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World's largest solar farm is scorching and killing birds that fly over it


Daily Mail
Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:23 UTC
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© Brightsource Energy'Tower-power': Heat emanating from the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world's largest solar farm of its kind, has allegedly killed and injured dozens of birds and other wildlife in the Mojave desert
Environmentalists have hit out at a giant new solar farm in the Mojave Desert as mounting evidence reveals birds flying through the extremely hot 'thermal flux' surrounding the towers are being scorched.

After years of regulatory tangles around the impact on desert wildlife, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System opened on Thursday but environmental groups say the nearly 350,000 gigantic mirrors are generating 1000 degree Fahrenheit temperatures which are killing and singing birds.

According to compliance documents released by developer BrightSource Energy last year, dozens of birds were found injured at the site during the building stage.

Comment: A wonderful example of just how far modern human society is from being "civilized".

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Pistol

Unbelievable! Fake Blood and Blanks: Schools Stage Active Shooter Drills

Nona Willis Aronowitz
CBS
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 22:24 UTC
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© Jim Seida / NBC News
In a cramped, carpeted amphitheater in the basement of Troy Buchanan High School, 69 students are waiting to die.

"You'll know when it pops off," says Robert Bowen, the school's campus police officer. "If you get engaged with one of the shooters, you'll know it."

"When you get shot, you need to close your fingers and keep 'em in," adds Tammy Kozinski, the drama teacher. "When the bad guy and the police come through, they'll step all over you, and who will be saying they're sorry?"

"Nobody!" the students cry in unison.
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Cloud Precipitation

UK government sends 5,000 military personnel to flood zones as hurricanes keeping coming

Josh Halliday
The Guardian
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:58 UTC
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© Dan Kittwood/Getty ImagesA Gurkha regiment helps place sandbags outside homes along the river Thames in Staines.
Violent storms will batter cliffs and promenades along the south coast this weekend, with tidal surges and gale-force winds set to cause more flooding for days to come. Forecasters warned that there would be no let-up in the severe weather as defence chiefs committed 5,000 military personnel to the flood relief mission.

Two people were killed late on Friday in the stormy weather and the high winds left more than 16,000 homes in north Wales without power.

A cruise ship passenger died and another was airlifted to shore after their 22,000-tonne vessel was hit by a freak wave in the English Channel. Water crashed through a window, injuring a number of the 735 passengers. An 85-year-old male passenger and a woman passenger in her 70s were airlifted off the ship. The male passenger later died.

In Holborn, central London, a woman died and a man was taken to hospital after a building collapsed on to a car. The accident happened at 11.05pm last night opposite Holborn tube station, a Metropolitan police spokesman said. "There were two occupants in the car and a woman was pronounced dead at the scene. A man was pulled from the car and was taken to hospital, where he is in a stable situation at the moment."

A man also died in hospital on Friday night after being hit by a falling tree in his garden in Gwynedd during Wednesday's storm.
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Megaphone

More Bulgarian protests against high energy prices


Focus News Agency
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:50 UTC
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© AFP
Two protests will be staged in Bulgaria's second biggest city of Plovdiv on Sunday - the first one is against the increase of the electricity tariff demanded by EVN. The protest already kicked off at 10 a.m. in front of the office of the electricity distribution company. The protest is to be led by Krasimir Karakachanov, leader of the IMRO - Bulgarian National Movement. Supporters of Nikolay Barekov, leader of the Bulgaria without Censorship party, will also participate in it.
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Compass

Video: Protesters clash with police, set govt buildings ablaze in Bosnia

RT
You Tube
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters
Thousands of people across Bosnia set fire to local government buildings and clashed with police. Hundreds have been injured in three days of protests in a state that's slipping into serious economic stagnation with around 40 per cent of the population out of work.

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Dollar Gold

U.S. Olympic gold medal winners could owe almost $10,000 to the IRS

Justin Sykes
Americans for Tax Reform
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:30 UTC
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© AP/Andy Wing

As 230 U.S. Olympic athletes gear up to compete in the 2014 Winter Games, the only thing colder than the slopes at Sochi is the fact that any prizes awarded by the U.S. Olympic Commission (USOC) will be taxed by the IRS. Many Americans don't realize that the U.S. taxes income earned abroad, and as such even the winnings of Olympic athletes are subject to the reach of the IRS. The USOC awards prizes to U.S. Olympic medal winners: $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze. Relative to each athlete's income tax bracket, some top earners such as Shaun White could end up paying over a third (39.6 percent) of their winnings to the IRS.

