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why did they call in a television personality too see her and think that wasn't going too run their mouth. Why were these ppl not FIXED another one got preggie. Seems like Dr phil had his license revoked or something awhile back too but i may be wrong
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classic.....the raven calling the crow black.....momma spearz supposedly leaked pics of her youngest daughter's recent pregnancy for $1M to a brit tabloid.....these idiots were made for each other....Springer needs to have them all on.
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Actually, as cynical as I am about hollyweed morons......I wonder if these people are not really calling each other behind the scenes and generating their own publicity.
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FARK/NEWVINE > BRITNEY SPEAR FLEES FROM FAMILY, Just-released Britney feared they were gonna kidnap her at a family event and put her back in the hospital a second time???
Media reports from the western town of Kisumu say that hundreds of people belonging to the Kamba tribe are fleeing the area, terrified militiamen who support the opposition party of Raila Odinga will kill them.
The opposition accuses incumbent President Mwai Kibaki of stealing the December 27 presidential vote and is demanding fresh elections. The vote took place peacefully, but was subsequently marred by irregularities in the vote counting process.
In Kisumu, a stronghold of Mr. Odinga's Luo tribe, ethnic Kambas are reportedly being targeted, because one of the defeated presidential candidates, ethnic Kamba politician Kalonzo Musyoka, dropped his neutrality in the post-election dispute by accepting the position of vice-president in Mr. Kibaki's government.
More than a week of rioting and ethnic clashes has killed hundreds of people throughout the country and more than 250,000 Kenyans have been uprooted.
Residents of the western Rift Valley town of Eldoret tell VOA that thousands of ethnic Kikuyus there, who up until two weeks ago had lived peacefully with neighbors belonging to other tribes, have all left, mostly for the central highlands, the traditional homeland of the Kikuyus.
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Colombian rebels on Wednesday provided a pickup location for two hostages they have held for years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, and the Colombian government gave him the green light to launch a rescue mission.
Chavez said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, sent him the coordinates to pick up Clara Rojas - an aide to former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt -and former congresswoman Consuelo Gonzalez. "This morning we received the coordinates there in the Colombian mountains where Clara and Consuelo are," Chavez said during a televised speech. "Hopefully, Clara and Consuelo will be free in the coming hours."
Colombia's government responded promptly, saying it was agreeing to the mission. Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said his government would "provide all the necessary guarantees" so the hostages can "return home as soon as possible." He said the mission would be overseen by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Joe Kennedy's house on the Cape. They're his maids. Just another present from his "friends in Venezuela"...
Some 878 vehicles have been torched during the 07/12/31 to 08/01/01 night, according to an updated tally by the interior minister, after the revelations of new figures by the Europe 1 radio : after its own recount this morning, the radio asserted that "at least 746 vehicles" had been torched during that New Year eve.
According to the interior minister, the total figure is "down 9.7%" compared to last year, contrary to what's indicated by the radio, which purports an increase of 10%. IIRC, official tally was 374 cars; IIUC, the total figure for 2007 is in the 40 000 range seen since after the 2005 riots, up from about 30 000 in the 90's and early 2000's, counting only insured cars and vehicles, and excluding collaterally damaged ones. Hey, we beat Holland, after all!
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To be fair, you still need to back out those Renaults that simply burst into flames on their own on any given evening. That might bring the number back down within the margin of error.
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Read an article in EUreferendum, I think, that said that there are just about as many car-b-ques in the UK as in Phrawnce but that they didn't get as much publicity.
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It seems ludicrous that counting the number of torched vehicles can be notably tracked. I cannot recall the last time that a torched car made the news locally (KY).
Are the police so bad off that they do not bother attempting to figure out who did it?
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jr: Are the police so bad off that they do not bother attempting to figure out who did it?
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) - Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year with John Edwards as his running mate and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run a year ago.
Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts, planned to announce his support Thursday at a rally with Obama at the College of Charleston, arguing that the Illinois senator can best unite the country, said a Democrat familiar with the decision. Kerry was timing his announcement before South Carolina's Jan. 26 primary, a contest that has taken on extra importance for Obama after Hillary Rodham Clinton beat him in New Hampshire. Hillary's victory now assured
Kerry lost the South Carolina Democratic primary in 2004 to Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who now is running third in the 2008 campaign behind Clinton and Obama.
Besides any potential help for Obama, the endorsement was a slap at Edwards, Kerry's former running mate. The two had their differences during the campaign over strategy and spending, and Edwards has said he would have been more aggressive in challenging the unsubstantiated allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth questioning Kerry's military record.
Edwards responded to the endorsement with a statement released Thursday in Chapel Hill, N.C.: "Our country and our party are stronger because of John's service, and I respect his decision. When we were running against each other and on the same ticket, John and I agreed on many issues."
Kerry's endorsement also was a jab at Clinton, the New York Democrat who won the New Hampshire primary after a loss to Obama in the Iowa caucuses.
Kerry had withheld his endorsement, hoping to have an impact on the race and avoid the fate of fellow Democrat Al Gore, the 2000 nominee who endorsed Howard Dean in 2004 shortly before the former Vermont governor's campaign imploded. Gore has made no endorsement so far this year.
While Kerry has been close to Clinton's husband, the former president, he was incensed in 2006 when she chided him after Kerry suggested that people who don't go to school "get stuck in Iraq." Aides said Kerry meant to jab at Bush and say "get us stuck in Iraq," and that he didn't appreciate Clinton piling onto the criticism he was already getting for the remark.
Kerry himself had considered running for president in 2008, but that plan fizzled with the botched remark. For many Democrats, his words revived bitter memories of his missteps in 2004, when he lost to Bush.
As for Obama, Kerry gave the young Illinois state senator his first turn in the national spotlight when he chose him to deliver the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Later that year, Obama won election as a U.S. senator.
Since announcing a year ago he would not make the run, Kerry has prodded Democrats to take a stronger anti-war stance, pushing for troop withdrawal deadlines. In another area, he has backed environmental causes, writing a book with his wife on the issue.
Kerry should be able to provide some organizational muscle to Obama.
Since losing the 2004 race, Kerry has kept a national network of supporters intact. He has an e-mail network of 3 million supporters, according to aides. He also has traveled extensively raising millions of dollars for Democratic candidates nationwide.
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Gonna be fun to watch the Algore effect on the candidate he choses.
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The voters of Massachusettes should feel ashamed..
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. One of the basic tenets of what passes for 'modern' liberalism is that those who take the name exempt themselves from shame. Shame is something liberals stick everyone else with in order to exert power over them. Very similar to the hustle the Medieval church used with 'sin'.
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"Kerry's endorsement was also a jab at [Hillary] Clinton" > HMMMMMMM, HMMMMMM, time for me + PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA" "YOU'VE GOT TO REMEMBER..." ABDUL = MADONNA to travel back to the 1960's and early 70's Guam wid Oliver Stone + AEROSMITH.
Either that, or its the EARTHQUAKE under LAKE ERIE???
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As someone from the National Journal pointed out on the XM POTUS '08 channel today, Kerry is angry that Hillary Clinton led the criticism of him after Kerry made that Iraq joke insult.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson ended his campaign for the presidency Wednesday after twin fourth-place finishes that showed his impressive credentials could not compete with his rivals' star power.
Richardson planned to announce the decision Thursday, according to two people close to the governor with knowledge of the decision. They spoke on a condition of anonymity in advance of the governor's announcement. The Richardson campaign would not comment on the governor's decision, reached after a meeting with his top advisers Wednesday in New Mexico.
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The only qualified democrat. I liked the chubby guy but he did not know anything about the world we live in.
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I guess Richardson realizes Silky Pony will grab the Veep nomination on the Donks side, from all indications. Some rumors going on about his people trying to make a deal with Obama so as to trhow wll their efforts behin O to beat Hildabeeste. And that freezes out Richardson, so he cuts hhis losses and starts running for Sec Interior or Sec State.
