(From Marco.org, via jackieheartsb, wooliebear) A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said. The 34-year-old worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at [...]
Archive For November, 2008
Karl Bissinger, 1914-2008
(Karl’s voice was one of the ones I often heard on the phone when I did printing for WRL from the early 80s through the late nineties. It was instantly recognizable, and always pleasant. Another loss. The words below from WRL. – RS) As many of you may already be aware, long-time pacifist and WRL [...]
Miami judge rules against Florida gay adoption ban
By CURT ANDERSON Ruling means that Martin Gill, (left) 47, and his male partner can adopt two brothers, ages 4 and 8, whom he has cared for as foster children since December 2004. Judge Cindy Lederman, Miami-Dade Co. Juvenile Division (left inset). (ABC) MIAMI (AP) — A judge on Tuesday ruled that a strict Florida [...]
Sources: Contractor for military committed serious violations
By Abbie Boudreau and Scott Bronstein CNN Special Investigations Unit WASHINGTON (CNN) — A contractor providing services to the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan has committed serious violations of its contract, mainly by conducting inadequate inspections of electrical wiring and grounding at American bases, according to Pentagon sources. Ryan Maseth, a 24-year-old Green Beret, [...]
Election of Obama provokes rise in U.S. hate crimes
By Matthew Bigg Matthew Bigg – Mon Nov 24 ATLANTA (Reuters) – Barack Obama‘s election as U.S. president has provoked a rise in hate crimes against ethnic minorities, civil rights groups said on Monday. Hundreds of incidents of abuse or intimidation apparently motivated by racial hatred have been reported since the November 4 election, though most have [...]
Not playing around: Army to invest $50M in combat training games
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes European edition, Sunday, November 23, 2008 Photos by Seth Robson/S&S Cadets play DARWARS-Ambush during training at the Camp Normandy Noncommissioned Officers Academy in Grafenwöhr, Germany, on Jan. 20, 2006. GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — The Army has created a video game unit and will invest $50 million over five years on [...]
Times Square getting its first ‘green’ billboard
Yahoo News NEW YORK – This winter, New Year’s Eve revelers will have a close-up view of Times Square’s first environmentally friendly billboard powered entirely by wind and sun. But the billboard might not be quite as dazzling as some of its high-powered neighbors along the Great White Way. Construction on the 35,000-pound sign advertising [...]
UN: Clouds of pollution threaten glaciers, health
By TINI TRAN and JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writers Fri Nov 14 AFP/File – Cars drive through thick smog on a street in Beijing in September 2008. Enormous brown clouds of pollution … BEIJING – A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle [...]
A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?
Posted by Roland Piquepaille at ZNet Imagine a nuclear reactor small enough to be carried by truck and buried in a garden… According to The Guardian, a U.S. company based in New Mexico, Hyperion Power Generation, has designed mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes. The company has already received firm orders and expects to [...]
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