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Rare beaked whale found dead near Byron Bay, Australia

Rare beaked whale washes up dead

A rare whale has been found washed up on the state's far north coast.

The Gray's Beaked whale was discovered on Seven Mile Beach, south of Byron Bay.

Lawrence Orel, from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, said whales which beach themselves are usually sick.

He said scientists will be keen to examine the skeleton.

"The beaked whales are quite rare," Mr Orel said.

"They're generally found in the deep ocean, so it's quite rare for them to be seen close to shore.

"But stranded beaked whales are of considerable interest to the science community, and this is possibly a Gray's Beaked whale, which is one of the more unusual species.

"The carcass will be buried and... all the organisms that live in the sand will proceed to do their thing.

"In about 18 months to two years time you end up with a nice clean skeleton which becomes very interesting and valuable to science."

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The 14m sperm whale carcass found on a South Wairarapa beach at Glenburn near Honeycomb Rock.

Workers from Ngati Kahungunu ki Wairarapa iwi yesterday recovered the bones and teeth of a 14m-long sperm whale found dead on a South Wairarapa coastal beach.

Iwi authority chief executive PJ Devonshire said the carcass of the whale - an adult male weighing about 48 tonnes - was discovered washed up and lying between rocks on a beach south of Glenburn near Honeycomb Rock a week ago Saturday.

A Department of Conservation ranger believed the animal had died of old age.

He said the DoC Honeycomb walkway extended along the stretch of coast where the whale was found and a group from the iwi had travelled to the location on Tuesday, securing and blessing the carcass in a ceremony during which the whale was also named Te Pani o te Moana - orphan of the ocean.

The name given to the whale also recalled the deaths over past weeks of several Maori elders including Masterton kaumatua Pani Himona, who died on January 25 this year, Ngati Porou leader Apirana Mahuika, who was farewelled at a tangi last week, and Kahungunu elder and Maori performing arts leader Tama Turanga Huata, who died on Wednesday.

"Tradition says we should name the whale. The name Pani describes an orphan and is also a word used for how you feel when you lose someone," he said.

"We have lost two senior elders nationally and Uncle Pani Himona here at home, and to have the whale come to us this way as well, the name is a connection for us all. It is symbolic of the passing of our elders."

Genburn Station owners John and Helen McFadzean had been alerted to the whale after fielding a call from a 77-year-old station guest who discovered the carcass a week ago Saturday while cycling a coastal route to nearby Pahau, Mrs McFadzean said.

The carcass was seen floating in waters off the coast a day earlier, she said, and the naming and blessing ceremony last week had drawn a small crowd of guests captivated by the spectacle.

Mr Devonshire said the recovery of taonga, or treasure, from the carcass of the whale included waiata and karakia - songs and prayer - and will precede meetings about the distribution and cultural uses of the "resources" across marae throughout the region.

"We will take the ribs and the jaw and try to process and utilise as much of the whale as we can. We will take as much as we can to use as resources among our people. Sperm whale teeth carry much prestige and the bones can be used for carving taonga that can be shared across the marae of the Wairarapa.

"We want to use this as a real learning opportunity for our people. It will be about learning how to process and work with the whale, and what cultural obligations do we have to the whale. That's from the first karakia and naming it to when we start to carve the bones, and remembering the stories of the whale from the past that remain with us."

The story of the dead bankers rolls forward.

In December 2014, Zero Hedge rounded up a list of 36 dead bankers who died recently under mysterious or odd circumstances, leaving only "riddles" and probing questions about their possible connections.

Researcher John Vibes has already rounded up 9 more dead bankers who've died as of January 2015.

Now, a bizarre Hollywood-style train collision with an SUV Mercedes sitting on the tracks leaves three more dead bankers, along with a pharmaceutical researcher and a well-known art curator.

Though it was a terrible accident, the vast majority of the estimated 400-700 passengers were fortunately not injured. Only five passengers died, and all, it seems, were noteworthy figures.