I wish Duncan Hunter would see the handwriting like Richardsons has. Hunter should realize that its over now, and he need to throw what he has left behind the only other consistently conservatvie guy on the Trunks side, Fred, who is in dire need of help.
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He could've had the open Senate seat being vacated by Domenici(R). The other seat is occupied by another Donk and won't be open for several more years. He has enough support from the usual suspects and has done a half way decent job of governor [for a Donk], to take it, but he put his ego in the Prez race.
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Or had his stomach stapled and slimmed down on the Huckabee Diet.
I think it is hilarious how quickly Richardson decided to thrown Clinton under the bus. Obama won't think him for it and if she wins all those months of kissing ass will have been for nothing.
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Funny how Edwards and Richardson both went for the VP slot and both tried to side up with Obama. I wonder if they smell a winner, or if they know HIllary has a VP choice already.
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As Mark Steyn likes to say, the Clintons' dominance of the Dems has been good for the Clintons and bad for the Dems. I suspect there's a large chunk of the party that wants them gone.
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I wish Duncan Hunter would see the handwriting like Richardsons has. Hunter should realize that its over now, and he need to throw what he has left behind the only other consistently conservatvie guy on the Trunks side, Fred, who is in dire need of help.
Hunter might do that if Fred would get off his ass and start campaigning. I mean, did Fred show up in New Hampshire at all? Did he show up in Iowa? Where is he now? Did he say anything of any significance during last Saturday's televised debates? I don't mean to take anything away from the guy but I don't get the feeling that he has any sense of urgency...no "fire in the belly". Maybe it's good he doesn't talk as fast as Giuliani but at some point he is gonna have to jump in there and mix it up with those guys.
If I was Hunter I would stay in the race at least until it gets to California and then see what happens. You people all seem to forget California where, unlike New Hampshire, immigration is the number one issue, Hunter has the correct position on it, people know who he is and it's about damn time we stopped waiting until June to vote because we have a few more delegates than New Hampshire.
I am sick and tired of the primaries being "all over" before they get to California...before I even get to vote. Are the voters in New Hampshire more important than me? I don't think so. From what I saw they looked like a bunch of kooks...falling for Hillary's tears and voting for McCain.
Hunter might end up with a few bargaining chips at the convention. I certainly hope he does. And that would be the time for him to use them.
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Fred is campaigning hard - spend 3 weeks in Iowa on a bus campaign, and bumped from 9 up to 14 percent. And he skipped NH, because its all about drawing independants there - same with Michigan: they are states the lets anyone vote in any primary (which is Why McCain won, despeite getting barely a third of the Republican votes cast). He is busting ass in SC, and has been there several times already, and is there now on another bus tour, and has several million in ad spending lined up, and now doing the radio and direct mail.
If you look at the history, Iowa tends to pick a religious or populist (Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan and noe Huckabee), NH tends to place the most conservative candidates in LAST PLACE and "crossovers" in first. South Carolina is one of the first basiclly conservative states in social and military and fiscal conservative matters (unlike Iowa and NH).
Starting with Iowa aqnd NH really makes the Republicans shoot themselves inthe foot - Iowa produces usesless candidates, and NH produces non-Republican ones.
Hunter is better than any of the other candidates, but he simply is not going anywhere. And if we dont get more peopel behind Fred, neither is he, which could leave us conservatives trying to choose between McCain vs Huckabee.
Yes, with money. I'll make another donation next week.
When's the SC primary?
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Sad indeed. OldSpook. Iowa and New Hampshire are not representative of the national electorate so it is really screwed up that they have such a disproportionate influence on which candidates get to go on to other states. Sad that the networks decide Hunter is not a "viable" candidate and won't let him debate anymore just because the kooks in New Hampshire say so. I've said it before, Fred might be the guy. But I still like Hunter.
Barack Obama said on Wednesday his upset loss to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire's U.S. presidential primary was a reminder change was not easy and would be resisted by those who gain from the status quo. "My voice is a little hoarse, my eyes are a little bleary, my back is a little sore, but my spirit is strong," Obama said the day after Clinton won narrowly in New Hampshire despite opinion polls before the vote showing she trailed Obama by double-digits.
