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Bomb

Car bomb kills at least 10 in Syria, Homs

A car bomb attack killed at least 10 people at a village in the central Syrian province of Homs on Monday, state television said.

"The terrorist explosion in Haraqi village in Homs province was caused by a tanker truck bomb. The initial toll says 10 people were killed, and major damage was caused to houses," the television station reported.

War Whore

Iraq attacks leave nine dead

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Attacks across Iraq, including in the normally peaceful south, killed nine people Monday after unrest a day earlier left 40 dead, the latest in a protracted surge in nationwide bloodshed.

The violence comes as political leaders jostle to build alliances amid what is expected to be a months-long period of government formation following April elections, with bloodletting at its worst since Iraq emerged from a brutal sectarian war.

Handcuffs

Thai military considers arrests for protesters imitating "The Hunger Games" three-finger salute

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© Thanarak KhuntonThese anti-coup protesters on Sunday afternoon near Thammasat University used the same three-finger "salute" adopted in protests near the Asoke intersection.
The military's National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is having a headache clarifying whether a person flashing the anti-coup three-finger sign is guilty, should be arrested and such gesture is doable.

Army deputy spokesman Col Winthai Suwaree said the NCPO would first look at the intention of those holding up three fingers - a gesture from the Hunger Games movies used as an anti-coup symbol - before deciding on what action to be taken.

Dollar

Infrastructure sticker shock: Financing costs more than building it

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© Sales ForceSticker Shock by Sales Force
Funding infrastructure through bonds doubles the price or worse. Costs can be cut in half by funding through the state's own bank.

"The numbers are big. There is sticker shock," said Jason Peltier, deputy manager of the Westlands Water District, describing Governor Jerry Brown's plan to build two massive water tunnels through the California Delta. "But consider your other scenarios. How much more groundwater can we pump?"

Whether the tunnels are the best way to get water to the Delta is controversial, but the issue addressed here is the cost. The tunnels were billed to voters as a $25 billion project. That estimate, however, omitted interest and fees. Construction itself is estimated at a relatively modest $18 billion. But financing through bonds issued at 5% for 30 years adds $24-40 billion to the tab. Another $9 billion will go to wetlands restoration, monitoring and other costs, bringing the grand total to $51-67 billion -- three or four times the cost of construction.

A general rule for government bonds is that they double the cost of projects, once interest has been paid.

Black Magic

Two 12-year old Wisconsin girls stab classmate 19 times to pay homage to fictional paranormal character

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© Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/Abe Van DykeSuspects Morgan E. Geyser (left) and Anissa E. Weier in a Waukesha County courtroom.
The 12-year-old girls had been plotting the murder for months, police say.

Morgan E. Geyser was allowed to have two friends over each year for her birthday. This year, she'd celebrate on May 30. That is the day she and Anissa E. Weier would try to kill their friend during a sleepover.

On Monday, the two Waukesha girls were charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court as adults with attempted first-degree intentional homicide, each facing up to 65 years in prison. Their victim, another 12-year-old from Waukesha, was stabbed 19 times by either Geyser or Weier or both, according to a criminal complaint. All three attend Horning Middle School in Waukesha.

Geyser and Weier are being held on $500,000 bail each. The pre-teens attempted murder, they told police, to pay homage to a fictional character who they believed was real after reading about him on a website devoted to horror stories.

Pills

Video compilation of bizarre zombie-like activity across the U.S. in 2014

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Zombies: fictional characters, right?

Let's hope so!

Because a number of bizarre incidents in recent years have people wondering if they could be for real.

Naked, oblivious and out of control people going on the attack - with some still resisting arrest after being shot and tasered. The following video contains some reports of 'zombie attacks' so far this year...


Comment: See also:

Is Solar and Cosmic Radiation Playing Havoc With Life on Planet Earth?


Arrow Up

Saudi Arabia's secret uprising

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In Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern province a 3-year uprising has been raging, hidden from the world. With unprecedented access, this report explores the growing protest movement - the biggest in Saudi history.

In scenes reminiscent of Libya, Egypt and Bahrain, masked protesters fill the streets, fling rocks and chant "martyrdom is better than oppression" as police bullets fly. In the Shia-dominated Eastern region of Qatif, there has been growing resentment that despite "standing on top of oil fields that feed the world", local communities suffer poverty, sectarian discrimination and no political freedom. Figureheads of the protests have been added to government wanted lists, been arrested and several have been killed in dubious circumstances.

