Month: September 2011

News

25 Year Old Florida Woman Pipe Bombs Drug Dealer Who Ripped Off Her Mother.

Lisa Marie Milligan, 50, and her daughter, Cassondra Marie Rassi, 25, faced charges in Florida for planting a pipe bomb in the car of their drug dealer who had ripped them off of $400 in a recent drug deal gone sour. The mother-daughter team enlisted the help of 24-year old John Jenkins in building the […]

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Science & Technology

Japan to Build High Speed MagLev Train.

After a long time spent in R&D, Japan is going to build a high speed magnetic levitation train between the cities of Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka. MagLev trains can travel at over three hundred miles per hour and would cut an hour and twenty minutes out of the travel time between Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s […]

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Italy’s Sovereign Debt Rating Cut by S&P, Calls for Berlusconi to Resign.

Not that this is shocking news to anyone who has been following the story of Italy’s sovereign debt crisis, but always reliable US firm Standard and Poor’s has cut Italy’s debt rating on fears that its economy will slow, thus hampering its ability to effectively repay its debts. The cut is from A+ to A. […]

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Middle Eastern countries increase spending on social programs in wake of unrest in neighboring states.

A report from FuelFix.com states that Middle Eastern nations are going to increase their spending on social programs in the wake of unrest in the region in order to quell or stave off potential dissent. With oil prices at record highs for an extended period of time, Gulf States look to make $1 trillion dollars […]

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News

Middle Eastern countries increase spending on social programs in wake of unrest in neighboring states.

A report from FuelFix.com states that Middle Eastern nations are going to increase their spending on social programs in the wake of unrest in the region in order to quell or stave off potential dissent. With oil prices at record highs for an extended period of time, Gulf States look to make $1 trillion dollars […]

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Science & Technology

David Attenborough calls for ban on teaching creationism in UK schools.

Joining with prominent atheist Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough has called for a ban on the teaching of creationism in public schools in the UK. Creationism posits that an intelligent creator, or God, created the universe and all that is contained therein as recounted in the biblical accounts of the universe’s origins. Anti-scientific and quite unproven, […]

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News

English Speaking Boy Emerges from German Forest After 5 years.

In a bizarre story out of Germany, an English speaking young boy emerged from years of living in the German wilderness after having spent the entirety of that time with his father. His German is limited but he does speak English but what is most bizarre is his tale of he and his father living […]

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News

The Atlanta Journal Constitution Reports on Arrest of Disabled Woman by Officer with Penchant for Arresting Anyone.

Who knows really what to make of this story other than, yet again, a public agency is going to have to part with a great deal of money to make up for one bad apple’s misbehavior. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that 40-year old disabled woman Shequita Walker was manhandled by an officer for simply affirming […]

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News

Netflix and Qwikster: What a Mess!

Got an interesting email in my inbox this morning from Netflix explaining their decision to split the company’s services into two, namely Qwikster for DVDs-by-mail and Netflix for streaming. Do what? That’s right. The solution to the problem of a 60% price increase is to split the company into two distinct brands: one with movies […]

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North Korea News Today

North Korean Assassination Plot Foiled in South Korea, Activist Park Sang-hak alive, well, and protesting like hell.

An ex-commando North Korean assassin by the name of Ahn has been foiled in his attempt to poison anti-North Korean activist Park Sang-hak in South Korea. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service is credited with saving Park Sang-hak from the assassination plot. Chairman of the Freedom Fighters of North Korea, Park is an outspoken and vehement […]

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