Yet again the fearless leader of North Korea is at it again. Its only nerve wracking as we never know if its just another wolf cry, or if he is going to go off the deep end. In a statement run on the state-run Korean Central News Agency, the commission said, “The army and people […]
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Michael Jackson dies at the age of 50 at LA hospital of a heart attack. He was found unresponsive at his home and brought to the hospital where he finally is now at rest.
His music and talent will surely be missed.
Probably no celebrity has been as revered and reviled over the past 40 years as Jackson, 50, who died Thursday in Los Angeles. The troubled, reclusive star was rushed to UCLA Medical Center by paramedics responding to a call from his home at about 12:30 p.m.
Jackson had been scheduled next month to begin the first of 50 sold-out concerts at London’s O2 Arena, a testament to his enduring popularity with fans around the world, a love affair that reached a peak on that March evening 26 years ago.
North Korea may launch a long-range ballistic missile towards Hawaii on American Independence Day, according to Japanese intelligence officials.
The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles, would be launched in early July from the Dongchang-ni site on the north-western coast of the secretive country.
Intelligence analysts do not believe the device would be capable of hitting Hawaii’s main islands, which are 4,500 miles from North Korea.
Details of the launch came from the Japan’s best-selling newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun.
Both Japanese intelligence and U.S. reconnaissance satellites have collated information pointing to the launch, according to the report.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry and the National Intelligence Service – the country’s main spy agency – said they could not confirm it.
Tension on the divided Korean peninsula has risen markedly since the North, led by Kim Jong-il, conducted two nuclear tests this year in defiance of repeated international warnings
The first rocket, fired in April, was widely seen as a disguised long-range missile test. A second launch came on May 25.
U.S. satellite intelligence has shown that a missile launch pad had been erected at Dongchang-ri on North Korea’s north-west coast.
General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it would take at least three to five years for North Korea to pose a real threat to the U.S. west coast.
The UN Security Council last week authorised member states to inspect North Korean sea, air and land cargo, requiring them to seize and destroy goods shipped that violate the sanctions against arms export.
On Saturday, in response to this declaration Pyongyang said it would bolster its nuclear programs and threatened war.
Growing tensions come as arms-watchdog the International Crisis Group (ICG) claimed North Korea has several thousand tonnes of chemical weapons it could mount on missiles.
The report from the non-government organisation said they believed the North’s army have about 2,500 to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons which include mustard gas, sarin and other deadly nerve agents.
ICG also also warned South Korea may become a target.
‘If there is an escalation of conflict and if military hostilities break out, there is a risk that they could be used. In conventional terms, North Korea is weak and they feel they might have to resort to using those,’ said Daniel Pinkston, the ICG’s representative in Seoul.
The North has been working on chemical weapons for decades and can deliver them through long-range artillery directed on Seoul which is home to about half of South.
If the globe were Kim Jong Il’s parents we would be accused of enabling him to act in such a manner. I’m sure you have heard of the parent that says to the child. “One more time! and your in big trouble!”. Well thats all we have been doing is threatening ‘one more time’. Its about time Kim Jong is put over the proverbial knee and spanked like the destructive spoiled brat he is!
He may not be a danger now, but neither were the infamous insane people in history before they gained steam. why are we allowing him to gain steam?!
With his chemical warfare intelligence, he is far too dangerous to himself and others to be allowed to get away with his defiances. (notice I pluralized)
Why on Gods earth do we need to see more photos. I think any thinking individual has a very good idea of what happened and do not need to see more. It has to be some kind of sick people that have the urge to look at more of this stuff. Go buy a magazine and save the rest of the world the torture of your deviated illness.
Middlebury College plans to remain open and keep a watch on the H1N1 virus and following recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO has raised the alert from a phase 4 to a phase 5 which is one step short of a global pandemic. They are watching other colleges and they are managing the mild outbreaks, so as of this hour by hour watch they will remain on their current plan of watch and wait.
There has been one possible but not confirmed case in Vermont in Orleans County from an unidentifyied person who had traveled to another state where there were confirmed cases. That person is said to be recovering well.
