ease international concern about Tehran's nuclear ambitions, but they have failed so far to agree on how to implement the plan.

Iranian officials have repeatedly said the Islamic Republic can make fuel enriched to 20 percent itself if there is no agreement on obtaining the material from abroad.

"We had told them (the West) to come and have a swap, although we could produce the 20 percent enriched fuel ourselves," Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech.

"We gave them two-to-three months' time for such a deal. They started a new game and now I (ask) Dr Salehi to start work on the production of 20 percent fuel using centrifuges," he said, referring to atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi.

But he added at a ceremony marking Iran's laser technology achievements: "The doors for interaction are still open."

CONTRADICTORY SIGNALS

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)06:27 No.203239     Are there any places currently using Thorium reactors?

►	AltF4 !OotrIpcODE 02/08/10(Mon)17:06 No.203332     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle Summery- still need uranium or plutonium and research is on going.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:10 No.203334     >>203332 You only need a small amount of uranium to start the reaction. Once it's going it produces its own fuel and no more uranium is needed.

According to 4chan's Twitter account and status update blog, they have been "explicitly blocked" by the Verizon wireless network.

If you're unfamiliar with 4chan and why an ISP/wireless company would block it, read more about it on Wikipedia. The high-traffic image board of mostly anonymous users was created by Christopher Poole in 2003 and has been the subject of a fair amount of negative media and legal attention over the past six years. But why would Verizon choose to block the site now? Does this put Verizon on par with foreign ISPs that block torrent sites and social networks? Or is there more to the story?

Poole wrote this afternoon, "Over the past 72 hours, we've been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards. After investigating, we found that Verizon is dropping traffic... only on port 80 (HTTP). No other subdomain/IP/port is affected, which leads us to believe this block is intentional."

However, a couple hours ago, Poole posted, "After an hour and a half on the phone, we've received confirmation from Verizon's Network Repair Bureau (NRB) that we are 'explicitly blocked.'"

In the past, we've held a generally negative view of ISP censorship and traffic-shaping, regardless of site content. It'll be interesting to see how this battle shapes up, as Poole is calling for 4chan users to file complaints with Verizon's Network Repair Bureau.

We are contacting Poole and Verizon to figure out specifically why the site is being blocked and will update this post as more information becomes available.

While we've personally confirmed that the image boards are not accessible from the Verizon wireless network, we're not certain that Verizon as an ISP is blocking the site or whether they plan to in the near future. Again, a move of this magnitude would have to have some pretty compelling justifications, and we can't wait to find out Verizon's reasons.

This incident calls to mind AT&T's temporary blocking of the site in July 2009. Eventually, AT&T said the block was due to a DDoS originating fr

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)09:12 No.203244     The reason is /stormfront-- er, i mean /new/.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)14:22 No.203266     This is the natural consequences of free market lunatics killing Net Neutrality. Be prepared for the companies to start blocking a lot more sites and competing search engines. Got MSN internet? No more Google for you, only Bing. Got Verizon? No more 4chan for you. I for one welcome our corporate overlords.

►	AltF4 !OotrIpcODE 02/08/10(Mon)16:55 No.203325     inb4 DDoS aimed at Verizon. Seriously though blocking 4chan is about the stupidest thing an ISP can do. The only stupider things I can think of are blocking Google or, blocking RNC or DNC websites.

IPCC Gate Du Jour: Aussie Droughtgate

Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun digs up another issue with non peer reviewed World Wildlife Fund reports in the IPCC AR4. It turns out a new paper in GRL handily disputes the cause of the drought.

He writes:

Melbourne University alarmist David Karoly once claimed a rise in the Murray Darling Basin’s temperatures was “likely due to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human acitivity” and:

This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd grabbed the scare and exploited it:

BRENDAN Nelson was yesterday accused of being “blissfully immune” to the effects of climate change after he said the crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin was not linked to global warming…

In parliament yesterday, Kevin Rudd attacked Dr Nelson, accusing him of ignoring scientific facts.

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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:19 No.203319     >>203314 They were trying to beat the science out of me. They just kept shouting, "Allah Akbar! Death to science! The Earth is hollow and temperatures are fixed by God himself, they never change!" Between their white robes, scythes and burning torches it was quite scary. But I won't be intimidated by people with a 5th grade education. I will continue to learn about the truth even if they burn down the libraries like they did in Alexandria.

