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It sounds like a tale from a science fiction novel, but a team of Japanese engineers really is hoping to turn the moon into a giant solar panel.
Shimizu, a giant civil engineering and construction firm, plans to install a ‘solar belt’ around the moon’s equator.
To be built almost entirely by remote-controlled robots, the Luna Ring would run around the 6,800 mile lunar equator and be 248 miles in width.
Continue reading “Japanese firm plans 250-mile wide solar panel on the moon”
Huffington Post – by GILLIAN FLACCUS
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A former Marine who was awaiting trial in the deaths of six people, including four homeless men, died after ingesting Ajax in his jail cell, his lawyer said Friday.
Itzcoatl (ihts-KWAH’-tehl) Ocampo, 25, apparently accumulated the cleaning product over time while in custody, said his attorney, Michael Molfetta, who was briefed on the death. The incident raises serious questions about how well Orange County jail deputies were supervising Ocampo, who had mental health issues, Molfetta said. Continue reading “Suspect In Homeless Serial Killings Was Killed By Ajax: Lawyer”
A 29-year-old shopper was pepper sprayed and arrested Thursday in a New Jersey Walmart after arguing with a store manager about a TV and attacking an officer, police said.
Richard Ramos of Newark was charged with disorderly conduct, aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, according to Garfield police. Continue reading “Shopper Pepper Sprayed, Arrested in Argument Over TV at New Jersey Walmart”
Health Impact News Daily – by Brian Shilhavy
In the aftermath of one of the strongest storms to ever strike land, the most dangerous place for children in the Philippines to be right now could very well be the evacuation centers, or living near one.
This past week, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF began an aggressive program to vaccinate more than 500,000 children with the measles and polio vaccines in the typhoon affected areas of the Philippines. They have already vaccinated more than 30,000 children in Tacolban, one of the worst hit areas. Continue reading “No Polio in the Philippines Since 1993, But Mass Polio Vaccination Program Targeted for 500,000 Typhoon Victims Under Age 5”
A woman reportedly used some sort of a stun gun on a fellow shopper during a vicious Black Friday brawl at the Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia.
The incident, which was caught on video, occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Friday. Two women can be seen exchanging punches and wrestling on floor. Suddenly, one of the women pulls out what appears to be a stun gun to shock her foe. Continue reading “Shocking Video of Vicious Black Friday Brawl will Leave Many Wondering Which Direction our Society is Heading”
Here we go….the MSM Communists are finally bringing the burning question to light and easing it in like they always do just like we knew they would. Hear we go talking about it. Can’t we just talk about it? Trying to make Obama the Communist dictator for life. Expect to see more of this from other news outlets as time goes on.
The time has come to end presidential term limits, because continuing the restrictions on how long one can serve in the country’s highest office is bad for the United States, a university professor argued this week. Continue reading “Presidential term limits: necessary and right, or bad for democracy?”
Yahoo News – by CASSANDRA VINOGRAD
LONDON (AP) — A police helicopter crashed Friday night through the roof of a popular pub in Glasgow, sending injured revelers there to see a ska band fleeing through a cloud of dust in what witnesses called a scene of horror. Scotland’s leader warned that fatalities are likely.
Photos aired on local television showed what appeared to be the helicopter’s propeller sticking out of the top of the pub’s roof. Rescue workers swarmed the door of the pub and several fire trucks were on the scene. Continue reading “Helicopter crashes into Glasgow pub roof”
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after grazing the sun. Now, there is a sliver of hope that Comet ISON may have survived.
New images being analyzed Friday showed a streak of light moving away from the sun that some said could indicate it wasn’t game over just yet.
“It certainly appears as if there is an object there that is emitting material,” said Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Continue reading “Did Comet ISON survive? Scientists see tiny hope”
Meet the eight inspiring souls who say cannabis saved their lives.
If there weren’t already enough good reasons to legalize pot, the discovery that marijuana may have the medical potential to cure people from debilitating illnesses, as the following inspirational stories suggest, may prove to be the most convincing argument yet. Weed Geek reveals the heart-felt triumphs of those who claim medical marijuana miraculously saved their lives. Continue reading “8 Miraculous Medical Marijuana Survival Stories”
Prosecutors celebrated when a jury in 2010 convicted three New Orleans police officers for their roles in the post-Hurricane Katrina killing of Henry Glover and the ensuing elaborate cover-up, which included burning his body in an attempt to mask what investigators said was a bad shot by a rookie cop.
Then-U.S. Attorney Jim Letten called the jury’s verdict “a positive moment for the city.” New Orleans’ top FBI agent at the time said he convictions were one of his proudest accomplishments. Continue reading “Trial opens Monday for ex-NOPD officer charged with killing Henry Glover after Hurricane Katrina”
The secret back channel of negotiations between Iran and the United States, which led to this month’s interim deal in Geneva on Iran’s rogue nuclear program, has also seen a series of prisoner releases by both sides, which have played a central role in bridging the distance between the two nations, the Times of Israel has been told.
In the most dramatic of those releases, the US in April released a top Iranian scientist, Mojtaba Atarodi, who had been arrested in 2011 for attempting to acquire equipment that could be used for Iran’s military-nuclear programs. Continue reading “‘US freed top Iranian scientist as part of secret talks ahead of Geneva deal’”
We all know it’s coming and for some of us, it’s already here. Gun confiscations and invasions into our homes will happen and to deny it is like an ostrich putting its head in a hole in hopes of hiding from it.
I have taken some time to compile some excerpts from the book, Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare and Underground Operations by Major H. von Dach Bern in order to explain just one of the ways they will come and how to be on the lookout and prepare for it and, through careful analysis of it, possibly find your own way to counter it. Continue reading “How They Will Disarm Us and Search Our Homes”
Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen – once.
The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags. Continue reading “The Real Story of Thanksgiving”
Independent – by THAIR SHAIKH
CBS New York
The Blaze – by Jason Howerton
Yahoo News
AlterNet – by Jodie Gummow
NOLA – by Juliet Linderman
Times of Israel
Manataka – by Susan Bates 