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Monthly archives for July, 2010
Parasail your Donkey: Owner on safe ground
Animal lovers around the world were stunned this week by footage of a parasailing donkey in southern Russia. An entrepreneur strapped the animal to a parachute and launched it into the sky as a publicity stunt. But despite accusations of animal cruelty, the man looks likely to escape punishment. RT’s Timofey Krasyuk investigates.
700 new planets discovered by NASA
NASA’s deep-space Kepler probe has found hundreds of new planets — many similar to earth — sparking new hope of life outside our solar system.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed Sunday that in six weeks of operation, the spacecraft has found five new solar systems in the Milky Way and identified more than 700 bodies that could be new planets.
NASA has so far formally announced only five new exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — but early data analysis indicates up to 140 of the 700 identified bodies are earth-like. That is, they are solid masses containing both land and water which could allow simple lifeforms to develop.
“The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way [which has more than 100 billion stars] will contain 100 million habitable planets, and soon we will be identifying the first of them,” Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a scientist on the Kepler Mission, told Fox News Sunday.
Chemtrail Tanker Video From Whistleblower Pilot at Cruising Altitude
Chemtrail Tanker Video From Whistleblower Pilot at Cruising Altitude
21 new cutoff age for booze, driving
TORONTO – Drivers aged 21 years and under will be required to maintain a zero blood alcohol level while behind the wheel as of Aug. 1, QMI Agency has learned.
The no-booze rule applies even if the driver has a full licence.
The change is part of a package of driver reforms first introduced in 2008 by the Dalton McGuinty government.
“Perhaps the most precious thing that we have in our society is our children, and that includes our older children,” McGuinty said when the changes were first announced.
“I think we owe it to our kids to take the kinds of measures, take the steps, that ensure that they will grow up safe.”
Currently, Ontario drivers with a G1 or G2 beginner’s licence must maintain a zero blood alcohol level.
British official says BP not part of Lockerbie release
The decision by Scottish authorities to release the only person convicted of the deadly 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was “wrong and misguided,” but there is no reason to believe that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was returned to Libya in exchange for lucrative oil deals, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a letter to U.S. officials released Saturday.
In his Thursday letter to Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Hague wrote that the decision was for Scotland alone to make, adding, “There is no evidence that corroborates in any way the allegation of BP’s involvement in the Scottish Executive’s entirely separate decision to release Mr. Megrahi on compassionate grounds in 2009, nor any suggestion that the Scottish Executive decided to release him on compassionate grounds in order to facilitate oil deals for BP.”
Alarms Were Disabled on Transocean’s Gulf Oil Rig
General alarms on Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig had been disabled for a year before it exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the biggest U.S. oil spill in history.
The alarms would’ve warned all crew members of a fire or a large amount of explosive gas and were connected to an emergency shutdown system, Mike Williams, chief electronics technician for Geneva-based Transocean, said at a U.S. Coast Guard and Interior Department joint investigation hearing today in Kenner, Louisiana.
Supervisors told him when he discovered the issue that “they didn’t want people woken up at 3 a.m. to false alarms,” Williams said.
The panel is investigating what caused the rig, which was leased to BP Plc, to explode on April 20 about 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana. The incident killed 11 workers. Today is the final day of a third round of hearings, which started in May. Another week of hearings has been scheduled in Houston next month.
G20 cops accused of sexual abuse
TORONTO – Sexual comments, threats and strip searches by male officers were among the allegations G20 detainees made against police Thursday.
Instead of making official complaints to police or the province’s Special Investigations Unit, the Toronto Community Mobilization Network (TCMN) announced that there will be an “independent people’s investigation” that will hear testimony from complainants before deciding how to proceed.
Some women have expressed interest in a class-action lawsuit, TCMN member Farrah Miranda told reporters.
Among the video statements played at the morning press conference was one by anti-G20 activist Lacy MacAuley in Washington, who alleged that after she was detained a Toronto Police officer “was using a variety of very, very gender-specific terms, very sexually charged terms.”
In another video, Amy Miller alleged police told her that “they were going to make sure that I was never gonna want to act as a journalist again by making sure that I would be repeatedly raped while I was in jail.”
A written statement from another woman identified as Alison Peters said: “I was roughed up by the cops, had my hair pulled, and was thrown forcefully to the ground. I was called a bitch, and my breasts were grabbed by by-standing cops as they dragged me across the pavement.
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“We were told to take our clothes off if we wanted to be taken seriously,” Peters said. “They made a joke about having a sexual threesome with me and a female officer.”
Cheech and Chong Slam Stephen Harper
From the Canadian Press: “Cheech and Chong have some blunt advice for Stephen Harper when it comes to Canada’s drug laws. The stoner comedy duo believe marijuana should be legalized and suggest Mr. Harper is out of step with the public will.”
China oil spill after pipe blast ‘worse than thought’
Some reports suggest windshave started blowing the oil back towards the shore
Efforts to clean up an oil slick continue in China, amid fears strong winds have dispersed the pollution more widely than previously been thought.
Shipments of oil from the north to the industrial belt in the south have been disrupted since the accident.
The oil spilled into the sea in North East China after two pipelines exploded on Friday night.
The environmental group Greenpeace says the spill is China’s worst in recent memory.
In the area around where the pipes caught fire, beaches have been polluted.
An official in the State Oceanic Administration has told Chinese official media that heavy winds on Monday broke up the spill and dispersed it more widely than had previously been reported.
An area of ocean covering 430 sq km is now polluted.
BP admits using Photoshop to exaggerate oil spill command centre activity
BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command centre in Houston.
The picture posted over the weekend showed workers monitoring a bank of 10 giant video screens displaying underwater images.
The spokesman Scott Dean said yesterday that three screens were blank in the original picture and a staff photographer used Photoshop software to add images.
Chinese police beat official’s wife by mistake
BEIJING – Plainclothes police severely beat the wife of a provincial official, mistaking her for one of many Chinese who petition government offices in the hope of redressing wrongs, the China Daily reported on Wednesday.
The case of mistaken identity has become a hot topic among Chinese Internet users, highlighting the abuse that China’s armies of petitioners routinely suffer at the hands of police and hired thugs who wish to silence them.
Six public security officers set on Chen Yulian, the wife of a provincial law enforcement officer, last month when she tried to enter her husband’s office building, which houses the Hubei provincial party headquarters, the China Daily said.
“This incident is a total misunderstanding,” the Communist Party chief of the district bureau explained, according the newspaper. “Our police officers never realized that they beat the wife of a senior leader.”
China’s leaders are obsessed with maintaining social stability and “building a harmonious society””has been their chief concern in the recent years.
Thousands of petitioners take their grievances to Beijing every day. Many of their complaints stem from land seizures, while others seek redress for lay-offs dating from massive bankruptcies in China’s state sector in the 1990s.
The men who beat Chen were later identified as public security officers from Wuhan, the provincial capital, who had been assigned to guard the office building and “subdue“ petitioners.
THERE IS NO AL QAEDA! Muammar Gaddafi
July 20, 2010 France 24 News
Does The President Have Authority To Assassinate Americans?
Does The President Have Authority To Assassinate Americans?
