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US B-1 bomber crashes near Montana, crew ejects


Press TV
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:06 UTC
B-1 bomber

A B-1B Lancer, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., pulls after being refueled in Dec 2012.
The US Air Force says that a B-1 bomber has crashed in a remote area of southeastern Montana, but all of the crew escaped with some injuries.

"We are actively working to ensure the safety of the crew members and have sent first responders to secure the scene and work closely with local authorities at the crash site," Col. Kevin Kennedy, commander of the 28th Bomb Wing, said in a statement on Monday.

Two pilots and two weapons system officers ejected from the bomber before the crash near Broadus, Montana, Kennedy added.
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You're kidding? Fukushima nuclear plant to become tourist attraction?

Paul Lawrance
Eyesopenreport.com
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:37 UTC
Fukushima Power Plant
© Eyesopenreport.com
Workers at the Fukushima disaster.
Plans are in the works to make the site of one of histories worse nuclear disasters a tourist attraction.

The idea is to build a community on the edge of the exclusion zone that extends 25 miles from the reactor. This community comes equipped with restaurants, souvenir shops and hotels that have been built to protect guests from elevated levels of radiation.

The highlight of the visit will be a trip into the unstable reactors perimeter fence.

All to serve as a reminder of how the nuclear plant was crippled during a earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

I thought vacation's were to escape the horrors that life brought us? Not for the purpose of entering them.

Why would anyone be attracted to a nuclear disaster site that has been killing those who have tried to contain its toxicity?
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Nuke

Radiation levels in Fukushima bay highest since measurements began - reports


RT.com
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:29 UTC
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
© Reuters/Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force
Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Readings of tritium in seawater taken from the bay near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has shown 4700 becquerels per liter, a TEPCO report stated, according to Nikkei newspaper. It marks the highest tritium level in the measurement history.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has detected the highest radiation level in seawater collected in the harbor of the crippled nuclear plant in the past 15 days, Nikkei reports.

TEPCO said the highest radiation level was detected near reactor 1. Previous measurements showed tritium levels at 3800 becquerels per liter near reactor 1, and 2600 becquerels per liter near reactor 2. The concentration of tritium in the harbor's seawater has been continuously rising since May, according to Nikkei.
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Man survives being hit 'straight on' by Amtrak train travelling at 110mph

Rob Williams
The Independent, UK
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:37 UTC
Darryl See was hit by a Chicago-bound train as he walked along the tracks east of Michigan City

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A Michigan man has been released from intensive care after remarkably surviving being struck by an Amtrak train going at 110 miles per hour.

Darryl See, 22, was hit by a Chicago-bound train as he walked along the tracks east of Michigan City on Friday.

According to reports the train sounded its horn a number of times but Mr See, who was listening to music at the time, failed to hear it.

He underwent surgery at Memorial Hospital in South Bend to put a plate in his neck and had several crushed vertebrae.

John Boyd of LaPorte County Police, told the Northwest Indiana Times that: "The conductor said it was a straight-on hit."
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Eight feared drowned off Indonesian coast after killer whale harpooned by them drags their boat under the water

Richard Shears
The Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:52 UTC
  • Four of 12 hunters swam to shore, but their companions went down
  • Search has failed to find any trace of the men, their boat or the whale
  • The incident compared to fictional story of the hunt for Moby Dick
Eight tribesmen from a remote part of Indonesia are feared drowned after a killer whale they harpooned pulled their boat down.

Four of the 12 hunters on board the wooden boat managed to swim to the shore, but their companions went down with the flimsy vessel after the whale at first dragged the vessel along - before diving.

Villagers said it was a mystery why the eight disappeared without trace because they were in an open boat when it was pulled under in the waters off the island of Lembata, in eastern Indonesia.

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One of few whaling villages: Lamalera village on the southern tip of Lembata, Indonesia
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Question

Mystery spray causes evacuation, sickness at Walmart in Texas


KHOU
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:19 UTC
Walmart
© KHOU
It happened at the store near Highway 6 and Westpark Drive around 8:45 p.m., according to deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Dozens of employees and about 100 to 150 customers had to be evacuated.
Harris County - - A Walmart west of Houston was evacuated late Sunday after two men sprayed a substance that made some people ill, deputies said.