According to the initial investigations of the NTSB, which include witnesses at the scene, the driver exited the vehicle on the tracks to inspect it being hit by a crossing gate:

Reports so far show that 49-year-old Ellen Brody crossed onto the tracks, when the crossing gate slammed down on the back of her vehicle. Instead of pulling through the intersection though, she got out to inspect the back of her car. It was when she got back in her car and started to pull forward that she was struck by the passing train - going 58mph.

The crash led to the train being engulfed in flames after the electrified third rail basically incinerated the passenger cars. Loaded with hundreds of passengers, a reported 70 were injured and only five died, with the conductor and train operator among the survivors of the freak accident:

Hundreds of feet of electrified rail skewered the first two carriages of a New York commuter train in a collision with a car at a railroad crossing, a federal investigator said on Wednesday, describing the area's worst rail crash in decades.

Investigators were focused on why the car was stopped at the crossing near the suburb of White Plains north of New York City before the Metro-North train crashed into it during Tuesday evening's rush hour, pushing the vehicle about 1,000 feet down the line.

The rail broke into long pieces, penetrating the first train carriage as a fire broke out, apparently fueled by gasoline in the vehicle's fuel tank, gutted the rail car's interior, he said. At least one section of the electrified, or "third," rail also entered the second carriage near its ceiling.

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Five train passengers and the woman who was driving the Mercedes sport utility vehicle that was stuck on the tracks were killed. Investigators said they do not yet have an explanation for how the vehicle, which officials had earlier mistakenly identified as a Jeep, became stuck on the tracks.

So, who were the unfortunate victims of this horrific crash?

Out of the hundreds of passengers from the general public who could have had the misfortune of being among the five passengers killed from the train, it is seems that all five were prominent figures in New York society.

What are the odds? Bloomberg Business carried these obituaries:

Joseph Nadol, 42. Managing director at JPMorgan, who joined the Manhattan-based bank in 2001. Institutional Investor magazine in 2009 named him the best analyst covering the aerospace and defense-electronics industries. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.

Eric Vandercar, 53. Senior managing director in institutional sales and trading and head of municipal funding at Mesirow Financial, in New York. He had previously spent 27 years at Morgan Stanley. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.

Aditya Tomar, 41. JPMorgan vice president of technology supporting the bank's asset-management division. Before joining JPMorgan, he worked at Morgan Stanley, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and Barclays Capital. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.

Robert Dirks, 36. Scientist at D.E. Shaw Research, which creates computer models of organic molecules for use in drug development.A high school valedictorian, he received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.

Walter Liedtke, 69. Oversaw the collection and special exhibitions of European paintings at the Met Museum in Manhattan for the past 35 years. He was an authority on the works of Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.

In a further tragedy for the family of Aditya Tomar, the hospital initially mixed up his records and reported that Tomar was 'fine and undergoing x-rays,' giving them initial relief, when in fact, it turned out that he was deceased:

Reshma and her brother rushed to Westchester County Medical Center to see if Tomar was among the injured, where they received some good - but ultimately false - news.

'Somebody there, the security, said, "He's fine, he's undergoing X-rays,"' Dee said.

That person also told Reshma to go home and come back in the morning, but her brother remained suspicious that all was well.

'Something didn't add up in my son's mind, so he dropped his sister home and went back on his own,' Dee said. 'He was there all night trying to figure out if (Tomar) was actually in the hospital.'

The next morning, they realized that everyone at the hospital had been accounted for except Tomar, and Reshma submitted her husband's medical records to the Medical Examiner. Later that night they finally got confirmation that he was among the deceased.

A spokesman for Westchester Medical Center told the that they are looking into the incident.

That's a vice president and two managing directors for the big banks, with overlapping investment interests in defense contracting and technology.

In a dramatic and strange accident where the "front carriage of the train explode[d] into a fireball," we must ask questions about what is really behind this tragedy.

Really? What are the odds? A completely devastating train wreck, and none of those who lost their lives happened to have low level, average jobs?

