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Airplane

Thai Airways Airbus 330 skids off runway in Bangkok, 14 injured


The Guardian
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:56 UTC
Thai Airways staff cover up plane's logo after accident. Official says move was to protect airline's image after 14 people were hurt when plane skidded off the runway at Bangkok

A Thai Airways plane carrying more than 280 people skidded off the runway while landing at Bangkok's main airport, injuring 14 passengers, according to the airline.

After the accident, workers on a crane blacked out the Thai Airways logo on the tail and body of the aircraft, as part of an effort to protect its image, an official said.

It was the second mishap in less than two weeks for Thailand's national carrier.
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Question

Letter box appears on bridge in the middle of the Thames

Claire Carter
The Telegraph, UK
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:56 UTC
Letterbox
© INSVillagers of Sonning-on-Thames, including Uri Geller, have been left puzzled as to how people could post letters or collect them from a letter box that has appeared on their bridge.
The bright red letter box frontage appeared about a metre above water level on a parapet of the bridge, which crosses the river.

Villagers of Sonning-on-Thames, including Uri Geller, have been left puzzled as to how people could post letters or collect them from the box which is impossible to reach on foot and liable to flooding.

Mr Geller, who has lived in the Berkshire village for three decades, said: "I have never seen anything like this anywhere in the world, it's a new one on me."

But Mr Geller said the village had been known to have its unusual stories.

He added: "There are many sightings of a child ghost that walks on the bridge.
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Cardboard Box

Dennis Rodman reveals name of Kim Jong-un's daughter

Peter Walker
The Guardian
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:50 UTC
Former US basketball star and frequent North Korean visitor shares name of leader's baby Ju-ae
Dennis Rodman
© UnknownDennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un raise a toast. Rodman's trips to Pyongyang are being sponsored by Irish bookmaking firm Paddy Power.
When it comes to announcing a baby's name to the world, some will have a quiet word with friends and family while others might send a discreet email.

But the Kim dynasty in North Korea has never been one for the orthodox. On Sunday, the name of Kim Jong-un's baby became known almost by accident, courtesy of a certain former US basketball star who keeps popping up in Pyongyang.

Dennis Rodman has already described Kim as an "awesome guy". On Sunday, he told the Guardian the leader was also a "good dad" to his baby daughter, whom he named as Ju-ae.
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Eye 2

14-year-old finds snake in shoebox at store in Gadsden, Alabama

Andy Powell
The Gadsden Times
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:37 UTC
A 14-year-old girl shopping for shoes Saturday instead found a slithery surprise in a box.

She might have wanted snakeskin shoes, but she surely didn't want the live snake she found when she opened a box at a store in East Gadsden.

According to the report filed with the Gadsden Police Department, the 14-year-old and her mother were shopping when the girl opened a shoe box and a live snake fell out on her leg.

The report said the juvenile ran away from the snake. A store employee called police, and an officer responded and killed the snake, disposing of it outdoors.

The report said the snake appeared to be 6 to 7 inches long.

The teenager told the responding officer the snake only scared her and she was not injured. The mother requested a police report about the incident.

The report did not say if they purchased any shoes.
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Four face death for 'cold-blooded' murder in Delhi gang rape

Sanjeev Miglani and Anurag Kotoky
Source
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:55 UTC
Four men were convicted on Tuesday of the "cold-blooded" murder of a woman who was raped and tortured on a bus in New Delhi, a crime that shook India and forced the country to confront sexual violence in a society undergoing wrenching change.

The four - a bus cleaner, gym instructor, fruit seller and an unemployed man - face hanging, the maximum penalty for murder. The trial judge will hear prosecution and defense arguments on sentencing on Wednesday, when he could deliver his ruling.

The minimum sentence the men could get is life imprisonment, two defense lawyers said.

"She has got justice today. We are very happy," said the father of the 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist who was attacked on December 16. "We are very confident that all of them will be hanged."
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Bizarro Earth

Symbolic? Train service in Norway disrupted by railway communication failure


Xinhua
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:46 UTC
Train service in Norway was disrupted by a failure in the railway communication system on Tuesday morning, the Norwegian railway authority said on its Twitter account.

Also known as NSB, the Norwegian State Railways said that a software error of the GSM-R system used for communication between trains and control centers, brought down the railway network in many parts of the country, including the speed train running in and out of the Oslo airport.

According to NSB, reports of the problem came in at about 9 a.m. local time (0700 GMT).

All affected trains have either stopped immediately or ran to the nearest stations for further notice, said NSB spokesman Arvid Baardstu.

Comment: Read the following forum thread to learn more about other recent cases of railway disruptions.

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Syringe

Let them eat fake - 'Artificial egg' made from plants backed by Bill Gates set to revolutionize cooking goes on sale at Whole Foods

Mark Prigg
Daily Mail UK
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:39 UTC
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A radical 'artificial egg' backed by Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel and Bill Gates goes on sale in US supermarkets for the first time today. Made from plants, it can replace eggs in everything from cakes to mayonnaise - without a chicken ever coming close to the production process.

The team today started selling their 'plant egg', called Beyond Eggs, in Whole Foods in California - and say it could soon be available in supermarkets worldwide.

