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Russian warplanes have carried out 82 sorties and hit 204 terrorist targets in Syria in past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Continue reading “Russian Jets Carried Out 82 Sorties, Hit 204 Terrorist Targets in Syria”
Sacramento Bee – by Christopher Bodeen, AP
BEIJING – Schools closed and rush-hour roads were much quieter than normal as Beijing invoked its first-ever red alert for smog Tuesday, closing many factories and imposing restrictions to keep half the city’s vehicles off the roads.
The alert in effect through Thursday – the most serious warning on a four-tier system adopted in 2013 – means authorities have forecast more than three consecutive days of severe smog.
Continue reading “Beijing schools close as city issues first smog red alert”
BUCHANAN – A malfunctioning roof fan caused a power failure for control rods at Indian Point Unit 2, leading to a temporary shutdown of the nuclear reactor, a company spokesman said Monday.
Unit 2, one of the two reactors at the Indian Point Energy Center, was manually shut down at about 5:20 p.m. Saturday after about 10 control rods “dropped” into the reactor core. The reactor is expected to resume its operation either Tuesday or Wednesday, said Jerry Nappi, spokesman for Entergy Corp., which owns and operates the Buchanan nuclear plant. The plant’s other reactor, Unit 3, keeps running. Continue reading “Malfunctioning fan caused Indian Pt. 2 shutdown”
Dec 3 Radiation from Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster has spread off North American shores and contamination is increasing at previously identified sites, although levels are still too low to threaten human or ocean life, scientists said on Thursday.
Tests of hundreds of samples of Pacific Ocean water confirmed that Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant continues to leak radioactive isotopes more than four years after its meltdown, said Ken Buesseler, marine radiochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Continue reading “Radiation from Japan nuclear disaster spreads off U.S. shores”
The coast of southern Chile has become a grave for 337 sei whales that were found beached in what scientists say is one of the biggest whale strandings ever recorded.
Biologist Vreni Haussermann told the Associated Press Tuesday that she made the discovery along with other scientists in June during an observation flight over fjords in Chile’s southern Patagonia region. Continue reading “337 whales dead in Chile in one of history’s biggest beachings”
A group of illegal immigrants is suing the state of Oregon to overturn a voter-approved initiative that denied them driver’s licenses.
The lawsuit, brought by five illegal immigrants, comes after Oregonians passed Measure 88 last year with a strong two-thirds majority. Thirty-five of Oregon’s 36 counties voted against licenses for undocumented residents, as did every congressional district in the state, most of which are represented by Democrats. Continue reading “Illegal immigrants sue Oregon over ballot measure denying licenses”
Courthouse News Service – by PHILIP A. JANQUART
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A former city councilman who won summary judgment after a police chief threatened to arrest him for criticizing a public official has settled with the police chief and the Northern California City of Cotati.
George Barich, who describes himself as a former newspaper editor, attended an April 2014 City Council meeting where he called city Planning Commissioner Neil Hancock a “liar,” to which Hancock retorted, “You’re the liar,” according to Barich’s January lawsuit in Federal Court. Continue reading “Police Chief & City Settle ‘Liar’ Lawsuit”
Superstation 95, November 25, 2015
An extreme spike in Beta and Gamma Radiation is affecting Phoenix, AZ today and slammed Coos Bay, OR two days ago; yet the media is silent.
According to the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center (NETC), a sudden and dramatic spike in Beta Radiation levels in Phoenix, Arizona is taking place today and folks are speculating it may be more fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant meltdown in Japan (2011), which wafts across the Pacific Ocean in plumes. Continue reading “Radiation Spike Hits Phoenix, AZ; Slams Coos Bay, OR”
CAIRO —Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a month-long state of emergency and city-wide curfew in the capital, Tunis, on Tuesday after a deadly blast ripped through a bus carrying security officers tasked with guarding the North African leader.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion, which occurred as the bus traversed one of Tunis’s busiest highways at rush hour and killed at least 12 people, officials said. Essebsi was not near the site of the explosion, authorities said. More than a dozen others were wounded, Tunisian media reported. Continue reading “Tunisian bus attack strikes presidential guard in heart of capital”
NBC News – by Pete Williams, October 14, 2015
The Justice Department has created a new position to put more emphasis on countering domestic terrorism.
The domestic terrorism counsel will assist federal prosecutors nationwide who are working on domestic terrorism cases, according to John Carlin, in charge of DOJ’s national security division. He says the counsel will “help shape our strategy and analyze legal gaps or enhancements required to ensure we can combat these threats.” Continue reading “DOJ Creates New Domestic Terror Position”
Environment and Public Works, July 21, 2015
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan, multi-year Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act would help modernize the nation’s infrastructure and transportation systems to better allow America to compete in the 21st century.
The DRIVE Act gives state and local government the certainty, flexibility and stability to better develop the country’s transportation and public transit infrastructure, while improving railroad and highway safety. Continue reading “DRIVE Act Modernizes America’s Infrastructure, Transportation System”
While key Western banks are artificially restraining gold prices to breathe life into the diluted and devalued dollar system, Russia, China and other emerging economies are involved in “the genial move” to establish an entirely different gold market, F. William Engdahl underscores.
Key central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve and Bank of England, and Western market players have long been accused of clandestine gold price manipulating aimed at preserving the dollar’s role “as world reserve currency primus,” American-German economic researcher and historian F. William Engdahl writes. Continue reading “Away From Dollar: Russia, China to Create Entirely Different Gold Market”
