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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Eight billion asteroids in the oort cloud?

© JPL/HorizonsWhen discovered, the object 1996 PW looked like an asteroid but had the elongated, 5,900-year-long orbit of an Oort Cloud comet. When a telescope atop Hawaii's Haleakala swept up a fast-moving object in August 1996, astronomers didn't know what to make of it. Designated 1996 PW, the little interloper had the highly elongated orbit of a comet that had ventured inward from the Oort Cloud, at the solar system's outermost fringe.But it...

Meteor sighted passing over Georgia, Southeast US

At least five reports of a meteor going overhead were received from Georgia Tuesday evening - and up to 10 reports came from neighboring states according to the American Meteor Society. The reports came from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia between 6:45 and 7 p.m. Tuesday. According to the reports, the fireball appeared blue to white to orange in color as it passed overhead.The meteor did not make a sound as it passed according...

Vengeful Israel destroys Jerusalem family's home for second time in two years

© Saeed Qaq / APA imagesKhaled al-Zeer at the site of his destroyed home in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on 26 August 2013. Israeli occupation forces have knocked down the home of Khaled al-Zeer and his family two times in as many years.The latest demolition occurred on 29 October, when Israeli authorities sent bulldozers to the small flat that Khaled, his wife Areej and their six daughters shared in the al-Abbasiyeh quarter...

The UN has a global depopulation agenda

In some areas of the world, purposely cutting off someone's family line is considered to be one of the most wicked things that you can possibly do. But that appears to be precisely what the United Nations is doing. Two UN organizations, the WHO and UNICEF, have just been caught red-handed administering "tetanus vaccines" laced with sterilizing agents to girls and women in Kenya. And as you will see below, this is not the first time that this has...

Australian prime minister Tony Abbott demands apology from Russia on MH17

© APTony Abbott and Vladimir Putin had a tense 15-minute meeting on the sidelines of the Apec summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday held a 15-minute private meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, at which the main issue was the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17. Without any conclusive evidence, Abbott has repeatedly accused Russia of being responsible for the tragedy. The brief discussion,...

Window washers rescued from a dangling scaffold at 1 World Trade Center

© James Kievom/New York Daily News Two trapped window washers dangled 68 floors above lower Manhattan on a scarily tilted 1 World Trade Center scaffold before a heroic sky-high Wednesday rescue.The two men were stuck on the shaky scaffolding for about 90 minutes before the rescuers carved a 4-foot-by-8-foot hole through a thick double window at the new skyscraper and hoisted the pair to safety."Both people were rescued, taken to Bellevue Hospital,...

4.8 earthquake in Kansas shakes up residents across Oklahoma

M4.8 - 13km S of Conway Springs, Kansas A large earthquake that originated in Kansas was felt by residents across Oklahoma, Wednesday afternoon.The 4.8 magnitude temblor rumbled at 3:40 p.m., eight miles to the south of Conway Springs, Kansas, or about 124 miles north of the Oklahoma City metro, at a depth of three miles.Several viewers called and wrote in to News 9 reporting to have felt the quake, some even as far south as Norman, Okla. So far...

Georgia day care worker arrested for kicking 20-month old toddler

© CBS Georgia woman Alexis Wilson-Britten was arrested after she reportedly kicked a 20-month-toddler at a Clayton County day care, which can be seen in surveillance footage of the event.Kids R Kids Day Care owner Robert Phelps said Wilson-Britten was scheduled to be terminated the day she reportedly kicked the toddler. Phelps noted that Wilson-Britten had taped a pacifier to a toddler's mouth to prevent her from crying in a previous incident.Phelps...

Musicians with heart: Peter Gabriel joins Stewart Copeland and Rick Allen in new album to benefit Palestinian charities

© AP/Jeff ChristensenPeter Gabriel Peter Gabriel, former The Police star Stewart Copeland and Def Leppard's Rick Allen are among the stars who have contributed to a new album to benefit Palestinian charities.Gabriel and Copeland collaborated on Across The River for the 2 Unite project, which will raise funds to support the surgical and medical teams of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and Project Peace...

BEST OF THE WEB: ISIS is the U.S.'s dream proxy army for fighting Assad

The corporate-financier funded and directed policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, has served as one of several prominent forums documenting and disseminating US foreign policy. It would host in part the architects of the so-called "surge" during the nearly decade-spanning US occupation of Iraq, as well as battle plans for waging a covert war against Iran now well under way.Part of this covert war against Iran involved the arming and backing...

BEST OF THE WEB: Tying it all together: Oil market manipulation, bombings of Syria and of Southeastern Ukraine aimed at undermining Russia

© Unknown Introduction: Why is the Ukrainian Government, which the U.S. supports, bombing the pro-Russian residents who live in Ukraine's own southeast?Why is the American Government, which aims to oust Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad, bombing his main enemy, ISIS?This report will document that both bombings are different parts of the same Obama-initiated business-operation, in which the American aristocracy, Saudi aristocracy, and Qatari aristocracy,...

SOTT FOCUS: World snapshot: Comets, chaos, and society in decline

© AFP Photo / ESARosetta's lander Philae (back view) Launched in 2004, the Rosetta spacecraft mission to rendezvous comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has just succeeded in landing its Philae module on the surface of the comet. After a last-minute glitch that temporarily had the lander failing to respond to signals from the European Space Agency's controllers, Philae came online. With the mission a success so far, researchers hope to find the building...
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