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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
The Latest flood-ravaged Houston: Death toll 31 as 6 more fatalities confirmed
Authorities say they have confirmed six more deaths from Harvey, bringing the toll to at least 31.
Harris County — which is home to flood-ravaged Houston — confirmed the additional deaths Wednesday night and said they still needed to do autopsies on another eight people to see if their deaths were storm-related.
The deaths announced Wednesday included a man who stepped on live electrical wire in floodwaters and an evacuee who was found unresponsive on a charter bus. Most of the other deaths were drownings.
9:10 p.m.
State officials say floodwaters from Harvey toppled two oil storage tanks in south Texas, spilling almost 30,000 gallons of crude.
Burlington Resources Oil and Gas reported the spills in DeWitt County to the Texas Railroad Commission on Wednesday. They include a 16,170-gallon (385 barrels) spill near the town of Westhoff and a 13,272 gallon (316 barrels) spill west of Hochheim. That’s an area about 150 miles west of Houston.
It was not immediately clear if any of the spilled oil was recovered. About 8,500 gallons (200 barrels) of wastewater also spilled.
Burlington Resources is a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips. Company representatives did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages seeking comment.
More damage to oil industry infrastructure is expected to emerge as floodwaters recede.
Source: The Latest: Death toll 31 as 6 more fatalities confirmed
Friday, August 18, 2017
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Donna Steele death: Cooktown on edge after mum’s shocking murder
It has been a week since the 42-year-old was last seen alive, and four days since her body, wrapped in material, was found in crocodile infested Isabella Creek about 12km from the home she shared with her husband and two small boys.
Her husband — who is not considered a suspect — was working away from Cooktown and returned home on Thursday to find her missing.
Heartbreakingly, her two boys, aged 8 and 10, came home from school on Wednesday and found their mum gone. They ate biscuits for dinner and put themselves to bed, and then got up and took themselves to school the next day.
Detective Inspector Geoff Marsh, who is leading the hunt for Ms Steele’s killer, said: “They’ve got themselves to school the next day, didn’t tell anyone at the school or any teacher what had happened.”
“You can only imagine” what the boys went through over that 24 hours “without their mother and not knowing what their future held for them,” he told media.
Ms Steele’s husband, a mechanic, raised the alarm on Thursday night and a desperate search began. It ended in tragedy when her body was found partly submerged in the creek close to the property of her close friends Rosyln Avard and Mark Sears. Both had been involved in the search for her.
The couple lived about 5km from where her body was found.
Source: Donna Steele death: Cooktown overrun by rumour in search for killer
Thursday, July 27, 2017
The Internet Explodes Over The New Yorker’s Bombshell Scaramucci Interview
“The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza published a jaw-dropping interview on Thursday with Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director, and Twitter absolutely ate it up.
Throughout the extensive interview, Scaramucci used a massive amount of obscenities while discussing White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. The conversation between the two happened after Lizza tweeted that he’d learned from an unnamed source that President Donald Trump would be dining with Scaramucci, former Fox News host Bill Shine and Fox host Sean Hannity. Scaramucci demanded Lizza tell him who revealed information about the dinner.
“I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it,” Scaramucci said, according to the article.
When Lizza insisted he would not reveal his source, Scaramucci went, to put it mildly, off the rails. He threatened to fire his entire communications staff, called Priebus a “paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” and suggested that Steve Bannon is self-serving to the point of fellating himself.
The New Yorker even created quote cards featuring some highlights. For instance…
Source: The Internet Explodes Over The New Yorker’s Bombshell Scaramucci Interview
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
‘I Think He’s Crazy’: GOP Senators Caught Talking About President Trump on a Hot Mic
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was accidentally recorded talking about President Donald Trump and the Texas Republican congressman Blake Farenthold during a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.
According to a spokesperson for Sen. Collins, someone sitting near her didn’t turn off the microphone. It’s currently unclear whose microphone was left on.
