Young Man Beheaded On Greyhound Bus By Passenger – Canada
July 31, 2008 by admin
Filed under Moral Decay
A 40-year-old man is in custody in Manitoba after a young man was stabbed — and, witnesses said, decapitated — aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through the province overnight.
Police officers spent Thursday examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday.Police officers spent Thursday examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday. CBCThe RCMP would not confirm the reports of beheading, saying only that a stabbing took place around 8:30 p.m. CT on an eastbound Greyhound bus on the Trans-Canada Highway about 20 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie.
The suspect, believed to be from outside Manitoba, was arrested early Thursday morning after a standoff lasting several hours and remains in RCMP custody .
Charges have not yet been laid, and the suspect has not yet been interviewed, said RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Steve Colwell, adding that he could release no further information on the investigation.
The RCMP declined to identify either the suspect or the victim.
Thirty-seven people were aboard the bus en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton.
Colwell said the “brave” behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt.
“It’s not something that happens regularly on a bus,” he said. “You’re sitting there enjoying your trip and then all of a sudden somebody gets stabbed. I imagine it would be pretty traumatic … the way they acted was extraordinary.”
Olmert Resigns As Prime Minister of Israel
July 30, 2008 by admin
Filed under Stories Of Interest
Israels beleaguered prime minister, Ehud Olmert, threw his country and the Middle East into political turmoil last night when he announced he was resigning after months of mounting pressure over corruption allegations.
Olmert said he would step down in September after his Kadima party has chosen a new leader. The main candidates are Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister, a pragmatic centrist, and Shaul Mofaz, transport minister but a hawk on national security issues, including Irans nuclear ambitions and the ongoing, though faltering, negotiations with the Palestinians.
Last nights announcement came as a surprise but hardly a shock, given the accumulating weight of comment that he could not go on in the face of a slew of police and judicial inquiries.
“I will step aside properly in an honourable and responsible way, and afterwards I will prove my innocence,” Olmert told reporters from a podium outside his Jerusalem office. “I want to make it clear – I am proud to be a citizen of a country where the prime minister can be investigated like a regular citizen. It is the duty of the police to investigate, and the duty of the prosecution to instruct the police. The prime minister is not above the law.”
5.4 Earthquake Strikes Los Angeles
The Los Angeles area was struck by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake, shaking buildings as far away as San Diego. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
The quake, originally recorded as a 5.8 magnitude, hit today at 11:42 a.m. local time, 28 miles 46 kilometers east- southeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. The quake was 8.5 miles deep and was felt more than 100 miles away.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosas office has received no immediate reports of injuries or damage, said spokesman Jonathan Powell in an interview. The citys fire department is also reviewing the situation.
“Everything shook, said Noel Jaimes, 53, a real-estate broker who was working at his home in La Mirada, 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles, when the quake hit. “The walls were shaking, basically like if you put your hand on a piece of plywood and shake on it.
As of 12:29 p.m. local time, 30 aftershocks had been recorded, ranging from 1.3 to 3.8 in magnitude, according to the USGS Web site.
Christians Demand Removal Of Satanic 10 Commandments
July 28, 2008 by admin
Filed under Stories Of Interest
A Christian organization is pressuring the community of Elberton, Ga., to tear down a massive, granite monument that lists an alternative set of Ten Commandments that the organization labels satanic.
The monument, known as the Georgia Guidestones, was built under a cloud of mystery in 1980. It lists 10 commandments in eight different languages, including a call to establish a new world language, limit human population to 500 million and avoid being “a cancer on the Earth.”
“We have atheists and Satanists getting the Bible’s Ten Commandments removed from public property,” said Mark Dice, spokesman for the group The Resistance, “yet the satanic Georgia Guidestones have stood for decades, and nobody seems to care. Well, we do.”
New York Governor To Warn of Worst Economy In Decades
Gov. Paterson, convinced the state faces its worst fiscal crisis since the mid-1970s, will deliver the grim news in an unprecedented special address to New Yorkers as soon as tomorrow night, The Post has learned.
The governor’s address – which his aides hope will be televised by public and cable news stations – will say that plunging state revenues will force painful cuts in state services, necessitate a reduction in the state work force, possibly through layoffs, and require other difficult economic measures, source said.
