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news stories- lots of ufos and lots of awesome

Some late arrivals for X-day? Sorry, guys. The beer is all gone.
Did you spot the mysterious lights over Sheffield?
Tens of People Witnessed UFO in Kaliningrad
Our garden was buzzed by a UFO!
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE! MY UFO EXPERIENCE: UFO Taped Over Topanga Canyon!

Yesterday I gave you jetpacks. Today it’s flying cars. Is that awesome? (yes/yes)
Transition roadable-plane/flyable-car prototype on show

Yesterday I gave you Sasquatch. Today it’s Yeti. Is Yeti awesome? (yes/yes)
‘Yeti hairs’ examined

Space is awesome too.
Cracks Appear In Ice Under Mars Lander
NASA Craft To View Solar System’s Invisible Frontier

At the edge of our solar system in December 2004, the Voyager 1 spacecraft encountered something never before experienced during its then 26-year cruise through the solar system — an invisible shock formed as the solar wind piles up against the gas in interstellar space. This boundary, called the termination shock, marks the beginning of our solar system’s final frontier, a vast expanse of turbulent gas and twisting magnetic fields.

Are crazy Russians with multi-barrel grenade launchers awesome? Depends which end of the launcher you’re on. This one earns a rare and coveted “mayhem” tag.
How to beat sea piracy: put grenade launchers on boats

OK, so the Arctic is definitely awesome. But militarizing it and digging it up for oil are not. Neither is global warming. Sorry, kids. Not everything can be awesome all the time.
Arctic sheds huge chunks of ice
Announcement: Arctic Oil Won’t Eliminate Our Energy Needs!

A separate USGS study estimates that a billion-barrel Arctic oil field would cost about USD37 per barrel to produce, plus about USD3 per barrel in exploration costs. It costs about USD2 per barrel to pump oil from the ground in Saudi Arabia and USD5 to USD7 per barrel in Venezuela and Azerbaijan.

And here are more well-armed Russians:
Russian warships resume patrols of the Arctic sea

And finally, just to keep it balanced, things that really suck:
Blackwater May Have Fudged Numbers to Get $100M in Contracts
Flint seeks sponsors for police surveillance cameras; some question whether it’s appropriate

news headlines – crime stories and outer space

Dangerous criminals are loose upon the land:
Police arrest man accused of taking 42 cents from mall fountain

More updates on this one:
SF mayor gets codes to hijacked city network
Inside the mind – and config – of Terry Childs

Space News:
Joint Manned Spacecraft Unveiled
European Probe Swings Close by Martian Moon
Here’s an older picture of Phobos from Mars Express:

NASA, USDA Sign Space Station Research Agreement
And this one is sort of vague and ambiguous, yet makes me think I should be preparing to smash things up:
Celestial Marketing Set to Take Brands to New Heights: Start-Up Agency Boasts New Space Advertising Model

And the usual other crap:

US diplomat says order must return to ‘lawless’ northern Kosovo

Blackwater’s All-Seeing Airships

This one doesn’t say much that’s new, but it’s interesting to get the Lloyd’s view:
Protecting against the modern-day pirates

As levels of piracy rise, so ship owners can expect insurance premiums to go up, with Ken Alston of risk specialist Marsh saying this was an eventuality to be ‘expected’. He added that the scale of the additional premium being charged at the moment is ‘unlikely to have an impact on the consumer’ but if the number of incidences increases, this may change. In May 2008, the Joint War Committee added the Gulf of Aden, located between Somalia and Yemen, to a list of places at high threat of hull war, strikes, terrorism and related perils. It is now comparable to the likes of Iraq in terms of insurance risk, according to the committee.

news stories – a pirate story every day or your money back!

Separated at birth?

Radovan Karadzic, the butcher of Bosnia, vs. Cesare Bonizzi, the heavy metal monk.

New Project to Develop GPS-Like System for the Moon

He described incidents during past lunar missions when astronauts were traveling to a target site such as a crater, and got within a few yards of it — but couldn’t see the crater because of difficult terrain.

“They were so close, but they had to turn back for safety’s sake,” he said.

Canada’s spreading cannabis crop

Somali pirates seize Japanese ship

US troops train Georgians amid tension
Georgia says S.Ossetia ‘kidnaps’ were arrests by police

Kosovo moves to issue passports

Blackwater Plans Exit From Guard Work
A cynic might wonder if they’ll just shift the security operations to a different subsidiary, or maybe a corporation that’s not legally connected at all, and keep a lower profile. Do you know a cynic like that?

Advertising: A Product’s Place Is on the Set
Read the article, folks. It’s about product placement on the news.

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Billboards That Look Back

“Reality against Kosovo energy fantasy”

Putin backs Abkhazia autonomy, Russian troops sent

Air Force Unit’s Nuclear Weapons Security Is ‘Unacceptable’
This is the same unit that accidentally flew 6 warheads across the country last year.

Telekom Accused of Tracking Journalists’ Mobile Phone Signals