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Sunday, May 22, 2011

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  • Reopening the case file: NASA UFOs (85 flags) - 1 day agoBefore we begin I know the STS088 Mission images/video have been posted/presented here at ATS a few times. I thought it would be good idea to dust off the case file and have a fresh...
  • Iran Attack Imminent With Accusation of 9/11 Role (72 flags) - 1 day agoNEW YORK: Two defectors from Irans intelligence service have testified that Iranian officials knew in advance about the attacks of September 11, 2001, says a US court filing...
  • I probably should have taken this weekend off (54 flags) - 1 day agoNot sure if this is the right place or not but here it goes. I am a paramedic in norhtern MN and around here there are lots of religious people. So far tonight I have been on 4 people...
  • I hear you. After what we we have seen so far we are asking the majority of our roster to be on standby for the rest of the weekend and the hospital has staff on stand by in case it gets really busy. Its weird cause we were talking about the potential for this happening but it was kind of in a joking way. We had heard the stories about people selling off their stuff and other odd things from other parts of the country but of course we all thought that nothing bad or crazy could happen in our little town out here. Boy were we wrong. I am supposed to be off now til noon tomorow so hopefully i wont get called in before then.

    Sadly i am so wide awake right now that i couldnt sleep if i wanted too and i just have a bad feeling that i will be gettin no sleep tomorow night and probably will not be able to be done at midnight. I am kind of curious to see if there are other ATS members who are in emergency services if they have any out of the ordinary stuff going on with the people in there community/
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  • Radio Telescopes Capture Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets (53 flags) - 22 hours ago
  • Family Facing $4 Million in Fines for Selling Bunnies (39 flags) - 23 hours agoI share details of another hare-raising story from the Show-Me State: John Dollarhite and his wife Judy of tiny Nixa, Mo., have been told by the USDA that, by Monday, they must...


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  • US 'would repeat Bin Laden raid' - 3 hours agoPresident Obama tells the BBC he would be prepared to authorise another raid inside Pakistan against al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders.
  • North Sudan seizure 'act of war' - 3 hours agoSouth Sudan denounces the takeover of the disputed border town of Abyei by Northern forces as a "declaration of war".
  • Volcano halts Icelandic flights - 47 minutes agoA local flight ban is in force after the eruption of Iceland's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, sends a plume of smoke 20km into the sky.
  • Italian toddler left in car dies - 23 minutes agoA toddler in Italy dies after she was left in a car in the sun by her father who had forgotten to drop her off at day care.
  • Bronze Age battle site unearthed - 9 hours agoFractured human remains found on a German river bank could provide the first compelling evidence of a major Bronze Age battle.

  • Children injured at garden event - 1 hour agoThree children are taken to hospital after an inflatable slide topples over at a garden show in Kent.
  • 'New identity' of murder suspect - 4 hours agoPolice investigating the Ding family murders in Northampton believe key suspect Anxiang Du may have changed his identity or changed his appearance.
  • Tiger alert police hunt toy owner - 3 hours agoPolice attempt to trace the owner of a life-sized tiger toy which sparked a major police alert in Hampshire over fears a real animal was on the loose.
  • Man killed by hit-and-run driver - 11 hours agoPolice are searching for a driver who sped off after fatally injuring a pedestrian in north London.
  • NHS savings put 115 jobs at risk - 5 hours agoEpsom and St Helier NHS trust sets out savings plans that could see 115 jobs lost including 26 doctors.

  • Kindle Recommendation - 1 day agoIn the spirit of 99-cent books on Kindle, I found an author on Kindle named John Locke , who has written about 6 books about his assassin-protagonist Donovan Creed (he also wrote a western, of all thi...
  • What Are You Doing After the Rapture? I’m Going to DisneyWorld - 1 day agoApparently, certain religious prognosticators are forecasting sunny weather with a chance of rapture this Saturday.  I have decided to enjoy the beginning of the end with my daughter at DisneyWorld.  ...
  • Israel - 1 day agoI don’t write about the Middle East much because its a big muddle that requires a lot more knowledge than I have to comment on seriously. I will say this about Israel, though:  I too would love to s...
  • When Real Estate Prices Rise… - 1 day ago… people can seek out some pretty amazing spaces to do business.  Not sure OSHA would be hip to this. Via Carpe Diem Update: Substituted a video I thought was better.
  • Another Problem With TSA Body Scanners - 2 days agoI can’t go anywhere without analyzing operations and workflow — there used to be a bagel store near my house whose work flow was so awful and inefficient it almost caused me physical pain just to be i...

