Surfers Catches Of The Day.

"The Greek political class are utterly delusional if they believe that they can possibly manage to make the numbers add up.Greece is bankrupt-game over-and this will seen in the next month or so ".Patrick Young, Executive Director, D.V.Advisors.

From R.T. dated 25.08. 2012.

2.Danes are number one in global happiness.They are able to spend about two thirds of their hours sleeping, eating, taking care of themselves and just chilling out.
From The Telegraph,27.08.2012.

3.Pigeon fanciers are mystified after hundreds of birds disappeared in an area the locals now call' The Bermuda Triangle'.232 birds were released in Thirsk, North Yorkshire on saturday 25.08.2012. by a Scotish pigeon racing club. Only 13 returned. to Gashiels Selkirkshire.
The whole summer this year hundreds of birds have simply vanished in the same area.

4.The Israel defence Force's use of violence against children, including forcing them to act as human shields in military operations has been exposed by veteran soldiers in detailed statements giving details of dozens of brutal incidents.
The most disturbing trend relates to the wounding and killing of children in the occupied West Bank or Gaza by either targeted shooting or by failing to protect minors during military operations.
From, 'Breaking The Silence' video by Ruth Pollard.
From The Sydney Morning Herald, 27.08.2012.

How strange I have not seen this reported in any British newspaper.

5.A Nepali man who was bitten by a  cobra snake bit it back and killed the snake in a tit for tat revenge.
He said," I could have killed it with a stick, but I was angry , so I bit it.and killed it."
The man was not in danger of dying. This happened in Katmandu.
From NBC News. com on 23.09.2012.

6. 20 UFOS were seen over Quirindi, New  South Wales, Australia dropping down angel hair onto the ground as they flew overhead.People tried to pick the hair up, but it vanished into thin air.
From Paranormal,Weird News, Stories and beyond site, dated 27.08.2012.

7.A suggested sermon produced by the Church Of England for clerics attempting to tackle the stigma of mental health pulls no punches.It suggests that John The Baptist, St. Paul, St, Francis and others figures from the Bible may well have been mentally ill.They even wondered whether Jesus had mental health issues.
From the Daily Express dated 27.08.2012.
I don't think Jesus did, but his Father, in the Old Testament, certainly  said and did some very strange things.

8. U. S. troop casualties in Afghanistan.
After 8 years and 5 months into fighting, the first 1000 troop deaths was reached.
This translates into 9.9 soldier casualties per month.
27 months later, casualties surpassed 2000.
This translates into 37 deaths per month, or one casualty per day.
From The new York Times. From R.T. 27.08.2012.

British newspapers seem to have avoided this story for some unknown reason.

9. 40 % of the U.S. population, that is the 40 % less well off own 0.3%, that is three tenths of one percent of America's wealth.America's middle class have only 15.7% of the nations wealth.
Such an unequal distribution of income is unprecedented in the economically developed World.
Dan Ariely ( Duke University ) and Mike Norton ( Harvard University ) gave the figures.
From an article by Paul Craig Roberts dated 24.08.2012 in the Activist Post site.

10.According to a number of people on the internet, Mars is practically teeming with aliens.These people have produced photographs showing several alleged UFOs and other anomalies in the surrounding landscape.These were seen when NASA recently landed on the so called ' Red Planet'.
From the  Live Science site 27.08.2012.