Paterson is also expected to announce that he’s ordered state agencies to slash spending beyond the relatively modest 3.3 percent cuts he ordered in late spring.
Man Shot Churchgoers Over Liberal Views
An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal social policies, police said Monday.
Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV said a letter had been been recovered from the SUV of Jim D. Adkisson, 58, by investigators seeking clues about the motive behind the attack. Authorities said he was an apparent stranger to the Tennessee church where gunfire punctuated a children’s performance based on the musical “Annie.” Two people were killed and seven wounded Sunday.
“It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that and his stated hatred of the liberal movement,” Owen said at a news conference.
No children were hurt, but five people remained in serious or critical condition Monday. A burly usher who died is being hailed as a hero for shielding others from gunfire Sunday at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Witnesses said some of the men present tackled a man who pulled a shotgun from a guitar case before at least three blasts rang out.
Adkisson, who is charged with first-degree murder, remained jailed Monday under “close observation” on $1 million bail, authorities said.
McCain: If Elected, I’d Move US Embassy to Jerusalem
John McCain would move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem if he were elected president, the presumptive Republican nominee for president told CNN Friday.
In what many considered an indirect attempt to expose Sen. Barack Obama’s apparent fluctuation on the issue, McCain suggested the relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv as an affirmation of his own commitment to an “undivided Jerusalem.”
“Right away,” McCain said in the interview. “I’ve been committed to that proposition for years.”
Nevertheless, McCain has emphasized that the city’s final status is subject to negotiation despite his own position on the matter. It remains to be determined whether his promise to act in accordance with the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would come to fruition were he elected.
Obama has said that he would only consider moving the embassy once the Israelis and Palestinians come close to a final-status peace agreement.
President George W. Bush also committed to moving the embassy during his 2000 campaign, but failed to do so. Former president Bill Clinton repeatedly postponed the relocation during his time in office, as well. Both used the excuse that such a move would preempt Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and endanger US security interests in the Middle East.
Fears Major Earthquake Could Strike Northwest
A series of shallow earthquakes have been startling residents from Oregon to Idaho, and even as far way as Alaska.
In the Gem State the strongest shaking was felt just East of Pocatello.
The tremors, all of which are a 4.0 magnitude or less, have been occurring along the Blanco Fracture Zone off the Oregon Coast.
Emergency managers say the quakes are no cause for alarm but shouldn’t be handled with absolute complacency either.
“Future activity cannot be predicted, however people living anywhere in the Pacific Northwest could potentially experience a magnitude 5 or 6 earthquake. Planning is not a prediction but planning for the worst and hoping for the best is good advice in the disaster preparedness profession,” said Susan Reinertson, FEMA’s regional administrator.
Emergency managers say all americans should have a 72 hour disaster preparedness kit with food, water, prescription medication and first aid supplies in their homes.
Inevitable Flu Pandemic Will Kill 75,000 Britons and 50 million Worldwide
July 24, 2008 by admin
Filed under Featured, Stories Of Interest
Britain is facing an ‘inevitable’ and ‘devastating’ flu pandemic which will kill up to 75,000 people, a government committee revealed today.
The outbreak – most likely a strain of bird flu which could claim the lives of up to 50 million worldwide – will be on a scale not seen for decades.
The pandemic will require an ‘urgent’ response to prevent the rapid spread of infection, the powerful House of Lords Intergovernmental Organisations Committee warned.
They slammed Britain’s ‘poorly coordinated’ disease control systems, which are run by too many similar groups.
And the Lords also attacked the World Health Organisation (WHO) as ‘dysfunctional’ and lacking the ‘organisation and resources’ to curb a major outbreak.
The next pandemic will kill between two and 50 million people worldwide and a fair fraction of that in the UK, it said.
Echoing the report, the Government said: ‘While there has not been a pandemic since 1968, another one is inevitable.
‘Estimates are that the next pandemic will kill between two million and 50 million people and between 50,000 and 75,000 in the UK. Socio-economic disruption will be massive.’
Israeli intelligence: Iran Will Wait for Bush Exit
The Israeli intelligence community has reported its conclusion that Iran has decided to maintain restraint until the departure of U.S. President George Bush and that its allies hope for the election of Sen. Barack Obama.