Obama, bidding to be the first black president, had hoped for a New Hampshire win that would solidify his hold on the top spot in the state-by-state race to pick candidates for the November election to succeed President George W. Bush.
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O'Bama says New Hampshire loss shows change not easy there are a hell of a lot of stupid yankee democrats in New Hampshire who apparently have little or no memory of the last 8 year Clintonian empire and desire a repeat.
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DRUDGEREPORT > JEWISH WORLD REVIEW/CAL THOMAS - BARACK OBAMA FEELING GOOD. ALso form JWR/Tomas > SEGRATION, MUSLIM STYLE. Great Britain threatened by Brit Muslim community's inherent refusal to integrate and adopt core Brit values.
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Maybe so, sports fan, but don't forget - Kerry has an e-mail network of 3 million supporters, according to aides. He also has traveled extensively raising millions of dollars for Democratic candidates nationwide.
Oh, how I love a mud-wrestling match! It's gonna get really interesting.
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Remember, B.O., 78% of 'new' initiatives fail - at least in business (like TQM, or other slogan-of-the-month) - so change is always hard.
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I personaly would far rather have our "First Black President', than have "First Bitch".
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"To hell with CHANGE, we want FOLDING MONEY!"
-- Burge/Goldstein '08
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How come you never hear him talking about his white mother? Was she "uncool" or something? Or is he saving her for when it's time to tone down the "black guy" thing?
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Actually, his loss shows the Dinkins effect is alive and well. It wasn't visible in Iowa because Dems don't do the secret ballot thing in Iowa, thanks to "reforms" implemented by 60's activists, who believed that Communists should be allowed to harangue their opponents into silence.
Non-blacks who tell the pollster one thing, and vote another way. I think it's one or a combination of two things - (1) some people want to vote for a person whose ethnicity they're comfortable with and/or (2) some people feel that a black candidate is too liberal, but are afraid that rejecting the black candidate will be perceived as racism. Which means newspaper polls can overstate the amount of support for a black candidate.
I thought it was when she started blubbering and everybody felt sorry for her.
A day after the New Hampshire primary recast the presidential race, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Wednesday that the candidatesÂ’ debate on Saturday was a turning point in her surprising victory over Senator Barack Obama, while Mr. Obama sought to remain upbeat and traveled to New York on a fund-raising mission.
On the Republican side, Senator John McCain, fresh off his own comeback victory over former Gov. Mitt Romney, jetted off to Michigan, where in next TuesdayÂ’s primary he will attempt to overcome Mr. RomneyÂ’s natural advantage in the state of his birth.
The results from Tuesday night breathed new life into the Clinton and McCain campaigns less than a week after the two candidates placed third and fourth respectively in the Iowa caucuses. The results left the Republican field in a muddled state with no clear front-runner, and seemed to foretell a long and intense competition on the Democratic side between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama through the Super Tuesday primaries on Feb. 5.
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NEWSVINE > GOP > LOKKS LIKE TWO GOP PRIMARIES. Two GOP campaigns for one POTUS nomination???
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Debate! There has not been a real debate on issues either side since this whole thing started. Cream puffery I say. Softball questions, sound bites, and crying is the order of the day. There is no substance to this process.
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DE SPIEGEL ONLINE > AMERICA IS CONFUSED ABOUT ITS OWN COURSE + VICTORY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: THE REINVENTION OF HILLARY CLINTON + THE RETURN OF REALPOLITIK.
A conservative majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to support an Indiana law requiring voters to show photo identification, despite concerns that it could deprive thousands of people of their right to vote. At issue is whether state laws designed to stem voter fraud would disenfranchise large numbers of Americans who might lack proper identification -- many of them elderly, poor or minority voters.
In what has become a highly partisan legal and political fight, the justices wrestled with a balancing test of sorts to ensure both state and individual interests were addressed.
Civil rights activists and the state Democratic Party complain Indiana's law is the most restrictive in the nation. "The real question is, does it disenfranchise anyone?" Todd Rokita, Indiana secretary of state told CNN. "After six elections in the state of Indiana, the answer has been no. ... That's why the opponents to this keep losing in court."