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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:25 No.203322     >>203319 You can look to other planets for evidence of that our earth is hollow. Mars may offer some convincing evidence due to some strange occurences which are said to have been observed at its poles. Various factors, such as its distance from the Sun, the Martian year is almost twice as long as an Earth year, being six hundred and eighty-seven days. During half of this period, one Martian ice cap will expand in size while the other will do the exact opposite. This expansion can be anywhere from ten to twenty times its smallest size, which has been estimated at around four hundred miles in diameter. It is also noteworthy that the Martian polar ice caps always maintain a definite circular shape. At any rate, during the final half of the year, the expanded ice cap will rapidly shrink, while the opposite one will grow in size. On some occasions, the ice caps have shrunk to slightly less than their normal minimum diameter. At these times astronomers have observed a black area, or perimeter, surrounding the ice caps. If we were allowed to know the full truth, they would tell us it s nothing less that the outer edge of the polar opening leading into the inner world of Mars. For someone who claims to be a pupil of science, you sure like to black out the process of exploring diverse factors of information and just settle with the establishment talking points.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:05 No.203331     >Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun >http://wattsupwiththat.com/ Sage

THE scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.

Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”. He acknowledged similarities to Dr David Kelly, the scientist who committed suicide after being exposed as the source for a BBC report that alleged the government had “sexed up” evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.

In emails that were hacked into and seized upon by global-warming sceptics before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, Jones appeared to call upon his colleagues to destroy scientific data rather than release it to people intent on discrediting their work monitoring climate change.

Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”

The incident has taken a severe toll on his health. He has lost more than a stone in weight and disclosed he is on beta-blockers and using sleeping pills. He said the support of his family, and especially the love of his five-year-old granddaughter, had helped him to shake off suicidal thoughts: “I wanted to see her grow up.”

He remains at risk, still receiving death threats from around the world including two in the past week: “I was shocked. People said I should go and kill myself. They said that they knew where I lived. They were coming from all over the world.”

Jones has temporarily stood down as director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia. He fiercely defends the unit’s science — “I stand by it 100%” — but now accepts that he did not treat Freedom of Information (FoI) requests for the data as seriously as he should have done. Jones believes that the unit was maliciously targeted with multiple FoI requests by climate change sceptics determined to disrupt its work.

Last week Graham Smith, the deputy information commissioner, ruled that by failing to release requested data Jones and his colleagues breached FoI regulations. The affair is now the subject of a review

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:18 No.203317     >>203316 So they become muslims?

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:21 No.203320     >>203317 The cult of deniers make Muslims look reasonable and peaceful in comparison.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:22 No.203321     >>203320 Not really muslims are much worse.

“There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus,” says St. Luke on why Mary and Joseph found themselves in Bethlehem, “that all the world should be taxed.” Joseph had to go to his own city because the tyrannical Roman government was conducting a census. But the information may have been used for more than just taxation. The Roman government’s local ruler later decided he wanted to find the Christ child and kill Him.

Did the government make use of census data to find out where the members of the House of David were? We can’t know for sure, although a later Roman despot did. But we can know that Joseph made a huge error in obeying the census takers in the first place. They were up to no good. In fact, another group of religious Jews in Judea decided that they would not comply with the Roman government’s demand to count and tax them. The group was known as the “Zealots” (yes, that’s where the word came from). They saw complying with the census as equivalent to submitting to slavery. Many ended up paying for their principled stand with their lives.

And yet, their resistance arguably made would-be tyrants more cautious. For 10 centuries after Constantine, when feudal Europe was broken up into thousands of tiny principalities and jurisdictions, no central government was in a position to collect data on its citizens. This is one of the many great merits of radically decentralized political systems: There is no central power that controls the population through data gathering and population enumeration.

The only exception in Europe in those years was William the Conqueror who, after 1066, attempted to establish in England a centralized and authoritarian society on the Roman model. That meant, in the first instance, a census. The census was compiled in The Doomesday Book, so named by an Anglo-Saxon monk because it represented the end of the world for English freedom.

A predecessor to today’s tax rolls, it functioned as a hit list for the conquering state to divide property up as it wished. “There was no single hide nor yard of land,” read a contemporary account, “nor indeed one ax nor one cow nor one pig was there left out, and not put down on the record.”

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)15:50 No.203301     >Fortunately for the American people, the records were burned by the British in 1813, leaving hardly a trace for the state to use to expand its power. Yeah, because there certainly wouldn't be any historical interest in such documents

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)15:53 No.203302     >There went out a decree from Clinton Augustus wat

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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:14 No.203313     Census is mandated by the Constitution. As conservatives have said for decades, if you don't like the Constitution you can get the fuck out. If we don't have accurate census counts we can't have an accurate number of Congresspeople in the House of Representatives. You can cry and pretend the census is un-Constitutional but those who know better will just laugh at how stupid and uneducated you are.

Passengers left stunned after Muslim bus driver pulls over and begins praying in the aisle

A Muslim bus driver stunned passengers when he pulled over and started praying in the aisle – with the engine still running.

The driver parked without warning then rolled out a fluorescent jacket as an improvised prayer mat.