The intelligence community has assessed that Iran and Syria would continue preparations for war with Israel and the United States but would seek to maintain regional calm until the new administration takes office in January 2009.
“They are unlikely to begin a war with Israel while President Bush is still in office,” Israeli military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin said.
Evidence of the US Banking System on the Brink of Collapse
1. Paulson appears on Face The Nation and says “Our banking system is a safe and a sound one.” If the banking system was safe and sound, everyone would know it (or at least think it). There would be no need to say it.
2. Paulson says the list of troubled banks “is a very manageable situation”. The reality is there are 90 banks on the list of problem banks. Indymac was not one of them until a month before it collapsed. How many other banks will magically appear on the list a month before they collapse?
Are Feds Stockpiling For Emergency Food Storage
He said a company official told him on the telephone when he discussed the status of his order that it was because the government had purchased massive quantities of products, leaving none for other customers.
That, however, was denied by Oregon Freeze Dry. In a website statement, the company confirmed it cannot assure supplying some items to customers.
“We regret to inform you Oregon Freeze Dry cannot satisfy all Mountain House #10 can orders and we have removed #10 cans from our website temporarily,” the company tells frustrated customers. “The reason for this is sales of #10 cans have continued to increase. OFD is allocating as much production capacity as possible to this market segment, but we must maintain capacity for our other market segments as well.”
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For a number of reasons, the demand for emergency food supplies has soared and suppliers are experiencing shortages and an increased backlog of orders. Some are already comparing the current demand for emergency food supplies to the run-up shortly before Y2k.
In the short term and possibly well into 2009, it will more than likely become increasingly difficult and expensive to obtain emergency, storable food for you and your family. If you are planning to acquire and /or supplement an emergency food storage program for your family, my advice would be to make those purchases sooner, rather than later.
As many of you know, we at The National Terror Alert highly recommend Nitro-Pak for all of your emergency preparedness needs including emergency storable foods.
Nitro-Pak is a primary supplier of Mountain House Foods and is filling orders however; as stated on the front page of their website, all Mountain House #10 can freeze-dried foods & units are going up August 1, 2008 by as much as 15%.
Astronaut Claims Alien Contact Cover-up
July 24, 2008 by admin
Filed under Featured, Stories Of Interest
Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell – a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission – has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions – but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as ‘little people who look strange to us.’
He said supposedly real-life ET’s were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Chillingly, he claimed our technology is “not nearly as sophisticated” as theirs and “had they been hostile”, he warned “we would be been gone by now”.
Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
“I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,” Dr Mitchell said.
“It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.
Report: Israeli Sources Say Russia To Supply New Iran Air Defenses
Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by the year’s end that could help fend off any preemptive strikes against its nuclear facilities, senior Israeli defense sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
The first delivery of the S-300 missile batteries was expected as soon as early September, one source said, though it could take six to 12 months for them to be deployed and operable – a possible reprieve for Israeli and American military planners.
Washington has led a diplomatic drive to deny Iran access to nuclear technologies with bomb-making potential, while hinting that force could be a last resort. Israel, whose warplanes have been training for long-range missions, has made similar threats.
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But the allies appear to differ on when Iran, which denies seeking atomic arms, might get the S-300. The most sophisticated version of the system can track 100 targets at once and fire on planes 120 km (75 miles) away.
Iran, which already has TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles from Russia, announced last December that an unspecified number of S-300s were on order. But Moscow denied there was any such deal.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has denied knowledge of the Russian delivery.
“Based on what I know, it’s highly unlikely that those air defense missiles would be in Iranian hands any time soon,” said Gates, responding in a July 9 briefing to a question about the S-300 – also known in the West as the SA-20.
Gates meant that Iran was a good number of months away from acquiring the system, a U.S. official said.
An Israeli defense official said Iran’s contract with Russia required that the S-300s be delivered by the end of 2008. A second source said first units would arrive in early September.
The official agreed with the assessments of independent experts that the S-300 would compound the challenges that Iran – whose nuclear sites are numerous, distant, and fortified – would already pose for any future air strike campaign by Israel.
