Published by admin on 10 Sep 2008
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there has been a 6.1 magnitude quake in Southern Iran near Bandar-e Abbas (specifically at 27.160°N, 55.820°E).
Sources: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LA218124.htm and http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2008wua9.php
Keywords: Bandar-e Abbas, Iran, Southern Iran, earthquake, Reuters, USGS
Published by admin on 07 Sep 2008
The U.S. Treasury expects to purchase $5 billion of mortgage backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac within the next month as part of its takeover of the mortgage finance giants.
Source: Reuters
Published by admin on 05 Sep 2008
This is really irritating to the Russians (heheh)…
“The new promises to Tbilisi relating to the speedy membership of NATO simply strengthen the Saakashvili regime’s dangerous feeling of impunity and encourages its dangerous ambitions,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told reporters.
Nesterenko said the arrival in a Georgian port of the USS Mount Whitney, a sophisticated command warship, may breach a 1936 convention on naval activity in the Black Sea, but he ruled out any military action by Russian forces over its presence.
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(Excerpt–read it all at Reuters)
Published by admin on 15 Aug 2008
Very interesting discovery (article by Miguel Angel Gutierrez, Reuters via MSNBC)…
Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.
Clad in scuba gear and edging through narrow tunnels, researchers discovered the stone ruins of eleven sacred temples and what could be the remains of human sacrifices at the site in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Archeologists say Mayans believed the underground complex of water-filled caves leading into dry chambers — including an underground road stretching some 330 feet — was the path to a mythical underworld, known as Xibalba.