Entry #17 - April, 14, 2014

Ukraine crisis: What now?

April, 14, 2014

Jonathan Marcus

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27022419

Tensions are at their highest in Sloviansk, in Donetsk region, where armed men seized a police station and other government buildings on 12 April and have since declared themselves to be part of a new "Donetsk People's Republic". Pro-Russian militia completely surrounded the town with checkpoints and there have been fatal clashes. It is, like many cities in the east, a mainly industrial town, and has a population of around 130,000. It is 100km (60 miles) from Donetsk and just 15km (9 miles) from Kramatorsk, which has also seen buildings seized by armed men of military-style appearance and organisation.

A group of camouflaged men armed with automatic weapons stormed a police headquarters in the city late on Saturday and have since built a barricade to prevent it being recaptured. Nato said the military appearance and organisation of the armed men indicated Russian military involvement. It is 70km (45 miles) north of the region's administrative centre Donetsk. Another city with industry and engineering at its heart, a wind turbine production facility was opened in the city a few years ago.

Entry #16 - April, 14, 2014

Asian air pollution strengthens Pacific storms

April, 14, 2014

Rebecca Morelle

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27027876

The weather is getting worst and worst all over the world. Beijing is one the city that surround in a bad weather. 

The effect was most pronounced during the winter.

The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Lead author Yuan Wang, from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, said: "The effects are quite dramatic. The pollution results in thicker and taller clouds and heavier precipitation."

Air pollution are threatening people in China. It's just look like you are living in the sky. Dust covers the sky, our human eyes can through anything. There are too many factories in China. No one seems really care about our land. Too many cars make a lot of traffic air pollution. However, more and more people are aware that if we want to success, we must have a good body to support. People start doing some exercises during the day. By the way, what you see on the picture is real.

Entry #15 - April, 14, 2014

A Life of Hate: Kansas Shooting Suspect Thrived on Extremism

April, 14, 2014

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/jewish-center-shootings/life-hate-kansas-shooting-suspect-thrived-extremism-n79891

The 73-year-old former Green Beret and Ku Klux Klan member accused of killing three people at two Jewish centers in Kansas has a long history of hate-fueled behavior and violent threats, including repeated tangles with authorities and civil rights groups.

In the name of white supremacy, Frazier Glenn Cross has organized armed militias, stockpiled military weapons and plotted to kill the founder of the Southern Law Poverty Center, which sued him in 1984 for trying to intimidate blacks in North Carolina.

Cross, a Vietnam veteran, served three years in federal prison for weapons-related offenses in the 1980s, according to the SPLC, which maintains a dossier on him.

But while Cross made a career of sinister activity, apparently he never -- until now -- was charged with personally carrying out any violent attacks.

Cross was arrested Sunday, on the eve of Passover, after allegedly shooting to death a 14-year-old Eagle Scoutand his 69-year-old grandfather at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City campus in Overland Park then gunning down a 53-year-old children's center worker at Village Shalom, a nearby retirement community.

Entry #14 - April, 14, 2014

Chile forest fire kills 12, destroys 1,000 homes

April, 14, 2014

The Associated Press

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chile-forest-fire-kills-12-destroys-1-000-homes-1.2608499

A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in Valparaiso, Chile throughout the night and day on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and destroying at least 1,000 homes. More than 10,000 people were evacuated, including more than 200 female inmates at a prison.

And with hot dry winds stoking the embers, some of the fires broke out again and were burning out of control as a second night fell.

The blaze began Saturday afternoon in a forested ravine next to ramshackle housing on one of the city's 42 hilltops, and spread quickly as hot ash rained down over wooden houses and narrow streets that lack municipal water systems. Electricity failed as the fire grew, with towering, sparking flames turning the night sky orange over a darkening, destroyed horizon.

This year many things happened sadly, Kunming terror attack, Ukraine's protests, MH370, Chile earthquake, and Chile forest fire. Some of them, we should've prepared for it. Forest fire is destroying the environment. Also, it killed 12 and 1000 homeless. Who is going to pay the price for this? Government? 

Entry #13 - April, 14, 2014

Nigeria bomb blast kills 71 in capital city Abuj

April, 14, 2014

The Associated Press

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nigeria-bomb-blast-kills-71-in-capital-city-abuja-1.2609084

A massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria's capital, killing at least 71 people and wounding 124 in a bombing that marked the bloodiest extremist attack ever in Abuja. Survivors were screamed and cried. It was horrible. 

Another terror attack in the world, 2014 is a time of change and turbulence. These tragedies were the revenges from people to their government. In many places all over the world, government controls everything in that area. Many people cannot find a good place to live, cannot find a job to make money. They started to be disappointed, then became anger. Who are these victims? Innocent people!