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  • Another widespread severe weather threat with strong tornadoes to impact 48M in central US Tuesday

    04/03/2023 7:12:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 04/03/2023 | Brian Donegan, FOX Weather
    For the second time in four days, a widespread severe weather threat with strong tornadoes is expected to impact some 48 million people across more than a dozen states from the Midwest to the South on Tuesday. Some of the areas facing this next threat of severe storms and tornadoes include those that were just struck by a deadly multi-state tornado outbreak on Friday. Tuesday’s severe weather will be associated with the same storm system that will also spawn an early-April blizzard across parts of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest early this week. The weather pattern responsible for Tuesday’s...
  • New York sues Donald Trump, company and family members over widespread fraud claims, seeks at least $250 million in penalties

    09/21/2022 8:40:23 AM PDT · by Levy78 · 65 replies
    CNBC ^ | 9/21/22 | Staff
    New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday sued former President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, three of his adult children, and others for allegedly widespread fraud involving false financial statements related to the company.
  • Widespread disbelief over North Korea’s tiny COVID death rate

    05/27/2022 1:15:01 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    Nypost ^ | 05/27/2022 | AP
    According to North Korea, its fight against COVID-19 has been impressive: About 3.3 million people have been reported sick with fevers, but only 69 have died. If all are coronavirus cases, that’s a fatality rate of 0.002%, something no other country, including the world’s richest, has achieved against a disease that has killed more than 6 million people.
  • Stanford study suggests coronavirus is more widespread than realized

    04/17/2020 11:02:46 AM PDT · by a little elbow grease · 84 replies
    spectator.us ^ | 4/17/20 | Ross Clark
    If SARS-Cov-2 is already endemic in the population, there is nothing we can do to stop it — but no great reason to try to stop it, either Another day, and yet more evidence has appeared that could indicate the number of people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, might be vastly higher than official figures suggest. This time a Californian study suggests the figure in one county could be more than 50 times the number who knew they had had the virus. A team from Stanford University and other colleges recruited volunteers in Santa...
  • Priest abuse hotline gets 400-plus calls in wake of report

    08/20/2018 1:14:04 PM PDT · by markomalley · 20 replies
    Prosecutors say a hotline set up to get information on child sexual abuse by clergy within Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses has received more than 400 calls over the past six days. A spokesman for the attorney general’s office said Monday agents are returning all calls and assessing the facts. Spokesman Joe Grace says the agents will have to consult with the office’s lawyers to determine whether any claims warrant investigation.
  • 'Widespread methane leakage' from ocean floor off US coast

    08/24/2014 6:59:06 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 72 replies
    BBC News ^ | 8/24/14 | Matt McGrath
    Researchers say they have found more than 500 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the US east coast. The unexpected discovery indicates there are large volumes of the gas contained in a type of sludgy ice called methane hydrate. There are concerns that these new seeps could be making a hitherto unnoticed contribution to global warming. The scientists say there could be about 30,000 of these hidden methane vents worldwide. Previous surveys along the Atlantic seaboard have shown only three seep areas beyond the edge of the US continental shelf.
  • Widespread Jihad in Thailand: Islamic bomb attacks continue hundreds more casualties 15 dead, 500+

    04/01/2012 9:55:30 AM PDT · by Nachum · 14 replies
    Atlas Shrugs ^ | 4/1/12 | Pamela Shrugs
    SONGKHLA, April1 - Thailand's national police chief Priewpan Damapong confirmed on Sunday that the explosion in the underground parking of Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel on Saturday was caused by a car bomb linked to bombings in Yala. Yesterday's Muslim bomb attacks in Thailand continue and were far more deadly than originally reported. Thailand: More attacks & hundreds more casualties than originally reported, 15 dead, 500+ injured, dozens critical. No major media is covering this war on Thailand. I have seen nothing in the States in this. Atlas reader RV in Thailand reports: "The Muslim attacks yesterday (Saturday March 31st) inflicted...
  • EPA: California waters show widespread pollution ("problem worse than we thought it was.")

    10/16/2011 9:21:54 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 43 replies
    SFGate.com ^ | 10/16/11 | Pete Fimrite
    Those bracing dips in the local lake or river may not be as healthy as they were cracked up to be judging by a new list of polluted waterways released last week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Recent tests have found more toxic material, bacteria and pollution in California rivers, streams, bays and lakes than has ever been documented before, according to the federal agency. The study shows a 170 percent increase in the number of waterways showing toxicity in 2010 compared with 2006, the last time the study was done. Less than half of the state's lakes, bays...
  • 'Widespread fraud' in California's smog test program

