Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
George Hickenlooper, Director of ‘Casino Jack,’ a Film About Jack Abramoff, Found Dead
November 1st, 2010Natural causes… Via: New York Times: George Hickenlooper, a director whose credits include an Emmy-winning documentary about the making of “Apocalypse Now” and a film starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff that is scheduled to open in December, died on Saturday in Denver. He was 47. He was in Denver to spend […]
Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles
October 27th, 2010This is an extremely curious situation. I’m not even going to say which previous event this reminds me of. Via: The Atlantic: President Obama was briefed this morning on an engineering power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, […]
New Book Looks at Connection Between Mobile Devices and a Host of Health Problems
October 12th, 2010Is this partially why so many men are shooting blanks? And what is the compelling evidence to suggest that cellphones might be tied to sterility in men? In 2008, researchers found that men with the lowest sperm counts were significantly more likely to keep their phones on their bodies all the time. And it’s been […]
Britain: Another Primary School Presents Students with UFO Scenario
October 11th, 2010Others: September 2008: Police Investigate School’s Alien Invasion February 2009: They Came from the Outer Reaches of the National Curriculum July 2009: Children Traumatised by ‘War of Worlds’ Abduction of Teacher April 2010: Alien Field Trip Via: Weston Mercury: Sandford Primary School pupils were amazed to discover that aliens had landed last Wednesday, and set […]
Has There Ever Been This Much “Alien” Entertainment at Once?
October 1st, 2010Update: Falling Skies Trailer —End Update— Update: More Falling Skies Super 8 —End Update— The Event is on NBC now. V starts up on ABC again in November. That’s two prime time series on different networks about human looking aliens that infiltrate society. Skyline will be released in November. Battle: Los Angeles will be released […]
Fort Hood: Army’s Largest Base Had Four Apparent Suicides in One Weekend
September 30th, 2010Via: CNN: Four soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas died over the week. In all four cases, it appears the soldiers, all decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, took their own lives, according to Christopher Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman. If confirmed as suicides, it would be on top of 14 other suicides […]
Millionaire with Defense Industry Ties to British and American Militaries Found Dead
September 27th, 2010Via: Telegraph: Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, has died after riding one of the two-wheeled machines off a cliff and into a river. The multi-millionaire businessman, 62, fell into the River Wharfe while inspecting the grounds of his North Yorkshire estate on a rugged country version of the Segway. The Segway is […]
Inside Norway’s Underground Military HQ
September 22nd, 2010Everything old is new again. Click through for video. Via: BBC: In November, Norway will officially move its military command base to its former Cold War complex in Bodo inside the Arctic Circle. As Russia is strengthening its armed presence on the other side of their shared border, there is no better illustration of the […]
Antibacterial Soaps Contain Endocrine-Disruptors Capable of Interfering with Hormones Critical for Normal Development and Reproduction
September 18th, 2010Via: Natural Resources Defense Council: The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are suspected endocrine disruptors linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. […]
Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
September 12th, 2010Full text below, just to make sure that this doesn’t go away somehow. Via: The New York Observer: Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque By Mark Ames September 10, 2010 | 2:36 p.m So far, the debate over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has unfolded along predictable lines, with […]