  • History of Magic - 11 hours agoThis show will trace the development of entertainment magic throughout the world, from its earliest roots in religious ritual and tribal shamanism to today’s international stars of Las Vegas and telev...
  • All God’s Children - 23 hours agoThrough the eyes of three families, All God’s Children tells the personal story of the first boarding school for children of missionaries to be investigated for abuse at the hands of the parents’ miss...
  • Coelacanth: The Fish That Time Forgot - 1 day agoDocumentary about the Coelacanth, a prehistoric bony fish believed to have been long extinct until one was caught in 1938 off the southern coast of Africa. No trace was found again until May 2000 when...
  • God Is American - 1 day agoDuring WW II, the US navy used the island in Southern Pacific to build a military base and when the islanders met the American soldiers it was a tremendous cultural shock. The islanders have believed ...
  • What Darwin Didn’t Know - 2 days agoThe theory of evolution by natural selection is now scientific orthodoxy, but when it was unveiled it caused a storm of controversy, from fellow scientists as well as religious people. They criticized...

  • US drone strikes return to Pakistan with a vengeance as resistance grows - 1 day agoAfter something of a lull, US drone strikes have returned with a vengeance to Pakistan over the past two weeks, the latest of which, killed six  people this afternoon .  In addition strikes have taken...
  • British drones over Afghanistan to be piloted from UK - 1 week agoSTOP PRESS The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced today that it is forming a second, RAF drones squadron to be based at RAF Waddington in Lincs.  RAF pilots will control the UKs armed Reaper...
  • We mustn’t ignore the fact that British drones kill too - 1 week agoThis is my comment piece published in today’s Guardian  Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, is right to question the morality and legality of US drone strikes in Pakistan ...
  • Drone Strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, Proliferation Elsewhere - 2 weeks agoA US drone strike in Yemen on Thursday (5th May), was an attempt to assassinate US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , said to be head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.  Two Saudi brothers were killed i...
  • Drone Laws - 2 weeks agoAn article by two senior MoD scientists in an obscure US military journal suggests that while the UK military says it has no intention of developing a fully autonomous armed drone, background research...


  • Papal call to the Space Station - 1 day agoIt was a first for the crew of the International Space Station: a papal call. His Holiness Benedict XVI talked with the astronauts in orbit for about 20 minutes on Saturday afternoon in an event webca...
  • Ariane 5’s third launch of 2011 - 1 day agoAn Ariane 5 launcher lifted off this evening from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, ST-2 and GSAT-8, into their planned transfer orbits. Fl...
  • Papal call to the Space Station - 2 days agoESA PR 15 2011 - His Holiness the Pope will talk with the astronauts aboard the International Space Station from the Vatican Library on Saturday, 21 May. The inflight call will take place at 13:11 CES...
  • AMS: ready to discover the particle universe - 3 days agoThe largest and most complex scientific instrument yet to be fitted to the International Space Station was installed today. Taken into space by the Space Shuttle, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer will ...
  • Mapping the deadly mosquito - 4 days agoESA is helping to take the bite out of mosquitoes and their deadly diseases by tracking their distribution and habitat via observation satellites, satnav, and mobile communications.

TODAY - May 22, 2011



  • Cosmic ray space experiment is "working perfectly" - 1 day agoA direct search for realms of the universe made entirely of antimatter has begun, with the installation of a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station. The instrument has been ...
  • UK Royal Society elects new fellows - 2 days agoLondon’s Royal Society - the UK's national academy of science - has elected 44 new fellows , who now get to put ‘FRS’ after their name. Notable among the new class is Kostya Novoselov, who shar...
  • Budget lag puts squeeze on NASA student fellowships - 2 days agoA fledgling NASA program that aims to tap some of the best graduate student talent in the US is facing a timeline challenge as it nears the start of its inaugural term. The Space Technology Researc...
  • Deeper cuts to UK research equipment - 2 days agoUK scientists knew after last year’s budget settlement that funding for equipment and research facilities would be hit hard . In early May, it emerged that research councils would in future be able to...
  • Arecibo set for shake-up - 2 days agoCornell University has lost its long-term contract to run the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the world’s biggest radio dish, Nature has confirmed. A decision this week by the US National Science ...

  • Daily Roundup: May 20, 2011 - 1 day agoCryogenic Corals: The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute will freeze coral embryos with the goal of reviving threatened reefs, 50 to 1,000 years in the future. TreeHugger Biggest Rig:  Royal...
  • Today is Endangered Species Day. Do You Care? - 1 day agoRemember the last time you were in awe? Perhaps it was a gray wolf slinking into a pine forest, or a spotted owl diving past your ear, or a million tree frogs in an invisible cacophony.  All these a...
  • Visiting San Francisco? To Try a 2012 Prius, Stay at the InterContinental. - 1 day agoLet's forget for a moment that San Francisco is one of America's most walkable cities . If you were visiting the city and absolutely had to drive, you'd want to drive the greenest car poss...
  • Movie Review Friday: Waste Land - 2 days agoEscape to the movies with one of our  Movie Review Friday   selections. Each week we review a film or television event with an environmental theme. Seen a good eco-flick lately?  Send us a short revie...
  • Daily Roundup: May 19, 2011 - 2 days agoOverwhelming: This year's Mississippi River flood claimed its first victim. Washington Post Dammed:  Chinese officials say that their nation's Three Gorges Dam is causing a raft of urgent en...