State officials claim that voter turnout actually has increased 2 percent since the law took effect. But Rokita concedes the state has never presented a case of "voter impersonation," which the law was designed to safeguard against.
Justice Samuel Alito spoke for many of his colleagues, wondering how they should rule in the absence of any clear evidence supporting either side. "The problem I have is, where do you draw the line?" he said. "There is nothing to quantify the extent of the problem or the extent of the burden."
Among those cited by Democrats is Mary-Jo Criswell, a 71-year-old Indianapolis Democrat, who could not vote last November because she had no driver's license or valid passport. She previously had used a private bank-issued card with her photo when voting. The former precinct committeewoman had difficulty rebuilding an identity trail, and still does not have a valid photo ID. Criswell said in an affidavit she felt intimidated by the burdensome bureaucracy she claims is needed to vote.
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Civil rights activists and the state Democratic Party complain
When you see this you can be assured you are on the correct track and should continue.
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Strange. If a person has to show ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol, why shouldn't they have to show ID to vote? At least with cigarettes and alcohol the effects are relatively limited. With successful voter fraud, it affects everyone.
And ditto what Besoeker said. If the Dems are whining about this, I'm for it. I'll bet a majority of voter fraud is going to be found to lie with those who vote for Dems since they seem to like to hand out cash as a way to gain votes, and look the other way when the voter comes their way.
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FYI, one of the people the vote fraud enablers Liberals use as an aexample of the ID law turns out to be registered to vote in Indiana AND Florida, and is claiming homstead tax exemptions in BOTH places. So the law works - she should NOT have been able to vote because she was illegally registered.
Kinda sucks to have one of the peopl eyou cits in defense of your case turn out to be breaking the law, and the law you oppose actually worked to prevent her from voting illegally.
What the idgits don't grasp is that consent is not the vote. Consent is the willingness to give that last full measure of devotion to protect the nation and society. If you demonstrate that such sacrifice is misplaced by corrupting the process, then the whole house comes down with no one to defend it. The fools think they'll be the one's left in charge. History is not kind to fools.
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Either way it goes, the credibility of elections will be damaged in some people's eyes. If you DON'T require ID, I have doubts about the election, but if you DO require ID, a different group actually believes deserving voters will be prohibited or deterred from voting.
Don't have a Drivers Lisence? No problem, here's a State Photo ID.
Can't afford a fee? No problem, it's free.
Can't get down to the Government Office? No problem, we'll come to you.
Intimidated by government officials? Then I guess you don't apply for welfare either, right?
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Intimidated by government officials? Then I guess you don't apply for welfare either, right?
LOL - great catch Glenmore. I hadn't thought of that angle, but it's right on.
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“Strange. If a person has to show ID to buy cigarettes or alcohol, why shouldn't they have to show ID to vote?”
gorb, Your point goes to the very relevant argument about the relatively small number of citizens that could possibly experience some form of “disenfranchisement” as a result of the ID requirement. However, purchasing booze and cigs is not a constitutionally protected Right. Participation in free and fair elections is. IMO, a better analogy would be the requirement of positive identification to purchase a gun.
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I wonder, if the law is upheld and you do need an ID, if a "sanctuary" state claims you don't need an ID to vote if the results will be sued for invalidation?
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This is good, but with so many holes in the dike plugging this one won't change much. Unfortunately. The only real solution is to abolish the secret ballot. Once you make the results auditable it becomes extremely difficult to cheat. Otherwise there is always going to be a black box somewhere and that black box will be your point of failure.
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Chicago and Cook County Illinois, a unique area of our nation where the DEAD are still permitted to remain active in politics.
In King County, Washington not only the dead, but Imanginary [Democrat] Friends can vote!
Ok, maybe. Now where do those dilithium crystals fit in?
(ANSA) - Rome, January 10 - The puzzle of where the mysterious antimatter at the heart of our galaxy comes from has finally been solved, according to a top Italian space expert. Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, head of the Italian Space Agency, collaborated with the international group of scientists which has just published a paper outlining the answer.