He took off his shoes, knelt down facing Mecca, and began to chant.

The prayer session held up the bus for more than five minutes with no-one able to get on or off.

Passenger Gayle Griffiths complained to Transport for London about the bizarre incident on the No.24 bus in Gospel Oak, north London, this week.

Mother-of-one Miss Griffiths, 33, of Camden, north-west London, had boarded the bus a few minutes earlier on her way home from work.

She says that she even feared at the time that the driver might be a fanatic planning to blow up the bus.

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)15:33 No.203296     >Passenger Gayle Griffiths complained to Transport for London about the bizarre incident FUCKING FASCISTS

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)15:59 No.203305     http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/7863699.stm

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:11 No.203310     I've got no problem with people following their own faith, but can't they get jobs that are compatible with their beliefs? You can't have airline pilots stopping to pray during a landing or bus drivers delaying the bus routes because of their beliefs. They should find jobs that allow them to take breaks for this kind of thing.

  Eco-Fascist Indoctrination

Incandescent light bulbs, plastic bags, orange peels, Styrofoam coffee cups, Jacuzzi hot tubs — these are crimes against the environment, according to automaker Audi. On Sunday, during the Super Bowl gladiatorial event, Audi ran a series of ads depicting an eco Gestapo cracking down on citizens engaged in serious crimes against the environment.

One of the ads depicts a police checkpoint where the Fourth Amendment is wantonly violated. In the recent past, such illegal checkpoints were used to find drunk drivers. In Al Gore’s Brave New World, they will be used to search for criminals drinking out of plastic bottles.

The “lighthearted” ads are designed to send a strong message — there are green crimes and it is acceptable for government to respond in police state fashion.

Governments around the world have already established Green Cops. In the UK, the Green Gestapo have the authority to call on the Environmental Agency’s national network of hundreds of pollution inspectors. New York City’s Department of Environmental Conservation has a team of twenty officers called the “Green Police” and they have the authority to enforce environmental regulations and issue citations to environmental violators. For instance, the Green Police have the authority to pull over vehicles that are not complying with emission standards.

At first glance it appears Audi is merely cashing in on the eco frenzy to sell its low emission automobiles. The larger agenda is to get the plebs accustomed to the idea that their lifestyles are crimes against the earth and in response government must tax, fine, and even arrest violators. It is part of a propaganda effort to soften citizens up to a global carbon tax and fascist police state methods in order to enforce the a new green orthodoxy.

http://www.infowars.com/audis-eco-fascism-ads/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml54UuAoLSo

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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:05 No.203306     >>203295 Wouldn't a free market solution work here? Specifically, aren't there water meters on houses there? Shouldn't water be somewhat expensive if you live in a part of the world where it's scarce? Also, isn't it bad for your lawns if you overwater? >>203297 Isn't the solution to make sure the government complies with it's own laws, then? Rather then letting individuals off the hook?

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:08 No.203307     New rule: Alex Jones's audience is no longer allowed to watch commercials. They can't handle it. (These morons probably think there are cowboys herding cats in the West and man-sized bottles of Buddweiser actually playing football in a stadium somewhere.)

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:08 No.203308     File: 126567410686.jpg-(86.57KB, 1280x720, 1235354978260.jpg) >>203306 >Isn't the solution to make sure the government complies with it's own laws, then? Rather then letting individuals off the hook? >solution to make sure the government complies with it's own laws >make sure the government complies >the government

A bizarre blowup between a professor and a student in a Portland State University classroom recently has sent ripples of concern and curiosity through the campus.

It also has prompted the student, openly accused by the professor of being an FBI informant and a killer, to hire a prominent local civil rights attorney, and led the university to launch an investigation into the educator. The school has taken the unusual step of stripping the tenured professor of his teaching responsibilities while it conducts its inquiry.

Meanwhile, others at PSU are divided along two lines: Those who think the professor did the right thing, if in an unorthodox way; and those who think his actions were strange and out of line.

Some questions remain unanswered: Why would a tenured professor choose to openly confront a student he viewed as dangerous; and what does the situation mean for the student, who has not been charged with a crime, yet is said to have offered to teach others how to make Molotov cocktails and buy assault rifles.

Professor John Hall has not taught on campus since Jan. 14, when, during a comparative economics course, he accused a 30-year-old student of being an FBI informant and threatened to place posters of him around campus. Depending on the outcome of the internal inquiry, Hall could face a range of sanctions, including termination, said Scott Gallagher, communications director for PSU. Gallagher did not know when the inquiry would be completed.

The Oregonian made several attempts to reach Hall, who has taught at the university for 25 years, but he didn't return messages. However, Phil Lesch, executive director for the Portland State chapter of the American Association of University Professors, defended Hall and said by e-mail Friday that Hall had asked him to act as his spokesman. The association is the union that represents faculty members.