Are bankers disappearing and dying to silence what they know? Is something else going on?

For more than a year, the leader of one the most notorious insurgent groups in Iraq was said to be a mysterious Iraqi named Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi.

As the titular head of the Islamic State in Iraq, an organization publicly backed by Al Qaeda, Baghdadi issued a steady stream of incendiary pronouncements. Despite claims by Iraqi officials that he had been killed in May, Baghdadi appeared to have persevered unscathed.

On Wednesday, a senior American military spokesman provided a new explanation for Baghdadi's ability to escape attack: He never existed.

Brigadier General Kevin Bergner, the chief American military spokesman, said the elusive Baghdadi was actually a fictional character whose audio-taped declarations were provided by an elderly actor named Abu Adullah al-Naima.

The ruse, Bergner said, was devised by Abu Ayub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, who was trying to mask the dominant role that foreigners play in that insurgent organization.

The ploy was to invent Baghdadi, a figure whose very name establishes his Iraqi pedigree, install him as the head of a front organization called the Islamic State of Iraq and then arrange for Masri to swear allegiance to him. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, sought to reinforce the deception by referring to Baghdadi in his video and Internet statements.

The evidence for the American assertions, Bergner announced at a news briefing, was provided by an Iraqi insurgent: Khalid Abdul Fatah Daud Mahmud al-Mashadani, who was said to have been captured by American forces in Mosul on July 4.

According to Bergner, Mashadani is the most senior Iraqi operative in Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. He got his start in the Ansar al-Sunna insurgent group before joining Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia more than two years ago, and became the group's "media emir" for all of Iraq. Bergner said that Mashadani was also an intermediary between Masri in Iraq and bin Laden and Zawahiri, whom the Americans assert support and guide their Iraqi affiliate.

"Mashadani confirms that al-Masri and the foreign leaders with whom he surrounds himself, not Iraqis, made the operational decisions" for Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Bergner said.

The struggle between the American military and Qaeda affiliate in Iraq is political as well as military. And one purpose of the briefing Wednesday seemed to be to rattle the 90 percent of the group's adherents who are believed to be Iraqi by suggesting that they are doing the bidding of foreigners.

An important element of the American strategy is to drive a wedge between Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, other insurgent groups and the Sunni population.

Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, for its part, has engaged in its own form of psychological warfare. The Islamic State of Iraq recently issued two videos that were said to show an attack in Diyala Province on an American Bradley vehicle with a roadside bomb, as well as an assault on an Iraqi military checkpoint.

The recent American operation to clear western Baquba, the provincial capital of Diyala, of Qaeda fighters was dubbed Arrowhead Ripper. In a statement, the Islamic State of Iraq claimed that "the arrows have been returned to the enemy like boomerangs," according to Site Institute, which monitors international terrorist groups.

Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and a Middle East expert, said that experts had long wondered whether Baghdadi actually existed. "There has been a question mark about this," he said.

Nonetheless, Riedel suggested that the disclosures made Wednesday might not be the final word on Baghdadi and the leaders of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. Even Mashadani's assertions, Riedel said, might be a cover story to protect a leader who does in fact exist.

"First, they say we have killed him," Riedel said, referring to the statements by some Iraqi government officials. "Then we heard him after his death and now they are saying he never existed. That suggests that our intelligence on Al Qaeda in Iraq is not what we want it to be."

American military spokesmen insist they have gotten to the truth on Baghdadi. Mashadani, they say, provided his account because he resented the role of foreign leaders in Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. They say he has not repudiated the organization.

While the American military says that senior Qaeda leaders in Pakistan provide guidance, general direction and support for Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, they did not provide any examples of a specific raid or operation that was ordered by Pakistan-based leaders of Al Qaeda.

An unclassified National Intelligence Estimate on terrorist threats to the United States homeland, which was made public in Washington on Tuesday, suggested that Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia draws support from Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan but also has some autonomy. It described Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia as "an affiliate."

