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Doug Ireland: What Le Pen-Muslim Alliance? (The Palestine Chronicle)

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:22:54 GMT

Why is the New York Sun publishing the unfounded fantasies of a toady of France's extreme right?

Instant Disaster notification

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:09:44 GMT

Dear Annunziato Alessandro:

The following information has just been received in GLIDEnumber.net (2006-02-17, 23:09):

Glide Number	Event	Country	Comment
MS-2006-000026-PHL	Mud Slide	Philippines	Hundreds of people were feared dead in the central Philippines after mudslides triggered by heavy rains buried houses and an elementary school packed with children on Friday, officials and witnesses said.

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Rumsfeld Pushes Media Front In Terror War (Broadcasting and Cable)

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:22:24 GMT

In a speech essentially establishing the importance of a wide-ranging, sometimes "non-traditional" media campaign in the war on terror, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday that the government must get better at communicating its message, and must not be discouraged by allegations it tried to buy favorable news in Iraq.

EMSC (M 3.1): Tsunami calculation: depth=-2970.401 - Central Mediterranean Sea

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:07:39 GMT

JRC Tsunami Wave Propagation

A calculation has been activate by the JRC Tsunami Alert System on the basis of an earthquake event published by EMSC.

The related event page on EMSC web site is: Event page

The calculation has been performed on the basis of the following parameters:

Location: Central Mediterranean Sea

Event Date Univ. Time:	Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:23:31 GMT
European Time of the event:	Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:23:31 CET (Brussels, Paris, Rome)
East America Time of the event:	Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:23:31 EST (New York, Washington)
West America Time of the event:	Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:23:31 PST (San Francisco, Los Angeles)
East Asia Time of the event:	Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:23:31 JTI (Tokyo)
The event occurred	44 minutes ago

Longitude=22.53
Latitude =34.92
Magnitude =3.1
Water Depth =-2971
-> Calculation performed, case: 1
Case 1: The epicenter is under water but the magnitude is too low, calculation not performed
Report

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