He said the cloud of antimatter at the centre of the Milky Way, which scientists have known about for 30 years, appears to derive from 'binary' star systems distributed in the same area.
Binary star systems are ones in which a normal star is gradually being sucked towards a black hole or a neutron star. Neutron stars are stars that have collapsed under their own gravity and become incredibly dense. ''We have taken a big step forwards in understanding the antimatter at the centre of our galaxy,'' he said, noting that the findings were the result of four years of data supplied by the European Space Agency's satellite Integral.
''We used to think that the source of the anti-matter was a single point, like a black hole,'' Bignami said.
The Integral satellite showed that positrons - one of the key components of antimatter - are spread out over a wide area around the centre and that there are more on one side than the other. ''This seemed very strange and it gave us a big clue, putting us on the trail of the possible source of antimatter''.
The group then noticed that the distribution of binary systems in the galaxy matched the distribution of positrons almost perfectly. The researchers immediately made the connection and concluded that at least half of the antimatter comes from these binaries. The findings of the international team, led by Georg Weidenspointer of the Max Planck Institute, were published this week in Nature.
The principle they deduced may well be valid elsewhere in the universe but for now there are no instruments powerful enough to let scientists observe other galaxies in enough detail to tell.
Antimatter is made up of three sorts of subatomic particles: positrons, antiprotons and antineutrons. Their equivalents in normal matter are the negatively charged electrons, positively charged protons and neutral neutrons. When two like particles of matter and antimatter meet they 'annihilate', disappearing in an explosion.
The existence of antimatter was deduced by British physicist Paul Dirac in the 1920s. Later scientists managed to create it in laboratories. Then astronomers found a mysterious cloud of it at the centre of the Milky Way.
Because Dirac's theory is that matter and antimatter are produced in equal amounts from energy, a question that intrigues many is whether other places exist in the universe which are almost entirely antimatter.
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Antimatter is made up of three sorts of subatomic particles: positrons, antiprotons and antineutrons. Their equivalents in normal matter are the negatively charged electrons, positively charged protons and neutral neutrons. When two like particles of matter and antimatter meet they 'annihilate', disappearing in an explosion.
if so, than those pictures these guys have been aware of for 30 years are not what is being described here.
These folks should spend more time explainging things they can actually get right, then rationalizing hypotheicals to prop up a theory.
Oil for instance, is not a fossill fuel, its from meteor impacts, the pictures of shoemaker levy impacting jupiter prove it....so why the systemic obfuscation?.........me thinks science rather deal with unproveable hypotheicals that dont disturb the myths, and yet because of wide spread ignorance, they can appear like they are geniuses.
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I think that the whole "antimatter cloud" is an usubstantiated speculation. Gamma rays are more easily produced by electrical discharges. You can get gamma rays even with your garden variety (ok, with some of these more energetic ones) lightning bolts at the point of their discharge origin. Beside gmma rays, there is really nothing else in that location that would indicate antimatter.
And you know what? With mere 1 keV you can even trasmutate lighter elements--you don't need a star's nukular furnace to do that. Probably even less energy is requied nder om circumstances. Did read a paper recently that seemed to imply that plants can manufacture trace elements needed for their well-being even if these are not supplied from the environment--e.g. the experimentators made sure these trace elements were utterly missing, yet they were later found to be present in their test plants.
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2by4 says I think that the whole "antimatter cloud" is an usubstantiated speculation. "
Copy that big brother.........
this teams output, moves in leaps and generalizations. If the cloud exists and is antimatter related and its interacted with matter completing its annihilation, than the cloud does not really eixst..........does it now!
So , the team is wrong, and should stumble along to some other well funded data output program, ensuring the community of myths a long and fruitful life.
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Spiny Gl 2511 dear, in science the Theory comes after the data either proves or disproves the hypothesis... which is why Einstein was so excited when the solar eclipse showed he was right about gravity bending light.
