Human Interest

While global stock markets fail to rebound from recent lows, the US military is using every available distraction to build up the military presence in Iraq, and as the US defense secretary admitted moments ago:

• CARTER SAYS 3,700 U.S. `BOOTS ON THE GROUND' IN IRAQ TODAY

Considering a typical battalion has anywhere between 300 and 800 soldiers, at what point does the Pentagon stop calling it the politically palatable "boots on the ground" and start calling it what it really is: an army?

Two women from Napier, New Zealand have been arrested after it was revealed that they each performed separate vampire attacks over the weekend. In one incident a woman took a bite out of a man’s neck in the aptly named Thirsty Whale pub. The victim lost so much blood he had to be taken to hospital. Earlier on the same day, police were called to an incident in the car park of a supermarket after reports of a woman biting another female were received. Yahoo News reports: Police said the woman had stepped in after her brother became involved in a fight with another man.

EXPLOSIVE claims have emerged that conspiracy author David Icke may have LIED about his knowledge of Jimmy Savile’s predatory paedophilia and necrophilia, to the point of being COMPLICIT in the media establishment’s cover-up of the notorious former BBC star’s HEINOUS CRIMES. His timeline of events is highly suspect – as an important BBC employee from the late 1970s and right through to 1990 it is most likely that he learnt about Savile in the late 1970s or early 1980s and was part of the great BBC COVER UP. This certainly isn’t the version of events David Icke would have you believe.

A study has revealed that dogs have the ability to read human faces, particulalrly the eyes, and dismiss non threatening expressions. They react differently to threatening expressions however depending on whether it’s coming from a human or another dog Dogs have grown to trust humans through domestication and think that they are all soppy and easy to please, therefore not worth a second glance when it comes to untoward behavior from a Homosapien.

Amur the Siberian tiger and Timur the goat had been best buddies, sharing an enclosure in a Russian safari park, but they have now fallen out. The unlikely pals have been captivating animal lovers since November, after the goat was placed in the tiger’s enclosure as a meal. The pair are now being kept in separate enclosures after a fight broke out this week according to the Primorsky Safari Park Timur had to receive treatment after Amur turned on him, though probably for good reason. The goat got a little too comfortable and became a tad too bold with the dangerous big cat.