    02/25/2010 9:59:20 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 38 replies · 920+ views
    LA Times ^ | 2/25/10 | Margot Roosevelt
    Nearly a third of older-model cars stopped for roadside smog tests in Southern California failed them, despite having received a passing grade at inspection stations within a year, a state audit has found. The results of those surprise inspections of 6,000 models manufactured before 1996 have led law enforcement officials to crack down on unscrupulous stations, step up fines and file more criminal charges. Legislation introduced in the California Assembly this week would allow the state to bar low-performing test stations from conducting smog checks. "We found widespread fraud in the program," said Leo Kay, spokesman for the California Air...
  • Cattle shown to align north-south

    08/25/2008 8:59:10 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 38 replies · 1,710+ views
    BBC ^ | 8/25/08 | Elizabeth Mitchell
    Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.
  • Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud(could be widespread as Repubs charged)

    04/10/2007 11:13:04 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 35 replies · 1,721+ views
    NYT ^ | 04/11/07 | IAN URBINA
    Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud By IAN URBINA WASHINGTON, April 10 — A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times. Instead, the panel, the Election Assistance Commission, issued a report that said the pervasiveness of fraud was open to debate. The revised version echoes complaints made by Republican politicians, who have long suggested that voter fraud is widespread and justifies the voter identification laws...
  • Millions face hunger from climate change - UN: Climate change could cause widespread food shortages

    04/10/2007 12:18:41 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 51 replies · 946+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/10/07 | Michael Casey - ap
    BANGKOK, Thailand - Warming temperatures could result in food shortages for 130 million people across Asia by 2050 and cause potentially catastrophic problems in Africa, wiping out one of the continent's staple crops altogether, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. Climate change threatens the ecologically rich Great Barrier Reef and sub-Antarctic islands, and could melt the snow on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A summary of the full, 1,572-page document written and reviewed by 441 scientists was released Friday. The latest document, the second of four reports including the...
  • Retired Officers' Critical Views Not Widespread, DoD Spokesman Says

    04/17/2006 4:41:30 PM PDT · by SandRat · 11 replies · 444+ views
    WASHINGTON, April 17, 2006 – Recent criticism voiced by a half dozen retired generals over Iraq war planning does not reflect the mainstream views of the officer corps, a senior Defense Department official told Pentagon reporters today. "There are a handful of officers that have exercised their right to speak their mind, and certainly that's their right to do that," DoD spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Brushing aside a reporter's suggestion there's widespread disagreement among senior officers over Iraq war planning, Whitman said there are thousands of active duty, reserve component and retired general officers from all of the armed services....
  • Abuse Widespread In Islamic Schools, Says Muslim Leader (UK)

    03/22/2006 6:08:19 PM PST · by blam · 14 replies · 534+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 3-23-2006 | Jonathan Petre
    Abuse widespread in Islamic schools, says Muslim leader By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 23/03/2006) A respected Muslim leader has called for tougher regulations to tackle "widespread" child abuse in Islamic religious schools. Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, the head of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, said yesterday that the 700 or so madrassas in Britain were "outside the law". He was speaking at the launch of a report about the dangers facing some of the 100,000 children who attend the institutions, which are usually attached to mosques and are the Islamic equivalents of Sunday schools. The Department for Education said...
  • UN investigator says torture widespread in China, but praises Beijing

    11/21/2005 8:36:42 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 492+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 11/21/05 | AFP - Beijing
    BEIJING (AFP) - The UN's chief torture investigator has praised China's leaders for acknowledging the widespread abuse of prisoners in the nation's jails, as he begins a historic 12-day fact-finding mission. Manfred Novak, the UN Human Rights Commission's special rapporteur on torture, said Beijing had offered him freer access to detainees than the United States was prepared to give him on a recently scrapped trip to Guantanamo Bay. "There is a growing awareness that torture is quite widely practised in the common criminal proceedings (in China) by the police and that something needs to be done," Nowak said in an...
  • Officers Feared Abuse Of Iraqi Civilians By British Soldiers 'Was Widespread' (UK)

    01/19/2005 5:44:51 PM PST · by blam · 2 replies · 390+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-20-2005 | Michael Smith
    Officers feared abuse of Iraqi civilians by British soldiers 'was widespread' By Michael Smith in Osnabruck (Filed: 20/01/2005) Evidence of more widespread abuse of Iraqi civilians emerged yesterday at the court martial of three British soldiers accused of involvement in the physical and sexual abuse of prisoners. British military commanders were so concerned at the number of allegations that British troops were mistreating civilian detainees that they issued fresh guidelines warning soldiers about mistreatment of prisoners. L/Cpl Darren Larkin standing on a prisoner The incidents in which the three defendants were allegedly involved have been shown in several photographs released...
  • PLEASE! STOP POSTING SAME MESSAGE ON ALL BOARDS!

    08/16/2002 7:39:49 AM PDT · by Merchant Seaman · 754 replies · 30,137+ views
    Annoyed Reader
    The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!