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Secret Navy Seal Team Killed Osama Bin Laden

Details Emerge On Secret Navy Seal Team That Killed Osama Bin Laden

A Virginia Beach-based team of Navy SEALS is credited with finally bringing down Osama bin Laden, the man the United States (and, well, the world) has been trying to capture for years.

“Team Six” – a moniker given to the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (or DevGru, for short) – had been undergoing extensive training to ensure that their raids would unfold flawlessly, even practicing their skills in a replicated one-acre compound built on Camp Alpha. DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command and reports to the President, their missions and training always highly classified. In fact, Read more…

Amelia Earhart Clue Found

Scientific investigations have revealed that human DNA may be present in fragments of material that could provide crucial information about the fate of Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared 74 years ago while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to circle the world at the equator. Read more…

Jesse Bender, Forced Marriage in Pakistan

The parents of a California 13-year-old are under investigation after the girl told police she was being forced to go to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.

Jessie Bender, 13, from Hesperia, Calif., was last seen by her mother on Tuesday, February 22.
Melissa Bender, Jessie’s mother told KTLA that Jessie had been chatting with a man she met on Facebook, on the night she went missing.
“He was the last person she spoke to at 1:47 in the morning,” said Melissa. Read more…

Call PETA

Normally we at the Job Snob (there’s no ‘we’, just me) are all about the light hearted. But today there is no lightheartedness. Today there is only disgust that something like this could happen in my backyard.
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LSE director Howard Davies resigns

It is with great regret and reluctance that the Council of the London School of Economics and Political Science announces that it has accepted the resignation of Sir Howard Davies as Director. The Council has asked him to stay on until arrangements for a successor have been resolved.

The Council has commissioned an independent external inquiry into the school’s relationship with Libya and with Saif Gaddafi and into related matters. Read more…

wellington earthquake 4.7

A second earthquake in three days has hit the Wellington region overnight.

The magnitude 4.7 quake at 2.19am was recorded at a depth of 30km, 10km north-east of Upper Hutt, GNS Science reported. Read more…

cia world factbook 2011

The democratic revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and quite possibly Algeria, Jordan and Yemen could possibly be the biggest world-changing events of our burgeoning 21st century.

For those wishing to learn more, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) publishes online The World Factbook which is an excellent source of information on almost every country in the world. Read more…

luis moreno

Moamer Kadhafi and key aides will be probed over allegations they committed crimes against humanity while fending off the uprising in Libya, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said on Thursday.
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News Corp to sell majority in Sky News

”Sky News sell-off will ruin our ?lives, warn Guardian readers”

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he intends to accept News Corp’s plans to spin off Sky News to address concerns over its planned takeover of BSkyB.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is proposing a deal to place the news operation into a separate company.
The undertakings propose News Corp will hive-off the loss-making Sky News as an independent public limited company.

Shares in the company would be distributed among the existing shareholders of BSkyB, in line with their shareholdings. News Corp would retain a 39.1% stake in the new company.
The undertakings by News Corp, released by the Department for Read more…

amelia earhart dna test

amelia earhart dna test Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of Samuel “Edwin” Stanton Earhart (March 28, 1867) and Amelia “Amy” Otis Earhart (1869–1962),7 was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), a former federal judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in Atchison. This was the second child in the marriage as an infant was stillborn in August 1896.8 Alfred Otis had not initially favored the marriage and was not satisfied with Edwin’s progress as a lawyer.Earhart disappeared near the island in 1937 while flying around the world with navigator Fred Noonan. She was later declared dead. Read more…