"We assess that Al Qaeda will probably seek to leverage the contacts and capabilities of Al Qaeda in Iraq, its most visible and capable affiliate and the only one known to have expressed a desire to attack the homeland."

In the latest violence in Iraq, a series of roadside bombs exploded early Wednesday in separate areas of east Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding more than a dozen, the police said, according to The Associated Press. The U.S. military reported that three more American soldiers had died in action in the Iraqi capital.

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Kolinda Grabar Kitarović officially became Croatia’s fourth elected president after being inaugurated at a ceremony in St. Mark’s Square in Zagreb at noon on Sunday.

The inauguration ceremony for newly elected president of Croatia, who ran on HDZ - the Croatian Democratic Union's political party ticket, is scheduled for February 15. There is no reason for celebration. Croatia's brave Judge Calic issued guilty verdicts against HDZ party, former Prime Minister Sanader and four of his close allies on charges of corruption on March 11, 2014 . HDZ's appeal process may drag on until after the next parliamentary election, scheduled for the end of 2015.

According to BBC, "Prosecutors accused Sanader of "masterminding" a scheme to divert money from state-run firms and institutions during his two terms in office between 2003 to 2009, making illegal financial gains for the HDZ and himself." For Sanader, this was the second trial - he is already serving a 10-year jail sentence after being convicted for taking millions of dollars of bribes from energy company MOL and Hypo Alpe Adria Bank.

Croatia's president-elect is Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, former minister of foreign affairs and former assistant secretary general for public diplomacy at NATO. Grabar-Kitarovic has been one of the most loyal cadres for the HDZ since the early 90s. She publicly defended Prime Minister Sanader in 2008, at the time when he was embezzling millions of dollars. Grabar- Kitarovic allegedly attempted to cover-up a heroin scandal at the consulate in Los Angeles by discrediting and firing the whistleblower.

Called Croatia's Putin , current HDZ president Tomislav Karamarko is the former intelligence head, former interior minister (police and security) and prime minister hopeful in Croatia's next parliamentary elections. During Karamarko's intelligence and interior ministry stints, Croatia's official passports were given to Balkan criminals.

Tomislav Karamarko, was hand-picked by Mr. Sanader to immediately replace the Minister of Interior after the mafia-style assassinations of a lawyer's daughter and media leaders in the center of Zagreb in October 2008. The only result of the investigations under Mr. Karamarko's authority was that a homeless person was jailed for allegedly killing the lawyer's daughter. Tomislav Karamarko eventually appointed his people to police departments. Karamarko was called out for harassment by journalists and anti-corruption activists and condemned by Reporters Without Borders.

In a speech after the presidential election results were announced, Grabar-Kitarovic promised to continue the legacy of late President Tudjman. The authoritarian Tudjman proudly promoted and executed the idea of having some 200 Croatia's families own the entire economy. With his entourage of corrupt politicians in the HDZ party, Tudjman was the nation's first president to usher an independent Croatia based on cronyism and massive corrupt privatization deals. The US Embassy cable called it "corrupt, nationalist Tudjman era HDZ".

Tudjman set an example of how to suppress freedom of speech and media freedom which was successfully followed by subsequent administrations to date. The nation has become a dangerous environment for opposing voices, independent media leaders, whistleblowers and emerging political parties.

After 24 years of corrupt governments, over $17.5 billion in illicit financial outflows via crime, corruption and tax evasion (based on the GFI studies for the period 2001-2012) and larger amounts since 1991, impoverished, fearful and battered Croatian citizens desperately seek a fresh start. The nation needs leaders of integrity, brave enough to establish the rule of law, protect private property and create the framework for legal certainty.

However, conditions for a new start can only be created through international pressure led by strong rule of law nations.

International intervention required

When addressing the core problems of the weak rule of law state of Croatia, principled leaders of the West must be cautious about developments in this Balkan country:

1. Croatia lies on the Balkan Route, used by organized crime and terrorists, for arms, drugs, human and organ trafficking, and terrorism financing. Kalashnikovs from the Balkans were used in the Paris attacks of January 2015. Croatia was selling arms to Syria via Jordan in 2013. Croatian passports have been given to Balkan criminals.

