Video of massive explosion & fire as trains collide in Poland
Some forty teams of firefighters were working to put out a blaze in northeastern Poland after 2 cargo trains collided. Officials in the town of Bialystok said one train carrying tanks of oil was stopped on the tracks as it was hit from behind by another cargo train. 17 of the 33 oil tanks that [...]
Read More →U.S. expands cargo security ban in wake of bomb plot
The Obama administration on Monday banned all cargo shipments to the United States from Somalia, expanding a ban imposed initially on shipments from Yemen in the wake of a recent foiled bomb plot. Two weeks ago, authorities in Dubai and the United Kingdom intercepted two bombs hidden in toner cartridges destined for the United States [...]
Read More →Transformer explosion at NY nuclear power plant
A transformer exploded at a nuclear power plant north of New York City, leading to an emergency shut down of one of its reactors. An official with the Indian Point plant in Buchanan says no one was injured in Sunday’s explosion.The plant is owned by Entergy Corp. Company spokesman Jim Steets says no radioactive materials [...]
Read More →Pharaonic inscription found in S. Arabia
Saudi archeologists have discovered an inscription near the ancient oasis of Tayma in Tabuk Province, which might have belonged to an Egyptian pharaoh. The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) announced that the hieroglyphic inscription was found about 400 km north of Madinah. “The rock was bearing an inscription of King Ramses III, one [...]
Read More →Unemployed told: do four weeks of unpaid work or lose your benefits
• Crackdown on £190bn-a-year welfare bill• Payments could be suspended for three months The unemployed will be ordered to do periods of compulsory full-time work in the community or be stripped of their benefits under controversial American-style plans to slash the number of people without jobs.The proposals, in a white paper on welfare reform to [...]
Read More →Der Spiegel: Geologists Warning Of “Mega-Eruption”
Der Spiegel reports on the growling-ever-louder Indonesian Merapi volcano in an article titled: Geologists Warning of Mega-Eruption of Merapi. “The Merapi eruptions are becoming more violent – and the big bang could be just ahead. The Indonesian volcano has been spewing 800°C ash clouds for days. “ According to Der Spiegel, 122 people have been killed, most [...]
Read More →Banks spying on your bills, rent payments, paychecks: report
The age of the plain old credit score is gone, says a report at the Wall Street Journal, and it’s been replaced by ever more intrusive efforts by banks and credit agencies to gauge exactly what you’re worth, and what you can pay.To that end, financial firms are now tracking their customers’ bank deposits, rent [...]
Read More →Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time
Robert Lanza, M.D. | The Huffington Post When I was young, I stayed at my neighbor’s house. They had a grandfather clock. Between the tick and the tock of the pendulum, I lay awake thinking about the perverse nature of time. Mr. O’Donnell is gone now. His wife Barbara, now in her nineties, greets me with [...]
Read More →Pennsylvania Homeland Security monitored residents’ tweets
Emails recently released from a Right-To-Know request show that the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security monitored the twitter activity of law-abiding citizens.The emails, obtained by the website PARevolution.com, show that a private firm used twitter to collect intelligence on anti-war protests as a part of their contract with the department.Institute of Terrorism Research and Response [...]
Read More →Pentagon’s Cyber Command seeks authority to expand its battlefield
The Pentagon’s new Cyber Command is seeking authority to carry out computer network attacks around the globe to protect U.S. interests, drawing objections from administration lawyers uncertain about the legality of offensive operations. Cyber Command’s chief, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, who also heads the National Security Agency, wants sufficient maneuvering room for his new command [...]
Read More →Israel seeks ‘threat’ of US war on Iran
Following a US senator’s call for a war on Iran, the Israeli premier plans to ask Washington to threaten Tehran with a military operation to stop its civilian nuclear program. “The only way to make sure that Iran does not arm itself with nuclear weapons is to create a credible threat of a military operation [...]
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