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U.N. Will Carry Out Its Second Emergency Airlift of the World’s Most Endangered Species, the Baby Gorillas, from the Democratic Republic of Congo

UN to airlift gorillas from DR Congo By the CNN Wire Staff June 6, 2010 5:39 a.m. EDT (CNN) — The United Nations will carry out a second airlift of baby gorillas, one of the world's most endangered species, from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The operation, planned for mid-July, will take the gorillas to a sanctuary where they will be cared for before being released into the wild, the U.N. said Saturday. The first such rescue was undertaken on May 27. Until now, the Congo Basin in Central Africa had been a rainforest refuge for gorillas and other apes. But the threats to the gorillas' survival are so acute that a study that predicted only 10 percent of the gorilla population will remain by 2030 is now considered too optimistic. A new U.N. report, released in March, said gorillas may go extinct in much of central Africa by the mid-2020s. The situation is especially critical in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There, militias have seized large chunks of gorilla land and logged and mined it. They have done so because the illegal trade in timber and in metals such as gold and coltan — used in cell phones — generates between $14 million and $50 million a year for them, the report says. As the militia fight the army, the insecurity in the region has driven thousands into refugee camps. Professional poachers have taken to providing “bush meat” — wild animal meat — to the refugees and to the workers in the mining and logging camps. And increasingly, that meat comes from apes, the report said. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01250/baby-gorilla_12501… added by: EthicalVegan

Gary Coleman Police Report — ‘Nothing Suspicious’

The police officer who responded to Gary Coleman’s home on the day he was hospitalized claims he observed “nothing suspicious” about the scene at the actor’s home, according to the police report. In the report, obtained by TMZ, Officer K Johnson from… Read more

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Garcelle Beauvais to Divorce Mike Nilon

After outing husband Mike as a cheater earlier this spring, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon is officially ready to ditch the second half of her hyphenated last name. In court documents unearthed by E! News, the actress filed for divorce from Mike Nilon, her husband of nearly nine years, citing irreconcilable differences. In April, she accused Mike of cheating on her in a furious email to colleagues at his CAA agency. Subject line: “Tiger Woods / Jesse James / Mike Nilon .” The message read: “What do they have in common. I found out today that MY husband of almost 9 yrs has been having an affair for 5 yrs with some slut in Chicago. I am devastated!!!! And I have been duped!! Our boys don’t deserve this!” No word on said slut’s ID. Mike Nilon has been likened to Tiger Woods and Jesse James. He would need far more mistresses for that to be a fair comparison, but he still sounds like an a$$ . The pair wed in 2001 and have 2-year-old twin sons Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas, born in 2007 just months after Playboy ‘s Garcelle Beauvais nude spread. Soon after her email went public, the former NYPD Blue star said: “My focus at this time is my kids and healing the pain. There will be no further comment.”

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Out of Miss World: Doug Reinhardt Dating Lane Lindell

Remember our report about Doug Reinhardt dating Miss USA Rima Fakih ? That was completely false. Yet not all that far off, really, in an odd way. Doug, a.k.a. Paris Hilton’s ex, a.k.a. Amanda Bynes’ ex, a.k.a. Lauren Conrad’s ex, a.k.a. that random former ballplayer guy from The Hills , is dating Miss World instead. A former Miss World, anyway. Reinhardt has been spending “every night” for the past few weeks with Lane Lindell, a beauty queen who held the esteemed crown in ’08. She’s getting a college education at the University of Georgia right now. Smart and pretty. Not bad for the latest notch on the bedpost of Doug Reinhardt … Will former Miss World Lane Lindell become Mrs. Doug Reinhardt?

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What do you think of Facebook’s privacy bungles? How can Facebook restore its image?

After a month of criticism about the continuous changes to Facebook's privacy policies, CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out and acknowledged the company had made mistakes. Will they be able to regain the trust of their users? Are users really that concerned about privacy? http://current.com/technology/92451007_facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-privacy-changes… added by: afitzgerald