2. The coexistence of organized crime, rampant political corruption and unreformed intelligence structures - combined with absence of independent law enforcement and judicial bodies (police, prosecution and courts) to enforce the law.

3. Rising Nationalism is Reminiscent of the 1990s.

Croatia joined NATO and the EU without fulfilling the rule of law criteria. Senior White House officials admitted in 2008 that in the case of Croatia's NATO accession - "there was a White House fatigue and no proper homework was done."

Illicit enrichment - politicians obstructing the Rule of Law and Independent Judiciary

For the past two decades , Croatia's two major political groupings have rotated power while politicians enriched themselves. While engaging in rampant corruption, politicians have blocked judicial reforms, interfered with the judiciary, failed to strengthen the rule of law, encouraged a dysfunctional economy, held fraudulent elections, and brought the government debt down to junk status.

Sasha Radović (75), retired colonel and anti-corruption activist, was arrested on November 17, 2011, the very day he announced his candidacy in the December 2011 elections. In his many books, Mr. Radovic had exposed political corruption and unexplained wealth of top state leaders, including then interior minister Karamarko and a military general Cermak. Extortion charges against Mr. Radović were brought by Ivan Cermak, a plumber turned Croatia's general, and alleged war-profiteer whose wealth, including a chain of 63 gas stations, has been investigated by journalists and anti-corruption activists but ignored by Croatia's authorities.

Former US Ambassador to Croatia, William Dale Montgomery was on the board of Cermak's company.

Croatia's fraudulent elections - maintaining the status quo

For over 20 yeas, both political blocks, led by center-right HDZ and left-leaning SDP, used fraudulent voter lists to cement the nation's daylight robbery and widespread political corruption.

Following 2011 parliamentary elections, Croatia's electoral fraud was brought up to Croatia's State Electorate Commission, Supreme Court, and raised by Brussels-based The Parliament, a Written Question to the European Commission by Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament from UK, and in BBC's live interview with Stefano Sannino, the European Commission's director general for enlargement. None of that rectified the fraudulent election results.

Croatia's current Minister of Administration, Arsen Bauk, finally admitted in May 2012 that in his country of just 4.2 million people, "over 1 million surplus voters" were on the electoral list in 2011 December's parliamentary elections. These illegal votes had a potential to determine more than 70 seats in Croatia's 151-seat parliamentary assembly.

Spread of nationalism

One of Tudjman's close allies and co-founder of HDZ, Branimir Glavas was convicted of war crimes in 2008, and unexpectedly released from jail in January 2015, after Croatia's constitutional court overturned the sentence . In less than one month of his freedom, Glavas was accused of inciting violence, threatened witnesses via Facebook with an image of hangings, and relayed extreme nationalist statements.

Croatia's electoral commission, presided by the president of Supreme Court Branko Hrvatin, approved Mr. Glavas' leading the HDSSB political party list in the 2011 parliamentary elections despite Glavas's serving his sentence from 2010 as a war criminal. Three members of HDSSB were reported for murder threats and a physical attack on a journalist. According to published reports, Mr. Glavas is alleged to have threatened a judge and journalists.

Strong rule of law nations must urgently address transnational organized crime in the Balkan region's mafia states including Croatia, and, help establish the rule of law and independent judiciary.

The US Congress has a responsibility to begin a review of Croatia and examine NATO's compromised accession process. On the EU front, elected representatives from member states have a fiduciary responsibility to freeze EU aid to Croatia until the glaring problem of billions of dollars in illicit financial outflows heading to Western financial institutions is addressed and the illicit wealth is confiscated.

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Amateur astronomers gazing at Mars have discovered gigantic plumes soaring more than 125 miles above the planet's surface, a phenomenon that so far defies explanation.

