- Disaster preparation World Bank approves $250 million disaster-related loan to Colombia -Colombia suffers from the highest rate of recurring natural disasters in Latin America; in the last forty years, disasters have caused $7.1 billion in losses; in the last thirty years, 10,000 people have died and more than 14 million have been impacted by floods and mudslides; the World Bank approved a $250 million development policy loan today to support natural disaster-related risk management in Colombia…..Read More
- Virus Kills Cancer By Hitching Ride On Blood Cells
- Scientists have discovered when a cancer-killing virus is injected in the bloodstream it hitches a ride on blood cells and evades attack from the immune system, allowing it to reach cancer tumors, and start destroying cancer cells. They suggest this means it may be possible to use promising “viral therapy” during routine outpatient sessions, like chemotherapy, to treat a wide range of cancers.
Read More
- The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University reminds Americans that hurricane preparedness lasts all season — from June to November — and that emergency preparedness is a year-round proposition, because emergencies do not have a season
- The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University reminds Americans that hurricane preparedness lasts all season — from June to November — and that emergency preparedness is a year-round proposition, because emergencies do not have a season.The NCDP offers these five critical actions to increase the ability of people to survive a disaster and reduce the effects of any disaster or emergency.Read More
- Hawaii: Avian Botulism Outbreak Kills At Least 67 Birds In KahuluiRSOE EDIS – “Wetland biologists and others involved in managing lands with associated wetlands have been notified by the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) of a recent avian botulism outbreak affecting waterbirds on Maui. In just over a week, 67 birds have been found dead at Kanaha Pond Wildlife Sanctuary in Kahului including Hawaiian Stilt, Hawaiian Coot, and Hawaiian Ducks of adult and juvenile stages. The paralytic disease has killed ……..Read MoreSource : http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com
- Significant sea-level rise in a 2-degree warming world Sea levels around the world can be expected to rise by several meters in coming centuries, if global warming carries on; even if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius, global-mean sea level could continue to rise, reaching between 1.5 and 4 meters above present-day levels by the year 2300…..Read More
- Mega-quake hotspots around the world - The 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed large sections of the capital, Port au Prince; the clock is ticking on many earthquake faults throughout the world, and a comprehensive new book points to places around the world that could face the fate of Port au Prince….Read More
- Fukushima disaster “a profoundly man-made disaster”: investigative commission - The commission investigating the Fukushima disaster of March 2011 concluded that although the combination of the tsunami and earthquake was unprecedented in its ferocity, the disaster was largely man-made because it was amplified by what came before it and what followed it; the disaster itself, the commission said, was sandwiched by practices and conduct which were the result of government-industry collusion and the worst conformist conventions of Japanese culture; the government, nuclear regulators, and Tepco, the plant operator, “betrayed the nation’s right to safety from nuclear accidents”…..Read More
- Date on 7 June – Man who injured himself on plaza remains hospitalized- he man who harmed himself with a knife on Rockefeller Plaza Thursday remains under medical care Friday at a New York hospital. A morning earlier, authorities took Pak Chong Mar into custody after hurting himself in front of a group of Plaza visitors. No one else was injured. Pak’s daughter said her father has a history of similar stress-induced outbursts, Natalie Morales reported on TODAY Friday…..Read more
- Date on 27 May- DHS: it is impossible to stop 3D plastic guns from getting past security checkpoints - A DHS intelligence bulletin starkly warns it may not be possible to stop 3D-printed guns from being made – or from getting past security checkpoints undetected. DHS notes that 3D-printed firearms can be made without serial numbers or unique identifiers, making ballistics testing difficult, and that advancements in technology and decreasing 3D printer costs will mean even more sophisticated printed guns will become easier to acquire…..Read more
- Sandy Dog Nannies helps take bite out of superstorm for displaced pets - Burlington, Vt., is a long way from New York and the Jersey Shore, but when Joan Shannon read about the storm ravaged victims of Hurricane Sandy and their struggles to care for their pets she knew she had to get involved. “I thought that there was probably a need for temporary shelter for the dogs,” she said, explaining her efforts were aimed as much at pet owners who found themselves in an unimaginable situation. Hundreds of families were left homeless, and unable to take their dogs with them were forced to leave their beloved pets behind in the unheated remnants of their houses. ……Read more
- Food security genetically engineered multi-toxin crops make insects insecticide-resistant - The popular new strategy of planting genetically engineered crops that make two or more toxins to fend off insect pests rests on assumptions that do not always apply, researchers have discovered. Their study helps explain why one major pest is evolving resistance much faster than predicted and offers ideas for more sustainable pest control…….Read more
- Growing number of universities want to fly drones over campus, report shows - As college students are finding themselves, are schools using drones to find them? Thirty-four colleges and universities applied for permission to fly unmanned surveillance drones over campuses across the country in 2012, according to records obtained by a privacy watchdog group. The schools cite plans for a wide array of scientific research, yet activists and privacy experts are nevertheless concerned about the high-flying spies. “I find it troubling that this is the first most students have heard of secret plans to fly military-grade spy machines high above their dorms, classrooms and quads,” Josiah Ryan, editor-in-chief of conservative education blog Campus Reform, told FoxNews.com…..Read more
