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Chile
What the hell, planet earth! Chile was just slammed by a 7.2 aftershock, as inaugural ceremonies for right-wing billionaire president-elect Sebastián Piñera began in Valparaiso. Chile was devastated by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27.
US: Mississippi
Mississippi’s Itawamba County school district has cancelled a prom after Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student, asked permission to bring [...]
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Large Hadron Collider “to shut down for a year”
London Telegraph
Dr Steve Myers, a director of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which built the collider, said the machine will close at the end of a 2011.
The collider is expected to reach world record power later this month at 7 trillion electron volts (TeV) [...]
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Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has changed his mind on the national anthem.
It’s just fine the way it is.
Two days after Harper, in the speech from the throne, said his government would review the wording of the English version of O Canada, with an eye toward making it “gender neutral,” the idea was abruptly shelved.
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Chile
Rescuers searched for survivors Sunday a day after one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history rocked Chile, killing more than 700 people while leaving untold numbers missing and 2 million displaced, wounded or otherwise affected.
The death toll jumped Sunday to 708, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said, nearly doubling as rescue crews reached remote and [...]
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Pacific Region
Tsunami warning cancelled: Expert says Hawaii ‘dodged a bullet’
Initial predictions may have overestimated tsunami size
Experts say tsunami becoming more powerful as it hits
Chile
Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday as rescuers battled to find survivors of a huge earthquake that shattered roads and airports and triggered a tsunami across the Pacific.
One of the [...]
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1997 DoD Briefing: ‘Others’ can set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely using electromagnetic waves
–By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 28 Feb 2010
DoD News Briefing
Presenter: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen April 28, 1997 8:45 AM EDT
DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Q: Let me ask you specifically about last week’s scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with [...]
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X-Files Axed: UFO Reports To Be Destroyed
Huw Borland, Sky News Online
The Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo has revealed.
Britain’s official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December.
Since then, reports of strange sights in the skies sent to [...]
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Chile
A devastating magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and spawning a tsunami that threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean — roughly a quarter of the globe.
Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant. It was the strongest earthquake to hit the country in 50 [...]
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Post-Katrina Shootings by Police Get Federal Attention
A.C. Thompson and Laura Maggi and Brendan McCarthy, ProPublica
20 Feb 2010
Federal agents have broadened their investigation of the New Orleans Police Department and are now looking into three post-Katrina police shootings detailed in a news series published by ProPublica, The Times-Picayune and the PBS series “Frontline” in December.
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Brain scan can read people’s thoughts: researchers