National Geographic- Inside 9/11

Avian flu............

DUTCH poultry farmers complied with a government order to move all their birds indoors yesterday as Europe stepped up its efforts to prevent a potentially deadly bird flu pandemic this winter.

Germany plans to follow suit by ordering that all free-range birds be moved indoors in the middle of next month to prevent contact with birds arriving from the East that may be carrying the virus.

MEMRI

CBC-just a shell of its former self

Also CBC unplugged.............

Able Danger

The gun registry is still working like a charm..........

Better to concentrate on the criminals and put them away instead of continually passing the buck

"He said many in the black community told him they wouldn't object to police doing their jobs if they felt it would make them safer. While he may have goofed royally in the way he made his case, at least he has shown he's in touch with the people most affected by the crime wave.

None of which we can say for Miller's insane talk of taking guns away from law-abiding people who have done no wrong (talk about profiling!) and storing them in one facility (yeah, that'll be safer).

Thompson has been thoroughly criticized for his brain lapse, which has unfortunately obscured some of his good ideas on fighting crime. But it's Miller, ostensibly this city's leader, who needs to be held to account.

He needs to refocus his outrage and take aim at the real enemy -- not gun owners, not the U.S., not the Conservatives and not Michael Thompson, but the criminals."

Peter Worthington on the Gaza Disengagement.........

"Before getting into that, Sharon's decision has nothing to do with appeasing either Palestinians or critics of Israel. More than anyone, he knows you can't appease the unappeasable. Regardless of how much Israel compromises or bends, it will never satisfy its enemies.

Compromise is seen as weakness and only encourages Palestinian militants to be more demanding, more violent, less accommodating.

Palestinian extremists do not want peaceful coexistence with Israel. They want victory. They want Israel destroyed. Period. "

Facing the Facts about Iran

Brian Maloney and Michell Malkin- Money Pit

Avian Flu........

"H5N1 is the avian flu strain experts fear may be poised to trigger a pandemic. It has been decimating poultry stocks and infecting small numbers of people in Southeast Asia for the last 20 months and recently spread to parts of Russia.

Swiss drug maker Roche won't say how much oseltamivir — sold as Tamiflu — it can make. But the company insists individuals don't draw from the same pool as the lengthening queue of governments placing stockpile orders."

Gaza Disengagement