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Carrier Pigeon Code From World War 2 Era Stumps English Spy Agency

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A carrier pigeon's last wartime message has baffled the code breakers at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the spy agency in charge of signals intelligence.

The message consists of 27 handwritten blocks of five letters each, Phys.org reports. The note was attached to a pigeon whose skeletal remains were recently found by retired probation officer David Martin while doing work on his house in Surrey, England.

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Afghanistan Vet Adopts Bomb-sniffing Dog

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The Weather Channel Scott Brand Published: Nov 28, 2012, 2:40 PM EST Associated Press

In an Oct. 11, 2012 photo, Gage Lamothe and his bomb-sniffing black Lab, Willy, pose for a photo in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. -- When word recently arrived in the Sault that Willy was ready for adoption, Gage LaMothe didn't hesitate.

And a half-day of driving and 800 or so odd miles to Virginia wasn't going to stand in the way for this former member of the United States Marine Corps.

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Morgan Stanley CEO Pushes 'Fiscal Cliff' Bipartisanship As Bank Lobbies For Tax Breaks

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Huffington Post, Ben Hallman Posted: Updated: 11/28/2012 4:39 pm EST

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James Gorman, Morgan Stanley's chief executive, wrote a note to his 16,000 employees this week to urge them to pressure their elected congressional representatives to pursue a compromise to avert the looming financial budgetary crisis known as the "fiscal cliff."

But even as he called for a "balanced solution," lobbyists who represent Gorman's bank were fighting to preserve an exemption that allows the company to enjoy a lucrative tax break unavailable to most Americans.

 

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EMO observes intense volcanic activity on Pagan

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/29/12

November 29, 2012 – MARIANA ISLANDS – An intense volcanic activity was monitored by the CNMI Emergency Management Office and captured through satellite images from Nov. 24, 2012, to the present. The volcano has been emitting steam and gas since Friday, Nov. 24, 2012. The vog shows that it’s heading south from Pagan volcano. A gas plume from Pagan has been observed in MODIS satellite images. Minor steam and gas plumes from Pagan have been seen as well. It is possible that the plume could be followed by an ash emission; the presence of a gas plume does not necessarily indicate that eruptive activity will occur soon.

 

Kamchatka’s Plosky Tolbachik volcano erupts for first time in 36 years

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/29/12

November 29, 2012 – KAMCHATKA, Russia – The 3,085-meter Plosky Tolbachik volcano in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula is erupting for the first time in 36 years, according to reports of KVERT, the he volcano monitoring body for Kamchatka. The volcano is located on the peninsula’s eastern coast, 343 km from the region’s capital of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. A bulletin released Tuesday by the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT), as cited by The Voice of Russia, described a significant explosive eruption with the potential for ash explosions up to 10 km.

 

Indonesia’s Mount Lokon volcano erupts, spewing ash 3.5 km high

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/29/12

November 29, 2012 – INDONESIA – Mount Lokon volcano in North Sulawesi erupted on Wednesday, spewing ash up to 3.5 kilometers to the sky, without report of fatality and evacuation, officials said. Head of National Volcanology Surono said that the eruption took place at 10:05 local time (0205 GMT). He said that the agency had asked people living near the crater to be alert.

 

“We issued warning to the people living 2.5 kilometers from the crater,” Surono told Xinhua by phone. Spokesman of National Disaster Management and Mitigation Agency (BNPB) Sutopo Purwo Nugroho confirmed that there was no evacuation after the eruption. “There is still no need for evacuation,” he told Xinhua by phone. Indonesia, an archipelago country, is home to 129 active volcanoes. –Xinhua

 

Quasar sends energy blast 2 trillion times more powerful than Sun

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 11/29/12

November 29, 2012 – SPACE – Scientists have reported the largest blast of energy ever recorded from a far-off quasar, some two trillion times more energetic than the sun. The discovery may explain confusing discrepancies between the observed and predicted masses of black holes. Quasars are extremely bright galaxy cores, at the center of which sits a black hole. Their light is generated when material is sucked into that black hole, creating large amounts of energy.

 

 

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