- Proposed Utah law would bar the feds from regulating guns in the state - Responding to post-Sandy Hook initiatives to tighten gun regulations, lawmakers in twenty-five states are pushing bills which would give their states the sole right to regulate firearms within the state. Utah has now joined this group of states. In what promises to be an intriguing constitutional confrontation, lawmakers in Utah are pushing a bill which says that Utah alone, not the federal government, has the authority to regulate guns in the state……Read more
- DHS HQ cafeteria employee claims she was repeatedly raped on the job -A cafeteria employee claims she was sexually assaulted and raped several times at the cafeteria of the DHS headquarters building in Northwest Washington, D.C. The D.C. police is now investigating…..Read more
- Environmental Health and Safety - Environmental Health and Safety’s mission is to provide a safe environment for students, employees, faculty, and staff as well as patients and others visiting our facilities and to help ensure compliance with federal, state, and local codes and regulations, in accordance with the Boston UniversityStatement of Commitment to Environmental Health and Safety. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is comprised of Campus & Clinical Safety, Emergency Response Planning, Environmental & Waste Management,Medical Physics & Radiation Safety, and Research Safety. These five divisions provide a full range of environmental, health, and safety services to the Boston University and Boston Medical Center communities. …..Read more
- DHS to buy 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition -DHS is looking to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next four or five years — this comes to about five bullets for every person in the United States. The news was met in some conspiratorial quarters as an indication that the government is in an “arms race against the American people,” but the truth is more mundane: the rounds will be used for basic and advanced law enforcement training for federal law enforcement agencies supervised by DHS. The training will be conducted Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia and other facilities, which also offer firearms training to tens of thousands of federal law enforcement officers…..Read more
- Seattle mayor says no to drones - Seattle mayor Mike McGinn has shut down the Seattle Police Department’s drone program before it started. McGinn said the police need to stay focused on “community building.” The announcement came just one day after the city held a public hearing to discuss restrictions to be imposed on drone use by the police departments. Many citizens voiced their concerns about possible violations of privacy……Read More
|
| News By Others |
| 1.) Bunker Mentality: The booming business of DoomsdayAs the date the Mayans predicted the world will end nears, restless ‘Occupy’ hordes rise up and rogue regimes threaten the world with nuclear weapons, one thing is sure: The doomsday business is booming.From the society’s wealthiest and most powerful class to rural off-the-grid types, people are preparing for the worst, and sparing no expense on elaborate underground shelters, buying years’ worth of non-perishable foods and stockpiling fuel and ammunition.Read more |
| 2.) Woman attacked on LI surveillance video safePolice say a woman caught on surveillance video apparently being beaten and abducted last week at a Long Island train station has come forward and is safe.The video showed the woman being punched in the torso by a man who then follows her into the Ronkonkoma train station and drags her out. At one point he is seen shoving her and grabbing her by the hair.Read more |
| 3.) New York City janitor who killed would-be burglar won’t be chargedMeet the bravest custodian in Queens.Supermarket janitor Angel Candido grabbed a shotgun early yesterday and fatally blasted a burglar who tried to clean out the store in the middle of the night, cops said.Read more |
| 4.) 1 dead, 3 wounded after gunman opens fire at Texas courthouseAt least one person is dead and three others wounded after a gunman opened fire Wednesday at a Texas courthouseThe shooting happened at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont, Texas, about 80 miles east of Houston. A Beaumont police spokeswoman told Fox News that the alleged gunman was taken into custody after being shot by policeRead more |
| 5.) Tornado tears through Michigan townsA tornado ripped through a rural southeastern Michigan community Thursday, damaging or demolishing many homes, downing trees and power lines, sparking fires and flooding neighborhood roadsThe slow-moving storm was part of a system packing large hail, heavy rain and high winds. The touchdown was reported in the Dexter and Pinckney areas northwest of Ann Arbor, said Marc Breckenridge, director of Emergency Management for the county.Read more |
| 6.) Weather Service says US to get break from spring flooding, but not from warmth, droughtThe federal government’s spring weather forecast offers no respite from warmer weather, but the country should get a break from the spring flooding that’s hit the last four years.The National Weather Service’s outlook for spring, which arrived early with 577 warm temperature records broken Wednesday, predicts mostly warmer and drier-than-normal weather, except in the Northwest.Read more |
| 6.) ‘Looking to kill:’ 4 slain at French Jewish schoolTOULOUSE, France (AP) – A motorbike assailant opened fire with two handguns Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a girl. One witness described him as a man chasing small children and “looking to kill.”One of the guns he used also had been fired in two other deadly motorbike attacks in the area that targeted paratroopers of North African and French Caribbean origin, officials said.Read more |
