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Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Taiwan TransAsia plane with 53 passengers crash-lands in Taipei river

O_O - Purported dashcam pics of the crash, via@Missxoxo168.#GE235#TransAsia http://bit.ly/1xcPL8zA Taiwanese commercial flight with 53 passengers aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in the island's capital of Taipei on Wednesday morning.Taiwan's Central News Agency said at least 10 people were being taken to safety after the incident but gave no immediate information about the other passengers and crew aboard the...

Fireball meteor captured on camera over York, UK

© The York Press, UKFireball meteor captured on camera over York. York residents watched in amazement as they saw a fireball fall from the skies this morning.Bishopthorpe mum Chantelle Byford captured this photograph of what is presumed to be a meteor, at 7.43am.She posted it on Facebook, in the York Past and Present Group, prompting an excited response. © Facebook Snap Chantelle told : "My 9-year-old daughter said there was a ball of fire in the...

Little oligarch gone wild - Conrad Hilton arrested for allegedly acting erratically on plane

"If you wanna square up to me bro, then bring it and I will f*cking fight you," he allegedly said as well as, "I am going to f*cking kill you. I will f*cking rip through you," and "I will f*cking own anyone on this flight; they are f*cking peasants." "I could get you all fired in 5 minutes," he reportedly said while grabbing a flight attendant's shirt at one point during the incident. "I know your boss! My father will pay this out. He has done it...

Another Conspiracy Theory Becomes Fact: The Entire Oil Collapse Is All About Crushing Russian Control Over Syria

While the markets are still debating whether the price of oil is more impacted by the excess pumping of crude here, or the lack of demand there, or if it is all just a mechanical squeeze by momentum-chasing HFT algos who also know to buy in the milliseconds before 2:30pm, we bring readers' attention back to what several months ago was debunked as a deep conspiracy theory.Back then we wrote about a certain visit by John Kerry to Saudi Arabia, on September...

Group promoting peace and love labeled as terrorists, surveilled by DHS and police

© Free Thought ProjectRainbow gathering Bosnia, 2007. Missoula, Montana - According to the Missoula Police Department, peace and love are extremist views, and promoting these ideas could be a possible sign of terrorist activity.The police department received a Department of Homeland Security grant of $254,930 last week, to assist them in fighting the terrorist threat. That threat was apparently posed by "the Rainbow Family," a large hippy gathering...

US stores sell mislabeled herbal supplements

© NY AG's office Buffalo, New York - New York State wants certain herbal supplements pulled from store shelves. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said four major retailers sell supplements that have contaminants not identified on ingredient labels.Schneiderman's office said mislabeled consumer products are posing unacceptable health hazards. They are calling on GNC, Target, Walgreens and Walmart to make some changes.DNA tests revealed, overall,...

Stay or stray? Stats hint at different sexual styles

© chaddlin/iStockphotoPinky promise: The longer your ring finger is compared to your index finger, the higher statistical likelihood of promiscuity. Scientists say they have found the first evidence to back theories that people fall into two broad categories -- promiscuity or faithfulness -- when it comes to sex.Why humans seem to be an exception among mammals on the matter of sexual relationships has long been a puzzle.Other mammalian species are...

BEST OF THE WEB: It's all a spectacle: Reality TV teaches acceptance of the police state

© Drunkenclownclothing.com "Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes,...

'Pineapple Express' organizing for heavy rain in California - as much as 20 inches in some areas

WUWT contributor Dr. Ryan Maue writes on his Twitter feed:Can't ask for better setup for enormous rainfall totals over NorCal & now linto Bay Area in 5+ daysLooking at the model output below, I tend to agree, if the pattern holds. It sets up Northern California for the perfect orographic lifting enhancement in the Sierra Nevada mountain range that will not only provide a bounty of liquid precipitation, but a significant boost to the well below...

"Internet of things" and "Smart grid" trojan horse for further erosion of privacy

The "Internet of Things" (IoT) and Smart Grid technologies will together be aggressively integrated into the developed world's socioeconomic fabric with little-if-any public or governmental oversight. This is the overall opinion of a new report by the Federal Trade Commission, which has announced a series of "recommendations" to major utility companies and transnational corporations heavily invested in the IoT and Smart Grid, suggesting that such...

The Brookings Institution, increased firebombing in E. Ukraine, and the resonances of Nazi Germany

IntroductionBrookings Institution has now issued a call for us to finance more firebombings, clusterbombings, and other support to the ethnic cleansing, which has been going on since Ukraine's coup - the ethnic cleansing that's occurring in the region of Ukraine's southeast that's called "Donbass" (which is the Ukrainian area shown in dark purple on this map, the map of the election results in Ukraine's last nationwide Presidential election before...

How cell phone radiation exposure affects the blood

Blood is the essence of life. It is useful to examine the blood under a microscope to look for any changes in reaction to a stressor. In this exploratory study, ten human subjects were exposed to a cell phone radiation stressor. Their blood was examined under a dark-field microscope to look for changes, if any, from the cell phone microwave frequency. We also investigated whether there might be a protective effect on the blood from consuming the...
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