At least 300 people have been evacuated after a cargo train derailed in Russia’s south with 17 tanks carrying oil products running off the track. At least 6 cars have caught fire.
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The Korean People’s Army — an umbrella organization composed of ground, air, naval, missile and special operations forces — ranks in personnel numbers as the fourth-largest military in the world. The large, forward-deployed military can inflict great damage on South Korea despite serious resource shortfalls and aging hardware, the report said, but the strength of the U.S.-South Korean alliance deters North Korea from conducting attacks on its southern neighbor. http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=119924 John Kerry says North Korea talks conditions ‘unacceptable’ US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday dismissed a set of pre-conditions laid out by North Korea for talks as “unacceptable,” calling them an opening “gambit” from Pyongyang. The isolated North on Thursday responded for the first time to an offer from Kerry during his weekend visit to the Korean peninsula to return to the negotiating table in a bid to defuse heightened [...] In a bid to raise public awareness about global warming, an artist has created a shocking series of image This chilling series of images give an alarming projection [...] South Korean banks and media report computer network crash, causing speculation of North Korea cyberattack: March 20, 2013 SEOUL, South Korea – Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed simultaneously Wednesday, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyberattack by North Korea. Screens went blank at 2 p.m. (0500 GMT), the state-run Korea Information Security Agency said, and more than seven hours later [...] United States B-52 bombers carried out simulated nuclear bombing raids on North Korea as part of ongoing U.S.-South Korean military exercises, Pentagon officials said on Monday. Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters that B-52 bombers from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, conducted a training mission over South Korea March 8 during war games known as Exercise Foal Eagle. “It’s not any secret that we are in the midst of sending a [...] North and South Korea staged duelling war games Monday as threatening rhetoric from the rivals rose to the highest level since North Korea rained artillery shells on a South Korean island in 2010. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/south-korea-us-launch-drills-that-north-has-threatened-war-over/article9583740/
The 11-day military drills that started Monday involve 10,000 South Korean and about 3,000 American troops. Those coincide with two months of separate U.S.-South Korean field exercises that began March 1. Also continuing are large-scale North Korean drills that [...] SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test. An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for “a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors” because Washington [...] Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel Michael van Poppel ‏@mpoppel huffingtonpost.com Hopes for overhauling the federal tax system are fading in Washington, but in some state capitals, tax reform experiments – some far-reaching – are fast taking shape. Across the U.S. South and Midwest, Republicans have consolidated control of state legislatures and governorships, giving them the power to test long-debated tax ideas. Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, for instance, called on Thursday for ending the state’s income tax and corporate taxes, [...] French Troops Intervene in Mali Crisis PARIS, January 12 (RIA Novosti) – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has confirmed that a French military contingent arrived in Mali to help the government troops stop the advance of Islamist militants to the country’s south. “The advance of the terrorists must be stopped, otherwise all of Mali will fall into their hands, presenting a threat to all of Africa and Europe,” Fabius said in a [...] LIDO BEACH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Plagued by filth, health concerns are mounting on Long Island’s South Shore. Streets in one local community are still buried in more than two weeks of trash build-up and another is pumping out rivers of raw sewage. A large trash pile the locals in Lido Beach have dubbed “Mount Sandy” sits near the ocean front. It’s a mountain of ruined possessions — 100,000 cubic yards and growing. But as massive [...] Italy’s blighted south is heading for social and economic meltdown as a result of job losses, a massive exodus of people and “industrial desertification”, according to an alarming new report. Unemployment in the “Mezzogiorno” is around 25pc compared with the national average of 10pc, according to Svimez, a think tank on economic development for the region. Less than one in four women work, 147,000 jobs were lost between 2007 and 2011 and [...] San Francisco could soon be competing with New York as home to some of the tiniest apartments in the country. The city’s Board of Supervisors had been expected to vote on Tuesday to consider a building code change to allow apartments as small as 220 square feet - little more than double the size of some prison cells. The super-tiny efficiency units would include a bathroom, kitchen and closet. Current regulations require apartment living rooms [...] Maryland is the richest state in the union, with a median household income of $70,004, a cool $20k about the national average. The U.S. South continues to lag behind with Mississippi’s median income of $36,919 putting the state at the lowest in the country. According to the data from the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, nationwide household income in the U.S. has dropped as the economy continues to struggle [...] Mac Slavo
It may be a humorous satire, but sadly there’s truth to it:
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Three of the dead have already been identified, Emergency Ministry says. They are reported to have been tourists. The overall number of those affected by the disaster currently stands between 1,500 and 1,800 people, according to different sources. The heavy rainfalls battering [...] THE death toll from Typhoon Saola has risen to 42 in the Philippines and Taiwan, and 300,000 people have been evacuated in China as Typhoon Damrey makes landfall. The Philippines recorded 37 deaths in floods and accidents caused by Saola’s torrential rains and strong winds, officials said on Friday. Four people were missing and feared dead. Taiwan residents spent Friday cleaning up storm damage and returning to work, a day after Saola [...] Retired adult film actress Jenna Jameson voiced support for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a strip club Thursday, CBS San Francisco reports: “I’m very looking forward to a Republican being back in office,” Jameson said while sipping champagne in a VIP room at Gold Club in the city’s South of Market neighborhood. “When you’re rich, you want a Republican in office.” http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/retired-porn-star-jenna-jameson-says-she-supports-143703925.html Here’s a recent photo…I’d hit it… http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/07/26/jenna-jameson-pleads-not-guilty-to-dui-which-celeb-should-stay-off-road/ MOSCOW — Villagers in Russia’s south Urals region have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery – four barrels left in a forest containing 248 human fetuses, prompting an official probe, officials said Tuesday. Police in the Sverdlovsk region said the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags marked with surnames and numbers. The fetuses were found a few miles away from a highway linking the region’s capital, Yekaterinburg, with another [...] The nation’s recent recession had a “broad and deep” impact across the United States, but certain states such as Florida and California were particularly hard-hit, according to a report released on Thursday. The study, led by Yale University political science professor Jacob Hacker, found that while the U.S. Northeast was largely spared from the economic fallout in the years after the Great Recession, the U.S. South and West were hit harder. Researchers [...] A crater on the moon that is a prime target for human exploration may be tantalizingly rich in ice, though researchers warn it could just as well hold none at all. The scientists investigatedShackleton Crater, which sits almost directly on the moon’s south pole. The crater, named after the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, is more than 12 miles wide (19 kilometers) and 2 miles deep (3 km) — about as deep [...] Residents in Western Australia’s south-west are preparing for another violent storm after wild weather ripped through homes, buildings and cars yesterday and left thousands of people without power. Emergency services are still cleaning up after what is being called the most destructive storm in years, and the weather bureau is now warning of more wild weather over the south-west half of the state in the next 48 hours. Most of the south-west [...] Deep in the rainforest of south-east Cameroon, the voices of the men rang through the trees. “Where are the white people?” they shouted. The men, who begin to surround us, are poachers, who make their money from the illegal slaughter of gorillas and chimpanzees. They disperse but make it known that they are not keen for their activities to be reported; the trade they ply could not only wipe out [...] TSG A pair of four-year-old boys were accidentally served daiquiris containing alcohol in a restaurant mishap that landed one child in a Florida hospital, police report. According to a Clearwater Police Department report, the boys were eating lunch with their mothers last Sunday (Mother’s Day) when “two virgin strawberry daiquiri’s were ordered for their table.” However, a waitress at Frenchy’s South Beach Café “incorrectly entered the order and two daiquiri’s containing alcohol were [...] London Telegraph Natasha Marie Harris, 30, died on February 25, 2010 in Invercargill on New Zealand’s south island. On Thursday he told the inquest Natasha had been unwell leading up to her death and had no energy, but the idea Coca-Cola caused the problem had never crossed their minds. Mr Hodgkinson told the court that she had been [...] A company that makes ‘pink slime’ products has filed for bankruptcy as the backlash against the controversial beef filler continues. AFA Foods has announced that it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and selling its assets after the public outcry over the beef substance derailed its efforts to save its already struggling business. The Pennsylvania-based company processes more than 500 million pounds of ground beef products a year and distribute to [...] Global warming alarmist equates climate denial with racism Paul Joseph Watson Comparing skepticism of man-made global warming to racist beliefs, an Oregon-based professor of sociology and environmental studies has labeled doubts about anthropogenic climate change a “sickness” for which individuals need to be “treated”. Professor Kari Norgaard, who is currently appearing at the ‘Planet Under Pressure’ conference in London, has presented a paperin which she argues that “cultural resistance” [...] First Lady Michelle Obama laughed back tears during her appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman last night, as she recalled memories of her father, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. Mrs Obama, making her debut appearance on the late night show Monday, talked about how she learned about the notion of unconditional love from her parents, and how it’s helped her become a better mother. The interview’s serious turn was short, [...] PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Koreaannounced plans Friday to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket, a surprise move that could jeopardize a weeks-old agreement with the U.S. exchanging food aid for nuclear concessions. The North agreed to a moratorium on long-range launches as part of the deal with Washington, but argues that satellite launches are part of a peaceful space program that is exempt from international disarmament obligations. [...] Telegraph.co.uk The junior officer, who has not been named, was monitoring an area hit by a series of burglaries in an unnamed market town in the country’s south. As the probationary officer from Sussex Police searched for suspects, the camera operator radioed that he had seen someone “acting suspiciously” in the area. But he failed to realise that it was actually the plain-clothed officer he was watching on the screen, according to details [...] Kurt Nimmo On the heels of Ron Paul’s South Carolina promise to continue forward with his quest to gain the Republican nomination and the presidency, Fox News has dredged up an yet another newsletter attributed to him in an effort to sabotage the Paul campaign. “Full of racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic statements, not to mention a variety of quack science and conspiracy theories, the newsletters have once again become an [...] |
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