Tag: russia
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violent protest shakes troubled london district after police shooting
‘panic on the streets of london, burn down the disco’: tottenham cars & bldgs ablaze as 26 cops hurt & 42 arrested* from voanews: Several British police officers were injured and a number of people arrested when rioting broke out late Saturday in a depressed district of London, Britain’s capital. A protest over the fatal…
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russia becomes a magnet for american fast-food chains
Earlier in his career, Christopher Wynne put his Russian expertise to work researching arms proliferation for the American government. Now he’s engaged in geopolitics of another sort: deploying American fast food for the emerging Russian middle class. update: latex glove found in australian late-night stir fry*
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7/28 Defcon: Black Ops, Blacklist, #FuckYouWashington
Murdoch’s Fox ran black ops dept, Fmr exec claims // British telecom ordered to blacklist Usenet search engine // Anonymous gets cyber tsar to resign // ISS to crash into the ocean in 2020 // China reportedly developing EMP weapons // Boeing’s millennium falcon floats using Nazi technology // DHS fears modified Stuxnet could attack…
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Touches Down, Ending An Era of Adventure In Space
She roared into the heavens a fortnight ago atop a column of fire, enthralling a million spectators as she set off on her final voyage. But the space shuttle Atlantis slipped quietly back to port on Thursday at the end of her five-million-mile journey, gently lowering the curtain on three extraordinary decades of adventure in…
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5 bushehr nuke plant experts die in russian plane crash
from cnbc: Russia’s top nuclear agency says that five experts involved in the construction of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant have died in Monday’s plane crash in northeastern Russia. Rosatom said Wednesday hat the five men were among 44 passengers of the Tu-134 plane that slammed into highway near the Petrozavodsk airport. It said the experts…
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Area 51 Loses Mystique for Some After Accusations of Hoax
Just the term “Area 51” sets UFO theorists trembling with excitement. This week, a book titled Area 51 enters the list at No. 27.
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corbett report: episode187 – crashes of convenience: kal 007
from corbett report: On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down by a Soviet fighter interceptor as it crossed through Soviet air space. But what was it doing so far off course, flying over Soviet military installations the day of a secret missile test? What happened to the bodies? And what does…
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all-female sect worships vladimir putin as paul the apostle
from telegraph: Vladimir Putin has become the object of veneration for a bizarre Russian all-female sect whose followers believe that the tough-talking prime minister is a reincarnation of the early Christian missionary Paul the Apostle. Members of the sect that has sprung up in a Russian village some 250 miles southeast of Moscow believe that…
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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: 25th Anniversary
On 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, an amusement park stands nearby in abandoned Prypiat, Ukraine as a monument to unrealized dreams. The park was scheduled to open May 1, 1986–five days too late–and no one ever got a chance to ride the ferris wheel.
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Weekly Weird News: Dead Frozen Two Foot Alien
It’s a 21st century “dead alien” video set to eclipse last century’s Roswell Alien Autopsy! A Daily Mail article reports how two walkers casually traversing, “the frozen wastes of Siberia,” stumble upon a dead alien–and whip out a video cam!
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50th Anniversary: First Man In Space
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted off aboard Vostok 1, on April 12, 1961, to become first man in space. The event proved a second political coup for the Soviet Union.
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First Shots Mark 150 Years Since Start of US Civil War
In the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday, about two dozen Union Army re-enactors raised a 33-star American flag over Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor.
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peace revolution: episode022 – the best enemies money can buy
thanks to tragedy & hope … subscribe to peace revolution! Episode022 notes/references/links Introduction Video & Invitation to the TragedyAndHope.com online community Definitions: M.I.R.V. missile system Cabal Polymath Eugenics Scientific Dictatorship Team B: Team B was a competitive analysis exercise commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1970s to analyze threats the Soviet Union posed…
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corbett report: episode181 – arab spring & world war iii
from corbett report: There has been much celebration about the “freedom fever” spreading across the middle east, but is there a larger agenda at play? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we examine the destabilization happening in these “people’s revolutions” and the steps toward confrontation with China and Russia. download episode181/subscribe the…
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3/24 Binge & Purge: Scares, Shares, Rallies, Allergies
Codex alimentarius & food irradiation in US // russia bans food from 6 japanese prefectures // store-brand food eating up market share // junk-food oxymoron: frito-lay tries all-natural chips