Please buy carbon offsets for the Philippine volcano (Mayon Volcano about to erupt & spew CO2)
Monday 6th of September 2010 07:32:13 AM
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| While the environmentalists and climate change cultists were freezing their butts off worrying about saving the planet because of global warming and atmospheric pollution caused by carbon dioxide, the planet itself didn't seem to want to be saved. Or maybe the planet has to destroy itself to save itself. Or something. Anyway, off in the Philippines, Mount Mayon volcano has had a total of 248 volcanic quakes and tremors since Monday. In a statement, Phivolcs director Renato Solidum explained that 50 of these events were explosion-type, wherein minor explosions produced volcanic earthquakes and tremors. "However, only seven were observed during... |
Clan allied to Philippine president suspected of being behind massacre
Monday 6th of September 2010 07:32:13 AM
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| A powerful political clan allied to the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, is suspected of masterminding an election massacre that left 57 people dead, police said today. Four local commanders, including one provincial police chief, have already been relieved of their duties and confined to camp while being investigated for what the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called a "heinous crime". As the full extent of the carnage emerged, domestic and international pressure is growing on Arroyo to find and punish those responsible. In her first comments on the killings the president, who has declared a state of emergency in Maguindanao... |
Bomb Blast Near South Philippine Cathedral Kills 5 [12 Hours Ago]
Monday 6th of September 2010 07:32:13 AM
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| Suspected Muslim guerrillas detonated a bomb near a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding 46. The bomb exploded outside the Immaculate Conception cathedral in Cotabato city as churchgoers were attending Mass. Two people were killed instantly in the attack and three others, including a militiaman, later died in hospitals, military officials said. Among the wounded were six soldiers and militiamen who were in an army van that passed by the cathedral when the device, fashioned from a mortar round, exploded, Cotabato city Mayor Muslimin Sema said. The improvised explosive, which... |
Cpdrc Inmates do "Nobody" by the Wonder Girls! (Prison Entertainment: Filipino Style)
Monday 6th of September 2010 07:32:13 AM
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MFEFnRJC4k |
Top Philippine court rejects Muslim autonomy deal
Monday 6th of September 2010 07:32:13 AM
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| Top Philippine court rejects Muslim autonomy deal By OLIVER TEVES MANILA, Philippines (AP) The Philippine Supreme Court threw out on Tuesday a proposed accord to grant minority Muslims expanded autonomy after Christian protests and renewed fighting convinced the government to abandon the deal. The court had already blocked the planned Aug. 5 signing of the agreement after Christian politicians in the main southern region of Mindanao, scene of a decades-long Muslim rebellion, claimed it violated the constitution and could lead to the partition of the Philippines. The move angered Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas, who went on a rampage... |
Somali pirates hijack Philippines operated ship
Monday 6th of September 2010 07:32:13 AM
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| KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15, 2008 (AFP) - Somali pirates hijacked a Philippines-managed bulk carrier with 21 sailors aboard on Wednesday, a maritime watchdog said. Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau's (IMB) piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur, told AFP pirates boarded the vessel at 0344 GMT in the notorious Gulf of Aden. |




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