Meth, Porn Used by Offshore Drilling Agency Staff

WASHINGTON – Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry. In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work, according to the report by the acting inspector general of the Interior Department. The report cites a variety of violations of federal regulations and ethics rules at the agency's Louisiana office. Previous inspector general investigations have focused on inappropriate behavior by the royalty-collection staff in the agency's Denver office. The report adds to the climate of frustration and criticism facing the Obama administration in the monthlong oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, although it covers actions before the spill. Millions of gallons of oil are gushing into the Gulf, endangering wildlife and the livelihoods of fishermen, as scrutiny intensifies on a lax regulatory climate. The report began as a routine investigation, the acting inspector general, Mary Kendall, said in a cover letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, whose department includes the agency. “Unfortunately, given the events of April 20 of this year, this report had become anything but routine, and I feel compelled to release it now,” she wrote. Her biggest concern is the ease with which minerals agency employees move between industry and government, Kendall said. While no specifics were included in the report, “we discovered that the individuals involved in the fraternizing and gift exchange — both government and industry — have often known one another since childhood,” Kendall said. Their relationships took precedence over their jobs, Kendall said. The report follows a 2007 investigation that revealed what then-Inspector General Earl Devaney called a “culture of ethical failure” and conflicts of interest at the minerals agency. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_washington added by: JohnA

Megan Fox Too Skinny For Transformers?

Well, that could be the case. According to The Sun newspaper in England, Megan Fox was fired from the third installment of the Transformer series after director Michael Bay voiced his concerns that she was too frail and gaunt looking. Megan denies the report, saying that Bay has been verbally abusive towards her and it was her decision to quit the film.

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32 People Died In A Road Accident In China

About 32 individuals were killed in a collision between two vehicles in China on Sunday. Base on the report of transport officials, the accident happened on a four-lane expressway in the city of Fuxin in northeastern Liaoning province, where an ongoing maintenance work is conducted at a section of the road. There were 21 injured and sent to the hospital for treatment. 28 people in the bus and 3 people in the truck died on the spot after the collision. According to a report, the truck’s driver had pulled out of service area on the side of the road and went in the wrong direction. Further investigation is still being conducted. 32 People Died In A Road Accident In China is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”. Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day. The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm). In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed. Even worse, according to this report, with higher water temperatures, like those now occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, its toxicity grows. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in discovering BP’s use of this dangerous dispersal agent ordered BP to stop using it, but BP refused stating that their only alternative to Corexit 9500 was an even more dangerous dispersal agent known as Sea Brat 4. The main differences between Corexit 9500 and Sea Brat 4 lie in how long these dangerous chemicals take to degrade into their constituent organic compounds, which for Corexit 9500 is 28 days. Sea Brat 4, on the other hand, degrades into an organic chemical called Nonylphenol that is toxic to aquatic life and can persist in the environment for years. A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to “phase transition” from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as “toxic rain” upon all of Eastern North America. Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting “toxic rain” falling upon the North American continent could “theoretically” destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top”. Note: For molecules of a liquid to evaporate, they must be located near the surface, be moving in the proper direction, and have sufficient kinetic energy to overcome liquid-phase intermolecular forces. Only a small proportion of the molecules meet these criteria, so the rate of evaporation is limited. Since the kinetic energy of a molecule is proportional to its temperature, evaporation proceeds more quickly at higher temperatures. As over 50 miles of the US State of Louisiana’s coastline has already been destroyed by this spill, American scientists are warning that the damage may be impossible to repair, and as we can read as reported by the Associated Press News Service: “The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire or flood areas in hopes of floating out the oil. They warn an aggressive cleanup could ruin the marshes and do more harm than good.” And to understand the full import of this catastrophe it must be remembered that this disaster is occurring in what is described as the “biologically richest waters in America” with the greatest amount of oil and toxic Corexit 9500 set to come ashore in the coming days and weeks to destroy it completely for decades to come. Reports are also coming from the United States that their government is secretly preparing to evacuate tens-of-millions of their citizens from their Gulf of Mexico States should the most dire of these scientific warnings start to come true. To the greatest lesson to be learned by these Americans is that their government-oil industry cabal has been just as destructive to them as their government-banking one, both of which have done more to destroy the United States these past couple of years than any foreign enemy could dare dream was possible. But to their greatest enemy the Americans need look no further than their nearest mirror as they are the ones who allowed these monsters to rule over them in the first place. www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1374.htm

Howard K. Stern Allegedly Threatens ‘Witness’

Filed under: Howard K. Stern , Anna Nicole Smith , Celebrity Justice Howard K. Stern has been accused of threatening a man whom South Carolina police call a “witness” in the Anna Nicole Smith drug trial … this according to a police report obtained by TMZ. According to the report, Mark Hatten — Anna’s ex-boyfriend –… Read more

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