And why I'm not going to get excited about a single publication. If another several groups of physicists and astronomers can substantiate that hypothesis, then I'll think about believing them.
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twobyfour, it really isn't that hard to conclude there is a "positron cloud." There are plenty of gamma rays around, true. But when you see a spike in the energy distribution at 512KeV, you can be pretty sure that there was some e+ e- annihilation going on. There being plenty of e- around already, the unique thing this tells you is that in the direction these excess 512KeV gammas come from, you can find some positrons.
"What makes them?" is the interesting question. It isn't hard to think of some mechanisms: pair production from high energy gammas, for instance; or the end of a decay chain of a pi+. The gammas can arise quite naturally from pi0 decays, and pions of all varieties can be produced when a "cosmic ray" proton hits some bit of interstellar gas. (Most cosmic rays that reach the Earth's surface are muons resulting from primary cosmic rays interacting in the atmosphere.) So far so straightforward. We know these cosmic ray protons exist, the question is they how they are produced.
One "simple" production method involves the extremely intense magnetic fields projected to exist around neutron stars and black holes. We can see jets of matter coming from ordinary stars, and jets coming from galaxies (current theory suggesting that a supermassive black hole resides there), and it seems like a good guess that neutron stars originate some other jets we see. If the magnetic fields are intense enough there should be a component of very high energy protons in a jet.
This report merely means that these scientists think they've measured the cloud position to be closer to what they think are neutron-star plus ordinary star binaries than to the black hole estimated to be at the galactic core. That means multiple small sources rather than a single big source.
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Spiny Gl 2511, on the scale of zero to the universe, your errors (and mine, fortunately!) don't look very big. ;-) Would you care for a cup of tea while we watch the Rantburg professors take this thing apart? I think Beethoven's Fifth is appropriate background music, unless you can think of something better.
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nonsense......there is motion in this cloudy space, and that means the antimatter component would by random occurrance pass through a matter bearing area. at some time and annilihation would occur. meaning there would be no cloud or remnants of the anti matter.
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truthfully, I hate tea, but if you have some otherperformance enhancer...like coffee....ok...and BTW i dont need no stinkin experts to figure out when A is A.
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Spiny and TW, break out the toblerone and sit down for a klatsch with James on this topic; he's been hunting subatomic particles for a living for nearly 30 years. I'll make the coffee/tea/lemonade.
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James, yes, spikes at 511 KeV have been recorded. But that still does not indicate antimatter cloud, just some matter/antimater anihilation, a secondary effect of high energy discharge. There have been even much larger values recoded in other areas. What does that mean? A possible fury of darkwing duck?
I am serious. I see sciencedaily.com, but mayhaps if it was called mythologydaily.com, it would be a more close to reality.
extremely intense magnetic fields projected to exist
What does that tell you? Just pretend that you don't know any "current" astrophysics and use common sense. Yep, a "current" is involved, but not that of the time.
around neutron stars and black holes.
Mythology.
We can see jets of matter coming from ordinary stars, and jets coming from galaxies
What does that tell you? Go to a plasma physics lab and see it in a scaled down version. As above, so below. Scale it up, scale it down, the same phenomenon.
(current theory suggesting that a supermassive black hole resides there)
Mythology again.
and it seems like a good guess that neutron stars originate some other jets we see.
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You're serving Toblerone, mom? I'm coming over to your house! Spiny GI, it sounds like your coffee is being poured. Would you like cream and sugar?
*happy sigh* I do love watching those who know more than I about something discuss it! It doesn't matter what, actually -- there's so much y'all know that I don't.
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I have a question about annihilation for anyone who understands this better than I do. Which is for shit. If a neutron is neutrally charged, what how could the antineutron annihilate it? What the hell could be the opposite neutral?
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Mike, Neutron nd antineutron are neutrally charged components, they differ in tat the firt is made rom quarks, the second from antiquarks. No charge, no bang.
What anihilates are electrons/positrons and protons/antiprotons, with some built in assymetry in favor of the former of these two pairs (no one knows why). Neutrons and antineutrons remain, but get a good kick out of it.
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