There’s a new viral pneumonia spreading around Western Ukraine at an alarming rate, described as “rather serious”. While the world’s concerns center around H1N1 at the moment, this is seemingly a new type of flu (or as the article says, “flue”) that has already claimed lives and has enough people sick with spread potential that emergency meetings are being called and people are being advised to stay home.
Learn more about the scare here.
This past Monday, March 1st, an asteroid whizzed by Earth, flying between the Earth and the moon, just 66,000 km away from us. It was at least 65 feet wide (possibly more than double that), and was travelling 12 miles per second. Now that’s hardly an extinction level event, but it sure would hurt. One of those lands on a small town and we’ll start to remember to respect that which falls from the sky.
Here’s the full article.
According to Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D), America (and in turn the world) dodged political and economic collapse and turmoil last September. After an electronic half-trillion-dollar run at the banks in the space of an hour or two, the Treasury took some measures to resolve the matter, further described here, with an accompanying video.
Nothing can inspire a sharpening of pitchforks more than a global economic collapse, afterall, and the current economic situation is far from over. If this is truly a near-miss on the scale the man describes, then who knows what’s to come.
Time to buy some gold. Yarr.