| 7.) French standoff ends with suspect shot in the headTOULOUSE, France (AP) – Inspired by radical Islam and trained in Afghanistan, the gunman methodically killed French schoolchildren, a rabbi and paratroopers and faced down hundreds of police for 32 hours. Then he leapt out a window as he rained down gunfire and was fatally shot in the head.France will not be the same after Mohamed Merah, whose deeds and death Thursday could change how authorities track terrorists, determine whether French Muslims face new stigmas and even influence who becomes the next French president.Read more |
| 8.) 8 killed, including 6 kids, in W.Va. house fireCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Alisha Carter-Camp had a new job, a wedding to plan and a 26th birthday to celebrate with a family cookout and toasts to the birthday girl in a yard full of children. By the end of the night, she was among eight dead, including six children, in one of this West Virginia city’s deadliest house fires in decades.The blaze tore through the two-story home while the family slept early Saturday, hours after the last guest had left Carter-Camp’s party, authorities said. The dead children ranged from 18 months to 8. A seventh child, a 7-year-old boy, was hospitalized on life support.Read more |
| 9.) Quake hits central Chile; no reports of deathsSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Chile Sunday night, the strongest and longest that many people said they had felt since a huge quake devastated the area two years ago. Some people were injured by falling ceiling material, but there were no reports of major damage or deaths due to quake-related accidents.The quake struck at 7:30 p.m. about 16 miles (27 kilometers) north-northwest of Talca, a city of more than 200,000 people where residents said the shaking lasted about a minute.Read more |
| 10.) Emergency Survival KitAn emergency survival kit is a collection of supplies which have been prepared to aid in the survival of a disaster or emergency situation such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.A good emergency survival kit contains tools to provide the basic survival necessities such as shelter, food, water, and first aid. It this case we want to prepare a kit specialized for a zombie encounter.Read more |
| 11.) Who is Hafiz Saeed?India’s tormentor-in-chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, born in 1950, is the head of the Jama’at-ud-Da’wah, a charity organization that is widely considered to be a cover organization for Pakistan’s deadliest terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. He now carries a $10 million bounty on his head, after the US announced this reward for the capture or information leading to the capture of Saeed, making him one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.The US has $25 million on the head of Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of Qaida after the killing of Osama bin Laden, making him the most wanted terrorist in the world. Saeed is in the second rung – he joins the ranks of Mullah Omar and the Qaida chiefs of Iran and Iraq, all of whom carry a reward of $10 million.Read more |
| 12.) Cold War Missile Silo Becomes Doomsday-Ready Luxury HomesBuried deep underneath the Kansas prairie is an Atlas-F missile silo that one developer has filled with luxury condos he’s selling to wealthy people who want protection from what they imagine is a coming doomsday scenario.Want to prepare for the end of the world in style? A Kansas developer has just the nuclear missile silo — er, make that underground luxury condo — for you.Read more13.) The American Red Cross today (Wednesday) launched its official first aid app, putting free lifesaving information in the hands of smart phone users. The Red Cross says this app is the first in a series to be created by the organization The American Red Cross today (Wednesday) launched its official first aid app, putting free lifesaving information in the hands of smart phone users. The Red Cross says this app is the first in a series to be created by the organization. It is also the only first aid app created or endorsed by the American Red Cross for use on both the Android and iPhone platforms.The app gives instant access to information on how to handle the most common first aid situations, and includes videos and interactive quizzes……Read more14.)U.S. energy situation significantly improved The rhetoric used to discuss the U.S. energy situation does not reflect the new, and much more favorable, energy reality in which the U.S. now finds itself; the last four years have seen a turnaround in U.S. oil production, which has risen 25 percent since 2008 and could increase by 600,000 barrels per day this year; the U.S. net petroleum imports have fallen from 60 percent of total consumption in 2005 to 42 percent today; in 2011 the United States has seen the largest increase in oil production of any country outside of OPEC; significant increases in oil production in Canada and Brazil have significantly bolstered the position of the Western Hemisphere in the global oil production market shift…….Read More15) Church Attacks and Retaliation Rock NigeriaZARIA, Nigeria (Reuters) — Suicide car bombers attacked three churches in a northern Nigerian state on Sunday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens, and setting off retaliatory attacks by Christian youths who dragged Muslims from cars and killed them, officials and witnesses said.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, but the Islamist group Boko Haram has often attacked church services in Nigeria, which is split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims…….Read More16) New method uses gunshot residue to determine caliber, type of weapon used in crimeResearchers have developed a method to determine the caliber and type of weapon used in a crime by analyzing gunshot residue (GSR); using near-infrared (NIR) Raman micro spectroscopy and advanced statistics, the new technique may play a pivotal role in law enforcement cases and forensic investigations……Read More17) Supreme Court suggests Obama’s DREAM initiative is legal - On 15 June the Obama administration announced a new deportation policy, saying that it would defer deportation action against undocumented immigrants in several categories; the administration based its decision on the doctrine of “prosecutorial discretion”; critics charged that such deferment policy is illegal; the Court, in its decision on Arizona SB 1070, suggests the administration is right, saying: “A principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials”…Read More |