PSU student Brett Condron, 20, who is studying German, was in class that day. He said about 40 students witnessed the confrontation between Hall and the student.

Condron said with about 30 minutes left in class, Hall made a dramatic announcement: An FBI informant was enrolled in the class. He talk

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)09:32 No.203246     >calling assault rifles "machine guns" >implying purchasing assault rifles is illegal The professor sounds like a senile old nut and the students defending him sound like liberal pansies who'd freak out at the sight of a green squirt gun.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)14:20 No.203264     Day by day I am becoming convinced that the American west is absolutely insane. California, Oregon, Utah, whatever, all seem to have their own bizarre cultures that are alien to us normal folks on the east coast.

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)15:03 No.203284     File: 126567018368.jpg-(353.60KB, 900x1332, LargeMarinCover.jpg) >>203264 This is quite true. The West Coast is full of loonys that make normal East Coasters scratch their head and wonder what sort of fantasy land with perfect weather they're living in. ...it's like they're all the way on the other side of the continent or something.

  NEW YORK—The euro is likely to face further declines this week as concern over sovereign debt in Europe prompts investors to seek refuge in the perceived safety of the dollar and the yen.

Pressure on the common currency escalated last week, as worries about the soundness of debt issued by Greece spread to other fiscally stressed euro-zone nations, including Portugal and Spain.

Over the weekend, at a meeting of finance ministers of the Group of Seven leading economies in Iqaluit, Nunavut, in Canada, European leaders pledged to address public debt problems.

"We expect and are confident that the Greek government will make all the necessary decisions," said Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president. Mr. Trichet added that European members of the G-7 will "continue to monitor closely the implementation of these stability measures."

However, such statements may not be enough to prevent a renewed slide for the common currency this week. The euro's losses were about 1.5% against the dollar last week, bringing its year-to-date slide to 4.6%. Against the yen, the common currency dropped Friday to a near 12-month low.

"Until we see signs of acceptance by those [nations] that austerity measures need to be put in place to resolve the fiscal imbalances, the euro will continue to deteriorate," said Thanos Papasavvas, head of currency management at Investec Asset Management in London, which oversees about $60 billion.

Ballooning budget deficits in euro-zone countries threaten to hurt an economic recovery, forcing the ECB to keep interest rates low longer than anticipated, in contrast to expectations of quicker increases from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Late Friday in New York, the euro was at $1.3665 from $1.3741 late Thursday. The dollar was at 89.38 yen from 88.93 yen, while the euro was at 122.14 yen from 122.20 yen. The U.K. pound was at $1.5631 from $1.5753. The dollar was at 1.0727 Swiss francs from 1.0656 francs late Thursday.

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►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)11:11 No.203252       >Enjoy your double dip recession. ?

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)13:16 No.203256     Awesome, I'm traveling there in September. Drop motherfucker drop!

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)13:24 No.203258     >>203256 Got some good news, Euro's probably already peaked against the dollar this year (Euro are you even trying etc.) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aJsbvt9hFlig&pos=15

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited an Indian island chain for around 65,000 years has died, a group that campaigns for the protection of indigenous peoples has said.

Boa Sr, who was around 85 years of age, died last week in the Andaman islands, about 750 miles off India's eastern coast, Survival International said in a statement.

The London-based group, which works to protect indigenous peoples, said she was the last member of one of ten distinct Great Andamanese tribes, the Bo.

"The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman islands for as long as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures on earth," it noted.

With her passing at a hospital, India also lost one of its most endangered languages, also called Bo, linguists say.

"She was the last speaker of (the) Bo language. It pains to see how one by one we are losing speakers of Great Andamanese and (their) language is getting extinct. (It is) A very fast erosion of (the) indigenous knowledge base, that we all are helplessly witnessing," read an obituary in Boa Sr's honor posted on the Web site of the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (VOGA) project.

Project director Anvita Abbi, a professor at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, met with Boa as recently as last year. "She was the only member who remembered the old songs," Abbi recounted in her obituary.

"Boa Sr was the only speaker of Bo and had no one to converse with in that language," Abbi told CNN. Her husband and children had already died, the linguist said.

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►	Anonymous 02/07/10(Sun)20:30 No.203193     File: 126560343239.jpg-(29.77KB, 341x501, pop champaigne.jpg) This calls for a celebration, chaps.

►	Anonymous 02/07/10(Sun)21:45 No.203208     File: 126560794724.jpg-(18.29KB, 313x240, Nobody Gives A Fuck.jpg)

►	Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)09:24 No.203245     >>203136 I'd say the dinosaurs' reign was unfairly cut short.