Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
Two UN Employees Killed in Falls from Same Building Over Four Week Period
October 22nd, 2009Update: British Nuclear Expert’s 17th Floor UN Death Plunge ‘Was Not Suicide’ —End Update— According to Austrian Times, the dead man’s name is Timothy Hampton. Via: Telegraph: The 47-year-old man, who has not been named, died after falling more than 120ft to the bottom of a stairwell. He worked for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, […]
Former Japanese Finance Minister Nakagawa Found Dead
October 4th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned as Japanese finance minister in February amid accusations of drunken behavior during an international conference in Rome, was found dead in his Tokyo home today. He was 56. Nakagawa lost his parliamentary seat in Aug. 30 elections that saw the Liberal Democratic Party swept out of power after half […]
Britain: Girl Dies After Receiving Cervical Cancer Vaccine
September 29th, 2009UPDATE: Ambulance Called for Second Girl Who Received Cervarix at Same School as Natalie Morton: Unfortunately, the source is the Daily Mail. Via: Daily Mail: Another schoolgirl at Blue Coat Church of England School needed an ambulance after having the cervical cancer jab, it emerged last night. The 15-year-old pupil became cold, weak and dizzy […]
Escalator Fall Kills Hedge Fund Manager
September 28th, 2009Via: NBC News: A hedge fund executive died early Sunday morning after falling three floors from an escalator at The Pier Shops at Caesars, according to police. Atlantic City police said James Vellanti, 40, fell from the third to the first floor. Vellanti lived in Clinton, Hunterdon County and was Chief Operating Officer for the […]
FBI Releases Edited OKC Bombing Tapes
September 28th, 2009Via: AP: Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. “The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney […]
Male Breast Cancer Patients Blame Water at Marine Base
September 25th, 2009Via: CNN: The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps’ training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer — a disease that strikes fewer than 2,000 men in the […]
University of Chicago Professor Dies from Exposure to Plague
September 23rd, 2009Definitely one for the dead biologists list. Via: ABC News: A University of Chicago researcher died after being exposed to a strain of bacteria that causes plague. And Malcolm Casadaban’s family wants answers. The Chicago Department of Public Health says there’s no sign anyone else was exposed to the bacteria. The tragic irony is that […]
Nuclear Power Plant Engineer Dead in “Probable Suicide”
September 18th, 2009There’s absolutely no reason (as far as I can tell) to think that this is assassination. Just noting it anyway. Via: Arizona Republic: Police have confirmed that the man found dead in a vehicle on Wednesday in Yavapai County was a missing Glendale man, Cornelius Hardy. Yavapai authorities are investigating the incident as a probable […]
Christopher Kelly, Key Figure in Blagojevich Corruption Probe, Is Dead
September 13th, 2009Oh Sure: Possible Overdose on Over-the-Counter Medicines Via: Chicago Tribune: Christopher Kelly, a key figure in the federal corruption probe into former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office today confirmed that Christopher Kelly of Burr Ridge was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:46 a.m. The office said Kelly died […]
Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes
September 12th, 2009The close of the DJIA on 9/10/2001: 9,605.51 The close of the DJIA on 9/11/2009 : 9,605.41
