February 2012
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U.S. water bills to triple
According to the American Water Works Association, Americans should expect their bills to double or triple to cover repairs just to keep their faucets pouring. Families can expect to pay at least $300-$550 more for water in taxes and fees just to keep their current systems operating. Add growth and improved systems, and that bill jumps to $900 for a family of three, nearly equal the amount of...
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Wiki Leaks claims Israel/Kurdish fighters...
Hacked emails report that Israeli commandos, in cooperation with Kurdish fighters, have destroyed Iranian nuclear installations. The group said that it had obtained over five million emails generated by the Stratfor headquarters. Including an email which claims “the Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago”..read more @ Haaretz
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Ex-cop robs bank for health benefits in prison
A former Columbus police officer who served as a Columbus policeman for 15 years admitted in court that he robbed a bank last year so he can get health benefits being in a federal prison. Pascucci served in the Marines, Army and Army Reserve before becoming a police officer in 1989…read more @ Daily mail
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How the U.S. Could Pressure North Korea Tomorrow
U.S. negotiators are heading into a second day of what have been dubbed “serious and substantial” talks with North Korean officials..fake greenbacks the U.S. Secret Service has dubbed “super dollars.” These ultra-counterfeits are light years beyond the weak facsimiles produced by most forgers, who use desktop printers. As an anti-counterfeiting investigator with Europol...
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35,000 Postal Service jobs at risk
The U.S. Postal Service announced on Thursday new plans to consolidate or close 223 mail processing plants, putting 35,000 jobs at stake starting in late May or June. Not all of the workers affected by the plant closings will lose their jobs. Many will be offered posts at other processing plants miles away or even in other states. Some will be urged to retire. The Postal Service says that it...
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Mall Crowd Riots Over Glow In The Dark Nikes
More than 100 sheriff’s deputies in riot gear broke up an out-of-control crowd waiting outside a mall to buy a limited edition Nike basketball shoe. Crowds began to gather outside a Foot Locker Wednesday night ahead of the shoe’s release but were initially kept a fair distance from the store entrance. At some point, however, one person ducked the cordon and broke for the store....
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Arab nations arming Syrian opposition
A number of Arab nations are supplying arms to the Syrian opposition. ”There will be increasingly capable opposition forces,” she said Thursday. Hillary Clinton - ”They will find somewhere, somehow the means to defend themselves, as well as begin offensive measures and the pressure will build on Russia and China. World opinion is not going to stand idly by.” - Turkish...
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Two U.S. Troops Shot Dead Over Koran Burning in...
An Afghan soldier shot dead two American soldiers , as the Taliban called for attacks on military bases and convoys in retaliation for the burning of copies of the Qur’an. The violence began when Afghan workers at the Bagram airbase discovered copies of the Qur’an among a pile of waste paper sent for incineration late on Monday evening, and pulled them from the flames…read more...
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CHINA PREPARING FOR SPACE WARFARE
In 2007 China anti-satellite missile test involved a modified DF-21 missile that destroyed a Chinese weather satellite. The blast created a debris field in space of some 10,000 pieces of space junk that could damage both manned and unmanned spacecraft. The successful ASAT test represented a new strategic capability for China. Analysts estimate that with as many as two-dozen ASAT missiles, China...
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US farmers enraged after Iraq stops buying US rice
Iraq imports most of its rice, about 1 million metric tons per year, making it a significant player in the global market. But in the past decade, about ten to fifteen percent came from the United States. Iraq has not bought any U.S. produced rice since late 2010, buying instead from Asia and South America. It also recently lowered its quality standards so that it would be able to buy rice from...
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Cost of Gas Jump 10 Cents During News Broadcast
As ABC News’ Cecilia Vega introduced her piece on high gas prices, the sign at the downtown Los Angeles gas station behind her showed the price of regular gas at $4.99 a gallon. However when the piece concluded nearly two minutes later the price of regular gas had jumped 10 cents to $5.09 a gallon…read more @ ABC News
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Data Mining: Target knows if you are pregnant
One Target employee I spoke to provided a hypothetical example. Take a fictional Target shopper named Jenny Ward, who is 23, lives in Atlanta and in March bought cocoa-butter lotion, a purse large enough to double as a diaper bag, zinc and magnesium supplements and a bright blue rug. There’s, say, an 87 percent chance that she’s pregnant and that her delivery date is sometime in late...
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Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations
Some Florida drivers are spending nearly $6 a gallon to fill up their gas tanks. According to GasBuddy.com, motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out at $5.99 a gallon for premium. It doesn’t get better at a Suncoast Energy station in Orlando, where drivers are paying $5.79 for a gallon of regular…read more @ CBS...
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At least 40 dead, 550 injured in Argentina train...
At least 550 people were injured when a train plowed into a platform at a Buenos Aires station Wednesday, an emergency official said. About 30 people remained trapped hours after the crash, emergency services director Alberto Crescenti said. Transportation Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi called the crash “very serious” and said there may be deaths…read more @ Alert Net
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Four killed, many wounded in Afghan Koran protests
Four people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests in Afghanistan which flared for a second day on Wednesday in several cities over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the country, officials said. The American Embassy said its staff were in “lockdown” and travel had been suspended as thousands of people expressed fury over...
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Alleged Iran Bombs Hidden in $27 Radio
An alleged Iranian hit squad used $27 portable radios to hide at least five bombs that Israeli and American authorities say they intended to use against Israeli targets in Bangkok, Thailand. According to authorities, a bomb exploded in the Bangkok house where Moradi and two other Iranians had been staying. After the blast, Moradi attempted to hail a cab. When the driver refused to pick him up, he...
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Large U.S. base in Afghanistan "BESIEGED"
Protesters firing petrol bombs and slingshots besieged the largest US-run military base in Afghanistan last night after the inadvertent burning of the Koran and other Islamic religious material during the disposal of rubbish at Bagram. The enraged crowd shouted “Death to Americans” and “Death to infidels” as guards at Bagram airbase, north of Kabul, responded by firing...
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Japan offers to enrich uranium for Iran
The Nikkei daily, without citing sources, reported that the proposal for Japan to enrich uranium for Iran was floated in December, with US approval, when Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili visited Tokyo. Japan, the only country to have been attacked with atomic bombs, has strongly supported efforts for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament…read more @ The New...
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UK government to demand access to all phone and...
British government is in the process of developing a scheme whereby all phone companies and broadband internet providers will be required to store customer transaction data for a year and hand it over to security services upon request.Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) is already being attacked by privacy advocates as offering a license for abuse and as raising the “Big...
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44 killed in Mexico prison riot; guards detained
A fierce rivalry between drug cartels likely fueled the fighting that killed 44 people Sunday inside the prison in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, state security spokesman Jorge Domene told reporters. Prisoners could have used the riot to engineer their breakout, Domene said Sunday. He did not say how prisoners inside acquired the clubs, stones and sharp objects they used in the fighting…read more @...
