“They are specifically targeting the areas where international journalists are, to sow panic here. NATO has done all the heavy work. This is a NATO war. They heavily bombed cities west of [Tripoli], they’ve bombed all night, without even 10 seconds of stopping. They have bombed this entire […] Continue Reading…
“I have a feeling that the government is luring the rebels in, allowing them to have fun on Green Square and then very well counter-attacking them.”-Franklin Lamb, director of Americans for Middle East Peace
Russian media says early morning, August 22, Libyan governments tanks began rolling out of hiding places, targeting surprised rebels.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, has announced that Cairo recognizes the Libyan Transitional National Council (rebels) as a legitimate representative of Libya.
Not only does Egypt recognize the rebels as the government of Libya, but Egyptian officials have revealed that they have been supporting them from the beginning.
The Libyan embassy in Japan has replaced the all green flag with the flag of the rebels. Japanese media say the embassy staff reported that the government of Libya had changed.
The flag of the rebels is also the old flag of the Kingdom of Libya, which lasted from 1951-969. The Kingdom of Libya fell […] Continue Reading…
“In our opinion, the longer-term deficit reduction framework adopted as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) could undermine the already fragile economic recovery and complicate aspects of state and local government fiscal management.”-Gabriel Petek, S&P’s
Standard & Poor’s has already downgraded the credit rating of Nevada, New Jersey and […] Continue Reading…
“Whether you’re a street sweeper or queen, we just didn’t have a table or enough manpower in the kitchen at that time and our hands were tied.”-Nadine Schellenberger, restaurant Zum Gueldenen Stern
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf, and German-born Queen Silvia, were refused service at one of Germany’s oldest restaurants, the Zum Gueldenen Stern […] Continue Reading…
Japanese and California scientists are now reporting they were able to track the March 11 tsunami on radar. It was the first time a tsunami was observed on radar.
For the past ten years, scientists from California and Japan, have been using radar to track ocean currents. They discovered they could track large tsunamis as […] Continue Reading…
Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics published a study which showed the March 11, 9.0 quake in Japan hit the upper atmosphere as well.
Disturbances in the upper atmosphere, directly above the epicenter of the earthquake, were picked up by more than 1,000 GPS systems. The effect is called seismotraveling ionospheric disturbances, literally air bending.
“Whoever visits Facebook.com or uses a plug-in must expect that he or she will be tracked by the company for two years.”-Thilo Weichert, privacy commissioner
German officials, in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, have discovered that every time the Facebook ‘like’ button is clicked, it sends your private info back to several U.S. databases. This violates […] Continue Reading…