'We want to take animals out of the equation,' said Josh Tetrick, the firm's founder. 'The food industry is begging for innovation, especially where animals are involved - it is a broken industry.'

Tetrick's idea was to find a mix of easy-to-grow plants that, when mixed together in the right way, replicate the taste, nutritional values and cooking properties of an egg.

This, he believes will allow the firm to produce its substitute for mass market foods - and to allow developing worlds to grow their own versions with added nutrients.

'Eggs are functionally incredible, they do everything from hold oil and water in mayo to making the muffin rise and holding scrambled eggs together,' he said 'I started to think what if we can find plants that can do this. We have about 12 plants pre-selected, including a pea already widely grown in Canada. There's also a bean in South Asia that is incredible in scrambled eggs.'
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Arrow Down

Sir David Attenborough isn't optimistic about our future: 'Humans have stopped evolving'

James Meikle
The Raw Story
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
David Attenborough
© FacebookSir David Attenborough
Birth control and abortion have ended natural selection, says the veteran broadcaster, but cultural evolution is accelerating

Sir David Attenborough has said that he is not optimistic about the future and that people should be persuaded against having large families.

The broadcaster and naturalist, who earlier this year described humans as "a plague on Earth", also said he believed humans have stopped evolving physically and genetically because of birth control and abortion, but that cultural evolution is proceeding "with extraordinary swiftness".

"We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being able to rear 90-95% of our babies that are born. We are the only species to have put a halt to natural selection, of its own free will, as it were," he tells this week's Radio Times.
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Dollar Gold

Study finds U.S. 'Big Agriculture' subsidy over payments: $17 million; Food Stamps? $0

Deborah Montesano
Addicting Info
Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:54 UTC
Big agriculture farm
© peacefulanarko.wordpress.comWhile congress is busy cutting food stamps for the hungry, the USDA finds big agriculture to be the real welfare cheats.
The GOP has been making political hay - or hash - out of so-called food stamp abuse, holding the food stamp provision in this year's farm bill hostage to their prejudices. The Democrat-controlled Senate passed their bipartisan version of the bill, including funding for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps), in May. In July, the Republican-controlled House eliminated the program altogether before passing their version of the bill, leaving the two versions to be reconciled when Congress reconvenes.

Last week, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a report for 2012 that puts a different light on the GOP insistence that SNAP is rife with abuse and fraud. The report found that the amount of major overpayments in five food assistance programs - SNAP, the School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and WIC (supplements for Women, Infants, and Children) - is $0. But the amount of major overpayments in farm subsidy programs adds up to over $17 million.

If you think these subsidies are going to small family farmers, think again. They are mainly going to large agribusinesses - corporations. Those who pocket the government checks are rarely those who ever step foot in a field.


Comment: If you ever want a psychopath's "interesting perspective" you really don't have to look far. Our government is chock-full of 'paths just like Steve Pincher. He is not unique, in fact, he is the norm among our rape and pillage oriented ruling class.

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Bullseye

Millionaire Ohio Gov. John Kasich forces starving families to perform slave labor for food stamps

Catherine Candisky
The Columbus Dispatch
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:12 UTC
Gov. John Kasich's administration will limit food stamps for more than 130,000 adults in all but a few economically depressed areas starting Jan. 1.

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Gov. John Kasich is turning Food Stamp recipients into a source of slave labor for major corporations and the state.
To qualify for benefits, able-bodied adults without children will be required to spend at least 20 hours a week working, training for a job, volunteering or performing a similar type of activity unless they live in one of 16 counties exempt because of high unemployment. The requirements begin next month; however, those failing to meet them would not lose benefits until Jan. 1.

"It's important that we provide more than just a monetary benefit, that we provide job training, an additional level of support that helps put (food-stamp recipients) on a path toward a career and out of poverty," said Ben Johnson, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

For years, Ohio has taken advantage of a federal waiver exempting food-stamps recipients from the work requirements that Kasich championed while U.S. House Budget Committee chairman during the mid-1990s. Kasich and former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Heath, co-sponsored an amendment requiring able-bodied recipients without dependents to work that was included in sweeping welfare-reform legislation adopted in 1996.

Comment: Witness the latest phase in the Corporate takeover of America. After destroying the American Labor Unions and shipping most American jobs overseas to places where slave labor is legal, America's leaders are now reintroducing slave labor to a starving population here.

This is how it works. Wealthy scumbags like Kasich make it mandatory for hungry people to "spend at least 20 hours a week working, training for a job, volunteering or performing a similar type of activity" Then the major corporations create various "Programs" with which to exploit these people who are forced to work for about a dollar an hour in Food Stamps. In addition to getting dirt cheap labor, these morally deficient moguls rake in even more ridiculous Corporate tax breaks for doing so.

From a psychopath's perspective, it's brilliant. They loudly bang the "Must work for Food Stamps" drum to rally the small portion of taxpaying American workers who don't need Food Stamps (yet) behind them. The impoverished, overworked fools who actually fall for the "blame the poor for our economic woes" rhetoric don't even realize that it's their jobs which will eventually be replaced by starving American slaves who have no choice but to work for Food Stamps. By the time the portion of the working class that believes "Must work for Food Stamps" is a good idea realize what's going on, they'll be working for Food Stamps too.

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