Strange Things At Nuemeyer Station! Recorded December 17, 2011
There is no sound so that you can focus on the video subject matter.
What do you think is going on with our sun?
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Link Webcam Nuemeyer Station: www.awi.de/NM_WebCam
Source and author: BeePeeOilDisaster (youtube)
Posted in Earth Weather Space
Strange object in the sky over Cooloongup, Western Australia – Dec 16, 2011
Witness: I had a hard time keeping up with the object. It was moving pretty fast and I was in shock so the footage was a bit shaky.
What is this?
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A similar object was recorded over Cape Coral, Florida, December 13, 2011
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Source and author: AustralianPhenomena * GlobalUFOs (youtube)
Posted in UFO and Extraterrestrial
A boat carrying more than 250 of migrant workers from Iran,Afghanistan and Turkey, capsized and sank in waters off Prigi, East Java, on Saturday, lacked safety equipment, resulting in a mad scramble for just 19 available life vests on board, the head of the search and rescue team dispatched the accident said on Sunday and so far only 33 people have been rescued.
The doomed ship had 25 life jackets on board, but six of them taken by the ship’s crew, leaving the hundreds of panicking passengers to fight amongst themselves for the remaining 19 life jackets.
The accident, which was initially thought to have been caused by rough seas, might have also been caused by the fact that the ship had too many passengers aboard. The ship’s maximum capacity was 100 passengers.
Bad weather and waves of up to five metres (16ft) hampered rescue efforts on Sunday, with 300 rescuers including navy and police officers searching the sea for bodies.
One survivor, 17-year-old Afghan student Armaghan Haidar, said he was sleeping when a storm came up and began to rock the boat.
“I felt water touching my feet and woke up. As the boat was going down, people were panicking and shouting and trying to rush out,” he told reporters.
“I managed to swim out and hang on to the side of the boat with about 100 others.
“(There were) about 20 to 30 others with life jackets, but another 100 people were trapped inside,” he said.
The student said he flew from Dubai to Indonesia and boarded a boat in West Java. ”We want to go to Christmas Island and live a better life in Australia,” he said. “There is nothing in Afghanistan. There’s a lot of terrorism. We couldn’t study, go to college, find jobs. There’s no future for us there.”
According to local officials most of the passengers came from Afghanistan or Iran, paying agents between $2,500 and $5,000 to seek asylum in Australia.
Thousands of asylum-seekers head through Southeast Asian countries on their way to Australia every year and many link up with people-smugglers in Indonesia for the dangerous sea voyage.
Christmas Island is a favoured destination for people-smugglers, lying closer to Indonesia than it does to Australia. Many boats run into trouble as they are either badly maintained, overcrowded or both. Nearly 50 would-be migrants are believed to have died in wild seas during a shipwreck at Christmas Island in December 2010.
Australia’s government called the sinking “a terrible tragedy”, but came under pressure from campaign groups which said its tough approach to refugees was partly responsible for such disasters.
Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard recently agreed a deal where asylum seekers wishing to live in Australia would have their claims processed in Malaysia. In return, Malaysia sent a number of legitimate refugees to Australia.
The Australian high court, however, overturned the plan leaving the country’s asylum policy in disarray.
The number of boatpeople arriving in Australia increased to almost 900 in November, with at least nine ships intercepted in Australian waters so far this month.
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Posted in World War Freedom
Flash floods triggered by a tropical storm in the southern Philippines have killed, as so far, more than 440 people and left many more missing, officials say.
Many of the victims were asleep when it struck Mindanao island, hitting the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro. Tens of thousands of people have fled to higher ground, the authorities say.
Benito Ramos, head of the national disaster rescue agency, said reports were still coming in and the casualty figures could rise. Mr Ramos said the floodwaters had risen alarmingly fast overnight as people slept.
“Massive flooding had been reported over the region, especially in Iligan City and Cagayan de Oro City,” he said Rivers burst their banks after 25mm of rain fell in 24 hours.
The Philippine National Red Cross Secretary General Gwen Pang said at least 430 people had been killed. She said 215 people had been killed in Cagayan de Oro and 144 in Iligan.
Large areas were left without power and some domestic flights were cancelled as winds of up to 90 km/h (55mph) swept across the island. A landslide killed at least five people in the east of the island, the national disaster agency said.
A military spokesman, Colonel Leopoldo Galon, said an entire army division – some 10,000 soldiers – was involved in the rescue efforts around Cagayan de Oro.
Forecasters said the eye of Tropical Storm Washi had passed close to Dipolog City, west of Iligan City, early on Saturday and it was now heading out into the Sulu Sea search for bodies.
Floods had swamped a quarter of Iligan and at least 10 villages on its outskirts, said the city’s mayor, Lawrence Cruz.
“It’s the worst flood in the history of our city,” Mr Cruz told GMA television. “It happened so fast, at a time when people were fast asleep.” The coast guard and other rescuers were scouring the waters off the coastal city for survivors or bodies, he added.
GMA television broadcast dramatic footage of a family escaping their flood-hit home by climbing through a window.
Rescue workers were pictured helping survivors to safety in chest-deep floodwater.
Three people also drowned in Polanco town in Zamboanga del Norte province, said provincial disaster officer Dennis Tenorio. He said high winds had toppled trees.
The storm is set to hit the western island of Palawan later on Saturday, after crossing the Sulu Sea with winds of up to 75 km/h, according to state weather forecasters.
The Philippines are struck by about 20 major storms every year but most of them take a more northerly track, hitting Luzon island.
Mr Ramos said Washi’s toll may have been so high because Mindanao residents are unaccustomed to catching the full force of such storms.
He said officials had given four days of warnings that the storm was approaching but many people had chosen not to evacuate their homes.
Typhoons Nesat and Nalgae battered the country within days of each other in September, leaving more than 100 people dead. Both storms struck Luzon.
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Posted in Earth Weather Space
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