Photo Credit: NASA, Satellite image of smoke and fires in western Russia
There has never been a summer like this. Never. Not once.” ~Ivan Tyurkin, Russian fisherman, nytimes.com
This has been one of the hottest summers on record, not just here but also in Russia, where folks are well prepared for the icy grip of freezing temperatures…Sweltering heat- not so much. (more…)
Photo Credit: Monica K. Smith, U.S. Army, Damaged bridge in the Swat valley in Pakistan on August 11th, 2010. The bridge was destroyed by flood waters.
I realize that many countries, including my own, are facing tough economic conditions… And we’ve also endured an unrelenting stream of disasters this year — from the earthquake in Haiti to the wildfires in Russia. But we must answer the Pakistani request for help.” ~Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, nytimes.com
Pakistan is experiencing a reportedly worse disaster than Haiti’s Earthquake, the Tsunami and the South Asian Earthquake put together. After 2 weeks of flooding and heavy rains an area the size of Italy or Florida is underwater and aid has been so slow there’s an outcry not just from flood victims, but from aid agencies. (more…)
The eggs are in cartons of six, 12 or 18 eggs and come from plants identified as P-1026, P-1413 or P-1946 and followed by a number from 136 to 225. The figures are stamped on the end of the carton. ~Reuters.com”
380 million eggs are being recalled nationwide now due to a salmonella outbreak. Hundreds have gotten sick already in California, Colorado and Minnesota over the last three months according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No deaths have been reported. (more…)
Not to imply stores get robbed a lot in Brooklyn, but if they do here’s one that doesn’t.
This store has organizers, not owners because it’s ownerless. It’s also customerless. It has no official store hours and its door are not only never closed, they’re never locked. (more…)
The soft spoken Somali-Canadian rapper K’naan was interviewed on PBS’ Need To Know where he told the story of his traumatic departure from Somalia to world fame at the World Cup and a #1 hit in 16 countries with “Wavin’ Flag”. (more…)
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.- Frederick Douglass
In a letter, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, members of Parliament in Europe, Canada and the Philippines, scholars, journalists and activists from the international communtiy and Haiti urged French president Nicholas Sarkoy (above) to give reparations money back to Haiti. Post earthquake international aid has been given in the millions when billions were promised to the ailing nation. (more…)
“Murder Weapon” is a reworking of the classic dancehall hit from Jamaican-born Echo Minott, originally released in the early ’90s. Tricky’s “Murder Weapon” has a dark, slick, modern update on the “Oh Carolina” riddim of the original Shaggy made popular. (more…)
Space has been in the news a lot lately. NASA recently celebrated a birthday and overrated producer Dr. Dre said he wants to geek out with an interplanetary instrumental album. (more…)