“From a scientific standpoint, this is a virus that is new to most people’s immune systems,” Peluso, director of the Health Center said. “In other words, we don’t have a lot of immunologic experience with this, and if you study pandemics, that has the potential to become severe and cause a lot of illness.”
Middlebury College student, Nate Woods ’11, remarked “I think that every couple of years somebody decides on some new disease to have a panic about,” Woods said. “It’s okay to have a big media frenzy – it’s fun, I guess – but I think it’s just this media fear culture. We have to have something to be afraid of. It’s never anything actually that bad here. Remember SARS? Remember West Nile Virus? Remember avian flu? Anthrax? Killer bees? I’m much more worried about MRSA, really.”
Santa Barbara, California has lost up to 500 acres with over 13,000 people that have had to evacuate due to the wide spread wildfires.
At least 20 homes have been destroyed including mansions in the coastal community’s foothills.
Still trying to get the fires under control is difficult while fighting the elements of 102 degree heat, low humidity and 60 mile an hour winds.
This come only 6 months after the Tea Fire destroyed about 200 homes in the Santa Barbara area.
985 cases of H1N1 has been confirmed in 20 countries. WHO,(World Health Organization), has claimed 26 of those fatal, including the one in the U.S.
As usual the media is making it into a mountain. What is going to happen is that if there ever IS a real danger, the people wont listen and then there is going to be big trouble.
Due to all the hype from the press there are people going into emergency rooms without any symptoms just to be tested for the flu. A cough or sneeze, people think they are going to die.
The H1N1 or swine flu is not something to ignore, that is what the CDC and WHO is for, to track it and keep a close eye on it, not the people. We are not trained to do that. All we need to do is wash our hands and take care of ourselves!
If you do get the flu, it is curable! Where was all this fear when AIDS was beginning?!
The people that need to worry are the ones with low or strained immune systems and they are also the ones that have to fear the common cold or any other infections. The elderly the young, the same as the flu we call ‘normal’ is in fact just as fatal if not treated.
First off we know where it came from. Second all the infections and or deaths have resulted from people traveling to Mexico City.. They now have a grip on the problem. So what is all the hype? The media selling papers and air space. And you are buying it.
If you want to be a bit nervous about things then think about the fall when the flu season hits, that is to be more dangerous than whats going on now. And even then, the flu is the flu take care of yourself, eat healthy, wash your hands! You don’t need to make an ass out of your self and wear a medical mask, they aren’t going to help anyway if the virus is present. For instance, if your wearing ‘the mask’, and you touch something that has the virus on it, a dirty hand, shopping cart etc, and then take your mask off, touching your face, you have the virus, so when I say wash your damn hands, that’s the key to keeping your self healthy!
See this is what I hate. Politicians are changing their stripes in the middle of the game. I am not a fan of Specter to start, but its making politics more confusing by the moment. Its like chess, Choosing black to start, when you find your not going to win, change it to white. AH, its just not right to flip over to grab the popular vote!
Of course he SAYS that his decision was made due to the constant disagreement with the Republican party, but he also threw in for good measure to show honesty, that he felt he wouldn’t win another election if he didn’t switch. So which are YOU going to believe is his true motive?
I’m going to the selfish fact that all he wants to do is win another election and knows the American public >You and ME< will be stupid enough to just let it go. Even tho he chose and has been playing one side of the chess game and has now switched to the winning team, and STILL harboring his same views! Bullshit is what I say! pure and unrefined Bullshit!
With everyone hyping up the swine flu on blogs and the news. I found two links that are down to earth and sane about whats going on.
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and WHO (World Health Organization), are the two areas where you are going to be informed with knowledge and truth. They update everytime there is need and if there are going to be warnings these are the sites to look at, not all the blogs and such looking for attention.
———————————— CDC/Swine Flu
On Monday the European Union’s health commissioner requested that people avoid traveling to Mexico and the United States. They are trying to contain what is looking like a world pandemic.
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