Alaska Eruption Triggers Air Traffic Alert

Air traffic alert after Alaskan volcano spews ash cloud - chicagotribune.com: "Ash from the 5,676-foot (1,730 meter) volcano is considered potentially dangerous to aircraft because Cleveland's peak lies directly below commercial flight routes between Asia and North America. Additional explosions producing larger ash clouds are possible and could come without warning, the observatory said."

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If Abba's Way was followed we would have better news every day

Abba's Way:

The deathly values we live by must go.
That happens to be our most crying need;
Or else we have a tasteless, gruesome show,
Our boot heels crushing Abba’s precious seed.

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If Abba's Way was followed we would have better news every day. It can be done.

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Costs of using Cloud storage

Cloud storage sites by Amazon, Google, Apple, Carbonite compared - latimes.com: "Using cloud storage services such as those offered by Amazon, Google, Apple and Carbonite to protect your music, photos and other files is becoming more affordable."

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In The White House Honoring Five Artists (Video)

Behind the Scenes: The Ceremony at the White House before the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors | The White House:

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Isn't it amusing to reflect that under the GOP this all might be swept away. For each of these artists there is a legion of others living and dead who witness to the transcendent function of art - to be not only a mirror to nature but a beacon which illuminates potential as a magnet to every individual.

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There is only one thing all people have in common

Abba withinWhatever name you use to designate the One withinThe force that gives you life and the freedom to exercise your will
Otherwise each person - twin or no - is one beingOn one trajectoryWith one perceptionAnd one destiny
The greatest tragedy of humankind is not to perceive And to relate to this One withinThe greatest triumph is to perceive this One by understandingAbba is in everyoneEveryone Calling us toToleranceTo helpfulnessTo democracyand to non-idolatry
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Putin Most Likely Gave Iran Our Spy Drone (Video)

Cap tip Robert Eckert
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The stoking of global conflict is now at a red alert level IMO. My solution is a global disarmament conference ASAP.  And a reconsideration of our prodigal use of drones, now even beginning to appear within U.S. borders. This is impunity pure and simple.  Will an urgent international conference based on imminent peril happen in a political environment like ours? Not likely. Perhaps the disarray of our own military will be a presumptive argument to cease stretching ourselves too thin. Again most likely dreaming. The neo-con dynamic still holds sway and all we do is try to read tea leaves in Iowa as if THAT made any real difference.
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Only civilians can fix the U.S. Army (Video)

Army Charges Eight in Chinatown Soldier Danny Chen's Death - YouTube: "Nine years of over using our military fighting two unnecessary wars has degraded the US Army in particular. Soldiers who are not qualified to own pets have attained leadership positions. Sadists, serial killers, psychotic psychiatrists, finger collectors, all indicators that the US Army has had its "check engine" light on for awhile. Only civilians can fix the US Army."

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Brutality is pervasive beyond politicians. Only a global sea change in values based on repentance will suffice.

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