Bad Guys

Ireland: Mass grave 'filled to the brim with tiny bones and skulls' shows how we cherish children

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Children photographed in 1924 by the Connacht Tribune in Glenamaddy before the ‘Home’ moved to Tuam
"Cherish all the children equally" is a defining Irish shibboleth, enshrined in the Proclamation of Independence. It is one of our highest aspirations and, like most of the things we Irish hold dearest, it is build on a solid foundation of utter hypocrisy.

Cherish all the children? By all available evidence, we Irish don't even like children.

In the past week, a horror story has unfolded. Eight hundred children are buried in an unmarked mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway, in a disused septic tank on the former grounds of an institution known locally as "The Home". The Bon Secours nuns operated "The Home" between 1926 and 1961 and over the years housed thousands of unmarried mothers and their "illegitimate" children.

The tireless work of historian Catherine Corless has revealed that 796 children, the oldest nine years, the youngest two days old, are in that tank. Causes of death include "malnutrition, measles, convulsions, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis and pneumonia". The tank is described as "filled to the brim with tiny bones and skulls".

Comment: Our western collectives outward declarations of love and relations to our children may have changed over the last 80 years, but really how much do we protect our children and our communities children? Since then communities have been divided and phased out, and we deposit our children in schools which suck them dry from imagination and teaches them to be emotionally and intellectually dependent on a parasite system. To boot they are fed degenerate diets, mind crumbling meds and stupefying entertainment. And that's not even mentioning the large share of children being physically molested at home or through pedophile networks. Ironically, Father Flanagan's 'Boy's Town' was later to become part of such a pedophile network, covered up by the same god-awful church.

No, it still doesn't seem like we learned to care.


Red Flag

Monsanto's maize: High risks, few rewards for Mexico

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© ReutersMexico is the 'centre of origin' for maize.
Why is Monsanto interested in Mexico's maize market?

I'd come to Mexico to investigate the ongoing controversy over the proposed introduction of genetically modified (GM) maize into the birthplace of this important global food crop. The issue was hot, because last October a Mexican judge had issued an injunction halting all experimental and commercial planting of GM maize, a process that was well underway in six northern states. The ruling cited the need for precaution to ensure that Mexico's rich diversity of maize varieties were protected from inadvertent "gene flow" from GM maize. (See my earlier article on the injunction.)

As I began to investigate this most controversial of biotech initiatives, the question that most puzzled me was: why anyone in Mexico thinks the country needs anything that transgenic maize has to offer?

Monsanto, of course, had an answer to that question. I met with a group of company officials in their high-rise offices in Mexico City's transnational business district of Santa Fe. They offered their "Vision 2020", in which transgenic maize is key to feeding the world. In Mexico, they argued, it would help double Mexican maize production, reduce persistent rural poverty among the country's small-scale maize farmers, restore the country's self-sufficiency in its key food staple and reduce the negative environmental impacts of maize farming. They even used the term "food sovereignty" to describe their goal for Mexico. This was more than a vision; this was a hallucination.

Bell

Death toll rises to at least 74 from General Motors' faulty ignition switches

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The death toll in General Motors' faulty ignition switch is at least 74, according to a Reuters analysis of government fatal-crash data.

GM claims faulty cars are to blame for 13 deaths only, but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the toll is higher.

Such accidents also occurred at a higher rate in the GM cars than in top competitors' models, Reuters said after searching the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), a national database of crash information submitted by local law-enforcement agencies, for single-car frontal collisions where no front air bags deployed and the driver or
front-seat passenger was killed.

The frequency of such accidents in the Ion was nearly six times that of the Corolla and twice that of the Focus, according to the analysis. The Ion had 5.9 such fatal crashes per 100,000 cars sold, followed by the Cobalt, with 4.1, the Ford Focus with 2.9, the Civic with 1.6, and the Corolla with 1.0.

Comment: A fine of $35 million is merely a little slap on the wrist. They knew about it since 2004 and most likely all the way back to 2001, but did nothing until February 2014. That is simply criminel and only goes to show that psychopaths care nought about human beings.