Like Gus Chiggins, Queens resident Raffi Stepanian is a modern day prospector with humble dreams: to avoid coyotes, and find his fortune in the sidewalks of midtown Manhattan. Stepanian made waves last summer when he was interviewed by the Post about panning for bits of gold, platinum and rare gems in the Diamond District.
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By: Anna Mulrine CNBC News While the Pentagon is always planning for contingencies, it was particularly prescient in its choice of war games the week before North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il’s death. As one of its three possible doomsday scenarios, the U.S. Army selected “The collapse of North Korea” at its Unified Quest exercises.
By Bob Unruh WND News A Connecticut dad has accused an industry giant in education; Scholastic, of delivering Occupy Wall Street propaganda to his 4th grade daughter in her school classroom. The company’s response?
Tales of the Weird The Nahanni Valley of Canada’s Northwest Territories has been called one of the last truly unexplored places in the world. Lying above the 60th Parallel, it is accessible only by air, water or a long overland journey from the village of Tungsten. As a result, much of the area remains unexplored, despite being declared a national park in 1976, and a World Heritage Site in 1978.
FOX News A Queens man is very upset after trying to put his trash out for collection and ending up with a ticket.
Our government has recently passed the National Defense Authorization Act which pretty much allows the government to hold you without trial on the basis that they think you’re a terrorist! This is crazy.. Everyone needs to see what our government and lawmakers are doing to this country and it’s citizens! Now below is a very interesting photo which was released by Anonymous:
By Haaretz U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Monday that Iran will have a nuclear weapon within one year, if not less. Speaking in an interview with CBS Evening News, Leon Panetta said that it would probably take a year for Tehran to assemble a nuclear bomb, but said that one provision is if the Iranians have a hidden facility that “may be enriching fuel.”
By Agence France-Presse Raw-Story A US Army investigator said Monday that 10,000 State Department cables found on a computer used by Bradley Manning were apparently not passed on to WikiLeaks because they were in a corrupted file.
By Brent Rose Gizmodo Police cars of the very near future will be scary smart. Equipped with eight cameras, voice commands, incredibly intelligent software, and LTE radios, perps won’t get away with anything.
By Andrea Mustain Live Science One hundred years ago this week, on a fine summer afternoon, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and four travel-weary companions plunged a bright flag atop a spindly pole into the Antarctic ice, marking their claim as the first humans to set foot at the bottom of the world. The South Pole was theirs.
By Huffington Post Jules Manson, a failed Tea Party candidate for local office in California, recently called for the assassination of President Obama and his daughters in a racial epithet-ridden Facebook screed.
By Global Research New Russian strategic missiles invulnerable – RVSN commander -“It seems to me that as long as a stable mechanism of nuclear deterrence based on a threat to use nuclear weapons exists in the world, it should not be undermined, provoking a strategic offensive arms race.
Zerohedge.com Whereas previously we had heard extensive horror stories about banks being told to prepare for the end of the world in case the European summit (the latest and greatest one from last Friday which was supposed to find a cure for cancer among other things) failed, and even went so far as to read about preparations for trading in the drachma on a when issued basis, once the summit passed (and it was clear that media posturing would do nothing to fix what has already been a failure and it would be best to remove the threats of “reality”…
Published: December 30, 2003 The F.B.I. is warning the police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, saying the books could be used for planning terrorist attacks. In a bulletin sent to about 18,000 police organizations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said terrorists might use almanacs to assist with target selection and pre-operational planning.
By BARRACUDA The pineal gland (also called the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or the “third eye”) is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. It produces melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and photoperiodic (seasonal) functions.
Zazen-Life.com This is the face of Russia’s oil country, an inhospitable zone that experts say represents the world’s worst ecological oil catastrophe. The source: a decommissioned well whose rusty screws ooze with oil.
Fars-News Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Saturday that it has arrested an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Iran immediately after he started his spying activities inside the country.