Additionally, because the U.S. is one of only a handful of developed countries that tax income earned abroad, it is likely America's competitors will not be subject to such a tax. Taken together - the tax on Olympic athletes and the tax on income earned abroad - it can be said the U.S. has officially "earned the Gold" for having one of the most backwards and illogical tax codes in the world.
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Handcuffs

Death row: Strangest last meals


The Mirror News
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 07:22 UTC
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© MirrorChilling: The gas chamber in Arizona State Prison.
We mark the grizzly anniversary by looking back at some of the strangest food requests ordered by inmates ahead of their executions

Today is the 90th anniversary of the first use of the gas chamber to execute a prisoner on death row.

An unsuccessful attempt to kill convict Gee Jon by pumping gas directly into his cell led to the use of a specially built gas chamber to finally carry out the sentence on February 8th 1924.

The last person to be executed in the gas chamber in the US is Walter LaGrand - a German national - who was executed in Arizona on March 3, 1999.

Six states, Arizona, California, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri and Wyoming, authorize the use of lethal gas under certain circumstances.

Whatever the means of execution, a condemned inmate is usually able to request a last meal of their choice.

This meal is supposed to symbolise the condemned making peace with those responsible for their death. We look back at some of the extraordinary culinary requests made by inmates.
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Bad Guys

Officers who left the Army due to misconduct more than triples‏

Lolita C. Baldor
Associated Press
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:34 UTC
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© AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteArmy Chief of Staff Ray Odierno testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The number of U.S. soldiers forced out of the Army because of crimes or misconduct has soared in the past several years as the military emerges from a decade of war that put a greater focus on battle competence than on character.

Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that the number of officers who left the Army due to misconduct more than tripled in the past three years. The number of enlisted soldiers forced out for drugs, alcohol, crimes and other misconduct shot up from about 5,600 in 2007, as the Iraq war peaked, to more than 11,000 last year.

The data reveals stark differences between the military services and underscores the strains that long, repeated deployments to the front lines have had on the Army's soldiers and their leaders.
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Horse

Thousands of zoo animals killed in Europe every year


RT.com
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:48 UTC
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© Reuters / Bogdan Cristel
Amid the massive outcry at Denmark zoo for the slaughter of a perfectly healthy giraffe named Marius, it has been revealed that thousands of healthy zoo-kept animals in Europe are killed on an annual basis.

Every zoo which is a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA), kills approximately five animals per year, bringing the total among the 247 EAZA constituent members to 1,735, according to the estimates of the association's spokesman David Williams Mitchell, cited by the Associated Press.

However, this statistic exempts all zoos and animal parks across the continent that do not belong to the organization.

Comment: Different animal species are going extinct every day because the agricultural industry wants its profits above their - and our - lives; the greed of conscienceless scientists is causing the death of animals due to the GMOs; Hollywood is killing animals for entertainment; sadists kill animals because they have the opportunity and they want to.

In all times through history, the respect humanity showed to the animals who cohabit our planet reflected the health of the society as a whole. News as the above and

Barbarians! Shameful! Marius the giraffe killed and dissected at Copenhagen zoo despite worldwide protests

Second giraffe named Marius at risk of being put down in Denmark

tell us that our current society's sickness has reached very dangerous levels. Read a very interesting discussion on the subject that is taking place in our forum.

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Arrow Down

South Carolina woman arrested for not returning movie she rented in 2005


Police State USA
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 12:53 UTC
Video Rental
© Gary Gardiner/Bloomberg News
Pickens - When a woman went to the police for help, she was unexpectedly arrested and charged with a crime: failure to return a movie she rented back in 2005.

Kayla M. Finley, 27, went to the Pickens County Sheriff's Office to report a crime on February 13th, but when she provided her name to the deputies, she was placed in handcuffs.

Nine years earlier, she had rented Monster In Law and apparently had not returned it to the video store. A warrant for her arrest had been issued in September 2005. Even though the rental store is no longer in business, police still intend on collecting that late fee - in the form of wringing her through the court system.

Her actual offense was "Failure to return rented video cassette," which is classified under petty larceny, a misdemeanor.

Police say that she was sent a warning letter from the store, but Finley says she never got this letter.

"Its obvious that Pickens County has nothing better to do. I fully intend on fighting this. Its ridiculous that I had this happen to me," Finley said to KPLCtv.com.
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