At least 18 sightings were reported during two 10-day periods in March and April 2012, when plumes appeared over an area known as Terra Cimmeria, located in Mars' southern hemisphere.

The plumes extended over 500- to 1,000 kilometers (311- to 621 miles) in both north-south and east-west directions and changed in appearance daily. They were detected as the sun breached Mars' horizon in the morning, but not when it set in the evening.

"Remarkably ... the features changed rapidly, their shapes going from double blob protrusions to pillars or finger-plume-like morphologies," scientists investigating the sightings wrote in a paper published in this week's .

Spacecraft and ground-based telescopes previously had seen clouds made of carbon dioxide and water ice crystals on Mars, but the clouds were typically layered and never rose above 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, from the planet's surface, the researchers noted.

Clouds of dust can be kicked up into the atmosphere during storms, but these max out at about 37 miles in altitude, they added.

The plumes could be some sort of very unusual aurora, 1,000 times brighter than anything seen on Earth, triggered by a very strong magnetic pocket in the planet's crust that drove solar wind particles out into the atmosphere.

Current understanding of Mars' atmosphere, however, leaves all explanations wanting.

"Our explanation of this plume as an aurora would require an immense energetic flux, which our calculations show are highly unrealistic," physicist Agustin Sanchez-Lavega, with the University of the Basque Country in Spain, wrote in an email to Discovery News.

"We favor the cloud scenario -- the condensation of water or carbon dioxide -- since the plume formed in the cold mornings, but we note for this to occur, a large drop in temperature is required at 200 km, something not foreseen by any atmospheric model. Therefore, very particular conditions occurred at that time in the area that currently we do not understand," he added

The first plume, spotted on March 12, 2012, appeared as a small protrusion in the morning day-night boundary of the Martian southern hemisphere, which was in early winter.

The plume grew over the next several days and between March 20 and March 21 was captured by at least 18 observers using small telescopes.

The phenomenon appeared for a second time over the same area for 10 days between April 6 and April 16, 2012.

"Analysis shows the extreme altitude of the plume top to be above 200 km (124 miles), never before observed on Mars, and reaching the ionosphere and exosphere," the researchers wrote.

More clues may come from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which arrived at Mars in September to study the planet's atmosphere.

"MAVEN has the ability to see this type of feature very clearly, if it's observing at the right place and the right time," lead scientist Bruce Jakosky, with the University of Colorado, told Discovery News.

"This type of feature must be very rare, to have been observed only once out of all of the time that telescopic observers and spacecraft have been observing Mars ... Frankly, I'm puzzled by the observations. I don't understand how material can get that high and stay there for so long. At those altitudes, molecules should be on ballistic trajectories and not colliding with anything, so a cloud should quickly collapse," Jakosky said.

Winds that high in the atmosphere also should quickly dissipate any clouds, he added. "I'm surprised that it lasted for something like 10 days. But the observations are pretty compelling."

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Authorities suspect that Jason Hendrix (pictured) may have killed three members of his family before being fatally shot by Baltimore police

A Kentucky teenager died in a shootout with Maryland police Saturday — three days after he allegedly murdered his mom, dad and little sister and fled the state in his parents' SUV.

Jason Hendrix — a faithful churchgoer and a high school ROTC cadet — died at the shootout scene Saturday, Baltimore County cops said.

Police in his hometown of Corbin, Ky., said the 16-year-old shot his beekeeper parents and cheerleader sister execution-style Wednesday, just hours before he attended a weekly church service.

Investigators have not determined a motive for the slayings, but said Jason Hendrix was angry at his parents for taking away his computer privileges days before the killings.

The Saturday chase started when Maryland state troopers tried to pull Jason Hendrix over for speeding, CBS Baltimore reported. He drove through Harford County and Baltimore County before he slammed his parents' green Honda Pilot into another car, police said.

When officer approached the SUV, Jason Hendrix started shooting. He injured one officer before the cops fired back, killing the teen.

After police identified the gunman, they asked police in Corbin, Ky., to check in on the teen's home.

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