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  • The Media Is a Curable Disease"A public body would still have to determine what outlets or articles/audios/videos qualified. Libel, war propaganda, pornography and other illegal materials would have to be excluded. Internet a...
  • Al-jazeera unmasked by coverage in Libya and Bahrain"There is an unmistakable feeling among many observers that Al-jazeera is little more than a sophisticated mouthpiece for Western and conservative Arabian monarchies and shaikhdoms and that its c...
  • If Arab Spring threatens Israel, why does Saban support it?"...few Middle East observers seem to be asking: If the Arab Spring is backed so unreservedly by Haim Saban’s think tank, which was created to protect Israel, then how could it possibly threaten ...
  • Africa: Battleground for NATO's 21st Century Strategic Concept"Starting in 2008 NATO has established a permanent naval presence off the Horn of Africa in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea with Operation Allied Provider, Operation Allied Protector and sin...
  • Is Rape 'Legal' in the West?"If rape is a serious crime, it should carry a serious level of punishment as a minimum. On the contrary, the minimum level of punishment prescribed is five years, with early plea that gets reduc...
 

  • Turning the Camera on the Police - 2 days agoWhat's good for the police apparently isn't good for the people--or so the law enforcement community would have us believe when it comes to surveillance. That's a concise summary of a new ...
  • After Cablegate, Enforced Ignorance - 2 days agoI recently e-mailed a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks to a veteran State Department employee for comment, but did not receive a reply. Days later, when I asked him again, he sheepishly said, &...
  • The Sordid Sexual History of Dominique Strauss-Kahn - 2 days agoWhere there is shocking news, there must be a conspiracy theory. So it is that the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn for sexual assault has spawned its own spate of wild speculation. “The hyp...
  • Military Rape: Rampant, Ignored - 4 days agoWhen Panayiota Bertzikis tried to tell her commanding officers that she had been raped in May 2006 by a shipmate four months into her tour at the Burlington, Vt., Coast Guard Station, they discouraged...
  • Resistance Is Fatal - 5 days agoIf compassion isn't reason enough for global policymakers to fund safe drinking water, sanitary conditions and decent healthcare in the developing world, perhaps self-interest will be. A deadly su...


  • New Public Health Campaign Aims to End Ronald McDonald’s Career - 3 days agoBy Candice Bernd CHICAGO—Should Ronald McDonald be forced to retire? A new national campaign—“Value [the] Meal”—aims to do just that, with the larger goal of sparking action by McDonald’s shareholder...
  • Newt Gingrich Is Good at Losing Friends - 3 days agoWhat was meant to be a high-publicity campaign launch on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday backfired, undermining Newt Gingrich’s presidential ambitions the same week he announced his candidacy. Asked abo...
  • The Endless Search for ‘Success’ In Afghanistan - 5 days agoBy David Szydloski Following the death of Osama bin Laden, there has been increased political pressure to “end the war in Afghanistan.” Currently, the administration has set a goal of beginning troo...
  • The Wavelength: Attack of the Media Mega-Mergers! Skyprosoft, AT&T-Mobile and more - 5 days agoby Eric Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion. So exactly what does the ...
  • Disaster Capitalism Erupts in Wisconsin - 1 week agoBy Miles Kampf-LassinFirst, Scott Walker went after the unions. Now he is setting his sights on the very heart of the public good – entitlements and education. In the meantime, the Wisconsin Governor ...

  • Simply Sustainable Soils: Monitoring earthworms - 2 days agoThis week we have launched ‘Simply Sustainable Soils‘ in partnership with Asda, a hands-on guide to help farmers get the most out of their soil, looking at soil texture, structure, drainage, compactio...
  • MacDonald Red Tape Review: LEAF’s Comments - 5 days agoLEAF welcomes the findings of the new report ‘Striking a balance: reducing burdens; increasing responsibility; earning recognition’. Put together by the independent Farming Regulation Task Force chair...
  • LEAF Demonstration Sites, Summer Event - 6 days agoLEAF Demonstration Farmers, Innovation Centre representatives and LEAF supporters, gathered together last week for our annual summer training event, based this year near Bristol. Our first visit was t...
  • It’s nearly here, Open Farm Sunday 2011! - 1 week agoThis year’s Open Farm Sunday is just about a month away. So here is a mini update on what’s been going on in the run up to this year’s event. Registrations got off to a great start at the beginning … ...
  • Trends in Sustainable Food: 28% honestly disengaged - 2 weeks agoA few weeks ago, Defra released their latest research on attitudes to sustainable food (full report). They found that people want to buy healthy and local food. The full report is very interesting and...





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