Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
Syria Crops Sheltered in Arctic Doomsday Vault
February 29th, 2012Via: AP: Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural disasters, officials said Tuesday. The latest additions mean that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — a master […]
Cardinal Dies One Day After Judge Said He Could Be Called to Testify in Child Sex-Abuse and Endangerment Trial of Three Current and Former Priests
February 11th, 2012Via: Philadelphia Enquirer: Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman asked the county coroner to examine the body of Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua last week because the timing of the 88-year-old prelate’s death struck her as “peculiar,” she said Friday. Ferman acknowledged that she enlisted county Coroner Walter I. Hofman because the cardinal died one […]
They Just Love That Eye Symbolism
February 6th, 2012Ah, Madonna. At least she’s consistent. Below is a picture from the Stupor Bowl half time show. Vigilant Citizen‘s head will explode when he sees the video of this. Via: Daily Mail: — Update: Vigilant Citizen: Madonna’s Superbowl Halftime Show: A Celebration of the Grand Priestess of the Music Industry Research Credit: PF
UN Soldiers Brought Superbug Strain of Cholera to Western Hemisphere
January 15th, 2012Via: ABC News: Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera — a super bug — into the Western Hemisphere for the first time. The vicious form of cholera has already killed 7,000 people in Haiti, where it surfaced in a remote village in October 2010. Leading researchers […]
Principal Charged After Hypnotizing Students Who Committed Suicide
January 13th, 2012Via: CBS: North Port police have charged the town’s high school principal with two counts of second-degree criminal misdemeanors after students he hypnotized ended up committing suicide. Over six months, the North Port Police Department conducted around 70 interviews with students claiming to have been hypnotized by Dr. George Kenney and 100 adults either from […]
Polish Prosecutor Shoots Himself After News Conference
January 9th, 2012[???] Update: Comments from Przybyl Via: Reuters: Speaking to state news agency PAP from his hospital bed on Tuesday, Przybyl said he had wanted to protect the honour and the future of military prosecutors. He said he had faced many threats related to past investigations aimed at intimidating him, and was finally driven to attempt […]
UK Police Treating Remains Discovered at Queen’s Estate as Murder
January 5th, 2012Via: AP: It’s a case that Sherlock Holmes would have loved to unravel: British police say a woman’s body has been found at the vast rural estate in Norfolk where Queen Elizabeth II and her family celebrated New Year’s. Police are treating the case as a murder, and an autopsy was conducted Tuesday to learn […]
South Korea: Seoul Skyscraper Resembling Twin Towers Collapse
December 13th, 2011Pic at link. Via: Bloomberg: The design of twin skyscrapers planned for Seoul may be modified in the wake of criticism that a cloud-shaped bridge joining the buildings resembles the explosions that felled the World Trade Center towers. MVRDV, the Dutch architecture firm that drew the plans for the towers joined at the 27th floor […]
Deutsche Bank CEO Target of Suspected Letter Bomb
December 8th, 2011I don’t know how, or even if, this fits in at all, but remember this little tidbit from my 2006 piece about the Wall Street Chop Shop: I handled some issues for the secondary marketing department, even, would you believe, for the person who pulled the trigger on these paper dumps at the end of […]
Harnessing Desert Sun to Power Europe
December 7th, 2011Is it just a coincidence that several of the countries that will be supplying Europe with power derived from the sun are experiencing regime change and riots? Via: BBC: It is a beguiling idea – harvest sunshine, and a little wind, from the empty deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, and use it […]