At the start of the recording, Collins speaks to Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who is the ranking Democrat of the subcommittee. The two discussed Trump’s federal budget, calling his administration’s handling of the budget “irresponsible,” according to the Washington Post.
“I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” Collins said, according to the Post. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”
“Yes,” Reed replied. “I think — I think he’s crazy,” he said, referring to the president, according the Post. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was accidentally recorded talking about President Donald Trump and the Texas Republican congressman Blake Farenthold during a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday.
According to a spokesperson for Sen. Collins, someone sitting near her didn’t turn off the microphone. It’s currently unclear whose microphone was left on.
At the start of the recording, Collins speaks to Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who is the ranking Democrat of the subcommittee. The two discussed Trump’s federal budget, calling his administration’s handling of the budget “irresponsible,” according to the Washington Post.
“I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” Collins said, according to the Post. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”
“Yes,” Reed replied. “I think — I think he’s crazy,” he said, referring to the president, according the Post. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”
Source: Susan Collins Mocks Blake Farenthold on Hot Mic | Time.com
Thursday, July 13, 2017
#BREAKING: 4 acid attacks in 90 mins in London have Scotland Yard scrambling to find riders
Metropolitan police police say the attacks involved a ‘corrosive’ substance being thrown in people’s faces.
The victims have all been taken to hospital. A spokesman said one has suffered ‘life-changing injuries’.
No arrests have been made.
The BBC reports one of the victims was a 32-year-old man riding a moped. He had acid thrown in his face when two men – also on a moped – pulled up alongside him in Hackney at about 10.25 local time. One of the riders then stole the victim’s moped.
Police say his injuries are serious, but are awaiting an update on his condition.
A second attack developed about 30 minutes later in Shorditch High Street. In this case, another person had acid thrown into their face.
Police say the injures are not likely to be life-changing.
Source: London pedestrians sprayed with acid from passing moped
Sunday, June 4, 2017
U.S. is among the dirtiest countries when it comes to heat-trapping carbon pollution.
Trump said the United States “will continue to be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on Earth” as he announced a U.S. pullout from an international accord designed to curb climate change.
But facts muddy that claim.
Data show that the U.S. is among the dirtiest countries when it comes to heat-trapping carbon pollution. One nation that has cleaner air in nearly every way is Sweden.
“The U.S. is well behind other countries in having the cleanest and most sustainable environment,” University of Michigan environmental scientist Rosina Bierbaum said in an email.
The U.S. emits more carbon dioxide than any other nation except China. In 2014, the U.S. spewed 237 times more carbon dioxide into the air than Sweden, according to figures by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
“On pretty much any climate-related indicator, the U.S. will not look good,” said Glen Peters, a Norwegian climate scientist who is part of the Global Carbon Project that ranks worldwide emissions.
The U.S. is No. 2 in per person carbon dioxide pollution, behind Luxembourg, among 35 developed nations plus China, India and Brazil, Energy Department data show. That’s 19.1 tons (17.3 metric tons) of carbon dioxide per year for the average American, compared with 4.9 tons (4.5 metric tons) for the average Swede.
Taking into account economics, the U.S. ranks 10th highest in carbon pollution per gross domestic product behind China, India, Russia, Estonia, Poland, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Mexico and Turkey, according to the International Energy Agency . The U.S. spews almost five times more carbon dioxide per dollar in the economy than Sweden…
…In some traditional air pollution measurements, the United States is cleaner than most nations, said William K. Reilly,
But “when the problem he is dealing with is carbon dioxide, we are notably not better than the rest of the world,” said Reilly, adding that Trump is “just wrong.”
Source: Environmental studies don’t support Trump’s ‘cleanest’ claim – ABC News
Sunday, April 30, 2017
BBC PODCAST – #F1 #RussianGP 🇷🇺Grand Prix Review
Source: BBC Radio 5 live – Chequered Flag Formula 1, Russian Grand Prix Review
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