It happened at the store near Highway 6 and Westpark Drive around 8:45 p.m., according to deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

Dozens of employees and about 100 to 150 customers had to be evacuated. Some of them started to experience trouble breathing and suffered burning in their eyes and throat, deputies said.

"When I was in there, I was checking out, and I saw people choking," said customer Ken Baptista. "I heard somebody was mixing chemicals in there and throwing it in the air."

"By the time I went inside I just smelled something real funny," said Farah Muhamoud. "We don't know exactly what was it."

At least four people were sent to area hospitals. Deputies said the suspects got away, but surveillance cameras may have captured the pair on video. Hazmat crews were called in and said the store was clear of the chemicals a short time later.
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Floods in Russia's Far East cost farmers $260M


RIA Novosti
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:23 UTC
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© RIA Novosti. Mikhail Voskresensky
Floods in Russia’s Far East Cost Farmers $260M
The cost to agriculture in Russia's flood-hit Far East is estimated at 8.5 billion rubles ($260 million), Russia's Agriculture Ministry said Monday.

More than 627,000 hectares of agricultural land, or 40 percent of crop areas, have been affected by the floods, the ministry said in a statement.
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More train deaths: Up to 35 pilgrims killed in train crash in India


Press Association
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:17 UTC
At least 35 people were killed when a train ran over Hindu pilgrims crossing a railway track in eastern India today.

An angry mob then beat the train driver severely and set fire to the coaches in retaliation, officials said.

The pilgrims were crossing the tracks at the station in Dhamara Ghat, a small town in Bihar state, when they were struck by the Rajya Rani Express train, said Dinesh Chandra Yadav, a local member of parliament. Several other people were injured.
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People

Siberian woman died in 'suicide pact' with her boyfriend in Edinburgh


The Siberian Times
Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:27 UTC
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© The Siberian Times
Daria Kuchuk, Igor Pavlov with his parents Alexander and Tatiana in UK.
Daria Kuchuk, 35, born in Omsk, had followed her mother to Scotland in search of a new life, but her quest ended in tragedy.

Our exclusive pictures show Daria - who was an academic high achiever in Siberia, Moscow and at Oxford University in England - with her long-time boyfriend Igor Pavlov, 27, from Moscow. The couple died from cyanide poisoning after checking into a $500 a night room at The Scotsman five star hotel in Edinburgh, one of the best in Scotland.

It was close to a flat they shared near the Royal Mile in the heart of the Scottish capital. The couple died on 1 August but these are the first pictures of the couple, obtained by The Siberian Times. They show the couple with Igor's parents several years ago in the UK. In one, they are posing with the wax models of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at tourist attraction Madame Tussauds.

Family friends of 35 year old Daria (Dasha) from Siberia spoke of the 'appalling shock' of her death and the 'waste of such a brilliant mind'.

'They were not officially married but it is known that they lived together as partners for a considerable time,' said a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry press centre in Moscow. 'As far as we know neither of them had children'.
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Attention

Politicians Lie - and Reporters Can't Report That

Peter Hart
Fair.org
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:40 UTC
There's an interesting Politico story (8/22/12) about Andrea Seabrook, who until recently was a Capitol Hill reporter for NPR. She's moved on to a new independent reporting project, but it's what she said about her previous gig that's most revealing:
"I realized that there is a part of covering Congress, if you're doing daily coverage, that is actually sort of colluding with the politicians themselves because so much of what I was doing was actually recording and playing what they say or repeating what they say," Seabrook told Politico. "And I feel like the real story of Congress right now is very much removed from any of that, from the sort of theater of the policy debate in Congress, and it has become such a complete theater that none of it is real.... I feel like I am, as a reporter in the Capitol, lied to every day, all day. There is so little genuine discussion going on with the reporters.... To me, as a reporter, everything is spin."
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